I woke up in a dream today, to the cold and the static...

...and did some pushups. I really have to find some good bicep & back muscle exercises, because I'm looking for the 2/3 bicep, 1/3 tricep ratio on my arms. But until I can handle military training's 25 pushups (variable speed, NOT fast) no problem, I simply must keep working on it every single day. And eating toast, because toast is good.

Anyway, earlier I had said I was planning to go MP3 player shopping. But let me tell you what actually happened. Yesterday, shortly after my brother got back from his handball game, I got a phone call from Ivonne around 5:00 PM. She said we were all going to see "The Incredibles," and when could I meet her at Dingxi station. So I went upstairs to discover my cell phone was TOTALLY out of batteries, and thus left a note with other people's numbers on it, and rocked on over to the MRT station.

Arrived at Dingxi, saw Scott outside the gate, he informed me we would be eating dinner at the Zhangs', and that Ivonne would be late as she (the native to the city) had taken the wrong subway. Thus, I beeped out, & we played hackey sack until Ivonne arrived, subsequently all heading over to the Zhangs'. We met Claire there (as that is her current residence) and Kevin, her host little brother, arrived shortly afterwards. It was a grand old time to be had as usual, I am glad that they are my last host family.

At the start, I picked a book at random and started sight-reading a song on their piano. Then Ivonne was like, "Oh I know this song!" and started playing the melody in octaves while I kept going with the accompaniment. Dinner was great, some sort of pasta (or Italy noodles as we say in Chinese) as well as fried rice & other goodness. Mrs. Zhang gave me a second plate of spaghetti and damn was it a lot. By the time I finished I didn't feel I could eat much more & could stick my stomach out a lot, which I proceeded to do.

We all got on the MRT and went to Warner Village. We arrived at around 8 (the apparent start time of our movie) and, of course, the tickets were NOT pre-bought. Ivonne said Tiffany & her husband (though at a nearby mall) had cancelled because they thought time was too tight. We went into the very long line to the ticket booth & started looking at showtimes and movies... by the time we got to the counter, even the 9:40 was sold out (this was at about 8:30). But, we had already called our families saying we would be back late. So we all took a taxi to another theatre, trying to get their 9:20.

But, it too was sold out, in the time it took us to get there. So we gave up on watching the movie, for the third weekend in a row. Not to be discouraged, Ivonne & Claire led us off in search of Pearl Milk Tea (or bubble tea, or QQ as it's apparently called), but the store was out. Of course, I was all up for some regular tea, because I dislike aforementioned bubble tea, but no. We eventually settled on a starbucks, where, though they were out off stuff we wanted, had something for everyone (including decaf, milk & soy-free tea for Scott). Claire & I also got cake. I added vanilla and cinnamon to my tea & found it to be good.

We basically ended up talking for something like 2 hours, then all going home. It was really fun, and I enjoyed myself thoroughly for most of it (except the part in the middle where we kept trying to do stuff and everyone was out of everything). When I got home and made a last scouting of the blogrings, I read a few things which gave me cause to feel quite strange & surprised. Wrote a poem, but though the writing isn't bad, the ideas contained within are inferior quality. Still, that's 11 all told. And three sonnets in 24 hours. w00t

That was my evening, and I have been feeling good this morning. If something's troubling you, putting it out of mind then sleeping on it will make you much better, at least I find. That, and listening to Japanese Hip-hop. I love Dragon Ash. Anyway, later today I've got the practise for choir, but now I'm heading off to shower. rock on, blogfans