The advent of A level preparations

Today is the first day of school since the holidays! No count for JCTs. It's back to the lectures and tutorials again, this time with additional lectures in the afternoon for different subjects. That means, I end about 4+ or 5+ everyday! I'll be looking forward to after NAPFA test, when there are no more group PEs and I can finally have an early day! But then, there wun be anymore class games together, that is unless the class wants to play... Actually school's not that bad la..with so many good friends (and some eccentric ones like Farah who was trying to imagine school as a musical), learning new things together is kinda exciting in another light.

Like the Physics practical today. It was meant as a fun practical, meaning we dun have to study it or anything, just experiment with smth we've never done before. And boy was it really smth I've never seen before. Some zenon stroboscope and sonometer experiment..sounds like some alien language haha. I shall not go into details or I'll really be speaking alien. I guess that's the last practical we'll be having, given that all our SPAs are now over. (Yes!)

Anyway, the bbq at Dennis' place last Sat was probably one of the most fun bbqs I've had, although part of food planning was dedicated to me. We decided to shop for stuff at E!Hub's NTUC..and it's was actually my first time at that NTUC even though it's just like 5 min's walk from my house? Haha. Oh yeah, Bryce and Daniel, if you're reading this, I DO NOT have maternal instincts ok! Calling me MOM makes me sound old lol. I just happen to do more grocery shopping than you guys. The rest came later to help carry the stuff and it was a 8-ppl strong team bringing the food all the way to Dennis' place. On the bus to his place, an old Indian lady beside me started chatting with me and she said she was going to Rivervale too..but she didn't mention it was Rivervale DRIVE and not Rivervale LINK, so we got down the same bus stop as her since she offered to bring us to the condo. In the end, we were actually short of a few more stops to Dennis' place. Sorry guys..made you get down at the wrong stop haha. We took a taxi there eventually.

The sight of the swimming pool greeted us the moment we entered the condo., but the bbq pit was at the back of some other condos. I really like the narrow walkway to the bbq pit man..with the trees by the side, the shadiness and the wind blowing, there's a touch of nature there which is so seldom seen in this city of infrastructures.

Anyway, we started preparing food and even Edwin who didn't know what to do and said "too many cooks spoil the brooth" (--oops broth. Haha!) chipped in here and there. That's why I really like this bbq. Everybody had a hand in it and I duno if anybody noticed, but the teamwork was really there. We finished the amount of work which would take 2 ppl 2 hours in about 45min i think. Plus I guess everyone had some fun in helping to prepare.

After that we went swimming and the guys did funny things, like trying to stand on top of each other? Later we challenged each other to see who can swim underwater water the furthest and I didn't do too bad actually..but Dennis got furthest, followed by Ed, then me! Haha..consolation prizes to Bryce and Harshan lol. Dan was mia coz of his accident proneness..how did you manage to cut ur feet leh? But then again, the tiles weren't that user-friendly also. Later on, Bryce had leg cramps coz he swam too vigorously. (Eh he lied to me said he can't swim! The skills suddenly came to him. Haha.) Looks like swimming is quite a dangerous sport lol. Then we raced each other the breadth of the swimming pool..Ed and Harshan raced freestyle then me and Ed raced frogkick. Lost to him miserably..he still can stand up and slowly walk to the end. But hey, my freestyle won his frogkick and I was just a little behind him for freestyle haha.

After that was just eating and bbqing and chatting. Then they started drinking..and poor Jeremy was made drunk again..like the previous DP bbq haha. The funniest was Derrick..a bit high already then keep telling me he's not drunk, but purposely call me by the wrong name. He couldn't even walk straight when we were going back lol. In the end, the security guard had to ask us to leave coz we were making too much noise..and it ended too soon I felt. Just as well..since the west side people stay so far away. Sharmaine's mum was very nice to fetch the pasir ris people back, but 5 of us had to squeeze behind. But I'm still grateful for that..coz we didn;t have to wait for buses haha. Thanks Sharmaine and Sharmaine's mum!

It was a really great bbq and I really had a lot of fun! Thnaks Dennis for booking the pit too!

Ok..time for dinner!