Constructive Deconstruction

How I Spent Christmas 2008

December 25, 2007 on 6:37 pm | In Random, just for laughs | No Comments

For some reason, today, I woke up early. In fact, I woke up many times. There was a problem though…I had nothing to do. Ok, I have work to do but I refused to do work today - at least not while everyone else is celebrating one of the most popular holidays ever.

Even if you weren’t christian, it’s become such a huge day that it’s a day you can’t escape.

So how did I spend my day?

I slept. And I slept a lot. I woke up just in time to have breakfast with parents afterwhich I turned on the TV and caught some show about 2 kids who had their bodies switched. After 10 minutes, it started to get cliche(although the girls were quite cute) so I switched it off and lay down on my bed. I promptly fell asleep.

When I woke up again, I decided to spend some time trying to ask if anyone would wanna grab a cup of coffee. For a brief moment, I was determined not to sleep my day away. Alas, I’m here blogging at 6.20pm so you can guess how that went.

But I had an interesting dream after I slept once again after that try-to-get-coffeemates session.

I dreamt I rushed to some hotel where Fenghong was having some huge gathering and catered the FishNCo people. I got there just in time after they’ve all packed so I just shook his hand and said, “Thanks for organising.” Then immediately after that, I fell asleep(yes I was even falling asleep in the dream!). There, some other JC Council friend of mine woke me up and was cautioning me against driving home…so guess what I did?

I checked into some kickass hotel. The valet took my car and I was ushered up to some room with a heavenly huge bed! And they served me food too! I was…the biggest, most tasty, crispiest fried chicken ever! It was so big and so nice I just had to share it with someone. But there was no one to share it with. The streets were empty and everyone seemed busy(i think i had this impression in my dream because of the coffee thing) So there I was eating this divine piece of fried chicken when it struck me…”Shit. How much is this one night stay in my own country - just so I could sleep in - cost me?”

I decided to sleep first and in the morning I gave the reception a call on the pretence of wanting to know how much cash to prepare…and she said so matter-of-factly, “$6600″. omfg!

after what seemed like 10 secs of emotional rush, I woke up.

What a dream.

Amongst some interesting sights in my dream:-

1. Orchard was devoid of people. Not a single soul except me.
2. The hotel I stayed in had like 8 elevators servicing my level. And when you pressed the button, it only calls for the ones to its immediate left and right. So I had to walk down the corridor and press 7 buttons…although pressing 4 would have sufficed.
3. There some old angmoh guy in my dream. He smiled when I came for Fenghong’s party. I have no idea who he is
4. The bellhop at my hotel was this Indian fellow…superbly nice guy. If anything in the dream was worth that $6600 fee, it would have been him.
5. There was no Internet anywhere in my dream. Haha
6. There was a genuine fear of not having enough money to pay.

So there, That was how I spent my xmas day….Dreaming.