what you see may not be what you get

HAPPY NEW YEAR! here comes the year 2009 with a lot of proj deadlines for us to welcome the new year. damn.

so anyway, how did i spend my last moments of 2008? met up with the darlings at heeren and dinner-ed at SHOKUDO, a new outlet at heeren's basement. then cam whoring outside then headed to coffee club to kill time while waiting for dewei to end work. faiz left, lesby headed to double o and we headed to padang but decided to go further to fullerton to catch the fireworks. the crowd was CRAZY! we were on the highway with a supposedly ok view for the fireworks. but the adventurous us (dewei, yq and i) decided to go further to catch an even better view. the other two couples, aka jolene and meilin, decided not to brave through the crowd with us and decided to stay put. so the three of us braved through the crowd, squeezing our way with all the banglas, touching shoulder to shoulder. EEEEEW! but1150pm, we got ourselves a quite good spot near clifford pier and the fireworks began! it was AWESOME! all the squeezing was worth it afterall.

left for lau pat sat and the two couples were supposed to meet us but they decide to catch the train and head home. so three of us just sat around and talked till around 1plus and walked yq home. dewei and i was trying to get a cab and everyone single one of it was either hired or on call. urgh! i think we spent like an hour getting a cab, at chinatown. we wanted to call for one but it was all busy. when we finally decided to walk to central to catch the night rider, a cab was turning into furama hotel. we dashed for the cab and YAY! we got it. the driver intended to go home but he didnt have a choice cause we were next to the cab already.

it was a nice night out spending the last few moments with these people. but the last 25min of 2008 and first 2-3 hours of 2009 was spent with yq and dewei. and by now, you should have realised that i was the only single among the 3 couples. uh huh. lesby ditched me for her clubbing and some guy she.. betrayed for. AWESOME!

so here comes the new year with more challenges ahead. i haven't set any resolutions cause i know i will never try to achieve it. but maybe now, for a start, the first resolution will be to not sleep past 1AM. hmmmm. and i'll be turning 21 and i have to start planning for a celebration. whoooo hooo! but first, i can't wait to end my poly life with np. =)))

that's done, i wanna blog bout mr tan's farewell on the 30th. it was the first time that every band girl saw mr tan cried. "big boys dont cry". many of us teared too. it's sad to see him leave but we should be glad for him that when he comes back in 3 years time, we'll have to call him DR TAN. this was the only time that we see the other side of mr tan. his outgoing-ness when taking photos with all of us. it is an honour to know that stmarg's helped him so much in his career when he first started out. we were the first band that he conducted a full length concert with, the first band that he achieved a gold in the SYF with. he started the POLKA! series and i am proud to say that i was involved in all of it! 9 years with us and he is finally graduating. as shufeng put it, "have you ever considered joining the alumni?". that was a nice one. he was boasting bout his facebook having 1100 friends. he'll be leaving this sunday and i'm sure he's gonna be greatly missed by everyone especially the current band girls because they will have to get used to a new conductor with different teachings. mr tan will always be a part of the stmarg's band family but never apart. he was inspirational to everyone and made music making more interesting. he did a lot for the band, though at times he feels disappointed but he never once did gave up on us. we gave him the most tearful farewell and wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

photos will be up in the next post!

once again,
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!