Monday, September 01, 2008 Y
This may be the longest entry I've ever written!The trip to Desaru was really wonderful, eventful, fun and tiring. Woke up at 5.30am and slept at 12.00pm =.=lll It was even more tiring than normal lesson days, but really fun and enjoyable. Tiring cos of the waking up early and also the shopping and the bs journey. Sheesh, the bus jerked and jerked on the road, turning it into a mobile cradle for me to sleep. It wasn't hard for me to fall asleep since I was really tired and I get bus-sick if I dun face the front after a long time.In the beginning, I thought only a few teachers were going, but then when I boarded the bus, somehow the teachers managed to get a total of 40 people for the package... Cos they included the kids. O Boy the kids! Luckily we have them on the road, they're really cute and adorable and made the whole trip even more fun than ever.First stop was breakfast, Yong Tou Fu. Incredibly filling cos we're not used to having such things for breakfast. We didn't finish the noodles/beehoon/horfan, cos we decided to cramp our stomaches with the content of the yong tou fu instead of all these carbo. But I had both, cos I've been starving since 6.30am(forgot to eat the slice of cake in my bag).Then we went to Desaru Fruit Farm to look at the different fruit trees and different fruits: Dragonfruit trees, jackfruit trees, longan trees, passionfruit trees, roseapple trees, guava trees, mango trees, banana trees and many other kinds. The only tree we didn't get to see was the durain trees, which was what most of us wanted to see and possibly taste the fruit, excluding me.And then at a particular section of the entire place, there're a few goats(big and small), abt 3 rabbits, 2 owls, 2 big ostriches, quite a number of roosters, 2 big turtles and a pair of ducklings. It was like a miniature zoo, minus the big animals and decrease the quantity of the animals. Then we went for Lunch at a restaurant... Seafood for lunch. You may think: "What? So fast lunch?" Yep... cos after the fruit farm we went to another place just about 10-15mins of journey and learnt about honey and stayed there for quite some time cos there was this mini mart where we could shop. I didn't buy much, wanted to save my money when we go to Jusco and in case I find something I like. Each of us got a box of fruits for us to taste after the whole visit to the honey shop which was part of the fruit farm cos we were showed some bee-'hives' which are shaped like boxes. All the fruits were specially from the farm itself.So.. lunch... Didn't take note of the name of the place. I think the best dish there was the soup and the crab. It's a mixture of chilli and black pepper (spicy but not so spicy that I can't take it). The soup was light. Also had herbal chicken, stir fried veg, deep fried butter lobster(half lobster for each one of us) and steamed fish. All the seafood were rather fresh. I'm nt sure about the lobster, since a few teachers claimed it had weird smell... I havent had lobster that was deep fried nor did I eat it all the time, so I really couldn't judge it or say it had whatever smell or taste... Even though, I still very very very much preferred to have lobster meat in salad when they're being served as part of the cold plate.Then we head over to mango farm... Which wasn't really a farm. We went there, see alot of trees that were behind the fences. Then before lunch the tourguide gave us a lil math sum to play. The prize? She treat us to mangoes if we got it right.In the beginning, everyone was very enthusiastic and started thinking about the sum. Me too. But math hasn't been my strongest subject so I slowly gave up. Before long, almost nobody went on with the Math sum. It was Teacher Deng who held on till the end and got the rght answer. And as promised, the tourguide gave her mangoes as a treat to bring back home.Curious about what Math sum was that?? It's at the end of this blog entry. You can try it out yourself! ;)
Okay, so when we reached the mango farm, we got to taste the mangoes and they were really sweet and juicy and slippery. And cos it's a family business, there's a small stall where we could purchase their mangoes fresh from the mango trees. It was up to us whether to walk into the forest of mango trees to see the fruits on the trees and the trees. Not many went in seriously speaking. Most of us were buying the mangoes after tasting it. Me? I went and played and looked after Lini and Mini, cos Yvonne I'm nt sure where she went. Like I said, family business so the people's house were just within walking range. The kids went there cos it was more shady and I followed them.
Lini was wearing slippers so the little stones kept on going into her slippers and every 2-3 steps taken she had to stop, remove her feet, brushed off the stones of her soles and I had to get rid of the little stones in her slippers before she put them on again. LOL. I've lost count how many times had I done that from the mini store to the house and from the house back to the bus. Hahahahaha! Couldn't help myself but laugh and even enjoyed it! =)
After that we had a short journey to Ostrich Farm. Oh boy, I've been looking forward to it since my mom told me about it.. cos we get to stand on the ostrich egg and it can withstand up till 100kg of weight upon the shell itself!!! I gt this info from the tourguide. See? I'm not sleeping even though we could barely hear her from behind the bus. This time the same thing happened with Lini... but instead of little stones, it was sand. Hhaahahs!
With the help of the teachers, I got a shot of me holding the egg (it was quite big) and also a piece of the ostrich skin. And I stood on the egg!!! Amazing isn't it? A small egg that can withstand up to 100kg of weight? Not that I'm 100kg =.=ll Hhahas! Also a few children stood on the egg as well..I was the only teacher that stood on the egg...and feeling like a kid! ROFL! =D Ms Chong had a lil incident with the Ostrich while I was trying to take a pic with her and the ostrich. The ostrich attacked her and her forearm was "kissed". Bad birdie!
Then it was time to shop!!! The bus journey was about 1hr before we reached a small section that was along the way to the shopping centre Jusco. We stayed there for about half hour for toilet break and if we needed to get some salted fish or other titbits or tau sa pia. I brought two packs of crackers there - 1 Jackfruit cracker and 1 big bag of fish crackers(Muruku) with alot of little packs inside. I slept like a baby during that 1hr trip, but then the tourguide's microphone woke me up for me to get off the bus and do some stretching.
Another half hour later (abt 5.30pm), we reached Jusco. Were given 1.5hrs to shop. In the beginning, I was appaled that they gave such a long time. But when I stepped into the place, it was HUGE! And I started to doubt whether 1.5hrs is enough... And for somebody like me who doesn't shop much, thinking that 1.5hrs isn't enough for shopping, it tells you something about that shopping centre.
We walked as a group: Me, Yvonne, Miss Karita, Miss Maria and her son from level one, to level two, to level three. By the time we walked to level 3(1 time round per level), half hour was gone. I head over to my destination - Secret Recipe to get the chicken pie I've been thinking about since my mom brought it home. Too bad they sold out the spicy flavoured one, that one was nicer than the original, but still I brought the very last piece of chicken pie and 2 curry puffs. Then Miss Karita went away. We went to shop in the shopping centre with Miss Maria and her son(toys department) until they both went away, and Yvonne and I went to shop at the Toys 'R' Us for toys. By the time we wanted to head back to the bus, it was liek 6.35pm. Was suppose to be back by 7pm. So went into the supermarket for a look and finally brought the australia nougats (2 packs each) cos we loved it so much.
Then came dinner - Went to Apollo seafood restaurant. We sat in another table, away from the teachers that we know and the kids... Went to sit with the group in front of the bus. Didn't really know them so was quite weird sitting with them at the dinner table. But as time goes by it was quite alright, with one Uncle cracking jokes every now and then. Our dinner selections: Sambal prawns, cold plate, shark fins, steamed fish, the yam-wall thing with veg and crispy beehoon, stir fried veg, rice, fried noodles, chicken and koropok and fruits. Not bad actually..... And we even caught a few minutes of the fireworks displays outside the restaurant windows. The Malaysians were celebrating their National Day yesterday, thus the fireworks. Althought, SG's fireworks are still nicer than M'sia, but a few kinds of fireworks wasn't on the SG's firework list.
And by the time we reached SG it was like 9+pm. And by the time we reached Yishun MRT it was about 10+/11+pm. Really eventful, took alot of pics and had tons of fun and food. Great trip to Desaru.
Okay, here comes the Math question:
1 durian = 4 ringgat
1 papaya = 3 ringgat
7 rambutans = 1 ringgat
You're given 100 ringgat
How many fruits can you buy with that 100 ringgat so that you spent all 100 ringgat and brought a total of 100 fruits?
Work it out! Have some fun! =)
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