the past two days have been cool. spontaneity and roaming galore. i'll start with today.

um, maybe yesterday first.

i was online in the morning, as in before noon [yes, i actually woke up that early], then dom asked me to go with him to plaza singapura to make a, um, to get a present for adeline [in case someone discloses the present]. so we got it done and then bounced off to great world city where he was going for a job interview. apparently he got the job [they must be damn desperate]. then, we called up kelvin and victor and went jamming at wee lee [boon was closed and the one at the back was full]. after jamming we went to eat dinner at the mcdonald's at serangoon central [although we could've done so at pp] then we went home. ah, that's the life, no planning, just pure spontaneity. we did whatever we wanted to when we felt like it. nice.

i realised how badly Werd has deteriorated since we last jammed, which was like, eons ago. we were out of tune, had no rhythm and both kelvin and i had bad throats and were coughing like mad so the singing was bad too. but it was quite fun; made me realise how fun jamming was again. we did the Werd usuals, some poppishly punk songs but we were always short on songs to play so who's complaining. we also did 'California' by Phantom Planet. went quite well considering the fact that i just whacked the lead riff and learned the chords by watching kelvin. vic pulled off the bass pretty well too and dom... well dom was being dom. but i guess with more Werd sessions we would get better. next door was some lamer band who were, i must admit, good, but since they were singing in the lamer language, it was horrible. i broke the high E string and acted like nothing happened and turned my back to the camera. then when the uncle came in to check the gear, he thought the string broke because it was rusty. so we didn't pay for it. yeah, we are in need of more sessions, badly in need.

anyways, back to today.

met up with charis to go for ice cream at swensen's at ps. i had this really sweet and rich vanilla ice nutcap which is my favourite swensen's dessert [heck, my favourite is vanilla]. then i asked her about the life of a nun since she recently left the carmalite convent after one year. to my surprise, what she described was just like normal life just that it was much more spartan, more simpler. a very basic lifestyle consisting of serving others and God. it's like two things: work and God. two main principles in that kind of life. and it's not a solemn life. from what she told me, they joked a lot and were happy rather than serious. they also baked a lot. the nuns bake some kind of waffles and sell them so they have this source of income. i guess it's for upkeep. charis told me that a typical day of a carmalite nun is to wake up 5.30 in the morning and pray. then, the go for mass [they have mass every day]. then it would be breakfast, then they would work [they sew the vestments for the priests], then pray again. it's pretty much work and prayer, like i said work and God. they clean the house they live in on weekends and they watch TV. how cool is that? it's not like they're exiled from the outside world. but one thing is that they have to pray for all the priests and missionaries in the world. if a priest sins a la father Joachim Kang, it is perceived that the carmalite nuns have not been praying hard enough. that's quite screwed in my view. maybe there's a deeper meaning to it but i don't know. they also have lessons on the history of the church and lots of religious studies. pretty much like a seminary.

anyways we talked and then we walked to the esplanade and checked out the really cool library. it was my first time there [swakoo me]. the library was totally amazing. it was a library devoted to the arts. they had sections for music, literature, dance and all other genres of art. the music section was the coolest. it had a practice room with a piano in it! how cool is that? one kid was in there playing 'Fur Elise' and damn was he good. i found tab books and practically every book about guitars you could find. i picked up one book about Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin and started browsing through it. the authors read Jimmy Page like a book, analyzing him, his equipment, his style of play, his technique and how everything he did contributed to his sound. i was like a kid in a candy store then. we didn't stay long but i'm sure i'll be back there very soon. so we left the esplanade that's when denise saw me, so she screamed my name. practically everyone within a 40 metre radius knew my name. she was with hasunah. so we walked around and got lost for a while trying to go back to ps. everything looked so different at night. we eventually found our way. then, i saw shaaira as we were near ps and gave her a wave. i suggested that we eat at Han's and i thought it was at ps but then i realised that it was at park mall. so we made our way there and ate and talked for a while more. then we headed home. at the pp mrt station i bumped into bryan, nadia and carrie and two of their friends. they were going to Jackson's to eat. it was really funny in a way to bump into so many people.

damn, i have a lot on my mind now. most of it [well actually all of it] is what i talked to charis about today. going to thinking about it for quite a while.

damn i'm stumped.