The Wannabe Economist

Just came back from Dempsey House.

Desert was great. I can’t decide which is my favourite, the strawberry shortcake, the lemo macademia tart, or the apple cider butterscotch cake. Ice mocha was intense (i meant thick and strong).

And it wasn’t expensive at all, and the noisy group of us stayed there for around 2 hours.

Haven’t had such good time with (Mrs Chongky and) friends for a while.

Ok Mrs Chongky said if i don’t blog about her i’ll be dead.

Thank you for applying the cream on my armpit abrasion. =)

Relationships between people is an amazing thing. On one hand, it’s impossible to measure or quantify this relationship. On another hand, it’s something you don’t even have to measure. Sometimes you just feel that things are not going right. And there’s nothing much you can do about it.

It’s my fault that we forgot about the camera. So no camera = no photo. However there are people who brought camera, and i emailed a couple of them in a polite manner to ask for photos. Now you guessed it. No reply. Karen just emailed her set of photos from SISF 2007 and viola! Now i have the photos, and they are appearing here.

Thanks Karen. You probably won’t read this, but i should acknowledge nevertheless. People like Karen make me feel more welcomed. Both at the party and during training.

The group photo, taken in almost the exact same manner as we did last year.

A year has passed. Last year i was one of them. This year, it seems like as much as i would love to consider myself part of the group, things are different. You might say that it’s my choice whether i want to be part of all these. Then again, some things are beyond what i can control. Things like falling sick at the crucial moments. Like certain techniques are beyond my ability to apprehend and capability to shoulder. Like attending rehearsal at 11pm when i know for damn sure i am going to end up transportless afterwards with no means of getting home.

On the bright side, drinks were affordable at $6 per serving.

The fact that Downtown East looks good helped to make the evening too.

And i have gotten my first ever pair of monthly contact lenses.

Attended the chalet BBQ cum celebration party last night. I would have skipped it if not for Dennis who caught me sneaking around online on Friday morning. LOL. Dennis is really funny. He had been eating for the entire night and i kept pressing him to allow me to cook medium steak for him. Just so i can practise again.

BBQ was good. Thank you JJ for catering the food. We contributed within our means. Mrs Chongky brought her stock of M&Ms, snickers and large packs of chips (ask Neh Neh what i meant). I cooked and helped to ensure there was no leftover.

In the midst of getting the steak just right, and chewing on the overcooked steak, Mrs not-fat Chongky and i got a picture of ourselves captured. Where else but on Karen’s camera.

Ok to make up for not including Bernie in the last post, here’s the group photo from last night’s dinner.

This photo is posted late not because i wanted to deliberating miss out image of Bernie on the last post. I have just gotten this from Bernie herself, whose kept-in-just-a-plastic-bag camera captured this group photo. Amazing thing how spending a short period of time overseas can change a person. She claims that life in Europe though her this, for someone might just grab the camera and start running away.

Jon, you better watch your kick ass camera.

I think Daddy is love me one. He brought me to buy (with my own money and some subsidy on his end) a new handphone at my request. Nothing great about this phone, but it reminds me of the first handphone that i have ever gotten, which i still miss very much up till today. I shouldn’t have traded it in for the handphone i can’t remember. In fact, i don’t think i would mind using that handphone today, despite it having not colour and mms and all. *Sob*

Went to Vila’ge at Hereens for dinner last night. It has been a while since we ate out. Quoting Mrs Chongky, “we’re so guai nowadays that we eat at home all the time”.

(Pardon me for the poo quality of the photos, as i didn’t realise i didn’t set the picture quality to best until i downloaded these photos onto my laptop)

Simon and Minsi, Lynn

Weizheng, Yang

No photo of Bernie as punishment for coming late. No photo of Lian because she is to be ostracised for not coming to dinner.

It’s quite rare to see so many friends from this clique together at the same time. Of course we didn’t forget Jiamin and Debbie, and Jon who is on exchange.

In my humble opinion, i think the dinner was great (can’t comment on the rest of the evening as i had to leave halfway through dinner for dance prac).

Vila’ge offers more variety of condiment for your meal (i’m a condiment person yes i am) - i’m so spoilt for choices that i took 2 plates, one for black pepper sauce, another for the norm.

The best part is that you help yourself to the sauce without having to go through the waiter, so you can have as much cream sauce as you desire. Woo hoo!

Not sure if the drinking buddy idea is going to work out, but i was glad to have beer last night.

Anyone wants to do lunch at Berkwerkz tomorrow? Let’s go for the beer at happy hour price. Last time i went, i had a jug and another pint, which made me frequent the washroom more times than i would like to.

Give me a buzz at either one of my numbers if you want to do lunch tomorrow.