Sunday, October 25, 2009, 10:42 pm :
Had a fruitful weekend.
Friday, me and the bf took leave to go to East Coast Park for our private bbq. He was supposed to come over to my place at 10am but he didn't make it! Our plans were delayed not because I couldn't wake up! Heh.
So we waited for mummy to come home because she also wanted to go to NTUC. Had fun grocery shopping really. We bought a portable bbq pit, matches and so on, and of course tons of food. We had satay, hotdogs, chicken nuggets, bacon and chicken wings. Of course we didn't manage to finish them all! What do you think we are, pigs?
Managed to convince mummy to fetch us over to ECP and we rented bicycles from one of the shops near McD and cycled trying to find a nice, picnic-ky spot. The bf claimed that the drinks were pulling his bicycle to the left, trying to explain his tendency to veer to the left. (No matter if there is any load or not) So, we finally found a nice spot, overlooking the coastline, shady and have trees to tie the hammock to. Happy with our find, we tried to settle down on our groundsheet.
*Note keyword:
triedMega fail
la. The wind was so so strong, it kept blowing the groundsheet off. Yes, we could have used stuff to secure the ends of the sheet but the wind was quite unnerving and the occasional thunder didn't help much too. Looking up to the sky, we can only see half-dark clouds, unable to predict if the sky was going to pour on us. To be safe, we cycled to somewhere nearer to civilisation.
Location secured, next step is to start the pit. Super difficult task! The bf had to resort to using the groundsheet to cover himself and the pit in order to light the fire-starter. And the fire-starter kept going out too. So while he was trying very very hard to start the fire, I was very very busy laughing very hard at him hiding underneath the groundsheet with an extremely exasperated expression. It doesn't help that he thinks that everyone who walked past were looking him, thinking that he was crazy, and he giving all sorts of crazy commentaries on what he thought people were thinking.
"Hi, I'm an alien from outer space trying to start a fire on Earth. Part of my science project."It is totally beyond me to articulate the hilarity of the situation and his crazed expressions and commentaries.
Anyway, we managed to start the fire eventually and had fun bbq-ing our food. :)
Saturday, Night Safari day! They are extremely smart to bank on festivals as this year, they had invested alot of effort in Halloween. I have to admit that the returns is great. I have never ever seen so many people at the zoo or the night safari in my life. And I am quite a frequent-goer.
When we got off the cab, the first thing we saw was a very very very long queue to buy tickets, snaking all the way to the bus stop. For those who have been to the area, you will know that there is quite a distance from the bus stop to the ticket counter in the Night Safari. It is total madness! Although pr had already bought the tickets from NUS BizCom, we still had to buy tram tickets for us 3 and an extra ticket for my sister who wanted to tag along last minute.
We probably queued for about an hour and didn't look like we were getting much closer to the ticket counter. Luckily, 3 girls came to our queue and tried to sell 1 ticket, without tram rides to us. Woohoo, luck was on our side! Left the queue finally and got even more depressed when we saw the queue to enter. Damn long!! Queue queue queue queue and when the queue to get in finally moved, the queue in front of us disappeared! WTF?? Me and my sister was suddenly lost and I just pulled her into the queue, in front of some other random people. It was so weird that the queue in front of us just disappeared.
Finally got into Night Safari after bouts of queueing and goodness, more queueing to be done in order to get onto the tram. We decided to first take a break from queueing and take a walk along the trail "Bridge of No Return". How scary can it get right? Wrong! Quite scary when we were just a group by ourselves. Staff dressed up as scary characters with costumes, props and makeup were hiding amongst the trees and bushes just to jump out at us suddenly. Me and kutu happened to walk behind pr and my sister and saw how a mummy just jumped out onto them and just kept chasing them in their face. Honestly speaking, it was quite funny watching the both of them kept moving backwards towards us, screaming. Haha.
Oh, and xpr's outfit for the outing was really quite wrong. She was in a tube top and mini skirt. We were teasing her that she was there to seduce the animals. How wrong we were. Instead, she managed to seduce a clown. A scary one at that. That clown had a bloody knife as his prop and he walked really purposefully to scare people. For some unfathomable reason, he kept coming after pr. Even when we finally finished the tram ride and were sitting at Ben & Jerry's for ice cream, he just had to come over and scare her one last time.
Took a few photos but my card reader is in my office (at least I hope so since I can't find it at home) so can only upload them at a later time.
All the queueing at the Night Safari really made me feel like it was Disneyland once again. We had to queue for everything and anything. To be honest, the experience wasn't too bad. Just that it was really too crowded and the waiting time was really too long. Probably due to the fact that Singapore doesn't have much of such theme park-like stuff and this Night Safari gimmick was probably the closest thing to theme park fun. I can already foresee the chaotic queue and waiting time when Universal Studios finally open its doors to us. Save us all!!
Labels: Kuku Gang, Sister, The BF, Zoo
