OG 11 Outing 03/10: Dickson Farewell Outing - Regulars (February 2010)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 9:37 PM
Hi all Elevenies,
As Dickson will be leaving us to go to New South Wales to study, the regulars decided to have an outing on 120210 (Friday)for his farewell as well as to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Yuhan decided to go to Minds Cafe for this outing as we can have our meal and play board games simultaneously. Yuhan, Guan Li, Jieyang and I met up at Bugis Junction to buy a present for Dickson. As we do not have time to prepare a very nice present for him, we decided to buy for him his beloved 'Domo'. We went to a shop and bought for Dickson two 'Domos' that he can place around the strap of his bag, a 'Domo' key chain and 3 notebooks that contains 'Domo' on the front cover. After shopping for Dicky's present, we went to Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station and Jieyang wrote a message to Dickson in one of the notebooks that we gave him. After Jieyang finished writing his message, he went to find Dicky while the rest of us wrote our message.
After writing Dicky's message, we proceeded to Minds Cafe to have our meal and games. After ordering our meal, we first played a game (I am not sure what the name of the game is) where we have to remove the sticks and prevent the monkeys which are hanging on the sticks from toppling onto the table. In the end Jieyang got the most number of monkeys that dropped onto the table and he loses the game. We played many games but I am not sure how to describe these games. Maybe someone can help me to describe the games we played. After playing the games, it was already 11.30pm and we have to rush to catch the last MRT. Luckily, the NEL was still operating and Dickson and I went to Serangoon MRT, Yuhan and Guan Li also managed to catch the last train on the NSL. However, Yingling missed her train and she had to take a bus home. Thank you Yingling for the Valentine's Day Present.
On behalf of OG 11, I would like to thank Dickson for being such a good OGL and leader of OG 11. We also would like to thank him for co-ordinating the logistics part during birthday celebrations. Hope that Dickson would be able to adapt to life in Australia and we look forward to seeing him in June when he comes back during his vacations. Hope Dickson would do well in his studies in NSW.
OG 11 Outing 02/10: Chinese New Year Outing (February 2010)
Saturday, February 6, 2010 @ 10:49 PM
Hi Elevenies, here is the OG secretary.
On 6 February 2010, OG 11 celebrated our 4th Chinese New Year celebration. At 3pm, we met up at Peach Garden at Thomson Plaza and we started to have the dim sum buffet.When ordering the food, Dickson was a little 'gan cheong' and he dropped his chopsticks onto the floor. About 25 minutes into our meal, Huixin came and I brought her to the restaurant. During the buffet, one of the waitor rang the bell and the almost all the patrons (including some army boys) started to queue up for the ice-cream, causes Yuhan to take a picture of the queue that was forming at the ice-cream point. There was once when Yingling asked the China waitress, 'Excuse me, can I have 'feng chao' and 'pai gu'? ' and the waitress replied, 'feng chao' and 'pai gu'as she doesn't understand the English words but only the Chinese words. This causes Yingling to suggest recording down the voice and let Dicky use it as a ring tone when he goes to Australia. Dickson then says if he was sleeping and he hears Yingling's voice, he would drool when he sleep and think of this 2 sets of dishes in his dreams.
At 4pm, Yanho joined us after he went to renew his passport as he would be leaving for an exercise in Germany. When Yuhan showed the photo of the people queueing up for the ice-cream, Yanho replied, 'What's wrong?' which causes Yuhan to say that Yanho would be like those army boys to rush for the ice-cream. Yanho started to act weird as he acted to be like someone from Tibet and he talked about consumerism and the Westerners. There was a little 'argument' between Yanho and Yuhan about consumerism when Yuhan said eating is also consumerism but Yanho argued that eating is indispensable. After the meal at 5pm, we went to shop around Thomson Plaza while waiting for Jieyang to pick us up from NYJC as he is helping out in the Pujilistics society. While waiting for Jieyang, we went to a piano shop and Yanho started to play the piano like a pro. We found out that his piano was grade 8!!!!. We then went to Popular bookstore to browse through the items there. Yanho was so captivated on a book that he read it until Jieyang came. Huixin went home to get her laptop as she had some work to do.
When Jieyang came, he took us to Dickson's house. After Dickson gave us some drinks, he went to 'torture' Yingling with his bolster which he has kept for 18 years. Yingling was like suffocated by Dickson as whatever she smell was smelly. Huixin then joined us at 7.30pm. We started to play Polar Bear and after video watching on the Chinese New Year version on Poker Face and a video where Ris Low was criticised in a song ' 12 days of Ris'mas'. After that we heard some songs while the OG members started to play with games on their I-phone. At about 10pm, we went down to have yu sheng and we went to watch a drama on Channel U. After the drama, we went back to Dickson's room to play cards and also to discuss the Valentine's Day outing. We played some card till about 12am and Jieyang fetch us back to our home. However, on the way back, Yingling forgot about her laptop and we had to go back to Dicky's house to get back her laptop. OG 11 would like to thank Dickson for the yu sheng and Jieyang for driving us back to our home.
The details of the outing would be finalised but the date would be next Friday, 12 Feb 2010. Yuhan would be the organiser for the Friday outing. Details will be finalised soon and sent vis sms and e-mail.
OG 11 Members present: Dickson, Jieyang, Joshua, Yingling, Yuhan, Yanho and Huixin
OG 11 Members absent with apologies: Joanne, Wanling, Shiqi, Richard, Kexin.