The most happening weekend of December 2008 yet! Haha!

Too much stuff to type out, but just gonna summarise the events that took place over the weekend, starting from meeting Joan on friday night to get a card for Julia's birthday!

19 Dec - Julia's birthday party, SF gathering at Mecure hotel

Meet joan at city hall to get a card while waiting for Liting to arrive cos she was like, oh man, one hour late! Joan was annoyed n I quite irritated as well, but when Liting arrived, I was surprised that Joan didn't scold her. Haha. We bought a card from the basement bookshop, i think is Times bookshop, and walked around a bit, getting some snack n drinks, waiting for Liting. Anyway we took mrt to tampines and then took a bus to the SAFRA. oh man, its so far away, but quite nice lah the place. its actually a small ktv lounge with a stage, but Rallen transformed it into a performance stage with a jazz acoustic set, very nicely done! He also folded 999 roses from tissue paper for her as decor for the stage! Small candles glowing everywhere adding to the "chill out" atmosphere.

There were about 3 bands playing i think, Julia sang a duet with a friend, her poly friends, church friends, Strikeforce friends, and other small groups of pple, but of cos SF pple were the most! I think there were about 15-20 of us there at least. Millie saw me eating with Joan and Liting and came over to kick my leg, saying how can i eat with Liting, won't Joan get jealous?? I was like, huh? We're just eating dinner leh, even Joan also never complain, why she kick me. Haha.. Oh, n poor Millie lost her camera that day, dunno if she managed to find it. =p

SF sang Always Be My Baby to Julia, Boon played guitar, Neo and I sang, and it was all messed up and funny! But ok lah, i guess its the heartfelt thanks and effort that counts! it was all fun and we had a good laugh.

Later we went to mecure by boon's van, (haha cos i was carrying the heavy amp i got a lift from him!) and went to chill out in the room. its quite big, had a living room and a bedroom, on the 14th floor. we watched SF videos and laughed at our mistakes, then played the game TABOO. oh man, we played it for like 2 hours i think? cos it was really super funny, and Nic surprisingly was very good at this game! it made pple panic, esp Joan, and made pple pekchek n frustrated, like Yongqiang, and made pple talk nonsense and come up with the wittiest sentences as well! This is a fun game, i think i can try it for cell group next time. if i'm ever gonna do games again. -_- but anyway, we had fun, and after the game we decided to walk to Macdonalds for supper, i think it was around 2 am at that time. Ian, Millie, Nic, Meiqi, Joan, Yuhong and myself. i loved it, the wind was blowing, it was relaxing and we had a good time just chilling out. Went back to the hotel n most of them went to sleep, except Yuhong n i who went to the pool side n played guitar until 6.30 am, and Joan n i went home. I concussed at about 8 am, slept till around 1 pm.

20 Dec - Gathering at Kelly's house

Supposed to meet at 2 pm at Sengkang, but at 2.30 pm joan n i were still on the bus 163. haha! we ate lunch, and then played Guitar Hero with the drums, 2 gutars and a mike! really fun, i super enjoyed myself. Joan had a boxing match with Junhao, which she won like twice! hahaha! the Wii games were quite fun also, but honestly i prefer the guitar hero thing! Only $300 for the set, not bad. Videos and pictures are up on Kelly's blog. I think from the time we arrived (same time as yingyan n Jerald) at about 3 pm until we left at 8.45 pm, we spent close to 6 hours hanging out. haha.. i can't believe we played games until 7 pm in the evening, then we watched Kung Fu panda while eating Pizza Hut. 2 large pizza n we only paid $5 each! quite ok i guess. The gathering was super fun, even though there were only quite few of us, i think about 11 or so. any more pple n it would've been over crowded actually! haha.. Thanks to Jerald n Lishan who helped to organise this event, and of cos, initiated by yours truly.

Went off at about 8.45 pm for practice at Joo Chiat, where unpleasant event happened, but i don't want to talk about it, best to forget it ever happened. Was a lousy practice, felt it was a waste of time. most pple there don't even know the exact sequence or know how to play the parts. by the time i reached home, it was about 1 plus am, n went to bathe n sleep, n had a talk with Joan over the phone over an issue. again, too depressing to mention, but its resolved so its ok now.

21 Dec - Sun svc and the orchard gig, and dinner at Crystal Jade

Was late for sun svc, woke up at about 12 pm. by the time we reached the main hall it was the announcements. preaching was about pretty basic stuff, i guess the main thing is psyching everyone up for the Christmas svcs, so not very long preaching. had lunch w e CG pple, sebas, soohuei looked half dead. dunno why but again, the very sian feeling was eminating from our cg. Kenneth wasn't around, so we went to makan at the usual kopitiam, then chatted with Peijin abit on the way to the mrt station. Poor gal, she paid $4800 deposit for the publisher to publish her manga, but she isn't able to finish the book in time, and the deposit will just be forfeited! hope she somehow manages to finish it lah.

the gig wasn't really one of the best gigs we had, while the usual sequences were ok, not fantastic but ok, ck's RIP sequence was really messy n everyone forgot one part, which looked really bad. out of the 8 UDMs, 3 had no water as well, a logistics nightmare. however, the energy was high, the shakers n toy players were dancing their hearts out (including Joan!) and the crowd liked the performances, although honestly we were quite out of time while marching down the street n playing. i guess we really need to practice playing n walking long distances! its just quite different from playing in a fixed position.

had dinner at the noodle crystal jade place, was quite nice n quite reasonable pricing. then went to eat tang yuan at chinatown to celebrate yuan siao jie or some chinese festival thingy. by the time i reached home, it was close to midnight, n i played a bit of COD5 before going to sleep, damn i only wanted to play for an hour, but the game is so engaging i played until about 2.30 am before deciding to turn in! dunno why pple say its not very nice, i think its quite alright. i wanna complete the solo campaign, then can play the zombie mode! hopefully can complete it before end of the year, i mean, i think i only got 1 or 2 more missions to complete!

22 Dec - Xmas dinner with DLPians and supper with the bug in my teh ping!

had the gift exchange thingy with my office colleagues, while having dinner at hog's breath cafe at vivocity, not bad, we had 50% off the main course due to some special promotion. the food was good, the fellowship was fun. i spent about $37 on the meal, not too bad lah, considering we had appetisers besides the main course, n i ate like 1/3 of Ruby's steak cos she couldn't finish it!

Finally, the supper with clarence, Mikki, Michelle, Daryl n Joan at prata place. oh man, i really don't think i'm going back there agin after the horrible experience of sucking a bug up the straw into my mouth! pics on facebook for the size of the bug, its really disgusting, i almost wanted to puke had the guys not started laughing n makin fun of it! honestly i wanted to scold them, but decided it would be a waste of my effort. who cares man.. at least i didn't need to pay for my drink. yucks! =P

wanted to play the game a bit, but was really too tired, think by the time i sent everyone home n reached home it was about 1.30 am. too many days of insufficient sleep is taking its toll on me.. gonna sleep early tonight, after wrapping the presents n going for a short jog with Joan. i shall attempt to complete my 2.4 within 15 min! haha..

Tml having lunch w yongqiang, then gonna go home n SLEEP! take a short afternoon nap before going for high tea with family n neighbours, then going for Christmas svc at expo, dunno what "operation save the world". sounds lame. i liked last years Christmas at Changs musical, i think its really hard to beat that kind of standard! hopefully it'll be just as good or better tml! hahha..

Merry Christmas everyone!! God bless you all!