i signed in to melodie's computer at about 8 this morning planning to blog an early morning post about the uber awesome stayover, but after a few minutes i was just too sleepy to bother, so here it is -

7 of 9 IB debaters dropped by TJ for a spar early yesterday morning, lunched at the nearby macs, then sean/me went to school to meet up with the 4/11 ppl to play tennis/pingpong/squash... alex lim was there too, presumably from badminton with xinquan...
the 3odd hours there were really fun, though the heat kinda took the kick out of playing tennis...
i had to unfortunately not follow jit/elendrus/xinquan to btp coz i was due at the stayover at about 6...
melodie's grandma's house (it was empty and made an ideal location for our party/stayover) is one of the nicest houses owned by grandparents, as far as my memory of grandparents' houses serves me...
chic samsung (it's not that hard to imagine) plasma screen, tonnes of space, and efficient domestic help...
at around 12, there were mel/patrick/joash/gerald/cheryl/elliot/darren/gen/jim/chunwui/shaoxiong/tedkin/lex/me there, though not all of us stayed over...
in all, i watched Eurotrip and National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2 of the most vulgar, hilarious flicks i've seen, courtesy of chun wui), skipped Little Miss Sunshine because someone yelled MAHJONG, so played that from 3 to 5, Cluedo earlier in the evening, Wii Tennis, ordered in pizza, and witnessed alota drinking later in the night... tedkin had a serious hangover this morning...
so i (attempted to) sleep in the small zen-ish room with the mel/patrick/elliot/joash at around 530, but the chatter outside, the sleeping bag and the rather dusty cushion i took from the debate room kinda made sleeping a tad difficult, so drifted in and out for about 2 hours before finally giving up and joining those who were awake for some early morning channel newsasia documentaries on snails and self-experimentation of vaccines, but as exciting as those were, i kinda just drifted off to sleep for about 20minutes (5 songs off Maroon 5's Songs About Jane), before realizing more ppl were awake...
all of us minus tedkin went to macs for breakfast, then a bit more cards before packing up...
stayed behind with tedkin/lex/mel/patrick watching american idol reruns from the seattle auditions, and when mel's ride was coming, i decided to make a move to jurong for the exhibition...
the audience at the debate actually tripled through the course of the debate from 2 to 6 ppl...

that's my weekend...

one more week to the block tests, and more study sessions with the class planned next week...

jump in,
jlc(aines).