I went out today. Been planning to go to the Botanic Gardens for a week now, with Kelvin and Insan.
Thought it'd be quite quick and simple, really. Get there, pick a few leaves for our Bio botany project, come back.
And heck, was I proven wrong.
Speaking of wrong, several things went wrong today.
Firstly, we took a bus to the bus interchange, thinking 105 would stop there. But it didn't. So we decided to go to Commonwealth by MRT instead. Talked crap so much, we missed our stop, and we had to waste more time waiting for the train back to Commonwealth. Almost missed our stop on toe way to the Botanic Gardens too, but thankfully we had Kelvin with us (Insan and I are great friends with the words "lost" and "no sense of direction").
When we finally got there, we realised collecting leaves wasn't going to be so easy after all. Spent absolutely ages trying to choose which ones to pick, and since most of them looked the same, we had to spend more time trying to come up with ways to categorise them into our dichotomous key. (They somehow have this habit of not labeling the more interesting and different-looking plants. I wonder why.)
Felt hungry after walking around a bit, so we paid a visit to the food court. Insan was talking about how romantic a place the Botanic Gardens were, and how it'd be great to go on a date there. And then when we discovered the food court gave free drink refills, he declared it the perfect place to go on a date. Can you imagine that? Asking someone out like this: "Hey, do you want to go on a romantic date with me? I know this place with free refills,"? It's awfully failed.
Then we walked around some more, trying to fit in as tourists and not a bunch of idiots walking around with a pencil and a book full of leaves.
Epic trained for NAPFA, 'cause according to my iPod's pedometer, we walked around 9,000 steps in total there (which isn't much, actually, but it's nice to feel accomplished).
Felt super thirsty after our ninth plant species, so revisited the food court.
Bought ice cream and Chrysanthemum flowers on the way back. Looked seriously weird, what with the flower-carrying and ice cream-eating.
Our summary of the entire seven-hour trip is:
- Travelling/getting lost/checking directories/failing in general: 2.5 hours
- Eating/talking crap in the food court/being lame in general: 2 hours
- Sightseeing/checking out the gift shops/sitting on benches and talking/hanging around the Ball of Wisdom/being tourists in general: 2 hours
- Collecting leaves/recording names of plants/discussing Bio/actual work in general: 0.5 hours
Time-consuming and calorie-burning as it was, I had tonnes of fun today. Seriously. We should do it more often.
Okay, need sleep now. Tired.
P.S. Behold, the Ball of Wisdom. Words cannot describe its amazingness, therefore I shall post a link to this here video.
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