Memo# 16 : Toilet Paper 20 cent!!

I am exhausted.

After an inactive weekday, I crammed everything into this one Saturday.

After painstaking discussions on Saturday's barbecue with less than enthusiastic friends, today went well despite only 3 out of our former group members were present
1st Annual Beach barbecue 2005 (Ong,Dan,Me,Kwong,Kong,Soo and Joel)2nd Annual Beach Barbecue , 2006 (Lee,Kelvin Su,Kong,Me,Kwong,Ong,Kew and Ng who is taking the pic)

And presenting our 3rd Annual Beach Barbacue ..
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3rd Annual Beach Barbecue , 2007 (Soo,Ong,Kwong,Me)

As you can see, there are only 3 of us excluding Soo who brought his own classmates.

Sure.. each year we find new ways of improving our barbecue to ensure quality and food remains sandless unlike our first time

2 years ago, we thought the beach provided a place to put our food. We found it out the hard way and had to eat sand covered chicken wings.

But that didn't stop us. We learnt from our mistakes and used a metal wok to put our food.


This year just didn't feel the same.
Most of them were either busy working , in National Service or already have plans for that day.
The spirit and tradition must live on if even through 3 people.

We were supposed to go Kwong's house to play basketball before 8am.
But Ong got up late and I was picking him up. So we only reach there at 8am. Didn't leave us much time to shoot some hoops so went straight to the beach to find Soo.

We tried to get the coal heating at around 8.30am
Only around 9.15am it started getting hot and generating enough heat to cook the food.

There was more smoke than heat. 8 firestarters and not even a decent fire to cook raw meat like chicken wings though sausages only needed thawing.
Soo's group ended up at the other end of the beach so he went there to get them.Got a little bit of heat going so we just cooked some sausages and satays for Kong.
Kong had to leave at 9.30am to meet up with his girlfriend so he ended up only staying for
1 1/2hours .

That left us with 3 of us to 7 of them ..
After I came back from sending off Kong, they merged 2 groups into 1
Our sad little wok was cast aside for a real barbecue pit with airholes beneath to allow combustion.

You could see the coal literally burning red.
But soon afterwards the coal died out and the next round of food wasn't cooked properly.

They tried to restart the fire using coconut husk.
Tearing up the husk and burning it.


Surprisingly the husk burnt slowly and created enough heat to burn the charcoal and get the fire starting again.Around 12pm it was getting hot and planned to go swimming around 4pm in the evening.
But since we had much time to kill, I dropped Kwong at Ong's place and went home to sleep.


Around 4pm I went to pick up Kwong and Ong and on the way pick up Kew and Ng at Kew's house.
Seriously, these guys keep me distracted from driving.

Went to Likas Sports Complex Swimming Pool. The entrance fee was RM5 and RM2 for students.
No one wanted to go into the pool first. Ong doesn't have muscle on his legs. They're so slim and slender.. just like a girl's.
Kwong wore a PINK swimtrunks.. now that's just gay.
Too bad I forgot to bring my camera.

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. That means I have to get up early again.

Oo Ya .. toilet paper 20cent!!!