That was some chalet. It had a perfect balanced of being both structureless and well planned at the same time. For the first day, we could do anything we wanted, which is what everyone does at a normal chalet. I finally found out what 4 player Mario is like, complete chaos. There is not even enough platform space for most of the time, causing people to bounce off each other into bottomless pits or pools flaming lava. The only difference between the first day of the Bridge chalet and the standard chalet is that hardly any bridge was being played, save a few boards of rubber bridge. Of course there was the bonding session in the middle of the night (Or early in the morning as some might see it), which involved Truth-or-dare and some new pointing game that Renwei introduced us. It is not like we still need to do a lot of bonding, but I still have this fondness for games like that. Except Truth-or-dare.
The second day was much more structured. I really loved the pirate game that the community planned for us. It was really very well designed except, of course, the last part with the mass beach excavation. And the drinking part. Lets not forget the drinking part with the weird mixture that we thought had vinegar which turned out to be curdled milk. Please do not try to poison us, I happen to value my life a lot. Kudos to Ruth for glupping it all down. I had to sip it a little by a little, and even then it is so painful at times I wanted to just vomit. Come on, the white blobs of mayonnaise (Wow, had to check Google for the spelling of that one) looked so disgusting. The mass beach excavation was pretty fun though. We actually managed to dig out 2 of the 3 hidden treasures, though it did take a pretty ridiculous amount of time. It was actually pretty fulfilling just sitting at the beach watching everyone work together to overturn the beach to no avail. Even those who were digging using eye power and those that are there with us in spirit would have this experience that we shared together. Years down the road, we can tell our grandchildren about this experience when they ask us what a beach is.
Second evening was dominated by some Bridge. I did really badly, as did all the sleep deprived people, and lost Prosty Bear. I did get a mug in return. If I can drag myself to Ultimate training tomorrow, I would be able to see what the mug actually looks like, and find out from Jing Xian who won Prosty Bear. Take good care of her please!
The last test of my physical endurance was of course the "class outing" today. Hardly a class, 6 people, and hardly an outing either. To be perfectly honest, it was so bad that I would rather have went back to Pasir Ris Park to dig up the final $5 Burger King voucher alone. I guess I am going to do that some other day. I guess the most important thing to me in these events like chalets and gatherings is that I have to bond with the others. In the "class outing" today, none of the bonding happened. I do have to admit that the merged Minds Cafe part was fun though. Excellent call.
xw 4:15 AM
