Oh, BERT AND YUAN ZI. =D I applaud you both! That was the best chalet I'd ever attended. yaling loves 6A!

Initially, I was a teeny apprehensive when Bert told me only THREE girls would be staying over (namely me, her and Grace) and there'll be like five guys. Apparently not a lot of people were interested in staying over. Everyone just wanted the food at the barbecue. But let me tell you, it was an amazing bonding experience =D I'm not sure if anyone else felt the same, but because there were so little of us staying over, it felt so much closer and intimate. Seriously, it was amazing. So amazing that I'm going to record everything that happened during the 3 day 2 night stay right here, so next week, next month, next year, I can revisit my archives and reminisce about what happened, and remember all the crazy things we did, because I don't want to forget them.

Unless of course Blogger crashes, and then I will sue them.

Will be boring if you're not part of the chalet stay/a major worshipper of me and my life =)

Ok, on the first day, we met at Yishun bus interchange at 10am. Grace, Yuan Zi, Liangjie, Terence and I boarded 969 which took us to Tampines, and then we took the train to Pasir Ris, and then Bus 354 to Downtown East. At Downtown East, it dawned on us that we could only check in at 2.30pm the earliest, and since Yuan Zi the idiot had had us meet at 10am in the morning, we were thus stuck at Downtown East at 11am with nowhere to go and nothing to do.

(Might I interrupt and add that Yuan Zi is now a punker with spiky hair and whose boxers AND underwear I saw countless times during the chalet because his jeans are so freaking LOOSE but more about that later)

So began our first hour of major stoning at Burger King, where Grace got her Pan Galactic Burger meal and the guys squealed over her laptop. Grace so very kindly passed me some human geog articles on population studies (take that, evil Geog homework!) which I attempted to comprehend because we had close to 3 hours to kill, but failed miserably, and so I gave up and stared at Grace's food. Anyway, Yuan Zi offered to show me card tricks [...] and I deigned to be amused. After that, they taught Liangjie and I how to play bridge, and then we played bridge, before we got caught for playing cards. Card-playing was frowned on in BK!

So then we shifted to McDonald's. We found this little corner at the back of the restaurant where we played bridge, and then Cheat. I am such a bad Cheat player. I can lie in almost ANY circumstances but apparently not when I'm playing Cheat. But I ended first, amazingly =D Anyway, I tried to help Grace with her cards too, but my lousy lying skills didn't help very much.

And THEN we were caught for playing cards again. So we stopped because we'd gotten comfortable in our seats, and didn't want to be kicked out. I think the guys went to get their lunch, and then Grace and I did some stoning. In the end, we started playing Truth or Dare, and one of the dares involved Grace going to this teenage girl at the other end of the room and asking if she could take a picture with her. The teenage girl was obviously not used to having strangers ask her for pictures and friends of the strangers sitting at the other end giggling (ok, not giggling) among themselves, because she was like ERM NO NO NO, and so Grace had to come back feelng embarrassed.

Sometime during the whole thing Grace attempted to connect to the internet via her wireless laptop, but turned out yes you CAN connect to the internet in that wireless surf zone, but at the very not affordable rate of 12 cents/min.

I couldn't believe we managed to survive 2 hours like that, turning into stones, but we did, and then Popo met up with us at the entrance of the chalet. Bert and Lok would be joining us later. Since we had to wait for Yuan Zi's Dad to arrive and help with the checking in, we retired to the nice air-conditioned registration room outside of the entrance and soaked in the cool air seated on the floor. Our hands got the better of us and we ended up playing with the balls soccer ball and netball Liangjie and I brought respectively. It caused a bit of commotion until this nice guy came over requesting for us to shift to the other side of the room because he had a meeting near the area we were at, and so we did and yay, we got nice comfy couches to sink into! And then Yuan Zi's dad arrived and we FINALLY checked in.

We settled in and Popo managed to connect to the net via HIS laptop (actually, the point of the laptops were to watch movies on them, but since Lok's soft content couldn't be viewed on the laptops, and no one brought any DVDs/VCDs assuming Lok's soft content would be viewable, it was in vain after all), and they played Gunbound or something like that on his com while Terence seriously used Grace's Mac to play chess.

Chess, on the computer, at a class chalet.

Oh, and just our luck to get a faulty sliding door. It wouldn't close properly (or rather, slid open just a teeny weeny little crack after it was closed, and so the air con, which automatically switches off whenever the sliding door is open, kept switching off! It had a lifespan of like 5 seconds after the air con was switched on, and then it died. This occured repeatedly until the second Maintainence guy came in to bypass the lock and so the air con wouldn't switch off whenever the door was open.

Anyway, sometime during it all Lok arrived! He came in all serious and solemn and immediately set about connecting the speakers which he'd painstakingly brought from home to school and then to the chalet to Popo's laptop (cheena businessman look!) and then we could blast music!

In practically no time after Lok arrived, he managed to convince Yuan Zi into engaging in this activity which I can only appropriately term "gaying around". We got pictures of the foreplay, process and aftermath. It was disturbingly fascinating how many positions they managed in such a short period of time. Soon after they ended, lust got better than the rest of the guys and they started pouncing on each other too. I swear. Practically every guy had had their turn lying on their backs on the bed with someone else on top of them.

(Ok, in case you really thought something was going on, here's the less fanciful version: A hit B, B punched A, A pounced on B, B landed on the bed, and so on)

Then we all settled down to play cards again -____-'' We played, erm, bridge, Cheat and Heart Attack (which is a seriously rocking game that requires no brain at all). Cheat and Heart Attack were hilarious! I flipped practically all of Yuan Zi's discarded cards because I myself had no appropriate cards to place and wasn't capable of lying, and turned out he was cheating most of his turns =DD Lucky seh, me. Hahaha. And I kept Heart-attacking with the No. 2 cards. I shall officially declare No. 2s to be my favourite cards during Heart Attack.

And then they played daidee, which I stayed out of, because I don't know how to =D Then Bert arrived! I think we played more cards until we finally couldn't take it anymore, and then sometime then Bin and Xuanxuan arrived! =D Then we went out for dinner. I ate char siew rice, and I shall never ever eat char siew rice again. I think my stomach doesn't agree with char siew rice lor. It simply triggers gastric pain. It was a total spoiler for the rest of the evening because my stomach hurt unbelievably! But thanks you guys for caring =)

Well, aside from my stupid stomach, after that we went to the park, sat on logs and watched Liangjie, Terence, Lok and Yuan Zi kick the soccer ball around. We questioned our sanity and deemed it a complete waste of time. Then we moved to the beach and stayed there till dark. Yuan Zi dumped water on Bert and Grace, and they both chased after Yuan Zi, and Lok joined in in dumping water on Bert and Grace, and Lok and Grace struggled momentarily with shoving one of them into the water, but Lok slipped and fell into the water, and they tried to wet Xuanxuan too but she threatened them with bodily harm, and so I stayed beside her and stayed quite dry ^^ And after that we ignited the sparklers, and it was totally un-fun! It was the type which made loud wheezing noises when ignited, and to quote Xuanxuan, it was simply "chao si lang" and nothing else.

Ok, it was pretty, but still very noisy.

Well, after realising that it was already pretty dark, we dragged Grace and Lok out of the water, gathered all the sparklers, and returned home (well, temporary home anyway). The guys (except Popo) showered at the public toilets while the girls parked themselves in front of the Tv set, managing to catch the last half hour of Love at Dolphin Bay, but missing unfortunately the day's episode of Portrait of Home - the one where Baozhu's breast pads fell out! Bert and I shamelessly oogled Wallace Huo and actively dissed Ambrose Hsu for his ugliness, with Bin adding a few well-placed remarks about his hair contributing to his gayism or something like that.

After everyone'd showered, we piled on the bed and watched Zero to Hero (completely sucky title, by the way). Then it was time for Bin and Xuanxuan to leave, as they had respective duties tomorrow morning, and we sent them off. We waited at the 354 bus stop for 5 minutes and spotted the bus sign stating that the last 354 bus was at 2205. Which meant it had already come and gone. So everyone decided to take bus 11 (read: own 2 feet) instead, and Lok informed the Indian family next to us that the last bus was already gone. However, the father was completely unappreciative. Like, Stop disturbing us, you bunch of juvenile delinquents! I shall not believe the lies you made up to cause us trouble! and simply sat there and ignored us.

Halfway through the journey back to the MRT station, we saw 354 speed alongside us in the opposite direction, heading for the very bus stop we just left. Oops. Lok was worried about the Indian father's reaction towards him if he ever saw him again. But whatever. Then Bin came rushing up to Grace and I at the front because she was freaked out by Yuan Zi (nauguhty ah!) who'd told her there was something in the woods next to the path we were on. Oh well, it did look rather eerie, so we comforted her. In no time at all we were at White Sands and Bin and Xuanxuan on the train back to Yishun, but NTUC was already closed! T_T Grace and I were sorely disappointed because we couldn't get Campbell soup. So then we took 354 back to Downtown East, and when I asked the bus driver when was the last bus, he said midnight. So screw all those misleading signs at bus stops.

Grudgingly, we went to Cheers. Lousy, bloodsucking, overpriced Cheers. Bought an assortment of instant noodles (a necessity to complete any chalet stay!) and drinks, and returned to the chalet. Then it was major card-playing and stoning time. Or should I say, different people stoned at different times. I stoned all the while they were playing daidee, but FINALLY, they got bored and stopped, and we played Truth or Dare again - the BEST game of Truth or Dare I've ever played!

We did tons of INSANE dares behind the closed door of the chalet, all the while blasting music from Lok's Zen (Lok has an, er, unusual taste in music)! Lok got really hyper during the whole thing, and started bobbing his head manically like he was on drugs while jabbing his fingers in the air and going MOVE IT MOVE IT! (from Madagascar, because he's obsessed with it). So then we made him give a LAP DANCE to MY waterbottle, and he DID. And, and, we made Yuan Zi gyrate with Lok, and Yuan Zi threw in a free striptease of his own!!!!! He stripped off his jacket, twirled it in the air and threw it to Lok, and then they locked arms and pumped their hips together!! My God!! It was SO COMPLETELY R(A)!!!!!! The whole thing was totally LOONY beyond words! Loony is an understatement! More like complete and utter animalistic wildness! And the BEST part is we got incriminating evidence of all their porno acts!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!

I guess we made a hell lot of noise at 1am in the morning, because I know I screamed a lot of times while they were doing all those explicit acts, but thank God we got one of the more isolated rooms and our neighbours weren't back yet. But anyway, we got tired in the end and decided to sleep at around 2am.

The thing is, our neighbours returned at 2am, and the noise they made was comparable to ours.

At around 3am, I woke to the dulcet voice of Sam Lee's Chi Xin Jue Dui from next door, and I remember distinctly hearing this girl next door go BU YAO BU YAO SHRIEK SHRIEK BU YAO GIGGLE BU YAO MA SHRIEK while I was half asleep. Or something like that. She managed to do the whole thing in one continuous note and it was fascinating. But not being able to take the racket they were making, Bert jumped up from the bed (surprising all of us because we all thought she was deep in sleep) and was all, I don't care I'm going to ask them to shut up, and we cheered her on, and when she came back she told us there was some guy who yelled Who cares! while she was telling them to lower their volume, and we all got pissed and switched on Lok's Zen too, and we played The Wedding March at 5am in the morning.

=D So none of us got much sleep that day after all.

It was 7+ in the morning when we went to White Sands. Breakfast was at Mc, and then NTUC to shop for the barbecue. We spent quite a long time there debating whether or not to get certain things, because we were on a tight budget, and even had to make our sauce to marinate the meats. Which we did with sesame oil, wu xiang fen, pepper and soy sauce. Grace and I got our Campbell soup =)

Back to the chalet, and it was more stoning. More cards (my cards were looking pathetically dog-eared by then). While we waited for the chicken wings to thaw. Lok the Scout basically drowned the chicken wing package in the sink (which he filled with hot water), and by the time he was done with it, the whole bathroom stank of chicken blood. Yuan Zi and Bert worried that there wouldn't be enough for Sankari to eat, because she was halal, so they went back to NTUC to get her chicken fillet, while Lok and Grace marinated the meats, and the guys helped to make the crabstick/hot dog/oriental sausage kebabs, and sometime during the marination Lok spilled sesame oil on Popo's jeans, and created a minor hooha.

And then it was back into the fridge for the meats and kebabs, and more stoning while Terence and Liangjie fondled Grace's Mac, and Lok had to leave for Lee Kuan Yew's book launch (he was INVITED! and everyone at the lauch had to buy a copy of his book - How I Kept My Mandarin Alive or something like that), stranding the rest of us clueless cooks with the meats, but Grace bravely marinated the chicken fillet (which Bert and Yuan Zi just brought back) alone, while we did more kebabs, and eventually they made meat kebabs using the pork and chicken, and it looked pretty much like satay.

Sankari arrived soon after that, and we started playing The Amazing Race. It was a miserable affair, if I might be frank, with only SIX people playing and 3 teams. When I found out Terence was my partner, it became even more miserable, because I shall be truthful and state that I found Terence awfully whiny during the stay. But whatever.

Halfway through the game Grace, Liangjie, Terence and I decided to rebel. =D We met Yuan Zi without looking for Bert first, and Sankari and Popo and Bert had to wait for 10 minutes wondering where we were. But Yuan Zi was torturing us with long distance walking ok! Which was why we all tried to push Yuan Zi into the water during water bombs. Unfortunately, us girls failed miserably, because he was too strong, and practically manhandled all of us when he wrestled all of us into the water. Particularly poor Sankari, who had her shirt ride up above her waist when Yuan Zi grabbed her. -____-'' And poor Grace scraped her knee on the seabed when she fell in. Apologetic Yuan Zi was, but he still didn't want to get pushed into the water!

So then the rest of the guys helped, and Liangjie and Yuan Zi ended up stuck in some wrestling position for quite a while as they stuggled to land each other in the water. No winner emerged, but after seeing that Yuan Zi was almost completely wet and Liangjie with a dry upper body, everyone changed targets to Liangjie instead =) We attempted both force and persuasion, but he was firm. *sigh* Oh well.

It was nice sitting in the water, but it wasn't fun ruining our soles on the rocky seabed. God knows what I stepped on in that sea of grossness. Seriously, the beach at Pasir Ris Park is a floating rubbish dump. There are the usuals like plastic bottles and containers, empty packets of potato chips, and also the less common ones like half-eaten mangoes.

Finally, we dragged ourselves out of the water, headed back to the chalet to dry ourselves and get the barbecue started. The girls sat outside the chalet and talked and Linlin arrived! She looks JUST the same =) We munched on the gummies we koped from her and continued chit-chatting. Then Grace and I sent Sankari, who had to leave by 6, off, and then the 2 of us explored the shops at Downtown East. I didn't know there was a Pizza Hut there! We passed the girl promoting her apple chips again, and she offered us her chips to sample, and we politely but firmly declined, because we'd already tasted it on the first day, and oh my God it sucked.

Anyway, when we finally did return to the chalet, we found the guys trying to start the fire. Sie Mun, Mary and Yiwei had arrived, and so we did more small talk, waiting for the guys to start the fire, and we waited for around 30 minutes, and the fire was still not fire-like, and we watched the guys squabble over discuss the ways to, and we started stoning involuntarily, and FINALLY they managed to get something up, and we were all glad and bustled over the pit to cook something, and so we did, and I think some people got kinda fixated with brushing on the butter because the kebabs were shiny and the chicken wings were literally dripping oil. But the chicken wings were nice lah (aside from the dripping oil). Grace was awfully proud of her babies!

Lok arrived from LKY's book launch, and he was all, LKY sucks, plus he had to spend 30 bucks on that book. So yuan wang. Ge had undergone some MAJOR MAKEOVER. Her side profile looks JUST LIKE Bin's old side profile! (Speaking of side profiles, I realise that if you look at the new Yuan Zi from some angles, he looks like a stranger, but if you look at him straight in the face, it's undeniably him. Strange) She has like long hair now, and looks nothing like the old shuai bballer Ge =(

She wasn't the only one who had ungone some major makeovers. Why, Kexin doesn't even look as nerdy as before! =P And Yip Hei is all tall and bballer-ish, complete with spiky hair. It's like looking at some stranger you passed by in the MRT. I mean, you can tell it's him, but at the same time, it doesn't look like him. Sie Mun looked like a Roxy girl template. Not that she was advertising Roxy, but you know, with the little handbag and shorts and tight t-shirt... The only person who hadn't undergone some type of change was Audrey! Audrey looked exactly the same as she did 3 years ago, with the short bowl-ish cropped hair.

To be frank, the food sucked =) My God, those were the most pathetic excuses for otah I'd ever seen. Let's face it, the bbq was a failure. But there were many high points to it as well =D Like the HILARIOUS things Lok and Liangjie did in front of the barbecue pit. I think they were trying to raise a bigger fire, and Lok got high again and started splattering butter everywhere on the grill. Well, it certainly worked, but he didn't stop, and we caused a major hoo-ha with the flames spewing out from the charcoal. And then Lok was all SPEED COOKING! and they dumped the otah and meat kebabs on the fire and started flipping them about maniacally, and Lok started tossing his aluminium foil-wrapped apples into the charcoal (he makes really good cooked apples) and splattering more butter everywhere, and Grace and I stood there nearly dying of laughter.

Sometime during the bbq Liangjie and Yuan Zi started playing with the netball, and Bin joined in, and I joined in, and Audrey joined in, and in the end it was Audrey and I on one team and Liangjie and Yuan Zi on the other, and we played at the corridor in front of all those chalets (whether or not they were occupied, I seriously have no idea), and I played barefooted (Ouch, I tell you, Ouch), and we sweated like pigs, but had lots of fun (and it was safer than watching the 2 of them pass the netball to each other and risking it flying into Wild Wild Wet, which was only a fence divider away, and then Xueling would kill me).

It was literally in a flash. In a flash, it was 9+, the food had mostly been eaten, and everyone was packed into the chalet watching Zero to Hero again. Then in another flash, Linlin, Ge, Audrey, Yu Hui, Sie Mun, Mary, Yiwei, Kexin, Yip Hei and Terence had left. The new additions to our home that night were Xuanxuan, Bin and Ben.

I'll fastforward to 1am, when we all got ready for bed. It was a bit of a headache assigning sleeping places, and people like Bert, Lok, Bin and Xuanxuan couldn't NOT sleep, as they had to wake up at like 5am tomorrow so Bert could go for training and the other 3 for their China forum. We couldn't possibly let Lok take the space outside the toilet again, and Grace volunteered for the floor, but we couldn't let her do it, and I have no idea what happened in the end because I scrunched up in my area next to the headboard, and the last thing I heard was Liangjie, Grace, Yuan Zi going out to play cards, and Bin and Xuanxuan following to watch, and then I fell asleep.

When I woke up, I saw a girl wrapped in a blanket with her hair covering her face standing at the foot of the bed, and I was groggily wondering who the heck that was, and noticing the area next to me empty I guessed it might be Grace, but decided she didn't have such long hair, and immediately thought of Bin, who would do crazy things like that, but it certainly didn't occur to me that Grace (the girl in the blanket), Liangjie, Yuan Zi, Xuanxuan and Bin were conspiring to scare Lok until Yuan Zi, who was sprawled across the bed, told me. The only problem was, well, Lok WOULDN'T wake up. He'd slept through his own alarm, and I think they set like 2 more alarms to wake him up, but he wasn't even MOVING, even after Grace prodded him, ruffled his hair, tickled the soles of his feet, and I think in desperation someone kicked him, and he shifted, and Grace whispered his name, and he squinted at her, and he went "bu yao wan le", and rolled over. Dots.

So while they advanced to scare Ben, Yuan Zi explained to me that they'd gotten inspiration from this group of people outside who went around scaring their neighbours. See, the chalet sliding door is covered by a curtain from the inside, and when people want to check what's outside, they either lift the left or right side of the curtain, right? So these people stationed one each on each side, and one of them would knock. So when the person lifted up, say, the right side of the curtain, the person on the right would hide, and the person on the left would continue knocking, so it's like where's the knocking coming from? And if you lifted the whole thing, they've got this nice ghostly figure for you. So yeah. Pretty smart, actually. They didn't knock on our chalet doors, because ours was to far away, but they did scare Yuan Zi, Bin, Grace and Liangjie, who were seating outside playing cards. Yuan Zi said he was seated at the stone table facing the pathway, while the rest were seated perpendicularly to it, so they couldn't see what was on the pathway unless they actually turned their heads, and Yuan Zi was staring at the path, shuffling the cards, and then he bent his head and distributed the cards, and when he looked up he saw a white figure with a pram and a white figurine inside the pram. So basically everyone was quiet and some staring went on for a while, until the white figure gave a realistic manical laugh, and from what I heard Bin flipped and dashed into the chalet. Haha! So they decided to come up with a bit of spooking themselves. They'd already done Bert while I was asleep, and apparently Bert simply stared at Grace, "Huh"-ed and went back to bed. Dot-ts.

Ben was even more disappointing. He looked at Grace, groggily went "Yuan Zi, bu yao wan le" and closed his eyes again. Oh well.

So it was around 5.30am at that time, and the 4 of them (Bert, Lok, Bin and Xuanxuan) had to wake up and get ready to leave le. I thought I wouldn't be able to sleep again, but I did, and when I woke up it was 7.52am and the 4 of them were already gone, and I got up from my cramped position next to the headboard and went to sleep on the mattress on the floor vacated by Xuanxuan and Bin because someone was snoring on the other side of the bed and I think it was Popo.

Then when I woke up again it was 9am, and time to pack up, because we had to check out by 10.30am. My God, the room was in a complete mess. I apologise to the cleaners who'd had to clean up the mess we left behind. So yeah, most of us packed up and watched Channel Newsasia while waiting for Yuan Zi to wake. I was reminded of the last time at the 2/7 chalet when we watched Barney ("Count to seven with Barney!") on Suria in the morning. When we left, I was sad, because the chalet was over. Sigh.

We managed to get an empty train at Pasir Ris, and decided to take it to Raffles City instead of alighting at Tampines to take 969. Stoned a bit, talked a bit, alighted to get an empty train back to Yishun, and decided to have lunch together. After lunch, however, we wanted to do something together still, and it was decided that since we were all broke from paying the money for the chalet (Yuan Zi, the rich guy, held all our money), anything that involved money was out, and we would all go to someone's house and watch movies. Hahaha. When we ate at Northpoint's food court, they finally decided that my house would be good, because Grace's dad might return at any time and Popo's mom was at home, and Yuan Zi, Liangjie and Ben never did tell me why theirs was out of the question. So I was initially reluctant, because I've never had 4 guys to my house before (and whom I'd not seen for years), but it was ok lah. But Popo was more aroused at the thought of Gunbound, and so he left, and only Ben, Yuan Zi, Liangjie, Grace and I went to Poh Kim, where we mulled over choices of what VCDs to watch. We seriously considered buying Meet the Fockers, which was $14.10, and would entitle us to 2 free VCDs worth $6.90 each, but as expected, all the $6.90 movies were crap. I think we stayed in there for quite a long time, but in the end everyone just went to my house to watch my pirated VCDs. Hahaha!

The thing is, when we were walking to my house, I checked my phone, and my mom was HOME! -______-'' God, so then I had to call her and tell her I was bringing 3 guys back home, and I could practically see her raise her eyebrows over the phone, but she agreed, and before we entered the house I warned them that my mom would try to make them eat things, and worried about Yuan Zi's jeans (I'd seen his boxers 5 times on the second day and his underwear -white with blue lining- 3 times that day itself). Well, thankfully there was no embarrassing expose of underwear or anything (although my mom was this close to insisting they eat), and we watched Mean Girls. With Anyway, after that we watched 5 minutes of The Village, but it was kinda boring. So we switched to Dark Water, which I suggested =) Grace kinda freaked out at the prospect of watching a horror flick, but relented in the end.

Watching Dark Water for the third time (and with 3 guys completely unfazed by the parts I used to be scared of) made me realise Dark Water wasn't at all scary. Very sad though. Well, Yuan Zi did attempt to scare Grace and Grace proceeded to beat him up. Ben looked sleepy during the whole thing.

They still didn't leave after the movies, but it was too late to watch another. Yuan Zi tucked in his shirt, and looked like a complete geek. So we did some stoning sitting around (My GOD!) and in the end ended up playing Heart Attack. Muahaha! Hilarious, as usual. At 5.05pm, they left because Grace had to catch her shuttle bus, and I watched them go and was sad.

But we're meeting up next Monday to watch Madagascar. Because of Yuan Zi and his SOCIAL LIFE (I think), we can only meet at night, so we're having dinner and then watching Madagascar. I bet Lok's completely high again. Hahaha!

Here I end this entry and breathe a sigh of relief.