interesting and uninteresting day

Started temporary work today, at the same place where I worked for two days a month ago. Boring job, since it's just archiving old documents. Almost fell asleep for a few times, and anything that I'm write while I'm half awake are all rubbish.

Well, the interesting part is that I met Fred for lunch. And boy, was it a long journey. Originally we are supposed to meet at City Hall (I worked very near Raffles Place MRT, while Fred was around Bras Basah), but I didn't realise the place was so freaking far away (Phil you were right lol). Even when I'm rushing (and didn't got lost on the way), it took me ten minutes. And so when I met him at City Hall, he give me two choices. Wanton mee for 3 or 4 bucks, or malay chicken rice for $5+. For obvious reasons, I immediately chose wanton mee. As we are on our way to our destination which I've no idea of, we took the underpass below SMU. The journey seems quite long to me, and I thought that he's bringing me to Bugis. Imagine my surprise when I landed at Sunshine Plaza. That's like near Dhoby Ghaut!! And Fred was surprised that I know the place. Well of course I know, that's one of the places where you hunt for japanese toys. But then again I didn't realise the wanton mee there is famous. Most of the time, I'm too distracted by the toys as well as the Selegie beancurd. And here I was thinking that I'm in deep shit, since I'm SO far away from my workplace. But nevermind, for the time being I'll enjoy my wanton mee. It was pretty good, the char siew is sweet and chewy, the mee was very "Q", and they were not stingy with the sauce, which goes really well with the wanton mee, though it's rather salty. Now that I think about it, how come I forgot to order the spicy version? Oh well, it was good enough. There's still the sour green chilli to go along anyway.

Realising that by the time I walk back to my workplace it will be too late, I decided to try take the MRT back, and so Fred lead me to the Bugis MRT. And crap, within 5 mins of walking I saw Guan Yin temple. I never ever realise that Sunshine Plaza was so freaking near Bugis (okay it's not really near, but it's kinda in the middle of Dhoby Ghaut and Bugis, so next time when I need to go there I do not need to go all the way to Dhoby Ghaut).

Today then I realise that Fred do appreciate good food. but the funny thing is that when the four of us go out for makan outing, Fred has relatively much less comments than Phil, though I'm sure both of them are rather picky when it comes to food. For starters, both do not like to eat veggies, haha. And little did I know that Fred was damn familiar with the place, when he can even get lost in Orchard... Goes to show that he does have his sense of direction, unlike Phil.

Hmm... I just realise that Fred also knows this "secret" blog (coz I din tell a lot of people... one hand is enough to count). And the worst thing is that nobody told him the URL, he found out himself through his experience of searching for case articles online. Yes yes, I'm damn predictable... Maybe I should stop bad-mouthing him.. there's already another person who's at my throat *laughs*

After work I met with Fred again, and we shared a one-foot Subway sandwich for dinner. This week I'm probably going to see Fred a lot of times, haha.

Today I got class, so I went to school. As I step into the school, I'm surprised to find so many people standing at the corridor. I thought that the doors were locked, but turned out that the lights were out. Wandered for a while, before Melvin sms me and told me he's already in the classroom. Luckily, the air-con is still on so we can still stay in class. Imagine my horror when I step into class: My lecturer was teaching in darkness! Wow, that's damn pro.

He's teaching some fundamental stuff on Cell structure, where he talks about the different organelles (membrane, ER, Golgi Apparatus etc). He also touched on how the mitochondria generates ATP, and how the chloroplasts produce sugars. All these were all covered in O' Level biology (or is it A' Level? don't know lar, as long as I learned them in the foundation course, can liao), and probably that's the reason I could understand him well. Or maybe he's good at teaching, as he talked about the generating of ATP, I can imagine the whole process in my head. The most interesting thing to me that he said was that the microtubules are like highways, and I can imagine a floating city inside a cell. For some reason, it intrigues me, lol. He covered the whole of the lecture, though quite slip short, in 25 minutes. Maybe other people don't find this lecture interesting, but in total darkness (I removed my specs when I'm listening to him, so I can't really see anything. I can close my eyes, but it seems too disrespectful, plus I might fall asleep) I'm able to shut all my other senses (the eyes are the biggest distraction), and it allows me to focus on listening and translate his words as images in my brain (but that's provided you know how those organelles look like, or it won't work). Originally, I'm a person who can't multi-task well, so such an environment proves to be beneficial to me. It's pretty much the same thing when I listen to the Mr Brown show, and that's probably why I loves to listen to it, other than the reason that I like his satire.

Next time, I should just record whatever the lecturer says and listen to it while I shut off all my other senses. It might works wonders for me. Or better still, I can just do it during class, and suffer any consequence of kena "poked" by Melvin, or go into my "la-la" dreamworld. :p