chronology of it all, or, a blow-by-blow account of why i skipped three lectures and a tutorial this morning:
<lj-cut>it all began friday night, around 1 am, after the JCRC co-option. drank in jared’s room with kexin, david, gavin and sebastian. tianyun joined us at around 4 am, and left shortly after. sean came in around 4.30 and three of us (jared, sean, myself) carried on till about 8.
went back to my room to wash up, then joined the jcrc members for the video shoot at 8.30… with the buzz of tequila in my head. nearly died. managed to crawl back to my room at around 11 and crash… for all of 3 hours.
woke at 2 and cycled down to the SRC to watch the inter-block swimming competition. was pretty much operating on auto-pilot by now, drawn far beyond the limits of tiredness as defined by modern-day urban living.
back in room by 3.30. played some games, watched a little johnny english, and coordinated timings with the rest of the nike run gang.
left hall at 6.45 with gavin and kexin to meet dawei at harbourfront. the rest of the nike run ppl would be turning up later. jared entirely forgot he had a convo ball to attend, so threw a huge spanner in the works at the last minute.
7.58 pm. arrived at harbourfront station and met up with dawei shortly after. had dinner at pastamania (cheese tortollini good!) and shopped around till about 9.30. bossini was having a sale. bought stuff for 25 bucks.
got on the bus to sentosa at around 9.40. tianyun, weixiong, yunjia and gina now en-route to meet us from wherever in doby ghaut they were having dinner.
got off at the merlion stop and headed towards merlion walk, getting a little lost in the process. ended up walking through some pitch dark route behind the holiday chalets.
finally found merlion walk. spent some time there listening to the bells and exploring the scented garden. time now around 11.
headed off to palawan beach and rendezvous-ed with yunjia, gina, weixiong and tianyun outside the 7-E. talked a lot. laughed at gina. weixiong bought this cheapo frisbee from 7-E. played a bit. frisbee sucked. stopped.
went to explore the twin towers after shower, in the hope of finding a place to sleep. towers crowded as hell, so wandered back to the mainland, before finally settling on the monorail station. (lightning was a main persuasion)
hammocks up by 12.30. thunderstorm rolled in by around 12.45.. nice and cosy. bought hot food from the 7-E, and we sat around talking nonsense till around 1.30.
tried to sleep. woken at 4.50 am by huijun messaging saying she was pretty high after a night of cheonging and wouldn’t be joining us at all.
up and about by 6.30. after rousing the whole lot and grabbing breakfast, we set off for the nike run start point by 7.30.
nike run. never have i seen so many people on the stoopid sentosa causeway. thousands of people milling around… whole thing involved a lot of waiting but we were flagged off on time at 8.45.
chased weixiong through most of the route. gah. anyway lost sight of him by the end of the uphill climb. some girl in front of me decided to run side by side with her boyfriend. took up so much space… hmph.
weixiong ended up in first place in the recreational category. the “fastest of the slowest”, as he put it. i trailed behind him by 5 places to end 6th. we were the first 2 to collect our goodie bags. by the time the hundereds of rec runners started streaming in, the goodie bag queue had swollen to an unbelievable size.
tried to claim our bags from the bag deposit truck. it was a logistical nightmare. hundreds of bags got mixed up, and the whole world was trampling around trying to find theirs. finally got sorted out an hour later.
lunch at BK. time now nearly 12 pm.
took monorail to palawan beach, only to find it packed with people attending the warna family day, so walked over to siloso beach.
played with sucky frisbee for a while, cos no one wanted to pay 20 bucks to rent a volleyball for 2 hours.
showered, then left sentosa by 1 something.
shopped a while at harbourfront, cos the girls heard of the ongoing sales. gavin and gina headed back to hall. bought another top from bossini. only 10 bucks.
second lunch (sigh.) at macdonalds.
party split up soon after. yunjia and weixiong went home, while tianyun, dawei and i caught a train to the esplanade.
3.40 pm: esplanade. headed to the senses cafe on the second level to take part in an a cappella session conducted by members of the singapore a cappella society. jared and samuel joined us. very tired by now. bordering on lethargy. kept nodding off while the guy was teaching us to sing. whoops.
session over by 6. samuel left, while jared, dawei, tianyun and myself trekked on over to marina square to buy tix for the 9.20 screening of S.W.A.T. (note to self: why?!)
taxi to marina south for bbq steamboat buffet. nice. =)
taxi back to marina square for the movie. slept through most of the commercials.
show over by 11.30 pm. WALKED all the way to collyer quay to catch the 196… which would bring us to the no. 30 bus stop. (planned to take 30 back to boon lay. cheaper.)
missed the last bus. time now around 12.10 am. caught a cab back to hall… reached at 12.45
bathed, and knocked myself out by 1.30.</lj-cut>
woke at 12.45 this afternoon only cos julynn called, asking about a cable modem.
sigh.. still kinda tired.
Gary :: Sep.01.2003 ::
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