i hobble downstairs to the mailroom and found that cindy has sent me lin zhixuan's new album, which i have been pestering everyone at home to send me for months! thank you my love! (and a bonus MTV on the album! and i thought i was too old for MTVs! trivia: i think the guy with the goatee in it is actually lin zhixuan's brother.) and in the same package a christmas card! heh. i love it that we're such procrastinators, and aware of that fact, and post-date our letters or write cards that say something to the effect of, hi, i'm writing this now, but i know you won't get it until - i don't know when - if i remember to post this. but this one's early. which reminds me i have packages for people that i should do something about at last.

and then darryl came over and swopped his ruan lingyu for my 2046. so i can go to von's tonight and haul him into the living room and make him watch ruan lingyu!

so i finally decided i would google this taufik to see what everyone has been beating gongs about. (no really, this is why the entry is singapore colours) and i find a fansite where you can download all his performances in mp3s, so i did. i guess he's alright, but then i again i wasn't home for any of it. if i were home i might have been more caught up in it all - i like having causes and candidates to champion.

i wonder if my folks are back from china yet. i forget when they said they're back. i should probably call tonight anyway.