Went to enjoy myself there today, but it wasn't that interesting as I expected, because I couldn't stay overnight out there at Aranda Country Club.
For one, they couldn't get anybody to check in for us because there wasn't anyone among us who is above 18 years of age, so Jin Meng and Sue-Ean were like, "What to do now?" Things just couldn't be this way, and it was then that I thought of Uncle Teck!
"If there's anything you need just gimme a buzz..." was the last thing I remembered that Uncle Teck told me like, two years back. So I put it into use - "Hello Uncle Teck?" I rang him up.
"Ah, Jing Yuan, what's up?" he replied.
So I told him everything about our problems with getting someone to check in, and whether he'd be free and able to help us stand in and check in for us. I'll admit, yeah. It's hard on him to do all these for our class while he's still in the middle of his worktime and risking having his pay docked and everything. Thanks man Uncle Teck, I don't know how to thank you for this, man.
So everything went a little better after being able to check in. The next problem came - the barbecue. All the food has been bought, and the charcoal and firestarters were bought too. We played Uno with the girls, and after Leon and the others were done in the kitchen, we were just about to go downstairs with all the barbecue equipment, when suddenly there came yet another problem which I came to solve:
It wasn't much, but someone apparently thought that someone else was going to bring a lighter to start the fire. Also, though the butter was bought, there was no butter brush! So, what are we going to do with the chicken franks without any satay sticks to skewer them with?
Of course, the unlikely fella came to save everyone's butt - I went to buy all those stuff with Sheng Chao. The barbecue came smoothly and of course, butter-lady Cheryl was enjoying the food while applying the butter, but some became so oily that we were at risk for coronary heart disease. Oh well, you can't expect good food without oily deposits in the body anyway, haha!
It's a good thing that the butter I bought was low-fat. Whew.
So there I was, barbecuing the satay while the others made off with all of the chicken wings and chicken franks(most people just simply call them sausages) and other things like marshmallows. In the end, I only ate two pathetic chicken satay sticks, tested some half-cooked mutton satay, and drank only 100-Plus.
Though, yea, I'm a bit starving, I don't have the appetite to eat anything in the middle of the night. Damn.
After the barbecue, yep. I was called upon to send Cheryl to the front gate. Apparently, I didn't, of course. What about the rest of the food still in the barbecue? Why me, when she's going off with two others in a group anyway? Maybe I should've gone escorting her instead of trying to save face instead, or should I?
Anyways, the barbecue ended with only Jin Meng, Bernard, Kevin, Fang Hui, Clara and me. We settled down, cleared up the mess that they made before they left, and sat down, sharing some juicy gossip, inside jokes and of course, some stuff that we didn't know until we shared among ourselves.
They went on to watch Madagascar 2, despite my attempts to persuade them to watch it tomorrow instead, because I had to go at 10.30pm, and it was already 10.20pm when they already decided to do so. Great... just as I was about to start having fun hanging around with 4B classmates, it was time to go.
Well at least I've got all these recorded down, for the benefit for those 4B classmates who wanted to know what went on during this chalet but couldn't make it. But even then there's free Wi-Fi that I could've used for blogging this entry there, on the fly, instead of doing this at the comfort of my own bedroom...
Sigh, you just cannot have everything good at once, I guess.
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