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Sunday, June 26, 2005

` Sunday, June 26, 2005

oK guys and girls, i am now wide and awake. yesterday (Sat) started like any other outings we had: getting the cars, waiting for the girls, driving off to McLaren Vale to sample and purchase some wine after which we were off to Victor Harbour for some whales and penguins watching. I shall skip the former and fast forward to what happened at Victor Harbour---particularly Granite Island... Here goes...As the sun was setting(the scenery was really nice), we decided to make our way down from the top and when we were at the bridge, i suddenly found my beloved Minolta DimageX31 MISSING!!!(after the short run down the bridge with Carrot) anyway, i was like totally freaked out man!! how could the camera have dropped out just like that...(f*^&*^&%^$%#)pardon the profanities. anyway, my kind hostel mate Moses and Keith offered to join me in this covet night search for my dimage. all in all(If i didn't count wrongly...), I think we walked to the visitor centre thrice, walked up and down the bridge thrice and walked up and down the trail of Granite Island twice. sweet. now i knoe the layout of the island at my fingertips. + our legs had a good workout from all that working. and the interesting thing is nokia and samsung handphones have really good lighting. we actually found a nokia handphone on ur first time up the trail using the handphone lights. (haha, i'm not the only careless one around.) then the freaking security guard had to bring people around to check out the penguins when it was all pitch dark(goodness, pls don't disturb the poor penguins. but i still managed to catch a glimpse of a few btw.haha!) ok, so the guy had the trump card-power torchlight, so we had no choice and decided to search around the bridge but to no avail...after all the waiting, finally he was done and up we went again on the trail searching north, south, east and west of the alleged drop zone. Still couldn't find the cam, so decided that was it man... left my particulars and description of the digital camera in case some kind soul found and returned the camera. Now comes the interesting part....

I was walking along the bridge back to mainland to meet the rest. (Wah, felt really bad at that time cos i think they were just waiting for us to finish the search and had not eaten dinner yet....) so, walk and walk...suddenly "POOF" out of no where i saw the all familiar grey strap lying on the bridge. WAH! i calmly picked it up and there it was---Dimage X31---property of SOH YUFENG!!! Wat a stroke of luck...anyway, so everything turned out well in the end after the long intensive search---worked the legs quite a bit. Rest were at Crown Hotel so adjourned to meet them there...sat down and the girls came up with five hypotheses(think PBL ah?) to explain the loss of the camera. had large beer battered fish and chips---tasted alright since victor harbour is known for their fish and chips. I was sitting at my place happily snapping some pics and wo...the chocolate ice cream cake topped with strawberries+fizzling fireworks+candles+birthday song went bam bam bam. really loss for words for a while.
now i finally realised that they were celebrating my 21ST bdae!!!gosh! proceeded with gift presentation---fcuk collared black polo shirt...hmm tat explains why the girls asked me to go shopping with them. really like the shirt-thanks everybody!! :) then....had to skull some drink---sorry but i can't remember the name. it was a mix of pineapple and alcohol i think. then came another one. k did the first in 1 min but took my time for the second...well, as long everybody's happy!!! the aussies in the restaurant came along to join in the fun-chatted about singapore, night safari, breakfast at the zoo, sentosa, orchard. haha i'm gonna be back in 1 week's time!!! can't wait. received lots of bdae wishes and hugs today!!!wat a 21st. i think i was a bit high after the two drinks...they started asking me all sorts of questions...gau and debby...stop grilling me k? we'll let nature take its course. ;)
had a really fun day out today. loved the cake, the pressie, the trip everything! still don't knoe if the camera loss was part of the bdae plan but oh well... haha happy 21ST to my self!!!!!!

fang-out.