now, pretend its 24th of Dec 2008, yes caroling at food for thought, how smart.....o_O
hmm i woke up 'today' at about 6 plus i think (if i remember correctly), jus nice to get ready to go out everything....so i grabbed my guitar, which still had the carols chords and lyrics inside the guitar bag.....and made my way there to bugis from my house......i kinda got abit lost cos it was my 2nd time getting to food for thought besides my 21st brithday dinner which was spent there.......anyway i thot i was late but apparently when i reached they had jus ordered dinner......i thot cos i was late i wont be joining for dinner, i dinno they were having dinner at food for thought itself.....it was a more expensive meal than i expected but oh wells of late i've been allowing myself all these little indulgences, esp cos i was on a rather long block leave and all......so meeting up with peeps and spending at least 10 plus inclusive of the extra 17% gst & service charge at some places......then some places like $35.20 total per person, makes me feel super broke.....i had at least 4 or 5 10+ meals at different places, with different ppl.....well i'll say more on dat later......was quite suprised to see small pockets of ppl from different social circles jus gathering at the table, like i was not suprised to see nat and ruth there, cos their boss was the one who asked (er hem ordered, no la) them to bring their frens to carol there.....then some ppl from the normal i-dunno-wad-to-call-this-group clique, david chua, yan wei, priscilla (of cos she's another bennett jamir wad haha) and by association penuel as musician.....then zach and i musicians cos nat and ruth called us......i was abit suprised to see lizzy and lucy there from my ag, and even more suprising was lynette and melinda......nice and rare mix of ppl getting together which is nice, it jus breaks all the so-called social norms.....
oh ya back to caroling at food for thought.......dinner was good food as usual as wad u can expect from there heh....anyway after dat, nat, zac and i went to back door entrance of FFT (the one leading to the nearby toilet) to practice the carols.....wa zach is one kind of best lol......he comes for caroling and he brings a guitar with the last string still snapped, he didnt bring any pick or tuner to tune his guitar, one kind of what i'd call unprepared la.....anyway i felt more relieved when i heard penuel was coming to play as well, even more relieved when he actually came jus in time......if he didnt come at all, i might have jus died at some songs, as i always say its not dat i cant play adequately well enough but i jus dun have the confidence for certain songs.......ah wells since penuel was the more pro one he played by himself nearer the counter top tables then zach and i played at the end of the cafe at our tables where we sat....its really a tight squeeze cos the food for thought walking space is not really very big lol......if u have visited the cafe before or jus peered in thru the glass window, u can probably tell the shop space is not a very big one, but i guess it contributes to its warm atmosphere.......erhm caroling went well i guess, we played a few songs (which we did abit late, like one beat or mayb half off or sumtin like dat but its ok, guess nobody noticed it) then we opened it to the guests in the cafe......the most heart pounding and i'd say nervous part of the caroling......good thing they chose the more familiar and more common songs ......so we had a blast playing carols la, but i think the gloria song and another song zach and i jus didnt play cos penuel was playing qithout the chordsheet we had so he was jus playing on a diff note or sumtin so we got owned on dat particular song lol........but we went totally crazy on one song la, i think it was joy to the world or sumtin, cant really remember the name of the song....the chord change was quite mad and i strummed a variation to the normal pattern and i really had loads of fun playing dat song, it was a guitar high man, dunno how to explain it but im always very happy when i can play the guitar well, all glory be to God.....had a blast.......when we were done, we were very kindly treated to i think 2 plates worth of 3 or 4 types of cakes sold at FFT from the boss himself and lemon tea as well for each of us there (of course we all shared 2 plates worth of cakes, not like we had 2 plates each, i think they will go broke if they jus gave out 2 plates of cakes to each of us lol....very nice of him and did i mention the cakes are really good too heh.....i should/could be a food critique next time (well mayb.....career option mayb? hmm i'd havta think about it.......)
well, im glad we managed to bring the meaning of christmas to random ppl we dont even know and hopefully they were touched deeply by the message of christmas......there was mainly this group of frens celebrating their fren's 21st birthday, haha hope dat was memorable for him too, i think its a 21st to remember......well so we were going off and while we were walking to the mrt, david, yan wei and nat were singing christmas carols in harmony and trying out the various pitches a song could have, quite interesting la but i was kinda immersed in my own thots abit, thinking about my kite, if i should let it go......hmm on a sidenote, melinda and i will be going to haji lane sometime to check out stuff, and eat prawn mee there, melinda says its good....whoo i might jus spend a fortune there heh, never been there before......
25th December 2008! CHRISTmas service 1030am!
hmm one of the christmas services dat my mom rarely attends but this (last) year she went, as expected i woke up pretty late from sleeping late again i think, think i slept at 5 plus the nite before......then i woke at about 940 thereabouts, it was 10 before u knew it, by the time my mom and i got ready.......andrew had already left much earlier by bus, john stayed home cos he was apparently 'to tired'......so for the first time i paid for the cab to church on my own accord......normally my dad does the paying, esp when we're going to church on sundays......but anyway it was really madness after the christmas service, with everybody going around finding the specific person they wanna give gifts to......i tried it myself, its quite mad, even with me giving out like onli 30+ this year.......its quite hilarious, cos as u set out to look for a certain person A, u find another person B u wanna give to and like calling dat person B to wait for awhile while u search for his/her gift then after giving to B u see A walking to some other place, then as u are chasing A u see C and then ask them to wait and stuff like dat heh......mad rush la, so many ppl dat u hardly see in bishan come back as CEOs (christmas, easter onli heh).......well i received quite abit of stuff from quite a few ppl, some ppl more unexpected than others.....i noe its rather late but i jus wanna say a thank u to all those who gave me gifts even those who gave me super late (ar hem tan rachel) and also the ppl who gave me little chocolates and stuff as well as al those ppl i managed to exchange handshakes with......hmm after all the rush it was lunch and then back home i guess, cant remember anything else.......(pictures of all my christmas presents will be on facebook!)
26th Dec 2008
haha actually i dun quite remember wad happened on dat day leh.....it was quite awhile ago.......hmm i jus noe dat i didnt get much rest on dat day (as well)......think i went to play badminton at bishan or did i? cant rmb....
27th Dec 2008
well its the day of the 87ers gathering dat we have been so eagerly awaiting lol......we were talking abit about it (or rather they were talking about it, i jus happened to hear about it, im not dat close to any of the main ppl in the year 87, the onli ppl i noe well are my very best of buds Andrew White Tan and Titus BOSS Seah heh)....well so it finally happened, it finally became real when the other sarah tan (clair's sister, not bee hui, the one we normally see around the pa stuff in bishan) came back form overseas (i cant remember from where now heh oops).....then we had our long awaited gathering.....mayboo is a genius lol, one kind of rich la, she chose the place i think and sorta had the help of ale to organise the whole thing lol.........guess wad mayboo chose a place called Hokkaido Japanese Restaurant all the way at the rather dead Turf City.....one kind of far, and not onli dat the price of the meal there is like $35.20 per person! for buffet la nonetheless but even then? its like super ex.......even the rich lucas and titus had to borrow some money from me cos i jus drew $50 before going there.....still the price was much steeper than we all expected......oh wells but we made up for it with all the fun we had eating and talking nonsense, doing nonsense heh......
andrew had already ate a tim sum buffet earlier at lunch so he was the onli 'ala carte' at the table of 16 heh (yeah dats how many 87ers turned up whee)......it was quite hilarious cos we kept making fun of his ala carte tag which they put at his place, made him take photos with it and his fried rice he ordered lol......but anyway we gave andrew quite abit of food we wanted to finish so we could get rid of the plates and stuff, and andrew as always wad very funny la, he had to wait until the waiters or waitresses were out of sight before he would pop the food into his mouth very quickly, jus like a small boy doing sumtin wrong lol......so funny, oh wells dats my childhood best fren for u........hmm some other fun parts was playing with the pea pods we ordered for fun [oh ya as expected for buffets we jus ordered whatever lol, and after awhile watever food came we jus ate lol, regardless of whether we did order it or not.......so i guess we ended eating alot of the food other ppl (from the other half of the table i mean) ordered and vice-versa.....] well well the pods, heh it was fun cos i think lucas started it by saying dat u could pop the peas to shoot at somebody if u pressed hard enough, soon a bunch of us were trying dat haha........titus managed to slip 1 into andrew's hot tea and about 2 into sarah's tea before he got caught by runner heh.....titus the madman eventually ate the pea in andrew's tea heh......lol......titus also ate the 'cooked' sashimi he threw into andrew's tea lol, cos andrew's tea was hot rite so the sashimi got 3/4 cooked lol......disgusting stuff but oh wells we're jus having fun......sarah exacted her rarraness by popping a few peas into titus''s tea.......so he had to dig them out to eat using his chopsticks (they didnt provide us with spoons lol), check out lucas's pictures on facebook to find out more.......then another highlight was the stuffing of one of the tou fus dat we couldnt finish with loads of wasabe! whee haha dat was the most hilarious thing of the nite heh......nicklaus, reuben they all flipped the tou fu around and stuffed wasabe underneath lol, meaning wasabe was stuffed like the filling of the toufu lol.......we wanted to make ying quan eat it but we failed.......the other sarah tan almost ate it but mabel spoilt out plans.....it would have been very hilarious to see her reaction if she had eaten it lol........mabel guessed there was sumtin wrong when we all kept quiet for once and all happened to look in the other sarah tan's direction lol......oh wells it might have turned rather nasty if she really ate it anyway......but it was fun while it lasted.........after dat lucas and a few others went on to some place nearby to turf city for supper......andrew fetched bee hui, titus, mabel home......i was in his car as well but i dropped off near his house to take a bus home myself from there.........
28th Dec 2008
hmm dat was a sunday so jus like any other sunday perhaps (oh ya melinda jacked herself twice cos she didnt believe the 28th was jasmine's birthday when i told her so, she had to ask jasmine herself TWICE heh onli to realise she jacked herself, heh genius, oh i remember now......it was the last sunday of the year and the little children across the levels had their open sunday thing......its this thing where they all gather together and then sing songs, have fun among other things......basically it means no lessons for them lol......the children were told to sing the song starting with "on the first day of christmas, my true love sent to me......" oh haha i rmb the song, its the 12 days of christmas lol....hmm if i remember correctly it was jeremie biancherie's (oops cant rember how to spell his last name, sumtin like dat la) farewell dinner after dat at june's place i think, i made my way there after playing a fantastic game of floorball........stopped at the wrong bus stop then i had to walk back lol.....anyway when i got there, most of the rest had already started cooking....so i went to the front garage thingy to start fire, im a arsonist heh.....with little tips from linus, li and i set up 2 fires and june let us use the cheater method, which was the ultra hot flame gun or whatever its called, its run on gas then the flame is uber hot dat kind, super cool like a mini flame thrower.....we used dat to heat up some of the bigger pieces of coal, i got burnt quite a few times starting and keeping the fire going cos the ambers from the fire jus jump out of the pit sometimes.....but thankfully it wasnt serious at all......we had a great time cooking and eating heh......there was pork chops, chicken wings, the wantons which sarah, ruth, lizzy, rachel and lucas deep fried (some came out as jus having the wanton skins onli, like empty wantons, how wanton [hurhur bad joke]) {they were trying to eat the one dat they personally hand wrapped lol and taking pictures with it....heh} and of course not to mention the UBER NICE BEEF ROASTED TO PERFECTION by our dear host, june low herself and david heng, not too much seasoning and spices and no marinate at all! jus the pure succulent juices of the tender beef!! specially ordered in a huge chunk, woah my mouth is starting to water at the mention of it, i wanna eat dat kinda beef again but i heard its ex lol....my stomach calls for it argh!!!! oh yeah one more thing i must mention is the french method of keeping the fire going.....haha they are mad la.....well see the ppl we were organising this farewell for were jeremie and john and end up they were the ones helping to not let the fire burn out heh.......their method is crazy lol.....on the ambering coals they jus heap more charcoal onto it and then they jus fan crazily literally until the fire jus comes out lol, gives another meaning totally to fanning the fire (out).......oh wells u havta be there to noe wad i mean la, the frenchmen are quite mad but apparently their method worked heh.....dats all to a fun and funny nite......we 21 yr olds played at the swing and see-saws too......well the ppl dat were there were david, li (for some time), june and justin low, aunty lily, mabel, ruth, sarah, lizzy, rachel, kin yip, aarlyn, lucas, joey and clarence popped by later, tim sng, chris, ale and qing yuan, of course the 2 frenchmen john and jeremie and lastly myself......wished i could have enjoyed myself more cos sometimes i tend to feel abit left out even though its sucha big group, cos like i wont get to talk to much ppl im closer to and then i would jus be around thinking my own thots or jus sticking around when others have conversations while im actually not really a part of the conversation per se, tho i appear to be heh (im quite good at making impressions dat im enjoying myself)......sometimes i wonder if i should jus quit this ag im in cos of feelings like this but i thank God dat time and again He provides ppl, sometimes random ppl to somehow encourage me to continue going for the ag cos the ag is not a setting jus for social interaction, and i do thank God for lizzy (of course andrew and titus no need to say la but when they around onli lol) for time and again encouraging me with little notelets here and there that she is always there for me if i need someone to talk to as well as assure me dat i'm one of her best frens in the ag (still), guess little things like dat really mean alot and i cant be thankful enough for her...........
29th Dec 2008
hmm today nothing much, jus wake up late and then go for the suopposed lao beijing xiao long bao buffet.....which was about $10 plus so not dat bad......aiya wad a disappointment lol, when we got there we found out it was not onli a xiao long bao buffet, there were other tim sum and like we could onli order like 2 baskets of xiao long bao at once......cos they would either run out of xiao long bao or they wouldnt be able to make it fast enough for our (and all the guest's) consumption lol i guess, but how i wish i can jus pay $10 plus for unlimited xiao long baos, and good ones of course not the inferior ones dat the skin breaks or it doesnt have soup in it or sumtin la, u noe jus basic standards......the lao beijing ones were not too bad, considering the mass ordering.....we ate alot as expected of any other normal buffets........lucas and titus loved the custard paos for some reason......they oso had like mini squid (the red ones), some scallob looking thing, oh ya noodles (i whacked like all 5 types of the noodles, so i tried every noodle thing on the menu, they came in very small bowls to it was jus appetisers but of course it seemed more jialat to finish it whe ur already full heh, im not a dan fu who is a bottomless pit for food), oh ya we ordered 2 plates of everything on the very short menu.......including shrimp dumplings or sumtin......then for the last part we had one whole plate of the shrimp dumplings (dat i ordered heh) dat no one wanted to finish unless forced to heh.....so to make things more fun, we played the game "zhong ji mi ma" aka the number in the middle literally translated into english lol......then someone would set the number, then the rest play lol......quite exciting, esp when we up the stakes the next time u got it.....i think angsty boy chris got it the worst cos he kept getting the number, hence having to eat more and more dumplings at a go each time.....haha besides chris i think ryan, lucas, titus, charlie (kenneth heng) and the bottomless pit dan fu had to eat their punishment/rewards worth.......haha....but we did great lol......we finished everything dat was brought to the table......and we had lots of fun......jus spending time with frens in sucha relaxed way was a very nice way to spend the day......we also joked about going up this ladder inside the restaurant and throwing xiao long baos at the customers and running around the top to evade the police who would probably come if one of us did really climb up heh......good times, i really enjoyed myself this time.....after dat we each went our separate ways, lucy and chris went on a date heh to watch australia haha, quite a comedian couple heh, one is so feminine inclined and the other is all angst and intenseness heh.....haha funny........
30th Dec 2008
hmm yet another day of meeting up with the ag (yes my holidays was pretty packed with ag related stuff lol).....we played badminton in the morning, this i remember suddenly cos i remeber i was out quite early in the morning and dat i had almost lost my phone on the bus on the way to badminton........i met shuan siang on the way to bishan stadium to play there......then i remember i didnt put my phone into my pocket but still as i was going down i checked my pocket and found it wasnt there, did a quick check at the seat and found nothing so i thot mayb i had jus slipped it into my bag, there wasnt time to check my bag on the bus so i got down with ss at the bus stop near to bishan stadium onli to find to my dismay dat i had not slipped my phone into my bag......i was sure i left it on the bus somehow then.......i ran all the way back to the interchange to find my phone but to no avail again, i even searched the bus but couldnt find it at all.....so sad.....this very kind lady of a bus interchange manager (or sth like dat) helped me give a call to my handphone to see if anyone had turned it off.....well to my suprise and delight, she called thru to my phone! and another kind lady had picked it up on the bus which i later found out dat she found it cos her son had also lost his own phone there, my phone had slipped deep into the gap between the seats....wow it really was a miracle dat i got my phone back......i started panicking at first when i lost it, then i gave up and jus ask God to help me recover it if it was His will and i really thank Him for it.....well i arranged to meet the kind lady who picked up my phone near the bishan stadium bus stop dat i had alighted at.....by the time i got there i was already sweating a lil bit cos of all the running around and panicking......but thank God once again He helped me to recover my phone which would have been lost otherwise.........after badminton and lunch above the interchange, i must say the beef rice there is really quite good, anything beef is quite tempting to me......then i went to sleep in the library with ruth while lucas went to penuel's house to bathe.......i was jus damn shagged, didnt want to do anything except sleep lol cause i was having headache, from lack of sleep i guess.......ruth also slept for some reason or another......after dat we packed into lucas's ride to fetch sarah and the cake (oh the cream cheese cake dat she "made with mabel", well mabel did little bits of the cake, like the biscuit crust base of the cake and she added condensed milk to the cream cheese heh.......the kind dat my mom always make cos she noes i like it, the cake was nice but its expensive to make.......hmm our ag organised this gathering at pitstop (sumtin like settlers or wad those kinda gaming cafes) in farewell of chris, titus and yi ling who were going back to ireland and london (i think its onli these 2 countries).....as well as the belated 21st birthday celebrations of kin yip and charlie (aka kenneth heng, for growing his horn out to mature stage....hahaha....kk private joke).....as well as supposedly for the january babies which i think didnt come at all if i remember correctly......we had alot of fun playing halle gali or sumtin like dat, the one dat u havta count the number of fruits and if any of them are five of a kind, then u ring the bell lol.......then some of them played new games which i never saw before......as expected they have a wide variety of games........we played bang and lucas kept getting killed by everyone first heh......haha guess he was a hot target heh.....quite fun....i should go and buy bang some time......and mayb halle gali jus for fun....welll next time if i see it when i go out heh........
31st Dec 2008
blogging on the the year of 2008 is ending soon please be patient heh........hmm i was supposed to have dinner with andrew onli today but i got stood up again lol cos dat white head mixed up the dates and he thot our ag dinner thing was today but actually it was yesterday la, our faults oso la, didnt msg him to remind him.....i think today his excuse (it was his last day of work ma) was cos he needed to hand over the reponsibilites at his job, forever busy one la snow whiteness, it jus seems like he is always busying himself with something or another.....oh wells i cant remember wad i was doing in the morning (if i was even awake in the first place) as well as in the afternoon, my memory fails me....well i onli noe i cycled to gardens at nite for the watchnite service....i went there quite early, at about 7pm or so like dat cos lucas told me the day before we were having dinner the next day (today).....so when i got there, i msged ruth, who was also talking about it the day before, then she tell me she is still at home lol, by the way her home is at chua chu kang or so lol.....then i msged lucas, he told me he at toa payoh eating durians with rachel and sarah lol....i was like o_O i kenna bluff lol....then lucas drove them to meet me and accompany me eat dinner lol......oh ya somehow ruth asked shuan siang to call me cos they were going for dinner too hmm? y she did dat i oso dunno.....oh wells anyway they came from david chua's place....i did overhear bits and pieces about ppl going to david's place from ruth but since im not from dat i-dunno-what-to-call-this-group group, and since i didnt get invited then i didnt go lol....erhm anyway we had a great time at dinner, lucas ate kang kong with rachel (one of the few times he actually eat vegetable).....jus talking nonsense and laughing mostly at sarah and all her wierd grunts, doing handsigns to represent the manly sarah, the bimbotic rachel, and lucas's was the mix of both heh......wells after dat we went back to church, i drove on my bike of course.......
after i had reached church, i showered and changed, and waiting for them so dat we could go into the sanctuary together but they all jus wanted to hang around in the clubhouse cos they didnt want to go for the sharing at 9pm.....i were slightly late, probably 930pm or so, so i didnt want to walk into the sanctuary and disrupt the sharing or wad.....i jus waited outside, away from view, waiting and delibrating if i should go in, straining to hear the things being said....well then elsie, timmy, cindy and timmy's sister, joanna from the christmas outreach musical came and then they went in after awhile.....i decided to go into the creche area to jus listen to the sharing, without disturbing much ppl.....i must say im really grateful dat i went for the sharing even tho i didnt go for all of it....i heard about how the Lord help uncle michael find a job within just a month of getting retrenched at his age is really quite a miracle....plus he shared he got to do some things dat he couldnt have done if not for the 'break'......i didnt even noe he lost his job lol.....and a few other things from the sharing dat God is good, all the time.....all the time, God is good.......(on another side note i saw uncle lawrence's 2 daughters who are really cute, the elder daughter made her younger sister push her in some plastic container with wheels at the bottom....wad a cute sight heh).....well then after dat was watch nite.....it was good, but i kept feeling the after effects of not having enough sleep, head ache, esp during the msg part and mop head thot i was scratching my head lol.......well bennett sat next to the jamir sisters haha bennett jamir!! i like to tease the jamir sisters on dat heh....after watch nite it was quite a frenzy again, everyone wishing u happy new year all dat haha....its one of those times when ppl jus shake ur hand heartily and merily and everyone is like wishing the same thing.......kinda nice in some ways....cos like normally if u jus stick out ur hand to someone or someone jus sticks his/her hand out to u, u'll still shake it but like u'll feel like "errr, o k...." as u shake it kinda thing......we should be more friendly to everyone i guess, more of the time........after wishing almost everyone i could, and ppl were all leaving for home, getting rides from ppl's parents homes, going for supper etc, i changed out of my black tee with a vest over it and long black jeans and shoes back into my cycling attire and i cycled home lol......tiring la but ok, at least better than troubling someone to fetch me home.......well dats the end to 2008 i guess, the new year awaits (even tho im blogging this in 2009, the new year still awaits, things like ORD and stuff heh), well hope u've enjoyed this update of the past heh......
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