At the end of the day, I took 356 photos. But out of those hundreds, I filtered out many. You can see more photos at my gallery page. I decided not to display them in my front page (this page) so it will reduce loading time. So click on down to my gallery page to view more. I am becoming more and more like my girlfriend I feel. Because I got influenced by her enjoying to take photos of children. And on that day at Chinatown, there were many groups of children on their school’s excursion. And when I was taking photos of them, they were sporting enough to pose to my camera for me! Here are some non-edited photos that I have collage together.

I think the only disappointment for us that day were the food we ate. Chinatown is well known for good food. Unfortunately the bak-ku-teh for lunch and the dinner we ate at People’s Park Complex was bad. Jiayun commented, “If today is a food outing, this outing was a failure. But since it is a photo outing, this outing was a success!” So I am glad the outing was a success even though we were so tired in the end. Anyway I am always so tired after photo shooting.

I just realised I only have my girlfriend and my good friend Jiayun who owns a DSL camera. Anyone else? Want to go photo shoot together? :)

Enjoy the rest of the photos at my gallery!

Earlier in the afternoon, I went to buy the food with Louis, Chee Hoong and Brittany. My mom had already bought some food for us. But I felt it was not enough. So after checking with Louis and Chee Hoong, we decided we needed more. Special thanks to them 3 for following me to buy the food and much of the preparation work. Friends started to arrive later that evening. Got a chance to meet up with my good friend who came despite not knowing many of my other friends. Thanks to my god-sister Amanda for bringing her sister Matilda and cousin Serea over too. And of course thanks to other friends like Edward, Russell and Derrick who joined us too. I believed I mentioned everyone who came!

I did feel quite bad for Chee Hoong because it seemed more like celebrating my birthday rather than co-hosting it with him. He received one present from the group while I received about 4, from individual friends. Nevertheless he mentioned he will be having his own buffet party too on another day. Of course he needs to have another party because this year he will hit the milestone for 21st birthday! Surely he needs a better celebration!

A: Kobe Bryant shirt from Group
B: Tweety Bird from Jiayun
C: Chocolates from Matilda & Serea
D: Photo frame from Derrick’s Mom

And more photos…

Once again, thanks for all who took time off to come and enjoy the celebrations for me!

Then as to where shall we go to make her birthday a memorable one to remember was another problem. First idea was to go Singapore Flyers where we could cut cake for her 165m above ground with a spectacular view. But since I had height phobia and that it was a waste of 30 minutes to be on the Flyers, I decided not to. Instead we went to East Coast Park for a time of cycling and roller-blading! Jiayun was too afraid to blade because of bad experience. So it was only Louis and I who bladed while Jiayun cycled!

And the only group photo we took for the day…

After having spent over two hours at East Coast Park, we left for dinner at Marina Square. Of course we washed up and changed our clothes. Thankfully I did not worry as to where to bring Jiayun to eat because she wanted to eat at Changing Appetite. Although after reading reviews online about the place not being that nice, and with Louis saying is not that nice too, we still decided to eat. I was prepared to spend over $20 for my meal but thankfully the waiter was nice enough to offer us student meal although the timing was over by 30 minutes! I ate the chicken and it was probably alright in term of taste. Quantity was really little. But Jiayun’s fish & chip was really bad. It was worst than any hawker western food stalls I eaten. Anyway Jiayun wanted to go there only because of the mudpie. And yes, the mudpie was really so much better than their main course! For $8.90 each, the size of the mudpie was bigger than I thought!

Then it was a time Jiayun has been waiting for – to open the present!

That concludes a great day! And to conclude this blog entry, here is a photo of Jiayun and me together with our huge mudpie! Probably the mudpie you see in this photo will be better than above one.

Once more, “Happy Sweet 16th Birthday Jiayun!“

We thought that there will be no goodie bag since this is not the preview show but just a rehearsal. Much to our surprised, there was the goodie bag for us! I also thought there will be no fireworks but I was wrong too! In fact it seems like a preview show to me besides the fact that the hosts like Gurmit were holding their scripts in their hand.

The parade this year will be great I think. (Probably because I was there to experience it.) But the parade sequence is quite good. Altogether of 10 chapters that will show case how Singapore was founded all through to the future of Singapore. Actually there is so much to share but I do not know where to start! And probably some people will hate spoilers. For those who want to see photos and videos of the parade, the links are as follows.

More Photos: Click Here

More Videos: Click Here (YouTube)

I truly enjoyed myself as much as my friends did I believe! Once again, “Thanks Julian for the tickets!“

A simple breakfast was all that is enough to spend quality time bonding our friendship. After breakfast, I drove her back to her place before going home. For the early afternoon, I spent it with Brittany and Louis. While Louis made his way from school to meet us at Novena, Brittany accompanied me to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for my appointment with the hand specialist doctor. Despite Brittany total fear of the H1N1, she still agreed to step into the hospital with me. While waiting for my turn in queue, we were just cam-whoring!

Doctor said my finger is recovering well. No further fracture was seen. Will come back for another appointment next month. Thankfully did not have to spend long at the hospital. Once finished, we went over to Novena Square where Louis was already waiting. We wanted to eat Mos Burger. But since there was no available seat, we decided on Burger King instead. I tried Burger King’s new burger. The advertisement claimed the burger to be 7 inches long. So I was comparing those 7 inches with Subway’s 6 inches bread. I think this burger is nowhere near 7 inches! However it is quite nice though. Try it when you can!

Brittany was looking forward to buying shorts from CottonOn. However what she wanted was out of stock. Hoping to not make her so disappointed, we drove to Hougang Mall. Sent Louis home along the way. Sadly the branch at Hougang Mall did not have stock for what she wanted too. So she did not get what she wanted. We came back to my place later and I watched two hours of “I Survived a Japanese Gameshow” season two with her. She had never watch season one before even. We had a good time laughing at the show. My dinner was supposed to be settled at home. But with a “pleaseeeee” from her, I decided to eat with her. We walked over to the hawker centre and we shared a plate of hor fun. It was our first time trying the food from this store. The taste is not bad. I want to go back for their fried rice one day.

Along the way back in our condominium, we walked back the basketball court. I stopped and stared at the basketball hoop. I told her, “I really want to play basketball soon!!!” It was a great Friday. Unfortunately it had to be marred by a very sudden, tragic and disappointing end of a friendship with Ida. I do not want to write about it now. Next time maybe. Or I may not want to talk about it. My closer friends would have known what happened by now. Anyway here is a photo taken with Brittany’s phone.

Enjoy your weekend! Know and treasure your true friends around you.