what a day...today, i mean yesterday. how else better to celebrate new years eve than with a section outing. we went for the wildest section outing anyone could ever think of, though plans were foiled not one, two, but say 4 times? cos we wanted to watch bedtime stories at plaza sing after lunch, but it was full, so we went cathay, but it was too late the timings, then wanted to play lan, so we decided to walk randomly...and we ended up at swisshotel, one of the tallest buildings in singapore. standing at 72 stories, one would expect this majestic structure to have a commanding view of the singapore central business district skyline, but what we experienced was far from that. instead, we had acheing legs, a shirt soaked in sweat, a stuffy area with a musty stench, and yep, u guessed it. where else but the staircase. its like we climbed 72 floors???(no luh kidding, if we did we would have gone for the vertical marathon instead). we stalked some guy into the lift, then wanted to go to his floor, 53 or 59 i think, then suddenly at 46 it stopped and no one pressed, so we pretended to be guests and walk out, and mel was on the phone with dom, pretending to ask which room it was. then we walked around the freaking corridor twice, but there was no bloody opening, it was all enclosed. disappointed with the result, we spurred each other to climb the remaining stairs to reach the 72nd storey, in hope of being rewarded with the view of the cbd for our efforts, but i guess we wasted it all, because we got owned by the 26 storeys or stairs. and there were staff, pretty suspicious so i had to keep on asking wallace why he forgot to bring his card, and it seemed like we climbed all the way from the 1st storey.(cos u need the card to take lift up to the rooms) then we reached, exhausted as we were, yep asthma as usual for me, then we walked down, and me and cherng hao waited in vain for a passworded lift at the 70th storey, as the closest excessible guest lift was at 59, so we were lagging behind, and before we knew it, we were down, and mel and wallace were like resting on the couches there. what an adventure. then we went bowling, and wallace was on a roll. cherng hao too. cherng hao kept the score sheets. lol. and mel started off shaky and drawed with me but later got warmed up and on form again. me, being the unnatural bowler i am, screwed up half my time(2/4 games literally) there and wasted half my money too lol. anyway wallace nearly got turkey a lot of times, and owned 3/4 games, and cherng hao got turkey once, but at the last 3 turns so sad count as 30 points only. and i had the first 2 spairs of my life in 2008 on the last game when i finally got the hang of it and the 9 bucks before that was well spent learning how to bowl(mel taught me). dom pangsehed us and left...and well, i can say, it was the best section outing in this year mayb(given that only 5 went)(keith, wallace, ch, mel and dom). pics...












oh and by the way, happy new year to all!XD wish u a peaceful and successful year ahead, and wish u guys do well in ur exams and succeed in all ur future endeavours.=D-keith

Yours Wonderfully.sji-saxes at 3:09 AM

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