so, 2006 has begun on a Singapore Idle note. i feel like i owe it to 2005 to say something about it. i'm really bad at the summary-of-the-year thing so i will atleast recount my last few 2005 days. it's been Ages since i've done this sort of "standard issue mundane drivel".

so we're going backwards.

today i have done absolutely nothing besides sleep a lot, watch the first episode of sex and the city season 4, and go to Queensway with my brother and dad, where we were rushing because the mother wanted us home for dinner, and my brother was looking for some Germany 2006 football kit and football, all of which were sold out, and because Queensway is exactly the sort of place that you can lose yourself and everything else, i had to follow my brother around instead of looking for stuff myself. but i did see a pair of really cute gold puma sneakers and a vintage coca-cola hoodie which i think was adidas but had some sort of andy warhol label so i'm not sure, because i was rushed out of the store by daddy dearest. i will have to go back another time, because it was such a rush that both of us left without buying -anything-.

last night/this morning was a combination of Mad Rush and Waiting Around -- out of the house to the mrt, forgetting ezlink and therefore getting started on the adult fare a day in advance. and then ending up being Very Early which is Very Unusual for me, waiting half an hour to actually get to A's place, then rushing to get out of his place but the food was good so i practically choked trying to stuff it down my throat, cabbing to clarke quay to drop S off and then all the way to expo, where i waited twenty minutes for the rest to around, mambo jambo which was not as good as zouk itself but a good two hours of dancing anyway in heels that were killing me and gorgeous but incredibly heavy earrings that i was afraid would rip my earlobes with all the moving around, giving up and kicking off the heels and taking out the earrings, a rather random and anticlimactic countdown, trying to answer new year phone calls while blasting retro music rendered me completely deaf, and then finally going out to the lobby where there was the amusing fake accent and other things that i haven't completely figured out yet. and then my parents sweetly drove all the way from the party they were attending somewhere in bukit timah to come pick me up on the other side of the island. home, shower, two episodes of SATC and a phone call to nasty for a Dissection of the Eventage. slept from about 445 to noon, to discover that the parents were off to the temple without me. apparently they'd been trying to wake me since 9am -- i completely do not remember being woken. felt cheated because if i hadn't expected to go to the temple i'd have gone to shooj's after expo with the rest!

thursday was lunch with chit and daph, followed by romance-novel shopping at far east secondhand bookstores :D i bought about 3 books, none of which were romance, but i'll read the one daph got me for christmas, and get Knight In Shining Armour from chit to reread, after which i will decide if i should invest money in the genre. also bought a great belt to add to my fast-growing collection. remember the first belt i bought this year? the carved leather one from garcon at heeren? i think i paid $60 for that. and this shop at far east had IDENTICAL belts for $25!!! so we paid an extra $35 at garcon for a cute pink shopping bag :/ i feel very cheated. and then i paid $35 for a tiny tube of kiehl's spot treatment because i was suffering from a severe zit attack due to bad sleeping patterns and too much ice-cream. felt bad about paying that much for a tiny tube but felt better when i was given a sample sachet of blue gel cleanser which is very nice and i will buy a bottle when my vichy runs out. yeah, the free samples are very generous but also a great advertising gimmick.

tuesday night was Oxford Rejectees Drown Their Sorrows night. except it was more of eat a lot and laugh a lot than drown sorrows -- because kitson was unwell and vaish and i didn't particularly want to drink so that left claud and she decided that it would be unwise to treat the three of us to Claudia's Drunken Madness. so it was thai express which i still dislike very much =[ and haagen-dazs which is pretty damn exorbitant. but we Will check out siem reap another day.

i cannot remember anything before that. oh besides shopping with kelly the previous wednesday. which was, again, kelly following me around while i agonized over eyeshadow and primer and various other things and nasty's right, i don't know how people tolerate following me around while shopping. i want to go shopping at ikea and queensway properly and i don't fancy going alone but i can't decide whom i should subject to the torture of accompanying me. i actually miss the ikea days. strange how you miss something after you convince yourself that it's better this way. nevermind that, another story altogether.

oh and last monday my parents finally came back and my mom brought me a gorgeous long black skirt, and she bought lots of tops for herself, two of which i have usurped, yay. and the very heavy earrings which were in the process of ripping my earlobes are also my mother's india purchases. it feels like it's been so long since they came back! time is a strange thing.

other than this, i have been watching a LOT of sex and the city, sleeping at 3am on average and waking at noon on average, and since my mom came back she has been seeing to it that i finish my university applications so i've been spending a lot of time and frustration on that.

now i have to put together a resume to find myself a job in order to keep myself in Kiehl's and MAC and pretty little leather belts and all these things i'm ever so fond of.