Birthday Of Robert Frost/Independence Day (Bangladesh)
2008-03-26 @ 11:59 p.m.

Finished my assignment earlier this morning, so I went to down to hand it in to save myself the trip on Thursday. Stood at the counter, waiting for someone to ask me whom I was looking for, until Mary came back to her desk and I could hand it in to her directly. The rest of the people really need to work on their work attitudes, no pun intended. Then I met Ka Tsai, Thong and Vaish for lunch at tcc just outside Plaza Singapura. Animated conversation, as always, including making plans to holiday in Europe around this time in 2009. Venice, here we come! Then Vaish went off to run an errand, while Thong and I attempted to do some shopping. I didn't like the cheap jacket I saw at This Fashion, so I've decided to wear one of my blazers to work instead. Thong walked through most of the shops selling menswear in Plaza Singapura, but he didn't find anything he wanted either. I did, just by casually glancing, but they'd have been the kind of spur-of-the-moment purchases that I might wind up regretting by the time I get home. Will hold out until the Great Singapore Sale!

I didn't buy a pair of Havaianas either, as Vaish assures me that they're much cheaper if I buy them in the USA. So much for spending money today! We had dessert in Starbucks while waiting for Colin to get off work at NUM, and then Vaish headed off to Little India to get her eyebrows done, while the three of us headed for Clarke Quay and dinner. Thong made another valiant attempt to get himself some new threads, but it was not to be! We were going to eat at Pasta de Waraku, but in hindsight, if we'd waited for a table there, we'd have been late. We wound up at The Tapas Tree instead, where I had my favourite fish, salmon. (Yeah, I finally went back to eat at that place after deciding more than two years ago that it was definitely worth going back to. This was the night we saw Never The Sinner.)

We weren't late getting to DBS Arts Centre, which hardly happens if my recent memories serve me right. In any case, I got the programme, which was one of the reasons why I was keen to catch The Pillowman again. Seeing it the second time is rewarding, in the sense that knowing what is to come, one is better able to formulate a response to the play as a whole, whilst events unfold on the stage. Thong was attempting to engage me in a discussion on the play, but I was being intellectually lazy and fobbed him off. That said, one thing about the play still bothers me though, and it's the same one as the last time. It remains the only thing that I have been frustratingly unable to integrate into my understanding of The Pillowman. Why did Michal act out The Little Green Pig with the mute girl, but claim that he'd done her in acccording to the plot of The Little Jesus?