Meow Mee went to the vet today! For his yearly vaccination. This one was actually due a month ago I think but we couldn't get him into his carrier. Yeah, it was so hard to force him in that we gave up on the trip totally. My sister convinced herself that it should be okay seeing as how Meow Mee is kept predominantly indoors and would not have to chance to go out and attract funny diseases. However, the clinic sent a reminder letter about a week back so we decided to bring him over today.

How my mother trapped him was to put his food bowl with tuna into the back of the carrier and pushed him in when he was sticking his body into it to eat. Poor thing. He was totally scared shitless and kept thrashing about in his cage, before settling for meowing all the way during the car journey to the vet in Geylang. I don't think he likes cars. Anyway he was totally "nua" at the vet and when the vet lifted him up he kinda just flopped about limply -.- Poor poor poor thing. Sister speculated if he thought we were gonna abandon him somewhere. When he got home he headed straight for the underneath of my sister's bed to hide. And after coming out he walked like his legs were made of jelly. Traumatic ordeal for cats.

I'm currently watching 我和僵尸有个约会 on VCD, which was my favourite show back in primary school. I thought 况天佑 was kinda hot (I have now seen the error of my ways. But in my defence in '98 he looked a lot younger) 马小玲 was super cool. It's been about 3 - 4 years since I've watched it and omg it is even better than I remember. I think I've watched the whole series like 13 times already. It rocks.

Oh yeah, which was what I skipped work yesterday to do. All 3 of us except Lijie spontaneously decided to take leave on Friday, but I was still undecided seeing as that meant throwing away $55 and was scheduled to meet Tzu Wei on msn to conspire if we should skive off work. However the msn discussion was unnecessary because we both reached a conclusion before meeting on msn and that was to skive indeed.

Why got $55 to earn you don't want to!!!, I hear you shout. Answer phone calls very slack one! Yeah it used to be slack, before all the empty promises we made to people who want to get their Jobs Credit started catching up on us one by one, and they started demanding answers to questions us temp staff have no answer to because we are powerless and can't do anything and can only blame departmental efficiency. Like you know you deserve to get scolded but at the same time it's not your fault it's the department's so you feel an odd mix of emotions, which is not pleasant at all and you suddenly wish you weren't at work to hear all these people complain.

Seriously, I have come to truly understand what is meant by government red tape. It's like normal citizens put out a simple request us temp staff take down to pass on to our supervisors who pass it on to higher authority who are supposed to accomplish it, who then relay the result back to us temp staff who then get back to the citizens. In this case the 'higher authority' seems to be one "Janet" who must be flailing under the weight of the 2426731873 cheques we are supposed to cancel and re-issue. Everything is "email to Janet" or "call Janet" or "pass to Janet" (from what we hear when we eavesdrop on the supervisors). Why aren't there like FOUR Janets to deal with this so stuff gets done faster?

Urgh. It's really a horrid experience especially when you meet nasty people who have a right to be nasty. Like, JUSTIFIED nasty-ness. Can't even bitch about it. And people are the nastiest when they cannot get their $$$ man.

So yes back to what I was saying before i digressed, which was us skivving off work yesterday. I met Wen and Sasa for lunch at Ishimura (Sasa woke up 30 mins before we were due to meet, so Wen came to my house first to greet Meow Mee, who finally allowed her to glimpse him) and told them I felt very "harrassed" by the swarm of secondary school students who throng Northpoint every afternoon. I think I'm old and discriminating against young people.

And after lunch we went looking for dessert and DO YOU KNOW Bakerzin's student discount means 50% off all main courses and desserts?? What the. I think it's bloody worth it lah. To think I've only just found out after the branch at Northpoint's been open for like, half a year or something.

Anyway we were sitting down in comfy plush armchairs and eating our chocolate cake when Sasa said she had to go off for some band concert discussion in AMK, and we let her go happily until she smsed me oh no Lingga! Your house keys are still with me!

*flails arms*

So yeah I headed over to AMK Courts to get my keys back via the route I always took when I went to AMK library to study for exams. It was a profoundly moving experience........... Sorta. Like, I'm never doing that again, yippee. By the way I never knew how freaking ex it is to go AMK library? It costs like $1.60 per trip what the hell? :x once again I miss my student concession. It is such a good thing to be a student. I don't wanna be adult! But I don't want to be stuck as a student forever either.. Okay best is like, right after your As and before you officially graduate. Best 2 months of your life. Post-exams euphoria AND still get to enjoy cheap transport until 31 Dec. PLUS, shopping everyday. Sigh heaven.

Oh and also, aside from watching WHJSYGYH everyday I am also actively taking part in Sims 2 marathon. My affair with Sims 2 is very sporadic, when I am into it (like now) I play like 2 hours everyday but when I suddenly don't feel like playing already I can neglect it for a year or something. Every time different things draw me back into the game but now mostly I am into creating storylines (like forcing people to get dumped at the altar) and watching architecture porn, ie admiring my super chio beautiful houses and imagining how it would be like to actually live in them *dreams*

Mehhhhhhhhhhhh. Tomorrow got tuition in the morning because Nicholas's english paper is on Tue and he can't make it for Mon evening because of swimming. His mother is really super nice. She gave me $10 extra when payment was due on the 4th lesson 2 weeks ago. :D I hope that's like permanent and not just on a whim though. Hahaha.