Lamentations

Friday, November 26, 2010

Yawn. I went back in Singapore! For a while anyway.

It's pretty random. I was invited to Chee Kiong and Gwyn's wedding a few weeks back. It clashes with State of the Arts though, so too bad I can't attend SOTA. Regardless, I was invited, and I ended up being the doorman of the wedding. Haha.

Well, my trip down to Singapore this time was pretty messy as compared to last time. First, I had class on the day I went to Singapore. That's not good. My class ended at 3pm. After, I had a meal with Justin, Miki, Redzuan and a few others, since I wouldn't be seeing them for a week. Around 3:30 I left, and lo, there was a thunderstorm. Great. I got soaked and reached back home, where I packed my stuff. I needed to get to Bukit Jalil, and I took a cab, but it was super jammed, so the cab dropped me off at the LRT near my house, which basically wasted my time and money. Walking there would've been faster. I arrived at the bus terminal and got a bus to Johor Bahru, and according to the guy who sold me the ticket, I was very lucky as it was the last bus to JB that day, since the next day was a public holiday. Okay, fine, lucky me. I then got on the bus, and the North-South Highway was jammed like hell! I've never seen it so jammed before! After an hour or two traffic eased up and the bus finally went faster. Not fast enough though, 'cause I ended up reaching Larkin terminal at 12:30am. I took the last 170 to the checkpoint, but I missed the 170 to get to Singapore. So I had to pay extra for a coach to drive me across. Then, there were no buses left, so I had to take a cab to Juswin's house. Plus, I hadn't changed my money yet, it was still in ringgit, so I had to borrow money from Juswin and pay for the cab. Geez!

Anyway, the wedding was pretty sweet. The ushers and decorators of the wedding had to reach by 8am, to set up and help out. So it was pretty tiring 'cause Juswin and I slept at 5am due to chatting and playing Dead Rising 2. The wedding was held at the Arts House at Old Parliament, and I got to sit on Lee Kuan Yew's chair. AWESOME! LOL.

Lao Lee's chair. Imagine if you sat on Obama's chair?

The guys helped carry things while the girls helped out in decorations. Later the guys helped out the decorations by way of tying up helium-filled balloons. Haha! Imagine tying like 50 ballons! It hurts your fingers like hell after a while! So after that some of us were divided into different sections and stuff; Juswin and I ended up being the doormen. Keeping the doors open, and later, keeping them closed, and opening them when the time came to bring in the bride. There were quite a lot of people who kept moving in and out, so it was quite annoying. So once the procession began, Juswin and I were waiting for the songs and video montages to finish. Once they were done, we opened up the doors for a very beautifully dressed Gwyn to walk in! After this, we were allowed to go in and attend the matrimony. It was the usual, exchanging of vows, giving the wedding ring, and instead of two candles lighting up one, they did something different with something called unity sand. There was a cup of blue sand and another cup of pink sand. Then they'd pour it into some kind of glass vial or something. It would turn to be a pretty nice mixture, looking almost purplish in a few sections.

So after they kissed, there was a short sharing session by Ming Jin. He shared a joke with us: One day there was a young priest who would officiate a wedding for the first time. He was nervous, and the high priest told him "Don't worry. If you forget any lines, just quote scripture. You can't go wrong with scripture." The priest kept this in mind. During the wedding itself, when it was his turn to speak, he totally forgot his lines! So he remembered what he was told; quote scripture. Thinking about Jesus, he blurted out "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." LOL! Awesome joke! But Ming Jin shared that that's exactly what a lot of couples do. They get married without really thinking through on the consequences and future. So he reminded us that marriage is not to be taken lightly. And he also shared a quote that was really amazing, but simple at the same time. He said "Sometimes it is better to be kind, than to be right." That's something I personally need to listen to.

After that, Juswin and I did our door duties again, for the bride and groom to come out, and for the rest of the people to exit the court (yeah, it was in a courthouse. Lol). Then it was time to eat! I ate, and ate and ate... chicken, lol, 'cause most of the other food was done after helping with the duties and waiting for the line to shrink. I managed to catch up with a lot of people. I caught up with Gary (again, lol), Cedric Koh and finally met his girlfriend, and Jace, and even Sylvia. Yeah. I haven't seen Sylvia in years, like since I last went for her performance she invited me to. We chatted normally and happily, as if nothing sour had ever happened to us before. It was so ironic, funny, but yet pleasing to see that after 3 or 4 years, there was no hint of her being an ice queen anymore. And we chatted just like we did, before I liked her and our friendship got screwed. Good times. Plus, I also saw and briefly greeted a lot of people that I haven't seen in years, like since my first few years in church. Back then there were a lot of people that I just said hi to and talked to briefly, but never really remembered them. I mean I was new that time, and I was bombarded with hundreds of names and people in the span of weeks. I could never remember all of them, yet, I recalled their faces when I saw them that day, even though we never said anything to each other.

Anyhoo, dinner that night was also interesting. I didn't have a proper table, so I was put at another table beside my cellgroup's table, and far from Juswin and Eleanore's table. Basically, I was alone, haha. In a zone where they all knew one another. I only knew the GT zone people who transferred to MJ zone when GT disbanded. Fortunately for me, a girl called Felicia was sitting beside me, and she provided some conversation, and so did some people from the table, although Felicia kept the effort. Thanks! The food was pretty good. Drank like 20 cups of cokes. Lol, sorry to the waiters!

After the wedding ceremony, I still had other actitvities. Which I'll post up next.

I'm back in KL at the time of this typing. Lmao. School. Yawnz.

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Monday, November 22, 2010

How the hell do you google that and end up on my blog?!

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Last week Gary came up to Kuala Lumpur. He's on a sort of self-journey to learn more, experience more and meet different kinds of people. So his first stop was his next door neighbour's capital. And as I'm living here, I played host a bit. The first night he came over I brought my friends along, the drinking group. This time, Nikke, Redzuan and David didn't come for various reasons, and instead, Rachael, a new cellgroup member of mine, joined us instead.

We brought plenty of alcohol to Gary's hotel room. There was still the Remy Martin XO left from the last drinking session, a 21 year aged Chivas Regal that was Ruz's Christmas present last year, and two bottles of Moskovi Vodka.

So off we played! And off we dared! And off we did things! I wasn't so fortunate this time, as I had to make out with guys much more than girls. Hell. I did get to make out with Michelle (sorry Aaron, lmao) and was supposed to with Rachael, but she wasn't so sporty. In fact, she pretty much spoiled the mood for the entire night, and didn't make much sense in her logic. We didn't force her of course, but she wasn't really open-minded anyway. And I had to kiss Gary too. Aiks. I haven't seen him since the beginning of the year, and making out was not the welcoming I planned. Lmao. Rachael and Gary didn't enjoy the session much. Rachael was busy covering her eyes half the game. She's 23, but she's got the voice and a mindset of a 9 year old. Geez.

Anyhoo, after whole session we ate a bit and talked about some issues till 7am. They went back while I stayed in Gary's hotel room 'cause we were hanging out the next day.

Oh, and by the way? He stayed in Prescott Inn. The service there sucks. Seriously. We asked for ice, and they didn't have ice. What kind of hotel doesn't have ice? That's forgivable. Then we asked for some cups, and we ended up with cheap paper cups. Fine, they're still cups. When Thaiianna and I went downstairs to buy ice they said they'd pass the cups to us so we could bring it up when we went back to the room. What ever happened to service? We had asked for it a while back too. And worst, the next morning we asked for a fan 'cause the aircon was spoiled, and it took them 3 hours to deliver the fan. I got so sick of waiting (plus I was dead tired) I called them up to cancel the fan, since waiting 3 hours for a fan was ridiculous. So I slept. An hour later someone knocked on the door, giving us the fan. What the hell?! Are you serious?! Four hours for a fan that was cancelled? Geez. I took it anyway, 'cause the aircon really sucked. My opinion? Don't stay here unless there are no other options. It's almost in the middle of nowhere too. Maison and Asian Heritage Row are quite a walk. Bottom line: it sucks.

The next day we woke up in the late afternoon and headed out. Took the monorail to Bukit Bintang area, and explored the 3 main malls there, namely Pavilion, Sungei Wang and Berjaya Times Square. He seemed to like Pavilion, and Sungei Wang was oddly empty of the "lala's". Times Square was just to explore a bit, 'cause we were both tired and I needed to head back home after this anyway. Well, it was a good time to catch up, and do a little bit of shooting. My food photography sucks. No matter, 'cause I've never seriously considered food photography anyway.

And this week? I had band jamming, after an absence of like a month. We messed up a bit, but got back on track after a while. Not happy with the keyboards though. Two keys in very convenient places were very inconveniently spoiled. It was a good time to catch up on our music anyway.

And the weekend that just passed was a great time spent. After service, Justin, Redzuan and I joined Michelle and Aaron at Starlight. For like the last month, I've been hanging out with Michelle and Aaron at Starlight every weekend till the early morning. So I'm pretty familiar with the place. We had a great time chatting and catching up, and had great conversations since there was no dare games involved. Lmao. But it was a great time sharing a lot and opening up deeply. We talked about quite a few diverse, serious subjects too. And lot of focus on life, and the future of our actions.

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Aye, about time I updated, lol.

Well, a month back, I had a drinking session at my house. After eating a potluck organized by the cellgroup (W19 has merged with W31 now), Justin, Redzuan, David, Nikke, Michelle, Aaron and Thaiianna came over to my place to have a drinking session.

This time we had more girls! LOL... that meant better odds for the games. Wee! Anyhoo, they had dinner with Miki earlier, and she couldn't come over due to her parents, so to make up for it, she gave us the remainder of her Sapphire Bombay. I still had some whiskey left over from the Genting trip with Justin, Miki and Bruce. And, Michelle brought Remy Martin XO. Hell man.

Well... let's just keep the details sparse, and have them more of bragging instead. Practically everyone made out with each other. Heck, I had to french kiss Aaron and David. And I had to kick Justin in the balls too. And I got a lap dance from Redzuan. On the plus side, I did get to french kiss Nikke and Michelle too. Much better! And you know what they said? That I have very soft lips, like "marshmallows". Yeah, seriously. They said that. My lips were soft. Like marshmallows. They said marshmallows. I'm like what the hell? I never realized lips were hard or soft. I mean, I never really bothered with that bit of knowledge. In addition, they did say I was a good kisser. This comes from two girls, both (I presume, with good reason) widely experienced. So yeah, bragging rights!

And you know what? so far my kissing experience has only come from dare games and clubs. I surmise that's enough to "train"?

On the sad part, Justin only got to kiss guys. He was like dying to get some female action (everyone got heterosexual action, with the exception of Justin). But alas, too bad. Lmao.

Anyhoo, did had great conversations and sharing stories after all the drinking. We drank from like midnight to 8am. Geez. Insane~~~

Awesome time!

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Lol, okay, I seriously owe updates. And I'm seriously procrastinating.

There's quite a bit that's occurred since I last blogged. Hmmm... And I'm STILL lazy to blog. Actually, its saved in a notepad file, incomplete. Lol.

So I'll leave you with a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. It's a classic!

Hilarious!

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