Sunday Of The Week
Now, after a very eventful Saturday, it was Sunday! Wooohoo! The day where Ex 2B had another outing. Well, actually Hooper came up with the idea of the outing, cause he thought we were too slack and we've not been mingling together too much (how thoughtful! lol), so I planned and we decided to go Sentosa.
It was supposed to be this graaaaand outing, whereby we call as many dudes from the old 2B to come as possible. You know, like a get-together? But of course when I sent out the sms, I forgot to contact some, some didn't reply, some couldn't make it yada yada yada and so on.... eventually only 7 of us turned up. Hanif, Jeremy, Daniel, Yong Hui, Yi Qiang, Ben and myself. Even Hooper couldn't make it, cause he had his priorities.
We took a the blue bus down to siloso beach. Funny how the driver would have to inform the bus everytime we come to a bus stop. He announces over the bus in a very monotonous tone, "The Merlion" or "Underwater World" whenever we reach a stop. Haha, he must be so irritated by his jobscope.
We got there, and then found a nice place to camp, since our "private island" (the one we had the other time we came), was densely populated. It was nothing near a private island. We started to play some soccer, then it became too boring and we stopped.
During the time of boredom, Jeremy asked Yong Hui to kick the ball towards him. And Yong Hui - being VERY inaccurate - kicked it exactly towards my stomach. Yeowch! I was chasing him around and around (you know, for revenge), and when I grabbed hold of some of his shirt, he ran so hard one of my fingers got dislocated. The top part of the finger bent 45 degrees and I had to snap it back. So SNAP! It went back to the correct position, but it was very very painful, and eventually it started to bleed from below the skin. So it turned quite purple and swollen. A lesson properly learnt - never take revenge, even if it's just for fun.
Haha.
So we slacked alot on the beach. It was a lazy day and all. Some just sat down and enjoyed the weather. That's Jeremy and Hanif standing, deciding whether they should go change into their boardshorts.
Jeremy started to put on this tanning oil that wasn't exactly oil, but was cream. Usually people bought either tanning oil or sunblock cream. So interesting fact of the day - tanning creams exist! Then before I took a picture of Daniel, he grabbed for something near him to model with, and the closest were his sandals, so he used one of them to strike a pose. Lol.
Seriously, I don't know what Yong Hui is doing. But he seemed engrossed. Haha...
What's up with everyone and modelling with an object? Lol.... Hanif used his evian water... (wahhh high class mineral water sia). And Jeremy, was just being a poser. He must be watching alot of muscle building programmes. Well, since he lost alot of weight and got a 6-pack, rumours of Jeremy trying to break away from his past self and becoming an Alpha-male has been flying about. Haha... we constantly joke about it to him.
The boredom sets in. Some of us were hoping there was strong sunlight so at least we could tan. But there was no sun, and no volleyball, and no activities. Amounting to which a very very bored bunch of us. Yong Hui is still engrossed. So finally Daniel, Hanif, Jeremy and I couldn't stand it any longer and we went to explore, leaving a very bored Ben, and a very engrossed Yong Hui, to tend our bags.
We examined the beach, and try to distinguish corals, crab shells and so on. And we were talking alot, and then Jeremy suggested we go rent a canoe and do some canoeing, just to kill some time. So he got a 2 seater canoe, and we decided Daniel and Jeremy to go canoe first, then Hanif and I.
Yong Hui, who snapped out of his engrossing slippers, said we should go capsize their boat. So we swam there, and I was swimming suuuper slow cause I had my contacts on, and the sea water might contain those eye fungal fungus or whatever you call it. And I was freaked by the news on escalating numbers of people getting fungal infections from contacts. So in the end we couldn't catch up, the canoe exceeds the man. And we stumbled back on shore.
You know if you step in the waters of siloso beach, some parts of it have very squishy grounds? Like as if you're stepping on thousands of dead jellyfishes. And whenever we step on the seafloor and touch something like that, we would yell and jump and swim away. It's pretty disgusting.
Daniel and Jeremy finally came back up, and I hopped on. But Hanif didn't want to go on. He didn't see anything fun and cool about it anymore, so Yong Hui took his place. And Yong Hui and I rowed and rowed. Man, I've never canoed for nuts, and canoeing for the first time is waaaayyyyy tiring. Whenever you try to go faster, your arms ache. So after a few rounds, we came back and asked if Hanif wanted to try it out. Cause we had to return it soon. So Hanif went on, and he was so unimpressed by it... haha. I told him to paddle faster but he couldn't go any faster... so in the end we rowed back to shore. Canoeing's fun!
Jeremy also came across a rusty nail near the seashore. Haiz. You see how dangerous Siloso Beach can be? They have rusty nails lying on the beach. You could just die of tetanus if you're not careful. Anyway we threw the nail away. Not in the sea of course, cause it will always drift back to shore, but in a dustbin somewhere.
We all decided to go change and then meet back up to leave. Some of them just changed there, others at the toilet and Yong Hui and I at the bathing house. And apparently the two of us made them wait very long, and they irritatably asked us did we change clothes or make them. Hahaha...
We took the charlift to go back up the island. It was Ben's first time on the chairlift, and he was so terrified of the height of it, everytime we shook or jerked a little he'll yell for us to stop. Lol. And it just went higher....
and higher....
and higher....
And we started to sing our school song in midair. The other people must be thinking how mad we were. And we yelled and sang "You Raise Me Up"!! Cause it suited the mood. Well, of course not Ben's mood. And Jeremy and I tried spitting to the ground below. Just some guy fun. My spit almost landed on a car driving past below! Then Jeremy said if it has landed on the windscreen, the driver would probably think it's birdshit. LOL. Hey, my saliva doesn't look the least bit like birdshit.
Hanif, Dan and Yong Hui took the chairlift behind us, So I took a photo. Haha... it's pretty scary you know, cause my phone might just fall down onto the ground. Hanif wanted to take a picture of us, so he asked us all to turn. Only Ben didn't turn cause the height would just freak him more.. haha.
When we got off we went through the Dragon Trail. It's some jungle trail that cuts through the top of the island back to the beach. So we were actually walking back to the beach. But I guess we couldn't care less. The jungle was creepy, cause we took alternating routes that were less treaded, but would lead back to the main road. On the way Daniel claimed he saw a white figure fly past him somewhere, seriously.
Hanif, being the Insect-Know-It-All, led us on a guided insect learning trail. He would tell us about Cicadas, the cricket-like creatures that would make the cricket-like sounds in the forest. And the sound would deafen you. They would be everywhere, and they make so much sounds it was ear-piercing. Well, that's Hanif in the picture, he got hold of this HUGE Nephila spider (or however you spell it), and he destroyed it's web just to make it come down.
It's huge, it's span (legs and body) is bigger than the size of your palm. And he grabbed for it so he could take a picture of it on his hand. Daniel and I tried ot persuade him to stop. Cause well... it was mildy poisonous, so it's still a classified risk to hold around and take pictures with.
But does an insect-know-it-all listen? No. It's not his style to miss such an opportunity. He eventually did take a whole lot of pictures of it on his palm and when it was running up his arm. Everytime he turned to our direction, all of us would back off. Cause the spider was so intimidating.
The place was extremely humid, and we were lucky we were not in buckets of sweat when we came out. Daniel suggested we go to Fort Siloso. But Yong Hui couldn't follow us any longer, cause he needed to rush back home to do JC Homework. What a snoozer... lol.
"Bye Yong Hui!"
So after he left we went to the Underwater World to look at the huge sea turtles. I tripped on this rope and my sandals tore. Talk about misfortunes.. lol. Daniel then suggested going to Fort Siloso cause he said it was free the other time he came. It was to our shock we had to pay. Pay pay pay. Sentosa's all about paying for everything. Haha. Then we walked inside anyway, cause we didn't know better, and this guide stopped us and said we needed tickets.
And so happened a tourist came up to us and offered us 5 tickets (we had exactly 5 people), cause they were returning back to the hotel. Haha! Amazing! So we handed the tickets to the guide who stopped us. Haha, he must've been so irritated by our luck.. God was watching over us :]. We went in, took the coach. And were looking at our new found tickets. And to our surprise, there was also a free cable car ride for each tic! SO we decided later to use the ticket for a cable car ride.
That's Ben examining the tickets while we were on the FREE coach ride into Fort Siloso!
See how everyone is becoming overdramatic at holding it! Haha.. We all decided to hold on to it and then take pictures with the tickets as proof of our luck. So we reached there, and started to explore the dirty, dark and scary tunnels. Some rooms were completely vacant, and yet they were lighted. I wonder for what. It's worst because there isn't a single soul in sight other than ourselves. And the background sounds were screamings and bombings and stuff you hear on a WWII documentary.
It was way creepy. So we came out, and went to this playground to try some army-based equipment. Some guides asked us to leave cause they were closing, so we walked back down. Daniel reminded us that we needed ot take pictures of the tickets. So he fished out 2, which he had. The other 3 were in Hanif's bag. But when he searched for it, it mysteriously disappeared! All 3. Leaving us with 2. All of us checked our bags and pockets but with no avail.
So that was good luck turned bad. Haha. And we just posed with the two tickets instead. Scrapping the idea of taking cable car back.
Whew! I finally finished describing the whole day! Man, I wanted to try going into details, then it just seemed to go on and on and on. And I'm glad to finally leave with an ending paragraph. This is probably the longest post I've ever made. Waha...Ok, off to school.... need to return some camera. Later!