beautiful disaster
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"No, there is no escape.
There is no heaven with a little hell in it -
no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets
Out Satan must go, every hair and feather."
- GEORGE MACDONALD
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:
not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
- C.S. LEWIS
Saturday, September 30, 2006
the one where the lappy crashes
okz.. so herez the entry where the girls and i had our first "outdoor" trip.. haha..
episode botanical gardens aka the one where the lappy crashes..
we were to meet at 11 at orchard mrt..
but it was later shifted to 12 bcz i cldnt get the potato salad done in time and begum n ling wanted to get sarah her burfday prezzie..
anywayz.. the potato salad has got a funny story..
i over boiled the potatoes and it became too soft for potato salad..
so it became mashed potatoes.. haha..
throwing in whatever herbs mummy had in her cabinet..
rosemary.. italian herbs.. pepper.. salt and other stuff.. haha..
so we met at 12.. and as usual sarah was late.. half an hr late..
despite someonez claim that she wld be early this time.. wahaha..
gave her the prezzie we got and she was so afraid that we got her sth that was alive and wld jump out.. she actually jumped away from the box when she opened it.. sheesh! haha..
we were like
"did u juz jump aWAy from the box??!!" haha.. one funny girl sia..
we gave her a pair of nice slippers btw.. heehee~ and some piggy cards.. hahaa.. :D
and so we took a bus to the gardens.. stopped one stop late..
had to walk back to the giant gate..
met
a pair of fluttering yellow butterflies which sent dearest sarah crazy.. wahaha..
that was hilarious.. hurhur~
shld have had my camera in hand to take the shot of her going kuku.. haha..
reached the gardens.. looked for a place to settle dwn and start eating coz we were all starving..
wanted to walk to the symphony stage but was too crazily far.. we wld have been skeletons by then.. so we settled for the swan lake background..
sat under a super big tree with
loadsa brown leaves on the grd..
the leaves became a wave rolling towards us when a giant wind blew and we all
scrambled to get our food out of the way of the flying leaves.. wahahha..
it was hilarious.. i saw like a
5cm wall of leaves rolling towards us.. hurhur~
naturally the first thing i grabbed was the mashed potatoes.. haha..
i brought
a flask of hot tea too.. that had a ginseng taste coz the flask was used to contain daddyz ginseng tea.. wahaha.. it actually tasted quite good..
we had my lappy on with music.. and let them hear shayne ward and a bit of baby face..
then it crashed juz when shayne ward sang the crazily held note when he sang somewhere over the rainbow, it jammed and suddenly the held note became a note that no one on earth cld hold..
thatz when i realised my lappy had totally jammed.. hahaa..
when i restarted it.. my windows wldnt even start..
had an error msg saying some installed software wasnt installed properly and wat nots..
and so there goes listening to mr brown.. showing them hilarious videos and wateva..
and mayb it was a blessing in disguise coz we
started our own live band.. wahhaa..
it was fun singing together.. out of tune and in tune and wateva songs that came to mind..
we talked abt everyth under the tree.. haha.. it was great.. muz do it again.. haha..
had like 1.5 loaves of bread left over bcz of sOme people who shld only bring one loave but brought 2 bcz she forgot shez suppose to bring one only..
where got liddat one??!! hahaa..
so we
played several games to get rid of the bread.. haha..
i think i had to eat5 slices.. sarah had like almost a whole loaf.. wahahaa.. wat a sad case loser.. haha.. she accumulated the most slices when we played dai ti.. haha..
she got sick of eating bread so we changed the game but she still lost juz not so many times.. hahaa..
decided to climb the tree beside us and take some photos..
didnt know that climbing trees didnt come easily to some of us.. wahahaa..
it was hilarious.. haha.. i sat on the tree and laughed WITH them at the attempts they made to climb the tree.. hahaa.. despite difficulties.. we got some nice photos on the tree.. (:
we packed up aft that.. went looking for a toilet coz some of us were like ready to explode.. haha..
met several dogs on the way who were adorable.. heehee~
and aft the toilet break.. we took photos at the
granite ball fountain thingy..
"stalked" a bride-groom couple on their photoshoot.. got a shot of them.. cute couple lah..
went to see the swans at the lake..
then we left our 5hrs at the beautiful gardens.. (:
with
many good memories and mosquito bites.. haha..