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Graduation trip...... at home.
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What's up bruthas and sistas,
So a few days back I was thinking to myself, I can't wait to go hiking in Myanmar, after a South African friend I met in hall told me Myanmar is full of beautiful hikes.
Then on Sunday, I was jogging on my own just outside of my house beside the longkao that's usually... well just an ordinary longkao. But that day at 7 o'clock in the evening, the sky was pinkish blue, and the canal (a more romantic name) was filled with water after the downpour earlier in the day. Creepers were edging towards the water and birds were swooping down swiftly to catch small fishes... A couple was strolling ahead of me on the pavement.
It was beautiful.
And I thought to myself, my home is beautiful. I forget how beautiful my own backyard in Singapore can be. How beautiful Singapore can be.
So before I go hiking in Myanmar, what say you, I hike in my own country BEFORE I head there?? I haven't even properly seen the beautiful hikes in my OWN country so what the heck, I wanna go exploring!
The more I thought about it.. the more my Grand Plan materialised - Graduation Trip in Singapore.
I've done it before and I can do it again. Remember the last time I did a mini-excursion with my lovely awesome friends Deyong and Sarah in Singapore to Little India and Haw Par Villa and other places and posed as tourists and stuff? Yeah I even got a video to prove it.
Hahahahah, shucks good old times.
Three important ingredients for any overseas trip for me:
NATURE, CULTURE, AND FOOOOD.
Since I've sorta done food exploring before (and practically lavish in local delights every day), I really want to explore Nature this time round. And just a little bit of culture. (culture stuff is a bit expensive ah. maybe for retirement when i am old and slow and have loadsa money to splash. besides, ive explored most of the free museums already!)
SO, my crazy whacko brain came up with a plan to go exploring hiking places like...
- The Southern Ridges (Kent Ridge, Telok Blangah, Mount Faber) -- Which I'm gonna do today.
- Green Corridor
- Pulau Ubin
- Sungei Buloh
- Seletar Reservoir (all together stretches the Lower & Upper Pierce as well) -- heading with my dad.
- Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Cycling from Pasir Ris (hometown babeh) to Changi Beach -- I haven't done it before despite living in Pasir Ris all my life!!!
I realised I wanted to do all these things. But... I didn't want to do it all by myself. Yes of course I can, but it is gonna be BAWWRINGGG as hell especially if I'm gonna have to do ALL of em alone. That's freakin crazy, I'd be bored and sad to death. No one to enjoy the fantastic beauty of nature around me.
I posted on Facebook just hours ago to see if anyone's interested in going on my Graduation Trip with me.
I knowww!! So many people responded and liked my post :') Shows their support and how much people actually do love our sunny island Singapore and would love to go exploring too!!!
Check out the comments:
I thought only a handful of people would private message me but I am so happy with the response. It's overwhelming. I can't wait to catch up with everyone because of this and I'M ABSOLUTE BALLS EXCITED. Shari and Vivien, two friends I haven't met in a while... It's gonna be fun : )
And so many other comments above that I can't possibly screenshot... So much hype and excitement I can't wait!
I will see this through and I will plan this and make it happen.
I only hope I have time to do all of it and squeeze all my friends in! I also have a piece of exciting news to announce (well it's exciting to me, probably not for you hahahaha) so wait up ; )
If you're interested to join me on my grad trip.... just holler. Tagboard or Ask.Fm (which is silent as HELL. Yall funny ah, ask me put up but never use tsk tsk). I mean, it could be awkward meeting strangers but as long as you don't murder, I'm sure, it'll be fine.
My crowdsourcing plan on Facebook worked because after I did, my friends messaged me on Whatsapp. And guess what? What I presumed would be a solo hike to the Southern Ridges has become a DUO HIKE. Yayyy Jasmine will be joining me today and I'm not gonna be alone yeeeheeee! I'll get to talk to someone :')
Even something as last minute as this can actually happen what in God's Name, Hallelujah. Hahaha I'm not Christian but ya know when you needa praise da lord, you just gotta praise da lord. A-men.
So yeah, I'm happy and excited as hell. It's 1:16am. Gotta have a good night's rest for today's SOUTHERN RIDGES. CIAO CIAO YALL.
