A White Pebble

All right, as promised guys, I'll blog about my trip to Sunway Pyramid yesterday. It seemed more fun than usual, which I suspect is due to the fact that we were in a holiday (1 week break) mood and of course, getting over a math test! I'll tell you what is so significant about the math test.. the fact that most students, if not all were so worked up by it that everyone was doing and thinking of math 24/7 throughout the week. And that's not to mention the disastrous specialist math quiz on Thursday and several assignments piled up. The quiz was not, I stress, not, easy, Ben. :) . So the trip was a much needed break to unwind from a hectic week.

Well, apparently many AUSMAT students were in Sunway Pyramid although I didn't spot most of them who were supposedly there. So, the first thing we did there was to eat dinner. There was the usual period of indecisiveness on choosing a restaurant to dine in. Finally, we settled on a Hong Kong restaurant called KimGary (Not sure about it's more prominent Chinese name... I'm banana le :D) . I tried some cheese baked rice with pork which was quite good. Here are pics of us :

Oops.. Not such a great shot.

That's better. Clockwise starting with Leon (guy on the lower left corner in purple) , Benjamin, Clarence, Weijun, Jeremy(Smile la.. look so serious oni :) ) and me.

We spent quite a while lepakking around there because the bowling alley was totally booked. Ended up watching some skating competition in the ice skating rink. The most entertaining part was probably laughing at the contestants mess up their performances. So bad huh... Besides that, we went into "I Need House" as we were passing by. Call it an "coming-of-age initiation ritual" or whatever you want, but this supposedly controversial shop proved to be (disappointingly) normal, selling mostly key chains and similar trinkets. I seriously think that that franchise has been grossly overrated and hyped up.

We barely grabbed the last tickets for the movie "300". In spite of all the blood and gore, I found the narrative movie intriguing. The movie revolves around a small band of Spartans who were resisting a massive invading Persian army. I would have thought the story as purely fictional, but the fact that such a historical battle occurred makes the story somewhat plausible. However, as with typical Hollywood airbrushing, the Spartans are portrayed as noble knights while the Persians as moronic arrogant villains. It spins an inspiring tale of courage and valour despite the overwhelming odds. I'll end my comments here on the movie to avoid spoiling it for those who have yet to watch it.

One particularly *interesting* incident at the IT section went somewhere along this line :

Clarence : Leon, Leon look at this! *pointing at a Logitech Presenter*


Leon : What? Vibrator ah?!

*Rest of us burst out laughing*

A salesman, witnessing the whole thing, approached us probably thinking of us as idiotic teenagers.

Salesman : Anything else that you want?

*We declined politely and quickly left*

Lame huh... :D

But it was plenty of fun. I sure am looking forward to more of such outings together :D. Don't you guys agree?