today the gluttons (minus siqian) sent hongyi off to china. we had a super fun time during hongyi's Great Lucky Draw Giveaway! lol! she brought a lot of illegal stuff in her handcarry, like toothpaste, travel wash etc, and her bags were too heavy. so she started giving away her stuff! including a book, a mug, travel wash and face wash! mengyuan was the grand winner with a total of 2 prizes! while melho the unfortunate didn't get any! hahaha, it was supremely amusing and hilarious.

we ate at burger king's, took several photos, then hongyi LEFT! sigh, time really waits for no man. noone is spared from its often cruel reach. but that's why we move on, forget or reminisce. the gluttons have really been probably my greatest friends in rg and rj, and i sincerely wish that we stay good friends for as long as possible. SIGH. we always wait till things have passed before truly appreciating them, guess that's inevitable and completely aligned with the human psyche!

anyways, going to changi airport, albeit by mrt, will always make my day! something about the place makes me excited, happy, sad and many other things simultaneously! someone said that airports are magical places of transition, lying on boundaries and borders, not belonging to any one city. isn't that fascinating?

i met up with benedict after that, to pass him some books to indulge in since he was feeling so aimless and empty after the hustle and bustle of activity over the past few days. and dude, you forgot to bring my lock and exam papers! honestly! your memory's worse than a goldfish's! and theirs is a 5-second one! and as usual, i learnt random weird bits of stuff from him again, like that funny-sounding ailment where sufferers fall asleep spontaneously, for example.

anyways, i found some more prom pics from benjamin's flickr site, benedict and preetha!

that's (from the left) trixie, preet, gerard and me!

benjamin and I. heh i think this is one of the photos i look good in, ignore benjamin. Haha! kidding la, sorry benjamin, your outfit's great... and of course your face also la! maybe cos it's quite dark and you can't really see my face clearly, that's why i get the impression that i look good, haha.

the food. this was the first dish, the cold dish or however you call it in chinese cuisine. there was squid, jellyfish, char siew, roast duck and erm...i forgot. i think this was the best dish in the entire menu, the rest kinda sucked big time.

artistic shot of the table placements.

and from benedict again, duh. because the ones i took with him using my cam were dark, blurry, or both.

courtesy of benedict khong, who took advantage of one of my many unglam moments as i was carrying ahmeng's bag, camera and other miscellaneous items. my face, as you can see, shows my feelings at the time. which incidentally, goes something like this: i feel so ill-used, having to carry all of someone else's stuff and feeling like a karang guni woman (or as benedict so articulately put across, a hanger with a whole lotta stuff on it), and then suffering to have my photo taken. :( poor me. but i shall force a smile out. :/