Stereophonics - A rockin' great time at Fort Canning Park

Once again, free tickets to a concert and I just tagged along.

Not a great fan of alternative rock (except maybe Radiohead) hence I had no inkling or clue about Stereophonics, except for one of their more popular tracks, "Dakota". Attending a concert in the "great outdoors" is an experience, especially when you're in Singapore because this is the only time when you'll feel that you're NOT in Singapore.

We were late for the concert but it only started at 9+ instead of the stipulated time of 8pm. The opening act was by The Great Spy Experiment, which I happen to think are pretty good. But we missed this.

It was simply great to just chill, listen to rock music, have some beer and coke (the soft drink, la), and enjoy a puff or two (of cigarettes), while sitting on the grass. No, we didn't sit on the grass. We sat on the stone steps instead because both of us think that the grass (and other vegetation) in Singapore is something you won't wanna sit on.

We placed newspapers underneath our bags - our butts could get dirty for all I care, but not our bags!


$10 VB. It aint' cheap here, mate! But we saw a number of people buying carton loads of it!



Chillin'


Is it starting yet? Yawns (No it's not a moon up there, it's the DHL balloon).



Finally!

Zooming in:

This was what we saw most of the time if we sat down. Count the number of khaki berms, if you can.


Now this is what I call a rock concert!



Bunny is all rocked up.


"You can't see me, you can't see me."


Concert has ended and they're beginning to pack up.


Took this chance to take a picture with the stage as the background but the man who helped us with the picture was a bit drunk to hold the camera steady. Hahaha! He probably had a carton of VBs.


Human jam.

As close to the stage as I wanted to get.

I have a goal now - save more money for more concerts and holidays out of S.E. Asia! Woohoo!

STC Revisited...after 11 years

I received an event invitation (via Facebook) to my secondary school to attend some fun fair that they hold every few years. Before the day arrived, I kept thinking that perhaps the school isn't that big since one looks at things in a different perspective when one is younger. But upon arriving at the school grounds, I wasn't mistaken. The school looks the same to me and it's just as huge as how I had known it to be.

School gate.

"Light on a hill". Once upon a time, we had to climb up the hill every single day just to get to school. These days, the girls just have to climb an overhead bridge and they're there.

The IJ badge. Right outside the staff room.


Ground floor. There used to be two cats here.


The old band room. I hate this colour scheme. It used to be just white and blue, now it looks exactly like my HDB block.


Jesus is still where he is





Miss Stoned looking for her classroom


A classroom on the ground floor


The toilet - we used to throw wet toilet paper onto the ceiling just to watch it stick.


The classroom block.


This was something new - a garden feature next to the bookstore.


Approaching the hardcourt



Taken outside the auditorium. Forgot to take a peep inside. Hmm.


The school hall.


The exact spot where Miss Stoned used to give morning commands before the National Anthem.

View of the school grounds - pity the tent was in the way:

School canteen - the tables have changed and the dessert store wasn't open. Damn it!


Band room


Ex drum-major posing outside the band room. "There's this one time..at band camp..."


EAT ME! Kids these days...


Hockey field! They have a bloody hockey field now! We had to play on grass and mud last time! They even have a netball field too!


And a race track...this was one view we've never seen before.

I even spoke with the ex-discipline mistress! I was a bit nervous initially because she's so intimidating but after warming up to her, she told me she had retired and that she was invited back to teach Maths. Although she's no longer the discipline mistress, I'm sure the students are still afraid of her.

She does look like an old and sweet lady, now that she can't tell me off. Hmm, but she did do so that day by saying that I was still so skinny since secondary school! Oh well. Hehehe. It's nice to get scolded once in awhile.

I read from the Facebook group that the school's going to be upgraded...again. Miss Chan (the discipline mistress) was telling me about the renovations that are to be made and it sounded like she was a little bit against it because the buildings are still as new as ever and all they need to do is to repaint it. But instead, they're tearing down the classroom block and the school hall, simply because there are too many students and the building, albeit big, can't accommodate everyone. And so, the school will be moved to the New Town secondary school compound (yucks) for a year or two.

This might just be the last time I'll ever step into school again. And once the buildings are torn down, they will no longer hold the memories that they used to.

Random Friday Nights - Stranded at 1TwentySix

What better thing to do on a Friday night than to chill with your buddies? The only difference this time round was that I brought a camera and Bunny, always being rather trigger-happy, snapped soooo many random pictures, my battery ran flat the next day:

Guess where (Where else can you go if you're in town..zzz)?

The usual suspects:

Lulur

Bunny


Uncle Teri


Miss "Mousey" Stoned



Teri's asking about the bracelets I got from Sapa


Bunny's favourite Mojitos


Mmmm...


Peeping Tom! (Smoke break behind the plant)


Miss Stoned is busy texting Agnes...we should drown her phone when she's out with the "bros" (me included).


"Ohh, look at your hamster pouches!"






Romancing the lychee...


...and popping the cherry


Miss Stoned is still texting...


...and texting.


Ok, she's on the phone now.


And we're bored.




Wetting her eyes after her Lasik surgery


Pulling a monkey face - Are we going elsewhere or what? Coz I'm bored.

And so we did, to a joint near Big Splash called 1TwentySix (Miss Stoned and Agnes's favourite haunt):

Taking a sip of Teri's potent drink - it sucked.


Bunny and her Mojitos again.

Ok girls, don't be shy now:

That a' girl

We were enjoying ourselves in the open when it started to POUR! So we had to move indoors and were stranded till 3:45am! It was STILL pouring, but we braved the rain with just two umbrellas. Urgh.

The storm was right above our heads!

Uncle Teri doing what she does best.


Look of mischief - she's up to something (look at the way Miss Stoned is sitting).


Next thing you knew it, she came to look for us for entertainment.




And then the rain came pouring in. I totally spoiled this picture. Haha!


Second attempt was a bad one too.

We were laughing like mad cows while taking these pictures of Agnes:

*poke*


*super poke*


*grab*


*poke*

It was quite a lot of work trying to coordinate the fingers with the moving subjects and our heaving fits of laughter.

A final picture to end the night (The men in the picture were the managers of the place)!

Finally decided we had enough of being stranded and called a cab to get home.