Saturday, December 04, 2004

First of all, I'd like to apologise you guys about the chalet. It wasn't meant to be like that. Sorry it wasn't as fun as it should be.

Anyways so the barbeque was on the first night. I said a little prayer to God for clear skies the previous night, and I was quite disappointed when it poured in the late afternoon. But God hears and answers prayers, and it stopped raining by early evening.

The caterer was supposed to come at 6pm, but by 6.30pm, he was still MIA, and I was getting frantic. Peixian was there with me and she kept telling me not to worry, the caterer will come, and I was wondering where she got her calm from. So I was sitting at the lobby, and asking God to take care of everything, suddenly a truck just came tooting in. And in biggggg letters it said "Got a barbeque? We'll take care of it!". It was like a miracle! God does hear prayers~

The bbq was a flop lah, got not enough food, and we realised we don't have cups and drinks (due to a miscommunication). So me and Jing went on a mission to get the stuff from 7-eleven which is super super far down. We were running running along the dark stretch of road, then suddenly we heard a vehicle and saw headlights from behind us. By impulse I just stuck out my hand and flagged the vehicle down (hoping to hitch a ride). When the pick-up lorry came near enough I immediately regretted my action. I saw 2 Bangladeshi construction workers in the front seat, and I almost wanted to just run and hide, but I swallowed and braved it, and asked them if they could give us a ride to 7-eleven. They said okay, so me and Jing hopped on at the back. We were scared silly lah! A thousand thoughts were running through our minds, and seriously, there's a lot of things that 2 male strangers can do to 2 young innocent little girls (referring to me and Jing). So we were squatting at the back of the truck trying to console each other, and before Jing was asking me to say a prayer, I was already asking God to take care of us. Thankfully, they dropped us off at 7-eleven safely. Nothing else. Thank God!

We grabbed the neccessary stuff at 7-eleven, and while waiting for the sentosa beach bus, we hitched another ride back. This time it was a tanned Chinese guy in his 20s I guess, and according to Jing he looks quite cute (if you trust her taste). And before he left Jing actually shouted goodnight to him (which is not a surprise to me considering the rubbish things she does all the time :P).

So ended our little adventure for the night. And it was back to bbq. It was actually quite fun lah, because I had an exciting time with Jiayan at the pit penging all the foodstuff for everyone. And there was a tremendous sense of achievement when our charcoal was burning red hot while the guys were still trying to save theirs (haha). And unknowing people thought we were very hardworking cooking for them and didn't eat much, but actually we koped all the nicestly peng-ed bbq food for ourselves.

It ended quite late, and by then I was caked in a layer of oil and smoke debris. It felt disgusting.

Anyways, so I reflected about the day when I was lying in bed, and I really do thank God that the bbq turned out okay although it wasn't exactly okay (if you get what I mean), and previously I was worried about serious insufficiency of food, and somehow we had enough because my juniors decided to leave early (coincidence? I don't think so), and for taking care of me and Jing.

Thank You for everything.

writing at 1:29 PM

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