okay! so yesterday was my first ever RMUN council outing. :D:D i had math tuition while everybody else went to watch a movie. but i did my math and learnt new stuff and felt clever. so that was good. but then my phone started dying on me and i started freaking out because i couldn't contact anybody in rmun without my phone. and heck about that, MY PHONE IS MY LIFE. so as i did my math and learnt new stuff and felt clever, i devised a plan.

i will borrow my cousin's phone to call my sister and get her to open up the contact list file saved in the computer. then she will copy cheryl's and kyle's number. cheryl cos her number's nice to remember and i talk to her alot. kyle cos he's the organiser.

when i reached vivo, i walked really really fast to the M1 shop. damn that big mall. so many misleading turns! but i found it and i asked if they sold a memory card or a battery. i was kinda assuming that those will fix my phone. but they didn't carry anything that could help. so i asked for directions to a payphone.

i found myself one. and what the hell! it only accepts phonecards! i growled at the payphone and i stalked off. i decided that i should go to another level's information counter for help. so i made sure that it was a different person before asking for directions to a payphone which accepts coins. then i zoomed off again. i didn't run, mind you. that'll just be retarded.

fortunately, i have many many silver shiny coins with me.

unfortunately, THEY ALL DROPPED RIGHT THROUGH THE PAYPHONE!
there was this guy dressed in black, both hands holding dripping cups of coke and watching me as i pushed 13541483 coins through the slot before they all clinked out again. i scooped out my money, glared at the weirdo guy (because he wasn't gentlemanly enough to offer his phone) and stalked off a second time.

by now, i was panicking like crazy. how are they going to find me? what if they go off without me? what if i can't contact anybody? WHAT IF I HAVE TO SLEEP HERE OVERNIGHT?!

so i slowly walked past m)phosis, looking at the big glaring SALE sign before coming to another plan. with my mind made up, i marched towards The Coffee Bean. it will not disappoint me.

so i ordered a mocha ice-blended. i didn't even decaffeinate it because i figured i needed the caffeine. then after the cashier person asked for my name, i dropped the freaking nuclear bomb. "excuse me, is there any phone i can borrow?"
"fork?"
"no, er, PHONE." i gestured with my hands.

i think i must've looked really scared and really lost and really freaked out because he went "ahhhh." while he patted at his pockets. then he got me to hold on for a second before turning to another colleague, who was using a phone. so they lent me the phone and i passed them the piece of paper with k&c's number scrawled messily on it. i decided to call kyle in the end.

so there was this awkward silence as the phone happily but monotonously recited how much money was left in the SIM card and when it expired (6th dec). both Coffee Bean workers were looking at me. then finally, the ringing tone came through and i whispered furiously to myself and the phone, "pickuppickuppickuppickuppickuppickuppickuppickup!"

he didn't pick up!

that was when i figured they were still watching the movie and i was pretty much doomed. i returned the phone back to them with a sad but grateful smile. "oh he didn't pick up. thanks anyway!" as i walked over to the pick-up counter, i wondered if i should just go home now.

when they passed me my coffee, i couldn't poke the freaking straw through the hole and this waitress was like, "er, do you want me to help you?" because i was stabbing and stabbing the plastic cover with a out-of-shape straw. embarrassed, i passed the straw and cup over to her.

she couldn't get it through either. so she switched a cover and the straw went through successfully. i thanked her and then this wonderful wonderful man came up to me with a wonderful wonderful phone and asked if i wanted to try again. (he was the cashier who took my order previously.)

i was all, "OMG REALLY? i mean, yeah okay, thank you so much!" i wasn't carrying much hope, but since they offered, the best i could do was to make another phone call under their noses. maybe make them feel better that they're Doing A Good Deed.

i dialled kyle's number again. sipping my mocha ice-blended absent-mindedly, i listened to the curiously hypnotic ringing tone. then suddenly IT STOPPED AND THAT MEANS THAT KYLE ANSWERED HIS PHONE.

i started rambling to him and going on and on. i think he couldn't understand me. and i was right, they were still at the movie and he was whispering. so, i was just ranting on and on until i got to the main point, which is that i'll meet them at candy empire. i bet he wasn't listening because i already told him about how my phone screwed up and i can't contact anybody, yet he was like "okay, candy empire. i'll call you back later."

"NO! STOP! YOU CANNOT CALL ME BACK LATER BECAUSE YOU CAN'T!" then i had to rant on about my screwed phone again. i think maybe he was annoyed because i probably sounded like a deranged virago.

anyhow, i just told him that i would be the loser hanging out around candy empire, trying to blend in with the orange walls. not in those exact words, but that sorta summed it up.

then i returned the phone to the person and thanked him again. i was thinking to myself if there was some sort of feedback form i can fill in to get his boss to promote him. but i was so hungry i decided to go down to candy empire and get jellybeans. sorry, mr wonderful guy! i am sure you will be finely rewarded one day. you are a good person. maybe your girlfriend will love you more after yesterday.

i got my jellybeans but decided that i cannot live on jellybeans alone. so i went to buy this huge sausage and bbq porkish thing. drowned the sausage with mayo and chilli, then went back to candy empire to walk to and fro and to and fro.

then i decided that i must be a really stupid person because the others haven't even finished their movie yet and reaching vivo would take a long time. so i went off to look for benches to sit down, all the way munching on my bbq porkish thing and sausage and sipping coffee.

after i finished everything, i felt damn full! so i went back to pacing to and fro and to and fro, stupidly thinking that i will be able to burn everything off by the time my council reaches. i checked myself out alot. every time i walk past the mirrored surface, i sneak a look at myself. hahaha. then out of the blue, audrey decided that hey! why don't i test out my phone now? so i took it out and pressed the red button and IT LIT UP. OMG IT LIT UP!

so the first thing i did was to msg kyle to apologise for my rant and for interrupting his movie. and then told him to sms me when they were coming.

suddenly care-free, i walked into Chamelon and rewarded myself with two pink clips. they were fifty cents each. :D

kyle said to meet shukiat at b&j because 1)sk was already there and 2)they were coming. so with my newly-bought pink clips in my hair, i started making my way to b&j.

damn that big mall. i made a wrong turn and had to stop a person to ask for directions. walked past all the shops all over again and pretended that i've never seen them before in my life. finally saw the signboard and everybody standing there. as i neared, all the girls were like walking away! so i asked them where they were going and they said they were going to change. so i attached myself to anisha and went with her to the toilet too.

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT WHAT THEY DID?!

they bought kung-fu panda tickets but walked openly into the SATC theater. and freaking LIVED TO TELL THE TALE. i would stamp my feet in frustration and envy, but that's too gross, even for me. so i just went "omgggggggggggg." and suddenly, math tuition didn't make me feel clever because as i was feeling clever, they were all watching SATC without me and that is NOT CLEVER.

anyway, they went to eat lunch. wanted to eat at Carl's Junior at first but there were too many people so in the end, we decided to split up, buy our own food and meet at the rooftop. since me and candice ate already, we hung out together, walking through Daiso aimlessly and wondering "is everything REALLY for two dollars only?!" because we saw granny panties and weird two-toed socks. plus fake mirrors because they were aluminium and not silvered-glass.

then we found cheryl, rachel and chandini. went to a secluded and sheltered spot to eat, but all the others were already at this place, which will be referred to as the Dome from now on. it's like it stadium thing with steps and, well, a dome.

everybody was sitting in their own circle of trust except me, rachel and candice. we were just listening to them play truth-and-truth, "choose from 13 to 50." and munching on rachel's fries. after a while, it got kinda boring for the People Outside The Circle Of Trust, aka me rachel candice, so we decided to go to the wading pool and have some fun!

but then i heard my name and obviously responded to it and apparently, it was my turn! so i chose my index number, which is 27, and the question was something like 'who in the council do you have a deepest attachment with?" and i'm like uhhh. in the end, i said elgyn. because he wasn't there but he's in the council. and i don't have to embarrass myself or cause any OHHHHHH to go around. rmun people have this scary scandal-radar.

so me and rachel and candice went to play in the wading pool. in the end, i was DRENCHED while the other two was barely wet. damn loser la. good job, audrey. rachel lent me her towel, then chandini and cheryl joined us. by the time we went back to the Dome, a decision was reached. WE ARE GOING TO SENTOSA AFTER ALL!

yayyy. stupid singaporean weather. rain rain rain all day. rain rain go away!

we went back into vivo and i was SO COLD because i was drenched and
wet clothes + air-con = NOT GOOD.

everybody changed out then we went to this ticketing booth thing to get our tickets. three dollars for the adult tickets, and yes we're all very much adults. (so why cannot watch SATC! arghhh.) the ticket was pretty and we got to keep it. but candice said that we can't bend it because there's a secret circuit/microchip in the card which will get damaged if we bend the card. so i made sure i didn't bend it because i don't want to have to pay for another card or get stuck in sentosa or climb past the weird barrier thing.

we squeezed into the monorail and it was extremely claustrophobic. but it felt like an mrt and i take lots of mrt. so i'm experienced and quite comfortable. although i could do without the weird jerks i make in an attempt to balance myself.

we reached sentosa and finally got sand on our slippers! found a spot and games promptly began.

there were PAPAYA and CARROTS and WATERMELON and my question is WHY NO MANGO! mangoes are extremely delicious provided they are sweet and pretty and clean. anyways, so we played games with it. and after we're done with them, we kicked sand onto it and let them RIP. sze and her council, ga2, will be going back there next saturday and maybe they'll dig it up! or maybe there will be papaya trees and soon the overwhelming population of papaya trees will become a plantation. there will be no more beach and instead be replaced by the papaya trees which will have to be named after us because we planted them there. there will be one papaya tree called Audrey and only people with the name Audrey are allowed to eat the papaya.
i hope sentosa don't read my blog and come sue me. WE ARE JUST GROWING MORE TREES IN LIGHT OF GLOBAL WARMING!

yes, then there was another round of truth-or-dare but everybody chose truth. then me and cheryl borrowed a neon yellow ball which looked like it could glow in the dark. we wanted to play a game with it but shukiat hit me on the head with it. i don't think he did it on purpose but it still hurt. or maybe he did it in purpose so that his name will appear on my blog and he will secretly feel like he is the center of the universe because everybody loves talking about him so much. which is true! everybody teases him, thus talking about him almost all the time. there were even truth-and-truth questions revolving around shukiat. must be the strawberry milk. maybe i should drink more strawberry milk so people will talk about me.

moving on.

i got hit by the ball many times. but they don't really hurt because the ball makes a huge KAPIANG sound but sorta bounces off you in a most innocent way. the sound effect is reallllly good. if i fell and fainted there, they would probably think i got killed by a glow-in-the-dark beach ball. joseph was realllly guilty, but it was nothing. i am damn strong okay. don't underestimate me.

okay, after all the energy-draining activities, we took pictures and EWWWed about PDA.

"why are you guys so against PDA?!"
"but that's not even PDA!"
"then what's that?"
"PDG!"
"... what does the G stand for?"
"Groping."

haha, veh smart, kyle.

ooh and we sat in another Circle Of Trust, where i was sort of included. doralyn pranked lotsa people. like shukiat and akilan? i couldn't tell whether she was laughing or crying, but she was totally convincing. if people of society were more caring and sensitive towards suicidal pregnant teenagers, then maybe the prank calls would've succeeded. but no. they are heartless and mean and cruel. so they just listen for a while then hang up. if that preggo kiddo really committed suicide, they would have have just murdered someone. TWO lives, in fact. shame on them!

we talked about our names for a while. i was named after Audrey Hepburn and have an extremely too-cool-for-you wallet to prove it. and doralyn's name appeared in Titanic, the movie. but i wasn't really listening because the wind was very big, making a loud WHOO WHOO sound. and my fringe was flying everywhere i couldn't see a thing.

we went back to vivo.

they tried to find seats in Kopitiam, while me and rachel went to change. i took out my camera and actually started using it. :) you'll get to see them later.

went back and then walked around in a bid to find something to eat. but i started feeling nauseous all over again and i wasn't sure if it was because i was too hungry or too full. so i did the next best thing-- i bought coke.

HAHAHAH I REALISED HOW WRONG THAT SOUNDED. OOH HIGH ON DRUGS.

anyway, they didn't have coca cola so i bough Pepsi Light. the design was really pretty and i was trying to choose the prettiest. then i realised they were all identical. so i picked one and pretended nothing happen.

after getting sugar into my bloodstream, i felt infinitely better. but i still didn't know what to eat. and in the end, went along with ban mian. to which i only ate the noodles and didn't touch the ingredients at all. it's a nastyyy habit. ohwell.

after dinner, more people went off. the survivors went to candy empire and i took pictures with everyone! i even got joseph to take a picture with me because i told him it was the least he could do after hitting me with a ball. haha, but he's really nice so he would've taken a picture with me even without my emotional blackmail.

then we went back to the Dome. talk talk talk. take a council picture. then at around 9 we went back into vivo, where i rushed off to the toilet AGAIN. i swear, my Loop of Henle is defective. IT DOESN'T EVEN ABSORB BACK THE WATER LUHHH. it just all comes out anyway.

yeah. so we all trooped to the mrt stations where we branched out according to our different routes back home. joseph, the pariah, is actually very funny. the surviving three guys gave each other hugs, mainly because the pariah asked for it. haha. but it was still a very "awwww" moment. i never knew guys did hugs. maybe chest slams? but not hugs. hm, you learn something new everyday!

me teryne rachel and kyle took to jurong east. then me and kyle took to choa chu kang, which is where he lives. i still had to take to lrt to pending and walk back home. i walked really really really fast cos it was really dark and really scary. i was quite sure i was running on adrenaline because i didn't even feel tired! i hope we can listen to music when we run 2.4 in jc. then i'll record tigers roaring and pretend they're behind me so that adrenaline will be produced since i'll be scared and i'll run very fast.

did you guys survive past all that? i don't think so. you probably want me to cut the crap and just post up the pictures already, right?

okay. here you go. it's mainly just me and my council mates. :D the more interesting ones are in anisha's camera.


cheryl&rachel; superdoggg.

rachel&aud; grooming after changing. CAN YOU SEE MY "YEAH, BABY!" SHIRT!

aud&rachelll

aud&cherylll

aud&grace(:

aud&teryne

aud&kim

aud&yiting

aud,anisha&elizabeth

elizabeth&aud

aud&joseph. hahaha the pariah :D

aud&rich.

aud&kyle. the one who made this ecosoc outing a success! all credits to him :D haha and he's stuck planning the next one too.

and lastly, presenting my not-so-complete council!


yay ECOSOC1!

haha never knew i was so close to my council. i totally felt so sad when i left the train okayy. oh well. You Don't Mess With The Zohan! :D:D

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and TODAY!
i went to Wesley. haven't gone to a church for the longest time and it felt really great. like, omg what have i been missing all this while! the songs were really inspiring and the speaker was really good too. i liked the way he went through the The Parable of the Sower, Mark 4:3-20. i think i'm going to read the whole Bible, bit by bit every night. he said that there are only two chairs and two soils. either you desire Him or you don't. something like that. i do desire Him and i do accept him, but i'm still learning how to be a proper and good Christian. i'm thinking maybe reading the Bible will help (:

yes, so next week i might be going to the church at acs(barker) and the week after that, maybe jacq's church? haha i church-hop alot.

then we went over to plaza sing to have lunch. after walking up and down for the longest time, we finally decided on swensen's. decisions, decisions, oh how i hate making decisions. i ordered mac 'n' cheese. it was really really yummy! i think i'll go back there to eat it again one of these days, when my parents aren't constantly telling me that i'm not allowed to go out for the rest of the holidays anymore.

whenever they do that, i just keep quiet or change the topic. haha i change the topic more often than keeping quiet. and after the council meeting, i realise that i'm actually really REALLY talkative, to anyone who is willing to listen. like, in group conversations, i don't really participate since everyone is talking and it's not necessary for me to increase the noise level (the more people talking, the higher your voice is raised). but when it's like one-on-one, i can't stop talking. you can ask candice, or teryne, or kyle. i hung out with candice at Daiso and we talked so much! i even found out that she lives super near me :) and then i found out teryne doesn't know my sister and is in choir. haha i think kyle's suffered the most. because he lives really near me and has to tolerate my incessant talking. then i went home and called sze and talked somemore.

you can probably quite tell from this blogpost, right? haha. I STILL HAVE SO MUCH TO SAYYY. but i shall spare you. i shall just post the pictures i took with pretty&sophisticated szewing today.


this is what happened after sandra tried to say hi to sze by putting her face real close to sze, resulting in sze screaming the hell out and knocking the salt over.

yes, i love that sweater so much i'm wearing it almost all the time. haha i look like i'm going to the gym to work out while sze looks like she's going clubbing (in a totally healthy and omg-you-look-so-nice-and-beautiful! way).

:( you know what?

i think i'm getting ill. either that, or someone's thinking of me all the time! because i keep sniffing and my nose keep dripping and my throat keep hurting. it's difficult to sleep with a sore throat because every time you swallow, you feel like someone just stabbed your throat. and i don't know what, but you seem to just swallow more often when you have a sore throat. so i could hardly sleep. and i felt like shit when i woke up. but i sang for God and it felt so much better. haha no kidding okay!

anyway, i'm going to call natalie wong now and talk till my throat dies. and sniff sniff sniff away.

ARGH MY PHONE JUST DIED AGAIN.
how many times is it going to fake its death! when it really dies i won't even know! what have i done to deserve this!!!

anyway,
world peace,
audrey t. (: