Yes I did just totally quote a Nikki Minaj song in the title. Don't judge me- everyone does it, be it on a public forum or in their head. 

So yesterday we went to surprise my smelly potato friend- that would be TZY, because it's his birthday soon and unfortunately he has guard duty over that particular weekend. NS ruins social lives. #trufactz. We were going to have a picnic at Sentosa, because potatoes are clearly associated with the beach and do immensely enjoy that particular activity. (not really, just this one) So Megan ran around in the morning buying things and the rest of us convened at the MRT station, later retreating to Daiso to buy presents (long story). It was a pretty amusing scenario as TZY was arriving from Serangoon or something but Megan wasn't done yet- we had planned to surprise him together at Daiso, so we went to hide while she dashed upstairs from Cold Storage with roast chicken and seedless grapes. We ended up camping awkwardly in the entrance of Pet Safari, which had both hamsters and puppies so that was pretty distracting, while TZY was lured into Daiso as Megan dashed upstairs. Then as we in the middle of a very serious conversation about sleep deprivation (a topic I am more than well familiar with), he arrived and we had a rather panicked call telling us to COME OUTSIDE NOW!! Well, he ended up walking in on us as we walked there- not actually a grammatically accurate and expressively clear sentence, but oh well it's 9 in the morning. Then Megan arrived at that precise moment and we spent a whole moment awkwardly staring at each other while I half-heartedly said "SURPRISE!" It was pretty fail but he was suspicious already, so... All in all, a valiant attempt troops.

Sentosa was pretty fun. Haven't been there in ages- as you might figure I'm not actually one of those people who enjoy sun and surf. Or physical activity of any kind, which is mostly what normal people do at the beach. It was raining at first so we crashed a shelter that already had a guy in it and set out our picnic. Our very tasty picnic. On hindsight maybe we shouldn't have bought roast chicken which could not actually be cut properly with plastic cutlery (the guy in Cold Storage did not want to cut it up for us)... but it was a tasty and amusing meal. I now know how to saw at a whole chicken with two forks until we get clean pieces of meat woo-hoo LIFE SKILLS. We then attempted to play with a large blow-up beach ball with orange flowers (GHASTLY COLOUR! No wonder it was in Daiso for two bucks) in the water, wading in so we wouldn't get our clothes wet... when the smelliest potato of all threw the ball too far out in the water so Sun Bear had to swim to it. Or rather splash aggressively towards it. But either way it was pretty fun to watch. We then attempted to build a sand-castle after a rather failed attempt at trying to play freeze and melt (because yet a certain smelly potato didn't want to come catch us after we had already ran away), which also failed miserably because everyone was too tired by that point and pretty much did Magikarps on the beach. By that I mean flopped around trying to use Splash and do something, but failing miserably because life sucks like that.

Speaking of Magikarp I now recall the horrors of trying to train it to be a level 60 one, just because. Just because I have no friends, not anymore at least since I've announced that.

Either way, by the time we got home I was 7 on the tired scale. But all in all it was a good day. I'm really going to miss these kids when they all go overseas and study or something ): Thank goodness for Whatsapp, it would be incredibly difficult to communicate otherwise. I think I'm at that phase where everything is changing again, and I'm in the penultimate transition of my life. It's scary, and many times on this space I've spoken of things like uncertainty and things like that, but right now I'm beginning to feel okay with it. Change is the only constant, after all. I'm just going to have to adapt again, but no reason to try and preserve my friendships. Or friends, which are just the most wonderful people. It's not everyday you become part of a large, eclectic group of personalties that clash horribly and yet mix so wonderfully. I will be forever thankful for the Windy Benches, and Players :')