moi had the best time this weekend.

saturday was spent with my dearest ody. it had been more than a week since i last saw him, so it was good to get to spend some time together. i sorta got sick of the whole dinner-and-a-movie routine, so i requested tt we did something else. as usual, ody was supposed to plan sthg interesting to do but he cudn think of anything. hee2. so of coz, moi came to the rescue.

we were spposed to meet at 2pm at orchard but wat happened was, my parents decided to drag moi along to shop with them in geylang serai in the morning. we left at 9 am (primarily bcoz i refused to wake up earlier) and reached there around 10. shop shop, go market, had breakfast and by the time they were done, it was already 12 noon. i din wan to like go home all the way then come back again, so i asked them to drop me at paya lebar. off i went then to ody's station to wait for him. he woke up at 11.30am and took 1 hour to get ready (plus berak). so finally, he came at 1230, wearing red, as requested by moi.

off to orchard then. first stop was lunch for ody (i had the geylang serai ahpek $1 bubur so i was full). we ate at far east(coz i havent been there for quite a while). actuali wanted to eat at the wtv sinaran place, but it was crowded, so we tried the rose garden or stg liddat next door. not bad la. but not good either. after tt we window shopped for a while. while walking around, i saw this bag in the building beside lucky plaza which was so nice! even ody tot it was nice! it was RED and leather-esque and it had a batik-ish design on it. the size is big enough to put
in notes n files to bring to school but also small enough to carry around as a day-to-day bag.

I WAS SO TORN!!!

on one hand, i din wan to spend money coz i know i need to save up for driving.. on the other hand, the bag was $49.90 after a 30% discount. it's reali reali nice. and ody was like so excited to see it coz he tot it was reali nice too.. but after considering for a while, i decided to safe some bucks and I DIDN BUY IT. til today, i still feel a bit sad coz it was reali very nice... sigh. had it been $35, i tink i might have bought it. sigh. i can still remember the feel and design of the bag. it was so me.. it was reali perfect. now, thinking back, i reali want the bag.. waaaaaaaaaaaa.

SIGH.

somehow, ody managed to peel me away from the bag and we moved on to our planned event. i tried nt to be too sad or make it obvious tt i was disappointed coz i cudn buy it. i know tt it may seem pathetic tt im trying to save this $50 ah. but.. i guess i had spent too much on stuff for my mum and myself in the past week, and i would feel bad if i spent too much.

still.. sigh.

yea. we moved on to paragon next. not to shop la. i had heard about a performance by david garett on gold 90 fm (which is wat i am currently listening to at work). david garett is this violin maestro (think the maksim of violin) who is german and looks like the late kurt cobain. some even call him the david beckham of violin. (For more info, pls read here )

he was giving a free preview of his music at 3 pm. i've been listening to gold and they've been playing his songs. though i dont know how to appreciate music, much less classical music, i liked his tunes. they're very contemporary n youthful. he came about 10 to 15 mins after 3, wearing jeans, a shirt and a suit jacket. he was so tall and looked pretty hot with his shoulder length blond hair and five o'clock shadow. but i tell u wat the hottest. he was playing this US$ 4 million Stradavarius violin. US$ 4 million! for a hollow wooden thing with some strings! now, that's hot.

his playing skills are phenomenal man. n his compositions sound even better live! ody and i tried to hum the tune but we cudn reach the notes. so there we were, on the third floor, just awed by his performance. even after the show we were still trying to hum the fast parts and we decided that his fingers were faster than our voicebox.

the preview ended off with a bang as he finished with a super fast number. good stuff i tell u.

after tt, ody n i went to the m1 shop in the basement to buy his new phone. he bought the motorazor v3xx for quite cheap ah i shud say. so, yey! we are both m1 ppl! free calls!

it was already abt 5 by then, so we headed to marina square for lunch at our favourite Marina food loft! when we got there, the alfresco place was quite empty, so we happy2 chop good seats. sat down for a while before ordering food and tts when we realised tt there was ndp rehearsal at the floating stage. haha. basically, from our seats, we got to see the marching contingents in their number 3. so fun! after a while, we got to see the chinook carrying the s'pore flag accompanied by 4 apaches. we also saw the 3 jet fighters booming pass. it was like ROOOAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRing pass us. totally broke the sound barrier man. n they were flying so close together ah. we also say the 5 jets doing the salute and the parachutists. ody said they were probably all the majors and colonels who were going to retire soon. but its so incredible ah. they only have a small space to land in and the wind there is quite strong so i imagine it wud b quite difficult to steer the chute. so i realised tt we were very lucky coz we din know abt the rehearal, yet we got a really good view of the thing! plus, im such a patriotic person! *beams*

the highlight of the show was when I saw this chinook flying from the direction of the IR site, towards the Esplanade. it was steadily going lower and lower and i was like. "EH, ODY! asal helicopter tu makin rendah! nak langgar esplanade!!" i really thoght the chinnok was gonna crash ah. u know what the helicopter actuali did? it like "landed" on the water. it was skimming like 1 meter above the water and was like splashing the water everywhere along the river bank as part of the military display segment of the show. SO COOL!!!! i was like so jakun-ed ah.

later on, we went down to the esplanade. i had a hunch tt there was gonna b fireworks altho it was onli a rehearsal. but ody din believe me seh. hee2. anw, we went to the courtyard to watch the performance. this week is all about fire fire ah. there was a performance by Wayang Alos (Dalina's dance group), about indian karmasutra stuff. very sexy but not much content la. hee2. while we were sitting during the intermission to wait for the next performance, the fireworks went off! unfortunately, our view was blocked by the giant durian! hee2. so we heard the explosions, but onli saw like the tips of the fireworks.

oh ya, btw, do take note, fireworks are at 8.10pm in case u wanna go see them. i tink every saturday got rehearsals ah but not too sure if evry rehearsal got firework. but wat i know is dat this saturday there's gonna be fireworks at the national stadium coz they are aving the "Field of Dreams" thing before she is torn down. (heard abt the lost time capsule? hee2. merepek.) btw, i wanted to catch transformers but im working this saturday!boohooohhoooooooo... upset seh.. nehmind, maybe we'll go n watch tmr. woot!

On sunday i went to meminang my future sis-in-law for my brother. with my parents la of coz. haha. it was a small "contingent" ah. onli 3 of us. when we reached there, kao, terpranjat seh. they already moved the furniture around and put tikar on the floor as if they expected a lot of ppl. hee2. rabak seh. excited kape sis?

but in short, all went well ah. i tink my mum and dad were like shivering during the meminang itself. like, they were stumbling over their words (coz everyone was staring intently at them) and their voice got all croaky n weird. haha. i offered to do it and throw in some 8-kerat pantun, dorang tanak. haha. orbiquek seh, menggeletar kejap member..

then another terpranjat moment was when they served us food ah. the dining table was literally full ah! there was like prawn curry, sambal sotong, chicken rendang, sambal goreng, serunding, begedil and like i dunno how many types of kueh. there was like chocolate eclairs, durian cream puff, putri salad, talam lauk, the black black one which i like to eat but dunno the name and dunno wat else la. when i saw it, i was like.. "Whoa!" (in my head la.) then the thing is, my family just ate our lunch before coming la, so like, my parents cudn eat! so, again, moi to the rescue. to show my graciousness, i ate la. bukan gelojoh u, takot orang kecik hati kan..

hee2. (tak mengaku gelojoh)

hokay. now for some photos! :)

the "dulang"

the ring box

the ring. gold, white gold n diamonds. lots of diamonds.

the fruit baaaasket. buah tangan.

moi n baaaasket.

my mom putting on the ring for the future sis.

this is she. harga pasaran 10 ribu darhammmm..