Pains and Aches

Went to sign the TTA today. It went successful except the personnel there wasn't too friendly. And saw Nicole and Bryan and perhaps her sis there too! Nicole is going to become a teacher too! She's teaching Maths and CPA! So glad to see her again after a year plus, and glad that Bryan and her are still together!! *Clap clap*

After that, we went Congress in Suntec for our brunch. I had wanton mee. It is SUPER oily. Cost me $3.80. And the taste was ok only. My mum over-rated it. JH and CP had prata. CP said it's quite normal. Over-rated again. Anyway, the wanton mee wasn't filling.

Then we took bus 36 to East Coast Park. There I had my first blading session of 2 hours. After I got into the smelly pair of blades and guards, it started pouring and we had to seek shelter at a nearby tent. Luckily, the rain stopped 15 mins later. We then proceeded to the Newbies' Corner. Haha, there I had my first fall. Then a second. Then a third. We tried the roads during the remaining half hour. CP and JH went ahead of me. But JH said I was not bad already on my first try. Then had countless number of falls, and one of them was especially hard on my butt. I still din manage to cross the humps today. Sigh. Well, there were still a few kind souls that offered to lend a hand upon my falls. HAHA. My back started to ache a bit and I couldn't balance myself at the end, and ended up falling and falling. Sigh. It was quite a relieve after taking off the blades. But cheers, I must say I did quite well! HEHE. We proceeded to Mac for drinks and also to meet up with Von.

She came by cab, and we went cycling. JH continued to blade. We went really far this time, and I must say I'm impressed with JH's blading skills. HAA. But her left leg started not to take her mind's control, and she removed her blades. Then the dark clouds loomed, and all of us had to hurry back to return our bikes. Silly her was afraid to let me "ferry" her back. She wanted to walk the looooong distance back. But the 3 of us force her to take the lift. Haha, she was so afraid she didn't dare to move or speak while I was cycling. The always poor-stamina me began to pant, and CP took over. We were just in time to get into the shelter before rain began to pour.

We managed to get a cab to Marina Square, which was only $5.30, cheaper than to take bus! After washing up, we had dinner at Dian4 Xiao3 Er4. Long queue even before the shop was opened! We managed to be the first batch of customers to get a table. We had their house speciaties: Shi2 Quan2 Shao1 Ya1 (herbal roast duck), pork ribs and mushroom broccoli. $12 per person. The service was good, food was not bad, but the portion was a bit small.

Then we had coffee at Pacific Coffee cos' GV only left the first 2 rows of seats for Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. Sat there till 9pm and went home. We were all tired.

A fruitful day, but filled with pain. Think tom will be worse. Hehe.

The Sun is UP, yet I'm not.

It has been raining hard for the past few days. Gloomy skies and wet roads. But LOOK at today! SUNNY AND BRIGHT AND DRY! Ah, the beautiful sun!



However, I was out at Orchard with Jiehui and Yvonne on Tuesday although it was raining. JH and I met first and went shopping at Wisma. Then we had Sakae at Heeren. I found the restaurant manager very familiar and told JH he might be from the West Mall branch. Before we left to pay at the counter, I actually asked a waitress if he was transferred. And BINGO! He was! JH was stunned by what I did. Then we went to Paragon to look for presents. And guess what we saw:







They are actually earrings! And there's a mini switch behind the earrings to turn on/off the blinking lights! HAHA, what a creative design that adds to the lively mood of Christmas!

Then Yvonne came and met us at Starbucks, B1 of Paragon. She picked up a 50000 dollar note!!! But.... in Rupiah la. Haha! There was a money changer there and they were buying rupiah at 16.2. 2 grads and an undergrad could not figure out how to convert 50k rupiah to S$. OMG! We calculated from S$8100 to S$810. It turned out to be only S$8.10. HAHAHAHA! At Starbucks, we bought her a slice of warm chocolate cake cos' it was her birthday. But she was too full from her dinner at Crystal Jade and end up sharing it with us. We sat there till about 1045pm before we decided to go home as we were all very tired.

Staff dinner was held at Singapore Island Country Club (Adam Road) yesterday. They did not wear very formally. I was considered the better-dressed there. OMG, some came in jeans, tee-shirts, some even tattered. No standard karaoke competition, kelong judges for table performance item and best-dressed. Food was a disappointment. We had 12 people to a table, so squeezy. Food wasn't enough for the table.

Menu (in order):
1. Salad and fruits lobster (can't see lobster)
2. Shark's fin with fish maw (no shark's fin detected)
3. Roast Chicken (quite good with crispy skin)
4. Steamed Promfet (fishy but I like)
5. Stir-fried prawns (small ones)
7. Sea cucumber with broccoli and mushrooms (small mushrooms with small light brown sea cucumbers, a bit like fake ones)
8. E-fu noodles (half a small bowl each)
9. Yam lotus paste (yu ni) (a small scope each)

Sigh, what a let-down! I was hoping for more! And I thought people will come in pretty dresses and shiny shoes, and many people taking photograhs, but none. I expected too much. There wasn't even a lucky draw. SIGH!

The letter came. HAHA! I'll be going into NIE 3rd Jan 06! Dunno if it's a good thing or not. I'll be signing the 3-year contract this Saturday and found my 2 sureties - JH and CP. Sigh, what to do without them! So many guidelines regarding choosing of sureties.

I went back NTU a few days ago and got Chronicle. There's this article which is quite interesting: Dummy's Guide to Responsible Blogging

1. Be politically correct - Respect for others. Get your facts right about other people. This is to avoid being sued for slander. Also never say anything that would lower another person's reputation.

2. Master the art of abbreviations - Don't use names of places, schools, people on your blog that others can easily detect through search engines.
Example: Dear Diary, my name is E****** and I study in End Tee Yew. My teacher, Ms H, is so motivationally-deficient, she failed to turn up for lecture again.

3. Use a lock - some blog host requires a visitor to key in a password before the blog can be viewed.

4. Avoid taboo topics - Avoid topics on race, religion, politics and the Internal Security Act. Don't promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore.

5. Make friends with an NUS law student - This is when you don't have the money to hire a lawyer.

*Adapted from The Nanyang Chronicle - October 17, 2005, Volume 12 No. 5.*

Sigh, so much to consider when writing a blog entry. Can't let out all the frustrations, sharing of happiness and sadness!!! Sigh, what can I write then? How sad.