I'm in the mood (sort of) to blog today so I figure I do an extra long 'what the hell is he trying to say' entry today. Well I need space to let something off my chest, why not blog about it?
Left the house early today to head on down to East Coast with the Babies. So just in case you all don't know who the Babies are, they are the members of my IG/CCA/SLA (choose one of the following if you don't know what the hell I'm saying) Percussion Ensemble. I'm not going into details of why I call them Babies and they call me an ass but yeah they are called Babies by default.
I hate long train rides cause I get bored of sitting and waiting for the stupid automated voice to say "Next stop.. your stop" (err yeah) So I looked at the board the other day and they stated that the journey from Boon Lay to Bedok is 47 minutes. Ah yes, 47 minutes. 47 minutes of looking around, analyzing people, especially reactions from others when passengers board the train. Talk about keeping your eyes to yourself.
It was round 10 am plus when I reached. Decided to have a light breakfast at a coffeeshop while we waited for two more Babies to come along. I called Aisyah up. Asking how she was. I feel guilty in a way for not joining Fee Faan, but I guess keeping the Babies together now is way much important than anything. There has to be a unique bond between members of the group in order to have the best out of them. Though we may be the worst players in the world, as long as the group sticks together, I'm happy.
Walked around Bedok cause apparently one more Baby is stuck at home. Maybe I'm a 'westerner' (not that I'm Caucasian but I stay in the west of Singapore, explains the inverted commas) I just don't feel homely in the East. Maybe it was due to the fact that I'm rather new to the area (and to think Singapore was that small) or maybe I just don't like the feel of it. It's just so, wide. Nevermind about that point. But anyways, the Baby who was stuck at home decided to meet us there at East Coast. We spent 2 hours waiting. Rain was one of the reasons, but I guess the whole 'hey let's go enjoy' mood wasn't really there.
So the whole gang? From the ladies, Fadila, Naq and Niza. The gentleman (though I still think we are sick in the head at times) Tim, Aim and Nabil. Did I miss out anyone? It rained quite heavily when we were on the way to East Coast. So we decided to stick indoors. I suggested we played the notorious game of 'spin the handphone' which I created back then with Sean, Ismail and Maddy. The game was kinda boring cause, err I don't know. The Babies are still 'fresh' in their heads. Wait till they see how we Drama kids play the game. Questions like "if you were to stick something up your..." Trust me, we may sound sick, but we don't do sick things. We are just too imaginative, and not forgetting.. creative.
The rain stopped around.. err I wasn't wearing a watch. The gang rented bikes, except for Tim who has his own bike. The plan, we cycle to both ends of East Coast. So we did just that and the outcome? Terrible leg cramps for sure. But, enjoyable. We played tag. Not really tag but Fadila was the one who started hitting people on their shoulder while we rode (like tag, only thing is that you're riding a bike) When I say bike I mean bicycle. Had a few pit stops here and there. Think I'm going to bring Aisyah to this really nice spot at East Coast. That is if I have a bike (now I mean motorbike) cause it's far. In the middle of no where. So how Aisyah? Next year? Two years?
Tim and me were the more 'crazier' ones cause we were practically playing 'need for speed'. He was worst cause he always went off road. Hey bro, they made tracks for us lah. Could see the faces of the Babies. Tired from cycling. Since Tim mentioned something about my 'limitless' energy, think I'll bring it up. Well, I do have a limit that's for sure but how did I ride my bike like as though I have been only cycling for only 10 minutes? Easy. You control the bike. Don't let it control you. See, bikes are like women. If you know how to handle them, they will work for you, if you don't.. err I say you should try on a real woman then see the effects of it.
What I often do before I go on long, not constant speed, journeys is that I learn the gear system. I'm talking about foreign bikes here and not your own personal bike. From them, I check the handling of the bike. Some bikes are heavy but if used properly, they can go really fast. I don't really like big bikes cause firstly, I can't really squeeze through things if I know I can't handle it and secondly, though it can go really fast, it takes stamina to keep it going. I lost stamina half way through my life.
I love bicycles alot. Though I can't do fancy tricks, I jus love the feel of going fast. Explains why half the time I go really fast then slow down a little to catch my breath. I learn alot on my own about bikes and sometimes I incoporate real motorbike theory/physics into it so that it works for me.
Enough about bikes, we ended our beautiful journey and went to wash up. Aim wanted to 'look' at the bowling alley. Bowling? Bowling?! I love bowling! And I definitely miss playing it. So why not play then just look at it. The Babies played a game each while Aim and me had a go at two games. Not my personal best but after playing, I think I'm going to play it again.. after the fasting month.
It was time to say goodbye. Janice, my ex classmate, organized a class dinner the day before. I've always been the 'outcast' in class back in semester one (not that I was being outcast, but I hardly go break with them cause I usually go with the Fee Faan gang) so I told myself, well, why not? I went to centerpoint to go sent a pair of shoes to get expanded and join the gang at Swensens. Of all places, they had to choose my sister's working place! Joe, Jie Han, Janice, Vee, Hazzy, Gerald, Gulshan were the gang. A really small group but it was worth the trip. So we ate at Swensens. I made a deal with Joe to share my fish and chips with him and he share his baked rice, but I ended up eating it alone cause I was dead hungry.
Decided not to have dessert there. Earthquake?! No, I was too full for two scoops of ice cream. The gang really wanted dessert. Had to follow the flow. We ended up at Wheellock place. Ate dessert at NYDC. I got myself 'Grandma's gone nuts' thinking it was going to be a cool mudpie due to its name but I was dead wrong. It was nice, no doubt about it but it was just too nutty! Nutty as in every, yes every bite of it had nuts in it. They should rename the dessert to 'Grandma's got balls to put so much nut in it'.
NYDC has the coolest names in their menu like for example, Jedi Mudster.. Err. I forgot the rest but yeah Get a Life. Sorry, I was refering to NYDC's tag line. My stomach was abused to the max. I ate all day long and not forgetting endless expensive service charge and GST. Sheesh, Delifrance is still the best in terms of pricing! Headed back home and clocked in at 11 plus. Worst than doing full shift! I'm dead beat. Kakak message me to ask if I could work tomorrow at 8 am. My answer, yup. Sure.
Was on my way back with a friend of mine. He said something that really 'made' my day today. He told me about this girl who was attached to his friend. No names of cause but I'm just pissed at her. She said they were just friends. She said she had no strings attached. She lied. That's for sure. My friend described her well and it suits the description. He can't be lying can he? Why can't you just tell the truth? Why keep it a secret? Why not just say it. It's not like it's going to kill me. At least tell me.. so I don't have false hopes...
.: A DaY GoNe BaD :.
