weekend was well spent. saturday morning i went to ntuc with darling, future MIL and the niece to shop for groceries.
credits to darling for taking this photo! we cooked our signature codfish for lunch!
it looks beautiful isn't it? tastes very good too! darling went to studio M hotel to celebrate her good friend's hen party, while i went to republic poly to watch Momentum 2015. Momentum 2015 is republic poly's arts festival, giving a platform for the students to shine on stage. they also invited other schools to come and perform, and NUSCD is one of them, and that is the main reason why i went to watch because some of the Rain friends are performing. the malay dance items from both secondary schools were good! i also like the One People One Nation item by NUSDE. the crowd favourite item has to be the hip hop item by ITE college west. i love that item too. full of energy and the choreograhy was great.
and then i found out from yokekay that they will also be performing the next day at tampines, and the location is very near my house! since i got nothing to do at home i went to support them.
from 16 people yesterday to 5 people today. a bit pathetic, but the stage was a bit small, and the audience was totally not interested, and the technical crew was awful because they screwed up the music. but i think they had a great time? hahahahaha. kudos to them because none of them are easterners and they come from the west/north. congrats for arriving safely in one piece!
most probably my last camp with the workplace. this year the camp is at camp christine, located at jalan bahtera ie bird dun lay egg place.
they had high elements at forest adventure bedok reservoir before going to camp christine. these kids are a lucky bunch of kids.
bumped into an ex-student who studies at temasek poly. temasek poly's back gate leads to bedok reservoir, and she came out to have a smoke break and spotted me.
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this was taken on the morning of day 2.
ta da! outdoor cooking!
they have to design their own menu!
looks good isnt it? cooked by my form class!
the lovely presentation. food tastes good too!
stir fry shanghai green. check out what he is using to do the frying.
our own edition of 古惑仔.
the four of us are the judges for the inter-class outdoor cooking competition! we are definitely not as evil as gordon ramsay.
pre-wed photoshoot is really no joke. woke up at 5 am and went to pick audrey up, followed by the photographer who stayed very near xuehong's place. and then we went to woodlands to pick darling up, and travelled down to seletar north link for our photoshoot part 1!
the trick to taking this shot that shows our natural laughter - photograher to darling: yueting, 去 tickle 他!
after seletar north link i sent them back home, and i also went back home to have a short rest. darling's MUA will reach her house at 12 pm. went to pick audrey up at 1130 am so that audrey can observe the whole make-up process and she can help darling 补妆 in the middle of the pre-wed photoshoot. our 2 locations in the afternoon was at nus and tuas south avenue 5. i haven't got any photos of nus yet so i will share two photos taken at tuas, which has a very nice lalang field. tuas was our last photoshoot location and we managed to take photos with the beautiful sunset as the backdrop. :)
we finally finished the photoshoot at 8 pm, and by the time i reach home it was about 10 pm. i was dead tired and the next day is the start of the sec 2 experiential camp. anyway darling and i really want to thank Samuel from pixioo for the wonderful photoshoot experience. we are looking forward to see his photos! i give him a 10 upon 10 and i will definitely recommend his services to couples out there! we also want to thank audrey for being such a great help. she helped darling change the wedding gowns, help her touch up the make-up, help to arrange her gown during the photoshoot and even took video footages for us. without further ado, please watch the video that she had done. it is really good! she has great potential to be the next anthony chen (singaporean film director and film producer, director of award-winning IOIO). :)
yessss friday is here! looking forward to the pre-wed photoshoot this sunday! in the morning we will go to seletar north. and then in the afternoon we will go to nus. nus is a special place for us because it is where we first met and knew each other. our kevii hall is not really a scenic place to take photos so we will go to utown. i want to thank yoke kay for bringing me around utown on wednesday night to look for nice photoshoot locations. :) and then after nus we will go to Tuas, where there is a beautiful lalang field. we will also do the coloured holi powder shoot at Tuas. next monday to wednesday i will be involved in the sec 2 level camp as the camp commandant. the campsite is at super ulu camp christine, located at jalan bahtera. i am really looking forward to the outdoor cooking, because we will be given one whole chicken, pizza and kebabs! and today i just received the news that i will be the chief examiner for the end-of-year national examinations. the last time i did this was 2 years ago. hope that i will be doing at a school that has an air-conditioned hall. next week is already term 2 week 10! time flies really fast. batam and vietnam here i come!
yesterday evening my photographer msg me to tell me that the holi powder that we are using for this sunday's photoshoot can be found at mustafa. so i drove to mustafa and i got a shock with the numerous indians over there and it should be known as Gigantic India. i had to park the car at city square mall, and i combed the different mustafa buildings for an hour, and still couldnt find the holi powder. i gave up and went back home, and was irked by the one hour parking fee of $3.50. this morning i went to ask my HOD (who is indian) where to buy the holi powder. and he told me tampines round market has a indian mama shop that sells it, and the tampines round market is 5 min walk from my school! woo hoo! i went to try my luck during lunch hour and ta da!! got sell! sense of jubilation!
i bought 3 packs of this! 1 pack to try out this afternoon with audrey yong. 2 packs for this sunday's photoshoot with darling!
thank you audrey for taking the photos! can't wait to try out the powder with darling! and after that i went to have dinner with my colleagues miss chua and miss chen. we just finished our marking so we need to reward ourselves with good food. especially for the both of them because they are english teachers and english teachers take very very very long to mark as they must mark numerous essays with horrendous grammar and sentence structures and vocabulary. now i hope that my english teacher did not vomit blood while marking my essay back in secondary school. hahaha. dinner was at 金隆, bedok ave 2. i forgot the block number. at first my colleagues did not have high expectations because is a chinese seafood restaurant located at a hdb block. but when the food comes, OMG. we were all blown away. and after we came there were many customers and then we realise how popular this restaurant is!
this was the favourite dish of the night! salted egg prawn balls!
this meal cost us $65.50. a bit expensive but the food was really good! next we walked over to Fat Cat for ice cream. Fat Cat is located at 416 bedok north ave 2. we ordered their signature black waffles with salted egg sauce, with two ice creams that look like SG50. we also ordered their signature mojito lime balls!
i had a health check up on tuesday. prior to the health check i had to fast for 10 hours. which means when i woke up on tuesday morning i cannot eat breakfast. i can only drink plain water. luckily i scheduled my health check early in the morning at 830 am. so i measured my blood pressure. the first time reading was at 158! my normal blood pressure should be less than 130. the lady was also shocked to see my blood pressure was so high, and she tell me to measure again. after 15 min i go and measure again, using a different machine. this time it was 148. i got a bit worried and told darling. darling was worried also, and tell me to have a healthy diet and stop drinking gravy. for the next few days i was still in a state of shock because i cant get over the fact that i have high blood pressure at such a young age. ok lah i am 31 approaching 32 already not that young anymore, but still it is hard for me to absorb the truth. darling bought me a blood pressure monitor so that my parents and i can use it to measure daily. my father has high blood pressure too. and so i measured my blood pressure in the afternoon. 122! woo hoo. i felt assured. in the evening i measure again. 104! i will measure again tomorrow morning. tomorrow morning shall conclude whether both machines on tuesday were wrongly calibrated.
went to The Gown Warehouse this evening to try out my suit. darling tried out her blue evening gown too. :) we are excited about next sunday's pre-wed photoshoot! we are meeting our photographer tomorrow to discuss the details.
i am still at the workplace because i am staying overnight for a camp. i enjoy coming to the workplace. the workplace is like a 3rd home to me. (second home is darling's house hee hee) the workplace has almost everything: toilet for me to bathe, super fast internet connection, science lab to make potions, F&N kitchen to make kimchi salmon, field and indoor sports hall to play all kinds of sports, xbox to play winning eleven, etc etc. i can easily stay here for 2 or 3 nights without getting bored. today i had a conversation with the VP. she told me she has a headache of getting someone to fill in my role when i am leaving at the end of this year. VP: i know you are very passionate and very dedicated. and you have the credibility, that's why all the students respect you and listen to you. can recommend me someone to take over your role? 不需要跟你一样热忱啦，有你的 50% 就可以了。 i smiled. i am thankful to have a superior who acknowledges me. as for my successor, i shall just hope for the best that he/she can bring the show choir and the performing arts to greater heights. :)
