Post Xmas
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Quite a lot has happened since the last time I updated. The unsuccessful appeal, the 6/2 reunion, the Christmas Eve spent at a family friend's place, the Christmas gathering at my place that was followed by a Japanese horror movie. Therefore: Long post.
The reunion was a lot better than the previous one (which was just....pathetic) Almost half the class met up to get some steamboat at Marina. Not that it was like typical reunions where everyone reconnected with everyone and promised to stay in touch forever and ever and ever more. Just...a chance to meet up with the friends we had, to find out who is going where, to enjoy good food and to have fun. We all stayed in our own little cliques. A little friendly banter with the rest. Oh. The people who ran that steamboat place are frigging smart. They waited outside the Marina Bay MRT station and grabbed customers there. Even provided transport through a minivan. The steamboat was a pretty novel experience for me. Never had teppanyaki through the aluminum foil--trying to avoid the oil that was spurting and gobbling the half-cooked meat was a lot of chaotic fun. After we finished eating (The guys took a century to finish. They even took our prawns. How utterly unsurprising.) we walked to the pool/bowling center. Which incidentally was the place where we waited for hours during NDP'05. Watched most of them play for a while, grew tired of watching and went bowling with Cheryl, Marjorie, Zhen Luan and Siew Hwee. I pretty much sucked in the first half but I got into "mah-grooooove" after the 6th turn.
006. Licensed to kill.
After that, we (Cheryl, Marjorie, Moi) went to the arcade. Originally, we wanted to play Bishi Bashi but that was taken over by a whole bunch of girls so we switched to Panic Park which I'd never tried before. Gosh, t' was so much fun. I looked terrible in most of the photos though, so purely out of vanity *smirk* I'm not gonna post any here.
Christmas Eve/Day were a little lackluster to me. Boring, in fact. The Christmas mood was just not in me and I got a grand total of 3 presents since my family doesn't really celebrate it. But there was a lady who was present at the family friend's party and tragedy struck. She left early to go to the Esplanade to watch a show, took a bad fall..and died. I don't really know that auntie but to think that I'd seen her a mere few hours before her death...well my jaw dropped when my mum told me of the news yesterday. Life is so fleeting, so fragile. The suddenness of her demise only served to emphasize that fact. Carpe diem indeed.
The Christmas gathering was just that: a gathering. With really good food but little else. After that a whole bunch of us went to Geylang for supper. Caught glimpses of leering men and ladies of the night. Also rented this horror movie called Reincarnation. Fantastic plot (which is rare in Japanese horror movies which tend to be rather random) that set my pulse racing.
Took another trip to Sim Lim Square yesterday trying to find a decent Core 2 Duo Laptop that would fit the budget (1.5K) my dad set. Actually managed to find one in the Samsung X11. Did more research on it. It should fit my purposes nicely. But this morning, something rather amusing happened when I told my dad of my findings. He said something like "I was going to make you an offer. If you can lose 5 kg by Chinese New Year, I will increase the budget by 500. So 1 kg 100 dollars." Arghhhh. I finally found one that I liked and then he had to go offer me that. I'd rather he hand me the money instead. Lol. FAT chance of that ever happening.
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aureliaz out
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