Tuesday, June 06, 2006
from bukit timah hill to... choa chu kang???
today ben and i were supposed to conquer the bukit timah hill to macritchie reservoir route; or rather, do tt hsbc tree-top walk thingy and at the same time walk from bukit timah hill to macritchie reservoir.
we met for breakfast/brunch @ the bukit timah market - had tau huey (yay! my fave food too!) and pork porridge, and then we made our way down to the bukit timah hill entrance. the map was relatively incomprehensible to me, the weather was fucking humid, and i was dripping buckets as we stomped around southview path looking for a way to the trail tt led to macritchie.
anyway me being me, i misstepped - twice - on a set of uneven tree-root endangered steps, and as a result sprained my ankle. but once again me being me, i also assumed tt i did not in fact sprain my ankle, and continued walking as per normal. so we came out of catchment path and between turning left towards chestnut avenue and right towards rifle range road, we decided tt left might just be a better bet. so we turned left.
and we walked and we walked and we walked, and close to 1pm we came out to... chestnut avenue, just beside the BKE. the trail ended at zhenghua park, and we knew then tt we were obviously wrong. we'd walked to bukit panjang!
so we made our way through the park and the hdb blocks (ah, civilisation!) towards to bukit panjang lrt, where i took lrt for the first time in my life (yes, deprived, i know) to choa chu kang. and yes, we both looked and smelt very bad. people were avoiding us. eee.
at choa chu kang, ben bought extra t-shirts to change into, and we had lunch at a kopitiam outside lot 1. we were deciding where to go from here - back to macritchie, or to the zoo, or even to sentosa? but seeing tt it was already close to 2pm and there were no direct buses to macritchie, we decided to scrap tt idea and save it for another day. besides, the one real thing i wanted to do was b.a.t.h.e.
oh, and ben was falling sick. poor boy was tired, dazed, stoned and sniffing. and at points in time he would talk ahd i wood hab no idea wad he dokking abood.
so we decided to just go get a bath and slack around watching channel news asia and napping till it was time for me to go home for dinner. amidst my father's grumblings tt he was hungry, i made it back early for a dinner of half a peking duck, egg and vegetables. oh and my father wanted to "talk to me" tonight, except tt we ended up watching a very badly dubbed and badly subbed chinese version of the da vinci code, and my parents went to lalaland before 9.30pm.
at 10pm i came online, chatted with a few people, and ben jioed me out for supper. so i snuck out of my house, climbed over my gate - sprained ankle and all - and made my way down to al-azhar at upper bukit timah road for a supper of maggi goreng, teh halia, and my first milo godzilla. yum.
and after tt it was back home again, because i am officially bai kah and my bf is a sick dog. hee hee.
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
we met for breakfast/brunch @ the bukit timah market - had tau huey (yay! my fave food too!) and pork porridge, and then we made our way down to the bukit timah hill entrance. the map was relatively incomprehensible to me, the weather was fucking humid, and i was dripping buckets as we stomped around southview path looking for a way to the trail tt led to macritchie.
anyway me being me, i misstepped - twice - on a set of uneven tree-root endangered steps, and as a result sprained my ankle. but once again me being me, i also assumed tt i did not in fact sprain my ankle, and continued walking as per normal. so we came out of catchment path and between turning left towards chestnut avenue and right towards rifle range road, we decided tt left might just be a better bet. so we turned left.
and we walked and we walked and we walked, and close to 1pm we came out to... chestnut avenue, just beside the BKE. the trail ended at zhenghua park, and we knew then tt we were obviously wrong. we'd walked to bukit panjang!
so we made our way through the park and the hdb blocks (ah, civilisation!) towards to bukit panjang lrt, where i took lrt for the first time in my life (yes, deprived, i know) to choa chu kang. and yes, we both looked and smelt very bad. people were avoiding us. eee.
at choa chu kang, ben bought extra t-shirts to change into, and we had lunch at a kopitiam outside lot 1. we were deciding where to go from here - back to macritchie, or to the zoo, or even to sentosa? but seeing tt it was already close to 2pm and there were no direct buses to macritchie, we decided to scrap tt idea and save it for another day. besides, the one real thing i wanted to do was b.a.t.h.e.
oh, and ben was falling sick. poor boy was tired, dazed, stoned and sniffing. and at points in time he would talk ahd i wood hab no idea wad he dokking abood.
so we decided to just go get a bath and slack around watching channel news asia and napping till it was time for me to go home for dinner. amidst my father's grumblings tt he was hungry, i made it back early for a dinner of half a peking duck, egg and vegetables. oh and my father wanted to "talk to me" tonight, except tt we ended up watching a very badly dubbed and badly subbed chinese version of the da vinci code, and my parents went to lalaland before 9.30pm.
at 10pm i came online, chatted with a few people, and ben jioed me out for supper. so i snuck out of my house, climbed over my gate - sprained ankle and all - and made my way down to al-azhar at upper bukit timah road for a supper of maggi goreng, teh halia, and my first milo godzilla. yum.
and after tt it was back home again, because i am officially bai kah and my bf is a sick dog. hee hee.
# posted by Kitana @ 6/06/2006 01:06:00 AM 
