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Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 12:10 AM
Time of our life
Friday marked the last day of A levels. It was supposed to be the day of NY’s dinner and dance but my class decided to skip it =P Instead we had our class chalet!I was looking around for satay suppliers a few days before chalet. Junjie recommended the supplier which we ordered from last year, city satay. So I went to their webby and picked the shopping cart and was going to finish the form only to find that they don’t deliver to Sentosa. Since I didn’t know what address to put for the delivery, I decided to call the helpline the next day. City Satay helpline was an epic failure. I was transferred through 4 people. The first couldn’t speak English. The second didn’t know anything about delivery services. The third wasn’t sure about delivery near Sentosa. Luckily they were saved by their manager. A day before chalet I went in search for sparklers. The thing about sparklers is that cheap ones may not work well if they are spoilt due to getting caught in water and the ones with smoke isn’t really nice to play with. Went to AMK Hub’s ntuc to get it. Reached home and received a shocking sms from ZP. He told me that his mum couldn’t get sotongs and stingray, so we may need to get some substitutes. I suggested the bacon wrapped with the golden enoki mushrooms so we did get it in the end. Anyway this was one day before chalet and also one day before computing paper 2. Essentially I didn’t really study much for paper 2 ._. Matt almost gave me a heart attack when he said he left his stuff outside my house. It wasn’t there when I got home. In the end he mistook my floor number for 15 instead of 16 and his bag and guitar was tucked nicely behind the gate of my neighbour one floor down... Computing paper ended and matt followed me back home to get all our stuff before heading to ZP’s house in tpy. Met ZP and Jaslyn at tpy interchange. ZP was all wet even though he bought an umbrella from 7-11. He totally got ripped off from 7-11. Paid almost twice the price for vodka. Bus down to his place at tpy. His dog still as fierce as ever. Started to wrap the enoki mushrooms in bacon with matt, zp and jas. We were stingy with the bacon at first, only using about ¼ length to wrap the enoki. In the end there were too much bacon so made fatter ones with more bacon used. ZP’s mum and dad got back, we packed all the food stuff and got our way to vivo in two separate cars. Matt fell asleep while I failed at directing ZP’s dad to vivo. I didn’t know where to alight at vivo. Lucky ZP’s grandpa car was ahead so met up with him in the vivo carpark. Met up with the rest of the class from their shopping at the Sentosa train and trained down. This time we stopped at beach station, not imbiah. Checked in to a super small room and a man came with another tv and started installing it coz the one in the room was spoilt. The fridge was a mini fridge so it was impossible to store the food stuff in there. Got some ice from 7-11 with dansu, junjie and Clarence and walked back to pack the food. The ice was all stuck to each other so dansu started smashing it with smaller ice pieces and when that failed tossed the big pieces into the bag and smashed them against the wall. It worked and so we managed to preserve the food from rotting. After walking down the beach of Sentosa, we finally decided to have dinner at Café del Mar. I had some sort of seafood spaghetti and a hot mocha. The seafood was fresh and the mocha was good. SJJ had some sort of seafood stew which was quite unique... only thing was that his potato was downright horrible. Bill came to about 330 in total. After dinner some of them left. After sending them off, junjie and I were discussing about the bell that rang the previous time we came to Sentosa. I suggested that it could have been some sort of motion or pressure sensor, so we headed to the bell to test it out. I was so wrong. The first group consisted of ZP, jas, dansu, junjie and I. We walked everywhere under the bell, near the bell to no avail. We were about to give up. Junjie was just saying a line in Chinese that if we were to leave now and that if the bell rang when we went down, we will definitely regret not waiting another 5 more minutes. Just as he finished that sentence the bell rang. It was such a surprise, like someone answering junjie’s prayers. We stayed for another 15 minutes and the bell rang again. We got the timing and decided to come again at 12am. This was because the other time the bell rang 3 different songs during 12.30 and we felt that the longest bell would most probably be at 12am or so. So the plan was suppose to be camp at coffee bean at 11.30 until sometime near 12 before heading up to the bells. ZP and jas got stuck to the Wii playing raving rabbits so in the end only Junjie, tricia and I went for the second round. We were really late, only leaving the chalet some time near 12. We managed to get on the tram and arrived at beach station with 4 minutes left on the clock. We rushed up through the beautiful lighted path to the bells with about a minute left. The time was up but nothing sounded. We waited another while more but nothing happened. It was disappointing. We went down and wanted to have some supper at coffee bean only to find that it was closed. One by one the girls went back. Took a bath. The heater was spoilt but luckily the cold water was quite refreshing. Tricia was going out so Wh and I accompanied her to the taxi stand. We tried the button to open the gate but there was no response. In the end we travelled through the other ‘shortcut’. It was pitched black and I didn’t realise it was so long during the other visit. The tree with the tube top could be seen in the moonlight and after a while pass that tree we were out. Saw the taxi at the stand and Tricia cabbed out of Sentosa. The remaining guys and jas in the chalet were playing wii. Clarence, matt and I were tired so we turned in earlier but didn’t really manage to sleep until the wii party ended around 5am. Matt got himself tooth pasted by ted and zp. Ted was speaking in a ridiculous low voice during the operation. We slept for a while before breakfast. Woke up and realised that Clarence was back already from skating. After some washing up, we headed towards the bus stop and boarded the bus to subway. My right leg was all itchy, having bites all the way waist down. Had bacon and eggs bread from subway which wasn’t half bad before going over to coffee bean to get a white choc ice blended. The view was great, akin to another country. I guess the new theme park would be quite popular for a period of time after its opening. After breakfast we walked around the beach and was trying to decide whether to get a package deal for wavehouse + luge + some indoor shooting game. We decided to go cycling in the end. We rented a $5/hr bike and started cycling towards beach station. According to the uncle there should have been a route about 4km in the direction of beach station but couldn’t find it so decided to turn back and go the other route. I had initially wanted to bring them to the dragon trial but missed it and continued up the road. After realising that there would be no way to loop back to the start, we decided to turn back. On the way back we found the dragon trail that I blindly missed before and so we went in. It is so different in the day from when it is in the night. The terrain was tough as there was lots of upslope. Wh and ted skidded and fell on the way out of the trial as it was really slippery. Overall I guess that was the only activity we did in Sentosa. We returned the bike and got back to the chalet. I got a call from city satay. The guy said he was 10 minutes away from vivo. The person told me that they were going to deliver from the time 3-6pm but in the end it was 1-3pm on the delivery guy’s paper. Tricia just got to the chalet not too long ago and tagged along. We found the delivery guy in the carpark and I realised that they gave me an extra 1kg of satay sauce. We took a train back to chalet and by the time we got back most of the girls were there already. As it was still raining we skipped lunch and played games indoor. Played raving rabbits for the first time with lee keat, shu hui and andy. It was fun =P The rain stopped and we finally got moving for bbq. Went to pick up the aluminium tray and walked over to the pavilion near chalet. I felt it was a good place for a bbq but didn’t realise that there was no lights there in the night. Started stacking charcoal and lighting the firestarter. It took a long time before the fire was up. Walked back and forth from the pavilion to the chalet about 4 times as we either forgot some food stuff or needed some other equipment. Bargained with the lady to borrow a knife to get the pineapple sliced. Jiajin’s hammock looked great and even managed to hold matthew. I never got to try it though as it rained halfway. Wh and I were fretting over untying the hammock as someone tied a dead knot. We used lots of satay sticks to loosen the knot and finally wh managed to get the knot undone. Did some cooking of satay and fish. The fish tasted just like stingray. Fired started to lose too much heat so ted and Clarence went to get more charcoal. The new batch of charcoal was so sooty. After lots of fanning we finally manage to get back to cooking. Halfway celebrated the birthdays that we had missed from dansu’s to mine. I was dehydrated so went to 7-11 to buy a drink. When I came out I saw zp and Jas. Jas was leaving but the train service had already stopped. I noticed the shuttle bus out so took it out together with them. The bus uncle was so nice. He told another bus uncle to let us sit back free as I asked him for that favour upon getting on. Zp and I got back a while later and caught junjie, lqy and his girl taking a taxi. Said bye and took a tram after zp bought a big gulp from 7-11. We passed by the pavilion, only to find the class making their way back to the chalet. Called some of them and the tram uncle waited as some of them got on. Somehow I felt the bbq ended too early. There were some remaining food. Now that I think of it they were actually the prawns and sotongs... totally wasted. Clarence got a mastermind for his birthday. He opened it and he tricia and I started to play. It was pretty fun guessing what the colors were. I got a billabong bag which was really nice. It’s so handy as I don’t really have a decent bag for outing. SJJ got a black knight set which was just so hilarious. It suited him so much =P We borrowed the majong table and some of them played it. I on the other hand was dead tired so I went to sleep after mastermind. I woke up only to find that the girls had already left and that I had missed some interesting proposals. Packed up the room and went for breakfast at the in house café with ted, Clarence, sjj, zp and matt. I had mee siam which was pretty good. That pretty much ends the 3days 2 nights at Sentosa. I will really miss all the times I have with this class as this is probably the one of the best class I’ve been in. The future ahead is still as foggy as ever but I guess I’ll take it a step at a time. Gonna work 9-21 dec at suntec. I’ll be able to recover my spending this chalet by Christmas! =D |