3rd Day of CNY (House Visits)

Went quite a few places for CNY house visit today. In the morning, went Mrs Lim's (my form teacher for secondary 3 & 4) place, at Serangoon. Think the last time I went was during New Year's day on last year. Met SK, SP and YP on the bus on my way there, then EW at the void deck of Mrs Lim's block. This time, her son was not around (phew...). Her son was rather hyperactive and would 'stick' on you once he knows you well enough. Still remember him bringing a few of us around the revolving restaurant on LY's wedding dinner.

It seems that time really flies, 10 years have passed since I've graduated from secondary school. And how Mrs Lim have changed from a fiery young teacher to having 2 kids at home now (though I'm not sure if she is as fiery as before). She's still teaching now at a top school in Bishan, but this time taking lower sec. We spent most of the time reminiscing old times and also catching up with one another, especially with SK, who came back this week for CNY from his overseas posting. Think the few of us didn't really change a lot since our school days. It would be really hard to catch hold of the whole class of forty plus as quite a few are working oversea. But even if everyone is here, the whole class would still be incomplete... ... ...

Anyway we stayed there until after lunch time. Initially wanted to order Pizza Hut delivery, but they wanted us to self collect the food at the outlet (but then what's the point...). In the end though, her husband da bao lunch for us instead. Had to leave for my next destination pretty soon after that.

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Next stop was DT's place. At least SP was travelling in the same direction as me, so the journey was not so bored... She's still taking Korean lesson at NUS, and will be going for another exchange programme soon. Makes me wonder if I should pick up the language again. But based on my current schedule, it would be quite difficult...

Arrived at DT's place soon after that, but he's not home!!! It seems that he went to fetch XY and YM at the MRT station then went to the petrol kiosk to pump up the fuel tank. Waited for a while before they came back. It was the first time I came. He brought us around his home and found that his place was actually quite big and it was on the top floor if I remembered correctly. We started watching the DVDs which he bought in Brunei while waiting for the rest to come.

Soon AJ arrived followed by S. Then we started playing Blackjack. Was rather unlucky with my hands, getting 15 points for quite a few times. And continued my losing streak from the previous day. Luckily at the very last round, YM offered to place a big bet to let me recouped my losses, in which I did. In the end, incurred a net loss of about $4+.

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Final stop of the day was SK's place. Had wanted to go Lou Hei with the rest of the guys (and gals) in town. But then SK suggested going his place instead (I'm more happy also as its nearer DT's place and not so rush for me). Arrived at SK at around 730pm, and they already started 开台 liao. Only CK, HW, D & XH was here while J came a while after me. Think he took the same train as me and saw me walking in front of him and sms-ed me. But I was walking too fast that he couldn't catch up... :p.

Dinner started at around 8+. SK's mom prepared quite a lot of food for us, juz like last year. But this time also got the 鱼生 for Lou Hei, and salmon sashimi some more leh... More MJ after dinner but its only a friendly friendly game, with a minimum of three 番 to win, as it was quite late already. DL then came at around 9 or so. But playing in a friendly game, luck seems to have come back to me as I've managed to draw the tiles that I want most of the time. As the next day is a working day for everyone (barring the students D and XH), we had to end the session quite early.