2nd Annual Pirates Picnic

finally.. our annual picnic..

itz annual coz we had another Pirates Picnic at almost the same time of the year, last year.. at Sentosa..

i think by next year, we are gonna have awards like Best Drummer, Best Vocalist, Best Trumpeter, Best Clarinetist and Best Bassist. for Trombone and Guitar, it will be a shared award..

shopped for the BBQ items on Friday with Usman and Yazid.. ermz.. initially, the girls were the ones supposed to be doing the shopping, but in the end, none of them could make it.. so the three of us headed down to SingShong at Bedok Reservoir to get the stuffs.. Nas listed down the items for us to buy, but we bought redundant items in the end.. but it wasnt bad coz most of the food was used up at the end of the day.

i was in Johore the previous nite, coz ShaSha is there.. so spent the nite with her with my mom and dad, and woke up at 8am to go back to Singapore for the picnic..

one of the girls msged me the previous nite, saying that we are supposed to meet at ard 10 or 11am at Eunos.. called Umi at 10.30 and she was still asleep.. they had made another plan to meet up at 11am in Jurong..

met up with Azil and Din in Century Square, and we headed to the market near my house to get the chicken wings and the remaining BBQ items..

Hamdy msged me in the morning, saying that he's not even sure whether he can book out from camp.. which was disappointing.. so when he finally turned up, it was a relieve for the rest of us..



Mr SandMan

played a few games by the beach.. and some of them went swimming afterwards..

i hate swimming at the beaches here... sorry.. after comparing it with the waters of Brisbane, Los Angeles, Mauritius and Maldives.. i really find the beaches here polluted..



the Pirate Guys in a Royal Rumble Wrestling Match.. i was the first to be pushed out, and Din finally won after a good struggle.. i think i lasted abt 3 seconds in the ring..



i found 2 frogs by the beach..



Fiza and Umi the Frogs..

i brought my sheesha pack along.. and it was put to good use thru the day.. very convenient for a refill with the burning charcoal accessible a few feet away..

here's our addict..



turnout for the day..

Yazid
Azil
Hamdy
Din
Me
Umi
Nas
Fiza
Shida.. who came at 11pm, but she stayed up till 6.45am..
Mas Hairi
Usman
Beep
Adam

my friend, Andrew aka Volvic aka Muhd Johari..

consumption for the day..

70 Chicken Wings
4 beef steaks
2 packs of turkey sausages
50 sticks of Satay
Chicken Sausages
Crabmeat
fishballs
sandwiches
nutella

and we used 4 bags of Charcoal..

at 6am, we were left with 4 chicken wings and some crabmeat and fishballs..



our head chefs.. Nas and Beep.. i never knew that BBQing fishballs can be so stressful..



Adam was caught just before he attempted to murder Umi with a hammer..

Adam the Umi Killer.







Alamak.. besarnya perut aku.. Good Grief..

Azil.. azil..



Mollycoddle and Cherubica..



Me shuffling some Uno cards..






Cherubica and BlackCat La



a man with hunger on his face showing off his tummy.



this is how he looks like when he had eaten.



Nas, Fiza and Umi BBQing Shida on the grill..



Din didnt realise how big he is and trying to hide behing a lamp post..



we sighted an Alien.. our closest encounter with the third kind yesterday..



Usman



Shida and Mas..

so.. the picnic that we had been planning for turned out to be great.. somehow being with these ppl makes me feel comfortable..

Iqa couldnt make it today.. i heard that she got herself injured recently.. i hope u are feeling better, Iqa..

we were planning to write songs at nite, but Yazid fell asleep very early.. with Usman falling asleep while sheeshaing.. so spent the rest of the nite with Din, Shida and Hamdy..

me and Shida left the pit at abt 6.45am.. and i went home and slept till abt 11+am..

headed down to Johore to fetch my parents and to kiss my princess for a while..

she got a new chinadoll hairstyle now!



left Johore at abt 3pm, and headed down to accompany my mom to a wedding at Perkampungan Melayu..

i attend 1 wedding every 2 years.. so my quota for the next 2 yrz is up.. dont extend the invitation to me unless u are getting married in 2009.
took abt an hour to get thru the traffic at the causeway.. and coz i frequently go down to Johore.. i think by now i could recognised most of the beggars there who stand in the middle of the road, just before the immigration checkpoints..

i spot one familiar face with a new beard.. their styles evolve with time.. even among them, there are trends that they follow.

and the sad thing abt it is that.. most of these beggars are able bodied.. and they just chose to stand there in the middle of traffic, knowing that Singaporeans give good handouts coz we dont have much beggars here.. so getting to meet some in Malaysia is like a treat for us..

recently, the Malaysian Tourism Board proposed to ban beggars near the causeway who have open wounds.. so these familiar beggars, who always have fresh scabs and wounds, ended up putting a bandage over theirs.. itz like a trend.. now most of them have bandages..

they really pun in so much effort to have those wounds.. might be a nightly routine for them to scrape away some of their skin, and it must be at a prominent place so that they can show it off to the drivers who are stuck there in the traffic..

so itz a good thing for the open-wound ban. now they just need to invest in a small bandage, and u dont need to cut urself.. no one would know the difference anyway.. i'm sure the ban was one of the best thing that happened to these fake beggars..

i think most of the motorist recognised this.. coz most of the handouts that were given, thru my hour long observation, was to a fella who'z paralysed on one side.. and to another with only one leg..

Beep told me recently that he felt so sad looking at the plight of an old lady who was begging near to Beach Road.. so sad that he cried.. coz he felt helpless that he cant help her.. so our next mission is to look for this lady and help her in whatever ways we could..

anyone interested to join?

i'm leaving for Shanghai.. supposed to wake up in 2 hrz 30 mins time.. and i have not even started sleeping..