Recent happenings...

Yes I know I should be blogging about my Vietnam holiday...or finishing up my updates about Ophir..but, those posts will take sooo long.  I have to look through all 1200+ photos of the Vietnam trip before I can post photos!  So, wait lah hor, wait :)

Have decided to just do this shorter one first.. :)

Cadet Officer Course Graduation Parade

Attended the graduation parade of 4 of my cadets where they were promoted to full-fledged cadet liuetenants (CLTs) after their 3 weeks course in NCC HQ.

The colour party

Parade march-in

Inspection of parade by the guest of honour, Chief Commando Officer of SAF

The adournment of rank by the parents of the newly promoted cadet officers..

...can tell how proud the parents were of their children..

I was very proud of them too :)

Parade march past

Congrats to the 4 newly promoted CLTs!  We'll see you guys in Jan ;)

Dinner @ Little Part 1 Cafe

Love these pictures that I took while having dinner at this small, cosy lil' cafe tucked away at a small road along Upper Thomson.  It's a little cafe that serves western food..suitable for small gatherings of friends who just want a nice quiet place to hang out and chit chat.  Thankful for DSLRs, which can capture everything so nicely :P

I just realised that this whole series of pics make it look like I'm doing an advertisement for them.  Haha..but I don't mind, it's a really nice place.

Has a really nice feel to the whole place isn't it?  Nice, warm, cosy, fuzzy feeling.. :)

Strained Finger

It's a whoooole loooong story...but here's the gist of it....

So it all started with my finger being hit by a volleyball while I was playing beach volleyball about 2 months ago.  Since then, have been experiencing slight pain whenever weight was put on my last finger on my right hand.

When I went to Vietnam, I probably aggravated it a little due to the luggage carrying and all.

So a few days after I returned from Vietnam, I experienced pain while trying to clench my fist. 

Went over to the sinseh, and......oh I so shouldn't have!!

Friends have chided me for going to the sinseh because they said I went to one that wasn't tried and tested.  Well how was I to know??  I had gone to another branch of the same chain before, and it was fine.  After I went to get my hand treated by the sinseh, the level of pain shot up by at least FIVE times the original level!!  She rubbed and rubbed and rubbed like there was no tomorrow, REALLY.  After she rubbed once, she asked me how I felt, and I told her it was still painful, so she rubbed again...then repeated the same thing twice, with the 3rd time being the most violent.  And she ended off with this pressure thingy....seriously PAINFUL.

Took a pic while waiting for the sinseh to come back with all the koyoks..

So I went home, thinking, all should be well the next day.  But nooooo....throughout the day, the pain just got worse and worse....until at night, I had to take panadol to ease the pain before I could even get to sleep.  And I woke throughout the night coz the pain was too intense. 

The super ultra swollen finger the next day.

Met some of my old friends for lunch on Sunday, and one of my doctor friends suggested that I take an X-ray because it looked like a possible fracture due to the immobility of the finger and the ultra swelling.  So off I went to Mount Alvernia hospital.

Doctor concluded that there was no fracture from the X-ray taken *phew*, and that it was a bad strain (of course, coupled with my most violent sinseh who rubbed like there was no tomorrow).  So off I went, with painkillers and a bandage to splinter my last finger to the 4th one so I wouldn't twist it.

Can't believe how I survived 2 whole days with the intense pain.  eeks.  Don't ever want to go through that again...EVER...

ACJ Choir carolling

So as usual, I went down to support the ACJ choir during their carolling session.  This year, I zipped over to Keppel Towers to watch them, and I was pleasantly surprised to see R from my batch, conducting the choir for the first time during carolling.  She had been choir teacher for as long as I'd been teaching too, and it was nice to see her taking over the conducting baton this christmas :)

The all so familiar concert attire...

I get the same warm and fuzzy feeling every year when I listen to the choir carol.  I guess it's because I was once a part of this closely knitted group, and seeing them carol just reminds me of so so much that I hold dear to my heart. 

Encore song "Have a holly jolly christmas", where the choir sang without a conductor :)

Every year when I watch the choir carol I'd tell myself that I'd make time to join them next year.  It's been 6 years now...let's hope I'd really join them next year =)

Looking forward to next week, bringing my cadets for 2-star kayaking, lunch with friends on Tue, S1 registration on Wed followed by Christmas gathering at my plc, watching my friend perform on Thur, and a wedding to attend on Christmas day.  *phew* :)

If I don't post before Christmas, here's wishing everyone a very blessed and warm Christmas ;)