Friday, March 24, 2006
boardin' for the last time?
fucking depressed last night. from the dismal state of affairs, from taking things way too personally, and to top it off, from carelessly losing my ipod. and i didn't get a good night's sleep either.
but this morning i got my ipod back. *yay!* and met ben to go for our weekly snowboarding session at cypress. which btw, cheered me up *immensely*. i'd happily proclaimed on the bus tt i was no longer depressed. although admittedly, it was possibly due to the topics tt i was waxing lyrical to my traumatised companion. who wasn't enjoying himself quite so much.
mr. tay trying to sleep/hide from me. well, he did call me a mad fuck, if tt is any indication to how much i'd traumatised him. *insert resonating evil laughter here*
by the time we'd got to cypress, we realised tt this might just be the last time we'd be boarding there. for one, it was no longer cold. hell, it felt even warmer than ubc! the layer of snow was thin and much had melted; the trees were back to green and no longer snow-capped, and we could hear the sound of running water from the creeks tt were once frozen solid.
rented our gear... i tried to take 1 glam snow-boarding photo...
...and failed miserably...
...and then it was up to panorama for our runs.
love snowboarding. even all the unglam factors. i've decided tt i have invented *every single possible way* of getting off the chair-lift - except the right way. fall off, fall and scramble off, fall onto board and sit on board and slide down, come off horizontally, crash into ben and bring him down with me... you name it i've done it.
today we did quite a few runs on panorama. as always, i was slow and trying to master turning, while ben was whizzing past. the wind was madness. don't know what the wind speeds were, but the wind was forcibly blowing me to the side of the mountain. tt was irritating. we also did 2 rounds on the intermediate slope and ben did 1 on the advanced slope. needless to say, i refused to support him in more than spirit, because i couldn't even get down the blue slope without doing a penguin - falling on the slope and sliding down the rest of the way on my butt while flailing my arms in helpless abandon, much to the amusement of every other motherfucker around.
but yeah. 6 straight hours of boarding was fun.
ooh. and i got the requisite ben...
...smoking...
photos.
see, what happened is tt ben was lighting up when i came down from panorama, so i decided to take my requisite ben smoking shots. of course, he complained tt all i ever did was take photos of him smoking (which i can't deny lah), so he decided to pretend tt he was just sitting there doing nothing (see the first photo where he is flashing this pseudo-innocent look while hiding his cigarette behind his back). so i decided to play the waiting game with him to see what could hold out longer - my camera or his not smoking.
obviously, he lost (see 2nd photo). wahahaha. so i am a happy girl. in fact, i was so happy i didn't take any more photos of him sleeping later. even tho they were nice and unglam. heh.
we breaked for an hour for lunch around 3pm - soup, burger and fries. after lunch, it became damn sian coz wind speeds increased. we only did 1 run on collins before they closed tt chair lift and the chair lift to panorama because the high wind speeds made it dangerous to operate the chair lifts. so in the end, we were relegated to the bunny hill until we decided tt it was time to go. not too bad lah. at least ben taught me 1 way to counter an ah beng's punching me.
we had dinner at oysi oysi japanese restaurant downtown. whereby ben, who can't really take hot stuff, ate the green chilli from the spicy pork ribs one by one just to show tt he could (although his excuse was tt it tasted good), and i got a hoot out of taunting him to drink tea/water following tt. anyway he refused to rise to the bait until he finished everything.
and then it was a mad rush to the toilet to wash out his mouth.
after dinner, because i was still hungry, we then had chocolate dessert at death by chocolate.
this is known as "devil in disguise".
consists of a chocolate ice-cream cake drizzled with chocolate fudge, and surrounded by 2 mounds of mousse and cream and wafer respectively, along with a dusting of cocoa powder.
yum.
now. all i have to do is convince ben about whistler...
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
but this morning i got my ipod back. *yay!* and met ben to go for our weekly snowboarding session at cypress. which btw, cheered me up *immensely*. i'd happily proclaimed on the bus tt i was no longer depressed. although admittedly, it was possibly due to the topics tt i was waxing lyrical to my traumatised companion. who wasn't enjoying himself quite so much.
mr. tay trying to sleep/hide from me. well, he did call me a mad fuck, if tt is any indication to how much i'd traumatised him. *insert resonating evil laughter here*
by the time we'd got to cypress, we realised tt this might just be the last time we'd be boarding there. for one, it was no longer cold. hell, it felt even warmer than ubc! the layer of snow was thin and much had melted; the trees were back to green and no longer snow-capped, and we could hear the sound of running water from the creeks tt were once frozen solid.
rented our gear... i tried to take 1 glam snow-boarding photo...
...and failed miserably...
...and then it was up to panorama for our runs.
love snowboarding. even all the unglam factors. i've decided tt i have invented *every single possible way* of getting off the chair-lift - except the right way. fall off, fall and scramble off, fall onto board and sit on board and slide down, come off horizontally, crash into ben and bring him down with me... you name it i've done it.
today we did quite a few runs on panorama. as always, i was slow and trying to master turning, while ben was whizzing past. the wind was madness. don't know what the wind speeds were, but the wind was forcibly blowing me to the side of the mountain. tt was irritating. we also did 2 rounds on the intermediate slope and ben did 1 on the advanced slope. needless to say, i refused to support him in more than spirit, because i couldn't even get down the blue slope without doing a penguin - falling on the slope and sliding down the rest of the way on my butt while flailing my arms in helpless abandon, much to the amusement of every other motherfucker around.
but yeah. 6 straight hours of boarding was fun.
ooh. and i got the requisite ben...
...smoking...
photos.
see, what happened is tt ben was lighting up when i came down from panorama, so i decided to take my requisite ben smoking shots. of course, he complained tt all i ever did was take photos of him smoking (which i can't deny lah), so he decided to pretend tt he was just sitting there doing nothing (see the first photo where he is flashing this pseudo-innocent look while hiding his cigarette behind his back). so i decided to play the waiting game with him to see what could hold out longer - my camera or his not smoking.
obviously, he lost (see 2nd photo). wahahaha. so i am a happy girl. in fact, i was so happy i didn't take any more photos of him sleeping later. even tho they were nice and unglam. heh.
we breaked for an hour for lunch around 3pm - soup, burger and fries. after lunch, it became damn sian coz wind speeds increased. we only did 1 run on collins before they closed tt chair lift and the chair lift to panorama because the high wind speeds made it dangerous to operate the chair lifts. so in the end, we were relegated to the bunny hill until we decided tt it was time to go. not too bad lah. at least ben taught me 1 way to counter an ah beng's punching me.
we had dinner at oysi oysi japanese restaurant downtown. whereby ben, who can't really take hot stuff, ate the green chilli from the spicy pork ribs one by one just to show tt he could (although his excuse was tt it tasted good), and i got a hoot out of taunting him to drink tea/water following tt. anyway he refused to rise to the bait until he finished everything.
and then it was a mad rush to the toilet to wash out his mouth.
after dinner, because i was still hungry, we then had chocolate dessert at death by chocolate.
this is known as "devil in disguise".
consists of a chocolate ice-cream cake drizzled with chocolate fudge, and surrounded by 2 mounds of mousse and cream and wafer respectively, along with a dusting of cocoa powder.
yum.
now. all i have to do is convince ben about whistler...
# posted by Kitana @ 3/24/2006 02:58:00 PM 
