Saturday, November 22, 2008, 4:01 PM
footprints
The past week has been really fast but fun.On Sunday: Bowling at Marina Square
Well it was the last gathering before Kao leaves for Thailand. The lanes were full at first so we placed a booking and the lot of us (Kao, Andy, Qianying, Lan lan and I) went to the kopitiam above. Matt and Lee Keat joined us later at the bowling alley and yea after waiting for a while for our turn we finally got a lane for 6 ppl to play lol. We played 2 rounds which lasted tooo long and I was late for my tution by half an hour.
On Monday: Grease at SJJ's and Kao's sendoff
Since the shopping for the chalet food was cancelled, my morning was free. I took this chance to buy the ingredients for my fried rice I would be cooking the next day. The char shiew stall I use to buy from was closed. (The uncle bluff me... say he always open...) I went to another stall and buy it. The $7 char shiew was pretty reasonable, although it was a bit fatty.
SJJ called later and asked me to go over to his house to watch grease. Well I had a fun time looking for SJJ's house. I remembered the wrong route and adventured the other blocks around his house. Lq and dex were there too. First time meeting Lq. Lets say that he really reminds of chi neng. Open and frank and the ability to suan other people unobviously with the slightest twist of the tongue just really bring back the memories.
Grease was accompanied by chicken wings and fries which were bought by Sjj's mum. Well the show was dramatic but the songs were good. Never did finish the movie though as we needed to get to the airport to send off kao. So all of us took a bus down to the airport. Dex and Lq alighted at T3 to go have popeye while Sjj and I alighted at T1.
Lots of people came to send kao off. AEP and some others from his hostel? We kept him until it was his plane's last call haha. Will miss him haiz... The class went for dinner at popeye later. Their fries were good. Burger too =P. Still pondering over why they don't sell anything with spinach.
We found a little spot overlooking the planespark and aaron came up with the idea to play truth or dare. Marj and I were the only ones who escaped from the spin of the bottle. Good karma I guess? haha =] Had the expensive hot choc before going back home to turn in for the night.
Tuesday: Cold, Fried Rice, Check-in, BBQ, Mr & Mrs Lee, Scary Movie 4
Woke up to find myself down with a cold. Must be the cologne that wai hern sprayed on me at the airport. Hate this super sensitive nose. Hate strong perfumes and scents.. they make my nose to the cha cha.
Well it was my first time making such a big portion of fried rice. Too much water was added into the rice which made the texture of the rice to sticky. Haiz..... I tried 2 methods of cooking it since I had to fry it so many times. In the end it tasted pretty okay haha. I didn't add any salt haha... wonder whether it was tasteless.
My dad picked up matt and we headed down to zhi peng's house to help him get the stuff out of his house. Zhi peng's dog hates matthew! HAHAHAHA. When the door was open the dog came out and wanted to bite matthew. lol poor matt. We squeezed down to pasir ris in ZP mom's van. We alighted and got the load out of the van. Tricia and Qianying joined us soon after to check into the chalet.
It was rather small compared to the chalet at changi but it wasn't as bad as I imagined it to be.
Cleaned up the place a little with qy while zp set up his xbox while waiting for the others to arrive with the other shopping items.
It was soon time for bbq. We had a sooty time getting the fire started. CK's and Jun jie's fanning method to keep the fire the alive was seriously funny. Who ever knew you could save a fire by fanning it crazily. The fire even got bigger. Missed bbq food.
There were lots of running in and out to get new stuff for the bbq.(eg. aluminium foil and spices for golden mushroom) Well I went along with jun jie and kaya to get dansu who alighted at the very first stop. There was an accident which took place. We wanted to kaypou but the abulance took off so we didnt manage to kaypou lol.
Mrs and Mr Lee were there by the time we got back. She commented that my fried rice was the soggiest fried rice she has ever seen. Mediterranean style of cooking was how she classified my rice. 3 cheers for healthy living lol.
After most people had take a bath we had movie screening on the 2nd floor using zp's laptop.
Watched scary movie 4 which was seriously lame lol.
I suck at cars. Burnout really proved it. I lost to everyone I played with haha ._.
Wednesday- Early Morning Bowling, Breakfast, Sunrise, K-box, Pool, Guitar lesson, bbq
After the movie ended some of us headed over to bowl. I think it was around 4am or so? Andy, tricia, matt, zp, sjj & sjj & I were the some. We played a decent round and headed back to chalet to wake the others up for breakfast.
Breakfast at Mac. Was dying for coffee!! Had Macgriddles with my coffee. Next we walked to the beach to catch the sunrise or sorts. It started to drizzle. And soon after waiting from 6am to 6-20am we realise that we wouldn't be able to catch much of the sunrise anyway as we were in the wrong part of singapore.
Dissapointed we headed back to chalet. Andy, ck and I grabbed the bball and headed to the bball court at aloha I found while checking out the prices for bike rental the previous day. (The uncle says he recognise me... =.= how weird..) The hoop was spoilt which made it impossible to play a match at all. Serious mood killer here. Headed back to chalet after the lot of us got enough dunks into the hoop.
K box around 11am. First time for me. We split into 2 groups. The group who sang english songs and the other group sang chinese songs. Well I joined the English group since I prefer english songs. Aaron, Sjj, Zp, Wai Hern, Ling and I were in the english group while the others in the chinese. The lunch was pretty good. Picked some oldies with sjj and sang it. Finished off with chasing cars.(We sang 2 extra songs even though the person asked us to stop after the last song =P) Pretty fun stuff ._.
Next in line was pool. I played Zp thrice and it really made him go nuts lol. The first round it took him 8 turns to sink the black ball due to my "magic trick". Played a good match with lk. Dansu played a godly match with aaron. Both of them are pretty good. I'm just a noob haha ._.
Zp and I rushed back to chalet to grab over guitars and chionged to the bus stop. We crossed a logo which was spelled "tyco" and well we were really tyco. We manage to get on the bus when we reached the stop, managed to get on 58 immediately at the interchange which was really really tyco. Finally manage to sleep on the bus for a whole 40minutes. We arrived at bishan at 6.28 odds. And guess what? We got the lesson timing wrong. Half an hour late were we. =.="
But hey i doubt we really missed much. The teacher was helping the other students to tune their guitars and we learnt some chords after that. Major and seventh chords to be exact. After buying some yogurt from the basement, we got to the 58 stand at the interchange and took out our guitar and played a bit. A little girl came beside me and listen lol ._."
58 took a really long time this time. We sat at the back of the bus and the air con was just freezing. Couldn't have survived without my sleeveless jacket.
We reached chalet at 9.15pm and noticed that Mr Shane was already there. We played murderer and I was totally clueless on how to play it at the start. I was the murderer during the first turn with dansu. Didn't know how to murder people so left dansu to do the "killing". Well it was fun but my eyes could hardly open. Some girls mistook me as the killer because my eyes were struggling to open lol.
Mr Shane left soon after and the lot of us when for some past midnight bowling once again.
Andy was super godly. He got a turkey and a final score of 14X ( can't rmb the X, 0< X <10 ) Lk score was also over 100 x_x.. so pro de lol. I got my best score for this year at 92 that morning. Seriously deproved? I played better when I was 12 haiz... my bowling is over lol. I dropped dead after bowling. Couldn't take it anymore. The rest of those who were awake had some discussion about how they felt about something. Well I slept after hearing jun jie comment on what kaya would have said if asked about the topic. I laughed and knocked out lol. Nothing much after that. Thursday: Breakfast, Lunia Woke up at 9 or sorts after tricia's wake up call. Packed up and we left for breakfast. Zp dropped his xbox. It survived though lol. Worst Kuay chap I have ever tasted was my breakfast. Should have taken prata like sjj. Cabbed home with Zp as we had too many junk. Total $20... Crazy amount... but it was worth it. Didn't sleep when I reached home. Went to take a shower, and then checked the new changes in lunia. I hate the new square. But yea what can I do? Maplesea doesn't let me play back maple... My client never installs itself... super sickening... there goes the new world and pirate job I guess.
Friday- Sleep Sleep Slp, Tution
Slept like never before. Woke up at 1pm. Wasted time in lunia until 6pm. Sis friend came over for a swim. After swimming they came up to play the piano. haiz... She kept playing the same tune over and over again... and it wasn't even correct... really drived me nuts. I took 13 to bishan's LL. Stupid me couldn't find the right entrance and thus was late for class. Got a shock when I saw Jing Yang in the same class. There was another NY girl but never seen her b4 in school though. As usual I like Mr Lee's teaching style. Too bad I wouldn't be learning micro econs under him.
Sat- Guitar lessons
Of all times my lesson had to clash with the briefing. I'm really at a lost of who to contact anymore for the marathon. My friend has just left me hanging loosely by saying he is no longer the ic.
Guitar lessons were ok i guess.. Taught basic stuff I learnt years ago like time signature and stuff. Forgot how to read the time signature so asked teacher but he just made me more confused. I forgot how the piano ensemble taught it during the first lesson... I wish i remember haiz.. He taught the different counts of the notes and the reading of the major scale. Simple stuff. Only hard part was the alternate hitting between the index and middle finger for the progression. Zp does it well as he is a chelloist. Need more practise I guess? The other girls were gaping at zp speed of playing the progression. At least they are much much younger.. I wish I could have learnt the guitar when I was still learning the piano.
Really lazy to add any photo so I'll leave this post hanging here till another time =P
Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 10:47 PM
action packed day!
Yesterday was superb! =]Here's the lineup:
-Bowling
-Ice Skating
-Lunch
-Arcade
-Pool
-Dinner
Ok so ytd was another class outing ._. This time planned to go ice skating. However when we reached the place we realised that they were going to polish the ice at 2pm.(It was around 1pm then) So since not everyone was there yet we decided to go bowling =]
Srsly I miss bowling lots ._.My score was super lousy though haha! Andy pro! Double strikes and spare the 10th round lol.
Here's the score: (pulled from lk's blog)
After bowling we joined tricia and marjy who started ice skating b4 us coz we didn't tell them that we went bowling. B4 that sjj went to kfc to buy some popcorn chicken for tricia. Ok srsly... the staff at KFC is super super toot! Sjj received a change short of 10cents so he ask the staff for the missing 10c. The staff instead of answering sjj first talked to another staff and later whispered to sjj saying that they have no 10c currently so cannot give change. Ok fine so we left. When we stepped out of KFC the staff came running out with a 10c. lol tbc later at lunch.
Ok so skating! Previous day had nightmares of the blades cutting fingers and stuff. Well I was really relieved when i saw the skates. The blades were not as sharp as expected!(and I really doubt it can even cut an apple) First time ice skating ._. At first my legs went all jelly and couldn't get use to skating on ice. The feeling on land and ice is really different. After a while got the hang of it and could skate but couldn't brake lol. I started observing others (e.g andy + the super pro old man ) when they braked. Totally couldn't catch anything lol! There were a few young kids receiving training for figure skating and they were really good!(Although they were really dangerous when they spinned.. nv want to go too close to them) Wai hern was like a working staff there haha. He didn't skate as he didn't have enough money so he helped out at the side. Well after last thursday I feel that he is really a nicer guy then what I always thought of him. I hope he will overcome the loss he had and not hate his bithdays again!
ok so pictures with credits to tricia!!! =]
Ice skating was fun! Can't wait for the Jurong one to be ready. More than that cant wait for chalet!!! =P
Ok so back to KFC for lunch! The staff forgot most of the orders that needed to be served. Shu hui waited like forever for her shroom burger and andy's order too. She almost gave zp a free cheese fries instead of whipped potato. Well it seems like mine was the only thing the staff got right. Lucky me perhaps? =P Ok then came the totally unexpected thing. Tricia, marj and andy came into KFC and well fed me with fresh cream from a can x_x The cream was nice though the force feed was really unneccessary lol.(BTW i finished the whole bottle already muahahah!) And thoughtful tricia and marj bought me a shirt coz they were scared that my shirt will get dirtied. (I'll upload a pic of it as soon as it's ironed!) Thx 4 the cream and shirt! =]
And and... i think I'm really bursting everything I have left in the bank.. went pool with marj, lk, andy, zp, aaron at marina square. Super ex pricing but o well it was fun! Redeemed the free combo meal from GV so we had popcorn to eat while playing! 3 cheers for freebies!!!!!
We played for almost 2 hours then headed to 7-eleven to get ourselves dinner. We had cup noodles all except for aaron who ate spaghetti.
All in all this has been the most memorable bdae and really thanks to everyone who has made this possible! So here's a big Thank You!~
Saturday, November 1, 2008, 3:52 PM
disclaimer note: long post ahead
Okay it's been a long while since I last posted and it's not really my fault =x Somehow google keeps blocking me from visiting blogger.com saying that my request looked like a malicious request and blah blah ._> So i'm using my dad's lappy to blog now.Ok while typing this line I have the urge to look for the line spacing function like in microsoft words to make it into a double line spacing ._. Look what PW has done to me!!!
Ok promos are over. I feel like everything is like just stabbing me in the back ( like sjj, although he slits my throat most of the time..) Had a long talk with my tutor. FYI i didn't do well at all for promos. The contents of what we discussed are confidential but the geezs is that I'll have to drop one of my 4 H2s and like get like A, B, and C grades for my rest of my H2 by march block tests for Computing, Econs and Maths respectively if he suppposedly let me promote, else i'll still get retained...
PW is almost over! Just another week before OP ends.. cant wait lol! The first op rehearsal was terrible... Mrs Lee counted 47 "actually" used in my whole speech... and worse I didn't even realised that so many "actually" and "eh" escaped my mouth =.=" Anyway after lots of practice I think I'm getting better at controlling my usage of
words. My whole group is also improving! During the dry run we managed to cover everything within the time limit and the Q and A was pretty okay too ._>
I'll like to thank johannes for designing the above ._. although the message which came with it was really unexpected -.-" Btw Happy bdae Garrett! =]And I'm realli happy coz I finally got an acoustic guitar!
It's a maestro EA-1. The wood is mostly Mahogony. I wanted to get the cheaper SD-3 but my dad said this one would be better in the long run coz it's has a solid top, unlike the laminated top SD-3... I still prefer the strumming sound made by SD-3 though.And if you look close enough there's my bdae gift from my class =] (Sound dampener)
Side view
Front viewThx matt for buying it for me ._. although you could have got a better price if you borrowed my discount card haha.
The downside of getting a new guitar is that my parents don't allow me to have 2 guitars so I had to sell my beloved Yamaha C45 guitar lol.... for a mere $45... (Reminds me of the time when my piano was sold... only that time I felt worse off)
A little tribute to my Yamaha C45.
And btw thanks 0830 for the ice cream buffet ._. It was really something new lol. (I'll upload the pics another time)
Thursday was really fun =) And I'll probably finish this post later.. ( Starving now!!!! haha )