the jellyfish is back! Posting about SOH 3rd outing, which was very random. :V
Outing initial class: Unclassified makan!
Outing final class: Meow, nom, whale, square, cake!
*Everything can be predicted nicely, but to make the happenings continue as usual is another matter*
I think got recent news report that mentioned every elderly has to fall down at least once in their life (wth theory is that), so night shifts just got busier for HDB areas! So although I should have slept after my 3 night duties, I still went for the outing. =P
So me, WL, Nat mei, Eugene (aka apple), YL and ZY went for this random outing, not hosted by me of course~ =P
Time the outing is supposed to start: 1400
Time I reached Somerset: 1335
Time 2nd person reached: 1401
Time last person reached: 1445
So ya la, just walked around 7-11 and HMV, looking at the CD tracks while listening to the songs being broadcasted. 7-11 was broadcasting 'Make it last forever' which made me stoned at the mineral water and other cookies for a few minutes. Owl city had a new album? Hmm... Didn't look through much as ZY called to say that he had arrived at location (1401). YL arrived at around the same time, thus we went to walk around Somerset 313 random shops and cold storage.
I got a big bottle of mineral water. ZY went to get a bottle of small pepsi.
me and YL -> O_O
When we reached the end of the Cold Storage trip, ZY had swiftly changed the Pepsi to a bottle of Coke, thus the coke company had an odd man out. =P ZY is really a loyal supporter of coke! Cheers! :D
Me: "Eh! How come suddenly got 1 ulu bottle of pepsi here sia!?"
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The rest arrived by 1445 (45 mins late), so with a bottle of coke and many hungry people, the outing began auspiciously! ^^ Apparently the plan was to grab and bite and catch a movie, so we head to Orchard Cienleisure to choose a movie that suits everyone and dosen't clash with Euegne's book-in timing. I suggested 'My GF can see ghosts', since I have no idea what's good for everybody. My mei wasn't so enthu though, as that movie was a Korean movie and it was rather troublesome to read the subtitles.
Nat: "Eh kor, that movie is Korean leh, have to read subtitles very ma fan lor..."
Me: "I know Korean... (movie, but read very fast de mah)"
WL: "Huh Jeff you know Korean!?"
The bracket represents the things I wanna say, but do not have the chance to say. Seems like most people do not really want that movie, and we ended up settling for 'What to expect when you're expecting'. Sounds nice too~! Kena dragged to buy the tickets with her, which most people followed and proceeded to take out the $10 notes from the wallets, until Eugene just throw a $100 note at the cashier.
Rich and style like a boss! (claps!) ZY was very interested in the coke picture and banner pasted on the table and the nearby walls. He kept laughing at the times when YL kena disturbed because of Trecia's absence. =P
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1520hrs
It's the 1st time I heard of the fast food 'Everything with Fries (EwF)', apparently it was recommended by my mei when she tried it the last time with her friends. Rather nice, but I don't have the impression that it has other outlets in SG. Few types of burgers, 5 types of fries, soft-drinks. A burger for $6.90, a complete set for $9.90. I must say that there was seriously nothing special about the fries, because it is about the same as other fast food fries, straight cut, thin, but with additional seasonings like Salt+Vinegar, curry (which tasted like Instant noodles' condiments), plain, etc. Don't need to elaborate on the drinks ya?
I ordered a (dory fillet?) fish burger with cheese and mushrooms inside. That burger is delicious! The fish serving is quite large, compared to some miserable serving at other places. The mushroom cheese combination was great also, although it's not as good as BK's mushroom swiss burger. A rather big burger, so actually it's quite all right being $6.90 if you a moderately filling food item. Quite a number ordered the bacon and egg burger. The egg tasted like egg (who said that?). My mei ordered a crispy chicken fillet burger which she said she had no idea what was that. I tried a mouth and recognised that to be prawn paste chicken.
Nat: "Eh kor, how you know is prawn paste, the name like Korean leh."
WL: "Jeff knows Korean mah!"
Me: "Alamak, the taste is being stated at the cashier counter luh~"
ZY seemed very hesitant to eat the vege, but managed to finish it. WL didn't touch his coleslaw~! I'm sure most people should know that Mac's seaweed shaker fries contained a small percentage of sugar in the seasoning, thus making the fries sweet. ZY put 2 packets of white sugar to his fries, which was er... Not nice.
12:01 AM
the jellyfish is back! Posting about today's random FAP trip! :D
Yea, everybody is working and my cousin is resting to meet her bf tonight, so must well go out for a walk. =P
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Started out the morning by going to library @ Esplanade. The durian was very quiet in the morning, with some random people walking around to take photographs / read the exhibitions. Most are tourists, so I am considerably the odd one out over there. =P The circular lift was rather cool and is definitely complete compared to the last time when the circle line wasn't completed.
The library is on the 3rd floor and it looks really different from other libraries! The most different is that there is no children in this library, compared to other regional / public ones. ^^ The library is divided into music, dance, films and 2 other sections which I forgot, unlike the common ones where the categories are adult, reference and children.
[A group of people were filming at the library cafe, probably for a random scene, totally random.]
So yep, just walked around looking at this arts library. Somehow this library reminds me of the Celadon and Goldenrod City pokemart! If you know what I mean, haha~
1. Music section
I think all the libraries have devoted a small section to the performing arts. So imagine this library to have a ridiculously-exaggerated amount of books about music / musicians / histories / etc over that small range of decimal points. Didn't really browse through though!
This section have a lot of music CDs! Classics, english pop, other languages songs, rocks. Warren may like this place, since he listens to a lot of old songs~ There is Jay Chou's CD inside, although I can't find fragrant rice as one of the tracks in that album. Apparently you have to unlock the CD at the counter to listen to the tracks, and they cannot be borrowed out of the library. I saw one of Katy Perry's CD, so went to unlock and listen at the listening tables. Not bad sia! A different experience from listening at home. =P
I also found out what it the only Owl City item owned by NLB! It's actually a score book for people to learn to play 'Ocean Eyes' songs. Rather interesting, but definitely not for me to appreciate, cos everything is a mess to me. :X
There were also loads of other score books / sheets. Some looked rather ancient for random reasons, so there were quite a number of librarians taking care of those.
2. Dance section
Choreography C4 Direction!
The dance section was rather small, with a row of books about choreography / different types of dances in the word / etc. There was also a small exhibition over there. Not really interesting to me, no Audi things there though!
3. Films section
I think 1/4 of the library was devoted to this section. There were quite a number of racks and shelves for a lot of movies, esp the older ones. I saw Saw I and II over there, was Avatar there? Documentaries, drama serials, random old movies... Just browsed through the titles. Should make another trip to probably look at those again!
Come to think of it, a lot of movies have already been posted online for people to download and watch. Perhaps this section can be a museum for hard-copy original movies which were not that popular but contained some artistic values for appreciation. :)
There were mirrors and band rooms at this section as well. Perhaps any Singapore band would like to have a concert practice inside that room? It looks very nice! =D
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At 2pm, I left the library for lunch. Took some random photos from my phone. Not of a good quality, but hey at least it can be seen! =P
11:59 PM
the jellyfish is back!
Posting about 3 items / events / happenings / ??
1. Friday movie, The Avengers
2. Marsiling cc singing?
3. TP!
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1. Friday movie, The Avengers
Watched with WL, War and PH at Lot 1 during the evening. Apparently nobody was working on that day except for War, so waited for him to come and watched the movie, without eating a double down burger in the cinema. :)
Comments above the movie: . (100% copied from WL)
No la, i dont think it is a really 'die-also-must-watch' movie, although I would say it is a really nice and rather exciting film. Definitely nicer than Cabin In the Woods. =P
Reached home at around 11pm I think? I think we ate dinner at subway, while listening to PH and War spamming army things as usual~
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2. Marsiling Community Center Singing
I learnt that the CC at 300+ is Fuchun CC and not Marsiling. The journey to MCC was not exactly pleasant, considering the drizzle and the surprisingly huge number of harmless bugs in the fields. We reached 10 minutes late, and was apparently the last group to have reached there.
The place is surprisingly clean! There is food being offered there at a really reasonable price, seriously. Garlic bread, hot dogs, juices at less than $2? $10 per hour for a large room, sort of wasted for me, JM and Tean only. La la la, it dosen't matter.
The songs are a bit difficult to find though, I can't seem to find International Love inside? No Owl City songs? We 3 just anyhow sing and ate garlic bread which JM has kindly brought. Very delicious! ^^
Nothing really interesting. At 6pm, Tean left home for dinner while me and JM proceeded to 130 for dim sum and vege rice. Nothing special about the dinner too, except that the cats in Marsiling really liked to stalk people and followed us to a few blocks away... I didnt know cats love siew mai and prawn dumplings. :V
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3. TP!
Passing grade: Accumulation of no more than 20 demerit points with no immediate failure mistakes.
12 points!
4 - Delay in moving off (2x2 + 1 free)
4 - Fail to look out for traffic
2 - Incorrect braking
2 - Fail to check if car door kena closed properly. -_-
Yea, one of the most stupid things to get 2 points for, but I got it! (As if like achievement sia, haha)
Actually everything was rather smooth, esp the road part. The circuit was all right, except for the parallel parking, took about 3mins+ total to park and move out. -_-
Tester: "If you don't release your brake, then you can't move your car, then of course you cannot straighten your car! Aiyo..."
This is the modified test woodlands test route which I took. The road is surprisingly quiet, and for some reason the large vehicles / vans / trucks were staying behind me at a great distance. So any lane changing, turnings were very simple as there is no need to judge the rear vehicle's speed. ^^
10:52 PM
the jellyfish is back! Time has passed really quickly, 7 months to ORD! :D
Just putting in some memories about the cases anniversary...
100th call - NSF with asthma, conveyed from home with PM Ade.
200th call - Very jialat RTA at 400+ Yishun, 1st time grounded with PM Pam.
300th call - Assessing a runaway thief at a ulu Yishun road with PM Herda.
400th call - DOA 99 years old at SWAMI with PM Pam.
500th call - 9 years old kid fall down, RC with PM Richard.
600th call - Adult query AMI at SBW clinic with PM Richard.
700th call - CL woman called 2nd time for post-assault at home with PM Rahul.
800th call - 21 years old eye swollen, RC with PM Saiful.
That's all! ^^
Total no. of cases: 815
9:03 PM
the jellyfish is back!
"Starships, were meant to fly! Even if the sky is falling down! Down, down~"
War: SMLJ!
WL: Sing SMLJ!
KY (Underfame): Suck my liquid juice!
This basically summarises the whole Orchard outing with WL, PH and War. No la, that was a random shouting by War, which was interestingly quoted by WL. =P
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Met up with War and PH in the morning and proceeded to Orchard Cineleisure to makan Ishi Mura buffet and watch 'Cabin In the Woods'. WL didnt turn up as I think he was still sleeping / taking care of this brother / doing other things. Surprisingly it was WL who suggested eating a japanese / sushi buffet, and the suggestor didnt turn up~ :V
The buffet is exactly the same as the one I went during the 1st guild outing, except that it is in a different place. Seems to be more cold than the one in Dhoby Gahut, and $3 cheaper compared to the dinner price. Sampled the egg sushi as usual while waiting for the cooked dishes to be served and listening to War talking about the ala-carte prices of the individual plates~ PH seemed to be enjoying his plate of baby octopus.
Normal plate: $1.48
White plate: $3.48
Red plate: $6.48
War: "As long as I can eat more than $20 I am ok already. So now 5 plates will be $7.50 already! Jeff how many plates you eat already?"
Me: "Er... I think 5 plates also bah. So same price lo."
PH: "Ha! You see my octopus is a red plate, then I ate 1 white plate of food, total $10 already!" ^^
2:00 PM
the jellyfish is back!
Went for PM chat on Wed, which was rather interesting. Won't post about the contents, but just imagine it to be like a 'Just Follow Law' movie in real life.
8:00 AM
the jellyfish is back! Posting about guild outing! :D
Date: 24/3/2012
No. of ppl: 7
2nd outing of SD/SOH! Seemed to be more interesting than the 1st one and somehow lasted longer also. Ppl who went: Me, my mei, WL (ruleofchaos), Trecia (Kardo), YL (Lazer), Eugene (Apple) and Goh Zhang Yi, ZY for short (Sharp). Yea it was a rather pleasant surprise ZY went for the outing and it is definitely the 1st time any guild member saw him in real life. ^^
YX didnt go as he had a case of fall in the drain. Please rest well. :)
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So about the outing, most things went rather smoothly, esp the time.
Time I wanted the outing to start: 1430
Time I asked most ppl to reach: 1330
Time latest person reached: 1350
Time I asked Eugene & my mei to reach: 1215
Time Eugene & my mei reached: 1320
So everybody was here before 2pm, nice! :D The order of the ppl reached also changed somehow due to the timing, YL was very surprised when I said that my mei and Eugene reached already.
"Huh they so fast reach!? I thought they will be very late de..."
So after fetching YL and Trecia, ZY said he would be waiting at cheers, so went to the one at AMK hub and surprisingly nobody was there waiting, until I realised AMK station had another Cheers outlet. Malu sia, wait there 5 minutes for nothing. On we go to the correct outlet and saw a small kid waiting there, and I was hoping that it was not ZY, cos he really looked like a small kid! So i called ZY...
and the small kid picked up his phone. OMG that one really ZY sia! His face really looked so cute!!!!!!!!! Quote my mei: "Got any girls want to pinch your cheeks?"
After everybody has reached, we proceeded to Broadway Plaza and realised that the K-box outlet was closed down already. The lady suggested another outlet also at AMK area, and to our dismay the outlet is also closed for renovation!
"You may want to try going to the outlet at Broadway Plaza, the outlet should still be running its business as usual, sorry for the inconvenience caused." :)
Thanks ar! Lucky no credit card, or else I would have wasted $12.25 to reserve a room.
YL was being funny when we stopped at the 2nd floor accidentally, and he shouted out "WHAT IS THIS!?" at a chinese medicine store. Sibei Paiseh sia!
We decided to go to another area for a k-box outlet. So I just made sure everybody brought enough money to take a taxi. "YL how much u bring? 30? Trecia? 30? ok. ZY?"
Pure innocent voice: "100 dollars!" :D
WOAH SIA LA! Almost everybody had the same response as me. =P ZY seemed happy about it, and celebrated by drinking a can of coke in the lift down.
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1500hrs
Apparently Eugene said that he was late because the taxis he took broke down along the road, thus he would have to flag for another one, therefore wasting a lot of time. Since thats the case, I didnt share a cab with him, but instead shared with WL and ZY.
Proceeded to Hougang Plaza, which is near to Hougang Mall and not Point, which cost $6.70. Talked about random rubbish, WL's morning CCA visit? Waking up early during mornings, life, etc. I am guessing the uncle is honest enough to bring us to our destination within the shortest route possible, cos we seriously have no idea where is the place. WL said that we should have boarded the 2nd taxi then told the uncle that we wanted to follow Eugene's taxi, and ended up saying thats nt possible already as we left us.
Uncle: "your friends are all in front already. Serious, they are over there." (Points to a random taxi in front)
Eh Sia la! They are really faster than us! That's good also, just follow them all the way. Wahaha!
ZY seemed to be enjoying WL's humorous sentences. Finally got someone who appreciates WL's humour in life, if not i will be forever alone, wahaha!
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Finally, we reached Hougang Plaza! Kbox was thankfully opened unlike its other branches at AMK. Should be a very long time since I came to Kbox (was it with Demas?), not counting the Party World KTV with Tean. The price was $16++ inclusive of 2 drinks and compulsory tidbits, which totaled up to $27 per person from 3pm to 7pm. >.<
A rather clean room and it was rather spacious for 7 people. YL became the DJ with my mei assisting him and ZY looking at the music list enthusiastically. Lol to ZY! The starting was rather awkward, since the player was playing some random songs which almost nobody knew except for the Chinese songs which YL knew. =P
It was obvious that after a few songs, my Mei is very comfortable with English songs and YL is a pro in Chinese songs! All those ulu old songs / recent Chinese songs are well sang by YL, regardless whether it is a fast, slow, rap, woman, band, etc.
Eugene: “YL’s voice very man wor.”
Dam sarcastic sia! But wad he said can be slightly true. After you enter NS, a lot of time you will have to shout to get your job done for unknown reasons, thus your voice would naturally grow deeper and is unable to be as high as before. So oh well! =P
Anyway did I mention I started to play AuditionSEA? Yea, a bit old for an almost 20-year old person to play such a game, but somehow I felt that there is a link between Audi and K-box singing, which is the beat! Some ppl can sing perfect to the beat, but some ppl who tried to sing are either too fast or too slow every time. In the end the whole song became a bit lag or a bit fast? Cough esp to WL, which every slow song was condemned by him and he made it to be a very fast song. Lol!
So with Audi’s Perfect / Great / Cool / Bad / Miss ratings… (Don’t count insane perfect)
YL singing Chinese songs (eg. Wu Ding): PERFECT (maybe can even chain!)
My mei singing ‘Liang Shan Bo & Zhu Li Ye’: GREAT
I try to sing Luo Zhi Xiang’s Ai Feng Tou: COOL [Esp the Hai Pai part]
ZY struggling with Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me? : BAD
Eugene trying Justin Bieber’s Baby rap part with BLA BLA BLA: MISS!!!
I have no idea how come a whole list of Justin Bieber’s songs came up in the song list, and somehow it was apparently related to me, without me knowing it. Why me? Probably it is because of the previous outing.
Nat mei: “Eh last time guild outing the dishes (esp the sticks) all nobody de is all kor’s order, so this time all the unknown songs should be kor de! “
O_O
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A lot of songs were relatively new to me although they have existed for a rather long time. So for a lot of time I and WL were busy munching away the assorted nuts and drinking the fruit juices. I tried the orange and mango juice, which both tasted all right, nothing really special. ZY drank coke for the 1st drink and wanted another glass for the 2nd round, which everybody was making noises and he ended up drinking ice lemon tea. Aw! Nobody really ate their nuts, so in the end most of the nuts ended up to me and WL. =P
WL said that when I said the nuts were nice, ZY went to try some also. How cute lol!
As time went close to 7pm, a lot of songs were anyhow sung. So I and WL sort of crashed the songs by singing random tunes / random words / random speed / translations to add humor to the song. ZY was laughing all the way. Imagine if there was a random song and WL started to sing “And I was like, Baby, Baby…” =V
I still didn’t know WL is a Justin Bieber fan. Hmm.
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After Kbox, we went for dinner at a coffee shop downstairs and ordered from the seafood stall. I ordered the sweet & sour fish rice + egg which tasted all right. ZY, WL and my mei ordered fried rice, Eugene ordered ginger pork rice, YL and Trecia ordered some random noodles or something?
The fried-ricers (wth lol) said it was extremely difficult to finish the rice, but they still finished it anyway. Oh wait, did WL finish the rice? His rice tasted rather plain, slightly more taste than Eugene’s white rice. My mei’s rice was very salty for unknown reasons; WL said it tasted the same.
ZY said the rice was actually rather nice, because he ate the rice while drinking coke!
Apparently ZY has a weekly quota & limit of drinking coke! Is it about 10 cans per week or something? His parents don’t allow him to drink coke at home, which I think make sense, or else he would have drank a carton a week. Wahaha! Cute sia!
Trecia left early as she had a curfew, YL chased after her, nobody wanted to be bright. ^^
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After dinner, we walked to Hougang mall (?) to watch ppl dance to random 80+bpm songs. No idea what event is it, but somehow we just stoned at them. WL complained it was rather hot, and thus we proceeded to mac after that. Ate a strawberry sundae (as predicted correctly by my mei) while watching ppl dispensing ketchup and chilli sauce. An interesting sight to watch, especially looking at kids struggling to reach for the dispenser. :D
Life simple pleasures. Oh wait, that’s Mr Bean's logan.
WL and ZY left for Jurong at around 10. The rest of us proceeded to play pool. I really suck at it, so just watched my mei and Eugene while listening to the loud ‘clubbing songs’. They played International love at least thrice.
It was until 3am then they decided to take a break and call it a night. Eugene paid for the whole pool session. Thanks! Accompanied them to the bus stop and I spent the rest of the time in Hougang alone until 6am. Never really spent the night outside by myself, so it was a rather interesting experience. ^^
On 2nd thoughts, nah. The whole place is just dark, with the food court cleaners cleaning the tables, the security guard sleeping and some other people sleeping on the tables. Went back to the pool place and stoned until 5am before going to the food court to stone again.
6am – Left Hougang. A very interesting outing indeed!
I slept from 7am to 4.30pm. Definitely refreshed for night duty! =D
End of post!
10:40 PM