A nice day spent with friends at Far East Plaza
Far East Plaza is a nice place to hang out. As it is in the city, it tends to get quite crowded. But there’s loads of things to buy and see there. I like it namely for the affordable and wide variety of apparel that were being sold there.
I recently bought some clothes at Far East Plaza. Each of the apparel that you see in this picture here averages at about 30 dollars each. One could easily go crazy with the range of clothes here.
Yesterday, I was at Far East Plaza again. But it wasnt for shopping. Instead, it was a day for meeting of friends.
My good friend Juli, asked for help in designing a logo and namecard. We met at Far East plaza as designated. As I turned around, she pointed to a guy who was right next to her and introduced him.
“Marina, this is Man”
Man is Juli’s boyfriend. We’ve talked about him quite a bit during our girl sessions and it was nice to finally meet him in person. Over lunch, we got to know each other and I cant help to think of what an adorable couple they were.
Man and Juli were always teasing each other. Hahaha! It was so cute. They said that they planned on getting married at the end of the year, God willing. We spent the time talking to each other. Man seemed a funny and friendly guy.
After we were all happy with the final look of the logo, we waved our goodbyes and I headed to try to find the ping.sg gang. There was a buybuttonz event going on. I saw a white booth outside of Far East Plaza, but where on earth are the pingsters? I twittered in desperation.
Luckily, Tstar picked up my message and adviced me to head up to the second floor where the fair was. It was then when I saw quite a number of booths being set up. I walked to each booth trying to find a familliar face. I must have made an entire circle around the fair and that was when I finally noticed DK. Finally! A familliar face!
Me : Hi! (DK doesnt hear me)
A guy who happened to stand in the middle reciprocated instead.
Guy : Err .. hi. You are?
Me thinking : Who the heck is this person?
Guy : Hi I’m Farinelli
Me : Alamak! Hi! I’m rinaz!
How embarassing! What a way to start to know another. Luckily for me, Farinelli was very friendly and easy to talk to. All feelings of embarassment quickly disappeared.
I quickly scanned around the booth and saw Uzyn and his girlfriend, Sek Ling, I finally got to meet Nicole and her boyfriend, Hendri. There were also arzhou, Ridz, Miccheng, Veron, Estee as well as others whom I unfortunately did not managed to catch their names.
It was so funny to see the gang acting so silly. It seemed like everyone was goofing off. I guess this pose was inspired by the picture that was made infamous by DK.
We headed off for dinner afterwards at the Ayam Penyet Ria restaurant . I’m crazy about this stuff. Ayam Penyet is an Indonesian dish that consists of a deep fried chicken with floss sprinkled on top, served with some raw vegetables and rice as well as extra hot chili.
Unfortunately, as our group was a little too big, we were split into two groups to fit a table. Everyone at our table seemed to like the speciality ayam penyet there. Here is a quick video of our dinner
Click here to watch in youtube
Clockwise from left to right : trecillia3678, Hendri, Nicole, Ridz, Veron, Miccheng, NTT, DK, CJ, Uzyn, Sek Ling, Farinelli and me.
After dinner, we chilled out for a bit at starbucks and had a bit of a chit chat. Just for fun I thought I’d do a quick intervew of everyone there.
Click here to watch in youtube
What a lovely evening it was. Anywhere can be a lovely place, with great company :)
May 8th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Hi Rinaz! U so cute!!!
May 8th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Rinaz,
I din see you at Ping.sg, you went shopping first huh.
Waaah! all go for dinner, never call me!
May 8th, 2007 at 12:32 am
It’s always weird to see and hear yourself in the video.
May 8th, 2007 at 12:43 am
damn funny sia the video! hope to see you again!
May 8th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Nice post rinaz! and its great meeting you :)
May 8th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Estee
Erm … cute? Anyway it was nice to meet you Estee, you were really friendly and bubbly and amiable and soooooo pretty!!! :)
Eastcoastlife
Shopping? Any more shopping and I think I’d have to eat instant noodles for the rest of the month hehehe … I went to meet up with my good friend first before heading to the booth. Its a pity I didnt see you! Maybe next time, yes? :)
DK
Hehe, check out ridz’s version here
Farinelli
Hope to see you again too! Oh, by the way, I think I’ve solved the mystery of your name. According to Wiki, Farinelli is an Italian opera singer. He’s said to be castrated to get that level of pitch for singing. Ouch!
Nicole
Thanks :) Hehehe! It was great to meet you and Hendri too! You were really fun to be with :)
May 8th, 2007 at 11:53 am
woah ping community is really ‘close-knit’ … i see plenty of ‘mature’ bloggers. no tEeNy bOoPinG bloggers
that multiple picture shots of you, photoshop eh
May 8th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Gee! Missed most of the fun this time. To think that I was there. :-p
Had been busy walking around and talking to the booth owners one by one about ping.sg and blogging workshops. Then rushed off for evening mass. So, your post here comes really in handy for catching up with what happened. Thanks, Rinaz. :-)
May 9th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Hi. Bloghopping around.
Nice multi-pic. Seamlessly deceiving.
May 9th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Sha
Come to think of it, yeah you are right. I didnt see anyone whom was under 18 in all of the meet ups. Come on over to the meet up Sha, they are really fun loving people :) After your exams of course ;) Hehehe
And yes, the first picture was done in photoshop. Its pretty easy to do. Click on the picture to go to the tutorial for it :)
Clappingtree
I’m sorry I missed you too :( Our timings didnt match each other :S
Wow, you went to each booth to ask them about blogging? How brave of you, I would have liked to see that in action! I hope that there will be many whom will be interested in your blogging workshop :)
Edroos
Hi, welcome and thanks for dropping by my blog :)
Actually I’m not really all that satisfied with the picture. If you look carefully the colours dont match. But I’m too lazy to retake the entire shoot again … hehehe. Go on and click on the picture to go to the tutorial and have fun making your own clone :)
May 9th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
twittered in desperation? hahaha!!! and i logged in twitter - i saw the messages.. hahah!!! really a lot!
May 10th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Yanni
Hehehe … thats because you havent logged in for a long time, of course there is alot of collected messages :P
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
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