//...strike!...\\

Thursday, December 21, 2006

day4... the day of ski-ing... the day that started out with the most excitment but ended in the heaviest disappointment...

we were susposed to wear our ski attire the first thing in the morning before we went for our breakfast.. the breakfast was a buffet at phoenix park ski resort, the place where we spent 2 nights there.. to cut the long story short we took a gondola, which looks exactly like the cable cars in singapore, up to mount blanc, the region where the ski resort is located in and a haven for ski-ing in seoul. up at the mountain the scenery was just simply breath-taking! once again i marvelled at the works of mother nature.. alas nvr bring my phone up, so used the digi cam...

manx no photos on the snow fight we had on top of the ski ground. Most of us experienced snow for the first time and downgraded ourselves to 5year old kids. in fact, the 2 eldest kids, my bro n jiehan, formed an alliance to attack the rest of us -_- anw we kept targetting the 2 sisters, zhimin and zhihui, but some snow were damn hard! they were literally ice-cubes! we also even attack the tour guide, whom threatened not to teach us skiing later XD manx it was so fun!

later in the gondola back to the skiing ground i missed out on the teenagers' car and ended up in a cabin full of ahjumahs instead *sigh* began clearing the snow in my ski jacket when an ahjumah, whom is jiehan's mom, coomented to my mum that she has a beautiful son (>_<") erm ok thx? haha no offence but i prefered to be called handsome xP but i dont really like how i look though.. neither do my mum, who kept calling me short (FYI i'm 177cm tall) whatever manx...

ok WARINING no more photos for the day already, as the story up next doesnt need any pictures...

and so our ski-ing lesson started after loaning the equipments from the store. there's the blades and 2 ski sticks.. blahblahblah and it's my turn to try to ski down the slope, sigh i fell off balance the moment i started, and *whack* a snowball hit my back, lol it was the tour guide... learning ski-ing was tough, especially for someone with a poor sense of balance like me.. i fell numerous times, but the funny thing is, remember the assistant? he's there to take photo of us, so whenever i fell down while sliding from the slope, he would help me up and then... take a photo of me -_- once he passed me his ski board and asked me to pose beside it, as if i'm a pro snowboarder.. i bought the pic and it's in my house, of me with the snowboard, close to showing a WTF face hahaha...

ouch!! 1 damn hard fall to the side of my thigh, close to my hip.. for a moment i couldnt get up, cos the impact to the side was too great momentarily, den you know what? my mom came walking to my side and... scolded me! WTF?! i fall down u scold me for fuck? but of cos i have already got used to it, after all i grew up being scolded for falling down and stuffs like that.. problem is, she scolded me for not falling down on my butt! HOW IN THE HELL CAN I CONTROL HOW I FALL? i was gliding at high speed and suddenly my ski blade came off and i tumbled, CAN I APPLY BRAKES ON MYSELF WTF?! i didnt explode on her, even though she just tried once and den sort of twisted her knee and she gave up.. then a familiar rountine appeared, i kept climbing up the slope, putting on my blades, glide down, fall down and the cycle continues... i remembered i fell hard 4 times, 2 times on either hips and i was close to paralysis :S on my seventh attempt to glide off the slope, my bro looked at me and said,

"haix.... when u glide off pls look at the front and stop thinking of falling down (CMI kid, you r just so hopeless)..." i can infer from his tone

"MOM! i bringing the rest of the teenagers to the intermediate arena!"

"you... stay here and learn first..."

????????????

sigh, i had already expected it, since young i'm always left behind by my cousins, furthermore on that day itself? i could only see helplessly as they gathered their equipments and trotted to the intermediate arena.. i was so filled with anger at that point, which worsened when vannasa, the 11year old kid, came by to help mecos i'm having trouble wearing the blades.. WTF?! even a 11YEAR OLD girl, whom i only knew for like 4 days, even bothered to lend me a helping hand, and my very own BRO whom i have known for almost 18 yrs juz walked away with the rest?! this just only fuelled my perserverance level, and unfortunately my parents saw NOTHING WRONG with my bro leaving me behind.. at that moment i was lamenting, why the hell am i in this kind of family? when i get scolded for falling down and left behind? blame on myself for being a slow learner *sigh*

after a few more tries i finally grasped the technique of ski-ing, and only fall if i'm close to a hell of a collision with another ski-er... thinking back i shouldnt have gone to the intermediate arena, as if i'm despo to hang out with the teens...

initially there was plans to continue skiing at night, and i initially agreed despite the paralyzing pain at both sides of the hips, but all it needed was just an incident to change my mind... each of us required 1000won to lock up our equipment, problem is we needed coins, so i was handed the task to change the notes to coins at a nearby machine.. when i slotted in the second note, nothing came out.. WTF?! turns out the note was stuck, i started looking around for help, but in a foreign country where its people dont speak english to u even though u made it clear u are not a korean, what else can i do? i went back and told my bro.. his answer?

"irresponsible.."

WTF?!?!?! what do u want me to do?! instead of arguing, i chose the best solution: keeping quiet.. if i were to blow up on him i guess it will be an awkward tour from then on... but wtf must he say tt? it's only 1000won, or S$1.70!! after lunch i decided to return my equipment and rest my sore thighs, feeling damn sick about today's event...

i tried sleeping, but i couldnt, i kept thinking about alot of stuffs, the past, the present... AS EXPECTED when he returned from skiing the rest decided not to ski at night, he acted as if nothing has happened... but of course, he's not the one who is at the receiving end :S whatever u fake asshole...

dinner wasnt too great, cos it was vegetable steamboat, bland and much less strong than the previous dinner,plus the sick events during the day my appetite wasnt that good.. my mood was grumpy, and i blamed it on my thighs to them, while deep down a huge resentment and fury was boiling...

after dinner still too early for bedtime, so decided to go to a nearby mall to shop.. there's a place for playing pool! haha i didnt expect it at all.. but there's a catch: 2000won for 10mins, 1 hour 120000won, which liteally translate to... S$19+ per hour!! WTF!! but then the ambience is good la, no hooligans around shouting CB! KNN! those kind of crap.... managed to win 2 games but lost the last game in a very unlucky manner..

from my view i had 3 balls left, while jiehan only need to hit in the black, so of cos i had to finish the table, cos the black is at the top right pocket... i slotted one down the bottom right, *BLAM* and i shift my attention to a purple on the centre right pocket... just nice for a slice to the last ball before the black.. i whacked *BLAM* the purple did enter the centre pocket, but my white got sliced instead to the top left pocket! ARGH i lost!! my goodness... this comedy incurred a a whole lot of laughters... which is the only memorable stuff for the day...

sigh

//Brandon struck at 11:57 AM\\