Our Monkeying Days...

Thursday, July 13, 2006

BATAM CABLE-SKI '06 :)
lik sin, ziyang, lipen, lawrence, me, wei hong, frank!

had a bomb at batam!! learning how to cable-ski and riding on the wakeboard is no easy feat man. oh my gosh, my arms are aching like mad even as i'm typing this now. hehe. we did knee-boarding first..where you kneel down on a board and get dragged round the waterfront park by the moving cable. and the cable moves really fast..you just gotta hold onto it for dear life esp. when u round the bends or else you'll be thrown off! hahaha. we ended up drinking quite an amount of water..heh. but it's damn fun!! frank attempted to go up the ramp on his second round...and we were all holding our breaths watching him do his stunt. hahaha he fell flat on his face la. but i'll still rate him 10 for bravery!

after knee-boarding, we learnt to do the real wakeboarding. wah, just learning how to stand and start movin off is so much hard work! we just kept flying off the wakeboard (all in our various flying-stunts haha!) and drinking a lot of water the whole day. hahaha, lik sin was trying to capture my superman (or rather superwoman) flying-stunt because everytime i fall off the board i'll still hold onto the cable so i fly along with it in the air. heee! though we didn't manage to master wakeboarding, i enjoyed the flying part a lot!! hahaha after a while, the falling doesn't matter anymore..i actually had fun falling into the water! hehe :) :)

okie dokes, pics are UP!

making our way to batam!
getting all excited on the ferry for the trip..
our instructor Shawn was telling us all about his exploits in Thailand, how he jio-ed the girls there. wahaha. it's really funny just watching him cos he gets so animated..going on and on about the thai girls. haha:)

BATAM WATERFRONT PARK!!
don't the wakeboards look so cool? and the helmets, which i found irritating because it blocks your view when u knee-board, so u can't exactly see where u're heading. so i crashed! and ended up in the muddiest part of the park..where the mud reaches up to your thighs. eeeew

yups, and the resident doggie bites.

us and Shawn (he's 4th from the left)

Oooooh. this is my fav part!
ahhh it's so much more fun than the jetty-jump at OBS!! while the ride was under maintenance, we were allowed to climb up to where the cables are and JUMP! wooot it's so high up and the fall is so so long u feel like you're not going to reach the water. suicidal. hahaha. but your ass will crack when u hit the water cos of the impact...ouch ouch ouch.

we were all super shagged by the afternoon.
arms aching, tummy bloated from all water...but we still went on! =D

my toe nail came off :( but it didn't hurt la..just plastered and taped it up.
i have one big black toe now! haha

Shawn!
it's so cool watching him beach up the land on his board like a whale

no. 3 wakeboarder in indonesia
he's ab-solutely pro, with his backflips and turns and jumps. wow.
wakeboarding is super chio to watch if u can do it properly...i wanna take up wakeboarding alr!
wheeee

hahahaha
Shawn dunked!!

the guys kept dunking me into the water 'cos frank says that im evil (mwahaha cos i keep dunkin others in) ahhhh but no fair, so many guys! so they ganged up against me and kept throwing me into the water! so gulp gulp gulp more water...ooo im so bloated.

as tiring as wakeboarding is..the fun really overrides all the aching. i wanna go back for more!

.:Xiufang:.

~*1:14 AM*~

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