OG 11 Outing 06/11: Celebrated Dickson's birthday (July 2011)
Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 7:57 PM
Dear Elevenies,
This is the OG Secretary again as usual. On 14 July 2011, we had out monthly OG Outing at Raffles City. We were supposed to meet at City Hall MRT at 6.30pm as mentioned by our organiser, Dickson. However, he was late as he had to buy something at Plaza Singapura. Yuhan, Xinni and I were the first to reach and we went to Raffles City as Dickson wanted to eat at either a Pizza outlet (I can’t recall the name of the Pizza stall) or an outlet selling Muslim food. However, as these 2 places are over the budget of Xinni and I, Xinni and Yuhan decided to have Japanese food at Osaka Town. After we were seated at Osaka Town, Yuhan messaged Dickson and he wanted to go to Soup Spoon instead. After Yuhan told him that we were already seated at Osaka Town, Dickson felt that he should have come on time instead. We then ordered our food and Yuhan told us that the lady who served us looked at she had worked at Sakae Sushi before. Yuhan felt that she was a little poor in her service as when we called her to order our food, she did not even acknowledge to say that she has seen us already and she would come to take down our order. Maybe because of this kind of ‘bad’ service, she was sacked from Sakae??
Our food arrived about 15 minutes later and we started to chat. It was a little boring since Jieyang was not with us and Dickson was still on his way. At about 7.30pm, Dickson arrived and he said that he will go to the foodcourt on the 3rd level to have yong tau foo as he would not get to taste yong tau foo when he returns to Australia. When Xinni heard that Dickson wanted to go foodcourt, she told Dickson that he should have said it earlier as she was on a budget. Moreover, the meal tasted a little lower than average as the chicken that Xinni was eating was not cooked well – the chicken was like half cooked and we felt that our meal did not worth the money. After our meal, we went up to the foodcourt and Yuhan felt that she was like ‘cheated’ as she would have had Pepper lunch had we ate at the foodcourt instead. Dickson’s yong tau foo costs only $4.80 and we spend about $15 on our meal which we felt was not worth it. Not long after, Jieyang arrived and we told him this LONG STORY on why we ended up at the foodcourt.
After Dickson had his meal, we went to the Basement to have dessert. Khia Peng arrived and she had not eaten her dinner. As she does not have enough cash on her, she asked around the eateries at the Basement and most of the eateries only accept cash instead of Nets. We then accompanied Khia Peng to withdraw money. However, we were so engrossed in our conversation that the rest of us lost sight of Khia Peng and Dickson. Dickson called Jieyang to find out our location. After Khia Peng withdrew some cash, the 4 of us went to the Basement to buy drinks while Dickson accompanied Khia Peng to the foodcourt. After ordering our drinks at the Basement, we went up to the foodcourt and chatted. We talked about our hairstyle, our Chinese characters (as in I taught that Jieyang ‘yang’ was 羊 when in fact it should be 阳， Khia Peng’s English name if translated from Teochew was supposed to be Khia Pure?? Which Jieyang immediately say ‘Tan Khia Pure’ and everybody laughed). We also talked about how Dickson added us on Google+ and in the end no one he added was informed, wasting one precious hour of his life. We talked till about 10pm at the foodcourt. After we came out from the toilet, we presented to Dickson a 红包 for his birthday. Khia Peng contributed her precious 1 cent coin which is considered rare nowadays since 1 cent coins are no longer in use. We then walked to the MRT and made our way home.
While in the MRT, I remembered that we forgot to take a group photo and also we did not give Dickson a cake for his birthday. Hope that Dickson would not mind. Otherwise, we will celebrate his belated birthday in December together with Jieyang when he returns from Australia. On behalf of the entire OG, I would like to wish Dickson a happy 22nd birthday. 生日快乐，身体健康。All the best in your studies in Australia and we will see you again in December. We wish that our beloved member Yingling will get well soon from her eye infection. We hope to see you in next month' OG outing.
OG Members present: Dickson, Jieyang, Joshua, Yuhan, Xinni, Khia Peng
OG Members absent: Yingling, Richard, Huixin, Wanling, Joanne.