Yesterday
The first day of the new semester. It's nice meeting my friends again, after such a long break. It's not that nice being sick and having to go to school though :P Well, given the timetable that my friends and I have, I think we'll at most get to meet about three days a week and only for lectures and maybe labs. Hmmm, lunch gatherings will be common after lessons though, as we've always done in the past few semesters.
The first lecture of the semester was a three-hour one, with two 15-minute breaks. The actual duration of the lecture was about two hours. Hmmm, the module seems ok, but I'm sure it'll get more taxing as time progresses. Lunch was western... grilled dory. Nice. Heh
Hmmm, met two friends on my way home. One of them was a secondary school friend and the other a JC classmate. I guess I can be quite chatty if I want to. Reached home, checked my emails and stuff, then left my place to head for Marina Bay.
I messaged my friend while on the train and he replied saying that he was at Tiong Bahru Plaza when the train that I was in just happened to arrive at Tiong Bahru MRT Station. I hesitated exiting the train, but did it eventually because the train door was opened for so long that I took it as an indication that I should alight. Ha. Anyway, found my friend at NTUC FairPrice. Hmmm, it used to be Cold Storage though... I haven't been inside the building for quite some time le.
Bought drinks, then headed to Breadtalk to get some bread for the night, since we reckoned that it would be difficult to find food at Marina Bay. Knowing the unreliability of my rechargeable batteries, for the first time, I bought two very stylo AA Energizer e² Lithium batteries at a cost of about SGD8. So expensive leh, but what to do... wanted to make sure that the camera would work.
Met another friend on the train, then headed straight for Marina Bay. Hmmm, quite a lot of people, though there weren't that many where the static displays were. Quite interesting ba, the displays. I finally saw the prototype for the SAR21 with the M203 grenade launcher. It's heavy loh... about 5 or 6kg I think. I cannot imagine carrying it once they manage to get it right :/ The SAW version is not out yet though.
Got many other interesting stuff ba, but I'm lazy to talk about it. Anyway, I think I had a bit of gastric, so we went over to the bus-stop opposite the concert area to sit down and eat our bread, since the concert area was not opened to the public yet. We managed to get a good seat I guess, but that would imply that we were there a little too early :P Actually we were quite a distance away from the stage, but we face the speakers, so it was quite bad when it started. Deafening sound system, coupled with the screams of a few girls behind my friends. Fortunately there wasn't any shrieking girl behind me.
The concert started with a short musical involving some magical illusions... Quite power, the illusions. There were performances by quite a few chinese pop singers and groups after that, including F.I.R, K-One and 183 Club (I didn't know about this new group until my friend told me more). Singaporean singers like Tanya Chua, Cai Chun Jia, Wendy Koh, Taufik and Rui-En were also there. Even FM93.3 DJ Zhou Chong Qing got to sing two of his songs. There was a short performance by a team of people controlling some remote control kites as well. Made in Singapore and costing SGD600 each.
The finale to the concert was the countdown to National Day, which was immediately followed by the second instalment of the Singapore Fireworks Festival, choreographed by the Singapore team. It was accompanied by live music from the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, which was seated just in front of the performance stage. Quite stylo ba... Fireworks accompanied by national songs performed by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra.
The journey home took quite a while. We decided not to wait for the shuttle buses but walk to the MRT Station instead, since it would probably take longer to wait for the buses. The walk to the MRT Station was erm... tiring. Ha. We walked quite fast, walking on the grass instead of the pathways so that we could overtake people :P It almost felt like bashing in the forest in my army days, particularly when my friend who was walking in front encountered some spiderweb in the process. Heh
A long, tiring, but enjoyable day =)
The first lecture of the semester was a three-hour one, with two 15-minute breaks. The actual duration of the lecture was about two hours. Hmmm, the module seems ok, but I'm sure it'll get more taxing as time progresses. Lunch was western... grilled dory. Nice. Heh
Hmmm, met two friends on my way home. One of them was a secondary school friend and the other a JC classmate. I guess I can be quite chatty if I want to. Reached home, checked my emails and stuff, then left my place to head for Marina Bay.
I messaged my friend while on the train and he replied saying that he was at Tiong Bahru Plaza when the train that I was in just happened to arrive at Tiong Bahru MRT Station. I hesitated exiting the train, but did it eventually because the train door was opened for so long that I took it as an indication that I should alight. Ha. Anyway, found my friend at NTUC FairPrice. Hmmm, it used to be Cold Storage though... I haven't been inside the building for quite some time le.
Bought drinks, then headed to Breadtalk to get some bread for the night, since we reckoned that it would be difficult to find food at Marina Bay. Knowing the unreliability of my rechargeable batteries, for the first time, I bought two very stylo AA Energizer e² Lithium batteries at a cost of about SGD8. So expensive leh, but what to do... wanted to make sure that the camera would work.
Met another friend on the train, then headed straight for Marina Bay. Hmmm, quite a lot of people, though there weren't that many where the static displays were. Quite interesting ba, the displays. I finally saw the prototype for the SAR21 with the M203 grenade launcher. It's heavy loh... about 5 or 6kg I think. I cannot imagine carrying it once they manage to get it right :/ The SAW version is not out yet though.
Got many other interesting stuff ba, but I'm lazy to talk about it. Anyway, I think I had a bit of gastric, so we went over to the bus-stop opposite the concert area to sit down and eat our bread, since the concert area was not opened to the public yet. We managed to get a good seat I guess, but that would imply that we were there a little too early :P Actually we were quite a distance away from the stage, but we face the speakers, so it was quite bad when it started. Deafening sound system, coupled with the screams of a few girls behind my friends. Fortunately there wasn't any shrieking girl behind me.
The concert started with a short musical involving some magical illusions... Quite power, the illusions. There were performances by quite a few chinese pop singers and groups after that, including F.I.R, K-One and 183 Club (I didn't know about this new group until my friend told me more). Singaporean singers like Tanya Chua, Cai Chun Jia, Wendy Koh, Taufik and Rui-En were also there. Even FM93.3 DJ Zhou Chong Qing got to sing two of his songs. There was a short performance by a team of people controlling some remote control kites as well. Made in Singapore and costing SGD600 each.
The finale to the concert was the countdown to National Day, which was immediately followed by the second instalment of the Singapore Fireworks Festival, choreographed by the Singapore team. It was accompanied by live music from the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, which was seated just in front of the performance stage. Quite stylo ba... Fireworks accompanied by national songs performed by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra.
The journey home took quite a while. We decided not to wait for the shuttle buses but walk to the MRT Station instead, since it would probably take longer to wait for the buses. The walk to the MRT Station was erm... tiring. Ha. We walked quite fast, walking on the grass instead of the pathways so that we could overtake people :P It almost felt like bashing in the forest in my army days, particularly when my friend who was walking in front encountered some spiderweb in the process. Heh
A long, tiring, but enjoyable day =)
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