Tuesday, January 03, 2006
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1:20 AM
This marks the last party for 2005, also the 1st party for 2006. Hee~
Attended a secondary school friend's wedding dinner at the Carlton Hotel. Finally after a super long distanced marathon run of I think 1.5 decades, yes use your toes it's close to 15 years of long marathon running, Kevin & Carol finally tied their knots. It was a good evening meeting up the old time friends, seeing them all turned adults & successful now. The married are married, the conceived is giving birth soon, the happy-go-luckys are still swinging.
Carlton is a nice place to get hitced I must say. I was welcomed by the houseband with nice singing the moment I stepped into their main lobby and the warm lightings & decoration makes it much splendid. The spiral staircase that leads up to the ballroom added romance too. I somehow feel it's a grand place to have a nice function there. Oh, the way they dress their ballroom, no need to elaborate. It's just such a heavenly sight. I really must compliment the people behind the making of the scene, 2thumbs and 2 toe thumbs up! I really don't mind getting hitched there myself too. But that's provided the well to do and eager hubby comes along. Oh as I was looking at the popular dates on the ROM website the other day, I told myself Dec 12, 2006 is nice date to tie knots. Hmmm, if I can make it, I would make it by that day. :) Oh, dream on again Karen~ :P
Okie, back to the wedding dinner. Food was nice, red wine to wash em down, better. 3 glasses slowly over dinner was not too much to take.. psst~ as compared to 3 down in 30mins. ;x *shut I did not say anything* hee~
Dinner commenced late and only ended at 11pm, had time to go to the wedding suite to have a look, beautiful skyline from the 24th floor. I think it was 24th, I could not remember clearly for I was too engrossed looking into the lift mirror~ Hee pardon me.
Big suite, not trendy looking thou, but good cos air-con is blasting cold, very ideal for madness rushing brides. Room is cosy, segmented into 2 areas: the bedroom & dressing room and the living & dining area. 2 toilets so husbands & wives need not fight. I should had stayed in the room and watched the fireworks as advised by the wedding couple. You would know why I say so in a few minutes time.
Left the hotel at 1145pm thinking we could make it in time to the Esplanade to watch the firework live but somehow we (a sec sch galfren & me) were delayed. The works started when we were at the neck of the City Hall MRT, just about to head down when it started blasting. 28 yrs of living, this is the 1st time I am so close to seeing blasts. Beautiful, it would be better if we were at the riverside, I am sure. Still, it was beautiful an experience thou.
After the blast, we headed down the Citylink Mall planning to meet a common friend of ours and Ah Eng whom had planned to wait for me at the Merlion's but midway thru the Citylink Mall she called and we changed the venue of meeting. I had to back track to my original spot to meet Ah Eng but it was another experience of a lifetime this time. See, after the fireworks, while waiting for Ah Eng to come down the tunnel to meet me I saw like thooousaands of human making their way to the train station to catch the last few bounds of services back. I ain't exaggerating here, if I had a ticker I think my ticker could had gone bonkers ticking the headcount away. The journey from the addidas shop back to the Mphosis shop was smooth, but that's where the jam starts. The down riding escalator trip cum the upriding and the slow march to the train station was the slowest attempt ever taken. I think I tool easily 45 minutes all in all to clear it. To prevent jams in the train station, police has set up gates to only allow like couple of tens to hundreds in every few minutes. Imagine, sardines packed, hooligans cat-calls & NO PROPER VENTILATION. I had to fan myself with a small name card, and that's all I had with me to use. The very moment I cleared the block, I felt life again.
To add on to the misery, Dean our beloved chauffer whom wanted to pick me and Ah Eng up at Raffles City S.C to go down to Boat Quay made us waited for like 40 minutes at the taxi stand. It was only a 10minutes slow walk away from where we were. So in frustration after 40mins or so of waiting, I decided we walked & indeed we were faster then the wheels. Reached my "斗头" pub, greeted by the usual gang Ben, Eric & pals. The place was super duper packed and we could only stand at the door. Instead, we took the table outside & order lime juice from the coffeeshop next door and sipped away. Hahaha, fancy having lime juice when were are all that sober. It was fun watching drunks & highs "perform" when one is sober. We sat there like for the next 2 hours before the 1st time ever drunk like lobster Ben could not take it anymore. (who would in the 1st place too when you had like 1/2 to 2/3 a bottle of Martell, given me I would had K out until dunno where liao). We threw him inside the car and heaed for Yishun, dropped him and sent Vel back to pick fresh uniform for the day after use. She must have been crashing at Dean's place. Went off to Chong Pang to have nasi lemak before we called it a day & was sent back home. On the way to Yishun earlier, I saw on my other lane a private car overturned. An ambulance was there to rescue, I hope the driver & passngers if any were all okie. It's really sad to see accidents, I do not like it.
Called it a day when I reached home like 5 plus in the morning. This is the most atrocious night out, super wee hours. Not a good way to start the year thou. I must make it a point to visit Boat Quay lesser & be a goodie to shoe gal again, staying indoors staring at the TV.
Also for the year, I msut cultivate healthier habits also like sleeping before midnight, eating healthily & etc. Let's just see when all these would get in place.
And before I crash into bed at 2.15am now, it would be good opportunity to wish all readers: A healthy, joyous 2006. Live the remaining of the 363 days happily if you haven for the last 2. Remember, you loss 60 seconds of happiness for every 1 minute of anger in you. I wish all happiness & pink of health always. Cheers~
