okay... i guess that's about it...
oyasuminasai!!!
(good night!)
the whole plastic bag of the chicken wing, complete with packets of chilli sauce and serviettes, landed on the roof.. hmm... i wonder what has become of it... lol.
when we arrived there, we went swimming in the sea and even swam to the island across the Siloso beach... there, we tossed 'sand balls' into the sea and lazed about in the squishy sand... we found two coconuts on the island and brought them back with us to siloso... glory was suggesting that we break open the coconuts.. then mitchell told joey how she could rub sand on a coconut emerged in water to open it... the rest of us also started to explain to her that there was a certain part of the coconut that was thinner so she could use that method.. in the end, we saw joey attempting to rub the sand on the coconut with all her effort to open the coconut.. finally, we all ended up bursting in to laughter as it was such an amusing sight to see her gullibility...
in the end, zj managed to rip open the coconuts with the help of mitchell's (dad's) swiss army knife and a rock in the beach... unfortunately, it was all rotten inside and it even smelt like eggs... eww... anyway, after playing in the water and also on the beach (volleyball), we decided to go off to the Imbiah lookout as mitchell suggested to have a look at a 'new' ride there... so we got our stuff and headed on our way...
we walked pass a platform of small fountains of water and decided to 'wash our feet' from the sand... but, it didn't stop there!! in the end, we put down all our belongings and started splashing water at each other... mitchell went on to shout victory cries from the freedom of the 'O' levels... we even used our slippers to slapped the water that squirted out! it was really the climax!! all soaked, we decided that we should go as we were becoming an exhibition as batches of people on the trams were looking at us... (and my neck was already SUNBURNT! lol.)
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however, the incident that i really remember the most about that day was meeting some 'lost' Japanese guys.. we were just done 'splashing' and were going to see the Imbiah lookout.. we were not sure how to get there so we went to look at the map of sentosa on a directory.. suddenly, two japanese students (they were wearing uniforms) came to us to ask for directions.. they were actually unsure of whether they wanted to ask us, but finally decided to do so... at first we had trouble understanding what they wanted as one of them was trying to communicate with us in english... he was pointing to his map of sentOsa that was in Japanese and that did not make it any easier... lol. we tried to speak in chinese to them but that didn't work.. joey tried some jap but she could only say 'sayonara'... that didn't work either... finally, after much body language and pointing, we figured that they also wanted to get to somewhere around the Imbiah lookout!! so i suggested that they follow us there... even that was hard to communicate to them... but when they finally understood, they were so happy and kept thanking us...
we were planning to take the monorail but they didn't have the tickets.. so we brought them to the station to help them purchase some.. there, the lady at the counter tried to help us with our language barrier (although she also couldn't speak the language) and managed to find out more about them.. they were on a school trip and were driven into sentOsa probably via coach (we couldn't figure out the exact transport that he meant)... the lady was then relieved as we made her job easier when we told her that we would take them to their destination.. lol. she told us that we could take the 'blue line' bus which was a free shuttle that would get us to Imbiah...
since we were going with them, on the way to the bus bay, i decided to do some self-introductions... i found out that their names were Rui Ito and Ikihito respectively... they were from a place near Hokkaido in Japan (that i can't remember) that starts with 'A'... Ikihito was 17 and Rui was about to become the same age later this month... then on the bus, we had fun trying to recall each others' names... hearing them pronounce our names was so interesting and we almost made them believe that mitchell's name was pronounced like 'itch' with a 'b' in front of it... there were 3 guys and girls each in our group and that was probably the reason why Rui asked if we were couples... then came the resounding denials with mitchell insisting that joey's boyfriend was a 'rat' (toby)... they didn't get the joke but that made us laugh really madly..
Ikihito was much quieter but we found out that he was in swimming and Rui was in table-tennis & a sniper club in his school (if that's what i guessed correctly)... on the other hand, we had a terrible time trying to explain our CCAs like BB and NCC to them... we could only successfully relate joey's table-tennis to them... haha.. then joey spotted Rui's phone and tried to ask if she could have a look at it... when he finally understood, we were all amazed at the unique design only to find out from him that he thought that the design was 'not good'... lol.. we ended up talking about japanese brands including the volleyball that we had and the sweets that they showed us!!
anyway, we finally got to Imbiah and they thanked us again continuously.. they managed to find their school mates and initiated to take a group photo!
before they left, Rui gave me all his coins (2 '5 yen' & 2 '1 yen') in his wallet for me to buy "gum and chocolate"... i had told him that i was going to visit Hokkaido in december and he even reminded me that it was going to be very cold there! i was so blessed by this encounter and will definitely remember this! my only regret was forgetting to get their contact so that i could keep in touch with them... but, who knows, i may just see them in Japan in the future.....
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