Sunday, April 21, 2013

Friday night @ Acid bar

I changed all my outfit, stepping onto the treadmill, ran for about 4 minutes and my phone rang. it was Shannon, a good friend of mine who recently on his low.He said " come join us in acid bar"

Without hesitation, I stopped running, had shower, changed my cloth and head straight to Somerset.

Upon arriving alley bar, I saw sandy, choi mei's friend with Shannon. Just the both of them. I felt slightly awkward in the beginning as I was like crushing into a date or something. Only after a few rounds of SOL, I feel right a bit. hahaha.

Somehow, I like the place, it was relaxing and comfortable. The ambiance, laughters, beautiful ladies and some ice cold beers most importantly.

Ken joined us around 11 o clock. we then had some chicken wings in acid bar. I talked about work stuff with Ken quite a lot. Being a colleague and a friend. We talked about almost everything. It was a good night!

After that, we then went to casino in MBS and gambled for a while. It was a quick and exciting one. Imagine I was slightly tipsy at the time we were gambling.

Overall a good and exciting night!

Lowsai @ Singapore

It was a quick one, too a train to join them at Marina bay sands on 13/4/2013. There were Kah Chun, Rainy, Kah Chun's girlfriend, shannon, lowsai and charles. By the time I reached there, they finished their dinner already. I guess I am rather too late for the meal.I shared the story of my story about encountering gay  to them, and they seems really enjoyed it. I guess the next time they see me, GAY would probably be the 1st  that would popped into their mind. After leaving DTF,   We then walked around MBS, and Kah Chun wanted to go SKY Park with his GF. We then separated, Kachun and his gf to Skypark, and the remaining of us would head to coffee bean bistro for a cup of coffee. Me for a meal of course.

We then sat down and continue our talking/catching up/ gossiping session. It was a cool and relaxing one. It has been quite a while since our last catch up during the Formula 1 race in Singapore last year. It seems like time flies man. I somehow couldn't imagine that it was so long ago since our last meeting.

However, after our coffee bean session, we went straight to Kim Tian road for a round of beer, Another awesome night for a few friends to gather together for a while.

Bona @ Singapore

Friday night- 930pm, took a taxi from Taiseng to Jalan Besar Swee Choon. Three of us, Anthony, Bona and Myself sat at the back of swee choon and started our annual catch up session immediately. haha

I forgotten what we talk about that night, but it was a fun one. After the meal, we went to Mustafa to shop around. I end up buying more things than bona that night in mustafa. Along the shopping period, we catch up with each other too.

After the meal, we went off to BLISS, a contemporary bar, sells red wine and some finger food. We had a bottle of red, and chat our way through. It was a good night.

On our next meeting on sunday, we went to Art Science Museum together with Fannie, bona's friend and kok tien. It was an art exhibition by Nathan Sawaya an lego artist. The exhibition is interesting and eye opening. After the exhibition, we walked towards garden by the bay and sat down there until 8 O clock to watch light show at the supertree in Gardens by the bay. It was mind soothing and I almost slept during the show.... Enjoyed myself utterly!

After the show, Kok tien decided to leave us and we had our meals in Coffee bean Bistro in Marina Bay Sands.

I guess that is all for our gathering this time around. Looking forward for a next one!

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Easter Sunday @ Serene's place

It was a long weekend for people in Singapore, although I had to work during holiday, but our group organised a hang out session at serene's place on Sunday. After the property fair at orchard hotel at 10am Sunday. I went straight to Serene's place as CCY just got back from Kelantan for a short trip, and brought some delicacy from Kelantan as usual. It was 31 March 2013. Easter Sunday!

Not just that he brought the meal back from Kelantan for us, he started preparing on his own in serene's kitchen. How touching to have such a wonderful friend that would thought of us while he is back home. If I would like to compare myself to him, I think I am a selfish bastard.

That afternoon, we had Satay, Special rice, Curry fish and some fresh vegetables. I forgotten how many juicy and tender satay I had, all I remember now is that my scale did not go west after all the gym session these days.

After our lunch, we hang around at serene's place and serene's dad started to share property knowledge to us. Until today, I am very grateful to have a mentor in property to teach us how to invest in a property. Serene's dad started to invest during his university years England. He bought a council house for a few thousand pound and rent it out to students.At that time, he started to collect some rental income already.  According to serene's dad, that is when he understand the importance of investing. Although he started off with his parent's money, he had been investing since then.

He then moved on to Australia, he bought a unit in Australia after selling off the property in UK. I guess, I should have recorded down what he had told us that day. Somehow, It seems that I had forgotten part of the stories already.

After sharing his life experience with property, we started to talk about property in JB Malaysia. He advised us not to buy any service apartment in JB at the moment due to the over supply of property in the coming years. His consultancy firm dealt with 10k ++ units at the moment, I guess he has some of the insights on properties in JB. He advised us to buy a old home with land, but this could only be done with quite a large amount of capital. Unless a few of us pool the capital to buy the home as investment.

After our property sharing session at serene's place, we went off for a basketball session near serene's place. With serene's dad being the MVP of the court, the basketball session became very intense and fun. I guess we were all shocked to see how serene's dad scored most of the points.

After our basketball session, tun zheng, serene's brother prepared mexican meal for us. We had banana leaf grilled chicken, cactus salad, and some pork soup. It was a warming dinner, to be able to dine with Yeo family on Easter Sunday.

Vero/Phaedra @ Singapore

It started off with meal at Metz in Marina Square, where my annual catch up session with vero begins. Steven, Vero's boyfriend is with us too.

We talked about things that is happening around us, people and shared some laughters.

Shannon joined us for awhile, with his trapezium egg tarts from Chinatown and Lao Ban Dou Jiang, both which Vero craved for. 

We went to Parco near marina square to shop for awhile and then go straight to Mellben in Ang mo kio for crab. The queue is like one and a half hours and is about 50 dollar per person. I have forgotten what we had that night, but the meal is decent and the atmosphere is good. I enjoyed catching up with Vero and Steven. 

After the following week, Shannon text me that Phaedra is in Singapore. We met up in TWG in ION Orchard. Shannon and Phaedra really know how to pamper themselves. I met two ex ttss too. Andy and Syiing. 

We then moved on to a Nanbantei Japanese Restaurant in Far East Plaza near Orchard for our dinner. The dinner place is very crowded and cosy. Waiters and waitresses are very friendly. Andy lead the conversation for the night, and we shared quite a lot of laughters too. It was rather fun to think back some of the legendary people in our secondary school. 

After our dinner, we went to Taboo, a gay bar near outram park. This is not a joke, I somehow paid a huge amount of money to a Gay Club. Damn! I must say the only reason why I step in the gay bar is because Phaedra wants to explore the bar in Singapore. Period!

It was quite intimidating at the beginning, but after the alcohol kicked in, everything seems to be less awkward. damn. I sounded gay! I am saying hanging out within our own circle of friends in a gay club. Where did you think of? lol 

I grabbed Phaedra for a few photos to prove my identify. Thinking back, it was rather hilarious to think that I am chasing Phaedra around in a club.This is rather embarrassing! 

Moving on- Property sharing session at serene's place and a meal with Joann.