met the president. seriously, i'm not lying.
i'm really only blogging now because i'm waiting for the second episode of voice to finish loading so i can watch it. it was three-quarters of the way done, then i started fiddling around with the size of the video and ended up clicking on another link so now i have to wait for it to finish loading all over again. somehow i always end up doing things like that; i wonder why.
went out today with yimean and rach! i haven't seen them in a really long time because rach was working and yimean was... too engrossed in a certain dark-haired character whose name i cannot mention or else yimean will be slaughtered by a fellow fangirl. anyhow, met up at compass point in the morning and it is honestly quite the cool shopping mall. there was half a ship protruding out from the top level of the mall and the whole mall had this "ship" theme. plus it looks like it'd be a good place to walk around and shop randomly. anyhow, after that we walked over to yimean's house and
squealed and ogled over appreciated the many wonders of bleach cosplayers and the bleach manga.
after that i had to go off for jap class and i very cleverly told yimean and rach it was near takashimaya when it was really near tangs. so we got off at somerset instead of orchard and i had to walk all the way to delfi orchard in heels so it was very, very tiring. and i didn't get to eat shilin oyster mee sua! i've been looking forward to it all week, because i've got this sudden craving for oyster mee sua for some strange reason.
anyhow, jap class was fun as usual. i like taking jap, and because i like it, lessons just seem so much more fun. even doing homework is a pleasure. and i even do extra studying on my own. haha oh and i found out from rach today that max is taking lessons at the same language school as i am. we just take it on different days. and i know her teacher because my sister and i attended one of his replacement lessons before. and yes, i am in full agreement with the opinion that takahashi sounds like it would be the name of a young, good-looking male teacher but reality bites. okay that was mean. i suppose he is a competent teacher too. i just prefer my teachers because they're funny and nice.
first two days of cny have been hectic, as they've always been. pictures will be up later because my usb cable is missing and i have to wait for my sister to come home from school to borrow hers.
first day was paternal grandmother's house, then my maternal grandmother's sworn sister's house, then my uncle's house, then my aunt's house before everyone came over to my house in the night. i love the cny feast my paternal grandmother prepares every year for the first day -- she makes wonderful nonya chap chye, this really good sweet soup and criminally delicious lu dan. and my maternal grandmother's passed-down-through-the-generations method for cooking san chen rou is also extremely tasty. it's just sad that no one can cook it just like she can. somehow her san chen rou always tasted so much better. but my aunt cooks it pretty well anyway. at night everyone came over to my house and stayed till past 2am, so we were all pretty tired out by the time we all went to bed. and my relatives are honestly quite the wine drinkers, because we opened about three or four bottles of wine for the night. but it's good wine, because you don't really taste the alcohol and it's really dry and sweet at the same time. but the sweetness doesn't overpower you. okay what am i saying. i'm not that much of a wine connoisseur.
okay, then on the second day it was lunch at my uncle's house, and then over to my ex-neighbour's house, and then to shangri-la's the line for a buffet dinner. and president nathan was there as well, at the table we sat at last year! haha i really wanted to take a photo but i was afraid his bodyguards would come snap my phone into two. he left while we were halfway through our dinner so i never managed to get a photo after all, sigh. and everyone was laughing at me for being such a mountain tortoise. it's not everyday you get to see the president, okay. only my cousin of the same age (one of the very pretty ones, remember?) shared my excitement. no generation gap, you see. haha anyway, i love the food at shangri-la. and we went through about 6 plates of food each. there were scallops, and oysters, and sashimi, and lasagna, and crepes, and a chocolate fountain, and soba noodles, and so much more food.
... okay little wonder why i'm gaining back all the weight i managed to lose.
depressing stuff. anyhow there's still more good food to look forward to this weekend, because my aunt is treating on either saturday on sunday. i love cny and all the good food. and the angbaos are an added bonus, of course.
alright voice is done loading, so i am off to watch more ikuta toma.
music: ai uta; greeeen
Labels: day-to-day
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