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K-box with DGDD fatties!!

Second post of the weekend! Shows that I’m really maximizing every single second of these precious 2 days of freedom and human rights.

Yesterday, I went out to sing with my DGDD classmates, who I affectionately call them “fatties” even though they are not corpulent because it’s just funny. Not that I have anything against bigger sized people but it’s just for the fun so please don’t be offended. :)

Sadly, I wasn’t exactly inspired to take lots of photos because the room was extremely dark. In fact, it was so dark that even flash did not manage to help me much. But oh well~ 

So we were meant to meet at 2pm outside Marina Square’s K-box but many of them were late. Good thing I knew that the K-box would definitely be extremely packed due to the 6 dollars promotion so in the morning, I called to reserve a slot from 2pm - 4pm. Only managed to start at 2:30pm because that was when majority of them arrived…

And because we had 8 people singing together, 2 hours was definitely not enough! We asked if we could extend but the staff there were rather unhelpful by answering that their bookings are quite “full” and cannot extend for us. Oh well!!

But we ain’t stupid!! I got Rini to make a reservation while we were INSIDE K-box for a slot from 4:30pm - 6:30pm, just in case they didn’t allow us to extend. And yes!! They didn’t!! 

Furthermore, they cut short our timing because they apparently start charging from the time you RESERVED the room, not the time you ENTER the room. Sucks no? So we basically threw half an hour away for nothing.

WELL, IN YOUR FACES BITCHES!
We still managed to get another slot because we’re oh-so-clever to book another slot. So much for “full” booking…

*P.S. These rants have nothing to do with the pictures, I know. :)

The only thing emitting light was these decorations. Well~ There were the room lights of course but I was too lazy to turn them on for photos. Besides, lights in a K-box room spoils the atmosphere.

Rini brought her Sony super-zoom camera and it’s so LIGHT!! Well, as compared to my 550D of course. Got her to pose with her camera for this photo. Almost look like an ad~

Clarence, Ben Lim and Rini with her camera. I believe she took a picture of me taking a picture of them…

This was taken at the second room. Did I mention that while we were in our first room, they totally forgotten to give us those snacks, leaving a few of us hungry? Evil them!! Well~ It’s 6 dollars so you can’t expect much but if you’re the management of K-box and you read this statement, 6 dollars doesn’t mean you provide lousy service, get? I’ve been to K-box so many times and this is probably the worst service I’ve gotten. Slightly disappointed.

Anyway~ The gang that went singing includes (left to right) Jia Yi, Clarence, Daryl, Jum, myself, Peiquan, Ben Lim and Rini.

Jum, Rini, Clarence and I had to leave earlier because we were meant to meet Wayne and Ben Ang at Yew Tee for dinner and we rushed like hell because we thought we would be extremely late but good thing we weren’t.

This dinner “date” was planned weeks before and I guess I didn’t have an excuse not to go since I was informed so early. We had Astons Express at a food court near the Yew Tee MRT station. Snapped a few candid portraits of them while waiting for our food~ Here’s Jum’s…

Here’s Ben Ang and I can see his chin!! He’s slimmed down SO MUCH!! I’m so amazed!!

Wayne was sitting right next beside me and with my 50mm lens, it was pretty difficult to get a proper shot but I did manage to get a profile though, not before he terrorized me by sticking his face extremely close to my camera.

And Shun Ding made a special appearance! It’s been awhile since I saw him~ I think the last time I saw him was back at school and that was like a year ago? His nonsense and outburst of randomness still tickles me.

Clarence, the police inspector~

Let’s talk ‘bout food~ I didn’t manage to get proper photos of everyone else’s food so I just took mine. Partially because I was too lazy and was really hungry so I couldn’t be bothered but anyway~ I had this grilled fish with herbs (because it’s less fattening than chicken, or so I believe) and have it paired with a garden salad and baked potato. Honestly, I would prefer broccolis but these veggies are just fine.

The huge slice of fish topped with tartar sauce. YUMMY!! One thing I don’t really like about eating dory fish is that it is pretty difficult to poke the fork at it because it will break into smaller pieces, making it slightly more challenging to eat. But it’s tasty so it’s worth that little trouble.

After dinner, I went off while the rest of them went to Wayne’s house to play board games. Reason why I didn’t want to go? Because I want to sleep!! But I didn’t go home though…

Oh yes!! I did say I would take a photo of Pokemon Black right?

Here it is and it’s not mine!! :P

I’m still charging my DS after I drained it from playing Pokemon for the whole of yesterday night so I have pretty much nothing to do right now. Booking in tomorrow morning but that’s fine considering that I can play Pokemon in camp~ :P

Shall end here! 

Making of… Props for Gradshow Photoshoot

First of all, THANKS to all who helped out today for the gradshow photoshoot props making! Namely Jiayi, Alvin, Weiguang, Le Nian, Ben Ang, Terry, Banya and Justine! Wonderful people to work with but ~ahem~… You know you know? :P

We were really working on a shortage of manpower but we managed to finish everything within one day before the sun sets! Happiness! That means I get to go out after that but that’s not the point…

Making the props was actually quite fun with this company of people. Okay, the lecturers didn’t really talk to us but oh well… Better than no help at all right? :)

So do you people who haven’t been helping out want to have a look at the process and how the results look like? I have pictures~ :D

And don’t be hating us if the things are not nice! You chose not to help and so you can’t blame others who sacrifices their eve of Christmas eve to get all these things done FOR YOU.

Slightly before lunchtime, these were the things that were already made. I was telling Jiayi that I had little faith that before lunchtime, we can get 2 props completely done but I was wrong! Good good! Shows that we were productive okay.

The hideous mess Le Nian, Jiayi and myself created. We used this purple Uhu glue~ Apparently some of them had never seen it before and was quite shocked but it actually turns transparent when it’s dried. Neatness.

My lunch of messy tuna sandwiches. Looks more like tuna salad with bread. Anyway, this picture is really random because I only started to take pictures during lunchtime.

We chose the theme of papikura or whatever it’s called. Basically, it’s this software the opens up a 3D model into these paper form so that they can be printed out and cut out then pieced together. Really convenient. I wouldn’t say it’s easy nor difficult… Just challenging…

Le Nian piecing up the prop together…

Jiayi working on the Queen…

Weiguang wanted to hide but what for? Nothing embarassing~ :P

Guess who came to our rescue too! Banya made the King and helped create the PSP~

Alvin’s and Weiguang’s mess… Definitely not as messy as my table.

Le Nian’s butt was stuck…

The Queen and King! Come to think of it, I think there are variations where the chess pieces are in white and red right? Or does that only apply in American McGee’s Alice? Hmmmmm….

My 3 babies! I made these y’all! The easiest ones but also pretty tedious because of all the smaller details that I have to stick onto. I hate the dots especially because in total, I had to use a compass to draw 42 dots and cut them out using a huge scissors and then sticking them onto the dice! I did my best to make it look proper though it could be done better…

Assembling the stuff…

Le Nian’s red phone! Took this picture to spite my sister because she has the same phone but in blue. She wanted the red one but it ran out of stock~ :P

Wei Guang and Jiayi made these Knights…

Le Nian assembling the stylus together… The stylus has the tiniest parts that were so difficult to fit together that we ended up taping a lot of things together. Look at that tip! It was impossible to make a proper one so we had no choice.

HUGE PSP! I held it in my hands and it felt great! Imagine playing a game on that monster! Just that the buttons are little hard to hit because of my small hands. I tried pushing the shoulder buttons (those L1 R1 buttons) but Terry (lecturer) asked me to stop because I might squish it. I’m not that rough~ Banya and Terry worked on this one as it’s one of the difficult ones…

Besides the PSP, we have a Wii too! Weiguang and Alvin were responsible for making the Wii and it was one of the most challenging pieces because of all the fine small details at the bottom that just refuse to stick together properly!

Big man, big stylus.

Well, this is how everything looks like! DGDD people will be posing amongst these red stuff and hopefully, there will be red, fiery, fierce pictures! :D So pleased with the outcome~ :)

After making the props, I decided to go to City Hall to walk around and had dinner. I remember saying some where on my blog about this Niwa Sushi place and I went there to have dinner today~ It was pretty good!

Sushi! I shared it though…

Sabo fish thingie… I didn’t have this but I tasted the fish. It was AWESOME~

Teriyaki chicken… Not a fan of teriyaki chicken and this one is little mediocre too. Initially, I wanted the katsu but they ran out of those. Sad~ They are always out of stuff apparently. The last time I went there, they ran out of rice. There is no kitchen there so I suppose they have to prepare everything on the spot. You should go have a look one day even if you are not buying anything to get the idea. They are located at Citylink Mall.

Okay, that’s all the pictures that I have for the props making session!

I got my first (and probably only) Christmas present already! Shall blog about it later. :)