its supposed to be a badminton camp but it turns out to be an econs gang chalet instead =D cos sylvia (ex-pres of badminton interest grp) jio the rest of the ppl to come for in instead.. n besides, the econs and badminton gang, at least to me, is difficult to seperate..
i onli reach sentosa just in time to join the rest for dinner.. well, how i wish i can join my frens for a whole afternoon of fun.. apparently it is all sunny in sentosa unlike in sembawang where im stuck at home due to the downpour when im about to go out. but never mind, there is always the photos =]
Random photos taken when they are in mid air...
after dinner, we went to watch the music fountain... the performance has definitely change for the better... i last watched it quite a few years back and thought it may be the same old thing again.. there is an element of performance now, kinda quirky and fun.. but somehow i have a feeling this is like the las vegas fountain show i saw on e tv.. is it good or bad?? subjective issue ba..
in for a rude shock when i reach the chalet and see the size of the hut.. with 2 mattress lying side by side and there is hardly any space to walk liao.. what's more, with 8 gals in a hut, it now looks more like a refugee camp.. lol...
wat is this guy doing here??!! oh no, sei lang!! ahh!!!
no lah, this is e badminton grp pres, ying chao..
sylvia's hai ren ji hua, cheng gong!!! hee heee..
"dun photograph me!!"
another sei lang??
no no, this is junxian - e only other guy staying over e nite
then we begin our journey in search of a good place to play sparklers.. hah.. initially we intent to just go to siloso beach and play but sylvia wanted to go to the southernmost point of Asis S'pore so after 45 min (or more??) of journey we finally reach Palawan beach and
taa-daa!! but our efforts to walk there is futile cos a couple had their wedding dinner held there earlier so the staffs nid to clear out the stuff and deny us entry to the island... sianz... nevertheless this incident didnt spoil our mood and we decided to play on the palawan beach instead..
i may say that is a beautiful sight when a sparkler was flying in the air, the photo above doesnt do justice to the actual scene.. think someone video the process but have yet to get my hands on it... no wonder sylvia term it as a meteor, i dun disagree with her though the actual meteor can be MUCH better... ( i can never forget the time i saw this fireball across the sky when im in NP, its 'journey' actually lasted more than 10s!!!! definitely magnificent!!!) well, it acted as a compensation for me since i last saw a meteor in dec 2004... anyway due to the sheer darkness, we are unable to find the sparklers that we threw up in the sky at the beach, so it might be better to avoid Palawan beach for this week or so, just in case... lol..
on the way back to the chalet, everyone is getting a bit high and we started singing.. and a whide reange of songs, from chi to eng to eng oldies etc.. then slowly it become a contest between the front grp of ppl and the grp behind... wasted that its not wed night, if not my guess is that most of us wont object to a night out partying... =P
throughout the night, it is the usual dai dee and bridge session.. but due to the prescence of more than 4 ppl, we decided to play asshole dai dee.. its is just like the normal dai dee but the last ppl holding to his or her cards is given the label 'asshole' and he/she is supposed to give his/her two best card to the 'king' (person who finish first) in the next round.. think we were making a nusiance out of ourselves while playing with the noise level we were creating...
fun game, everyone gets to be 'asshole' at least once... which is quite surprising cos the rules of the game made it quite difficult for the 'asshole' to fan shen, vicious cycle.. lol..
well, this also implies no one is a victor throughout the whole game, we manage to dethrone 2 long-time kings (yeah!!!) one of the king got dethrone after he said "wu di shi ji mo de, he is now dai dee qiu bai".. hah.. bao ying.. so next time rem to watch ur words.. then another fren after being king said she didnt realise being the king is so shiok.. *&^@#$.. stop it, my best position is only queen =(
thereafter is the bridge session as some decide its bedtime for them.. junxian, being the bridge captain in his JC days, decide to teach a newbie some tatics such as which card to throw and which card to keep.. my poor fren, think she's kinda traumatised but hopes she can absorb and digest all e info so that her skill can tu fei meng jin.. hope junxian can teach me next time, though he and a few others mention im considered not bad for a social bridge player (all thanks to almost-everyday bridge session in arts club last yr), i think i still need to brush up my skills in some aspect..
played all the way till 5am.. feeling pangs of hunger and we end up eating quite a lot of snacks in the midst of playing.. junxian bet tt me n another fren will hav no voice to sing ktv the next morning cos we are practically gorging up all the available potato chips.. heh, we'll prove him wrong.. ^^ all of us slept little and woke up at ard 8.30... and to our dismay its raining!!! that means tt we cant wash up cos its public toilet with the washing basin in the open... with no sign of the rain subsiding, we ended up washing up with someone holding an umbrella over us... what a first and unforgettable experience....
end of chalet, think 2D1N is a tad too short.. the fun shd go on for at least another day or two.. anyway the econs ppl proceed to ktv!!! ktv is our fav pastime and all of us v gian about it since it has been at least 2 mths since we last sang it.. and we have 3 more ppl joining us...
yen ting, jessica and peggy
(chio rite?? =P)
realise Kbox is pretty strict when it comes to 'chasing' us... e 3hrs is not up yet and we have a staff knocking on our door and say its e last song... damn... why are they so particular abt it?? the whole place is rather quiet and even though the crowd might come in later, it is rather impossible to fill up all the rooms right?? so why so gan giong?? and what irriates me is they are chasing us off before the stipulated time they gave us!! is it stricter enforcement on the management side?? well, they are on the verge of losing us as regular customers liao... how i miss the 'sushi guy'.. not missed by me alone, but also among the rest of the grp... hahaa
one last photo to signify the end of the chalet cum outing as well as this blog post... last time, at least until july, will e 9 of us meet again peggy leaving to HK possibly for good.. =( then me, jingni and sylvia will start work next week which makes it difficult to meet up during weekdays.. not v keen to meet up on weekends due to the crowd but looks like it will become e only time when most of us are free.. we'll see how la.. when there's a will, there's a way =)
