Back to Vivo

The time and place were confirmed way back, to around early April, where we first sat down to think of a good place to hold a birthday celebration. Finally, that day arrived, and today, though there were hiccups along the way, things didn't turn out to be as bad as they seemed to be. Earlier on this year, we went to Vivocity, three quarters of our class, just to help a friend who was always clueless on his fashion sense to get three sets of clothes for the Chinese new Year celebrations. Today, we were back there again, this time, for a different purpose.

Things started today with a two-hour long return trip to MacRitchie Reservoir at 8am, as I had to take my brother there in time to come for his guide assignments there each Sunday.

So, did some stuff from 10 to 2.30pm, before leaving the safety of the iron gates to head down to City hall to meet Sean and Cherie to get a group gift for the birthday girl who would meet us with others at 5.30pm later on. Turns out that the bag we intended to purchase was not on sale at Raffles City, so, it ended up with us heading down to vivocity instead to join Joycelyn with the search of a gift. In the end, we bought a green Tee and a pair of flip flops as the gift. It was close to 5.30 when we were done, so we headed for the intended meeting point, which was in today's case, the Harbour Front MRT station. For the second time, Weiwen(the birthday girl) was right on time. Maybe we should have asked er to arrive 30 minutes earlier since her church session had ended earlier today. Thadd, Lim and Fiona were with her when we arrived.From there, we decided to head to Marche' for dinner. Priscilla and Jerome joined us at the restaurant a little later.

Since dinner ended early at 7.50pm, we cleared our bills and went to a nearby arcade to wait for Sean and Cherie to finish their meal in the most romantic way. It took them quite awhile to finish, so we were able to delay the final surprise a little longer. While Fiona and I went to Bread Talk to get the cake, the others made their way to the amphitheatre to get ready. Finally, everything ended with a photo taking session(a Must Have whenever Jerome is around for our gatherings). Tomorrow's going to be another pretty relaxed day with most of the day spent at my cousin's place to celebrate my Grandmother's birthday(could that mean another cake to savour?).

Yea, those were the times when we were still alien to one another. True enough, it turned out that gradually, one of us would get attached to someone we knew well from that small union of friends who were always close to each other, and perhaps, maybe, even until each of the 5 of us found a partner... Would that day for me come soon?