Chalet

I'm not gonna blog about the process of planning the chalet, as that would have to take 2000 words or more.

Monday:
Woke up with more runny nose and cough after having a bad night's sleep of continuous runny nose. Today was the day that class 6/2 booked a chalet at Goldkist Resort located in East Coast Park area 'D'. Took my medicine and proceeded to say visit 'Mr Computer'.
Woo Hian called me at 2+ to ask for directions from his house to the chalet. I gave him the directions he wanted andhe was shocked to hear that he needed to walk over 1km from the Marine Terrace bus stop to reach the chalet.
I heard that we were supposed to reach the chalet past 2.30pm, so I decided that I would reach a little later. I left the house and walked to the bus stop later discovering that I had left my wallet at home. LOL. Rushed back at breakneck speed before discovering that I had left the wallet on the couch, which was downright stupid.
Bus 14 came not long after. I had actually wanted to take that bus to East Coast Rd and hike all the way from there to the chalet. Bu that may take even longer and tiring. So I got of a stop and crossed the road to another bus stop where I waited for Bus 31. Lucky me. A minute after I sat down on the burnished seat, it came.
I passed the VJC and thought that the bus would stop at the next one. But at the nexxt stop, it just kept on rumbling. Only until another stop, it finally allowed me to go out. It was raining by then as I took my umbrella out. I walked to Siglap Park Connector and found that the canal was almost overflowing.
Walking along the Connector, I saw that the overhead bridge wasn't far away. BUt it required walking away from the direction of the chalet. I tried to take a peek whether there was another overhead bridge across the ECP in the direction of the chalet; sadly, there was none in sight. So I just had to take the one nearest to me.
After crossing the overhead bridge, I walked and reached the chalet after a few minutes.Saw some of my classmates comin outta the resort when I walked into it. Our chalet was D01 and it was facing a playground. Inside was reral crowded due to the confined spaces. The bedroom was upstairs and there were only 2 beds situated in it. THe boys were plyin PSP upstairs while some downstairs were renting their bikes from a man who had booked the chalet next to ours. He charged $4 an hour and $6 for 2 hours. I had actuallywanted to rent a bike for 2 hours but the man asked me to rent it for 1hr and then come back. What a cheapo!
We went cycling in groups. I went with Zi Jie, Jun Lei, Yi Sien, Darren and Zhi Hang. We cycled to Fort Road. Zi Jie and I were the first to reach there. I offered him to go to the Katong side under the flyover but he resisted. Then we all cycled back to the chalet. After pedaling for a while, the rest were nowhere in sight. So I just made my way back. Along the way, I saw some other groups goin towards and away from the chalet.
Some people had reached already and were upstairs playing (and watching) PSPs. What's the point of coming here when you're just going to play? At least they were somehow, socialising...
Zhi Hang came back half an hour later saying that Zi Jie had crashed into Amanda at Mac and ha to walk back from there. Darren had gone off towards Fort Rd to ask everyone to come back to the chalet.
In the meanwhile, with nothing to do, Mathilda offered me to go to the beach with her. Bryan came along too, and we were there splashing water and sand at each other. Mathilda got herself wet and I told her to blame it on gravity instead of me.
George came along soon after and sat on the sand, looking at the far horizon. He said he wanted his privacy and told us not to go into the chalet as they were throwing water bombs at him.
We were curious and went back to the chalet, only to find the floor coated with puddles of water. Around the 'kitchen' sink was a crowd of people filling diminutive balloons with water that made them expand a few times their original size. Clara threw ice at me and threatened to bombard me with 'delicious cupcakes'. She even put ice down my back and I did the same, jus with bigger ice pieces.
Most of us went to the beach to bombard each other with the plastic bags of water balloons. Smaller ones didn't burst that easily beacuse the tension between the rubber wasn't enought so these normally rolled into the sea. People somehow rushed over to get the 'rolled away' ones as if those were their lives. When we ran outta water balloons, we used the plastic bags to scoop water from the sea and splashed it at others. Jun Lei kept spitting out 'cos he complained that the sea water was too salty. Megan screamed in a VERY VERY VERY high pitched voice when I poured water on her.
Shawn and I decided to return to the chalet to showere before everyone comes, then we will have to queue up. I remembered that we had put our slippers somewhere near the top of the beach we were playing at. But then, to my horror, no familiar slippers were there. We then scoured the shore towards the west and found our slippers-50m away from where we were playing! We had actually moved over such a distance to a sand barrier which seperates one beach from another.
WE went back to the chalet and Shawn ask me to lend him my 2nd pair of extra clothes, I lent him the one that I was going to use for sleeping at night, which was long sleeved (but in the end I was not).
Crowds of people started coming in soon after and I was glad we came back early. Dominic's father was clearing up the masses of water and it was then I thought that we can't run a chalet.
Dinner was served and it was a spread of chicken wing, bee hoon, curry and 'junk food'. When I heard that there was gonna be pizza, I waited until the pizza man came. It was Hawaiian pizza and it was better than good. I had 2 huge slices and a few cans of soft drinks.
After the sumptious meal, I told the-people-downstairs that I had sparklers and ask them if they wanted to enjoy the fun of...burning their worksheets (I was the one who told Dominic to tell the rest to bring their worksheets yet I didn't). In the end, no one brought theirs.
We made a small fire over a pile of sand that had been shaped by someone to look like a birthday cake. Using tissue paper as fuel, Megan said that it was a waste so we had to switch to using other stuff. Using flowers, Megan said it was cruel, anyway the flowers were moist so they didn't work. 'Dried leaves' a soaked up lots of moisture that they wouldn't work either. George spoilt the fun by pouring his 100plus on the fire to douse it. Then suddenly the rest started throwing the sand grains on the fire...
Dominic's father left the chalet to us after a while and then I went up to the bedroom and found a whole lotta people crowded in there. I asked George to throw a tissue box through the window that had a view of the bottom floor and he I it up again to him. Then this process repeated until more people wanted to try it.
They started throwing potato chip tubes and sumore random objects up and down. Then they changed throwing chicken wings, prawn cracker bags etc. Jun Lei tore open the tissue box and threw ALL th tissue paper out and it was snowing. Someone brought another giant prawn cracker bag up to the bedroom and accidentally spillt some of it onto the floor. Dominic offered me a prawn cracker served on a plate and I took on, later discovering that it was from the floor...
Th floor was a mess downstairs and Dominic ordered everyone to clear up the mess, well, except for Darren though =( In 20mins, the floor was as good as new (original).
Went home LOL