Spent a smashing weekend in Sentosa with a group of great friends. We booked a room in Sijouri Resort (Is that how you spell it?) so that we could go and have fun... Unfortunately, the weather had not been too kind to us, so we ended up in the room pretty much of the time...
Still we managed to have fun, playing games like Extreme Numbers and 青蛙跳水 (a game where you just have to repeat the same stuff as the number of frogs increase, pretty much a memory game)... These are just simple games but there were also many classic moments when people started to get drunk which I shall not elaborate... hahaha

Lazy to come up with captions so I just posted some pix =p

Its the annual event that all guys hate... well maybe not all but most will definitely find it a nightmare... Inhumanely Perverted Punishing Treatment aka IPPT for short. Well I remembered failing my 2.4km the last time I took my test during in-camp in March and since then, I have completely forgotten about it... until the guys were talking abt RT during dinner after one of the RO sessions... For those of you who dun already know, its the volunteer group that I belong too... yeah yeah... ah beng doing volunteer service, but hey I'm not your regular low class beng okae? I jus happen to look at one, when my hair color is not in its natural color... but anyways...
And so it suddenly occurs to me that I have to clear the blardy IPPT before I joined Peter and Marcus in their priviledged and exclusive RT club... so there I was, going back to my beloved Bedok Camp (my camp during my activbe days) for the test... Its the last shot I have before my window closes, for the benefit of the gals, dat means the day before my bdae... which is 18th Sept... *hint hint*

First time I'm taking IPPT in the designated IPPT centres wor... got a shock when I found out that all the test stations are computerised... They have blardy machines taking your score from situps to shuttle run to pull ups to standing board jump and of course the dreaded 2.4km run!!! I wish I could have taken pix of those werid contraptions but you know lah, national security, so I can't show my female readers how advanced our army had become...

Going through the static stations was a breeze to me lah... dun mean to sound hao lian but I think my regular trips to the gym do help to a great extent, so I'm not really concerned abt the static stations... but I do admit I was kinda shagged out after I went thru them all...

The worse is 2.4km run cuz I simply hate jogging and seriously, I'm not even confident of meeting the minimum passing mark of 12:40 (loosely translated as 12 min 40 sec)... Wats worse is that I have to run around the stadium which means I have to go thru 6 rounds, whereas in other camps, we usually have to run round the camp like 3 or 3 rounds, so pyschologically, the stadium sux...

I was kinda breezing through the 1st round, and started to pant during the 2nd round... from the 3rd onwards, my lungs are basically collapsing... 4th round, legs are threatening to give way and by the 5th round, my alter ego was telling me to give up cuz I'm never ever gonna make it... 6th round... timing on the clock read 9:57 and I felt like I'm gonna die... 2 and a half more minutes, 400 metres to go with my lungs burning with lack of oxygen and my legs promising to give way any second...

But in the end I still passed... hahahahah!!! Not just passed wor... got silver some more... muahahahah!!! Call me hao lian but I am mah... Sorry Pete and Marcus, can't go RT with you guys liao... sob sob

Sis says should post the other group pix cuz she looks better squatting down... hmmm anyway here you go... the squatting down pix.. heheh

Another KTV session
Actually wanna post everything together but stupid blogger dun allow me to post more pix in the Ubin entry which I could not figure out why, so I have to end up seperating the entries...
Anyway this is supposed to be before the Ubin trip...
The pics speak for themselves... had a blasting good time, KTV sessions are never boring with Botak around, everyone should listen to his version of 杩桶, fucking jazz can? We just can't stop laughing:









1st pix: Mabel n Michelle (Chris's nieces)

2nd pix: Abel aka YaBo aka Botak aka Mr YoYoYO

3rd pix: Grp pix taken at arm's length, mine actually

4th pix - 7th pix: various combination of us

So much to blog about, so little time...

Ubin trip
Went for this trip, organised by Peggy, which we got to know from Joan. Its quite amazing as the whole group consists of different groups of friends. There was actually 22 of us, all coming from different walks of life.

We basically had a great time, but I think Abel is the happiest among the lot. Despite being a senior citizen at 35, oops, the guy seems to have endless energy, cycling up slopes effortlessly while the rest of us groaned at each incline. The hao lian guy then went on to 'drift' on the mountain bike...

This is the group photo we took at one of the check points, can't remember exactly the name... And erm, in case you are counting, not exactly everyone is in...

All smiles despite the heat n sweat

So after conquering slopes after slopes and sweating buckets, we had seafood lunch at the one and only seafood restaurant on the island... hehehe

Peggy, Joan & Abel

Me & Sis

After lunch, we decided to call it a day as we were all too full and lazy to carry on, so we decided to go scream ourselves silly at the Kbox in Clementi. The blardy 'westerners' always buwee me lor, made me go to the west then after that I have to 东游记 all alone... Dun have any pix of Kbox Clementi but we were kinda crazy there as well... and erm, the gals suddenly went gaga over 李克勤 and 许志安... we actually listened to different versions of 月半小夜曲 at least 5 times lor! Wat the...?

Got my final results yesterday, managed to just scraped thru with a 3rd class... kinda disappointed cuz I was hoping for at least a 2nd lower, but wat the heck, at least now I got the damn paper, hehehe ^.^v

photo credit: Charles