The first 2 weekends of November
I have been attending quite a number of social gatherings this month. Given that I am an introvert, it is rather impressive :pThe first event of this month saw me swinging down a 450m long zip-line in Sentosa with 7 other adrenaline junkies! Touted as Asia's steepest flying fox that reaches heart pounding speeds at 50km/h, it was really not as scary as its advertisers make it out to be. In fact, most of us agreed that the 4-storey high vertical para-jump was more frightening. Other than me and Tempest, the remaining group of 2 girls and 4 guys are Tempest's classmates, and friend. It was quite cool that the group hit it off pretty well, even at the very beginning. Perhaps it was due to the equal mix of people, with half of them extroverts and the other half introverts. Fun-filled day. Kudos to Tempest's planning skills :p I was somewhat surprised when he managed to gather such a big group of people to pay $59 each to go through a tiring day of climbing ropes, para-jumping and flying fox!
The next day, we were off to visit one of Tempest colleagues in NUH. My, looking for her ward was already a challenge on its own. Turn after turn we took, before arriving at Wing 2. It was quite a modern building from the outside, but looks the same as any local hospital on the inside. But the single-bed ward was pretty cosy. Coming with a desk, tv, and a day-bed by the window, it looked just like a hotel deluxe room. The only reminder of it being a ward was the hospital bed. The patient was an Austrian lady. Her boyfriend of Indian descent was also present. Though it was a brief half-an-hour visit, it was still pleasant meeting new people especially foreigners (a rarity in Singapore!). She and her partner are pretty humourous and friendly beings, which made it nice talking with them. It also gave us a chance to buy flowers :p It is just the thing to do when you visit angmohs. Singaporeans will much prefer fruits and food, i guess.
This Sat, we visited G and her month-old baby boy. Nice feeling meeting up with old classmates. Just nice hearing numerous updates on people you have never met for months.. It appears that many of them are moving on to the next stage of their lives, and some already to the next next stage. Makes me wonder if I should be happy being able to stretch this stage of my life *eyes looking up*
Today, I attended my manager's wedding at The Legends. Well, speaking liberally, this guy is an amazement! He fast forwarded stage after stage of his life, all within 7 -8 months, and he's going to be a Daddy April next year. He might be a very 'J' person, wanting to complete everything in one shot! Haha. Anyway, the special-ness in this was that I actually attended the wedding. I am not a fan of such social ocassions normally. If I can avoid it, I definitely will. For this one, I just feel it important to attend, to 'show face' for I am almost on the verge of being labelled as "anti-social" by fellow colleagues. For a while, it seemed to be my own wedding when alcoholics in my table kept toasting me and urging me to finish up the glass of red wine I had. Hahaha.. Overall, I give it a 7.5 out of 10, for the pork ribs with raisins, sharks' fins and mango pomelo dessert., and the portions for we only have 7 in a table. One embarrassing moment though, there was not enough abalone slices to go around for the table next to us, and the waiter popped over and took away one of ours! Heh, perhaps the waiter should have left the guests to pick their own food, rather than distributing the portions equally.
2 weekends, 4 activities. I wonder what I will be doing in the next...
posted by slingwoof @ 11/16/2009 02:37:00 AM
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