Fun + Tiring Weekend

What a tiring but fun weekend I had! Especially on Sunday whereby I had to rush to at least 5 places in a single day...

Let's start with Friday evening. After work that day, I went for my outside choir chalet at Changi. Its a two-storey bungalow with 1 master bedroom downstairs and 2 bedrooms on the second floor. On the first night, only me, Xu Yi, Shize, Shiwei, Shijing, Jianhao, Shuhui and Kai Kun stayed over. Edwin, our ex-member, arrived at 1am and played with us. The rest arrived one by one the next day.

We didn't sleep a wink on the first night. All of us except Xu Yi were playing mahjong all night. [ Wait a second, you think playing mahjong must be played with chips or cash don't you? Well, in our case, we had two categories: with chips/cash or with our snacks food as chips (no money involved).]

After our overnight mahjong session, we went for breakfast at 7am. Shize treated us to the meal as he had won quite a sum of money during the mahjong session. After breakfast, we went to catch our beauty sleep for 4 hours. We woke up at 12.30pm and went for lunch.

Aftyer lunch, we rested for a while and some of them went back to play mahjong while the rest of us played games like improvised version of Ping Pong (no tables involved, we used the floor as tables), skipping and hula hoops.

In th evening, before the BBQ starts, we played the indoor version of Food Chain, translated as Shi Zi Lu Kou in Chinese. This means we do not need to look for the food and finish them but we just list out the food names on Chinese with the last word of the last dish and the first word of the next dish as the same word.

The next game was using straws and paper clips to build the tallest and firmest structure. this structure must be able to stand for at least 5 seconds. In the end, both teams lost as both could not stand firmly onto the table for 5 seconds. Then we went for the BBQ.

During the BBQ, we talked about everything under the sun (decent stuff of course!) like Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, our choir practices, etc. We had lots of fun chatting and getting to know one another better. After that, we played Guess-Who-Am-I game whereby a person will try to imitate a person or and object and the rest gotta guess who opr what he or she is is trying to imitate. As Shize has a flair of acting and clowning around, he came up with most of the riddles and none of us could guess some of them as they were too 'chim'. After washing up, we went to sleep one by one.

The next day, which is Sunday, I woke up super early (much earlier than I usually do on a Sunday) and got ready to got church at Expo. After service, I and some other church choir members rushed to catch our shuttle bus back to Jurong premises for Chinese Church. After we sang for Chinese Church, we went for lunch.

After lunch, I went back home to put my heavy stuff and took a cab to Tiny Box Music School (opened by Li Fei Hui, one of the local xingyao singers ) it was a talent conpetition organized by NUS. There were various categories like Singing and Emcee, I joined the Solo Singing category. I was given quite positive comments from the judges but I don't think I am in. After taht, I went to People Association (PA) for my first Strikeforce practice. there was a welcome performance for us, the piece of music which they had played in Osaka earlier this year. Then Bro Tan Boon gave us an intro of the ministry and laid down some expectations for the members. This practice was a 'trial' for us new members as the official entry had to be approved by Pastor and cell group leader.

At 8.30pm we were released and we went home. On the way home, I saw one of my ex-cell group members, Zhiwen and I realised taht he joined Strikeforce too. WE chatted till i had to alight from the train as my parents were at Outram Park MRT station to send me back home.

When I reached home, I immediately went to dreamland after I showered...