That 42km!

I just came back from the Sec 4 dancers' 3D2N chalet and I really LOVED IT! Let me try to recall all the details and fun stuff, though I am sorry to say that there is a total lack of photos. Didn't really figured out the reason why nobody brought a camera along. LOL.

Day 1 - 26/12/2007

Meet Andrew, Chee Yew, Junhe at Clementi Central to buy the 'equipment' (according to my distant relative) for the BBQ at night in the afternoon. I was late again and Junhe was nice enough not to play arcade with Andrew and Chee Yew to wait for me at the bus stop for me! Walked to NTUC to get the BBQ equipment then Andrew said White Sands NTUC also sell the same stuff so its more sensible to get the things there so we dun have to lug things there. We wanted lunch so we settle for the cheaper hawker! No Tanglin Halt, so I settled for famous porridge stall which I believe the standard is dropping. Less tastier, longer waiting time. Andrew ate pig trotters, Chee Yew ate something that I forgot and Junhe ate chicken rice like yet again! Junhe and I were totally pissed by the dumb sugarcane stall prostitue-lookalike AUNTIE because she didn't tell us beforehand that adding lemon cost the same for students! Freaking 20 cents! Brought my Bata slippers and got onto train. Onwards to Pasir Ris! (We were running late)

Chat alot and explored Junhe's iPod Touch. Shana smsed me went we were reaching Pasir Ris and we only realised we were all on the same train then! Met up with many Sec 4 dancers like Mafia Sister GraceFUL (my another distant relative), Meiting, Audrey, Jeanette, Jeslyn, Yinghui, Weng Mann, Xing Yue. They went to get the chalet keys first while we get our BBQ equipment. Found the NTUC in the basement and we frantically looking for items with the Housebrand sign coz we get a freaking 5% discount which make things cheaper. I was like wondering why we buy new BBQ equipement stuff coz I think there should be people with these stuff already. Then Junhe told me we can leave it for the next user of the BBQ pit. I thought if everyone in singapore practises this habit then we can save money for ourselves and others!

Reached the chalet and got to know what Junhe looks out for in his 'dream' girlfriend! Poker was already hot in action by the time we got there and we immediately got down to our Mahjong action too! (I offered my mahjong, Andrew and Chee Yew lug it there :D). Stupid Junhe who claims he suck at Mahjong won like 4 times in a row (partly thanks to Andrew who kept feeding tiles) and our Northern Wind never ended in the end. Felt guilty about not helping out in the BBQ downstairs and so I went down to help out with the food. I FORGOT TO WASH HAND! Perhaps that's why Junhe got active bowels at night. Played alot of poker games such as Dai dee, Bridge and Cheat. I totally sucked at Cheat because I can;t help but to giggle laugh whenver I put down a card. LOL! Junhe brought along his Good Luck Chuck DVD because we thought we will be going over to Chee Yew's for the 2nd overnight. In the end the girls realised about the DVD and wanted to watch the DVD. Its R21 with sex scenes, dammit. How to watch with the girls. In the end we still watched the DVD because the girls know there will be sex scenes and still dun mind watching. Watched the DVD with the sex scenes on the Monkey Bar and on the bed fast-forwarded to save the embarrassment. I think that R21 movies have a lousy story line somehow. Actually Good Luck Chuck can be made into a good movie by removing the sex scenes and making the touching parts more pronounced.

Many slept for the remaining few hours except for Junhe because he have his dance practice at NJC later and he dunwan to miss the good times while Chee Yew and I went to find the MIA people. Turned out that Grace, Meiting and Yu Jie were having their own Poker session at a pavilion and we chatted with them. By coincidence, Cheew Yew and Meiting kept becoming partners in Bridge while GraceFUL paired with Octopi Yu Jie. I almost fell asleep on the bench when Junhe and some other sec 4 guys passed by to go Mac for some breakfast before Junhe leaves for NJC and he looked so darn unwilling lah! TOo bad he is already tied down by the DSA contract so he got to commit.

Day 2 - 27/12/2007

The 5 of us too ended the poker game soon after and we went to Mac for breakfast too! Was really considering going to NJ again with Junhe since he will be alone on the trip there. In the end didn't go with my relative because of an unknown reason. I think I was tired enough to not think straight. My mind was like thinking about Junhe, Mac breakfast, sleeping at NJ, etcetc. SO I am really sorry Junhe for not accompanying you!

Went back to Chalet and sent Junhe a sms full of 'dun oversleep's. At least it managed to keep Junhe awake for some time and he didn't oversleep! Those in the chalet tried to get some sleep to utilise the money paid for the room. We discussed about staying for the 2nd night but dumb Downtown East and even the Alohas are fully booked! In the end settled for Island Resort at East Coast Park, the successor of Costa Sand. Before we get to Island Resort, we indulged in Escape! Tickets were much cheaper at 7 bucks because of the accident in Panasonic ride. The first ride was the turning thing which I can't remember the name but it was exceptionally short. 2nd ride was rainbow. The view from the top was as good as ever. Then common sense went wrong and we played the Wet & Wild game next. Got totally drenched and was crowned the Wettest Guy there. Everyone else except Chee Yew, Jeanette and me played the Inverter. The Guys then tried to play the Go Cart but the waiting time is like an hour so we ended up getting hooked with the Family Coaster thing. A mini roller coaster but I think the feeling was as fun! Played the Carnival Racing Game and got 2 Octopus as prize. LOL I thought it was a total scam though. We left Escape and illegally sold all our complimentary tickets at 6 dollars! An entrepreneurial idea by GraceFUL!

Met Junhe again at Bedok MRT and he was a little pissed becasue he had to wait 20 mins to us to reach there! Lunched at Bedok Hawker and everybody was already tired and getting more irritable in their tone! Some left and the rest continued our day at Island Resort! Everyone immediately fell into lalaland while Junhe and I chatted about alot of lame things until the rest were starting to wake up for washup and dinner! Dined at Subway and rented bikes. Chu Harn and Chee Yew were complaining how expensive and unfilling Subway is. Its really once in a while that we will dine at Subway so forget it ok! Quickly returned to the chalet room because some wanted to watch The Golden Road on Channel 8. Left the Chalet at 10pm and we prepared for the night-blasting 42km bicycle ride through the new Park Connector Network (PCN). Junhe and I were already hyped up with the thought of being able to see transvestites real life! We began the ride at 1030 pm and not much idea of what to expect from the trip.

We crossed the underpass to the opposite side of the Expressway and found the first Park Connector. We dunno travelled how many Park Connectors and kilometers to reach the first 'Pitstop' at Bedok Reservoir. The trip was hard impressionable to write down details here. Only remembered I saw words like Bedok, Siglap, Tampines, Pasir Ris along the way. Sang like nobody's business becasue we were so into Bei Pan, Xing Bu Liao Qing and Goodbye, My Love. Ran into problems with the erratic PCN instructions after arriving at Pasir Ris because we lost the arrow which shows the directions to go. Trial and errored a few times before we reached Changi Village and the PCN Line was broken badly at Changi area because we see no path along the chalets there! reached Changi Village at about 3.40 plus 4 and we saw a transvestite immediately! Chee Yew didn't get a good look and kept looking back. Missed the opening to the Hawker centre and stopped at a junction. Then, Chee Yew's horror came alive when a cab full of transvestites stopped beside us and the ladies were like doing alot of slutty actions which traumatised Chee Yew until he lost his appetite.

Everyone was already feeling darn tired and hungry with a painful butt that tempers are all rising! Settled for Indian cuisine and left at 4 plus. Continued on the PCN which led us to the back of the Singapore International Changi Airport which was busy even at the night. Our butts were even more painful after the break and we all wished we could teleport back to the chalet.

Then Si Ian. LOL!

Day 3 - 28/12/2007

FINALLY!

We completed the freaking butt-smashing 42km bicycle ride! A total sense of accomplishment and tiredness and the feeling was very good! The feeling of doing something with your good friends rocks socks!

We reached at 6 and I saw the news about Benazir Bhutto being assasinated. And then everyone and I fell asleep. Woke up at 9.30am and bathed and prepared to check out lo! Ate brunch at Burger King. Tired souls started leaving East Coast and left my relatives, Meiting and Chee Yew and we started crapping and gossipping!

I really enjoyed myself thoroughly at the chalet not only because I got 2 relatives there, but also because I find people there are much more simpler than other people that I hang out with. And thats why I feel more comfortable and at ease with them. I can shout and scream, do stupid things and let them see my unglam look when I wake up and I know everyone is still the same them! Of course there are problems lying beneath but I think it is much simpler and its actually not much of a problem. That is also why I want to make time to go the chalet, because many will certainly change once they enter JC life and I want to experience their character or feeling the myriad of characters produces before they change.

Sometimes meeting up with people less involved in dance is a blessing because it will lack an element of competitiveness which makes me feel much more at ease. Though they are the so-called 'forgotten batch' as according to them, I find a stronger sense of values learnt from dance in them like looking after one another, unity etcetc. No craps such as dance techniques, jealousy, competitiveness and attention seeking, just pure love for fun, understanding for one another and altruism. Even the problems we met during the 3 days are innocent and simple.

I really hope we can meet up again soon and even after you guys enter JC, though you all will be busy enough. And I am missing everyone's crappiness, especially my darling JUNHE!

And I really will miss that pure innocence from everybody, because so many people has lost it.