The trend is back during semester break.

Usually after a semester, we'll try to organize a senior cum junior day outing to catch up with one another, in particular with our seniors! This is the norm for cds. On a happier note, i'm glad it once again went on smoothly as planned. Considered successful huh though it's only a small group. It's always the usual few who are available and agreeable to this outing, hence, we decided to keep it small this time round. Nevertheless, there was endless fun with them all that day.

Early in the morning, Jie ying agreed to meet us up for a morning breakfast 'for Sok will have to leave after 11am once again. Thanks Jie ying for being willing to meet up this early with us, haha! Sorry to deprive you from your sleep, lol.
As my friend got to leave early, we must definitely capture some photos with her and Jie ying as keepsake. As for me, i decided to leave more phototakings towards the later part of the day since i'll be with her and the rest throughout the afternoon and evening time:)

Soon after leaving lot one, my friends and i proceeded on to our next stop, Buona Vista, to meet eileen and later on meet fang xuan straight at Holland Village for EVERYTHING WITH FRIES! If you still remember, in one of my previous entries, i did mention about this western cafe restaurant which serves delectable western food. This time round, i'm back to this place again for it's also one of my suggestions!

They have all the starters, main courses, desserts...etc written on the wall. It looks as though it was written with white chalk on the old kind of blackboards in school. Nice interior design.

These were what we've ordered that day. eileen went for this breaded king salmon main course. The salmon tastes okay, but we all feel that the sauce that comes along doesn't go very well with the salmon. Next time round, we shall just do away with its sauce. we couldn't make out what sauce is it either after tasting it.

my friend brought along another small accessory-like camera and we all were fascinated with it. Note, this is not a fake camera! It is REAL and it works on those kind of films, whereby after you've captured, you'll have to wash out the films in order to see those photos. Somewhat like the old type of cameras but with a more artistic design! How interesting, isn't it?

After a fulfilling lunch at Everything with fries, we proceeded on to our 3rd stop for the day, which is Haji Lane. I've never been there before but heard others raving about this place.

This is Haji Lane. It is located somewhere near bugis area, but you'll have to walk a stretch of road. Haji Lane is more like rows of shophouses as you can see from the above photo.

Some random shots captured in the shops in Haji Lane. It was more like a window-shopping for me in the end 'for i didn't get a single piece for myself. i'm just not in the shopping mood nowadays, lol. Except when i'm overseas, i'll then go all out for a shopping spree there!

We managed to comb the whole Haji Lane 'for it isn't that big. Soon after that, we proceeded on to Iluma for a tea time break. Our legs were almost breaking and we were all tired out from the long walk. we went to this ice-cream dessert place to chill.


And again it's CAM-WHORING TIME!!!!!

Great day out with the seniors once again! Andd this time round, we have more seniors joining us! The more, the merrier! Thank you seniors for all the fun and do take care! We shall be seeing you guys some other days again, most probably after the end of next semester! That's our cds trend, isn't it?:)

That's for now.

Are you game enough for some console thrills?

Are you game enough for some console thrills?

There's an awesome entertainment area out there along prinsep street which is a must go. Previously known as The Hangout, Playnation is founded at creating a cosy nice ambience place for youngsters to chill and have hell loads of fun with boardgamings and console games. Be it console or boardgames, it's definitely going to be a memorable and exciting stay for you there.

The more the merrier, as the saying goes. Despite having not meet up for ages, this bunch of people continues to be as crazy as before, or even more now. The fun is always there with their presence. Self entertainment, laughing at our own nonsensical selves, full of lame jokes and craps; that's what we always do. It's a norm. So long as its CDS peeps gathering together, you will never fail to witness that. i miss my seniors and we've been longing for a senior cum junior outing some time ago. Finally, it was successfully carried out on the 29th july. Though it wasn't a complete one with everyone in, however, we all had our fair share of fun that day. GREAT QUALITY TIME spent together.

Time to brief you our lined up activities for the day.
First Stop was NONE OTHER than Playnation.

You can have a go at wii or xbox over at playnation if you've yet to play one before. As we only went for console games, there were no boardgames involved. Wii was first played. With guitar hero (first game) lasting as long as two hours. SIMPLY AWESOME TO THE MAX!!! Guitar Hero is a musical game, more like a rock band game though where you can unleash your inner rock star. It consists of 2 guitarists, 1 percussionist and 1 vocalist. All in all four players are playing as though like rock band stars each time. i ♥ being a guitarist as well as a percussionist! All went well till weikiat started hogging onto the mike and singing off tune. He's trying to be funny out there but had definitely fulfilled his entertainment purposes. That's him. (*laughs*)

A joker in my clique who never fail to tickle me.

Presenting to you, this trio rock band.

(Jie ying, Eileen, Me, Fang xuan, Wei kiat, Yi Qiang)
And now presenting to you, the six of us! :D

Time flies. Our happy hour(2pm-6pm) @ playnation was over in the blink of an eye. Evening falls and its time to satisfy our hunger pangs. We came to a consensus to choose cafe cartel for dinner over the rest of the restaurants in Plaza Singapura. "Tender Chicken and Butter Tiger Prawns" was what i ordered there. Taken aback by the portion of this main course meal where it comes not only with the hotplate itself, but an additional salad side dish, not to mention my add-on soup and drinks. You can imagine how fulfilling this meal is for me that day.

Over dinner, we chatted, laughed over trivial stuffs, cam-whored etc.

With my lovely seniors♥

Our dinner and chit chatty session went beyond 9pm and this is the time when all cakes, ice-creams, beverages are going at half price over at cafe cartel. Their 50% irresistible promotion after 9pm. We went for it despite after the full meal. Eileen, jieying and me shared a maple waffle syrup served with cookies and cream ice-cream and the rest went for brownie, ice-cream sundae and cheese cake respectively. Sweet delights for the night! (Sadly, the waffle and brownie aren't under the promotion delights. we overlooked it.)

It was a lovely night spent with them. Also not forgetting the thrilling and exciting part in the afternoon with our console games as great companions. One thing to note here is wii can be real tiring. Most of us were zonked out after playing that 'cause it requires lots of vigorous hand movements. My muscles are aching even till now.

Anw, eileen brought along her EOS 550D Canon DSLR over the other day and that was the first time i actually played around with a DSLR. She took good photos of us with it. i'm coming to love dslr even more. The buttons may seem to be a lil' complicated at first but slowly, you can easily get the hang of it. Something interesting i've found out from her is you can get to choose either auto focus or manual focus. With manual focus, you can play around with the zoom in zoom out lens and capture nice focused images with blurred edges. How awesome, isn't it? DSLR does wonders.

Baby Canon, i'm bringing you home one day.

That's for now.

I just love their presence

I'm back here again for boardgamings! It seems like this is one of my frequent hangouts but in actual fact, that day was ONLY my second visit to decoders' cafe. Ever since i was introduced to decoders' cafe, i've never thought of going back to minds cafe anymore. Most importantly is mainly because of this big factor here: Convenience. Decoders cafe is so much nearer for we people staying around the west area. Convenience matters most to me.

Accompanied with another group of companions, my lovely sisters, we made a trip down to decoders' cafe back on the 17th June. It's been quite some while since the four sisters gathered together for an outing. Back then during cca days, we could almost see one another every single day due to the hectic training. With them around, there's bound to be fun, laughters and good memories left deeply etched behind... The four drama queens...
"HAPPY HOUR", daily which costs only 6 bucks for non-members with an additional of 10% off total bill for NTU, NUS, SP, NP students so long as you bring along your matriculation card. That's great deal, isn't it? What's more to add on to it is you also get 25% off the ala cartes on weekdays. Where on earth can you ever find such good deal for boardgamings?!? i can't resist the temptation not to visit it the third time some other days... We played a variety of games like taboo (TOP FAVOURITE), cluedo, saboteur etc.. Cluedo and Saboteur are more of the thinking games where you will have to crack your brain and come up with strategies to counter-attack your players in order to emerge as the overall winner. Taboo is more like a word-guessing game. we partnered each other and there's 2 different teams each time. Initially, we kept on guessing correctly only 8 cards. As such, our ultimate goal for this taboo game was to beat this score. we managed to, with kerong and sok(team) achieving a record as high as guessing correctly a total of 13 cards! Congrats girls!

Me and kerong also ordered this tiramisu waffle served with maple syrup for a light lunch delight. Though i couldn't really taste any tiramisu inside, but this waffle is quite tasty with a sweet crispy crust. Here's some random, candid, funny shots captured after our happy hour at decoders cafe. There's more to it but i'm only uploading few of them up here! (The rest are already on facebook!)

i just love hanging out with my drama peeps. we share strong friendship bonds even till date despite having left the drama society for quite some while... There's so much to catch up with one another every outing and time is always not enough! No doubt happy moments are transient and time flies especially fast during this period! At least, those moments will be deeply etched in your mind after each and every fun-filled day spent. yeah, and i'm sure it will always be there. Love you all, sisters:D

That's for now.

Masquerade

PJ's Masquerade (12th May)

Venue: NUS University Cultural Centre (UCC)

Time: 7.30pm

It's another arts appreciation day. This is so far the third one which i've been to this year. Actually this time round, i'm quite fortunate because this ticket was actually given to me free by my cca teacher, ms chung. i didn't get to thank her personally but only managed to text her to indicate my heartfelt thanks. Still, thank you so much, ms chung! i enjoyed myself that day:)

i went along with joyce on the wednesday. Seriously speaking, i've no idea where exactly is this UCC in NUS, except knowing that NUS is located somewhere in clementi. But no worries somehow for i have Joyce to be my street directory tour guide for the day. She's from NUS, haha...Initially we saw many other pj students alighting at a much earlier stop. Joyce was pondering whether we should follow suit 'cause it's simply the whole group alighting that we are seeing here... After much considerations, we didn't. She was quite sure we should alight at a much later one and she was spot-on! This is the first time when i was not late or arriving just-on-time for a concert/performance for i have a marvellous tour guide with me! Thank you joyce:D we were really lucky on that day apart from alighting at the correct stop. The tickets that were given to us were actually different seatings, one at the upper level and another one the 1st level. we almost thought that we would have to be separated in our seatings...Fortunately, a kind soul appeared at that moment and was willing to change his tickets with us, phew! Thank you, kind soul.

What's wrong with the snapshots captured outside UCC?!? erm, i guess i've forgotten to use the red-eye reduction mode. My eyes seem to be burning with *inferno*, laughs! And well in another shot, i simply forgotten to turn on flashlight; thus, i look like a total black figurine! Still, these two failed-attempt shots are uploaded here simply because i like the "I" wording carved outside UCC. It's lovely. They actually have this whole statement: " I WAS HERE" right outside the entrance. Coincidentally, apart from me and joyce who went for this pj's masquerade concert, we bumped into our juniors, tingmin and borui. It's been ages since we last saw them. OMG!!! What a coincidence! Therefore, we definitely have to leave some shots behind as memories... (They sat right behind us!)
There were dance, choir as well as drama performances. Solely from all the performing arts group. i especially like this remix hip hop dance by the dancers up on stage. They danced along with this song "sorry sorry", imitating the famous korean dance troupe, super junior's dance movements in that song. Apart from the hip hop dance, i felt that the first item up on stage, "Sama Tak Serupa" by the Malay cultural society was a unique dance cheorographed. The pj choir had their ever longest performance, lasting up to 50 mins after the intermission with the whole of second half belonging to them. They performed songs under themes like "The Lion King", " Aladdin" etc along with the alumni's segment. Bits of drama are incorporated inside, making it more lively throughout the whole "Magnificence" performance of theirs. Speaking about my own chinese drama performance, i felt that our juniors did a great job in bringing out the emotions in the individual's character. One thing i don't quite understand is why are the audience laughing most of the times during the play. It's supposed to be a sad story. i wonder whether they're making a mockery out of it simply 'cause they don't appreciate drama plays or have they really enjoyed our drama performance...

Overall, the masquerade concert was a success! A great one, i felt so. Glad to have this opportunity to return back as a senior to root for my fellow pj's juniors in their performances.

Moments worth remembering.

It's been a year plus since i last went back to my college ever since i graduated in 2008. i have a vague memory regarding the last time when i visited the school. erm, perhaps its long ago during our juniors' syf competition. Far way back...

Time flies in the blink of an eye. i missed cds life sooOOoo much, even more than i missed the college. tsktsk. The best part of my two years college life were none other than those evening times spent rehearsing for our play with my fellow actresses and actors on stage, mingling around with the group of wonderful backstage crews. Seriously we really to credit them for such a marvellous job done on the props. Without the unity of the whole group, our achievements wouldn't come thus far...

And finally yesterday, i got to re-visit those wonderful cca days once again. Got notice from jieying (senior) a couple of days before 10th May that our juniors will be having evening rehearsal on the monday in preparation for their upcoming performance in NUS this wednesday, which is today! It's a good opportunity to meet up with my lovely batch of cds peeps and my wonderful seniors. Though not all were present yesterday, but i'm glad i actually went and have a chance to catch up with some of them there. Those laughters and chit-chatty sessions that we once had, those old jokes that we once crapped, those memorable stage life experiences that we once shared; they all came back. Those good old days are back. No doubt, a year or two has passed, but we have not changed much. We're still the same old batch of us, not much difference though... Still as crappy as before... (*laughs*)

If only time stood still then...

And that's with few captured snapshots. we have with us our own batch: me, joyce, weikiat, meiqian, ruiping, yongsheng who came back. And with our lovely bunch of seniors, jieying, fangxuan, pochieh, caoyang, yi qiang; though not all, but it's a great evening spent!That's the new batch of our juniors who will be performing in upcoming PJ's Masquerade. The play they're putting up is similar to our syf play back in 2007, perhaps with slight changes in script lines. In a way, we seniors are back to offer them some useful tips to enhance their acting skills apart from catching up with one another. i'll also be going down with joyce to NUS Cultural Centre Theatre to give them support later on. Juniors, put in your best efforts and enjoy every single moment when you're up there. Shine on stage:)