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-best known as May Ching-
-09/01/1990-
-19 years 1.2 months-
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Thursday, December 11, 2008, 4:30 pm
I finally got my hands on the computer.And for all my efforts, am in a mass of pain.
Bloody fell down at the chalet. Just plain unlucky, I guess, breaking a record of 5 years without falling down. Hey, I know I'm accident-prone, so I obviously got to take care of myself.
Anyway, got a badly scraped knee and hand. It looks quite bad, but isn't actually that terrible.
The class chalet was really fun! Though we checked out early because there was so few of us. How sad. Miss Tan was quite disappointed partially because she booked a large chalet that can easily house 20++ and mainly because so few of us turned up.
But anway. We had a barbeque (I will never understand the obsession Singaporeans have for barbeques) and played the whole night before checking out the next afternoon.
The main room.
No comment. Really.
A really bad picture of Changi Hospital, opposite our chalet. If the stupid branch hadn't blocked it, the words 'Changi Hospital' would be visible.
Playing Twister.
Views of the beach...
Haven't screamed so much in ages. After the whole thing was over, we went to Popeye's in Changi Airport for a late lunch. Though really very expensive ($7.40 for a 2 piece chicken meal!!!) but I think it was worth it. As in to try the place. It really is a long way to travel if you live on the other end of the MRT Green line.
Almost didn't want to go because I was still traumatised by 'Super Size Me'. I already watched it in GP class but it is an excellent docudrama. Go watch it. You won't be able to eat McDonald's for 2 weeks.
Some pertinent facts you might be interested to know:
1) Out of 100 randomly selected US nutritionists, 95 think that fast food is not part of a healthy balanced diet.
2) None of 5 random 1st graders (6 years old) were able to identify Jesus (kind-faced man with long brown hair and beard surrounded by halo) but all knew Ronald McDonald.
3) The recipe for chicken McNuggets contains an 'anti-foaming agent'. They are composed of more than 70% corn derivatives.
I was thrilled to find that this show was being telecast by Okto. Seriously, I believe that Okto is the best thing to happen to Singapore television. Who wants to stay up late to watch an orchestral performance on Arts Central? (I did, once. It sucked.) And Okto shows all these great movies. Plus great anime movies. How do you think I got exposed to Inuyasha in the first place? (My mum said the anime used to show on Kids Central a few years ago at this ungodly time.)
The next night, a movie called 'Udon' played. It was delightfully quirky, with no real direction other than being a tribute to the wheat noodle dish, udon. Bascially, the story was about this failed comedian who returns in disgrace to his home in Sanuki, the 'udon province' of Japan. It has approximately 900 udon shops serving 1 million people, as compared to 500 McDonald's outlets serving the 15 million people of Tokyo. So he starts out to find all the shops and covering them in a magazine, starting a country-wide udon craze. The real charm, I believe, was the moving relationship between the prodigal son and the father he didn't really know. The saddest part was when the father died just before the son could apologise. Unfortunately, the movie was let down by the weak ending, in which he returns to New York to star in a movie entitled 'Captain Udon'. (!)
Huh. Looks like I'm not going anywhere, not with this leg of mine. I'm gonna rot happily at home. :)