Midnight Raiders

After LSM lecture i went to eat dinner with the boys (1800 hours).. then rushed off to Sheares to get the marketing book from cons. took 51 to queensway to zap (1900 hours). met 3 ex-army frens at there, great medics they are, clement, karthik, and (oops! i forgot!). had a nice chat. they were as excited at seeing all my cards such as matric card, as i was a year ago. lol.

At about 1930 hours brenda from bhbh2 smsed me and said, hey do u wanna help me collect stuff from this semi-d. Apparently the last owners of the semi-d had moved overseas and they had some extra stuff to give to our cause. We got stephen and his van and we rendezvous'ed at Harbourfront MRT.

the bungalow in question was at Thomson road, quite a long way, by the time we reached there it was about 2100 plus. it was a semi-d, but it was still imposing with grandeur. even in the moon light. after gaining access brenda told us that the stuff strewn outside the house was available for collection - amongst them, a fridge, books, soft toys, nice cd rack, vintage coke glass bottles, etc etc.

we had a good look outside the house. it was the perfect place for fright night, man, with this apprehensive air around it - everything under the moonlight seemed to stare at us intruders. i asked brenda whether we could rent one of these houses, sadly, no. ha. there was this defunct fountain in the front of the house, and if u walked to the back there was this enormous cooking / laundry / area with a cooking oven cum stove.

we had a look inside the house (even though we were not supposed to). since the electricity had been cut, our only source of illumination was the light from our handphones... we found a trolley which assisted us greatly in the shifting of the fridge. the living room had been stripped quite bare, with stuff like a radio lying about, a bar table (!) and a electone (although quite old model, but i guess still worth up to 1k?) we didn't go and explore the ground floor rooms, or the rooms upstairs. it was definitely too creepy.

ok, enough peeking, we decided to filter the stuff that we can take and load up. the fridge went in first, but there wasn't enough room! oh gosh. after racking our brains for darn long we managed to get like 95% of the volume of the fridge inside. stephen decided that he could tie the back doors of his van together and i could like sit inside and jaga the back door, hope nothing falls out. then everything else went in. poor van.

the space i had was probably just enough to fit my whole body in. not enough leg room, felt like i was part of the cargo. haha. stephen and brenda sat in front. stephen gave me an additional string tied to the back of the door popping out, which i could "pull" towards me as an extra coverage.

off the way we went back, to kent ridge hall. i'd rather he took the upper thomson-mandai road instead of going through cte and aye like the way we came. well. anyway his collection of mp3s was pretty entertaining, with selections like Shin's tian gao di hou which i sang with much enthusiasm via the half-open door to the motorists behind us.

reached KR at about 2230. asked meishan to open the gate. asked louis and jw to come... and they dragged weiming along. heh. together we shifted the fridge to a-block, level 6. now they have two fridges. (for temporary storage only).

by the time we finished it was about midnight already. louis and jw took all the soft toys to store in their rooms (think the idea about each of them holding a garfield was pretty funny). the rest of the stuff was left in the van where stephen would be looking after it.

stephen then sent me and brenda home. reached home at about 0030 hours. other than the chingay days, i dun remember coming back from school that late. rushed homework (have to prepare for PR1103 lab! have to do lsm tutorial!! have to think of questions to buzz our pharmacist!) then fell asleep at about 0200. shack.