International Jazz Day/Whale Day
2005-05-28 @ 11:26 p.m.

Flying off to Bangkok tomorrow, and I've finished packing in record time. (It isn't that hard to dump clothes into a suitcase. Really, it isn't, not even for a lazy guy like me.) I love my new furniture, even if the damn bookshelves aren't coming for another two months, so I can't unpack my mini-library. Bought five Ishiguro novels today, because they're published by Faber & Faber, which has yet to publish a book that I don't want. Already started reading A Pale View Of Hills, and I'm growing steadily impressed. Ishiguro's prose feels so effortless, and it's light, which I don't quite feel with Byatt's Possession. Also found another two Hoban books, and got the SAT II book for Math 2. The French one was gone, so I took it as a sign and I'm studying for the French paper using my Panorama textbooks. Buying books make me happy! Swearing off book and CD purchases for the whole of June, or at least I'll try not to buy anything. I'm trying to envision what my books will look like on the new shelves. I think I'm going to leave John Grisham and Robin Cook outside my room, but I want to bring my Tolkien collection back inside, if only because it looks nice and solid, and is decidedly a cut above airport reading.

Then I met Mel and Ka Tsai at Orchard MRT. Arranged to meet them because I figured there'd be other people from our class coming, and the situation wouldn't be so awkward. Turns out only Thong was meeting us, and he didn't answer my calls, so I had to play the neutral party all by myself. Chernise's SMS was typical of her, but I'd have thought she knew better than to remind me about something as obvious as that. Besides, they both knew the other person was going for the play, and that the class was meeting in Orchard for dinner. Leave them be is what I'd say. Just leave them be. Anyway, Daisy Pulls It Off lived up to its title! I really think this was the best RP production I've ever seen. (Hey, even Dan thought it was good, which probably means a lot of people thought it was great.) Kudos to everyone involved for a great performance. I enjoyed it more than Cash On Delivery, because I thought the humour here was less tiresome, and the play didn't feel draggy, despite compressing several weeks' action into a few hours. Knew there was going to be twist in the play, but I certainly didn't see this one coming! Half-suspected it, but never really thought all of it would happen. Altogether a great way to end my day! Let's hear it for Raffles Players...