a place where she always goes

Friday, April 09, 2004

wow. such a wonderful night. soooo high. madness. crazy. but fun i guess.

somehow today's class gathering dint feel like a class gathering to me. everybody seemed so separated, we sat at two separate tables when we were at lao di fang. somehow the lao di fang dint feel like lao di fang anymore, maybe cos they shifted? yeah i guess so.

maybe things dint start off well. i dint know eileen sijia elsa venus met up first. i guess me and ruoling wont have known they chose to meet up if we dint meet them while we were shopping for xinxin's pressie. maybe they had their own reasons for not asking us along. maybe they dint think we would go shopping with them, but hello since when did my taste in shopping differed from theirs? like please la. to be frankly honest, i was a tad pissed la. but obviously i dint let it show. why make a mountain out of a molehill? if they think i dont suit them, fine, so be it. im glad to have close friends in xinxin and ruoling, such that even if we dont meet up often to shop or eat, we still remain close. dunno la. maybe they dont mean it in any way, but that was my take la.

so me and ruoling went off in search for xinxin's pressie and it was a fun trip, to be just shopping ard with ruoling for gadgets, the things that we and xinxin would like to do together. got some of them to share also la. cos so expensive. but if i had brought more money out today, i wont mind spending more on dear xinxin, cos she IS worth it. tan lixin, if you're reading this, im repeating this for the final time, you ARE worth it. grin.

then me and ruoling went to kino to buy pens to write the cards to xinxin. and i bought a red pen. so that i can use it to mark as well. hee. and then we went to lao di fang to meet the rest. people who turned up: ruoling me xinxin zhangqing venus eileen elsa yanlian sijia vivian yuan dewen wilbur jinyang. it was a successful outing cos the people were there, but we dint talk much. did keep up with vivian wilbur and zhangqing but the rest were sitting at the other table la. and when jinyang came, he walked past us, as though we were invisible. oh how great. BUT. i had a great time bullying xinxin, as usual and talking to zhangqing. zhangqing is seriously such a great friend.. maybe i can meet her for dinner or sth since she's staying at clementi now. grin.

after that we wanted cheesecake. or at least me ruoling zhangqing and xinxin wanted cheesecake. so we ended up at spinelli, but xinxin disappeared with venus. and the rest went to heerens to shop. leaving me zhangqing ruoling sijia and yanlian, eating cheesecake by the counter just chilling out la. and sam msged saying he was feeling abit down so i called him la. and when we were chatting on the phone, i saw huiru and boy oh boy, what a bigg hug. grin. so coincidental. went back in to finish up my cheesecake after that and most of them had to go, leaving only venus zq me ruoling sijia yanlian xinxin. and we walked to cine in hopes of catching a movie but to no avail. and venus spent most of her time in the clothes shop while we were just browsing around.

the night really started when me ruoling sijia left cine to go peace centre in search for ruoling's cheap guitar. but the shop was closed. and since the three of us were dead tired and full, we just sat down there at the 1st floor and chatted. which was a very nice feeling. and we chatted. and we were whining about wanting to play mahjong or bridge and they were trying to get me to get sam to come down to be our final kaki to make up four people. right. all the way from his house down to peace centre just to entertain three girls right before him booking in? obviously not la.

so in the end, we made our way to the rochore bean where we sat down and ate yummy tau huey. sooo soft and nice. and cheap. grin. i know that store is famous for the tau huey la. me and ruoling came to the conclusion that they used a different kind of syrup, something along the lines of cane syrup if i dont remember wrongly. yeah. and when we were on our way to eat tau huey, we spotted a NTUC just round the corner so we were actually saying we should go grocery shopping. and we did just that, after we finished the tau huey. pushed a trolley around which was almost practically empty, except for sijia's two packets of fruit tree fruit juice, her two packets of tangyuan, ruoling's ferre roche and her yoghurt, plus mine yoghurt. yeah. we still had the stomach for yoghurt. grin.

and after that, we decided to walk in the direction of sim lim to return to bugis mrt station to go home. along the way, we passed by a building and ruoling said her sis was crazy about the korean supermarket in the building. so we went grocery shopping again, at the korean supermarket. grin. she was busy getting what her sis wanted and me and sijia were just browsing. and after we stepped out i was looking for the toilet la, so we stepped into burger king in the same building and there was where ruoling noticed the new mozzerella burger. but. we dint do anything just yet.

off we headed in the direction of simlim, and just when we were approaching OG, near the hawker centre, we smelt butter prawns. we were soooooooo tempted to stop and find out where the smell was coming from. but then again. we could have stopped at the hawker centre and ate the butter prawns (if the smell was coming from there) and me and ruoling would have gone for oyster omelette as well. hee. but we controlled and we walked towards the mrt. towards bugis street.

we went past bugis street rather uneventfully. we dint stop at every clothes shop and analyse the clothes. but we were distracted at a junction and we wondered if we should go in and have a look. but we had a wacky idea as well, and that was to stop at the burger king right at the end of bugis street and share a mozzerella burger. yes, three girls share one burger. yeah. and we did just that. trooped all the way to that particular bk and went in. i went to order the burger, and told the lady at the counter 'cut into three pieces' she gave me a weird look before passing on the orders. when we opened the wrapper, to our diamay, it was cut into 1/2, 1/3, and 1/6. how interesting. so sijia went to get a plastic knife and we cut the 1/2 into quarters. and each of us took one quarter and finished it. and then ruoling and sijia were trying to cut the final piece into three slices while i was talking to yanlian on the phone. during the course of stay at burger king, ruoling and i called yanlian asking the exact same sentence 'yanlian, are you drinking hot tea now?' and we forgot to get sijia to call as well. make it funny mah. hahaha..

the crazy things we did tonight. reminded me of the rum and raisin night. the night when we stayed back in school just to play bridge and eat rum and raisin chocolate. the same threesome. me sijia ruoling. plus tim. tried to make him recall the rum and raisin night. the night when we finished our fmaths block test 2, second part of the paper. the night when we all decided to go drunkenly high, due to the rum in the chocolate? hee. i doubt it la. more like emotions were running high and the four of us enjoyed ourselves thoroughly that day.

like what sijia says, a classic jc memory.

and tonight will come a close second to becoming a classic memory of mine.
the day we wandered from orch to bugis. walked most of the way, except from taking the bus 65 from robinsons to peace centre. aside from that, we walked. all the way.
what a wonderful way to end the day.

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