Saturday 3rd September 2005
Outing with.......... the Apple Gang!!

We did not have our fun filled and jam packed Saturday as discussed. We did not go for any Sashimi buffet for lunch. We did not play badminton. Or go to Sentosa. We didnt go to Pasir Ris to climb the red scary spider web. None of these were accomplished at all. Instead, i met up with the usual Longan Gang (now turned into the Apple Gang because we just realised that each of us own an Apple product each) and the members are Gaz, Susie, Ah Zai and Don.

But first of all, i have to say that i was waiting so eagerly for my cheque to clear at 2pm that day, but when i checked my account at 2 plus, i was shocked to see that the amount did not go through! So i called the bank to enquire on what happened. They just said to check back with the addresser of the cheque or wait for my cheque to be returned to me. Feeling frustrated, my first thought was........ OMG! My company is undergoing cashflow problems??! So i initially wanted to call Lao Ban, then i decided against it and decided to check with Lady first. (Lady was the one who wrote the cheques.) No answer. So i called Miss Hungry.

"Oh, i guess it should be because there was an error in the writing of the cheque. Like, either the date or the amount. Dun panic! This happened to me 2 or 3 times before!"

"What?!!!"

Ok, so my company isnt going through any sort of cashflow problems. Just have a rather blur admin/accountant. Who is leaving soon anyway. I think i sounded very upset when i called Miss Hungry because she later called me back, and asked if she needed to transfer some money to me first! Because i was in charge of buying Mr Easy's birthday present. Of course i didnt want it.... I later went home to take a nap because of a sudden headache that came about after finding out that my cheque didnt clear. But my phone kept ringing or messages kept coming in so i kept getting up! I thought i had set my phone to silent mode, but obviously i must have pressed something wrongly so i kept waking up to the phone ringing whenever i was just about to fall asleep. So backfire lor.......

Lady was one of the those who called me and she was feeling very sheepish about the error on the cheque. She called me a second time as well to offer to transfer me some money first! So i joked with her that i wanted her to transfer the entire amount to my account, but she really believed me and wailed that she could only transfer $1,000 to me first..... Aiyoh, i then felt bad that she believed me... Kekekekekee......

Anyway, back to the Apple Gang's outing. Turns out that our poly lecturer, Perry's dad has passed away so we decided to go to the wake together. After having XO fish head beehoon dinner with my parents at Holland V, i picked Susie up from his school, then Gaz at Hotel Meridian Changi, then Ah Zai at his house. Susie was a bitch when i told him my plans on who i was going to pick up to get to Perry's house.

"Oh, Susie, i will pick u up from school then Gaz. As for Ah Zai, since he stays so near Perry's place.............."

and before i could complete my sentence, Susie commented, "Oh! Ya, since Ah Zai stays so near Perry's place, he can go there by himself!"

Waaaaaaaaaahh, damn bitch lor. Hahahaa........ Anyway, after i picked Susie and Gaz up, i needed to go to the toilet! So i had to drag everyone up to Ah Zai's house to use his house's toilet. They said that Ah Zai's house is a public toilet, since i seem to go to his house for that reason only. As i was leaving his place, he mumbled to his parents, something like i am the "toilet girl" or something like that. Oh dear.

Oh, and Susie said something in my car that made us all super convinced that he is straight! Hahahahahaa!!!!

Went to the wake from there and got lost in the middle of Sengkang. And it didnt help that my petrol tank was running super low!!! I was listening to 3 different people telling me directions on where to go and turn so i ended up super lost. Next time, i either listen to one person, so i can just blame that one person if we get lost, or just rely on the good old street directory. I was super frustrated and i couldnt get anyone to take over the driving (yes, i was that pek chek) and super worried about the "empty tank" sign flashing every few seconds. Managed to find it after a really long time and after many many right turns and U-turns. It's a U-Turn day!!!

Met up with some of our other Iad people there, and chatted with Perry for some time. Turns out that he changed his Trajet to the new version of the Trajet......... just like my wonderful family here. I thought my family was mad to do that already. He seems to remember every single person who has been to TP IAD and he even said he remembers Mr Easy! (who used to be in TP for a really short while before leaving for NS) We left after a while and got to a Shell petrol station and pump petrol into my poor dehydrated car. By then, it was time to pick Don up at Admiralty station, then off to Hotel Meridian Changi, which has also incidentally re-named, Changi Village hotel or something like that.

After fetching Don, for some reason, Gaz wanted Ah Zai to bring his laptop to the hotel room because there was free internet access and for hi-fi purposes. So i had to drop Ah Zai home once again and he sped up to his place and down in a few minutes while i was waiting by the main road. So scary lor...... Oh, and Gaz had a free room with a king size bed in Changi Village hotel because of some company thing. Turns out that none of his collegues wanted to stay over, so he invited us to go instead. I didnt want to stay over actually, but by the time we got back to the hotel room, it was 1.12am already!!! Had a shock of my life. Must have been all the u-turning i was doing for the whole night.

Don tried to share part of his guilt of Nasi Lemak with me and i relented by having a few mouthfuls. Actually i wasnt hungry lar and my stomach was churning for the whole night. Susie fell asleep on the bed after his Nasi Lemak while the rest of us continued our juicy gossip session........ This time, it was Don's turn to tell us about his secrets and by the time he finished, it was close to 4am i think, so everyone tried to sleep. Don was sleeping on the bay seaters near the window and Ah Zai and i (our heads anyway) shared one of the big cushions from the bay seater, lying on the nice carpeted floor. I was not very sleepy then but i tried to sleep anyway. but the air con was super cold!!! My feet were freezing and i really couldnt sleep at all..... and just when Ah Zai said he was about to fall into deep sleep, Gaz dropped his pillow onto the floor and there was weird crashing noise! So it woke both of us up and Ah Zai kindly put the pillow back on the bed for Gaz and threw me the blanket runners for my feet. I also had to steal Susie's grey colour Zara jacket (which also incidentally looks like my old grey Mango jacket) to hide from the coldness.

I think it took me really long to sleep and i got up at least 2 or 3 times to go to the toilet (but it was a false alarm) and to seek warmth in the toilet!! I really felt like a Penguin from the movie ok............... freezing like dunno what. By the 3rd toilet trip, i stupidly realised that i was sleeping in front of the air con's waves, so i shifted to a position near the bed and managed about 2 proper hours of sleep. I was contemplating leaving then, but i realised that Susie left his bag in my car! So i couldnt escape and had to stay in the freezing room......By 830am, i decided to escape once and for all from the freezing cold room and waited for both Susie and Ah Zai to pack up to leave. Susie and I shared a comforter by the bay seaters while waiting for Ah Zai to pack his laptop (which also was put to sleep while we were all asleep) and both of us were chattering away! even under the covers!!! It was that cold.

Once in the car, I wanted to steal one of Susie's Yakult that he had bought from Cheers earlier but he kept trying to get me to gargle my mouth with his mouthwash first. (this was after we got into the car and i was driving around the car park already can) And instead of me wanting to say, "You want me to gargle that now??!" I said, "You want me to gargle what shit?!" Dun ask me why i said that. Must have been high from the freezing temperature.

Was held up at the carpark exit because the driver in front of me had his cashcard jammed in the machine, so the manager/guard/dunno who was prying open the machine and after waiting for really long, it was my turn. So the guard took my cashcard and it seemed like he was forcing my cashcard into the already jammed slot and out came both my cashcard and one of those flimbsy paper like complimentry carpark ticket. And he said to me, "Thank you for your card!" So strange.......

I sped away after getting my cashcard back. Now off to bed again.........