so… I took a day off yesterday as it was a public holiday here in Singapore.. So technically I’ve not missed a day at all! ;P
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Saturday – Sunday: Crazy night till day
Since this crossed the midnight mark, I didn’t know which day to put it under, and so you have the heading as above..
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After our sumptuous dinner, we headed off to Ms KLW’s place nearby in a short but eventful car ride..
One eventful car ride... OF DEATH
A short 5 minutes later, we got to KLW’s place and, well, to cut a long story short, indulged in a night of crazy drinking games, (complete with Martell, Shoju, Singapore Sling, Vodka, and other assorted spirits). I’d brought an innocent little game to play – Chattabox, but it required too much brain effort, so we moved on to dumb but crazy fun drinking games =P We played this game with 16 card lying face down (dunno the title) first, as a warm up, then moved on to the main game of the night – LKJAIUOJK:RLT (in other words, I don’t know the name of the game).. It involved setting up rules for cards and going through the deck. Pretty fun shit! =) We had a crazy night watching each other’s thumbs, avoiding people’s questions, ending every sentence with IN YOUR VA***A, screaming commands in Chinese, coming up with EPIC rap songs, and #winning at everything! =P
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Several rounds later, KLW’s cousin, Robert (or, as I call him, Robot) joined us at about 2am, bringing tao huey for us! =) After a few more rounds of the game, most people were drunk, crying, knocked out, or trying to remain upright. We abandoned the game, KLW decided to turn off the lights and turn on the music, and we started impromptu clubbing in her room. It was pretty amazing =) Certain people were a bit too nuts, jumping about the whole night, but all in all, it was a fun night. (I must note that I’d been the only one who’d not touched the alcohol. I did accidentally drink one or two diluted drops of Martell and instantly broke out in a rash. Joy)
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We were also infuriated that we’d waited all night for the results of the Presidential Elections to be announced, but it took so much longer than expected that by 3am or so, we had given up waiting.
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Having an early day to prepare for, I decided to leave early, and left the house at 340am or so.. Thankfully, her place was only 5mins away from mine (by cab), so I got home and cleaned up and rested, in preparation for the next day. Sadly, I was still having rather bad diarrhoea -__-” so I took another charcoal pill and went to bed at about 530am.
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Sunday – Blogger madness! =) (And apparently a bit of history -__-”)
Met up with Brenda, Dayna and Chien*! (Supposed to meet Terry too, but we really have no fate =( ) Chien had come to Singapore all the way from Brunei (and also the UK), and we friendly Singaporean bloggers were here to bring her around! =)
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* – everyone called her Chien Yee, her real name, but for some reason, I got stuck calling her Chien.. Possibly has to do with her username? haha <3
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Like Brenda mentioned in her blog post, you don’t start out blogging hoping to meet fellow bloggers and making friends. Blogging is a way to express your feelings, and update your existing friends about the happenings in your life. Nevertheless, a bunch of us have managed to become fast friends thanks to our common activity of blogging (and other miscellaneous web-design-related activities).
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I’ve been blogging since I was Sec 1 or 2 – 2000/1 was the year, and babybluz was the screen name I used. Since then, I’ve jumped from blog to blog, host to host, domain to domain. From babybluz, to Sereneternity, to Soliloquy, to SilenceEverafter, to BraveNewBlog, to hollowmimicry, to Cherffalo, to Chervalier.. It still blows my mind how many online identities I’ve grown and ditched. I’ve owned domains like http://silence-everafter.org, http://dontfallinlove.net, http://spankyfacade.com, and a couple others I can’t remember. I’ve run several CCA websites, worked on backend coding for a friend, and still I feel like a fish out of water when it comes to designing.
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It kinda boggles me that after years of experience, I’m still kinda a beginner at this. I used to be pretty boss at coding, but having left the scene for a year or two has left me floundering – all the deprecated tags, validation etc now throws me. Coding is so different now. It’s so much more cut and paste than it was before. But everything also looks so much nicer than it used to. And here is where I come back to the topic – how I met these fantawesome people =P
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When I came back to the blogging/webdesign world, one of the first things I did was look for a forum to join. I used to be part of the Coloration forums, and I was even a Coloration reviewer (lol), back when tiny fonts were all the rage, and celebrity layouts were the norm. I remember loving the feeling of being part of a community and searched for a similar one. And I found Snark. Through Snark, I met many awesome people, one of them being the first Singaporean I came across on Snark – Dayna ! =) We rejoiced in our fellow Singaporean-ness, and our shared love for beauty products and reviewing them. Through Dayna, I came to know of Terry and Brenda, as well as Ivy.
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We slowly got to know each other better through our blogs (and facebook =P), and Christmas that year, I received gifts in the mail from Terry and Dayna! I was amazingly touched! Terry had given us handwritten and hand illustrated letters with gift vouchers to the Body Shop! How sweet! Dayna had thoughtfully packed for me sample products and also, a BIG-HEADED ELMO which I absolutely adored!! In my mind, I realized that these were *real* people, and I think from that point on I started considering them as friends, rather than strange shapeless things that exist behind blogs.
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Long story short, we’ve had several AHMAZING meet-ups (to confirm that we were real people =P), except that Terry and I have, to date, not ever met each other.. Which really blows. =( Go read Brenda’s blog for more on our shenanigans, but for now, I will post some pictures from Sunday, when Chien (whom Dayna and I know from Snark, and Brenda knows coz Chien reads her blogs =)) met up with us in Singapore! =)
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Again, images are hotlinked from FB for now.. I will upload them myself soon! =P
beautiful people =) (they'd met earlier as I couldn't join them so early)
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i NEED to meet Terry in person!
the great thing about meeting with bloggers is there's always a camera ready =P
=) welcome to Singapore! =)
awesome Chien is awesome =P Brenda's picture here is amazing, love the colors and comp!
More fun pictures can be found on FB if you’re a friend of Brenda’s =)
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so that concludes my amazing weekend! How was yours? =)
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(Next post: watch out for my amazing Tuesday!! (a public holiday))
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