Haven't had such a packed weekend in ages.
Decided to post it for posterity's sake.
(and also because blogs are a good calender of past activities when you need to recall exact dates.)
:: Friday, 9pm
Harry's@Boat Quay with company people
:: PK+Greg+Naldy+Ed+Bakr+Jamies+CC+Boh+Me+Sh+Shuer+Lisa+Nat
Strains of "Neng.Som.Saam.Sib.Hah.Hock.Jet.Bed.Gao.Seet... Hongnam Youtinai?"
Countless pints of Kilkenny and Heineken
cc's 2 pints and 1 red face, unstoppable Nat's 4 or 5 pints and 1 groaning Lisa with a very tall drunk problem!
Pool playing vs angmohs by Greg and Jamies
Jamies the Catharina boy venturing into unknown territory (ie Cat's shoulders!)
Gazillion oily peanuts flying in the air and finding their way onto people's faces and lounge seats
Bakr, Naldy and PK set back by 300+ bucks!
:: Friday, 12pm
Adjourned to Brewerkz@Clarke Quay for continuation of mass company drinking session
2 bottles of medicine-like tasting strawberry beer, 1 strong Indian brew that eventually got mixed with the yukky strawberry
1 big portion of calamari without tartar, 1 big portion of salsa chips with guacamole
cc's dbs mastercard flying over to ed's side of the table, cc's wallet passed over many laps under the table (and stuffed under sh's butt as well hahaha)
cc's 1 cup of never-ending yukky strawberry beer and 1 crab-red body
cc having to do weird actions to bakr... (erms... HAD TO. but DIDN'T.)
cc leaning too far back on his high stool and nearly falling backwards
cc touching PK while he was just about to be finished with his pee in the toilet (ERPS. poor traumatised PK.)
cc being spun around in the air on sh's back and sprawled unglamly on the floor after
Countless unglam photos of the extremely happy, high-toasting (and by now, pokgai) company
:: Friday, 2am
Home@Queenstown finally
Sleepy jan having a mega headache and badly needing sleep before psycho test on early Sat morning
:: Saturday, 9am
Civil Service College@Buona Vista
Jan makes it there barely on time AFTER tottering red-eyed out of bed at 7 and absent-mindedly taking the train in the wrong direction.
5 psychometric tests intended to make the least psychotic person mad
50 odd geenah-looking and some kiasu applicants Are these the people going to be making our national policies in the future? Then again, I'm not any better and perhaps much worse off in terms of intellectual ability
1 very chirpy test administrator (understandably so since she wasn't the one who had to sit through 4 freaking hours of tests)
1 freaking cold test room with bad lighting
1 tanned, sporty and rather good-looking geenah boy who kept looking back to catch my eye
40 geometric-based questions in 20 mins
33 maths-based questions in 30 mins (of which i only attempted half due to lack of time and probably got most wrong due to lack of oiled thinking faculties)
60 verbal passage-based questions in 30 mins
185 personality questions
60 mental health questions
378 shaded bubbles (excluding those for name and I/C No) at the end of which I thought I should perhaps consider suicide?
:: Saturday, 1pm
NYDC@Holland V, mushroom madness lunch with sh and sai YUMMY!
General discussion of whether or not to stay in the school hostel in the States
Bumped into sh's "tata" after lunch on her way to meet him at Starbucks hee hee
:: Saturday, 2pm
Cabbed down to AnchorPoint@Queensway to pick up papa's bank statement, only to discover that the bank had already closed. DARN!
1 malay cabbie uncle who kept saying I had a babyface and wow I'm an architect and graduated with a degree already and why must do masters and how come I don't have bf when I'm so pretty and that he volunteers to chauffeur me around and that I must find a bf... (- -") Thank you uncle I'm trying my best to find one but it sure won't be you
:: Saturday, 2.30pm
Home@Queenstown again
Dropped KFC lunch off for my younger sis
And attempted to do some photoshop for my elder sis' wedding card while looking forlornly at my bed next to me YAWN
:: Saturday, 4pm
Collected my LONG over-due exhibition prints from Objectifs@Liang Seah St I thought they would have thrown it away by now! Thanks for letting me tompang them in your car over the dinner period ming! I would have died carrying it to Suntec and back.
Took a quick glance at the current exhibition, which included some really good shots and techniques, from the beginner to the more advanced courses. The standard of work has appeared to improve rather significantly across the board. There was a series on cut fruits that looked professional, highly delectable and at the same time, sexually imploring- I was amazed to discover it was taken by someone doing a basic photography course. There was also one which featured a bored housewife in various b/w poses wearing bright yellow gloves and handcuffed to everyday household items such as a vacuum cleaner. Also from basic photography. Decided I must start to actively pick up photo-making again, I've allowed myself to be stagnant for far too long. I shall wait for my photo-buddy to come back from HK!
:: Saturday, 4.15pm
SIFF@Shaw Towers
Caught Butterfly with bohboh, hobbeez, mingming, chows+section, a tale about a pair of lesbian lovers, sexually indulgent, a signal of the changing times? some hippie/political unrest influences, and a very chio Stanley Ho's daughter. It's slow pacing at certain points in the movie induced me to nod off though. Tired la. Saw dex after the show. Haven't seen him for the longest time. Waved a little from a distance but he was smoking and I felt disinclined to walk over and make small talk seeing how I was already running late for dinner.
:: Saturday, 7pm
Met gie+bren for dinner, Sakae@Suntec
Sashimi, fried tofu, croquets, spicy salmon sushi, chicken nabe YUMMY YUMMY xing foo food!, salmon nabe, agadeshi tofu, chawanmushi, dubious-looking pink guava sorbet.
1 spilled cup of green tea, 1 apologetic gie and 1 harrassed-looking waitress hahaha
Topics ranged from friends to MAC makeup, gie's boobs, bren's horrible boss and auntie colleague stories (to add to the ever-growing compilation)
Was it worth it forgoing a FREE buffet full of oysters, sashimi, softshell crab, durian prata and whatnot at Plaza Hotel for this? With the fun company it's a definite yes. :)
::Saturday, 9.15pm
Back at SIFF@Shaw Towers, this time for 5 Obstructions with cc, sh, and 5 of cc's friends, namely Weicheng, Lynn, Ailing, Yvonne aka Wenling, and Michelle aka Wenhui Am I right on this cc? I'm bad with names really.
Lars von Trier's documentary film experiment with Danish legendary filmmaker Jørgen Leth, in challenging him to remake his classic show, The Perfect Human, a total of 5 times with different parameters imposed upon him each time, produced startling results indeed. Read the review here. I particularly thought the 4th obstruction, the cartoon remake, was brilliant and encapsulated the use of stunning graphics.
Drinks at BK after was a friend-making affair, Ailing, Lynn and Weicheng were quite funny to talk to. Maybe I'll see them in NY?!? hahaha
There's more to say, like the walk to the busstop from Shaw Towers to the Stanford Rd busstop with sh, and the 2 hour-long psding session into the wee hours of the morning for my sis' wedding card, but I think this is all I can muster for now. Bumper blog for a bumper weekend!