Whoa, i think i'm pretty lag. Anyway, still remember our day out? How to forget right (: Well lets recap!

On the 22nd Dec, i set out at 7am with my bro, each one of us carrying heavy bags of BBQ equipments. We met up with Jon, Cleon and Peter at Novena station and together we made our way to Pasir Ris station. The weather didn't look very promising that day. There were dark clouds at several stations we passed by. However, when we reached our destination, the sky there was bright! And guess what, Joshua was on the same train the whole time and we only found out when we were getting off.

And so, we waited for everyone to arrive before we made our way to Downtown East. The bus ride there was short but sweet. We had the whole bus to ourselves as the crowd had not arrived yet. I could even get a group photo of us given all the space!
Joel and ZJ were already at Subway waiting for us by the time we got there. They had stayed over night at Changi airport and made their way down much earlier. I could see that they were really tired! But No worries! Wild wild wet woke them up a little!

We got our tickets and waited for the gates to open. Once in, we spent a cinsiderable amount of time figuring out how to work the lockers. ZJ took out the key after depositing $3, but did not take out the key. For Cleon, my bro and I, we couldnt even get our key out after depositing our cash:/ However, with help from the staff, we finally got our stuff stashed in the lockers. The sec 1s were one step ahead of us. They had already gotten their floats and were floating in the shiok river! Of course, we got our floats later and drifted in the river for several rounds...................over turning each other along the way.

There were several rides i really enjoyed. There was this ride where 6 of us got into a big float and went down a slide together. With more people in the float, it was much more fun(: There was also this two seater ride where we set face to face and went down a steep drop. I went with Alvan and it felt as though my insides were gonna come out as i went down. I heard from Mat that their ride nearly flipped with Ryan seated on the top. Scary sia. And then there was the wave pool, where we battled each other on our floats, capsizing one another, while overcoming the strong waves. It was 12 by the time we finished doing all this and we decided to take a few more rides before having lunch. At the top of the Hoo lala ride we could hear ZJ and Alvan screaming their heads off on the way down. We also decided to take the group ride one more time. The queue this time was very long and the wait was chilly, but worth it in the end. We did a cheer as we went down the ride and completed it just in time for the final splash at the end of the tunnel.After lunch, where we met up with Isaac and Kev, we went to do our shopping. Some of us went to get the meats while the rest went to get stuff like seafood, eggs, sauces,hot dogs, bread, drinks.......there was a lot to carry and i realised that we had to walk quite a distance to reach our BBQ site. It looked closer on the map:P


We were ahead of time and i guess we were confident that we could start the firs fast, so while some of us went to catch up on some sleep, the others rented bikes or bought kites to fly. Our kite got stuck in the tree after a while and we spent most of our time getting it down than actually flying it.

Starting the fire was really difficult. We would light a fire starter, and it would burn out almost immediately.... sian... it took several attempts before the fire started, but even then, the fire was not hot enough to cook anything. On my side with jon and Nigel, we threw in coconut husks(as taught on Man vs Wild) and dried leaves in our desperate attempt to start the fire. While the other pit was cooking the meats, we were still starting the fire:/ The sec 1s were pretty efficient and managed to start the fire and cook pretty fast. When our fire finally started, i put my pan over the fire and we cracked in an egg, not knowing that the fire was not hot enough. The egg remained uncooked for a long time and we had to wash the pan in the end): After waiting patiently, the fire was finally hot enough and we cooked eggs! It tasted really nice with all the extra ingredients we added: Sprite, honey, soy soauce and sausage. Matthew even made french toast which was DELICIOUS! Smart idea! WHile Nigel was cooking the eggs, the sec 1s were really cute and brought all their marshmallows and began toasting them with our fire, despite having a senior like me fanning ash into them:P They were persistent and came back immediately after each wave of ash was blown at them and continued their marshmallow escapade.

The Ancient seniors came really late and they pretty much took over our pit and got a HUGE fire going. ON the other pit, the fire was dying and the cooking process was really slow. It wasn't really pleasant when some refused to pay for the food as they said it was not enough, which made things really difficult for us. But after cooking all the remaining meats for them, which was quite a lot, we managed to get money from the other Ancient seniors. Honestly, the atmosphere wasnt very nice. That must have been the most disappointing part of the day.

On the train, the remaining of us looked exhausted. It was late into the night and the train was close to empty. We could even take a group photo, using our reflection, although it wasnt that clear:P

I wanna thank everyone who went that day and i really hope you guys did enjoy yourselves! And thankyou to those who offered to bring BBQ equipment too! And thanks Nigel for spending time with us! (: