Overseas Field Trip - Geog Soc Spirit Shines
It only 1 week after the exams, and it felt like it has been a long time. Geog Soc went Malaysia for holidays from 12 – 15 May! It was a very fun trip, with loads of laughter and attempts not to discuss about work (which at times failed). On the very day of departure, we were stressed and sad. Yuna and Heather did not join us for the trip.It was a rather long bus ride there and we sort of cam-whored for a few times. The ride there was a tiring one and most of us slept our way there. Luckily there is a prata- stop along the way! Upon reaching the place, we saw our FIRST WORLD HOTEL. It was quite ok from the inside but the outside was, ‘hideous’ (Png, 2008). The colour combination was simply wierd. Our rooms are quite decent and the first day of our Overseas Field Trip (OFT) began.
It was 2plus when we reached Genting and all of us were so so hungry. Despite that, we decided to dress-up for our high-class dinner. Lunch was a simple fare and Mary Brown. Dinner was at Happy Valley (we did not know why it was called valley when it is so high in the mountains). The dinner cost us only 50cents more than our lunch. We counted the number of stalks of vegetables we ate. And after dinner, we started off day-dreaming what we will do if we win jack-pot – e.g. sponsoring GC, rebuilding our Geog Building etc. The end results was totally deviant from where we start. In short, it can be summarised as ‘Chang, Chang, Chang, Chang ... Huang!’ (42nd MC, NUS GS, 2008) which later evolved to ‘Chang, Chang, Chang, Chang ... Huang ... Kong!’ (42nd MC, NUS GS, 2008). We sat cable car too, just for the fun of it (down and up Genting). Of course, we cam-whored almost all the way, discussing about the fake Rafflesia, different types of vegetation, climate etc. Erm, thats a bit Geog-ish, but we are Geographers! The night was spent partying and we made an MV. Simply put, it was a improvisation of ‘Captain Planet’ with an element of Climate Change and ‘Geog Soc Spirit Shine’ (Wang, 2008). OH MY GOODNESS, the MV as the most hilarious thing we have done, and we recorded it twice somemore. NG for the first time, thanks to Ms Beejooks who cannot spin up in time.
The ‘Theme-Park’ day marks our second day. Yes! All of us are eagerly awaiting this time of our Genting Trip. Breakfast was at First World Cafe and it was really crowded. Food was not exactly nice but still acceptable. We bought the ALL PARKS tickets and it cost us 51 Ringgit. I cannot exactly remember the rides in order but some more memorable ones are the FLYING COASTER, which I sat twice! Oh my goodness (again), I actually sat that! It was very very thrilling and I never regretted sitting that ride though it cost 10 Ringgit more. Cyclone and Viking was fun too and we are a bit anti-climax. During the second ride, we sort of have a ‘silent ride’. There were no screaming and shouting, totally ‘coldness’. The more daring ones went to sit the ‘commit suicide’ tower while the others went to sit the ferris-wheel. Oh and Mr Chan and Ms Kelly went on their own to the indoor theme park. Caterpillar was erm... slow but windy. Some rides were closed down but nevertheless, it was fun and exciting. Lunch was at Kenny Rogers and dinner was chicken rice.
Malacca was HOT, HOT and very HOT! Felix Inn was nice and comfy for a budget hotel. Our lunch timing is once again screwed up but we have chicken rice balls Then we went around walking around. Dinner was SUPERB. All of us, except the 3Ps, went to eat A&W. Oh my goodness (third time), we took 3 cabs there, just to eat the ‘so-long-never-eaten’ A&W. Geographers’ Cafe was our final pitstop and we bought 23 shirts.
The last was a mad mad rush for last minute shopping. After a fast lunch at the HK Cafe, a few of us chiong to shop and I ran into a budget deficit. It was really fun.
Hmmm, the bus ride home was eh.. a bit nausea-ish (Lim, 2008; Png, 2008; Wang, 2008). And Kelly had her virgin experience of sitting on a Lorry.
Some nice quotes to remember from this journey:
1. ‘Chang, Chang, Chang, Chang ... Huang!’ (42nd MC, NUS GS, 2008)
2. ‘Spoil’ (Phua, 2008)
posted by 光光世界 @ 5/16/2008 09:58:00 PM
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