Triple outing XD
ODNS simply relate the concept of triple town and triple outing together! =P
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Don’t know
when to reach + lateness + clock = random time
Don’t know
what to do + Sui bian + chemical potential energy = random activity
Don’t know
where to go + how to go ah + transport technology = random place
Random time
+ random activity + random place = funny happening!
3 funny
happenings = anyhow plan!
4 or more
funny happenings = anyhow plan with LOL element! :D
3 anyhow
plans = outing!
4 or more
anyhow plans = outing with unexpected surprises!
Outing +
Outing + Outing = Triple outing! ^^
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The
jellyfish is back! While War is flying to India and expecting a blast of Naans
and butter chicken, it’s another bright and beautiful Sunday, a day of relaxation,
peace, serenity. ^^ Posting about the recent triple outing! =P
Ah,
Sidetrack a bit, WL has kindly given his professional constructive criticism on
my Pancakes post.
WL: How the
fk do you even write 2400++ (2808 after 17%) on a simple Pancake outing? There
is really nothing to write sia!
Jeff: Okay…
=(
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Triple
outing: AFA 2012, meatballs galore, and the cycling outing! ^^
AFA 2012, 10th Nov~
Unlike last
year’s AFA, this year’s Anime Festival Asia was being held at Singapore Expo.
So out of curiosity, I agreed to go with ZH and SY even though I’m not an Anime
Fan. ^^ I didn’t intend to buy anything, unless there is a very cute notebook
with a design of a cat or something, or perhaps a folder so that I can use in
Uni. Anything that has whatever dragons, fighters, ninjas, cards or other
nonsense will be out of my list. Eh? That sounds like a gigantic list, but ah
who cares. =P
I didn’t
know 966 goes to Eunos via Bukit Panjang. On the way to Eunos, we just chat
about NS lives, hearing ZH’s command excellence, SY’s super slack life and the
envy of me going to ORD in about a month. ^^ It’s not a very crowded bus, but
the same cannot be said in the MRT train towards Expo/Changi Airport! Usually,
Tanah Merah would have a moderate number of people waiting to board the train
for travelling purposes. On that very auspicious day, you can see a huge crowd
of teenagers / young adults / people wearing weird costumes (cosplay?) waiting
to board the train. If anybody said that the train is being packed with
sardines, it’s seriously a close enough description.
Plenty of discussions
about choices of swords, awesome anime characters, something about Pokémon,
cards, etc., so you can roughly guess on whether more people would alight at
Expo or Changi Airport ya? =P 2 random
girls were having a super informal discussion about deck cards (YGO wasn’t mentioned
though). Eavesdropped a bit and caught something like this…
“At least Pokémon
can play by yourself, and almost everybody understands and got play before.
Cards are very stupid sia, you just discard from a stupid deck, then attack and
defend then skali for unknown reasons your card goes into the graveyard. Like
very waste time, don’t know why people would play with them...” Luckily WL, WJ,
William and Willis weren’t there to listen, or they will give the girls a wild
way whacking/wallop.
Expo hall 7
is flooded with people, anime fans, cosplay fanatics, photographers and anime
products collectors. Along the long pathway were people admiring the swords /
bamboo sticks (ZH: must well just use the wooden bamboo for hanging clothes)
they bought in the fair, people in weird hairstyles, dressed in Jap student
costumes, knights, angels, etc. Apparently besides selling the AFA entrance
tickets, they also sell concert tickets for a random J-Pop concert! A few
hundred dollars for the concert ticket, thus the queue is literally rather
empty. Jeffery may like the concert, since he is a hard-core Jap fan! XD
Honestly
speaking, I don’t recognize even 5% of the characters featured inside the fair.
Almost every corner is crowded though! From mini booths selling small
gifts/keychains to lighted booths featuring swords and plushies to game corners
including real life gachapon and card-fans! :D A few interesting booths~
Pokémon!
Largely featuring the giant Pikachu and its games.
Apparently
there’s this awesomely cute giant Pikachu walking around with a fan club
following it and ending up at the booth. The booth features many plushies (eg.
Snorlax), toys and other everyday items. Oh, for $3 per game, a person gets to
play a motion-sensored video game to overcome all obstacles and touch the other
friendly Pokémon for a prize. Rather cute huh. =)
One-Piece,
with other collectible items
As usual,
this booth attracted a very long queue. The enclosed exhibit displayed tons of
stationeries, clothes, jackets, awesomely giant mugs, pillows, etc. of various
Animes being taken off the shelves quickly. It’s a wonder how do the owners get
to restock so frequently. O_O a lot of people took pictures of their favorite
characters printed on the products. I hope it’s not for their phone wallpaper,
as the Internet would have nicer pics. J
FFA
J-pop singing!
FFA as in
open to the public as I think there would be a price incurred to sing a song or
two. Saw some Chinese/Malay trying to catch up with the Jap lyrics and thus
mispronounced the words significantly. If they were playing BR with words
replacing arrow keys, it would definitely be this rating. ‘MISS’ =P
Other than
these mentions, the rest didn’t really catch my attention. I didn’t buy
anything after the whole 2 hours walk. SY wanted to buy a sword, but dropped
the idea after thinking that he would be the only one holding the sword home.
ZH bought some random products from the One-Piece stall, but it didn’t amount
to $35, so no giant bag for him. Aw. =(
The
shopping mall near Expo is rather crowded as many people had their meals there
after the shopping trip. While walking around the basement to find empty seats,
we saw this on-stage competition regarding some plant thing for primary school
children. It must be after prize giving, as the host is giving his summarizing
speech. Curious to hear what he has to say, I watched a bit, nothing
interesting happened until he interacted with a random competitor.
Host: So,
how do you find today’s competition? Is it fun?
Competitor
(a small kid): No.
Jeff: woah
honest siol!
Host: Eh,
just now I thought you said its fun and meaningful!? Nvm let’s try again, so do
you find today’s competition fun?
Competitor:
Yes.
Jeff:
Bloody basket liar sia!
SY: Last
time when BP asked you all evaluate the point of IPW, you all also lie and say
it’s meaningful and good what! (Jeff likes this 100%)
~.~ After
some time of discussing, with ZH wanting to eat Mac while SY expects nothing
lesser than a prestigious place, and me requesting a nearby place, we ended up
eating Mac at Changi Airport! :D Besides my fillet-o-fish meal with a Mcflurry,
= I took a bit of extra Mcspicy chicken fillet from ZH as he got an extra one
for no reason (probably wrong order). Luckily I didn’t order 1 Mcspicy for
myself, or else the Changi Airport firefighters would be activated~ =/
Went home
after dinner, not without a nice recollection about the fun and anyhow times in
BP/PJ, and concluding the AFA outing. ^^
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Meatballs Galore, 22nd Nov
Since War
will be in India for 2 weeks, it’s a rather auspicious time to carry out the
Meatball meal plan. ^^ Unlike the previous IKEA outing which WL faithfully
suggested, this time we went to IKEA, due to my suggestion. =P
A weekday
in IKEA is significantly less crowded compared to a weekend. You don’t see a
huge bunch of random kids running around, touching things and parents shouting
at them to keep their hands to themselves. Although there is plenty of space
and time to walk about, we countered (critically) IKEA’s entrance poster
slogan: ‘We are more than just meatballs.” Yep, headed straight for the
restaurant, and hey! We found most of the customers in the restaurant! ^^ Most
customers have a plate of meatballs in front of them, so I think someone can
start to tear down the poster~! Not as many people also, but it’s not really a
breeze to find a seat though, especially if you have inconsiderate consumers
who do not clear their trays after eating. =/
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The 15-meatball dish! Served with lingoberry jam and potatoes! ^^ The pic looks rather blur though~ :/
The
meatballs are awesome! 15 meatballs served with lingo berry jam and cooked
potatoes, served with some random sauce for $8. The meat is rather solid, and it’s
already delicious when eaten on its own! The jam tasted quite normal, but when
it is combined with meatballs and perhaps some sauce, it’s a greater
combination. ^^ The price for 10,15,20 meatballs are $5.50, $8 and $9.50
respectively. 15 should be a moderate number for a relatively hungry person, so
perhaps I would order another set of 15 if I were to patronize IKEA again. J Oh, I also tried out the
butterscotch almond dessert pie. Rather crunchy on the base and the chocolate
filling in the dessert pie is sweet and not overwhelming. The price is $3.50, a
bit ex for such a pie. =/
Looks not bad right? =D
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After
eating, we decided to rest a bit. I played ‘Doors and rooms’ on War’s new
Samsung phone. It’s a rather fun game of using clues, logic and visualization
to find a way for clearing the stage. For strange reasons, I cannot clear S2-6
as I couldn’t see any optical numbers by tilting / rotating / turning the
phone. The hospital stage is much harder, but yet more fun! Maybe I will borrow
his phone and continue after he returns from India. XD
It’s
approximately 3.45pm when we headed off to Jurong Point. Nothing interesting
along the way, unless you count War’s rambling about a $12 Korean buffet at
Novena or the grumblings of going to India as exciting stories. Went to Jurong
West Library to return some books, the library seemed rather big with many
levels, and has an entrance/exit point for every floor.
Jeff: Eh
War ah, you see this library. It has quite a lot of storeys, borrowing stations
and also more entrances/exits, very
convenient sia! Perhaps better than Civic Center’s WRL!
War: But
there isn’t any escalator / staircases linking them together. If you want to go
to a different section, you have to exit and climb the CC staircase to go other
places.
Jeff: Huh
what the… Cancel out my WRL sentence. -_-
The CC
offered many programs for primary school students during the school holidays
such as camps, workshops, excursions, etc. Looked very interesting, except for
a flaw.
“Hey kids,
wanna join the Avengers such as Spiderman in this tour…?” Somebody should do a
research on the Avengers. I don’t remember Spiderman being inside sia… o.o
Either
Jurong has a very jialat planner, or there were simply not enough space to
build things (largely occupied by waffle queues), but one does not simply do
things in a straightforward way in Jurong. JP has an ATM that only allows
withdrawals from $200 onwards. I wanted to withdraw only $30 - $50, so I have
to withdraw $200 at the ATM machine, followed by depositing $150 back. War was
basically laughing at the troublesome process of withdrawing $50.
War: “I
can’t believe you really go put back the money sia. Why don’t keep the whole
stack with you?” With the $50 note, I have no small dominations to pay War for
the movie ticket, and thus ended up buying chocolates at NTUC to pay War. You
see la, Jurong Guailan style. -_- After the ATM thing, we walked around JP, and
hey there’s a new Chinese food court that sells Malaysia specialties such as Ba
Ku Teh, the various gorengs, traditional breakfast, noodles, etc. Looks great!
It’s not very common to see a traditional specialty food area in a shopping
center. =)
WL arrived
at JP at around 6.20pm. To enhance the effect of the movie, WL auspiciously
wore his army (clerk) uniform to embrace the occasion, or in other words,
‘Cosplay’ as Warren calls it. Since we have an hour, we walked around the
basement of JP, compared the queues between Prima Deli and the Post Office, and
also browsed through the random books inside Popular. Enid Blyton books, wonder
if kids nowadays know about this author. =/
Ah Boys to
Men. A classic Singaporean army movie showing the lives of recruits, how people
from all walks of lives bond together, the different attitudes and also the
importance of protecting the country. A very nice movie, and the ways of doing
things are rather different from Civil Defence (that is if whatever being shown
is really true). The keng-sters, the
Hokkien guy, the one who acts like they know everything, and of course the
classic Malay guys who like to sing. :D
From BMT to
POP to ORD, ORD lo! ^^ For me should be BRT ya? =P
Dinner at
KFC, War’s spicy tomato sauce looked pathetically little. This concludes the
end of the Ah Boy meatballs outing before War’s India departure. J
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Cycling outing, 24th Nov
It must be
the auspicious day (Saturday) in the whole few weeks as this is the only day
when it didn’t rain in the morning / afternoon, and so happens to be my leave /
off day / planned cycling day for me, JM and Tean. Tean’s feng shui must be
damn good. =P After the failed cycling event at West Coast Park (limited space,
overpriced bicycles, and ended up at MR reservoir), Tean suggested to make up
for it by suggesting cycling during my leave. It’s not a random suggestion
(IKEA), so everybody still remembers it and turned up. =P
The journey
to ECP is damn long, including the huge number of traffic jams, bus stops and
JM finding a toilet in the library, until I could build a triple castle [1.1m
in peaceful valley mode] and still haven’t reached ECP. Tean refused to play
Triple Town without the bears. Yep, I agree it would be more fun to play with
your brothers ya? =P
ECP offers
more than just cycling and rollerblading for recreational sports activities.
When we reached the ECP bus stop, a bunch of enthusiastic young Malay teenagers
alighted and started skating on their skateboards. Most of them can skate
really fast and well (cool!), leaving a few unbalanced ones behind. JM is like
betting on whether the skater or the board would fell into the nearby drain. Yep,
it is damn bad for him to say this, but true enough, as we walked for around
200m+, one of the skateboards literally crashed into the drain. -_- Thankfully
Zul was not at that scene, or else he will shout at the Malay guy for
disgracing such an awesome recreation.
Eh wait,
Zul only performs stunts on his BMX; never hear him brag about skateboarding
before. Did JM mention something about
special skateboards being a mode of transport? O.O
West Coast
bicycle price: $10 / hour
East Coast
bicycle price: $12 / 3 hours
For the 3
hours, we cycled from the middle of ECP all the way until we see Changi
Airport’s control tower, passing by the skateboard park, chalets, ponds, jetties,
the hawker center, seafood restaurant, the bridge with clearly dirty water, and
the endless road. Along the long ride, we chat about JM’s driving lessons,
plans after ORD, the awesome variety of takoyaki you can make with a takoyaki
maker, played some music and also sang some Route March songs. ^^ Truth to be
told, I think the last time I really exercised for this long should be during
recruit times. Even for station/division RT, the duration would never exceed 2
hours. The windy road is really awesome, and plus the cooling weather, it’s
really great to relieve the fun days of cycling~! =P
When we can
finally see the control tower at the endless road, Tean borrowed JM’s phone and
took some pictures of the tower, along with other trees / nicer sceneries.
Shall share some pics which Tean took! XD
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The winding road of trees. Imagine if there's a cool breeze passing by~
-Shady trees-
An aeroplane that's going to fly off! A common sight from the endless road.
The airport control tower from far. Notice how near the yellow vehicle is.
Ah, a clear view of the Changi Airport's Control Tower, awesome!!
Ah of course! Our rented bikes from the front and back view! Mine is the messy one with the water bottle, whereas JM took a sling bag with him. Zul doesn't like rented bicycles, but heck care, they are still rather nice to ride! ^^
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Nice right?
So while Tean took the time and effort to take those pics, JM and me did a mock
water parade, and laughed at the ridiculous original 118th Delta
Water Parade. Nope, not the one with ‘United we Stand’. Original: “DELTA!
AH-WOO!” Yep, the original has delta, and has the ah-woo word (wth does that
even mean). Sounds legit!
After
taking the pics, we cycled back all the way, with me almost knocking down a
small boy as he suddenly cut into the main lane without checking for traffic.
See la, never do safety check sure kena jialat, no wonder so many motorcycle
RTAs. O_O ECP does rent some very strange cycling devices that are much more
out of the box than the usual uni/bi/tricycles. There were some sheltered 4/6
people cycle tool which is rather ideal for a family, and a 1-man lying down
cycle where you can lie in a semi-fowler position while using your legs to
cycle, making you able to enjoy the sky scenery and expose your face to a
direct critical kill by pigeon shit. Sounds dangerous, if I were to doze off
while lying down, I would probably end up in the water or being hit by things
as there would be 0 observance of traffic. =/
Marine
Parade food court was chosen as the venue for dinner, since Tean doesn’t want
Pastamania. Was forced to order the Hokkien mee ($5.80!) as the chef who is
supposed to fry the Kway Teow haven’t report for duty (wtf?). The dish turned
out all right, but definitely not as nice/worth as Yew Tee’s. The prices in the
food court seemed to be a bit overpriced, but sort of balanced up a bit by the
delicious tasting delicacies. J
We walked
around Cold Storage and Isetan for a while as Tean and JM wanted to find their
sparking juice and takoyaki maker respectively. Both went in with goals, both
came out disappointed. Ah JM, your takoyaki maker is very ulu sia, who the hell
sells them in a shopping mall… o.o (Let’s not count Tean’s suggestion for using
a large pancake maker instead)
JM bought a
random drink near the mall, with One Direction’s ‘One Thing’ MV and somebody
singing ‘Koalaberry’ at a random stage performance. With this messy and
ear-defeaning combination of music, ends the cycling outing! ^^
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Should I sort of summarise the post a bit? If not, Triple
town, I mean triple outing post, CLEAR! ^^
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