It was an all-coins day.

Realised that I'ad been going out with many of my Secondary school friends nowadays, and just yesterday, I went out with my 4 zhss-cum-nyjc guzheng mates for the very 1st time after knowing each other for like what, 5 years? A bit hard to believe, but it's true. No matter the frequency of our trips out together, I can say that our tacit understanding is rather applaudable. It must be that trust and understanding that built up in these 5 years during all our performances and crapping sessions when we used to meet up for guzheng.

For this, I felt really thankful and contented, to know that friends do not have to always come from the same clique of people you see everyday, but also they can include your fellow fighters who are always beside you when you are out there facing a challenge, be it a competition or a true challenge in life. Although all 4 of us have our own set of cliques and come from different classes in the jc (I was in the same class as shuhui in upper sec, weiyu was in the class next to us and shuting 2 classes and a walkway away from mine in the sec sch days), we still kind of share the same memories and experiences, and also the feelings towards certain people and their absurd actions which may not be noticed by some other passer-by.

I feel really grateful!

So, we have the trip out to suntec yesterday to spend time together, all 4 of us, me, shuting, shuhui and weiyu.

My family potrait! Hahax~

It was one of the those times when I won't feel utterly pissed off when my friends tend to walk very very VERY slowly from one destination to the other. In fact, I rather enjoyed the process of just walking around and fooling around with them right from the mrt station to suntec. We hopped into a few shops to examine the ridiculous prices of stuff which can be brought from the shop opposite my house at a price of 3 for 10 dollars and came out just to hop into yet another shop.

Hmm, this is so different from some other groups. If they don't like the shop, they would just walk out of it when you are still looking around the shop interestingly.

That's the difference.

And guess what? We went into Toys'r'us and tried to exit using the entrance and had the way of the exit pointed
to us by 2 very bored-looking cashiers wearing santa's furry red-and-white hats. Shuhui went 'temporary' out of her mind and tried persuading us to share a bottle of baby-food with her. We fooled around especially at the magic section where I started the fun by saying "Lumos" with a fake wand in my hand and Shuting followed by saying an unforgivable curse (the one that starts with 'a') shot at weiyu. Then we all went into a frenzy of hugging and throwing around furry animals lookalikes at the soft toys section. Whoa, v expensive lo... so must hug for a longer time since I can't buy them. and there's a monkey soft-toy with damn long arms and my dear shuting and shuhui kept trying to throw its long arms around my neck and weiyu's too. For god's sake, I know I look terribly like a tree but you don't have to remind me of that, my dear girls.

And now, I will explain the part about yeaterday being the all-coins day.

First, we each forked out 2 1-dollar coins for the toy capsule machine. After much praying and shaking of the machine, we finally got capsules of different colours. I got a blue one, shuting got a light-beigeone, shuhui got a green one and weiyu got a yellow one.

Hahax~ We ended up at a circular colourful bench outside a children merchanise store and beside a thomas-the-train-merry-go-round which just did not know how to shut up (''...and UP we go!"). There
were many people who walked past us when we were assembling the small little things of the capsules. There
were a couple of little siblings who stopped to look, 3 grown-up women, a lady who works at a nearby shop and a pair of kids aged around 12-13 years old who walked past and burst out laughing at our "childishness" when they entered the children merchanise shop. Diao:: Why act mature when you are not? And hello, aren't you people shopping for a teeny-weeny pink flurry cute skirt in a CHILDREN'S MERCHANISE STORE??!

That's just ironic.

Then we shopped around in cute little shops and I especially remembered a toy-shop which has the gigantic figure of huifang(zhss de qi jie mei)-cum-edwin(zhss de bro4)-cum-yanxing(nyjc de su ah pek)'s favourite catoon character.

I can't say for sure for edwin though, he seems equally fond of sponge bob square pants.

Finally we are all hungry. I got a packet of roasted chicken rice, shuting got a packet of nasi lemak with a fish she didn't know how to eat, shuhui and weiyu got pineapple rice cuz it's vegetarian and it was thought that it wouldn't hurt their mouth ulcers. They were obviously very wrong. And we went back to the colourful bench to eat there. kind of attached to that place liao. Hahax~

Then we saw many cutie-pies (little children) going up the thomas-the-train-merry-go-round. So cute! And their parents are cute too... hahax! We saw 3 children who totally did not know each other at all going on the 3 seats of the merry-go-round and departing as friends after the ride. And there was a dad with a very spiky hairstyle with her young daughter who has a weird hairstyle as weird as his. And there was another dad who kept carrying her dughter using ONE hand like she was some super-girl. Reminds me of my own dad throwing me around in the air when I was young. To all parents, children are NOT toys, thank you.

And off to the arcade we go! All I could see was me and shuting playing. Shuhui and weiyu were not very interested. And yes, this is another part of the all-coins day. We have to go change for coins for the machines mah~ we played the bishi-bashi (playing instructions explained in cantonese), the music machine I played last year with bro4 sis3 after gab's bdae celebration, and the drum thingy. THE MACHINE GOT MAYDAY'S SONG!!! The song is kaled "ah mu si zhuang" which is "Armstrong" if you want it translated. V v v NICE lo!

We planned to go esplanade de, but in the end it rained, so we went to plaza singapura to take neoprints. It's all-coins day action number 3! We changed 20 dollars for 20 1-dollar coins lo, and took it twice. Cuz the effect v lousy mah, not very experienced with the machine. But had quite a fun time decirating and posing weird weird poses~ Hahaz~

Now, I am BROKE after getting my pocket money just 2 days before.

But I AM VERY HAPPY!!! (Although we seemed to be playing with machines for the whole day.)

LOVE YA, BABES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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