Bye Pang! :(

I really hope you all don't mind reading expired posts...because Pang Ngee's already in Sweden for exchange for like 5 months already...HAHA!

Nevertheless, this is still a blog-worthy post because of the fantastic effort we put together to send Pang Ngee off :D

Why fantastic? Here's what we planned:

1) Way before his departure, while in Tioman, we already decided to buy us all a common souvenir from Tioman so that we can all wear it together and present it to Pang Ngee on his date of departure :D

2) So that's just the small part of the surprise...The bigger and more impromptu part of it was...Our send-off SONG MEDLEY for him! :D :D

Since we all came back from Tioman and went straight to the airport, I had all my barang-barang with me...which includes my guitar :D

On the bus to the airport, we suddenly thought of putting a medley of songs with edited lyrics and sing it to him :D Haha!

SO RIGHT THERE ON THE SBS BUS, WE WERE SINGING AND EDITING LYRICS OUT LOUD. HAHAHA! Yeah, since we occupied the whole back of the SBS bus, we were just gangsta singing to my guitar playing. Haha!

I can't remember the exact lyrics we came up with but basically we used the tunes of these 3 songs "You Belong With Me" by Taylor Swift, "Count On Me" by Bruno Mars and "I Won't Give Up" by Jason Mraz and added in our own lyrics :D Haha!

Yup, here's the visual aids for the chunk of "lecture notes" I typed above. Haha! I really wish my lecturers would give more visual aids and analogies in their teaching to help us conceptualize whatever theories they're uttering...HAHA! OK...yup, pictures! :D

Me with my guitar and ready to MEDLEY :D :)

You can see Chor Seng's and my Tioman t-shirts :D We bought it for everyone :)

Me & Pang Ngee standing tall with our Tioman t-shirts :D Yeah, he simply wore it over his shirt...haha

Yup, I will really miss Pang Ngee's presence, cheeky-ness, jokes and his oh-so-ticklish high-pitched laughter. HAHAHA!

The first time we met was during our PumpfestXV meeting and we clicked REALLY WELL. Our sense of humour was very much alike. Haha!

From there conversations were easy and filled with laughter as we exchanged jokes and made fun of people in Pumpfest...HAHA!

He's a really light-hearted guy who sincerely cares for his friends. He's the kind that'll come by you and ask "You ok not?" and he'll sometimes drop by and make small talk and gossip and all...Haha! Yup, hope he livens up Sweden too :D

So here's a group shot of us Pumpfest-ers from all generations..HAHA!

Pumpfest-ers! :D

Oh and the last picture is a random shot...haha. While photographer Vanessa was waiting for the different groups to ready themselves to take photo, she promptly flipped the DSLR over and we took a picture :D HAHA! LOL!

You can see Sean in the background trying to pop his head in between us but wasn't fast enough...HAHA! LOL!

Vanessa's "flip-shot" of us :D

I also realized how our eyebags are evenly matched in this picture...HAHAHA! LOL LOL! Smiling with your teeth will raise your cheeks which in turn will raise up your eyebags...So to avoid looking too sleepy with eyebags and all, try smiling without raising your cheeks too much. LOL!

Interesting discovery eh? LOL! Yupyup, even as I blog this, Pang Ngee has already thoroughly enjoyed his 4 months++ in Sweden and Europe.

He has sent us several TOTALLY BEAUTIFUL photos of Sweden's beautiful landscape. I realize how barren and lacking in natural beauty Singapore is when I look at his photos.

I was telling everyone in our PumpfestXV chat group when he shared the photo with us "Whoa, those pictures you took are like taken from the internet one lor...haha" Indeed. They really look like scenes of National Geographic Channel and all.

But not all's well over there for him...He told us that some of the ang-mohs there are racist and look down on   Asians. He was telling us that in his university's OG (orientation group), some of them wouldn't even make eye contact with him and his fellow NTU friends.

They'd clique amongst themselves and act as if they were not there or transparent or non-existent. Not all of them are like that though says Pang Ngee in a thankful tone. Haha!

Yup, when it's time for you to come back, Pang Ngee, it'll be time for me and my whole gang to go CHINA for exchange!! WHOO HOO!! :D :D

Will update more on that when details are more or less finalized! :D For now, we're still missing you badly Pang Ngee!