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Sunday, December 21, 2008, 8:13 PM
yesterday was my maternal grandma's 81st birthday, 20th of december. my aunties and uncles arranged a kinda of "party" at boon lay raja restaurant at jurong east central there, almost all my realtives were there, cousins, aunties, uncles, nephews, nieces... we used about 4 tables but some of them went home early. my uncle had ordered a 2kg, as my mother said, cake with many chinese characters on it 寿比南山 etc.etc. after having our dessert, pumpkin yam paste, they took out the cake and we sang a birthday song to my grandma after that my uncle said a string of congratulatory wishes to my grandma in teochew, it sounded like those kind of opera..? then my another uncle took up a glass cup and use his pen to hit it onto tthe glass to make those kind of "clink" sound during the intervals like during the opera some guy will clash their cymbals. it was pretty funny and most of us didn't understand what my uncle was saying about as he was speaking in very deep teochew...we just laughed at that sight... :)
that day when we were to report to our schools for registration, i went to NJC and met zi fong there, we went to the auditorium to listen to the Dean's speech etc. my mum did not buy the school books and uniform first cos i was still not sure which school i want to go to, kinda in dilemma, both schools equally good, but i pretty love their school uniform, grey in colour, light grey for the short and dark grey fo the bottom, design's not bad too :) after a very very long walk, some uphill, wetook a taxi to NUSHS to take a look at the school. my mum and i met up with shi li and her mum and we walked to the clementi shopping centre there and had lunch, after that we decided to go to Bugis for shopping! we took a MRT there together and my mum bought me a school bag, pencil box etc. was kinda happy that day......
my parents went to attend her colleague's wedding around Raffles there, heard from my mum that it is like a poolside buffet, now still must be having good food there... they yesterday eat good food, today also eat good food. =X
somehow, just somehow, i don't really understand the map posted at the class blog... maybe long time nvr go school already, mind and brain rusty...tak longer to process, haha, also long time nvr hold pen already... >.<
me and my mum were surprised when we went to NJC and saw the information booklet, written on it was " the first day of school is 12th January 2009..." it is true but... we have to end school 10 days later, so, no discount, sadly...