Unlike all of my dull dull holidays, this was definitely the coolest, as in real nice, beginning for a very very usual school-term-holiday. =D
For those who doesn't know, the F5A '09 batch (minus 4) went to the finest hotel in Brunei, The Empire Hotel and Country Club, for our class activity. This is the kinda stuff graduate classes get to go through in return for the hard and stressful exam times. The $14 + $8(movie) was totally worth it for the bond we've created between each other, at least between the few I've bonded with.
At first we all gathered at around 3pm on 21st of March 2009 at the lobby of the hotel with most of them roaming all around the hotel (we don't want to be too high profile cause 37 people in two rooms? We'll totally be busted if people knew) Zen zen jie jie and Arsia checked in for us and we all should be happy she was there cause she got us rooms with special rates and paid for the $600 deposit. ( We all had no idea that they collect deposits.) So, thank you, zen zen jie jie for that =)
We all moved into the rooms and went swimming after that. We swam in the pool and later moved to the artificial sea where we all had cool wet fun. There were only half of the class there cause the rest decided they'll go somewhere else, but i couldn't care less cause we were already having much fun there.
Back to the hotel we went when it was getting dark and we took turns showering. It was then Irene told me that the safe wasn't working and so i called the "express" service which solved the problem after everyone finished showering. ( lemme see... there was A LOT showering that time i tell you). We had dinner which consisted of mostly Pop Mees and Maggis but I was quite satisfied with that =) The guys and some girls gambled ( WTH!!) in the other room while some played PSPs and watched TV. Cindy and I took some photos which we were quite satisfied of but anyways the good part happened next.
After much nonsense, Cindy and Ness grabbed me and a few guys who were suppose to be watching out for us to the near by pool. We dipped our legs into the amazingly warm pool and talked with beautiful stars shinning right above us. Not lying here. They are seriously glittering and shinning and it was my first time star-gazing. We talked for hours and more people joined later. Random people who i never expected that I'd talked to join us and just starting talking about everything. From school, to relationships and friends to ambitions. We really talked a lot. Still the most amazing thing there was the stars. They are just to pretty to just be mentioned once in my post. The night was just too beautiful that I have no idea how to make it as beautiful in words. i guess only Cindy knows what I'm talking about here right? We bonded the most that night. I was practically hanging out with her the whole night from i don't know when till the next morning.
We went for a movie later, The Race to Witch Mountain, at 12am sharp, we took one whole row. Rui yee and her friends who went there too were in the other row. Some people form another school were also there spoiling the whole "our" time. But never mind. The movie was great and it reminded me about the stars again since it's about aliens and stuff like that.
The movie lasted for about 2 hours and Cindy wanted to go star-gazing again. We did, with Mel and different bodyguards then, and just stayed for a while. The stars were seriously more shiny then but they faded away slowly. And wuu~ i saw a shooting star. But this was nothing compared to what Mel, Arsia and Xue Yu saw. They saw three la. So cool. But i should appreciate what i saw cause Cin din see any =P
We went back and some girls were already sleeping like babies in the girls room whereas the guys being very smelly, like their room, were wrestling there in their room. Cindy, Mel and I went to the lobby to chat and poor Mel, she got so tired she din notice Cindy taking a very funny video of her hopping in her sleeping bag back to hotel room. It was really really funny. So, there we were, Cindy and I talking about "stuff" and going on the Internet after Shirley and Richard and other people where Cindy posted stuff on her blog.
After that we went back and the guys were still watching football, tho a few broke down and slept already. We went out to the balcony and gazed at stars which was now above the sea and beach, this time with other people who were awake accompanied by the sounds of waved hitting on the shore and the songs Arsia played on which after awhile appeared to be Eu Kean's phone. XD It spoilt the whole quite and calm atmosphere when the song stopped playing because Ukean wanted his phone back. Anyways... Really nice moments there.
And yea. i forgot to mention that we all played spy that night creeping from balcony to balcony on the narrow step in between. That was fun. But we din get to capture anyone doing that. Sad =\
Later we went to see the slow but wonderful sun rise with a whole bunch of people. Ivan, Cindy and I took the wrong path earlier but still manage to get back in time to experience the sunrise together with everyone. We even managed to see clouds in the shape of an elephant which later became a tortoise right on the horizon which was a very cool scene in front of the crimson-gradient-ed blue sky.
After sunrise, we all headed back to the hotel and went each others way to do different other stuffs. I tried to take a nap but failed because it was too noisy and the smell of Vicky's pop me made my tummy grumbly. So i went to eat my Maggi =D. Later we went to the pool and ''boiled" ourselves in the Jacuzzi. After that we did nothing special liao. we got ready, took group photos at the lowest level of the main building and left.
To conclude. It was over-all the best moment so far this year =)
Signing off now.
Take care~
Bye.
