Saturday, October 18, 2008
heehee hello folks! welcome me back! woo! today we had showdown at palawan beach, sentosa. it was really quite fun, but super duper uber messy and dirty.first we started out by meeting doreen and jianhui at harbourfront station. doreen has a strange way of giving directions. "turn 180 degrees and walk..." haha :D then we introduced the rest and we went up the monorail to get to sentosa. finally reached palawan beach to meet up with clara. that was around 10am or something. palawan is a really awesome beach! we all took off our shoes and played in the water! those darn guys kept throwing stuff at us. these include seaweed, rocks, gardenia plastic filled with water and some giant coconut. we girls just wanted to soak in the atmosphere of that place, but we ended up "battling" with the guys. they're mean.
so, the event finally started at 11am. we played this ice breaker called "kou xiang tang". they made us do weird poses e.g head touch something green, nose touch someone else's armpit etc. i think the most impossible one is where we had to put 10 noses together. this proves that we all got big heads o.o the event planners also taught us the "dead cockroach" and "hamburger". i'm always one at the bottom, which is super uncomfortable D:
the next game was the telematch. we had to finish a bar of soap by rubbing it on ourselves. they said that we could use the seawater to wet ourselves. some people ended up bathing in the sea, which is sooooo NOT being green. they're polluting the water you know, and that's just wrong. the soap was impossible to finish... the second part was that we were supposed to spread a tin of wax on ourselves, then sprinkle some prickly heat powder. only the guys used the wax, and jingyi was sprinkling the powder like we were dancing at a party. then we had to roll to the next part, which is to pick up mentos floating in ketchup. the thing was that we had to pick them up with our mouths. urhh... so by the time we finished the race, we were sticky, powdery and sandy. but i felt an oddly strange happy feeling ;D
the next part of the showdown was some captains ball game. it was all teams versus each other... which i must say was pretty chaotic. there were beach balls, bananas and cabbages. let me just announce that i got splat by the banana. haha. and people [includes me] were picking up cabage leaves from the ground to throw to our catcher. that counts too. heehee. then there was a mystery item, which turned out to be a raw chicken. it was funny seeing the chicken flying through the air :)
the last game was this battle game [something like dawn of war]. the main objective was to burst other team's flag with water bombs, while protecting your own flag. each team made a vanguard flag and stuck it into the ground, while others went to collect water for the water bomb. i think our team was "innovative", as annabel had the idea of putting zhengwei's slippers between our flag so that it will raise the CG and prevent it from falling blah blah... [our flag was folded in half you see] then all the defenders got into position by sitting around the flag and blocking it to the extent of not even being able to see it. when the game started, some teams came and bombarded us with their bombs, so we got kinda wet. then the game masters sprinkled powder on us, which made us spotty. in the end, our flag managed to stay quite dry, although we looked like survivors of the world's largest bakery explosion.
after the whole event, we went to bathe. then, we went back via monorail and i went for my music lesson [i was half an hour late]. lucky teacher was already doing theory with another student, so she didn't have to wait for me. had music all the way till 5pm. came home, rinsed my clothes, bathed, and went for steamboat.
right now, i'm so darn tired... zzz. seriously. oh yeah forgot to mention that bathing was torture because i have some blisters and abrasions on my feet, so even walking is hard. i look like some constipated penguin. oh well.
i'm a darn tasty roasted chicken ;D