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......only if my life were half as happening. For me one week's worth of bao zha very good already.
Unfortunately my final ultra-long weekend has come to an end and I won't be able to enjoy another one till I clear leave in May, but nevertheless it was a rollercoaster ride, no doubt orchestrated by one very short person. (Just kidding Yingyi.)
My off day started Wednesday afternoon, but wah lau I burned the whole day unlocking characters on Naruto GNT4 for Gamecube... Christmas shopping was like, totally unimportant compared to this. What was I thinking!! Saved the day by going to Union Square. Finally got to see short-hair Trudy after she MIAed for so long - the haircut seems to suit her a lot better! Also danced with with Chinfee/Soongfee, Phelicia and co. I'm fairly happy that improvements are finally in order. :D
The nearby prata for supper afterward was quite unusual cos normally I'd be sitting with Trudy's group, but this time I was in the company of the super zai dancers (as in Eddie Boon Chinfee etc) and I sort of feel that I click better with them. The guys in Trudy's gang are mostly older, the youngest after me being Darren at 27, so I'm just a frigging young punk lah! I don't want to say generation gap but really, there's simply a lack of common topics.
After supper I gave Boon and Josee a ride back. While Boon was in the car I just kept bashing fucked up money-hungry Singaporeans. Hehe that's SO me. After I dropped Boon, Josee seemed pretty sombre - she talked about how most of us don't really get the music because we don't know Spanish. It's like dancing without feelings, somehow, not knowing the lyrics but just following the beat, it's like we lost a whole dimension of the dance. Listening to her voice, quavering and bordering on tears, it seems so true that she was drawing a different level of emotions and reactions from her dancing - then again, bringing your own personal issues into the mood of the dance may not be appropriate in our context (although you may not be able to help it). Hope that girl's gonna be okay.
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Thursday started with more Naruto, before I finally hauled my ass to town at 4pm to start foraging for presents. After picking up a couple of presents, I met up with Little Girl to pick out Geraldine's present. We started with this flowery thing from Guess? which wasn't too shabby, but I thought it did seem a little frivolous and didn't reflect the necessary sophistication for a 21st birthday gift. So off we went to Tiffany & Co. thinking we'd find something perfect. And I guess we did, but... we now know how disillusional and unenlightened both of us are about the price of Tiff & Co jewellery...
So finally we rolled over to Goldheart at Wisma, with the clock ticking because I had to leave for Casino class at LADC. After missing last week's class and having the whole lot of girls wait for me, I felt freaking terrible lah. Thinking back at all the primal screams I made while being helplessly stuck in the traffic jam, I was adamant not to repeat this impunctuality... but with Little Girl being as indecisive as she was, wah my patience was at the end of its tether!
After 15 minutes of sorting through all the designs we narrowed it down to the pink heart shape "Sweetie" and the white gold and opal "Circles". I kept saying that Circles was the obvious choice but noooo YY was like "Gerri quite sweet what, the pink heart shape totally suits her!" Completely wrong image mannnn... In the end she had to call Sherry to do a Win, Lose or Mentally Draw over the phone and seek a second opinion between Sweetie and Circles. But do you think Sherry really got the picture? All the way I was just grumbling to the sales guy like, "man I hate girls..." and he was giving me this very sympathetic face. Haha. Eventually my patience burned out and I started walking out of the shop, and magically Little Girl was like "OK OK we'll buy Circles!"
Sheeeessshhhhhhhh....
I ran like hell through the throngs of crowds to the carpark, machiam like a snatch thief evading capture. Drove like a madman too, thankfully someone up there decided to give me an early Christmas present cos all the traffic lights were in my favour. I managed to make it being a mere 5 minutes late! Casino was super fun with the Repeata Repeata Repeata torture during the Enchufa el Centro stages. I'm starting to think I enjoy Casino more than normal salsa...
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Friday was even more Naruto. Fast forward... lunch with Vivien was nice. :) We ate at BigO before doing some more last minute Christmas shopping, including her own present from me (naughty, lazy kid I am). After much arguing with YY on what a 23-year old ought to wear and whether stripes are for young kids or true men, I found Eddie a nice shirt at Topman, where I also ran into Dennis Tan and Shu-en. Long time never see that guy liao...
Geraldine's party: interesting characters abound. I told Kiathan straight away, "I'm SICK of magic tricks! Stop trying to boggle my mind!" before he can even take out his cards, haha. Gabriel's commentary certainly proves that the man is a match for the legend. But of course these amusements were fairly secondary to Porshee's Christmas presents - several condoms in disguise handed out, but for mine he had to go all out with the Dashboard Boobies. Brrrr it'll be a cold day in hell before I stick that on my car, the police will probably pull me over for creating a public obscenity. x_x
After the party we made a dash to Barcelona before ending the night at Union. There was quite a ruckus caused by YY that night but bearing Sunday night in mind, this was child's play...
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Saturday: SKJ Christmas gathering in the afternoon. This is what I spent all that time on Naruto for, unlocking characters so we have a more fun selection in 4 player mode, but lo and behold Junyan pulls a fast one on me: "I don't support modding of any kind so my Gamecube can't play Japanese games!" -__- Ended up watching some very boring PS2 games, and my interest only perked up upon seeing the death-defying stunts of Prince of Persia. Then I ran down to Botanic Gardens for Xmas family dinner at Halia, which for some reason left me awfully lethargic and I decided that sleeping through Christmas Eve wasn't such a bad idea.
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Sunday, what a day! After making preparations at Jervois for the guests, I had dinner with Porshee, Kenneth, Geraldine and Jingsheng (who is also in my camp, yay new Armour-brother-in-suffering) at Sun with Moon. The birdcage they served Posh's green tea mooncake in made for some irony - because the guys were more or less sightseeing, perhaps should I say birdwatching...
After dinner we left for Jervois, where YY and Phelicia joined us. For a terrifying moment, I thought we were going to spend the whole night watching The Princess Diaries, but with some very deft thinking Porshee and I managed to divert everyone's attention to the highlight of the night: PASS-OUT the drinking game...
Sidenote: I discovered in horror that Jervois doesn't have any bottle openers or wine corkscrews. WTF is a party without these? We had to sheepishly borrow the corkscrew from the neighbours upstairs. Thank goodness they were nice about it (but I bet they were the ones who complained later...).
We began with shots of white wine, and once the 2 bottles of wine disappeared we were ready to move on. And... wait a second. SHOTS of white wine?! Wine was made to be sipped, not gulped in shots! Oh, such a travesty, how we trample upon the dignity of wine and upper-crust society.
Moving on to a little bit of the hard stuff, I cooked up a mix of vodka with Ribena and cranberry juice, with some Chivas available by the side, but it seemed that a few of our competitors were stumbling past the fine line of inebriation... See Porshee's photos and you can guess what level of smashed-ness they were headed for. I bet someone enjoyed that kiss too, even if they claim "I'm absolutely terrified". (Hey, one silly kiss against 5 or 7 shots?)
We cut the game when Ken and Jingsheng decided to head back, so I escorted the two out of Jervois, leaving the very sober Phelicia to fend for herself against her devilishly drunk sister. How sia like that. Eddie managed to come in shortly afterwards, but the numbers remained unchanged, since Geri unfortunately met her match with the game and well, effectively Passed Out.
Now, how did we deal with the little devil? Fetch some holy water and yell "GO back whence you came from, demon!!" Yeah I half expected an Emily Rose-esque confrontation, and for all I know it might as well have been, given the Battle of the 8800 on the couch. If my phone were not made of sturdier stuff, I suppose that would be 2.5 months of my pay drowned in the clutches of alcohol. Like, phew.
Eventually YY sobered up a little (and mysteriously got a hangover too, how quick) and with such great timing, Chinfee, Soongfee and their cousins made their appearance. We played a bit of Secret Agenda, which proved to be a lot more complicated than I initially believed. Still fun though, with some really wacky topic-behaviour combinations mostly involving sexy behaviour or trash talking. Subsequently we went for
Just about everyone left after that, except Posh and Eddie, who continued to practise salsa movements at 5am. (Think about it! 5am, fucking Revillie Zero Five Hundred Hours!! What is it with our gang and continuing to practise moves at ungodly hours?!) My ears remained open for conversation but my body pretty much gave out and lay in a heap on the couch. Eventually we decided to clean up a bit and go home, concluding one of the nuttiest nights I have borne witness to... despite the material crises I don't regret it at all :D
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I met up with Guoliang and Ben on Monday evening to chew the fat, as we are always wont to do. Dinner was at Nirai Kanai, this Japanese restaurant at Tanglin Shopping Centre that serves authentic Hokkaido cuisine. It was a different taste for a change, and GL's stories of Williamsburg are seriously hyping me up. 6 more months, ah.
Okay I'm damn sian after writing such a long entry, machiam like writing school essay like that. Sian already lah. And I should hurl myself into a hot vat of oil for sounding like Xiaxue at various points of this entry! Enough already.
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