7th Jan

BATCH BBQQQQQ TODAY! Well, actually yesterday, because its so late.

Morning was given to RJCSB clarinet ensemble practice. Every time Matthew Neo walked in we confirm stop playing to laugh. Sincerely hope that does not happen on stage at open house. Anyway, am getting slightly better with my notes and timing.

Went to J8 to stone for 2 hours because I got the timing wrong... zzz. Finished reading Episode IV of Star Wars Trilogy (I never really read the book, only watched the film).

Happy birthday to Lucas! We gave him and Benni (belated birthday) a treat lunch at Cafe Cartel... sounds familiar heh. Today was everyone with Mixed Grill, and THANKFULLY, a good mushroom soup. No more strange minestrone soup.

And by us, I mean the biggest batch outing in our history, probably. There was Ryan, Jerald, Ying Zhe, David, Eric, Samuel, Russell, Benni, Leonard, Lucas, and myself.

Introducing the new form of DIY seating.

Anyway, we went shopping at the supermarket for barbecue stuff. Eleven teenage guys shopping in circles is probably the least efficient you can get.

In other words, we walked around the supermarket, and every time someone spotted something we might need, we dumped it into the trolley.

After which we proceeded to Eric's condo by 156! Highlights of the afternoon's activities were mahjong, XBox, and Audition.

After we got down to the BBQ pit and started the fire with some imba charcoal, we celebrated Benni's and Lucas' birthdays with... birthday slices! Or birthday slivers, whichever way you want to see it.

Between tending the erratic fire, cooking squishy satay, and eating raw fishcake, today certainly was fun. In the end, though, we left Ryan and Eric to cook while we all went to random in the kiddy playground.

(food cooking photo borrowed from Jerald)









-- quotable quotes --

"ryan's hairstyle is too cool for him" - yz

Now usually I don't quote myself, but ah well...

*touches fire*

"OW ITS HOT" - me

"is there a Tanah Merah Station?" - me

8th Jan

I am going to make this post into a longer one about my three-day outing marathon.

Today my batch went over to the RJCSB chalet in the afternoon. It's all the way in Changi region, some place called NSRCC. Like the not-so-sociable RI guys we are, we took one table and played all sorts of weird card games and mahjong, culminating in a long round of poker (using mahjong tiles as money).

Anyway, seeing that I had to go for a Ubin biking outing the next day, I decided to stay over at the chalet, while the rest of them (Jerald, Russell, Eric, Ryan, Benni) went home at about 9 PM.

Not that fun to be the only one from my batch staying overnight, but at least got to talk a bit more to the J2s. They kept going out for walks: first one was a 1.5 hour affair which I didn't participate in, second one occurred when I was asleep, and apparently they walked for 3.5 hours to Changi Village (got lost along the way).

I was probably the first to sleep, and took the whole bed (was actually trying to sleep on half of it to give space to someone else but after a hour of tossing and turning decided to heck care and sleep peacefully). Luckily I did that, or I would be totally dead during the biking the next day.





-- quotable quotes --

*while playing pig*

*hand whacks face*

*nose starts bleeding*

9th Jan

The next day, woke up at 7 AM or so to find the whole chalet sleeping except for Yi Jie, who was eating breakfast. Watched some TV until about 8:30 AM, then took a cab (for the life of me I couldn't find a bus stop) to Changi Village. Today we had Ben Ooi, Jaren, Shang Hua, Samson, Nigel, Nicholas, Stephen, and myself to meet for biking.

Was super early, with a really heavy bag. Because I stayed over, I didn't get a chance to dump any stuff, so I was carrying:

(1) Mahjong set
(2) Thick black book (Brisingr)
(3) Spare clothes
(4) Pencilcase
(5) Some clarinet stuff I forgot to unpack

Anyway, we took a boat to Ubin, and rented bikes (note to self: owes people money). After 10 minutes though, we had our first casualty... Nigel forgot to brake down a slope... but luckily it wasn't serious.

Cycling with a heavy pack is not something I want to try again. Never again will I take my mahjong set biking.

It's been a few years since I last biked. Thankfully it's not really something you can forget.

We cycled the beginner track, then went back already, due to some people's (including me) fatigue. Lunched at Changi Village, then planned to take 59 back to Bishan Interchange, but saw a 66 about a quarter way into the journey so hopped off and took that.

CHANGI IS FAR FROM BUKIT TIMAH! Took about 1.5 - 2 hours to get back home.

In conclusion, these three days were tiring but well spent!


-- quotable quotes --

"did you bring spare change?" - me

*someone gives me 50c*

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