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Friday, December 03, 2004


I'm baaaaack! Finally. Missed my bed, missed my computer(internet connection) and missed people... Before I go on, GER! Meet me soon k? Then I can pass you your wires and you can help me upload pictures and I can go around sending them to people. Kay?

Anyway, I spend about 4 days and 4 nights there, not including the time I was at grad night, and the place is fantastically big. It's got a court yard, linking the rooms and the living room + kitchen together, 4 rather large rooms each with their own attached toilets, another back yardish sort of thing with two bbq pits and a bbq table + bench and a patio leading to the back yardish thing. Then there was a big tv, with rather bad connection and we lugged a smaller one there so people didn't have to fight over channels.

But anyway grad night first. The food wasn't very nice, except perhaps the cheesecake and berry crumble. The waitresses/waiters could hardly wait for us to clear up and be gone, enthusiastically asking and removing plates whenever and wherever they could, even if you said no. The entertainment was rather floppish as well, since it was helmed entirely by our school people (not that they were bad) but we were promised an entertainment company. Either that or the entertainment company meant only the DJ. Took photos and pranced around awkwardly (while others danced) and took the erm bottle of vitamin C that the school gave us. It just feels good to be back with the class even though certain people are still around, and still as irritating as ever. Okay, skip to chalet

[291104] Night 1

Reached the chalet at about 12 plus, and changed out of my heels to nice floppy sandals. Which reminds me, high heels are fun! Essentially because I get to be really tall for a while. Just that it's kind of tiring and hurts aftar a while, but still fun! Alice couldn't be taller than me even if she spiked her hair more, 'cos she was in flip flops that day. Anyway, I just bathed and slept on the floor since I was quite tired and my feet felt weird.

[301104] Day 1/Night 2

Woke up at 7.35 in the morning, and if you know me well enough, it's abnormal. My usual wake up times range from 9am to 12 noon. And because of the awful hour that I woke up at, there was nothing good to watch on tv, not that the tv was of much use, since the reception was very gross and entirely capable of raising my degree further and ruining my eyesight. Went swimming at about 10, minus sun block till about 12, and ended up burnt and red. The colour I would still be for the next few days. Had lunch and played with the large beach ball with my cousins, throwing it up to the second level and letting them knock it back down. Then played hopscotch in the courtyard and badminton. So essentially I did lots of exercise of sorts, more than I would at home anyway, since no one to play badminton with etc. Then had first bbq of about three or four more to come, and learnt how to play mahjong! Of course I'm still disgustingly bad at it, and I haven't figured out why yet. But never mind, practise makes perfect, anyone?

Slept quite late I think, don't remember why though, but spent the night on the floor with my sleeping bag and the mini pillow again. By this time, I was desperately missing a pillow whereby I could turn and not land up on the floor. However I am immensely proud of my nose, since I was sleeping in an aircon room and managed to evade the flu for the past few nights.

[011204] Day 2/Night 3

Woke up in the morning, aching... I know I'm lan, and my face and shoulders hurt! Sun burnt le... And my after sun lotion was at home... =( So miserable, I woke up even earlier that day, at about 7.05am. Which proves that I am immensely unused to the environment there. Once again, stoned in front of the tv and at 8am, watched Thomas the Tank Engine, and came to realise, or observe that the people in TtTE don't move! Only the eyes of the trains/carts move and they roll around, but the people are in a permanent pose with the voice overs talking. <- Bored! Then went to fetch sab and ying ying, where we played cards, daidi, heart attack (minus ying ying), mahjong, monkey, bball (with this other group of people and small boy who was quite pro), scrabble (minus sabrina), badminton and treasure hunting. The treasure hunt was organised by the chalet people, and we had to answer questions and scavange for items as well, inclusive of 1) a red sock 2) a swatch watch 3) a $100 note 4) picture of a dog 5) a can of food

We managed to get 3), 4) and 5), then we borrowed 2) from some guys who were playing soccer beside the seminar centre. We didn't win anything in the end, but it occupied time to some extent. And sab, ying ying and I spent most of the night by the pool, on the deck chairs, talking about stuff. Quite fun. We talked about a lot of weird stuff, and it was quite sad that we san que yi again... (xiwen was still sick... -pat pat-)

The three of us were quite stoned by the end of the night, and when we played mahjong with my cousin, we were immensely giggly and very very VERY slow. If the pais fall down, we start laughing, and the reactions were chao ji man. Someone can throw pai, then we all stare and suddenly someone goes, "Pong." Especially ying ying, I know I was very slow for one, but I was pondering about the zha hu thing, since you can only hu when you have dai, but I didn't have dai... But since we weren't playing with money, no one really cared so anyhow hu lohz.

[021204] Day 3/Night 4

I think we stayed up till about 3 or 4, then I woke up at about 7 plus, slept again then woke up finally at about 9, whilst sab and ying ying woke up earlier than 9 and were all awake and stuff.

Then we played more badminton and attempted not to aim for the drains, but I managed to hit another shuttlecock onto the roof on a different side this time from yesterday, and slightly later, my cousins managed to whack the beach ball there, leaving it stranded on the roof, until someone from the office came to rescue it later. Whilst my cousins went off to escape theme park, we played 3 people mahjong, where it was chao easy to hu, and everyone seemed to be waiting for the same pais...

After which I sent sab and ying ying off, then stoned in front of the tv waiting for my darling juniors + seniors to turn up. They reached at about 7 plus, and my nice uncles went to pick them up from the mrt station since they all missed the shuttle bus. And since we assumed laoshi + junhua, caina, jaime to be lost, they all started eating first. Lifern managed to finish an entire plate of satay very quickly, such that the people at the other side didn't even realise that there was satay. Then all the rest of them were interested in were marshmallows! Marshmallows are only nice when they are slightly hard outside and all mushy inside, so I normally roast one at a time, but my juniors very pro. One stick can stuff 3 marshmallows, but I don't think all will be toasted nicely ba, so nvm. The sec 2s and 1s left quite early, and laoshi managed to bring lots of food and his own beer to the bbq. Then took out the ice box for him and he managed to sit on it XD complete with 'crack' sound effects... Ger was trying very hard to control her laughter and not spill whatever drink she had, and laoshi was very amused as well... Somehow I couldn't imagine him not seeing that rather big box on his chair, but oh well.

Then we started playing with nutella + bananas + marshmallows, extremely fattening and sinful, but still yummy nonetheless. And we sat down and yakked and yakked till past midnight, when everyone was summoned back by their respective parents and I saw junhua's chio hulusi! Very fun lahz, which makes me look forward to co chalet, which I recently heard has been confirmed from 20th to 22nd. And about time too.

Finally I managed to get an empty bed to sleep on, with a longer pillow + mattress and blanket. I missed my bed so much and my pig, and bolster and stuff... =(

[031204] Day 4

Woke up in the morning with a horrid sore throat, still red, and had a sort of rushed breakfast before we were bundled out of the terrace and on our way home... =) Reached home, bathed and went online for a while, since I missed my com too, read blogs, checked emails and stuff, before plonking on my very familiar, comfortable bed and sleeping till the evening. I essentially had two meals that day, since I was insistent on detoxing after all the rubbish and junk food I had. Nice to be back home. -yawn-