On the fateful day of 21-12-08, I woke up early at 8am preparing myself to leave at 9am such that i can reach pasir ris @ 1030 as originally planned by yimin. I was quite sure that I told dad that I would like him to give me a ride to the MRT @ 9am. Hmm.. he woke up at 9am and asked, "u need a ride to the place?"
Puzzled, I asked " er didn't i asked u yesterday?" "Nope."
Ok nvm, told howard i will be a little late since i wanted to meet him on mrt downstream. Den arson sms me.. want to meet at YCK? oh.. right on the dot, since I'm late anyway. I might as well meet him and go together.... Called mr howard and.. OH found out that he was already @ orchard when i'm still at YCK. So i thought, damn i'm gonna be super late!
The journey was to be long, about 1 hr i guess, but ultimately, i was proved wrong to take approx 45 mins. The journey down north south line was long as always, but going to the east was very fast. In the end, despite starting at YCK @ 0950 we reached pasir ris @ 1045. Thats wow sure was fast compared to my usual train trips. Or maybe cuz there was arson to talk cock with.
Anyways, around 1020 we got a call from mr howard that yimin wasn't coming.. oh shit.. main organiser wasn't coming! I was thinking.. i guess this will be another boring T29 outing... from the start they were already talking about going home.. But since its the 6 of us guys only, we still went ahead, since it was already planned and we don't want it to fail just like that too.
So.. the first gal that arrived was cherie, could see she's kinda outta place cuz its all guys only @ subway when we had our lunch. After the lunch though, we played some arcade games, of which i hadn't been doing for a long time. Shooting time crisis 3, owned stage 1 and got owned at stage 2. Man, I am lousy lol. From then on, came the arrival of another 2 more people... val and shu yan. Now, its time to enter the ESCAPE theme park.
Escape themepark is having a promotion now with tickets going for $8+. I would say its price is ok for a theme park since its rides are not phenomenal. Rides in other larger theme parks overseas cost about $50 per person. But to me, the time we spent together was absolutely the kind i wanted to experience.
Out of all the rides there that i have sat with 2 on repair, I think that viking and go-kart is the most fun. Seriously, I didn't thought that the viking would got that high, until the first time i sat it. Man, It was more scary than the larger scale 1 I sat in Ocean Park. Probably because I was sitting at the side at Escape while i was sitting in the middle at Ocean Park. Go kart was more here with a more challenging course compared to Genting's and the kart had more oomph. The rest of the rides were quite kiddy though.
Finally, for the one thing that owns them all, the haunted house! Actually, it wasn't much fun until you hear people scream like never before... OOPS, since the first time they know that you are afraid, they will aim you and you and you again. The haunted house was larger than I thought! we were able to walk around about 50m before reaching outside, I thought its gonna be short since the house is so small. The gals faces were so white with fear, I think it was a bit too much for them. Static displays ain't even worth mentioning. Those mobile ones are not bad, but the guy working inside rules. Flexible and stealthy is the word. Guess who's face was the whitest? NO prize for guessing it RIGHT!
Bowling was uber expensive and the waiting list was long, so we decided to go cycling. The cycling shop didn't have enough bicycles and the time left was too little, so we decided to chill by the seaside. The seaside was not sandy but had mangrove trees growing at the edge of it. The view was not great, but it had pulau ubin in it. The situation was not good, but the atmosphere was perfect. Just watching everyone chill together on the breakwater that wasn't even lapped by the waves was so tranquil, so blessed.
With the super short amout of time i had left, I had to ensure we have seats for our dinner. Suprisingly, when we wanted to get seats at new york new york, it was easy peasy! I thought it would be so damn packed that we probably had to wait a long time. However, everyone was still so caught up with playing the rides again, howard and I decided to book some seats for everyone first. Sry that i started eating first, but I really had no time left. It felt like time was moving too fast, and such great times will be over in the blink of an eye. But, I will remember this day as the day when T29 had its best outing since we ever had one. HAHA
Pics to come laterz...
