WCG 2009

I never thought that I would be going to WCG again, 2 years after I attended it for the first time. Not to mention that I went with the Boy to catch the action, and also meet up with Shixian just when he touched down the night before!

Ha yup, while the Boy went off to capture some cosplayers in action, Shixian and I managed to enjoy the semis and finals of the DoTA matches. I remembered that I had to stand for a really long time in the past, but this time round, I was lucky to get some seats for most of the action =)

Congrats to Vietnam for winning the Asian Championships. They were really good for their drafting produced really good teamwork and results.

Anyway, what I’m glad at the end of the day was that while I managed to enjoy some DoTA action again after so long, I was also please that the Boy finally got to meet Shixian in person. And it seems like they hit it off pretty well =)

But then, it turns out to be a ‘bad’ thing for me for they both love to gang up on me and bully me verbally!! Poor Geri…

Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Truthfully speaking, I’ve never really been a fan of Ice Age. In fact, I found the first movie slightly boring, the the second movie slightly irritating. It was irritating to me because of the characters Sid and Scrat, though I know most people actually like them as they are usually the comic relief.

I have to say that the third installment was way better than the first two, because I was laughing most of the time. I’m guessing it’s probably also because there are dinosaurs in the film (yes I’m bias because I just like dinosaurs). But hey, most of the funny parts were because of the dinosaurs! Not to mention that the 3 baby T-Rex were absolutely adorable!! (They actually remind me of Huey, Dewy and Louie). So yes people, go catch it if you haven’t, because they do deserve the 4 popcorns Melanie Olivero gave (she is one movie critique that doesn’t give out popcorns that easily).

Oh, oh, and I forgot to mention, I actually watched the 3D version!! The Boy was really nice to spend additional money to let me try out my very first 3D movie, and it was quite cool wearing the 3D specs to watch the film. Besides, he  looked especially cute in it!!! =D It’s such a pity though that I did not take a picture of him in it…

On a side note, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen was only mediocre to me (Melanie Ilivero only gave it one popcorn out of five!). While I am a transformers fan, I think I’m just a little disappointed that there wasn’t enough airtime for the individual Autobots like Arcee, Ratchet etc, though I did think that Soundwave was really cool…

The Contructicons also died too easily!! Not to mention that they changed the robots to become a 4-legged like creature when Devastator is actually a biped when they combine. I don’t really like it when they change the characters too much…

Overall, I felt that the movie was a little draggy, though the effects were pretty cool… Plus and minuses on both sides, which I felt it could have been much better.

Weekend Activities

We went on with our activitiy spree during our last weekend, as this time, we headed to Jurong’s Superbowl for a quick bowling session.

While I may have played bowling more often than I did with pool, my skill was still not as good (Average scores are only hovering around 80, which is quite sad…)

But then again, seeing how the Boy did so well, I’m glad he enjoyed himself.

Next up, guess where we went?

Lakeside Fishing Village for prawning!!

I never thought that in my life, I would actually try out prawning, especially when I’m not a fishing person. So after our bowling session, we had our first ever prawning session at 1am! It was amazing that I could still stay awake, having to share 2 rods among 7 people, of which we had to play a waiting game with the prawns.

Amazingly, we managed to catch some prawns. But… It was only 3 miserable prawns… We found out in the end (from a nice person) that it was due to our bait. We should have actually bought the worms instead of the free meat pieces!

So at the end of the session, not only did I become a panda, but I came away with ’some experience’ in prawning. Not sure if the Boy would like to give another session a go, since he seems pretty excitable about the whole event =)

Pool

With us running out of ideas of what to do, I guess the Boy and I decided to ‘regress’ back into our childhood years when we started playing what you call ‘teenage games’. Hence, with lots of time to kill on Friday night as we decided to catch a late night movie of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, we decided to play pool in order to kill some time.

I feel that his shot of me is way cooler than my shot of him.

So yup, that’s me playing pool again since like one year ago? I’m pretty rusty, though I’m glad I didn’t do too badly (at least my breaking of the game has improved!). Still, that didn’t stop him from winning all the games… =(

Swimming Time

Over the weekend, the Boy and myself finally got ourselves to a sports complex for a swimming session =) It’s been donkey years since we finally got ourselves there, as I was lacking a decent swim suit, while he did not have a pair of goggles. Little did we know that getting these items took us so long!

But we finally got down to it, as we headed to Jurong West Swimming Complex. Check out all the water slides!!

While i really looked like fun, I was more focused on getting my dose of exercise. So, 12 laps it was, in which I ached pretty badly after that… And while I was really tempted in trying out the slides, I was intimidated by all the kids…  Still, that didn’t stop me from trying out a little wave pool that goes around the water slides, very much like the one Fantasy Island had last time. However, due to the lack of floats, all we could was to let the current swish us along the pool, which the Boy had quite some trouble due to his long legs as claimed by him =) For me on the other hand, I had quite a fun time just letting the current carry me along. It felt really therapeutic =D

So yea, that’s us at the end of our water-splashing session. And yup, my face became so pale, the Boy attributed it to osmosis. But then again, he attributed all body-changing- stuff-during-swimming to osmosis =)