There and Back again

what a BLAST-ing start to my sch hol! haha AWESOME! finally a getaway (sentosa not included) since like... nov 2007? haha woooohhooooo

There...

yup so i went for a day's excursion (wow! excursion sounds so primary sch-ish eh?! gawd i miss those days haha) to our hinterland aka johor bahru for paintball/pain-ball primarily cause its apparently much much cheaper! like 60 ringgit for 350 pellets. yup apparently its like 49 sing dollars for 200 rounds in sg. (if you are math inclined, the current exchange rate is about 2.38 ringgit to 1 sg dollar)
though the transport there is like s$25 pax BUT if you include cheap but GOOD tzi char which i shall elaborate on later, its definitely a 5x$ scale on ss's budget deals haha

yup so the day started with me waking up at once again an un-holy hour of 7 plus am and me entering last minute negotiations with my extremely concerned mother regarding my cross-border excursion (maybe she doesnt feel safe without signing a consent form?? haha)

followed by hotcakes at our rendezvous point @ kallang macs which is fortunately strategically situated close to my humble abode.

and our trip across the causeway! which is surprisingly fast! cause apparently our minivcan/bus is under bus and not private cars so special lane! zooom zoom :D

moving on to paintball!! it was

FUN (PAIN) FUN FUN! haha. the only tiring part was running back to the base to 'respawn' after getting shot. and of course, yours truly aka MVP also had to chionnng back to the base after grabbing the flag each time x5

and of course, the satisfaction of shooting someone right SMACK in the face (protected by visor of course haha)

by the way, thats quite, no VERY hard cause the gun thingy apparently doesnt obey the law of physics so one has to like rain shots in a particular direction. i swear it curves like david beckam's free kick. haha

so after numerous petechiae/bruises/wounds, we emerged otherwise unscathed and very very pleased from the battlefied

exercise cut at about 3+ so couldnt really eat dinner then right? so we just lepak and hang around i dun know where but some of us went for foot massage while budget me went to shop for chewing gum haha. spent like abt 30 plus ringgit on 8 eclipse-like bottles of gum :))

and i had coffee lava ice cream! yum yum

so after some typical 'get to know abt med student's life (or lackof )' + pre/post ord chat, we proceeded to...

DINNER! haha. we had like
2X calamari
2X fried rice
mussels, iron-plate tofu, oyster omelette, sambal kangkong, baby kailan, and awesome mini chicken wings on sticks. oh and the addictive sour plum lime juice :P


all for like just below 10 sg dollars!

tzi char will never be the same again in sg man. not just the price but its like damn delicious too!


(that's round one. so need to x another time for round 2 haha)
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and Back again

sadly there's no special bus lane on malaysia's side so journey back was rather lengthy but ok lah managed to reach home in about 2hrs?


OH! and apparently there's this automated fast pass thing with the biometric passport! damn fast. haha


and i managed to bring in my stash of chewing gum without any hiccups

all in all, i spent
SG SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS ONLY/=

if you take away my chewing gum expenditure, its like about the same as a trip to universal studios :)

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so thank you yanni, chun han, chun han's sis + bf (alvin), marie, jastine & normen, nazri, peizi and yee ling

and of course our super zai bus auntie

cheers and HAPPY HOLS! :D