Oh man! Such an amazing weekend night!

Yes, my weekend was amazing again. Sounds like the norm for me nowadays eh? Not really, I won't take things like that for granted, but Saturday night is still very vivid and sweet in my mind.

I tuitioned on Saturday and it was payday too. It felt good, even though I didn't have too much sleep the night before and had to suck it up. The kids had a lot of fun at my lesson and I was happy too. Then I went home to get changed for dinner with my JC classmates. My sister was complete burnt like a cooked lobster. She was out in the sun for 6-7 hours supporting her faculty games and she's usually pretty pale. So she looks like a lobster now. It's so funny! I'm laughing writing this and imagining how she looks.

Seeing my old JC classmates again was also really cool. Lots of them changed in little subtle ways. The ladies are mostly working and the guys either studying or in NS. We had dinner at the Sudanese Restaurant at Suntec City. We talked about the old days, the new life we are all living now. The joy I felt at seeing them again could hardly be described. I spent 2 very good years with them, being extremely close. And now, seeing them all being the best in whatever they do, enjoying and making the most out of life is also very comforting. Many of them have gone overseas to study, actually, more than half my class went either to the UK or the US. 5 in Stanford, 3 in Cornell, 1 in UMich, 1 in UT-Austin, 1 in Duke, 1 in LSE, 1 in Oxford and more. All of them enjoyed the times overseas and many would go back, to visit or even to work. So I'm not alone in feeling that! =)

Anyway, after dinner, we went to Harry's at Esplanade to drink and chat. Some of us had a jug of Sangria. And we broke into the more intellectual conversations, since the catching up was done mostly at dinner. My class has always been very intellectual, as you can infer from now. We talked about the income inequality in Singapore, the need to keep wages competitive with the region, possbility to female National Service etc. I miss a lot of these talks. It forces me to substantiate my points, consolidate my thinking, as I'm talking with the best brains in the nation. The girls are getting the frontline news about Singapore's progress, with them working in the Economic Development Board of Singapore and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, etc. Jacky is working in the Singapore Tourism Board. Yiwen plays frisbee too, but on Friday, so I might add Friday to my list of frisbee days, since I have to miss Tuesdays now.

I was tired after drinking and talking to my classmates. I wanted to go home, even though Steph from GIC had asked me to go clubbing at New Asia Bar with her and her friends. My wallet was kinda hurting at the moment, after an expensive night on Friday night and now on Saturday. But when she messaged me, I gave in, thinking that I didn't follow them to Cocolatte the week before, I should go tonight. So when class outing ended, I headed to SwissHotel at Raffles City to meet Steph, Nicole and their friends. The cover charge for New Asia is $20 bucks, and included a vodka martini. It wasn't the drinks that made the night. The company was amazing. I hadn't clubbed for a long time, and most of my Stanford friends and other friends don't club. I like to, but only with friends. So clubbing with Steph and Nicole and their Malaysian friends were really cool. The dancing was energizing, although the view of the country from the 70th storey was breath-taking. I had never seen my country from that height and doing so last night, when all the lights were out, it was really beautiful. The company, the fun, the view and the dancing was worth every bit. I talked a lot to Steph about different things, about her work, my life and lots of other things. New Asia Bar is filled with much older people. The on-going joke between us youngsters were that the music and the people there were just so much older and had no energy. There were also a lot of girls there who were out to pick up some random white guy. SPGs or Sarong Party Girls, we call them. I have no problems with that. To each their own. But it was a club filled with lots of white people, probably pretty rich, and a completely different scene from Zouk or ChinaBlack.

After clubbing comes the supper food. It was 3 in the morning, but I followed them anyway. We went to River Valley Road for food. Milo Dinosaur is great! I love it! So much milo powder and it was so sweet! The prata was pretty good too. Stpeh was bouncing off the walls with her sugar high and all the Malaysians were talking about the Malay language and whether they were getting the right vocab for castrations, circumcision, in Malay. It was a hilarious night, lots of fun. Apparently, the food in Malaysia is different from Singapore, even though it's close. The Maggi Mee Goreng in Malaysia is brown, instead of red like it is in Singapore. Steph, who is from Malaysia, thought it was horrible. Girls...

After all that fun, it was 5.30am in the morning. We all went to crash at Steph's and Nicole's place. I figured that was the best way, because I had to get to church in the morning and I knew that if I went home to sleep, I'm NOT getting up for church. So, after 4 hours of sleep, Steph and I, along with Jeremy and Desmond went to ARPC. Church was good and the series was talking about Revelations. Then there was lunch at the Adam Road Food Center. There, we bumped into Nikki Mok, and I bumped into Ester Teo, whom I haven't seen for some time since we met at San Francisco. Ester is also a GIC scholar and was working there for 6 months before coming back here.

I went home to get some sleep, actually a lot of sleep. I needed it because of tuition later at night. How tuition went, I'll leave it up to the next entry. This entry is long enough. But just to wrap up, it was just such a great and amazing night. It reminds me how nice it is to be young and energetic, and how nice it is to have so many different groups of friends that enrich your life to no end. Praise the Lord.