Today is the SA1 Senior-Junior Interaction (SJI) outing to Sentosa. I arrived at the HarbourFront Centre at around 8.50am, 10 minutes to the meeting time. I found the rest at McDonald's and went to sit with them. By the time we left McDonald's at 9.30am there were around 10 seniors and 7 juniors (all guys and 1 female senior). I was the only Singaporean among the 7 juniors; the number was far short from the number of people who said they would be going.
We then headed to Tanjong Beach on the Yellow Line. If you have been reading my blog entries you would know that this was the first time I was going to Tanjong Beach. We headed to a pavilion near the western end of the beach where a few more seniors were playing ball. We put our stuff down and then went out onto the sand almost immediately to play. There were a rugby ball, soccer ball and a frisbee for playing and two guitars for guitar lovers to play with. I played a little of touch rugby and then frisbee throwing with two other guys.
Later most of us went to the sea which seemed to be at low tide (noon). Some of the guys swam across to the island on the other side (not a long distance, but not short either) while the most I went was sat in the water at the shoreline. Later most of us got out of the water and returned to the pavilion to dry ourselves. The OGLs for Orientation 2005 who's present went to BK to get lunch for us while we hung around the pavilion chatting and playing games like German Bridge and logic games (one about numbers and one about squares). Lunch came much later than expected and we sat together in the pavilion to eat.
After the meal I went to change into cleaner clothes and when I came back the guys were playing a card game which required players to perform any necessary operations required to have the values on the 4 cards shown face up equal to 21. After the game the seniors posted a question to the 5 juniors who remained: equate the numbers 8, 8, 3 and 3 using basic operations '+', '-', '×' and '÷' to 21. This '8833' question soon became the question of the day for the juniors as we began scratching our heads and writing in the sand trying to solve the question. After quite some time the number '8833' became a scary number and our brains were thinking of 8833, from 4D numbers to car plate numbers. We were also talking about making the solution of the question the code of SA1.
After quite some time (during which some people left leaving 10 people, 5 seniors and 5 juniors) I decided to put the question aside and went out to the sea again to watch the seniors play in the cold water (I can't go down since I've changed into a new set of clothes). They played till 6.30pm before getting out of the water. Together, all 10 of us walked to the shower facilities on the western end of Palawan Beach where the seniors bathed.
During our journey on buses from the bus stop outside the Dolphin Lagoon to the HarbourFront Bus Terminal, Yi Xiong became the first junior to solve the '8833' mystery and became 'Ying Xiong' (hero). During our walk from the bus terminal through the MRT station to the HarbourFront Centre on the other side of the road, I thought deeply once again about the 8833 mystery and upon reaching the 3rd level of the HarbourFront Centre and on our way to Food Junction, I jumped for joy: I had gotten the answer too!
By the end of dinner Terry had also solved the mystery. Jacob also gave us another question: use 6 matchsticks to form 4 equilateral triangles. When he finally showed us the answer with chopsticks, the juniors 'wowed' so loudly that the whole foodcourt probably heard us. By the end of the meal it was 9pm. The other 4 juniors went to withdraw money for their expenses for the coming week (since they are Malaysians and their parents are in Malaysia), the seniors went into Cold Storage (for whatever reason I do not know) and I headed home on bus service 963.
Note: If you found the solution to the '8833' mystery, do not post it out here. Others should get the chance to tear out their hair while thinking of this question. Come to think of it, the solution's not difficult at all.
We then headed to Tanjong Beach on the Yellow Line. If you have been reading my blog entries you would know that this was the first time I was going to Tanjong Beach. We headed to a pavilion near the western end of the beach where a few more seniors were playing ball. We put our stuff down and then went out onto the sand almost immediately to play. There were a rugby ball, soccer ball and a frisbee for playing and two guitars for guitar lovers to play with. I played a little of touch rugby and then frisbee throwing with two other guys.
Later most of us went to the sea which seemed to be at low tide (noon). Some of the guys swam across to the island on the other side (not a long distance, but not short either) while the most I went was sat in the water at the shoreline. Later most of us got out of the water and returned to the pavilion to dry ourselves. The OGLs for Orientation 2005 who's present went to BK to get lunch for us while we hung around the pavilion chatting and playing games like German Bridge and logic games (one about numbers and one about squares). Lunch came much later than expected and we sat together in the pavilion to eat.
After the meal I went to change into cleaner clothes and when I came back the guys were playing a card game which required players to perform any necessary operations required to have the values on the 4 cards shown face up equal to 21. After the game the seniors posted a question to the 5 juniors who remained: equate the numbers 8, 8, 3 and 3 using basic operations '+', '-', '×' and '÷' to 21. This '8833' question soon became the question of the day for the juniors as we began scratching our heads and writing in the sand trying to solve the question. After quite some time the number '8833' became a scary number and our brains were thinking of 8833, from 4D numbers to car plate numbers. We were also talking about making the solution of the question the code of SA1.
After quite some time (during which some people left leaving 10 people, 5 seniors and 5 juniors) I decided to put the question aside and went out to the sea again to watch the seniors play in the cold water (I can't go down since I've changed into a new set of clothes). They played till 6.30pm before getting out of the water. Together, all 10 of us walked to the shower facilities on the western end of Palawan Beach where the seniors bathed.
During our journey on buses from the bus stop outside the Dolphin Lagoon to the HarbourFront Bus Terminal, Yi Xiong became the first junior to solve the '8833' mystery and became 'Ying Xiong' (hero). During our walk from the bus terminal through the MRT station to the HarbourFront Centre on the other side of the road, I thought deeply once again about the 8833 mystery and upon reaching the 3rd level of the HarbourFront Centre and on our way to Food Junction, I jumped for joy: I had gotten the answer too!
By the end of dinner Terry had also solved the mystery. Jacob also gave us another question: use 6 matchsticks to form 4 equilateral triangles. When he finally showed us the answer with chopsticks, the juniors 'wowed' so loudly that the whole foodcourt probably heard us. By the end of the meal it was 9pm. The other 4 juniors went to withdraw money for their expenses for the coming week (since they are Malaysians and their parents are in Malaysia), the seniors went into Cold Storage (for whatever reason I do not know) and I headed home on bus service 963.
Note: If you found the solution to the '8833' mystery, do not post it out here. Others should get the chance to tear out their hair while thinking of this question. Come to think of it, the solution's not difficult at all.
yours truly, tobias at 11:41 pm
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