Saturday: Some friends came over to my place to play mahjong in the evening. It has been a long time since I last played with money, usually just play for fun. But this group of friends will not play without involving money, so we played 10c/20c. We were watching the Formula 1 qualifying on tv, feels weird to see the Singapore streets and skyline from another country, so near and yet so far! Hehe. We played til 5+ in the morning, just when the sun was peeking through the horizon! I lost 5 bucks, dammit.
Sunday: Got woken up by my friend at 2 in the afternoon (yes I need my 8 hours of sleep, minimum), asking me if I want to meet them, as they are at this shopping centre near my place, Pacific Fair. I woke up, took a shower, and caught a bus to meet them. We spent the afternoon shopping around Pac Fair, and I got 2 pieces of clothing for $25 (one t-shirt and one polo-tee).
After which we adjorned to their place for dinner (pizza, yet again). Australian Idol was showing on tv, the standard's pretty good, as compared to Singapore Idol of course. We played a bit of monopoly, while watching the live telecast of the Singapore Grand Prix too. Then my friend said she has to go home early to do her laundry, as she's running out of clothes to wear, haha. We went back at about 11pm or so. Hmm, I havn't done my laundry for 3 weeks.
Monday: Today is the first day of the mid semester holidays! (well, technically, but everyday's a holiday to me, hehe). We were contemplating yesterday whether to join the event organized by the Singapore Students' Association, which is surfing. The organizers managed to get a discounted price from the surf school, $30 per person, but they want at least 12 participants. Quite a few of my friends cannot make it as they have work commitments, but one of them really want to learn to surf. So in the end I accompanied her, dragging myself out of bed in the morning and took a bus to Surfers Paradise to meet the rest.
As quite a few people were late, the organizers managed to get the surf school to delay it by a couple of hours. We were lazing on the beach, suntanning, while waiting for time to pass.
It was quite weird that a fog suddenly decended on the coast in a matter of minutes, we couldn't even see the top of the nearest highrise building. Reminds me of the game and movie, Silent Hill, where a fog also engulfs the town, accompanied by zombies and monsters. Haha. The fog lifted after about half an hour or so.
Time to learn to surf!
My gosh, it is actually quite hard. Lying down on the board and catching the wave is simple, but trying to stand up after that is the difficult part. Haha. The instructor was quite biased, he was personally helping the girls to stand on the boards, while the guys get neglected. *smack* My friend managed to stand up a couple of times, while I sort of did it, stood up momentarily, before a big wave came and swept me off my feet.
It was a good and fun experience, but tiring! Got a couple of cuts and bruises too, but no biggeh. We had a wonderful time and now I think I am sunburnt. =)
