Rain.

It’s been raining rather heavily for the past 2 days, which was a good thing because it made for a very perfect reason to stay at home and rest, especially after a whole week enduring the smothering heat.

Friday was a bad day for me. It started with me getting fed up with some controls on my N95 (I didn’t really learn how to play with the phone so I kinda asked for it) and spent almost 20 minutes trying to send out a SMS (partly also because my fingers are too big for the phone’s keypad).

Then I lost my way trying to find the Chai Wan campus. It would have been OK if I was walking that much and the weather wasn’t hot, but it was terribly warm and at one point I thought of giving up and just return to my own campus, but for one reason or another I didn’t, so I endured the heat and all the perspiration and continue my march towards the Chai Wan campus. It took me 20 minutes to get there from the Hang Fa Chuen station to the campus when normally it should take only about 10 minutes.

When I arrived at Chai Wan for the talk, I realised that the talk was actually meant for students rather than staffs – I had the feeling of being cheated because apparently the talk was promoted through the staff email system, so I thought it was meant for staffs. When I entered the lecture hall and saw almost everyone was a student, I felt so cheated. It didn’t help when the talk was covering things that I already knew when I did all those marketing courses in university. I didn’t bother to stay till the end of the talk.

And then because I have to rush back to my own campus, so I decided that I would take a cab (partly also because I don’t want to walk back to the train station as it was horribly hot). In the end, the trip from Chai Wan to Cheung Sha Wan cost me $190, with the tunnel surcharge alone costing me $40. If not for the fact that I have no choice (I had 30 minutes to reach Cheung Sha Wan) I wouldn’t have spent those kind of crazy monty. I mean, a cab trip costing almost S$40? I could have travelled the length of the whole Singapore with that kind of money.

Then the worst thing of the day happened when I was returning home from school. Because of the rain (strange that, considering that the heat was sweltering in the day), I decided that I would take the train home. And while on the train, I took out my PSP to play. The train was kinda crowded, but I was in a good position so everything was fine. Suddenly some bugger behind me gave me a push while the door was closing, and the train door knocked onto my hand. The next thing I know, my PSP flew out of my hand and dropped between the train door and the platform screen door and onto the track…

Getting tired, and I think I would want to go sleep considering I’ve got to go back to work tomorrow. If you want to know what happened to my PSP, stay tuned.