Friday, October 14, 2005

i m so digusted whenever i see humans picking out things from the faces/bodies of another human.. be it her own child or whatsoever. because they do it with their bare hands. when i see such happenings, they just succeed in convincing me that what Annette Tan (who writes for The New Paper) said was true. that humans are just nothing but animals. ARGH! well i suppose we can't help it. our ancestors were some sort of monkeys .. so we turn out to be the mammals we are today, with children having animalistic behaviour such as biting, scratching etc. etc but they only learn how to control themselves when they're older and that's what makes us "civilised PEOPLE".

u must be wondering what exactly disgusts me so much about the picking. annette tan described her encounter with a couple sitting somewhere near her while she was having her dinner in some sort of cafe/restaurant. the gal used her BARE FINGERS to pick out this big piece of mucus from the guy's nose. let's call it pisai. and after she successfully whipped it out of his nosehole, eww! she showed it to him and they somewhat laughed about it. errrrrrrrrgh. sick. sick. sick.

then, at the bus stop today, i personally witnessed a mother who was picking sth off her lil girl's face. ok the girl was like.. 5 or 6 years old already.. and her younger sis was saying things like "eeeeeeee..."... so the absolutely-grossed-out me just stared ahead of myself in disbelief. because she (the mother) didn't even use a tissue. i was SO grossed out too because she started to FLICK the "whatever - i think it was pisai but i don't know and i don't want to make sure i know" off her nails. and of course - the clever woman did it REPEATEDLY to make sure her fingernails wear CLEAR of the dirt. but what for? if someone were to mind about how DIRTY the dirt is, why would he/she even dig into the dirt in the first place?

the point is not about "she's the lil girl's mother so of course its not dirty to her wad"... the point is.. BASIC HYGIENE PLEASE. its not wrong for a mother to feel like its not dirty to pick stuff off her tiny one's face but when there's such an invention known as a tissue and this is certainly NOT about who picks whose nose. alrite, i'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she didn't have any ok?

oh and yes. i have this thing about cards and letters that i wish to express. i get this i-have-a-feeling-that-i'm-gonna-cry-because-tears-r-in-my-eyes kinda feeling whenever i receive a card or letter that is handwritten. FYI, i don't like e-cards. to be honest, sometimes, i don't even feel like opening them. handwritten stuff never fail to provide me with a feeling that the person who wrote it has spent time and effort to pen down her thoughts for me =) even if the card is fugly-ly drawn or messily-written, who cares?! or at least i don't. its the effort and time taken to produce that piece that i look at and truly appreciate. plus - somehow or rather, i feel its more personalised than an e-card. an e-card's design is simply decided on by a click of the mouse.. and it is definitely faster to type than to write...

so whenever i see a piece of paper (Whether its a hard paper = card or softer paper = letter), i get all excited and tear it up into pieces because i just can't wait to open it. *kiddin*. well i actually find fun in opening something that's addressed to me and me alone! (Except for my exam results and monthly bank account statements) :) and its surely more fun than having to Click To Open an e-card -.-

rehearsals are a daily affair now. its as if my life evolves around nothing but Klavier Ensemble now. It hardly feels like an ensemble because their idea of an ensemble is to move from 4 hands on a piano to 6 hands and so on.. because they want the level of difficulty in the pieces to be there so that we'll all sound pro. then in that case, when all of us are just being groomed to become concert pianists, where's the fun that i was looking for? to do things as duets and then in 3s and 4s is simply too slow for anyone to move on. i can imagine myself graduating from KE one day and all i've accomplished in the club is 1) having some experience in teaching. and 2) knowing what its like to be part of a duet. People expect to see a GROUP of pianists like what the name Klavier Ensemble suggests but no - the maximum no. of ppl that go on stage at any one time is 2. my idea of an ensemble is different, but prettier than what i see now. the lovely and i-can't-wait-for-it-to-happen things that i want to see are 5 pianos in set a semi-circle with 10 players sharing them and having a proper ensemble score up on those pianos whereby there are several parts on it. my piano teacher shared this with me as she's seen this for herself before and i felt that yeah its possible, but why are we stuck here? there is just so much to work on rather than just duetting. we can't just spend ALL our time building up a duet piece with just 2 or 3 folks. perhaps it is too early to tell what this club would become since they only started earlier this year.

aniwae, has anyone heard of the a board games cafe in SG where u can enjoy ur meal and play with selected board games provided by the cafe? :) there's a branch in holland V and clarke quay i believe :) its called the settlers cafe and woohoo! doodoo, unknown and i visited it on Tuesday. its good to check out those never-been-before (but of course decent) places :) We played stuff like Bohnanza (which is a beanie game! wahahaha), Game of life, Monopoly and Uno. usual stuff i know - but there's more that we haven't tried (eg. citadel and blablabla)! tralala. students enjoy a special rate of $6 on weekdays from 2pm to 6pm with a free flow of soft drinks! selected main course stuff on their monopoly-board-like menu (which u can take home for SGD$25) go for $4 per plate. not too bad i'd say - apart from those chickenly-sounding girls who act like they're still in secondary school and are attending a hen's night party or something. yucks. they spoilt the entire atmosphere that was otherwise pretty relaxing. i wished their tables was bigger though - because i don't want to compromise on the size of the food on our plates or even the plates. haha. also, all the prices i've stated exclude the recently-implemented 10% service charge :) it was rather entertaining for people like me to have something to do other than to chit-chat in a cafe while enjoying a meal :) (i like to do things when i'm eating - eg. watching TV or using the com).

i was tellin' doodoo that we can be food critiques soon :) u might think that its supposed to be "critic" - but in bee's dictionary, its "critique".. that's why its SUPPOSED to be "critic". we always try out new stuff & new food especially from new places. haha :) but we usually only go there once.. the more specific ones i remember are of course settlers cafe and the daily scoop (which sells mamamia ice creams!! fruity fruity things! grab a gone of 2 scoops and you won't have anymore space to stuff in your dinner!). there's more but i can't rem'ber what else at this moment. =/
bee at 1:59 PM