I had an official Chinese lesson today after 1 and half years. It was a one to one session although according the teacher I should have one more classmate. I guess this is good because it forces me to speak Chinese and ask questions or the lesson will become a staring session. I hope my other classmate is not as quiet as I am... and not very proficient in Chinese. I'm not trying to be mean, it just that I will feel much worse sitting next to someone who use all kinds of Chinese proverbs and phrases than I already am.
My birthday is coming soon! =) I realised I probably won't be getting as many presents as I did back in IJ. Not that it matters... actually it does. It's not really about the present, it's just that it measures how many friends you have that are close enough to you to give you birthday presents. You only remember the birthdays of those closest to you unless you got a super weird selective memory like me who can remember weird stuff that aren't worth remembering and sometimes painful to remember.
There isn't really anything I really want, at least not what can be bought. As you get older, your wishlist shortens... whatever you want is either too expensive to get or unattainable through purchase. I guess it's because you're richer and you can buy normal stuff easily so you want something that you can sentimentalise over.
But I shall put up a wishlist because I'm terribly hypocritical and never mean what I say, including this sentence. What a paradox.
Wishlist (All attainable under S$30 (if you can even find them))
- A few funky 100 hours bags
- Artemis Fowl (book 1) by Eoin Colfer [paperback] ($12.08: Popular)
- A pendant with the Chinese character Shuang (frost)
- One of those round things in which you shake and snow falls. Nici, with a cute grey seal in it, really really small ($10.90: Popular@Orchard)
- Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, X (the blue backing one since I already have the one with the gold back), Tokyo Babylon playing cards (Comic Connection)
- Any Discworld Novel (by Terry Prachett) that has a lot of Sam Vimes in it (*Thud, **Night Watch, The Fifth Elephant, Jingo, Feet of Clay, Men at Arms, Guards! Guards!) or Small Gods[paperback]
- Earrings/Ear studs for all occasions.
- EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE and not too foul-smelling mosquito repellent
- Harry Potter movie posters for GoF and CoS
- Harry Potter movie-based playing cards (since I have the non-movie based ones)
- A small Waffles Ruffles keychain ($7.90: Cards n such, Takashimaya, A"N"BC)
- EYE CANDIES. YUM.
But I guess these aren't really what I want... other than the EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE mosquito repellent because I absolutely loathe those blood-sucking evil thingies. Eye candies are nice... but currently I have Gongsun Ce so I'm not in need of any yet. I don't know... all I want to do now is to finish this year as soon as possible.
Today I saw a something really beautiful. I was walking home from Thomson Plaza and there was this tree with pretty white flowers (some kind of lily I think) and they were floating down and the grass and sidewalk were nearly covered with those white flowers and the cars parked along there were also covered with white. It was just so beautiful, a bit like snow. It's like how they put flowers on top of a coffin at a wake but without all the unpleasant bits. I just wonder why this tree was blooming with so many white flowers and so tall and beautiful while the tree next to it was shorter and didn't have as much flowers. How can one tree have so many flowers to spare (the flowers that dropped covered at least a 3m by 3m square!) while another be so empty? This just make you think of so many things... like how unfair life can be... but I don't think trees really care about flowers? They are probably more concerned about being uprooted by lightning like what happened 2 year ago back at IJ. Maybe the roots of the smaller tree are more anchored or maybe its fruits are sweeter. I wouldn't know since I'm not about to dig up the tree or eat its fruits. That's just mean and dangerous. If only I had a camera that had better resolution than my VGA camera phone. Some things are just meant to be seen by lucky people I suppose... but these are the kind of things that are meant to be immortalised! I'm sure if I took a photo of the scene, it'll be an award-winning photo. It was just so beautiful. *sighs* I wonder why the flowers weren't rainbowed colour. It'll be more fun that way.
Time to sleep now. I guess I'll watch Shao Nian Bao Qing Tian another time. =)