Saturday, January 28, 2006  10:37 PM
The past week
Another reunion dinner is over and I'm sitting here typing on my laptop as I await tomorrow. The reunion dinner is something I look forward to yearly, despite the small family I have, and yes I love my family but I have to admit that the food is what I get excited about the most. The steamboat is simply one of a kind, and the food that I eat every reunion dinner is something that can never be gotten elsewhere. The only difference this year is that I've an addition in the form of my more-than-happy-to-play-celebrity puppy, Gem. For half an hour before the dinner started and for two hours after that, he was the centre of attention, frisking around and capturing everybody's hearts. Talk about being an attention grabber. But more on him later. The past week has been pretty hectic, as all the deadlines are being thrown at us all at one go, and I'm ready to murder a few people such as Kilkenny himself who decided to ruin our Chinese New Year by setting a deadline right in the middle of it. And his excuse? "You think you are suffering cos you have to do it, but think about it... I actually have to mark during Chinese New Year." And why is he not smart enough to just let everyone off for once. So my group members and I spent countless hours at the library during research this week, of course not forgetting to take a few pictures.  Me pulling a pseudo 1874 - thanks to Jan
 My hawker groupies!
This week, dear Fel also got the car as her dad jetsetted off to Indonesia and therefore she drove to school, and played driver to us for two days. Not surprisingly, all of us got super excited at the prospect of having a car at our disposal and on Thursday afternoon during our four-and-a-half hour break, we decided to head down to Ikea for lunch. Of course, there was the pre-drive chatter and excitement about how we should "drive past the bus stop and glance out at all the people waiting at the bus stop while in the car" or "get Luqs to sit at the bus stop so we can casually pick him up so that everyone will see us".  So Fel drove us out of school and we did drive past the bus stop, even though I don't think anyone saw us. Lunch at Ikea was the usual with yummy meatballs and chicken wings. Then came the highlight of the day (or scariest moments in Fel's driving anecdotes). There was this huge jam out of that crammed Ikea carpark and we were on the slope heading out. But because of the jam, we had to keep stopping on the slope. Fel was driving an auto car, and normally, once you let go of the brake and step on the accelerator, the car should move on smoothly. But for some reason (maybe we were too heavy), the car rolled back. Now this happened three times and I'm sorry dear for screaming my lungs out. When Jan screams, it's a natural reaction to follow. I know we weren't helping at all. So finally, our poor driver had to use the handbrake method - which should not apply to an auto car. But! Thank you Fel for driving us around the two days and I really really really appreciate it! :)
 The backseat kids - Jan the screamer, Luqs, Mel and I
 Jan and I had to wait in school for our dads to come pick us up yesterday evening, so we decided to go explore her hall rooftop. Which is a wonderful find! It's perfect for suntanning, for long talks, for pizza parties, for drinking wine under the stars, and as you can see, for picture-taking. :)
And the photo below is for Luqs. He's the guy that designed my blog template and also the one who recently helped me add the 'Flickr gallery' link. He IS a sweetheart. So here's a photo of us which I absolutely love - I call it Konfrontation. :)
The next two days will be LONG. My Chinese New Years' are typically like that. We start early in the morning and only end late at night. And...even though Martina Hingis got out in the quarter-finals for the women's singles, I'm still super proud of her and guess what?! She's in the mixed doubles finals with Mahesh Bhupathi.
I really hope she wins. :)
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