Since as of late i've been spending pretty much half of every calendar weekday in school, it has become necessary to have meals (or at least some sort of food) there. There have been times though, when i've missed eating a single thing in school whatsoever, meaning that i've at least on a handful of occasions taken my first taste of food at around seven/eightish, due to only being free to eat when all the canteen stalls would have already closed. And while the seemingly legendary food center lies just opposite, the phrase "so near yet so far" could not be more fitting than it is in this case.
While this had pretty much been the situation since i first entered the school, it has only occurred to me recently that i could actually keep a stash of food in the office so that i would at least have something to fall back upon. Unfortunately, this epiphany of mine has coincided with the start of the cny season. In other words, it's time for the annual bone-chilling assault on my eardrums that is the cny songs played ad nauseaum in supermarkets.
I wonder if i've some kind of clinical phobia of these horrid dongdongqiangqiang numbers. I say this because driven by hunger, i've tried to brave the onslaught of overenthusiastic dizi music and incomprehensible (by me) Chinese couplets rattled off in unison by the seemingly endless number of annoying singers, only to find myself covering my ears as well as i can with my hands while scanning through the aisles of snacks for suitable food. I probably would remind people of the hear no evil monkey. That makes sense though - the hear no evil part, not the monkey part - since as far as i'm concerned such music is as evil as it gets.
Maybe i should get in touch with cold storage delivery...
(On a completely unrelated note i couldn't help but chuckle when i read the first bit of this report in the ST a few days back. I don't know if it was meant to hint at the quality (or in many cases, lack thereof) of teaching at nie in general, but at least when i was reading the opening line, which said that "Their best lessons were not in the lecture theatres at the NIE", i couldn't help but think to myself that i couldn't agree more :p )
2 comments:
Dude,
you should get in-ear earphones or something, you know, the kind that almost look like earplugs. Then each time you go to NTUC, you can blast Franz Ferdinand or something while you go shopping, and not hear the stuff... at least until you reach the counter and take out one side so that you can listen to the cashier...
Oh haha and i just realized, spare a thought for the poor employees, who have to endure this all day long.
yeah well there was a time when i had earplugs, but those were more for anti-tv mobile purposes, but well since tv mobile has been rightfully vanquished...
and yeah, now that i think of it, those poor employees...
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