Singing and cycling on national day!

Perhaps its true what they say, that a picture speaks a thousand words. that a good picture will be able to not only capture the location and the activity, but the feelings n experience of it all. but then again, sometimes only words can truely express what goes on in a person's thoughts n feelings, pictures n videos cannot do what human memory can. So no matter how many photo albums u upload on facebook or friendster, nothing beats a good narration of events. hehz.

Anyway enough rambling, just wanted to blog about the amazing weekend i just had, eventhough the photos are already up on facebook, the SF ktv, the ktv with Maurice n Qianyun, the night cycling with millie Ian n Lax, among various other misc pics. I realise pple will either blog or upload photo albums, but very seldom do pple do both. Haha. i guess its just too troublesome.

Friday night cg was at a very weird place where we played some very childish games (haha) n sat on chairs for cg. quite a short message n Joan n i rushed down to chomp chomp for a quick dinner of chicken wings n hokkein mee before going for KTV at this broken down looking place called K-Garden or something. so out of the way, n the sound system isn't very good. but oh well, at least it was only about $13 per person, not too ex but only 1 drink each. we sang until about 2 am, then went for supper at the indian stall. i think i've found my favourite duet partner in Millie, n somehow we sound quite good in the songs we sing together! Now, my gf shouldn't get jealous cos after all its just singing songs right? Haha.. Not as if I will actually like millie in that way.. hehz. Oh wait, i did a few years back, but thats history now. Haha! but anyway i sang a couple of duets with millie n ian, a few songs with desmond n i think haosan, n a few of my all time favourites, one night in beijing, etc. overall not bad lah, i think i sang at least a dozen songs? and in a room of about 13-15 pple, i think thats quite alright lah! haha.. well, we only reached at about 11 n sang for 3 hours max, so it felt a bit short but totally enjoyable. Boon can sing quite well too, although mostly old school chinese songs! hahaha..

On the morning of 9 August i was a bit pissed off cos supposed to go jogging n both joan n mikki didn't turn up, joan was sick n mikki was sleeping away, i should've called before i left the house instead of when i was on the bus there! so went home n slept till 12 noon. later joan came over n i showed her some Mambo moves before going for 2nd KTV session with Maurice n Qianyun, all the way from 3-7 pm, then went to squeeze with the crowd at marine square to see fireworks (which wasn't all that impressive this year, despite the new sparkling ones n the "S" shaped fireworks) n dinner with KFC. to my surprise the new varitey meal is actually quite worth it, filling n tasty, so i think i'll eat at kfc for a few more times while this offer is ongoing. haha! Joan is simply amazing, she can walk into the most crowded place n just find an empty seat. her expectancy at finding seats, or hailing taxis, or finding ATMs or whatever, never ceases to amaze me, God must really be blessing whatever she does no matter how small action it may be like finding a seat!

Oh time for lunch , cycling details later.

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ok back from lunch. stupid client call me at 1 pm during lunch hour, of cos i'm not in office lah. anyway, the night cycling at east coast after sending joan home.

only millie Ian Lax and I went. melissa supposed to join us as well, but she last min didn't want to cycle cos of some problem with her contact lenses or something, n she suggested bowling. i'm like, no way am i taking bus all the way to east coast to do bowling! thats so boring n i can bowl any time lah, throwing money into longkang, waste money leh. not to mention my average of 140 points will put everyone to shame. hahaha! =P but anyway, our cycling route was from east coast to an unknown dark road, then back out to east coast cos the dark road led to a dead end (and Ian stubbornly refused to turn back until he went through a hole in the fence n came to a "deader" end of grassland! hahaha) then from there to the kallang bridge at the SIS, then across nicole highway, thru suntec, to the 7-11 at marina square for a drink, to the singapore flyer, then back to the chalet again. actually was hoping to meet some of bk's cycling gang, they used to gather at the 7-11 at marina square every friday night around 12 midnight, then they'd cycle to mount faber or some other slopes n do some stunts. but anyway we took a lot of pictures, some turned out really black, but a few were quite nice! hahaha.. the funny part i remember was when we thought we saw ghosts in the dark road n millie screamed! actually it was a couple of guys probably golfers, who were doing God-knows-what in the middle of the night in such a dark place. pretty scary, imagine total darkness n then u see a few shadows moving towards you! hahaha.. it was really so dark, the only source of light was from Ian's bicycle lighting up the path in front. quite exciting. the rest of the trip was quite normal, taking photos on the kallang bridge n exploring the singapore flyer toilet. hahaha. the toilet is actually air conditioned! amazingly cold in the toilet compared to the night air. oh yeah, n on the way back we did the NDP bicycle formation! cycle in one stright line, then 3,2,1 disperse! like how the air craft displays do it at the NDP! it was damn lame n funny lah! hahaha..! formation 2! cycle in a sqaure! cycle in a triangle! whatever!! hahaha..

by the time we reach back to millie's friend's chalet, it was about 4 am. we sat around n talked for awhile, then took cab home, me with millie, melissa n another guy who works at prego. can't recall his name, but he kept talking about his prego job in the cab when i wanted to sleep. -_- anyway it was quite fun n exercising my muscles made them ache until monday, but it still felt shoik to be exercising again! i don't get much exercise sitting in an office all thru the week, n exercise actually rejuvenates the body n energises it. at least before i fell sick with flu on sunday afternoon! kept sneezing n sniffling at church n missed MTT cos of my runny nose n i couldn't stand it, very irritaing not being able to breathe properly. wanted to take MC on monday, but then again my boss is very "ngeow" n particular about pple taking MCs, so decided to just go to work n sneeze my way through the day.

i really enjoyed the weekend, it felt great doing the stuff i love to do, n spending time with my girlfriend n other good friends, it felt as if i didn't have a care in the world, to enjoy myself to the max even if its just for a short period of time n the consequence of over-exhausting my body came in the form of flu n headaceh on monday! but still it was worth it. thanks, God, for an enjoyable weekend, with Your people, people i can trust n seek counsel from, whom i know will not lead me away from You, but will draw me closer to You, even as we do "non-christian" normal activites! =p