went out with the usual crew yesterday.
yeah.
cycling, then onto bowling.

cycled for three hours.
imagine.
three straight hours!
after we met the guys-wei rong, yifeng, jianyang, yingwei
we set off!
but of course, with jaclyn-the-incredible-prat around, theres always bound to be something happening.
while we were biking, evonne cut into my lane behind me, she yelled for me to move to my right.
just that she only yelled, "jaclyn! jaclyynnn!!!"
wheres the "move to your bloody right!"?
and as i turned around, the front wheel of hers kissed my back wheel and she crashed to the gravel floor with a resounding, "boom!" and "jaclyn ying, i hate you!!!"
uh-huh, not to worry folks, she meant that as a joke...i hope.
i braked sharply and hopped off my bike (that raised a few eyebrows).
and as i pulled the bike off her, she stumbled to her feet and the guys just stared at us.
are they men?!
apparently not.
as fionn and rui wen sped ahead, leaving us behind with a cloud of dust for company, evonne and vanessa noticed the bike chain dangling like scrotums.
(such good friends we have.)
by then, the guys, er i mean, gays had also gone too.
(like i said, i love my friends.)
so, evonne and i got down and dirty with the chain while vanessa helped to hold the bike up.
the whole thing took us approximately 15 minutes to figure out.
after which i can proudly say that i know the whole bike mechanism inside out.
(the solution, which i figured out, was just to change the bike gear from first to second.)
evonne claimed that [censored] could do it in 5 minutes flat.
wow. i bet he must have kissed the back wheel of his companions and fallen off his bike frequently huh?
bike mechanic. hear me roar!
and my fingers are permanently stained black with grease.

after cycling, we went onto bowling.
the guys, i mean, gays (i keep forgetting, darn it!) had already gone to play basketball, claiming that it was free.
righttt...
so, that left us girls-rui wen, fionn, vanessa, evonne and i.
we made our way to marine bowl and bowled our hearts out.
for the first game, rui wen entered our names like so...
first lane.
RW
F
second lane.
J
V
E
and after our first game, i had a brain blast and it gave birth to a brilliant idea, so i told rui wen to enter our names like this for the second game...
first lane.
RW
F
J
V
E
second lane.
J
V
E
RW
F
(or something like that, i have gotten the orders all mixed)
so ok, we bowled using all of our names for two lanes.
six games later, we willed our tired thumbs to work and we went to the counter to pay up.
guess what the magic numbers were?
$87.50.
and it wasnt in monopoly money either.
all of us almost peed in our pants when we heard the sum we had to supposedly fork out.
turns out that it was $2.50 for EACH PLAYER.
TIMES 6 PLAYERS WITH 6 GAMES AND TIMES 2 AGAIN FOR 2 LANES.
omg.
but we thought that it was $2.50 for each game.
bottomline, it was my "brilliant" idea which got us into deep shit.
we were dumbstruck as we pulled out our wallets and pooled our cash together.
coins clattered and provided the tune to "jungle bells" but judging by the rests' expressions, i could tell no one wanted to belt out "jingle bells" then, so i kept my mouth shut.
the amount we got out was $84.50
then vanessa saved the day by pulling out her last red note-$10.
it was such a horrible feeling when i thought we didnt have enough money to pay.
visions of all of us trudging down the prison corridor with clunking chains bombarded my mind.
until i saw the red note.
and i suddenly saw a halo form by itself above vanessa's head.
or maybe it was too much fish keropok.

as we walked out, rui wen was busy filling the air with threats of sueing that "shitty place which cheats innocent kids' money" and fionn was busy agreeing with her.
while, vanessa busy calculated the sums in her head and evonne and i were staring hollow eyed at the ground , still shocked by the $87.50 bill.
and rui wen almost marched back into the bowling alley to confront the cashier, if it wasnt for us, the more sensible and rational ones, pulling her back.
but seriously, it was damn stupid.
charging a price like that!
and the machine didnt even give me the accurate number of pins once!
i bowled a 9 for my first little box at the top (wonder what its called) and the machine was supposed to give me the last pin so that i could claim the half strike which was rightfully mine.
but alas, it was not meant to be!
the machine gave me 5 pins back and i happily bowled at the prospect of a better chance of scoring that lone 1.
i knocked down all of them but my score read 0 for the second try.
my. half. strike.
dreams can shatter so easily. *sniff*

better still, can they stock more 6 balls?!
i was getting the highest with the 6 ball and they had to go give it away to some dude in school uniform.
"hes just a small kid! he cant lift the other balls."
righttt, then why do i see him bowling with the 14 ball huh?
needless to say, i was pretty steamed but when i realised that the 14 ball was better, i decided to let the little dude go.
haha.
but i also had my share of scrapes with the purple 14 ball.
my so-called "lucky" ball.
as i moved forward to launch a shot, my thumb slipped out of the hole and the ball crashed behind me.
and as i turned around, i came face-to-face with a view of everyones' faces in total shock.
priceless.
i should have brought my camera along.
as for me, i was surprised it didnt cause a hole in the floor.

so yeah, basically, we bowled and watched our stomachs grow progressively bigger with every packet of fish keropok we took turns to buy.
we ate a grand total of about 5 bags i think.
happy times.
except for the bill of $87.50.