Happy New Year! Alright so fast, it's back to the Rat's year again. Wah... turning 23 this year man~ Can't imagine i've already lived for so long~ I still feel like i'm still a 16-year-old teenage...
Last night went to Newton Food Centre eat my late dinner with 2 of my friends. Just went out of the train then this Japanese guy came and asked me how to go Newton Hawker Centre... As a mountain tortoise, of course i didn't know... Feeling ashamed, i gave a 'i also don't know' reply... Haha. The guy brought his whole family there to eat sia... Got young and elderly, one big family man~ haha, i was thinking like, if i knew from the start he's Japanese, maybe i could have said, 'wakarimasen, gomennasai...' Hehe. But oh well... Haha. In the end, the place which my friend gonna bring me to eat was just where the Japanese people were going to... Newton Food Centre~ Saw them there then, a little paiseh. Haha! It was very crowded there~ nearly 9 pm and yet there's difficulty finding places to sit. Hmm... The variety of food there surely is large... But the taste was just fine... Probably it's the food that we ordered ba. A lotsa foreigners there, pretty cool. After filling our stomachs, at first we intended to just go back home... But looked at the time, it's 1130pm... Just half an hour to 1st January 2008~ So i suggested, why not go somewhere to countdown? In the end we went Orchard, without any idea where there's countdown around there...
At Orchard, there's so many people and policemen on the street! And the amount of Bangla there is significantly scary~ They walked in big groups, and kept making those high pitch whistling noise~ Haha. Trying to create the atmosphere? Well, trying to create a hostile atmosphere i think... Haha... Since it didn't seem to have a place to countdown there, we walked further down towards Somerset... Along the way, the areas were still crowded, with friends, couples and families... People just sitting around, loitering around, catching the atmosphere of crossing from 2007 to 2008. Finally, we walked near to Dhoby Ghaut, the people suddenly becoming lesser and lesser. Still there's a gang of Bangla walking towards us. They looked pretty high, when they came close to us, suddenly one of them spray the 'don't know what it's called' thing on my friend~ A moment a shock there... i thought what the heck was that guy spraying!? Then we realised it was just the normal spraying can for celebration purposes which seemed to have extinct from my life for quite some years already... Haha. Luckily it wasn't any thing harmful to my friend, if not he's gonna get it from me! Haha! Walked a few more steps, and right in front of us, there was a big crowd... and we also heard the booming of fireworks. Wooo... so we'd reached Plaza Singapura, and there we could actually see the fireworks! Only managed to catch a bit though, and only those which shot high up then it could really be seen. Well, ya missed the counting down, but still get to watch some fireworks so it's fine! Immediately after the firework ceased, we hurried rush to take MRT back home so as not to squeeze with the dispersing crowds later... haha.
Anyway, here we are... 2008, a new beginning~ Gotta strive harder in my studies~ Gambarimasu!
