Skating E>

An old sport I had once indulged, enjoy and immersed myself in 2 years ago, skating is back within my list of hobbies. An act of balancing yourself and moving on wheels, skating teaches everyone valuable and simple lessons in everyday life: to pick up yourself after you fall, and move forward again.

My boots are a delicious pair of Seba High Deluxe. Want it? I saved up really hard for it back then two years ago. Letting them collect dust was a heart-wrecking decision, even to me now.

Feels good after seasoning it, haha, but that's just expensive boots for you. I sorta permanently lent my old Rollerblade boots to Haikal, and he's like my skating mate now.

Every Saturday and Sunday, you will now probably see a certain familiar horizontally inclined guy gliding around Choa Chu Kang/Yew Tee. I'm having weekend sessions with Haikal, and other skating pals include Suxann, Heng Khit and Hui Qi. Our awesome eastsider, Ernthechamp, graciously cycled all the way from Tampines to Choa Chu Kang. Ern, we still think you are FTW.

The enthusiasm I had 2 years ago is back, baby. Getting the dust off my boots were a pain at first, but after getting used to moving with skates again, I just can't wait to put them on everyday and become even better on them. Recovering the turning tricks, Cross-Over and Parallel Turn was first. Now, I'm still trying to perfect T-Braking, and maybe eventually the amazing skill of skating backwards and basic slalom tricks (slides are just not my thing).

Eventually, I just really hope that more friends will join us with our weekend skating sessions. I'm just going to chiong all I can. I don't mind falling down anymore because the first thing I did when I went back to skating was balance and the ability to break my fall. =)

I'm going to make myself better on wheels! It's now a passion and hobby, much like Yu-Gi-Oh!, but cheaper and fitter. Guys, let's move! =D

Escapade~

It's like more than one weeks since the awesome event started and ended, and in other words, yes, I am freaking slow. So sue me if you will. :)

Escapade 2010. It was a day I've been looking forward to back then. Escapade 2009 was an event full of great memories, with us making new friends back then, who had formed unbreakable bonds with us right now. I will not deny that I expect that this year's Escapade was expected to be greater than last year's.

I was in Inspira last year, and this year, I've been chosen to be in Igni, the new monster group. My partner this year is Aaron, who in his own right, is an awesome buddy.

4pm. Everyone gathered at SPCC, eating their dinner. We chatted, joked, took photos, cheered. After that, we got to work. All the 11 and 12 leaders were assigned to entertain the people in the queue, which we did. My ideas then were kinda lame though.

After a very long while, we finally got our monsters. A very rushed dinner happened, then we rushed to see the performance at the fanfare. We got comedians and dancers, which were great, in my opinion. Fanfare ended shortly, and we moved on to KMKU.

KMKU: Knowing Me, Knowing You, is our ice breaker session. We engaged in games, cheers and a "pageant" contest. It went considerably well.

After KMKU, the Igni Monsters were led to "The Temple of Igni", where they took a hippo bus to get answers to riddles to free the Volcano Monster (WE'RE A VOLCANO, FOLKS). Due to misinformation on our OM's part, we leaders were left at the bus stop, where we had toilet breaks and a little rest. My voice started to sound weird already then.

Their hippo bus ride ended, and they alighted to be led to a room where we had to do a FREE IGNI DANCE! (For more info, watch Alvin's video of Try performing that awesome dance). This is a tricky and funny dance meant to be etched within our minds probably for the rest of our lives. O_O

Mission accomplished! Igni was freed! Next was the mountain monster, Inspira's territory! We went into the library and played Snakes and Ladders in life size. It was fun, with me making fun of the people getting forfeits every chance I got. :P

Inspiration obtained, the next stop was to InnoV, the Village of Inno, the sea monster. The Igni monsters were shown performances and new techs made by our lecturers and students. I still like that evil helicopter. It's evilllll.

The last location was Imagi's, the forest monster's territory, at Colours. A band would sing for them under a very nice atmosphere, and the monsters were given quizzes in which they would win free movie tickets.

Now, all 4 hallmarks have been visited, the main event of the night comes: The gig! But supper was before that, which was great. I loved the food. <3

Now, the gig. This is where monsters and leaders alike let wild their passions by dancing and shaking their booties. Us ACERs show sides of ourselves that most others have probably never thought of seeing in our everyday life. It was fun last year, and still is fun this year. :)

The gig ended, and we went to the final event, the Sunrise Surprise. Orchestrated by SMA, the seagoers showed us how to party all the way into the morning. The event was ended by dodgeball, in which everybody was to take a ball home, with their thoughts written on permanent marker on the balls. Breakfast came after that event, and we all went home to our bed, who sworn to serve us well. :)

Escapade this year was great, ACERs! It's my last event in SP, so yeah, I'm a little sad about it. But the bonds and friendship accumulated will definitely never be forgotten. ACERs, rock on! :D

Super sweet 19th~

The day started out like any other, but ended up unlike any other day I've ever experienced before.

11/11/2010 is the best day of my life for the past 19 years. Thanks, everyone who celebrated for me. ACERs, thanks for the celebration! It felt strange to have 50+ people singing for you, but still. :)

To the non-ACER friends, thanks for the gifts and wishes! I deeply appreciate ALL of it!

This is the best birthday of my life! :D

Some just for fun statistics of the day!

First person this year to wish me on the day itself: Pey Ling
Final person this year to wish me on the day itself: Sarah (Joy 6)

Best gift: Headphones from my mother and sisters!
Worse gift: Steve's photograph
Funniest gift: Zack's super trophy

FYI Fact: First surprise birthday celebration in my life

I'll post up pictures when Gibs uploads them! :) But for now, the gifts of 2010! And my "lucky noodles" haha!

 My mother's mee sua? THE BEST.

My beautiful cake!

Main gifts this year! :D

Thanks a lot, folks! I love you all! :D

Friends

It's always always cool to hang out with friends. No matter for what, when it is, and who it is.

Yesterday, 10 of us trudged down The Cathay to watch The Social Network. The movie taught me how friends can turn into enemies, and how words cannot be taken back. Meaningful. The main character ended up rich and famous, but apparently friendless. Like his lawyer said, "he's not an asshole, but he's trying too hard to be one".

Popeyes was awesome, but the chicken was small! We chatted, laughed, the usual. I enjoy company with all of them, chatting about random stuff out of nowhere.

Self-cannibalism FTW. =P

Outings are one thing, but the friends you have in class with you? They're also awesome, because they literally share hardship with you. I can't help but feel awesome with friends at MDC, despite working. It is a problem when we get mental blocks, though. Engineers need creativity.

And ACER trainings. I love em. Hanging out with everyone at night, joking around and stuff. After that, it's a huge group taking train home together. Who doesn't love that sort of company?

Work. I'm getting along with the colleagues. KY's still an asshole, but he's an awesome asshole LOL. Sounds wrong, but I'm lazy to change it, so I won't.

Escapade is coming, yo. Can't wait. =) I need sleep. I'm getting way too exhausted.