venue: punggol park

event: bbq

time: 3.30pm

but stj for us started at 12.50pm when we started scouting from carre four in plaza sing for food and butter. it feels utterly weird to be grocery shopping with him, but oh well, it's not exactly grocery shopping. it's like grab some tidbits and dump it into the basket. oh there're two new flavours for pringles. lemon is slightly sour, a new twist to the conventional salty/spicy combi of potato chips. (: but we couldn't really stomach the other hazelnut sweetness! so yea. :x

scooting off purple line to hougang failed at first, cos we were so busy talking, we missed the stop and ended up in buangkok. but that's much better than yun hao, who thought punggol park is in punggol. so he rode the mrt all the way to punggol (way past hougang), only to find out that it's at hougang ave 8 after that. lol.

standing just across the street from punggol park, we stared at the sunlit (almost treeless) side of the park and wondered whether we're here to barbeque or get barbequed? lol. honestly it was so hot, my face was still red when i got home at night. anyway, we managed to find the pits just behind the tiny car park rather quickly (thought we were at the wrong place, cos everything looks so inflated on the maps!), unlike some unlucky souls who took the wrong turn and had to walk around the entire lake (means walking the whole perimeter of the park already!!) before they found us! :p

there was this man sleeping at our pit, so we settled at pit 1 first. then the food came at 2.15?! oh gosh, long way to go before the bbq starts (considering that majority of the senior class is planning to arrive late!). when we were going down to the car park to collect food, we saw two guys carrying boxes labelled "bbq wholesale" (the same company i ordered the food from), so we thought they were delivering them to us and wanted to take them. then a quirky question came about "which unit are you from?" o.O well, i suppose it's some army camp gathering? pai seh to have mistaken them for the delivery man!

we finally saw people streaming in at 4pm x( but it was funny to see 3 guys walking very far apart on the greens. it totally looked like they hiked their way here lol. after about an hour of slacking around, gazing at the lake, we were resigned to the fact that the juniors will outnumber the seniors no matter. so we started the bbq while the number was still 2:1 (: chelsea kept complaining that i'm the only senior there and my hands weren't black from charcoal, so i need to help in arranging charcoal as well! LOL! dunno how many times i was coerced by her yesterday. for not doing menial tasks like arranging charcoal, for taking a photo of her and brolin (openly! i asked them to smile!), etc. lol. new trend: junior bully senior! x)

starting the bbq fire was such an uphill task, omg. the pit was back facing a huge field so the wind was so strong, it kept blowing out whatever flames we lit. gosh literally "gone with the wind" LOL. ok lame. but yea, it took u more than 45 min to get the charcoal burning. and it's all worthwhile cos we got a really sustained and lively fire after that that any drop of butter (or any other form of fuel e.g. leaves, etc.) can garner blazing sparks. there was this once when dumped satays into the melted butter before throwing them onto the grill. and guess what? we got a huge burst of flames. like whoosh!, like a mini atomic bomb that shocked everyone and made us step back 3 steps!! haha (: and we realised later that we probably killed all the stingray and sweet potato below the grill with that gash of heat :x! haha.

sidetrack: typing "haha" now reminds me of how kh said that, when talking to girls, you need to start with "haha" and end with a smiley face ":)" and how siokhui complained that it's pretty gay after that lol. funny people (:

then it's serving up the food to the juniors playing soccer on the field. we got kaikiat, the only junior who stayed at the pit the entire time, to do that. i think he's very poor thing. we got him to do a lot of stuff that we didn't want to do, like breaking the chicken wing joints one by one, wing by wing, with his bare hands? but i think he enjoyed it cos he went beyond his job scope and wanted to de-bone the wings lol (: go bridge junior! people kept complaining and inquiring whether the food is edible (i.e. clean). so the old joke kept resonating: did kk wash his hands? don't worry, it'll be clean after 10 chicken wings. x)

oh! i didn't know hotdogs was on such high demand, or i would have ordered more!! it's like in face of their favourtie dessert (longan), they'd run when someone shouts "the hotdogs are done!!" lol, even though they think the hotdogs looked tumourised! it's probably right that hotdogs were categorised under "kids favourites" on the bbq wholesale website, hahaha :p

after cajoling about, they had wrestling matches. michelle tee was amazing. she actually challenged russell! o.O omg, the chances of winning were slim but i don't think any other girl would have lasted longer than her, omg. so strong. henry vs russell was freaking amusing, cos henry kept trying to bribe russell, like "if i win, i give you 50 cents". then it slowly inflated when he was losing: "60 cents, 70 cents -- 1 dollar!!" :D

our juniors are such funny people but i had to leave after that match, so couldn't catch the rest. :x