Sunday, December 25, 2005
X'mas Chalet!
My year-end chalet started on the 23rd. It was at Coasta Sands Pasir Ris.Met up with Weihong and Yongji at White Sands and did some shopping before loading up a taxi with all the barang-barang--- bags full of food to last us for the next few days. Chian Lih joined us later at the chalet just before dinner at White Sands again.
Our first actual destination was to watch a play entitled 'The Promise' by MeiQing at the Victoria Concert Hall. It was the first time I entered this pre-war monument
and like others of its kind, it looked very grand...
Me, Yongji and ChianLih After the performance
Our next destination was Momo! We had intended to go to the newly opened Ministry of Sound (MOS) but the queue seemed infinitely looong... It really could not be helped as it was a Friday night, plus the fact that it was 2 days before Christmas and we reached there quite late as well, at about 1130pm. Therefore, we had no choice but to go to the less popular clubs.
However, Momo was damn packed we found out, after we managed to enter despite the 21-year old age limit. We had to sqeeze our way through gyrating bodies, the smoke-filled dance hall to get our drinks and to find a spot to dance. Yj and I got ourselves Torquilla Pop, under yj's recommendation; while wh and Ll got a bottle of Corona each. The Torquilla was good I thought, but I decided not to buy any more drinks as I didn't want to spend too much. The smoke was not as bad as I initially thought, but the others complained much about it. The problems of smog from some other cities are just comparable to the amount of smoke in the club. The dancing part wasn't very interesting, I found that I had to keep looking at my watch hoping the time would go by faster. The music wasn't very nice too, and the place was so cramped that you would have to stop dancing if people were to walk pass you. Eventually, me and yj decided to get out as he wanted to take a breath of fresh air. Whew! Finally got out of that crowded place... Guess what happened next?
Me and yj walked all the way back to Mac at Clarke Quay to have supper and to sit down and relax AND WE REALIZED THAT the taxi that we took merely circled Clarke Quay and crossed over to the other side of the road to Momo!! The driver must have thought that we were dumb enough not to walk the 500 metres!
Later, under Chian Lih and Zhe Sheng's persuasion, we returned to the dance floor to dance a bit more... They and wh were the most enthusiastic among us. Later, we got seats at the side to watch a performance by a live band. It was great! =) But we were tired and some of us fell soon asleep on that comfy sofa.... Nearly 4am then... We left the place soon....
Caught the first train back to our chalet at 6am. Slept till lunch and Yongji got his car from home!! So we drove to meet Kangxun at White Sands and have lunch. I got to drive the car round the resort's carpark... 1st time driving an auto!! I was scared that the car would surge forward at first as autos had a bad reputation of surging forwards in carparks causing accidents but it turned out to be easier to drive than my dad's manual! I drove like a pro driver man!! Haha didn't expect driving an auto to be so easy... :p
Had the barbeque that night... yes... Christmas Eve... and their pa juniors didn't even bother to come help out cooking! So in the end, the seniors plus me plus zs had to do it!! Saw a lot of unfamiliar faces... some from dhs previously too... Kerfen came too... But none of them stayed overnight...
The second night was spent playing cards and received so many sms x'mas greetings that I couldn't concentrate on the game so I lost one or two rounds...haha... :p Slept early... too tired already...
25th... Went down to the beach to play freesbe... hard time running up and down fruitlessly trying to catch the freesbe. Went back home in the afternoon... so tired siah!! but with smiles on our faces! =)