Wednesday, February 16, 2011
14/2 Labels: choir, church, focus, friends, MGS
So this was the day when Shern, Sarah, Ode and I were free for dinner, and I happily suggested having dinner, forgetting that my brother would be flying off that night and that it was Valentine's Day. Thankfully, Shern said she was free and I managed to make it there in time!
I was at the Aston's and just managed to sit at a newly empty table with 6 seats, when I saw this girl and boy looking for a table not in the smoking section, so I kindly suggested that they sit at this one, since there would be 2 of them + 4 of us = 6. It totally didn't occur to me until five minutes after they accepted that they were on a V'Day dinner date and would find it awkward to sit at a table with strangers!
Then Ode came to join me, and it turned out that she knows the girl from school, what a coincidence. The even funnier part is that it totally didn't occur to her EITHER that her friend was on a V'Day dinner date with that guy!
The 4 of us eventually at at the Tea Party place that I've heard of but never been to before. It was really noisy with all these JC kids talking and laughing. There was a group of boys playing the guitar in one key and singing in a different key, and a smaller group of people playing an out-of-tune guitar but singing Christian songs nicely. Honestly, if you want to have worship practice, do it somewhere where you won't disturb others!
After our dinner and taking a lot of photos, I went back to Shern's house to talk for half an hour or so before going home. It was great being able to meet up as the 4 of us rather than separately, and there was a lot of good conversation!
15/2
DURIAN PARTY! I went to Serangoon again to get the durian from the same shop as last week. I told the uncle that I wanted 7 of the $8 packets. He said he'd give me 8 packets for $50, which was a $14 discount, so I was okay with it. Then while picking the packets, he said he'd give me another one for free, and spent the longest time choosing one between two of the remaining packets, leaving me dubious about the quality of the 9th packet, but that was a great discount anyway.
Rachel came first, followed by Hongyu, Louis, Ian, and then Melody and Daryl who had gotten lost trying to come to our house by the shortcut. We had a lot of fun eating our durian, pretending to contaminate Rachel's durian, and choosing between bitter and sweet seeds!
I'm sorry I won't be able to attend the first SNYFfers meeting of the year, which is on my flight day, nor their paintball event, which sounds like a lot of fun!
16/2
I met with our girls book club for lunch, as we discussed chapters 6 and 7 of our book. Unfortunately because we'll be changing groups this year, this is the last time we're meeting as our girls book club, so I'll just have to read the last chapter by myself.
We spent really long just finding a place to plonk ourselves at to eat and discuss! It's a pity Ade wasn't free to join us, and that Dior had to leave early. But we still had some good discussion about the marriage institution, cohabitation, the gift of singleness and cultural perceptions.
I just came back from the dinner at Thai Express at PS with my choir comm friends. It's exciting because X-min is back from Japan, and I haven't seen Conana, Ek Ping and Eugene yet. Many thanks to YJ for organising!
Eugene had fun taking a million photos with YJ's camera, enough so that he can make .gifs of us already! It was a lot of fun listening to XM's and EP's stories about their university friends. JA, YJ and Conana will soon have lots of stories of their own when they enter university this year!
Friday, February 11, 2011
We sent Michelle off at the airport tonight. She's on her way to Melbourne right now, and it's exciting because we'll both be studying in the same country! It's good that both her parents will be with her to settle her in.
There were lots of us there to send her, and I think most of them ate dinner with their family at T3. I guess my brother and I cry less than others, because as fellow overseas students, we wouldn't get to see her either way.
The plan is to visit her in July where she'll let me bunk at her place. Domestic flights probably ought to cost less than $150, I'm estimating. Now, I'm thinking the weather in Melbourne then (it's winter) will be more miserable than in Sydney, but I don't know if I've been there before, so it's a good trip to make.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Today is Yan's birthday! No longer 16 going on 17...
This afternoon after church, we had a KFC+pizza lunch after service as a post-musical celebration. I enjoyed the food and the conversation!
Highlight:
Yue: Xuan, when are you flying off arh?
Hongyu: *GASP* You mean you don't know?
Louis: Even I know! on the 19th!
Then we sang Happy Birthday to Yan and Nicklaus, who each got cakes, as well as Rachel our musical director.
Following that, we went to the mini-chapel to have some programme, with a short worship, sharing session, photo taking and musical screening. I think we really have to thank God for so many things, including how He took care of the costs, manpower, ticket sales and production even though the entire process was rushed within those three months or so. And I fully admit that this musical is better than Giant Faith, with the beautiful backdrops and full audience and great music.
We had to be home by 4pm, and we went to West Mall for Yan's birthday dinner at Swensen's. I shan't go into how long we waited for three of them at the Singtel shop, but suffice to say, I've taken so long to eat a set meal before.
I realise I haven't blogged in forever, and lots of things have happened since my last post, so I'll just backdate them when I feel like it.
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