Confessions of an Undisguised Drama Queen

Saturday, April 30, 2005

Let the good times roll

It seems like I've been awake and on the go for the past 50 hours.

After 2 late nights cramming like mad for my final Bioinformatics paper and a gruelling 2.5 hours yawning through the paper (because i was sooo tired. not because i was bored), I was on my way to pleasure and enjoyment.

The four of us (L-R: Audrey-Ann, Me, Yvonne and Grace) finally got our pictures taken. We were saying how we are always so busy with schoolwork and everything else, we never get to take much pictures like when we were in our first year. The memories of our days at NIE...

Anyway, it's nice to finally have our own school building. I'm actually quite proud of it! See so pretty - with fountain somemore! (though it looks a bit greenish....)

And check out the food at our cafe:

Suddenly I feel so blessed - after days of eating yucky canteen A food or not eating altogether, finally there's something appetizing on my plate. And this is just the beginning....

You know why we're grinning so widely

After trying to get some afternoon shut-eye (but failed miserably), my studying buddy, Grace and I, functioning dangerously on very little sleep, headed to town for a mini-celebration after toiling hard for the past 21 days.

We went to Raffles City and I was pleasantly surprised that the renovation works have been completed - they now have a mini-shopping haven right there in the station.

Shopping, shopping, shopping....

and I got myself a pretty dress. For $15.

Wahahaha.... and I thought things couldn't get any better!

Like that HK commercial, shopping must go hand-in-hand with eating (yet again!) so we headed down to where Grace used to work to try her favourite Fish Dumpling Hor Fun. Fish Dumpling??!! There are meat dumplings and vegetable dumplings or something, but I've never heard of fish dumplings!

Or maybe I'm just plain sua-ku.

Then as the night beckoned, our tiredness slowly took the backseat as the excitement of Boat Quay's nightlife set in.

I don't look that tired anymore right?

Blue Note was unfortunately fully packed when we arrived. The band hadn't even started playing... just doing their sound check. Even the counter seats were occupied. Sadly, we walked away and I decided to show Grace to Hideout for some nice cocktail and chillout lounge music.

Just one glass of Lychee Lime and I'm red in the face already. But it tastes so nice and sweet you don't even know you're drinking alcohol until you start feeling the heat. Making ourselves comfy at the couches there, we hung out and talked and almost fell asleep. Until the DJ decided to put on house music. We picked up the bill and ran for our lives.

So we still ended up at Blue Note after all.

Lucky the second time round, we got a whole table to ourselves and I finally got my glass of beer.

I wonder why the place's called BLUE note. I thought they were supposed to be a blues pub, with bands playing the blues.... but what we got was jazz and more jazz. Jazz is fine really, but when you have a poser saxaphonist who tries too hard to look emotional while playing, it just puts you off. I guess the only consolation is that the guitarist is worth a second look.

Then towards the end of their last set, they attempted a blues number - "Mustang Sally". All I can say is.....

TREVOR, I MISS YOU.....

Seriously. I can't seem to find any other band that can do blues as well as the Universal Blues Band. Nor anyone who can sing the way Trevor does. That deep, rich, moving voice. Sigh...

Anyway, Grace and I were busy entertaining ourselves by taking pictures of ourselves. It's always a challenge to take a self-portrait. Either someone's face gets cut off or the person taking the picture simply forgets to smile. So we ended up taking picture after picture, determined to get a nice shot of ourselves, and ended up with many more silly looking pictures like this,

which Grace so wanted to delete but I refused to because I thought they looked really funny and are worth keeping for the memories - to laugh over.

After indulging yet again in FOOD (prata with terrific curry. spicy and shiok!), it was time to head back to hall. And guess what we had waiting to send us back? A horse carriage? Almost! A Merc cab was waiting right there for us!

Wah I seriously felt like some superstar...

Excited little girls in a BIG cab

My food adventure doesn't end there.

After a long afternoon giving tuition, Mummy came to hall to pick me up and we went to Lavender Food Square for a big dinner of Sliced Fish Noodles, Wanton Mee, Popiah and Fried Carrot Cake.

*burp* I shall detox tomorrow...

[Time of Confession] 9:35 PM
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