On Wednesday it was VJC's annual A.I.R. -
Arts In Reality 2007. Or Arts Day in layman terms. No lessons until 12.45, and we spent the bulk of the day involved in events organized specially for the occasion, like participating in my first Forum Theatre session, and going to this
Cages forum in LT5. At first I thought it was going to be some Q&A lame-o session about the movie, but it turned out to be more of a talk about preperation for making a movie, all the pre-production stuff, how the movie was packaged to appeal to the different consumers, etc. Tan Kheng Hua is a very vivacious person. It was all unexpectedly interesting.
And then we went to the concourse to watch the SAF band performing in their uniforms
AND I MET CHARLIE.
He's the band's lead singer, who looks rather geeky at first sight, who doesn't look very tall, but
oh my god, his voice is absolutely gorgeous. It's all deep and husky and SONOROUS and drop dead
SEXY. I fell in love with him after the first 2 songs, after he told the audience to "take my hand, take my whole life too" in a very slow, extremely dreamy rendition of
Can't help falling in love and I was screaming in my head YES LET ME! Seriously, when he smiles right, the left side of his lips kind of quirks up in this absolutely adorable way and he'll like run his fingers through his hair uncounsciously and it's all so freaking HOT. Every single time he did that I felt like I was starting to melt into a gooey mess. This was because I was seated in the front row right in front of the band unable to do anything about his smothering appeal. And his rendition of Radiohead's
Creep was simply rocking! He can like. Sound angsty at all the approprate times. Put on a falsetto. Croon. Very versatile. Ahhh. Sara and Melissa and I were absolutely taken with him. So much that I went home to google him and search for him on Friendster (and I found him, of course. My god he's only 19!). Sadly, he's attached (like I knew he would be. Sniff. He was totally giving off the attached vibes). From his profile, he seems like an intelligent man of depth and humour. Sara moaned when I told her over sms about his taken status. Like, why are all the good catches taken? Indeed. :(
But that's okay, because I can just oogle him from afar. And go support him at his gigs in future! He's good okay he's played at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre before. (I hope neither he nor his friends come across this impassioned entry about how hot he is. God, how embarrassing.)
Next, away from sexy and dreamy guys and about more mundane matters, I'm blogging about
Nicky's birthday present. Dev bought him a Billabong (uh. I swore never to purchase anything Billabong ever again, but it's Dev what so that's fine) pencil case and one of those little voodoo dolls from Mini Toons. It's a ninja with this tiny sword sticking out of its fist. I guess. So anyway I was in charge of wrapping it lah, and you know the adrenaline rush from surprising Lijie was still there, so I made this little placard that goes To Nicky With Love and stuck it in so that when he unzips it'll be all "Surprise! Surprise!" and I set the pencil case and its ninja keychain in a Japanese chocolate biscuit box so he'd think we WERE giving him biscuits, but aha, "surprise! Surprise!" Something like that lah I think I was just too free. What with putting off Tutorial 4.2 because it involves weird creepy graphs and doing my PW Preliminary Idea (PI).
Anyway, on Thursday after school Jia, Dev and I set off for TJ to surprise Nicky with his present. Yes, I know his birthday was over ages ago. Anyway-
F- IT! How did I get another mosquito bite WHILE I was checking the mosquito bite I got on the arm?? HOW??
- the point being, we kind of missed the stop. All of us were like, TJ is going to appear on the right side of the bus. So we stood facing the right side. Then we started talking. And then we realised we were at Bedok.
"Uh, TJ in Bedok one meh?"
"No what, TJ in.. Temasek."
"Hahaha skali it's that Pansanoic building we saw just now."
So after ascertaining that we must have missed the stop, we got off at Bedok MRT station and crossed the underpass to the other side of the road, where we met some girls in ugly green uniforms and I was mentally dismissing them as little secondary school girls from Pasir Ris Sec or something (haha I know, random) when Dev went, at least we know we're on the right track, and I'm like, huh what? and he goes, those were TJ students right? and I'm like, REALLY?
When we got on the bus going in the opposite direction, Dev asked the bus driver where TJ was, and it turned out it was 3 stops away. Meaning it's damn near our school lah. This time, we shut up and scruntinized every building really closely, and this time we saw buildings which looked like they belonged to a school appear on the left side, and we're like
OHO! That must be TJ! (But I can't figure out how come we missed the school in the first place. It's like so in-your-face. And we were facing the correct side previously, what.)
Then we got down and summoned Nicky via Dev's handphone. As the main point was to get him to come to the gate, we started saying lots of strange things like how I wanted to lend him my GP notes because I know his GP sucks. I think we puzzled the hell out of the poor guy. And because we forgot to tell him we were at the back gate, he went to the front gate first, and when he called us back we were like, "we're at the small gate behind the grandstands and we can see hockey players," and he's like "huh WHERE?" I don't think he knows his way around the school very well yet -.- (Or maybe we just gave lousy directions lol)
Eventually he made his way to us. We waved crazily from the distance! I mean, not having seen him in ages. Anyway we stood and talked a bit before presenting him with his present in a brown paper bag. I said my GP notes were in there and I think he knew we were talking shit lah (obviously, haha), but he played along and "huh"ed at appropriate moments.
So after he found out what his gifts were (he actually thought we'd forgotten about his birthday! That we wouldn't be giving him presents! The NERVE of that guy), we stood and talked even more, and there was a lot of uncontrollable laughing and stupid things said, and damn I miss the good old days when the 4 of us would fool around in class. But because Jia had to go back to cheerleading and Nicky had track at 5, we went our own ways after that.
Oh heck I can't blog anymore I have MATH TUTORIAL 4.2 AND ECONS TUTORIAL TO FINISH! Because I must uphold my rep as the-only-one-who-prepares-her-econs-tutorial-in-class. It's not something you should be like insanely proud of lah, because oh god I feel like such a geek whenever I'm the only one to raise my hand about doing my econs homework (Sok Muui and Xinyun also got do! They just never raised their hands -.- They say they're not prepared). But as I'm also the econs rep I must at least make Mrs Tan like me a fair bit right.
