A Friend In Me

The last two days made me realise just how much fun time spent with friends can be.

On Monday, what was supposed to be a tasting of some of my cooking and a quick viewing of the new condo we're supposed to move into in June with one friend turned out to be one heck of a time with three. Called up Angeline and asked her if she's free for lunch at my place, and we decided to invite others who were free on Monday. The others turned out to be Hsien Yew and a new girl, Pamelyn.

It was about 10 in the morning, so I suggested we went for a jog/walk at the Kiara Park hill/jungle (near Bakti in TTDI). Oh man, did we test our stamina there! It was a great time to catch up with them too, and get to know Pam.

When we finished at about half past eleven-ish, I lead the way back to my house where everyone got a chance to take a shower. All of them pitched in to cook lunch (under my direction of course - hey, it's my kitchen and my recipes ;P) and took turns to use the shower, so lunch was ready in about an hour. Got good reviews of the eggplant salad and angel hair with sausage, so I will be posting those recipes here soon.

Well, we got 3/4 of an hour to kill before Pam had to go somewhere else, so they decided to try out the Wii. Tried to use the karaoke mikes on the Wii, but they failed again, so we went multi-player on a racing game. That was really fun - I've never played the multi-player version with two remote controllers and two nun-chucks before, so it was a good experience.

I didn't actually get to surprise them with the new condo, but it was a good time nonetheless.

And yesterday evening Hsien Yew suddenly surprised me with free tickets for a preview of Toy Story 1 & 2 - in 3D! Was supposed to shop for ingredients for tonight's meal for the family with Dad, but decided to do that solo in Mid Valley after picking up the four free tickets since I was the closest to the shopping mall. Didn't get all the items on my list, partly because they don't supply them in the Jusco supermarket in Mid Valley (should have shopped in Carrefour instead - that's bigger - but Dad has the J-Card).

We met up before the screening. Hsien Yew brought Pam and Joshua, so good to see him again! We had a bit of time to catch up, so it's cool.
Our seating was terrible, it was too much to the left and the screen was unusually small, so 10 minutes into the movie we swapped to some vacant seats in the middle of the third row from the top. This wasn't so good either, our view was slightly blocked by the railing, so at the interval between TS and TS2 we "upgraded" to the row above us.
I've seen both the films before, but it was still quite fun to watch, and the 3D effects were really good, unlike some other 3D films. I guess after so many attempts they finally got it right. lol
The movies finished at 20 before midnight, and all-in-all it was a fun time. Myself, got some tweaking to do on my laptop so I only slept at 1.

I don't usually do this kind of stuff with school friends - they're either not free all the time or wrapped up in their activities all the time, so it got kind of depressing after a while of asking them out and got rejected again and again. Going out with church friends was refreshing, and I'd definitely do it again.