September Looming

Wow before you know it, it's gonna be Christmas again. Scary! Just had my 7th RT session today. It's the trial 2.4km run. Holy shit the weather was so hot, everyone's timing got screwed. I also started stitching on the 5th round. Jialat. In the end walked a bit on the last round and got a timing of 14mins hahaha! Let's hope nothing like this happens on the actual IPPT this coming Thursday...

28th August 2010, Saturday

Watched "Step Up 3D" with Nic at Iluma. We wanted to watch the non-3D version but the almost empty theatre when I checked few hours earlier suddenly became almost full when we went down to buy the tix just 30mins before the show. In the end we settled for the 3D version. And as I expected, the 3D wasn't very convincing or fascinating. It's $14 for the 3D version some more! And worse of all, I think Step Up 2: The Streets, is way better than the 3rd one. Probably due to the groovy tunes of Flo-Rida's infectious "Low", as well as JabbaWockeeZ appearing in the show. This 3rd movie wasn't as memorable and the dance choreography was not as interesting as the ones in part 2. However the last dance in which the main cast were dishing out their last battle in luminated costumes was quite awesome. Wonder if it can be done in real life or it's some computer graphics. 3 stars for this movie.

I went to look for the GIP guys (Alan, KW, HS, Kim) and we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant at Bugis Junction basement called 红锅. Its signature dishes were noodles in large red bowls called 招牌米线,状元米线, so we all ordered either of these two to try, as well as some side dishes. The soup was very tasty, and the noodles were just nice, not too hard or too soft. The waitress would dump the little saucers' ingredients into the big red bowl in front of us one by one. Actually nothing very interesting about the whole process. We ordered some sticks of meat, forgot what kinda meat it was haha, which reminded us of the times we ate those 羊肉串 on the roadsides on a winter night back in Beijing during our GIP days. ET joined us after we finished our dinner and we went to TCC once again to finish up our last $20 vouchers lol. They then went to catch Grown Ups, with Nana joining them, while I went home instead cos I didn't feel like watching that movie lol.

Notice got special lighting? They were using my iPhone's camera light to light up this dessert!Kim was forced by me to put on her helmet for me to take a pic ahaha.

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Have You Boeing-Boeinged?

Who would have thought that I will go watch a play? Some more it's something I dunno anything about. But the girls suddenly wanted to watch this play and jioed everyone along, so I thought ok loh, just go try try. Haven't watch any plays before anyway. Quite a refreshing experience, but the only thing that dampens the experience was that we took the cheapest tix, thus having to be seated at three-storey high seats. I would definitely have paid more to get a better view. We had to look almost like 45 degrees downwards to view the actors and actresses from our seats.

Tue-Thurs & Sun - 8pm
Sat & Sun - 3pm
Standard - S$64, S$54, S$44, S$49 (Restricted View)

Fri & Sat - 8pm
Standard - S$69, S$59, S$49, S$54 (Restricted View)

Just checked out the ticket prices. Diaoooo I will definitely pay for the most expensive seat if I knew it's not much of a difference from the cheapest one hahhaa. But oh well, next time, if I'm watching a play at the Drama Theatre at the National Library ever again, I know which tickets to choose.

The play was adapted from the original French play which first premiered in 1960! Now it's been rewritten to a Singaporean context. I'm pretty sure the angmohs in the audience understood only 50% or less of the conversations and jokes. Luckily I could understand most of it cos they were speaking in Singlish, Cantonese, Japanese and Malay. Adrian Pang did a marvellous job, as expected, as he portrayed the architect, Bernard, who had three fiancées, Janet (SIA girl), Jelly (Cathay Airways) and Junko (JAL). The three women also did a fantastic job of bringing out the flavour of each of their nationalities. The other male actor, an angmoh, got to kiss the girls many times lol. He also did an excellent job. I think he had the most difficult part of the play as he had to interact with everyone in the play. But the most memorable character would have to be Rosa, if I spelt the name correctly. She's the maid in Adrian Pang's house. She did a splendid portrayal of a typical Malay women, with her Singaporean Malay slang.

Interesting experience. Probably will get me more interested in such plays in the future.

"Level up! You have gained a level in Artistic Appreciation!"

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Tired...

Ever since RT started last Sunday, I've been sooooo tired. The RT sessions are getting more and more siong. Only looking forward to the dinners after each RT at Bedok Market hahaha. Today no chance to have the lasagne from the stall operated by the twin sisters. Decided to try out one of the Malay stall's nasi ayam penyet. $4 for a set, but it's not too bad. The soup also very nice. Zhangjing had kambing soup.

14th August 2010, Saturday

Slacked at home and then went out for dinner at Suan Thai Restaurant @ Liang Court with family. This restaurant was featured on one of the Channel 8 or Channel U shows, therefore we long wanted to go and try out the food there. The tom yam soup wasn't really very nice. And the pineapple rice was pretty normal. Only the stir-fried beef was good. The rest was so-so only. Definitely not recommended to go back again lol.

After dinner, as we drove past the padang and stopped right outside Raffles City waiting for the traffic light to turn green, it just so happened that the final fireworks display started right in front of our eyes and over our heads. All the buildings around us were shooting fireworks. So zhunz. Quite a magnificent view. Too bad I wasn't there to take pix of the fireworks. It's the inaugural Youth Olympic Games held right here in Singapore after all. So proud to be Singaporean, isn't it?

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Happy Birthday Singapore!

It's National Day! And I was slacking the whole day at home. Was watching Liar Game, a Japanese drama which first aired on 2007. It features Erika Toda, the actress who played Misa in Deathnote. Season 2 aired in November 2009 and the movie was out in Japan in March 2010. Now Singapore is showing on 12th August. Looks like no time to chiong the drama before the movie is out.

7th August 2010, Saturday

The long-awaited Nite Cycling was here again! Shirley and Jacenta were dying to do nite cycling again during this long weekend, therefore I organized it. Didn't expect so many people to turn up. Yaokun actually forgot about the event and NZ thought we start at 9pm -_-... Nevertheless, with Shirley's friends, we had 10 people for this event. I met up with Shirley and Jac at the round market bike shops to do some last minute shopping for Jac cos she was using her uncle's bike. She got herself a seat cover and a backlight. We then cycled down to ECP, and had dinner at the Food Village while waiting for the rest. Then we all changed the rental venue to one of the bike shops around the MacDonald's area, instead of at Family Corner, as what I proposed earlier. The 5 of them without their own bikes rented a bike each. Then we started at about 9pm. NZ would have been able to join us if he insisted on coming down lol.

So we met up with our last member, Shufen, at the end of the ECP stretch. Thus the Fellowship of the Bike was complete, and we proceeded with our plan. Dennis, took charge of leading us around the Cosy Bay area, a route which I never took before. It was a more beautiful route to take since we're just next to the river and it was solid, level ground all the way. Took the chance to snap some pix along the way. We reached a dead-end unfortunately, but it gave us a magnificent view of the CBD area, with all the spotlights shooting into the sky.
We then took another route which brought us to this place just below Benjamin Sheares. We had no choice but to climb up the staircase and onto the bridge, and pushed along the bridge. We stopped at the highest point to take some photos and just as we were about to leave, some fireworks started shooting again. Lol so zhun. It lasted just a few shots, and we were still wondering what event it was. Probably a rehearsal for YOG. When we reached the bottom of the bridge, there was no road in sight. We were stranded on an area which was all fenced up! In the end we took a route through the darkness, right between some "forested area" and then out to Nicoll Highway next to Suntec. What a crazy adventure it was. It was like an obstacle course as we had to climb over single wooden planks, push our bikes over gravel and rocks, in semi-darkness. Luckily Clifton had two Cat-Eye torchlights to light up our way.

We made it out into civilization once again. Then we stopped by the Padang and snapped some pix, before going to Clarke Quay and all the way to a prata shop, Spize, along River Valley Road. It's the same one at Simpang Bedok lol. Coincidentally I met Alvin of SCE and Chao Kiat of AHS there. So zhun. We ordered our supper and ate like we were starved for days.
After the meal, we cycled to Orchard Road. It's been a decade since I last cycled along Orchard Road? We cycled down from Central to Ion, slacked there for a while, then back towards Plaza Sing for a toilet break. Then next stop was Raffles Place. They placed some interesting art pieces just next to the MRT entrance.
Next stop, The Promontory. We cycled along the riverside and then slacked right on the outside of Marina Bay Sands.
We then carried on our last leg of our journey back to ECP. Shufen then left us to go back to Toa Payoh, on her own! Daring girl to cycle alone back to TPY late at night. The 9 of us then continued back to Tanjong Rhu and slacked in the middle of the suspension bridge. There were some Muds and Angmohs at the other end of the bridge. A few of them even jumped into the river and swam around, half naked! WTF?!? These sickos may become news headline if anything bad was to happen. At a further distance away, some groups of guys were gathering around and driving their cars onto the grass patch. And all of them were making so much noise. Those people staying in the area should be woken up by the noise, cos we saw a police vehicle driving to that area when we left later. Stupid people doing silly things.
Then it was all the way back to ECP. We stopped at Mac for some Mac breakfast. Everyone were zombiefied by then. After a full meal of hotcakes, I was all ready to chiong back home. The rest of them who rented bikes were so lucky to end their journey earlier, as they could then take a cab back home while resting on the cabs. Clif, Shir, Jac and I had to cycle all the way back.

My palms and butt were aching badly lol. But still, such an adventurous Nite Cycling is worth the all the pain, I guess.

Went home and slept all the way to 3pm. Then went down for some wanton mee, before going to Bedok Camp. It's the start of my RT session. Zhangjing and I already knew we were in this RT. Benedict was there too. Even Nicholas Chia from my office was there lol. There was ZJ's friend, Derrick there also. Also Liangwei from AHS. Also saw Nelson the ah beng there. So many familiar faces. All kena RT lol. As expected, we did very little stuff on the first session.

After the session which ended at 6+, ZJ, Derrick and I went to the Bedok Market for Cheng Tng! Haven got a chance to eat it at the last RT I had with ZJ, which was two years ago. Finally got to eat it. Wasn't very spectacular but still quite a refreshing dessert after all.

Then they left while I wait for Papa to fetch me to Expo, where the whole family then had dinner at Macau Express. Then we bought some ice-cream from Orange Julius. They actually served the ice-cream upside-down. Lol so cool. Then Mummy and Cindy went shopping at the Metro Sale. while me and Papa went to the Harvey Norman sale. There wasn't much at the Harvey Norman sale, neither did the Borders sale manage to grab anything from my wallet. All I knew was I was falling asleep while browsing through the books at Borders. All I needed was plenty of sleep lol.

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Dunno What To Title

It's mid-week Wednesday! So fast! Gonna be a long weekend soon! Well it's been quite a while since I posted anything here. Laziness sets in again lol. Been joining the Citi people to run for the last two days. Didn't think I would run on two consecutive days. Now feeling like a jellyfish. Time to update a bit...

31st July 2010, Saturday

Met up with LT and his frenz, as well as Nic and his fren, Alex, and Jacenta, at Lau Pa Sat. Then we proceeded to station ourselves at The Promontory, this new piece of land right at the other end of MBS. There were probably hundreds of shutterbugs there ready to capture the magnificent moment of fireworks lighting up the darkness above us. Even though I was there two weeks ago, this time it's a different position, therefore it will be a totally different experience. However I felt that my shots pale in comparison to my first set. Nonetheless it's another eventful outing. Then Jac and I rushed off to Suntec to meet up with KW and JH to watch Inception. Woohoo finally caught the show. And true enough, it was a pretty good show, but probably too overrated. I will definitely watch it again soon, just to further comprehend the complex details of the plot. 4/5 stars imho.

24th July 2010, Saturday

Went to catch The Sorcerer's Apprentice with NZ, Kim, ET, YM at Iluma. Quite a nice show. 3.5 stars. Love the way they incorporated the song "Secrets" from OneRepublic into the show. After that we went for dinner at Manhattan Fish Market, then finally chill at TCC, finally using the vouchers ET got from the management after that incident last year. Well we still saved up $20 voucher for the next outing since not everyone were present lol.

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