absolutum dominium

after a tiring and emotionally draining day (but finally, it seems like things may finally be set right on the home front *crosses fingers*), i had a long sound sleep...

- and speaking of sleep... let's check out how my bf sleeps.

he usually does it 2 ways:

1) completely covered up



or

2) almost completely indecent



but i digress. this isn't as much about his sleeping habits as about mine today - i set my alarm clock for 9am, and it rings every 5 min from 9am onwards... yet i only heard it at 9.55am.

needless to say, i was late to meet ben at bukit timah market for breakfast.

so we met at kap mcdonald's instead.



this is the both of us outside mac's. ben says it looks as if we are on a bus.

after tt, we really did take a bus... to nus to collect our academic transcripts. then it was onward to kent ridge terminal for the requisite "squatting and smoking" photo (wanyi are you happy now? hee hee)...



before we boarded the bus to harbourfront mrt.

sentosa changed one hell of a lot since i last visited the island before i left for vancouver. the beach station is totally new and revamped; there's a 7-11 and a coffee bean; there are new carparks, eating outlets and shower facilities; construction is continually ongoing; i can barely tell which is palawan and which is siloso beach anymore.

speaking of siloso beach, we first decided to get a drink at sunset bay.



this is sunset bay.



and this is ben smoking over his iced lemon tea. very happy, he is (and we all know why).

after the drink, we walked past the strangest chair lift i'd ever seen - in canada, all the chair lifts operate in ski resorts in the winter season; to transport skiers and boarders to the summits of mountains to ski or board.

singapore now also has its own chair lift... with no skis attached.



me with the chair lift in the background.

instead, it transports riders up to the top for what is known as a 'luge ride'.



this is the chair lift transporting the luges to the top - which is known as imbiah point.

deciding tt this luge ride thing might be fun, ben and i decided to take the chair lift for ourselves and do tt whole luge ride thingy.



so here i am at the top of the stairs leading towards the chair lift embarkation area...



both of us sitting on the chair lift...



and what we see from where we are sitting.

at the top of imbiah point, we don these retarded helmets tt make us look really stupid together (yay! guess whose head is harder now?!)...



and then after a no-brainer crash course in how to start and stop the damn thing... off we go, racing along with all the young kids and their abysmally slow parents.

it's a lot of fun, but trust me the retarded look continued to haunt us throughout the entire ride.



just look at this photo of a photo. i'm the retard with the pink slippers in front, and ben's the smaller retard behind.

after the luge ride... it was on to cycling. or more specifically, tandem cycling. we rented a double bike for an hour; ben rode on the front and i trailed along behind, and amidst lots of hysterical laughter and attempts on my part to molest his butt while he was trying to steer us away from the path of errant beach trams and auxillary police vans, we had a damn fun time pedalling from siloso beach to tanjong beach and back again.

we even had time to stop for ice-cream.



this is the bike (with me in front).



here is us with the bike.



and here, a close-up. :) *muakz*

finally, it was time to go to the beach to do what we had come to do in the first place - chill.

spent some time in the water... which was incredibly salty...



here's ben getting ready to take the plunge...

and amidst great hilarity like loose shorts, going commando, and incredibly white-chicken type skin...

we got in a couple of the requisite beach photos.





finally, at 4.30pm when the rain threatened, we decided to fuck off.

coz we hadn't had lunch and were hungry, we decided to stop by seah im food court for lunch/tea.

i had lor mee and ice kachang, while he had indian rojak and mutton soup.

and of course, we took more stupid photos.

ladies and gentlemen, i now present *the* most retarded looking photo of the day:



and as ben was happily smoking his marlboro, i decided to try my hand at being the possible frontperson for marlboro.



ben thinks i will fail miserably. i make smoking look cool... but only to the si geenas. :(

following this, we headed down to boat quay to meet eileen for dinner, and later eileen and i settled at coffee bean for a nice meeting up and chatting session. then it was back to borders at orchard to find my bookwormy bf, who then sent me home.

haha... i hate to say this, but even though i feel like i am plaguarising kids, it seems like "everyday is lovely with my ben".

*pause*

ok. tt didn't sound right. *muakz*