16 NOV 2012
On this Friday, I went to the Chinese orchestra concert by invitation from Zhi Hui. From the previous year, I have seen many of my friends attending the 2011 concert, so I thought that I should see many familiar faces this year also. But then I was disappointed, Lijing wasn’t free and so were a few others.
I reached the venue (SOTA) at Douby Ghaut around 1915 hours. Rong Xing (Zhi Hui family) was late (due to traffic jam). I went into the concert at around 1920 hours and I had to sit alone as I couldn’t find any familiar faces.
The size of the concert is relatively smaller than the previous round, and so is the crowd. The music played was excellent (but not as good as the previous year). After the break, I went to the second floor to sit with Rong Xing and his family.
The play ended at 0920hours. Zhi Hui didn’t manage to find time for photo taking due to her admin duties. I managed to take one with rong Xing and left for home.
18 NOV 2012
This Sunday, a few of us schedule to meet at East Coast Park for outing( picnic plus cycling). I went to fetch Zhi Hui / Pei shi / Li min / Li jing / Zhi Zhong and Zi Xin (Zhi Hui’s friend) in the morning starting 0720am. We reached the venue around 0845am. Sheng Xi and his family reach the place a while later, while Lijing / Guo Liang took bus. As usual, Deming overslept again.
We started cycling around 0915 am. As both zhi hui and her friend did not know how to cycle, Guo liang and myself have to select a two person bike ( so that I could help “ferry zhi hui and Gou liang to (ferry) Zi Xin.)
It is a fresh new experience as I have never tried a two person bike before. It was not as easy as I previously thought; the peddling part is not so tough but rather on the balancing part. I took quite an effort to balance the bike while moving off (probably because Zhi hui is heavier than myself). As the result, I felt some hand pain rather than leg pain.
We cycled for 45minutes before taking a break at Bedok jetty, after which we do a U turn and went back, from there, we visited the safety park. It was the safety park that the police used to train school children in road safety. I remembered many years ago, I ever went to the park before when I was in primary school years ago. But today, the place look quite deserted. I believe that the place would be demolished very soon, so I should capture the opportunity to take some photos.
We ended the cycling at 1120am. Initially, we settle down at BBQ pit 28C for our picnic, since we didn’t not book any pit before hand, and some group came with the official booking slip, we shifted to 32C instead. Fortunately, the pit was not booked, and we stay until 1330hours.
During the period, we had a simple lunch of spaghetti (made by Yen Yi) and some other things. After that we played some games (including an ice breaking games and some beach volley ball). Around 1330 hours, it started to drizzle. We end our picnic and went home
Overall, I think the outing is a success. I personally thanks those who made the outing a success and those that cooked the delicious food.
Back to my thoughts, I have not been updating my blog for more than 6 weeks, I have been playing maple for some weeks till now, and done a 9 level up in total (from 155-164), compared to the previous year ( which I took 10 months to do 9 level ), I think is fast enough. I been working hard for a new single hand sword (and I should get it soon)
the last but not the least, i still managed to get a birthday gift from Li jing and co, still a nice one
God bless
Cheers
Huitai