Woke up at 10am and watched in amazement as Miss Puerto Rico took home the title of Miss Universe. Both Lilian and I agreed that Miss Japan was a strong contender for the title, until she opened her mouth to speak, that is. Check out her ans:
Qn: I heard you speak French and Spanish? How did that come about?
Ans: -starts blabbering her whole ans in French, to the bewilderment of the MCs and the japanese translator- Oh, and by the way, can I say something? I think the audience here is really passionate and full of energy, and I want to say thank you to all of you for being such a great audience!!
Qn: What is one thing in the history of humanity you would want to change?
Ans: I think there's nothing much different between men and women...-blah blah blah a lot more irrelevant stuff which I can't recall anymore-...but I wish the world will be rid of exploitation and violence.
Hmmm...have come to the conclusion that there's either some huge language barrier and translation problem (which is a real pity), or Miss Japan with all her beauty just lacks in the brains dept. Haha, her whole outburst about the 'wonderful audience' just screams bimbo to me, but Lilian was still rooting for her, so maybe I'm just being overly critical...:P
Anyway, Lilian came over today for cycling at east coast. Cos the weather was too hot, we decided to play a round of my LOTR-edition monopoly before leaving. As usual, I ended up paying money non-stop for landing on all her properties, and just as we decided to pack up and leave, she decided to use up most of her money to build 4 strongholds (houses) on one of her more expensive properties, which I promptly managed to land on on the next turn and get myself bankrupted. What can I say...I have bad luck in these games. Plus I was perhaps suicidal in agreeing to her trade negotiation of swapping properties such that she had the monopoly of the whole high-end district from Fangorn Forest (yellow colour property, the stretch before 'Go to Jail') all the way to Mount Doom (the very last property before 'GO!'), while I had all the cheap properties which gave me peanuts even though I had already build fortresses (hotels).
Cycling at East Coast was fun! Haha, the old saying that you can never forget how to ride a bike once you've learned it is clearly not true, as Lilian wobbled her way around on her kiddy bicycle (I insisted that the bike was too small for her, but she didn't listen :P) for the first 30min we were there, the first time she has cycled since she was sec 1!! But she managed to pick up the skill again quite quickly, and we cycled all the way (ok admittedly it was not THAT far away) to Bedok Jetty to look at the people fishing for ikan kurau (haha at least the fish were all around that size, which I think is quite sad)
Dinner was at Parkway, where I satisfied my craving for Pastamania's Ham and Sausage Baked Rice. Lilian's Al Funghi was not bad too! The mushrooms were really tasty! YUM!! Oh, and we managed to find a school bag for Lilian in record time after dinner. A short trip to Isetan, glanced around at a few bags, and voila, found a bag that looked rather decent and was big enough to stuff in notes and books! Haha, efficient! :D
-XL :)
