Some of the other highlights of the past couple of months:
Singapore Flyer
A few of us – 23 to be exact – went on the Singapore Flyer at the same time. The views were gorgeous but not something, I would suppose, that we would have enjoyed had it been a much smaller group. Anyway, we sneaked in a bottle of JWBL inside and had a gala time doing ‘moodi’ shots. Ha ha.
Sri Lankan Dinner and Dance
Every year the Singapore Sinhalese Association organizes a Dinner & Dance for all Sri Lankans living in Singapore and this year, a record number from our group of friends decided to attend.
Therefore we arrived in all our finery – sarees, dresses, sarongs, kurtas, jeans – and proceeded to disgrace ourselves thoroughly. Since we were so delighted to see each other (after, oh, I don’t know like 2 days) we stood around and caused a real big racket which prompted the emcee to shout at us to sit down and shut up several times over. Again, we sneaked about 5 bottles of booze. Maybe that explains the racket we caused.
Our tables won 2 bottles of wine, a Samsung MP3 player and a Rice Cooker and I got pulled up on stage in Idol like fashion to be one of the three people who were in the running for the 1st prize of the Lucky Draw – a 2 way ticket to Sri Lanka! Anyway I got booted off… ha ha. Sad.
Also ended up dancing on chairs like real hooligans with fellow hooligans Shavanka and Aftab!! And also when the alcohol had run out, ran around tables finishing off other people’s unfinished drinks only to find out that fellow hooligan Aftab had done the same thing too.
KL Trip
The Lanka Lions (a Singaporean cricket team consisting of some of our friends – Ram, Kevin, Aftab) went to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia for a cricket tour and through some major planning and inevitable logistical nightmares (most of us being Sri Lankans, what would you expect?) a lot of us accompanied the team.
While there, we did what we do best – procrastinated, made fools of ourselves and clubbed like fiends. We did a bit of shopping too. Bought a lot of chewing gum and cigarettes, smoked a lot in public places like IN CLUBS (yay!) and generally had a good time rushing about trying to do a million things at once.
Our first clubbing stop was Rum Jungle in Bukit Bintang. I would suppose it’s one of your usual-looking clubs but with the combination of awesome company, really good live music, indoor smoking and cheap as fuck drinks, the place basically outdid any other clubbing experience I have had in Singapore in the last couple of months. We also made a trip down to Zouk but ended up only entering Loft (the RnB equivalent to Phuture in Zouk Singapore). Basically the place plays the same kind of music but there’s more than ample space to do dance and have a good time. Super super. Everything’s rather super no?
Also visited this really horrible club Raven (the only place open at 4am on a Saturday morning). It looks, feels and sounds like a total druggie place. The music is deafeningly loud, the lighting almost pitch black and the bouncers and staff looking like a combination of Ellen Burstyn in final stages of Requiem for a Dream and a dacoit movie made in Bollywood during the 80’s. Amidst shouts of how our testicles were vibrating we left the club in a jiffy.
Oh yes, we also watched some of the cricket played by our friends on the Lanka Lions team and attended an official dinner hosted by them in the night during which we were regaled by Sri Lankan uncles singing about their ‘bum-bum badero’s’ and Aftab and Ram singing censored Baila since there we so many kids there. Hilarious.
Our last few hours in KL, Harsha, Swapnil and I (since we were taking a separate bus out) hung out at KLCC where we fulfilled Harsha’s obsession of eating some Dunkin’ Donuts and from where I bought cheap-ass ipod headphones and 2 books – We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Currently reading the book by Shriver now and it’s turning out to be an awesome read.
Anyway, got back to Singapore by 8pm Sunday and that was that! Monday was a complete horror story at work. Arrived at work at 7.45am on Monday and left at 4am on Tuesday. Life sucks! Haha.
Birth of Niece
My niece was finally born. I had known it was to be a girl-baby some months previously but my sister had forced secrecy upon me because her husband didn’t want to know and she didn’t want him to know that I knew. The whole, how can father not know but brother in law can know potential controversy. You know what I mean right? Happens so often…
Anyway, she is the cutest little thing ever and she was named Sara. She also gets cock-eyed when there’s a camera in front of her….. Now I know she’s my niece. Apparently my eyes go about in all directions too when I am drunk.
Pictures of her are up on facebook. If you know me, you probably have the address of my profile already. If you don’t, you probably don’t want to see my niece anyway.
A few of us – 23 to be exact – went on the Singapore Flyer at the same time. The views were gorgeous but not something, I would suppose, that we would have enjoyed had it been a much smaller group. Anyway, we sneaked in a bottle of JWBL inside and had a gala time doing ‘moodi’ shots. Ha ha.
Sri Lankan Dinner and Dance
Every year the Singapore Sinhalese Association organizes a Dinner & Dance for all Sri Lankans living in Singapore and this year, a record number from our group of friends decided to attend.
Therefore we arrived in all our finery – sarees, dresses, sarongs, kurtas, jeans – and proceeded to disgrace ourselves thoroughly. Since we were so delighted to see each other (after, oh, I don’t know like 2 days) we stood around and caused a real big racket which prompted the emcee to shout at us to sit down and shut up several times over. Again, we sneaked about 5 bottles of booze. Maybe that explains the racket we caused.
Our tables won 2 bottles of wine, a Samsung MP3 player and a Rice Cooker and I got pulled up on stage in Idol like fashion to be one of the three people who were in the running for the 1st prize of the Lucky Draw – a 2 way ticket to Sri Lanka! Anyway I got booted off… ha ha. Sad.
Also ended up dancing on chairs like real hooligans with fellow hooligans Shavanka and Aftab!! And also when the alcohol had run out, ran around tables finishing off other people’s unfinished drinks only to find out that fellow hooligan Aftab had done the same thing too.
KL Trip
The Lanka Lions (a Singaporean cricket team consisting of some of our friends – Ram, Kevin, Aftab) went to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia for a cricket tour and through some major planning and inevitable logistical nightmares (most of us being Sri Lankans, what would you expect?) a lot of us accompanied the team.
While there, we did what we do best – procrastinated, made fools of ourselves and clubbed like fiends. We did a bit of shopping too. Bought a lot of chewing gum and cigarettes, smoked a lot in public places like IN CLUBS (yay!) and generally had a good time rushing about trying to do a million things at once.
Our first clubbing stop was Rum Jungle in Bukit Bintang. I would suppose it’s one of your usual-looking clubs but with the combination of awesome company, really good live music, indoor smoking and cheap as fuck drinks, the place basically outdid any other clubbing experience I have had in Singapore in the last couple of months. We also made a trip down to Zouk but ended up only entering Loft (the RnB equivalent to Phuture in Zouk Singapore). Basically the place plays the same kind of music but there’s more than ample space to do dance and have a good time. Super super. Everything’s rather super no?
Also visited this really horrible club Raven (the only place open at 4am on a Saturday morning). It looks, feels and sounds like a total druggie place. The music is deafeningly loud, the lighting almost pitch black and the bouncers and staff looking like a combination of Ellen Burstyn in final stages of Requiem for a Dream and a dacoit movie made in Bollywood during the 80’s. Amidst shouts of how our testicles were vibrating we left the club in a jiffy.
Oh yes, we also watched some of the cricket played by our friends on the Lanka Lions team and attended an official dinner hosted by them in the night during which we were regaled by Sri Lankan uncles singing about their ‘bum-bum badero’s’ and Aftab and Ram singing censored Baila since there we so many kids there. Hilarious.
Our last few hours in KL, Harsha, Swapnil and I (since we were taking a separate bus out) hung out at KLCC where we fulfilled Harsha’s obsession of eating some Dunkin’ Donuts and from where I bought cheap-ass ipod headphones and 2 books – We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Currently reading the book by Shriver now and it’s turning out to be an awesome read.
Anyway, got back to Singapore by 8pm Sunday and that was that! Monday was a complete horror story at work. Arrived at work at 7.45am on Monday and left at 4am on Tuesday. Life sucks! Haha.
Birth of Niece
My niece was finally born. I had known it was to be a girl-baby some months previously but my sister had forced secrecy upon me because her husband didn’t want to know and she didn’t want him to know that I knew. The whole, how can father not know but brother in law can know potential controversy. You know what I mean right? Happens so often…
Anyway, she is the cutest little thing ever and she was named Sara. She also gets cock-eyed when there’s a camera in front of her….. Now I know she’s my niece. Apparently my eyes go about in all directions too when I am drunk.
Pictures of her are up on facebook. If you know me, you probably have the address of my profile already. If you don’t, you probably don’t want to see my niece anyway.
2 comments:
wo ho ho!
The Sri Lankan airlines ticket was won also by our tables!... By Stefan infact, who had given the ticket to someone else to look after.
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