today was nice! the weather sucks, but we had lunch with rolly at samy's -- this really cool restaurant in dempsey road. it's very old-fashioned and quaint (which i think is a very condescending word but it really is quaint in a good way!) it's inside this colonial-ish building, and they were playing sanskrit chants and stuff so it really reminded me of indian wedding banquet halls. except that i've never been to an indian wedding banquet that served so much meat. or... any meat, for that matter. the food was good but not really worth it for vegetarians i think. so. much. meat. and the veggie stuff was all eggplant -- my eggplant-hating mother would've been appalled, but the gravy was quite nice. oh she was appalled when i told her that they had chicken rasam. the guy was very apologetic about that though. anyway food was pretty good and the place was very nice but i'll stick with komala vilas. it's quality, really low prices and it's totally nostalgic because i've been going there since i was tiny and i still remember the time when the whole place wasn't aircon yet but there was this small room that was aircon and we'd get to sit there when we went. mwahahaha.

anyway. Sir Rollason was hilarious today as usual, he's Such a Wonderful Man. (hello Your Excellency!) for the ignorant amongst you, the great Rolly has taken it upon himself to start googling blogs. it's disturbing that mrs perry already surfs blogs and it's more than likely she's seen mine. oh dear. new levels of discretion are required. or i could just say HELLO TEACHERS! Welcome to my world.

apparently they already have a pretty good idea of the sort of person i am. ie they think i'm a spoilt brat. i don't disagree, but i am Disturbed that it's so obvious. or maybe the teachers are more perceptive than i anticipated. Rollason the Magnificent made this whole comment about how he can't imagine me backpacking, and that, in fact, that airconless restaurant must be the least luxurious place i'd ever been. so mean and so untrue! i tried to defend myself by telling them about airconless places i've stayed in in india, but that made it sound like the whole point was that i couldn't live without aircon when the point i was trying to make is that i've stayed in really basic places because those places not only don't have aircons but they also don't have showers or hot water -- you collect water in a bucket and pour it on yourself to bathe, which is fairly normal in india actually. and there were no facilities, no tvs and no telephones in the rooms. because they're like religious pilgrimage places. but anyway i just dug myself into a hole and then i shut up. but i am convinced rolly was only being mean to me in order to change the subject from a very disgusting backpacking story he told us. go ask him about his Accident in Shanghai. eurgh. the whole macho backpacker thing is weird.

also, because of the whole teachers-reading-blogs thing i just went to skim through my last few posts to see if there's anything dangerous, and what i realised instead is that i blog like a total ditz! i mean see, so many exclamation marks, and so many bags and boots and silly things. but then i do have to declare that blogs are generally for dramatic purposes, and are quite a gross misrepresentation of a person. i was tempted to do that GP question about blogs and podcasting, except that i know very little about podcasting and what i know of blogs is mainly... fashion blogs and silly blogs and things. the serious blogs bore me, generally. although recently i found the huffington post blog, which is a blogging experiment started by a woman called arianna huffington, where she gets celebrities to blog about various issues from war to music to... fashion etc. there's some stuff by gwyneth paltrow. it's all quite interesting. arianna huffington's a cambridge graduate. randomly.

go check it out - www.huffingtonpost.com

ok this post was intended to say nice things about mr rollason in case he reads it. and to try and serious-up my blog a little. it has obviously failed. the ditz factor remains.

by the way - level of hedonistic indulgence that even i cannot condone: the goody bags at the video music awards apparently had shu uemura-sponsored MINK EYELASHES and GOLD EYELASH CURLERS worth upwards of US$1000 each. i believe in luxury, like i told kel today, but such things really push it. wtf does someone do with mink eyelashes? i mean, i thought mink COATS were bad. there are so many more products that could be bought for that much, that are not only more animal-friendly but also more USEFUL. oh my god. i'm against fur, by the way. maybe it's because i'm vegetarian. but i'm wondering if it's hypocritical not to be against leather. i love leather. opinions, anyone?

kelly just left a while ago, after coming over and doing econs and falling asleep because i fell asleep and eating and talking about various interesting things. i need to go take a shower now. the weather sucks.