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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Ooops.
I killed my blog again. Teehee!

There's been so much going on nowadays.
Its 1.20 in the morning and I'm freaking awake and doing physics prac.
My throat's sore, both nostrils blocked, slight fever,
2 hours each of Biology and Chemistry topped with an hour of
mass physics class with 2 weird teachers in approximately 7 hours.


Life sounds perfect, no?



whoa, today was super stressful.
Everyone went moody after physics practical.
Even like, me and chris.

Da Vinci was useless cause I didnt catch a thing
(and spencer conveniently hibernated)
and I convinced Chris, Stacy (kim) and Spencer to go
EAT FRIED CHEESE. LOL
sinful food is MY way of relieving stress.
No wonder i'm
"fat like an elephant" - Lovingly quoted from my bro.

):

Anyways,
I had a good time, relieved stress (a lot and Thanks!)
but reached home at like 730. LOL
With like a HUGE pile of stuff to do!! Shoot me!

Yeah well, and now i'm sick and pathetic...
and doing my physics practical comprising of questions that
"arent even questions" <- Beverly -_-


I just cant wait till this year is over.
And I still havent decided,
Who do I room with next year!!! Ahhhhhhh



Tuesday, January 05, 2010

CHENG HO OUTINGGG.

1) cycling -Shaohao
2) Bowling -Sharmaine
3) Laser quest
4) KAYAKING :D
5) Pool (one that does not involve any water)

ALL CHENGHO INVITED!
indicate preference to me or mf! (((:

23rd Jan, okay for everyone? :D



My birthday is coming! (btw. LOL)

14 Jan 1993

Take note, darlingss ((:


ORIENTATATION Day 2

Orientation. Again.

I ate breakfast at king albert's park macs,
(holy, I didnt know the Mcmuffins were THAT nice)
and came to school! In a painfully ugly and impractical PE uniform.

Whoa, the moment I reached school I was blinded by the sheer striking-ness
of the orientation shirts! so ORANGE!
The SC's ones are SO much nicer looking.
Although I think it would have been nicer navy and orange (:
Chrissy's design! (promoting, promoting :DD) LOL

Station games, yadi yadi.
I bet our school's the ONLY school in the whole of Singapore
that makes people do Science word puzzles and sudoku to bond. (or attempt to)
Was quite okay, Dodge ball was FUN (: And we owned HAHA
(stacy: if you read. 우리지금 만나!! 당장만나!! LOLLLL)

Mentor group meeting.
We were split into groups for seating arrangements and at the same time,
Chemistry groups. And..
1) Sunyoung, Ethel, Chester, Martin
2) Christine, Spencer, Grace, Nicky
3) Chris, Phan, Jonathan, Edwin
4) Beverly, Kangraye, Shao Hao, Lydia
5) Yanni, Boobies, Don, Dillon, Billy
6) Me, Emman, Shahid, Zikri

Ms Tan could not POSSIBLY have done this.
Unless she dont know how to learn from her mistakes.

ME AND SHAHID AGAIN??? LOL
(why the heck does she like to pair us up and Chris and Jonathan!)

SHAOHAO REPLACED WITH EMMAN?

She.. either does not want me to concentrate or
she was VERY sleepy and feeling evil when she was doing this.
SIGHHHH.

So that was that. And back to the houses again!
This whole programme actually does work a bit.
I actually got to know a whole bunch of not-so-close people from other classes.
we chose a guy model and a girl model to model for the fashion show!
Joel Ng and... Joanne (HAHA)
Maybe I was kindda mean when I nominated joanne.
Aiyah, who cares, what's done is done. LOL

The costume... I cant reveal of course.
(I still cant give up the car ideaaaa.
Man. It was such a brilliant idea, no? Sharmaine? HAHAHAHA*evil laughter*)
Everyone will see tmr (: HAHA. poor.. joel. :P

Mass Dance. HAHAHA
I keep getting the steps wrong! I bet I look really funny too ):
I keep "losing control" *does the head spinning thingy*
cause we have to keep spinning and spinning and spinningg @_@

Heh. Came home.
MUST WRITE THE BILL! Sigh, I want to be the press corps lehhhh.
no need to write bills :/ (daynaaaaaa. LOL)

thats all. Tata! (I think I'm very diligently posting nowadays! :D *pats my head*)


Monday, January 04, 2010
Orientation 2010, IGNITE

First day of school!
I realised I missed SO many of them, like really badly.

Like usual, the orientation program was superb!... -ly boring. Sigh.
Speech and lecturing all the way until 10.
Thank god Yanni was there to entertain me (:
Oh and I thought the new year ones were actually quite cute
and not so cham like last year!

Okay.

That was until I approached this cute little boy from chrissy's class.
I wasn't bullying him or anything, okay! ):
I was merely asking him when the
'Opening of orientation programme by the principal' was supposed to end,
because he was holding on to the programme sheet.

And guess what.


HE COMPLETELY IGNORED ME.


And of course, me, being a kind and understanding senior, *cough cough*
thought he didn't hear me at all. It was noisy and stuff after all.
So I (politely) asked him again.

AND NOW HE REFUSED TO SHOW ME THE PROGRAMME SHEET.

He just mumbled something to himself and stuffed it into his bag =_=
What is this society coming to.
The young people are NOT RESPECTING THE ELDERLIES.
(not that i'm like, a senior citizen, obviously. I'm just older.)

Man, I was nearly enraged but this nice (but not really cute) boy
sitting behind him lent me his programme sheet, with this.. compassionate
and like "tsk tsk, such a poor thing" kind of look. Darn.

Break. Meeting with mentor class was ugh, normal.
Lunch was nearly edible (they should really change the catering place)
and finally. HOUSE INTRODUCTION. (:

I really have no clue why they have GOT to have the
WHOLE house to introduce this things every single year.
And the ice breaker games just... newly FORMED ice.

Level rep elections were predictable.
Mass dance was.. honestly, kind of cute! Really!
And I like the song, so (((:
It was quite easy to follow also.
My new found respect to Mitchell (aka, Short) too.
He's a good leader I think. Hahaha
The cheers were also not so lame, so it was okay :D



On a site note, I think I should blog about HMCA 2010 for memory's sake.
For those who dont know, HMCA, Harvard Model Congress Asia is basically
a government simulation conference for High school students, aged 14-18,
modelled after the American Congress.

The Learning Lab's sending a team, and I'm basically in it. Yup. Hard to believe.
The team's great! We had a lunch last week and we bond really well (:
Its kind of sad how conference is nearing and now we just started to bond.
The training sessions make me realise there are SO MANY smart people in Singapore.
Its amazing I'm actually starting to understand terms like
Aviation Regulation, Carbon tax, Cap and Trade, Carbon Equivalency fees..
Yup it sounds scary. Its takes quite an effort to do this, actually (:
Quite proud of myself. MUAHAHAHA. kidding, kidding. Hahaha.
On top of everything, you have to be not only smart, but precise, fast and spontaneous,
so there's always this buzz in the air when we're debating, or discussing.
It fuels me to try harder, really. (:

Ahh. thats enough for today.
I have to finish my bill :D
(Yes. Shahid have told me I sound weird when I say "I'm researching")
I ♥ TLL HMCA 2010 team (:



Saturday, January 02, 2010






















OH MY GOD.
(Mr Ang + Dr Yong)

Kissing teachers give me goosebumps.
Happy Wedding though! (Is this the right way to wish??)
Sweet couple anyway!



OUTWARD BOUND SINGAPORE!!

CREDITS TO SHERMAINE! (I was lazy to type them out)
http://www.justtotallyme.blogspot.com/


HAHAHA OBS WAS SO AWESOME.

Yeahyeah I know I thought I'd die but I loved it! ;D

CHENG HO ROCKS HEE. <3

And it wouldn't be Cheng Ho if not for these awesome Cheng Ho-ians:

SHARMAINE, HUISHI, KARYEE, MEIFANG, WOAN CHYI, SEMI, WENSIN, YENYAN, JUNRUI, ZHANFENG, JONWEE, SHAOHAO, BRANDON, ANANYA and not forgetting our instructor ROLAND. :DDD ohohoh yes and ME. ;D

Okay now I'm going to blog a super long post about my awesome 5-day OBS camp.

On the FIRST DAY
Felt like sooo long ago.
I reached school a little late and dragged my bags to where my watch was sitting. At the time, I didn't really know anybody in it so I just sat behind, doing nothing, being super bored. okay FAST FORWARD. We took the bus all the way to Punggol and we sat in our watches. Then we got introduced to our instructors. Sharmaine was like chanting with Semi, "HOT INSTRUCTOR" Yeah they wanted a hot instructor ahaha. Our awesome instructor, it turned out, was ROLAND. :D

We got in a circle and played a game, apparently to help us remember each others' names, but we already knew each other, even if we didn't talk haha. Roland had a toy cat called Jerry ahaha. So he'd pass it to someone and say, "Jerry meets Roland, Roland meets *whoever he passed it to*" And when we were done, he was praising our memory ahahaha because he thought we could remember names really quickly LOL. Then, we went to take a group photo which i later bought. (: Then, it was time to board the ferry to PULAU UBIN. :D On the ferry, everyone was kinda like blur and sleepy. Well, mostly. Maybe it was just me, cause I really didn't know anyone that well. Anyway! We reached Pulau Ubin and Roland told us it was "back to basics here". Trees everywhere. After that, we walked to this sheltered place and put our bags in the painted circle and sat outside it. I don't really remember what we did after that, maybe Roland was talking about something?? Heheh didn't really listen i guess. xD

After that, we each had to draw our own faces on a huge piece of paper and write in a speech bubble our concerns and wishes for this camp. And then Sharmaine had to figure out which drawings belonged to who without talking to anyone. (: So she just pointed at each face that she didn't recognise and looked around for someone to do some action with their eyes or head or something to indicate that it was theirs haha. Then, we appointed everyone Ministers of something - 4 Ministers of Food, 4 Ministers of Stores, 5 Ministers of All Affairs (MOAA xD, I was MOAA for the first day!) , Minister of Money (Roland said Money = Time and MOM sounded nicer than MOT cause it's like mom, the naggy kind who can make everybody hurry up hahah, so yeah), Minister of Health and... Ah I can't remember, maybe that's all. xP oh yeah it is, there were 15 of us (:

Then, we sort out the stores - took out the tents, tarpalin (sp??), groundsheets, ponchos and tagged them. Washed the bottles and filled them, I really thought they were super disgusting and dirty and told myself that I'd never use them. Ahaha, but who'd really care after that when you were all dirty and thirsty. Yes I did use them after that of course. We chose our backpacks, i thought they were really disgusting as well, because obviously many other unknown people used them before me and they were kinda sandy. The zips were stiff too. I sorta randomly chose one and tagged it with my name and then we hung the bags back up in the store. By then, I can remember, I was already starving and was wondering when and what our lunch would be.

Then... Roland took out the HAPPY FOOD. xDD he said when you eat them you'll feel happy because you'd be full. :D They were the biscuits, buns, milo, ovaltin, isotonic powder and energy bars. (: Oh no, this post is going to be the longest post i've ever typed heehee. x)

We sorted out the packets of happy food into 16 spots on the floor while the ministers of food decided what we'd eat for every meal and labelled them. Sharmaine and I were like saying, "The happy food looks really little, I bet I can finish it in 2 days if I wanted to." Haha in the end we brought a looot home heh. Then we ate LUNCH. Semi took orders and applied the peanut butter and butter and orange jam on bread for everyone haha. I don't think more than 2 people tried the jam though, it looked so weird. Why orange?? Not strawberry or anything ordinary like grape but orange! No wonder the jar was still full at the end of OBS. hahah. Also ate digestive biscuits and peanut cream biscuits. We opened too many and ended up not being able to finish them haha. We had to give them out to everybody, I even asked Esther to eat some when she came over. xP

After changing into long pants we went to do a trust fall! Actually, i don't remember if we did the trust fall first or belaying first. Nevermind! Let's pretend we did the trust fall first. (:

Everyone held onto the mat at the handles at both sides while one climbed up the few steps to the platform and fell backwards onto the mat. When it was my turn, I was so nervous. I didn't have a fear of heights but i still felt insecure because I was falling backwards and I couldn't see a thing because I had to remove my spectacles. I think I was half laughing "Cheng Ho ready?" because I was so nervous. And I delayed a few seconds after they said "Cheng Ho ready, Cheng Ho pull!" before saying "Falling." But the fall itself was fun! (: And it was over really fast.

Somehow by then, I already liked our group, dunno why. (:
After that, we got the harnesses and helmets out and went to practise belaying!

Climber: Am I on belay?
Belayer: No, you're not.
Climber: That's me! (feels pull)
Pull check
Squeeze check
Instructor check!
Climber: Climbing.
Belayer: Climb on!

Lol see i can remember lehhh. Hahaha. Oops I don't remember who I belayed, either Wensin or Sharmaine or Yenyan... Hee. But I remember being belayed by Yenyan because I was worrying that she'd fly up when I let go of the pole. Because I almost flew up when I was belaying ahhaha. When I climbed to the top, which wasn't very high actually, I was scared of slipping off because it was drizzling abit. Meifang and I hi-fived at the top lolol. xD Oh, i remember a lot of ants biting me there. -.- They kept climbing up my shoes and socks. Ack. ><

Then we pitched our tents! Roland said that our camping spot was apparently the best spot because we could see the sunrise from there. Hahaha we were soooo proud of pitching the tents first that we kept using it as a reason for others to be envious of us LOLOL. For example, when we saw the other watches already eating, we'd say,

"EH why they can eat dinner already?"
"NEVERMIND we already finished pitching the tents! We're better!"
HAHA. Or...
"EHH not fair they bathed already!"
"WE PITCHED TENTS ALREADY THEY HAVEN'T! They'll sweat again anyway!"

LOL daaamn funny lah!

Then we made dinner! It was canned soup with sardines and our very own cooked RICE. LOL i kept forgetting what Roland told me to do (since I was MOAA of the day) and kept mixing up things. -.- I felt super ps because i made a horrible moaa. Like, he told me to go get 2 ponchos from the store in case it rained but i forgot if it was 2 ponchos or 2 stacks of ponchos and in th end kar yee and I took two stacks, since more was better than less hahahahah. Then we quickly ran past Roland so he wouldn't see us and dumped them in the tents. xDD SOO funny.

OH YAH. Roland said that our rice was super nicely cooked and we were also damn proud of it. One watch, watch 6 i think, screwed up their rice and had to take some of ours WHOOO. xD We were telling Roland, " Oh okay, but must make them wash the mess tin for us since they use it!" But roland say don't want lah so too bad. :/ OKAY then we finished our dinner and washed up and bathed. Don't remember what else we did... then we slept! OH YES. I ended up sleeping later than the others because I kept forgetting to get stuff from the store and whenever i went to the store, it would be locked and i had to go back to the instructors block to get the key. then i went back to get the stuff and walked back to the tents, then realised I FORGOT TO TAKE THE KEY FROM THE DOOR. SO i had to walk all the way back again to get the key by myself, since heartless sharmaine wong and kar yee refused to walk with me again. THEN they wanted to go to the toilet so we went BACK AGAIN. by the time we got in the tents, it was 11 something and the instructors outside were like, asking us what we were doing. -.- the one with the accent made sharmaine turn the flashlight off saying it was called Lights Out for a reason. -.-
Anyway, wensin, yenyan, karyee, sharmaine and i shared a tent for the next few nights. I slept between kar yee and sharmaine. I woke up 5 times in the night! It was sooo hot and the ground was soooo hard. Yesh I'm too used to my comfy bed and aircon haha.

SECOND DAY
I got woken up by the noisy people around me, only to find it was 5am in the freaking morning. SO EARLY. My eyes were so tired. But we had to get up because we had to meet at 6 somewhere. I said somewhere because i really didn't know where OOPS. I was supposed to know and tell everyone where to meet but as i said, i totally SUCK at being a moaa so i forgot. Damn shitty. This is what happens after shunning leader positions for the whole of my life. oh yes, Sharmaine Wong refused to wake up. She wouldn't budge. Kar Yee and I were like telling her to wake up but she told us to wake her up at 5.15am. Okay so we let her sleep 15 more minutes while we sat there fa dai-ing. Btw, remember what roland said about our camping site being the best position for watching the sunrise? Bullshit, because by the time the sun rose we already had to assemble somewhere lolll. Okay, i don't remember what we did after meeting roland. I only remember being super late and me feeling kinda guilty for letting everyone be late. Oops. Nevermind! :D
Okay... perhaps we had breakfast? Oh yes we did! Semi, being so motherly, applied all our bread again ahahah. Okay... mann i have bad memory. Kay whatever, let's skip to the part where we learnt kayaking! We partnered up, me with Sharmaine and chose a kayak. Had to get some help from Jun Rui and someone else though, the kayak was too freaking heavy for sharmaine and i to carry by ourselves haha. Then we all put on our lifevests and held hands and walked into the sea to test the lifevests. We had to float in the water with our feet up heh. The water was SO cold! xD
Then we sat in a circle on the beach playing another game. Roland took out another roundish looking toy that looked like Jerry and said it was called Nemo. We had to throw Nemo around to each other in a sequence and repeat it as fast as we could. Then Roland made it harder by borrowing Brandon's bun (LOL) and throwing it after throwing Nemo. Kept dropping Nemo after that, he even got wet cause he got thrown too far and touched the waves. oops. :/ Then, after teaching us to paddle and how to get in the kayak and practising capsizing and rescuing, we were off! whooo.

Sharmaine and I were off to a bad start. She sat in front and i sat at the back. The waves pushed us in the wrong direction and we were drifting too far out. We were freaking out like dunno what lah, because all of a sudden we both forgot how to turn. -.- Luckily we asked some guy, ananya maybe, and finally managed to turn left and paddle towards Cheng Ho. We were sooo reluctant to capsize out in the open sea lol. We rescued Kar Yee and Wen Sin and someone else, it was sooo hard. Then we ended up being the last to capsize lol. Swing left, swing right, swing lefttt, SPLASHHH. It was HORRIBLE. My nose was so stung by the seawater. and I couldnt; really see without my specs. Then we had to try pushing our kayak to form a T-shape with our rescuer's kayak. It was no use! When I tried pushing our kayak, I just got pushed further out. Gahhh frustrating. The damn waves kept splashing my face with seawater too. We took superrr long to get rescued. I couldn't flip the kayak over because I had no strength and also I was just pushing myself deeper into the sea when i pushed against the kayak arggh. Somehow we managed to do it and I had a hard time trying to use my arms to get myself in the kayak. Sharmaine was like, "Jiayouuuu." haha so encouraging. xP
I found myself at the front of the kayak and we kayaked back to the shore. It was quite bad because I couldn't see without my specs since they were with someone else and i was at the front so i had to lead. And i was used to following sharmaine's paddling. haha. Lalala. Oh hmm. After getting back on shore, what did we do? Oh no I don't remember again! Kept everything then... Errrr. Shit. Hmm.... OHOHOHOH. Then it was the all important KAYAK TO PUNGGOL. Yesyes. It was FREAKING HELL I TELL YOU. Firstly, as you can tell, sharmaine and i make TERRIBLE KAYAKING PARTNERS since we're not very strong... so yeah. For the whole thing, we kept trying to keep up and at first we were fine, even after crossing the channel. I dunno when we started to lag really badly until we were freaking LAST. Even behind the sweeper! :O Yansheng was too fast lah, not our fault. :o Lol no lah. Finefine our fault. Anyway, Sharmaine kept it light by singing songs like,

Row row row your boat gently down the sea
Moodily moodily moodily moodily
Life is not a dream

Yes we edited it ahaha. And she kept insisting on me choosing a Disney song for her to sing but I
just coulsn't think of any. Okay we crapped a lot the whole way there. It took at least FIVE FREAKING HOURS. At fifrst it wasn't so bad until we lagged so much that the nearest boat in front of us was like err, 200 metres away? Okay my distance estimation sucks. nevermind. The instructors' boat went near us and they toold us "keep paddling!" "Paddle together!" "Yes, you can do it!" -.- Sorry lah I was dying. And we never stopped! Just that at that time, the tide became worse and we kept turning in the wrong direction because of the waves. Even turning became tiring. I seriously thought the cells in my hands would die the next day and i would become paralyzed or something, such a sad thought. We eventually reached, even thought the STUPID RED BUOY didn't seem to be moving past us for a few minutes. Reached our destination at 7 something. Sky was getting dark. I couldn't balance when I first got out of the kayak. I dropped my bottles and everything into the sea. =.= All my joints felt not movable, like that pain some old people get in their joints. It was HELL. Sharmaine just got out and sat on the beach, not moving for super long. She couldn't even stand. I kept staggering around. We were TOO DAMN TIRED. And that night, we weren't allowed to bathe! I know, on purpose. There we were at Punggol, at the place we were the first day we came. There were shower cubicles but they were locked up. We were only allowed to pour water from the bottles over ourselves and then change in the tents. But we sneaked into the toilets to change shhhhh don't tell anyone lollll. It was soo cold. Okay fast forward, TIME TO SLEEP. Sleep sleep sleep. A lot of insects. A lot of sand. Felt super dirty. But I fell asleep pretty quickly and slept for the entire night without waking up because i was soo exhausted.

DAY THREE
Time to kayak back to Pulau Ubin! I was dreading it like shitt. I thought it would be like the previous day. The leaders decided to repair Sharmaine and I and some other slower people. So I got paired with Jiayi. She was the navigator I think, since we were always at the front. And I could feel we were much faster, even when I wasn't paddling. It was hard to know when to paddle since i was sitting at the front and couldn't see how she was paddling. And I couldn't just paddle because we had to wait for the others to catch up. But it was mucn easier this time. We had to reach before 11.30 or the tide would be against us but we managed tor reach much earlier, around 10 i think. It was freaking amazing how much the tide can change the time we take. Against us and it took 5 hours, with us and it took only 1 hour plus. Gosh. Oh and also we didn't have to visit some stupid fishing village on the way back. I was the first few to reach Pulau Ubin first since I was with Jiayi. Then we washed the kayaks, carried kayaks. I HATE carrying the kayaks, so damn heavy. Hahah but stil have to help. oh gosh i'm taking so long to type this, I should leave out the irrelevant parts i guess. okay. We were then given a chance to bathe WHOOO. Felt so refreshed after bathing. (: haha. Then, we did the dunno what dual dangling thingy. They were just dangling logs that one had to climb with the help of a partner. Two had to climb it at one time. It was freaking hot, i remember. I was so afraid I'd get sunburn. When someone touched the highest log, Cheng Ho'd get 100 points. The points could be used to buy questions for our expedition. OH hahahaha while I was being the deadweight (sp??) for someone, I saw another watch rockclimbing. Woan Chyi and I saw Lester, who was the belayer, fly up when Sourav, the climber, slipped and fell off the rockwall LOL. It was DAMN FUNNY. They were both dangling in the air at the same level adn the deadweight had to jump up and pull Lester down HAHAHA. Maybe the deadweight wasn't paying attention heh. So funnyyy. But so sad lah, Kar Yee and I didn't get to climb the Dual Dangling thingo because there wasn't enough time. :/ I don't think I would have been able to climb it anyway, since I'm soo short. Haha it's okay! We earned enough points to buy questions for the expedition anyway.

LUCKILY we had Junrui! He knew how to navigate and to read the map so we saved a couple of questions. And we solved the 8 digit thingy quite fast. In the end the other watch followed our watch to our campsite. Lol. It was only maybe a 15-minute walk but my back and shoulders were already breaking from the heavy backpack. Anyway, we had a super high dinner that night, maybe it's cause it was dark and we had to hold the torchlights up for the MOFs to see to cook. And maybe it was because there were the other watches, Columbus and err Amunsen?? beside us. So we were super noisy. Had instant noodles and soup and luncheon meat. Haha we ended up eating from the empty cans bcause it was more convenient. And I actually forgot to bring my utensils that day T_T so I used someone elses' spoon, haha thanks to that person! We camped beside the sea that night and Roland showed us our "toilets" heheh. I refused to use it unless i really needed to because it would be really inconvenient. Then we had this night walk in the night which was really nice. Wrote our journals there and shared our wishes for each other. OH by the way, that night, when my tent woke up for centri-duty (sp?), we saw a SHOOTING STAR! :DD I think it was maybe my 2nd or 3rd time seeing one and I quickly made a wish. Nope I'm not saying what wish it was. (: It was kinda unbelievable. It was so quick and so pretty. ;D Sighh. Oh yes that night, we heard this singing, sounded like karaoke, (esther told me later that it was karaoke in Johor =.=) that sounded super creepy at first, esp in the middle of the night in the forest. It went on and on! Esther said that it was from 1am to 6am like wthh. haha. I remember that night was super cold. I was shivering because I didn't pack my jacket along adn I was wearing short-sleeved. I was thinking, Wow, so fast. It's already going to be the fourth day. Soon we'll be going home. Yep, 5 days passed so quickly.

DAY FOUR
I woke up feeling frozen and shivering. Did all the unpitching. I remember we couldn't squish the tent and ground sheet and flysheet into the bag so we called Jon Wee and Junrui over to help us. What the hell, Jonwee's damn strong! Hahaha cannot tell leh. And Junrui's like a handyman, always helping us with whatever we need him to. xD We were supposed to bring our instructor to various places of attractions on Pulau Ubin, treating him like a tourist. Yah right, if he were a tourist, he'd sue the tour agency. hahaha we brought him everywhereee and in the end we only managed 2 places out of like 5? At fist we were considered fast but then we got tired and our pace slowed. And maybe it was me, lagging behind. It was soo hot and my shoulders ached. My chest hurt too, dunno why. So i thought I was going to die there. Sigh. ESPECIALLY when climbing up the mountain Bukit Tinggi. At the top, Roland didn't rush us to get going to the next place even though we were way too slow. But he told us to enjoy the wind, the view. He even made lame jokes hahaha. xD We rested there for quite some time, questioning him about his life. xD It was damn funny. They asked him about his age, his wife, his life. Sooooo funny. We assumed he's an uncle so they even asked questions like "Do you know what's vivovity?" LOLOLOL. They also asked "Do you know there's a new mall called Ion Orchard?" HAHAHA. Of course he's not thaat bad. He even has facebook. Lol he used the word "fb" quite a few times and we didn't get it. Lol okay we don't say "fb" lah. And he has an iPod. :O
Haha he used it to play his favourite songs like Canon in D, I'm Yours, Top of the World, to motivate us to keep moving on the way back. yep it definitely helped. He's so nice ehh. xD
So cool, right at the time the song finished, we reached Camp 2 and the rain started to pour really heavily. Nice. Sad for the other watch that reached later and got drenched. It was SUCH a relief to be back at Camp 2! We dumped our bags on the ground and sat in a circle. Ohoh then we realised that because the floor was coolling rapidly because of the rain, there was this thick layer of uhm fog, mist? above the ground. Damn nice. So we took a Cheng Ho group picture. (:
Oh well, then we bathed, packed stuff.

Thennn, it was CELEBRATORY DINNER TIME.
We were given fresh food like carrots, veggie, long beans, eggs, mushrooms... And our awesome instructor Roland got us to gather our apples and digestive biscuits and oats drink and taught us how to make APPLE CRUMBLE. YEP WE'RE AWESOME because of his APPLE CRUMBLE. :DDD Heheheh. So while everyone was busy preparing for our awesome dinner, I had nothing to do since I really can't cook so Huishi got me to take pictures! xP Snap snap snap. I was afraid they'd find me irritating oops. Hee. I saw the pictures on facebook already. (;
Oh turns out that Shao Hao is a good cook! He fried the eggs and beans and ham and rice. Yup he cooked almost everything actually. And Roland taught Sharmaine Huishi Semi Kar Yee to do the apple crumble. Lol we were so proud of the apple crumble that Junrui told me to look after it so that nothing flew into it and nobody stole it LOL. I was in charge of looking after all the food hahah. Then it was DINNER TIME! :D Maybe we were hungry, but I bet it was the good food! It was great! Everyone had fun. (: Everybody was so high especially when it was time to eat the apple crumble and we all shouted "ROLAND" for him to come eat it ahahaha. It was freaking nice! I heard Shao Hao saying something liike "We win, we got apple crumble that looks like mua chee!" HAHAHAA. Yes okay after it really crumbled it did look like that because that apple got coated in the crumbs but IT"S OKAY because it was Cheng Ho's. :D
Esther and Hilda then updated me on their watch, hahaha damn suay lahh. But I know you guys had fun too anyway.
Had so much fun that day, sad that it was the second last day. ):

Day FIVE - OUR LAST LAST DAYY.
Woke up and we were late again, Kar yee, Sharmaine and I. We only woke up 15 minutes before meeting time and we couldn't find the freaking store key. Oh that was because Brandon somehow managed to break the key to the front door of the store. BREAK as in TWIST OFF. I saw the broken key. It was seriously twisted off! Nice one man. Haha. Anyway, that morning was spent packing stuff back into the store. Okay i can't remember if we did the trust dive before or afte packing everything. Nevermind. Anyway, we were the VERY FIRST WATCH to not lose anything at all! HAHA CHENG HO ROCKS. Yesyes we doo. Okay. The trust dive. We had to stand at the steps and then dive forward and try to hit the bell hanging in front. We had to say a wish and treat the bell as our wish and then try to aim for it. I had to try three times before i finally hit it. And that was only after Roland adjusted the bell to be lower hehh. Haha that's okay, cause I hit it! :DD
ohh and then, because at the night walk on day 3 Roland had all of us pick up a pebble and wish a wish inside it. So now we all had a pebble with us. Actually, most of us picked up the rock from somewhere else because we lost it. xP hahah. He brought us out to the jetty and we threw around a ball of cotton twine and twisted it a few rounds around the ring finger before throwing it to someone else, after we've said who we wanted to thank and apologise to. It was like, sooo sad. Everybody felt damn sad, i think. Then we were al supposed to throw the pebble into the sea and scream as loud as we could at the same time. By that time, we were all crying. okay, not all, but most of us. Everyone was soooooo sad. I really think Roland was a really caring and motivating instructor, the best instructor ever. :D Then we got back our group photos that we bought and every Cheng Ho-ian signed on each of ours. Then we took a final group photo together. Sighh I'd never ever ever forget OBS, seriously. I don't think anyone will. It was such an experience... (;

CHENG HO NUSHIGH 2009
FOREVER ! :D

~shermaine♥

11/30/2009 08:07:00 PM


Wednesday, December 30, 2009

I know my blog's been dead for like MONTHS.
But since its like 3 days to the end of 2009,
I just thought I might write something.
Although I'm almost sure no one reads this anymore.

2009's been like my happiest and the most mentally tiring year.
I've lost treasured friends, I've made some,
I achieved stuff, I experienced some things.
(oh, just a few days ago, I finally ate escargo(snails in olive oil and garlic)!
Mad good stuff. I know snails sound gross but it tastes like omg.)
I guess I can say I matured a bit more. Just a bit.

Ahh I dont know how to summarize my past 5 months.
Except.. I TOOK OFF MY BRACES. HAHA
I'll just leave it at the happiest and the worst 5 months of my life.
Man, life's like screwed now. (kidding.)
Let's buck up, its new year, baby.


Tuesday, July 21, 2009

HELLO I HAVE SAFELY LANDED IN KOOOOREA!:D
I have internet now cuz we're having free time in the airport but,
I dont know if i would when i go to 'the place'.
The people's okay, and according to a friend of mine
this thing is supposed to be quite fun.
And the fun is doubled cuz i'm missing school! :D:D
Heh, ofcourse there are huge downsides (; but. well. I didnt have a choice.
I keep getting surprised whenever i see korean signboards /:

Its end of july, so its going to be hot in the day,
but the mornings are still quite cold.
The plane was really shaky on the way i thought i was going to crash):
Somemore i didnt get to take my lucky charm.))): LOL

OH OH I ATE BIBIMBAB, EMMAN AND BEV. AHAHHAHA
The plane served it as dinner. At 10p.m. FAAAAIL.
Anyway there's this thing thats sorta bothering me.
Alot. Like throughout the whole plane-ride.
Tmr better be a good day.
Toodles Everyone (:

on a side note;
Ohh maaann,
i tried but i cant take it ):
Are you even serious?


Monday, July 13, 2009

HELLO!!!!!!
Sorry I killed my blog (;
There's been alot of things happening and I got lazy.
And Now i feel lazy again.
tata!Tell me you do too.




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