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After viewing the photos I took on the computer, quite a few of them turned out bad due to the dark conditions of the environment and/or because of my unstable hands. so I decided to leave them out till a later time when I have time to sort the pictures properly.

I shall also try to be brief with my various descriptions of the day so that the blog wouldnt be flooded with words (and because I cant really remember that much)

I shall also structure the entry so that you can read just the interesting parts.

since those who went Escape dont seem to have a blog, I shall write about it.

DAY 01, 10th November 2005

it is a fun time together on the first day with various events together. people were still rather enthusiastic since it is after all only the first day.

JE MRT Station

transport personnel pei fen mentioned arrival by 1.30pm. I arrived by around 1.20pm with zp, wei lei, mx, calvin and phyo around. josef and chong chiang and his gang arrived somewhat later. the girls came the latest.

by 2pm we are ready to leave but chong chiang and his gang is n0where to be seen. after waiting around 15 minutes, we decided to leave first and let them come by themselves later.

Trip to Costa Sands Resort (Pasir Ris)

and so begins the bloody long trip from one end of the EW line to the other. the trip is rather uneventful with phyo josef ck calvin and me chatting away on the route at one corner.

fast forward to EW1 Pasir Ris...

*PA System on train* Pasir Ris. This train is terminating at Pasir Ris. All passengers please alight. Thank you for travelling with SMRT.

transport personnel pei fen dont know how to get to the place. luckily we saw the 354 booth with a large sign reading DOWNTOWN EAST immediately when we exit.

turns out that bus stops right outside Downtown East [and we are staying in Costa Sands Resort (Pasir Ris) not Costa Sands Resort (Downtown East)] good thing a few of us knew that Pasir Ris resort is somewhere inside and we began the long trek through the outside road inside.

Arrival, unpacking and first impressions of chalet

arrived after walking for about 10 minutes. metinee is waving crazily at us from the main lobby. a few other girls who checked in early were there (pamela and jin yee is there also I think).

we were brought to the chalet we booked. B-09 is the number. those girls who arrived early made three guys do five push ups before opening the door (clever me ran to the back to turn off the power and make them open the door =D)

first impressions when I went was that is was amazingly dark and small for something so expensive. people who just arrived threw their bags upstairs. I am again impressed by the extremely low cooling capacity of the lousy airconditoner.

First program for the trip: Dare

after settling down, Dare commenced. everybody except pei fen adeline and shiva joined. it started from second storey to the first storey (more space).

photography is strictly restricted throughout the game so try to imagine the scene as I describe it to ya.

selection of winner and victims

the selection is done by giving out Uno cards to all participants. inside contains numbers 0 to 7. all numbers were in pairs except 0 and 7. cards are shuffled and given out. the person holding 0 chooses a number and decides the dare. the persons holding the particular number selected had to perform a dare.

phyo's makeup

there was one interesting dare involving phyo. he was forced to wear some eyeliner, eyeshadow and lipstick and go down and say I am beautiful. photography wasnt restricted at the beginning but I failed to take a good shot. xinyi is supposed to do something as well, but it is too mild so I am not sure.

toilet bowl kisser

metinee and yai hui got another dare. their dare requires them to put on lipstick and go kiss the toilet bowl. they both did it rather readily since all dares are about at that standard anyway.

will you marry me?

this one involves phyo and pam. phyo had to carry pam with one hand on her back and the other at her ankles (and the girl will sort of be like lying horiozontal supported by the guy's hands) then he had to spin her around and ask will you marry me?

basically that is it. but it took them a while to prepare as phyo lacked experience in carrying a girl this way (should have consulted chun kit but he isnt there).

toffee eating

the simplest of all dares, all you had to do is to take a toffee shaped chocolate thingamjig and take a bite each from it together and eat it up.

this is the only dare I got and it involves chong keng and me. nothing major considering the fact that neither of us are gay.

wei lei and metinee got the same dare. the devil in me wanted to push their heads together but I decided against it in case I get the same treatment.

grand finale

in the final round of the game, the dare is decided by all participants except the two victims. and rather luckily (or unfortunately), it is calvin and xinyi (why not phyo and metinee ah?).

it is grand finale what, so of course it must be the ya zhou performance. they have to put the tips of their noses together and lock their hands with each other. it was actually supposed to be lips on nose but we are feeling angelic.

so this wraps up the Dare segment

The Barbecue: Prelogue

the barbecue commenced at around 5+ when there was still a slight drizzle because we thought those people would be arriving soon (when they are not)

the rain made it difficult to barbecue. we shifted that pit everywhere and finally settled on the spot that would prevent rain from entering without dirtying the roof too much.

there were people smearing charcoal on each other faces and thinking it is very fun (hint: the two person squabbling all the time)

some even had to barbecue in the rain and get themselves all wet. who should be blame for all these? those who said they will come by 7+ but only arrived at 9+!

The Barbecue

eat lor. what you expect. the star program of the day is about the begin anyway. some people are downstairs watching Wang Zi Bian Qing Wa (or the froggy froggy show) while eating and some upstairs watching some lame video phyo created and left on his laptop.

Star Programme: The Waterfight Act I

This all began of one very simple reason which I not too sure. I think it is something about phyo and metinee having their usual squabbles and then met went to pour water on him.

then of course phyo took revenge. then met's sisters joined in, namely jin and pam. then they liddat pour of course make some other people wet. so more and more people joined in.

to get more people, anyone who walked outside got dunked as well. so basically everyone who came so far (chong chiang gang who arrived at 5+, general participants that arrived at 3+, organiers arriving at 2+) joined the game except yik yie and pei fen's gang and the choir gang arriving at 8+ as they dont wanna get wet.

some people open themselves to all attacks. others run like there is no tomorrow. chaos is everywhere while everybody is enjoying the entire time.

Star Programme: The Waterfight Act II

While waiting for the NCC guys to arrive. the people involved in the Act I planned what we could do to make them wet.

the plan was that we tell the NCC people to keep their stuff upstairs because there is someone whose stuff got stolen just now when we went out.

after they kept and came down. we start dunking them as well. and of course even the three NCC guys who havent ate joined the game also.

there is also guys carrying the girls around on their backs and stuff while they dunked each other. people who kept running away keep getting attacked as no one is allowed to be dry throughout both acts of the star programme.

costa sands will die seeing the water bill. haha.

The Waterfight: Aftermath

the waterfight finally reached its end at around 10pm or so. it is of course the time for cleanup. water is along the track out of the chalet and all around the outside of the chalet where the fight took place.

everyone also decided to take turns to bath before heading for the night walk. some were involved in the cleaning of the chalet. I ran upstairs. yes I am slacking =D

I didnt bath before going for the nightwalk because I know I would start sweating again that it makes no sense to bath.

Bathtime!

it is a long wait till everyone finishes bathing. so while we are upstairs, we decided to say ghost stories. unfortunately all the stories are not very scary and some were even lame.

we decided to watch advent children but it is rather boring. but all we could do is sit through that lame movie on phyo laptop. zz.

went to watch arts central. it is showing anime at that time. they sure show old stuff eh? but it is a great way to waste time.

ahsabi g-e-ru are bathing together in that small bathroom of the chalet. and wait, I am not inside (-.-")

you simply know they are inside from the amount of noise they make and all the shrieks and shrills and loud chatter.

one particularly funny transcript:

AG Member 1: I wanna niao niao! (slang for peeing in chinese)
AG Member 2: Wah lao we all here you cannot wait ah?
AG Member 1: Cannot! I control all day liao *hears pee sounds*
AG Member 3: Eh after you finish I wanna niao niao also!

they got many more funny conversations inside though. but better stop before people think I am some pervert peeping at them bath (the voices were very audible and I am not spying excuse me)

phyo is trying hard to imagine how the scene in the bathroom is like with four girls naked packed inside the bathroom trying to bathe and laughing at it.

phyo is so gonna hate me for saying that. dont tell anybody okay?

DAY 02, 11th November 2005

we only knew that Escape is open only on weekends after we planned everything out. so 11th that is supposed to be for Escape had to change plans.

Night Walk

After some interesting happenings during bathtime, we finally set off for night walk at around 1am or something.

when we first entered Pasir Ris Park, I am rather shocked by the amount of trees and how little lights there were to light up the entire place. and how big the park is.

however I did not feel scared. it is just rather dark thats all. I am more worried about our tour guides (calvin and phyo) failing to get us back since my sense of direction is bad with so many roads leading to everywhere.

the girls kept squealing at every single thing. like the puddle we stepped on. jin yee and metinee grabbed my hand or shoulders every once in a while for no reason whatsoever.

the trip is rather uneventful, with calvin, phyo and I leading the way and marking down important structures to get us back later (actually it is them doing all the work, I am just shining the torchlight and looking out for puddles or stuff and warn everyone)

we didnt walk far (at least compared to how far we cycled the next day). we stopped at the maze garden. phyo and calvin walked inside for 5 steps and came running out. sheesh.

and we went back to chalet. that wraps up this segment of the day.

Movie Screening: White Chicks

I watched this movie before so I went to have a bath while everyone watched. since everyone is sitting on the mattress watching the show I obviously cant sleep and forced to watch the thing again.

it finally ended at 4am. various of us went to sleep and some went to watch the sunrise of something.

Sleeping and waking up after that

Time spent sleeping greatly varies depending on where you are. I slept for only about 1 hour 45 minutes (I woke up at 5.45am -.-") thanks to alicia who made us wake up for no apparent reason.

to say the truth I didnt sleep for the rest of the day. all I did was close my eyes but I could never fall asleep. too hot and humid I guess.

Breakfast

after brushing teeth and wiped the face and squealing over some cockroach inside the toilet, the gang finally left the chalet for breakfast at around 7am. kornelius, chun kit and yai hui did not join us.

we walked over to Downtown East using the new route found (which is MUCH shorter). disappointed to see McDonalds Downtown East closed. thus we went over to foodfare (a foodcourt) and waited till it opens with some hot milo while phyo calvin and kornelius went to take the western breakfast set that is heavily overpriced.

McDonalds finally opened at 7.30am and mx and I rushed over. I am the first to enter after the shutters open =D

the breakfast is rather uneventful so I guess that is all.

Sleep (again)

after getting back, some people used the oppurtunity and started dozing off again. and so the entire place became extremely boring during the early morning until 11+ when the bicycle rental shop opens for business.

you see a few demonstration of various sleeping styles within a constrained environment (which I had shot and will put up later)

Bikes Rental

I failed to get my bike in the first round since there is a shortage of mountain bikes. we could have well went for full suspension bikes but I thought it is somewhat a waste of money.

so everyone cycled around while we watched Taxi (another show I watched before as well) till around 11.45am as instructed to get our bikes.

renting them for 24 hours costs $20 and you have to leave your EZ-Link card there.

we left to go look for the rest who are already cycling around Pasir Ris Park

Cycling Trip I

we found the gang and we cycled together and crossed the swampy bridge. we cycled rather quickly and stopped halfway as it seems it is going to rain. we all turned back and turned out it didnt rain.

therefore we stopped at the Pasir Ris Park playground. it is almost the same as the one you can find in West Coast Park, just that the facilities is somewhat older.

no, I didnt climb the web. dont ask.

there is this UFO lookalike thing that allows a few persons to sit on it and it turns in a 45 degrees angle so you will be floating one moment and back to earth another moment.

it is great fun spinning people around. but not when you are spun since there is no drive at all. too slow already lah. those people spinning not enough energy...

the last group of people arrived as well. heard that the chains of their bikes dropped off or something so they are delayed.

we also paused there for a while as the team of experts attempt to fix chong chiang's bike whose chain dropped off as well. took five person fifteen minutes to fix it. big problem.

and so we cycled back and got ready to leave for lunch.

when we got back, phyo And josef are ready to take their bikes. after getting the bike josef suggested having a race.

thus phyo josef calvin wei lei zp and I decided to have a race along the car park. josef won the competition but he totally lost control of the bike and CRASHED! his bike is badly damaged and so is he. he is scraped badly on the arms and the side.

Lunch

again we went downtown east for lunch. this time I ordered fish soup together with wei lei and zp who copied both of us.

however after going back to the seat. I thought I should have ordered the bak kut teh mx ordered instead.

relatively uneventful. casual chat only. I decided to go look for phyo and the gang and see how josef is doing. but they are nowhere to be seen. I decided to go back first and see if they are there but unfortunately there are not. so I waited till they finally came back. seemed they bought plasters and antiseptics to treat the wound from the watsons at downtown east.

sleep (yet again)

people were once again sleeping. I still cant fall asleep and I cannot even find a good spot to take a seat. so I am again very bored since no activities were scheduled.

Cycling Trip II

seeing that zhepeng also failed to sleep, we decided to go cycling together again. calvin joined us after hearing we are going to cycle.

we cycled much further and faster this time and so we managed to explore more places. we managed to cycle all the way to the other edge of the Pasir Ris Park as calvin is able to remember the routes well and we generally obeyed the signs and by cycling only on the cycling track.

I managed to have a good look of the entire park this time as it is much brighter than yesterday night. seems that Pasir Ris Park also only have one part of the park that have beaches that are suitable for activities (which is rather far from us). they are also in the process of upgrading Pasir Ris Park and so there are shops here and there along the route.

we got back by 6+ when we decided to teach mx how to cycle a 2-wheel bike at the car park a little bit (and the girls took over) and went back to the chalet to slack around with the rest.

Dinner

dinner is as stated before delivered. but they took canadian pizza this time since you buy one and get one free. phyo said the address is costa sands downtown east when it is costa sands pasir ris. so the poor deliveryman had to go two places.

many people managed to get only a slice of the pizza but I had two. teeheehee. not extremely filling but I gulped all the water which caused the flour to expand (in my stomach) so I feel full then. wahahahaha.

people were again doing nothing after eating and just walking around or watching television till the next program start.

Night Cycling Trip

this is the star programme for the second day. alicia calvin josef and chong chiang did not join us and they are playing lame games with the mahjong as not everyone in that group can play mahjong.

as calvin is unavailable, we had phyo as tour guide. he led us around a few places which I already went in the afternoon. but we somehow got lost as he dont know the way too well. so we went around in circles for a while before ending up at the same playground I went in the afternoon.

and so we played there again, since phyo joined us this time, he is trying to act hero and impress the girls as usual.

nothing much happened. so we decided to finish the route and stop by somewhere to get a drink. while waiting there chin tau and his group joined us. they claimed that they sprinted all the way here.

so the entire group finish the entire route together and went back. turns out we split at some point due to some bad directions. so with capable leaders (reuben and chin tau) we managed to speed back to the chalet without problems.

we arrived somewhere near the chalet and waited a while. but we still see no signs of them. so we went around looking for them a little further up but they are still nowhere to be seen. phyo decided to go further while shiva called the other group leader wei hao.

turns out they are going for another round. so I had to call phyo to get him back and we headed back to the chalet.

Lame games and Bathtime

we arrived back at the chalet with the four who didnt leave for the night cycling continuing their lame games. they are playing some lame games called consultation.

basically you ask a lame question (if this is a good combo calvin likes berny) and throw the three dices and see what happens.

they are also talking about "remants" of a person and they usually take the form of small little grains of particles lying around. so that may be another lame game I dont know of.

they also played Mahjong Stacko. they keep stacking the mahjong up until it falls and see who builds it the highest. another lame game.

josef also have to keep wiping the pus oozing out from his wounds caused by the bike accident earlier. he describes it as overflowing plasma with platets in them.

seeing that they are still not back, I decided to take a bath first. heck, even when I came out they are still not back also.

they finally came back after I played with the consultation as well.

after everyone came back some went to the toilet near the pool to bathe while others used the one in the chalet to prevent long queues.

DAY 03, 12th November 2005

this is a short day for those who did not go Escape as people started leaving at around 11am

Sleep

everyone slept rather early this night since bedtime is around 1.30am in average. we are told to wake up before 10am as we have to check out by then.

many managed to sleep quite a lot. considering the lot woke up by around 8am in average. I woke up by 7 though. the people sleeping on the mattress downstairs seem to be having a hard time.

they are either kicked down the mattress or got molested because of the close proximity. something really funny to watch.

the organisers only woke up at 8. shame shame.

Check Out

after cleaning up, everyone started to pack their backs and stuff all the things back into their bags and got ready to leave. time then was about 9+ nearly 10.

while some continued to check out we brought the bicycles back to check out and get the EZ-Link cards back.

before leaving, we shot a group photo. those who were there then that is.

Departure

we went seperate ways after checking out. some went to take bus to Pasir Ris MRT to go home. others went Downtown East to eat. among those that went Downtown East, some of them went to play LAN while the final few headed to ESCAPE Theme Park and pay those bloodsuckers $16.50 for unlimited rides.

this sums up the entire chalet. sure is a long entry isnt it? took me two days to finish writing (of course with pauses in between). I will write about ESCAPE in another entry since there is nothing much on that.