Showing posts with label Weekends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weekends. Show all posts

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Friday Night Iftar


Iftar is another word for 'breaking of fast'. On the 3rd day of Ramadhan, a few of us decided to come together and have dinner at Arafath/Rindo/Jing/Kai's place. It was a cozy, small but lively affair when everyone got together to enjoy some dates, fruits and mutton briyani.

Arafath's girlfriend Claudia was in town, so we spent a good hour before breaking fast catching up. We talked about Rindo rushing to the airport to catch his flight to Ho Chi Minh City and wondered what would happen if he actually missed it. I predicted him strolling into the house going, "HEY GUYS, I'M HOME!"

And guess what?

45 minutes later he did JUST THAT, much to all of our amusements.

He chided us for not having faith in him, but the truth was, everyone knew him so well that these kinda cock ups are bound to happen to Mr Rindo Ramankutty. Thankfully, he managed to book a flight for the next morning. I hope he wouldn't miss this one.

After dinner, we headed down to the Bazaar for some snacking. It's funny I hardly head to the bazaar unless I absolutely have to despite living so close by. The thought of Ramly burgers, ayam percik, dendeng and keropok lekor is enough to make me drool, but the heat and pushing through crowds made me think twice, three times about going.

I'll write a feature on a bazaar another day, but today.. lemme just enjoy the food.

 Vada and Ming enjoying their Ramly burger. It's Ming's first encounter with those yummy burgers and Vada's 493613568130689257th after eating one every day while in Langkawi.
We were joking about these two being 'typical Indians' hanging around bargain shops in search for slippers. Don't get me wrong, I love them both. They're both highly educated and earn buckets. But sometimes, as Rindo says,:
'One will have to go back to their roots.'
 My favourite couple: Minah and Mat. Hudha and Nas

Both Rindo and Arafath decided to waste some cash throwing darts at balloons. Rindo won a tiny bear for his efforts, unfortunately for Arafath. Watching them throw darts unsuccessfully reminds me of a similar scene...

SEE? The first picture is of Rindo, and the second is of Ummar taken a really long time back. There are tons of difference between the two scenes, but a notable one is probably (and bearing in mind the fact that I don't normally say nice things about this guy) :

Ummar is a better shot than Rindo and Arafath put together. Sorry, guys. HAHA.

Monday, June 10, 2013

June Weekend!

Everyone's heading to Europe this month! I already have five individual friends over in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Sweden! It's making me MAD with envy. But I told myself that I'll conquer Asia first before stepping into Europe. My logic: Asia is the place to travel when you're young, semi-broke and have the energy to do all the crazy things Asia has to offer. Europe is to be discovered when you are a little older, and financially stable to enjoy the magic all my European friends boast about.

For me, Japan first.. then Europe. Or maybe, I should head to Birmingham where the best friend is before any other part of Europe.

Back to Singapore! My post-Guides camp weekend had been amazing. Saturday was spent at Cyril and Jeanne's, yummy BBQ and good company. I bailed out when they were heading out to party as I can barely keep my eyes open. 
 The girls were getting ready for the clubs!
Crazies// Arafath and Kathy

Sunday was a little special. Headed to Scape for SGTwitterFrenzy awards (didn't win anything but, hey, it was a start) and I happened to walk by a particular escalator advertisement. My first thought was 'Hey, this looks familiar.' Then I realised, OH, so THERE it is! This was the ad I spent weeks working on while I was working at Youth.SG last year. I was so excited to see my all my hard work blown up so huge on the wall. Hehe.


Then Rasyidah and I walked around Scape's flea market and came across a place selling friendship bands. We decided to get a matching one (to add to our pixel heart necklaces and name keychains) and it turned out
B-E-A-YOOOU-tiful.

//1. Bicycle - My favourite mode of transport for discovering new places.
//2. Fork - (nope, not what you dirty minds are probably thinking) My love for food.
//3. Heart-shaped cookie - COOOOKIEEEEES!
//4. Plane - Need I say more?
//5. Oil lamp - The reminder of my guiding days, especially memories of the fun we had at nature camps.

More arm candy! Hehe. Have a fantabulous week, y'all! :D