Like Chocolates, or Bittersweet

It's over! A whole school year is gone.

Time has not flown, it glided by at this semi-lazy pace, speeding it up and slowing down at all the wrong moments just to piss me off. Looking back, I feel like shedding a tear, and involuntarily maybe I might have, if I could still feel properly. What change did ACS (I) leave on me? Have I left any significant mark? I got 3 cuts yesterday but I don't think that kind of mark counts.

Right now, Kai Shin is about to leave, and Swapnil is clearing out his stuff. I've lived with them for nearly (well ok, maybe not nearly) a year now, and it's hard to say a final goodbye. I know for sure I will see them again, but probably in a different context. To Ryan, I dedicate this post. Thanks for keeping my head sane by being another Malaysian to counter weigh ZeWei's retardedness.

My packing isn't done.

Yesterday was a fun day. Played a lot. Ate a lot. Had dinner with the roomates sans Leo but plus Jonta at Botak Jones, awesome place. I feel rather nostalgic now, but it's probably for the best.

Now the cupboard's almost cleared, and I await for my transport (Kim and Ling), I look back on ACS (I), and... It's like a box of bittersweet chocolates. You taste the bitterness, as well as the sweetness that you might hit you a bit later. I'll miss my friends at 3.1 and 3.17, as well as the Hall 4 'brothers'.

The Best Is Yet To Be.

3 Night Flight, or Guilty Pleasure

For the past THREE nights, I had buffets on ALL three nights. Haha, to view the pictures, click here.

Anyway, WED was Christmas Dinner @ Boarding school. We had christmas dinner a whole two months (and 4 days) before because everyone was going off after school term ends, right? So we celebrated Christmas in October. Was quite good, enjoyed the food, not too bad.

THURS was our Hall Outing, where Hall 4 went to Swissotel Merchant Court. Our hallmaster (who again, shall not be named) had some connections with someone there, so they were able to accomodate all 40+ students plus the hall tutors and their families PLUS our very own Dr. Ong, who came for dinner too. I ate too much to quick, that I was so tremendously full, that it was actually painful for me to walk. Had a wonderful sleep that night though.

There were actually a lot of people vomiting in the toilets, because they ate too much. Does that tell you something about how bad the boarding school food normally is? I hope so. Now you know what I went through.

So last night, FRI, ZeWei (the freak whom those of you reading my blog would know, lives in the same room as me for the past year or so)'s mum took me and Kai Shin out for dinner (Swapnil 'booked dinner already', Juno 'had some work to do', and Leo just doesn't like 'other people's parents). We had Jap buffet at Hoshi, at IMM. Hoshi is awesome in the way that you can eat as much Jap food as you want, you just have to wait a little while for the food. Me and Ryan (Kai Shin) ate ONCE AGAIN to our hearts content, all the while listening to ZeWei's mother bashing ZeWei:

"But ZeWei..."

"ZeWei AH...."

It was one of the most fun dinners I've ever had :D Honestly!

Thinking of going to Ikea later with Ryan to eat meatballs ^^

Tweeting at WIT, or I Gotta Feeling

So I was right, right?

What was I right about? That this weekend would be a busy, busy one. Sunday was fun, at night we went to The Fullerton hotel to celebrate my Godmother, Yeoh Siew Hoon's **th B'day (I won't put her age here, just in case she doesn't want to see it!). First we went to the rooftop for cocktails (I just had champagne), and the view from the rooftop was fabulous! You could see the old Singapore (The courthouse), the now Singapore (The Esplanade), and the future Singapore (The IRs, or Integrated Resorts). It was quite fun, and yeah, the company was fabulous, as usual. I hang out with the oddest but most fun people, and they're all more than half my age. But I really love their company, because once they get to know me and my sister, they don't look at us all reproachful, condescending, etc.

We had one of the most wonderful dinners I think I've ever had. Wow.

Anyway, some pics!

Amazing view.

All of us on the roof, before we went for dinner.

Me, (from left) Corrine, Meenah, Jenny

(From left) Lay Cheng, Don, Craig's Thai gf, Christine

(from left again) Jon, Yi Ling (Godma's niece) , and the B'day "Girl" herself

It was great fun.

Monday, me and Kim went to help out Mario and Morris, these two great guys at their Brand Karma talk. Although we felt really out of place, it was eye-opening. Think about it, when you pick your holiday destinations or hotels to stay at, would you rather believe the websites of the places themselves, or stories from people you know that have been there already?

"Our story beats their story" So true.

All these big shots in Suits.Me and Kim got plenty of stares, like "Wtf are these kids doing here?"

After that another cocktail party XD With AWESOME sushi!

And today, Tuesday, I'm now at the Web In Travel (or WIT for short) conference which my godma is organising, she's on the stage now with some more guys in Suits.

What is my role? I'm a Tweeter, Tweeting and the Twitters' Roost :D

The ballroom

The Twitter Roost

More later.

Deprivation / Obsession, or Empty

I want to go home!

During the exam week, I have played a lot of Pokemon cards (hey, don't blame me, this place is boring) (By the way, if any of you have non-fake unused Pokemon cards, let me know!), Chinese Chess, iPod, and Dsed like crazy, and now that it's over, I really don't know what to do anymore.

Kim's coming down to Singapore today. I miss Kim! I do, haha. Don't tell her.

So yes, I really don't know when I'm coming home, but when I do, I'll be sure to let everyone know, stay tuned, world!

And seriously, I want YOUR Pokemon cards :)

G and G, or Mr Brightside

So yesterday I went out with Tammi again, to 'celebrate' her birthday (I offered, because I have money again :D), so we went to Orchard, and after a very short time of walking around, we kinda figured that we walked around that wretched street way too many times, it was so boring, so we decided to go to Plaza Singapura, which was a good idea in the end, 'cos like I guess there are in some way more things to do, because we havn't been there before.

She wanted to catch some documentary on Vogue (if you're a guy or live under a rock go Google it), so we bought tickets for it, and then we went to the arcade, because she wanted to play Silent Hill. I know. Creepy. So we shot undead nurses and pyramid heads and other random grey-blooded things until we both died, so after that I tried my luck at this block game.

I don't really know how to explain it, but it's like... Hmm.. I'm just good at it. And guess what the grand prize was? A PS3. WOAH. AND I ALMOST WON A FEW TIMES. DANG. Always at the last moment, my heart races so fast and I make a mistake. Before the last three tries, I always get a perfect streak, but at the end my hands probably shiver too much and I lose. I WILL TRY AGAIN. I WILL WIN A PS3. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it (because since the games can't be pirated yet, I'm not going to waste my money buying the original games), but wouldn't it be cool to show it off and brag about how I got it? I think it would!

Uh, so after that we went to eat dinner at some Jap restaurant which I forgot the name, then we went to watch the movie, which wasn't as boring as I thought, but hey, I'm gay anyway, so that makes sense. It takes A LOT of effort to put together that September issue of Vogue, phew.

After that went downstairs to buy more headphones (I'm obsessed, I know), because Sonigear (the same brand as the speakers I bought a while back, remember I blogged about it?) was having another sale. So I went crazy for awhile. I'll do a post on my many headphones one day.

I went home after that because I had a curfew and Tammi was yawning her head off. Haha.

Happy birthday again, Tammi, 19 year-old grandma :P

So today, I went out with my REAL grandmother, who came down from KL via train just to see me for a day. I don't know about all of you, but I bet my grandmother has traveled more than any of your sorry asses, with her own hard earned money, even though she's illiterate, even though she's been cheated countless times, my grandmother owns all of your grandmother's asses, pardon me speaking. She sews, she cooks, she has four succesful children (with the exception of my mum. Haha, ok fine I'm joking), and she has property throughout the world (apparently one for each of her ten grandchidren O.O)and money from as way back as before she was born (she was born a WAY back).

So we had lunch at some chinese restaurant, and then she bought me food (because she alwauys worries that I don't enough), and more food, and we talked a lot, and I forgot to take her picture.

Ah well. She's a very generous lady, unlike my CALCULATIVE MOTHER, HERE THAT MUM? BWAHAHA.

*sigh exams next week. At least I had a good weekend out.

Today Has Been A Gooder Day, or Picture Perfect

The past few days have been a bit tedious, so today made up for it! Hehe.

Today there were only 4 periods in school, Chem, PE, EMath and then Malay.

I didn't fall asleep in Chem today (anyone who falls asleep in Chem dies), although I really wanted to.

PE was good, we played badminton.

Malay was supposed to be a lesson observation lesson today, where one of the Deputy Principals come in and observe the lesson, to see that the teacher is doing a good job. Luckily, Mdm Yong (the dep. who was supposed to come for less ob) had to go for some MOE (Ministry of Education) meeting. Instead she sent Cikgu Tan (a teacher that has it in for me since day one) to observe, and it was a fun lesson, 'cos during lesson observations teachers usually try to make it fun and enjoyable for us while still teaching us something, so we had some sort of interactive session. Whee.

What really made my day though was that Swapnil told me that our scholar money came. I was so happy I went to withdraw money, and then Koko asked me to go cyber. Now, if you didn't know, I've been to the cyber twice already, and got raped both times, but today I was decimated to bits, because it was a 4v2 match (I was 2 of course) and the other team were all pros. Haha, but had some fun, and had takoyaki to, mmm.

I bought like a shit-load of chips, and now happily (as much as possible).

Munch. Munch Munch.

I WANNA GO HOME!