it is rare that i do anything with purpose, planning and efficiency, but on friday i woke early, having taken the precaution of backing up the morning alarm with my father (eh pa, don't forget to wake me hor.) and, timetabled and organised and with bus routes carefully investigated, set off for my visa interview at napier rd, and thence to the tanglin post office to send some registered items, bussed to central library to collect books of useful and frivolous nature both, renewed my library membership, had a leisurely lunch on seah st, and continued eastward to our travel agent at beach road where i bought an sq ticket at student fare (i'm a student! hooray!) and completed formalities for taking up a room in a central square apartment. this left me plenty of time to stop at a children's bookshop at kovan, take ariel to the park, make dinner for the family, and bed down early with pratchetts.