back in junior college mingyao came up to me one day and handed me a mechanical pencil. he was very excited about it because it was the only one of its kind. if you click on the top the whole nib retracts into the pencil. he had gotten me one in dark blue. what a cute gift. i'm always amused at how simple things with interesting details grab his attention. anyway mine had spoit after so many years. that day i got another one from kinokuniya with my voucher. i got the silver one.

on sunday we met his friends to watch magdalene's dance concert at the UCC. It was such energetic entertainment. They did not just feature ballet-type dances (to corrine bailey-rae; a love-fall-out-life-is-ok kind of sequence through three of her songs) but all sorts - modern interpretations and beyonce r&b mtv types complete with black hot pants and leather boots. the play of lights was rivetting. i say, it was a good variety of dances and the energy was high throughout the whole concert. there wasn't a dull moment, okay, maybe one. there was this dance in the middle which attempted to translate the human process of birth to death in movement; that one i felt was too predictable. other than that, i won't mind watching it all over again;

submission is over but i wanted to hide away. i did not like my work.

mingyao, my cheer-upper, met me at the airport and dined with me. his company was delish. the airport is great like he said, because it is so big we can walk alot and not get bored with things to see. we looked down at the people in transit and made up stories about them. i laughed so much. on monday he picked me up for lunch from school. we went to holland village and ate at the hawker centre and IMF people came about and stared open-mouthed at stalls of local food. i saw one of them drink teh-si. we had nasi lemak and shared a bowl of laksa. we couldn't finish the laksa. then we had dessert. then mingyao came to the yah room for a while and tried to beat my record for handphone tetris;

i met ying last night at serangoon gardens. we had stingray, mutton soup, sugar cane juice and hokkien mee at chomp chomp. we bumped into neng and her boyfriend and we hung out at coffee bean and tea leaf. it was nice outdoors. we laughed so much. we couldn't finish our chocolate mudpie. we had malibu dreams - sharon you'd hate this - strawberry and banana shake. ying has a nice chic half-neck bob;