4.12.08
at the moment i am in shanghai,
the never-ending city of development.
going online is a problem,
coz i dont really want to waste hrs
at an internet cafe.
anyway, i'm at someone's hse now,
so it's a lot more comfortable.
since coming to shanghai,
we've basically been following the same daily routine.
we leave the condo apartment at 10am,
catch the condo shuttle to an MRT station
(yes i know! so cool eh! they have MRT stations here that are SOO much like the ones in singapore! nostalgia~~)
and then we take the MRT to some place we've never been to,
and shop till we drop.
most of the times it's just window shopping,
but we still walk till we drop.
lunch and dinner are mostly taken outside,
breakfast is bread and egg or sth,
coz the apartment isn't that well equiped.
dad's friend owns that apartment
but coz he doesn't live there
he kindly allowed us to live there while we're here in shanghai.
and i think i'll mention that the condo is in this huge place
that forms a small town or sth.
it's a rich ppl santuary complete with a golf course,
swimming complex,
acres and acres of MANSIONS,
and an entire section of condos.
you can seriously get lost in this place,
so the shuttle bus is a BIG help.
anyway, yea, that's life so far in shanghai.
shopping, eating, walking.
very much like living in Singapore minus the schooling.
dad's arriving tmr morning (yay!)
so i'm looking forward to a reunion.
it's really good,
for once not having to think abt hol hmwk,
or next yr's sch course while i'm on holiday.
it's good to be able to hang out with the girls,
go silly and laugh till we choke.
we practically have one major joke for each day,
everyday sth really stupid happens
and we laugh abt it for the whole day.
then the next day there'll be sth new to laugh abt.
it's almost always abt me,
but mehh,
i'm used to that.
today's joke is:
"Mono&Shruti;
Shruti, the non-existent Indian friend."
hahahah.
it's really funny but i apologise if no one gets it coz it's really an inside joke.
it started when i rmbed someone called SHRUTI.
an Indian girl.
so i asked Joyce if she rmbs that friend of hers.
and she says
"huh? i dont have a friend called SHRUTI ah."
i insisted that she does,
or someone called PARVATI, maybe,
or ASHANTI?
"NO leh... don't have ah..."
huhh?? then how come i rmb someone called SHRUTI??
"jamie, u have a friend called SHRUTI right?
it must be u."
"huh? what? SHRUTI?
i dont have an Indian friend ah."
then joyce reminded jamie,
"yes u do, u once told me abt an Indian friend,
quite fat, and when she runs her fat wobbles and all that."
"nono, that wasn't her Indian friend," i said, "that's her."
so then, just to try my luck, i asked mum abt SHRUTI.
as expected, she said no, no idea who that is.
and so SHRUTI became the non-existent Indian friend,
who till now i STILL believe exists,
just that no one rmbs her.
ohman...
sorry SHRUTI!
whoever u are!
and how did Mono&Shruti come abt?
well, it's like this.
joyce then bought this chinese flute thing,
plays like a recorder,
except it's like a hu2 lu4,
and it's made of bamboo or sth.
there are three pipes on it,
and there's a foam plug for some reason,
and we were trying to decide what it was for.
it was definitely for plugging one of the pipes,
except we didn't know if it made any difference to the sound.
then we figured out that it's to create a mono and stereo sound.
if u unplug all the pipes,
it creates a stereo sound,
if u plug one of it,
it becomes mono.
i came up with that explanation,
mono and stereo i mean.
and joyce was fascinated,
kept asking us to repeat that phrase,
so she could rmb it.
so jamie said,
"m-o-n-o...and...s-t-e-r-e-ohhhh.."
and then i just suddenly randomly said,
"SHRUTI."
dont ask me why!
i dont know why!
it just seemed funny at that time.
maybe coz "stereo" and "SHRUTI"
both start with "S".
joyce was cracking up like humpty dumpty
and i was too.
i told the girls i have a secret dream
of being a cartoonist
drawing my own cartoon strip.
and i said i'll name my two characters
Mono&Shruti.
hah. just coz it sounds so random and spastic.
and then, haha,
the hilarious thing is,
after i said that,
joyce couldnt rmb "stereo"
she rmbed
"mono" and "SHRUTI"
instead of "mono" and "stereo".
HAHAHA.
weird.!
but funny. haha.
joke of today.
too bad jamie doesn't appreciate half of it.
sigh.
sad ppl.
as much as i'll like to,
i can't share with u lovely ppl all the jokes we've had,
coz even i can't rmb all of it.
and internet is always a problem.
but still, i hope u guys are all having fun,
wherever u are
(how was UB??)
i'll see u NZ ppl in feb,
and SG ppl...sometime further in the future.
and u American girl...even further in the future.
but i WILL seeya guys yea?
meanwhile, take care u guys!
<3
tranquility ; 12/04/2008 06:46:00 pm.
