Kinect-ing

Just after Chinese New Year, MeiMon's invited a bunch of us over to their place to finish off the new year cookies they have stocked up. However the main purpose was to Kinect. I never know how much fun Kinect was and what a sweat it was until I played it. A couple weeks before this day, Mei Foong invited me over to her place and I had a glimpse of Kinect.

We played this fitness game where you were suppose to flap your hands up and down like a bird. The objective was to pump and break as many balloons as you can in 2 minutes. After that day my arms were aching for a couple of days. 

So for the people who had yet to Kinect we made them do the same thing as well. Since none of them knew how to play and the people who knew (MeiMon and Steph) didn't want to start first, so I went. My target was 30 and I think I got 32 balloons. Then it was time for the rest to try it out...

After a very very very long time trying to persuade the host to try they finally did it. Initially we didn't under stand what Simon was saying when he said if you squat it would be easier for the balloons to burst. His own words were do the "pang say" pose and it would help. When it was time for his turned we asked him to demonstrate....

Wow No Mo you really went all the way down leh. Finally we also got Mei Foong to try it out...

Wen Way came late and as a consequence they had to do it as well. De Way was a bit apprehensive when he first started because of the so called "pang sai" pose but in the end also he got into the groove. He did however do the right thing which was to warm up by stretching. 

What he didn't know was the games we were playing was actually the warm up...

Next we went on to the next game which was you need to lift your hands up as if you are carrying a plank and you need to catch and balance point blocks that fall down from the sky. The plank gets bigger if you stand on one leg. As again I started it and the rest followed...

Looking at Gim's face, it is obvious that the game was way too easy for him. We then persuaded Sharon to do some bollywood...

We ended the day by playing this rafting game that involves jumping around....

Wow De Way so high until you almost hit the ceiling. Kinect can be dangerous too. Hehe. It was a great day of Kinect but man it was tiring. Everyone was sweating and panting especially after the warm up exercises.