How the day moved on:
The evening jog turns out to be one really crazy day out with my buddy because I had not had so much fun together with him for such a long time. Maybe that was because he's changed man now but it could be just that I was also out looking for some fun today.
I met my buddy at Raffles Place and we arrived at Bedok Jetty around 6.30pm and started our first leg of the evening jog all the way to the jetty's end. It was my first time to Bedok Jetty and the scenery was great. Good breeze, shady trees, beautiful sea and lots of interesting people around. The evening jog, however, was not without a hitch. It also felt like running some obstacle course - dodging small running children, roller-bladers, cyclists, other joggers, steel barricades (for some half-marathon the following day). Nevetheless, it was quite a enjoyable jog, watching the anglers with their fishing lines, the people eating at the seafood centre and even some surfers using those wire-frames to propel themselves forward in an artificial lake.
The 2km jog ended around 7pm with sweat, a sense of achievement and drinks for our parched throats. After a quick bath at the shower rooms nearby, the night continued with a car ride to Pasir Panjang Food Centre where both of us started to gorge ourselves with lots of food - Hongkong fried noodles, Fried squid with vegetables, Sambal stingray, Kangkong vegetables with chilli, Chicken and mutton satay, sugar cane and lime drinks. Yes, all those food between just the two of us and we finished almost everything at the end of the 2 hours food galore. We must have been really noisy with our bantering, daring and mock-ridicules at each other over all the food but neither of us were thinking the rackus we were kicking up - it was a time to let our hair down and it was a great dinner.
At around 9pm with our stomachs stuffed with all the food and the jovial-ness at the dinner table, my buddy decided that we would go to a karaoke lounge and sing to our hearts' content. We tried to find one at Ginza Plaza at West Coast but that place was like a ghost town on a weekend night. So he drove all the way to Clementi K-box lounge and we started our crooning from 10pm all the way till 1am in the morning of Sunday. The singing session was really fun because we were challenging each other for some of the really difficult songs from singers like Li Sheng Jie and Fish Leong and we ended the session with a nice duet on a song "Fen Xiang" by Sky Wu.
In a nutshell at the end:
How do I describe the kind of friendship I have with my buddy? Crazy? Fun-loving? Serious? I really can't put a word to say it all. Betwen all the injections of witty mockery, guy jokes and hilarous laughter, both of us also shared our thoughts on the intimate worries of our lives and listened just as intently on the weighted opinions of each other. Occasional secrets of ourselves went between our conversations and were discreetly absorbed and acknowledged. Perhaps, this is the kind of friendship needed between two buddies who continue to find new things to discover about the characters of each other. And I am glad the day turned out to be a fabulous night's out.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious
of, we have a special face for each friend.
By:Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Quote Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/oliverwend161674.html)
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