Guess what time it is? It’s COR outing time!!!

Yay! On the 8^th January 2010, COR had a picnic/games day over at the Botanic Gardens. (When was the last time that we even set foot in the Botanic Gardens? Haha)

We first gathered at Orchard MRT station, all of us carrying the food that we are contributing to this Potluck style picnic!!!

  

Enjoying the food that we brought later in the day, after the Phoro Hunt game. (Why is there CNY Goodies in the middle?!)

Even though the weather looked dangerously cloudy and slightly rainy in the morning, it all cleared up just in time for us as we travelled together to the Botanic Gardens by bus behind ION.

When we arrived, De Jun and Eileen (2 of our CGLs) gathered us to explain the game that we were going to play. It’s called “Photo-Hunt” and basically, it took us around to different landmarks within some parts of the Botanic Gardens and we were expected to find these places and take funny photos as a group there!!!

De Jun and Eileen explaining the rules of the game!!!

And so, with 2 teams competing to finish first, we started the game.

Along the way, the participants tried putting their navigation skills to the test and we searched high and low for the places where we were supposed to take photos. All the while, we were also enjoying each others’ companies and reminiscing the old days when we were in Botanic Gardens. Most people mentioned that the last time they were here was when they were little children so it was rather refreshing to see everything again, so familiar yet so distant…

One of the groups doing a ‘shocked’ expression at Swan Lake. “NO Aloysius, you CANNOT swim in there!!!”

We were supposed to do a combination of happy, angry, sad and excited/ecstatic expressions in front of the National Orchid Garden.

We visited various places, such as the plot of Vanda Miss Joaquim (Our National flower), the Swan Lake, the front of National Orchid Garden, a cave near the Ginger Garden and a pavilion within the Rainforest area.

At the end of the day, we all gathered back at the place we started to enjoy the food that we brought and to play games.

“Eileen, why are you looking at Mang Yew like that?! Don’t be angry just because he took the Frisbee!”

Jason and Jack trying to catch the ball Joey threw!!

A classic picture of Jenson (COR’11 Logistics) try to catch the Frisbee/ball. Haha!

After a while, we settled down and we sat down by the benches near the shelter and we continued the day with card games! Joey is always ever ready with her Saboteur cards!!! Haha!

Jingru’s Monopoly Deal Cards also very popular!!!

“Isaac, are you are real miner or are you a Saboteur???”

Time flies and fun times pass quickly. Before long, we were done with the afternoon and trying to get out before it started to rain!!! It had been a really enjoyable day and some of us decided to go to Far East Plaza to have dinner so we finally left Botanic Gardens!!!

Not everyone managed to make it but we still had a great time!

We apologise for picking a date where many people couldn’t make it for the outing but now that you guys have seen the fun that we had, remind yourself that you MUST MUST come to our next COR outing okay, everybody?!

-CGLs