Had a craving for Red Rooster after whacking math and House the whole morning. Doesn't taste half bad actually, the Quarter chicken (yes there's a chicken thigh buried under those chips) was nice and moist, like KFC original recipe chicken, sans '11 sekret spices' (its actually more like 5 nowadays, like cornflour msg etc). And I realise that over here, they use chicken salt instead of regular salt for their chips, same as the local KFC. Coleslaw was rather decent, but still couldn't beat LJS coleslaw in terms of taste.
Presenting notable hoot of the day from Woolworths: A lid! No more ill-fitting lids and splatter!
Went to the NDP event at night. Met up with Jia Yuan and Kiyoko outside the building, and queued in the cold for like 10mins, and another 10mins inside for registration.
As you can see, SO MANY PEOPLE LA! Really people-mountain-people-sea.
Bumped into another familiar face there: Richard Lu! He's a 2nd-year biomed student at UniMelb, doing Genetics. He's there doing volunteer photography and crowd control. Tried to get a shot of him, but he kept moving around, so I guess this would have to suffice.
Met Qizhao too, he was there with his Monash people.
Dinner was buffet-line style, with stuff like chicken rice, chap chye, char kway teow and beef rendang. Food wasn't fantastic, but it tasted really good due to the separation of this from my daily diet.
After dinner, we were all (literally) herded towards the lecture theatre, where the telecast of NDP was to be screened. Waited for another 15mins, probably due to some technical issues with the equipment. And as you can see the queue was super long again.
And this was my ultimate fail attempt at zi-pai-ing. Too close to my face and Kiyoko kept dodging the camera (camera-shy). Well the others were crap so I didn't bother with wasting my bandwidth uploading them.
So who was this elusive girl who appeared blurry on the above image, and what was she doing at the NDP event? She's a Japanese student at RMIT doing International Studies, and she lives in my building, room 509. Her family came over from Tokyo to Singapore when she was just a wee kid, and she spent most of her education years in SAS (Singapore American School). So yeah that was just a little info I gleaned from talking to her, too much and I'd be bordering on creepiness.
So yes, we watched the (wayang) parade, cringed at the bad attempts to inject "energy" and "conflict" into the event, sang the songs, stood up for the pledge/anthem, did various other stuffs. For just that moment, I actually felt good. T'was something about the atmosphere...
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