Listening to: The Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Just woke up with a throat as dry as the desert, and realized am late for remedial lecture. Again. Mum just made me drink some aloe vera drink with the taste of refined petroleum -_- Have also realized that did no work at all last night and am now terribly behind in everything...

Il Mare - Wed 13th February
Had dim sum lunch with my family + youngest uncle and wife, then went to one of my aunt's... she stays in Punggol... the place has totally changed, it used to be farms and jungle... now the entire place around the blocks in her area has become one big sprawling estate, and only the space around her block seems to have stayed stuck in time... a remnant of my lost childhood.

Learnt how to play mahjong from my youngest uncle... yes I am slow... but the highlight of the evening was my mother leading a massacre of he2 re4 jun1 zai4 lai2, ku2 jiu3 man3 bei1 and nan2 wang4 de4 chu1 lian4 ren2...

Watched Il Mare that night... there was a tinge of sadness I guess, since I sort of guessed the ending... but the final scenes where the male lead suddenly remained alive was a bit disconcerting... I thought they should have left the show at the part where he was knocked down by the car and tears were streaming down his face, and he tried reaching out to the female lead who was oblivious to it all...