apples of gold in settings of silver

Yesterday I had a really good, productive day, followed by today: a lousy day where everything went wrong. My experiment participants suddenly don't want to participate anymore, the participants who do come make strange mistakes, rendering their data unusuable, my friend's mother falls ill, making my friend sick with worry, I miss your class because of experiments gone wrong, and to top it off I forget to bring my already-overdue DVD's to return to Video Ezy. Then just as suddenly, the day turns out right, when I go out for prata supper with 3 good friends from NUS, followed by a relaxing shared tub of Ben&Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream on my patio with Lulu for company, followed by a spur-of-the-moment, oh so fun trip for MORE Ben&Jerry's at the Night Safari! Sudden brain wave - the unlikeliest yet most logical place to go for ice cream in Singapore, at the middle of the night, on a weeknight (NYDC is open late on weekends!). Night Safari at 12am is a magical experience. The ice cream was yummy, the company hilarious, and the toilets astounding (trigger-happy me took pictures!) To top it off, there was an array of stunning, nearly-life size lanterns in the shape of elephants, tigers and giraffes. Pictures are coming!

 

And then, suddenly, at 2.30am, a phone call from a private number that chills me to the bone, because I have no idea who the person is, and he or she sounds... how should I put it... crazy.

 

I'm still awake. God protect me!