Happenings on the weekend between Feb and March

Happy Birthday to...
1st March- Yenny, Joshua Ang
2nd March- Gayle Nerva, Lilly

Hello, I'm back. My apologies for the long delay, cos I've been rather busy uploading pictures on Facebook, and trying to think about which pictures to upload here. I'll start off with the write-ups first... pictures to be uploaded in next post.

28th March, Saturday
I went to Central at 12 plus, had lunch at Subway then walked to The Arena to register for the Magic Day event. First event was the ticketed lecture session, where JC Sum reveals the secrets behind some of the stage tricks like rope magic, 4 Aces in one spot, the egg with red cloth and coins into a metal tin. It was Ning's turn with her performing Magic Rope (luminant glows), Clothes Hangers, Strait Jacket Escape and Razor Blade Tongue Twister.

At 4 pm, came Parlor Magic by Matthew Lee, John Teoh ( a 20-year veteran in magic) and JC Sum. At 5 pm, there was a session of Beginner's Street Magic conducted by Matthew. At 6 pm, there were performances by Adeline Ng the Kinetic Girl (spinning colorful rings and tossing batons with hood over head) and Larry Lum the Escape Guy (eating fire, unlocking himself from shcakles, and freeing himself from mailbag).

Obviously I took pic with JC Sum and Ning during the event... I was superbly touched by Ning's comment on the postcard: "Dearie, you're the best!" Aaaawwww...

Me, Shanwei and Terence didn't really feel like buying tickets for Ultimate Magic II which was to be shown at 7.30 pm (even though tickets were sold at special price of $20), so we had dinner at Central, walked around Clarke Quay region for a while, and then went our respective routes home.

1st March, Sunday
Firstly, me and family went for morning service... although I had slept rather early on Sat, I found myself becoming very drowsy during the sermon. Moreover, the sermon on recovering from defeat was rather long compared to previous sermons. Anyway, at 11 plus, I went to Heartland Mall with Mother and Bro to have lunch... then I quickly took train to City Hall to attend the Creative Industries fair at Marina Square. After much thought, I decided to apply for a short course in 3D-Modelling with some encouragement by a slim and cute girl from ESDAA. I can finally refresh my knowledge in MAYA 7.0 and learn new techniques as well... :-)

Upon leaving Marina Square at 4 pm, I was bummed out by the superbly heavy downpour (rain usually came at around 3 pm these days, I noticed), but nevertheless I took a bus from Suntec to Ngee Ann City. The lower part of my jeans ended up soaked due to the numerous puddles along the way to NAC, arggghhhh!!! But anyway, upon reaching there, I was quite surprised to learn that Source and Terence had actually reached the Armed Career Fair before me!! There didn't seem to be much to look at in the Armed Forces fair other than the new uniforms and cool machine guns. The place looked a bit smaller than I had anticipated... but oh well.

Following a perormance by some violin band, there was a series of games for anyone who kena 'arrowed' by the hosts, and Terence turned out to be one of them. One of the volunteers for the game was a little girl (about 5 years old I think) named Felicia, I think she'll grow up to be just as beautiful as Felicia Chin in about 15 years' time! Yeah anyway, Fiona Xie graced the stage region at about 6 pm sharp, singing Ashlee Simpson's song "LaLa" as well as a Chinese song. She talked a bit about what she's been busy with (she returned from overseas a few weeks ago, and she's gonna start work on Calefare season 2, woo hoo!!). She then played the 'sound effects game' with 2 male volunteers, and to end off, she took group pic with personnel from army, navy and air force. Me and most of the other ans followed Fiona all the way to 3rd level of Ngee Ann City main building to chat with her a bit and take picture with her. Source, Terence and myself then went to HMV Heeren to look around for a while, headed to Orchard Emerald to have dinner at Burger King, and then go back home.

To end off the day, I watched "Casino Royale", followed by "Unexpected Access" (watching my "poor animal friends" aka the pigs get slaughtered!!) and "Minority Report", all the way til 1.30 am.