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Tuesday, September 05, 2006: Chor1sters' chalet day!!
Today was Day 2 of the Chor1sters' chalet gathering. But I didn't get to use the chalet itself. Mainly I was tagging along with Denyse. And one more thing: my hairstyle was mutable (i.e. prone to change) today. It started out like the hairstyle that Hama Chisaki (note: like in Chinese, Japanese and Korean names, the surname comes first here) models when playing Mizuno Ami aka Sailor Mercury in the live-action version of Sailor Moon, but without the fringe. It's better viewed from the side, like in this scene below (with Azama Myu - on the right - as Kino Makoto aka Sailor Jupiter): (Images from moonromance.net / shingetsu-pgsm.net) Then, after that, I tied the bottom portion of my hair, then reverted to the Mizuno Ami style, and then, at one point, I completely untied my hair so as to release the tension on my giddy head. But in the end, I changed back to the Mizuno Ami style. And now... allow me to repeat the marquee below... for two reasons: 1) to celebrate my learning how to do a marquee; and 2) because I really relished the trip there! It really was unlike the previous trips to Escape. And it couldn't have been possible without those four!! Today was a great day, even without the whole of Choir 1 with us. Oh yes, and I ought to extend a special word of thanks to Denyse's father. Without him graciously giving me lifts from and to Pasir Ris Interchange, I think I'd have perspired a great deal more. And so, once more, the marquee:
It all began in the morning; we had arranged to meet and then she called and asked if I would like to hitch a ride with her Dad to Downtown East (where the chalet is). And then we found the chalet while the stayers (those who were staying overnight) were having their breakfast. While we waited for them to finish, the both of us just paced the walkway and talked and lamented how the place had changed.
After the stayers were done with breakfast, we went to the chalet itself and Janice(the organiser)'s group played a weird game with Vitruvian men and Stars of David and goblets and phones and runes on cards, and a baton-like object. Basically the game is a little like snap in that something happens when two cards with the same (and it must really be the same) object turn up in the same turn - the two players with the identical cards have to snatch the baton, and the person who does not get it in time takes the cards on the other player's pile. A wrong snatch results in the 'snatcher' taking the other player's cards. The aim is to shed all your cards, like in Uno.
And then, after that, the group decided to head on down to Pasir Ris Park for a spot of cycling. But Denyse, as well as three of the Tanjong Katong Girls * - Genevieve, Jinli and Victoria - and myself, didn't cycle; either we couldn't or wouldn't.
* Why's the word 'Girls' capitalised? Because there's Tanjong Katong Sec and Tanjong Katong Girls', which are two separate schools.
So we went to Escape, the nearby theme park. But the counter staff said that we would not be able to use the rides when it was raining. True enough, it was drizzling. With no alternative (we couldn't possibly return to the chalet without a stamp on our arms), we walked about in the park for a while, the five of us. We even ventured down to the coast. Self-quote: "Oh goodness, we're so close to the sea!" Really, there was so little coast on the side where we landed up that you could measure it and it wouldn't come to five metres, not when we were there. I reckon that was around 11.30am.
Back to Escape it was for us. This time, we got in.
And after that, everything else can be summed up in this marquee below:
Yes, indeed, I want to do it again, in spite of the fact that I got dizzy after the first two rides. And Denyse showed her signature kindness and warmth. Hmm, something for me to emulate. .JPG)
See? But the clock at the top-left obscures it a bit. 
This is a better view of the same hairstyle.
~Seraphine Chorister~ sang in The Butterfly Garden
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