HCICO Tanbo '09 Outing

Dear Pipa and Liuqin,

I really really want to thank Chiuyin, Kenneth, Pingxi, Benedict and Jiawen so so so much. Thank you for coming and for staying over and making the entire two days so fun. Oh no i might be repeating what i said in the sms. But the past two days have been the best moment of my life honestly, I have never felt so happy to be around such nice friends before. Here goes another super super long post haha.

The first day, 25th June, I went to school in the morning to go src lab. I sat on the bench to wait for chiuyin. Then i saw his sms, he said his throat wasnt feeling well and he might not be able to come. It was the worst sms that day. But he still came at around 8.40am. We went to lab, then went to change in salt centre, put his pipa in 3H1. Then helped the others keep theirs also. Benedict sms me, he was alrd at bus stop while all of us were still in clock tower. Went to bus stop, everyone almost crossed the bridge without calling for benedict. And we realised everyone wore shoes except for benedict and jiawen, we were so stupid not to bring slippers. We waited damn long for yau xuan, in the end he called and said that he has reached harbourfront mrt. Kenneth also had to wait in harbourfront for a long time before we reached. Zhunsong had book circle and couldnt come. We went to dhoby ghaut by bus then to harbourfront. Ceshun chiuyin and pingxi were all squeezing in front, cos they want to look at the tunnel haha.

At around 11 plus 12, we reached harbourfront and found kenneth and yauxuan, then went to vivo. Kenneth had a huge black bag, which he asked "does this look like a bomb?" bcos many ppl were looking at him in the mrt. We stood in front of the signboard for quite a while, dont know where to go for lunch. In the end we went to superdog, joined quite a few tables together. After eating, we talked and chiuyin started taking photos of anything around him haha. At the escalator, we met shikai and tzeyong, quite awkward cos its quite rare to see our own ppl, and somemore we going to sentosa haha. Then they played on the escalator, benedict and jiawen walked so fast they went up the escalator before we could. So we decided to trick them, we pretend say that we havent decided where to go, so they came down, and we went up. After we went up, benedict and jiawen came up, but some went down again, while some stayed up there. So in the end, i think ceshun chiuyin and longpeng went down, then we quickly went up the next escalator and went into national geo. But when chiuyin ceshun longpeng came up, they cant find us and just continue going up and up haha. So we stayed in national geo for quite a while, everything there is so antique and so expensive, a small pencil case cost fifty dollars. Then we went to third floor to get to the train to sentosa. Each ticket cost three dollars. And we met shikai and tzeyong once again. We went in and waited for our train, jiawen almost lost his ticket.

When we got onto the train, we saw imbiah and beach station, haha we were stunned for a while, dont know which one to stop at. The train must always stop at the development area so waste time. We got off at beach station and we again kena stunned dont know where to go despite looking at the map, not sure to walk or to take the bus ride. But chiuyin and I we agreed that walking was part of our itinerary so we walked. Walk walk walk, jiawen laughing at one bar called the bikini bar... Ce shun and chiuyin were walking through some small little fountain on the floor, jiawen almost wet his paper bag there too.

Then we came to a side gate that was coasta sands. Kenneth was alrd exhausted by then cos he wore a polo tee and a long pants, and didnt want to walk anymore so we climbed up to the gate, not sure to press the button or not. Kenneth was joking that it is right that we get the manager to come and open the door for us haha. We managed to get the door open by just pressing a button. But chiuyin and ce shun were far ahead, call them also nvr pick up, so longpeng and yauxuan went to find the reception to get the keys. Then we all went to find the reception counter too. But one big problem. It was 2pm by then, but they say need an adult above age of 18 to check in, we all only 14, 15 or 16. I had to call my dad. In the end, my uncle and my sister came at around 3.50pm to help us check in. Meanwhile from 2 to 3.50pm, kenneth and i went to play table soccer, my first time playing that haha so i kept losing. We also played snooker in the cafe. Some of them bought the bubble tea which didnt look nice haha. The snooker game, we played 3 rounds, in teams, first was sec threes against sec fours and twos. Second was random, i cant rmb the exact teams, the last round was jiawen bendict and I together. I only know we three always same team, and we have been losing to chiuyin and ceshun haha. But finally the last game we won chiuyin ceshun and longpeng haha. Jiawen kept gambling with chiuyin that he will skinny dip haha, but we always fail and he always win. Then my uncle and sister came, and jiawen kept saying yoyo haha.

We managed to get the keys, and then went to find our room, so dumb of us, we didnt realise there was a personal walkway leading up to our room at the back haha. Opened the door, and woah, all of us so shock cos the room was super small dont know if we all can fit inside haha. We put all our bags on one side nearer the window, then sat down. Chiuyin ceshun pingxi benedict and yauxuan were playing some board games on the bed, jiawen kenneth me and longpeng dont like these kind of games one haha so we were playing by ourselves in the little space on the floor, we were playing with the blankets, wrapping and bonding kenneth haha. Then we got bored, and jiawen was asking to go out cos he want to see babes haha. So after kenneth changed to his slippers, jiawen kenneth me and long peng went to the beach. Jiawen was forever looking out for girls aiyo... On the way to the beach, we didnt realise that there was shorter cut to the beach cos we only saw a lot of construction and areas cordoned off. We went to one spot where there were lesser people. Jiawen and kenneth went to play in the water, up to their knee level or so, jumping in the water haha. We built wells to collect water to wash our hands, and burried kenneth's and jiawen's leg with sand. Took quite a few photos and videos, then after about 1 plus hour of playing at the beach we went back to the chalet room. Washed our legs and hands at the pipe by the pool and bought drinks. Then chiuyin ceshun pingxi benedict yauxuan came down, their turn to want to go beach, so jiawen and i followed them and went again, the others went back to rest. Now we took the short cut to the beach, by then not so many ppl on the beach as before. Pingxi went straight into the waters. Then jiawen dont care also go in. Then i suddenly rmb i could wear my school u to geco concert so i could get myself wet too, so i also just go inside. Benedict also after kena splashed by water also go in. Then ce shun, i forgot how he came in, but i only rmb getting wet wasnt his initial choice. Chiuyin stayed on the sand with his camera and our belongings and shoes and slippers. The five of us were already in the sea with our clothes on, the water level at our necks. Ce shun grumbling he cant swim and he cant breathe properly haha. We had so so so much fun in the sea haha, making some failed star formation with our legs, jiawen piggy bag us but turned out to be us jumping on to him, benedict letting the current push him onshore like some dead body haha, ce shun keep on screaming help until the lifeguard use binoculars to look in our direction and he kept spitting saliva into the water. We were playing in the sea until the beach was almost empty and the sun was setting. Chiuyin took so many photos and he kept laughing at them haha. We kept going back into the water to wash ourselves and so reluctant to leave we just wanted to continue playing haha.

Got back to the room, everybody squeezed into the bathroom to wait to wash ourselves haha. All of us spray cold water around our bodies, without knowing that there was a switch to a heater haha, and squeezing and squeezing our shirts to make them dry faster. Few of us bathed too. The rest were playing board games, i think cluedo, on the bed again. We left the chalet at around 7 plus for dinner by then it was alrd dark. Yauxuan had left much earlier. Kenneth and benedict packed up and would leave us after their dinner. We took the train back to vivo and ate at Hans. Before that we couldnt find a place to eat, sakae sushi was too ex, pizza hut was full, and kenneth and i were leading everyone away from macdonalds haha cos we were sick of fast food. At Hans, pingxi helped us finished our leftovers haha cos he said he was very hungry and he didnt get his fruit haha. I was shivering like hell cos i was wearing my wet shirt and pants. We walked towards the mrt, benedict left halfway to go bus stop, while we continued finding the mrt, then we said goodbye to kenneth at the escalator then benedict suddenly walk past us haha, so we all said goodbyes and waved and left for giant, i was quite sad to see them go, even in the train back to sentosa i missed their presence a little.

Walked very long before we finally got to giant, where we bought koka noodles and heaven and earth drinks, chiuyin and ceshun's favourite drink haha. Jiawen was amazed at the size of giant, and on the escalator down to first level, he said since he not wearing school u, he put his legs onto the bottom side of the escalator and walked while holding the sides. While walking ce shun asked and begged if he could join me and chiuyin to sleep on the sleeping bag that night haha, sleeping bag to fit three people quite hard, so we decided to lay blankets or maps on the floor if not enough space. Went back up to third level to take train to get to sentosa. When we reached beach station, jiawen told me it was the last train going from vivo to sentosa, it was 10pm at that time, so heng, we tried to tell the others but they dao. Jiawen went to seven eleven to get slurpy, ce shun broke a toy in seven eleven also and quickly put back haha. Then we walked back to our chalet, sentosa was quite empty by then. We entered our room from the back door, i went to bathe, the others were playing cluedo again. I opened up my sleeping bag and we went to play cluedo, jiawen and i no choice, that was the only thing we could do. The cluedo game was quite sian, took us very very long to complete the game, from 11 to slightly past 1am. And while playing, we received a knock on our door, the indian guy from the other room angry with us cos we made too much noise. We watched mao xian wang and yu le bai fen bai while playing cluedo. Everyone distracted by tv thats why take so long to play finish. And jiawen went to toilet to pang sai halfway thru the game and he shouted out his answer from the toilet haha, so we all crossed out that thing from our papers. We finally went to sleep at close to 2am. I kept waking up at 2 plus, at 3.50 and almost 5 cos it was super super cold and i had to increase the temp of the air con from 21 to 23 to 25 then to 28. Oh and before we went into deep sleep, jiawen kept tossing and turning, telling to pingxi that he miss the girl he saw on the beach earlier and how he wished gladys had her figure haha. And in the middle of the night, we all could hear jiawen mumbling sth in his sleep haha, and someone was grinding his teeth so hard haha, but we still havent find out who.

The next morning, i woke up at 6, stood up to go toilet but almost kena tripped by chiuyin's and ceshun's legs cos it was dark. Then when i came out ceshun woke up, followed by chiuyin and the rest woke up. Ate noodles for breakfast, and watched tv, michael jackson died was the first thing we saw when we switched on. Everyone changed, jiawen gelled his hair, ce shun took the longest to change and pack haha. Then when we were going to leave, ce shun was just about jump onto the bed then he saw the blanket got one millipede on top, then he screamed. Jiawen poked it so that it curled up, and pingxi picked it up and fling it outside haha. Closed door, left by our walkway, put keys into box then ceshun went to play the mahjong game again, jiawen went to facebook, i went to see this blog haha i saw kenneth's tag "thanks" cos he told me the day before at superdog that he saw my post in the morning before he left home for harbourfront. We didnt leave by the side gate, we went by the main gate cos we thought the main gate would be closer to the imbiah station. We walked and walked, jiawen wearing school u somemore haha, chiuyin carrying our two 1.5L bottles of drinks, i carrying yauxuan's ruan, all of us kind of lost, all throw away our maps also haha. Then walk very far alrd, saw one signboard say imbiah, we thought we very near imbiah station. Continue walking straight, walked past so two bus stops, then finally came to an end, took a bus which went back the same way we came from and then to another bus stop which we still had to walk quite a distance to get to imbiah station. We kena tricked haha, walked so much, if we walked by side gate to beach station so so much faster. Jiawen called it our morning exercise haha.

Went back to school for elections and co and later in the night for geco concert. I shall write briefly cos its getting way too long, its now 1.30pm alrd. Elections was fine, jiawen was the biggest surprise for me, he said he didnt prepare any speech but when he got up there, he did well, he talked about some coming together is sth, then working together is success, his philosophy haha. Chiuyin was very nervous for his chairperson speech, i kept him company in the yq room before he went out, it was the moment which you could tell he really was nervous of. Kenneth's speech was good, im not supposed to laugh at him but he was very cute cos he kept kicking up his leg during the qna. Benedict, i didnt rmb what i was doing, i only rmb i was waiting with him at the yq room door, and i saw chiuyin and kenneth did a standing ovation when he went up, i also clapped super loud but i was too far away so i guess i failed. Tanbo sl elections was interesting, the sections were split and went to different locations, then they have their own elections. We went to the back where kenneth leong kenneth tan and ceshun gave their speech. For xiaozu liuziwei didnt come, chiuyin says she got flu, went to check if its H1N1. I went to count votes, and you all kept trying to ask questions and peep haha. Dazu was okay, everyone could play cos you all practised hard the few practices we had before. We took taxi to SCH, played some random game to decide how to split, chiuyin pingxi jiawen and i one taxi, and benedict ceshun long peng another taxi, but our taxi we kena pass two erp gantries haha, extra 6.50, total 16.50, compared to the other taxi 15 i think. But after sharing the cost we still pay less haha. The SCH seating we got for our tickets is totally screwed, some of our tickets were opposite ends. I didnt really enjoy the concert because of that. After the concert, we saw jiawen and gladys together haha, before that we met he somemore say he sitting with another friend, she couldnt come. Then when we saw them together, he was acting so strangely haha, like a bit paiseh then want to zao away from us asap and as far.Then benedict said sth really funny, he went opposite direction from us, and he said his parents came to "collect" him haha.

Our outing plus chalet has come to an end, im so sad it's all over, but im lucky to have you guys as my best friends, and i have memories and pictures of this outing in my mind which i will always rmb and never forget. THANK YOU!! (:

Yours Sincerely From,
Yao Zhang