Wednesday, June 08, 2005
b[a]ck
It feels good to be back!
I didn't really enjoy the trip. I didn't expect to enjoy it anyway. But it was more bearable than I thought it would be.
I'm sure I must have appeared to be an anti-social b****** to those people. Always not talking, not joining them for late night supper or overtime shopping or senseless overnight parties.
What they don't know is that those alone moments are precisely what I enjoyed most about the trip. The oreo milkshake and chocolate cheese cake at Secret Recipe, the hot chocolate and tiramisu cake at Coffee Club. ALl accompanied by a good Star Trek book, of course. I spent most my money on such food, and books bought from the Kino there. Quite a bit cheaper too =] In a way it was nice that they went out for supper and party at each other's room. Gives me privacy and much needed quietness for QT! Hah!
Chinyaw probably enjoyed himself much more than me. After all he jumped ship and migrated over to tag himself onto Calvin the moment we reached KL. Without even really asking my opinion, I might add. Leaving me with a stranger of a roommate. I understand, of course, that the two of them had been classmates before. What I suspect is that the real motive is to be able to fit into the "group" better with Calvin beside him. Well, if that's the case, then more power to him! I, on the other hand, have no wish nor desire to "fit in". To each his own, then.
My roommate is a facinating person. He smokes, as he so proudly announced to me on the first night at the KL hotel. I hope he was joking. He likes to parade more than half-naked around the room, as if admiring his own physique. Which is probably true, given that he exudes the "I-am-superior-to-you-all-girls-dig-me" kinda attitude. AND he had the cheek to whine about how other people in the college choir had questionable looks/attitudes. Not to mention the fact that he likes to spend half an hour in front of the mirror [half-naked, no doubt] doing his face and hair. Hah! He is exactly the reason why that DSTA chairman described Singaporean, NS-trained men as whiny and incompetent.
They showed a lot of movies on the bus trips. The only one I watched was Constantine, though. It was quite nice. Just one minor problem - suicide IS a forgivable sin. So that pretty much makes the entire show, which hinged on suiciders being sent to hell, irrelevant as far as Christian doctrines are concerned.
The HCV people are generally nice people la, so don't get me wrong. I find I could talk better to the older people, though, probably because they are much more mature and don't limit their conversations to the mundane and childish. AND there was eye candy. Just one, but yea. Reminds me of my classmate. Lol.
Ah well, back to the routine life that is NS.
{/2:47 PM}
me