The Gathering

Celebrated Ben's 23rd sometime back with a whole day of programmes. Heng Hiang was the organiser of the day BUT he did not turn up. Of course, with special reason.

First up is the Settlers Cafe in SMU. Playing all the games that we are really good at, because we had been playing it EVERY wed at Mind's Cafe since it's members' night!

Of course, camwhore abit with my remote controlled DSLR.

Dinner was at Timbre! Duck Pizza! It's really really nice! Love the duck sauce on it! Tasted like beijing roasted duck.

A photo of the guys present.

And we also ordered a platter of assorted food.

More photo- taking while waiting for the all the food to come.

Suddenly out of the blue, someone special arrived!

Heng Hiang in his no. 4! He was called up last minute for mobilisation and thus was not able to join us in the afternoon.

LOL at JX face because he was not prepared when the person pressed the shuttle.

And ended the day of a few instaxes taken.

I think I sort of neglected my blog whenever I'm busy. Very busy now since FOC is barely a week away and there's so many things happening in my life now. Not gonna reveal too much because I sort of treasure of private life every now and then because people on my facebook have been commenting about my movement. Maybe it's because I put up too many photos and people tend to 'stalk' where I had gone to, what I ate and who I hanged out with. As what I learnt in psychology and had discussed with few of my closer friends, Facebook had really revolutionized our lives and a simple 'like' button has become a powerful positive reinforcement tool that encourages us to continue what we had been doing. Take for example, 'liking' a post or a comment will greatly increase a person's confidence and self- esteem and the person will post more of such comments in future. And on Facebook, we seldom see people posting pictures of their sad lives, but rather their happy moments, because it's a powerful influence that we impose on our peers, making others envious of you. It doesn't matter if we realise it or not, but it's a common consensus between me and my friends that Facebook does have a great impact on our daily lives.

Anyway gonna post the instaxes we took on JX's last day at work.

Will keep in contact after he comes back from his overseas trip!

I guess by the time this post is on my blog, I will be at camp since this is a scheduled post.

The last time I went to Marina Barrage was During the opening ceremony of Youth Olympic in August last year. Time flies and it's almost a year since I stepped into it again, this time round not just about photography, but also for a picnic!

Looking at the background, you can see that it appears that sundown marathon is also on that day! And the barrage was half occupied with all these structures. It's rare for us to meet up and chill as everyone is busy with their work.

Food was potluck and everyone bought a little of something. Luckily we have ice on that day! So nice to drink cold drinks under the hot sun.

Of course we didn't forget to take photos with such a nice scenery.

But now we used instax instead of digital cameras! Love the instax as it looks like a post card!

Syahirah finally reached at 5pm when we are supposed to meet at 2pm. And she brought fried rice for us.

Also, we ended up playing bubbles as it creates a lovely experience and also adds special effects to our photos!

We also played Monopoly deal after eating continuously. Wanted to play san guo sha but syahirah don't understand chinese, so we can only play monopoly deal.

And we continue to take lots of instaxes! And HY brought along rainbow films! So pretty!

And a picture with our instax cameras! A lot of people were looking at us as we had so many cameras, looking as though we are setting up a stall to sell them.

It's really nice to meet up with people at different setting as it brings about a different mood!

It's been some time we met! Ok la, we met a few times during the Holidays but it was in May. So this time round, we decided to catch a movie: Green Lantern! Wanted to wear Green initially but it seems that CY thinks that it's too weird, so we ended up wearing different colours.

Of course, we camwhore along the corridor since it was my first time coming to Lido after it was renovated!

And my turn!

And we had dinner at Tampopo! my 2nd time there! And we saw Chen Han Wei and Lin Cui Fang there too!

And not forgetting taking instaxes! Love the Winnie the pool films!

Camwhoring with our food!

And YQ's turn.

Of course, we camwhore even more before the dinner! At mandarin gallery where they are places to sit down.

Can't wait to meet them again!

Going to break up my hectic weekend into several posts to make it look like I've been blogging more often recently haha.

Ok, so it was Tuan Chun's birthday on Friday, but since our cells got contaminated and we don't have any sample to do Western blot, there's no need to go to school! Yeah! But, still have to go because TC's birthday. So HS asked us to plan one for him.

Soup Restaurant! That's what me and HS decided on one day before as she said that TC likes to eat chicken and their famous dish is the Samsui Chicken. BUT, something not very pleasant happen that day because HS insisted that what she decided on is Dian Xiao Er. And she wanted us to leave the restaurant and walk out just like that! It's so embarassing because we already started eating on the side dishes and the people in the restaurant had helped us to keep the cake in the refrigerator.

Their signature dish is a must try. I love to eat this everytime I come here. Ok, the 2nd unhappy part was that HS wanted to order a lot of other dishes and wanted it to be of large quantity because she said that we are not ordering a lot of dishes. Maybe she didn't realise that she's dining with poor students like us who don't get any salary. But luckily I insisted on getting a mixture of small and medium dishes because there's still a bit leftovers at the end. I trust my judgement a lot since I don't see the need of wasting food.

It wasn't really cheap since the meal + the cake cost $35 per person. And I don't usually don't spend so much on a friend's birthday (except those celebrating 21st and those really close ones). I barely knew TC for a year and it was not enough to justify the 'expensive' treat. And luckily I did stop HS from ordering as though she owns the restaurant. Otherwise I think we will end up washing the plates.

Time to start saving! Because all my friends are celebrating their birthday this month and makes me feel so broke, especially when there are still a lot people who haven't pay me back the money =(