MOM

MOM actually stands for the Ministry of Manpower, which is where I was all day yesterday. I went to pick up my employment pass. I waited about 2.5 hours for a 2 minute process. Then I came back at 4 to pick up my shiny new green card! I officially am employed in Singapore now! Hooray hooray! Nevermind that it's been a few weeks since I've started to work.

During my two hour break, I went over to Orchard and bought Wheelock's Latin because I want to keep it up. I really regret not bringing the one from home here with me. It cost me about 36sgd. No big deal. I think going through it by myself instead of for class will be better because we would skip a lot of the 'interesting points' relevant to the lesson. It really is the best text for learning Latin. It is so well constructed and logical. I miss my Latin classes a lot.

I'm trying to get pooface FM to go with me to a piano recital of Rachmaninov's preludes. Some asian guy from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra on July 11.

I don't think the next Will Smith movie Hancock sounds particularly exciting. I heard that Get Smart was really good, but I'm a little picky about comedies (animations excluded).

Yesterday I sweat like a mad cow, seriously. I wore jeans (mistake #1) because I thought it would be a quick in and out. WRONG. And I took the bus when I learned later that I should have taken the MRT (mass rapid transit) instead. I walked sooo much yesterday. I also ran intoBCBG MaxAzira and found these two dresses... The original price is about 600 sgd (450 usd) but they're both on sale (off 70%), which means that both of them are about 130 usd, which is a TOTAL steal!!

On the way back (past my apartment, of course), my boss called to let me know that there is no point for me to come in. So I slept a lot yesterday and talked on the phone a lot. My auntie told me that she can start to hear the Chinese accent in my ENGLISH!!!!!! HOW MORTIFYING!!!!!!!!!!! I hate Singlish, but just like every other time, I pick up people's accents so easily. DELAY DELAY. (moro) uhhhhhh yeah I am definitely not looking forward to speaking with some singlish accent. It scares me, and even worse is that I'm slowly picking it up.

So what is the plan for the weekend? hmmm...I think that this Saturday I'm going back to Botanic Gardens to look at all the orchids there and will post pictures soon online (there is a wireless router outside my room, which is the apartment management's way of telling me there is internet. Then on Sunday I am HOPING that I will be going to Sentosa for some beach volleyball (no shame with my pseudopregginess) and some KUNG FU PANDA! I've been waiting forever for the group to get together to go see the movie. It better be good because I've waited so long for it to happen. Grr >.<

Hm...baby? I'm sort of jealous that you're in Spain right now because it's in the finals now...yeah. I wish I could watch it. :( hmmm...what else? I am jelly.

Yes, and I am so inflexible now. My hip flexors were not happy with me when I just wanted to bridge up. seriously. How terrible. I'm going to stretch out a lot more from now on!!!!! Maybe after I get my splits back I will start to go to the gymsies. 10 weeks - 200sgd. SO CHEAP... But I have to find out when the classes are.

OK Lunching time la. ^_^