settlers

the 5 of us honors students from KT lab made our way to settlers at holland village to take advantage of the student package before our matric cards became void.

IT WAS SO FUN!!!

we played PITS, which was like heart attack, but u do trading instead of passing the cards around. crazy painful sh*t. i managed to avoid getting hit on the hand coz after awhile i gave up trading (it was a mighty mess) and just decided to watch the table and aim to place my hands at the bottom of the pile... until Hon missed and hit my ARM. thanks, buddy.

and that alvin!!! cheaterbug!!! i kept shouting 'OI OI OI OI!!!' because everytime there was an opportunity for a three way trade, somehow alvin will grab the other person's and the other person will grab his. which leaves me out. damn pek cek, so i'm stuck with the same card over and over.

or when we pile our hands HE WILL SQUEEZE HIS HAND UNDER MY HAND. and say 'what? my fingers were under yours!!'

oi, so were mine lor!!! /kick!!

apparently, once the two of us play games, there's no more romance/helping each other/helping your girlfriend who is so hapless etc/loving-kindness/sharing/winning together etc ANYMORE, HOR? EH???

T_T

(ok la, sayang ok? i say all this for effect only!! don't pout. i can see it coming already.)

we also played a variant of PITS, but we grabbed for bones on the sly, once someone's done. it was hilarious to watch KC continue trading and shouting '1, 1, 1!! eh, no 2, 2, 2!!!' on his own. by the time he realized, he scrabbled for a bone, but it was all taken already.

WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

next, we also tried FISHMARKET which was really not bad, coz there was a lot of bargaining, hence the title. we played 2 rounds of that, which i really didn't mind. teehee.

but i felt that the best was YOU MUST BE AN IDIOT. it was a relatively new looking box (PITS and its variant were very battered) and it's like polar bear! u can vote!!

ok so we have a Genius who asks a question. by giving out cards to each player, every player is predetermined to either be an Intelligent or an Idiot.

Intelligent people are to guess the answer correctly. they move 2 spaces if they're right.

Idiot people are supposed to guess wrongly. they move 3 spaces if no one catches them, or none if someone does.

ok so, first round:

Q: "in which city was Jesus born?"

ok quick, think of the answer!!!

have u got it??

...

ok now read on.

i was supposed to be the idiot. but when angeline read out the question, i was all 'OH CRAP!!! i really don't know~!!!!!'

i wrote Jerusalem.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH /kicks myself in the butt

then all of us were asked to show our answers. these were the variants: Jerusalem (me - 'cannot make it'-Christian), Galilee (Hon - Christian), Bethlehem (Alvin - Christian, KC - non-Christian T_T).

WAH LAU EVEN KC KNEW LOR!!! THIS IS TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

so Alvin and KC opened up their cards which showed they were supposed to be Intelligent, and the round opened to vote for who everyone thought was the Idiot. i was wailing, 'wah lau i really didn't know lor!' it was extremely convincing, because i am the real IDIOT, boo-hoohoo.

apparently Hon was an Idiot too, but when queried, he did know the correct answer. well, u can imagine how i felt after that round.

"i'm not worthy... i'm not worthy~!!!"

then there was another one where alvin asked, "who is the Roman god of the sea?"

i was the idiot (again!!) and i really had no clue, but they made sooooo many Poseidon jokes over the past week, and i knew Poseidon was a Greek name, so i knew i could pass off as an Intelligent with a wrong answer.

whee!! it worked! and the answer is NEPTUNE. *shrug* he sounded English to me. or Dutch or something. *shrug again*

hahahahhaa. i've got to play You Must Be An Idiot again. it's my kinda thing.

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oh, oh, i just remembered: it was funnier when alvin kena to be the Idiot, because he had such easy questions HE COULDN'T SMOKE HIS WAY THROUGH.

Q: who betrayed Jesus?
Alvin's Idiot Answer: Judah?

i caught him.

Q: how many finger holes do bowling balls have?
Alvin's Idiot Answer: 4

everyone caught him.

other questions asked -

Q: which Shakespearean character murdered Juliet?

at this i exclaimed, 'WHAT??!?! didn't she kill herself???!!'

ok, before u bash me over the head for being so darned stupid (alvin wanted to bash my head in this afternoon already) IT WAS A TECHNICALITY OK. coz suicide is... not really murder?

technicalities!!!