the days following christmas have been really fun and refreshing..
can't believe its th big 30 of december already, school's in 5 days...

went out with clarence/elendrus/xinquan on boxing day...
watched curse of the golden flower, and it was a pretty odd show, though the acting was commendable...
the person sitting next to ET two seats to his right was causing him some discomfort, which caused him to like lean towards the rest of us on the left throughout the whole movie, so poor thing..
had lunch at subway then i accompanied ET and clarence to get their hair dyed/cut at this cool hairdresser at kovan...
xinquan left to get his reserved adicolor wallet first before meeting us there...
they went over to clarence's place while i had to rush home to prepare for the annual debate party...
it was somewhat significantly nostalgic this year coz its joan's last time as our coach, and we finally presented her with the acdebate '06 jersey we got at queensway...
spent the night playing hours of pingpong with paul, and just like when i play with my classmates, it turns out to be more chat then playing, which is totally fine by me... x)
events after this are meant to be kept a secret coz of undisclosed reasons, but let's just say that we did what paul/ET and the council gang did two nights after...

paul and i met darius for lunch on the 27th at pepper lunch shaw plaza, my first time there...
went shopping at wisma/taka and then for tea at coffee bean where we did what we do best - talk...
paul and i left for home to prepare for our night appointments, both with our ex-classmates...
met darius again at mer's place with the majority of the 04 ppl...
it was really great seeing them again...
spent most of the first hour or so watching love actually and playing with mer's uber cute dog pebbles...
the potluck dinner was way too much for all of us, so there was tonnes left over...
played mahjong with celle/joel/colin for a while before we did the anonymous present exchange...
left with terrence/jolynn...

was in church for the infocomm retreat for the larger part of the 28th...
most of the time was spent at settlers playing random board games and eating...
borrowed the mighty to save DVD from chris to watch at home, and i'm shocked to find that there are 4 songs which aren't in the CD! couldn't burn it into my iPod coz there's something up with my iBook's disc drive...
the most memorable part of the retreat was going to bedok corner with amanda bennett/regina...
its kinda the last time we could spend together as the founding members of Amplified...
we were talking about how cool it was that since the first meeting where only the three of us and amandayong (and zhaoming who came up with the name of the mag, kindaof a legacy to his participation in church) dreamed up the first issue, infocomm has grown to include a sizeable number of new members like louis (joannatng's bro), calida, yvette and so on...
its probably our final chance to do something like that coz bennett's going to aussie to study next year...
oh and i ate like 20-odd wang4wang4 biscuits during the course of the 29th, its addictive...

was ultra late for worship practice this morning, but it was kindaof ok coz they hadn't started after hour coz of some problem with photocopying the scores...
we managed to get the practice going after that though, so yeap...
while mallhopping before coming home, i found the nike ringer tee that jake wanted to buy in phuket, and since it was 30-odd bucks, decided to get it coz it looked pretty pretty...
i quite regret not getting the Eugene Trials ringer from nike that jake/adriel bought at the mall in phuket, so have been trying to find it to no avail in singapore, and one question i had was who the heck is eugene and why are his trials so famous...
finally understood when i looked carefully at the words on the nike tee jake/pet/ariel got me for christmas, and found out the Eugene's a place in Oregon, the city of choice for the nike's tee's this season...

xinquan sent me JoJo's song from THE HIGH ROAD, "How To Touch A Girl" last night via email, and i haven't been able to get it out of my head since...
its just superb, and she has amazing range, especially that low note in the last line of the chorus...
go check it out!

saving all my love for you,
jlc.