Thursday, July 27, 2006
Taking graduation photos is rather interesting when you have your sister graduating together with no less than 4 cousins; 2 guys, from NUS (both 1st class, btw), and 2 girls, from NTU.
So it was quite crowded in the studio, with 5 people in robes and square hats, all the other family members, and the photography team of 2. I'm happy to announce that my sister is the most photogenic of the lot. And also the most accomplished, earning $4k per month in US now.
It was quite funny to see the photographer snapping away with his professional gear, and while he takes a break to adjust the settings or change the lens or move the lights, the bunch of us quickly jump forward and snap away with our own cameras and camera-phones.
So after the studio shot we went Esplanade for some outdoor shots. By this time it was getting rather boring, as me and my other non-graduating cousins soon found out. My little sister was having a blast directing the other sister and her friends for their shots, but we guys, we are not really interested in that stuff, so we chilled at Hagen Daz. There were a lot of other graduates there taking photos; I guess Esplanade is a popular spot.
Photos will be up later, if I can find one that I don't look too badly in. Lol.
Went K-boxing on Tuesday night, sort of a final activity together before my sister flies off. Originally I thought it would be a me-and-my-sisters thing, but we ended up having quite a lot of people. After taking a while to "warm up", we soon became crazy, singing all the fast-and-upbeat songs, screaming into the mics and dancing on the sofas. It was crazy. Best fun I've had in a long long while.
Sang non-stop from 8 to 1. Quite damaging to my vocal cords, I'll say, but who cares. After that, went straight to the airport as my sister's friends were already there waiting for her (they had to catch the last train there). We arrived to find them playing Monopoly in the viewing gallery, imagine that. Well we left my sister with her friends, while I went Pacific Coffee to sit out the rest of the hours.
I discovered that Changi Airport is really a rather nice and quiet place at that time of the day. Very little people, very little noise. It was very relaxing to slouch on a sofa and read and sip coffee and nimble on cheese cake.
My sister's luggage was overweight by about 8kg, so she was lucky that she got through without paying the excess baggage fine. Her friend, though, was not that lucky, and her's was only 3kg overweight! Anyway, the checking in was quite troublesome for the US-bound; there was even a little questioning going on, making sure we are not potential terrorists.
Well, I didn't exactly cry. There was a little tearing to be had towards the end, but all in all it was quite drama-less.
One less sister at home. I've not quite gotten used to it yet. Usually it's me and her in front of our computers with the TV on at ungodly hours of the night, so it's quite weird to think that I will be burning the midnight oil on my own for the next 1.5 years.
She better buy me some nice things when she comes back to make up for the $175 I spent on that Roxy jacket of hers. Haha..
Won't be blogging in a long while after this, I think. So don't hold your breath for the next post. Until then, God bless ya'll.
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