CNY Day 2. (Friends)

Had a great time at Caius' today with the rest of the marist guys.


12.50pm was at Caius' house, I'm the earliest one and the ONLY one on time. The rest slowly came 1 by 1. By 1.45pm Caius, Chee Yu and I were tired of waiting already so we've decided to eat first! Then we had an awesome steamboat with everything prepared for us. His parents even gave us a $10 Ang Pao! Wah so generous.

Anyway between 1pm-1.45pm, Caius and I were playing some basketball in his house. He has the basketball's net and board which I think is slightly higher than the standard one. Plus we also played the Push-up game. He does one, I do two, he continues with 3 and so on. He was dying when he was doing 17 and when I complete 18 he forfeited the game. He says that he usually can play til 22, but I speculate that it was his mind that brought him down. Most of the time, I would display positive energy with confidence, and I think this will actually demoralize the people competing with me. I mean like.. If you're in the middle of a complicatedly-played chess match, your opponent is smiling with a calm relaxed look, you'll of course feel inferior with the mindset of "wah, he still so confident, I here panicking already, I don't think I can win sia". I think that's my specialty, although its somewhat a 'bluff' at most times; my confidence is greater than my capabilities.

We had steamboat til 4pm, then ate desserts of longans!! Played texas hold'em poker with chips for awhile and then we headed out to play basketball in the court nearby. There was a total of 7 of us - Caius, Poh Ann, Yi Yang, Nathan, Qin Ta, Chee Yu and myself. Heh, I always get compliments from them like... "Wei Jie got the most endurance" or "Block for what? Wei Jie fly how to block" and "Mark (guard against) Wei Jie?! You try mark him lah". I feel that this has links with the wanna-show-off-side of me. However, I believe the truth is not that humans want to show off, but instead, be recognized for their talents and give compliments where it is due. This is something I want to achieve, by giving compliments and recognizing good skills/effort/work. I find it really difficult to give compliments to guys, because I have this thing inside of me that feels that if I give compliments to guys too easily, that means my standard would be low. I'm still trying to get over that. As for girls... I only give compliments where they really deserve and I tend to hold back any form of negativity where I would say things like... "Nvm lah, its okay, there's still blah blah". I think the girls' part can maintain while I should give the guys more credit where it is due.


The best part was when we were trying to settle for dinner. Everywhere got a huge flow of delivery orders, at 8pm we haven't had dinner. So at 8.30pm, we decided that a few of us cycle to NEX,  Serangoon which is nearby (using Caius parents' bikes and of course Caius has his own bike) to get fresh ingredients for our steamboat. Caius parents were out, the whole house was ours, with their maid of course. We were really independent, I stayed with Heng Yi, we set up the stuff ready so when they came back, we could start cutting the ingredients, cooking and eating immediately. We even helped to wash and clean up but the maid at the end still insists that she does the work. But I felt really independent and happy doing all these by ourselves.

I chose to head home after all the cleaning at 1045. I could have stayed, shower and head over to Qin Ta's house just a few units away for the tonning and mahjong, but I guess I still treasure my body more (I was sleepy) and decided to head home for my clean nice shower. Besides, I still have to study and also to do up on Plan B.