doo and i then headed over to vivo for a haagen daz fondue and a movie: Trade. i felt uncomfortable during the first part of the movie because the movie was good :X ahha. ok it's probably cos it's about prostitution and forced sex, not only involving adults but minors too - both girls and boys (which is so cruel). basically the show talked a lot about how society and maybe the people up there can sometimes be blind and deaf to all of these until it really strikes someone close to you, someone whom you seriously, really love. there were certain parts that made me shudder and tear~ i mean - how would it feel to be taken away from ur family and forced to beep beep and beep? or to leave your home, to bravely go out there to an unfamiliar country just to get taken away in a van (and god knows what those baddies'll do to you) and all you wanted to do in that foreign land was to earn more $$ via decent means for your son back home to lead a better life. omg. i guess this movie provides a scenario that is so real, but so far away from us. perhaps even if it is right in front of our eyes we wouldn't even know. who knows what scandalous stuff goes on in certain parts of Singapore unless you read the newpaper? :X and it also showed an ironic situation where the guy-in-between, who's supposed to be the one who ferries the victims across a border, actually prayed to the virgin mary for protection and blessings (even when he's doing illegal stuff). truth is i think these people are just in it for the $ and in places where people are poor, sometimes they'll do anything for the money.

anyway the show was well worth the $ and time~ so it's a good thing they brought it into Singapore (damn it, PS i love you still isn't it out and it was released on 27th December? HELLO?). okie, nvm~ i want to talk about something else now :X my first trip into pageone. i always thought that all bookstores were the same, so i never really bothered to step in into any for discovery and fun's sake, until yesterday of course. it started out as a purposeful, looking for a particular title kinda thing, but doo and i soon found ourselves wandering in search of the beautifully-covered horoscope books that were on display. we didn't find those and got distracted by another section instead :X the one which talks about men and women. haha. differences, and how to get to each other kinda thing. there was a book which we saw, entitled What Men Know about Women~ and my immediate comment was "shouldn't it be 'nothing'?". that's cos, the book looked like a real book, with the author's name, bestselling info, etc, etc! but open it and voila~ i was right. men really know nothing about women :X haha~ the book was EMPTY. pretty cool if you intend to use it as a notebook, but once you start writing things in there, it'd be nothing no more. there was also another book written by a guy about how strange women are to him and how he doesn't understand them. it is pretty in pink and is entitled "Girls are Weirdos but They Smell Pretty". i browsed through the first couple of pages and was convinced it'll make an entertaining read with a possibility that questions may flood our own girly heads (oh yea! like why on earth do i do this?) OR we may face another possibility where our brains may seek to justify why we girls do those certain things that we do and understand why we do them and that men don't understand at all. however, it wasn't a book i'd pay $20 for :X but i must mention it again: the cover is prettily pink :X

well doo got some boardies as well~ and dinner was at dian xiao er. i love the set up of the restaurant. it makes me feel like i'm in a chinese inn (in olden days) and there's rooms upstairs haha :X and what i love most about the restaurant is the duck. i LOVE herbal duck, but theirs is considered expensive for the mini portions which are never enough for me. we spent $60 there and i wasn't full :X well at least the duck meat was tender, unlike their other branch at marina sq, where i first tried their duck. in fact this visit to their branch at vivo was only my 2nd to dian xiao er, i suppose it took me a while to go back to them after trying out the tough meat at marina :X~

yesterday was happy saturday~ and today is moody sunday~ because tomorrow is back-at-work monday. :(