It's Christmas!

On Thursday (23rd) , I went to watch Kung Fu Hustle with Bahamut, Kyo, Brainy and Kenrick. We wanted to go for the 7 pm show, but the tickets were all sold out. I didn't expect the movie to be this popular. We ended up going for the 9 pm show.

The movie was pretty interesting & funny. It was nice to see Stephen Chow in a movie again. The story was a little disappointing though. The plot isn't very refreshing and the hero, Sing was not very active throughout the entire show until towards the end. The show's fight scenes has to be its high points (as the title suggests). I almost think the show was trying to replicate Matrix-style fight scenes.

The movie ended at 11 pm. This was the first time I stayed at Tampines Mall so late and the building & escalators were closed off. We had a hard time leaving because of massive crowding at the lifts.

When I got home that night, I couldn't get to sleep. In the end, I chatted with Max and Brainy on MSN till the wee hours of the morning. We were still doing some last-minute planning for a possible Christmas Eve outing. In the end, we settled on a simple dinner at Orchard's Marche.

For me, I decided to spend the early half of the day at Max's house playing games. I took a short nap and woke up early at 8 am on Friday (24th) to begin my 90-minute journey to CCK. At Max's place, we played mostly Shining Tears and Z-Gundam: AEUG vs. Titans. Max's mum even prepared spaghetti for lunch cos' he told her that I "only ate western" (felt so bad).

When it was close to 5 pm, we left for Orchard to meet up with Brainy. Brainy was in charge of calling people along, and he brought along Chaosmag, Fengokill and Riku. We went to Marche at the Heeren, and there was a special rule that day; all customers had to spend at least S$15 per head. I guess it was to control the Christmas crowd, and it was working well cos' the place was not as madly mobbed as the other restaurants int he Orchard area. I had a cheese sausage rosti, mashed potato and mushroom soup. I tried my best NOT to get any drinks because I remembered how expensive the drinks were. In the end, I was very thirsty and had to wash down my meal, so I went to buy "Tasmanian Rain Water" (I guess it's some kind of mineral water). Initially, we planned to go to Swensen's for dessert after Marche, but everyone of us was feeling full. In fact, I think I had too much potato; my stomach wasn't feeling too well.

We decided to go walk-walk. We went to Cineleisure for a while. After that, we strolled a bit, but soon ended up having nothing to do. In the end, Brainy left, and the rest of us accompanied Fengokill to Suntec City cos' he wanted to look at Gundam model kits.

At Suntec City, we visited the toy shop that incidentally was the tourney location for the upcoming small JJ tournament. Along the way, I saw Kung Pow being shown on TV again at the same place I saw it during the outing with my friends a few days ago. This time, it was the infamous cow scene. hehe.

After that, we went to Bugis Junction to shop some more. I wanted to check out Absolute Comics. I thought that I might be spurred by the feeling of Christmas to buy Tuxedo Gin, but I felt nothing and just walked out. *Sigh*

It was pretty late already (close to 10 pm), but surprisingly, the stores weren't closing for the day yet. They must have extended their business hours for Christmas. The rest were going over to their friend's place to stay overnight, so it was time I went home.

I decided to sleep early that night to make for the past day's lack of any sleep and the fact that my tummy was still aching from an over-filling dinner. But before I slept, I went to dig out my Kung Pow VCD to watch again.

On Christmas day, the first thing I did when I woke up was to go check the NUS intranet. My results were released that day. The first thing they showed when I logged in was "Congratulations on your graduation". Good enough. I navigated a few screens and saw that I got a 'C' grade for my J2EE project. Hey, not bad for 20+ hours of work. hehe.

In the late afternoon, I went to AMK to have a look since Bulaidi was going to have some sort of DM team tourney. When I got there, it was evening and only 4 teams were around. I joined Max's and Akira's team to play for fun.

We then had dinner at Sumo House and returned to the shop. This was when my "I need to get something for Christmas" urge came on and I stood there contemplating about the Nintendo DS again. Just like all the other times before, I still could not bring myself to buy a DS.

Oh, well. Christmas is over, but it is still not late to get something for myself. I'll come up with something. After all, I have been taking the MRT to save money for nearly a week already.