Dear Dreams

Huimin was the most sporting person who would always pose for pictures

Starting the fire

Spying the Sai family

Still waiting for food

Arrival of his previous one

Playing game

Still playing…

The girls

They weren’t smiling at Shujian’s quietness

Eating the fried rice

[Sunday, 31 December, 2006]

After the long cycling

My pretty and gorgeous princess

It’s all about Huimin

Pig does her work

Fenghui doing work by keeping the bicycles

After the early morning cycling, queuing up for bathing was a problem when there were only two bathrooms for over ten people.

Caught in action – Bianhong and Pamela

Stolen bed

The junior guys were up in their room playing wrestling that caused noises. Huimin and Pamela came into the seniors’ room to squeeze into our queen size bed together with Bianhong and Junrong. All of them except Junrong wanted to chat but ended up dozing off. Bianhong started making lots of noises and even tossed around, and thus I decided to leave the room and slept on the sofas.

Around two hours later, I tried to wake Bianhong up for his work but it was helpless. After some time, I saw a space on the bed and quickly hopped onto it. However, princess came in to ask me out with the rest getting ready to return the bicycles. All of them left soon and I was the only one waiting for Pamela who claimed that her butts were so pain that she could not cycle at all. After mocking at her for Junrong was riding her throughout the trip to East Coast Park that she should be perfectly alright, I asked her to wait Bianhong up to do it in her place. Nevertheless, Bianhong could not be waked up. I tried to cycle with one hand while holding to her bicycle but my skill was not up to it. Alas, I walked down with her but halfway, I decided to cycle over first before walking back to help her push her bicycle.

Upon my second arrival outside the bicycle shop with Pamela, everyone had bought their breakfasts and was ready to leave. I felt they were lacking of a leader who could account for everyone and thus would not neglect anyone. However, it was so sweet that the junior guys waited for both of us to get our breakfasts before returning. I bought “Shui Guo” to share with the “sleeping beauty” Bianhong while Pamela got a piece of small pancake.

After breakfast, most of them were off to bed except for Pamela, Junrong and Bianhong who wanted to catch a movie at Tampiness. They asked me along but the long lonely journey on bus 29 the night before was giving me a phobia. So, I continued my wonder sleep finally on the comfortable bed.

Preparation for the great work

Working?

Washing

Terrorizing the can

Cooking

Luncheon meat

Chicken wings

Afternoon, I woke up to see some of them preparing food. They cooked the plain rice and used it for frying fried rice immediately. The openin
g of the luncheon meat can was a hassle for nobody knew how to use the can opener. Yuting started using the chopper and made a mess out of the can. With similar experiences while helping my mum in the past, I was able to solve their problems.

Khong Wee, Shujian and Huimin were doing most of the work at kitchen and I joined in later to stir the fried rice, giving up my job as photographer. I supposed it was my only advantage that I was stupid to continue stirring the rice even when I was tired. There was lots of rice and the worst thing was that nobody knew how much ingredients to add and Shujian poured in little salt and sour each time; there was even second round of addition of eggs. Basically, I stirred for very long.

After the kitchen was cleared, everyone was like clearing away from it, leaving mess around. I was very disappointed to hear comments like “The cleaning up should be left for others” and “So they just left like that?”. I did not mind washing up everything but the corn on my wrist was at a bad condition already.

Huimin did the washing up of the kitchen and I stayed there to get ready to render any help. In the end, when I carried the wok over to the sink, it appeared that I was fooled to do the finishing job, which was so silly. Scrubbing off the burnt eggs from the wok was difficult and since the knife did not belong to anyone of us, I risked losing its sharpness by using it to scrub the food off. Then, princess’ parents arrived and saw me in my awkward task.

Huimin was the most sporting person who would always pose for pictures

Starting the fire

Spying the Sai family

Still waiting for food

Everyone pushed Shujian to start the fire while he was anxiety waiting for the arrival of Wileen. I knew the importance of taking down memories and therefore I did not want to dirty my hands. They seriously made a mess out of the charcoals but with the aids of solid fuel, it did not matter at all. I was quite worried about the usage of solid fuel for the poison and hence I did not use them despite bringing over to my birthday chalet, but somehow it was the best way to get the fire started.

Arrival of his previous one

The best entertainment was the waiting for Wileen’s arrival. We called out to Shujian for any cab passing by. It was funny to see him appear panic. Perhaps, I was more excited than him as I held the camera to prepare for any action as soon as possible. Upon she stepped out of the cab, I gave a snap but too bad Shujian was moving his head. He did not cherish his chance to behave like a gentleman to offer her drinks. I was not sure about their relationship after so many years but it would really be so devoted of him if he really liked her for so long.

Playing game

Still playing…

The girls

They weren’t smiling at Shujian’s quietness

Eating the fried rice

They began playing a card game which required fast reaction and I did not join in for I was holding the camera again and was glad that I managed to record down the ending of the game. I supposed it would be very good memorial for all of them.