Better bet when it feels like a better betting day.

Today felt like a good day to buy lottery. So I did. It was pretty impulsive, but a very me thing to do. Walked over to West Coast Plaza, got a bubble tea (my 4th one in as many days) and bought 2 4D numbers and a ticket for the Singapore Sweeps.

T'was quite an experience since it was the first time I was trying it out. Noting my clueless face, the aunty at the counter helpfully gave me a couple of pamphlets with instructions. I decided to buy multiple permutations of my numbers *crosses fingers*
The Singapore Sweeps ticket was unintentional. At the counter, as I was paying for my 4D slip, I saw three red tickets. The aunty motioned to the Singapore Sweeps poster and told me each ticket was only 3 dollars. Heck it! Bought one randomly.

It was quite funny... the other people there were South Asian foreign workers, old chinese ah peks and tai-tai like aunties. There were also a group of little old ladies in beflowered cotton shirts who were loudly betting on horse racing. Guess that not too many uni students around the Clementi area buy TOTO/ 4D... Alex, why aren't you living here?! Then I would have a teman beli lottery.

Hmmm... can't wait for the results. My luck may be a little botched though. I stepped on a cat's paw when getting to the shop... I didn't see her, she was walking near me and was the same colour as the floor. Felt really nasty after that. Tried apologizing -to the cat, who couldn't understand english-, even the aunty who tsked in annoyance at my clumsiness smiled kindly and said, "aiyo, dia punya salah loh, dia blakang you mah." Ah well... still felt like an evil cat-paw-trodder.

Even if I don't get anything, at least I learnt how to buy a ticket and I love that the impulse was satisfied...so much for rationality (:

When I grow up, I want to...

grow a marshmallow tree

swim in chocolate

tame a pink tiger
drink dew drops

draw smileys on bees wings

fly into the sunset

blow bubbles all day

tickle dimpley babies

kiss in a storm of tears

stare at the clouds

read apple blossoms

sew fringes on mushrooms

slide down a rainbow

live in a cream puff

sleep amongst the stars

paint cherries blue
ride a magic carpet

laugh till my sides ache

have loved, be loved and still love

Slumming Sunday...

and I now finally join the ranks of those who have watched Slumdog Millionaire!


Lets not be highbrowed, but being quite the bibliophile, I am bound to think, "the book was so much better" as in the case of most books turned movies anyways but I deffo deffo deffo loved the movie too!!!

Q&A (yes, read it loooong before it became the bing-bang-hit that it now is, and before it was renamed to match the movie) definitely had more twists and was more interesting plot-wise but the music was amazing and the cinematography were great. Ginger demurred though that it was reminiscent of Danny Boyle's other movies (Trainspotting, anyone?) so nothing that new. Oh well, still think that it was pawsome!!!

I do wish that they'd stayed truer to the book (missed the "Ram Mohammad Thomas" explanation and the story behind the person he phoned when using his "book" call option... the "movie" call option was kinda sappy though it fulfilled its purpose i guess...) but with my meagre experience in producing a film and script-writing, I sorta get the feasibility issues of turning the book in its entirety into a movie.

Overall it was pretty damn awesome. A.R. Rahman was as brilliant as ever and the icky-poo covered boy scene was kinda gross eeeew but really cute. Amitabh Bachan must be really flattered. Is Dev Patel a dish or what?!

Lap-lap-lapin, carrots for getting out of the burrow and watching it together hoho.