Today is the day for our class outing to East Coast Park.
I travelled by bus to Clementi MRT Station where I immediately took a train to Bedok MRT Station. While leaving Clementi, I saw Delia and Yan Chen on the platform. No choice, I am already sandwiched in the MRT.
When I reached Bedok, I check the Control Station to see if any 3/1rian was there. Then I went to the Bedok Bus Interchange to check if anyone was there. That was where I found out that bus service 401 - the only SBS bus service that can reach ECP - runs on weekends and public holidays only. Dead, I thought. I went back to Bedok MRT Station to see if the group from Clementi had arrived. Nope, no familiar faces. I decided to take the underpass to the other side of the MRT station and take a taxi to ECP. The driver didn't know where the "East Coast Recreation Centre" was (it was what our chairman, Quan Ming told us), but he knew when I said it was near the Singapore Tennis Centre.
I paid $5.50 to the driver and got off the taxi. Immediately the McDonald's caught my eye. That must be where the "East Coast Recreation Centre" should be. I waited and paced around when I noticed Kang Ting sitting outside McDonald's. Hmm...didn't notice her. Both of us waited for the big group to arrive.
They did, at about 10.15 am. Relieved, we walked into McDonald's where some of us had a bite. Then, we walked out and decided to cycle for the morning. We rented bicycles for an hour (until 12 pm) for $5. At the start we were cycling in a group. Later, after a U-turn, it was me, Aileen and James in a race to overtake one another. After passing the rental shop where we rented our bicycles, it was only me and James. The latter cycled out of sight, but now I didn't care. I just rode and rode and rode and rode...
At 12 noon, we went back to McDonald's for lunch. I had the McSpicy Double meal which cost $5.95. After lunch, the group separated; some went to the Regent Bowl for bowling, while the others went out onto the beach. Both James and I decided to go with the girls to the beach, but not before heading back to McDonald's where James said he thought he dropped his ez-link card. He got it back eventually.
At the beach, we literally had a splashing good time. Fast forward past the splashing, we went to the toilets to clean up. I had sand on my feet and my pants. I'll let my pants dry; the sand should drop off if it's dry, won't it?
Then we went to the Regent Bowl where Kegan, Yan Chen and a few others were already bowling. I said I've got to try bowling, so here goes. Bought a bottle of Ice Mountain for $1.30 ('cause I ran out of drinking water) and rented size 8 bowling shoes for $1. I wasn't very good at it. At the start my balls went into the gutter. In the end, I think I got 24 or 29 points for my first ever game of bowling. $1.50 for that game.
After bowling, we went back to the park area, joined by some more 3/1rians who had Band practice in school this morning. Roller blading was the next activity. I didn't know roller blading too, but this was more difficult to handle than bowling. I fell two times (one on the front and one on the back). After two hours (one hour free after one hour of rental), I could get it a little bit, but very few people can learn roller blading properly in only 2 hours. One of these people is Kegan, who I think didn't know how to roller blade. In a few minutes he was doing it like he learned it long ago. That was $6 for renting the roller blades.
By then it was 6.35 pm. The next shuttle bus to Bedok should be leaving at 7 pm. (We found out about the shuttle bus service after playing at the beach.) So we just spent some more time at the beach enjoying the breeze. By 6.50 pm we were off.
James and I walked fairly briskly to the alley which leads to McDonald's and the shuttle bus. When we turned around the rest of the group was out of sight. Through his handphone, James found out that they were going to walk out of ECP and take a bus to Bedok, like how they came here. By then it was 6.59 pm. We ran to catch the shuttle bus. Fortunately it did not leave that early. We reached Bedok (hopefully before the bigger group) and took the MRT back towards the west. Back to home.
07.07.03
I travelled by bus to Clementi MRT Station where I immediately took a train to Bedok MRT Station. While leaving Clementi, I saw Delia and Yan Chen on the platform. No choice, I am already sandwiched in the MRT.
When I reached Bedok, I check the Control Station to see if any 3/1rian was there. Then I went to the Bedok Bus Interchange to check if anyone was there. That was where I found out that bus service 401 - the only SBS bus service that can reach ECP - runs on weekends and public holidays only. Dead, I thought. I went back to Bedok MRT Station to see if the group from Clementi had arrived. Nope, no familiar faces. I decided to take the underpass to the other side of the MRT station and take a taxi to ECP. The driver didn't know where the "East Coast Recreation Centre" was (it was what our chairman, Quan Ming told us), but he knew when I said it was near the Singapore Tennis Centre.
I paid $5.50 to the driver and got off the taxi. Immediately the McDonald's caught my eye. That must be where the "East Coast Recreation Centre" should be. I waited and paced around when I noticed Kang Ting sitting outside McDonald's. Hmm...didn't notice her. Both of us waited for the big group to arrive.
They did, at about 10.15 am. Relieved, we walked into McDonald's where some of us had a bite. Then, we walked out and decided to cycle for the morning. We rented bicycles for an hour (until 12 pm) for $5. At the start we were cycling in a group. Later, after a U-turn, it was me, Aileen and James in a race to overtake one another. After passing the rental shop where we rented our bicycles, it was only me and James. The latter cycled out of sight, but now I didn't care. I just rode and rode and rode and rode...
At 12 noon, we went back to McDonald's for lunch. I had the McSpicy Double meal which cost $5.95. After lunch, the group separated; some went to the Regent Bowl for bowling, while the others went out onto the beach. Both James and I decided to go with the girls to the beach, but not before heading back to McDonald's where James said he thought he dropped his ez-link card. He got it back eventually.
At the beach, we literally had a splashing good time. Fast forward past the splashing, we went to the toilets to clean up. I had sand on my feet and my pants. I'll let my pants dry; the sand should drop off if it's dry, won't it?
Then we went to the Regent Bowl where Kegan, Yan Chen and a few others were already bowling. I said I've got to try bowling, so here goes. Bought a bottle of Ice Mountain for $1.30 ('cause I ran out of drinking water) and rented size 8 bowling shoes for $1. I wasn't very good at it. At the start my balls went into the gutter. In the end, I think I got 24 or 29 points for my first ever game of bowling. $1.50 for that game.
After bowling, we went back to the park area, joined by some more 3/1rians who had Band practice in school this morning. Roller blading was the next activity. I didn't know roller blading too, but this was more difficult to handle than bowling. I fell two times (one on the front and one on the back). After two hours (one hour free after one hour of rental), I could get it a little bit, but very few people can learn roller blading properly in only 2 hours. One of these people is Kegan, who I think didn't know how to roller blade. In a few minutes he was doing it like he learned it long ago. That was $6 for renting the roller blades.
By then it was 6.35 pm. The next shuttle bus to Bedok should be leaving at 7 pm. (We found out about the shuttle bus service after playing at the beach.) So we just spent some more time at the beach enjoying the breeze. By 6.50 pm we were off.
James and I walked fairly briskly to the alley which leads to McDonald's and the shuttle bus. When we turned around the rest of the group was out of sight. Through his handphone, James found out that they were going to walk out of ECP and take a bus to Bedok, like how they came here. By then it was 6.59 pm. We ran to catch the shuttle bus. Fortunately it did not leave that early. We reached Bedok (hopefully before the bigger group) and took the MRT back towards the west. Back to home.
07.07.03
yours truly, tobias at 10:05 pm
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