It’s the
weekends! J Boy
am I looking forward to weekends once work has started. Haha. I totally know
what the TGIF feeling feels like now…HAHAHA! LOL!
Yeap, I
lazily crawled out of bed and reluctantly washed myself up and I was about to
make my usual breakfast of fresh milk with cornflakes when I remembered – IT’S
SATURDAY! LOL.
We decided
to make breakfast more special this time J On weekdays we needa rush off to
work and thus we keep breakfast really simple, which consists of only 2 main
actions – pouring fresh milk into a cup and pouring cornflakes into it. Haha.
This time,
we made…
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| PIZZZAAAA :D |
PIZZA :D
Ok, we didn’t exactly make it. We’re all too lazy to do that. Haha! We bought
it from the supermarket long ago. So, we didn’t make it, we simply…heated it
up. HAHA!
Today’s
itinerary is to eat with the rest at some dim-sum restaurant and from there
decide what to do next. Haha.
So we got
dressed up and we waited REAL long for our most well-trained soldier (NDU) in
our house…HAHA! While waiting for him to beautify himself, Jamie decided to
whip out her camera…haha
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| Chor Seng, Soon Hwee & Me :D |
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| Jamie with her new white beret & I :) haha! |
After like
10 photos, Zhi Sheng finally came out and we were like “NO WONDER…” HAHA! He
came out with his hair fully styled…pushed backward in a really cool fashion.
Haha.
Not many
people suit his kinda hairstyle. Another friend of mine also has this hairstyle
– Vernon Chow. HAHA! The push-back-hair hairstyle well suits them.
Here’s a
side view of his hairstyle…LOL! And yes, we finally got moving…hahaha!
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| Zhi Sheng's hair...side view :D haha! |
After much
deliberation, we finally decided to walk to heed Zhi Sheng’s suggestion and go
to Domino’s pizza to eat.
On the way
there, we walked through a really pretty stretch of the sidewalk lined by trees
and shrubs. And Jamie was like “this place sooo nice!! Let’s take picture!!”
Haha. Her high-pitched cutesy voice makes all the difference. LOL!
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| F4. LOL! |
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| Take 2 :D |
Talking
about Jamie’s cutesy soft high pitched voice…We were discussing about where to
go during the 1 week CNY break at home. Everyone was throwing their opinions
around and Jamie was also doing just that…BUT, her voice failed to cut through
our barbaric babbling. HAHAHA!
So she was
like *raises hand to speak* and shouting “EHHHH!”, “But I think we should see
snow…EHHH!!” *raises hand to speak* HAHAHAHA!
I didn’t
notice that until I turned to look at her. HAHAHA! She was indeed drowned out
by our cantankerous chatter. LOL!
I almost
ROFL at that scene. She was like, some cute primary school girl trying to make
herself heard. Awwwww…LOL!
So yeah,
that’s Jamie for you, for now. LOL. Anyway, where were we? OH, we were heading
toward Domino’s pizza.
Guess what?
After walking there, we found out, there’s no Domino’s pizza. Haha! Mr. NDU is
effective on water, not on land…HAHAHAHA! Just kiddin :D
So we then
walked aimlessly in search of food. While walking we passed by a shop that
SELLS GUITARSSS!!! I was wanting to buy a guitar since the moment I set foot on
this winter ground. Haha!
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| GUITARSSSS!! :D :D :D |
The guitars
sold there were around 800RMB which is around SGD$160. The guitars looked fine
but I’m not willing to fork out more than a hundred bucks to buy a guitar here.
I searched 淘宝recently and
actually found really good and cheap guitars :D I already ordered one acoustic
guitar for around 278元 :D That’s like only, SGD$55.60!!
There even cheaper ones though but I fear for its quality. Haha.
Yeah, pass
the guitar shop was a really awesome restaurant. It’s awesome on hindsight.
While we were standing and flipping its menu, we were actually hesitant. Haha.
But the prices weren’t too bad and we’ve walked really far so we jumped in :D
Haha.
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| Self-explanatory picture. Caption not needed. Haha! |
The restaurant’s
called 家常菜 which literally translates to “House common vegetables” HAHA! We were
escorted by our waitress to the second floor which was completely empty! So we
basically had the whole floor to ourselves! LOL!
The food
there was GOOD. The price was also really good. We each paid around SGD$6 for restaurant-standard food and service! :D Here comes the food porn…as
usual…haha!
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| Dishes served :) |
The yellow
dish is 蟹粉炒蛋 if I remember correctly. Haha! Some crab
essence egg dish. It was SUPER SWEET -.-“ We didn’t finish that dish…LOL.
The next
interesting dish is the Gong Bao Ji…the thing about this dish is, it isn’t
written as 公宝鸡…but it was written as公爆鸡! LOL LOL!
That means…EXPLODING CHICKEN!! HAHAHA! Anyway, the exploding chicken wasn’t too
bad :D
But I think
the best dish is the 麻婆豆腐. Yes, it’s SUPER OILY…that’s
something that’ll never change. But the taste was good. It was neither too
salty nor too spicy. It was just right :D
For the
other dishes, I can’t remember what they are…LOL! I only remember our overall
experience was really good. Food was good and the service was also good :D This
is one place we wouldn't mind returning to J
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| Me outside 家常菜 :) |
Yup, after
our hearty lunch, we proceeded to walk to the nearest MRT station…which is 花木路 metro
station. On the way there, we saw a building that really resembles Vivocity!
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| Vivocity!! CHINA-STYLE. HAHA! |
Am I
homesick or does this building totally resemble Vivocity’s structural design?
Haha! And yes, it’s also a shopping mall.
“Vivocity”
is pretty near 花木路 station so we hopped on to proceed to the
location of our dinner place which is at 新天地 :D (if I
didn’t remember wrongly. LOL) Yes, it’s kinda early to dinner so we went there
to 逛一逛first.
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| Walking around in 新天地 area :D |
There was
nothing much to shop there…there was nothing special and the prices were also
nothing special. Haha. Nevertheless, we still walked around to
look-see-look-see.
I didn’t
buy anything…but Chor Seng did buy a pair of Uniqlo long sleeved shirt...I was
tempted to buy as well but there really wasn’t much of any need so I chose to
be thrifty :D HAHA! Ikr…I’m so disciplined…LOL!
Well I did
spend money though…on FOOD :D
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| Cream puff & me :D |
This cream
puff thingy was awesome! I totally forgot the name of this awesome bite! I
think it’s kinda like chewy junior…It’s a lil’ crispy puff with creamy custard
inside.
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| Cream puff - China style and china price..haha! |
It’s also
super cheapppp…haha…The food here really is cheap la…Haha. Even the restaurants
are cheap. SGD$50 can give a group of 5 a good and filling restaurant meal.
We then met
up with the rest and walked down a very nice stretch of road in 新天地. It was
littered with lights and restaurants J
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| Me at the stretch of restaurants :D |
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| Candid version. LOL |
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| Me, Shumin, Jamie, Chor Seng & Gareth :D |
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| Take 2 :) |
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| The Venture Boys...Yong Qiang, Me, Gareth and Kah Wei...less Chor Seng...his heart is always with someone else...hahaha! |
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| From left: Serene, Ting Yi, Jia Min, Gareth, Kah Wei, Chor Seng, Soon Hwee, Chor Seng, Yong Qiang, Jamie, Me, Yu Fen, Shu Min & Zhi Sheng :D |
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| All of us! :) |
After much
walking and spamming photos, we then headed to some Chinese dim sum restaurant
to eat :D
It was
nothing fantastic. The service was also nominal. The only thing is, we ate HA
GAO! LOL. We didn’t eat it for like…since we left Singapore? Haha…So that was a
sweet reminder…haha!
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| Ha Gao!! :D :D |
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| Blur shot of us roomies :D Thanks ah Shumin! LOL! |
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| Soon Hwee, Jamie, Zhi Sheng, Chor Seng and ME :D |
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| Shumin & I...taken on her S3 front camera :D |
Oh, and
this is my favourite picture of the day…taken just outside the restaurant near some bridge :D Haha.
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| Me in Jamie's white beret :D |
After our
makan, guess where we went to? It’s a Saturday night…so we all went to club! :D
haha. Yi Xiang then took the lead to bring us to the club.
After taking
like 2 train stops and 15mins of walking, he realized he got the wrong address
on his google map! LOL! He was really pissed with himself. HAHA!
I
approached him and he was like “My bloody phone gave me the wrong address”.
Haha! Officer pride in play now…LOL LOL! I was like “Chill la, no one complain
about anything what.” LOL!
Nevertheless, there's a nice snake sculpture at where we hor-lan at...Plaza 66. Haha! Many of us took pic of it like it's some attraction...LOL!
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| Snake sculpture at where we got lost...haha! |
There's also another really random LOL shop name along the 新天地 stretch of road. I saw it as we were backtracking our way back to the club.
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| Bo Concept!! HAHAHA! |
Anyway, guess what?
The club was actually RIGHT AT WHERE WE ATE!! I think it’s just beside the
building of the restaurant we ate at! LOL LOL! So…yeah…we all backtracked and
found our destination…Whew…LOL!
It’s my
first time ever stepping into a club. LOL. It was entirely what I expected it
to be…loud, BLARING and totally aimless music with the heavy smell of
cigarettes.
But what I
didn’t expect from the club is…they played ENGLISH SONGS! I thought we’d all be
grooving away with their Chinese clubbing songs. HAHA!
After
clubbing, my entire shirt and jeans smelled of cigarettes. It’s as if I’ve been
smoking unceasingly for 3 to 4 hours! My clothes TOTALLY STINK!
Another
thing about the club is…it’s EXPENSIVE. Ok, to my clubber friends, it’s cheap
compared to Singapore… -.-“ wows..haha! One table booking with 2 bottles is
around 4000RMB if I remember correctly…that’s around SGD$40/pax.
Anyway, the
club we went to is called “M2”. The weird thing about this club is…There’s NO
ENTRANCE FEE! Anyone can just walk in and walk out anytime they want! LOL.
And we did
just that…we went in and realized there was no table available so we went out
and re-org ourselves…when we got a table, we went out, AGAIN, to settle
payment…haha!
After a
while, we felt we should deposit our bags so we went out again to deposit our
bags at the bag deposit counter…LOL LOL!
So the club
is like a public toilet…you can go in and out for as many times as you want and
whenever you want…haha!
The bad
thing about the club is…IT’S SO BLOODY SQUEEZY!! We were basically being
squeezed around. LOL! And their dance floor also has tables and chairs for
paying customers and they are barricaded with queue poles -.-“
Because of
that, we keep tripping over the base of the queue poles or bumping into their
huge sofa chairs and all. This makes the dance floor even SQUEEZIER -.-“ Haha…
Here are 2
photo attempts in the club…Haha! Try to find the disco ball in the picture…LOL
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| The clubbing scene...LOL |
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| Take 2 :D |
The
interesting thing about the club is, every 30minutes, they’ll have an item.
Some black guy with a few dancers will go up and try to hype everyone up by
singing and dancing vulgarly.
They also
have many scantily clad table-top dancers scattered all across the club dancing
seductively to the heavy music. Here’s a pic I managed to sneak out…haha
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| The table-top dancer...like literally. LOL! |
If you’re
wondering why the picture must be “sneaked” out…it’s because they don’t allow
you to take pictures. I have no idea why.
I tried to
take the picture earlier with my handphone but the staff stopped me. Every
table had a “waiter” attached to it so there are like tons of them all over
waiting to stop you from taking photo of the dancers and singers. The shot above
was taken when he wasn’t around :D LOL!
At the
dance floor, Wei Jiat suddenly had his “high-mode” turned on and he began
jumping around and throwing his arms alternatingly in the air…LOL! He was
smiling and laughing as he did that…LOL!
Wei Jiat is
usually collected and quiet, but not this time…HAHA! I guess a few cups changed
his behavior…HAHA!
The MOST
interesting part of my whole clubbing experience? There was this SUPER TIPSY,
inebriated lady that couldn’t even keep balance. Her boyfriend hooked one of
her arm.
Despite his
arm-hooking efforts, she still fell face front onto me like…*SMACKS* My
reaction? I caught her arm to prevent her from falling.
Then her
boyfriend (with his arm still hooked around hers) was like…*Walks over* and
gave me a series of nasty pats on my back with the
“What-do-you-think-you’re-doing” face while saying “好了好了…”
I was like
“Ohh…” and walked away. LOL. He should’ve thanked me for sacrificing my hands
to catch his girlfriend man…HAHAHA! LOL!
Yeah, it
was an interesting 4 hour experience altogether but I wasn’t too ill-prepared
for it though. I knew it would turn out something like that.
I don’t
understand why people would pay so much to drink and spoil their livers and to
dance so many hours away to senseless songs and meaningless beats. Sadly, it’s
what most people are giving their free time to.
The loud
music is kinda like Heart of God church’s worship session though. HAHA! Ok, our
worship sessions in church are relatively softer compared to the club.
The
difference is SO SIGNIFICANT. The club’s songs simply bring disillusionment and
it just makes you gesticulate wildly to their dirty beat.
In church,
the songs bring so much faith, so much hope that sometimes my eyes and heart just
can’t contain it and it simply overflows. Church simply reminds me that with
God, there is so much more to live for in life.
I walked
out of the club smelling like a chain smoker and feeling totally drained and
empty. I felt like I wasted my life there.
For church,
I always walk out of it with new hope and a new love…I walk out reminded that
I’m here to love the many broken people around me. I know that whatever I
received in church will overflow out of my life and into others’. J
In spite of
the level of depraved hedonism in the club, I still found myself praying “Lord,
these are your people…You love them…”
As I was
praying I remembered watching this documentary called “Father of Lights” where
2-3 Christians went into a club to share the gospel and amazingly, people were
saved!
Ok, random
spirituality aside…hahaha! Here’s the rest of the pictures we took. Didn’t take
much pictures during clubbing…haha.
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| Right after clubbing...haha |
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| Gareth & I right outside the club :D |
We left the
club around 2am+. It closes at 4am if I didn’t remember wrongly. So yup, that
was a day well spent.
Cabbed back
and when we stepped into the house, Chor Seng was like “WHOA! 你们的烟味很重! DAMMM
SMELLY!!”
And we
couldn’t even tell. LOL. That’s how bad it is. When I sniffed my jeans and
shirt, then did I realize how bad it was. Haha
So yeah, had
a fun time with all of them J And through this outing, I got to know Serene,
Yu Fen and Ting Yi. Ting Yi was actually with her mum throughout! LOL.
Her mum was
really cute. When I asked about Ting Yi and about her, she’ll go on rattling
about Ting Yi’s history and Ting Yi will be like “Mum, don’t need to tell
people my entire history”…HAHA!
Ting Yi’s a
full-fledged jiak kan tang girl. HAHA! When she opened her mouth, you can tell
from her command of English that Chinese was a pretty foreign language to her.
LOL!
She can
speak la…but her English is really power. LOL! Combined with her rich alto
voice, the kan tang deal is sealed. HAHA!
Yu Fen is
the other extreme, she speaks like perfect mandarin! Her 口音and 音调真的非常标准! I
think her spoken chinese puts every chinaman to shame. LOL!
The locals
here like to eat up and garble up their words. But when you here Yu Fen speak,
the pure-ness and exactness of each word’s pronunciation simply makes you feel
unworthy to converse with her in mandarin. HAHA!
And there’s
also Serene. She’s the one with the husky tone of voice. Haha! She’s also a
very nice and ready-to-go girl. Haha! She’s also really easy to talk to :D You
don’t have to do all the talking, she’ll do 50% of it. LOL!
Lastly, I
also got to know Jia Min better. Haha! I already know her but throughout this
outing, I talked to her a fair bit more than the rest.
She’s a
really nice and quiet girl on the outside…but when you get to know her, I think
she’s actually a really bubbly and spontaneous kinda person. HAHA!
I
discovered that she’s an IVP SWIMMER!!! *Kangaroo kena spotlight* HAHAHA! She
was like “Jonavan, you also hall 6 one ah?” and from there I asked her how she
managed to stay in hall and that’s when I discovered this secret. LOL!
She also
challenged me “I sure swim faster than you one la…we can always challenge” in
her alto-soprano vocal ranged voice. Haha! LOL LOL!
Oh and…I
also confirmed that Wei Jiat is a Christian J Haha! He’s in some Baptist church I
think. Haha. But yeah, glad to know we have another one on our team :D
Yupyup, it
was an interesting day indeed. :D
