Sunday, March 30, 2008
A blog is never idle. It is just lacking updates. Haha. I was so lucky when I was going home yesterday. Mark invited me, junxiang, joel, xiaobin, karthi, xueli and hendrick to his house for dinner and games yesterday. In the end, I arrived first (mark came to fetch me from redhill mrt) while junxiang, xiaobin and joel came later in joel's car. The other three could not make it. mark's house is really huge! Err it was my first time there so I was quite stunned. So while waiting for the rest to arrive, mark and I started with a game of bleach on his nintendo wii. It was a duelling style game where you choose bleach characters to play with. So we took turns trying out different characters. I heard from mark that apparently because of this game, marcus also bought a nintendo wii and proceeded to unlock all the hidden characters like yamamoto and the espadas. After the game of bleach which was really tiring for my arms (imagine continuous swinging, thrusting and slashing with the wii controller), we settled for a less tiring game of fifa 2005. By half time, the rest of the guys came. We ended the match and mark went on to introduce another nintendo wii game called "sonic & mario at the olympic games". It was basically an olympic games event with the participation of mario and sonic characters based on the upcoming beijing olympics. So there were twenty olympic events to compete in like shooting, track and field, archery, gymnastics, fencing, table tennis and others. So the first event we tried was shooting. Everyone was still trying to get use to the wii controller so everyone made many misses. Haha. Then it was almost dinner time. We paused the game and proceeded downstairs. We met with mark's parents and had dinner with them as well as a few of their guests. It was back to games after dinner! We went back and tried out several other events. I fared badly for most of the events except for swimming and rowing which I came out first! Haha. Joel was the most pro player while junxiang kept getting second. After completing most of the events with our arms full of lactic acid from all the vigorous arm movements, we took a break first before moving on to the circuit games. Circuit refers to a series of events in which players compete for points and rankings. So for the rank you get in each event, you obtain some points which are totalled up after all the events to see who the overall winner is. Needless to say, the overall winner is obviously the guy who plays the game most, mark! And I got last ): Anyway just as we ended the circuit games, it was time for dessert. Mark's parents prepared fruits, tarts and ice cream for the guests. We were joking that the games just now was too exciting and tense, especially during the archery round where everyone fared extremely well and it was a extremely close fight till the end. Anyway mark's parents prepared tau huey egg tarts which was very nice! After dessert, I had to make a move first because I had to get back home before I get screwed again. Here comes my lucky part. So mark drove me to redhill mrt. I kept looking at my watch because it was approaching midnight soon and I was hoping to be still in time for the last train. Mark dropped me off and I dashed towards the mrt station. One look at the train arrival signboard and I caught the words "1 min". I literally took off and sprinted up the escalator just in time to see the train pull into the station. So I managed to catch the last train from boon lay toward pasir ris. The next stop for me was raffles place. By 0006 (I know because I kept checking my watch), the train arrived at raffles place. I took a look outside. There were people waiting at the platform opposite. This meant that the last train had not arrived yet. I got off, walked opposite the platform and took a look at the signboard again. 1 min! I am lucky again! Haha. So I boarded the last train from marina bay and travelled back to toa payoh. And I noticed that last trains were never empty. All the seats were occupied by the time the train left orchard, at least for the carriage I was in. So that was how I managed to catch two last trains fortunately and got home! It was a bit lame but well it was a new experience for me. Haha. =))
That should be all for now, time to get more rest for work tomorrow.
300 days to ORD!!
Good night everyone,
hellmos signing off...Labels: last train, lucky, mark, nintendo wii
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