Little Mermaid

My niece's birthday party was held in Kid's Kampong. The theme was obviously "Abuse the Fish". You'll understand later.

It's this little place down Farmway 1 in Pasir Ris. Pretty cute, but for kids only. Big kids not allowed, sorry. :P They have this little "longkang fishing" thing. You're given a bucket and a net, and 1 hour to fish as many little longkang fish you can catch. There were about 20 kids trying to scoop them up so the poor things had to swim here swim there like mad. I don't blame them, 'coz if they get caught they get dumped into the bucket with all their other doomed buddies. That is, if they don't go splat on the floor. I had to rescue more than 1 squirming little fishie 'coz the kids either can't pick it up or squish them accidentally in the process. You get to keep the bucket and net plus the fishies you've caught at the end of it.

There's another pool of koi that you can feed. Well conditioned already, they. When you go near the pool, they all swim to you. If you walk along the side, they follow. They'll eat out of your hand if you put it in. Don't worry, they don't have teeth. :P They also have chickens, ducks, geese, terrapins and rabbits that you can feed. The birthday package also included a 20 minute pet show, where the uncle brought out several little furballs (mice, rabbits, gerbils, hamsters) to show the kids, and let them pet a bit.

Then there was the piñata in the shape of Nemo. Poor thing got bished and bashed before finally bursting open to shower the clambering children with confetti and candy. Someone wondered aloud what we were teaching the kids by telling them that if you beat the fish up hard enough, it will give you sweets.

The cake was a 3D affair, with a sugar mountain topped with seaweed, (more!) fishies and The Little Mermaid at its apex. Strawberry shortcake, it was. I'm not a fan but I suppose it was good. I also happen know that it cost a bomb.

Ya. All in all, a wonderful "Abuse the Fish" Day. ^^

Facebook

Made a Facebook profile. Seems to be the in thing nowadays.

Linky

Hmmm..

Ok. I'm going to say this out loud now.

I'm a -------- -------- ---------- with ---.

As mentioned before, it may or may not be temporary, 'coz I've invested alot of time and money into getting a trading license as well.

It's the media's fault that I have this slightly skewed perception of people who work for insurance companies, but I hope that you guys don't. :P

Please don't run away. And please do answer the phone if I call you. Also, please don't hang up on me after you do answer. Thank you so much, I love you all. ^^

Edit: I had to edit away what was previously in the blanks 'coz I found out that was misconduct to post such a thing without prior authorization! :O

Cornered rabbit

I think the guy who approached me works at Raffles City Tower or somewhere nearby. Seen him again a couple of times around there. He saw me once but I pretended to be staring hard at the shop window display while walking briskly in the other direction. :P

To clarify: No, I'm not an anti-social bitch. It's just that.. In the context, it was so wrong. And the line he fed me was such a cliche. But say.. If I was sitting alone at a bar, wearing a slinky little dress and drinking a martini.. And he comes up to me and played the scene through as before.. I would be more inclined to give him my number and prolly do some flirting of my own. BUT, as it was, I was wearing fairly frumpy everyday clothes, was sort of in a hurry to get to my class, and not in the mindset to get hit on (besides the fact that I have a bf :P). So I guess it was simply a case of wrong time, wrong place.

Get this in your head right now. Not an anti-social bitch. Thank you.

Toilet stalkers

I got ambushed by some guy outside the toilets at Raffles City today. Jadyte's mysterious SMS stalker kept flashing into my mind.. Well so this guy gave me the cliché opener, "Excuse me, you look very familiar.." I was already screaming internally "omg shit omgomgomg why meeeeee!!!" Because no, I'm not from NTU and it was obvious from his next question, "So where did you study?" that he was trying to extract info. Well I got tricked (sort of) into giving him my name 'coz he stuck out his hand and said, "I'm Vincent" and me being the polite girl I am shook his hand and said "I'm Vanessa".. *slaps forehead* But of course I did draw the line at giving him my number (thank you Jadyte!), after which he promptly asked for my email, msn etc etc. After saying "No no no nonononono" a few times he finally got the hint and apologised for scaring me and bid me goodbye. Phew.