It's Sunday evening, and it's pouring heavily outside. It's been raining almost the whole day. I woke up at 2pm, as usual. Had lunch, and watched The Battle of Wits, or Mo Gong, starring Andy Lau. Quite an interesting movie indeed, as recommended by many who watched it.
Here's a recap of the last 2 days:
11th Jan 2008, Friday
Right after work, I went straight to Hall 4. I actually reached very early at 6:30pm. Went to knock on the doors of the guys' rooms but I think everyone wasn't around. Therefore I went up to check out whether Yat is around or not. Luckily she and Lilin were there already, therefore I went in and chatted with them until 8pm or so.
Then we went down and looked for the rest of the guys, who finally returned from their IHG etc. Then we all started BBQing. Most of the graduates arrived, except Chester, who said he was feeling unwell the moment he reached home. ZZZzzz... Adrian and Jiajun also didn't come due to various reasons. Charles and Junie joined us much later at 10pm+ or so. We BBQed and chatted with everyone there. Seems like we haven't been back to hall for quite a long time. Everyone's got stories to share, cos everyone has started working.
It's quite a shock having realized that Zhongming and Patrick, as well as Lilin and Yat, etc, are now final year students! I was telling them it was like not very long ago where I was the final year and they were just year twos. Time really flies...
Anyway Charles and I went to Zhongming's room to kapoh the many movies he downloaded. He sure carried on our tradition of the sole distributor of movies, animes, dramas, etc. Back then I was the one to share all my stuff in the block, then it was Shenggui. And now we have Zhongming. Who can we rely on when Zhongming leaves? *sobs* No more movies, animes, dramas. Oh well... All good things come to an end. But Zhongming REALLY got a whole stash of new and old movies. I downloaded as much as my portable harddisk could squeeze in. Awesome! That explains why I watched Mo Gong this afternoon. Hehe... Too many movies to watch.
Later on at night, the guys were playing mahjong in Ken/Yok Hian's room, which was previously Andy and Wilson's room. And we heard that Chin Keat got a 13 Wonders! Awesome! Then we decided to look for a movie in Zhongming's collection which none of us had watched before. Alas we managed to find one which indeed nobody has watched before: 28 Weeks Later. I watched 28 Days later on Channel 5 at home some time last year, and I thought it was a stupid and slow movie. However, this sequel was much better in terms of suspense and gore. Totally gruesome and bloody shots all throughout the movie. Kinda revolting rethinking of the scenes.
I then shared a cab with Ken and Wilson and reached home at 7am. Tired!!!
12th Jan 2008, Saturday
Woke up at 2pm, as usual. Had lunch and slacked for a while before going for Japanese lesson. It's been a two week break. Forgot almost 99% of those I learnt. LOL After lessons, Edwin offered to walk with me to Boay Quay together, while he was pushing his bike. We talked about our job prospects etc. He's found a job at Fortis, doing some operations work or something. Just hope everything is going well for him.
I then met Alan and Zhenhao outside Mind Cafe at Boay Quay. We then went in to book a large table first. Later on, everyone arrived. There was Kim, Nana, Fusheng, Wenyao, Kaiwei, Naizhu and Eng Tat. This gathering was actually meant as a farewell gathering for Kaiwei, who is flying to Utah, USA, for half a year of training under his new company, IM Flash. Looks like an awesome trip with great prospects. We had dinner while playing Taboo! Then we finished off the remaining of our two-hour package with Snortle. Both games were suggested by me cos I thought Taboo! and Snortle could be easily played by a big group of people.
After the game, we decided to go to the TCC branch behind MacDonald's at Boat Quay. We went to the second storey and found that it was a very cosy and relaxing place to gather and chat. We sat on cosy sleep-inducing beanie cushions. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside the second storey area, cos I think it's because there were many paintings all over the walls, priced from $1,800 to $2,800 each. ZZZzzz... It was really a nice place to hang out after a meal, with plenty of exotic drinks to choose from. Next time I know where to go to when everyone has no idea where to go. Hehe...
It was really fun to meet up with the good old pals from our GIP group, whom we spent half a year in Beijing together. Hope we'll have more gatherings soon. =)
