Mehreen with a social life? gasp!

It turns out that contrary to popular belief, I do have more than “one friend” in Singapore. (fret not Harleen, you can still keep the title.)

On tuesday, i met up with the original “one friend” and Ruha, for lunch. (which is when it hits all of us again that we’re not in school any longer and how much we have changed since then) (uncomfortable heels and stiff office clothes tend to help) 

Shivani and I pencilled in Amna into our calendars, gracing her with our presence during lunch. Amazing how interesting gossip about people you don’t even know can be!!! 

*ahem* 

During the second half of Wednesday, Ima sent me an SMS that she was in the area and could hang around until I knocked off work. I looked at my to-do list and told her not to stay around on my account. However when it hit 6, i decided to throw caution in the wind, called up Ima (who was coincidentally/conveniently in Plaza Singapura) and made a run from the office. Yay spontaneity! 

Sat was solo-time with Harleen for dinner and coffee at Clarke Quay, where thankfully we didn’t bump into anyone we knew (we’ve had a pretty bad track record with that so far), and I had a coffee after SO long, I stayed up until 4am, watching really bad TV, and stuff on YouTube. (ah, it’s just like being back in uni *heart*)

Also went and saw HellBoy 2 on Sunday with Dad, in a rather impromptu plan (he was looking at the movies section of the paper, asked whether I was interested, found the next soonest timing, and went for it!). Also, we did something rather unusual in this day and age of movie watching. We *didn’t* pre-book the tickets online. We just drove to the cinema, stood in the walk-in queue, and bought our tickets the old-fashioned way. Brave, eh? 

I rather enjoyed the movie (I didn’t watch the first one), and it was NOTHING like what I expected. It was fun, action-filled, light-hearted, and with good special effects. I came out of the cinema with a big grin on my face (the (intentionally) silly song at the end may have helped). In the same vein of movies, I’m also rather looking forward to The Mummy: Curse of the Dragon Emperor, seems like it will also be a fun movie.

While on the weekend, I also made those healthy muffins I’d threatened my dad with last weekend. I don’t know what the verdict is yet, but they smell gosh darn good!!! (orange cranberry muffins!).

Some things i didn’t get up to this weekend: 

- exercise

- packing

- some errands

- prep to get into Harvard’s School of Divinity.

(well, couldn’t have a perfect weekend, otherwise the rest of you would feel bad!)

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