People that talk too much, sick girls and boat quay

Did i tell you i love this e-mail cafe? ;)

(techno really makes me happy happy and they play it

non-stop here!)

Last night was really chill, true i was with this

german guy who lacked a bit of social skills and at

times looked as if he was going to eat me, the

slabbering wolf time... but hey, it was company, and

he showed me this awesome place with mini-techno-bars,

so i let him enjoy my company while i tolerated his...

i felt like i had to treat him like a little boy...

'peter, did you hear what i just said? peter, earth

to peter? i am talking?' and finally he'd be like,

oh, yes, what were you saying? he was like a train

who kept missing his stop! PETER earth to peter!

and then the funniest thing was at the end of the

night, he pulls out this line, 'everything you say is

very important to me, and i am listening to you'

I was like peter, did you get that line from that book

you were reading on women? *sigh*

he gave me this little embarrassed grin which told me

i had hit the target...

i mean i know i go through phases when i am really not

in the mood to listen, i just want to talk and tell

you what i'm thinking, you know the energizer bunny

chick... but hey,

i won't bullshit you and tell you that at that moment

what you are saying is important to me... hah

i really could care less, i'm just totally

self-centered and tripping on my own energy...and also

wanting you to enjoy the ride too...

and i could totally tell he was in this mood... for

like a few hours straight.. laughs... but as long as i

could just treat him like a kid brother, though he was

36, and remember that if it wasn't for him, i wouldn't

have seen this awesome place, it was okay and i wasn't

going to clobber him...

(did i tell you that when he saw my tongue ring, he

made a really bad joke and was like guess what i have

one right here! and he wasn't pointing to his nose,

but something hopefully a little larger)

i did make sure though that when my patience was

wearing thin, i covertly turned us back toward home,

and though he mentioned numerous times let's sit and

talk, i was like nope, tired...

goodness... you meet ALL KINDS of people when you

travel and many who are totally oblivious to social

cues!

and like okay, i go through phases like that, we all

do when we are in a certain mood or have a certain

idea/desire on our minds (hmm... yeah, desire would be

a good word)... but repeated trips to social oblivion

when you are with a fascinating and adorable creature

as myself, are a quick way to get booted to the

curb... and i decided that is true no matter how

interesting what comes out of your mouth is...

because guess what, i have a lot of great things to

say too!

this decision i made recently when i was in gili

islands and i just walked away from this guy who was

truly wacked out...

he was undoubtedly one of the most FASCINATING people

i had ever met, great philosophical theories (he was a

professor of sociology or something) and many cool

travel experiences, so much so that i tolerated his

pontificating non-stop for quite a while, but after a

bit, i was like hmmm... this guy could really give a

shit about me and what i think, he just likes an

audience...

well, i really DO give a shit about me and what i

think, and I'm tired of being an audience, so umm.

sorry, mr., but bye!

and you know what, even as i was pulling out my chair

to leave and saying sorry, but you really talk too

much, he STILL kept talking about himself, and then

even as I was walking away!

and THEN, 10 minutes later, he walked by where i was

sitting with some friends and said America is number

one and acted like a gorilla and walked away! like oh

my god! heh... he did that because we had been

talking, oh I mean - HE had been talking about how

americans think they are so hot and really are so much

into consumerism and evolution-wise, an ape that was

totally selfish and into just acquiring goods for

him/herself would be kicked out of his/her tribe.

i mean, dude, i really am aware i'm not perfect, like

all the wonderful blabbering i do on e-mail, but

listen, some people make me look like perfection

itself.

sometimes, i think the only reason i am so patient

with such social rejects is i see myself in such

people and know i would feel terrible if people

stopped talking to me just because i was hyper, nutty

girl... and also because at one time, thankfully long

ago, i was one of those rejects (somebody hide those

pictures quick!)... really with no clue... but the

difference, i am beginning to think is that number

one, i was really interested in learning how not to be

a social reject, and obviously taught myself a few

things... and also, i wasn't 36 or 56 years old like

these people! more like 13 or 15... an age where i

believe at least 50% of the population has had growing

pains so to speak.

hmm....

but i digress...

so, i want to tell you about the scenic view... i tend

to venture into philosophical realms way easily...

So okay, last night, we went to Boat Quay (after I saw

Legally Blonde with Stephanie, 'terminally ill girl'

who just got discharged for having dengue fever - ps

legally blonde made me think about becoming a lawyer

actually and doing a stint on human rights and

international law, but that's another story}

okay so boat quay, oh man, it was gorgeous, there is

this harbor which narrows into a river and numerous

lit bridges span the width of it. On one side there

is a quiet park-like walkway, on the other side there

are many little bars-clubs and restaurants. I kept

zipping in and out of the clubs, dancing a little to

the cool techno and then heading to the next one,

skipping the one named mambo with reggae music. mr.

peter just waited for me patiently, he wasn't in the

dancing mood he said. How could the music not effect

him? it was totally fun. and especially because it

was free! (you were supposed to buy a drink though,

which I didn't)

after finishing the club scene, we walked around the

quieter area by the bridges... there were some white

european looking buildings with greek columns... they

were lit like the bridges and other areas of the

harbor/river... and in the background of all this

were Singapore's tall skyrises against the dark blue

night sky...

After we had had our fill of this area, we wandered

down another road, called victoria something or other

back toward home... we passed this beautiful church,

again, white stone lit with yellow lights... walking

to the back of it, there was this stairwell going down

beneath surface level... there was an open air

subground atrium that was filled with chairs and a

huge screen playing ESPN from England. irish pubs

lined the area. the funniest aspect of this picture

was again, remember, this is directly (like 1-2 feet)

behind a church! really interesting...

today, haven't done anything interestin yet, i'll meet

stephanie (from canada) and yuki (from japan) later...

i'm waiting for my laundry to get done and taking it

easy as Aunt Flo paid me a visit and feeling a bit

achy... heh... too much info? oh well!

actually, i want to backtrack to saturday day... i

called steph at the hospital (this techno rocks!!!!!)

okay, yeah and she had checked out already and the

nurse said was on her way out of the country. i

freaked because she had my camera (i had left it at

the hospital) and then i was like okay, i'll just

check my e-mail, maybe she sent me a message... and

there she was an the very internet cafe near my

hostel!

these interesting coincidences are one of the reasons

I am learning not to freak-out about what seems to be

a bad situation... time and time again, seemingly

unfortunate events turn out fine, with a little

patience and lack of worry. so i got my camera no

problem.

poor stephanie was feeling really weak from being in

the hospital so long and being sick for a total of 3

weeks. and to tell you the truth, call it energy or

something, but i got a headache the minute i saw her.

she was totally stressing and off kilter... later on

toward the end of the night she was feeling better,

and so was i ... but still our energies aren't a total

match. that's another fascinating aspect of

traveling. after meeting a billion people, you get

exposed to a wide range of personalities, so that it

becomes second nature to know from the start who is

compatible with you and who isn't - and it's really

nothing personal, it's just compatibility. knowing

this also makes it easier when i meet people that

aren't totally taken with me either (how is such a

thing possible anyhow? *grin*} it's all cool

okay, so yeah, me and stephanie ended up going to this

mall which had this promo for a gym. again, promo's

in singapore are a big thing. they were having a

contest which involved audience participation. there

were these 8 girls which had to all copy the moves of

these aerobics instructors teaching three different

styles. the best one was going to win some kind of

prize.

(a thought - now i can wear my hard rock cafe

singapore t-shirt no prob - 'cause i've been there!

((i had got it from an ex roomate)) )

yeah, an afterward we got some grub and went to buy

some tickets for legally blonde. it turns out that

you have to pick your seat in advance! so there were

only seats in the third row available at this time, so

we felt like we practically in the movie.

and anyway, after we bought the tickets, we had to go

into the mall and up four flights of escalators... and

to top it off, then i had to check in my oranges with

this guy, like a coat check with no charge...

interesting!

legally blonde really made me feel happy and wanting

to go back to school... i wonder if i would be happy

as a lawyer... okay, number one, public speaking is

not for me, but as a behind the scenes person on a

team... i love and am very good at critical thinking,

i.e. picking apart arguments and finding the flaws and

problems in any essay or area i have any knowledge

in... and also in finding the connections in several

seemingly unrelated areas...

so the search for what my next career move will be

continues... as do my travels! see you and miss

you...!!!!

Leyna