I think I
woke up at 12pm or 1pm…as usual…HAHA! After having a lil’ leftover breakfast
that Jamie & Zhi Sheng cooked, I went on to read my Bible J
Chor Seng
already left to meet Xuan Qi and the rest (as usual..HAHA!) while we nua-ed at
home. Haha!
The moment
I finished my quiet time was the moment Zhi Sheng suggested “Let’s go gym!”
Haha! God’s timing is indeed perfect. LOL!
So off we
were to the gym to do some workout :D
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| Me! :D |
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| Zhi Sheng on the treadmill :D |
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| Soon Hwee doing weights...I know...he looks like he's falling off the chair..HAHA! |
If you’re
wondering where did we gym at…you’re gonna get a really expensive answer…LOL!
Beside our
“condo” or apartment is a really atas hotel called Dorsett Shanghai :D I think
it’s a 3 or 4 star hotel. Inside it is a really ATAS gym. HAHA!
The gym is
pretty small… Four to five people’s a crowd already in this small gym…But it’s
still atas because it’s very clean, well taken care of and their facilities are
well-maintained. I know it’s like DUH it’s a hotel…but, in China, you rarely
see such well-kept facilities. Haha.
The most
awesome thing about the gym is its toilet. The toilet has a SAUNA! LOL! It also
has a towel rack by which we can freely take from and it has shower facilities.
The next
thing you should be wondering is…how did we get in? HAHA! The thing is, WE JUST
WALK IN LIKE A BOSS! LOL!
Of course
we dressed down…not with our winter down coats, scarf, ski cap, gloves and all.
We simply donned a jacket, track pants and sports shoes and WALK IN LIKEABOSS!
LOL!
The gym is
unmanned! There’s actually a counter there but no one’s there! Haha! Their
staffs are probably slacking and eating snakes…HAHA!
Oh, over
here, they call it “打酱油” which, in our Singapore terms
means “jiak zhua” or “eat snake”…HAHA!
Yup, there
we were, illegally gym-ing #likeaboss. HAHA! LOL! The gym has only 2
treadmills, 2 cycling machines and one weight machine for lats pulldown and
stuff. The rest were benches and dumbbells.
Gym-ing
halfway, I over-exerted myself and let out a manly “AHHH!” which activated
their 打酱油 staff over! LOL!
She walked
in looked at us and walked out. LOL! I think she thought we were guests because
when she walked in we were SPEAKING ENGLISH :D LOL!
If we were
to be conversing in mandarin, she might think we were some locals who sneaked
in. HAHA!
The best
part is, after we’re done gym-ing, we also walked out LIKE-A-BOSS by the main
entrance. We even greeted the staff at the counter as one of them opened the
main door for us. HAHAHA!
Yup, that
was a really interesting #Likeaboss experience. TOTALLY. HAHAHA! We’re gonna do
that for the next 6 months man. HAHA!
After the
gym session, our tummies were rumbling and we called 外卖as usual :D We
ordered some KFC family feast. HAHA!
The chicken
was good BUT I think they shortchanged us 2 pieces of chicken! We were
like…”Eh, why like so little ah?” LOL! -.-“
We didn’t
bother to pursue the matter because it was just way too troublesome and the
price was not worth our efforts. Haha.
Yup, we
then got changed and got ready to meet the rest to SING K!! YAY! :D HAHA! Gareth
came over to our place to meet us.
OH, talking
about Gareth coming over…this was how the war began! LOL LOL LOL!! Actually,
they signaled war in the afternoon already.
I don’t
think I shall blog about this in detail unless I have the time to. In a nutshell,
all of us (11 in total) were planning to go on a CNY trip together.
However,
the trip planners only planned the trip for 8 people and didn’t inform the rest
(which they will ferociously deny). I figured the planners did that because
they didn’t want such a big group but didn’t know how to tell the others not to
tag along.
The 11 of
us make up 3 different houses. Basically, one of my housemates abandoned us (according to him, he was blinded by a fit of rage) to go on a trip with another house which had
a pretty girl whom he has continually showed favour towards for an extended
period of time. HAHAHA!
This he
will also viciously deny but thus far, his actions have spoken otherwise and
many friends have voiced their displeasure in his 重色情友 ways. So
yeah, this is how it began…on a lazy Saturday afternoon. LOL.
OK, back to
the less-tensional part of the story…HAHA! We were going to SING K!!
WHHHEEEEEEEE! :D So Zhi Sheng, Soon Hwee, Gareth and myself hopped onto a cab
and headed there.
The cab
driver dropped us at the wrong outlet -.-“ Haha! There are like several 上海歌城 in that area -_-“ It was around 人民广场/陆家嘴 area.
Thankfully,
the outlet that everyone was at already was just a 10 minute walk away.
Whew…LOL! If not, we’d be pretty pissed.
We walked
in to a rather reserved atmosphere I felt and I was all ready to lighten it up
:D HAHA! After the four of us arrived, I got us to do a lil’ introduction
because there was a new face…Gareth was like “How come got stranger one?” LOL
LOL!
The new
face was Chloe, a Singaporean 上海nese who is also an NTU student on
exchange! Haha. Yup, shall let the pictures take over from here :D
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| From left: Ting Yi, Soon Hwee, Gareth, ME, Serene, Shu Min & Chloe :D |
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| Warming up to each other's vocals...haha! |
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| ME! HAHAHA! :D |
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| Me again...+ Chloe |
Oh by the way, the girl in the photo above pictured with me is Chloe, the hybrid Singaporean-Shanghainese. Haha! She seems unimpressed with my vocal competency. LOL LOL!
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| Yu Fen, Me, Ting Yi & Shu Min :D |
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| Me, Jamie, Zhi Sheng & Soon Hwee :D |
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| From left: Yu Fen, Ting Yi, Shu Min, Me, Gareth, Soon Hwee & Chloe :D |
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| Ting Yi, Me, Jamie & Zhi Sheng :) |
I must say
the group of us here can REALLY SING. The 2 best singers in the house were Soon
Hwee and Yu Fen!!
None of us expected
Soon Hwee to sing that well. LOL! Because his normal talking voice/tone was
kinda like normal? It didn’t have a unique tone to it. Haha.
But when he
took the mike, it was a whole different story! LOL! He imitates the original
singer’s voice VERY WELL. His voice really turned heads. Haha!
The next
one is Yu Fen. Her voice is also *WOW*. Her rendition of the chinese songs are
also really similar to the artist’s one. She also know how to harmonize. Level
up. LOL!
When I
heard her voice I was really wow-ed by it and I was like “Is it sung for me one
or not?” LOL LOL!
Soon Hwee
& Yu Fen did a few duets together. It was simply amazing…用中文来形容是叫天衣无缝!
Haha! It was really seamless perfection.
Because
they kept duet-ing, we started stirring :D HAHAHAHA! Soon Hwee found his
singing mate! So happy for him! LOL LOL!
For me, I
covered almost all the English songs. HAHA! Oh, and my rendition of “童话” won Soon
Hwee’s appraisal. HAHA! He was like “哇,唱得充满感情” HAHA!
Anyway,
I’ve already been singing in church for service since like…secondary 4? So, no
count. Haha! LOL!
And oh,
Jamie bought us all egg tarts! J Jamie’s always the caring mother who never
fails to provide and care for us :D Haha! Really glad to have her as a
housemate. Haha!
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| Egg tarts from Lillian Bakery :D |
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| EGG TARTSS!! :D |
The most
memorable part? I just started singing the song “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias when
Shu Min teased me “Hero! Such a nice song! BUT, sung by Jonavan ah?!” HAHA!
I was
singing the verse at that time “Would you dance, if I asked you dance…” and
when I heard what she said, this was my melodic reply…*play the tune of the
verse to the lyrics*
“Shu Min,
Can you please shut your mouth.” HAHAHA! I couldn’t continue either because of
the laughter. Yi Ting, seated beside me was like “Whoa, you just owned her
la…now she very sad already.”
HAHA! After
that, she really became much more quiet and everyone kept blaming me. -_-“
HAHA! But she’s fine la…After that I asked her if she’s fine and…of course she
is! Haha!
Shu Min’s a
really spontaneous, fun-loving person if you don’t know her. She’s the one that
kept our K-boxing alive by adding comments to the music’s MV. HAHAHA!
She also
sings very well. I think this group of us are really good singers…like totally.
Because when I go sing with friends, usually only half of them are vocally
competent…but for this group of untrained non-musicians (if my assumption is
not wrong), it’s really impressive. Haha!
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| From left: Kian Yong, Chloe, Yu Fen, Ting Yi, ME, Zhi Sheng, Soon Hwee, Gareth, Shu Min & Chloe :D |
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| Take 2 of all of us! :) |
After our
3hour++ session of belting out many English and Chinese songs, we decided
to…NOT GO HOME…but eat SUPPER! HAHA!
It was my
crazy idea actually but the rest kinda liked my idea too. HAHA! So off we were
in 3 cabs to our supper place…
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| Chao Zhou Claypot Porridge City :D Directly translated...LOL |
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| Me holding their menu :D |
This place
is always offering 打七折. HAHA! In china, they don’t go buy
30% discount or 50% off kinda thing. They go by percentage of original price
paid.
So in this
case, 打七折 means you only pay 70% of the total price. This means, 30% discount in
Singapore’s way of advertising. Haha!
Yup, this
restaurant is like always on 70% discount. We walked past this restaurant like
1 week ago and the staff were also going “打七折啊! 打七折” LOL.
This
restaurant pricing wasn’t too expensive…if you compare with Singapore’s
restaurant…HAHA!
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| The most exx porridge is 168RMB! |
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| Menu :D |
One BIG,
fat pot of crab porridge costs only 168RMB! That’s around SGD$34! Ok, it’s
expensive, but it fed TEN people…Ok, nine, since Shu Min didn’t eat. HAHA!
We bought 2
BIG POTS and the 10 of us couldn’t finish it! LOL! Basically we paid around
SGD$7.50 per person for premium seafood porridge. Haha. No kidding. It was
good.
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| Bowls ready :D |
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| Take 2 :D LOL! |
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| Seafood porridge pot :D See the crab sticking out? HAHA! |
The only
setback for this restaurant are its teacups…The teacups are PUNY!! Fill it to
the brim and it can only fill like a fifth of your mouth! -_-“ Haha! No
kidding.
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| Massively zoomed in...HAHA! |
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| Toy teacups and teapot...SUPER SMALL -.-" haha! |
I was this
close to drinking directly from the pot man…HAHA! I had to like drink 5 teacups
to at least feel that my thirst is sort of quenched. Haha!
Yup, conversations
were good and the fellowship over the porridge pots were lively :D Here’s a
group picture of all of us :D
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| Supper-ers! :D |
Next up is…the
wintry walk back…HAHA! Since we were like walking back in the middle of the
night at like 2am, the road was COMPLETELY EMPTY.
So I
actually posed for Jamie’s camera in the middle of 4 road intersections…HAHAHA!
#likeaboss LOL!
However, the
pictures turned out to be #likeaBLUR -.- HAHAHA! Nevertheless, my effort of
posing has been expended…so I shall show you the blur shots. HAHA!
In photography, such an effect is called the "bokeh" effect...if I didn't remember wrongly. haha! So yeah, Jamie zai photographer ok? LOL!
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| Me in the middle of the road at 2am! :D |
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| Failed jump shot...haha! |
Yup, that
was my day, well spent J I’ve been sleeping really little doing up all
these posts man…so please appreciate it and READ EVERY WORD. HAHAHAHA!
Till next
time homies…HAHA!
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