Whoops sorry..My life has been the usual..So..Nothing much to blog about..
I quit floorball..(Still a bit sad)
I met up with yuni, farah and tikah for lunch after failing driving for the millionth time and then went on an impromptu movie trip to watch muallaf at the picturehouse. Movie was interesting but the ending was very 'Huh?!' Or maybe it was too artistic that i didnt get it..Heh..
18/12/08 Insinyur Cycling 'Outing'
Got up earlier than usual and met dorance and dan who are both early and scandalous as usual before killing time to wait for the rest who were supposed to meet up before going to ecp.
Cycling 'outing' they said. Should have known that it was a recce for night cycling.I realised it the moment we went down that tunnel that says 'TO PCN'.Wtf.Can you guys at least mentally prepare us by reminding us to travel light or drink more water or wear something comfortable for a super long cycle? Geeez.I really like the cycling.Minus the sun.Everyone got super tanned. And..Let's just say i wasn't the only one who was caught off guard.
So we cycled from ECP to bedok to tampines to pasiris to aloha changi to ECP again.
Let's just say it's night cycling all over again. Same annoying route with annoying gradual slopes. With the sun beating down on us. Same energetic OGmates who pedalled harder than me and going at least 15km/h as compared to my 13km/h average. I hurt my toes by cycling into the railings but didn't fall off my bike. Phew. Ouch okay...
Stopped at the sunplaza park playground. Had fun on the swings as usual. Mini swinging competition with dan they all.Heh.
Slow and steady wins the race. I think? Hehe. I was cycling alone most of the time. The group in front is so far away and the group at the back is just as far. Somewhere along the way, younian and alex did slow down but i think i'm still too slow.I guess i like to do things at my own pace eh?
By the time i reached bicycle kiosk again, my butt was sooooo sore. It was sore halfway through. Man. I want to sew cushions on my shorts. XP.
Got home quite late. My mum moodswinged at me. Totally tired but can't sleep because i had to pack for the weekend...
19/12/08 Setting off to Chalet D'Punggai
Woken up by my mum. My body still felt sore from the 'outing' before. I managed to stay in bed longer than my sis. But then, felt bad about getting her to shower ahead of me as usual so i waited in the hall.We checked the whole house and went over to my uncle's void deck and wait.
As usual,my mum had to be the spider she is (kanchiong spider i mean). My dad was only supposed to fetch my aunt's family at 445 am. Guess what time my mum made us wait? 445am. So that means that we had to wait.In the dead morning.For ages.Before.Anyone else.Arrive. Sheesh.What's wrong with them man...They were the ones who want to meet at 5am. THE SAME OLD PEOPLE MADE US WAIT FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. AGAIN!.Sigh.It's been years already.Don't they learn? Bad habits sucks.
Anyway, we got sorted out and finally really set off. Got unlucky at the s'pore customs with that guy questioning us on our i/c numbers.Each and everyone of us.Can't he pick on another car? There's 6 of us man..I felt bad for the car behind us.My dad said that he was multi-tasking..reading a book as well.Maybe to feel better he showed us he was careful.Dude.We're leaving Singapore.
Waited for the extended family to arrive at a coffeeshop at extra.Oh.This trip involved 62-ish people.My mum and her siblings and their family.My mum's cousin's family.My grandaunts and their family.Huge group.10 cars in total.The journey was fun.My vehicle is the HQ as we had 2 walkie talkies.Apparently not all walkietalkies are in sync. Funny funny.
We reached the place.Not too bad i'd say. But some of us were pissed that we didn't stop by somewhere to buy food supplies.Sheesh.They wanted to proceed with their 'plans'. Oh.We had to fill in a quiz so we had a prize presentation for that.The prize: a can of red bull to be shared among 12 people.Wahahahaha! Lame.
Oh.We had a sorting ceremony.5 captains picked their team mates by drawing lots to determine the teams for the competition day.Let's just say I wasn't very pleased with the thoughts of everyone having to participate.Sheesh.Me and some others were like 'We're here for a holiday..let us off already'.Alas,noone was spared.I was slightly optimistic when my name wasn't called, but my aunt was sharp and included the names in the last minute.DARN!.Haha.At least maya picked my name.There's zaki and abg nash and cik ajak as well. THere's 1 grandaunt and 2 granduncles in mine and kak rin and abg g.g and linda and syabil.SOme of them i rarely come in contact with.I envied the other groups with more of my other cousins.
My family shared room with another family. It's always with them. I suppose that's because my mum can get along well with that sister of hers. Both work on the same frequency i think. 10 of us in that chalet.Haha.Arranged stuff and relaxed a bit.Gosh.The chalet overlooked the South China Sea. Open waters have sooo much stronger winds and bigger waves.Heh.Great view from the veranda(?).Definitely a good place to sit and empty your mind.
I bummed the whole afternoon.Haha.Sitting by the sea.Watching the sea.Thinking of ways to escape the game day.
Visited an ostrich farm.People screaming around when ostriches were near.Heh.
Night time was just as smooth. Karaoke session (which i totally dislike) with a worker of the chalet as a guest star.HeSheHeShe He (can't decide..i'm confused..a guy trying to look like a girl but is somewhat unsuccessful) was shaking his booty darn hard that the crowd went crazy.Haha.My uncle just had to join Sam(the name of the person). Hilarious moments.I played pictionary with some relatives not on my side. It's quite fun ah.I had to draw 'blood transfusion'. Geezz.Drove me nuts.But good thing my aunt got it.Haha.
Got ready for bed when suddenly. There's a knock on the door.Heh.I thought that it was someone else trying to disturb my sleep with normal chit chats, until i heard what was being said. My cousin-in-law's sister just passed away in an accident.She got married quite recently and is 3months pregnant. The whole room was stumped. My uncle and aunts who delivered the news looked like they just cried. That sister was my cousin's favourite in-law.She was really helpful towards her.I totally understand the loss.I feel soo sad for her man..Everyone went to bed with a heavy heart that night.
20/12/08 Games Day
Morning call came in the form of knocks and airhorns and shouts from the organising commitee.Everyone in the room wasn't going to wake up for the morning excercises.Afterall the PTI were still sleeping.Hahaaa.If not for the morning excercise, i would have watched the sunrise.Darn them.Hehe.Me and my cousins are all really good at the sleeping game.No way were we going to get up and work out.Heh.
Went for breakfast.Changed into the family jersey after realising that everyone else was wearing it.Tried hiding on the beach to avoid playing the games.Alas.Didn't work.We were called and..sigh.Had to play afterall.Got our team identities.(I'm serious..We even had those).My team was yellow!!Hehe..Yeahhh.
Scavenger hunt was ultra competitive.People running around.Screaming at each other.Heh.Soooo competitive.Can see where i got my competitive spirit at games from.Haha.The young and the old all screaming their heads out, making sure the judges didnt accept any team at all.The if-i'm-wrong-then-noone-can-get-it-right attitude. Scared the heck out of the commitee members.Geez.And i thought noone wanted to play.
Played Guess Who or What.Heh.My group didn't do that well.Maya was thinking so hard what to ask that she didnt ask much.Oh well.Some darn group got all 10 correct.Wth.
They asked for volunteers from each teams next.3 guys and 3 girls.They wouldn't say what for.Darn them.Haha.Apparently, it's that Stringing game. A spoon with a string was passed from one person to another.But.The spoon must be pass through the sleeve and exit through the corner of the shorts before being passed on.The spoon had to go under our clothes.Hahaha.It was Abg Nash-Kak Rin-Aki-Linda-Abg g.g-Me.Alternate.My team was first!!!Whoohoo!Super easy.
However, they wanted us to pass the spoon back the other way now.Our string was knotted!!So it was shorter..Man..We had to squeeze together a bit to pass the string back to the first person.It got stuck at aki where the spoon broke into 2!Haha..Funny!We expected to see the string but it wasn't there.Fumbled a bit.But managed to regain our pace.But alas!It got stuck at kak rin.At a really wrong place.Heh.And finally reached abg nash again with the spoon just stopping at a really wrong place again.Hilarious.It looked wrong for us to stand to we squatted down.We won again though!!So pro~
Painted our banner just to pass time i think.Lancang Kuning was our team name.I suppose it's to honour the oldies in my group.Haha.We had to go against Olive D' Samurai (My parents' team fated to be together-lotsa mums/dads), DH' Mafias (my sis's team..the team i expected to win), Chilli Padis (the team with lotsa kids..huge disadvantage to the competitive leader) and the Pirates(a strong and competitive team..hahaa).
Went for lunch and took a nap.Telematch time with lotsa confusion.My team wasn't doing that well initially coz we were 4th in the first 2 matches.Caught up in the 3rd and 4th match to go to the 3rd place.And the final one really blew me away.We had to fill up a bottle with water using a sponge.Fine.We cheated a bit by using our hands as funnels.But!Abg nash and abg g.g were awesome in the sense that they did shuttle runs.Darn fast okay.And the wisdom of the oldies helped a bit too.We jumped to first place!!Haha..Wheeee...Hey..Other groups actually used their mouths to spit it into the bottle.Cheaters!!tsktsktsk...
Played Pick-up Balls where someone had to instruct a blindfolded person to pickup coloured balls.Everyone was really competitive at this stage.Haha.The winning team picked up 24 balls.I suspect they cheated coz everyone else got like 14-18 balls. But..It might be a really good strategy..i dunno.Since my team didnt win..they cheated!!haha..Accusations were flying all over the place man.
I sucked at Coconut Bowling..heh..We didnt do that well coz we went first.Oh well.It was hilarious seeing the coconut rolling away from the pins or suddenly bouncing over the pins or going towards the people.Heh.
Some Whip-cream Shaving and Blindfolded Face Painting Game.Overheard the Greens wanting us to lose.Darn them.And they were happy that we did.Sheesh.Meanies.
Last but not least.The most controversial game at the gathering-Dodgeball/Poisonball/Who-got-the-most hits.You put someone who hates losing and someone who thinks he's right in one team and someone who upholds fairness and is frank on another and you'll see a heated argument.The favourites were kicked out of the games quite early in the game.To quote my uncle 'We wanted to see Singapore vs Thailand and what we got was Laos vs Cambodia...' The underdogs won in the end.Haha.The cool thing is..after the game is over..the guys who were arguing went to play soccer together.heh.
Everyone was reviewing the games that evening.Heh.Hilarious.My mum was complaining that i wasn't cooperative in the scavenger hunt.Maya(my cousin & captain) defended me and said 'There's no such thing as 'mums' or 'dads' in the competition.Everyone is equal'.heh.My mum went on saying that her cousin also had the same problem-uncooperative children-and wasn't very happy about that.Hahahaa.The games really brought out the competitors in us.
Had BBQ dinner.Toasted the couples celebrating their wedding anniversaries.Went over to the beach for a prize presentations around a bonfire.Heh.The stars were really pretty!!It was soooo dark that you can see them clearly.Saw my old friend orion up there.Heh.So my team got 2nd overall.Booyah!!Went back to the room to wash up and all.Hang around a bit at my aunt's room.Listening to them chat.Heh.The wind was chilling..And got tired and went to the room to sleep.
Not!Apparently everyone gathered outside my room to talk.THe walls are made of thin wood.And i was sleeping nearest to the door.I can hear everything those people were saying.Heh.I slept and woke up a couple of times, and they were still not done talking.Heh.
Had an okay sleep.Everyone packed up and got ready to leave.But not before phototaking!Lots and lots and lots of them.Travelled back to jb.Visited the new jusco at bukit indah and went back to singapore.Fetched my dad's lorry.Awul drove us all to jelapang to return the car with 2 cars escorting us at the front and back to make sure everything was fine.
