denise goes canoeing

i'm now typing with a scratched palm and a battered foot.

and no, i wasn't in some gang fight or cat fight.

heheh... this morning, i woke up at the crack of dawn. really, 5.50 is even before dawn. dragged myself out of bed, dragged my sis out of slumber and slunked of to the bathroom with birds hair nest. ok, so you know i'm not a morning person.

anyway, why would i put myself (and my sis) into such torture right? you see... shaun's classmate invited him to go canoing which he invited me to go too, and in turn, i brought along my sis. so, together with bu-ken, ezra and ernest... the 6 of us squeezed into shaun's mom's car to go to his friend's house. which is sea front by the way (eeh, so jealous).

then, we took his canoes and canoed. uh, which is really the point of this outing really. me, bu-ken and ezra in one; shaun, my sis , ezra and jeremy in another; and iise in the single seater. paddled to some island opposite his house. then, like explorers, we set out to explore the island. up the rocks, down the rocks, some stairs and oh la la~ came across a tomb. all eerie and drapped in yellow cloth with burned out joss sticks. need i say more? actually, we didn't stumble across it, iise took us to see it. and then the light house...

more rocks to climb after that. i have to admit, climbing anything is hardly my strong point. and jumping from one batu to another is my idea of fear factor. haha.

and then, tragedy! while i was climbing... you know la, trying to be a hero and all... my foot slipped. and scratched the treacherous rocks there. ouch! and i slipped a few times because it was hard to get a good footing then. so, by that time, i was bleeding quite a bit. just a few scratches but everyone just had to look as horrified as i had accidently sliced off my foot.

so, what to do but go back to the beach with iise while the others continued their journey. lol, felt so deflated.. and lousy. and haha.. actually had my toe temporarily bandaged by iise. not bad not bad, for a guy.

and then, played in the water for awhile. doing crazy stunts( the guys) and getting baked in the sun (all of us). we were pretty wiped out after keeping and cleaning the gears. well, you know the rest.. bathed, ate, messed up the room, and balik kampung.

oh yea, not before getting a very erm, interesting send-off from the 2 rottweilers there. oh man, ezra almost didn't make it to the gate safely. hahaha... everyone was squashed at the gate trying to get out as fast as possible.

crazy, a lil' painful but still... i would go again. i mean, how often d u get to canoe to island's with graves on them?