All in a Day's Work

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Went back to camp for CSM's briefing today, a last minute thing (not so uncommon in the Singapore Acting Federation). In fact, the one who informed me had absolutely no idea why I was recalled back, other than it being related to 'updating (my) MiW particulars'. MiW is the Mindef online website. For all of three hours (okay, so I was early, but he was late as well) several of us waited for his arrival, and when he did, he told us that we could go off after acknowledging on a nominal roll, which took all of two seconds! I feel cheated...

Anyway, planned to meet up with Siming in the afternoon, but that did not materialize, for it was dusk by the time he was released from camp.

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Made a last minute arrangement to visit the Singapore Science Centre today, due to everyone's hectic schedule. We were supposed to meet at MacDonald's, but upon arrival, I discovered that a visiting Secondary School was in occupation of the outlet (Yes, they had 'choped' all available seat within the outlet). Yao Shun was commenting about the spending power of young Singaporeans today (Most of them were queued up to buy something at MacDonald's) We were contemplating whether or not to watch the movie at the Omnitheatre (which costs 10 bucks), but on hearing that we'd get a twenty percent discount if we took up the SSC + Omnitheatre package, we decided to go for it. I must admit that the Mystery of the Nile show was rather good (minus the noisy school children, of course. But who could help it? We even overheard the hapless teacher muttering under her breath that it was the last time they were going on such an outing).

Many thanks should go to Jian Ming, however, who came all the way down to the Science Centre at so short a notice (It's around thirty kilos from his home, just if you're wondering...). Much appreciated. We stayed on until six, before linking up with Weizhang and Yao Shun again for dinner at Jurong East Central. Tried the minced pork noodles (Ba Chor Mee), which was recommended by Jian Ming's colleague, which wasn't too bad, but wasn't too different from the crowd either (haha... I guess I was expecting something that was, like... "WHAM!!!").

Well, many changes have taken place within the Science Centre since my last social visit (which was more than a decade ago). The experiments are more user-friendly (Some of the stations were down, as compared to most of the stations during my last visit) and engaging (As compared to the mindless pushing of buttons). We managed to cover most of the ground floor exhibits, but didn't have time for the other floors. Oh well...

A Penny for your thoughts? I'll give you my Two Cents worth

Makan - Porridge Buffet at Beach Road, Chomp Chomp, Genghis Khan.

Plastic Model - Sandpaper my Sherman well. Select an appropriate date for my next lesson.

Gathering - Organise one for my P-017 Combat Medic Platoon, one for my 42nd PTP Enhanced Ninja Platoon.

Session - Introduction to Network Marketing with Loren and Ming Qi on Friday (No obligations, of course).
Tour of Singapore - Pulau Ubin, Sentosa, Little India, Chinatown, the Zoo, Jurong Bird Park.

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