marathon

this is gonna be quite a riff.

heard amy lee of evanescence singing "my immortal" in royal sporting house, and jasper thinks she has perfect control of resonance. yesterday he was singing me a beautiful rendition of the "maria" song from west side story, and some other song.

coming back on 857 there was a taxi stopped on the side of the CTE, and the occupants were not occupying it, and a woman was standing beside the taxi with her head bowed down and her hair flowing down the sides of her face. looked like a ghost or something, and rather strange.

the foodcourt at suntec city is alive and well, except that it's relocated about 20 steps away (estimate courtesy of jasper) from where it used to be and it's expanded. this is in spite of yvonne's proclamation: http://juggleress.blogspot.com/2004/08/did-you-know-they-closed-food-court-at.html

last night aaron told us that he also made this lego thing, a robot or something, and then one fine day realized it was gone because his grandfather threw it away. come to think of it, i had a lego spaceship too, with wings that could be raised and lowered, and now it is nowhere to be found.

jasper taught me about Ceva's theorem last night too, in the northpoint burger king, where i had a taro pie. just use the areas of the little triangles, which scale as the lengths of the sides. i won't bother explaining it here, but it's not that difficult. today i explained to him why the vector cross product is a pseudovector, and not a true blue vector.

we watched two movies today, both at the suntec eng wah, the first one was $7.50 and the second one was $8.50, probably because it was after 5pm or something, when we watched the second one... cinderella story quite nice, they go princeton! (princess go princeton because that's where princes go lor...) the guy was damn dodobird though, but if i say here this will be a spoiler. the other movie was 13 going on 30, which was quite dumb... i mean, it's stale after a while for a 30 year old to be actually acting like 13 years old in a 30 year old body lor. but it was touching when she went back to parents' house and then sleep with the mummy. but quite a dodobird show.

because i give so much boring detail, jasper say he might as well ask clarissa to visit this page to find out about him. for lunch i had vegetarian tom yam, with thick bee hoon (at suntec food court). quite ok.

then quite cool lor, we went robinsons in city hall mrt there, and i found the donatello i want! then 15% off somemore. so paid $11 for it. and it was the only one there lor. like, seriously the only one there. they also selling this tennis racquet at carrefour for $10. i'm considering getting it, but didn't get it. will probably get tape to replace the grips on my tennis racquets, because quite lousy already, that day jasper play then his hand all black. then it's like the grips cost about $10 lor. dodobird.

then this morning showed jasper this report on Singapore
[ http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18263.htm ]
and he got quite riled up because of the censorship issue. but there's hope for singapore. i don't know how true the stuff in the report is, but it says that "Jehovah's Witnesses and the Unification Church were banned; however, in general, freedom of religion otherwise was respected."

bought more dark chocolate at carrefour today. ate one 100g block, roughly half during each movie, and this had 74% cocoa. quite bitter, possibly a bit too bitter, but good. the other block is 72%, which should be good.

interestingly, my parents don't seem to be home: the car is not back. it's 11:20pm. ok, they just got back. how random is that.

by the way, the skin specialist surmises that the hives might be related to hepatitis. i think i've come to the end of this post. as peter in the family guy might say, what's a riff? though i didn't use difficult words, but that opening from one of the episodes is priceless, if you know what i'm referring to:
[ http://quotations.about.com/cs/tvquotes/a/fly_guy_quo_pet.htm ]

well, i don't really want to stop here, so i'll tell you that we also went to the rooftop garden of suntec city, which is where about 4.5 years ago a group of us were hauled to the police station and a police officer shoved me against the wall. briefly told jasper the details of the episode. which was interesting.

my donatello figure is kick-ass. i've re-gripped a tennis racquet. stripped the grip from an old hockey stick and used it for the tennis racquet. so now i can actually either buy a new racquet (if it costs only $10), or i can buy a new grip for the other racquet. hope to play tennis again, of course. and want to play badminton too. any takers?