I went to the embassy of Myanmar to get my visa yesterday (I am going to visit Natalya there in a couple of weeks). Even though I am generally appalled by the actions of the government of that country, I do have to admit that their embassy was one of the most efficient and best I have visited. I submitted my application for a visa at 10:30 in the morning, and they had it ready for me by 3:00 in the afternoon. Wow, that never happens.

So because I was already downtown far away from school, I ended up having a non-study day on Orchard Road. My friend Heather met up with me in the evening and we went to see a movie. Oh, remember how I wrote earlier about those government signs to discourage things like jay-walking??? Well, at the beginning of the movie when they have all those commercials now, there was a government-sponsored commercial that used the same THINK AGAIN slogan campaign. it was so graphic though! It showed a boy running across the street where there wasn't a crosswalk and then getting SLAMMED into by a car. His family comes out and stands around his crushed and bloody body (which they showed in great detail) on the street crying. Can you believe they showed that at the movie theatre and that this ad was sponsored by the government?!