Wednesday, August 09, 2006

lesson #025: reflections on spending the National Day of a country that you're not a citizen of

'of a country that you're not a citizen of' - is there a grammatical mistake somewhere in there?

Anyhoo.

(I realised I've replaced saying 'anyway' with 'anyhoo', the latter pronounced as 'any-HOE', and I don't even recall how that started.)

It's the 9th Aug today, Singapore's National Day. Singapore citizens are busy lighting, watching, and / or getting burned by fireworks, on top of the NDP excitement at that place called The Padang. The question is, is it wrong for a foreigner to partake in the hoo-ha because of the underlying reason behind them? Fireworks = celebrate Singapore National Day = not being loyal to your country of origin. Wearing red = acknowledge Singapore National Day = not being loyal to your country of origin. Wearing red National Day T-shirt that you're given for free = acknowledge Singapore National Day and commit heinous fashion crime = not being loyal to your country of origin.

Rather than contemplate on the possibilities of being accused as a traitor, I've decided to simply ignore all requests to watch fireworks and hope that the senders think I just didn't receive the messages. But now of course they'll find out that I have received them and that I have decided to rudely ignore them. FOR GOOD REASONS! Reasons such as loyalty to my own country and respect to Singapore citizens whose space I might take up, if I go.

Dum dee dum...

Anyhoo. Sky's pretty dark and cloudy yet I have to make a move to school soon so as to pass the SAAT files over to the reviewer. Why? Why? Why must this happen to me? I hate rain especially when it pours when I have to get out of the house. Or when I have to cross the road. Or... whenever. Even when I'm in the comfort of my room all curled up in warmth-inducing blanket I hate the sound it makes, especially so when accompanied by thunder and flashes of lightning! Brrr.

On a more bimbotic note. My daily-use perfume, Escada Rockin' Rio, is finito. Have to find a replacement soon (I have to spritz on perfume when I go out else I would feel naked not to mention smelly). Went around sniffing at Sasa a coupla days back and I've decided that I like My Givenchy as well as Fantasy by Britney Spears. Actually I love Fantasy more but the tacky bottle design and the fact that it is by Britney Spears kinda put me off it. I realise that perfume is one commodity where brand name is everything. You can have a perfume smelling like shit but if it carries the name of Dior, some women would still buy it. On the other hand, you can have the loveliest smelling perfume but if it's called Eau de Dog Poop, no one's gonna go for it.

Anyhoo. Am gonna scout around for some more nice-smelling perfumes. Second step is to find a sugar daddy to help me with the purchase because I don't exactly have the moolah to back it up right now. But one step at a time!

Since I can't ask my Singapore-citizens friends out today, because it is their National Day and I have to respect it if they choose to hang out with NDP at Channel 5 rather than me (sob), I shall entertain myself by playing Shadow Hearts and eating Tim-Tams. Eh but then I think I've polished off the packet of Tim-Tams. So I suppose it's just Shadow Hearts today. Which I'm quite looking forward to because, well, it's fun!