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Monday, October 09, 2006

it's been a pretty much unproductive weekend. i guess it's the effect of a long previous 2 weeks + the start of the 1 week break. Though i would say that the 1 week is hardly any break nor is it sufficient. But nonetheless it's still the holidays! something which i can look forward to.. at least the term 'holidays' is sufficient to bring me a smile.
Was glad to spend some quality time with my 2 gals... shopping, eating n bumming ard. As usual... we alwiz NATO. Wahaha... so it's time i get to get ourselves a notebook to take down our to-dos & to-goes & start our planning. wahaha... At least it's a lil more action than just NATO n end up discovering that we have tons of things that we want to do but they just dun pop up when we r bored. Haha... It's been awhile since i went out with both of them... it's crazy work for them n crazy work n study for me. So yar... thank god for hols. gives me some decent reason to bum ard a lil without much guilt ( not that i feel guilty.. wahaha) So that was Sat.. shopping (yes i'm broke... ), eating (yes i'm fat... ) & bitching (yes i'm a bitch...)
sunday is family day. so it was. went to church with mum, went to parkway (i got free massage, complimentary to my nicest mum), came home n wanted to koon BUT i ended up being dragged to chinatown where my mum went for reflexology while i went to shop. there's really some good stuff over in cheenatown (no... but u all not going there to fight with me... stay in orchard. wahaha.. ) then went for dinner. & only then did we discover it's thaipusam today.
Thaipusam. A hindu festival celebrated by the tamil community. The day where they walk over buring coal & carrying different things (called kavadi) which includes the metal thing (which is an altar) that pierces into their body. Does that jolt any memory? Well, at least tt's wat i remember of thaipusam... which i remember from watching the news last time when they alwiz broadcasted thaipusam celebrations. So much for social studies which left me with nothing much. Sighz. Anw it's sad that thaipusam no longer is a public holiday in Singapore. I'm not sad that i get one last day to slack. Well it doesn't matter (mainly coz i'm on one week break. Haha... ) But i feel sad that such a festival is not remembered in this country where we strive to promote all that abt multi-racial & religion. Being part of this multi-racial society, sometimes i'm a lil ashamed to say that i stay here. coz i know nuts about the other races & religions other than being able to name the main races here. I can sometimes even confuse myself with the various festivals.. and knowledge of festivals are simply superficial. Wat a shame. But seriously, how much do we know about the other races & religions and how they celebrate their festivals? All we seem to know is the food that goes around... And how many of us actually go out to find out about them? Maybe u do... but i dun really unless i have friends... but sadly i've been brought up in a convent & subsequently went ot a cheena sch where everyone takes chinese. so there goes my exposure... Well.. but then again... how much do i know about my own race & the festivals we celebrate & my religion as well. Guess it's time for me to reflect hurh.
Wished i could go kaypoh at wat's going on thru this nite where they celebrate thaipusum. but mum doesnt want to go wif me. & i can't think of friends that r xiao enough to go do this kind of things with me... the only other person i could think of dunch want to go... BOOO...
enough of blogging... it's time to catch up of my much needed sleep.. the only thing that is lacking from this holiday pampering. Sleep liaoz wake up can pia till end of the week... before i crash once again before sch starts.
And laobu is acting real strangely... hmmmph... 1) permission to sign on my credit card w/o paying myself 2) car's getting a face lift on her account 3) she's splurging. 4) talking abt a particular person & wanting to be introduced 5) her purposefully telling me of her dislike for noisy sports cars (hurh hurh... )
*stressed*

sun sets @ 12:03 AM

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