and so we finally met! ^___^

HELLO HELLO. yesyes. still excited from the fact that we met. so here's a picture spam & a summary of Nth agm. (yes i'm very free at 1am in the morning)

yeah, somehow the humans are PS were really cooperative. we actually managed to get to the whatever floor with nobody else in the elevator :D

while waiting for icecream to arrive... ebi showing off her jie zuo~ yummy :D

we got bored and started taking pictures... joan is so far awayyyyy

and the melting icecream finally came.. how disappointing.

oh pp is so talented with zi pai-ing

and i'm seriously short and stumpy. damnit

quick pass me the camera!

yeah i'm taller than everybody now. cheap thrill indeed

the z pai-ing continues!

the classic. i still feel like buying my red converse.

and the last picture of the day :)

the next meeting is set around 3 weeks from today. after ebi & leney's test but before they start mugging for exams. to do a dinner thing at pp or my house. ok? set?

Penang!

hi all!

you know, since our o level days we've been thinking of travelling overseas together?
recently i've been thinking of it alot.
and i talked to kenneth about it and we have just decided to go penang.
but what is travelling when u don't have the best of company (that's YOU) around?

we are thinking of going to Penang on a 3-5 days holiday (depending on our budget and ability to take leave) filled with beach activities - think jet skiing, para-sailing and many other activities!
coupled with the beautiful au natural beach, losing calories would be fun and effortless!
AND all these activities are either NOT available in Singapore or waaaay overpriced.
Besides, NOW is the springtime of youth for water sports. Seize the day!
i know leney is abit on the hydrophobic side, but dun fret, there's always other non water related beach activities like volley :D

Also, Penang is known for the great food - like their laksa and ba kut teh.

but u see, there'll be no guilty feeling after eating these delicious worthy food because! u know u'll working it all out with the beach activities and u deserve that nice treat~

needless to say, shopping would be great too, given that everything is generally more affordable.

transport there would be a very convenient Grassland coach bus - yes, the one with nice cushy seats promoted by moses lim, kim ng, and christopher lee.

80 sgd for round trip.

- there's no budget airline flying from sg to penang-

Excited about a getaway from the overcrowded and all too familiar boring singapore?
contact ebi on the 29th when we meet up.

the tentative dates for this amazing holiday for the budget conscious is from 19th-23rd dec.

hurhur. ok.i know, this came quite suddenly, quite without consultation with you guys.

seriously, i hope u guys consider this and go for it. :)

since we all have been planning on a trip like since o levels ended anyways. and besides, leney will be away for half a year! we should spend more quality time together!

http://www.penang.ws/
click above for more information on attractions/weather/ etc

29th?

OK! so everybody have said what they wanted to... SO... we meet this coming sat (29th)?


you've been warned. the person who dont turn up will be shot. :)

Although i wrote this email to joan, i think what i wrote should be towards everybody else too.
so here goes:

"i just want to say i'm sorry. although u have stated in ur blog that one isn't needed.
still, sorry not just for this once, but for all times i wasn't there when i should have been there.
not just in physical form, but also consideration in thoughts.

i'm really sorry to have taken this friendship for granted.

i know saying wouldn't mean anything if we don't do anything about the horrid behavior.
we'll plan a get together soon.
but i know planning a get together still isn't the point.

the point is, do we even still care for each other?
we[ editted in: mostly i] have been retarded selfish assholes all these while not expressing our concern, and not acting like civil considerate beings - focusing our[mostly my] energies instead on dead inanimate objects - and for us[mostly me] to take this long to realize that we[mostly me] have all this while been sacrificing something important with each and every gesture of not turning up, or being late,or rejections - we[mostly me] really are retarded selfish assholes.
despite being nasty, i just want to say we do care.

but again, saying wouldn't mean anything.
give us time to put to action our words.

ebi"




and then to pp, seriously, its not your fault.
if i had seriously cared, i would have smsed you immediately to tell you that, yes we can still meet up except that i'll be arriving a wee bit later than the arranged time of 1.30pm.
but i didn't.

and as joan asked, how much time do we need to have a meal together, really. or rather, how much consideration did we place on having a meal together?

then i begun to question myself.. have i been too caught up with my own work and life that i was slowly, bit by bit, insidiously, letting go of these precious friendships by not nurturing it with the care it deserved?

have i started to take this meet ups for granted holidays like chinese new year and christmas - some dates which appears on the calender but is totally unthought of in the days in between?

and even if i hadn't taken it as an automation, have i even bothered to express my concern to catch up on everyone's life on a regular basis?

if this continued, would we all become aunties and uncles not meeting up ever in the future... and probably only accidentally bumping into each other on the streets - and then exchanging that awkward hello? would i then not blame nature and find my own's inconsideration faulty only at that stage?

perhaps i am thinking too much and am making a big deal....
perhaps you had the same foreboding feeling as i do since a long time ago, except i am much denser and slower.
still, no. i really don't want that scenario to happen.

but really, what are these words worth if there's no action?

i just want to thank the guru joan for bringing up issues i had in the past gladly swept under the carpet, hoping that all things will go fine if ignored.

now's my turn

hello.

i got damn sian when i read wen's, and then pp's, message. but i thought okay, we could still meet anyway. then when pp sent the cancellation message, i was plain annoyed. frankly, i was looking forward to the meeting and i did make a conscious effort to block the day. though i really can't help it that it's my brother's birthday tmr and if i don't go for dinner with my family my dad will just be pissed at me.

so i was pissed at ebi for not being able to make it for lunch, then when i found out it was pp who mistook her 10-12 lecture as being free only for the evening, i got pissed at him instead. and then i found out joan was pissed. great.

then i stopped to think that this was really all a miscommunication, and that pp was probably annoyed too cos all his effort in planning came to nothing. so ebi and i started to think of ways of how we'd resolve this, and also apologize to joan.

but, i am glad that joan got pissed off. because in a way, it has brought out in the open an underlying issue among us that we have not addressed since our jc/poly days. and that is that people like me haven't been as gracious with my time unlike joan and wen. even during their poly days when they had projects or tests, they'd still meet us up. but when the jc people had their tests, friendships were just put on hold.

still, when i say i miss you all i DO mean it. and i was really happy when pp changed the template of the blog, because there was this feeling that someone still bothered and this blog wasn't dying.

on my part, i will try to be a better friend. and i am sorry to all for anything i might have done that has antagonized the dynamics between us as a whole or you as an individual. and from now on, just tell or slap me if you have to.

indeed, i hope that when we finally meet we can laugh this episode away. and that we continue on with our treasury of time for the great many years ahead of us..

Well, to be honest, I sent the message to cancel our meeting out of pissification. But then again, if we were to meet probably 2 hours or even less, wouldn't it be pointless (a.k.a not here not there). So yeah, it wasn't all that unjustified.

Anyway my pissed-ness turned into disappointment, cos' it's like yet again we have to postpone even after I've done the tallying, confirming, mass-sms-sending...(i've even thought of what to wear...ok that's besides the point).

Yup, so to everyone who's in some way or another, pissed, don't be.

I guess the fact that we're no longer together in Sec 4 (where we have same timetables and can have cancel-free outings) means that we'll have to have a compromise (yes, even if that means meeting a minimum of twice a year). We're all in different phases of our lives, and pretty much differ in whatever we're doing, and that leaves us with different priorities. And I suppose at times, we're unable to measure the priorities of others with our own priority gauge. So we'll

Ok whatever, what I'm trying to say is it's not anyone's fault or whatsoever, just hope we'll laugh this off in our next apptment. So ,

29 Sep

? Any takers?

We got an all-free day! So

22nd September

it is!

Just hope Joen (or for that matter, any of us) won't have any last minute stuff to attend to...If that's the case, we'll meet for dinner? Leney you sure you okay not having dinner with your parents? If not we'll make it an afternoon thingy, like go for high tea or something, ha.

Cheerio~

Right, before 2am! The coding almost blinded me after almost a year of not deciphering them. So yeah, something for a change, after...say 2 years? Kinda simple-looking (the graphic took 15min, the deciphering and substituting took like forever~), had some really nice group pictures of us from wen's birthday but couldn't find anywhere to put them, so I went ahead without. =)

Ok, once again, please reply to the previous previous message. IMPORTANT!


(p.s. When yall post next time right, there isn't a need to set color/font size cos' it's already preset. Unless you really want some individual expression...heh)

New layout in progress. Please highlight the text you if you can't see it as yet. Will be up before 2am. Going for dinner =)

Please reply to previous post.

Ok so here's the tally for month of September and 1st week of October.

Joen: Tuesday and Friday nights not free. The rest dependent on workload so unable to confirm when there'll be OT. Saturdays subjected to workload as well.

Ebi: 14/09 night, 15/09 whole day.

Leney: 1st and 3rd Saturday evenings of the month best not to touch.

Wen: All Free

Me: 15/09 on duty till 16/09. 21/09 duty. 29/09, 30/09 subject to duty but nights are 83.4623% free. Book-in's on Sun nights, so can only make it mostly in the afternoon

Misc.: I'm also assuming ebi and leney got church on Sun mornings.

And the prize goes to...WEN!! Ok. *serious tone* Based on the dates that have been given to me for the one-month forecast (that has been left with 3 weeks), we're unable to meet on weekdays (including Fridays) definitely, since Joen can't make it on Fri nights, and Leney, Ebi and I would be in school/camp respectively. So as for the remaining weekends, the dates are 22/09 Sat (don't worry leney, it's the 4th Sat of the month) full day, 23/09 Sun afternoon to evening, 29/09 Sat full day and 30/09 Sun afternoon, 06/10 Sat morning to afternoon and 07/10 Sun afternoon (tentatively for last 4 dates).

Ok so I'm arranging for 22/09. Which is next Saturday! Please reply here, or if you like privacy -_-, to me at 1800-P-SQUARE to RSVP. Or I'll go after you after my duty ends on Sun. Roar.

That's all~