050507 *grin* part 3

it's been a week since that wonderful day... =)

having completed task #3, i was handed clue #4.

Clue #4
Where there's sun, sea and sand

Background to clue #4
Now, firstly i got distracted cos it's usually phrased as 'the sun, the sand and the sea' heehee... but anyway, then i realised no pt getting distracted cos if i didn't solve it i wouldn't get to move on to next stop.

but of cos being like all the places of the day, i'd guessed we'd end up there anyway.

East Coast Park.

Why ECP? Cos on 1 Aug 2003, we went blading. or rather he bladed, i attempted to blade and he attempted to teach me... and that day was the day he realised he liked me! cos after blading i think i kinda fell ill or something, then as he said it his 'heart pain'... lol...

just learnt something new tho, he was digging up his old blog's entry cos i was asking him for the exact day we went ecp, then he showed me a para on him denying that we were an item, which we weren't... lol... then abt a week after he realised why he was unhappy the whole week.. (just asked him why he was unhappy and his answer 'cos i liked you' and i said 'and that's an unhappy thing?' and he replied 'no but you didn't like me ;)' awwww... poor thing!) but as things would unfold, we did get together on 080803... lol... so yes, ECP is a very special place to the both of us.

pls note, i never bladed again after. lol... i'm not very good on blades or skates... lol...


ok, on with the task of having to direct him from qianhu in ulu-ville to ECP. decided on kje, bke exit near bukit timah and head down to the aye entry from clementi... join to ecp and tada!!!! lol... talk abt travelling across singapore... so yup, nice comfy ride in aircon listening to worship songs cruising along the expressways was in itself sweet and just plain comfy... =)

and like the qianhu task, i told him as we were nearing ecp 'I'm not blading... nope... uh uh... no blading!' and he went 'lalala' with a cheeky grin.

so we pulled up into a carpark lot, and he gave me my task #4.

It reads

Either: a) Teach me how to cycle b)Roller blade from one end of the car park to the other

i was like 'arrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!' lol... then whine whine whine...

i tried cycling on a double bike with yi xiang before and it was NOT good. think cos i seldom cycle so while i can successfully get myself moving, i'm not very steady myself... so when i tried double cycling with him at the back... aiyoyo! it was a terrible experience! lol... he can't cycle. at all! so... to have to do that again, would have been very very very tough...

then there was the roller blading! i cannot roller blade! and i wasn't dressed for it either... no socks! and definitely not game for blading! lol....

so as we stood there in the carpark, i felt really helpless cos i honestly couldn't do either task! so looked up at him and with all sincerity and big puppy dogs eyes, i shook my head solemnly and said 'i can't do it... cannot...' in a what i hoped would be a pouty, cutesy, whiny voice! lol... worked.. cos he put me out of my misery by telling me this was the bogus task of the race. he let me know when we first started in the morning that there'd be one bogus task which i wouldn't have to do. honestly didn't think he was going to let me off that easily... lol... but he did! whoopee!

so we chilled at macs... where we hung out that memorable day when 'zap zap' went his heart! lol... poor fella... never knew what hit him...

when asked, he had guessed that i would have chosen blading over teaching him how to cycle. but he was wrong.

lol... i really really really didn't want to blade so i'd rather teach him how to cycle. plus the clue didn't say i had to succeed! lol...

so chilled we did... then it was time for clue #5.

Clue #5

The opposite of serene. A crazy knave cooks up a storm.

Answer: Mad Jack

Got it really fast... for those of u clueless abt the first bit of the clue, basically it's opposite serene centre (first pit stop).

Mad Jack is a place we wanted to eat at for like the longest time but just never got round to doing it. so he wove it into the already amazing day...

Task #5

Eat lunch.

That was easy! heehee...

Clue #6

Pictures of buttons of an arcade console

Answer: Marina Sq Arcade

Background to clue #6

(he actually went all the way down to Marina Sq on Thu, 3rd May just to take that picture and to ensure the game i liked was still there)

for those of you who know me, know i get into these crazes... one of which was neoprints (maggie and ling would be rolling eyeballs and nodding remembering all the times i dragged them into neoprint machines), another was bowling, another pool and last but not least there was the arcade! i loved the arcade! i like a variety of games tho the ones i'm good at i'm not fantastic at... but decent... so there was this nine button music game... lol... i remember the first time i tried it i was with maggie.. we decided to ditch our usual games that day and try something different! so we tried it... it'll play music and the screen will show these lil face like discs dropping down and whenever it reached the baseline, we'd need to press the corresponding button. we were terrible! spent a good $10 maybe just trying to pass the first stage... i was crazy abt the game... so much so found ways of doing it all by myself... lol... like making use of elbows etc! heehee... well, xiang was one of the poor things that had to accompany me while i was perfecting my skills at the machine. heehee...

so task #6 was

Complete three stages successfully

It felt so odd to play that game again. think it must have been quite a few years since i'd played it... lol... well, got thru the first two stages successfully but accidentally chose the wrong third song, so failed it... miserably... was quite sad... but he let me put in another 50cent coin and i completed the third stage... ah well... maybe i should have tried to do all three all over again. but there was a bunch of youth at the machine next to ours and very distracting they were... so didn't bother to... heehee...

by this time it was getting late... i think it was abt 3ish... so xiang said that we were too late not to skip a stop and too early to proceed to the next one. so we played some arcade tho he wasn't too good with the lil bouncing egg and chick game.. heehee... but he was great at this other one that was a guy vs girl doing various tasks... something like bishee bashee but with joystick-like contraptions instead. and at abt half past three it was off to pit stop 8... skipped 7...

he showed me the clue tho...

Clue #7

Where would you go if you were told to find what is between 2 and 3? (Don't get lost!)

This one stumped me the longest... heehee... sounded familiar and yet i couldn't put my finger on it. so after maybe 5 min i finally got it...

Cathay building near PS.

Heehee...

Background to clue #7

We rediscovered counter strike earlier this year... and we went down pretty often for a while just to play at emax... cos tho slightly pricier than the usual lan shops, this one had comfy couple sofas where we could while away 2 hours or more of our time playing counter strike! heehee...

the clue came about cos once after playing with friends, we went off for dinner.. but to do that we needed to find the car... now the carpark at cathay was tricky... it had mezzanine floors... which we didn't know off.. so it was like we were in some twilight zone cos we circled the carpark from top to bottom and no car!!!! haha... so finally after like half an hour we found the car parked on 2M! heehee... no joke looking for that car. our other group of friends who parked in a diff building had already arrived at the dinner place just as we pulled out of the carpark! heehee...

Task #7 which was skipped was

Let's play an hour of Counterstrike: Source

It was just as well we skipped this stop cos currently my craze for CS has been waning... tho it was nice to know he treasured the times we spent together playing CS tho it was the the lim teh sessions down at the basement of cathay that was really relaxing and a nice way to chill.

Clue #8 (yay... we're finishing this soon... heehee)

A picture of fireworks

Answer: River near robertson quay

Background to clue #8

Xiang and i hang out by the river sometimes... we'd park at the open carpark at our church which is free after 10pm on weekdays and we'd take a stroll and sit somewhere opposite the lively crowd along robertson quay...

we'd admire the the nice by the river condos and talk abt anything and everything... or sometimes we'd just sit there and enjoy the company... =) on a good night, there'd be a cool breeze too...

fireworks was the clue cos 080806 we were sitting there and just as we were going to leave at abt 9pm, we heard 'bong! bong bong bong' and he said 'thunder' and i said 'no! fireworks! we turned and we saw the most beautiful display of fireworks... it was breathtaking... there's something to said about fireworks... they're just beautiful aren't they? it was a lovely ending to a lovely day... we had spent the day out as it was our 3rd year being together!

noticed i stopped giving driving directions? heehee.. yup he relented and drove me around after i navigated him from qianhu to ecp! heehee...

upon reaching i asked for my task.. but he didn't want to give it to me! he said we needed to walk to this particular colourful bridge further down first. whine whine whine.. but walk we did... now the weather was lovely so i couldn't use that as an excuse to cut short the walk. the sun hid behind the clouds, the breeze was blowing... so walk lor! heehee

on the bridge he gave me my 8th task...

Task #8

Take a nice relaxing stroll down the length of the river and back

Now my feet were hurting liao... but he was pretty fixed that i had to stroll the length of the river... so we walked walked walked... and walked to the place we stood at admiring the fireworks.. and i steered him towards UE square where we had parked the car. but he wanted to walk over to clarke quay... i whined and said my feet hurt... so he relented (or so i thought) and said ok, we would just need to walk back to the bridge (cos that was the task) but i kept whining so he relented somemore (or so i thought) and said we could stop when we reached a particular spot.

then he handed me my final clue, clue #9

to be continued... rather tired... heehee... been on my comp since 7.30am! it's now 10.42am! heehee...