There was also this soccer table for us to play --- for free! It was just placed in this little soccer decorated corner and we could play for as long as we want. Played a few games with WJ and we took turns thrashing each other… haha! Walked around a little more after that before we went home!
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Fight the Gobblers!
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In about 5 hours, Nicolas will be leaving for Narita, Japan where he will spend the next 2 weeks of his life in single digit and negative zero temperatures. After spending the whole weekend packing his bag and ransacking his brain to ensure that he has left out nothing, he sincerely hopes that he will not freeze to death in Japan, for that will be a terrible tragedy.
He’s also starting to shudder at the thought of having to jump into a hot spring with other people in all their stark nakedness for that will be very very difficult for a shy person like him. But hopefully, the cold will drive him out of this mentality and into the hot waters of the hot springs.
Nicolas will also do his very best to buy goodies home for his friends and family members without going bankrupt. He will also do his best to update this blog while in Japan and give everyone more insight into his adventures in Japan. That said, he will try his best to enjoy himself to the fullest and take in everything that he experiences.
So without further ado, I shall bid sunny Singapore and everyone else sayonara and I shall see you all when I’m back during Christmas!
Wish me Bon Voyage and I shall see you in 14 days!
Tata~! =)
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In a bid to fight the Great Ominous Boredom (G.O.B), Nicolas and his friends decided to go to Escape Theme Park last Wednesday morning. The weather seemed fine in the morning, with only a slight drizzle in the wee hours of the day. We met up at Escape Theme Park and bought our tickets. As we made our way in, Mother Nature threw a major bitch fit and unleashed a downpour on us. Not wanting to be dampened by the change in weather, we made our way to the Haunted House where robotic ghouls and zombies attacked us relentlessly.
I was at the tail end of the group of 4 and I must say that I wasn’t as scared as the other 3 in my group, though it was funny to see the other 3 cursing away and going “FUCK!” loudly when those vile contraptions lunged at us. Okay fine, honestly, I was only freaked at the part where the zombie was split into 2 at the torso… but I didn’t scream out loud!
Anyway, I ended up having to DRAG them around the entire house before coming out in the open again. Damn, I should have added a few screams to scare the hell out of everyone.
What happened to all the masculinity (!), people?
After that we ended up getting stuck in the tent area where kids rampaged around the game booths and we did nothing but chat the time away, praying all the while that the rain would let up. Matt & Kev took the time to play a “Throw the ring around the neck of a glass bottle game” for $2 a shot because there was a chance to win a DVD player if one managed to get the ring around the neck of an elusive yellow bottle in the middle of a sea of green bottles. They attempted the game twice ---- and failed both times, much to our laughter and the amusement of the staff.
We spent about 2 hours waiting for the rain to let up but it just rained and rained. We went for lunch and decided after that to go bowling at Safra Tampines. Alighting at the bus stop outside Safra, it was either a mad dash or slow walk for some of us who decided to use the umbrella. Either way, the thunderstorm still soaked us to the skin.
Drenched and trudging into the bowling alley with squeaky shoes, we changed and then went on to play 2 games of bowling. I still think I suck at bowling, averaging about 90 for each game only. Ahh, Firdaus is really good at the game though! He bowled 3 strikes in the last frame! Like whoa!
After the bowling, some of us went to play pool while some of us played the Photo Hunt game on the touch screen computer. We couldn’t stand the fact that the top scored was hogged by a girl named “WXY”. It was annoying because we kept getting so close to her top score and then dying. Never to admit defeat, we spammed coins and hogged the computer for almost 2 hours. I think we spent almost $20 on that computer playing the game.
Haha, BUT we managed to beat that biatch’s high score in the end and it was an amazing feeling because the 7 of us had worked together to find all the differences in the picture. So then we had to enter in our names for the high score and we eventually decided on “VS OWNS WXY” and we all just laughed about it. This triumphant moment was definitely the highlight of the stormy day!
We had dinner at Tampines Mall at LJS which was awfully crowded. While having dinner, we met Amos and chatted with him to catch up on what he has been doing the past few days. The night was still young so we went over to Century Square to catch The Golden Compass. Bade goodbye to Firdaus and Amos as they had to go home before the rest of us went in for the movie.
The movie was good though, in terms of all the CGI effects and stuff. Nicole Kidman was really good in her character as the evil Mrs Coulter. The girl playing Lyra was good for a newbie. I think the movie was a little too rushed and it had to end with a stupid cliff-hanger. Now we have to wait for years for the rest of the movies to come out before we can know more. Thankfully, I’ve read the trilogy already so I know vaguely what’s gonna happen for the rest of the movies…
Read the book though, it’s more exhilarating than the cut-short movie version.
-Randomness-
General Oblation Board – Great Ominous Boredom = G.O.B
Fight the gobblers!
As like the title of this post! (:
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Went for my monthly dentist visit on Friday and met up with Wei Jie for lunch at Parkway. Decided to check out Borders since it just opened and it was great! It’s way better than MPH. Had lunch at Astons’ before we went back to school. Met Danial in the MC room where he was surfing the net and I went to clear my books and files from the MC room. Great job clearing the room guys! It looks uber clean! WJ and I chatted with Danial for a while before we left for Suntec City because WJ wanted to watch Hitman. Unfortunately, we were too late for the movie so we decided to walk around.
Headed to the new shopping area on the same level where the cinema is located. The shops there are quite hip and the stuff is reasonably priced. Bought a pair of slippers because they looked nice and it was cheap too! Walked around some more and we arrived at waffle cottage where we had ice-cream!
Strawberry, Triple Chocolate and Cookies & Cream flavoured ice-cream!
Topped off with chocolate sauce and peanuts!
A little steep on the price though, this cost us $7.50... ouch!
It was worth it though, yum!
Walked around Carrefour because WJ wanted to grab some foodstuff and we had fun being cheapos and just helped ourselves to the samples at the meat section. The meat is very very tasty!
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Woke up really early on Saturday morning to sms WJ about the weather condition here in Pasir Ris because we wanted another go at Escape. We got complimentary tickets from that day by the way; the manager had to compensate us since we couldn’t play any of the rides.
Javin, Farez, WJ, Vincent and I then spent the entire day playing at Escape, which would be a whole lot more fun if the stupid Revolution was not under servicing. Nonetheless, the rest of the rides provided enough fun for the entire day. I loved the screaming matches on the Viking Ship, the adrenaline rush on the Go-Karts and the splashing of water on the Wet & Wild ride.
Thanks goodness it only drizzled a little and the weather was sunny for the day! ^.^
After a long day of screaming, laughing and more screaming, we parted ways, satisfied that it was a Saturday well-spent. And yes, I think all of us reached home totally spent as well! I’m sure we all had a nice good sleep that night.
Alrighties, I’ll end here then.
Maybe I’ll add edits later on!
Hail Mary.