Monday, April 26, 2010
Quality time
It has been a while since I updated my blog, was having fun these few days; or I should say enjoying life to the fullest. This is gonna be a super long post as I combined several days of activities into a post.Saturday:
Went for service in the morning, was late again (I was on time for the Pastor's preach though). After service, stayed a while to hear the guys playing guitar and talking with the rest of them. The guys were really pro in guitar! I'm so envious. Can totally differentiate our various levels of passion towards music. Although we each learnt guitar for several years, they can play so much better than me! What have I been learning and how much I have been practicing...
Chatted with the girls too:) Followed by buying Cheese Pancake from the stall, Pancake King opposite Church. The cheese was so rich that every bite of the cheese pancake was awesome. No wonder there were so many news articles recommending that stall. Really worth it! After buying pancake, the girls rushed back to church to board the bus to support the participants for bible quiz (held at some other place which I got no idea where). Meanwhile, I make my way to Sentosa for the Mass SLs outing.
Reached Sentosa - Palawan beach - at 4 plus and met Nicholas on the train. Initially, I didn't know his name, only know that we are both going the same way since we are wearing the pink SL t-shirt. Also, I almost didn't want to go in fear of meeting too many people who I don't know cause in the facebook invitation, there wasn't many people I know were going. Thus, I was really afraid that I would be very lonely there.
However, I was absolutely wrong. Not only did I made many friends, I had tons of fun! I managed to try many things. Honestly speaking, just by going to Sentosa is a new experience for me. The last time that I went to Sentosa was like how many donkey years ago?
Over there, we played a bit of volleyball. That hurts my wrist totally and I suffered from blue-blacks all over my right wrists the very next day. In addition, we tried Frisbee too. For a start, we played like just some basic passing around, laughing at each other whenever the Frisbee went off target or someone did some cute reflex actions when catching the Frisbee.
Then, more people came to join us for Frisbee. Eventually, it turned into a friendly match of Ultimate Frisbee! Fun ttm! But, it really test your stamina. The area to run was oh my tian. I spent 95% of the time running and only managed to hold on to the Frisbee for less than 5 min for the total game? Great sports to test endurance and to slim cause of the running most of the time.
It was washing up time after getting ourselves dirtied with sweat and sand. Originally, we wanted to bathe at the Tourism Academy at Sentosa. However, sit was inaccessible. Therefore, we walked further and found empty cubicles and went to shower inside. That place turned out to be a private place which was supposed to be out-of-bounds for us. Ah well, got a scolding from the management people there. Quickly, we finished showering and met up with the rest of the SLs who bathed at other places near the beach.
Bought MacDonalds and ate at the open area at Vivo City for dinner. As usual, we sit there to chill, be it talk cock, camwhore and come out with cranky ideas. Again, poor Joel was chosen to be the victim again. They carried him all the way to the small pool at the open area and put him down, his whole back was totally wet. After that, he took 'revenge' on I think Gerwyn, who got it much worst. Reason being, Gerwyn wasn't wet with pool water nor plain water. He had a mixture of leftover coffee from Starbucks diluted with water and a bit of cream poured. The mixture was poured directly at him! Eww, dirty...Well, many funny things happened actually, too many to be listed in fact. But Joel's and Gerwyn's incident was one of the most unforgettable one for me.
Sunday:
My very first cell outing for my new cell group! Oh wee~
We met up for bowling at Marina Square. And, I seriously think that I am not suited for bowling, more than half of my game ended with with 0. Yes, Z-E-R-O! All went into the drain. Oh my tian, it was embarrassing ttm can...It was not surprise that I had the lowest score but ah well...
My cell was invited for dinner with cell 4 at Shabu Shabu. I supposed it was somewhere near Marina too and thus they thought of combining both the cells. But Shabu Shabu was far too expensive for Uli and I. Hence, as the only girls left after the game, we went SHOPPING!
Shopping with Uli was marvelous. Both of us are so fickle-minded in deciding the things that we wanted to buy. And, we were so engrossed in shopping that we kept on trying whatever that appeals to us. As a result, we couldn't decide what we really wanted to buy. After shortlisting, Uli decided to give up her Zara shirt, while I decided to give up my brown Bohemian bag. But till now, I am still thinking about it. I really, really liked the bag, but I do not have any spare money to buy luxury items now. My expenditure in school is shooting far too high and I still have so many things which I have not achieved.
Nevertheless, there is always a fatal pitfall when it comes to shopping, particularly for girls. For us, is makeup. We went crazy over the make up. Upon drying one of the concealer from the brand Make Up Store (I think it is the name of the brand, cause I cant find other names on the packaging. It seems to be an imitation of Mac products), we instantly lost control and thoughts of our finacial budget. Immediately, we looked for our skin colour and bought the concealer. LOL!
Monday
That's today! Super shagged, due to the long duration of classes. I have class from 9am - 7pm every Monday now. That's crazy, it's only the first day of the week and it is such a draining schedule. I was dozing off during my Public Speaking lecture. Luckily, I was sitting at the corner. Keith and Leroy fell asleep. I think the lecturer saw us sleeping, just that she didn't bother to wake us up.
Met up with my Sentia group mates for dinner! It was quite...funny? We were supposed to meet at 6 but most of us only started to gather at 7, cause most of us had lectures till 7 today. Dom came to drop by and say hi to us. After that, as we were chit-chatting and decided to make our way for dinner opposite school, he walked us to the bus stop and bid us goodbye cause he was too tired from SIP.
The remaining handful of us went opposite school to eat. We all ordered Astons and caught up with each other, more ice breaking within us. I think it is more for ice breaking for me, cause most of them are from the Business Course, as in Business Studies Grouping except, for a minority of us. I am of the minority. Still, I feel that it was a nice dinner to have, chilling at the Jurong East coffeeshop. It has been so long since I am so contented with a laid back gathering with friends. I seem to understand why people say it is not the quantity but quality, especially time spent together with people you care and want to care.
Overall, I feel that these few days is as if full blast recharging of me emotionally. The feeling is so much more amazing than having ample rest. In the past, I used to think that if I have ample rest, I will be refreshed and able to get on with life . Now, I realised, no matter how much one's physical body is recharged, it serves no purpose unless you feel charged emotionally. Even with a powerful body but weak spirit, there is nothing much one could do. One would only be in the state of sadness and despair, or maybe just lazing around and wasting life away. On the other hand, a recharged spirit gives you drive and determination to drive you in achieving your dreams. You seem to be able to feel the fire of passion burning within you, telling you to go for what you want so that there won't be any regrets.
These few days of quality time spent has indeed recharged my spiritual body so much more than the long holidays spent. I am really shocked with myself about the things that I thought through these few days as compared to the meaningless long semester holidays. Well, it's time to be back on track. Here I come, re-inspired to live life to the fullest as I can.
6:46 AM By Tan Yi Ling Eileen
