Anyway, we took a train all the way to Jurong East mrt where we then transferred to a free shutter bus service transporting us to The Chevrons. The initial activity plan was to go for the clique's first ever karaoke session where i suggested to be held at kbox in town. But FPE, being a 3SG, is a Chevron member and hence suggested booking the karaoke at Chevrons which happened to be much cheaper. I was a little skeptical of the songlists available at that place but to my surprise, it was rather updated.
We proceeded into the karaoke where we were given this long room with 2 wide screen TV seperated by the computer song dedication screen. I started to wonder which TV shd i focus on, the left or the right, or simply one eye on each. I digress. We initially spent like half an hour trying to figure out how to operate the freaking remote control and the computer system there like a bunch of morons. Being too used to the kbox system, i was totally confused by the sophistication, or rather, the simplicity, of the computerised system there. Any small insignificant breakthrough in our idiotic "trial and error" experiment with the system caused unwanted and unnecessary cheerings from the 5 of us. See how freaking spastic we were.
Oh yes, we sang alot of songs. Personally, i sang some of my fave 拿手songs such as 陈奕迅's 《十年》，《预感》，《爱情转移》，alin's 《失恋无罪》，范玮琪's《到不了》，《是非题》,etc. Oh yes, did i mention that i simply love to sing "emo tragic songs", i.e. 悲歌. The more tragic, the merrier, the more i like. Hence, it seemed always the case that everyone who went kbox or karaoke with me, needs to see a psychiatrist the following day. Hahaha.
Anyway, everyone's singings were okay. I mean all of us were once in choir b4. Me, YY, MK and FPE were in pri sch choir (if you've not known), we were kinda forced to join to put up a performance for the pri sch's 18th anniversary. Julia was in choir in her sec sch days. Hence there werent major 音准 and pitching problems in this session. After the end of the 3 hours of continuous singing, we were surprised, or rather, shocked, at how much the bill was. It was only $27, inclusive of the $11 jug of greentea we ordered. My was that cheap. Sorry, i shall rephrase, it is BLOODY CHEAP !!!
Attached below is a photo taken in the karaoke room. Obviously YY is missing coz he is the one taking the photo. But its ok, not going to have any negative impact on the overall photo with his absence. Hahahaha. Just joking. =P
Anyway, after the karaoke session which ended somewhere around 5.30pm, we took a bus to vivocity for dinner and gift exchange. I initially suggested Orchard Road (same as last year) because there were more to see at Orchard Road. I am refering to the xmas deco, not the filipino maids, thankyou. Hahaha. Ok, sorry for being lame. The direct bus journey took approx 45min and we arrived at the bus terminal at harbourfront. Upon making our way through the crowd to vivocity across the road, we realised that we were hungry. Yay !!! Babies and children must not be kept hungry for this will affect growth. (As though we have any much to grow, ahahhaha) So we surveyed the shop directory only to realise the most economical venue to eat is actually, the foodcourt. (See how sarcastic i sound.) Anyway, we took the lift to Food Republic on the 3rd storey and engaged in a game of "musical chair", i mean, finding seats in the packed foodcourt. But then, we were not very good in the game you see (cause we no childhood) so we couldnt find a seat. So we went back to the basement and fortunately enough, found a seat the kopitiam foodcourt. If i did not recall wrongly, last yr's xmas dinner was also at kopitiam food court, just that it was at PS. Maybe kopitiam organisation can consider sponsoring our annual xmas dinner from next yr onwards? Hahaha.
Anyway, after dinner, YY need to leave early because he need to book in that night. So we did an advanced gift exchange for him. The fk up thing about this yr's gift exchange is, we have paper but no pen. Last year, we have pen but no paper. I wonder whats next year? The photo below shows all the presents "posing" for a photoshoot. Hahhaa. Can you recognise the darker blue one at the bottom? Its from me.
Anyway, we managed to substitute the role of the pen with MK's hairpin, which is kinda pathetic. But then, we are very adaptable to different circumstances hence we can make do with anything. Hahaha. Thankgoodness they didn insist on using my blood for i am a medic. YY received MK's present. Congrats. Erm...ok, nothing to congrats. Hahahah.After YY got his present, we decided to 送him离开，千里之外. Erm...i mean, send him home. But before that we needa take a group photo. We managed to make our way to the entrace of vivo and found this fountain landscape place (photo below) to do our annual grp photo shoot. It was done with FPE's cam coz mine was chwee enough. The flash is over bright, auto is over dark. Kinda pathetic. We manage to stop this guy in the nearest proximity to us to do us this favour, hopefully he didn think that we wanted to rob him or somehting.
After which, i started to whip out my cam and started snapping about. Woohooo. The photo below on this crystal glass xmas tree placed just inside the entrace of vivo was taken while the 2 girls went toilet. So got ALOT OF TIME to take this photo. Hahahhaa.
After that we decided to continue our gift exchange at the amphitheatre at the top of vivo. Upon reaching the top level, what greeted us was this gigantic beautifully decorated xmas tree erected infront of the amphitheatre. (Plz do not question my use of vocab) Grand, isnt it?
So we decided to proceed on with the gift exchange. Results of the lots drawing indicated that FPE got julia's present, which was a self-made "coloured sand in a glass" thingy. She really took the effort to grind the chalk to make the sand and stuff. Yah. A round of applause for her please. MK got my present, which is a mug i bought at marina sq. Julia got FPE's present which was a pair of small decorative purposes wine glass. I got YY's present which was a big decorative glass. See any similarity in all the presents we got? ALL MUGS AND CUPS AND GLASSES, i.e. water storage equipments. Hahaha. Got alot of 默契rite we? Hahaha. This year i set the rule of "no chocolate", next yr i guess i am gonna enforce another rule of "no mugs and cups and glasses". I wonder what will be the resultant. Anyway, after the gift exchange at the amphitheatre, we continued snapping photos of that freaking big tree. Yah, its kinda weird to do so but it is the ONLY obvious deco we can see up there. Everyone else was doing so, so we followed the crowd. MK esp, snapped it at all possible angles (of that gigantic tree) she can find to the extent that the deco management might want to collect copyright fee from her. Hahaha.
This is taken at the base of the gigantic tree. It writes "Christmas sparkles at vivocity".
This is a photo of the gigantic xmas tree taken from far.After all these "nonsenses", we embarked on our journey home, time check 9.45pm. I got outfield cover the following day (which was today) so i gotta reach home early. We took bus 166 back to AMK bus int where on the way to the busstop, mk damaged her heels, due to her "awkward way of walking", according to her. So she faced some difficulties walking to the busstop but this did not stopped me from "forcing" the 4 of us including her, to dash across the road with a blinking green man shown on the traffic light. She could be cursing and swearing i guess.
Anyway, on the bus journey, we engaged in our fave activity - crapping. I admit i was kinda tired. But as and when i passed by any deco, i would take out my digi cam and snap snap snap.
This is one pathetic foto i snapped at the deco outside The Central at clark quay.
This one is part of the long stretch of deco along orchard road. This shd be at the end of orchard road and the start of bras brasah road, near Paradiz ctr and SMU.
This one that looks like rain of gold was the deco for United Square at novena. Anyway, i kinda reached amk bus int, exhausted, at 10.30pm approx. Walked home. The moment i reached home, i bathed, pack my bag for today's outfield and then wait for my hair to dry before i called it a day and enter dreamland.
Anyway, the 4 of u hor, plz dont chase me for the photos. I've already uploaded them. The link can be found at the function menu at the right. Thankyou. For the rest of u guys, plz enjoy the photos i've taken. For those pictures that featured me inside, please dont send it to the Singapore Paranormal Investigators coz reassure thats not a ghost inside, thats me. Thanks. Kinda regret not going down to orchard rd at night to take foto. 2 more days to xmas, i wonder if i shd make the trip down.
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