DV8 Post-O-Level BBQ! - Benedict

11 Nov 09 marked the end of O Levels for many of the people in D8, and as a form of celebration, we decided to have a BBQ that night! It was something many of us have not done in a long time, and therefore many of us were super excited about it!

It all started at around 4.30pm, when Shuyi, Bryan, Chiu Wen, Joseph, Richard and Wess met at Kembangan to buy the goodies for the BBQ.. Bryan was the strong man! He was carrying this huge styrofoam box which might deceive you into thinking that it’s actually quite light, but in fact, inside the box were things like one whole pack of ice, and also all the uncooked meat and everything! You just gotta see how much stuff was inside man!

After that they went down to Aljunied station, where they met me at the platform. On the way while walking down to the condo, they met Yang Zhan! You got to see his shirt that day man! The shirt’s design was to make it look “dirty”, as though some charcoal or something had brushed against it! In the end, so many of us just joked with him, saying “Whoa, haven’t start BBQ, your shirt so dirty already?!”

So we made our merry way down to the BBQ pits in the condo, and whoa, that place was nice! The area was meant for two groups of BBQ simultaneously, but we were the only ones there, so we had a lot of space!! We just sat there and chatted first, joking around and everything, while some of us were figuring out how to start the BBQ without the tray at the bottom for the charcoal. Finally, we managed to get everything in place (thanks to the person-in-charge!), and by that time, Si Hui and MIchelle had joined us, so we began to start eating the DELICIOUS pineapple rice and SUMPTUOUS noodles, and also began to start the BBQ fire!

Did I mention how great the food was?! When we first started the bbq, we didn’t have margarine and the fire wasn’t really good, so we could only make some easy-to-cook food, like sausages. I made the mistake of putting stingray on the fire too! But the fire was really too small and weak to make any impact on the stingray, and we just left it there to slooooooooowly cook ): It wasn’t until Darryl came with the margarine and Cavin came to make the fire huge did we manage to really cook the food! From then on, it was a road of no return!! We had stingray, satay, chicken wings, and salmon, but if you think that’s not a lot of food, you are definitely wrong! There was simply so much food, and it all tasted very nice!!

As the BBQ went on, more and more people joined us, people like Cheong Jing (who also finished her O Levels that day!), Wan Chin (who came down after her work), Lennon (who is Deng Yao’s friend from JC and army), and Raymond (who rushed all the way down even though it was quite late just to hang out with us)! I think around 20 people came for the BBQ in all! And you’ve got to clap for Si Hui, the number of times she went to fetch people or to open the gate for people to come to the pit!

We had a fun time after that just chatting, hanging out with one another and also playing lame orientation games! We were all just making fun of each other, especially if we knew how to play the game! We just kept repeating how to play the game, trying to confuse everyone who didn’t know how to, just for the fun of it! But in the end, we taught them how to play the games, and we all had a good laugh!

At the end of the BBQ, we managed to finish almost EVERYTHING, and what was left, we passed to the security guards as supper, to thank them for kindly lending us their lighters to start the fire! They looked quite shocked that night! Oh, and I must tell you how we cleared away the charcoal! Apparently we had to clear away the charcoal, but it was just simply too hot, especially since we just killed the fire not long ago. So Deng Yao and me started to get water from the tap and to pour it on the charcoal! It was so funny, cos the charcoal just sizzled and sizzled and sizzled, and in the end there was so much water on the charcoal tray! Then we began to use some cardboard and plastic trays to scoop up the charcoal and to throw it away! Oh, and someone (ahem) accidentally threw away Deng Yao’s MC and medicine! In the end he had to dig it out from the luckily-not-very-deep-and-gross rubbish bin! ):

All in all, it was a really great BBQ! I’m sure all of us had great fun and really enjoyed just spending time with each other, just to hang out and celebrate the end of the O Levels for all the Sec 4/5 people! We do life together man! (: