LXXVIII

long, long weekend!~

finally, i overcame procrastination to type this out! haha so here's 3 days of drug-like euphoria! :p

SUN
choir alumni bbq! went to jerr's palce at 4-ish. quan feng finally came out of the dark! and we would later realise that he is an essential at just about every bbq--because of his dragonboat experience, he is able to give illuminous flames to pits within 10 mins! haha so very soon pple were eating, and with some barcardis, it flew into full swing. sorry that i didn't take any pics (go to facebook to see them).
well bought too much food, so yeah theres some wastage. went back to jerr's place for more slack. wanted to stay overnight but, nah. reached home at 12.20am.

MON
4d class reunion/bbq! cycled with tb to ehub to buy the groceries with debbie, wen qing, lydia and sakshi. cycled/walked to our pit and set it up. it took quite a while for pple to come, but by sundown most of them had arrived, happy, and eating. without quan feng it was tht bit harder to create a self-sustaining fire. well we did lots of stuff, cycling, chatting, and catching up with one another. very enjoyable. man i miss those guys. hung out at prp till midnight, got drinks, then the whole lot went home, with me, tb, sam and ying hong cycling home together thru the tamplines park connector. exhausted, sore, but immensly satisfied :)

pics from the bbq:

our futile attempt in trying to light a pit...

tuan boon (with moses and sam) preparing the charcoal

sunset at pasir ris park

alvin. didn't bother to flip the photo ><

as seen through moses' cam. maybe not.

assorted foodstuff. yum.

TODAY
went to the gym with tb and sam. didn't cycle. had quite a workout, in particular the arms (they are sore now). later went to makipuku japanese gourmet town for lunch. here's what i had:


sweetcorn/butter ramen; and

forgot its name. rice-filled beef omelette with pepper-onion sauce.

thereafter we went to cold storage for awhile, before going home.

cannot procrastinate! have to start studying and continue with my projects. augh! LOL. hope i can update soon!

till then!~

LXXVII

yay!

but before all the pomp, lets look back:

friday: did an interview for ec, with my dad's friend, at where else? a pub! we had club soda (no alcohol, btw). was supposed to have started at 5, but our dear friend julian only made it at 5.30 zzz. well conducted the interview, and in fact we learnt much more, so much more...

(back to immense joy)

haha bought bbq items to jerr's house, and basically slacked off today. now i'm hooked to restaurant city :-O ! tomorrow bbq at jerr's place with most of the rest of the 08 choir alum! PLUS mon there's 4D 08 class bbq at prp!

haha long weekend left to go! :D

till then!~

LXXVI

hello

was exhausted yesterday. had a class gathering at east coast! had fom meeting earlier at school, so took a train down to bedok to meet the rest.

had a picnic with them in the baking sun. and seriously, it was hell. we so desperately wanted to bike. and so we did, but no pictures of that here, sorry ><>

vivienne knocked someone down, and caused a scary laceration on the victim's knee. thn we had to stay awhile to tend to her (julian and mingwei went to get antiseptic). after she became better we rode back, racing mingwei to the finish (i won =D)

our little 'picnic' in the sun.

after cycling, we headed for the beach to watch the sunset and chat. later we played '007 BANG' (some choir pple should know this). the penalty? day-old cornbeef (ugh). never gonna eat cornbeef again...stayed there till pretty late, though.

elaine, justin and xiang feng


sunset begins. the sky's so beautiful...

after that, 7 of us (me, sean, justin, julian, mingwei, elaine and dinah) went to katong's aston's specialties for dinner. i had grilled fish with herbs, with sides of potato salad and colesaw. loved it. then we chatted at the table for well over an hour (11pm), then went our separate ways.


my wonderful dinner XD



took service 10 to tampines interchange with justin and julian. justin's mom picked me up and drove me home past midnight =p a good, exhausting, warm day ended.

augh interview tomorrow! plus can't wait for alumni gathering this sunday! gonna be a long holiday! =)

till then~bye!

LXXV

back to blog!

haha fri had fom presentation. whole class wore formal. was very nervous, cos it was 15% of our overall score. furthermore 1st grp to go zzz.

finished quickly. YAY! =D victor nelson joe went through my speech portion. better thn practice, but was speaking a lil fast and also slightly nervous (haha 1st time was stammering and pacing, but no more! =D). in the end got 20/25 for it! respectable, respectable.


formalwear detail. finally wore tht silver tie! =D


sean and graeme in their formalwear. btw graeme got 21.5 for his speech.

to kick off my holiday proper, i went to visit dmnchoir at its annual camp. OMG (sidetrack) school changed like alot la. there's so many unnecessary changes, such tht it nw resembles a primary school. its virtually overcooked, i mean, facilities are very good as they are, but what's with to kill a mockingbird quotes on the steps? or the banners sprawled all over the place? zzz =.=

and i hate my haircut. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

back to topic. tb and i volunteered for orienteering. and honestly, it was pretty mundane: only 2 grps came in the 5 hr span tht it was given. very warm. and sian haha. met up with many pple we worked with for the perf, as well as some new ones.

talentime was, well, funny and somewhat un-understandable?>< cos we were seated so far back we couldn't hear anything...

met up with mr toh heheh. and managed to persuade a whole lot of alum to stay back. so from 3 pple it became 11! =D went home to shower and change, thn came back. took alot of work with me, but in the end never worked =.= played bball for awhile. went to canteen to play some 'whose line is it anyway' game. damn funny sia. had to invent a poem quickly given the theme. funny, gay, and at the end very twisted. hehe.

moses had wanted to play captain's ball upstairs, but whn we arrived it was too late: pizza's arrived. so played around with the bball a while longer, thn retreated to the avt (by thn it was 2am). played upwords initially, thn got bored. tb went to study for his psycho exam on mon, and the rest went to watch movies. didn't watch 'coming soon'. can't be bothered.

instead i watched 'antique' with a few other pple. gay show. seriously its gay: guys kissing and groping and s**t like tht, it was disgusting. but at least it had a plot.

continued to stay up till 5.45am (after we've watched the fight scenes from ff vii), thn slept. not for long, cos at 6 i was woken up as the alum wanted to go home. augh. all of us sluggishly headed for the gate, and went our ways. went to tb's house for awhile, had a drink and a nap. thn went home for some real sleep. woke up only at 5pm sia (with lunch at 2).

damn i miss choir....

so yup sry i didn't blog the lat few days. nw i need to enjoy, work, and work more. =.="
till then~

cheers! =D

LXXIV

i just hope its a bloody heatwave.

just.

if this substantial rise in temperature, which is making people sweat buckets of water just by standing up and walking around, is part of a bigger trend, i'd be worried.

bloody worried.

just hope it dies off. quickly.

till then~

LXXIII

typing again!

anw yesterday went to celebrate my mum's (extremely belated) bdae. just my parents and me, cos my siblings are in m'sia now.

had dinner at cugini's at robertson walk. somehow the owner of the restaurant (an italian) became friends with my father out of sheer coincidence: my dad was driving when he saw a cyclist tumbling to the ground after a lorry clipped his bike. he had stopped to divert traffic away from him. it was around then that he revealed he owns a fine-dining restaurant, and they became friends :-O. the police came and the rest is history.

so we ate there. had assorted cured meat for starters (the raw beef was marvelous!), and for mains i had alla carbonara (up to then i never knew carbonara sauce was made from egg as well, hence the yellow tinge. before then carbonara seemed all cream to me), and dessert a assortment of tiramisu, custard and ice cream.

had a little house wine too. the nose was amazing, rich and aromatic. the taste was pretty good too (though maybe a tad sour for my preference). maybe i would get more of this 06 vintage.

now i crave for italian food. unfortuately i ate my food before remembering that i should have taken pics of it ><

also, i went to science centre on thurs with samuel and tuan boon to see the da vinci exhibition. riveting, how he does his works, especially with the mona lisa and the last supper =-O later took the long, tiring train ride from jurong east all the way back to tampines......

well, back to doing 3 projects and 3 pieces of homework now....zzz

till then~bye!
(wen xin: i posted as promised!)

ps. a miracle happened yesterday--our dinner was on the house, cos he just happened to help an injured cyclist! :DD

LXXII

hello world :)

uneventful week. as expected. *gasp* exams week after hols!
econs: 30 jun 09, 1430-1530. topics 1-6(minus cost graphs)

well today went to watch 'night at the museum 2'. very funny, except the ending left many questions unanswered, like (spoilers ahead) how the smithsonian, after being horrendously wracked, was patched up, and what happened to amelia earhart after her take-off without the stone (crash, burn?). more on graeme's blog soon.

kudos justin. at last nearly the whole class showed up.

now to touch up my onow essay.
till then~bye!

LXXI

damn, today is scorching.

had kayaking elective today. second lesson. met sean (who had dengue not 3 days ago-he's recovered quite well) and deyun at clementi. headed off to poly marina (yes, sp has its own marina) to find that graeme had been watching blackadder prior to our arrival (and yes, graeme, thanks to me, is officially hooked onto a 20-year-old british comedy series).

after some checks and new lessons, we headed out into the marina. we inadvertently took the streamlined kayak, which was faster, but far less stable. you get the rest.

a couple of 'tutorials' later, graeme suddenly took a turn for the 'worse'-he was seasick. and at my arms' expense, i dragged and rowed and hauled myself, graeme and the kayak back to shore. after that we took a dip in the (not-so-sanitary) marina and cooled off.

thereafter we headed back only to turn around to shore as we were finished for the day (damn). had the usual injury-fibreglass cuts on my arms and legs. those lil' crystals embedded in your skin isn't much fun.

sean left first-he was off the malaysia for some golf (damn) while graeme went to the yacht club for lunch (dammmnn), but not before accompanying me and deyun to the busstop. from there it was clementi-tampines-lunch-home sweet home.\

list of homework and projects to complete:
accounting
econs
statistics
fom f1 pbm
itab project.

damn.
till then~ bye! :D

LXX

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but don't tell me i didn't warn you...
:D

LXIX

ok. hello =D

the photos here. just as promised =)

xiang feng's contorted body hurling a ball down the alley. classic.

deyun's attempt at a strike. =p

scores after the 3rd game. i'm 'balls' =.=, but hey, i topped! =D

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(edit yesterday's post)

lol i ended up not going for kbox =x lazy, plus was attempting to do all my homework by today...

oh wells. got to finish my accts, stats and itab homework now...

till thn

bye~

LXVIII

hello~

had bowling today. and this time my scoring improved. tremendously.
some pics from tday. will post them tmr.

zzz sian tmr have to bring thermometers to school. not even we are spared.
but of course, its for the greater good.
at least tmr we get to go to kbox...at a subsidised price.

till thn.
bye~ :D

LXVII

WITH REGARDS TO THE IMMINENCE OF THE SWINE INFLUENZA:

to the persons who just happen to be on this blog, please allow yourself to read the following statements. who knows, it may mean your life. my 2 cents' worth on this issue...

1. if you haven't known, WHO has raised the alert level to 5 (pandemic probable) on monday, meaning the virus has adapted to the point where it can freely spread human-to-human, and with the prevalence of air travel, the influenza has presented itself on most continents, the lastest being asia (hong kong).
2. MOH in singapore has raised its alert level to orange in lieu of WHO's decision. temperature-taking in educational institutions are now a requirement, reminiscent of the sars epidemic of 03.
3. signages at shopping malls and other public buildings have advised that persons who have gone to affected countries and present symptoms of flu (eg. fever, respiratory issues) are to STAY HOME (ie QUARANTINE), a critical part of the entire prevention process.
4. should the symptoms not abate, or get worse, there's a dedicated emergency line (s'pore only) activated only yesterday, 993, which will give you priority at a&e and provide you with necessary tests and, if required, treatment.
5. refrain from travelling to affected countries, or travelling at all, to minimise, as far as possible, the risk of the virus spreading.
6. stock up on supplies and medication as soon as the need arises, for once the infection goes into full swing, supplies could be hard to get by, added to the fact that going outdoors may almost be completely improbable.

the world has to prepare for a long, protracted war with the influenza, and chances are it will cost lives. but how many are dependant on how people react to it. knowledge is the best weapon, and it, along with the nessesary actions, can eventually defeat it.

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on a lighter note, do listen out for 'water night' by eric whitacre. it is haunting at parts, and its ending put me to stunned silence, unspeakable beauty, indescribable, literally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYvRhVJXM-k

enjoy.

till then~ byee