Sunday, November 29, 2009
|8:01 PM|
Whoo. If you've read Trevor's posts at
'simplytrevor', you'll realise all the insightful and in-depth posts; unique and creative. Well yesterday (Sunday), a couple of my cousins got down to St. Anne's Church.
We aren't catholics, so why go?
Went thr to visit our uncle x) in the columbarium.
It's been a long time since we last went thr. Now this reminds me of April, the month of his passing. This reminds me of how I really began to start disliking band. If you've not heard of the story, here it is.
It was the 14th April, 2009, Tuesday. After school, band practice was scheduled to be from 2.30pm to 6pm. (Btw 13th April was the day I put on my braces). So I was having a hard time with the saxophone.
Then at 5:11pm, I received an SMS from my mother, which read: "come down to the mscp asap. uncle david is in critical condition." Went to ask the conductor if I could take early leave. Told him that it was urgent. That it was about my dying uncle.
Maybe it was just my bad luck. He happened to be scolding the percussion section. Really badly. His response to my request? 'shut up and sit down. you are a band. you come and leave as a band.' Back then, what choice did I have? I sat down and waited. And waited.
Near 6pm, my mother came up from the car park. It was only in her presence that I could leave. While rushing down at Bukit Timah Road, which was suffering from the peak hour jam, she received a call from my 1st uncle. He broke the news.
My uncle died on 14th April, 2009, Tuesday, of Metastatic Carcinoma of the Esophagus, at 18:09, although the death certificate recorded it as 17:50, as he still seemed to be breathing for that 19-minute discrepancy.
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Anyways, after our visit at St. Anne's, we got down to Anchorvale Swimming Complex, and being the first time thr, it's really a replica of the Sydney indoor swimming complexes. (:
Sunday, November 15, 2009
|3:39 AM|
Saturday, November 14, 2009
|6:47 PM|
It was the 11th of November. We were to meet in Pasir Ris at 1pm. A few of us had EP3s in school, so we could only go much later. I was supposed to collect class tees from the vendor. Afterwhich we met with the other Acerians at Downtown East's MacDonalds.
Checked into unit 1717. expected a 2 storey..but only had 1. xP
Afterwhich it was free and easy (for the rest of the outing). Hua Ying and his clique went to E!Hub to get some drinks. There was TV, Duel Masters for some ppl (wad's so fun bout it anw) and UNO for the rest. Enjoyed the Indian Dramas a lot x) Dancing around poles and singing nonsense.
Then we slacked around in the chalet till it's time to collect the BBQ stuff (YJ paid $200 for that kay.) Had a great time BBQing. Nvr felt such class spirit before (: At around 6-7pm, headed out of chalet and began wif the sweet potatoes, which were never eaten, then the satay, the garlic bread, the cooked pineapple rice, the nuggets and the fishballs, some otah, and that's all we ate.
Hua Ying burnt his arm hairs once :D and Alston had the tendency of throwing any food dropped on the floor - into the BBQ fire (: For many times they'd put too much fire starters and get the BBQ flame into a bonfire, and that burnt the food (which would go into the fire as well). The aluminium foil that caught fire would be thrown by Alston onto the grass and put out.
The BBQ was not even 1/3 eaten. From the neighbouring chalets came not-yet-eaten otah, utensils, food and more food. I had a hard time distributing class tees :D first time I felt like an Ethan.
Went back into the chalet for more slacking, gaming, and Alston's private issues. YJ had a hard time collecting the money for BBQ oso...as well as keeping the 2/3 remainder of unethan food. People who did not stay over gradually went home. Hwa Jin annoyed Denzyl by tellin him bout the Red House at Pasir Ris. (
http://www.sgfreakylinks.com/the-pasir-ris-red-house/)
After all who's staying over is left, we went to E!Hub, only to realise that the KBox, Cinema, and arcades are left open. So they arcaded (Guo Yue spent so much money just to get enough tickets to exchange for a pen/drink). Then we went back and Hua Ying, Hwa Jin, Denzyl, Guo Yue and the occasional Nigel, played poker from 11pm to 3.50am.
Wei Heng wanted to sleep at 11pm, but ended up sleeping at 4. xD At 3.50pm, Nigel wanted to wait for another 10min to get to MacDonalds to hav breakfast. Afterwhich, without sleeping, they came back to play more poker (: The rest of us had quite normal sleep..and I slept the most (: In the morning after a Singaporean Kopitiam Breakfast I had wif Alston, we all got back and got into uno, TV, and Duel Masters.. again ==
Alston had a great time farting, which smelt like onions. :P
At around 10.30am, we packed up and checked out.
Yes, this was a class outing. A monotonous one for a start :] But this shows how friendship is to us. 2D 1N, but it's a time when YJ could see how we all slept, see how reactive Alston was at night, see how does Hua Ying emo..and on and on. So to come to think of it, it wasn't too boring.
Anyone wants another one, this time even longer? (:
