Lunch at the golfers' cafe,ate so much:caesar salad,some of Sarah's mee rubus and Siew's nasi lemak,plus this really cool grass jelly and coconut drink. YUM! We then checked into our sprawling villa just 5 mins drive from the main resort,and what a cool place it was! It was just a whole villa to the six of us,with so many bedrooms and beds,and the best thing of all,we can turn on all aircons and leave them on throughout the day! *grins* Rested for a while,then went bowling at this really small but private alley. Keep it up,Meg! She really improved after a few games,form the perpetual "longkang" shots to 8-pin and even spares...Not bad not bad! Siew was the best bowler among us four girls,and we could see why-her mum was silently fantastic! *claps*
Horse riding was next-the main activity of this trip. We drove to this horse riding ranch and met again with Siew's uncle,who was to coach us on the basics of horse riding and the different techniques to ride a horse. But we were unfortunately too captured by his litter of uber uber cute puppies...Oh my gosh...just take a look and them and you can't help but cuddle and squish and play with them all day long.And Meg was forever crooning,"Oh so cute...!" Just a pity they were really dirty for they are allowed to roam freely on the dirt-covered ground.
Aww...aren't they cute?
We eventually got down to learning how to horse ride. The horses are damn cute too...just their sheer sizes make them not as lovable as the small little bundles of fur. Really tame too,these former race horses. Black,brown,white,small...they come in all colours and sizes. Altogether there were 8 of them,enclosed in stables. My training horse was the only black one,and supposedly the tamest and oldest among them all. It is the one used frequently to give rides for small children and old people.
The session was rather fun,though it hurt alot when the horse broke into a trot-it just bumped my ass up and down on the oh-so-hard saddle,and even worse,we had to try really hard to keep in rhythm with the bouncing by using our knees and going up and down,up and down,up and down...It's like doing 20 sets of half-squats man! *shudders* But overall it was fun when you get the rhythm right,it just feels like bouncing on air(pardon the bad analogy).
Dinner after that was a whoo-hoo cool 10 course seafood fare,and all of us just gorged ourselves like there's no tomorrow. Seems like an exhausting round of horse-riding really emptied our stomachs. Gosh,the cheese crabs and Thai-Pan style butter prawns were really great,together with the fried squids and steamed fish...everything was just so fresh and so nice...and the ambience was rather cool too-we ate on a kelong at the sea! Everyone felt like bursting after that,and we just got around comparing how much our tummies have bloated out over our pants! *laughs* Feeling fat but contented,we headed back to the freezing villa(no kidding...the room Sarah and I shared was set at a biting 15 degrees!). That night was just about the best thing for me during the trip. Meg and Siew came bundling into our room,and the four of us had a great time gossiping and laughing(hell lots!) and basically having one of the best bonding sessions ever. We talked about everything and anything,school life,personal lives,guys(but of course! *winks*) and knowing so much more about one another while roosting ourselves among the really puffy and warm comforters of the beds. Love ya all gals,thanks for such a great time! *hugs*
Woke really early the next day to go running with Meg's dad. What an invigorating run! The route was a refreshing change from the boring routes around my house and ECP,and the weather was just perfect-abit dewy and cloudy with not so much of sun. Meg's dad was a real sporting running partner too...he paced me the whole time and seemed to be doing intervals! We got back after about an hour,and then headed for breakfast at the clubhouse again. It was a buffet spread with great roti prata(ah...but it's so fattening!*pouts*) and baked beans and bread with marmalade and all the other usual spread of buffet food. We didn't eat too heavily as horse-riding was up next. Like before,we had a short training session before we each got a horse and headed for the much anticipated jungle trail. It was an hour-long trail through the vast forested land and plantations surrounding the ranch,and it would have been damn fun if I had not been so exhausted! I was literally having a shut-eye atop the horse,and nearly fell off! *shakes her head* The scenery was perfect-a verdant spread before your eyes,coupled with the serenity of the calm forest.
We were supposed to go swimming after that,but in the end it rained,so we decided to eat lunch instead and go home after that. Everyone was just totally knocked out-we fell asleep the moment our butts landed in the car. It was a quite satisfying sleep,though not enough to satisfy my piggish cravings... *snorezzz* When I reached home I fell asleep right away-again-this time on my mum's comfy king-sized bed. It had been a great two days,no matter how exhausting they were,and I truly treasured the bonding times with my fellow crossers/friends.
School today,with Chinese lessons for us poor losers to start off the day with a "bang" *rolls her eyes*. Chinese test after test,work after work...fuck. It could really suck after some time. Bleah. Guess we just have to get over with it sooner or later. Blame it on my fucking decision to drop higher chinese in Sec 1. Smart choice huh? Just like how I dropped KI and have to get stuck with Maths. Argh,fuck it,better stop reminding myself before I do something really bad...
Got back the last two of my papers for promos. Nothing good la...no improvement despite feeling I had studied my ass off this time around. Just like mid-years I got all Ds...except for a slight improvement in Geography from an S to an E now. But nothing wow about it la...disappointing in fact,considering I studied the hardest for Geog! :( Ah but I should be glad I'm spared from the tortures of having to study for R-papers,and that was my initial goal for this promos anyway...so cheers,goal accomplished!
Got really emo later during the day...all the really ugh feelings just keep swimming back uncontrollably. Thank god for the tough 8X1.2 cross training and hockey,at least something for me to focus on without having to think about about the mental pain. Fuck. And I have to constantly force myself to be all cheerful and optimistic when consoling my friends over their own troubles when I'm already like fucking dying and maybe even rotting inside...how superficial of me! But at least there were a few moments of "highness" for me...throughout the whole interval *small smile*. The days are really wearing away and time is like so not on my side man...agh fuck it! Then as if on cue,the heavens just poured like mad,as in,seriously,as though everything is emptying itself out up there. How symbolic the rain and gray skies are of my own innermost feelings-turbulence,gloominess,depression...Ah,get a fucking grip of yourself,gal,you can't keep going on like this or else you will just die next year(I know). Amen to that. *sighs*
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