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Monday, December 17, 2007

The calm

Went Kboxing today, aka Karaoke-ing, before going off to Korea. It's probably our last time meeting up this year. One was wearing a snowflake necklace. Awww...how appropriate for this coming Christmas period. It looked really nice against her fair skin. As usual, the English songs selection suck. The only Jason Mraz songs were weird ones like Sleep All Day and I Melt With You-which I chose but the original singer wasn't even him! -_- So I sang, or tried to sang, mostly F.I.R's songs, there were 3 pages filled with F.I.R songs at one point (I'm sorry for taking up most of the 30 songs choice limit girls, but I really like some of F.I.R's songs!) Then we videoed a solo from each of us near the end of our singing session, but by then, we were freaking exhausted, so we sounded really awful. It's all good fun, and er, I'll just post a couple of the vids here for the novelty. We then proceeded to the bus-stop to take tons of pics but didn't quite get the perfect shot. argh. It was fun fooling around there. People looked at us like we were crazy, like, boys have their games and girls have their cameras, it's what keep us and them busy. Know what I mean?

All too soon, had to part and I went to buy a coupla suitcases with my parents at Chinatown. While on the way in the car, the tour leader called us and said there were going to be 69 freakin' members in the Korea tour. Imagine that. It's going to be a little chaotic, we'll see how things go. They said it was due to overwhelming demand. It's a little absurd, I remember the day we booked this Korea tour, my family was told that we were one of the last few to book the tour, and the quota set was a comfortable 23 (they had kindly accommodated my family and had expanded from 20). How did that number become this almost freakish sixty nine?

And then we first made a stop at the money changer's upon reaching Chinatown. My parents changed about one million won plus. I know, cuz they gave me the task of counting all that green note (literally and metaphorically). And do you know, tips for the tour guide, driver and leader amount to 200 US dollars??

After that, we went to a travel bag store. There, my parents had wanted to get those suitcases on sale. And then I brought up the point regarding- What's the point of getting cheap stuff if your suitcase is going to get easily smashed again like the last time? The last time we went on tour (to East Europe), two of our suitcases got cracked & damaged, like people had shot at it, the only thing missing was the gun residue. So the salesman, he was pretty weird but knowledgable. he got into fibre glass suitcase casing versus carbonated casing and all that. He patiently showed us the goods he got and guess what, he even stomped and jumped hard on suitcases we were considering buying. Well, we went away well exceeding our budget, but were satisfied.

And then we had dinner at the nearby famed hawker centre. What spoilt the otherwise glorious foody image of that place were young women hanging out with old men. And those hookers don't even look like. They were glaringly ubiquitous but some looked 'normal'- pretty but not garish. You could only tell them from the obvious dichotomy of the age of their companion. It was only 8ish and they were already making their rounds.

So that's it, two more days till I'm outta here and hopefully I can tie up the loose ends (of school and personal) before I go on holiday proper.

Uni is a reader.
11:20 PM