damian + turion

[140806] It's weird how all things end...

A great weekend passed spent with brudders and friends... Saturday, met up with the yishun kakis to celebrate JJ's birthday... met up with redfox to buy a birthday present, having recced a couple of days before, headed in a beeline straight for Flash N Splash and decided on a pair of board shorts seeing that JJ's were 'ugly' as quoted by redfox... oops... heh..

To our dismay, time was still early and following Standard Operating Procedure while at Orchard, headed to Takashimaya and window shopped before heading to heereen's yet again... walked around and despite my best urgings, failed to convince redfox to buy his coveted Tokyo jacket which in a surprising twist, he decided for good that he wouldnt buy it no more.... though i managed to coax him into buying a bruce lee motif shirt but he also didnt need much prompting frome me, him and bruce lee inexplicically tied in...

"Be formless, shapeless like water... empty your mind..."

Halfway thru redfox decided to get his ear pierced which kinnda surprised me but oh well... scouted around for a place to pierce but tattoo palor, tattoo artist was preoccupied so long story cut short, he finally managed to get his piercing done at PS's 77th Street, hanged around Times bookshop for a while and had to apologise profusely to Aini for missing out on the gathering the clan had... (sorry guys, will confirm be there for the next one... promise... Scout's honour!) Proceeded to Park Mall, walked around somemore and saw a couch that cost over $12,000.. geez... the money people spend... went to reccee at Giraffe, the pub across the Istana... rustic... very nicely decored... a must place to visit before i go in.. heh... anyone up for a chillin out session?

Headed next to Olio Dome to chill and continue to wait for the rest to arrive... them arriving late doesnt surprise no more... a banana smoothie and an Iced Chocolate with Gelato was ordered soon after... delightful concotion... sinfully rich and sweetness was just nice for my taste... definately a must try! Lulu soon joined us and spent the next moments quickly catching up before heading to Fish and Co Glasshouse to get the seats... The gang finally arrived... after more moments of endless waiting... Sunnymonk, JJ, Blackie, Ken-do, Wenni and SQ... all the lao chiaos... haa.. old bird gathering...delightful dinner followed by a trip to outlet for desserts... it's a good thing to have staff previleges... who else gets to have their bill with no service charge and an additional 20% off? heh... YF soon joined us to chill...

Double O was up next... kindda comprehensive but oh well since JJ's birthday... obliged them and went.... first impression.. smaller than what i had envisioned... couldnt see much people around... and the crowd was still thin, hanging around at the next of the dance floor seemingly waiting for something to happen... that something came in the form of a middle age uncle... (he looked at least 40 to me) but then again, it was dark and smoky... a couple of things were for sure...

1) he has guts (or he's drunk)
2) he's darn fit... his shirt barely fit him... it was about to burst!
3) he didnt give a damn about anyone else in the club

Why? Well, for one, he's the only one dancing... but main point was he's the ONLY one dancing and he's dancing on the platform in full view of everyone... oh well.. he seemed to enjoy himself tremedously... but oh well, the crowd still just looked on... drank one of the free complimentary discounted drinks before heading straight into drinking games with all of us alternating buying jugs for the games... by the end of the games, i've drank vodka redbull, vodka ribena, whiskey ginger ale, pineapple rum and biccardi coke... started to feel abit tipsy... more tipsy than i've ever been and that was proven to be true as i stumbled down the stairs as we moved to O bar... geez.. that was embarassing... oh well.. shit happens.. we learn from our mistakes...

1) too much liquors mixed around is bad
2) Tipsy state, wet floor & shoes with no friction = bad news

Went down and found a spot to sit but not before JJ came back with 2 more jugs of drinks... soon they were off to look for MIA redfox no doubt enjoying himself basking in retro fever upstairs... YF soon took to the dancefloor leaving SQ and me to jaga the drinks... started games again with me drinking most of the remaining 2 jugs.. hitched a ride with SQ back home...end of a long and hectice night...

Headed down to Marina to catch up with the NUFCsg lads... went to collect my 2nd nufc jersey and went to cheer on the lads as well.. a memorable match as we crushed our opponents 7-3... watching them on the pitch stirred me abit... missed my playing days... but it was good fun.. been such a long time since i've met up with any of them and it was comforting to see that all of us slipped easily into conversation, jokes and banter.. as though we were always hanging out...

shocking news came out today... Bryan leaving the outlet for CBJ.. starting tomorrow... Heikel transferring to PZ as early as this weekend... Elene's leaving next week also to CBJ (though that itself wasnt much of a surprise)... and im leaving at the end of the month... 4 exits and only 1 new staff coming in... AT's changing.. for better or worse? who knows? Everyone's leaving... it will never be the same again will it? then again... change is forever constant... change occurs whether one likes it or not... too bad if one cant adapt to the changes...

The only constant in life is death... aint that darn true? Accept changes for better or for worse... or be left behind by the tides of time...

Yesterday's memories