shopping spreeeeeeeee

heh... going to blog in english today, because i'm too lazy to type out all the hanyu pinyin and wait for my chinese star to start, which takes like 20 mins. (nt really, juz exaggerating a bit)

the past week, for me, has been just playin' playin', and more playin'. on mon and tues (sry i didnt cover this in my last post) i went for sabbatical module: peer counselling. riiight. so now, i roughly know how to listen to people who know nothing but to angst all the time. hmm. maybe i should try my skills on someone someday. the person's probably going to kill himself/herself though, seeing that i'll use so little sarcasm on the person while he/she's telling me how it (sick of using he/she) is struggling in school, with life. whatever.

on wednesday we had 2 talks which were worlds apart. the first one was by an alumnus called adrian tan i think. apparently he wrote 2 books, "the teenage textbook" and "the teenage workbook" to have a dig at our school life. suffice to say that what he talked to us can't be displayed here, or i'll be sued by feminists worldwide lol. but it was really darn hilarious.

the next talk was by this guy who was head of philosophy department in our top local university. now i signed up for this talk because i had a genuine interest in philosophy, unlike many of my classmates, whom i believe to have signed up for the same talk just because the other one was to teach us how to become science researchers. "who wants to win nobel chemistry/physics prize?" not me, no sirree. so anyway, i thought i would like to take philosophy as a minor in uni. how wrong i was. if his talk was anything to go by, i might as well go to any mattress warehouse sale, seeing it's the great sale now, to stock up on extra extra extra pillows and blankets, in preparation for my philosophy course.

sorry. that was a lame illustration. but the point is it was boring. period. i shan't even bother writing anything he said, because i can't remember anything to begin with. lol.

on thursday and friday we had inline skating aka rollerblading! which, i have to say, was a far cry from the first 3 days, in terms of amount of energy we spent during the day. i managed to get the hang of it pretty quick, and even my classmates complimented me on my speed of learning. well, i thank God. :)

so, we learnt the basics, rolling, scooter-ing, pushing, stopping and the like. then we went on to do more advanced stuff (actually, half the class only; the other half was still not confident enough to do more difficult stuff). so yeah, it was good fun.



today i finally went to buy new sports shoes for myself, seeing that my last pair had its sole come off. at first i thought of buying only a pair. in the end, this is what i got:

1. a pair of new balance running shoes, 110
2. a pair of adidas shoes for normal use, 59.90
3. a pair of rollerblades, 159.90
4. wrist, elbow, knee guards, 41

omg. now i know what it means to go on a shopping spree. buying like 300+ bucks worth of sports apparel. you know, the last time i bought a new pair of sports shoes, that was 4 years ago. so, by logical induction/deduction, the next time i'll have to buy new shoes would be in 8 years time. when i think about it that way, 170 bucks is a good investment, seeing it'll last me 8 years. hmm...

tomorrow will be the first day of tag - talent attachment programme at the hospital. tmr's programme will be talks, loads of it, from 9 to 5. hope i can stay awake most of the time.





right now though, i feel like a hedonist.