Tuesday, August 09, 2005
its been a very relaxed week because its Singapore's 40th birthday. and we had a super long weekend... haha. all my revision plans were foiled. but i managed to salvage it today, right on e birthday itself! went to evelyn's club and mugged for a few good hours on Econs.
well, yesterday was spent celebrating in school. we had our annual sports carnival and whoa, i loved it! coz i participated in Tug-of-war for e first time in my life! haha. because of my size, i had never been picked to be one of e players, nor have i volunteered myself coz i know my limitations. but nevertheless, i wanted to give it a shot. actuali i was supposed to be running fartlek, but i complained coz i din sign up for dat event. thanks to the ever-wonderful Gabriel, i got my wish! and so did Elaine and Rachel. we lost our first match to Bikila(who had all e 'dua jiat') but we won against Owens! we lost to them in e first half but we persisted in e second and turned e tables around. it was a great experience but a very strenous one. i could feel myself being tugged from one side to another, and at one point, i almost flew frontwards due to e force. now im suffering from rope burn and very serious muscle aches. after dat, Rono shone in e fartlek event, coz we got 2nd for e girls' race and champions for the guys! woooot!
indulged in a delicious thank-you lunch for the SLOs. after seeing e video they played, i kinda missed my Pre-U Seminar days... it was nutting short of a miracle that 20 ppl could come together within 5 short days and shared some much with one another. but it dissipated as quickly as it was formed.... not even one plan for a Group 13 outing materialised! haha.
around evening, i met up with Yingpeng, Andrew and Elaine to go watch e fireworks at Esplanade. because i knew im gonna look weird standing next to all these tall ppl, i chose to wear platforms but how was i to know that, on e way to the interchange, both soles split into half and i had to totter awkwardly to Speedy Rhino juz to buy a new pair of shoes. wasted... if that wasn't interesting enuff, a Prudential salesman approached me juz before i stepped into the MRT station and tried to sell me insurance. here's a snippet of the most amusing conversation i've ever had:
Him: "I presume you are a student studying nearby?"
Me: "Ya."
Him: "Oh alright. Let me guess... NTU?"
Me(bewildered): "Er, no."
Him: "NUS?"
Me(more bewildered):"No..."
Him: "Oh, it muz be SMU then?"
Me: "Erm, no.............."
Him: "Haha, then which are you studying then?"
Me: "JJC...."
Him: "OH! I thought you dressed quite maturely and I mistook you for a University student or something... -blah blah blah-"
wat more can be more laughable than mistaking me for being older than what i actuali am, when most of the time ppl tink me to be a secondary sch student?? haha.
anyway, we found a spot outside marina square with a perfect view of the Esplanade and waited for the fireworks to start, which was supposedly 8pm. but as we waited and predicted and waited summo, it juz din happen. by den, we were oredi crying away from hunger coz we wanted to catch it first b4 heading for dinner. den andrew called his fren and realised that it will onli start at 11pm. so we went to eat dinner before coming back again at e exact same spot, and sang songs to pass time. one thing i love bout hanging with them is that i get to sing! haha... coz usually i'm too shy to sing in front of others, except for evelyn la but even den, i dun sing properly. YP, Elaine, Chaoshun and Andrew have definitely influenced me a great deal.. 11pm came and went and still no sight of fireworks. yingpeng have oredi start 'kunning', and e rest of us were a bit outta our minds, presumably too crazed from waiting so long. haha. we decided to wait till 12 and true enuff, we heard e first bursts of e explosives and we juz took to our heels, heading for e direction where e sounds came from.
and i tell u, those hours of waiting were truly worth it. e display was soooooo BEAUTIFUL and magnificent. it lasted for bout 10 mins, and ppl milling around were juz rooted to e ground and beholding e sight above us. very cooool! and dat marked e 40th birthday of Singapore! haha. after dat, Elaine's father kindly offered to fetch us home. u shld have seen how cramped e car become after Andrew and Yingpeng got into e car coz their legs were so long... anyway, i was so tired that i 'borrowed' Andrew's shoulders to sleep on. den Yingpeng almost fell on the other side of his shoulders as well coz he oso 'kunning' oredi.. very funny. reached home at around 1+ and juz dropped dead on e bed...
so 'chickened'. coz evelyn made me eat McNuggets, and chicken chop today coz she had a craving for chicken so i was forced to eat with her too. and it was chicken wings for dinner. wah... chicken overload...
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8/09/2005 11:31:00 PM
