Sunday, April 12, 2009
Tag Replies:
[Edwin] Lol, don't be so bad lah! The 'cake' tasted nice, I had it for breakfast on Sat and Sun and I'm perfectly A-Okay! And yeah thanks for coming over dude!
[Alvin] Yeah yeah your 'maiden' brownie was super special awesome, except for the eggshell. And the nuts!
[Kenneth] Don't worry dude I have sooo camwhorish/unglam photos that one more isn't going to do any harm. So your blackmail is ineffective!
Well, results of Council are going to be out tomorrow at 5.45. Venue to be confirmed, but it's not like that really matters. Which makes me wonder why I even mentioned it in the first place.
I guess this entire council-nominee journey has been a real meaningful experience. I saw how completely ineffective I can be at managing my time sometimes when it comes to juggling homework, recreation and church. I guess I've been using church as an excuse or crutch far more than I should have, which is so definitely not correct. Clearly, this shall have to stop.
The entire council nomination process has also shown me the kinds of people that I am not equipped in the least to deal with. Now, Singapore is vastly different from my own ideal world, a fact which I have had, and will continue to have beaten into my head throughout the journey of my life. The most important thing to note is that I have a generally low-tolerance for irritating accents and show-offs, a characteristic unfortunately shared by certain members of the Council Nominees. One pretends to know intrinsic details of events he never attended, one sprayed cologne/B.Odourent on himself before he went on stage ( a monumentally surreal experience ) while yet another insisted that the terrifyingly-warped rules of grammar he possessed were correct and I was wrong. What all these nominees had in common was that every single one of them was out to induce a heart attack in me.
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Saturday aka yesterday saw the 2009 KKMC-VSBB-RIBB-GB Combined Games Day. As usual, the GB didn't turn up so it was reduced to a mostly-guys event, seeing as that the only girls there were Faith and Megan. Now while most would think that being surrounded by guys would be a truly exciting and wonderful time for me, it's firstly untrue, and secondly it'd have been more fun to have more girls around.
Worship was okay. Played really crappily though on the day itself which was a bummer.
Lunched with Timo, Saba, Bok and Alwin at the Kopitiam near church. Although I didn't actually eat lunch, it was a nice time of fellowship anyway. Saba and Timo crashed my place after that to bathe, play the piano and slack while waiting for the rain to stop so that we could go ECP to cycle with the churchies. Come 5.30, it was still raining incredibly heavy. Saba boasted of 'tanking the rain' only to eat his words as we trudged through puddles, cats and dogs to reach the bus stop. Thankfully we had umbrellas because we got drenched anyway. So much for tanking the rain huh.
Oh, and we sang the entire walk from the St Patrick's bus stop through the park connector to the Burger King at ECP. Was really great to just blast out notes and hear it just ring in the air for a second before dissipating almost magically. Thanks Saba and Timo for the nice companionship/fellowship!
In the end, the guys (myself, timo, saba, ocean, alwin, gerald, luke ) cycled while the girls ( Kaye, faith and Megan ) and Shawn decided to roller blade. As usual, Sarah went hyper and got the rest of her friends ( Marissa, Michelle and Othilia ) to run with them.
Barely had 5 minutes passed since we started did Ivan crash into a small boy. As fate would have it, Ivan's faulty bike continued to provide an exciting source of danger, a pleasant distraction from the growling rumbles of my food-deprived stomach. In the end, Ivan's bike chain came out and repair attempts were but futile.
Finished cycling at around 9 and dinner'd at Burger King. Had another wave of nausea which disappeared the second the beautiful Tendergrill touched my tongue. Ravaged the burger ( which wasn't corn-dusted RAWRGH! ) and laughed when Megan's patty dropped on the floor. I mean, such a pity. Damn.
Saba and Alwin left first, leaving Ivan, Timo and myself to linger around for about 20 minutes before we decided to leave. However, since I was leaving, everyone else clearly had no more reason to stick around without a shining beacon of light and hope there ( ^^ ) and thus decided to leave. It was as such that the entire group of us strolled out of McDonalds, Shawn and Kaye also abandoning their wonderous passion for skating to return home with us.
Talked with Ivan and Timo about some stuff on the way home. Really grateful to God for putting such juniors in my life that don't even seem like juniors anymore ( partially because they all tower abover me with the exception of XianXian ) but instead, they're really close people whom I can confide in and feel VERY comfortable around. It's people like these guys that keep me going when I'm down =)
And thus concludes this post, a post which has been much longer than quite a number of recent entries but is still woefully shorter than the posts of past. Ahh...
Lino squeezed Panda at 8:16 PM
Friday, April 10, 2009
Today. Was. Damn. Bloody. Awesome.
Why?
Because I celebrated my 17th birthday?
Not quite.
Because of all the wonderful amazing people who came.
Brief post because it's already 10.30 and there's combined games day at VS tomorrow so I've gotta rise early!
The Disturbians all came for mahjonging fun in the afternoon. They got to see Jo-Ann as well haha, so yeah, brief introductions and hopefully they'll see each other in school =) Went out to buy bubble tea, came back and played DotA with Jo-Ann while Edwin watched on in AMAZEMENT at my uber 1337 pro-hawtsauce aw3som3n3ss.
Had a wonderful sumptuous dinner courtesy of Thaipan and homemade sushi + salad. Halfway through, Randall came and asked me to go out to get a present. I was like "okay?" and followed him.
I was halfway across the living room when it registered that my church friends were there. My reaction was apparently damn funny because they all wanted me to re-do it for a video. Which is like impossible because these kinds of reactions only happen once. But it was super damn surprising and super damn damn awesome because they gave me a super nice placard and picture haha.
Ahhhh, I'm so tired. Maybe I'll update tomorrow?
Lino squeezed Panda at 10:21 PM
