The chinese new year edition

I'm writing this while watching the last 30 mins of American Idol...Have been missing the previous episode....
chinese new year has come n go n only now then i got the time to blog it...
as a matter of fact, this blog is abandoned.... i am not so passionate about writing anymore...at least not like last time during the holiday where i got all the time in the world to waste (not that i'm no longer wasting my time now.... Mid term exam is coming n yet i youtube all nite...)

oh ya, before i get to my chinese new year experience, just wanna promote this really nice series... of course it's taiwanese series...wad else do i watch...
it's called hana kimi...i think it's adapted from japanese comic....
basically, it's abt this girl who likes this high jumper (is that the right term for it?) studying in boy sch.... so she is willing to sacrifice n pretend to be a guy just to study in the same sch as her idol... I think it's really a nice show...funny n refreshing to watch...




ok...promotion time over...
now it's sharing time...
anyway,... i didnt go back indo during CNY.... for a simple reason. mid term exams coming....but as predicted, I never really utilise my time wisely.... uncountable hours were wasted loitering ard orchard and vivocity (maybe a new term shld be used -->"Vivoing").... and countless dollars spend .... haiz...

basically, during CNY eve, all the chinese restaurants were either closed or fully booked.... so we had to resort to Western food... German food to be exact....
We had Danny with us...who helped us a lot in ordering..haha... coz the name of the dishes are all in german....
basically only 6 of us spent the CNY eve together (me, jess, laura, danny, dipta n henry)....the rest, either they went back indo, hide somewhere in PGP or "busy" couples...haha....






thanks to Jessica, we got a treat of fondue that nite at Hagen daz....nyum...
okay, that was the first nite in Vivo...









after our feast, we came back pgp to play board games (monopoly) the whole nite....until morning at 4 if i'm not wrong...

then next day, i woke up quite late....just the time for lunch...so me n jess (who felt so lonely n bored) decided to go orchard to try our luck....
but our luck was not that good....all the non-western food restaurants were closed including jap food...hiks hiks... and we ended up eating at spageddies... okay, i must say that the food was not that bad.... but it's tooo cheesy...
n after that we had a walk around orchard which looked like a dead city....seriously, singapore cant function during chinese new year...that's the bad thing abt being in a chinese dominated country...haha....

and for dinner we had marche.. (ya ya...another western meal....quite sick of it aledy)...
but thanks to david n angita -the happy couple- who helped us book the table....if not... dun even think abt having dinner there... it was fun that nite after the dinner.... why? becoz we went to the vivocity "kids" playground... yah, it was as if we were never young....haha ....

then we ended the nite n started the next day with Risk game.... it's a guy kind of game which i learned.... the guys had mercy on us the girls (me n laura), not killing us early and we ended up being the "troublemaker" in the game...haha... n guess wad, we ended the game at 5 pm...
but i didnt sleep straight after that... i pushed myself to finish my overdue assignment and ended sleeping at 7 am....damn early rite...? that was my record...

actually the rest of my new year was quite eventful except for continuous eating of expensive food which burned a whole in my pocket....haiz...haha
i hope i can get all the pictures soon n can put it up here....yipppiiee...
gong xi gong xi.... i want my hong bao!!!

concert aftermath...

yay!!
Today is Friday and this is the first time that i can relax a bit throughout this week....
Last friday was the concert by the Indons here in NUS...it's called "When I was in Indonesia..."
The concert was a fusion of both traditional and modern music n dance....

The items performed are as follows:
- Balinese dance called Sekar Jagad... I saw the ppl practising for this one...I looks quite tough and they managed to dance well in such a short time. defenitely not easy....

-Gamelan... This item was performed by the guest performers from SMU.... I didnt really noe abt this item. coz the SMU ppl only went once for the rehearsal.... and on the day itself I was outside the backstage....so, I didnt hear them at all. Summore, I was not familiar with the songs they played...haha....so, no impression...sorrie

-ehem....ANGKLUNG orchestra.... which was the item that me and abt 27 other ppl performed.haha... we played 3 songs: Kopi Dangdut, Edelweiss and Naik Delman.
We screwed up a bit at the Kopi Dangdut, but I noe for sure, the Naik Delman n Edelweiss on that day was the best compared to all the practices we had before... good job ppl....I tremendously enjoyed the performance.
but I really want to see the video of our performance. Hope I can get hold of one copy of the video.....

-ReguA.... I think this band deserves a compliment...they sounded good, they looked good and they were entertaining.... at least this is what I saw during the rehearsals...I guess the performance on the day itself shld be superb oso... the ppl in this band are: Adi, Regi, Tari, Andrew, and the additional 2 members are Adit n Aldo... I was really impressed by the music n harmonisation...great job!!

-Tari piring... this is performed by NTU guest performers, 4 of them only. But they were oso impressive. imagine all the "throwing plates" stunts...haha I heard that one of them almost dropped the plates...luckily he managed to catch it back firmly...haha....

-IndoMe.... not very sure how to write the proper name...but it sounds something like that....
They are a grp of 4 ppl playing rock band...haha ....but of course singing indo songs... They were really good oso coz they could engage with the crowd...haha... and it was nice to listen Indo love songs....haha romantic...

oh ya, must highlight the MCs for the day. Dunno where they found an ang moh girl who were willing to be the MC...she pretended to be a tourist going around Indo....
and Dipta n Jaenatte who were the "welcomer" in each of the places.... what so funny is when Dipta appeared in front of everyone wearing the traditional costumes, ppl started laughing without him doing anything or saying anything...haha

okay basically it was a great nite, with great music n of course great audience....At first I was quite worried that the audience would not make up the whole theaterette...but not bad...it was at least 5/6 full...though i dunno how i got that...haha...crap...

This is the link to the official pictures....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40451870@N00/sets/72157594512628516/
but so sad dun have my face....hiks hiks...
will try to get from individual cameras which have my face haha
if i got all the pictures aledy, i'll try to put it up here...
i think we shld organise more of this kind of things...though it took up quite a bit of our time during the last minute practice n rehearsals, but i feel satisfied lah!! and i felt good when u see ppl come n supporting u...haha....

okie....must go do my stuff liao....