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!
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