Council Outing @ Marina and Esplanade
on to saturdayy. haha. my entries are coming along well (:
went out with councillors todayy (: it was supposed to be a fly kite + soccer + frisbee session followed by a steamboat dinner. turned out to be quite diff from expectations and there werent that many people who turned up too.
i had a hard time finding the meeting place cos there werent any specific instructions on the meeting place except: "alight from marina bay mrt station, take 400 and drop off at the big field". and so i dropped off at the first big field, which is marina city park. and it turned out to be somewhere 4 bus stops down. anw, for some reason i had a veri blurry voice tt dayy. cos i called
jun and she said i sounded disturbed ):
aft a long walk ard the area and with some intuition, i finally reached the venue. its quite a nice spot for kite flying and there were so many people flying kites theree. how i wish i had a kite to fly too. for some reason i now associate kite flying with letting go le. there r so many shows that i watch which does tt. like zhen ming tian nv. jin zhi yu nie. anyway, i was looking for councillors flying kites but in the end i realised the councillors were onli playing soccer. sat with the councillors who were spectators and watched and talked abit before the soccer players stopped playing and we headed over to get a drink from the nearest food centre.
it was then that ppl started deciding that they want to eat elsewhere. all the diff suggestions started popping out and the typical long-wait-before-agreeing-on-an-eating-place ensued. wanted to go suntec at first, but in the end we decided on esplanade. but esplanade was quite ex, so we settled on makan sutra. met like tons of ex-RJ ppl on our way there. for some reason evryone bu yue er tong and headed to esplanade that dayy ;) the prices @ makan sutra were horribly repulsive too. like $4 for 2 slices of plain roti prata. and $4 for the smallest plate of carrot cake.
so we finally settled on marina centre, which was just across the road. besides, it looked like it was going to rain (it really did drizzle later). and aft reaching marina centre, we continued the process of deciding where to eat. we queued for kenny rogers and then when we were reaching the end of the queue, we decided we should all go to jacks place. hehhs. clearly, our efficiency parallels that of SAF. *coughs*
and so we got a nice VIP room in jacks place for the whole lot of us. and aft we settled down, the waiting process continued as we decided on what we want to eat. finally by like 8.30, we got our orders placed and was all ready for dinner! :D but it was quite fun lahh. cos we were chatting non stop all the wayy and catching up with each other.
aft dinner, we all paid for our share and GUESS WHAT. there was around 20-30+ dollars extra even though everyone paid just nice, or just a little more for their share. after distributing 1 extra dollar to everyone, we still had $7 extra. HAHA. weirdd. bet we chanced upon some money making secret ;)
anw aft dinner we decided to hav some ice cream. decided to go to this jap ice cream shop but evry1 dint feel like eating so in the end we had sundae at macs. hehhs. stoned there for a long time and then some of us decided to go to the toilet. and OMG. we chanced upon the aftermath of a gangfight. there was this guy who entered the toilet, his shirt all bloody and his head dripping with blood. he was just cleaning up the blood with lots and lots of toilet paper and dumping them in the sinks so the sinks were all bloody and gross. there was really a huge pile of bloody toilet paper it was really sickening.
anw. on my 2nd visit to the toilet, i actually saw some guys camping outside the toilet with glass bottles lohh. omg. and this is all happening outside a shopping centre. :o and i thought gangfights only existed in dark alleys. anw we went back to macs and continued chatting on uni stuff, about our frens, about army etc. we chatted till it was quite late and we all thought we should go home alr.
went home with
bryon and
nat on bus and sumwhere in the middle of my bus ride, i got a msg frm
ching telling me that he actually saw a guy with blood stained shirt and a bandaged head with blood oozing out of the bandage walking around the MRT station. we figured it was the same guy as the gangfight guy we had encountered earlier on, like a few hours ago. omggg. he must have been quite a spectacle. i wonder if the MRT staff stopped him, or rather,
dared to stop him. hmm. and why wasnt he seeking medical attn? :/
aft i reached j8, i walked back home alone even though
nat's dad offered to fetch home, cos i had never walked home alone so late at night le. the last time was prolly like some late night council proj. it was a really fun dayy and i certainly hope more councillors will join us for our next outingg (:
consilio et animis
3/19/2007 10:02:00 PM
