Bohemia Bunny

little potato-heads

September 20th, 2004 by lynnylchan under Uncategorized

I couldn’t get out of bed today. This is getting to be a rather disturbing habit, because I used to jump up once the alarm went off. I was going to go to church today, so we had to get up at 7, but I went off to brush my teeth and fell back into bed. The next time I saw the clock, it was already 12 noon.

I was also supposed to go for a carwash at ECP, but ended up hanging around the room and later shopping for groceries instead. But it turned out to be okay after all, because the club manager from downstairs told me that the carwash was very slow, even though ECP is a popular weekend hangout.

I’m starting to think that uni life breeds indiscipline. I’m in the middle of 4 books, one of which has to be returned on Tuesday, one more of which must be finished in a month, and a 3rd one was borrowed from a friend. I used to just devour books, reading them at breakfast, lunch and dinner. I think having to cook your own meals and then eating them out of a microwave dish isn’t particularly conducive to reading.

We went to McDonalds yesterday to try the seafood menu with prawns. It’s overrated. I like the idea of having a low-cholesterol choice of meals, but it’s ridiculously overpriced. I’ll stick to my ol’ Filet-o-fish and Fish McDippers. That’s if they can even convince me to enter their restaurant at all. I personally prefer Burger King, because they grill their patties. And also because you can substitute the fizzy drink with barley. I realise I’m overly picky about fast food, but I don’t think eating fast food means I have to eat unhealthful food. Choices are there for us to make!

The babies turned into those blobby things with a bumpy head, I think they’re called Kinakomatchi or something like that. Odd-looking creatures. They really remind me of potatoes. I once had a classmate who was trying to draw a portrait of me, and she remarked that my nose looked like a potato. I guess she said that because it was all misshapen. It still is.

The Catholic Church in Singapore is strongly against the idea of building a casino here, because it will entrap people with dreams of easy money and encourage greed. I understand their objections, and it does seem like a terribly crude and vulgar idea, because it all revolves around money. The gamblers want to make big money quick, and the government wants to increase tax revenue. It just seems so sad somehow.. the exploitation of people’s dreams for money. I don’t have much to say on this subject, because I’m not much of a gambler. I’m just speaking out against the cynicism of the whole idea. I want to retreat into a happy little world where the food is fat-free and the air is smoke-free. I am just another disappointed idealist, I suppose. More of this and I’ll become a hardened cynic.