Sunday, December 25, 2005
the creak of rusty fingers typing
yes little chickens! it has been a long time since ive last updated. but no regrets! because i've been having fun! concentrated fun. 100% more action. yes indeedy. enumerated below for your perusal:
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3stan xiaolongbao outing was a success! it was great to see MIA baorong again. even if it was for only a very short while. =]
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4a4 outing was great. grace was right: the more things change, the more they stay the same. most of us have grown up but we're all still great fun. and even though we haven't seen each other for months or years we can still talk down the house till 12am! hooray for baimawangzifinding! and also chocolate fondues and information exchange. i love a4 =]
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sc4 outing to batam was Awesome. good job jia for organising the whole thing.
a. cableskiing
left crucial bits of skin around the cableskiing lake but petted cute puppies and little boychild! nearly pulled my arms out of their sockets and buttcramped severely (but cannot beat cy and his hamstrings haha)
-neck abrasions from helmet strangulation
-bruised flanks from bouncing on the water at vv fast km/h
-bruised elbows from kneeboard bouncing
-bruised ribs from ramp
-sizable chunk of 3rd finger and little toe gone from unhappy encounters with rocks
-3 broken blisters
and of course i was so achy it hurt when i laughed, tried to comb my hair, lace up my shorts, or sit up from bed. hahaha.
b. thefood
crazy batam seafood auntie. stingrays became pomfrets and my tehping became tehsususo-ping which (only under severe duress) was duly delivered as susutehping. yum yum garlic chicken and honestly-quite-dumb absolut shots and sprite.
c. gokarting
Not Advisable when wet. grimy and muddy. but oh so fun! the scfour monsters went through 6 gokarts. much destruction, oil, and mud. ZOOM. mini jaychous drifting and splashing into tyres, through mud, and into HUGE puddles. Very Good.
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christmas cards!! now i know why i go through all that time to write those damn cards. i love recieving them so much more than i hate writing them :]
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christmas dinner at regent wth our flamboyantly gay pinoy waiter :] (hellooo my name is ermen! i will be yurr waiter for today. would madame like the champagne freeflow?)
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christmas presents! see above. sadly i didn't get what i want for christmas (a brother laser printer plus scanner and photocopier for only $199) because according to my mum its "not christmasy enough". also, "why can't you ask for mango voucher like auntie lingling's daughter?"
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merry christmas to all 3 of my beloved readers! jingle jingle.
+ fictions&fires
6:26 PM
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plangere, latin: to strike, or to lament.
in the depth of winter i finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
--albert camus
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to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
-- ee cummings
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