Wednesday, October 19, 2005

omg... theres no way i can write out this killer post... yeeks even the simple list is sooo long... okok im gonna try. no homework anyway. and i totally trashed both my math test and my english commentary so... just a leeetle depressed shall we say. >:{

*no more late nights and coffee binges before math tests* ever.

the time line for this thread is reeelli screwed up. blame my bad memory.. it was like... what 5 days ago? something like that.

ok me and xi start out in the morning arranging to meet to go to chinatown for lunch/buying stoopid hong lou meng bk, and then going back to her house later for study. (we both have tons and tons of homework) so... my dad's not home... i arrange to meet at 10 but i wake up at 9.40... as usual. tsktsk. first strike. being rather on the ball at the time, i call xi and postpone the meeting 15 mins back. ok... a rather rushed 20mins later im finally out of the house... whooo 15 mins to walk 10 blcks and 4 avenues... shall we say... no chance at all on a frozen hell day. 15mins later im calling xi again and asking her where we were supposed to meet, which was 2nd and 23rd. (second strike) ...ok now comes the killer genius part. follow the movements carefully.

9.55: rush out of elevator
10.10: at 2nd and 30th near the cinema (and badly winded i might add)
10.15: 2nd and 27th - first call to xi (finds out meeting place is 2nd and 23rd)
10.25: 3rd and 27th

10.30 : 3rd and 23rd - sudden and spontaneous realization of self-stupidity... resulting in dramatic cursing and a sheepish embarresment

10.35: 2nd and 23rd - call xi again

yay arrival... more than half an hour late and just after the buses have passed. just great. xi is ready to pull my nose off... seeing that she was perfectly on time as usual... hhehe.. i hope you got the mistake. just lowered my iq by 100 there.

so we get to chinatown... after summat trial and error with the pathfinding. and guess what. my lousy chinese teacher has given us DAMN shoddy intructions to find the damn bookstore. (not to mention after the first horrible encounter with the bookstore on 5th ave.) this means walking along the entire damned elizabeth street until... located a chinese cultural center/mall... walk in... walk around... discover many weird stalls and weird pple talking mostly in cantonese which is vaguely disturbing (cos like gangsters leh)... walk out... walk around elizabeth... walk up... walk down... .stop in middle of street. ... notice BIGBIG chinese bookstore sign right beside the cultural center. smacks head for stupidity. walk in. buy books (after exhaustive search which involved much moving and stacking and shifting of books). of course we have no more energy after this so we went to get egg tarts. yummy. then of course the long, circle route i took back to the bus stop thanks to more random, luck-based pathfinding... stay tuned for chapter 2 ... which im too lazy to put up. plus i need to get some work done.

(or perhaps... watch ff advent children which i just downloaded off the torrent) :P