Out In The Spores [Part 1]

While the last holiday was not long back with Chinese New Year last month, and our last trip was on New Year's Eve at Camland with the Klangites, those doesn't seem to satisfy our need for entertainment and denial of reality.

Yes, well, we still are immature, and it doesn't seem like it'll end anytime soon.

Anyways. The Sporeland trip was planned since September last year, so it isn't really a spur-of-the-moment trip just because we were bored. The main reason for the trip? The Phantom Of The Opera for njapf, goodsheet, lad and us!

However, Phantom was on Saturday afternoon but we might as well make a good holiday out of it, so we all went down on Thursday instead. Our wonderful host and hostess Ethancya and Renzze made the trip all the more memorable - from accomodating us in their lovely abode to bringing us around town to sumptuous meals.

Sporeland was humid - the moment we stepped out of any building to walk the streets we started sweating almost straightaway. Also for this trip we went pretty much empty handed: no book, no iPod, no Nintendo DS, worse, no iXus as mum borrowed that for her own trip! So no camwhoring for us :'(

This very friendly wog got mohawk one.

Thursday saw us unsuccessfully trying to catch up on sleep inside Aeroline as we were repeatedly interrupted each time we drifted off to slumberland. Thankfully we managed enough to get us through once we set foot in Sporeland. A cab to Pasir Ris and we were in the mercy of our host and hostess. Once we've stopped 'waaah'-ing over their place and playing with Little Louis and multiplayer Starcraft, it was time for dinner.

Rice with seaweed and seasoning, salad, fish in teriyaki sauce, veg soup and seaweed, fried chicken, teppenyaki...yum.

After dinner we were scrubbing dishes that didn't make it into the dishwasher while chatting with the hostess and njapf, with otousan occasionally coming into the kitchen to mock us for doing the washing (hmm in retrospect should have made sure njapf got the bolster then instead of it taking up space as a 'divider' in the bed otousan and us shared...nevermind any threats of elbows in the face). Our nighttime game of Cluedo was interrupted by dinosaurs from Jurassic Park 3, and after that we watched slugs sing in Flushed Away before turning in for the night.

Friday we made our way to Orchard as we had a delivery to make - a colleague had asked us to get some meds from home because it was much more cheaper (hmmm for future trips personal trips might be better not to announce intentions to Sporeland colleagues). Ethancya brought along a videocam and took clips (which later he made into two music videos for us!). After lunch at Border's Bistro (and picking up Hunter Of Dune in Borders) it was onwards to Vivo City.

Renzze says that Vivo City is larger than MidValley, but we've not had the chance to fully explore it as we'd opt to see the view of Sentosa from atop Vivo City first. Vivo City's rooftop was quite a view by itself, with shallow pools of water, mini falls and a view. Note to self: there's a Fitness First in Vivo City as well. Must check it out if possible one time or another.

In the center, some fellow hanging for dear life on the bars. Really. :)

Onwards to Sentosa by cable car...laughing mercilessly at single lone man riding cable car back from Sentosa...voyueristic peeking staring to catch indecent acts by other couples...and we were at Sentosa. While we did talk about Cafe del Mar (partly thanks to kennysia for bringing that to light) we didn't manage to hang out there. Stops include much camwhoring here and there - especially near the Merlion where we caused hostess Renzze to *nearly* fall into a pool! Very much touch-and-go as she see-sawed back and forth and ended up with one leg in the pool. Good thing the pool wasn't that deep...or else we might have had to cut short our trip -_-'

From the Monorail to the Tram Beach Buses watching peeps playing volleyball we finally found ourselves at Ben and Jerry's.

American Fudge and Strawberry Cheesecake & Chunky Monkey and some other chocolate flavour.

Once we were done with our B&Js we broke off from the others here to go meet our sis. While waiting at Toa Payoh HDB Hub for her we did a bit of retail shopping for travel-pack sized toiletries.

Original Source travel size shower gel, SGD1.95 each from Watsons. Very handy.

Dinner was a simple affair as sis was totally koyaked from her trip to Bukit Timah. But she did tell us that Orchard had a late-night sales on the last Friday of the month, so instead of heading back to meet the rest of the group we headed down to Paradigm Infinitum at Orchard to pick up some gaming stuff for someone (am so not gonna do this unless we get major profit from this next time). Got ourselves Super Munchkins while we were at it.

Whoa there's even a Dilbert Board Game going for about SGD60!

We feels that we're heading past the peak of our prime, as we haven't even done a decent walkabout of Orchard and our legs were complaining already :( Giving in, plus fact that the gang was also heading back home at the same time, we made our way back with the happy feeling that all our 'delivery deeds' are finally done.

We were already boarding the MRT when said fellow whom requested gaming stuff called us to inform that we've gotten the wrong stuff for him. Sakai. Trust him not to answer phone when we were there. This is going to cost him extra, as we have to purposely make our way back to the store again tomorrow.

Back at our hosts' home, the night wasn't done yet. We started off with Super Munchkins, playing the rules wrongly thanks to yours truly. Next up was Charades using Taboo cards for the words to act out - with highlights include figuring out 'kudos' from goodsheet pointing alternatively at his fingernail and his groin (mental eraser on big time), us deciding to go the quick-and-easy-but-embarassing way of describing 'tear-jerker', and lad's revelation over njapf's acting of 'revolution'.

This then proceeded to Werewolf. Renzze, despite her being very honest about her roles and suspicions, did not gather much trust while njapf's utter confusion led to no one being lynched during the daytime because she tied the votes. While short and fast the games were still good. Next up, the drinking game of dice. Thankfully we decided to keep to 2 cans of Carlsberg only as 1) we've already finished a bottle of Wolfblass Cabernet Sauvignon; 2) it was nearly 5am; and 3) we're catching the matinee performance of Phantom at 2pm on Saturday. Two cans of Carlsberg goes down very fast and it was then off to bed, off to bed...(dammit, the bolster is still there!)

PS. Am gonna have to wait for njapf to blog about their bit of adventure after we left them.