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was intially quite reluctant about making the journey to town... for SMU Sports Awards cum dinner reception... because we all know the opportunity cost of a free dinner is one hour of an ME module... although the entire thing... cab ride-dinner-awards-walk to selegie-dinner2-tau huay-walk to douby gaut-train to NUS.. took us a total of 5 hours... we also know that i need 5 hours of free time just to complete one hour worth of work... but that aside... it started off pretty late, really... justin had a lab that he couldnt finish early... so by the time he was done with it... getting changed and all made up... it was already 1815hrs... when the dinner was supposed to have started at 1800hrs... getting a cab in NUS at that time is seriously a pain in the ass... so linc was on one side of the road... while justin and i was on the other... which was seriously embarassing... coz we took Smart Casual abit too seriously... justin was in a black shirt with pants... and i was in my sis' nice skirt... so when justin's friend walked past us... he didnt see lincoln across the road... and thus proceeded to give Justin a wry smile... which caused him to go "oh shit!"... "he see me wear so nice... think i'm going out with you..." i'm like "HELLO!?" people is pageant runner-up okay? of course got better taste than THIS... *points to self* finally managed to get into a cab after some time... a ride which cost us 12 bucks... nicely done... to think i was so happy about free dinner... the nice uncle dropped us on the wrong side of the street... which had us jaywalking across like 6 lanes of rush-hour traffic... okay la.. it wasnt that bad... though i scolded a yellow beetle for turning out of CHIJMES when i finally deemed it safe... got slightly lost coz everything looks the same... though lincoln wouldnt let me admit we were... okay la... we weren't... but it's just a nice excuse to be late... finally found their school of accountancy... pondered for abit about how to get through their gantrys... of course.... we knew they didnt accept EZ-link cards... Melissa came to get us... which was so sweet of her... got up to the convention hall.... which is their equivalent of our LTs... except that SMU doesn't have lectures... probably seminar-styled classes like those of USP... seriously wanted to get down to eating... but their Sports Union's ex-prez seemed exasperated about us arriving so late... and us, probably missing his speech... though the NUS Sports Club was very much later... talk about a grand entrance... but Weili and Melissa were nice enough to stay outside with us... while we filled our tummies a little... causing the bunch of us to miss a little of the speech... the 'LT' was really small... sorry la... cannot get used to the term of Convention Hall for something that looks like an LT... and there were loads of empty seats... refer to above about late-comers... the front part was slightly slow... though it got cooler... and i dont mean the temperature... there was freestyle basketball... there were martial arts displays... TKD... kendo... fencing... muay thai... though the female muay thai contact sparring looked more like a catfight with gloves... i liked the videos presented though... very MTV-like... very professional... it was a very light-hearted event... i was constantly turning to Melissa and Lincoln... making jibes at everything i found funny... like the freestyler who looked like Jay Chou... who purposely included a segment with him removing his jersey while balancing the ball... he wanna show off his abs la! but i really enjoyed myself... which was weird la... was never a fan of such events... i guess it's the difference in culture... and i found that they have uber cool tables... like those in our LTs... except that they can rotate laterally... to suit your writing style... like WOW! after the event... we explored SMU a little more... okok... now we seriously got lost... i hope Linc and Justin doesn't read this... but they're really bad with directions... their underpass reminds me of a white elephant... because it's largely white... and we found a group of people participating in a Stand-a-thon... which was really cool... like they had to stand on one leg... and see who can last the longest... and with my wonderful sense of direction... we got out at their School of Economics... which is opposite Hotel Rendevous... BINGO! coz we were heading for Selegie... though it seriously would have helped if i known tau huay was so far on foot... it never felt so when my dad drives past... we kinda found ourselves deciding between Mr Bean and this cafe called BlendInn... the latter happens to be set up by one of The Guy's friends... decided on the latter... just for the sake of trying all things new... but we decided beforehand to adjourn for tau huay after this dinner #2... had a blended latte... Justin had fish and chips... Linc had fries and onion rings... called The Guy about being at the cafe... told us to mention his friend's name for a discount... but it was just so bu yao lian... like name-dropping... asked Linc to do it... and he scolded me... boohoohoo! so we didnt do it... it's beneath us! took the long walk over to the tau huay place... at least this time i didn't have to force anyone to bring me there... the walk didnt feel long... it was probably the good company... made Justin show us the most provocative poses he had ever done in his shoots... finally got the tau huay... which was heavenly... i downed a drink... and a large bowl of beancurd... the drink was by accident... miscommunication with the auntie... also because she very fierce... i scared to tell her i didnt order that... so by the end of the night... i was bursting with two drinks and a tau huay... talked more... about the comm... about the upcoming training camp... which was cool really... imagine being out with two of our most eligible bachelors... though feeling utterly uncomfortable in my sis' nice skirt... knowing that my butt looks fat... but not checking it out in the mirror to affirm that fact... took the walk to dhoby gaut... the name, i learnt at class today, has indian origins to it... woo... i learnt SOMETHING at class... took the train back to bouna vista... where we took our respective 200s and 95s... luckily all of us were heading back to school... the company was very appreciated... and the journey never felt this quick... who needs a more efficient public transport system when you have friends like these? there is this thing i have to blog about... but it's just so incriminating to the both of them that i really shouldnt... it was just so funny that i couldnt stop laughing... even when i saw scary black frog hopping across the footpath... i shall tahan and let it pass... just realised that i have never seriously been out with these guys... they stay in the East so they're not really in our after-surfing-grab-food-at-Suntec group... and i missed loads of outings last December... Christmas dinner... NYDC... which is such a total waste... because they are such jokers... even when there was silence... which was rare... it didnt feel uncomfortable at all... which is really hard to come by... laughing at one another... this was seriously what i needed to take my mind off the pile of notes on my desk... now it's full steam ahead with mugging/essaying! ----Stef stopped rambling at 00:28 --Link to Post |
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