Kingdom Of Castle Peak

Back for the 2nd part of the trip. Currently unable to get myself to sleep, i guess its probably due to the effect of the late morning sleeping hours due to the time spent at the casino, I just can't get to sleep despite only sleeping less than 5 hours for about 2 days...

I went back to my room about 6am, have a hot shower and a change of clothes before climbing up the foldable bed to have a short rest. Sleepy me just couldn't get myself out of the bed to make it for the breakfast buffet, which is the only meal that the buffet offers orange juice. And I MISS IT. I woke up around noon to have the lunch buffet before I went with my two cousins to the basketball court at the top level to play for a while. After playing a while, there came a three more people coming in to play and of course, we had to just team up and play a few games as some recreation activity for us.

Next, after playing basketball, we went towards the swimming pool to just enjoy ourselves in the afternoon heat. And to our susprise, there was actually a pool event for everyone who is swimming to join in and play together. However, it doesn't seems to be alot of people interested to swim in such a small area swimming pool, thus there wasn't much people playing in the event. No matter what, there was about 6-8 of us there in the pool, and were told to get into groups of 3 since 2 of them were unwilling to join in the game. There was 3 rounds to be played and with the group with 2 wins taking home to Star Cruise Gold Medal! Now for the brief overview of how the game went.

Game 1: There was a bucket at the tip of the swimming pool, and each team were given one plastic cup each. We were required to swim one breadth of the pool with the cup and storing as much water as we can before putting it inside the bucket. The time limit was 30s, so as the game started, it was quite a close game till the last part where my cousin and I started to go in a quick circle to end of the game, allowing my younger cousin to rest for the next 2 games. Both teams' cup was in quite a torn condition when the game ended, and of course with us winning the 1st round in with 3/4 of the pail filled.

Game 2: The next game was to fill as much plastic ball in your swimwear before putting at a corner, and the team with the most ball wins. This round was very disadvantagous to us since the three of us are wearing trunks, while the other team switched the girl with another guy that was wearing a swimsuit. And despite this huge advantage they had, I realised that they even cheated by just grabbing the ball from the pool and putting it as their as the majority of the ball was also nearby. Thus, without much explaination, the 2nd round went over to the other side.

Final Game: Both team were 1:1, and it was all or nothing although initially I thought there will be at least gold and silver medals for the team. So I actually told my cousin to relax and treat it as just a game of fun as he wa quite unhappy with the people cheating in the 2nd round despite the massive advantage they already had. And so, the last game was to swim with a hula hoop and running about half the pool, passing it to the next person until the last person reaches the finishing line.

It was like an Olympic Final Trio Swimming Event, where it was China & Singapore team for the Gold Medal! My tactic for this game, was to put my cousin 1st to try and get the lead against them, so as to allow my younger cousin to at least maintain status quo since he is generally still a kid and smaller in size as compared to the other team. At the second lap, my cousin seemed to be having some problem with the hula hoop and wasting quite sometime before he was able to pass it to me, when the other team was already halfway there. When it was passed to me, I took a real gamble to try to use my hands to swing the hula hoop and trying to catch up with the last guy. It looks like my gamble paid off as not only I managed to chase up the last guy, I even clinch the Gold Medal for the event. It seems that the last guy didn't realise that he had to get up and run back to the finishing line to consider them win, so it sort of wasted some time there, but with another disadvantage situation on us, we were consider very good to be able to win this event and bring back glory of ourselves? ^_^

After that pool event, about after another 2 laps of swimming we went back to the room to shower and prepare ourselves for the BBQ outdoor buffet dinner. Quite tired typing and should be getting to be and sleep already, so watch out for the finale of the long winded post, but the climax is in this post! Hope you enjoy!!!