after a long wait at the reception of NSRCC , we finally had the key to enter the chalet. i will skip takking about the prank because it was SO unorthodox. XP
yes. after a long wait, naturally the expectations of the chalet increased with suspense. boy were we in for a surprise. once i stepped into the chalet, i was welcomed by a foul smell possibly of old people, or dogs, perhaps? okay i'll settle for an old person's dog. boy, what a stench it was. words cannot begin to describe what it smelt like. i guess things like that have to be experienced. oh, but trust me. it'd be an experience you'd wanna forget :D i hardly believed i was supposed to enjoy my 3 day 2 night stay in that dingy house.
let me give you a brief desription of the house. due to lack of pictures. you will have to work your imagination based on my duely exaggerated description of it.
the first floor of the chalet had a living room which was approximately half the size of a classroom. not bad, or so i thought till we wanted to watch DVDs and realised that the management were probably made up of ancient mummies who believed solely in vcd players. and to top it all off? the tv was FUZZY. and the promised cable vision? utter nonsense. all we got was MTV, discovery channel and some sports channels. so we sat down and spent the rest of the day watching 2 lesbians wrestle. enchanting.
the dining room was fine. i had no complaints accept for the fact that it was too small. oh yes by the way, the chalet was only supposed to have 8 occupants. HENCE the puny size. but that's a stupid rule anyway. see. that proves my point that the management is made up on mummies. you cant have too many people in one tomb, you see. ok that was SO LAME. i think it's influence from yityng. oh, dear me.
the kitchen. if i didnt remember wrongly, the kitchen had no stoves? maybe it did, but we weren't allowed to use it anw. there was this sign that said COOKING NOT ALLOWED IN KITCHEN. please tell me you're thinking what im thinking. if you can't cook in a kitchen, what the crap do you do in it? i know i know pick me! cause the bedrooms are SO, BLOODY small. we can SLEEP IN THE KITCHEN. ingenious management huh. so thoughtful of them. oh, i have sorely wronged them. i apologise for my pervicacious-ness.
NOT.
i'd call that room a pantry.
oh this is abit insignificant but there was a toilet downstairs too. while i'm at it. upstairs also have.oh to balance out the negativity in this entry, i'll compliment the toilet. yes. it was big enough. WOW. okay im done.
the upstairs had two bedrooms. each had a maximum capacity of 11 people. that includes the floor. yup. ohoh. the aircons were working properly! good job!
enough of description. on with the STARS of this entry, 209. yes as i mentioned. half of the class stayed in the house watching wrestling, due to the lack of more captivating television programmes and also due to the lack of higher techonology (AHEM, DVD PLAYER?). well at least it was hilarious the way we made fun of things. :D
anyway here comes the highlight of the day
at night we barbecued. that was super fun! i helped in getting the fire started :D eh, don't play play i was a BROWNIE ok. yeah yeah whatever. yes and we used up almost one whole box of fire starters just to get a pathetic fire going. never mind, for a first time, not bad! :D
and so we fanned, and fanned, and fanned even more . we even danced around the barbecue pit fanning the fire whiel singing tuo diao. that warrented a "QIU GUI AH" from the occupants of the neighbouring chalet. goodness knows what that means but got "GUI" inside la. so can roughly guess the meaning :Dafter a while, yes we decided that that could not go on and we used...
AN ELECTRIC FAN. named toyomi. we, the niners are modernized ok. DONT play play ah!
after countless uncooked chicken wings, burnt fishballs and i-can't-remember-what. almost all of the class was FULL! :D we deserve applause :D
after that was operation clean-up which involved 2 people - andrea and rachel phoa. because THEY WOULDNT LET US HELP. not our fault anyway good lah, then no need to do anything. HEH
i waited for over an hour for my turn to bathe. so me and peiqi were guffawing away at the noice weiting and eileen made when they were in the bathroom. OH YEAH. i made up a knock knock joke!
*knock knock*
"who's there?""weiting!"
"weiting who?"
"weiting for you to come out of the bathroom!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
funny what!
ok never mind. no sense of humour
midnight games
after that they sat down to tell ghost stories, which me, weiting and eillen absolutely refused to listen and ran up deliriously. yes. it was that bad
we had a hard time sleeping. 6 of us were squished on to a paltry bed. of which half of it was occupied by xiaodi and hongye. yeah.i could hardly move the whole night, for if i turned to the right, i'd find myself nose-to-nose- with weiting and if i turned left, i'd probably be inhaling air around eileen's underarm. so, face-up, i was sleeping. wise choice, don't you think?
however sleeping in that confined position wasn't exactly the most comfortable thing to do. so me and sandra, who was on the brink (literally!) of falling off the bed went downstairs in pursuit of a place to sleep. never found one. we ended up eating oreos and woke samantha up, who was asleep on the dining table. so we went out for a walk. at 3 am in the morning. not bad.
the place was not quiet, even though it was in the wee hours of the morning. occasional sounds of the passing planes and the screeching of the rats all around created a cacophony of weird and horrible noises. sounds that really shouldn't be heard, especially at dawn.
there was no where to go. so we went back to the chalet and ate some more before giving it our last attempt to sleep. because sandra so considerately decided to sleep downstairs, i had more space on the bed and managed to catch some winks. xin1 ku2 ni3 le4, sandra.
class chalet day 2
all plans of watching the sunrise had been aborted due to the immense fatigue we were all suffering from. no wait actually we DID have plans to watch the sunrise. but everyone dilly-dallied until the sun rose already. so we went for a morning walk instead. so we climbed over the gate to get the the pavement (yes they had a gate, but those mummies kept it locked. why? ASK ME ASK ME I KNOW -.-) and we lazily strolled along the path and then walked back to the chalet and had a breakfast of cup noodles then sat down to watch a documentary about mummies.
the others went out to cycle while me the anti-social loner stayed in the chalet watching stupid documentaries and eating. hey. i WANTED to cycle but they didn't have a bike meduim-sized enough for me AND i forgot how to cycle. HOW CAN YOU FOGET HOW TO CYCLE dammit. i tryied, and i crashed into 2 kerbs and narrowly missed hititng a car. YES not the car hitting me, ME HITTING THE CAR.dang, so me and rachel ong went to pick shells on the beach. we picked SOOOO many but we didnt keep them. or at least, i didn't. then i came back and washed the shells. but there was SO MANYY, i gave up and took a nap on the sofa. when i woke up, it was time for lunch. HOHO.
and also, the class was in a chaotic mess.
the bicycles, that were possibly malfunctioning and had a disgusting design gave many niners abrasions on their butt (tailbone area). and when they went to complain to the receptionist, she was shifting the blame to the contractor who chose the bikes and blahblahblah. when they told me, i was fuming, even though it didn't involve me. imagine what they must be going through. i accept that there was perpetually nothing that the receptionist could do about it. but apologising will NOT kill. sheesh. will the world EVER run out of idiots. oh oh.YES the manager said exactly the same thing as the receptionist. that's what pissed people off anyway.
anyway. some niners went to bowl after that and some stayed in the chalet. we had plans for karaoke. but then the exhorbitant prices rendered us not choice but to rot away in the chalet. so. sad.
but dinner was good. i had 2 slices of pizza! which actually isn't alot but some people had one. wow. wonder how they survive. omg do i suddenly sound like a martian.
well we played daidee the whole night and talked about stuff and laughed at each other's stupid daidee mistakes. :D i love niners SO much :D
and at least that day, i slept. yeah. basically cause my daddy came to give me my sleeping bag and i wasn't freezing my ass off at night and that we were sleeping in a strategic position which allowed us alot of space (: ok fine i was lying, there were fewer people on the bed :D
class chalet day 3
basically, once we woke up, it was time to pack and go off because apparently the management mummies (hey! it alliterates!) wanted us to check out at 9 instead on the usual 12 (wonder WHY)
and we waited around until the people came to inspect the place. well when we left it was filthier than when we arrived. MUCH filthier. which actually says alot about the place.
it dawned upon me that the last niner outing was going to end. and that 209`05 was going to be just a memory. and it had to end on such a sad note. but HOHO were we wrong.
so we checked out. and walked to the bus stop to wait for the shuttle bus. i want to emphasize that we were one of the first people there and we definitely would have gotten on the bus. but then MORE people came. that included the sec 4 band members and some other school's people.
okay the way i phrased it, you probably can guess what was going to happen.
we came first and waited patiently for 45min while the others arrived a MERE 10 min before the arrival of the bus. and guess what. when the bus came, they so ceremoniously walked ahead of us and secured a seat on the bus. while we graciously let them board the bus first, we were left with NO SPACE. HEY WE WERE THERE FIRST. AND we were waiting at the RIGHT SPOT. the BUS STOP.
feeling injustly treated and agitated, some niners marched up the bus and told the bus driver that WE THE NINERS OF RGS, SINGAPORE rightly deserve a seat on the bus. or at lesat get to stand pls? but did the fool listen? NUUUUUUUUUUUU. and don't give me nonsense about how the bus driver "bo pian what? not like he can do anything" BULLSHIT. he could have asked the others who didn't arrive as early as we did to GET OFF. and wait one hour for another bus. it may seem unfair to them, well they DID get a seat on the bus. but HOW ABOUT US! we waited for nearly one hour, and now we're supposed to wait for ANOTHER HOUR? preposterous, i say!
once again i'll have to say, WILL THE WORLD EVER RUN OUT OF IDIOTS.
but time is money. and money is well, money. and money is IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW!therefore TIME WAS IMPORTANT and we couldn't afford to waste anymore time (heh we booked kbox what) so we took went out to join rachel and andrea in their wait for their called taxi. but the txi driver happened to be a shrew and refused to wait for us to decide who would take which taxi. so in the end. we had to call another cab and valiantly hope that the taxi driver would be nice enough to let all 5 of us squeeze in.
FORTUNATELY, he was. and we gave him 60cents tips for that :D eh, at least have tips ok. so me, eileen, weiting, isa, and chelz went to kbox, thinking that we got a good dealoff kbox. $8 for lunch and 3 hours. well it did seem good. but their lunch. omfgf (see zeslene, didnt copy you. i got FAIRY GOD FATHER :D)it came in a STYROFOAM plate with PLASTIC cutlery. and the chicken rice? 87%rice 13% chicken. well the chicken was de boned, at the very least. but i bit STRAIGHT into the muscle okay! and the ice lemon tea. omg. i think they wanted to make it gassy so they added ice cream soda, so it turned out a DISASTER. wasn't even gassy in the end. POOO.
but overall, these 3 days were well spent. though it may not have been as eventful as other classes' chalet, it was a spiritual ride for all the 209-ers`05 i believe.
though we will probably never have the chance of sititng all together in a classroom anymore, you will always be in my memory :D and i wanna thank all niners for giving me the time of my life and making my life in rgs not quite as horrible as if would have been without you guys (lol confusing) yeah.
NINERS I LOVE YOU <3333333333333
. huiwen ranted at 10:16 AM .
