because you see, the flight is at 225 pm. and then we still have to dance at nus at 11 am. and then 11 am we were informed last minute that there is a change of venue, so we only started dancing at 1120, and finally we finished our dance item at 1145, and i chiong to the carpark and drive the car home.
reach home at 1205, and rushed up to my house, bathed, and did some last min packing. left the house at 1230, took a cab, and reached the airport at 1245. hahaha super happening, ma chiam 赶七月歌台.
darling was already at the airport to send me off, and after i checked-in my luggage, both of us went to the food court to have our lunch. one chicken rice set cost 8 bucks and the duck rice set cost 9 bucks. so expensive and yet dun taste that fantastic. i am seriously not going there to eat anymore.
said bye bye to darling and all of us went inside the transit area. fen collected all our passports because he wanted to buy wine and cigarettes back. there's altogether 12 singaporean passports, so you can imagine how much wine and cigarettes he bought.
the plane ride took 7 hours. thank goodness there is in-flight entertainment system. the movies they offer is not as many as SIA, but is good enough already. i watched two hong kong movies on the plane. the rest of the time is used to sleep and to walk around the plane talking cock with the pple.
we finally reached mauritius. i forgot wat is the exact time that we reached, and i only noe that all of us are tired and hungry. anyway mauritius is 4 hours behind sg time! ah noo, the project coordinator for the mauritius chinese community 60th anniversary celebrations was at the airport waiting for us. as soon as we stepped out of the airport, fen's sister yunevee was also waiting for us with our mini-bus.
yunevee passed to us the mauritius chinese newspapers. and we were in the biggest surprise of the lifetime. our faces appeared inside the newspaper!!! its not like at the far right corner one tiny space. but its one full page! wonder how much will that cost! and we are being addressed as SINGAPORE DELEGATES. how cool is that.
we were greeted again with the next surprise. yunevee gave each of us a personalised goodie bag!
so we have a post card, a mauritius map, a packet of banana chips, mauritius local cakes which is known as napolitan, and a gift packet, which contains a key chain and a magnet.all of us were really touched by the efforts. :'(
our first meal at mauritius is bee hoon soup at a chinese restaurant! the bee hoon soup looked ordinary, but once we tasted it... OMG ITS DELICIOUS! thrilled our taste buds and warmed our stomachs. :)
(zhimin's vegetarian bee hoon)
after the nice dinner we went to our hotel. the name of our hotel is casa florida. its a two-storeyed bungalow, with one toilet, one living room, one kitchen, and two bed rooms. sounds good rite? but its quite small, something like the costa sands chalets at east coast park or pasir ris.
ok that's all for day 0. we slept at about 12 plus midnight mauritian time, which is 4 plus am sg time! crazy man.
