my gg works! i don't know why, or how, but after a while there was video, only it was lagging behind the sound, and then after i rebooted the video and sound work perfectly, in good old (new actually) high def tv.

so i will give you a proper account of my day. not really much to say, but since it's finally a happy day.

history was .. history so we shall ignore that for the purposes of this discussion. also leaving out the chronology of the gg fiasco because that wasn't happy.

then i went home, ostensibly to sleep, but i didn't really end up sleeping much. lazed around, ate a long leisurely lunch with my parents, then watched a bit of tv before my dad gave me a ride to orchard.

walked through taka to kino where the rest of them were, and on the way spotted atleast 3 woman carrying hermes birkins. those are $10,000 bags, people. wow. saw a really spunky kate spade handbag, some fairly nice ballys, celine's got really large bags, dior is dior, louis vuitton's got a new design, flower jewellery's got really fantastic stuff, cartier is big and boring, taka is for the rich.

kino - whole bunch of people holed up in the literature area: claud, kelly, shoojee, wiggy, vaish, thong, ian, daniel. and there was a hwachong bunch there too - saw nurul after a really long time. she was the first of two hugs today, from people i hardly ever see. the second was a very rushed one much later when i was rushing to where my dad was waiting near cine, and i ran into a friend of mine whose mom is my mom's friend but we never see each other because she's in uwc and i'm in rjc and both of us hate the parties our parents go for so we never go and we never really end up meeting except on the very odd occasion. but that was terribly rushed. still, hugs are hugs are nice.

i developed a strange gastric in kino. i think it's due to lack of sleep. my body's been getting real screwed up. i told vaish that i was hungry all the way up to my heart, which sounds funny, but really - gastric goes all the way up your chest and it's so irritating. after freeing ourselves of the perpetual trap that is kino, thong vaish and i went to wisma so i could get my prata wrap. on the way of course got sidetracked by fcuk, which has a gorgeous pale blue cord blazer for 160. it's beauuuutiful. maybe i can talk my mom into it.

amazingly, ran into nasty shirin becky blee at coffee club express. got a broccoli soup (broccoli but it tastes really good and i like broccoli anyway) and my usual prata wrap, ate it in record time of 10 minutes and rushedd to lido for the movie, which was ultimately attended only by vivien, claud, wiggy and me. and the movie was really good fun, and there are these semi-scary bits where vivien was clinging on to my arm for dear life and man does she cling hard. she's got strong hands, that girl. anyway the movie was cool and funny and sweet and gwyneth's paltrow's hair doesn't move even in a fighter jet, and jude law's amazing and i loved the way the whole movie was shot in a mixture of dark comic book style and 1940s-detective film style. it's sort of batmanish. i'm not really a comic book expert like seth cohen, so i'm not sure how to describe the style, but it was really cool.

afterwards, went to hmv because vivien wanted to return the wicker park soundtrack that she bought for 45 bucks. i don't know why it was 45 bucks. so she exchanged it, and part of the exchange is the disney double-cd thing that i'm buying which she will pass to me tomorrow. it's got all the best disney songs. i love disney songs. then my dad called that he was waiting for me near cine, so i rushed off to find him. and then i got home, ate dinner, watched tv for a while, listened to a half hour's worth of my brother's jokes - they were quite funny, and then watched gg, and unguiltily talked on msn, and now i'm sleepy so i'm going to end an academically unproductive day with sleep before 1am. actually there was the 3 hours of history academic productivity, but we're ignoring that.

so byeee. my life is back!