| Saturday, 12 May 2007 |
| 71 guys outing |
I met up with my class guys today! About time too. I think its been ages since we had a proper 'all guys outing'. It was a pity Alex couldn't make it due to his fetish for Saturday duties, but hey, a turn out of 6 out of 7 guys is still good.
Oh well. The disadvantages of having so little guys in your class. Haha.
I arrived third today, around 15 minutes late. I'm sorry Kheng Wee and Yisheng! I didn't mean to be late, seriously. Blame it on the road conditions! There's always a jam at the junction near Tekka Mall. Irritating.
But anyway, the rest of the guys were later than me, so the 3 of us made our way first to the restaurant to have our favourite Ah Yat dim sum. We chose to go to the Bugis branch, which we have never been to before because it didn't offer any discount. But we got so tired of walking into Turf City for the branch which offered the 50% discount so we had to exchange cheaper prices for the greater level of convenience.
By a sheer stroke of coincidence, we were allocated the table 71. Can you imagine our delight? Guys from class 71 being allocated the table 71. We should have bought lottery or something.
We were feeling quite out of place in the restaurant because it was situated in a hotel, and I think most of their clientele is made up of rich tourists who were ordering huge abalone slices and stuff. And here we were, a bunch of university students and NSFs, complaining about the lack of discounts and high prices. It was quite amusing.
Anyway, Hanjie, Anthony and Mao Jiang eventually arrived. We ordered lots of our favourite Dim Sum delights, like the delicious 龙须 and 猪肠粉. Despite the slightly higher prices, we just decided to let it all go and just eat. Just kept pigging out. It was really quite heavenly. Haha.
In the end, I think the assistant captain of the restaurant got so impressed with us that she offered us a 15% discount, and told us to come back next time and look for her so that she'll offer us a discount again. So we were quite happy! Haha. In the end the bill amounted to around $20 each, which we felt was quite worthed it considering the amount of food we ordered. Money well spent.
We had a fun time catching up. I haven't met Mao for such a long time (I think the rest of the guys too.) He is the only guy among us 7 to sign on as a Navy Officer, so his life is remarkably different compared to the rest of us. He hasn't commissioned yet, he is commissioning on 10th of June, but since he is a LSA recipient, he is gonna start University this August, faster than the rest of the guys still in the military. Plus the fact that he was the only guys from our class to be enlisted in March, he was in a batch totally different from us. So his experiences in the military, is so different from us.
The stories he kept telling us, about how his batch was filled with Poly graduates who are so much more... erm, promiscuous and flippant and rebellious than us JC graduates are so amusing. Just listening to how he has to deal with them, and how exasperated he gets is quite funny. But you just know that Mao has his ways of surviving without being tempted by their wild lifestyles, cause he is a man of principle and he knows how to deal with them, to politely reject their offer to go 'bang bang' with them without being rude.
Anyway, Mao is just simply Mao. Still the same old gentle giant with the funny sense of humour. Haha. Really nice catching up with him.
After lunch, we decided to go walk around at Bugis to see what we could do. The theatre there was screening nothing but "Spider-man 3" which most of us had already caught, the arcade there was freaking crowded, which kinda put us off, the place was PACKED which again put us off, so we decided to head our way to town. Hanjie left to go to watch a competition, so it was left with the 5 of us.
We wanted to watch a movie, but the slots weren't good, and considering the fact that it was Saturday, the rest of Singapore was probably booking tickets in the cinemas as well.
We tried looking for good timings, from Cine to Lido to PS to Cathay, trying to find good seats for a good time slot for either "28 Weeks Later" or "Bridge to Terabithia". But most of the theatres were actually reserved for "Spider-man 3"! Man, we were quite pissed, because the sheer number of theatres that Spidey3 took up was just reducing the number of theatres for other movies. Couldn't understand why so many people were still watching Spidey3 - most of the slots for it at every single cinema is sold out. Madness.
So in the end we couldn't find a movie to watch, ended up chilling at Starbucks in Cathay, where we caught up with the latest trends, hookups (among the girls), and our individual lives.
We started planning an all guys trip to Australia at the end of the year. And a fishing trip out on Anthony's new fishing boat. Kinda hyped up by that! Woo hoo! Fishing on a boat! What a life man! Anthony is gonna get a boating license, so that he can take people to Singapore's off shore islands to fish and do stuff! How cool is that?
We chatted all the way til the sun had set, then we decided to head our way down to Suki Sushi for dinner. Since we were still really full from the Dim Sum lunch, we decided to not eat the buffet and ordered a la carte instead.
The servings there were HUGE. I think all of us ended kinda bloated from the sheer amount of food we had to eat. Argh. I hope we don't suffer from indigestion.
Dinner ended at around 9, and we decided to just head home. Guess we can't handle long days out anymore without needing some form of perk-up like coffee or a nice afternoon nap. Sigh. We really are getting old. Bleah.
Really happy that I managed to meet up and catch up with the rest of the guys. That's the kind of thing you get when you have a class with a gender disparity. There were only 7 of us against 19 girls. So despite being remarkably different individuals, we really didn't have a choice - it was simply a case of guys uniting against the overwhelming oppression from the girls. Haha.
71 guys rule! Muahahaha.Labels: flashback, food, friends |
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