absolutum dominium

This week is a week of birthdays. It seems I'm celebrating one every night. There's still tomorrow and Thurs! And a HC taekwondo outing on Fri night. Yeesh.

And it seems all I do is meet people I know everywhere. Amazing.

Anyway last night we (the Home Team Scholars) celebrated Leng Lee's birthday (belated). We met at Marche for dinner, and there was almost full-attendence, barring Johnny who was in Berkelah at the time. Ivan, Qicong, Kailin, me, Debiao and he even brought his gf along! And if the food at Marche wasn't enough, we headed down to Coffee Bean to nua, and gosh it was just calorie loading.

But it was so much fun to meet up with them again. Talk-cock session, esp with the king of corn Debiao, and everyone forever suanning poor Kailin over her waitressing job at Cantina. Oh, and of course, we always talk about exchange programmes and police attachments and the excitement of raiding some nightclub or disco (not tt that will happen in June for me I think), and driving and well, it just is very fun to meet up with them coz these guys are just really genuine people.

And Qicong took 171 back with me even though it's 30 min slower than his 190, and we just chatted on the bus. And he totally complimented me by saying tt I'm the kind of person tt is very hard on myself, but not on other people. We were recalling the taekwondo days back at Hwa Chong. He said I was one of the few girls who took training seriously. But my point was tt tt was because I wanted to improve. I wanted to spar better, kick faster, punch harder; whereas a lot of other girls were just there for the fun of it. Motivation makes all the difference.

And gosh it seems we're ALL going for exchange. Me to Canada, Debiao to US, Johnny to UK, Qicong to Switzerland, Ivan to Finland, Leng Lee to Sweden, and Kalin hoping to apply to Canada or somewhere around too.

Wow.

Today I had to go back to school, and coincedentally I met Marc and Lionel. Ended up having lunch with them at Fong Seng (which was fantastic coz I thought I was going to have lunch alone today). I overdosed on the chilli on my nasi lemak. But oh gosh I think they're very cool people. They're a lot of fun to be with even though I don't know them tt well. SO warm and friendly and funny. :) And Lionel's car is so drool-worthy. BM 5 series with automated programming. SO comfortable.

Oh, and Lionel dropped me off at the NJ bus stop, where this Indian guy from India (but who speaks impeccable English) struck up a conversation with me. Apparently he's a teacher for 10 Indian exchange students who are studying @ NYGH and SCGS, and while they're here he's their chaperone. And he was just telling me how beautiful he found Singapore, and it takes a travel to some not-so-wealthy country *hint hint* to fully appreciate the beauty of this place. Oh, but he says it's expensive here. He's staying at a budget hotel, and he says it costs $20 a night! That's expensive, coz in India you can get a room for 100 rupees a night. Which is SG $4. And a cup of tea costs 5 rupees only.

In the evening, we (the dragonboat team) were to celebrate Melissa's 21st (belated) birthday. I'd planned it as a sort of surprise. I'd take her to Swensen's on the pretext of it just being the both of us, and then she would see the entire team and be totally surprised! But unfortunately the cat got leaked out of the bag early (YEESH) and I'm a lousy liar, so while I was trying to stall for time she already knew. And when we walked to Swensen's her "Oh! What a surprise!" acting was so contrived everyone just sian diao.

But dinner at Swensen's was fun. I had some chicken thing and my beloved Swensen's Frosted Chocolate Malt. Heaven. And we got her a slice of ice-cream cake and gave her our presents. The team got her a shoe bag and havianas! And I drew her a picture of her and myself (bought the photo frame yesterday with the Home Team Scholars) as well as got her a bracelet.

The juniors were totally si geena. As usual. Cindy and Yirang. AIYOH. I don't recall being this si geena as a junior. And it's only a 1 year age gap difference!!! Haha. Thank God for Jul. Who's a bit more sane until she tried to imitate paddling... with an ice-cream spoon. HMM. And ooh... I want a paddle of my own. As long as it's not Cha'pion. Cha'pion makes a Cha'pion out of you.

And after dinner we didn't really know what to do. Wanted to watch a movie, but House of Wax only had the 1st 2 rows, and not everyone wanted to watch Coach Carter. In the end we decided to go Alleybar and nua (Vic's suggestion). But the door guy said the min age was 21 and as not all of us were 21, we detoured to Acid Bar instead. Which was a much better idea. We got couches. Was a little cramped and everyone had to really squeeze, but it was fun. AND they had live music. Only 2 guys and their guitars, but boy were they good. I loved the rusty edge to the singer's voice. And he sang songs like Matchbox Twenty's Unwell, U2's Staring at the Sun, Maroon 5's Sunday Morning, Sugar Ray's Every Morning, and even Howie Day's Collide!!! Oh gosh songs tt I just love.

Yunshan wanted to dedicate a song to Melissa, so I decided to dedicate The Verve Pipe's Freshmen. Although I should have tried for Lifehouse's You and Me since I believe they might have played it. And the drinks are ex. I ordered a Blowjob again coz I only like shooters. And Melissa ordered a peppermint martini tt tasted like Listerine; Wendz a chocolate martini tt didn't taste very chocolatey; Vic ordered 2 Charonnays (but they were good), Meiping a Tequila Sunrise tt was mild (and according to Cindy, not a dog), Serene a Manhattan Sweet (tt didn't look at all sweet) and Cindy a Corona. And Yirang and Jul ordered the housepours which were 1-for-1.

And later just to pass the time we decided to order a jug of beer (2 for the price of 1) and play a drinking game. I think Melissa drank the most coz she had to take Angie's and Yunshan's drinks as well, and for some reason Yunshan kept kena-ing. Then again so did Wendy and Wenya. Must be the red outfits. Or according to Yirang, the bad fenshui. I only kena twice. Just so happened it was in a row.

And once again when I came home, I had to pretend to my father tt I can't hold my alcohol. Till now, he still thinks I'm a damn lousy drinker. BWAHAHA.

*muakz*

Once again, Happy Birthday Melissa Pei!!! Aka Mona. AKA "BOSS". Wahahaha.