Lilian's Baptism
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Army half-marathon was in the morning and my knees are hurting alot now. I have taken aspirin and I wonder if they, the knees, might feel worse without the drug. I was eating bananas and drinking 100-plus regularly during the last 3km of the run. Well, I was walking quite a bit too, just too tired to keep the jogging pace. Completed the 21km in about 2.5h. Decent.

Afternoon. Went for Lilian's baptism at Jurong West church. The weather was nice, the people were nice, everything was nice. Quite many DSLR-photographers, about 6. Luckily I was still able to get a good vantage point for taking pictures.

Heard about the new Nikon cameras: D3 and D300? Heart is itching for the D300 which is about $2700 (converted from USD). Perhaps after my ORD when I have some savings, or should I wait till my first pay-check during NIE? I would prefer the latter.

Congrats, Lilian! :)

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National Day Squeeze
Thursday, August 09, 2007

I was silly enough to think that Joy and I could get a quiet place around Esplanade. We had lunch at Shimbashi Soba @ Paragon; then acted as bookworms crawling around the shelves in Kino [ Store was having a 20% national day discount and I bought The C. S. Lewis Signature Classics].

After Kino... Me:"Let's go to Fullerton Starbucks. We can see the fireworks from there." Joy was hesitant thinking that the crowd could be really bad. I pushed ahead anyway.

Fast forward travelling on 16...The whole Padang, Esplanade Bridge was super, super packed. It was (almost) impossible, to get to Fullerton Starbucks using the Bridge. We decided to walk from Fullerton Hotel and take the underpass. Wishful thinking. The whole area was either barricaded or plain choked with people. No through passage. Sianz.

Finally found a quiet Billy Bombers in The Central (shopping mall directly above Clarke Quay MRT) where we enjoyed our quiet time.

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A backpost on NUS Pharmacy Convocation Dinner

So this post should have been up last week and all these pictures were taken 3 weeks back. Well, shows how lazy I am. Anyway, the Pharmacy department in NUS is very much like the Chemistry department. As in the student demographic breakdown is very similar: more gals than guys. That explains why most of my photos are mainly...gals.

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