Wild Wet Waste

Today after church, Steven Shee, one of the Boat Coy medics from last time asked if i wanted to hang out and see how Downtown East Wild Wild Wet was like, especially since he stays three minutes away but had never been there before in his life... I thought why not, since i also was wondering how it was like, and had been dying to go for a swim for the longest time, especially in the light of my impending ippt, only to be foiled by either an uncooperative timetable or equally uncooperative weather.

So we met and went there... It looked quite promising at first, despite the steep $12.90 (excluding $2 for a one-time-use locker) entrance fee, but after we went on one slide after another. i began to think that it was actually quite crappy...

A lot of the slides there (well there aren't a lot of slides there to begin with, actually) are hampered by their lack of height, and hence lack of speed upon takeoff... Steven even got stuck on two of the slides cos his take-off speed was too slow... The disappointing experience on the slides was only punctuated by the subsequent plunge into a pool of wait-a-minute-why-does-it-taste-so-salty water...

One of the so-called attractions that amused me greatly was this thingy where, from a station on the second floor, you pedal your little tracked bicycle thingy around a circuit of an approximate length of just about 50 metres... What kind of a half-past-six panoramic view would one hope to get from that?

The high point (though it wasn't that high, actually), i thought was the wave pool, although the waves weren't that great (but the seaside experience was still helped by the extreme salinity of the water...). Actually, what was more fun was settling ourselves on one of those giant inflatable donuts that are provided in the pool and try to knock each other off into the water (which reminded me somewhat of the game 'joust' in Amreican Gladiators)... Yup, after all those water slides, the highlight of the day came instead from something that we invented ourselves...

Then of course, just as we were starting to have fun, Cat 1 weather arrived and that was the end of the Wild Wet wasted experience, less than 2 hours after entering [and bear in mind that we spent more time out of than in the water thanks to the long lines for the rides - i actually was bone-dry by the time we got to sit in the most popular ride. after waiting at least 20 minutes]...

So after that we went to Tampines Mall Seoul Garden to eat. I don't recall having eaten at Seoul Garden since JC1, and i don't think i will for some time to come... But that's another story, and i now want to sleep...