I AM EXHAUSTED! MY LEGS ARE TIRED!
Alright, I totally love today's mini outing with the rest of the TRIO - Clara and Sharon. I personally enjoyed it really much. The best part of the outing was DINNER!

Let's start from the TOP!

I left home at around 1030 to school - in home clothes - to pay a visit to the choir. I was kinda worried I would be denied access into the school campus as it was the very first time I am passing through the school gates in home clothes without any permission. As I was strolling to school, I saw Mr Chun! I wasn't very sure that it was him initially but gave a call anyway. Indeed, it turns out to be him. So we walked to school and chatted a bit along the way. He saw that I had some books in my hand and asked why isn't there a Physics TYS or Physics TB. He did ask indirectly via his MSN personal message for those two items from us graduates but I had not expect to see him in school today, and thus the reason why I didn't bring either of them along.

I had brought a SS Sec 4 TB, English 4A TB and WB to give away only cause I plan to call the juniors up my house to get the books themselves before I dispose of them. So the 3 books ended up in Jordon's hands.

They are singing some interesting songs, the choir. I can't wait to join them at the concert! Many seniors (like myself) are coming back to perform, I am very sure that it would be very exciting and fun and great!

Yi Jun had brought a large pile of books today to give away. Some books were left at the collection area set up by Fairprice in school, while most of the books were given out to the juniors in choir. I and Clara had to go down to help her bring the books up initially from her cab. She had really brought quite a lot of books.

Ms Seah also gave out the SYF'09 photos to us, that we previously ordered. Clara ordered the smallest size can. So cheapo. Hahas.

*SKIPPING SOME UNFATEFUL CONTENTS*

Then after practice, I and Clara went to have lunch at the hawker centre in the neighbourhood and we rushed down to Tanglin Shopping Centre to meet up with Sharon by bus from the bus interchange.

The journey to Orchard Road was surprisingly short. Both Clara and I thought it was going to be a very long journey, but I guess between bus and train, taking the bus made great difference to the time needed to reach our destination. It only took like 20-30 minutes to reach there from Bukit Batok area, as compared to a rough estimation of 40-50 minutes if we were to have took the train.

Having been there once, I led and we located Sharon's workplace in no time. She was waiting for her in-charge to reach the shop so that she can leave, and so I and Clara stayed around and waited too. Clara took interest in the terracotta soldier that is sold in Sharon's shop and plans to make purchase of it for her father's birthday. As she did not have enough cash with her, Clara made a verbal reservation instead.


Sharon was told that there would be nice and cheap food to eat at Orchard Central and we started our search to Orchard Central. It couldn't be located on the locality map that we could find in the area and this made us kinda puzzled. I tried to ask for directions and it kinda gave us a rough idea of which way to go. We practically walked from one end of Orchard Road to the other end before we could locate Orchard Central. We couldn't find the entrace to it and initially mistook 313 as it, and as 313 had no been completed, we were almost disheartened to find Orchard Central and were ready to dismiss it as a myth. By chance, we found that we had walked slightly off course and managed to find our way to Orchard Central in the end.

We went all the way to the rooftop garden of Orchard Central and realised that there wasn't any nice sceneries to see. Singapore is indeed a concrete jungle. Then we walked around Orchard Central hoping to find something affordable to settle on dinner but to no avail. There were plenty of decent Japanese restaurants here but nothing affordable. So we went across the road to Centrepoint after much effort.

It was a great decision to go to Centrepoint to settle on our dinner. However, we had a problem: we didn't know which fastfood restaurant to go! It was either Long John Silvers, Macdonalds or Subway. We sat down at Long John Silvers (which was very empty in comparison with the other two) and were unwilling to make purchase of anything there. The girls couldn't decide on what to get, you see. So we ended up at Subway. Clara initially also suggested that we eat at Kopitiam but was denied flatly by Sharon, while I had no opinion.

The girls were on to the idea of having the $7.80 meal at New York New York, but I was their barrier. I hadn't had enough cash to afford that. They had originally thought maybe they could fill up the gaps for me, but it was just too big a gap after we enquired on the cost of the meal per pax after service charge and GST. So we skipped the thought and went back to Subway. We were very lucky as the restaurant was rather pack at that moment and we were glad that we would be able to get seats for all of us. Phew.

We talked as we ate and talked for quite a while even after eating. We had a great time and chatting and that was why it was the main highlight, personally, for the day. I enjoyed myself very much today. TRIO FTW~ =p

We had some trouble following the signs to the restrooms which was kinda comical. We found the gents but there wasn't the ladies beside it. Sharon kept on saying "... gents and ladies together..." Clara and I were like "Gosh. 'Beside' is the word, not 'together'. That sounds so wrong." Then we brought up the fact that our school staff toilets are unisex too.

Yeap, the above is rather much everything that happened today. A day to remember and hopeful that greater, better and more of such days to come; days to enjoy with the rest of the TRIO. =DDD