On Wednesday itself, I meet up with Elaine, Eileen & princess Ellyson for dinner together. Been quite awhile since we last meet up, guess the very last time I saw them was on Tracy's wedding. The main motive is to collect the F1 ticket from Elaine, a sudden decision can say, sadly the rest of the peepz are not available that day, so only the 3 of us, plus another half :)
Had our dinner at "OK Shabu Shabu", been saying for so long finally we went there & eat together. A super filling dinner, it really spoiled my "No dinner, Diet plan". Since we are already at that area, of cos we won't give Obolo's macaroon a miss, Eileen wanted to try their macaroon so much after seeing all my photos post on Obolo's macaroons, she is a great fan of macaroon just like me :)
On Thursday, I was given a hectic task to complete at work, updating the policy of my department. Task was given to me on Thursday, initially the deadline was on Friday, but how was it possibly to get it done in such a short notice? I was on annual leave on the coming Monday, so, "kind" enough of them extend the deadline till Tuesday, today for me.
I was rushing my work like crazy. For both Thursday & Friday, I spend my lunch on my desk, doing my work & eating at the same time, so sad right? But no choice, I can't chose my boss. In actual fact, the policy thingy was pass down to him like 2months back, but he only pass it down to me on Thursday, 2months thingy wants me to completed in 2 days, as if I can create miracle.
I'm not a person that will argue back (in term of work only), whatever is given to me by my boss, I will not say "impossible" or "cannot be done", even I know I can hardly make it to the deadline given, I will just say "I'll try my best".
This battle with time continue on the following day, Friday. I had proved that it impossible to completed by 2 days, so deadline extended to next Tuesday. Even dateline was extended, I know if I did not bring my work home to do over the weekend, even you give me the whole of Tuesday to complete it, I cannot get it done still. My worry is the coming weekend I'm already full of plans, even if I bring my work home, I might not even have the time to touch it.
So, after I knock off on Friday, I head over to dear's house to meet up with him before our late movie. Once I reach dear's house, I start doing my work again in the living room with his mum, I can't believe I do all the way till 10pm & dear is napping soundly in his room.
I was really exhausted after staring at the screen the whole day, plus I feel the movie we watch that day was a lousy show, so I actually dozed off in the cinema, I just need my bed so badly.
I wake up at 8am on Saturday morning, consider rather early on a Saturday for me. I want to have an enjoyable weekend, so I had no choice but to sacrifice a few hours of beauty sleep, try to complete my unfinished work.
Work completed around late afternoon time, had my shower & head over to dear's house to look for him. Initially dear actually offer to come over to pick me up from my house & go for lunch together as it was raining rather heavily during the noon time, but no time for lunch, so ask him to head home first without me.
Meet up the rest at Jumbo seafood restaurant at East Coast later in the evening, we gonna have a big feast, it a celebration day for both our September's big babies Jimmy & Derek.
Ordered lot of food, that is my very first time trying bamboo clam, it so nice, I believe that dish cost a bomb as it stated in the menu "seasonal price". The food is far too much for me, even before the crab was served, I already rise my white flag & surrender to the foods. The bill for our dinner for 10 come up to 500bucks, costly dinner ah?!? It was fully paid by our birthday boy, Jimmy.
The rest head over to St. James after the dinner while me & dear head home first, dear tummy wasn't feeling good after the food.
Dear decide not to drive to St. James, but that not the shocking part, the shocking part is dear actually suggest to take train there. I was surprise by her decision but I feel rather happy inside, since we going clubbing, we should enjoy ourselves to the max, we shouldn't restrict ourselves to the alcohol intake just because we are driving.
The bus took rather long to arrival, so dear decide to change his plan again, take a cab instead, I feel it still better than driving there.
Alcohol make everyone of us HAPPY. I seriously enjoy myself very much that night, seeing people drank, getting crazy with the group & taking silly photos, by the time we left we already finish 2bottle of Martel & 1 bottle champagne, all of us are hardcore drinker. But we did not stay out till very late that night, we went off with Ben around 2am as he still need to work the next day.
Wake up at noon time on Sunday, but wasn't feeling very comfortable still, did not really have a good sleep even after the alcohol, guess I was a little too excited by the upcoming event for the big day.
Dear send me to Paya Lebar MRT station to meet up with Jo around late afternoon, we are heading for the F1 final race. Frankly, I can say I was crazy over bikes, the 2 wheels stuff but I admit I know nut about F1 carts, all I like about F1 is the speed.
I wanted to witness the race so badly, I had already gave it a miss last year, I don't want to miss it again this year. Dear wasn't very willing to attend the event with me as he hate crowd & he wasn't really a fan of F1 too. Can say none of my friends around I recalled of is a fan of F1 race, if I tell them I'm going for F1, I guess some will even say that I'm crazy.
Crazy stuff must do with crazy people, this person is none other than Jo, my crazy peep :) This is a kind of once a life time experience to witness the event life, but we are not really that excited at the very start, till we drop off the train from Esplanade, you can feel the F1 atmosphere around you, this start to trigger our excitement too.
We get so excited over everything around us, snapping our camera shutter everywhere we go, clap & cheer with everyone else around us even we have no idea what had happened. Sound shallow to you people outta? But who the hell care about how you feel about us, at least we enjoy the our day to the fullest, it a life time experience that some other will not even experienced once in their whole life.
Took tons of photos for an 2hours event (900 over photos), I manage to capture some good photos of the carts even they are going on such a high speed. But still, my skill need more brushing up & I do not have a zoom lens that day.
Went for our super late dinner after the event along with Ah cek. We are all tired, sweaty, sticky & stinky after the event, thanks Jo for being "crazy" with me, if not because of her, guess I would rather not attend the event then attending the event with the wrong person. Such event must go with the right people which is equally crazy like me than we will enjoy to the fullest together :)
That not the end of my weekend yet as I took a day of leave on Monday. I feel as is I'm driving the F1 cart the day before, my whole body feel so sore. Worst still, I got a big patch of blue black at my backbone area. I guess is the idiot behind me got too excited & kick my chair from behind during the event the day before, it hurt real badly & it swollen.
After Ikea we head over to Tampines, bought my dog's food & Ellyson's hamster cage, just wander around that area to kill the time.
Now I know is never easy to bring a small kid out, especially when you need to carry them around, we take turn to carry Ellyson around as it is a rather tiring job. Maybe meet up with Ellyson more frequent recently & I will do stupid thing to make her laugh & play with her, so she start to get a little "sticky" with me, she only allow her mummy & me to carry her, I don't know if it a good or bad thing, I can feel my hand trembling when I got home yesterday, it so tired.
I still can feel the sore on my back & arm the very moment now :(