urban hike

Man, i had to re log in to this blog thang like 9 times just to finally get here so that i can post this entry. wahlau..

Listening to indian flute by Timabaland and Magoo feat Raje Shware (which sounds an awful lot like rajeshwari..haha..what if its a girl!!)did you know that Jay sean took Timbaland for a bit of a walkaround Southhall aka the indian district of London to shop for bollywood music 12 inches!!(which are used y DJs esp for sampling)
so anyway, yesterday was Urban hike. and unfortunately, still had to carry out my testwork mistress duties. and here i am screaming "gimme a breakk"! got last minute testwork that eventually I had to lug around during the entir duration of the urban hike..bah!

so the day started off as rainy as ever(monsoon season innit) and all of us looked as though we'd just woken up(an observation i made thru half closed eyelids..haha). then after like 20 mins of attendance and the reading out of rules and wtv IT BEGAN *the sound that plays whenever a answer is figured out on Nickelodeon's Figure It Out...wahahaha*

Listening to the Tigerstyle remix of angel eyes
got on the train JUST b4 it left, thank God. got off at city hall. exited at Exit B. first checkpoint was St Andrews cathedral.some doink patrols crossed the road over to the capitool centre side even though they really didnt have to. then went to the firestation place further down the road. haha..got a bit of help from WC's mum to confirm whether the brick building i saw in the distance really was the firestation. got a pretty good lead i must say..honestly the only competition we had pretty much all the way through was Oriole 1st. on the way to the firestation, spotted the postbox outside the philatelic museum AND oriole 1st. i was like dang, they caught up wit us. got the info we needed blah blah blah. snuck off to the asian civilisations museum where i KNEW for sure we'd find the ACM cat. c'mon lah, Jia wei and i have been there a million times on one of our out of the ordinary outings where we dont go to USUAL places like the heeren or wtv.

listening to Bhutan Philaharmonic(for those who dunno, bhutan is in nepal..haha) jai tal dub (this is the world music side of me comin out) hey did you know my aunt is one of the women vying for a spot on the all woman singaporean team thats gonna scale Everest! INNIT!!! her husband's the one who owns Campers Corner(only the most famous camping store in S'pore..;) )
then had a bit of a problem finding the Singapore Arts Museum cos there was no straight way thru what USED to be bras basah park which is now the SMU construction site. Still had a good lead over oriole 1st at this point of time. eventually found our way around the construction site and into the old SJI now known as the SAM. pretty cool place. wasted a bit too much time there trying ot find the correct founding day. then made our way to the CHIJMES door which looked really medival and cool. Huixin informed us that we were the first team to arrive. had to perform and raise $2 as part of a task. what a shocker. did the chicken dance to this really nice lady.wonder what happened to all the money raised cos it was eventually given to the CLs and ACLs. hmmmmmmm
next stop was the war memorial park where we once again wasted a bit too much time mucking around and taking photos. had a bit of a confusion finding the frickin fountain in the clue. mistakenly went to the SRC fountain. DAMN. supposed to be the Tan Kim Seng Waterworks fountain. eventually got there but lost our big lead. met up with Oriole 1st yet again. next stop was the Cenotaph better known as the place with the inscription "they died that we may live". rmb it from the after the LP concert where kids were skateboarding on the steps/making out/just chilling and listening to the LP cncert from outside the padang stage without having to pay..right. moving on. went to the esplanade afta tht. tourist haven and newlyweds wedding photo taking spot. what a kodak moment. this was the turning point. cos of a miscalculated error, we lost it all here. our lead and everything. we were supposed to meet ryn for our next task at the open stage but we DIDNT. dang. *shakes head disappointedly* none of us actually knew we had to meet ryn.

listening to Galang by M.I.A vs Sunit..haha, Galang sounds like galangal aka blue ginger i tell you this song is too cool to be true. it has a sample from the amitabh bachan hit film "sholay" which is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year" which sounds SO bloody retro bollywood with like this snake dance thang goin on..its WICKED i tell you. even got the villain's laughter thrown in certain parts of the song!! HOW COOL IS THAT
man..moved on to the lst checkpoint which turned out wrong anyway cos of the vague coordinates. made a couple of calls to the CLs(and at this point i'm thinking, "i'm not the patrol leader am i? why the hell am i taking charge anf doin everybloodything??") and ran back to the esplanade after that. saw oriole 1st having just completed their last task we knew it was gone for us. the title, the glory everythin. you shouldve seen the crestfallen looks on our faces. (ok i'm over dramatising but so what) had to perform for 12 ppl this time. managed to do it for these ppl from china who were fascinated with us beforehand anyway. haha..you should've seen the frenzied phototaking when we started performing "peace like a river". MAD. left after that. had a HELLUVA lot of probs finding the last checkpoint. we were just so exhausted and so beaten up cos we'd lost our 11 checkpoint lead i guess. after a lot of wrong decisions finaly saw black t shirt clad girls sitting on the steps of the supreme court. we really didnt bother running tot he final checkpoint much seeing that about 4 patrols were laready there. we literally trudged to a spot on the steps. never felt so disappointed all year long. we had not only NOT come in second, we were beaten flat out. damn damn damn. thank God had Jay Sean's album in my discman. at least some of the pain went away.
either way, had a blast of a time with my patrol..at least for the firt 11 checkpoints.haha..but its all good now. well sorta. i'll just have to deal with it innit? and anyway, go other things to worry about.

but then, Kudos to my lovely patrol mates for bein so sporting all the way and not giving probs or anything bad liddat. they're a commendable lot. hi 5 guys!

so toodaloo, gotta scoot. catch ya round