Monday snippets

After dinner tonight, we stayed on a little longer than usual, tossing around ideas about what to get for a classmate's birthday present. Spent from the late lecture, and exasperated that we were not making any headway, I sighed heavily and suggested: "Aiyah, why don't we just get him something practical -- like... underwear?"

Before anyone (else) could react, HW whipped out a plastic bag from out of nowhere and announced gleefully (and very loudly): "I just bought underwear today, leh!"

"..."

We stared at him in stunned silence and amusement. In a public place? At the dinner table? FLAILING UNDERWEAR?!

Oblivious to the inappropriateness of it all, he grinned widely at us. "So? Are we getting him underwear?!" he asked, as he swung the bag of underwear in our faces like a pendulum.

Sigh.

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Dr. C: "Rejections are merely opportunities to other things."

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I met S (I'm running out of acronyms -- if you can call this that -- because too many people's names start with the same alphabet; I hope I haven't used this one before) on my way to class today. He eyed me curiously.

"What?" I asked.

"You look cute today."

"???"

As opposed to all the other days where I look like chopped liver, I suppose.