first day of church. we're back to the morning again after a year of afternoons and sleeping in on sundays. constantly felt hangover-ish from the buffet just yesterday. i do believe buffet's gonna be out of my dictionary - possibly for this year. so spending virtually half the day in town presented a catch up session with two groups of people. one being sherman, ying er and marie and the other ah kun, caryn and denyse. its a wonder how ying er still manages to associate everything han and i do somewhat like a single person even when we're out of each other's company.

the day started by my plain forgetting to bring the lumix camera which dad recently bought. GAHH! this really is a fantastic upgrade in some sense from the kodak i previously held. its really got a good focus and stuff. and like the passive person i am to just take a camera and shoot for the fun of it, it helps that its a lot more stable with shots than the kodak. the old kodak is probably still good to handle and stuff having a really good optical focus. but i'll leave it to the experts like kandace to decide on this on. fiddled with Bro. Daniel Soh's Canon 5d at Dad's baptism. haha. talk about feeling inadequate.

back to lunch when ying er, marie and sherman were late. haha. this presented me with the opportunity to go find the place i had intended to bring them to only to find out that its either moved or closed down to be replaced by something else. there was another italian cafe but i gave it a miss and brought them to astons at suntec instead. (its either my secret garden or caramel the next time). we indulged in marvellous cream afterwards. yummie (: so we dallied around town a little more since marie and ying er couldn't find good movie seats. and we actually were able to meet up with alvin of the tadina brothers before he started work at cine's steakhouse.

moving on to dinner. think i need to start training to eat buffets again. brunei really knocked the wind out of my appetite. but that's alright i guess. sashimi ain't a friend of mine anymore. at least not for large obscene amounts. oh but the lobster was fantastic. and the teppanyaki. and the unagi. and the agemono.

just read han's post. sorry bro. but i guess back in the days of 2008 it was a lot easier cos i was given free play to distribute my time towards spending time with my friends more over studying. yeah fine there was the opportunity cost of being more prepared for As, but i guess i took it cos i felt it was more important knowing that i could only achieve so much in jc in terms of grades but there's more to it than just grades. so yeah studying stood on the sidelines, but learning didn't. well... that's just my take on it but it doesn't mean that it should apply for everyone. sure there were expectations cos my sister trail-blazed the jc route before me and did exceptionally well but i guess i wanted sth else. as for 2009, i definitely had a lot less time being a trainee but i'm sure 2010 will change things. take care bro (:

take care all of you (:

still waiting and hoping

i look over the fence to where you are everyday
sometimes i found joy and sometimes dismay
each day hoping that you'd come out and play

but everyday moved as quickly as the next
and i felt that as long as i could hold on to something
i could at least sit on your fence anticipating what's next

thanks for the skittles crazy cores (: