Sunday, January 01, 2006
6:31 PM

Happy 2006!

Such a great way to spend a new year's eve - sentosa outing in the day, gathering at sy's house at night, watching multi-fireworks-shows on Telok Blangah Hill while the clocks struck 12mn, and finally mahjong in the wee hours of the morning, while the piggy male Is were slping (n snoring)...

The sentosa outing was the most happening one i've been to. Walked alone from Dolphin Lagoon towards Tanjong Beach, cuz I joined the rest - tze, sy, constance, ben, zw n zm - late. My, it was quite a long walk, estimated to take 8min at normal pace. Juz when I was enjoying the surroundings, listening out for the bullfrogs and birds coming from the jungle beside the trail, a buggy pulled over beside me. The gentlemanly, hunky, tall, dark and suave driver asked me if I was heading towards Tanjong Beach. I said yes, and he asked if I wanted a ride over. Duh! Yay, and I hopped on. So cool! I tink it's my first time taking a buggy ride! Hehez... He drove me to end of the beach, where I was told the rest were. Call me a suaku, but I was quite amazed that the buggy could be driven on the soft, sandy beach as well. Cool! I finally found them behind the cafe, not very near the end of the beach, though it looks like the end of a beach. Haha...

Poor constance and I couldn't enjoy ourselves soaking in the cool waters, while the rest played frisbee and monkey in the waters. Then we started muahchee-ing zm. Later we played ultimate frisbee, guys vs gals, in which the gals lost. Anyway the forfeit was that the losing team had to muah-chee benji. muahaha. Of cuz benji protested. So as a means to be fair, we played the macdonald and jellyfish game to decide if tze or benji shud be muahchee-ed, in which benji lost horribly. hehez... So zw was the sole male survivor.. haha...

Oh, but that wasn't the most happening part. The happening part was the whole rain saga. In fact, it was pouring cats and dogs during the second half of our outing. As it got colder, we decided to play the macdonald game to keep ourselves warm. sy oso started dispensing water for washing using the umbrella to collect the rainwater. The whole grass patch separating us from the main road became flooded, forming a moat, so we had to trudge thru the moat to get to the toilet to wash up. After my shower, I returned to the hut to join constance and js to wait for the rest to return. We waited and waited, and js thot he saw sy and tze walk in another direction, tinking that they holan... hehez... suddenly, we heard a familiar voice shouting from across the road, behind the bushes. It was sy shouting, "the beach train is here! the beach train is here!". stun dio... okaaayyy... soo... the beach train is here... therefore??? and then sy was gone behind the bushes and could not be seen again. we finally saw her trudging her way out of the pond-looking grass patch, with water going up to her knee-level, still shouting "the beach train is here"! As she attempted to trudge towards us, a van pulled over in front of us on the road. The door slid open, and we saw 3 guys inside - zm, zw and ben. zw then shouted "get in". Once again, we stun dio, but still lugged all the belongings in the hut and trudged thru the moat towards the van.

It turned out that the guys managed to hitch a hike to get back to mainland, while tze and sy wanted to hop on the beach train to get to the sheltered areas. But the whole scene turned out to be so hilarious! So as we happily took the van, sy and tze were on the beach train, and luckily, the beach train was crawling, so we managed to get caught in a jam behind the crawling train. In the meanwhile, we contacted tze regarding hitching the hike, who sounded puzzled and confused. Anyway, after some confusion, we managed to get tze and sy into the van, and we reached mainland safely. It was quite touching to have pple willing to ferry us out of the island, despite the whole trouble and, er, confusion...

At sy's house, we had 2 rounds of the "highlight of the gathering" - Project X. Most of the credits had to go to the male Is esp yj who was the chief director. Of cuz sy, tze and I contributed by redrawing the bodies, esp the gals'. Gals, u wun wan2 noe how it looked like b4 we redrew the pics manz. Haha..

It was simply a great way to celebrate the birth of year 2006, together with so many close friends. muacks! Happy New Year to all my friends! ;)