Yesterday.

Yesterday we had lots of fun at Marina Bay!! It was a ball of a time!

Anyway, we went there so early that it felt a little awkward to have only four of us present on such a vast piece of land. (Stanley, Wen Qiang, Ken and I went to recce first.)

The lifegroup camp shortly afterwards and we had lots of fun playing games and flying kites. Ate dinner at the bbq steamboat buffet and Stanley and Co. had a crispy good time frying prawns in butter. FYI, the oil looked a little like coke after some time…

Well the highlight of the day for me was kite-flying. Had a really tough time getting the kite up in the air. Spencer and I were blaming the kite for its poor make and lousy aerodynamics. Well it wasn’t long before we discovered that we actually didn’t let the tail down properly. Lame. Anyway we tried soon after and managed to get it up to about 2-3storeys. That was it. Kaput. Kabish. It had this weird corkscrew flight pattern that drove us insane because it was really hard to tug the string attached. We gave up not too long after that.

After sitting down for a little while and quenching our thirst with refreshing chilled 100plus, Hao Feng came to me and said,”Jem, borrow your kite, maybe I can fly it.” And so I did. In a twinkling of an eye, the kite was gone!

“Where is it?” I exclaimed. Wondering how in the world did he manage to bring it to such a whopping height.

“Er, I…I…don’t know! I can’t see it anymore…” Hao Feng shouted back across the field.

What is this?? It’s so unfair!!!! I am so frustrated. Maybe kites aren’t my cup of Oolong.

Well let’s not rake up unhappy memories anymore. Rest assured, I WILL return to Marina Bay once more to conquer the southern skies!

As I took the bus back home, I caught a few minutes of “A light date” on channel 5. I was pretty disgusted with the suggestive language the guys and ladies were conversing with. Don’t want to go into detail, too explicit and not really nice to mention as well. Oh man, it really shows how degrading television is getting, especially channel 5. What happen to wholesome shows like Phua Chu Kang and Under One Roof. Shows like Eye for a Guy are popping up and it’s really making television unwatchable. It was distasteful on my already charred tongue. Argh. I just could not take blatant flirting with dirty talk on TV. What values are we imparting to our kids? It’s prime time they’re airing the show at. I mean, would you like primary 4 girl going around asking others whether they think she’s sexy? Oh man. The future looks bleak for the younger ones. Channel 5 and his motley crew are out to pollute their innocent minds.

Maybe I’m taking this a little too far, but my concerns are genuine. I only wish they’d show a little more Spongebob.