meeting old friends.
it really is amazing how time flies when you spend good, quality time with people you've known and loved for so long.
yesterday was my somewhat-farewell-ish barbeque, where twenty [or what was supposed to be twenty] of my closest friends from every part of my life gathered together to have an evening of great [or what was supposed to be great] food and conversation!
thank you to everyone who came and contributed in some way or another.. :) it was really great. and of course, thank you to my very own personal event organiser and house husband, ernest xue ren kai. all credit goes to you! [honestly, it does. he cooked most of the food himself, did all the organising and calling up and got stressed about everything under the sun.]
anyway, it was an especially good day for me; choir in the morning was great. man, i really love early music. reminds me of the times when people played everything on the harpsichord and women walked around in big hoop skirts. [i have a victorian-era fetish] so i was already in an amazing mood by the time the afternoon rolled around. then we went back to my place and played OUTRAGE! while david entertained us on the piano [which he really couldn't stop complaining about].
i won, naturally, due to my greater intelligence and excellent strategy, but then again, that's no surprise.
when pam and luke arrived, they decided it would be a great lark to write my surprise farewell letter RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, so they sat there for half an hour musing about what they could say as we finished playing outrage, and then we all sat down and did nothing for a little bit more before we started playing around with the food. then JU CAME!!! and after a while, HUIS came!! so there were introductions all around, while david continued to vigilantly play the piano. [one really has to respect him.] i'll have to fast-forward, because this entry's getting a bit tedious, so ANYWAY. qing and rugrat eventually came, but only after pam and luke left, so that was a bit.. strange. but i [who, face it, is the most important character in this little recounting, haha!] had a GREAT time, because well, it's a gathering of my best friends.
and what can beat one whole night with your best friends?
anyway, then ju, nest, joshua he [because of nest] and i went for prata. it's the strangest thing, because i've never actually seen joshua outside of a school context, so it was particularly interesting to find out that HEY, he's actually a pretty nice guy. haha. :) we ended up going home at one plus, after a couple of teas and milo dinosaurs, and i ended up sleeping at three because i was talking to ju.
so today, i met up with another group of people, my lovely altos! krys, limmy, esther, jolene, pam po, and enci, who rushed down just to spend fifteen minutes with us and rush off. haha. and of course, the honourable mindy tan, who has been my alto companion for two whole blooming years. went to fish and co at glasshouse for dinner, and ended up ordering SO MUCH FOOD [how typical, eh]. had a good evening talking and catching up, with plenty of laughs, especially when esther started speaking in this EXTREMELY condescending tone to the waitress about how you must "press the button and HOLD when you're taking digital photographs".. it was amazing, i swear. then limmy, esther, mindy and i headed off to ben and jerry's where i bought us a merlionster [six scoops of yummy, fatty goodness with toppings] and talked the night away about ponds and sharks and br****n. :P
it's been a good weekend.
haha. and it can only get better!!
meeting with flops to go back to ac on tuesday morning; meeting qing and her boyfriend for lunch on weds afternoon; meeting ju again for dinner and to chill on weds night; maybe meeting jy, layhoon and ruth on thursday; meeting nest, josh and ju again to go out on thursday night and meeting ben next monday before i head off the next day for york.
i've missed everyone so much.
and looking at my schedule, one almost wonders where i'm going to find the time to pack. hmm.
ciao.
yesterday was my somewhat-farewell-ish barbeque, where twenty [or what was supposed to be twenty] of my closest friends from every part of my life gathered together to have an evening of great [or what was supposed to be great] food and conversation!
thank you to everyone who came and contributed in some way or another.. :) it was really great. and of course, thank you to my very own personal event organiser and house husband, ernest xue ren kai. all credit goes to you! [honestly, it does. he cooked most of the food himself, did all the organising and calling up and got stressed about everything under the sun.]
anyway, it was an especially good day for me; choir in the morning was great. man, i really love early music. reminds me of the times when people played everything on the harpsichord and women walked around in big hoop skirts. [i have a victorian-era fetish] so i was already in an amazing mood by the time the afternoon rolled around. then we went back to my place and played OUTRAGE! while david entertained us on the piano [which he really couldn't stop complaining about].
i won, naturally, due to my greater intelligence and excellent strategy, but then again, that's no surprise.
when pam and luke arrived, they decided it would be a great lark to write my surprise farewell letter RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, so they sat there for half an hour musing about what they could say as we finished playing outrage, and then we all sat down and did nothing for a little bit more before we started playing around with the food. then JU CAME!!! and after a while, HUIS came!! so there were introductions all around, while david continued to vigilantly play the piano. [one really has to respect him.] i'll have to fast-forward, because this entry's getting a bit tedious, so ANYWAY. qing and rugrat eventually came, but only after pam and luke left, so that was a bit.. strange. but i [who, face it, is the most important character in this little recounting, haha!] had a GREAT time, because well, it's a gathering of my best friends.
and what can beat one whole night with your best friends?
anyway, then ju, nest, joshua he [because of nest] and i went for prata. it's the strangest thing, because i've never actually seen joshua outside of a school context, so it was particularly interesting to find out that HEY, he's actually a pretty nice guy. haha. :) we ended up going home at one plus, after a couple of teas and milo dinosaurs, and i ended up sleeping at three because i was talking to ju.
so today, i met up with another group of people, my lovely altos! krys, limmy, esther, jolene, pam po, and enci, who rushed down just to spend fifteen minutes with us and rush off. haha. and of course, the honourable mindy tan, who has been my alto companion for two whole blooming years. went to fish and co at glasshouse for dinner, and ended up ordering SO MUCH FOOD [how typical, eh]. had a good evening talking and catching up, with plenty of laughs, especially when esther started speaking in this EXTREMELY condescending tone to the waitress about how you must "press the button and HOLD when you're taking digital photographs".. it was amazing, i swear. then limmy, esther, mindy and i headed off to ben and jerry's where i bought us a merlionster [six scoops of yummy, fatty goodness with toppings] and talked the night away about ponds and sharks and br****n. :P
it's been a good weekend.
haha. and it can only get better!!
meeting with flops to go back to ac on tuesday morning; meeting qing and her boyfriend for lunch on weds afternoon; meeting ju again for dinner and to chill on weds night; maybe meeting jy, layhoon and ruth on thursday; meeting nest, josh and ju again to go out on thursday night and meeting ben next monday before i head off the next day for york.
i've missed everyone so much.
and looking at my schedule, one almost wonders where i'm going to find the time to pack. hmm.
ciao.
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