Prof Li's Lab BBQ + Bug Attack
Saturday, December 09, 2006
The day started with the, as usual, Friday lab meeting. Those who were having exams were exempted from presenting this time. I felt especially light today. There wasn't any academic stuff (books, paper or even a pencil) in my bag; the only items were a frisbee, a lighter, some plastic bags and old newspaper for the BBQ.
So after the meeting, Minqi, Yumin, Liling, Peiting and I went to K-lunch. And we wondered why the waitress was speaking so fast. Not just the one serving us but, in general, all the K-box people speak very fast. Yumin suggested that they have been through some speech training and I won't be surprised. Or do they seive out the fast-speakers during interviews? The soy chicken rice was quite nice. Yumin and I both agreed it was some kind of microwave meal but it was tasty. The gals were a little surprised that I recognize quite many songs and I thought it could be due to me listening to FM93.3 almost 24 hours during the reading week. As usual, I 走音like crazy and everyone had a laughing-good time. This time the waiter and waitress super onz about the timing... we kena chased out very punctually at 2pm. We thought we could stay one for quite some time but at around 2.10pm we kena a "time's up" warning again. We, being a nice bunch of people, decided to leave before they come the third time.
BBQ delivery was from 2-4pm. I had to be at the West Coast Park carpark during this period. I called up BBQ Wholesale and was told that the delivery will be made at 2.45 pm. Not much time left... We went to buy some taiwanese sausages, chips and water from NTUC and took a bus to the Park.
The delivery man was late; he came at 3.15pm. The salad and bee hoon were not well-packed and some had spilled out. He was a nice guy: he apologized on the spot and he further called us after the delivery to apologize. West Coast Park is under massive renovation and the seaview was blocked by large pieces of metal sheets. The BBQ area was super buggy: ants, flies and bitting mosquitoes. I didn't get much mosquitoes' bits but the ants liked my legs alot.
Although the BBQ was to start at 4.30pm, the rest only came at 5.30pm. So during the first 2 hours of the BBQ, the party was very exclusive to the five of us. And it's kind of fun with us cam-whoring. I was super dandruffy with the charcoal ashes flying all over me.
We spent the night playing Polar Bear, charades, 007... with Boss! Yup, I enjoyed myself and I think everyone did, even though we were all smoky, sweaty and swollen with bugs' bit.
Thank you Minqi, Yumin, Liling and Peiting for helping me carry all the heavy stuff from the carpark to the BBQ pit!
posted byWilliam at 9:11 PM