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Saturday, May 13, 2006

exciting days =)

lunch with the sec2 clique on wed - fiona, ruth, grace (and me of course!) at menotti! haha... had their paninis again, and we ordered different kinds, and shared sandwiches all around. and we all ordered different gelato flavours too! my favourite is still the vanilla one. i seriously think that they use orange blossom water in it. the fragrance is so exceptional. gosh. their other gelato flavours were jampacked with flavour. my pistachio was like "WOAH pistachio" i even got that salty grainy taste in my mouth which i get when i eat pistachios from the packet at CNY. and so were all the others we tried - red berry yoghurt, passionfruit (which made me feel like i was bathing because currently im using the body shop's passionfruit showergel), chocmint etc. =)
on a non-fooding note, it was wonderful to meet up with them again! =) spent like 4hrs just chitchatting about everything, and as always, ruth tells us about her exploits overseas whilst training or competing (she's a national fencer, an almost-professional athlete!) - most recently, to kuwait, where even the poor live in bungalows sponsored by govt handouts. amazing stuff.

then i went on a jaunt to sentosa with these people! joshua, sheryl, (me), zhenzhen and marcus! we got free entry into sentosa because marcus is a member of the still-presently-nonexistent-sentosa countryclub! haha. why his parents would buy a membership of a club that is still unbuilt eludes me. but wells, i shant say more.

we went on the new sentosa luge! im trying to figure out how the helmet fits. somehow it couldnt really fit my head. maybe it was too small. HEHE MORE BRAINS! yeah right.

for 8bucks, you get a single ride up the chairlift, and then a luge ride down the hill. i was on the same chairlift as joshua and sheryl. zhenzhen and marcus were in front! sheryl and i kept taking pics on the chairlift, but its so open, we were deathly afraid of dropping our precious cameras. scary stuff here. im a little afraid of heights, and there's only a little barrier separating me from the jungle bush below. gahhh. zz and i were damn afraid we'd drop our slippers too. altogether it was a fun experience. hehe.

zhenzhen and the "luges". honestly i dont know what these vehicles are called but they are powered by gravity and controlled by bicyclehandle-like-brakes. we all get on-the-spot lessons on how to operate these things.

and once they ascertain that you can operate the thing, they give you a "very good" or "well done" stamp on your hand! hilarious please, and so extremely primary school!

there's this new vehicle there, i cant remember what it;s called now, but its like a skate board kinda thing and you move it by swinging the handles from left to right, and u gotta kick off to give urself momentum. looks so fun we all wanted to try it, but its super hard to manuvere! thank goodness we didnt rent it. went on blades in the end, but gosh sentosa is so difficult to blade in. marcus, zz and joshua were relatively experienced and din have so many problems, but i only just learnt how to blade! super hard, i kept falling down whenever the road became bumpy cos of those ornamental stones, and lots of twigs and branches around. in the end, i had to roll from treetrunk to treetrunk, pillar to lamppost, and whenever there were none, the rest would help pull me along. so difficult please. thank goodness sheryl rented a bike, else it would have been so hard for her to learn how to blade there.

ben&jerry's! haha... i love the strawberry cheesecake flavour i chose =)

we all got tired of blading towards the end of it, so we got sheryl to drag all of us! super funny! we were going around siloso beach shrieking and laughing as poor sheryl dragged all of us along hehe... the bicycle shop uncle even wanted to get a camera to take pictures of us. =)

and us girls played water at the fountain after to cool off =) fun =)

on thurs, the soma people came over to do first aid demonstration photos, so fun trying to create bruises, burns and cuts! hehe. and we had to pose for pictures, so difficult to get the emotion right. gosh how to act like you're in pain when the guys behind the photographer (joshua) are making comments that make you laugh??? i had to act like i was choking, and huising had a fracture, terence had a burn, weiming had a bad cut, and joshua had leg cramps. the transportation pictures were the worst, because we had to carry huising whilst joshua took his time taking photos because he is so perfectionistic sighs.

us after a long night of hard work =)

choir pract on friday afternoon, which was very fun! =) cant wait for the next one. too bad i sold my piano off recently, else i can practise the song on my own. our first song - peace i leave with you, for the ttsh thing zhenjin's organising. and im an alto! =P exciting. mirriam and candice are sooo good! they are sopranos and their voices are so rich and whole. gosh. the guys were super cute too! going "peace" all over the place in their deep baritones. hehe...

ah and i had macaroons for breakfast this morning. how much happier can i get?? hehe. didnt bring my camera, but we went to this la placie french bakery place at bkt timah next to coronation. nice place, wonderful crossiants! a perfect prelude to france in 2wks time! exciting =)

ooh happiness. this week was so exciting and i've been so tired ive been sleeping an average of 12hrs a day =P haha.

lin~*
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