5 and tuition and Motorcycle Diaries

Chengos coming makes 5 people now. Chengos' phone was whacked, so it took us around 2 hours before we found each other and met up at the Coffee Bean at Takashimaya. We talked about the Phi Psi guys and what has been happening over the past few weeks since I was gone. Chengos brought greetings from my brothers and friends from Stanford. Dave Kale said hi, or actually, more like, "Hi, Tee Sing. I miss you." (in a deep Dave Kale voice.) We're going to be going swing dancing tomorrow, at Swing Fling.

I had my first tutoring session again for a long time. It was teaching Economics for a JC2 student. I forgot how tiring tutoring is. I had to constantly talk and think for 2 hours straight, answering questions and explaining details of economics essays. Some of the stuff, I knew instinctively, and could answer, but others, I had to rack my brains to find answers. All in all, working for money is tough. I need to prepare more fully for the next session, just so that I don't have to fry my brain in 2 hours, but slowly steam it over a period of a week.

So, in order to get over the first day of tutoring, I went out for dinner and a drink with Scott. I downed some beer, not enough to get drunk, just enough to get a little tipsy. I miss the hard drinking sessions and movie drinking games with the guys. Looks like I have to find the people to do that again.

Yesterday, I went with Shuzhen and Scott to watch Motorcycle Diaries at the Art House. The Art House is actually the old Parliament House, converted into a small theatre for artistic movies. The setting is actually really nice, a small theatre bathed in green light, for around 120 people. It had a really classy setting, and pretty cosy too. It's like a classy theatre for a classy date. Probably a good place to have a nice date after a good dinner, watching an artistic movie instead of a normal blockbuster type. The movie itself was really thought-provoking. I liked it for its realism, and the feelings it invokes in you. I also felt that it was the type of movie that I'll watch at Stanford and in the US, but it seems kinda out of place in Singapore. Well, at least I can still watch movies like that here. So I'm going to make an effort to do that more often.