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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Been having terrible sleep lately, no thanks to noisy renovation coming from my new next door neighbour!
I woke up on Sunday with about 5 hours' worth of sleep for church! Then my family excluding my sister went to Raffles City for this new uni talk...who'd have known that it targeted NS guys for the 1st batch in 2012 =.=" Meanwhile, my cousin Je smsed me that he'd be lending me an acoustic guitar so that I could learn the basics...what a kind fella! Anyway, we left the talk in the midst of the Q &A session, and was surprised to see that there were refreshments, so we had some before leaving the place. I tried most of the desserts and some canapes(i think) such as goose liver on smallish circle bread topped with a blueberry, strong tasting cheese with walnut atop focaccia bread. I took several pics but unfortunately the hp indexing problem has yet to be solved, and so they will be delayed ='(.
I went on to kino alone in ngee ann city so that I could buy my magazines since they kept a huge stock there! Fortunately I found them as 1 was an issue from march. I didn't spend much time there as I hurried to choa chu kang so that my parents could fetch my to my cousin's hse which was nearby. I was so eager to read my mags that I failed to notice that I boarded the wrong train...! Ended up in Newton and had to change train so that I could go to Raffles plc int.
We had a minor misunderstanding and I ended up having to head back to jurong so that my parents could drive me to CCK! Gd thing Je was there so that he could teach me how to play! Dinner was pretty ok, but I prefer the company more compared to Sat's at my clsmt's hse. A bunch of my lil cousins went nuts over an ice cream stacking app for iphone, and they kept whining to the owner of the iphone, my eldest cousin Cam, to let them use it!
Later on, I had my 1st impromptu guitar lesson as conducted by Je, G and ...Dan?!?! They cheekily asked me to pay each of them $10! Since Je stretched out his palm, I gave him a 5 since I valued it at $10 ^.^.Taking the guitar out of its ibanez case was a rather awkward experience for me! The guitar was so huge and the space there was so small that I accidentally knocked it twice, one at the head and the other on the body! Then Je noticed my already short fingernails and asked me to trim more! I was skeptical since Je was looking at the whites, and he promptly showed me his. Thus, I had to ask the domestic helper to locate me a nail clipper to shorten my fingernails more.
The 1st time I touched the guitar's steel strings, my cousins wondered why I was using so much pressure. I guess they forgot how soft their own fingertips used to be before they took up that music instrument! I learnt how to play A, D and G, but I kinda forgot G now since I was pretty tired at the time of practice =X
Then...after a few minutes we went to cut cake! Took some pics, ate cake (duh) then a bunch of us spotted Gab playing this somewhat gory game on y8 called darkcut! It involved hammering this cut arrow into the character's leg and when he did, blood splattered. But before Gab(10 yr old kid) could accomplish all that, Je helped him to close the webpage 5 times or so("It's too violent for a kid like u!"), which caused Gab to be agitated! When Gab eventually got to the blood splattering scene, the monitor froze and Dan's mom came by and scolded him! His mother came along too and asked him to explain himself for playing a bloody game. At this time I remember I was talking to Au about the use of internet. Gone are the days of dial up, huge box monitors, phones with cords and more!
I got an ang pow on behalf of my sister who was not present at the party, and Raf tried to wrestle with me for it( for fun)! Obviously I lost, since he's an NS guy in his prime, and super tall at 6 feet! I tried to pull some ninja-do moves for fun but couldn't get past part 1, and my wrist was seriously red afterward.
I brought my cousin's guitar home! It took up a seat in my dad's car! Gosh. I must play it soon!
Aww you're so cute!!
