Recounting the events of Saturday, 23 June

Wang_ning's back for the summer, so we decided to do something cool, just the 4 of us (wn, yu_xian, lin_us, myself), kind of like a stanford gathering. Then on friday, by some stroke of luck cong_lin smsed that he was back from harvard and he and his (american) friends were going to be kbox-ing and visiting sentosa on saturday, and linus decided that we should all hang out together as one big group.

So we went to clementi (late, as usual) and i was pleasantly surprised that cong lin also invited huang_sha and her friend laura. huang_sha i haven't talked to since jc, so it was really nice catching up with her, and we sang this duet thing 梁山伯与茱丽叶 together. By sang, i really mean screwing-the-song-up-really-badly-while-attempting-to-decipher-the-chinese-characters. So anyway, the total headcount was: 4 stanford kids, cong_lin, li_sa, wil and ra_chel (all from harvard) and huang_sha and lau_ra. Ra_chel was the only non-asian person there, so we sang lots of english songs too, like maroon 5 and lemon tree and dancing queen. And she wanted to sing la bamba too because she speaks spanish. i love ra_chel, she's so funny and full of personality and she likes my shirt. she's only 21 and she has already graduated from college! She's taking a year off to go to culinary school in mexico, before heading off to penn to do medicine, how cool is that!

At 5ish, huang_sha and lau_ra had to leave, the rest of us took a train down to Harborfront, and then we decided to be touristy and bought cable car tickets to Sentosa. Flashing your pink i/c gets you a 3 dollar discount so on average, we paid 11 dollars each. 

At Sentosa we had dinner at Trapizza, this alfresco style pizza place along Siloso beach. Dinner was a pleasant affair, except li_sa didnt really want to touch her water because of some comment i made about toilet water. Anyway, we just sat there eating our carbonaras and pastas and pizzas while watching the sky darken.

After dinner, (it was really dark by then), we strolled down to the beach barefoot and all and some of us decided to go get our ankles wet. That is obviously a big mistake, because people never ever only get their ankles wet and everyone knows that eventually someone will just go "haiya the water is so warm and inviting lets go swimming" So we all stripped down to our underwears (yay boxers) and decided to swim to the island which was supposed to be the southernmost island of continental asia except it is not, because the actual southernmost island is actually the island adjacent to the one we thought was the southermost island of continental asia. Wang_ning, ra_chel and linus actually made it to the other side, but li_sa freaked out like a third of the way and so i swam with her back to shore. Its really purely psychological, because she's quite a good swimmer, but we ended up just swimming along the coastline while waiting for the rest to get back. By the way, it is really quite stupid to swim in the open sea at night after a full meal, and all the drowning stories that we read about in the papers probably go something like that.

THen we got back to shore to dry off, except li_sa didn't want to let me use her skirt as a towel i have no idea why. then we took the cable car back to harborfront, strolled around vivocity a bit, and took separate cabs home.

I'm back in this little corner of cyberspace :O Seeing pam on facebook, it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks that I am supposed to be bringing bodies over to Japan to visit her, a task which I keep putting off until I finally FORGOT about it. SHIT never ask me to plan anything I will promptly proceed to fuck it up like I did with vietnam.

In conclusion, I think I should get myself a chihuahua because they are so DAMN ADORABLE. (and affectionate!)

Yesterday I went to Sentosa with p am and sw and we acted all touristy. Turns out it was the 2nd last night they're having the musical fountain show (surprise, surprise). However, being the punctual souls that we are, we came 10 minutes late and missed the damn thing anyway. Then I went to Wala; J&R weren't playing though, but we managed to get the band to play some jason mraz cover anyway. Then I went home. The end.