26 posts from 2008

// his belated birthday dinner at brotzeit // yummy sausages! expensive but it was good stuff // gathering for cranial crunk christmas in conrad // our characters for cranium // aloy the scarecrow //

// jack i'm flyyinggg i'm flyinggg // the ice age rodent lives on in tris // the "brainy girls" clearly meeting some difficulty. again. // the guys' team // yingx3. i guess if you call your daughter something-ying, she'll prob turn out well //

// the roulette wheel of dooooom // pretty nighscape in the city // tortilla chips soaked in vodka. not the best combination but wayy better than overdoses of vodka blackcurrent // daryl getting high // big showings of love! //

// someone else not too receptive of the love // too smashed to care that a foot is in his face. well done kyle // ying taking care of her lightweight cheap drunk // pastor chan leading us in prayer (if cai quan is a form of prayer) // good night konged out //

OMG! i can finally blog! OK, even though its 3am, i shd post something in case this joy is short lived...
yep, i just got back from the party i planned for khel and i'm glad that everyone left full and "liquidated". they liked the cake that ying, sm and i baked, the food that people made/ bought was yummy, we critiqued and found flaws in the storyline of some HK show together, albert went on a crazy rampage making the k(h)elvins drink beer in some super quick mode; some people handled the mess better than others (pictures will reveal) and it was generally a good get together =) Christmas time is coming, which means the festive/ year end celebration, revelry and feasting will commence, which is not good for the exercise regime at all. but heck, the good times tip the opportunity cost scale conclusively.

now for some veryyyy overdue photos. blame vox for preventing me from blogging the past 2 weeks or so!

// group photo of the day // ying getting china girl bangs which she hated // ping's bday dinner at la nonna. wonderful pizza! // bday girl struggling to pop the champagne that the manager very kindly treated us to // ping n her girls //

before the exam month of november arrived, there was october, and before october ended there was halloween. and on halloween night, we went to show off our *amazing brainiac know-it-all* skills at the quiz at penny black. we won a whole lot of drinks (1x rose wine, 3x jugs of beer) and ordered some more, so that made for a high spirited night. hur hur. i'm glad to announce that both team N*US A and B trounced "the others" in the 1st 3 categories of alcohol, shopping and music; too bad we're not couch potatos or jocks so we lost out on tv and sports. it was more fun than the strait-laced thing i'd expected, and when our powers combine, we could actually answer some of the weirdest questions around! ok, rather fewwww la, but still, we did quite well.

// we like rose wine // slow dancing in a burning room // aunt peggy mae with the prune face // the females // chug //

// the series of slutty Kris shots // wine hos // eeee... you so nautiiii // bitch fight // mannn this guy is weird // somebody give the man some buttons //

// the most originally named Team Nus B // denmark dreaming, reviving the alcohol // if i could be like that, i'd give anything. just to live one daaayy in the shoes // boat race reps. 4th out of 11th aint tooo bad // CHEERS!! (pls god pls god, i know this is my 4th beer, but if you keep me standing i'll be a good boy) //

// no costumes, just natural faces // all the pretty girls // not even a particularly nice toilet... // walking to clarke quay // not your typical thai lingering under lamp posts // tunnel of love //

the 2nd edition of gotham photos to be up next time.

our localised celebration of oktoberfest at kr50... for the poor post exchange guys, i'm sure this was but a mere shadow of the past, but well, beggers can't be chosers, especially pre-exam beggers.

// eating is a very exacting art // you're my wonderwall // hark who goes there // us again // kong starting to get tipsy not too late into the night //

// high, literally // a rather freaky art installation in the yong siew toh conservatory lobby // having some fun as the guys cowered by the sides // hello can you be my friend? // min // pet //

// wonder why we took such gender specific photos. hmmm no wait, there's a sistah in the guys' shot // wendy and her beer // candleburn // cheerios //

and then on halloween night, there was beer, wine, mirth and merriment again at the pub quiz. good stuff, especially since the booze is much sweeter when it's won and earned. clubbing with vampires, pharoahs, walking bedsheets, pale faced people with bad makeup made for an exciting night. the photos will come soon, but for now... i have to study for an exam in 5 days! fug.

// lonnngggg ago in september, we went for mortini hour // cutesy pop tart aka tart // nice photo of my girls // the intricate gold carving on the wall that probably contains some good confucian values that the more erudite might understand // Yes i know even october is over already, hrmph, i'm late so that you can reminisce ok! //

// spiderwoman in her early halloween get-up // sometimes, even bimbs can be quite bright // pretty cars // fast cars zooming around the marina square area //

// wendypoo and her pampered kid // coffee and cakes at coffeeclub // free cake from the extremely chatty waiter // mrs traffic barricade as foster mother to a baby bat

// Oomphatico to celebrate the terrible twins' birthdays. at least this was just a month ago // ying's clammy pasta thing // all in a row // they're paint splotches, they're flying swallows, no... they're black goldfishes (and a set of eyes behind i think) // my very substantial row of sandwiches // the birthday girls who proclaimed that they felt old the moment they woke up. pfft // yummers =) // victorian styled restaurant //
 

how come the mid sem break passed by so soon!?!?! ok, granted that monday was spent in lalaland after too many drinks at the lawiv afterparty, the other 4 days so far have marched by and forgotten to sign in at HQ! I'm damn glad that there's no urgent assignment to hand in after the break, cos there's no way that i can make the transition from production rehearsal mode to muggermaniac mode so soon. stilll... there's chinese corp exam and islamic law research paper due in 3 weeks. Run for the hillssss!! went to the old campus today to try to fulfil the research aspect of the research paper and felt so old but also rather out of place cos in some undefinable way, the btc folk atop our ivory hill just look and act differently. of course i'm not assessing the tiongers' standards, but slug to snail, we're just not the same. must have been evolution after being booted out of the west and being subject to Summit food over the years. anyway the curtains have fallen gracefully on "the perfect wedding" and i'm happy to report a successful production. but now that we no longer have to dance those same dances day in day out, nor hide backstage or wait in the audi for our rehearsals, there is a sense of emptiness and lack of direction in life. i guess "at the end of the day, we can turn around and say, This is what Love is..."

the air conditioning in my room is getting cold. i wish i had my old blue fuzzy bedroom slippers to hide my feet into.
a few nights ago, i wished that i could round up some friends and eat supper on a whim in the holland v crystal jade restaurant. i didn't need the food, i just wanted to be there.
today i passed by that window on the 4th floor of pgp block 8, i wished that the past was a video store and i could just walk in and choose any part i wanted to replay.
and then there was that route from the old school, guild house, kr, pgp. taken many times, by many people.
events have unfolded that i wish didn't taunt me in the face; they'll still be there even after i stop closing my eyes
i'm in a comfortable cocoon,
but i don't merely want to be content.

The past 2 days have been spent being a Mandarin girl; Tuesday in the Oriental and Wednesday in Meritus.

the buffet at triple3 was delightful; the spread was amazing and it wasn't the usual mass produced yawn inducing variety. khel discovered, to my horror, that the oysters on ice were still alive and that they wld contract slightly when we squeezed lemon juice on them. omg that is DAMN GROSS, how can people bear the thought of snuffing the last vestiges of life out of a living thing in their mouth and subject it to Death by Molar?! i know its hypocritical- what's the difference between having someone kill my food for me and me doing it personally? well, fears are irrational; so shoot me. khel had no qualms at all and proceeded to send many more of the poor suckers to their salivery graves

// mmm... beeefff // lovely company for the afternoon // delighted to sip martinis at 5 in the afternoon // lychee martini and chocotini // the bar at mortons //

for a while, the plan was that shloke wld be here in sg too, within spitting distance to go for tea time chats and shopping trips every so often. but the books were re-written and now she's going to be leaving for yet another year. emails and msn won't feel the same as commiserating, laughing and shrieking together across the coffee table, but cest la vie, i wish you all the best my dear... may you continue to do brilliantly in your studies and i hope that you'll be able to clinch your dream job!

we parted ways at marina square and as we lingered over our goodbyes, she remarked that it was like we were in the airport. 29/9/05 was the day wasn't it? i was just a first yearer and you were preparing for the unknown in life half a globe away. so much has changed in the meantime, as we have; but i'm very grateful that we've kept the friendship alive and that we've been spared the anguish of finding our conversations peppered with increasingly awkward pauses. thank you for friendship and for love. waiting for you to come home for christmas!