Engulfed in the Arts!

It's Sunday night once again! Wow... and another awesome weekend has gone by once again, spent with my awesome buddy JL of course! So we met up as usual yesterday, on Saturday. However, we didn't go swimming this time. My buddy had said that he would be doing some dance practices today with a group of his friends and asked if I wanted to have a look. Hahas, how glad I was! It's been quite some time since I had seen anyone dancing, what more it's Kpop dance! Hahas, how I love watching these really hyped- up  dances. It was going to be an interesting day!
So we met up at around 0930 at Bugis MRT station. Lol... I was late once again!! Well, JL waited well over thirty minutes for me mann! Anyways, we then walked to the recently re- vamped Bugis Plus mall for breakfast at Mac's. Hahas, it was only when I got there that I realised just how long it's been since I last had a breakfast at Mac's. It's been so long! I made my order of hotcakes with coffee as usual and sat down to eat with JL. Hahas, pictures of our breakfast were captured as well of course.
After breakfast, we then headed towards Laselle School Of The Arts. I then suggested that we made a booking for seats in Kuishinbo, a Japanese buffet restaurant that JL wanted to bring me to, so as to avoid disappointment. I made the call and we were then assured that there will be seats for us. I was so excited... hahas! Since we were headed towards Laselle, we made a detour to the "guan yin" temple for a little while. Little did we expect that the wonderful clear skies were going to darken suddenly and there would be a downpour! Omg! We were stuck in the temple and as time ticked by... we were also going to be late for the dance meet.We did our prayers and offered joss sticks. Then, there was nothing else we could do but wait. The dark clouds had brought along with it a huge downpour and we were sure to be drenc
hed even if we made a dash for it. Thankfully, this seemed to be just a passing downpour and the pouring soon diminished to a light rain. We then took the opportunity to make a dash out of the temple and headed for Laselle. I had a rough idea which building Laselle could be and we were thus able to find our way there. I had ever only seen the building from the outside but never been in there before. Once I stepped in though, it was starkly obvious that this is the place for arts!
It wasn't like there were rooms labelled ART, MUSIC or DANCE. However, the design of the place was so rich in creativity and originality that the arts part of me  overwhelmed me suddenly. Soon, JL had met up with his friends and dance practice began. Watching them dancing, and hearing the upbeat Kpop songs booming out of the speakers, I felt myself being enveloped by the artistic side of me and I had to stand and bounce to the rythm. Soon, I even felt like having a pen in my hand so that I could doodle or scribble on something. My right brain was totally hyped up mann!!
It was really refreshing watching them dance lol. It really brought the beat back to my feet haha! They were all so natural doing those moves that it sure was quite a sight. I sure was glad I got to see this, it was all so wonderful haha! As I watched on, it was obvious there was one of them leading the others. Haha... that was JL of course! He was so well rehearsed in the dance moves that it all seemed to come so naturally to him. And boy, he was a natural in dancing haha! My awesome JL bro!
It soon came time for me and JL to leave for dinner though and we headed to Kuishinbo Suntec via MRT.
We soon got to Kuishinbo, got our seats and immediately made our way to attack the sumptuous buffet that awaited our empty stomachs. There was really such a great variety of Japanese food in Kuishinbo ranging from the raw to the cooked, sushi to servings of meat and vegetables, from the stewed to the boiled to the fried... everything was there. Hahas and most importantly, there were desserts too! I was so ready to tuck in to my food hahas! A must have food item there was apparently the snow crab which was served cold. It certainly was huge too! JL then showed me how it was to be eaten when we got back to our table. Hahas, this was probably the first time I'm eating crabs this way. It was kinda fun! We had cold prawns too which JL really loved haha! Those were juicy and big so it was yet again a wonderful start to an AWESOME dinner,
Not long after, a waitress came over and served us two halves of a mini lobster. We were puzzled and informed her that we didn't order that. We were then informed that this was a plate of complimentary lobster for us as we made an early booking for a table. Hahas, that was when I remembered seeing a notice on the Kuishinbo website saying that it is much appreciated if diners make a pre booking for table before going to the restaurant. Hahas, so we were being rewarded for being obedient:) Haha!
Hmm... there was something interesting about Kuishinbo too. Throughout our meal, there would be occasions when the over- head speakers would blare out the jingle "Dong, dong, dong... I love Kuishinbo, I love Kuishinbo, I love Kuishinbo..." During these occasions, JL would then stop me enjoying my dinner and rush me off to join the crowd rushing off for I dunno wad lol! It was later that I understood that the jingle being played out every now and then meant that something special was being served. But we had to be quick coz it was on a first come first serve basis and there being so many people around, I didn't get any. Well, it was some special desserts mostly. I felt it was quite interesting haha!
Lol, then there was the sashimi. While taking some sashimi, I had thought to share them with JL so I took a little of each type of different sashimi available. JL did inform me that he didn't take tuna so I didn't get too much of that. I did notice though that there were quite a few "different" types of sashimi that were of the same colour as the tuna. Still, I didn't bother asking what they were. It was when I got back to our table that I realised that I had taken many many slices of tuna which I had thought were other types of fish lol! There were different markings and lines on the slices that I had thought them to be different kinds of sashimi. Seeing as it was all tuna, I had to finish all of them on my own... lmao! I would definitely cower at the sight of tuna for quite some time after this.
We soon filled our stomachs with all the wonderfully delicious and interesting food. Thus, it was time for desserts. We had to hurry as well though as we needed to move on to our next destination which was to be Gardens By the Bay. Anyways, as I had told JL, a special empty area is always opened whenever I get to the desserts time in a buffet. Haha... so we picked quite a few of the more interesting desserts and set to fill our already filled stomachs lol. We then left after having desserts and headed for Gardens By the Bay. Hahas, it was fitting that we chose that destination. Our stomachs were so overloadeded with food we had to go for a long long walk to allow all that food to digest.
We had to walk back down CityLink to get back to City Hall MRT to get a train though. After which, we then took a train to Dhoby Ghaut MRT and then we were clueless how to get to Bayfront station which was the station nearest to Gardens By the Bay. We then walked from the North South Line area of Dhoby Ghaut MRT to the Circle Line area and asked the service counter staff there how we could get to Bayfront station.Lol, the counter staff seemed quite irritated and rambled off some instructions which I didn't really get. Seeing that I didn't quite comprehend his instructions, he then rummaged for a small little pocket sized folded up map of the MRT lines and passed it to me, telling me the instructions were inside. All the while, he wore a really irritable expression though. I was thinking that the staff was really unfriendly and not at all cut out to work in the service sector when I saw more and more people, coming one by one to ask for directions to Gardens By the Bay. Ohh... so that was why he wasn't too happy to help us. We were most certainly not the first visitors to ask for directions to get there. Moreover, this was a Saturday and I could only imagine the number of people making their way there lol! I flipped open the map thinking that even then, giving us yet another map when there were so many around the station was almost pointless. It was then that I saw clear instructions in the map on how to get to Bayfront station. Ohh... so that's why he gave us the map!
So we took a train from Dhoby Ghaut to Promenade station via the Circle Line and then changed a train to get to Bayfront station. Once we got to Bayfront station, getting to Gardens By the Bay was not a problem. There was signs around giving us clear directions to get there. As this was the first time that we were at the Gardens By the Bay, we thus decided to have a walk around just to get a feel of the place. It was late in the night by then and so it was of course dark. Even then, I could still make out many interesting things along the pathways that we walked with the dim moonlight overhead. Hahas, mostly there was just vegetation... lol plants lahh. Both artificial and live ones though. It was really quite fun just walking through the plants in the quiet of the night. We did, as expected, see many people too. Most were like us, having a late night stroll in the park, enjoying the cool and quiet night life in the park. Others were sitting on benches, perhaps taking a break from all the walking, while yet others were "wrestling" with each other on the benches thinking no one could see them in the dark.
As me and JL  walked deeper and deeper into the park, we soon got to the heart of the park and even to the side of a huge lake. Well, at least it looked huge, though it was too dark to see how big it really was. That was also about the time that we got quite lost being so deep in the park and we were walking around mostly aimlessly. But we did have an aim though... that was to get back to Bayfront MRT station in time to catch the last train at least. Hahas, so we were walking around aimlessly but in the direction of Bayfront MRT station though. Still, we did get pretty lost along the side of the lake. Lol... that was really hilarious haha! It was like we were on an island in a city, and losing our way there lol! Super hilarious lmao!
After a very long walk, and a long time spent together, it came time to head back to Bayfront MRT station as the time neared 2330. We thus got back to Bayfront MRT station and trained back to Promenade station. Then, it was Promenade station to Dhobu Ghaut MRT station and then finally back to City Hall MRT station.
Once again, we parted ways at City Hall MRT station to go in the opposite directions. Both of us had a journey of 11 stops exactly ahead of us... the night was still young hahas! We would still be together through the journey via our smses and then back home to cam. Hahas, I was looking at the MRT system map some time later and realised that JL could have taken the Circle Line all the way to Paya Lebar station and then trained home from there which was faster for him. However, wanting to be in my company for a slightly longer period of time, he thus chose the longer route lol. Hahas, thanks JL!
Mann... we counted an realised that we spent more than 14 hours together today. Wow... this is most  certainly the longest day we've spent together since our first outing uhh. Cheers... me and JL will try to break this limit for the subsequent meetings haha!
Wow... what a long post. So much happened yesterday lol!!