a LONG saturday

Was out practically the whole of last Saturday, from 8:30am in the morning, all the way to 1:30am at night. (i shall explain later why i got home only so late, it’s really a LONG story!)

08:30 :
forced myself to wake up early in the morning so that I could go for a morning swim, only to find the pool too crowded with people, and eventually ended up sun tanning there for 1 ½ hour.

11:30 :
proceeded to Peace Center and later to Sunshine Plaza to collect some A0 panels and A3 print outs and getting them bind into booklets. Met some really hostile people at one of the binding shops at Peace Center who simply refused to do the ring binding for us, claiming that some of the laminated finish print outs will spoil their binding machine. But we also managed to meet some really nice people at the other binding shop just two doors away who were willing to try out the binding for us, and the binding came out really fine!

17:30 :
met up with liting, kelly and liyi for Durian Dessert Buffet at Goodwood Park Hotel. Only managed to taste 11 out of the 13 different types of durian desserts, leaving out the durian toast and the durian ice kachang as i was really too full by the end of the 4th round to stuff anymore things into my stomach. But it was quite a great experience, tasting the different types of durian desserts ranging from durian puff, durian pancake, to durian cakes and durian tiramisu. After all, how often do we find all these great stuff!

20:30 :
the 4 of us met up with steph at raffles place to catch the fireworks at the One Fullerton area. You should really see the crowd there, with the bridge and the road all filled up with people. We had a really hard time squeezing through the crowd and finally ended up at a location by chance where we could catch quite a good view of the fireworks. i have really enjoyed this round of fireworks, romantic at times, plus a little bit of playfulness and definitely magnificent!


23:45 :
finally headed back home after we had supper at Bugis area and it was really a LONG journey back home! Was too tired after a day of work, eat and play that i fell asleep almost immediately as I boarded the bus. And the result was, i overslept and missed my stop, only woke up in time to find myself already 2 to 3 stops away. As there were no more buses around except for nightrider buses, i decided to take the bus all the way back to the interchange before taking another nightrider bus back home or if not, i could also try and walk home. i immediately regretted at this decision as the bus was basically winding through all the various corners of the estate, and it was only then did i realize how big the estate that i am living in is. Finally, as the bus was approaching the interchange, i casually asked the driver if i could still get a fare rebate if were to take back the same nightrider service and the answer was no. But upon learning where i intended to alight, the driver was good enough to offer me to “lombang” another nightrider service that happened to come out of the interchange free of charge. Was really quite happy and appreciative at their offer initially, but not after realizing that i had to go through all the previous long journey again before arriving at my bus stop. And so, it was already 1:30am when i eventually got home.