The good old days...

On realizing that I am becoming a couch potato, i decided to get my butt off the chair and pay my dear friend Melvyn a visit. As i would put it, its tradition for me to buy a yellow watermelon when i go visiting. So i proceeded to NTUC to get myself a watermelon and was enlightened at the same time. Remember seeing those uncles and aunties, when buying watermelons, they would bring the fruit up to their ears and gently tap it. They always tell us that thats a way to choose a good watermelon, i am always fascinated by their advance level of intelligence to be able to tell a yummy watermelon from a not so yummy one. Thus i came up with a scientific explanation to this. Tapping produces sound waves which are longitudinal and since a watermelon is well, made up mostly of water, it amplifies these sound waves. By applying a constant force in the tapping, we would hear different loudness of it at the other end. Hence a louder sound would mean a watermelon is juicier than one which produces a softer sound. So i put my theory to work and started tapping and discovered that they all sound the same, the only thing that came out of this was the curious stare from people walking by wondering what the heck this boy is doing choosing watermelons after watermelons which are as bald as his head. In the end i concluded that those aunties and uncles are of a higher life form and hurried out of the super market.

And yes Melvyn, its been almost 4 years since i last went to his house. Ah... Being there again brings back memories of childhood, of the time when we were young and mischievous, without a care in the world. Running around his condo like mad monkeys trying to catch each other only to realized that melvyn and i had secretly snug up to his house to seek refuge from our predators. anyway we just chat and chat for the entire day, stopping to catch our breadth and to watch his brother play "Halo2" which i heard is the 100th time he is playing so he knows exactly where each enemy is coming out. it was a nice visit, just chatting with him.

After that i met Yipin for dinner at katong. it was like another trip down memory lane, looking at shops along tanjong katong road, seeing how much things had changed since we were last here. The 7-eleven where we would buy cup noodles and just sit there on the floor to eat. Katong News Agency KNA for short where u could get the cheapest Pokemon cards. it all seemed so recent yet so far away. how time really flies, age is really catching up. We went to watch Madagasca after dinner. its a rather short but extremely funny show. I especially love the psychotic penguins and i'm convince that they will take over the world.

"just smile and wave boys" - penguins