| Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
| birthdays |
Two of my friends - Kai Liang and Wilson, turned 20 on 21st June.
So happy birthday to both you guys!
Anyway, I think Kai Liang's abroad, so all I did was send him an SMS greeting. Hope he received it.
As for Wilson, I met up with my 2 Sig BN buddies in the evening to celebrate Mr Bear-Bear's birthday. So after my afternoon spent with Lileng and Suan, I went to meet the guys at Dohby Gaut in the evening for dinner at Manhattan Fish Market.
Me, Xiao Hui, Vincent, Wilson, Kaiming, Wei Liang
I didn't take much photos, cause *cough* erm, I forgot to charge my batteries after returning from Europe. Yeah yeah, I know, its been what, at least a week since I've been back but I'm such a lazy procrastinator, so much so that I just couldn't bring myself to find my charger and recharge the batteries.
In my defence, I did switch batteries before leaving home, just that I forgot the minor fact that both of my batteries were actually flat, so switching them didn't make much of a difference.
Anyway, we bought Wilson a small little Powerpuff Girls cake. I think he really loved it.
After dinner we decided to go walk around. The initial plan was to get Wilson drunk (my army friends are such typical army boys. Tsk tsk!) but as we finished dinner at a rather early time of 1930, we realised that there wasn't any place open that early to get someone drunk.
We checked the theatres to see if we could find anything worth watching, but the timings weren't good so we scrapped the whole idea of watching a movie as well.
So in the end, we decided to play pool. It was quite funny cause as usual, my amazing lack of skill in pool resurfaced again. I'm really bad at pool, because of several reasons:
1. I can't seem to choose the right ball to target. I have this apparent lack of common sense in choosing balls to hit, so much so that my friends will help me point out really obvious targets and I'll think to myself 'That was pretty obvious. Why didn't I notice that before?!?'
2. I have this amazing ability to hit the white ball such that it jumps, leapfrogging the ball I'm supposed to hit before coming back to earth and hitting some other ball that definitely wasn't my initial target. Apparently my friends think its some sort of skill - I say its just because I'm really crap at pool.
3. I am horribly attracted to the black No.8 ball. Somehow or another, I always end up committing suicide - my aim will go awry and I'll end up hitting another ball into the slots. Unfortunately, that ball always happens to be the black no.8, thus bringing my desperate attempts at staying alive to a premature end.
4. I don't really have an understanding of the physics behind the game. I know that there's lots of physics undertones in pool, with angles and forces and calculations and hit-here-and-the-ball-will-end-up-there logic. Unfortunately, I am a complete fool at physics. (some can argue that I have very little patience for common sense or logic as well) As such, I find it hard to visualize all the tips or points that my friends are trying to make. All I can think of when I play pool is to hit any ball - even if its not one that I'm supposed to hit (muahahaha!).
After pool (where I had quite a good time laughing and marveling at my amazing lack of skill in the game) we went to TCC for a little bit of caffeine and good old chit-chatting. The guys are ORD-ing in 4 to 5 months time. We discussed quite alot of plans to meet up in NUS in the coming year, cause quite a number of us are studying there.
I'm actually going to be 2 years their senior when they enter the University, how weird is that? But oh well, we were saying that we should meet up in NUS, and I'll end up turning up in office year cause I'll be in clinicals by then. In fact, it'll probably be a miracle if I even managed to find time to turn up, especially if I end up getting posted at some other hospital other than NUH.
But oh well. Sounds fun. It'll be cool to meet other guys of our age walking around NUS.
In the end, we never got down to getting Wilson drunk. Our dear old Cinderello, Vincent was harping to get home by 12 so we decided to call it a day after TCC.
Vinnie was nice enough to send me home since we live so close to each other - he received his civilian license after getting back from Taiwan. He dropped Kaiming at a bus stop on the way back and after that it was a nice smooth drive back to my estate.
I must say, its nice to have a friend who lives near you and who has a license, so so convenient.
Still, can't wait to get my own. Hope I pass the 1st time round though. I think I'll get quite sianified if I failed the first time round and would probably end up procrastinating for some time before I actually attempt the test again.Labels: festive, friends, list, photos |
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