Veterans Day/Sundae Day/Ones Day/Remembrance Day (Canada)/Veterans Day Parade (Alabama)/Independence Day (Poland)
2006-11-11 @ 11:38 p.m.

In a twist of events, turns out that all the while I was messaging Eugene, he was actually at Borders. If he'd told me he was going there, I'd have met up with him for a spell before catching The Covenant with Ben Woon. Guess I'll just make my way down one of those days this month when I'm on leave. VivoCity was insanely crowded! I'm not going back there until the crowds thin out a little. It's like the whole of Singapore suddenly decided to cram into VivoCity. When a cavernous place like that looks packed, you can just imagine how many people are there! There were queues everywhere, even for things that you wouldn't have to queue for elsewhere, as Ben Woon pointed out. Anyway, The Covenant was okay. You can't have too high expectations of shows like this, since they're basically intended to showcase as much eye candy as possible while still maintaining the semblance of a story. The ending so blatantly screamed that there's probably going to be a sequel, which would be fine only if whoever makes it brings back the only cute couple in the show.

We fled VivoCity right after the movie. I didn't even step into Candy Empire, because the place was crawling with people, and we all know how I feel about crowds. Loathe them. HarbourFront Centre wasn't much better, so we headed over to CityLink to find Eugene. We walked all the way till the end because he was at Polar Cafe! Exchanged a bunch of witticisms while ostensibly trying to decide on where to go for dinner before the rest arrived. Finally decided that we'd wait for them at MPH and persuade Ka Tsai to pick dinner venue. (He eventually did, despite saying that he wouldn't do so this time. Some Japanese place whose name I've forgotten.) I think MPH is so sad. Ever since they closed down their biggest branch, it just seems like there's no way for them to compete with heavyweights like Borders and Kinokuniya. Then again, there were two branches within close proximity, one in CityLink and one in the basement of Raffles City, so I guess they're doing well enough to survive.

This time, Kay Hwee was right on time, as opposed to being a little late. Someone remarked that OCTs lose all sense of time once they're out of camp. Is that true? Little Shop Of Horrors was funny enough, although it felt kind of hollow. I mean, moral education on the perils of materialism aside, it wasn't exactly all that the newspapers cranked it up to be. Consolation? Bought the cheapest tickets. Haha! (Actually, the construction of Victoria Theatre is such that even from the cheapest seats, you still get a pretty decent view of the stage. Useful tip to remember the next time you ever watch something there!) The Dim Sum Dollies are hilarious though, so if anything, they made the musical worth watching. There was an autograph session after the performance, but we didn't stick around. Probably should have, but only Ben Woon was vaguely interested and I couldn't really be bothered either myself. Guys, we really should do this again. The Phantom Of The Opera next year, yes?