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Prologue:
It was at night and a massive fortress fortress was being constructed by slavebirds for Turnatt, a tyrant who towered over his soldiers. Among them was the driver of the slavebirds, Bug-eye, who whipped them mercilessly.
Here begins our tale: (Chapter 1-4)
Just after sunrise, a war party of cardinals soared over the lands, armed with swords and spears in their claws. They flew over the Line, the border between the territories of the cardinals and the blue jays. But about a month ago, it hadn't been like that. The red and the blue were good friends. The blue jays had suspected the cardinals of taking their food and had raided their storehouse, taking more than what was stolen from them. Blue jays Glenagh and Skylion were chatting over a cup of tea when they realised they had been attacked by the reds.
Turnatt's horde had flown to Stone-Run (the forest where reds and blues lived) with 40 slavebirds but only 38 made it to the forest. The slavebirds were allowed to build a fire and they huddled close around it, shivering. Tilosses, an aged sparrow, started the discussion on how to escape from the Fortress. Many other birds also joined in the discussion. They chose Miltin, a young robin, to get the help from the red and the blue in the woodlands.
Inside an newly buil room in Fortress Glooming, Turnatt was demanding Slime-beak to finish building the fortress in 8weeks. Slime-beak said that couldn't be done as they were short of hand. Turnatt then sent Flea-screech to bring back the cardinals and the jays nearby as slaves. Shadow, a scout, glided in soon after, answering Turnatt's question about them, "We stole some food from their pitiful camps. Now each of them believe's that the other's the theif."
In the Stone-Run, Skylion dashed out of Glenagh's study to organized his troops, shouting commands. The battle cries of both sides could be heard as the blues drove the reds towards the Line. But the reds decided not to retreat anymore as both sides weakened.
Aska had left the blue jays' camp that morning, before the attack of the cardinals. She thought of the times when the reds and the blues were friends and the more she thought, the dizzier she became and started to see shadows moving.
Chapter 19-24
Miltin and Aska had set off to a quest to get back to Miltin's family: Waterhorn Tribe. They lived in the Mountains. The duo then passed a river where Miltin's friend offered to take them to the Waterhorn tribe. as Miltin spoke, a shiver of pain flew through him. The magical flower's effects were wearing off.
As they reached Miltin's home, the whole tribe rejoiced at the fact that Miltin was back. He was offered food after the long journey from Stone-Run. But he fell unconscious and died soon after as his wounds were too severe. Miltin's father, Reymarsh, muttered, "Turnatt you will pay."
As Aska returned to the Stone-Run, one of the cardinals told her that her tribe had been burned down. The blue jays were preparing to summon Swordbird against Turnatt with a Learnson Gem and the Song Of Swordbird.
When Turnatt learnt that all his commanders had been defeated, he decided that he would lead an attack against the reds and blues himself.
THe afternoon sun shne on the cardinals' camp as a young cardinal alerted the rest of the members that Turnatt was coming with an army of crows and raverns.
Turnatt's army was soon intercepted by the red cardinals, blue jays and the Waterhorn Tribe. But the defenders were out numbered and couldn't hold out for long. So they got a bird to sing the Song Of Swordbird. The song increased in volume at every note and the crows and raverns began to falter as the woodbirds grew more courageous.
THe wind grew stronger and colours spilled out in the sky. Turnatt ran away amidst the fighting to a cave. Suddenly a forked lightning struck and Swordbird appeared. He was wielding a sword that had a Learnson on it.
After Swordbird found Turnatt, he talked to him through his mind. Turnatt begged Swordbird for mercy but Swordbird's sword just sparkled with brilliance. Turnattinstantly burst into flame. A screech of horro came from the ball of flame as it dropped to the ground.
In the end, the slavebirds were freed and the Waterhorn tribe returned.
02 January 2010
21 December 2009
On cloud nine
As the bus rumbled the Karak Highway, exuberance bubbled in me. We were going to Genting Highlands Theme Park. A theme park holiday was my type, as I enjoyed every single second of being there and trying out all the rides.
Soon, the road came to a climb and white fog came into view. The higher we climbed, the foggier and colder it got and soon the bus dropped us off at the Genting Skyrail Terminal.
It was a long queue of about 150 people but a fast moving one. In half an hour it was our turn to board the Skyrail
The Skyrail was something like the 'Cable Car' but they called it a 'gondola'. It ascended up the mountain, and in some places it got so foggy that the surrounding was just PLAIN WHITE.
After minutes of ascending, the surrounding trees turned from the tropical to the coniferous ones.
Alas! After half an hour in the metal cocoon, we finally reached First World Hotel. Which is where the theme park was. We actually wanted to leave out the outdoor park because of the freezing weather and go to the indoor one instead. But after seeing what the indoor park had (roller coaster going round and round and long Q), we decide that the outdoor park was worth enduring the cold weather.
At the ticket booth, the sign displayed that 2 rides were closed but the cashier said that only 2 RIDES WERE OPEN! We thought that more rides would be open as the weather got better so we just proceeded with the buying.
It was so cold that I could 'smoke' by blowing out warm air that condensed. Although it didn't rain, the floors were wet due to the dew that condensed when it came in contact with the floor.
Took the all the rides except the Dragon and the Tobbogan and the Sungai Rejang Fume Ride.
Now I shall describe the 'thriller rides'.
Corkscrew: Double 360 degree flips with lotsa jerks and drops. Very thrilling!
Flying Coaster: You get into a capsule where it is required for you to lie flat. Very fast! I always thought we were gonna crash into the pillars. Two 360 degree flips.
Space shot: 12 people sit perpendicular on a square capsule, strapped by safety belts criss crossing each other. Then it shoots up into the sky, not at the very fast speed, until the top. When I sat on the ride, on top was a foggy heaven. The bottom was not within sight because of the fog. The capsule will then drop down at an alarming rate that it dragged my face along and I felt I left my heart behind on top!
Yea thats all for today =)
Soon, the road came to a climb and white fog came into view. The higher we climbed, the foggier and colder it got and soon the bus dropped us off at the Genting Skyrail Terminal.
It was a long queue of about 150 people but a fast moving one. In half an hour it was our turn to board the Skyrail
The Skyrail was something like the 'Cable Car' but they called it a 'gondola'. It ascended up the mountain, and in some places it got so foggy that the surrounding was just PLAIN WHITE.
After minutes of ascending, the surrounding trees turned from the tropical to the coniferous ones.
Alas! After half an hour in the metal cocoon, we finally reached First World Hotel. Which is where the theme park was. We actually wanted to leave out the outdoor park because of the freezing weather and go to the indoor one instead. But after seeing what the indoor park had (roller coaster going round and round and long Q), we decide that the outdoor park was worth enduring the cold weather.
At the ticket booth, the sign displayed that 2 rides were closed but the cashier said that only 2 RIDES WERE OPEN! We thought that more rides would be open as the weather got better so we just proceeded with the buying.
It was so cold that I could 'smoke' by blowing out warm air that condensed. Although it didn't rain, the floors were wet due to the dew that condensed when it came in contact with the floor.
Took the all the rides except the Dragon and the Tobbogan and the Sungai Rejang Fume Ride.
Now I shall describe the 'thriller rides'.
Corkscrew: Double 360 degree flips with lotsa jerks and drops. Very thrilling!
Flying Coaster: You get into a capsule where it is required for you to lie flat. Very fast! I always thought we were gonna crash into the pillars. Two 360 degree flips.
Space shot: 12 people sit perpendicular on a square capsule, strapped by safety belts criss crossing each other. Then it shoots up into the sky, not at the very fast speed, until the top. When I sat on the ride, on top was a foggy heaven. The bottom was not within sight because of the fog. The capsule will then drop down at an alarming rate that it dragged my face along and I felt I left my heart behind on top!
Yea thats all for today =)
19 December 2009
Pewter
Set off at 9plus heading towards the Royal Selangor Pewter Company. At the entrance, there was a giant goblet made entirely outta pewter. It was in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest something which I don't know.
Now this company is not overnment owned, instead, it was a family buisness. At the entrance to the exhibition, there was a huge wall with lots of hand prints carved out from pewter. Those were the hand prints of the workers who have worked in the ompany fro more than 5years.
Pewter is made up of:
Now this company is not overnment owned, instead, it was a family buisness. At the entrance to the exhibition, there was a huge wall with lots of hand prints carved out from pewter. Those were the hand prints of the workers who have worked in the ompany fro more than 5years.
Pewter is made up of:
- Tin
- Antimony
- Copper
90% of Tin is usually added, though this may be different in the types of products manufactured. Pewter was traditionally made up of Tin and Lead, but with Lead being poisonous, pewter in those days were not food-safe. So, today, the elements used to make pewter are different.
In another part of the exhibition room, there was a massive wall made entirely up of pewter plates, each plate costing as much as RM 150. Every single plate was designed by hammering of carving out the patterns. There was even a replica of the Petronas Twin Towers, made up of 7000 pewter tubes. It was standing at least 3 storeys high!
It was said that when shaping out the pewter, metal scraps are wasted and there were these words on the wall 'No pewter goes to waste'. In the middle of the exhibition room, there was a huge hollow cube with pewter scraps packed inside. It actually weighed 1500kg and that amount of pewter can be made 1400 teapots!
Outside the exhibotion room, there was a big factory that could be viewed from close by a ramp leading down. One worker was making handles for the teapots by pouring molten pewter inside a mould and opening it up a 2 seconds later. Bingo! A handle slipped out like magic! It cooled so fast that any spillage onto the table solidified in to coin like metal. Then, the worker would dip the handle into the molten pewter and use the heat to 'chop' off the ends so that the unwanted ends would become molten again, without any wastetage.
In another part of the exhibition room, there was a worker imprinting patterns into a sheet of pewter, which would then we soldered and made into a limited edition tea set, cosing 8000RM.
In a corner of the factory, there was a 'School of Hard Knocks', teaching you pewter smithing. We attended the course which taught us how to transform a circular piece of pewter, into an ice cream bowl. It took half an hour and we even got to imprint our initials on the bottom of the bowl.
Another room we visited was the showroom, we showcased the products the company manufactured. The prices ranged from a 50RM teacup to a 172kRM Peacock. Most of the pewter products were handmade, so its the workmanship fee we were paying for.
It rained and we went back to hotel LOL
18 December 2009
Away
I looked at my watch which reflected under the dim yellow light: 6.30am. I was setting off to KL from home by car. Had breakfast at McDonalds located just beside West Coast Park, then proceeded in the direction of the checkpoint. The traffic there wasn't too bad as we got through within minutes.
Along the North South Highway, there were coloured flowers planted along the road divider and teak trees along the kerb. Oil plantations were common there and you could just enjoy a breathtaking view of fields that only ended in the distant horizon.
The territories of Nothern Johor was hardly visible as the early fog had settled down over the canopy. Drops of water, reflected by the windows, were visible on the car dashboard as dark shadows. Soon, the slight rain turned to a downpour at an alarming rate, making the surroundings almost outta sight. As the rain cleared, a rainbow was suspended over the lands by invisible strings that attatched it to the sky.
'Brunch' was at a place called Restoran Jejantas which was basically an overhead bridge that loomed over the highway. There was an 'A&W' and 'KFC' there, not to mention souvenir stores that sold traditional Malay toys.
Soon after we entered the state of Selangor, we reached our destination, a hotel named 'One World Hotel' located in the town of Petaling Jaya. It was just beside a shopping center and that fact made it convienient for shopping and eating. Petaling Jaya is an upper middle-class estate, which meant that most of the people live in either bungalows, terraces or semi-ds.
Now I shall just skip to dinner, as nothing much happened in the afternoon. After a hard time trying to figure out where to eat, we finally decided to eat at the food court. I had the famous Penang Kuay Teow soup. Delicious!!! The soup was both sweet and sour, and when you drank it, it paints a spicy taste at the back of your throat! The kuay teow was both smooth and filling. Not to mention the price: 5.80RM for a gigantic bowl!
Afterwhich, we went shopping around the gargantuan shopping center. It had a rock climbing wall, a children's some sort of 'playground' with balls all around it. At peak hour, the whole place was packed, especially the cinemas: A long queue of more than 50 people!
Ok, that's all folks!
Along the North South Highway, there were coloured flowers planted along the road divider and teak trees along the kerb. Oil plantations were common there and you could just enjoy a breathtaking view of fields that only ended in the distant horizon.
The territories of Nothern Johor was hardly visible as the early fog had settled down over the canopy. Drops of water, reflected by the windows, were visible on the car dashboard as dark shadows. Soon, the slight rain turned to a downpour at an alarming rate, making the surroundings almost outta sight. As the rain cleared, a rainbow was suspended over the lands by invisible strings that attatched it to the sky.
'Brunch' was at a place called Restoran Jejantas which was basically an overhead bridge that loomed over the highway. There was an 'A&W' and 'KFC' there, not to mention souvenir stores that sold traditional Malay toys.
Soon after we entered the state of Selangor, we reached our destination, a hotel named 'One World Hotel' located in the town of Petaling Jaya. It was just beside a shopping center and that fact made it convienient for shopping and eating. Petaling Jaya is an upper middle-class estate, which meant that most of the people live in either bungalows, terraces or semi-ds.
Now I shall just skip to dinner, as nothing much happened in the afternoon. After a hard time trying to figure out where to eat, we finally decided to eat at the food court. I had the famous Penang Kuay Teow soup. Delicious!!! The soup was both sweet and sour, and when you drank it, it paints a spicy taste at the back of your throat! The kuay teow was both smooth and filling. Not to mention the price: 5.80RM for a gigantic bowl!
Afterwhich, we went shopping around the gargantuan shopping center. It had a rock climbing wall, a children's some sort of 'playground' with balls all around it. At peak hour, the whole place was packed, especially the cinemas: A long queue of more than 50 people!
Ok, that's all folks!
10 December 2009
Happenstance Found
Now my blog's almost dead so I'm just in time to keep it alive. THis is a different type of post though, its gonna be a book review. But I shall only summarise the fisrt part as there is far too many things to summarise about in the book as there are just too many important points. yes, you might say, if this is a summary you should try to minimise the words. So if you say that, then I can just write the cover page.
Book Title: 1st book of 'The Books of Umber", titled 'Happenstance Found'
Author:P.W.Catanese
Here begins our tale:
The boy felt as if he'd emerged, fully conscious, out of nothing. His eyes were blindfolded and when he reached for it, an unfamiliar voice spoke, "Don't touch that." Knowledge seemed to float back to him slowly, but he still didn't know his name. The stranger told him to be quiet, at least until the worm passes. A moment later, there was incessant clacking and a finger was drew to his lips, a sign for him to be quiet. After the worm passed, there were footsteps and voices heard. A trio appeared in an archway. Their names were: Oates, a burly man; Sophie, an archer; and Lord Umber, a man always in search of an adventure.
The stranger spoke outta nowhere, "Call him Happenstance. Take him Umber. You'll need him for your next task. The boy has a note in his pocket, you'll find some answers there. Good luck Umber and Happenstance."
Umber then discovers that Hap (short for Happenstance) could see in the dark with his green eyes as he possesses nocturnal vision, a newe discovery for Umber and Hap himself. THe not that Umber received from the stranger through the boy said on the front cover: For The Eyes Of Umber Only. After Umber reads the note, Hap asks what was in it but Umber refused to tell him.
Umber later offered Hap to travel with them and Hap accepted the offer, not knowing what else to do. Along the way, Umber then told Hap that this maze of rocks was actually called Alzumar, which was buried by a volcano ash after a volcano named Mount Ignis erupted. He then said that the tyrant worm made Alzumar its home as it can't stand the light of the day. Umber then told Hap about the tyrant worm being a legendary man eater.
(What an abrupt ending...)
Book Title: 1st book of 'The Books of Umber", titled 'Happenstance Found'
Author:P.W.Catanese
Here begins our tale:
The boy felt as if he'd emerged, fully conscious, out of nothing. His eyes were blindfolded and when he reached for it, an unfamiliar voice spoke, "Don't touch that." Knowledge seemed to float back to him slowly, but he still didn't know his name. The stranger told him to be quiet, at least until the worm passes. A moment later, there was incessant clacking and a finger was drew to his lips, a sign for him to be quiet. After the worm passed, there were footsteps and voices heard. A trio appeared in an archway. Their names were: Oates, a burly man; Sophie, an archer; and Lord Umber, a man always in search of an adventure.
The stranger spoke outta nowhere, "Call him Happenstance. Take him Umber. You'll need him for your next task. The boy has a note in his pocket, you'll find some answers there. Good luck Umber and Happenstance."
Umber then discovers that Hap (short for Happenstance) could see in the dark with his green eyes as he possesses nocturnal vision, a newe discovery for Umber and Hap himself. THe not that Umber received from the stranger through the boy said on the front cover: For The Eyes Of Umber Only. After Umber reads the note, Hap asks what was in it but Umber refused to tell him.
Umber later offered Hap to travel with them and Hap accepted the offer, not knowing what else to do. Along the way, Umber then told Hap that this maze of rocks was actually called Alzumar, which was buried by a volcano ash after a volcano named Mount Ignis erupted. He then said that the tyrant worm made Alzumar its home as it can't stand the light of the day. Umber then told Hap about the tyrant worm being a legendary man eater.
(What an abrupt ending...)
04 December 2009
24 November 2009
Chalet
I'm not gonna blog about the process of planning the chalet, as that would have to take 2000 words or more.
Monday:
Woke up with more runny nose and cough after having a bad night's sleep of continuous runny nose. Today was the day that class 6/2 booked a chalet at Goldkist Resort located in East Coast Park area 'D'. Took my medicine and proceeded to say visit 'Mr Computer'.
Woo Hian called me at 2+ to ask for directions from his house to the chalet. I gave him the directions he wanted andhe was shocked to hear that he needed to walk over 1km from the Marine Terrace bus stop to reach the chalet.
I heard that we were supposed to reach the chalet past 2.30pm, so I decided that I would reach a little later. I left the house and walked to the bus stop later discovering that I had left my wallet at home. LOL. Rushed back at breakneck speed before discovering that I had left the wallet on the couch, which was downright stupid.
Bus 14 came not long after. I had actually wanted to take that bus to East Coast Rd and hike all the way from there to the chalet. Bu that may take even longer and tiring. So I got of a stop and crossed the road to another bus stop where I waited for Bus 31. Lucky me. A minute after I sat down on the burnished seat, it came.
I passed the VJC and thought that the bus would stop at the next one. But at the nexxt stop, it just kept on rumbling. Only until another stop, it finally allowed me to go out. It was raining by then as I took my umbrella out. I walked to Siglap Park Connector and found that the canal was almost overflowing.
Walking along the Connector, I saw that the overhead bridge wasn't far away. BUt it required walking away from the direction of the chalet. I tried to take a peek whether there was another overhead bridge across the ECP in the direction of the chalet; sadly, there was none in sight. So I just had to take the one nearest to me.
After crossing the overhead bridge, I walked and reached the chalet after a few minutes.Saw some of my classmates comin outta the resort when I walked into it. Our chalet was D01 and it was facing a playground. Inside was reral crowded due to the confined spaces. The bedroom was upstairs and there were only 2 beds situated in it. THe boys were plyin PSP upstairs while some downstairs were renting their bikes from a man who had booked the chalet next to ours. He charged $4 an hour and $6 for 2 hours. I had actuallywanted to rent a bike for 2 hours but the man asked me to rent it for 1hr and then come back. What a cheapo!
We went cycling in groups. I went with Zi Jie, Jun Lei, Yi Sien, Darren and Zhi Hang. We cycled to Fort Road. Zi Jie and I were the first to reach there. I offered him to go to the Katong side under the flyover but he resisted. Then we all cycled back to the chalet. After pedaling for a while, the rest were nowhere in sight. So I just made my way back. Along the way, I saw some other groups goin towards and away from the chalet.
Some people had reached already and were upstairs playing (and watching) PSPs. What's the point of coming here when you're just going to play? At least they were somehow, socialising...
Zhi Hang came back half an hour later saying that Zi Jie had crashed into Amanda at Mac and ha to walk back from there. Darren had gone off towards Fort Rd to ask everyone to come back to the chalet.
In the meanwhile, with nothing to do, Mathilda offered me to go to the beach with her. Bryan came along too, and we were there splashing water and sand at each other. Mathilda got herself wet and I told her to blame it on gravity instead of me.
George came along soon after and sat on the sand, looking at the far horizon. He said he wanted his privacy and told us not to go into the chalet as they were throwing water bombs at him.
We were curious and went back to the chalet, only to find the floor coated with puddles of water. Around the 'kitchen' sink was a crowd of people filling diminutive balloons with water that made them expand a few times their original size. Clara threw ice at me and threatened to bombard me with 'delicious cupcakes'. She even put ice down my back and I did the same, jus with bigger ice pieces.
Most of us went to the beach to bombard each other with the plastic bags of water balloons. Smaller ones didn't burst that easily beacuse the tension between the rubber wasn't enought so these normally rolled into the sea. People somehow rushed over to get the 'rolled away' ones as if those were their lives. When we ran outta water balloons, we used the plastic bags to scoop water from the sea and splashed it at others. Jun Lei kept spitting out 'cos he complained that the sea water was too salty. Megan screamed in a VERY VERY VERY high pitched voice when I poured water on her.
Shawn and I decided to return to the chalet to showere before everyone comes, then we will have to queue up. I remembered that we had put our slippers somewhere near the top of the beach we were playing at. But then, to my horror, no familiar slippers were there. We then scoured the shore towards the west and found our slippers-50m away from where we were playing! We had actually moved over such a distance to a sand barrier which seperates one beach from another.
WE went back to the chalet and Shawn ask me to lend him my 2nd pair of extra clothes, I lent him the one that I was going to use for sleeping at night, which was long sleeved (but in the end I was not).
Crowds of people started coming in soon after and I was glad we came back early. Dominic's father was clearing up the masses of water and it was then I thought that we can't run a chalet.
Dinner was served and it was a spread of chicken wing, bee hoon, curry and 'junk food'. When I heard that there was gonna be pizza, I waited until the pizza man came. It was Hawaiian pizza and it was better than good. I had 2 huge slices and a few cans of soft drinks.
After the sumptious meal, I told the-people-downstairs that I had sparklers and ask them if they wanted to enjoy the fun of...burning their worksheets (I was the one who told Dominic to tell the rest to bring their worksheets yet I didn't). In the end, no one brought theirs.
We made a small fire over a pile of sand that had been shaped by someone to look like a birthday cake. Using tissue paper as fuel, Megan said that it was a waste so we had to switch to using other stuff. Using flowers, Megan said it was cruel, anyway the flowers were moist so they didn't work. 'Dried leaves' a soaked up lots of moisture that they wouldn't work either. George spoilt the fun by pouring his 100plus on the fire to douse it. Then suddenly the rest started throwing the sand grains on the fire...
Dominic's father left the chalet to us after a while and then I went up to the bedroom and found a whole lotta people crowded in there. I asked George to throw a tissue box through the window that had a view of the bottom floor and he I it up again to him. Then this process repeated until more people wanted to try it.
They started throwing potato chip tubes and sumore random objects up and down. Then they changed throwing chicken wings, prawn cracker bags etc. Jun Lei tore open the tissue box and threw ALL th tissue paper out and it was snowing. Someone brought another giant prawn cracker bag up to the bedroom and accidentally spillt some of it onto the floor. Dominic offered me a prawn cracker served on a plate and I took on, later discovering that it was from the floor...
Th floor was a mess downstairs and Dominic ordered everyone to clear up the mess, well, except for Darren though =( In 20mins, the floor was as good as new (original).
Went home LOL
Monday:
Woke up with more runny nose and cough after having a bad night's sleep of continuous runny nose. Today was the day that class 6/2 booked a chalet at Goldkist Resort located in East Coast Park area 'D'. Took my medicine and proceeded to say visit 'Mr Computer'.
Woo Hian called me at 2+ to ask for directions from his house to the chalet. I gave him the directions he wanted andhe was shocked to hear that he needed to walk over 1km from the Marine Terrace bus stop to reach the chalet.
I heard that we were supposed to reach the chalet past 2.30pm, so I decided that I would reach a little later. I left the house and walked to the bus stop later discovering that I had left my wallet at home. LOL. Rushed back at breakneck speed before discovering that I had left the wallet on the couch, which was downright stupid.
Bus 14 came not long after. I had actually wanted to take that bus to East Coast Rd and hike all the way from there to the chalet. Bu that may take even longer and tiring. So I got of a stop and crossed the road to another bus stop where I waited for Bus 31. Lucky me. A minute after I sat down on the burnished seat, it came.
I passed the VJC and thought that the bus would stop at the next one. But at the nexxt stop, it just kept on rumbling. Only until another stop, it finally allowed me to go out. It was raining by then as I took my umbrella out. I walked to Siglap Park Connector and found that the canal was almost overflowing.
Walking along the Connector, I saw that the overhead bridge wasn't far away. BUt it required walking away from the direction of the chalet. I tried to take a peek whether there was another overhead bridge across the ECP in the direction of the chalet; sadly, there was none in sight. So I just had to take the one nearest to me.
After crossing the overhead bridge, I walked and reached the chalet after a few minutes.Saw some of my classmates comin outta the resort when I walked into it. Our chalet was D01 and it was facing a playground. Inside was reral crowded due to the confined spaces. The bedroom was upstairs and there were only 2 beds situated in it. THe boys were plyin PSP upstairs while some downstairs were renting their bikes from a man who had booked the chalet next to ours. He charged $4 an hour and $6 for 2 hours. I had actuallywanted to rent a bike for 2 hours but the man asked me to rent it for 1hr and then come back. What a cheapo!
We went cycling in groups. I went with Zi Jie, Jun Lei, Yi Sien, Darren and Zhi Hang. We cycled to Fort Road. Zi Jie and I were the first to reach there. I offered him to go to the Katong side under the flyover but he resisted. Then we all cycled back to the chalet. After pedaling for a while, the rest were nowhere in sight. So I just made my way back. Along the way, I saw some other groups goin towards and away from the chalet.
Some people had reached already and were upstairs playing (and watching) PSPs. What's the point of coming here when you're just going to play? At least they were somehow, socialising...
Zhi Hang came back half an hour later saying that Zi Jie had crashed into Amanda at Mac and ha to walk back from there. Darren had gone off towards Fort Rd to ask everyone to come back to the chalet.
In the meanwhile, with nothing to do, Mathilda offered me to go to the beach with her. Bryan came along too, and we were there splashing water and sand at each other. Mathilda got herself wet and I told her to blame it on gravity instead of me.
George came along soon after and sat on the sand, looking at the far horizon. He said he wanted his privacy and told us not to go into the chalet as they were throwing water bombs at him.
We were curious and went back to the chalet, only to find the floor coated with puddles of water. Around the 'kitchen' sink was a crowd of people filling diminutive balloons with water that made them expand a few times their original size. Clara threw ice at me and threatened to bombard me with 'delicious cupcakes'. She even put ice down my back and I did the same, jus with bigger ice pieces.
Most of us went to the beach to bombard each other with the plastic bags of water balloons. Smaller ones didn't burst that easily beacuse the tension between the rubber wasn't enought so these normally rolled into the sea. People somehow rushed over to get the 'rolled away' ones as if those were their lives. When we ran outta water balloons, we used the plastic bags to scoop water from the sea and splashed it at others. Jun Lei kept spitting out 'cos he complained that the sea water was too salty. Megan screamed in a VERY VERY VERY high pitched voice when I poured water on her.
Shawn and I decided to return to the chalet to showere before everyone comes, then we will have to queue up. I remembered that we had put our slippers somewhere near the top of the beach we were playing at. But then, to my horror, no familiar slippers were there. We then scoured the shore towards the west and found our slippers-50m away from where we were playing! We had actually moved over such a distance to a sand barrier which seperates one beach from another.
WE went back to the chalet and Shawn ask me to lend him my 2nd pair of extra clothes, I lent him the one that I was going to use for sleeping at night, which was long sleeved (but in the end I was not).
Crowds of people started coming in soon after and I was glad we came back early. Dominic's father was clearing up the masses of water and it was then I thought that we can't run a chalet.
Dinner was served and it was a spread of chicken wing, bee hoon, curry and 'junk food'. When I heard that there was gonna be pizza, I waited until the pizza man came. It was Hawaiian pizza and it was better than good. I had 2 huge slices and a few cans of soft drinks.
After the sumptious meal, I told the-people-downstairs that I had sparklers and ask them if they wanted to enjoy the fun of...burning their worksheets (I was the one who told Dominic to tell the rest to bring their worksheets yet I didn't). In the end, no one brought theirs.
We made a small fire over a pile of sand that had been shaped by someone to look like a birthday cake. Using tissue paper as fuel, Megan said that it was a waste so we had to switch to using other stuff. Using flowers, Megan said it was cruel, anyway the flowers were moist so they didn't work. 'Dried leaves' a soaked up lots of moisture that they wouldn't work either. George spoilt the fun by pouring his 100plus on the fire to douse it. Then suddenly the rest started throwing the sand grains on the fire...
Dominic's father left the chalet to us after a while and then I went up to the bedroom and found a whole lotta people crowded in there. I asked George to throw a tissue box through the window that had a view of the bottom floor and he I it up again to him. Then this process repeated until more people wanted to try it.
They started throwing potato chip tubes and sumore random objects up and down. Then they changed throwing chicken wings, prawn cracker bags etc. Jun Lei tore open the tissue box and threw ALL th tissue paper out and it was snowing. Someone brought another giant prawn cracker bag up to the bedroom and accidentally spillt some of it onto the floor. Dominic offered me a prawn cracker served on a plate and I took on, later discovering that it was from the floor...
Th floor was a mess downstairs and Dominic ordered everyone to clear up the mess, well, except for Darren though =( In 20mins, the floor was as good as new (original).
Went home LOL
18 November 2009
Staring into the starless night sky...
'Beep beep beep!' the shrill alarm of my handphone sounded, as if having a life of its own. It lit up the room and I woke up, startled. I checked the time: 1am. Wee hours of Tuesday morning. Good sign, I had woken up. Woken up for Mother Nature's great night performance. Rare as you can think but how often do you see a 'meteor shower' in Singapore?
The Leonid Meteor Shower has produced some of the most spectacular meteor displays in history,but it is unfortunately periodic in nature. They generally begin from 13 November and end at 21 November with maximum occuring on the nights of 17 and 18 November.
Ok enough of infomation, back to my story.
As I shuffled out from the bedroom, I walked towards the window and took a peek outside. There were indeed lights, but they seem to be...moving...at a very slow speed. Later I realised that the sky was filled with clouds and stars were nowhere in sight. So, the lghts couldn't be stars, they were AIRPLANES.
1.30am and I still haven't seen a star as the clouds didn't clear. I ran out of patience and set the alarm to 4am, with high hopes of waking up seeing meteors. But, I overslept. LOL.
THen just now I heard that the meteors passed by during 4.30-5.00. *Sighs* What a waste it was.
Another failure...
The Leonid Meteor Shower has produced some of the most spectacular meteor displays in history,but it is unfortunately periodic in nature. They generally begin from 13 November and end at 21 November with maximum occuring on the nights of 17 and 18 November.
Ok enough of infomation, back to my story.
As I shuffled out from the bedroom, I walked towards the window and took a peek outside. There were indeed lights, but they seem to be...moving...at a very slow speed. Later I realised that the sky was filled with clouds and stars were nowhere in sight. So, the lghts couldn't be stars, they were AIRPLANES.
1.30am and I still haven't seen a star as the clouds didn't clear. I ran out of patience and set the alarm to 4am, with high hopes of waking up seeing meteors. But, I overslept. LOL.
THen just now I heard that the meteors passed by during 4.30-5.00. *Sighs* What a waste it was.
Another failure...
14 November 2009
Skipping 'Rope'
School after PSLE is like a rope, a silent killer.
Why am I coming to school? Is there anything to do there except attend talks by schools I don't even dare to think about going and board games the whole day? Think...Maybe you disagree with me saying that its the last week of seeing your classmates. Last week?! How can that be? You can always find them to meet them after Graduation right?
Since I do not agree with the latter, I had decided not to come and be honest about it in my post. On that particular Thursday, I heard there was art crap and talks by those schools. But doing(or listening) wasn't going to help in anyway...Unless you wanna take art for O levels, but I totally detest art.
Instead of killing precious time, Dominic and I had decided to do something productive: going to the library and read books before proceding to enjoy the scenery on a bus.
I was supposed to meet Dominic at 10am outside Bedok Community Library, but he came 10minutes late. We introduced each other books and proceeded to read.
Lunch was decided almost immediately after passing a coffee shop's Mixed Vegetable Rice stall. My share was $2.70 while Dominic's was $3.??. The stall had some kinda equation of the combinations of food types. Interesting that was but later we decided that the meal wasn't worth it as the food wasn't up to our expectations. It was just too diluted.
After lunch, Dominic and I decided to take Bus 168 to Woodlands Interchange before heading over to Bottle Tree Park for prawn fishing via Bus 854. Bus 168 was an Express Bus as, most of the time, it travelled on Expressways. But, if you want me to elaborate on the bus trip, I shall buy a book on 'The Meaning of Dreams' for you.
We took the ascending escalator to the platform and waited for the MRT to come and took it to Kahtib MRT Station. The Bottle Tree Park Entrance was 1 Bus stop away so we decided to hike there.
Bottle Tree Park had been in my 'bad books' since I had gone there. I had been dissatisfied with their faclities except for the fishing pond where prawns waited to be caught. We had decided to fish for prwans there at $10 an hour. Prawn catches had no limits so the more praws you catch, the more worth the money.
We decided to book only one fishing rod beacuse of money matters. I saw a green net hanging on the perimeter of the pond by a nail and thought that the net was to keep the prawns in. At that time, none of us knew whether prawns caught could be brought home, so, we just threw the prawns in without realising it that the net belongs to another person. Dominic wanteed to demand from that person another 2 lobsters but fortunately, I managed to talk him outta it.
It was like losing a penny and picking up a pound: After 'losing' 2 prawns, a man in long jeans came up to us and gave us his 6 prawns that were caught.
After using up our hour rent of the fishing rod, the owner gave us a plastic bag to put the prawns in. I had actually decided to rear them (thats impossible) so I wanted them alive. I asked the owner to let us add some water to it but he didn't allow it as the plastic bag might break. BUt we didn't adhere to his words and instead, sneakily took some water out from the super large pond outside. We also got another plastic bag from one of the restaurants.Along the way back, as I was the one carrying the plastic bag, my heart beat in trepidation everytime I felt vibrations coming from the plastic bag. We even had to resort to buying 2 bottles of drinks at a Shell Station just for 2 plastic bags. LOL.
Our 'hard work' didn't pay off in the end. A few of the lobsters were dead (maybe lack of oxygen), and some were drained of all their energy. So we decided to let them all go at the fish pond opposite my block.
So much for the 'hard work'...
Why am I coming to school? Is there anything to do there except attend talks by schools I don't even dare to think about going and board games the whole day? Think...Maybe you disagree with me saying that its the last week of seeing your classmates. Last week?! How can that be? You can always find them to meet them after Graduation right?
Since I do not agree with the latter, I had decided not to come and be honest about it in my post. On that particular Thursday, I heard there was art crap and talks by those schools. But doing(or listening) wasn't going to help in anyway...Unless you wanna take art for O levels, but I totally detest art.
Instead of killing precious time, Dominic and I had decided to do something productive: going to the library and read books before proceding to enjoy the scenery on a bus.
I was supposed to meet Dominic at 10am outside Bedok Community Library, but he came 10minutes late. We introduced each other books and proceeded to read.
Lunch was decided almost immediately after passing a coffee shop's Mixed Vegetable Rice stall. My share was $2.70 while Dominic's was $3.??. The stall had some kinda equation of the combinations of food types. Interesting that was but later we decided that the meal wasn't worth it as the food wasn't up to our expectations. It was just too diluted.
After lunch, Dominic and I decided to take Bus 168 to Woodlands Interchange before heading over to Bottle Tree Park for prawn fishing via Bus 854. Bus 168 was an Express Bus as, most of the time, it travelled on Expressways. But, if you want me to elaborate on the bus trip, I shall buy a book on 'The Meaning of Dreams' for you.
We took the ascending escalator to the platform and waited for the MRT to come and took it to Kahtib MRT Station. The Bottle Tree Park Entrance was 1 Bus stop away so we decided to hike there.
Bottle Tree Park had been in my 'bad books' since I had gone there. I had been dissatisfied with their faclities except for the fishing pond where prawns waited to be caught. We had decided to fish for prwans there at $10 an hour. Prawn catches had no limits so the more praws you catch, the more worth the money.
We decided to book only one fishing rod beacuse of money matters. I saw a green net hanging on the perimeter of the pond by a nail and thought that the net was to keep the prawns in. At that time, none of us knew whether prawns caught could be brought home, so, we just threw the prawns in without realising it that the net belongs to another person. Dominic wanteed to demand from that person another 2 lobsters but fortunately, I managed to talk him outta it.
It was like losing a penny and picking up a pound: After 'losing' 2 prawns, a man in long jeans came up to us and gave us his 6 prawns that were caught.
After using up our hour rent of the fishing rod, the owner gave us a plastic bag to put the prawns in. I had actually decided to rear them (thats impossible) so I wanted them alive. I asked the owner to let us add some water to it but he didn't allow it as the plastic bag might break. BUt we didn't adhere to his words and instead, sneakily took some water out from the super large pond outside. We also got another plastic bag from one of the restaurants.Along the way back, as I was the one carrying the plastic bag, my heart beat in trepidation everytime I felt vibrations coming from the plastic bag. We even had to resort to buying 2 bottles of drinks at a Shell Station just for 2 plastic bags. LOL.
Our 'hard work' didn't pay off in the end. A few of the lobsters were dead (maybe lack of oxygen), and some were drained of all their energy. So we decided to let them all go at the fish pond opposite my block.
So much for the 'hard work'...
08 November 2009
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