Class Chalet: The BBQ

Day 2:

Awoke to see the trio returning and Phil watching TV. Not much action from then till 12ish as after breakfast, everyone but Phil went to sleep, leaving her to play O2 Jam. Phil left around noon as she had been stoning for the past 2 hours with no conscious human company. We watched TV till Larissa,Yun Lin came and in their wake, Zinc, Pok, Balpreet and Jeremy with bags of skewered chicken wings, sting rays and bbq-able food. We split up then, as some stayed behind to watch TV or play console games while the rest travelled to Ubin to cycle.
The Ubin trip was pretty fun; we encountered RI Red Cross (I randomly shouted out to some guy if he was from RI) and someone flipped over in a mishap. Zooming down the slopes was thrilling although the mad, sweaty peddling before that was not. But I reckon it made the descent all the more sweet :).
When we touched down on the mainland, JH and Kang Rui ran to the light the fire as the rest of us strolled leisurely back. I managed to get some candid photos of certain individuals ;). At the chalet, the rest of the lot with several other arrivals were watching the Guiness World Records featuring a man drilling nails through his nose. The DDR was set up soon after and to escape the humiliation of looking like a flurry of arms and legs, I went out to the BBQ area to help out. Caught up with Wu Chien and was glad to see he was still the friendly, carefree guy I knew. Cooked some of the skewered meat and as the daylight waned, people streamed out from the chalet to socialise, eat, drink beer or feed the cats which had been loitering around the area for some time. The SRP people came at 8-ish and Mr Lee still hadn't arrived so I gave him a call to find he was lost in the wilderness of Changi. We ate some DELICIOUS cheese cake which Pet made and as if on cue, Mr Chan and Mr Lee had their grand entrance. With them sated, we dragged them to the dance floor for a DDR show down. They were both sporting and despite the failed attempts, continued dancing gamely. Mr Lee got the hang of it rather fast and outclassed Mr Chan during the VS mode. Played mahjong, DDR (I got Suat to play!!!) and watched the kitchen folk busy preparing more food. The teachers left at 9-ish cus Mr Lee had been invited to the 3M chalet at Tanah Merah.
We headed to Changi Village, leaving behind JH as he was down with fever. Poor chap. Code named "Hersheys" (meant to sound like he-shes and for the more innocent readers, transverstites), they were the targets of our curious eyes. We toured Changi Village for twent y minutes or so. Next up, was pyrotechnics on the beach! With our jar of poppers, we had Kang Rui singing to some National Day theme and the rest of us popping in an imitation of the 21-gun salute. We played with sparklers and wrote 3Q in the sand! All the bright lights brought out pyromanic tendencies in Pok who wanted to pop into the sparklers. Although he did so, with us standing a 3m distance away, there was scarely an additional spark. Another long stroll back to the chalet... Zinc and me HOGGED the DDR and did 30 minutes of workout non-stop! We both did a lot better than before, partly because workout mode was easier and we had learnt to track the beat somewhat. I bathed and chilled out to the clacks of the mahjong tiles and was lulled to sleep by them.