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[06 Feb 2007|03:39pm] |
today was awesome.
swimming with friends and playing underwater tag = the best thing in the world. i used to be a total water-baby, i love the smell of chlorine and diving off boards and swimming with my belly close to the ground and feet wriggling (i used to called that 'dolphin style' when i was a kid!). i even used to give my little sister and brother underwater piggy-back rides, which resulted in me almost drowning several times. i really miss the old swimming complex at NIE near bukit timah, with the spectator stands and cute ticket system and the huge toilets with secret tunnels connecting the male and female shower areas to a huge gymnasium (!). i also miss the way we used to shiver when we got out of the pool, and then eat ice creams, crisps and hash browns immediately afterwards. i miss having cute tanlines as well. we used to go at least once a week and it was perfect. we also used to go to the bukit timah hill every other day, explored the different routes and found the tiny pond with all sorts of pondskaters and water-beetles. i was so much more outdoorsy before midway through secondary school, when everything just seemed to stop at once. it would be so nice to go back to all that.
the only downside is that i liberally splashed on toxic sunscreen and am starting to get rashes or something along my face/neck. i think in the past 2 years i suddenly developed allergies to almost everything. also i think i'm going to get a sunburn and my hair is all tangled. but mmm i love swimming.
i also discovered in the past week that in my official medical records, i'm in the 'others' category, instead of 'indian' (which is what is stated everywhere else, and is my official 'racial identity'). i just think it's stupid. i think i'll go and bug them to change it the next time.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b285/herhitlerhairdo/201.jpg
and here is my 'elimination diet' list. i'm not going to bother following any of the instructions because they're obviously ridiculous. they even had to list 'water' in the allowed foods column.
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i'm also really REALLY happy because i managed to get uncensored DVDs of a couple of movies i've already watched- my mum wanted to see borat and so do i (again!), i only watched half of little miss sunshine and napoleon dynamite, i lost my taxi driver and a clockwork orange vcds and wanted to see all the extra DVD contents anyway. i also got pulp fiction AGAIN, i could've sworn a few years ago i memorised the entire 'royale with cheese'-john travolta dialogue-- and i really like tarantino's older stuff. i also got some movies i've been wanting to watch for ages:
-- the mothman prophecies-- i suddenly remembered this. jiv told me the whole story when we were doing the crazy school workout in the dark hall during PE over 3 years ago, and i freaked out a little because i hate moths.
--me and you and everyone we know by miranda july, which i wanted to watch two years ago-- it was only screened here for less than a week in one measly cinema and i wasn't even in the country then!
--gloomy sunday-- i wanted to watch this in sec 2, over four years ago-- my best friend then loved it and kept bugging me to watch it. it's in german, is thoroughly depressing, and hard to find though!
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