Monday, 27 June 2011
THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS ARE FINALLY HERE!
After what seemed like forever, the 2 weeks of dreaded school are finally over and whoohoo, the summer holidays officially started last friday at 12:10pm. As expected, everyone partied till night. I did spent alone time with myself shopping away in Mong Kok, getting my stuff for my France trip. I bought a nice comfy pair of sandals, 2 tops, a belt and a very, very, very nice dream catcher necklace from H&M. But, I am still missing my bikini bottoms so that'll be the goal for the next few days.
Anyway, ever since I started watching The Amazing Race, I always had this dying desire to be on the show. But, a little sort of, well, it happens quite alot actually, "mishap" (I can't think of a better word) happened which made me decide to rant about it today.
Why I can never survive on the amazing race even though I have a dying desire for it
- I can't drive. Well, I'm sure I would be able to if I join in a few years time because I haven't got my license yet but even then, I'm sure I cannot drive a stick shift. And, after watching many seasons of people failing to drive a stick shift on The Amazing Race, I realised that you must know how to drive one or you'd be screwed on the race.
- I have no sense of direction. Everytime I see a person just walking right past the clue box or spending 30 minutes looking for something right in their face, I laugh my head off and think these people are just stupid. Now I know, I am probably most likely going to be one of them. I am going to end up being one of those, "Where is the damn cluebox?! I've been here for 45 minutes!" on the race. Why? Because, it's not the first time I experienced the "mishap" last friday evening.
Last Friday Evening
So basically what happened, in a nutshell, was that I was looking for a karaoke place called "Red Mister" for the next 30, 40 minutes in the streets of TST. My friends told me that all I had to do was find K11 and then Red Mister. Easy enough, I asked directions for K11 and the MTR dude told me exit D2. I left the exit and went into the K11 mall and was checking the directory for a Red Mister. No Red Mister on the directory so I decided to check the floors, probably the top floor since karaokes are usually on the top floors. I was circling around in the building, (taking a look at other stores as well) for 15 minutes and no, no Red Mister. So I went back down to the information counter and asked and apparently, it was straight down the exit of the mall to the right. "Straight out this way and then right and then look up"
I left K11 and out into the streets of TST and turned right just as the information counter told me. I swear, I was looking up at every possible sign and I did not see any "Red Mister". I was looking out for all the huge, blingy, sparkly signs because that's how it looks like for a Karaoke. So I was walking all the way down the right and looking up, standing in the middle of the street, looking up turning around, looking like an idiot and I still did not see any "Red Mister". I saw a 7-11 store, walked in and asked where Red Mister was and the guy just pointed in a direction and said "there". Fine, I walked in that direction and still, no Red Mister. I walked into another 7-11 and then, the direction given, "I don't know". And quite honestly, at that point I was starting to get quite frustrated. It's hot outside, I'm getting sticky and I can't find the damn "Red Mister" and by then, I was already swearing and just, mad.
I went over to a shoe store to ask again and the lady pointed, "There". Oh, bloody, hell. The damn karaoke was right behind me all along. For 30 minutes, I had been circling around "Red Mister". WTF. And trust me, that's not the first time I had been circling around a damn building (that's right in my face) for 30 minutes.
- I can't read maps. Definitely can't. Tried that once in the streets of Jordan and I got lost, for 35 minutes.
- I can't swim. Well, I'm sure there are times when you need to swim and, I can only swim for 10m. With that said, I wouldn't want to wear swimmies on my arm trying to paddle my way to god knows where because if I had to swim for 200m or something like that, I'd die.
- I'm not exactly the most patient person. Pretty self explanatory.
- I will melt in the heat. Like I said before, ice cubes on hot coal.
Yeah. So I suppose I'll just stick to being a couch potato and watching The Amazing Race on youtube while laughing my head off.
lol'd, 12:09