Wednesday, December 17, 2008.

ok this post is fragmented.

but before that, for the nth time, happy birthday kenneth!

anyway i just spent 20 wonderful hours (+3 more if you count sleep) having fun and being mad (which i always am, so.) celebrating kenneth's birthday (which slowly turned into us being treated by kenneth's family -.-)

doing this in chronological order:
16 Dec, 1.30 pm - 6.30 pm

YES I WENT KBOX. ok? fine? (it's against my own morals but so.)

(imagine lumpy with a mic and singing pop.)

but to be honest i didn't really have much of a choice did i? so we went to marina square kbox, the 8 of us (edward jerald jieliang jinghui junsheng kengchee kenneth me), and went to SING POP.

evidently i faked through a lot of songs i was forced to sing, and yeah the experience wasn't as bad as i thought it would be (although at some points in time i was quite bored but well.), cause i did have some fun too.

and i realised that the 8 ppl's music tastes are quite skewed. at least, there were clear chinese-pop people and english-pop people.

so those in the chinese-pop club (edward jieliang junsheng kengchee) had fun while the english-pop people (jerald jinghui) stoned, and vice versa. kenneth was singing both like crazy and i was stoning there like crazy.

actually recognised some songs there (and could even sing too!) cause it was like super-old (stuff like Chasing Cars, 木乃伊 etc). to be honest it's VERY easy to sing pop even if you haven't heard it before. by the 2nd chorus i could sing the chorus like some normal guy with sub-par singing (and anyway it's easy to guess notes/harmony), and since lyrics are provided it wasn't difficult unlike what i thought.

just that im sorry im very unlikely to step into a kbox room ever.

(yeah and did i say i left in protest of one song? it was s.h.e.'s 不想长大, the song that plagarised and vulgarised mozart's 40th.)

6.30 pm - 9 pm

dinner at crystal jade la mian xiao long bao, which was downright the cheapest location near there. each of us (excl. kenneth) paid at most $14, which really makes cafe cartel look like money-grabbers in comparison.

yeah the food was not too bad lah, just that patrick the greedy (who came for dinner and stayed onwards) decided that his tummy needed more and saw food around him, and thus he ate. whether or not the food was someone else's didn't really matter. (or did it?) =D

9 pm - 11.30 pm

went to kenneth's house for stayover, and didn't do much here, except for 1/2 a round of jieliang's board game - Citadels (WHICH IS VERY VERY VERY VERY fun i tell you.)

11.30 pm - 5 am

Oh all the fun started here lah. 1/2 an hour of eating fondue (kengchee was like "WOW" cause he saw bananas.), and as usual patrick helped himself to quite a bit of marshmallows. while eating we were bi*ching like mad, about teachers, students and whatnot.

while doing so we learnt something:

politically-correct translation courses, proudly sponsored by chew keng chee, the EVER-SO-POLITICALLY-CORRECT guy.

it was VERY funny, on one hand we had keng chee, and on another we had jerald+jinghui doing all the rebuttals, so it got quite hilarious at times.

then when we got bored we played cards (standard.) and edward won the exciting game with 3 As! o.0

then jieliang and i played 2-player citadels, and mind you it was like the BEST THING EVER.

citadels is essentially this game where you get to pick characters for special abilities so that you can build more districts and get more gold. the very very fun part about it is the mind-reading and the psychological battles/mind games, which jieliang and i played like crazy! ohhh i love that part, cause you have to come up with many strategies to make sure you are foolproof, and to guess what your opponents are gonna do.

immediately after the match both of us were like, WOW. cause the game was freaking good!

kengchee joined in to play 3-player citadels and he also went off saying his brain hurt like mad cause of all the mind-reading he had to do. really this game should be played more often.

then was a 2nd session of bi*ching all the way till 5 am, which was quite fun actually.

sleep came and I GOT THE REINDEER! (for only a few seconds before kenneth snatched lumpy away from lumpy - get it? =D)

5 am - 8 am

sleep.
just like what patrick always does.

8 am - 12 noon
breakfast and cake cutting (my stomach was pmsing as bad as junsheng's voice). and wow kenneth's house actually has the whole (WHOLE.) set of beethoven's piano sonatas! i was like *staring in shock* when i saw it.

jerald joined us for 4-player citadels, yeah wasn't that taxing on the brain but still very fun.

some random games before we left, including polar bear.

with these kind of stuff it's not a surprise everyone wants another outing soon.

and i'm looking forward to it!

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