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31 May 2010
East Coast Park Chalet Retreat!
Waa i'm back to Earth! Holiday's over. Monday blueee... I had the most enjoyable chalet experience in my life over the past three days. Its not about the chalet, but rather the people that i spent time with that made this chalet most fun.
Actually two days before our chalet, i stumbled upon a traveler's review site. This site actually reviewed that Goldkist is one of the worst chalet in Singapore, with 96% of the travelers not recommending to stay, and the latest review was April 2010. But luckily our chalet was not the same as what the reviews said. Read here if you are interested: Tripadvisor.
Our retreat started on 28 may, Vesak day, very good timing for a fri sat sun long weekend holiday. We happened to stay at the outermost end, so it was quite a walk from the main lobby to our cosy chalet, Goldkist@ East cost park Duplex Double storey A10. Cost for 3 days 2 nights is $420.
I liked our room, small and cosy. But have to climb stairs though. Only the room got air-con, downstairs no air-con, and it takes a while for the air-con to cool the room. A good idea is to detach the key from the tag, then always place the tag in the tag holder, so that the air-con will not be switch off when you go out.
After we settled our barang barang, we headed straight to Parkway Cold Storage to buy food for our evening BBQ. We agreed that we should buy more so that there will be enough food for everyone. More is really MORE! I see hands taking food from the shelves and throwing into our cold storage trolley as if we just won a 5min get all you can contest. Our BBQ food filled the trolley to the brim, as if we are buying food to eat for a week. Just the seasoning alone we took 3-4 bottles, you can imagine how much our trolley of BBQ food cost.
$300 BBQ food. - chicken wings - fish filet - bacon - Salmon - one dozen of eggs - prawns - capsicum - salad - hotdogs - squids - crabsticks - 1 packet of potatos - sweet potato - 1 tin butter biscuits - 3 bottles of wine - 2 packets of wholemeal bread - 2 packets of wholemeal wraps - starfruits and pears - Lays potato chips - 5 bottles mineral water - 1 roll toilet paper - Seasoning includes bottles of chili sauce, tomato sauce, pepper, salt, wine, soya sauce, mayonnaise, butter, honey
Preparation for the BBQ started as soon as we got back. So many things to do, wash utensils, wash food, cutting, marinading...
Prata is the man! Our BBQ chef! Watch him meticulously bbq the food you know he will be a very good househusband! haha.
Nice beautiful sunshine egg!
Capsicum with mushroom. Taste nice man! But can't taste the capsicum strong smell anymore.
Scrambled egg.
Unedible sweet corn...
Uninvited guest! o.o Prata captured this cockroach in high definition!
Bbq food is still bbq food, can't escape the unhealthy facts: oily, fattening, over cooked. This is one of the blue moons you will see me eating unhealthy. I make friends with a big and fat black cat there. I fed it with fish, crabstick but it only touch the bbq chicken wings, only after i tear the chicken wing into small pieces.
Shiok leh the cat. Got nicely peeled BBQ chicken meat from me.
After eating, we had our live singing performance by Chris. He sang 方炯镔- 坏人. We recorded and uploaded to Youtube. :)
Our first day past quickly. I got jiou for a mid night run by Joe1. Joe0 and me was sporting enough to run with her. This was the first time i ran with these two girls, lucky i am able to keep up with their pace. Haha. Stress you know, these two girls every time go to run at gym one. We 3 had a slow jog to 7eleven. It was not a good run for joe1, she was sicken by the smell of oil from the sea.
We did not sleep well for the night, it was 5.30am before we can even rest. Its time to watch sunrise! We had Mac Donalds breakfast and waited for sunrise at the beach. It was a long wait until the sun finally came up around 7am.
Second day was more fun. We went for a swim and suntan. The curse was finally broken. You know every time i bring my suntan lotion, i would never get a good sun for tanning. Finally i got a nice tan here! Prata turned black, Joe0 and Chris sunburnt. Shiok!
Rollerblading lucky still got Joe0, if not no one to rollerblade with me already. All too tired after the swim. Respect! Iron woman! The two of us saw a girl doing nice parallel slide at the rink, and we got the motivation to try parallel slide again. We observed the way the girl did parallel slide, very systematic step by step. We went to our secret area and tried out. It was much harder than we seen how the girl could did it so easily. I was constantly doing a sharp parallel turn instead of slide and Joe0 was doing a spinning haha. We fell alot but our spirits was high, tried and tried over and over again. 豁出去! It was no easy feat for a girl to keep falling and still climb on her feet to try again. Salute! We decided to continue rollerblade after dinner. During our skate back, we saw an amazing moonrise. The moon was super low in the sky with an orange glow, it resembled like the sun rising from the sea. I could even see a rabbit silhouette on the moon. Interestingly the moon really did rise higher and higher as we skate back.
Dinner was BBQ again. We were too tired for another round of rollerblading, nvm still got next time. :) Tonight we had a heroine: Joe1. She went for Adidas 10km Sundown run tonight and she got herself a medal! She never trained for this run but still can finish the run in 1hour. Power! Look at the smile on her victorious face! Her next goal: Standard Charted full marathon.
Drinking wine is always one of the best part of gathering. Surprisingly tonight red wine session kakis was out of the expected. Our drinker Joe1 went to sleep after drinking a cup, our red wine connoisseur Crispy also went to sleep after few cups. We only left Chris, Prata and Joe0 to finish 3 bottles of wine! 4 of us who hardly drink wine to finish 3 bottles of wine wtf! But this was when i saw their true powers haha. Prata suddenly turned into a wine monster, keep on drinking wine like drinking grape soda. Joe0 also confessed her wine session with her boss. Chris said enough, but keep on refilling his cup. All fake fake one...
See 3 bottles of wine? These two faking sleep only.
It was real fun, high but not drunk. Cheers and keep cheering. 3 bottles of wine mixed and drink also tried. The last cup was the ultimatum show-hand, one shot drink finish whole cup! No words can describe the hearty laugh that came from our heart at that moment. This was the moment i felt that my money spent on this chalet was worth every cents.
