On a sweltering afternoon

Took these using my Sony Ericsson T707 (^ _ ^)

Deepavali!

10月17日（星期六）

又是一年一度的屠妖节！
按照一贯的安排，我和 Tanpopo (今年还多了Art的陪伴）又再一次结伴，一块儿到 Uma 的家去叙旧和庆祝这个节日。

过后便和 Cabbage さん会合，吃晚餐，以及到滨海湾参与“万人大家唱”活动。
感觉上我们两个都被那两张免费票和活动名称给骗了。
本以为是个万人同唱流行音乐的活动。。。后来才发现是 Auntie/ Uncle KTV session。
所有的歌都是老歌。例如：榕树下，路边的野花，潇洒走一回，我问天（台语），上海滩等。

虽然曲目时代久远，但我和 Cabbage さん都还蛮懂得自得其乐的。
例如：Cabbage さん 被迎面而来的巨大气球砸到以及发现原来 Auntie/ Uncle 也可以很 “happening” （她们居然起立，随着音乐摇摆和高昌）！

有了这一次“宝贵”的经验，看来以后拿到免费的票时，还得三思而后行才行。。。



It’s Deepavali again! Met up with Tanpopo (this time we had Art with us as well) and headed down to Uma’s – as per what we usually do on Deepavali.

After which, I met up with Cabbage さん for dinner before heading down to Marina Barrage for this massive outdoor KTV event. Well, kinda felt that we were “conned” into this.

We’d originally thought that we’ll be singing mainstream/ pop music at this event with the other 10,000 people. But we soon realized that it was a KTV event for the aunties and uncles instead. Thus explains why there were only oldies (including some Hokkien and Cantonese songs) on the ktv list.

It was a good thing that we both have some sense of humor in us and we kinda just clowned our way through. And it was also amusing to see that the aunties and uncles can be quite “happening” too! For instance, they actually stood up and danced to the music – something which I could hardly imagine before attending this event. Hahaha. Perhaps it was just like what my colleague said, “they were once young too, like you and me… and we’ll be them in some years to come.”

SCARY… can’t imagine myself still jumping and dancing about at concerts when I hit 50s.

Public Hols!

20th September 09 (Saturday)

Woke up early that day to make a trip down to Waseda Shibuya High School at West Coast Road for their open house. It's been about 5 years since I last went there. Unfortunately, by the time i got there, it was closed to noon and all main course were sold out. (- _ -)

Though there were no great surprises, it sure felt great to revisit the place again :)



Next stop - The Istana
In all my years of living in Singapore and being a Singaporean, I have never stepped into the grounds of the Istana. So when the chance came up and we happened to be around the corner, we made a dash for it.

The weather was scorching hot that day. And it didn't help that we need to walk up quite a bit to the open fields and to The Istana itself. But I was glad (at the end of the day) that we persevered. YEAH! (^ _ ^)