Before you file a missing person's report, don't worry, I'm still here. Just been too lazy to update. But here's my regular, obligatory fortnightly update:

Saturday, 21st June: Woke up early in order to go to school. Had the SIP briefing and all. Woke up at 7, so I gave the kitten a morning wake up call. But silly kitten went right back to sleep. =p I left the house at about 810 or so, mum dropped me at the bus stop so I could skip one bus. Looked at my watch, saw it was 820. Remembered I had to take my temperature. And had to be there by 845 in order to do so, so I decided "to hell with it" and took a cab instead. As I was walking into the school compound, saw Liling in front. Went over to the Business temperature taking station, saw Eddie still standing there for some indeterminate reason. Me and Liling went through absolutely fine (33.4 is NOT fine, however. I'm freaked out.), but Eddie was stuck there since his temperature was higher. (35. Wow.) Went over to the LT, saw Ms. Chuah and Mrs Nah sitting outside with some forms that I assumed was attendance or somesuch, but was told it was for thermometers.

I hate thermometers, they make me retch sometimes. And I hate the feeling. Saw Joel, Jim, Kuibao, etc. How they could all get there so early in the morning was beyond me. So yeah, we all sat around, waiting for something to happen. Saw Bert, Darryl, Brendan actually looking cheerful for once. Bert. Bah.

As people filed into the LT, people asked where Maddy was. On the bus, silly kitten! But she only came in about 5 minutes late, which wasn't too bad. Nothing had really started or anything yet so no harm done. At first moved from behind the Boo Boo gang, then to the frontish row with Gi, Nat and Kenneth. SIP talk was kinda boring. Nothing interesting.

Later on went to meet Selvan for more in-depth brief on my posting, Straits Times TV if you don’t know by now. I’m now a camera jockey! Hooray! So basically me and John will tag along with the camera crew shooting newsy stuff, I’m kinda expecting minimum wage but that’s okay with me. Work 3 days, then next day off, which makes it kinda hard to coordinate days together with Kitten but I guess we’ll find a way around it.

Kitten’s happy that she doesn’t have to do Pagemaker, so naturally I’m happy for her too! She’ll be doing something she loves to do too. =)

After all was said and done, we went down to Kenny Rogers for lunch with Serene, Mitzi, and Edna who joined us later. Wasn’t too surprised to see Jenny and Guen there already waiting for us. Had the quarter chicken, while Kitten had the wings meal. Think I should have gone for that one too. Sigh. Next time, next time.

Siwei joined us later, and we were all talking and laughing and chatting like we were still schooling. Sigh. Poor Kitten had a bad tummy ache too… She wasn’t feeling very comfortable with her stomach giving her such trouble… I hate the feeling of being helpless when someone you care about is in pain, or hurting and you can’t do anything to help them. I tried what I could though…

So after eating, Kitten and me bade farewell to the rest, then we went shopping for food for Starlight Cinema later on. Just bought some seaweed chicken and some prawn balls that weren’t so nice, and some miscellaneous cookies and snacks. After that, went over to her place to begin cooking! Of course, we weren’t going to cook so early so we slacked around the house quite a bit. I got some insight as to how Kitten lived her life at least. =)

Sometime around 4 or so we decided to start cooking, so we got a wok, some oil, and we proceeded with the frying. I taught myself how to do so back in Primary 3 or so, so it was like second nature for me. Heee. Kitten was scared of the spluttering oil, and with good reason – a little of it spluttered out onto my arm, and since I totally didn’t expect it, I jumped. Bleah. Anyway, after the frying was done, sat down with Kitten at the kitchen table to drain the oil out of them. Had to squeeze the chicken and other things in order to get it all out. Kitten knows what I mean =p

Her mum came in after that, saw my handiwork and seemed really impressed. Hope I didn’t put Kitten in a spot though, about the cooking and all.

So anyway, we finished it all by about 5ish. Then we proceeded to rush like mad to get ready, and then left her place at about 5.30 or so. Bought some Hokkien Mee for ‘dinner food’, some water, then took a cab to Fort Canning.

We thought it wouldn’t be so bad, reaching there at 6.30 or so. But when we got there… it was really quite crowded. Even more so than our expectations, there were easily a few hundred people swarming around the back. No matter. Thanks to some tips offered to me by a friend, we sat near the front. Adrian and Huishi came by soon after, and we all lounged on Adrian’s rather impressive groundsheet. Ate our dinner, got comfortable, and lay back waiting for the day’s festivities to begin.

They kicked things off with some simple Q&A, and thanks to planning I was the first one there to get a Sasha’s bear for the kitten. The look on her face when I gave it to her was just fantastic. Seeing her smile, ecstatic, and gush over it was more than enough for me – hope you love it darling. =)

The movie started soon after. Kitten watched enraptured, her being the super big colossal LOTR fan that she is (it was like her 5th time watching) and me sitting there watching it for the 2nd time. I swear kitten is freaky, she almost memorized the script and spouted them at the same time as the characters did. But she’s still lovable anyway. =p

At the intermission, we all trudged off to the toilet. And there was one seriously looong queue waiting for us when we got there. Luckily, it moved pretty fast so there were no embarrassing accidents. Haha. We rushed back for The Two Towers, more enrapturedness, and I kept fading in and out of consciousness. Yes, I’m weak. Haha. Oh, and Adrian and Huishi left soon after it started (must have wanted to avoid the crowds). The Battle of Helm’s Deep is TOO cool. So we left about 5 minutes before the movie ended, since that was mostly kinda boring stuff. Many others had the same sentiment, and there was a steady stream of people leaving.

We caught a cab back to her place, and it was about 2.45. Showered, brushed teeth, et al. I slept in her brother’s studio so none of you people get ideas. =p It was quite comfy, and Kitten really DOES take at least half an hour to bathe. Haha. Silly her. So yeah, when all was said and done, I went to bed (mattress) at about 4 or so.

Woke up the next morning to see Kitten sitting down, looking at me sleep. The first time ever I got surprised by her. Just you wait! Her brother was still sleeping, mum went to Sunday School, and her dad was getting ready to go for service. Morning ritual – brush teeth, facial wash, change, and we were out of her house by about 1 or so, to go for lunch.

Walked over to White Sands where we decided to add on to the perfect 2 days, and ate at Swensen’s. Ice Cream and decent food – Way to top off the weekend. Hee. Slept on the bus home, dreaming of kitten…

Tuesday. 25th:

Woke up to my mum telling me the maid was gone. Ran away. So yeah, somewhat annoying. Fixed myself breakfast, then went out with my mum for lunch at Delifrance. On the way she stopped over by the maid agency, and totally let the maid (who’d fled there) have it. Scolded her for like half an hour, 45 minutes or so. I wouldn’t have any of it so I slinked off to roast in the car.

After that, went to buy my phone! At last! A phone which doesn’t cut out on me talking! Mum paid for it, of course, and I’m quite content. Doesn’t take a lot to satiate me in any case. Hee. The shop people were really nice, too. That’s right, if you want to buy an M1 phone, go to the shop in Hougang Green. Veeery nice people, great service.

After that, came home. More uneventfulness. Same as my life ever was, until Kitten came into the picture =)

Well, I’m all blogged out for what seems to be my weekly/fortnightly entry. Catch you all next week. Or something. Bye!