and well-balanced. Just slightly too fast-paced. That kinda sum up my past week.
Last week was a blur because it simply past too fast with the company coming back from deployment (which means a lot of admin work to settle) and towards the end, formation anniversary celebrations (which means there's nothing much to do). Friday after swim meet is meeting Calene at my house followed by movie and dinner. Saturday morning's rain ruined plans for balls. Late replies by me caused Nex outing with Shamin and Jiejing to be cancelled. And exams cost me Alvin. So I was left . Gave up and went to sleep only to receive calls from many people to ask me out. So went out with Jingwei and Chinboon to Kovan for lunch before heading to Alvin's house to 'study'. Dinner with family for brother's birthday was delayed due to long queue. It's the first time my family saw his new girlfriend though. Went down to Andy's old condo, which happened to be Marcus Teo's to collect my running shoes from Macus when the team's having their post A's celebration there. Then cab back home to meet Kangster that's waiting under my block. Did some preparation and went to sleep. Woke up early at 2am, headed down to Orchard. Good thing we reached early, lest we need to join in the queue for baggage deposits. But being too early meant we had too much time to spare. So it was kinda a bore before the start of Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2010. Managed to complete it with Kangster and Kangming at a timing of 6hr 51min (and ranking's on previous post). Good experience and not a bad timing at all, but could have been faster; time to train up Kangster! Haha. Shall see if you do in Sundown. Lol. And SC, please posit your baggage collection point nearer to the end point next time, thanks. It's too far for our convenience, especially so after we've just struggled to finish WALKING the marathon. Otherwise your finisher's tee should be "Finisher of 44.195km" in future. Okay, enough with rambling (far more was already done on the day itself). After collecting our bags is lunch with Junyang at Marina Square, before we parted ways with him (who went Esplanade for his personal R&R) to head to my house for a nap. Reached home, slept, and carried on to Kang's house to stayover. Caught Star Search 2010, which I thought was a failure, before getting some good night rest. Next morning woke up OTOT. Went downstairs for Breakfast before going Serangoon swimming complex for some recovery swim (which I didn't manage to even complete one lap...). Lunched at 214 before we head home individually. went home to wash up, slacked awhile and chitchatted with parents before reporting back to work at Hendon (which I spent two bus trip, or 3 in fact, to reach because I realize I forgot my camp pass only after boarding the bus... -.-). Went back to camp, settled quite a handful or urgent matters (but of course, work can never be finished) and left later than I expected. Rex quitted his job and so could've met me earlier. But I was really too tired to even have dinner. So I skipped it that night and headed home straight after work. (half-a-day of leave is to be recovered by the way. XD). Slept. The only true-blue rest for the week ahead. Woke up rather early on Tues and thus did some reading. Headed down to Parkway to meet Benjamin and Kangming before transiting to Teoheng for our regular singing session. Karwee joined us slightly later. Left earlier to meet Brandon, who just touched down on Monday, at Plaza Singapura to do his shopping (a belt, that's all, in the end). Had dinner with him at Pastamania. Went home early cause we were both shagged. Next day was supposed to head down to camp to finish the unfinished work, but woke up too late and decided not to. Stayed home to read up on my econs and use my comp, only to be psyco-ed by Chinboon to jio people for Clubbing on that ladies' night. So I called and called: finding out that 4th Coy's people are going Butter Fac. that night with a strength of 7 men, plus a few of those that responded to my call, the eventual namelist, from the initial Chinboon and me, to include: Me, Chinboon, Yukang, Shamin, Hongchew, Julian, Gary, Kelman, Christopher, Jian Yu, Joel, Mathew, Xavier and Samuel (I may have missed one or too, just too many pax). Before meeting up with the Clubbing group at City Hall was dinner with Nee Soon bunk-mates: Kelman, Karwee, Yixiong, Shawn and Benjamin Lim (too many Bens). Had Pasta de waraku (yes, cliche...) and TCC (for deserts/drinks). Sorry guys for a confusion and mixed-up over the meeting point by the way. Anyway, it's been long since we've last met! Ha. Ok... so after that headed down to City Hall. Waited for Xavier for F***ing long. So long that when we reached Butter (which then I realized that it's NYJC's post prom), the queue for normal entry is closed. Had 10 free entry, but we had more people than that; plus the queue was too long to wait; so we changed our plans to head down to Phuture instead. Julian and Gary ps-ed as they had stuff on next morning. So sorry bros that made you guys make a wasted trip down. That night was... wow... it's been a long time since I last clubbed, and last seen a friend so drunk. Haha. Chinboon: remember the first time going clubbing with you you still say I was damn high, what happened on Wed?!?!?! LOL. Well done ah... Ha. After that cabbed home with Kangster, Christ and Chinboon. After dropping CB off, the other two came over to stay. Christ is yet another joke. Drunk like f***. LOL. Thank god he didn't puke though. Next morning woke up damn early and had slight headache. Kang went off early to get get his stuff back from his junior while Christ slept till noon to go lunch with me. After that headed down to Nex to meet CB and Weiliang for 'lunch' which of course I skipped (after eating with Christ). A brief meeting for some catch-up; went home rather soon with Weiliang after parting with CB. Reached home, slacked, and went Alvin's house to (supposedly) celebrate him finishing his exams. Dinner at Hougang point was immediately followed by supper at Chomp Chomp. Went over to his house to stay for the night after catching two movies. Slept super early cause I was too tired. Woke up early next morning for breakfast before heading home to catch up on some sleep. Went sis's house to help her carry some stuff over to my place, before Calene came over to pick me up for Dinner together with Liang (as usual, Shaun's not free...). By the way, sorry Jeff that I couldn't let you join my activity! And Ting, your lateness cost me some honesty to my parents at last. Wonder when will the nagging come in. Paid my $300 fine on Fri too, at least a burden off my shoulder. Zzz (not exactly actually since I still owe Rex and Andy quite substantial a sum of money). Head down to Alvin's place after dinner with cousins at Borsch. Caught another movie before Kaung reach home and Rex called. So we gathered at Kaung's house, with Andy joining us slightly later, for some card games. Bakarate (if that's how you spell it), Blackjack and Texas Hold'em. Overall winnings total up to just $15. -.- haha. quite fun actually. After supper was round 2 at my place. With Andy leaving, we started off with Big 2, then Poker. Poker was f***ing exciting (though they accuse me of not concentrating on the game towards the end). Change of tens of dollars in just a min's time. Shiok. Haha. Ended around 5 and slept at 6 (where I tossed and turned until don't know what time). 7.30 my morning call came. Time for basketball at VJ. So I left Alvin and Rex to sleep at my place while I went school in Wanxin's car. Quite a lot of people went back today, so it was quite happening. Friendly match with juniors for 4 quarters but I was too tired to be much involved. After that was lunch at 18Chefs at Eastpoint@Simei after seeing doctor with Macus to get his MC. Headed home straight after that to clear my sleep debts. And so here I am now after I wake up, spending 1 good hour typing this post. Plans to dinner with the team will be abandoned for they're meeting way too late and too far. Supper with Daphne's also cancelled cos of her falling sick. And now Kangster's here ready to move out to Alex mother's place for some chillout before we head for Sentosa tomorrow morning!
Power-packed huh. =]
