After our spontaneous 2-person suntanning trip to Sentosa last week due to the closing-down of the Big Splash slides, Ray and I decided to have fun at Jurong Swimming Complex today, after attending my occasional church service in the morning. It was my 3rd visit to the pool. It was around 3pm when we got there. We got changed, rented the floats and headed to the tidal pool immediately as the tides were just starting after we came out from the changing room. Compared to my previous visit there, I was having lots of trouble getting onto the float probably due to my increased weight. Wahahaha..

After around 10 minutes of getting thrown around by the artificial waves, we headed for the slides. We decided to try the lower slide first so as not to have the kick taken away from the lower slides if we had tried the higher one first. Ray got himself stuck in the slide so as to wait for me, and we slided down together instead of one by one, which was actually prohibited. But trust me, sliding down together is magnitudes of fun more than sliding down one by one. We had 3 tries and I was too tired/lazy to climb the stairs again, so we went to the stream pool to relax.

We started off at the place with the ticklish jets of water. Being too lazy to get into the water then climb up the float, we tried to jump into the water while landing on our floats. Halfway, we had a stupid game. Ray was trying to out-float me and I was losing speed, desperately trying to catch up with him on the stupid float. After a while, I decided to get off my float and chase him by swimming instead. It was so damn tiring, but in the end I managed to catch up, threw my float over him, swim under him and hey presto! I was in front of him!! Wahaha.. Nice try Ray.. =P..

Next we went for the highest slide and once again, we slided down together instead of individually. It was fun, so my legs didn't mind climbing up the even higher flights of stairs to get to the slide. I thought that the tidal waves were going to start soon, so I hurried Ray to get to the tidal pool, only to find it starting only 20 mins later. Talk about bad timing.. Haha

Back to the stream pool. We did the same thing of jumping down and trying to land on our floats once again. However, DISASTER STRUCK. When I landed on my float, it gave way and I fell. I head a loud 'THUD!', and was totally stunned for a few seconds. My head hit the bottom of the pool hard. I went to the side of the pool to rest for a few minutes, checking if I was bleeding. Fortunately, no. However a headache started, and I was still kind of stunned. We went to the jacuzzi to relax, and by the time we had enough of the jacuzzi, my head seemed to have recovered slightly. Ready for the slides once again!

Our plans this time was to alternate between the low and high slides 2 times, then try the floatless slide 2 times as well. Though the floatless slide was lower than the other 2, it was much scarier. Satisfied with the last dose of fun and worried about the approaching thunderclouds, we headed for the showers.

After the shower, we exited the pool gates and headed towards the car, only to realize that I had left my goggles behind! My $32 optical goggles.. So I spent another $2 just to get back in and check the shower room, but the goggles have already been taken by some itchy hands. Let's hope the person who took my goggles regrets it..

It was around 6 after we headed back to the car and went to some kopitiam nearby for a drink. Cheryl was meeting us at Marina Square as Ray wanted to go there for his favorite ice-cream, so I drove down slowly, as I was probably too tired to speed after the slides and stairs. The only 2 purposes of going to Marina was to meet Cheryl and eat the ice-cream. Our next plan was to have dinner at the Bedok 85 market, as Cheryl was going to be on braces soon and she wanted to have all the food she likes before the 2 months of oral torture. I was lucky enough to get a parking lot soon after I reached the usually-crowded carpark. However, we were not too lucky at the hawker center itself. Had some trouble looking for seats until some auntie set up a makeshift one for us near NTUC.

We had a sumptious dinner there consisting of porridge, bah chor mee, chilli crab, BBQ'ed stingray, BBQ'ed chicken wings and sugar-cane juice. Cuz of the chilli crab and chicken wings, Ray had to go back to my car to get my giant-pack tissue paper. And mind you, we finished almost half of the tissue paper. After that, I sent Cheryl and Ray home. Now there's still one thing left to do - get MC for the bumps on my head.

I drove home, went up to get my mum, and then my sis drove us to the hospital. There was a super-long queue there, but it was worth it. 2-days MC.