rey's ramblings

An 18th Birthday

i woke up on my the 15th of feb with a very huge disappointment
initially. after breakfast, i had the most terrible case of diarrhoea in
a few years. imagine having broken glass in your stomach being swirled
around by a blender inside. the walk to the clinic itself was excruciating
to say the least and i (WARNING: GRUESOME DETAIL HERE) threw up so
violently that some even came out of my nose.

so, what worse things could happen on your 18th birthday? the gloom of falling really
sick along with the added knowledge that many people couldn't make it due to things
like chingay CIP duty, rockerfella (which i initially planned to attend but because
of new regulations, non-current cj people are barred from attending due to lack of
availability of tickets. sucks right.) and various other school events. what luck that
my birthday had to fall on such a busy day man.

i smsed some of my friends who were still attending the bash later on that night,
expressing how worried i was that i might even have to cancel the party, which would
possibly have sealed my fate for one of the worst birthdays i'd ever have.

really thankful that many of them, rasmus, rastus, joshua and ryan reassured me that
i would get well in time for the celebration.

had dinner at hooters! had BBQ ribs and drank tequila despite being very sick earlier in the day
group photo above and with the twins.

on the right, jia wei who dunked my face with wedges and chili sauce as part of a birthday
surprise! haha you're forgiven bro! x)

with michelle and teresa, thanks for the interesting presents!

ended the night at Harry's boat quay with some live jazz music, although it was pretty noisy so we couldn't hear it really well. opposite the s'pore river coincidentally happened to be the
chingay rehearsal and we had an awesome view of fireworks! :D didn't have any alcoholic
drinks by then though, cos i thought that the tequila at hooters was enough for the night, haha.

to ALL those who wished me an awesome Happy 18th Birthday, whether it was via sms,
phone calls, friendster/facebook, blog tags and also in person, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
it means a lot to me, even from those who i've not heard from in a long while.

(in no particular order)
Diana, Nanda, Sylvia Lim, Audrey Tay, Debbie Beins, Erin
Lucille, Erika Tuason, Cherie Chua, Nicholas Shaw, Bharathi BEE
Xinru, Benjamin Wong, Esther (my cousin!), Bernice, Natalie Ong
Teresa Chua, Michelle Nah, Ryan, Kevin See, Dallas, Stefanie
Darryl, Joshua Fu, Rasmus, Rastus, Jia Wei, Philip Goh, Rachel Jacob
Javier, Kevin Ng, Jun Hao, Sueyen

sorry if i've left out anyone's name by accident!

18 feels strangely sane

I crossed the bridge at 7:16 PM

Thursday, February 14, 2008

These Festive Days

to wrap up what's happened in the past few days, one must begin with

another 2 steamboat fests over the weekend. one on saturday night after

youth at aunt's house in sembawang. the steamboat was great! it had one of

the widest varieties of food i've ever had at a steamboat. really, she should go
into the business. and extra pizza to boot? what was she thinking?? haha, i don't

think we could even begin to get to the pizza man. there was a bit of mahjong and

21 going on but didn't wanna join cos i was too tired, from the past few days, plus

it was mostly the older relatives playing.

pictures, including some overdue ones!

after reunion dinner on wednesday night with sis and mom

CNY DAY 1:

my sis and I

my dad's cousin's children (which makes them my distant cousin??) very cute, they keep

playin hide-and-seek the whole time.

DINNER AT AUNT'S PLACE:

black label champagne

and from youth before that!

dallas, me, ryan, kevin

LO HEI 14 FEBRUARY

my sis and her pictures with mom and me.

HIGHEST!

and oh yes, lunch/dinner with bharathi at Hip Diner USA,

a branch off Billy Bomber's which wasn't that fantastic but

the concept was novel. plus the drinks.

very amusing indeed....

with Love,

Reynard!

I crossed the bridge at 8:57 PM

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Pineapple tarts owns hongbaos.

Yep, it is a fact. After all, due to inflation and hence horrendously high
prices of cny goodies, food etc, pineapple tarts are officially worth more than
hongbaos. that's if your average hongbao averages around 10 to 15 dollars or
so. haha. in case anyone wondered what i meant in my sms greetings. btw
a happy chinese new year to all (whom i haven't said to yet!) this year's cny
felt rather alright actually. up til 2006 i used to dread cny because of jarring
unpleasant music, ridiculously hot weather and having to cope with hours of
monotonous visiting. haha, im not very traditional eh?

but ever since last year which for reasons unknown i had no visiting, im kind of
really okay with cny partially cos the amount of visitings we have are a lot less
(wonder what happened to all the relatives? hmm) and the food's getting really
good. in part, i also find myself to be able to bear and enjoy alot more things than
i usually do. must have to do with a new transitionary phase in life yeah? but we'll
get to the good stuff this cny later.

first, watched cloverfield on friday with bharathi and thrishna. unfortunately, thrishna
wasn't a fan of movies with bad cinematography although the acting and special effects
were highly realistic plus the novelty of watching a badass monster attack new york
from a high-def camera beats remakes of Godzilla or something along those lines. i
thought the cameraman 'hud' was a pretty funny guy too. i guess the film does deserve
some kind of mention, it isn't really an excellent effort but i really dont get people
who trash the movie because its so shaky and nausea-inducing. after all, what
else can one expect? it's clearly written that it's filmed on a video camera. you can't
expect it not to be shaky at all. haha.

anyway, besides getting back into rockclimbing ive been trying out something new
called parkour, which for the uninitiated is essentially free running, which if you still
don't know what it means, is basically overcoming obstacles in the most straightforward
manner. jumping over high railings, leaping through tight spaces. just google or youtube
it if you want to get a really good idea of what it is! i've been pretty much trying it out on
my own but also learnt a bit from the twins after youth on saturday.

besides doing a bit of cny shopping after church on sunday with youth friends, had a job
orientation thingy on monday for my marketing job position thing which i mentioned
previously. after getting an awesome super-sized botak jones burger for lunch, met up
with nicholas and headed to eunos. the orientation was rather enlightening on the products
that the company brings in to market and it was quite convincing for me to join. i can't
really reveal much details about it but i'll try it out for a while first to see how realistic
the job prospects offered actually are. the pay isn't $6/hr kinda pay, its very much freelance
and from what i gather, a lot can be earned if you do work quite a bit.

shopped again on tuesday with bharathi and this time i got a pair of white berms which i
think i really like partly cos i've never had any white berms before and i think it looks
really good on me. had a rather freaky encounter with some overly persistent staff at one
of the shops we went to but i don't think i'd wanna elaborate unless you ask me personally.
the shopkeeper was just unusually insistent on me buying something i didn't want to which
i found really weird! anyway, had gelare waffles after that at PS, tuesday is a gooood day
to eat at gelare right? :D

anyway, for cny i've been having a bit of fun doing practically nothing the past few days
besides eating and watching tv series at my granddad's house. battlestar galactica is really
one of the best sci-fi dramas out there and im kinda surprised singapore hasn't picked it
up. although there's a lot of good programming out there that singapore doesn't pick up.

dinner from wed to sun is pretty much fully booked and all are pretty much heavy affairs
plus all the cny food, so i'd better get back to a bit more exercise immediately after this
week! had steamboat reunion dinner on wed night and another dinner, the highlight
being shark's fin soup (haha, sorry i haven't got a thing for saving sharks yet), both at
granddad''s house. plus a bit of mahjong with cousins which is always entertaining. just
got back today from dinner over at mom's side. i sort of just discovered that i have an
older cousin who's one of the top local chefs hence explaining the really awesome dinner
i had! some of the stuff was really good like a dish that mixed crab, lobster meat and
giant prawns with mayo and also mini baked potatoes covered in cream or peking duck
drizzled with wine. actually, typing this alone makes me hungry again so i should prolly
stop. the food was just unexpectedly good though, plus company was not bad altogether.

alright, gotta crash. photos soon hopefully!

reynard

I crossed the bridge at 2:03 AM

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