| Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
| unlikely trio |
I met up with Justin Chen and my cousin, Astee on Monday night (25/06/07) for dinner at Vivocity.
Yes, you read that right. I met up with Justin Chen and my cousin, Astee.
Which probably leads to the next question, which has to be - how did the 3 of us end up being on such good terms so as to end up going on outings together?
Let's see. Astee is my cousin. We are actually related by blood! WOW!
Astee knows Justin because they were members of the International Chemistry Olympiad team during our J2 year, and being fellow Chem-geeks, they tend to go gaga over anything related to chemistry. (These chem-geeks are weirdos!)
Justin and I have been in the same school for 6 years, been in the same CCA for 6 years, so its only natural that we know each other. Besides, he owes me a great deal because I was nice enough to help him vet through his University application essays, so yeah, he OWES me, big time!
So anyway, Justin organised the outing. So we, the unlikely trio, went to Vivocity, which my dear cousin hasn't been to yet, since she has been in London for the past nine months.
We went to Marche, because there was just too many things around Vivo, many of which require you to command a rather powerful paycheck to have a decent meal, and since we didn't really have a preference as to where we wanted to eat, I felt the best place to go went you aren't sure of what you want to eat is Marche. So Marche it is.
I had my favourite French Crepe! Unfortunately, I ordered the wrong flavour - wanted my favourite ham and cheese crepe, the classic one, but I wasn't thinking when I told the cook that I wanted a mushroom and cheese crepe. Oh well, the mushroom crepe wasn't that bad though, but I would still have preferred it if I had my classic crepe.
The best thing about dinner though was that I didn't have to pay for it, cause Justin was treating me and my cousin. I dunno what my cousin did to deserve the treat, but anyway, Justin treated me because he OWES me for helping him go through his countless Uni entrance essays, so yeah, I DESERVED the treat. Hah!
After that, we went walking around looking for a place to eat dessert. In the end, Justin, being the cheapo that he was, suggested we go to Giant to buy a tub of ice cream to share among the three of us.
I was quite exasperated with that idea, because you just shouldn't go to Vivo just to eat some kind of cheapo Wall's ice cream. Unfortunately, my cousin thought that that was kinda fun too, so I was out-vetoed by the both of them.
So we ended up buying some tub of chocolate ice-cream but I guess we came to a compromise and decided not to buy some cheapo brand like Wall's or Nestle (we bought Swensen's) and because we realised we didn't have spoons, we decided to 'kope' spoons from the Kopitiam there.
It was quite funny, cause we went around the stores looking for spoons to steal and it was so obvious that we were up to no good. But in the end, Justin managed to steal 2 metal spoons for us to share, and we took our wares to the top floor to enjoy our dessert. (when we wanted to leave, he actually insisted we return the spoons to the Kopitiam. I was of the notion that we just throw them away, whereas Astee wanted to keep them as souvenirs. In the end, we followed Justin's advice after he started to nag non stop about the morality behind returning stolen spoons. Argh!)
We ended up basically chatting and chatting about lots of strange stuff/people/events really. Its amazing that somehow, though the three of us came from rather different backgrounds (Astee's from RGS and RJ, and though Justin and I are both from TCHS and HCJC, we were always from different classes) and are all going into very different fields/futures, the people we know are all strangely closely related.
It just goes to show how limited our social circles really are, and how we are all interlinked to one another by the strangest ways possible. This is especially so if you are a student from one of the so-called top schools in S'pore, be it Secondary Schools or JCs.
But yeah, so being the gossip mongrels that we all are, we ended up talking about lots of different people that we somehow, find ourselves sharing a common 'interest' in.
It was quite weird really, because, yeah, I was basically gossiping with my cousin and my friend about other people. There's of course, nothing wrong with the whole gossiping with a friend part, but gossiping with your cousin!?
Feels like I'm gossiping with a twin sister or something... which is the bad part about having a cousin in the same year who is just about a month younger than you.
Your secrets aren't safe at all!
Because if information about people from other schools can come to you, information about you can also go to people from other schools! So Astee if you are reading this, don't go spreading my secrets and quirks to other people I don't know! (And seriously, no one should know about Lord Voldemort's secrets.)
All in all, it was a strange quirky night. I had fun hanging out with this unlikely combination of companions. And to cap it off, I had a long bus ride home - perfect time for quiet contemplation.Labels: family, friends, randomness |
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