Tuesday, February 14, 2006
this has got to be one of the sweetest valentine's i have ever had.
it was a mad rush of activities at first, what with a spontaneous stay-over at yiqiao's house to do up my vday gifts for mab, di,ros and qiao. and so, me and yiqiao were in the living room. me doing my gifts for my GIRLfriends, and she writing a vday letter to her guy. (and a secret one for me, that sweet girl.) and then at 12 midnight she called alex up, because it was his birthday. on vday! yarr. and so she was in the dining area talking softly away, while i worked hard on my stuffs in the dead of the night. heh. no clues there girls. it was about three to four when we both finally pulled out the mattresses to the living room and K.O-ed. its been a long time since ive been at yiqiao's place, and it was sweet to be there.
next morning vday! mad rush back home to bathe and change and it was ten minutes after that i stepped out all fresh and clean. but thanks to the crazy 34 deg celsius weather i was not sweat-free for long. and so the long MRT ride to Somerset. soooo many couples along the way. sooo many pretty bouquets in girls' arms.
then me mab and di went ahead with our agenda, all around town. Cineleisure, Heerens, Bugis, Dhoby Gaut.
me and mab getting our cart-icecream treat from mummy di, along the roads of orchard. (seriously embarrased moment there, di.) having neoprints shot, once again caught unawares. (actually this was only the second time we took neoprints.) us in our pretty cool daytona machines, bishi-bashi-ing away and me lucking out at the win-a-gift place. (i seriously thought i was gonna get the oriental handphone when the light stopped at +4 spot. but the machine's probably rigged.)
and then we arrived at Fish & Co. glasshouse. that was where all the sweetness of Vday seeped in. the queue was super long, there should be an estimated number of hundred people queueing up for dinner. but the wait is so worth it. we got way too lucky in the Glasshouse, getting to change seats thrice.
First seats were right in front of the live band. damn cool stuff they play, and everyone in the house (both storeys) was pretty enthusiastic about dedications and many requests for songs. so we joined in too, but too bad 'Heaven Knows' by Rick Price was deemed too old by the vocalist. you know, we had to borrow a pen to write the dedication, so we did, from this prettty malay lady beside us. but halfway through writing, she gotta leave, and we were like, "ohh. okay okayy. here's your pen!" but she was like, "oh no. its okay! you guys keep it!" with a really sweet smile. awww. everyone was being oh-so-warm in the Glasshouse.
The second seats were rocky and dark and near the kitchen, so we requested for a change.
The third seats had us near to many couples. and then! something i only saw in shows happened right before me. its like suddenly while the vocalist was reading out another dedication, she started walking down towards our side of the Glasshouse. and then all too soon she was just beside me, and everyone in the place had swivelled around in their seats to get a good look. she then handed the microphone to the guy at the table right next to ours. and he said, "Jasmine, there's something i want to say. Will you marry me?" to the lady across his table. everyone, plus us, in the house were hooting and cheering for the lady to say yes. and she did! drama-rama yar. but the weirdest thing was, after that the vocalist walked back to the small platform and sang 'survivor'. huhhh??
and then after an hour, (we were there THAT long. hee.) another guy at the table right behind us read a love note into the microphone to his furiously-blushing girlfriend. cant remember the contents, but there was a lot of 'baby', 'beautiful', 'love you' in it. hehh. mushy mushhhhh!
we toasted our waterglasses to FRIENDSHIP. :)
and then a lovely rose came with the bill at the end. Awww. we love you too, Fish&Co.
it was the food we went there for, but we went away with more than a full stomach.
it was a perfect night in all ways, except that ros couldnt join us. Boooo. get well girl!
it was a mad rush of activities at first, what with a spontaneous stay-over at yiqiao's house to do up my vday gifts for mab, di,ros and qiao. and so, me and yiqiao were in the living room. me doing my gifts for my GIRLfriends, and she writing a vday letter to her guy. (and a secret one for me, that sweet girl.) and then at 12 midnight she called alex up, because it was his birthday. on vday! yarr. and so she was in the dining area talking softly away, while i worked hard on my stuffs in the dead of the night. heh. no clues there girls. it was about three to four when we both finally pulled out the mattresses to the living room and K.O-ed. its been a long time since ive been at yiqiao's place, and it was sweet to be there.
next morning vday! mad rush back home to bathe and change and it was ten minutes after that i stepped out all fresh and clean. but thanks to the crazy 34 deg celsius weather i was not sweat-free for long. and so the long MRT ride to Somerset. soooo many couples along the way. sooo many pretty bouquets in girls' arms.
then me mab and di went ahead with our agenda, all around town. Cineleisure, Heerens, Bugis, Dhoby Gaut.
me and mab getting our cart-icecream treat from mummy di, along the roads of orchard. (seriously embarrased moment there, di.) having neoprints shot, once again caught unawares. (actually this was only the second time we took neoprints.) us in our pretty cool daytona machines, bishi-bashi-ing away and me lucking out at the win-a-gift place. (i seriously thought i was gonna get the oriental handphone when the light stopped at +4 spot. but the machine's probably rigged.)
and then we arrived at Fish & Co. glasshouse. that was where all the sweetness of Vday seeped in. the queue was super long, there should be an estimated number of hundred people queueing up for dinner. but the wait is so worth it. we got way too lucky in the Glasshouse, getting to change seats thrice.
First seats were right in front of the live band. damn cool stuff they play, and everyone in the house (both storeys) was pretty enthusiastic about dedications and many requests for songs. so we joined in too, but too bad 'Heaven Knows' by Rick Price was deemed too old by the vocalist. you know, we had to borrow a pen to write the dedication, so we did, from this prettty malay lady beside us. but halfway through writing, she gotta leave, and we were like, "ohh. okay okayy. here's your pen!" but she was like, "oh no. its okay! you guys keep it!" with a really sweet smile. awww. everyone was being oh-so-warm in the Glasshouse.
The second seats were rocky and dark and near the kitchen, so we requested for a change.
The third seats had us near to many couples. and then! something i only saw in shows happened right before me. its like suddenly while the vocalist was reading out another dedication, she started walking down towards our side of the Glasshouse. and then all too soon she was just beside me, and everyone in the place had swivelled around in their seats to get a good look. she then handed the microphone to the guy at the table right next to ours. and he said, "Jasmine, there's something i want to say. Will you marry me?" to the lady across his table. everyone, plus us, in the house were hooting and cheering for the lady to say yes. and she did! drama-rama yar. but the weirdest thing was, after that the vocalist walked back to the small platform and sang 'survivor'. huhhh??
and then after an hour, (we were there THAT long. hee.) another guy at the table right behind us read a love note into the microphone to his furiously-blushing girlfriend. cant remember the contents, but there was a lot of 'baby', 'beautiful', 'love you' in it. hehh. mushy mushhhhh!
we toasted our waterglasses to FRIENDSHIP. :)
and then a lovely rose came with the bill at the end. Awww. we love you too, Fish&Co.
it was the food we went there for, but we went away with more than a full stomach.
it was a perfect night in all ways, except that ros couldnt join us. Boooo. get well girl!
can you hear the soft swoosh of the butterflies' wings. 10:41 PM.
