Sandcastle Building

Just spent the previous few days (Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) of the week working ad-hoc with Roy for a company called Beautiful Minds. They conduct sandcastle building workshops for corporate companies and also for schools to promote team building. It was quite fun learning how to build sandcastles and apparently, there are a lot of skills involved to build a nice sandcastle and not as childish as I used to think it was.

The major project was at Sentosa where we had to build a sandcastle on Thursday in preparation for Friday's corporate event for 200 over employees of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Thursday was really very tiring as we had to use shovels to pile up sand into a big pile for the centerpiece and also to carry water to wet the sand. Me, Roy, Anthony and Val (the new part-timers) were basically Bangladesh workers for the first part of the day: piling sand and carrying water, while the more experienced staff scupltured the sandcastle. Only later in afternoon did we manage to finish our Bangladesh work and help to build some parts of the castle. It was really satisfying to see the completed results and here it is:

The castle looks really nice! No chemicals used, just sand, water and pressure =)

However, the sun was really bad and I got a horrible sunburn on my back, feet and face!! Really regretted taking off my shirt.

Roy and Me (Sunburnt)

Anthony and Me (Even more sunburnt) Top half of my face when I got home on Thursday

Well luckily the pay was not that bad and Friday was quite slack, so I managed to survive the sun at Sentosa on Friday with lots of sunblock, wearing a T-shirt and cap .. haha! But it was quite an experience (minus the sunburn) and hopefully my sunburn will recover soon.