My Day In Words

Thursday, February 28, 2008

The past week has been nothing but fruitful. Met a lot of the friends, did tons of chatting and did some pretty meaningful stuff together! Tuesday, met up with Liyi and HuiYing and went to IKEA cause Miss Ng needs to get a box to keep her stuff. I finally got to try the meatball there, something that got almost everyone around me raving about. Actually, it's just a-okay for me. I don't know, it taste so, manufactured! Hahahaha. But the sauce is good though, and i love potatoes. Nothing can go wrong with potatoes. See, that's where most of the 16.1 kg of fats came from!! Chilled at Plaza's Starbucks before heading to Causeway Point for some light shopping. That's all i can reveal though. Hahaha. Then on Wednesday, which was yesterday, went to CaliFitness gym with Diana for some "workout". That inverted comma there is because the word workout just doesn't seem to associate well with me. Did some exercise there, made a fool outta myself a little and sweat like a pig. It's fun though, especially since i've been accumulating pounds ever since, erm, well i can't seem to remember the last time i exercised. We initially wanted to try their Yoga class for fun but we got the time mixed up and missed it. There's this equipment that trains your inner thigh, and gosh, that posture is, classy? I look like i'm in some giving birth course! Hahaha. I'm sorry if i sound "noob" or something but some equipments there are just too funny! I don't know why but my heartbeat tends to accelerate a teeny bit too fast. Was on this threadmill thing and the acceptable heartbeat rate should be around 100 plus, and mine was like 180! It keeps sending me the message that i should slow down to reduce the rate but no matter how slow i was, the best i could drop to was the 160 region. Hahahahahaha. Honestly, i've no idea why. The next half of the day was to be kept confidential for a while. Then it came today! Met up with Diana in the early afternoon to get some stuff at Marina Square before heading to Chinatown to assemble with the rest of the Poly clique to celebrate my birthday in advance! We had Yum Cha's dim sum buffet and boy, that was filling!! I definitely had a blast today with the poly "bestie" (i used "bestie" because it sounds so high school but i can't seem to think of any other word right now with my eyes half shutting) and i am so grateful and thankful to have them with me all through the 3 years of Poly life. They have brought me tons of wonderful memories and laughters and all i can hope for is to be friends for life. Jade, Bee and Van got me this really cool tee from GAP as well as $40 voucher for this electronic shop, which they've won from the school's marketing competition, because they know that i want to get an mp3 player. I love all of it dearly and i can't thank all of them enough for turning up.

Seriously, if anyone were to serve any more dim sum to me, i would have puke right at their face. Hahaha

Bee looking, erm, highly sophisticated. Bee, in an attempt to drain away the honey in her guilin gao, dropped the entire dessert into her congee. Damn. Disgusting. And we laughed like mad. The guys. Eugene and Yong Ming, the one who never fails to crack joke. Funny or not. And, Yong Ming is the first ever friend i made in Poly!
Immediately after lunch-cum-dinner, we carried our pregnant stomach for some dessert. Come on, we're just a few steps away from these mouth watering desserts. How can we give it a go, when all through the 3 years, the topic that never fails to be brought up is definitely F&B. I swear i was verging on exploding but i still somehow manages to shove it inside of me. Maybe it's because of the hapiness i'm feeling! Hahaha.
Also, how can we forget a group shot! Well, i don't think that alley serve as the best background but it's the only place we could find at that time. And Yong Ming looked highly hilarious in that picture, in which all of us conclude that he looks like some passerby who somehow gets into this picture.
Then it's the 3 of us on the way back home.
Thank you thank you thank you! I'm so glad that everyone turned up and i definitely had a fan-freaking-tastic day!

Monday, February 25, 2008

Today's all about embracing the child in us. This morning, Nazi, Meow and I went to play swing and boy, it's fun! Sometimes, we don't really have to do much in order to achieve happiness because something so insignificant could actually brings about more joy than you could ever think of. I had such a great time with the friends and i can't ask for more. Shan't elaborate further and let the pictures do the talking.

Meow wanted to blow bubbles and this is the best we can find. Meow initially didn't want to buy but after some persuasion, the 3 of us chipped in money and bought it! Haha.

We actually went to 2 different places to play swing.

Nazi standing up from a fall in which she tries to be a hamster.

And she's back up to try one more time.

And she did it! Not for long though, haha.

I tell you, this girl played EVERYTHING there.

Meow living in her fantasy. Hahaha.

We're trying ver hard to accomodate the bubbles into the pictures but failed miserably. And the weather's scorching hot!

Ah Pek's tired!

Acting cute? No. Doublt acting cute.

Meow was acting all sad to Nazi and i caught it on camera! Hahahaha. Her expression was priceles.

Nazi and I competing on who can swing the highest.

Unglam? I know.

This 2 poses are so, passe! But we had fun!

Sunday, February 24, 2008

It has been 2 days since the last paper ended and I’m supposed to be feeling over the moon and delirious since I’ve been yearning for getting a break from school for ever but somehow or rather, the fact of it hasn’t yet sunk in. That small comfortable spot that I’ve set aside in my mind, waiting for it to take the throne once the last paper was over just didn’t really settle in. Afterall, it’s literally the last day of my poly education, that is if everything goes smoothly as I hoped for. It’s a rather scary feeling, having nothing to look forward to other than that little thing called NS, which isn’t really appealing either. Imagine me, already big head and small limbs, having to shave off the hair!! Plus, the free pimples outbreak and becoming charcoal burnt are very appealing giveaways indeed. How exciting right? Tell me about it. Okay, I’m being sarcastic. If you can’t see it, then you must be very naïve to think that I’m actually looking forward to pawn two years of my life away. You know how you’re so accustomed to having a vacation and counting down (and dreading) to the commencement of the next semester but this time, if all goes well like everyone desire for, then there’s really nothing much to look forward to. Which is rather disastrous, in my humble opinion, in a sense that that might be it for certain people’s education path. For them, it will be “Hello” to the working world for probably the rest of their life, until they somehow manages to strike Toto and can live comfortably for the rest of their life just through the interest alone. But that ain’t gonna happen often I got to say. I seriously can’t imagine myself stepping into the working world at just 20. I still feel like a child!! Hahahaha. I’m sorry if I’m sounding like some dumbass ignorant spoilt brat but to me, the fact is that going to the working world means having to carry so much more responsibility and workload overnight. That is going to be one of the worst living nightmare ever. To the friends that are going to really take on this route, hats off to them. Then there are going to be people that are applying for further education immediately or after 2 years for the guys. But past statistics somehow aren’t really motivating actually. I didn’t know that graduating from Poly brings about so much stress. Actually, I can be really serious if I want to be. I like that. Hahahaha. Well, I guess it’s better to focus on the short term first instead of the longer term.

So after the last paper, it was off to plaza for meet up with the favorites for some post-paper activities. We didn’t really do much either. Just shopped around, developed some pictures and talk like there’s no tomorrow. After which, went home for dinner before heading back out again to meet another favorite, LeeLian! It was off to plaza (again) to run some errand, cheap Mac ice cream and talk even more. Both are very simple affairs, but I still enjoy every moment of it because I can’t emphasize enough, it’s all about the company. Furthermore, I miss all the friends like crazy!! So it’s definitely good to get to meet up with them. Then yesterday, one of the people I adore most in the entire world came to my place for dinner. I’m SOOOOOOOOO in love with her, that words can’t really explain my affections. It’s none other than the lovely grandma. All of us had steamboat together and I felt like a fat cow after the whole thing. I love steamboat but it’s not something that I would want to do everyday, especially since knowing about how much calories and fats I’m packing on.

Today, went out with Diana, whom I also misses a lot because we haven’t really gotten a chance to hang out ever since the projects starts piling on. It’s a long time since we last have a laughing-fest like we used to, and I’m glad it’s back on today. I’m going to miss her a lot when she fly back to the Philippines in april. We first went to have lunch at subway, before heading to California Fitness gym at Orchard cause Diana gets a 2 week free trial for a survey that she did. Initially, we had plan on to going to the National Museum of Singapore for the Greek exhibition but the thing at CaliFitness took so long, we had to forgo. But I did gain something from accompanying Diana. I got free 2 weeks trial too!! Hahahaha. That guy, Lawrence, is from the Philippines too, so he was extra nice to talk to. He’s openly gay and acts like one outright, but he has got a character that one will look past of his sexuality. He is downright funny. I guess it’s the Philippines spirit of something but he is cracking joke all the while. I was so caught off guard about everything actually because I thought we’re just going there to collect the trial for Diana but I’m wrong. We were actually toured around the place and I finally got to see what’s inside! Hahaha. It’s pretty cool actually. Then things got off track a little in the middle. Lawrence took me to tour around the changing room, which I don’t think is necessary, but I can’t reject. It’s like, everyone’s there to change and wash off and I’m there to look at them like they’re some kind of zoo animals. He even finds the need to bring me to the shower area, which got me really embarrassed cause for christ’s sake, everyone there is either wrapped in a towel or butt-naked, except the two of us. I feel like I’m some peeping tom or something. Seriously embarrassing. I’m not trying to be mean and stuff but I’m sure I know where to shower if I were a member! So after that little incident, we continue touring around the place before being led to having our body compositions analyzed. God, I was dreading for it, cause I know how unhealthy I am! So first, I was actually 2 kg underweight, surprisingly until I found out the latter. Then it measured my body fat mass. It’s supposed to be 9 kg, but that damn scale just wouldn’t stop rising till it hits 16.1 kg!!!! I was there asking Lawrence if that scale would stop rising, because I’m close to having double of the acceptable body fat mass I should have! Hahahahahahaha. I’m like, having 16.9% more fat than I should have. SHAME ON ME! Hahaha. This is so demoralizing man. Then it measures my muscle. Again, I know my weak spot. The only thing that I’ve having enough of in my body is minerals, which I already forgot what it’s for. Hahaha. Then it analyze the fluid in my body, and the statistics makes me feel like an out of the world creature! Hahaha. Cause another trainer there, told me that my arms are undeveloped whereas my legs are acceptable! I mean, undeveloped? What the hell la. Hahaha. Then they printed out the statistics for us to keep. My overall fitness score is only 64 la!! Sigh. Anyway, Lawrence then introduced us to Fatima, another fellow Filipina, and that’s when Diana and I spent all out energy on. Both Lawrence and Fatima are so funny, they got us entertained for another hour or thereof. I love people from the Philippines! Hahaha. They are so friendly, smiley, funny, energetic, fun and sociable. I just had so much fun laughing at their jokes. Seriously. Fatima asked whether I can be her boyfriend when we were leaving! Hahahahahaha. Diana and I were actually too tired from laughing for 2 hours, we slept on the bus way back home and I didn’t even have the energy to eat dinner. I was that tired. It’s definitely a fun and eye-opening day. 2 weeks of free trial? We would go there as often as we could within these 2 days cause the “kiasu” us wants to take full advantage of it!! They did offer me a really really cheap package and today’s the last day but nah, I still rather spend it on food and shopping. Hahaha.