Sunday, September 30, 2012

Yeay! Finally got myself on to foursquare!
One step closer to being a proper Andriod user!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Under the cloudy sky with only half a moon

Hey guys! I'm back to tell you about my weekend once again! This post will be about a very enjoyable and rather interesting day spent in the East. As the Mid Autumn Festival is approaching, I decided to have a small celebration with JL to enjoy some mooncakes on our own before the larger scale mooncake 'sampling' begins this coming weekend. Indeed, one can never have enough mooncakes to eat with there always being too few mooncakes and too many people eating... right? Thus, it is always mooncakes 'sampling' and never 'Mooncakes feasting". Though the latter sure sounds mouth watering, haha! Hmm, you might have guessed by now that I wanted to have this mini celebration just so that I could enjoy a little more mooncakes this year. To my delight, JL went along with my idea as well!
And so, we began brainstorming for venues to have the celebration and finally decided on East Coast Park for a place less mainstream and more interesting. Since we were heading to the East, JL then suggested that we drop by Parkway Parade earlier in the afternoon for some singing at Teo Heng. We could then go over to ECP after that. After a phone call, we were squeezed into a three hour slot around noon as it was almost fully booked for the day.
This was the first time I sang k with JL and it turned out to be really enjoyable. In fact, I didn't even know JL could sing but he was not too bad. He sang mostly Kpop and I just joined in wherever I could, especially when there were chinese songs. We had arrived just before noon and had actually planned to leave around 3 since we only had three hours. However, we were informed that the guy who had the slot after us had cancelled his booking and so we could continue if we wanted to. Seeing as the sun was not about to set anytime soon, we took up the offer of course. We then sang our hearts out for another hour. It had been a long time since I had sung so shiok haha!
We got to East Coast Park just as the sun was setting. Although there were many options along the seemingly endless stretch of ECP for us to drop off our stuff and light our lanterns, (yes, we brought along lanterns too) we decided to hang around familiar areas and more importantly the area near public transport. We sure didn't want to have to waste too much time walking too far off and having to walk back later. Thus, it was at Area C where we decided to find a spot.
We were really lucky, I would say. It was a fair evening and the crowd was thin. It wasn't too difficult to locate a cooling and quiet spot not too far from the beach where there was a table. We took a walk while waiting for the sky to get dark and also bought a lighter as we had forgotten matches. After we got the lighter, the fun began!
I had totally forgotten the one big problem with having a Mid Autumn celebration by the beach. What am I referring to? The sea breeze of course!  The sea breeze was strong and relentless. Worse still, the problem couldn't be solved simply by walking further inland away from the sea. It was evening and the breeze was blowing outwards from land to sea so it was literally windy everywhere.
The only solution I had was to keep going further inland until we managed to find something large enough to block out the wind. We found a large rock and lit our lanterns behind it. Once the wind was blocked out, that part was completed really quickly. We then sat with the lanterns around us and enjoyed our mooncakes... yums! The sky got a little cloudy by then with much of the full moon covered up and only half a moon visible.
We finished up the mooncakes and then packed up. With only two of us, there sure was more to eat. We then got back to the bus stop and took a bus home. It sure was a rather interesting day yet again, and not too mainstream, right?

Friday, September 14, 2012

Impromptu Swim

I've just got home from another meet up with JL. Haha, it was really unexpected this time though. You might have noticed today was a Friday? Yeah.
JL had an off day today and so we went to swim at SAFRA Jurong. We had a really good swim basking in the warm afternoon sun and left the pool as the sun was setting. Then, we went for dinner at Subway, JP, before satisfying our cravings for dessert at 记得吃, a dessert outlet. Short trip, but it was great all the same.
Alright, ciaoz!

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Welcome back!

Haha... I almost forgot! WELCOME BACK FROM FIELD CAMP JL!! Yahh of course saying it ain't quite enough so I actually met my bro JL for a quick meal at Jurong Point's Fish and Co. last Friday. Haha JL said he had never eaten at Fish and Co. before and wanted to try so we decided to have our dinner there. JL was free today so he trained down to the west to meet me up.
When we got to Fish and Co., there was a long queue waiting outside already. We queued up anyways. Just as well coz I was not done with the cards I was supposed to pass to JL as his welcome back gift. Haha I had hand- written and designed cards and letters, one for each day of JL's field camp. But I wasn't quite done with the cards yet and had some touching up to do haha! Mann... it had been quite some time since I last used my creativity and this was a good opportunity.
We got our seats after quite some waiting and it was almost 2000 by then. We made our order, three main dishes, and then I got back to putting the finishing touches to my cards. Hahas, JL left the ordering of food entirely to me seeing as it was his first time here. I just picked as wide a variety of food as I could. I chose lots of prawns and fries of course! After that, all we could was wait. I finished up the cards and passed them to JL. I could tell he really appreciated the effort I'd put into making those cards but really my effort was small compared to his hahas.
We tucked into the food immediately when it arrived. We were already so hungry with all the waiting lol! As we ate, I realised that there were flaws in the dishes I had ordered. For one, the prawns were much too over cooked and thus were not big and juicy. For another, the fish was also slightly over cooked and so was quite dry too. Hmm... a clear sign of the kitchen being unable to manage such a big crowd. There were lots of fries too... double the portion in fact! Thank goodness there were all those different types of sauces around which certainly helped to get all the fries down my digestive tract haha. Mann I simply love their exotic sauces. Each is unique and makes the food taste so much more flavourful haha! It wasn't long before we all got full though. Still, I was determined not to waste even a single drop of the sauces so I kept going at the food, soaking everything in the delicious sauces.
By the time we were done, we were most certainly the last one there. By then, it was already almost 2200 and it was too late to go lepak at a cafe. Thus, we bade farewell at Boon Lay Mrt station soon after. Hahas... my bro's back from field camp already, safe and sound:) Even the flaws in the food didn't manage to dampen our happy mood nor kill our appetite haha!

Turning up the beat!!

Hi... The start of another week, and the end of another fun filled weekend with my best bro JL! We went out together again last Saturday of course. This time, it was back to Laselle COTA for some dancing. Hahas.. only this time it would be me dancing too. I was going to be learning some K pop dances from JL.
I was to be planning this outing as JL was busy this past week. Hahas, I thus planned it as a gift to welcome JL back and included the dancing session at Laselle. This was probably the first time I was planning events for the whole day on my own as we had discussed what we wanted to do for previous events before planning them. I was totally unsure of what to do lol as I could not contact JL b4 that Saturday. But I put my best into the planning and thus the outing on Saturday was born. Haha.. I might add that I was totally not confident of planning an outing anywhere else other than at Bugis where I was more familiar with since we had had some meet ups there before. Meals were also planned at familiar places as I then planned to go to EwF at Orchard after our activities in Bugis. Hahas, once again as a gift to JL coz he's crazy over fries... hahahha!
We scheduled to meet up at 1000 and I took a bus 502 to get to Bugis Mrt, our meeting point. It was only when I went past Dhoby Ghaut station that I realised I should have gotten JL to meet me up at Dhoby Ghaut station instead. Lol.... I had fogortten the bus would pass by Dhoby Ghaut station lol! Anyways, as it was,we wasted a bit of time but did finally get to Bugis and then back to Dhoby Ghaut. We were in a rush though to get tickets for a movie TED! Haha... another of my welcome gifts to JL. A movie of a teddy which I thought was cute but oh well.. he turned out to be more than that lol...
Well, it was thus lucky that we were both early then and got to CATHAY ahead of our intended time. We were scheduled to meet at Bugis Mrt station at 1000 but got to CATHAY at about 1000 actually...haha! I was really worried that there wouldn't be seats lol!
 There were seats but the cinema was already quite filled up by then and we didn't have too much choice. So we picked what was perhaps the last double seats in the back most row and started our long walk back to Bugis area where Laselle was.
Haiz... JL did point out to me that this was quite inefficient walking to and fro from Bugis to Dhoby Ghaut lol. I did feel the same way too but at the point in time while I was planning, I hadn't realised just how far both venues were from each other. It was perhaps made worse by all the road works there lol and the fact that this was the first time I was walking to and fro these places. Lol... ps JL, we walked a lot that day lmao!
We did finally get to Bugis and I was already so excited to get started with my dance lesson haha! I had been going through the dance vids over and over again just as instructed by JL and really wanted to see the 2D dance moves become 3D. Before that though, JL gave me a little show of  "Sexy Love" which once again got me totally awe- struck! It was only three days since the vid came out... and here he is doing it as though he had been learning the dance for a whole year already! Haha, I totally loved it of course... watching JL dance.
After that, JL then did a little of "Lovey Dovey" for me as an intro. I tried to pick it up as we went along. Initially, everything was a little raw to me but after watching JL do the moves for a while, I slowly got more used to it. As we advanced, there came some movements which I couldn't really get and I thought that one perhaps had to have some dancing potential to get it. I thus made to give it up but then JL said " You can do it de... you are learning so fast and have already learnt half the dance le!" That really boosted my confidence a lot and I started to believe that I could actually pull this dance off. I thus put more effort into my dancing. It sure was really lots of fun when I finally got the dance moves. I will definitely practise more to lock them in my head haha!
I learnt only half the dance before I took a break. I had a lot of recapping and digesting of information to do. I didn't want to learn it now and forget anything later so while my mentor took a rest, I practised a little. But boy... I was hungry with all that dancing and we thus left for Sim Lim Square food centre not too long after 1400. I was trying to reduce my expenses so I thought of a cheaper lunch instead. We would be spending again later during dinner lol!
 We had a slow lunch, chatting while eating as usual. We had until about 1500 to eat before we had to rush off from here back to CATHAY for our movie. Fast forwards to 1545 and we were sitting in the cinema as TED came on. Fast forwards again to about 1730 and we had finished with the movie. Hahahahha... it sure was hilarious and a hell lot of shit! The movie was super hilarious with many hilarious and unexpected stuff lol! My groin area was also stirred quite a bit lol. Ohh... and there were lots of "Wth!!!" moments too. Quite an interesting show really.
So we trained to Somerset from Dhoby Ghaut after the movie and went walking along Orchard Road for a while seeing as it was still too early for dinner. As it was Mid Autumn Festival soon, there were mooncakes in Takashimaya so we went there to have a look. Hahas, there was some kind of Lion Dance competition there and it was really very noisy! Hahas, that's when I found out something else that JL loved... Lion dance! We stood there watching for quite a while before heading to EwF at Orchard Central. Hahas, this time though, we got there quite late since we went for a walk first. Thus, it was super crowded and we had to wait for quite some time before we got seats.
Although the burgers and fries we had on the previous visit were really awesome, we wanted to try something different this time around. Thus, we picked two burgers and two types of fries which we had not taken previously. Haha, what we picked certainly didn't disappoint and we sure had an enjoyable meal once again. Hahas... the curry flavoured fries sure suited my tastebuds perfectly and the Sour cream and onions flavoured ones were not too bad either. The burgers were ...well not as good as the ones we had before but then again, this was just all part of trying out something new so it's okay hahas... we both sure had quite a refreshing meal.
After our meal, it was once again too early to leave yet so we had to look for a place to lepak for a couple of hours. As JL had been wanting to take me to Cold Stone Creamery for ice cream since quite some time ago, and there was one just down the same street, we thus headed there. This was to the first time that I'm going to be having ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery and I sure was excited haha! When I got to the place, and saw how crowded it was, I was all the more curious and excited to find out why this ice cream attracts such a crowd. However, we had to wait. We followed the line of people all the way along the counter, and then out of the cafe's other entrance onto the street outside, and then along the side of the cafe on the outside! It sure was an extremely long queue! I was qutie taken aback actually... it was only ice cream, wasn't it? It was already so crowded inside that we had to wait some time for seats. But that was not all the people who have cravings for ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery, there were still many waiting to have theirs...
Seeing as it was going to be a long wait, I thus suggested to JL that we take a picture every five minutes while we waited in the queue. For one, this will help us keep track of how long we've been in the queue. For another, we wouldn't be wasting time then if we had all these wonderful photos to keep as memories. Hahaha!
When we finally got our ice cream some thirty minute minutes later, we got back to our sofa seats and tucked in immediately. Hahas, we ordered an Oreo Overload which was most certainly JL's favourite hahas.  I get the feeling he likes chocolaety stuff and Oreo's haha! My... it sure was Oreo Overload! Not only was the sticky ice cream tossed and turned with hellots of Oreo cookies bits and chocolate chips, the ice cream itself was overflowing from the small cup as well! Oreo Overload INDEED!!
The ice cream had already started melting by the time we sat down. We had to rush to finish it haha! It really was delicious mann! Now I know why there's such great demand for this ice cream. It was really just normal ice cream but the tossing and turning of the ice cream with all the wonderful stuff like oreo bits and chocolate chips really makes the ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery really special. We were soon done with the ice cream though, with all the rushing to finish it. We hadn't had time to chat much or really lepak much. Haha... still I was glad that JL brought me here. It certainly was delicious that ice cream. I'd like to go there for ice cream again... with JL of course!
It was not yet late enough to leave for home after we were done with the ice cream. Cold Stone Creamery was so crowded and there were so many people waiting for seats that it just wasn't right for us to hog those seats, even if we wanted to lepak. So we left in search for another cafe which we could lepak in.
However, we ended up just strolling around the mall and we were so tired by that time that we just decided to head home after a while. We then trained back to City Hall and parted from there. Hahas, my first time planning our outing! A gift for JL from me to welcome him back from field camp haha! Seems like it went well?
What a long post. A long day with many things done haha!

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

I'm on Andriod!!

Heys all once again!! Hahas... I am really super happy right now haha! I've finally got an Andriod phone... I've finally caught up with the rest of the world! Ohh mann... I'm soooo excited right now. After seeing friends send tweets, make fb updates and even check in whereever they go, for so long le...I'll finally be able to do that on my hand phone too!!
Hahas... that being said, I,m still very far behind in terms of knowledge on using stuff like Apps, Whatsapp, using 3G, Wifi... so I've still got quite some learning to do, and gotta get used to using an Andriod phone. But seriously, holding my new Samsung S2 in my hands right now is more than enough for the time being... Hahahha:)

Friday morning

Really need to get to writing once a thought pops into my head, mostly when I have the time to just relax and let my mind wander... hmmm whi...