the past sunday evening was also set aside for time with him, for dinner with him and his gang of friends from secondary school days. it’s amazing how this set of friendships have been preserved over the past 1.6 decades (for him). looking back, it’s just a decade for me since graduation from secondary school. and i’m upset that i will be missing the gathering coming up on 08 nov. can’t attend since it’s the same night that “Transition” will be running. *sigh*
sat morn
it’s one day i can happily sleep in and i automatically woke up, after only 7 hours of beauty rest. gee. wasted or what! hurhur. but it feels good to be up and about too – with a bit of time to spare before i have to leave the house for day of prayer. ;)
smallie’s day
i’ve so many entries waiting to be written that i don’t know where to start. it’s been a packed 30 days behind me and i’m still trying to digest how it all flew by me, with all the activities i put in place. hmmm.
well! as i have named this entry for smallie, it shall be about her day!
everybody, meet smallie ong.
long overdue
and yes, this post comes long overdue – almost an entire month after i return from the trip. but nonetheless, better late than never they say.. although i know shing² is so tired of waiting that she’s stopped asking. i took quite a while to sort my photo portion out. yes, that alone be a month long project.. and not too far from the truth really. :P
aniwaes. a month ago, i took a trip to bangkok again – for a 2nd time this year. this was my holiday after the big project. this was also to celebrate shing²’s birthday with her, although 3 days after the big bash she had. and it was also where shing² bought me the biggest birthday present of the decade. (:
regularity restored
and so the period of madness has since ended. with the idmc conference, church anniversary svc and dinner over, the additional rehearsals will cease to take up week nights and sunday afternoons. i must say i looked forward to them and enjoyed them, despite the physical fatigue it implied. the dance was fun and so was the singing. kinda wished that we performed it more than once though. :P
i’d say i hate myself for not anticipating the imminent death of my camera battery on this fateful day. as such, i don’t hv much to show even though i brought my camera everywhere i went, made sure i had sufficient memory space, etc. *grrr* how annoying is that?
aniwaes. few other interesting things about anniversary svc in suntec yesterday:
- i ordered breakfast for 100pax from macs. never did that before and it’s pretty fun. heh!
trivia: hashbrowns have ability to stick to paper. - gurmit (singh) was the special guest for our anniversary svc. his testimony is very powerful and i like how he shared, sincere and open.
- adr and i almost didn’t make it to church. we almost got in to a car accident early in the morning. thank God he held on to the steering wheel and didn’t let go while we skidded around in that 5 seconds. thank God he kept us (and the car) safe.
anniversary dinner was fun. although i really wished i had my cam. i would have gone around taking photos with people. then again, perhaps tt’s why it died – so that i wouldn’t run around too much and would stay put to take care of EK for abit. but i really didn’t quite enjoy sitting at the table “alone”. wish i could hv been w people i actually wanted to be with. now that i think about it, i didn’t mind hvG to make sure EK was ok at the table but mr yeo happily abandoned our friend for the gf. hmmmms. *holds chin* not good. i dun like.
boyband item, alpha4 was great. am very amazed by all who put up the item, and am very proud of adr for coordinating, directing and singing. (: despite the physical ailments, he sang v well. while i wait for better photos, these pathetic ones will have to do. ):
i realize that i am really glad to be in covenant. i’m very thankful for every one of the leaders; their lives are amazing testimonies. and i’m thankful for the programmes put in place too – not that going thru them guarantees anything but they are great tools. life has changed since 2004, in different areas of my life over the years. for that i am real glad. i hv been greatly blessed.
happy 30th, covenant! (:
another year
and my birthday came by and went. funnily enough, i have delayed this post till now. just as well since the celebrations officially “just ended”. and i didn’t have time to sit down to pen my thoughts about this past year. there were numerous celebrations and i shall attempt to document them in chronological order.
i had dinner with the gang of 3 ladies and a guy at oomphatico’s in tanglin mall. the food was pretty good but the menu was impossible to read.
went out with the babes to gotham penthouse on ms khoo’s bdae as a combined celebration. no pics taken at tt place, but only of the beautiful bouquet they bought – one for each of us. a rather dramamama night which was also fun.
my dear ‘smallies’ then bought me dinner at outback steakhouse, which was delicious delicious delicious. (: a lot of fun with them and a lomo camera.
was surprised by the gang in office before i left for church camp on a monday evening. was in a mad rush that day clearing stuff before leaving, totally did not suspect it at all. quite entertaining.. heh.
had a mini-celebration early in the morning as we made our way to meet up with the rest of the vehicle convoy for the drive up to KL for church camp. comes with a present and card – package deal! v pleasant, v surprised. (:
i also received a few SMS-es from various ones to wish me. didn’t reply as charges would hv been exorbitant. :P
worship min peeps surprised me once more late at night with a yummy cake from secret recipe! not everyone could make it tho’ so we ended up offering the cake to all church members still awake and in the lobby or eating area, as well as the camp committee peeps who were having debrief. (:
[one more round of photos missing here - still with my friends.]
had lunch with family (finally!) for birthdays and father’s day celebration combined. lunch, shopping, coffee and fun with a DSLR is cool. i hitched a ride tt afternoon – QNG was in esplanade. heh..
my students surprised me at a pretty bad time, on a day which i was gonna leave work early for QNG concert. had to make someone wait for me so tt they could do the birthday song for me. hurhur.. he had no complaints, thank God!
and last but not least, was the greatest present and celebration of all – albeit delayed, it was planned. believe it or not. hehe.. this demands an entire post for it, and that will come soon as i find time to pen my thoughts. but in the meantime, this was my biggest present as i turned twentysix this year.
over drinks in khao san the other night, i finally verbalized what i felt was my biggest lesson, moving from twentyfive to six. it’s the discovery of self and the choice to exercise individuality, which for some reason, was not apparent to me before. am i glad that i did.
in a way, this blog is a record of that journey. i just need to make sure that i don’t take the reins all by myself. surrended-ness. and my journey continues. (:
more about the trip in another post!
sixth anniversary
last friday was the sixth anniversary celebrations. it was a mad rush of a week for me having to worry about our song item during dinner right after coming back from church camp (which i haven’t had time to blog about!). i would say i haven’t quite caught up with work as yet but i will in due time.
well. i enjoyed myself quite thoroughly except having had to worry about whether or not our kids appear on time or had food, the quality of performances, having to bring food up to control room for our crew on duty, the general flow of programme and quality of MC, and one, erm… w.o.l.f. (hah..)
very eventful
the title of the post is a warning that this will be pretty long and jumbled up. heh!
i reached work rather late today – felt extremely bad about it but i can only make up for it. been trying to wake up earlier and get to work earlier but haven’t been able to get enough sleep to make that happen. i guess i’ve been too carried away with doing my own stuff after i get home. have also been staying out too much, although it’s only seasonal.
anyways. my choir senior and fellow student conductor came by to “visit” and we made attempts to meet up on both thursday and friday. failed to on thurs cos our schedules just didn’t fit. she’s been in the ulu-ulu area of mine in the past 2 days and will be here tomorrow as well. haha! finally, we met up in the evening and sat chatting in the level 2 foyer. on hindsight, that was really blatant of me. should have picked a less conspicuous spot. we had a great time catching up. (:
in the midst of that, mr lim came by with his tin whistle to show me the instrument and his part in the Singapore Festival Orchestra. by some stroke of luck, or i should say divine appointment, he is playing the Lord of the Rings Symphony in the upcoming Singapore Arts Festival. how cool is it that?! with just one day of practice, i must say he sounded really good. i shall go watch and support. naaaaice..
after that, i sent ms E off and went back to catch up on work. because i stayed back, i had a good chat with both mr glamourous and mr (big) G. it came about only because mr glamourous was frustrated at how things went for day 2 of dance fest. i hear our crew saying too that there’s virtually no publicity. i think we have saturated the home market, problem is that the rest of the world doesn’t know about it at all (almost!). minus friends of crew and dancers, i think very few know of it.
i related my anecdotes and highlighted my main gripes. why are people so spoilt to think that they should necessarily have an assistant at their disposal? i dun pull ranks and i really dun mind we work on par on all things. but i hate being sidelined whenever questions on marketing go straight past me. only because i really don’t think good decisions can be made on her own.
then again, she just goes straight to mr G all the time anyway. he said so himself, that she thinks he’s the only one who would listen to her. i guess we can’t blame her since we don’t agree with her ideas most times. and that the whole world makes fun of her all the time. but this to me reflects a lot more about her inner insecurities than anything. it’s almost like a small kid running off to the teacher each time she cannot deal with things. or a small kid running off to the parents to complain about the sibling who just bullied her. we’ll just see how mr G and mr glam deals with it.
enough about that. i then met up with wl, beebs, mr Ma, ms Do, mr Chr and peripheral others at lunar (clarke quay). ms khoo was too tired to attend so she wasn’t there. the place was quite a culture shock to me. first, we saw a white guy sing canto pop and banter with a chinese guy in cantonese. almost immediately after that, this chinese dude did In The End and then hokkien pop. i realized that i know the bassist of the band though. and when the dj spinned, he spoke too much and had a very strange mix of music. no artistic curation if you ask me. we went from hong kong to taiwan to bhangra-robics to mambo night.
as an aside, the crazy guy with a name too good for him was there too. he be the one who had a heated argument with me. funnily enough, i accidentally stepped on him the day before in wala’s. hehe. he tried to apologize and “make up” for whatever he felt he did or said wrong back in january. his reasons were illogical and that made it sound triply insincere. i dun think he even realizes that everything he says oozes of it.
i let him say what he wanted, shook hands and left it as it is. after awhile, he came by and tried to make me drink – claiming that he would send me back, that i was already high anyway, etc. i firmly said that i wasn’t gonna drink. he went on to try to “make up” again, and tried to hug me. nonsense. *cue rolling eyes* granted, he was intoxicated on both occasions. but frankly, i find that i can’t take him seriously and i don’t think he is capable of taking care of my friend.
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after awhile, we headed for home. i got back and i spotted this kitty cat which slept on my car some months back. i approached it slowly and took some (test) shots with my mom’s new compact camera. next thing i knew, it started being a kitty-camwhore, got playful with me rolling around on the car, causing soft thuds with its paws. it’s a pity the kitty was too cynical to play with or pet though. i left it alone after a failed attempt to sayang it.
i know i have already been awfully random with this post. but as a final closing, i thought it was v nice to just dwell in my own world today. taking my own sweet time playing with the kitty cat is one. doing whimsical things like drive off somewhere familiar to refresh my memories attached to it is another. penning my thoughts down is another. i like.. (:
timbre
was in town for an off-site meeting earlier in the afternoon and i hung around ‘cos the plan was to pick up a compact digital camera for shing² yeo. that kinda failed and i ended up spending loads of money myself. i’m ashamed but i bought 4 pairs of shoes :$ and shimmering body lotion too. i blew around SGD265. erm.. consolation is that they are all good buys, even though unplanned? :$
ok i shall not even attempt to justify my actions. i just splurged la. whatever.. hehe.
aniwaes. i met up with mr yeo to catch up for a bit since i was in the area. was supposed to pass him his present but i forgot to bring it ‘cos i rushed out of the house in the morning. learnt that he was playing at timbre tonight and i ended up going – partially ‘cos i wanted to talk to Jack too.
mr yeo bought me dinner. delicious..
it was enjoyable, even though i got assassinated by the trees there. (some unidentified falling object dropped on my forehead and it hurt okaaay!!)
it was funny how jack had to play his guitar facing mr yeo because the latter didn’t know the song they were playing. and it was hilarious how he was guessing at the chords. but still commendable cos he’s one of the few i know who still can follow despite not knowing the song. this amazing friend also can tell u the exact chord that is being sounded just by hearing it.
my only complaint for the night? i put up a song dedication with 3 song choices and none of it they could play. and only ‘cos mr yeo wasn’t familiar with them. hah! but t’was still fun.
the restless mind
have got so many things that i wanna write about, and was wondering if i should split them up – but it would make it fragmented.. although this might become too long and messy, i’ll just do this altogether anyways.
went for boons and mills’ wedding. a very happy occasion with the most interesting wedding programme. the band was excellent and it felt almost like a concert, with both groom and bride as lead singers at some point in time. one of the most light-hearted wedding services i’ve been to, the bride+groom’s jovial disposition and comical personalities shone through like spotlights. (:
