Birthday Parties on 3 Consecutive Weekends: Part One

Part One: Huiyi's Birthday

This was the first Birthday Party. It was held on Deepavali, and forgot to wish the birthday girl "Happy Deepavali" too! Just kidding, she is a Chinese. Haha. Huiyi was one of Pok Yen's TPJC classmates and I only got to speak to her when I met her in Kumon.

Anyway, Kai Yan and I met up to get her the present right before going to her party. What do girls like? The only thing that comes to our mind was accessories, and probably the thing she needs since we do not really seeing her wearing them that often. We went through the clothes stores in before coming to that decision, then we went to the usual shop "Helen" to buy it. After deciding on the item, we had the shop assistant wrapped the gift for us, and she even gave us a small birthday card for us to write our greetings! Oh, and because we bought the item which costs over a certain price, we are entitled to be the membership! Only one. Since I'm the one who paid first, so I just signed up. So if you want anything from that shop, just call me and you will get 10% discount!!! Haha. Pretty weird to have a guy having such membership...

Kai Yan then drove me down to her house, and he even used GPS! This just shows how bad his sense of direction is... And the GPS was not really accurate since it only directed us to the area where Huiyi lives, and not the exact point. In the end, we went in circles just to get the place...

Upon reaching, I saw Karin (Yi Sheng's and Russell's TPJC classmate), it is the first time I knew Huiyi and her are very close friends since secondary school. Huiyi introduced Kai Yan to Karin and her other close friends. To add on, she even introduced us as Gay couple!!! What the... Spoil my image... But just for entertainment, I went ahead with the act and made Kai Yan so irritated. Haha. We chatted and played card games together for a while, and took some pictures with the Birthday Girl. There was one picture which was damn funny. It is a picture of Huiyi standing behind Kai Yan and she can be seen from nowhere! Kai Yan is big enough to block Huiyi completely!!! After the cake cutting session, we left shortly. Amelia, another Kumon colleague, probably came alone, so she went home with us when she saw us leaving.

The September Boys

I have been wanting to blog this for like so long, but time always prohibits me to do so. Now, it only gives me a short period to do it, so I have to make it very brief.

As the title has already given the clue, this is about the boys whose birthdays fall on the month of September: Yi Sheng and Jiunn Kai. It is also because of the time constrain, I planned a combined celebration for the both of them even tough their birthdays are 17 days apart. I went out on Saturday with Pok Yen, Russell and Wilson to buy the presents for the birthday boys.

The celebration of Yi Sheng with the Flower 5 (which has became 3 because Sze Yuan and Song Guan are now studying abroad...) came later. The combined celebration came first. Wilson and I planned the gathering restaurant at MOF at Suntec City, and it was a great surprise to see Wilson came the earliest!!! His reason was, "It is not good for the staff to wait for us if we have already made the reservations!!!" Haha, next time, we should just reserve for the restaurant we going before each outing to make sure he is punctual!!!

Anyway, the Floosy Gang and the HCL Gang came together (except Russell) for the first time. The atmosphere was alright, but there was still a bit of awkwardness... The food was great, as usual, and it was time to distribute the present to the belated birthday boys! Haha, it was great to see the FCUK watch we bought fits Jiunn Kai perfectly. But he said that will be his 3rd new watch for the year... It is because his mum bought one for him, and e bought himself another one too. As for Yi Sheng, he was surprised to see his present (Ok, let's just pass on the fact that I wrapped it in a ugly manner) because it is one of the computer games that he enjoys. His eyes were sparkling, as if he wanted to play the game right away. Yes! Another Mission Accomplished.

After the dinner, we were all deciding what to do next. In the end, when they finally decided to watch a movie back at Tampines, I rejected them since I would be having my test that next day...

The next day was the second celebration for Yi Sheng. Pok Yen chose Cafe Cartel as the lunch venue. After my test, Russell and I rushed back to Tampines. Upon reaching Tampines, we met Tze Keong, Yi Sheng, and Wei Tian along the way along the way to the cafe, only Pok Yen was outside the restaurant waiting for us. Haha.

It was another round of pleasant lunch! After giving Yi Sheng the second present, which is a Brown Sweater from Uni Glo, we headed to the usual shopping area to shop around while the lovebirds made their leave. We hit at the Timezone again, playing the ball throwing game and watching people striking the Jackpot at the Candy Game. It was around evening when I felt very tired and decided to go back, while Pok Yen and Russell continued shopping for mooncakes.

Well, finally we have made some time to put in the celebrations. Really troublesome to celebrate the September Boys...! Oops, I shouldn't have say that but that is the fact where most people will be busy preparing for their exams. Oops again! But can't blame them! Haha.

Is it Wise to be Totally Ignorant?

These days during my school's recess week, I had been doing CS1105 project with my 2 Group Members. Most of the contents are produced from my other members, while I just have to concentrate on the project layout and to compile the slides for the presentation together.

The module CS1105 requires a lot of your critical thinking. Until now, I have not been making any progress to my brain. When a question from that module is dumped to me, I can't react immediately, and my brain always does one thing. Nothing. Nothing comes out of my mind in such a situation everytime. Even during the actual presentation, when there is always a part called Q&A, people will just ask you lots of questions and you will answer according to your finding or opinion. Luckily, very luckily, I have friends who can really react and answer those questions very well...

Talking about critical thinking, it would be best if you have a wide general knowledge of the world. In that way, you would probably avoid making silly assumptions and even some fallicies. Having general knowledge of the world would also help you in your daily conversation with your friends. This is good for the new friends you have made in University. When my projectmates and I were having break, we would probably chat about other stuff. Stuff like which major you are going into? And then, talked about more in today's computing industries. Those who know me very well would know that I couldn't really care about things that I'm not interested in such as business and politics. But, my projectmates could engage in conversation involving such things and I can't really find topic that I'm really familiar in. All I can do is do make lame and stupid comments.

I know critical thinking is a very important life skill. But can I have the skill without imparting any knowledge about things I don't like? Sounds impossible, but that is the way how it works... And I will just carry on being someone without Critical Thinking... Now the question is: Can I survive intelligently without having Critical Thinking?