Me&MyBlog

B'Day cards

2008-08-31T17:56:00.002+08:00

Tada! Created a few cards over the past few months.

These aren't very new either.

Guess who's cards they are!

Problems with usage of bags!

2008-08-22T21:40:00.002+08:00

It just seems that Singaporeans can't reduce the usage of plastic bags even though there's the BYOB day (which I think is ineffective).
Does it have to do with BreadTalk??
It seems that after BreadTalk opened it's first store, other bakeries and shops began packing one bread into one bag! That's so unnecessary - I mean we're still gonna eat the bread, and who cares if it still looks nice or not. Well even if you care about the look, the digested food still looks yucky at the end..
The bakeries and confectionary shops can save cost too. They help to reduce the need to dig for fossil fuels which are quickly depleting (and I really wonder if they can last for the next 50 years).
And the big supermarkets too. Can't they just implement that thing everyday instead. People can choose to not to shop on that day right?? And some people still forget to bring their own bags on that day after 1 year, and worse still, some choose not to bring and don't want to put the coins in the box (hello, it's just a few cents and who ask you not to bring your bag! miser).
That's such a failure.
But does using paper bags instead solve the problem? Cutting down more trees or recycling more paper..hmm..

and Guo Yue 看起来很帅!! :P

A Cry In The Night

2008-05-13T15:55:00.002+08:00

It seems it's been a long long time since I last posted and it does.
Well anyway, mid-year exams have just ended, and I'm already feeling so relaxed... Time to watch Wars of in-laws II... Not doing homework..
Just finished reading a book titled 'A Cry in the Night' by Mary Higgins Clark. It sure is a very thrilling novel. The story's about a lady, Jenny, being 'locked up' at home by her new husband, Erich Kruegger. (You can borrow the book or read other reviews for more details.)
Can't believe that there are psychotic and sadistic people who marries someone resembling his mother and tries to kill his 'wife' and kids in this world. It's quite a sad story too.. Seeing how Jenny's being watched by Erich and the loneliness she feels when all alone and the agony she feels when her girls are taken away from her. But anyway, she was saved by a few friends she'd known for the past one year, bet she felt relieved.
So what's the moral of the story? Don't judge a person by his/her looks. He may be a crazy person and tries to kill you. Imagine the picture Erich drew of the bloody scene. It's damn disgusting.. eyes popped out, little girls strangled.
And it's weird to have a man in mid-20s dressed in his mother's clothings! Eww!! Sicko!... Oh curse this person!
Well anyway, it's just a novel about a family that doesn't exists in reality. (hope it does not..) Jenny was too rash to marry that man before knowing more about him..
It's such a sad sad thing for Jenny, and Tina, and Beth. And Rooney, Mark, Joe, Luke, Clyde...

Christmas Eve 2007

2007-12-24T17:34:00.000+08:00

Today's the eve of Christmas; tomorrow's Christmas, the festival I'm always looking forward to!
On this very day, I did some homework before setting off for Harbourfront to look for my dad in his office. Took about an hour's time to reach there, then spent another 30 minutes waiting for him to get ready. At about 2.30 pm, we finally went down to the shopping area for lunch. He had wanted to take me to the ramen restaurant, but in the end, we went to Sakae Sushi.
Had a very filling lunch there. Between us, we shared a bowl of cheese udon (it was too cheesy and sour), a bowl of cha soba, a plate of soft shelled crab, a plate of kakiage and six plates of sushi. That's a lot right?? And dad had an extra 'cup' of sakae chawanmushi. I couldn't have that coz it contained alcohol, plus I was filling quite full then. :)
And guess how much we spent there? It was $36!! To me, I feel it's quite X for two people. (And I think I shall keep mum about this from my mum, who's holidaying in Batam!)
Later on, we walked around Vivocity shopping mall. I thought it was quite small, but it turned out to be quite big. Went Daiso. Didn't like the arrangement there and I couldn't find what I wanted. Dad bought a pack of containers for dunno what reason. He gave me a $10 note but I used my $2 note coz I only bought 1 item and the queue was long. Hah! I paid for his stuff. That was his Christmas pressie!! :P Lol.
It was quite late when we came out of the shop. Then we went down to level 1 to search for the shop that his supplier's wife opened. It was a shop that sold evening gowns and dresses that could cost you thousands. (Heard that the min. price of a dress is $200+!?!) Wow! Then I saw a notice on the glass stating that they are looking for a part-time worker! I want to work!! But then guess that'll be next year's stuff, and school's reopening in a week's time.
(I still haven't completed 80% of the holiday homework!! I have never in my whole life completed holiday homework in time. )
Well, talking about Christmas, I have many many wishes and wants that I would like to do. I want to be able to bake proper and edible cookies, cook up some wonderful stuff for lovely people etc so that I can organise a mini Christmas party someday for my wonderful friends and family. :) And I want to be like Nigella Lawson. She's such a wonderful cook. Her recipes are well, quite 'ok' for my standard. :P I want to make chocolate mousse, fudge, cupcakes...
Oh well, guess that'll only come true ten years later.. :(
Just 6 more hours to Christmas.
So, here, I wish everyone a MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!! CHEERS! (cocktails are nice stuff to have for a christmas meal :))

Asian Idol 2007

2007-12-17T09:29:00.000+08:00

I can't believe I stayed up till midnight for the past two days just to watch Asian Idol 2007!
And I can't believe Hady Mirza of Singapore won the competition?!?
Well excuse me, he's not the best among those 6 yet he won? This is ridiculous!
I do think Jac or Mike should win the title. They've got nice, powerful voices (Jac's was super high pitched man), and Hady's was quite soft and it sounded as though his voice is stuck in his throat.
And the idea of typing 2 country codes in 1 sms was unneccesary. Although Singapore has the smallest population, but almost all the citizens owns a handphone. I don't think everyone in countries like Indonesia and Vietnam owns a handphone? Well anyway, my point is that this 'sms-voting' way of choosing our idol is not 'practical' in choosing a real idol.
I don't know what others feel about the real meaning of 'idol', but to me, it means having a great voice that sounds pleasant to all ears, and having a face which most can accept.
...Talking about a good-looking face, it reminds me of Phuong Vy! She's so so so B-U-TIFUL!! (The tall male host is lustful!!)...
Ok back to reality, I'm sure the 'XXX Idol' and phone company has earned loads of money from yesterday's big big competition. Millions of votes for 60 cents each? Wow! 1 mil x 0.6 = 600k!! That sure is a lot of money.. And that's how Asians wasted their money. :(
Oh well..

Chiang Mai, Doi Tung, Lampang 2007

2007-12-11T10:36:00.000+08:00

I'm finally back from the 8 days 7 nights trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The weather there is relatively dry and hot, making my skin look old and starting to peel off!
(Times are according to Singapore time.)

Day 1 - 3/12/07 (Singapore - Chiang Mai)
I woke up at around 3.30 am. We quickly washed up, checked our luggage one last time before leaving for Budget Terminal. At the terminal, there were already many people there queuing for their tickets (to Macau I think) and to check in their luggage. When we reached there, we realised that the flight was delayed by 30mins. We had plenty of time left, so we had our very early breakfast at the Han's cafeteria. I ordered a plate of spaghetti. It totally sucked! The pasta was too hard and the sauce tasted weird. My parents and bro had sandwiches and some beverages. Oh yeah, the Milo was so concentrated that we had to add water a few times. The person preparing the drinks had added one HEAPED spoonful of Milo powder into the small cup. It's obviously too concentrated for us humans to consume!
It was about 5.30 am before we checked into the waiting lounge. I tried using my MP4, but it just went out on me. God damn it. It's such a lousy device! Then at about 6.10 am, we lined up to enter the plane. Waited for a while before we boarded the plane - Tiger Airways. They have started allocating seats since March, and we only knew it today. Well, it's not a bad thing either because Singaporeans will not be so 'kiasu' as to save seats for their friends or relatives. Hmm..
At 6.35 am, the plane left Singapore for Chiang Mai! Whee!!
We arrived at Chiang Mai airport at 9.10 am. Jackson uncle and his family were out there waiting for us. Arik has grown quite big size! We took 2 Mercedes taxis to our hotel, Royal Lanna Hotel. Our room number was 1020 :) After we left our luggage in the room, we went down to McDonald's for another breakfast. The fast food didn't taste nice though.
Then we walked to a temple near our hotel to pray. Bro and Arik freed sparrows at the Mae Ping river. I was quite afraid that the birds might be sick. :( Next we took the local taxi to Lotus shopping mall. It was a few minutes ride from the temple. There at the megamarket, we shopped for a few hours for clothes etc. My mum bought many clothes for my relatives and I hate it. She's spending so much money on others whom I dislike and despise! Spent about a total of about 5000 baht there. Wow! That's gonna be about 200 s.d!
When we came out of the megamarket, I bought 6 doughnuts from Dunkin Doughnuts. 6 doughnuts for 109 baht, quite cheap. But the doughnuts tasted weird. Hmm.. Then we had lunch at the food court. Used cards to purchase our food. A good idea. Even Singapore doesn't have this system! And after lunch, we walked around for a little while more before returning to our hotel room to rest.
And at night, we went to some place in the night bazaar for dinner. Had roasted pig and some other local dishes, and the bill amounted to 2650 baht! Is it cheap? I don't know. Then after dinner, we walked around the bazaar. The things sold are quite expensive. According to my elders, you can cut the price down to 50% of the price they ask for. We were feeling quite tired after one day's of shopping and walking and having to wake up so early, so we went back to the hotel for a good night's sleep.

Day 2 - 4/12/07 (Chiang Mai - Doi Tung)
Had breakfast at about 9 am. I had only a piece of bread and a cup of milk (bread and milk recipe by Nigella Lawson). Didn't like American and Continental breakfast coz that makes me vomit. I miss Singapore food!! After breakfast, we quickly packed our luggage and took a van up to Doi Tung (the place where Queen Mother had been). On the way to Doi Tung, we stopped at the area where we can cook eggs in a big spring. We've been there quite a number of times but I still like the idea where we can cook our eggs in a spring! The water smelled of rotten eggs!! Yuck! When the eggs were cooked, we went to a stall for lunch. Had Kway Teow noodles, their local food. The noodles tasted alright, but the meatballs were full of those hard joints, so in the end, we left the meatballs uneaten. :)
After lunch, we continued on our journey. Our second stop was at a big wide temple. It is quite new, painted white all around and there were small pieces of mirror around the temple too. (I'll put up the photos in another post) At bridge leading towards the entrance of the temple, there were many hands sticking out from the ground. They look like the Inferi in Harry Potter.. It's quite scary though. I think the temple prays for some weird future coz there were aliens and earth exploding?? in the murals on the walls inside the temple.
When we came out of the temple, we went to the shops opposite to purchase some drinks and fruits. I like the guava there. It very fresh and tasty compared to those sold in Singapore and you can just eat it like that without and flavourings. Yum!
I'm having car sickness coz I feel like vomitting! If I don't sleep during the ride, I'll probably throw up many times, so during the whole trip, I guess I've slept for 3 hours! The whole trip took about 6 hours! (If you do not stop for rest, you can reach Doi Tung in 4 hours) It's cool at Doi Tung in the afternoons. We reached the resort at about 4.30 pm. The room has a nice view and the facilities are quite new. I like the room! We were feeling quite hungry when we had unpacked our luggage, so we took the van to the restaurant. Although dinner officially starts at 6 am (thai time), we couldn't wait any longer and started dinner an hour before 6. While having dinner, the weather slowly became cooler and cooler, till 15 degree celsius in the middle of the night. Cold right?
Amount spent for dinner was, I think, below 2000 baht. As the temperature was quite low, we went back to our room for some warmth. There's HBO and Star Movies!! I watched 'War Of The Worlds'. The show was quite scary as it was talking about aliens and fighting. That's very bloody!
It's quite cozy in there and I quickly fell asleep after the show ended. Zzzz..

Day 3 - 5/12/07 (Doi Tung)
Breakfast was at an open area near the reception counter. It has a nice view from the area. I didn't like the breakfast. Had 2 bowls of cereal :) I'm still a kid!! I always had breakfast at about 9 am coz I take a long time to wash up and bathe, and mum was quite pissed at it. Well, I can't help it. It's so comfortable bathing in warm water in such a cool day. It's refreshing!
After breakfast, dad, bro, uncle, auntie and I walked up to the main area in Doi Tung. It was very tiring as we had to walk up very steep slopes. But well, we managed to climb up there! A great feat for me! We bought tickets to the museum (30baht) and Mae Fah Luang Garden (80baht). There ain't much to see in the museum and most of the exhibits are in Thai, so we spent about 30 mins there. The musuem is linked to the garden, so when we came to the end of the musuem tour, we could see many plants. The flowers and leaves were very beautiful and fresh! I would recommend you to visit the garden. There's a lot of walking and climbing in the garden, so make sure you wear comfy sports shoes. There's a cafe in the middle of the garden. We rested for while at the cafe to enjoy the nice view and cool breeze. The coffee didn't taste good though. It was 12.30 pm when we came to the end of the garden. We had spent an hour and a half at the garden. Took a lot of photos there. Opposite the exit was a cafeteria, so we went in for lunch.
After lunch, we went to the Poppy Garden (50baht/pax). Climbed a lot there too. There ain't much things to see. We went there at the wrong time! According to one of the gardeners, the poppy flowers will only bloom in January! Oh well, wasted 50 baht. 50 baht for exercise. Haha.. :D
Next, we went to a temple some 30 mins ride from the garden. There were many bells there. Guess there's about 100 over bells there. We took a wooden stick and started knocking on them while walking. Quite noisy though.
Later, we went to the Akha tribe which was quite near the main area of Doi Tung. We only stood on their water tank to observe the surroundings coz there were many dogs in the village. We were afraid the dogs might attack us. There seemed only a few houses in the tribe, but when we view from our resort, we could see many zinc-plated houses in the tribe.
It was quite early when our day ended. Had instant noodles while watching TV, chatting and running about the field. Then around dinner time, we went up to the restaurant for dinner again. Ordered the same few dishes. When we were about to finish our dinner, someone came to us and gave us a candle each. We were supposed to go out onto the roads to pray for the king. It was the King's birthday. Watched the live broadcast from Bangkok while holding onto a light candle. It was damn cold out there. When our candles have burnt to a few centimetres long, we could leave the area. Someone asked my mum if she would like another candle and of course she declined the offer. We returned to the restaurant to finish our food. The food had turned cold after leaving them for 30 mins. Then we quickly footed the bill and retreated back to the room for warmth and rest!
*If you want to experience how it's like staying in the mountains, you can stay at the resort for 2 to 3 days. The room rates are a little expensive though. 2000 baht per day (from September till April); 500 baht for an extra bed. But the security is quite tight as it's a royal villa where the Queen Mother had stayed or visited.
It's better to visit Chiang Mai, Doi Tung etc during December as it is the dry season. You would then be able to visit more places and take more photos. :) There would be floods during November, so try not to go there then.

Day 4 - 6/12/07 (Doi Tung - Lampang)
After breakfast, we checked out of the restaurant and left for Lampang at 10.30 am. I missed Doi Tung, the resort, the weather (and the ppl)..
Our first stop was a temple in one of the mountains. We had our lunch in the area first before going up to visit the temple. The meatballs there sucked too!
There were many statues of weird-looking snakes and few of other animals. It seemed that the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac would always appear in temples. The temple was quite worn out even though it's only 30 years old. Guess nobody bothered to repaint and clean the temple. While looking at those statues, aunt seemed to see a live snake hiding in a gap. She was quite frightened and we quickly left the temple after that.
Later on, we went to a lake. A big big lake in the area. It seemed like the stretch of sea between Singapore and Malaysia. There were many people at the lakeside having picnic or party. The weather's very hot there. So we didn't stay there for long and left for the hotel in Lampang.
We reached our hotel, Lampang Wiengthong Hotel at about 6 pm. It looked quite old; I didn't really like staying in that hotel. But if you compare this hotel to others in that vicinity, it's a hundred times better! We quickly unpacked our luggage and left for 'Big C' megamarket for dinner. Then we shopped around after dinner. Mum spent another 5000 baht buying those quite unneccessary stuff.
When we returned to our hotel, Dad and I went down to use the comp. It costed 100 baht/ hour. It's interesting when they gave you a small piece of paper which contained the id and password which allowed you to use the internet. I was exhausted after using the comp and I slept just like that.

Day 5 - 7/12/07 (Lampang)
Our first destination of the day was 'Baan Sao Nak'. It's a old-fashion Thai house. The entrance fee was 50 baht/pax. The house looked like Malay houses where the house is lifted off the ground. It's made of wood, so the house was quite cooling. There were many antiques displayed around the house. Then we were given biscuits and drinks. Yum! They tasted delicious.
Then we went to a temple (I do not know the name of the temple). There were 7-year old students following a monk on a tour around the temple. Those kids were cute. We followed them into a large hall where the monk taught them some things. I couldn't understand what he was talking about, but we just followed the kids and bowed to the buddha statues.
We left the temple a while later and travelled to another temple. There ain't much to see so we left a while later.
Then we went to another temple. I didn't enter the temple coz the weather's hot. While waiting in the van, I could see many roosters and hens. There was one hen which acted quite stupidly. It knocked against the van's door and then walked underneath the van without knowing there's humans in there. Lol.
After visiting the temples, we went for lunch at one of the shophouses near our hotel. The owner and his wife looked Chinese, and their noodle soup tasted fantastic. The stall next to theirs was selling roasted chicken. We bought one and shared among us. It's quite tasty, but it's a little powdery.
Bro said he wasn't feeling well so we went to the hospital there. We spent 1 hour waiting for check-up and to get medicine. Bro was given four bottles of syrup. Guess he loved it. He's weird; he likes to eat medicine. Eww!! After the check-up, mum and bro returned to hotel while the rest of us went to the ceramic fair near 'Big C'. I bought 3 cups for my dear friends, and dad bought key chains and small cutey bowls for his colleagues. Spent about 300 baht for all.
Then we returned to hotel to rest and wash up before leaving again at 6.30 pm for horse carriage ride. It costed 200 baht and the whole ride lasted for 20 mins. The four of us managed to squeeze into the carriage! Haha :P The ride was stinky coz of the waste gases produced by the vehicles plus the horse's shit. We were in the middle of those metallic machinery, and it kind of felt odd. Even the horse has to stop when the traffic light turns red. :)
After the horse ride, we went to the night bazaar in Lampang. There were many people there. We were searching for a place to have our dinner but we could not find one. In the end we went to 'Lotus'. We were all starving when we reached 'Lotus'. The food court was closing so we went to MK restaurant for a steamboat dinner. The steamboat isn't like what we have in Singapore. The soup tasted sweet instead of salty and we had to order plates of veggie and meat. But dinner still tasted great. That's probably because we're very hungry??
It was about 9 pm when we had our dinner. Then we went back to our hotel. It was still early, so I watched some programmes. There aren't many choices to choose from: Hallmark channel, CNN and CCTV 4. Pathetic. :[

Day 6 - 8/12/07 (Lampang - Lamphun - Chiang Mai)
We checked out of the hotel at 10 am. We took the van back to Chiang Mai.
On the way, we went to the temple of reflections (Pratartlampangluang temple). Women are not allowed in that room. I don't understand why they despise women. Hadn't women given birth to males? If females weren't present, males would slowly perish! And the buddha statues looked quite feminine (no offence). I just don't see the point why women can't do what males can. We had to remove our shoes whenever we enter a room in the temple, and it's very troublesome.There were many people there too.
Next, we went to 'Kad Tung Kwian' (Tung Kwian market). We shopped there for about an hour's time. Mum and dad bought shirts, bags and ceramic products. In the market, there were stalls selling boar meat, fried worms and insects (YUCKS!), pets (they look ill) and other local products. It was quite stinky in the wet market part.
At about 1 pm, we went to a roadside stall for lunch. Had kway teow noodles again. But I don't get tired eating them. The food they serve here is quite special. They give pig kidneys and intestines and the pork had a strong smell.
One hour lunch time, and then we went back to the market again. Mum bought more stuff..
Then at 3 pm, we went to 'Watphathatharphunchailamphun'. There were many people in the temple too. Many parts of the temple were under reconstruction.
Next, we proceeded on to another temple, 'Wat Mahawan', which was just a few metres away. This temple was smaller in size and there weren't any visitors except us. The entrance of the temple was closed, but we could still see the buddha statues inside. They were sparkling in the dark! The structures and designs of the temples looked relatively similar to each other. We could just visit one temple.
When we checked into 'Royal Lanna Hotel' in Chiang Mai at 6 pm, we went to the food court somewhere in night bazaar. Food sold there is quite expensive but there are more choices like western, muslim food etc.
After dinner, we shopped around night bazaar. Bought 2 shirts for 180 baht. One shirt (S-size) had actually costed 150 baht, and we had cut the price down to 90 baht each! Wow! That's about half the price they ask for! Things sold there are quite expensive as they are sold to 'rich' tourists.
I bought my favourite prata which I always buy when I'm in Chiang Mai - Prata with egg and banana + sugar + condense milk. Yum! It's 30 baht for one prata. There are other flavours, but I was too full to try them.
Watched Boomerang with bro before turning into bed. I like Scooby Doo and Popeye the Sailorman!

Day 7 - 9/12/07 (Chiang Mai)
After breakfast, we took taxi to the market (100 baht for 7peeps). It was not so crowded at first, but nearing noon, there were more and more people. When we arrive at the market, mum had already bought bags and shirts. Then we continued with 'shop shop shop'. The big bag was quickly filled up with many stuff.
At 1 pm, we went to a stall near the market area for lunch. It's kway teow noodles again. But it tasted better here coz the owners were more 'Chinese'. They could speak Teochew, and that makes us 'ga gi nang' (our own ppl).
We continued shopping till 3 pm and we had filled up 2 bags! While we were resting in the room, dad and uncle went opposite to use the internet. It's cheap here, 30 baht/ hour. Yes, it's cheaper here compared to using it in hotels. We had Bud's ice-cream while waiting for them. It's 89 baht for 2 scoops of ice-cream and 'one scoop' of whip cream. :)
When the two fathers came out of the cafe, we went to 'Lotus' again - shopping and dinner. While mum was shopping in the megamarket, we waited for her in the food court and the 2 kids played in the 'arcade'. She took almost 2 hours to buy what she needed and she had actually spent nearly 3000 baht and those shirts and pants again. OMFG! That's burning a big hole in our pockets!
For dinner, we went to 'Pizza Company'. The pizzas were cheaper than those in Singapore. For 2 medium-sized pizzas, 1 garlic bread, 1 plate of bacon twists and 3 bottles of water, it costs only 708 baht (taxes included). That's about S$31. One pizza already costs 20 over dollars in Singapore! It's quite cheap right?
It's sad that we'll be returning to Singapore tomorrow.. :((

Day 8 - 10/12/07 (Chiang Mai - Singapore)
Woke up at about 6 am, then had breakfast at the restaurant. There were a few people down there having breakfast already. Before leaving for the airport, we settled all the bills. It was 1600 baht for one night plus an extra bed. It had actually cost 2600 baht, but we managed to get a discount! :) At 7.30 am, we left for the airport. We had a total of 5 luggage - 4 to be checked in. The weight of those 4 bags was 55kg! Just 5 more kgs and we'll have to pay extra money.
Went to a restaurant in the old airport for drinks. Then at about 9 am, we went back to the new airport and checked in. We had forgotten to fill the departure form and we had to queue again. And we're gonna be late for our flight!!
Our flight was TR123. We took off at 10 am and reached Singapore at about 1pm. It was raining in Singapore so we got wet while walking into the Budget Terminal. I was feeling quite cold and sick then.
I tried using the 'express' counter, and I managed to pass it! Yay! It's my first time using that thingy. I had thought that I would not pass coz I'm using the old passport.
It was raining the whole day. My head felt heavy and I felt cold. I'm having FEVER and sore throat!! It just felt so terrible to be sick. No..
I'm feeling better now after taking medicine..
Now my trouble is HOMEWORK!! Just 20 more days before school reopens. Oh gosh! How fast time flies.. Haiz.. :(

My conclusion:
Chiang Mai, Doi Tung and Lampang are nice places to visit. The toilets there are also relatively clean and you have to pay for it (2-5 baht per pax). There are lots of temples there, so if you are more of a buddha follower, you would love there even more. Yup, and I like the food there too. Kway teow noodles.. you would not get sick of it after eating it for lunch for 7 days. :)
There's something we have to take note of. There's one man, think he's in his 60s, moving around in the night bazaar and market in Chiang Mai. He's a SWINDLER! He approaches tourists, telling them that he's a Singaporean who's lost his money and wants some money to return home. He then quickly shows you 'his' I/C and passport (he doesn't show the name and photos) and wants you to lend him some money. When he sees you taking out your money, he'll then say he needs more money to buy some neccessities etc. He then gives you a number and address so that you can get your money back in Singapore.
Uncle was cheated of 8000 baht! When he called the number given by that old man, there was no such number!
He's such a wily, crafty, cunning old Malaysian man! You can know that he's not a Singaporean from his tone and pronunciation.
I hope that he'll get arrested (he hasn't been caught for many years!), get caned, get bashed, get cursed for his wrong-doings . Hpmh!

photos

2007-12-11T09:48:00.000+08:00

Photos:

Spring to cook eggs The white temple Inferi hands!!

The resort Nice view from resort Nice flowers.

A statue Flowers! Flowers!

And more flowers! King's B'dae

In the temple..

Horse carriage Temple of Reflections Fried Worms!!

Whee!

2007-12-02T22:14:00.000+08:00

Whee!! I'm flying off to Chiang Mai in 8 hours time!
The plane takes off at 6am, so we have to be at the airport at about 4am. And here I am, saying goodbye to all and preparing to play gunbound!, before I take a short sleep and whee! I'll be off to CM in no time! Whee!
I want to go there, yet I'm missing Singapore and my dear friends too.. :((
Well anyway, 안녕히 가세요 (good-bye). Kaboom!

Summary-Oct/Nov

2007-11-28T10:26:00.000+08:00

Haven't been posting for a long long while..
And I'm here to sum up the events that occurred during the last week of school and the whole of November.
23/10/07 - Post-exam activities. Chinese lesson for the first 3 hours of the day, then we watched in the music room. The show's quite scary, but I still don't get the meaning of it..

24/10/07 - ARTS FEST! Watched in the AVT with many other people. The show's damn nice. Well anyway, I hadn't watched the first series. Before this show, I went around with HuiXian and others to follow the crime thingy. I don't understand the crime at all! Anyway, after school there's malay lesson. We watched . The shows super boring and I wonder how people enjoyed the show. And I remember the sissy guy. He's funny! :)

28/10/07 - Mum's BIRTHDAY! I think we went Hard Rock for dinner? Can't remember.. But I do remember us having a chocolate cake! YUM but fatty. :P

31/10/07 - GCE 'O' LEVEL CHINESE PAPER 1 & 2 . I guess I did badly for this exam. I'm so afraid of the results.. People's answers were so long yet mine's just a few lines long! Maybe I will be forced into dropping HCL next year.. :(

1/11/07 - Geog. lesson. Map and compass reading.

2/11/07 - CHEMISTRY SPA. It's still ok..titration..Guess I'm fine with that??

3/11/07 - ELGAR ANNIVERSARY: POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE . Went to Esplanade to listen to this SSO concert at night. It was ok, but the atmosphere wasn't that 'warm'. And they didn't play an encore for us even though we clapped so hard and loud till our hands were painful. Humph! Maybe they were exhausted after returning from their China trip??

5/11/07 - Geog extra lesson

7/11/07 - BIOLOGY SPA. I totally suck at bio spa. I don't know what the shit I was doing then and up till now, I still don't know how to draw a graph to show the concentration and stuff. Shit man!

8/11/07 - SINYING's BIRTHDAY!!

11/11/07 - KAILING's BIRTHDAY!! I only remembered a few days after..paiseh :] And on this day, my family went to science centre with my bro's idiotic friend. Haven't been there for quite a while and found that there are new exhibits like Nanotechnology. COOL! I suggest you go there someday an dcheck out the new stuff.

12/11/07 - Rural and Urban Hike. We didn't really have our rural hike 'cause when we went into the park a few metres, we were told to evacuate to sheltered area as there was a lightning risk alert. So all guides went to this Indian shop and had roti prata and drinks etc. Then after our 'breakfast', we took a bus to Toa Payoh MRT to travel to City Hall for our Urban hike. It was raining very heavily at our first few stations, but the rain slowly receded and stopped an hour later. Walked a lot and got ourselves wet! My group was the second! Yay! The last question was a tough one man. We searched for a long time before we came to the fountain. Looked around for a while before we saw the words below the escalator and the shop was 'PRESTAT'! A chocolate shop! Oh well.. Then we had our lunch before heading back to the area between city link and esplanade.

13/11-15/11/07 - I was 'chionging' my prof badges. Had been in front of the comp for many hours a day! And I was reading Harry Potter too! :)

16/11/07 - Went to Victoria concert/ memorial hall with YingChyi and Jing Qiu to do our Heritage badge. After that we went back to Raffles City and had ice-cream from 'New Zealand Natural'. I think it's this shop??

17/11/07 - We went to Changi Airport Terminal 3 today! Joined the guided tour for $3/pax. The whole airport's quite nice and environmentally friendly. After the tour, we walked a little more before going to McDonalds' for lunch. And I had 'Double Chocolate Frappe' too! YUM!!

18/11/07 - This is a day to remember. I finished reading 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' on this date and which means I've finished the whole of the Harry Potter series! Great! But I still want to read more about their children. It's cool right? But the ending where Tonks, Lupin and Fred died was quite sad.. :(

24/11/07 - Went to PLAZA SINGAPURA at night. Mum brought me this shop: Made With Love (MWL). I totally love the things it sells but it's damn EX! I feel like buying those stuff to make a gift for someone.. Later on, we walked down the street to view the lights. I like the blue colour, but shouldn't it be green or red? Well anyway, the blue reminds me of snow now. (:

25/11/07 - Went Sentosa today! Had an enjoyable day there though it's very hot in the afternoon. Went Vivo to buy the Sentosa Express ticket ($3/pax). Currently there are 3 stations that can be used: Vivo, Imbiah and Beach station. There's one station between the IR, but that'll only be used in 2010. Wow! 3 years later! We alighted at Imbiah station and walked around till we came to a bus stop. We took the red line to Palawan beach, then took the tram again to a food court a few stops away. Had lunch there. The took bus(long way) to Underwater World. We didn't know that we could take the beach tram to the end of Siloso Beach where the Underwater World (UW) is just a few metres away, so we took the tram back to the main station, then took the blue line bus.
We spent a total of $50.90 for 4 tickets to the UW. There are a few new rxhibits too like the ray touch pool. Those rays are playful! When someone touch them or so, they splash water at us and we can get real wet there. I've got splashed once but not too serious. :) We managed to view everything within 1hr 45mins. Quite short. Nothing much to see though. The fishes are overweight too! You can see those large sized fishes lying on the ground with their big bellies. Lazy fishes!
After that, we walked to the Siloso beach. Bro wanted to play the sand there, but the weather's so hot, so we took the beach tram to the main station and went to the area behind the Merlion. It was cooler there and my parents and bro were playing with the water while I sort of looked after their stuff. I guess we spent 45mins there until the sky starts to turn overcast, but it did not rain. So we packed up and instead of seeking shelter, we went to the beach! Bro played with sand and water but he didn't dare go into the water. :) (and i haven't been to the waters for a few years!)
At aounnd 7pm, we packed up while bro washed up. He took around 30mins to wash up! Mum and I were waiting for them outside the LUGE ride counter. There were some problems there but I shalln't say it.. Bought skyride and LUGEride tickets and it costs $26 for a family of 4 with 1 kid min. Took the skyride up to the start of the LUGEride. I felt scared with my legs dangling in mid-air.. The LUGEride was super fun! The roads wide but the whole route was much shorter compared to the one in China where we took the 'tobogan' down from the Great Wall of China to the foot of the mountain. Well of course it can't be compared, but I would prefer to ride for a longer time! And after the ride, we went home. It was 8pm then.

I think I had a great holiday for the past few weeks. But days really pass so quickly that while I'm enjoying it, another day comes. And I'll be going to sec 4 very soon. I don't want that!! No!! And I still haven't done much homework! ARGH!!

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover

2007-10-03T12:38:00.000+08:00

Hmm..came across this song while searching through the search engine..
It's nice ain't it.. but the title's "Broken Heart".. sad.. :(
<3 this song! :P

(and i've learnt not to judge a book by it's cover!)

My 15th birthday

2007-09-28T23:55:00.000+08:00

Oh what the hell.. My birthday falls on the day when we have our first paper for end-of-year exams. And on my brithday, i had to write 3 essays, 1 functional writing and 4 almost half-a-page long SBQ answers. Is that how I should be celebrating my birthday??
And after today's paper, I have to study for other subjects, Chemistry!! Maths!! Geography!!
I'm not enjoying my birthday at all..
It's kind of not well-celebrated..
Had my cake only at about 10.30pm. The cake tasted delicious though.. and it's from Breadtalk! It's chocolate flavoured!! And of course I'll be gaining weight after eating an eighth of the cake!
Okok..shan't complain about it anymore.. gotta revise for exams!! Damn!

2007-09-12T18:16:00.000+08:00

It's been a month since I last posted.
Well, I've been too busy to bother about blogging..but well, I didn't want my blog to die..so here I am, posting another (boring) post.
Many things have happened, and many things are about to happen too. The most important thing would be end-of-year examinations! It's just 2 weeks away, and guess what? The first paper falls on my birthday!! 28 September!! Argh!! Why can't they start the first paper on Children's Day?? Poor me and Dorothea.. :(
Ok.. I shall rewind to about one month back..
So what happened then?? Dad's birthday, CA2(didn't do really well..), Sep. holidays, and you know what? It's Naf's birthday today! And we celebrated a very sweet birthday with her!!
So, at 2.20p.m today, most of the sec 3 guides gathered at guides den. Someone (Kellyn I think) had bought 2 cakes from BangawanSolo which looked very appetising. So we prepared the candles and poppers and waited for Naf to come. When she came, we popped the poppers and sang her a birthday song! And the candle flame went out so we had to light them again. So we went outside to the benches to enjoy the cakes! Izzah wanted Naf to cut the cake while someone took the photo. She sort of knew what was going to happen..(I hadn't known that they were going to push her head onto the cake..lol) so she tried to run away but Izzah and Kellyn held her back. Then guess what? Kellyn 'scooped' some cream and smeared on Naf's face and then Izzah wiped it all over her face. That was like 'EWW!' (I wouldn't want that on my b'day lol) Took some photos and Naf went to wash her face.
Ooh.. The cakes looked lovely.. I like the 'yellow cake'. It looks and tastes better than the chocolate/ blackforest cake. I love the fruits too! Yum! Guess Naf had a sweet and dirty birthday (short) party this guides meeting!
After that, we returned the testworks and many of them failed so they had to redo. This means that Jing Qiu and I have to spend more time looking through them again and have to pass them by Friday!! That's like so wth! But anyway, I failed one clause!! ONE clause!! And I'm doing it now..
Had Malay Oral Exam at 4.30pm, so Jia Hui and I left at 3.50p.m. We were remembering all that we could before the exam.. but well, nothing much gets into my head..
I felt cheated!! Cikgu Patimah said that we'll be tested on negative feelings and the tester asked me to talk of a happy event! I wonder how those teachers communicate! Didn't know what so say, so I just talked briefly, in broken Malay, about my birthday.. how I'm going to celebrate etc..
Guess I'll fail the oral!! I'm so disappointed in myself! Can't do well in Chinese oral, Malay oral. Maybe English oral too.. Haiz..
EOYs are coming soon and I still haven't started on revision!! I just don't have the time too. And I still have to revise Malay for the written paper is on 26th Sep! Argh!! Can someone just tell me how and what should I do?!?
And on the 29th Sep is my uncle's wedding.. And the next day is my cousin's birthday!! Haha.. (:
Ok.. shall stop crapping here and go do my homework!

2007-08-11T14:04:00.000+08:00

爱你不是两三天 – 梁静茹

退给你的信只留下最后一封
淡淡笔迹你熟悉的温柔
请别介意我会将信纸好好收著
当我需要你关怀的时候
走过夏日街头还是想牵你的手
好想听到一句温暖的问候
虽然我们说好了还是朋友
但为什么却没有再联络
爱你不是两三天
每天却想你很多遍
还不习惯孤独街道
拥挤人潮没你拥抱爱
你不是两三天
一眨眼心就能沉淀
你是否想念我喔
还是像我只和寂寞作朋友
担心你没有好好的过
又怕你已经忘记了我
刚刚分手像告别很久
还想为你做些什么

A.Guides Annual Campfire 2007

2007-07-27T23:42:00.000+08:00

Anderson Clover Guides Annual Campfire
Date : Friday, 27th July 2007
Theme : Joie De Vivre (Joy Of Life)

After working so hard for more than a month, our efforts have finally paid off! Firstly, I personally feel that the campfire is successful! Secondly, structure is quite nice! And, sec 3 dance was great!!
Ahhhhh!! I suddenly feel a sense of relief and relaxation! I can finally rest and have a good night's sleep after staying in school till 7p.m for about 2 weeks.
Ok..I'm not praising my patrol only.. Lol.. Backdrop is wonderful! The idea of using cellophane paper was unique and I like the pop up people! They look so cute! (:
Although it rained heavily in the morning till around 3 p.m, we still had our campfire in the hall. Well, having it in the hall may be a good thing either. Although carrying the benches and tables up from the canteen to the hall was a tiring job, we still managed to do it. Well, if we had our campfire in the field, we'd have to carry 20 benches, around 400 chairs, cables etc to the field. It will be more tiring than carrying the stuff to the hall.
And about gateway, we have to thank the 'Bishan Park' scouts for their tremendous help for the past 2 weeks. Although I haven't really seen the gateway, I can see that it's very tall! and much better than the previous year one. You know what it proves? It proved that guys are much much stronger than us females. Well, it is a fact that we can't deny..
Oh, there's the fire committee! I love the whole concept. It was so cool when they hung the decos here and there and there's the flying fox thingy. The felt cloth soft toy and the light thingy was cute. Ke lian de bao yi.. can't do much for fire.. "why must it rain so heavily today?" Well, we can't blame the weather anyway..it's La Nina now lor.
Now, about my committe- structure. What do you all think about it? I think it's quite ok.. Yay! Harry Potter font!! Haha =P
After the campfire, we quickly cleared everything. Some helpful people helped us untie the structure, carried the benches to the canteen.. Thank you everyone!!!!
Clear this, wipe this table, throw this rubbish away..time passes so quickly. It's 10p.m now. Most people have already left, leaving the gateway people to bring down the gateway. They were working on it until around 10.30p.m when Hui Xin ma'am told them to keep up and we shall continue that on Monday. I stayed back to help out with the gateway, and wait for YC too. Luckily didn't take gateway. It's more tiring than structure. And due to the rain, the knots and lashings are more difficult to remove.
Well, the campfire's over now. But I shall remember this very night for as long as I can.. I really enjoyed it!! OMG! I hope that it would just continue like this till the next day.. (just a wishful thinking).
I love campfires I love campfires I love campfires! Guess I'm CRAZY over it..
Ok.. it's nearing midnight now. Shall stop here now.. Good night! ((:

nothing..

2007-07-20T22:45:00.000+08:00

Hmm..Haven't been posting for more than a month.. LOL
I'm too busy to update all the stuff and too lazy too..haha...
Guess I shall abandon my blog for quite some time..

BeiJing trip

2007-06-18T12:07:00.000+08:00

BeiJing, 7/06-17/06
Day 1-7/06/07
Woke up at about 6a.m, washed up got ready all the stuff. Left house at about 7.am. Plane leaves at 8.45a.m, so we had to check in by 7.45a.m. We're flying on SQ plane..and I'm so excited coz it's my first time!!
The flight is about 6 hours long, so it can be quite boring. Well the good thing about SQ planes is that there is a small screen for everyone so that we can watch any movies or play any games(the games are a little boring though). Lunch was delicious! Black pepper beef! Yum! Kids' meal tastes better and they have chocolate cakes!! Argh! So unfair!
Wanted to study, but I was too engrossed in playing. LOL.
After sitting on a chair for 6 long hours, we finally reached BeiJing! I don't like the airport. It seemed that the exits are very unorganised. My aunt got 2 cars to fetch us from the aiport to her house. The drivers seemed to be very unhappy about our late arrival. How can they put the blame on us? Don't they know that planes can be late too?!? Duh!
I was tired so I just slept in the car(as in laid the head against the window..) The ride was quite long, probably due to the traffic jam. It's only 4p.m+ and there's a traffic jam!
I love my aunt's house! It's like a 5-star hotel room! (: I miss my aunt and cousin!! Haven't seen them for about 6 months!!
It was quite late in the day so we couldn't do much but to shop around in the shopping centres nearby. There's this quite high-class shopping centre nearby. The things aren't quite cheap, but cheaper than things sold in Singapore though. After window-shopping for some time, we went to a small restaurant at the basement. The food's quite ok.. The beer is so cheap! Less than $3 per bottle. The soft drinks however are a little more expensive than the beer! Wierd!
The thing I don't like about it is that people are allowed to smoke in air-conditioned places, and I just hate that! While you're eating, you can smell the irritating smoke that makes you lose your appetite. Dinner costed about S$25 for 7 people. Cheap ehh??
After dinner, we went to shop in the supermarket - C-mart. There's nothing to buy coz there's nothing I like about it.. Then we went home.
I was looking through the vcds my aunt has and I found this very nice korean show - Tree of Heaven/ 天国的树/ 천국의나무. I don't know how to read the korean words.. The show is very touching..and my mum and I were like crying every second. The male actor 李莞 looks more handsome after he cut his hair..haha..and I like 朴信惠!! She's quite pretty.. =) You must watch this show!! Haiz..the ending is quite sad though.. *sniff..*

Day 2 - 8/06/07
Left home quite late. We shopped around 秀水街. I don't shopping there coz you have to bargain with the shopkeeper and it's like if you don't buy when you looked at it for a long time, the shopkeepers will start scolding you. They are being very unreasonable. The things there are also qutie expensive. The amount they ask for is sometimes 200% the cost price. For a shirt that costs RMB120, you can bargain the price to around RMB50. In the end, we did not buy anything. Then we walked to a small restaurant for lunch.
A part of the wall is decorated with large posters. Can you spot MMLee inside??
The food is quite delicious, and our lunch costs around RMB150.
Then we took the train to 天安门东station. You have to buy tickets at a small kiosk inside the station and the tickets cost quite expensive. Then before you go down to the platform, someone will be there to check your ticket. It's quite an old method and time consuming..
At 天安门东, we walked around. The weather's quite hot and dry so you would not feel you were sweating. Then we went to a travelling agent nearby. We took nearly 2 hours to book a trip for 5 to Xi'an! It was quite late already so we went home. For dinner, we had Japanese meal with aunt Evone and her two kids-Jerrick and Xavier. I love the food! It's so yummy! Total cost: >RMB500. They say it's quite cheap for 10 people compared to here.
I was so full after dinner. When we returned home, we started packing our luggage that we'll be bringing to Xi'an.

Day 3- 9/06/07
Had a simple breakfast- 2 slices of bread with Nutella spread and a cup of tea. Then we shopped around 世贸天阶, went to the Korean restaurant located at the basement. The food isn't really that nice, but I like the Bibimbab! I also learnt a new word: 주ju which means beer. LOL.

End of Mid-year exams!!

2007-05-15T00:00:00.000+08:00

Yay!! Mid-year exams are finally over! And I can relax myself!! Haha..lols =p I think I did quite badly in this round's exam..bleh! Later kana scolding from dad..argh! Anyway, after exams today, BY, CY, YC and I went to Cheng San CC for badminton! WE booked the court for 3 hours! From 1-4 pm! There were Andersonians at the court too, and they are sec ones?!? They seemed so undisciplined lar.. they booked only one court and yet they used 2 courts. Then we got the person in charge to chase them away..lol.. (we aren't mean ok..) Time passed so slowly.. Badminton is FUN!! Those sec 1s are still there when we left.. My hand is aching!! lol =p I enjoy playing badminton!!! Haha.. yay! Meeting Yc tmr to watch Spiderman 3!

Ah Hock!

2007-05-03T22:11:00.000+08:00

Haha..had one of those chats with Ying Chyi, Larissa and Bee Yee again during lunch time..
And our topic was 'Bach, Phuc, Tuan Nan*'!
*I think it's spelt like that?!?
Ok..the story goes back to recess time. YC was telling us about her chemistry lesson.. How bad Mrs Sin and the class was.. blah blah..
Then she said that Mrs Sin always call the same people : Guo Zhang, Leonard (pronounced in a funny way), 'A Hock'..
'A Hock' : Phuc (it's pronounced as 'fook', not 'fuk'. LOL)
His name is 'Fu' in chinese, so Mrs Sin translated it into Hokkien and it became 'Ah Hock'!
Lol..that Mrs Sin is sure funny..
Then when YC pointed out to us who Bach was, BY was like saying he look..odd? "He didn't shave his moustache and the way he walked looked funny.." And of course I was laughing throughout. =p
We were chatting so happily until N.G came. (Oh anyway, we've finished our lunch) We tried to hide away from her but she saw us anyway. Then as YC and Lar had Maths extra lesson at 2.45, we went to the avt together. Just when YC had managed to get away from N.G, there came Jia Min (the sec 1 guide). She was like 'acbcing' again and YC just can't stand her. Lol.. the expression on YC's face was so funny when Jm annoyed her.. When Jm was gone, we were laughing so hard.
After YC's class, she came to find us to 'revise'. Then N.G came to my class a few minutes later.
It annoyed us a lot that we were ignoring her and in the end, she left. She can be quite irritating after hearing what YC said : call you many times in a day, tell you about MC or YQ etc...and she'll tell you her personal stuff which many people will get bored after listening.
Around 5p.m, we went home. YC turned right at the school gate while me and BY turned left, then until the crossroad, I turned right while she turned left. =)

(Ok..I know it's boring and stupid..just skip this!)

HIM!

2007-05-02T15:58:00.000+08:00

I'm obssessed with djskbpqpkejbfhjwefbopieuwbfijdbcuigfiouwebf!!!!

English paper 1

2007-04-30T09:59:00.000+08:00

It's 1 hour after the end of the paper..lols
Argh! I think I'm gonna fail lar.. I seriously have no idea how to write that report..
It's like a proposal to the principal about National Day celebration?!! And what have we learnt? Report on theft or fire..bleh! The whole report is like some shit man.
I just wonder how people manage to write 2 pages?!?..
Oh anyway..it's LABOUR DAY tmr!! Yay! A holiday for us!
Just another week to the other papers..argh!
and oh damn! There's malay class later on!!

Rockclimbing/Raffles campfire

2007-04-22T01:11:00.000+08:00

Today's the 21th April and it sure is a busy day for me.
There's the rock climbing course in the morning, tuition in the afternoon and Raffles 01 Scouts campfire in the night.
So, in the morning, we met at 8 a.m at AMK MRT station. We had to wait for like 10-15 minutes all of us arrived. Ying Chyi was the latest! Well, not actually coz Pei Xuan did not know how to go there from Sengkang, then in the end, we met up with her at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station. And of course we wasted time again..
I didn't know that Farrer Park station was just 2 stations away from Dhoby Ghaut, so we reached there quite on time. OMG! The instructions are so misleading! What yellow shophouses?! Luckily YingChyi knows how to read that map given if not we'll be lost..
While walking, we saw a few guides sitting outside a double-storey house(those peranakan houses), and we were still wondering why they are sitting there until we saw the banner on the second floor saying 'Climb Asia'. That's so like wth! That's not even a shophouse lar..and it's slightly orange, not yellow! Then YC was like scolding ong lor..
I thought rockclimbing is fun, but who knows.. It's a tough thing such a big-sized and heavy girl like me..and I just gave up after trying bouldering twice!
After the bouldering part, when we were supposed to do rockclimbing, that guy told us a bad news. The guides HQ did not book that timeslot for us! Then in the end, we had to go home. That is so WTH!! Waste our time to come here and in the end we had to go home without learning anything?!
It was about 1pm when I reached AMK. Then I went centre for lunch with my mum and bro. Bro's class was held back for like 30 minutes after lesson. So while waiting, I quickly finished my tuition compo. And I feel so glad that I managed to complete an essay while standing!
So while writing my essay, I saw BY. She went to collect her specs..haha..she's finally wearing specs! Her specs is heavy..the frames or whatever you call it is made of metal! And of course it's heavy..lol.
The weather is so damn hot! I was sweating like hell while having lunch. And mum just wouldn't buy cold drinks! Then when we returned home I immediately poured myself a cup of iced orange juice. A while later, it began to rain! The weather pattern is like..chaotic nowadays..it's so hot for one moment and cool the next. Oh anywhere, I had finished my tuition homework!
....4 hours later...
After tuition, I quickly changed into full guides u, then walked quickly to Bishan station. There were many guides and scouts unit there already..woah! YC helped me buy fried mifen..gee thanks! :) I guess I'm too excited to eat, so I ate only less than half of that packet.
I thought it was a campfire until Naf told us that it was a SHOW! So everyone proceeded to the hall, which is quite small but very nice. They invited more than 20 schools I guess. The most infuriating thing was that they didn't include our name in the slides!! ARGH! 'Airfield' them lar..
The theme for their show is 'Fantasma' which I don't know what it means...
The whole thing was quite interesting.. ((: Dicky is so cute!! Haha..the spastic ghost.. LOL =P
It was like movie, live performance, movie, live, movie, live...then there are a few performances by other schools - scouts singing..
They are qutie racist too..they play mostly chinese songs, and 1 song by Rain..then a few cute english songs like Ghostbuster..haha..
I guess I was quite 'high' throughout.. 'higher' than YC and JQ probably.. LOL =P JQ wasn't feeling well coz the hall was too cold..
By anyway, after the show, YC and I went home immediately while the others went Macs. I just remembered something! Nazira was with us! Then she's quite funny also..
...back home..I met this uncle in the lift. He said, "You from Girl Guides arh?"
"Yeah."
.......
"You should speak less of chinese. You pass your English?"
Ok. That's so WTH! Shouldn't we be speaking more of chinese when it's like 'hua yu COOL!'. Anyway, I dislike that uncle coz he's always smoking in the lift! Then when the lift reached the 11th floor, I quickly walked home (I'm trying to disappear from his sight!).
Parents are home..so no need to worry! :)
It's been a tiring day for me..but I'm still not in bed yet. Mum was watching this show about female assassins and it caught my attention..so I watched the show too..and I still haven't changed out of guide uni..haha..

...):

2007-04-11T21:43:00.000+08:00

I feel lonely..
I feel depressed..
I feel I'm being left out..
I feel all of a sudden, people around seemed to have changed..
I don't know why I'm feeling like that..
Maybe it's because of that thing..
Maybe it's because that I'm just thinking too much..
I don't know.. I'm confused now..

STRESSED UP!

2007-03-31T23:43:00.000+08:00

I feel like breaking down one moment.
Yet I feel glad now that I've, or should I say we've completed 2 proposals!
And now, there's the GGS fair proposal to do.
But there's still a lot of homework to do..
I haven't touched my homework since yesterday night..
Woke up at about 9am, switched on the computer. I had an essay to be completed before 3, so the best way is to use the computer..lols. And guess what? It took me more than an hour to write an expository essay. Then later, I wanted to write the reflections for camp, but I didn't had the mood to, so I went to listen to songs..and transfered them into my mp4..and all this wasted about 6-7 hours of my precious time..
After tuition, came back home to find my father sitting at the table reading newspapers while my mum and brother were still at the swimming complex. Then my mum called to ask us if we would like to have lunch at the centre. As dad was very hungry, we went there quickly.
He ordered a Japanese meal, and I shared with him.. It's nice! Curry sauce and fried chicken or pork.. He said the curry wasn't the traditional Japanese one as it wasn't that sweet and it was too spicy. I love the fried tofu with light soya sauce or whatever..I also like tempura veggie! <33
Spent about an hour there having dinner while chit-chatting with brother's friend's mum.
When we came back from dinner, I immediately switched on the computer when I realised there's still the campfire proposal to do.. And well, I just finished that a few minutes ago..
Lol..I've been using the computer for more than 10 hours today.. and I think I should stop now for I'm having a headache now..
Ok..I shall stop right here.. Shall update when I've the time.. lol :P

Anderson Clover Guides Annual Training Camp

2007-03-31T22:33:00.000+08:00

- a very late update.. -

Anderson Clover Guides
[Venture For Challenge]
Annual Training Camp
14-16 March 2007

Name : Chenteng
Patrol : S-cube

Day 1
It's my first time attending the training camp, and I'm actually excited about it.
Woke up at around 6am, washed up and double-checked things that are to be brought to the camp before having breakfast - a piece of bread with cheese.
Then quickly rushed to school cause I think I'm late?? But anyway, after I reached school, there were people still streaming in..some of them were still walking slowly even though they saw us all gathered there. So from there, they counted the number of punishments we're going to do..haiz..
Ok, so when everybody had assembled, the PLs(I'm one of them..) collected health forms, valuables and other things like food needed for outdoor cooking and handed them to respective people. Later, we transported all the stuff (bags of twigs and punks, newspapers, bags etc.) to the area near the buses by forming a 'human chain'. Thi took quite a long time though. Then we had to form another 'human chain' to transport everything onto the buses, and this took quite some time too. So by the time we left for Camp Christine, it was about 8am+ I think??
Ying Chyi and my patrol and most of the m'ams boarded the second bus, but we set off first. On the way, we sort of had a competition between our two patrols - singing competition! LOL! It's just trying to sing as many songs (guides songs(:) as possible. The first patrol to 'run out' of songs loses and has to do forfeit! So all all along, both patrols sang and sang till our throats nearly became dry..
This little guiding light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine... A cannibal king with a flat nose ring... Kaeru no yomawari gako gako geku piong piong... Our way is clear as we march on... Twinkle twinkle little star... When we're reaching the campsite, when my patrol was singing the 'twinkle twinkle little star', someone suggested that we sing our song, D2D sing the alphabet song while the seniors sing Baa-baa Black sheep..lol. The whole bus was so noisy.. I wonder how the driver thinks of us a.guides. :)
When we reached the entrance of the campsite, all of us unloaded all the stuff and transported them into the Olave Hall (I didn't know it the lodges were given a name till HuiXin m'am told us about it on the second or third day..lol). Then from there, all of us transported all the stuff to the last lodge, Sangam, which was a long way from the Olave Hall. But the good thing is that it's close to the toilets and canoe shed! =P
Everything was tranpsorted to Sangam in about half an hour I think (I don't keep track of time cause I don't have a watch), our bags were left below the stairs, and other stuff were left right outside the lodge's doors. Then we gathered and had a short briefing before we started to pitch our tents. After a very long time, my patrol finally finished pitching our tent! Yay! But it seemed smaller compared to other tents - the roof and walls were 'sagging'..the only reason would be that the pacing was too small. Yeah..we had lots of problems when tightening the runners..it was too long that we had to tie a thumb knot. So we've learnt a lesson! We should take bigger pacings in the future! After pitching our tents, m'ams told us we were slightly slow. So the next activity was LUNCH! Finally! It finally it's lunch time! I'm feeling very hungry by the time we finished pitching the tents..I should have taken a heavier breakfast..Another lesson learnt!
Lunch was delicious! It was Nasi Lemak! My patrol was the cooks for lunch, so we distributed the rice, chicken wings, egg and cucumber to everyone. I feel so tempted to eat when I saw the food!! Argh! But have to wait till everyone was ready..haiz..Well, my stomach's stop growling..
So before every meal, we have to sing grace..The ordelies will have to lead the grace..sianz..we're the orderlies for day 2..it's a terrible job man..
I didn't know that we'll not be getting our own utensils and cutlery, so I was quite shocked when I used other people's stuff. But anyway we're all girls so it doesn't matter. LOL. Food was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S-!-! The chilli was great too! =P Ok, shall stop talking about food in case you start feeling hungry now.. :)
It was gadget making after lunch. I guess my patrol did badly in it. We didn't manage to do up all the gadgets in time as we had very few people doing them, and had to ask for many time extensions till the m'ams got fed-up with us I think that they stopped from continueing with it. As this gadget making took up a lot of our time, and ate into other activities, we could only start with the third activity (stated in the camp booklet). Halfway through, it began to rain...Sad! For this means we have to stay indoors! Thunder was so loud..the lightning must be nearby, and we're so close to the coast, and it's so frightening!
After that, we had dinner! Chu Yun's patrol was the cooks for the day too, so they were in-charge of dinner. We had maggie noodles with veggie, fishball and crabstick. The noodles tasted plain..they didn't add salt or msg or whatsoever..practising healthy eating habits..lol. Anyway, whatever food tasted nice to me..haha..I feel like a hungry ghost here at camp..
Then, when everyone had finished their dinner, we went to do our patrol duties. My patrol did not have anything to do so we went back to our tent, laid newspapers and groundsheet and continued with the gadgets - baggage rack. (Another lesson learnt - the gadgets must be easy to make. The net could be done at home first so it would not take up much of our time.) When we were done with that, we got ready for the last activity for the day - night walk! Oh man! I'm afraid of dark man..
So we set off as a whole group. We walked and walked till we came to the other side of the fence. On the way, I saw a dead frog! OMG! It was disgusting man..poor frog.. It was probably killed by a bus cause it was FLAT! And at that point of time, I really felt like vomitting! When we came to the fence area, there were lots of slopes to climb, and as it rained just now, we had to cling to the fence so as not fall off..
Ok..we now came to the starting point of the solo walk. I'm getting scared now I admit..(I'm timid!). My patrol was the last to go..so while waiting, WeiChing m'am told us here stories at camps etc. One sentence really freaked me out : Never turn back when you hear your name being called. Reply only when they call your patrol number of whatever. Creepy right? (I'm having goosebumps while typing this out..)
My turn..I'm feeling tense..I hear snakes hissing..I hear the waves crashing against the shore..I hear more hissing..I'm getting very scared now..I see the canoe shed..I see m'ams, loopeng and izzah!..I feel relieved..I overcame it! A big feat for me! Then the m'ams lied to us!! They said that there was a m'am out there waiting for us to report to her..I guess I was to tired to think about it and stupidly walked towards the door.."Come back. We were just bluffing you.." LOL. Well I admit I'm getting goosebumps then when I realise I have to go back there??!
Sat outside the canoe shed for quite some time before the whole patrol returned to the area outside the lodge. Others were already there waiting for us. Then the ordelies served us green bean soup! It tasted quite nice actually. After supper, the leaders had Court Of Honour (COH) in the lodge.They briefed us about what went wrong in the day and how we should do for the next 2 days, like getting members to work together, time check, giving instructions, no chit-chatting etc. My patrol was quite slow compared to other patrols. I don't know if it's due to lack of teamwork or are we all actually slow in our work? By the time they ended the debrief, it was about 1am! Can you believe it? It's been 19 hours since I left home..and I'm sort of missing home.. :( Germaine's counting down..waah! After we were 'released', I went to bathe and wash up. Then I went to sleep! I can't get to sleep..and kept tossing about, but I'm afraid of waking Germaine or others..(continued in day 2)

23/03/07

2007-03-23T21:34:00.000+08:00

It's just the first week of the term and there are already one thousand and one things to do!!
Piles of homework left untouched..
And I just don't understand how some people managed to cope with this workload!! Argh!!
There are a few tests coming up next week..maths - a-maths test on mon, e-maths test on wed, CA paper on fri; bio - SPA test on mon.
Ok..here are what I've to do over the weekends : bio 5-year series, 2 chem ws, read chinese newspaper, e-maths ex. 4.1-4.4, a-maths ex. 9.1, 7.1, 7.2.. Wah! So much homework!!
Haiz..and you know that I won't be able to finish everything by Sunday night..
We had our first chem prac today. Did mixing of ionic compounds with sodium hydroxide and ammonium solution...quite fun actually, but not as interesting as bio prac...haha :)
Towards the end of the lesson, when Ms Mok told us to pack our test tubes into our container, a few people dropped their test tubes and of course, they broke. While packing my stuff, I saw Augustine drop his test tube. And guess what! It didn't break! Miracle isn't it? I guess the test tube like him..just joking... :P
During maths lesson(had 2 hours of maths lesson continuously), windows of class 3/3 broke! Heard from KaiLing that some people played football there and the ball smashed the glass..yeah, and it shattered of course!
I thought some people dropped test tubes in the lab again..but the sound was so loud that it couldn't be that of test tubes..
For guides today, we discussed about campfire! The theme for this year's campfire is 'joie de vivire', joy of life in french - suggested by naf!
My patrol's in charge of structure, so we were to think of the stage design and how to 'present' each unit's name etc..and we still hadn't come up with any idea at 5+pm.. It's so hard to think of something related to 'joy of life'..it's like..very broad..QiJin was telling us money bring us joy in life, so do we draw money or what??
HuiXin, WeiChing and WeiXin m'am came back today..dunno what reason for the latter 2..
So during campfire discussion, all the m'ams called the sec 3s to talk about the posts we want to hold etc..yeah well..I shalln't talk about it..lols =D
Yay! Can finally go home!! Went opposite with YingChyi, JingQiu and ChuYun..bought bubble tea. YingChyi shared with us one whole bar of chocolate with cashew nuts! Yummy! Thank you YingChyi! I shall give you some thing in return too next time.. =)
Shall enjoy myself tonight before starting all my homework later.. gee =P

STRESS STRESS STRESS!!!

2007-03-08T22:33:00.000+08:00

STRESS STRESS STRESS!!! It's driving me crazy man!
Homework - loads of them to be done as holiday homework;
Training camp stuff - have to spend my time which doing proposals when I can sleep or do homework, then have to buy those stuff during holidays...
OMG! It's the last week of the term, and it should be relaxing..
and instead of that, teachers give us more homework then usual, guides have to prepare for the training camp and stuff... bleh! I'm deprived of sleep! Do you know that lack of sleep can affect one's judgement? How are we to do things when we're like dozing off in class or wandering off into our own dreamland..
I don't know why I'm not paying attention on class lately.. the lessons suddenly seem uninteresting to me.. and I'm trying very hard to make myself be more attentive in class.. ggrrr!!
Got back report slip today..
Guess what? I passed my english!! Yay! But I don't have an A?!! WTH! It's all B3, B4, B3, B3, B4, C6!!
Sure get a scolding from dad...haha! haven't shown him yet..
and WTH! How on earth did that TCC get such good grades when he doesn't listen in class? Qian Zhou ahh!! It's like lao tian mei yan bah.. haiz.. suan le.. shall work harder for CA2 then.. Jiayou!
There just seem 1001 things not done yet..!! Haven't collected the twigs and stuff..homework not done yet..
and that just reminds me of mu tuition homework!! aahhh!! Comprehension!! Damn!
Shall stop here now and go pack my stuff..ggrrr..and I'm very sick of doing that campfire programme thingy..!!

Mayflower Scouts Campfire

2007-03-03T23:29:00.000+08:00

Finally updated...
Attended Mayflower Scouts' campfire today..or I should I say just now?
The campfire started at about 7, I guess(I lost track of time!!).. And we're supposed to meet at 6.30pm at AMK MRT station.
So at 6pm, I left my tuition class, quickly changed into full guides u, then walk to the MRT station. I reached there at 6.15??!! Wah! So early?! Still have to wait another 15 minutes..
Ying Chyi's not there yet, so I stood at one corner and waited for the rest.
Then came Cheryl, a sec.1.
Hmmm... I didn't know sec. 1s are coming for the campfire too..I thought we weren't allowed to come when we're in sec. 1?? It's not fair!! They get to enjoy more campfires than we do.. not fair..
Anyway, Ying Chyi came shortly after - 7 minutes later.
Got my dinner - chicken rice. Then we went to Cheers to buy something, and stayed outside to eat our food! Jerrica ate her corn, YC ate the chicken drumstick while I ate my chicken rice. BaoYi just stood there watching us eat..poor thing.. Oh yeah..forgot to thank her for holding my plastic bag for so long..and er..sorry for troubling her.. ):
Then Jing Qiu came and talked about the chicken hanger thingy..
...chicken hanger too expensive!!! I didn't know that the chicken hanger was counted in the food budget, and I don't how the hanger looks like and how much it costs(the cheaper ones).. Then she continued with the hanger thingy.....................................shalln't talk about that..
I guessed we waited for a very time before setting off for Mayflower sec. It was drizzling slightly when we reached there, so we walked briskly to the gate and that was like at the other side of where we walked to. The gateway's a little too small?? if compared to other scouts' campfire?? And the lashing aren't tight! And the gaps are quite big..one's feet might get stuck between two poles...
As it was raining, we went to the hall. Many other units are there already..and we're one of the last few arriving..but anyway, we're not the last to arrive..and that's not too bad.
When the campfire started at first, everyone doesn't seem to be high and enthu..but as time passes, we all started to get very very high! and we're sweating!
I guess it's my first time getting so high during campfires?? I was like screaming throughout..cheering for a.guides!!
OMG! JunYing and Naf are so so chio man! (wo ai si ta men le!!!) And they won the fashion competition!! Yay!! 3 cheers and 3 cheers 3 cheers for naf and junying. Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray!! Woooo!!!!
And Adlyn was one of the 3 people who won the dancing competition! Yay! Cheers for her!! :))
Then at about 10, campfire ended. All in all, I enjoyed the campfire!! =D It's the first campfire of the year!! But the bad thing about it is that it plays chinese songs..and it like showing racism?? But anyway, it's over..I'm looking forward to another campfire!! I love campfires!! :)))
Reached home at about 11pm, bathed, and here I am! Updating my blog!

CNY day 2

2007-02-19T10:02:00.000+08:00

Today's the second day of Chinese New Year.
Went to grandma's house first before visiting other relatives.
Then at night, went to my fourth uncle's house for dinner.
Reached there at about 7pm, but we were not the last one to arrive. One relative arrived at 9??
We had a buffet, and I guess it costs >$600?? It's so expensive!
Ate, chatted, watched tv - hua yang shao nian shao nu!! It rocks man!!
Then one of my cousin suggested watching a movie at suntec - just follow law by jack neo.
I didn't wanted to follow them at first for I was afraid I may fall asleep while watching, but agreed in the end.
Only the 6 of us(teenage) went. One cousin, who's already 21, drove us to suntec. There were many cars in the carpark, but we managed to find an empty space. Collected our tickets, and there's about 20 minutes before the show starts. Then we decided to walk around, but the shops are already closed, so in the end, we bought popcorn and stuff first and munch on them..
The cinema's quite small actually. I thought it would be as big as the GV's. Anyway, it's already 12midnight..but there are still a lot of people there. I guess it's because it's festive season, then families come and watch movies..
The show is damn funny! I was almost laughing throughout the whole show..
At the beginning, the part where the secretary said 'everything has to be written in black and white', 'it takes 3 working days to process...' was funny, then the Fann Wong complained her to the boss. Arrows shot our from her laptop, and they flew towards the boss or whoever. When that person replied, the arrows went back to F.W and she replied the mail and the arrows returned until all the arrows flew towards the seretary and she got 'injured', which means she's got fired! It's funny ok..
Then the part where F.W and Gurmit Singh's souls exchanged bodies and using tape to stick the boards together was also funny. You should go watch it..but some people complain it's not a good show..but anyway, it's funny! =D
By the time the show ended, it was about 2am. We didn't go home straight away. We went to a cafe at Marina Square for supper. We ordered quite a lot of food, and it costs $40+. The food costs expensive too..one sandwich costs $4, and one cup of chinese tea costs $1.20. I was the youngest there!! My older cousins chatted with each other..I've got nothing to say with them..Got generation gap ba.. By the time we finished our food, it was almost 4am, then they sent me home first, cause it's my first out till so late, and because I'm the youngest! :)
My parents are worried that I may get lost or what, so my dad came down to pick me up. When I reached home, only my bro was asleep..mum and dad were disturbed by me!!
Today's a great day! My first day out till so late!!
Then woke up at about 9am..the sound of the lion dance opposite awoken me from my sweet sleep..ggrrr..
And today's the last holiday, 3rd day of CNY only, have to return to school tomorrow..sad! )):

happy chinese new year

2007-02-18T07:30:00.000+08:00

It's HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR today!!!
Yay!!
Can get lots of ang baos. Can gamble. Can visit other people. So fun! :))
It's the first day of the chinese new year, so I haven't gone to other people's house for celebration..but I know that I'm going to my grandma and aunt's house today!! Yay!! =D
Ok..last week, quite a few things happened - valentine's day, total defence day and chinese new year celebration.
I didn't buy any valentine's present for anyone.. ;[
but I got quite a few presents..
Haiz.. I'm receiving love, but I'm not giving love..and this is selfish i guess.. but anyway it's over..
Then on the 15th, its total defence day! Those in uniform groups have to wear full uniform for the whole day! damn! but anyway, i guess my uniform's the most comfortable among other CCAs.. =P
While having maths lesson, the alarm suddenly went off! Many people were happy that it rang during maths lesson..
So everyone walked quickly to the parade square.. I guess my class was walking quite slowly coz my class is on the first level and it's quite easy to reach there without having to walk down the stairs. The sun was shining so brightly and we were to stay there until all the students have come down.. some people were missing so the teachers had to search for them and this caused us to stay under the sun for a longer period of time..
It's was boring waiting, so Cheryl, Jun An, Cleon, Aneesh and I played 'heart attack'. It was quite fun though.. geez =D
When we finally got back to class, maths lesson is already over..and it's english lesson! But the sad thing is, mrs lee could not come for class as she had some meeting.. so we played..made lots of noise in class..but luckily nobody came to make us shutup..
Then on the 16th, it's chinese new year celebration! We were encouraged to wear ethnic costumes to school.. so almost the whole class wore, haiz..yiqin and junan didn't wear..damn! But anyway, our class won third for the costume wearing.. yay!!!
We had 2 lessons first before watching the concert which starts at 10.30, and these two lessons are geography and biology..
Geog. was ok..started on a new topic - weather and climate
the bio teacher didn't come today and it was good news! I'm starting to dislike her man..
the concert was nice..the performance by indonesian scholars was funny..coz the tall tall guy standing next to dorothea looked so extra there..haha :)) the rest of the performers were about 1 head shorter than him..omg! he's 190+cm!! woah! so tall!
didn't have guides meeting today..so happy! so went home after concert ended..then went library return books..
while packing our stuff, beeyee found lots of ants in her bag..eeek!! her 'uneaten' bread was infested with ants!! our class has lots of ants...and they came from outside!! eew!

-.-

2007-02-03T21:41:00.000+08:00

Finally! I finally have the time to use the computer! I've been too busy to use the computer and that's why I'm posting very seldom now..you can say once in a month.. :)
Sec. 3 is another tough year.. although there are fewer subjects compared to previous years, these eight subjects are all tested, as in written paper.. ppff! There's so much homework to do and I really don't have the time to finish all of it, and where do I have the time to revise? (oops! and why am I here blogging when I can revise? jk..)
First of all, the subjects are now more difficult..like the maths, I still don't really understand the logarithms stuff.. and we had our CA1 test yesterday..and there's the plotting of some graph which I don't understand anything at all..
Then there's the history and social studies. At least one page long essay for each subject! I'm very bad at writing good and long essays, and now, we have to write at least one page long and that one question is worth 12 or 13 marks!! I guess I'll fail these two subjects terribly.. :(
And for English, I guess I'd better start working on it..I only got 5 marks out of 20 questions?! Duh! I don't know what I should do with it..
Then Chinese, another problem.. this year's chinese teacher is so much more strict than Mrs Lee.. I miss her I guess.. after every chapter we went through, we would have to do the activites which we didn't do last year..and I hate doing those things..ggrrr..I'm bad at chinese..so you could say that I'm totally bad at languages.. my compositions, letter writing and stuff are getting worse. I got 41/70 for compo and 12/20 for the letter writing..bad ehh? Then every Friday, we are to do comprehension passages..and guess what? I've been getting B+/B- and worse still C+ for it..never an A.. sickening! Haizz..when will it ever improve??
There's still the sciences..Bio and Chem..
Many people say that mdm loh sucks, but I didn't really agree with them at first. But now I do. She's been talking non-stop every lesson and it's just about some skills and stuff..and she seldom touches the bio textbook..it's always the prac. book or theory. I love to do pracs...but there's so many rules you've to follow..
And for Chem..I don't know why, but I'm enjoying these lessons..though the teacher is boring. Mr Koh isn't really our chem teacher..he's just taking our class for one month and sometime after January, ms mok, who's our 'real' chem teacher would take over the class.. Gang Hao says that ms mok isn't that good or whatsoever..and I still don't know who or how she looks like..is she old or young or middle-age?
And finally, there's the geography. I'm also enjoying geog. lessons.. I feel I like ms sheela's teaching methods.. :) She's a nice teacher, but she's a little too strict about handing our work on time.. Plate tectonics, landforms results, volcanoes, earthquakes etc.., I'm starting to know more about the earth's interior structure.. It's quite cool sometimes when you read an article related to geography..
Anyway, there's a lot of homework everyday, and everyday, I can't manage to complete all my homework, and I do wonder how those 'triple science' students manage to finish their homework and take time out to revise their work... How I just wish I have their brains..
And now, I have many homework to do.. maths textbook ex.2.9 and the miscellaneous stuff, chemistry w/s 2, bio theory wb 2 ex., ying yong wen corrections, history essay, geography assignment. Most of them are due on monday!! And I don't have time to do my homework tmr! I'm going to the national library with the nwsp grp members to do research there.. and hey! tmr's my grandma's birthday! arghh!! I can really die of stress!
And there's CA! in the next few weeks..and in a few weeks time, it's chinese new year!! Yay! But two day after, there's history test. damn!
Have to go off now..shall post if I have the time..probably a month later.. haha :P

update

2007-01-19T21:37:00.000+08:00

Haven't been blogging for the past 2 to 3 weeks 'coz I'm too busy to blog, and you can say that I've got no time to use the computer..
There are too many things to post, so I'm just going to write it briefly..
I was almost late for school on the first day.. and it's the first day my brother's going to school! He woke up at 7am and school is supposed to start at 7.20am! He's so unconcerned..doesn't care if he's late for school or what.. and that's the very opposite of me!
Well, anyway, we didn't have lessons on the first day, just some boring talks and stuff..
Yay! My form teacher is Ms Yeo! She's nice as our maths teacher, but I wonder if it's the same when she's our form teacher.
There's guides meeting on the first day of school, but I didn't attend it 'coz I've got malay class! I like the 2.30 class, but I've to change it 'coz of GUIDES!!! Ggrrhhh!! Everything just doesn't seem smooth this year!
Our recesses start later than before, there's the mass workout on every Tuesdays and Fridays, guides meeting every wednesday and friday, Malay every Monday and Wednesday, extra lessons ever Tuesday and Thursday.. The timetable is just so packed!
Monday lessons end at 2.10, then there's malay which ends at 6.30, so by the time I get back home, it's already 7pm. Then I've got 1 hour tv break which nobody can force me to skip till 8.. and so by the time I actually start doing homework, it's already 9pm! By then, I'm already feeling tired..eyelids are already drooping..ZZzzzz
Luckily I'm not taking triple science, if not I'll really die from stress!
(I've got lots to say, but I've forgotten what I'm to say..well..)
So, I shall come back to today..
Mass workout, normal school stuff, CCA..
The mass workout was..'stupid'? It's like aerobics..and most of the people weren't doing it at all! So what's the use of having this? And because of this, Friday's recess time has been pushed back half an hour! And that means we're having recess at 11pm and our school ends at 12.30.. wth! one hour difference between recess and lunch time..
There were only 14 new sec one guides. 14! That's way too few compared to the previous years when we had over 20 people joining.. I guessed everybody went over to NPCC and NCC.. they have over 30 new members! sad! :( So for guides today, we had games, patrol corner and footdrill! I was actually looking forward to the badge ceremony and they left that out?! Well, there's nothing much today...
Oh yeah, I just remembered something..yesterday..was my unlucky day, or you could say lucky day. I was being called for almost all the lessons I had yesterday..it all started with the chemistry class.. "Reg. 5, please answer this question." Then at geography lesson, "Chen teng, can you answer the next question?". And at maths lesson, "Chen teng, what's the answer for this question?" Then Ms Yeo called me again! "Who have I not called today? Have I called Chen teng? *No..*(which was not true) Oh well, chen teng, is..." Then for Bio lesson, my name was called because the teacher was holding my book and I don't know what's wrong with my book..."Chen teng, where are you? ..."
Oh how many times have I been called? 5 times right? That's too wierd..fancy having my name and reg. no. called 5 times!
...
and that just reminds me of the dental check up I had today..I was called to have the check up during geograhpy lesson..waited for like 10 minutes in the caravan..and I was like feeling so tensed up there.. I'm afraid of dental check-ups! My gums will bleed after that, if not my gums will hurt a lot.. like now, it's been hurting for more than 10 hours! I remember the last time I went for a check-up, that was in 2005, it was so painful that I didn't realize I was biting the tube that was inserted into my mouth! Well, anyway, this would be my last dental check-up in school..

class allocation

2007-01-02T13:27:00.000+08:00

Went to check the class allocation today..
Used notepad and checked the whole class - 2/5 (please do not scold me for intruding your personal info.)
And here's the list :
3/1 - Tripti, Ann Gie, Manisha, Kellyn, Chun Yan, Chun Ling, Valerie, Clemence
3/2 - Ying Chyi
3/3 Chee Siew, Meifeng, Kai Ling, Zi Ai, Zoe, Min Shan, De Yuan, Sherilyn, Ting Zhi, Jian Yu
3/4 - Li Hui, Dorothea, Jun Lin, Germaine, Jun Yao, Qiao Yin, Jia Le
3/5 - Me, Bee Yee, Tressa, Sin Ying, Lan Qi, Hui Xian
3/6 - Adeline, Jiang Mei, Rachel, Shi Hao, Gui Zhen, Zhi Wei, Clint, Jie Min
Poor Ying Chyi..the only one in 3/2, but there's Yun Hui, Jia Hui and others..
And I'm glad that a few ex-classmates are in the same class as me!.. Nafeeshah, Shu Bing. Then there's Zi Hui and Anna.. :))

Night At The Museum

2006-12-28T23:24:00.000+08:00

I'm feeling so happy today! Went out to watch a movie with Tan Cheng..at Vivocity!
We met at AMK MRT station at about 11am, then took the train to Harbourfront..
I've been here before(when playing amazing race..haha..) so I sort of know the way around..
Anyway, there are always new things for us to explore..
So the first thing we did was to purchase tickets for Night At The Museum. We thought that since we did not watch Death Note 1, we shall not watch the second series as it was connected to the first and we'll not know what happened in the first series.
We had a hard time searching for the cinema..We thought it would be at the top floor, which was the third, but it turned out to be the second floor. There was quite a long queue there already but luckily, we did not have to wait long to buy our tickets. There were only front seats for the 1pm show, so we watched the 2pm show. We've got quite good seats - third row from the back, two seats at the corner.
As there was like more than an hour's time before the show started, we walked around the shopping centre before having our lunch at Food Republic! We did not buy anything as we did not bring much money with us and we've already spent $7 on the movie tickets! Then we went up to the third floor where the food court was..there were many people there and we had a hard time searching for seats. We saw a few empty seats but were deciding whether to ask the person there if it was empty, but we're too..shy you could say to ask, so we waited until people left the table, permanently before settling ourselves down. We found a table with four empty seats, then Tanch was like..there are four seats and there are only two of us..blah. but anyway we seated ourselves down for we're feeling a little hungry..
We bought minced pork noodles! Though it's expensive, it sure tasted great! Yum! I love the taste! $4 for a bowl of noodles, worth it! But there could be much cheaper noodles out there..anyway, this is a shopping centre so things are likely to be more expensive..
As there was still quite some time, we walked around again..you could get lost quite easily there for you don't know where you came from and you don't know where you're heading to.. So we got a map of the mall from the information counter. The lady at the counter was a little rude though! We're only getting a map from here and her face suddenly turned 'black'! Bleh! What attitude is this..no wonder our service dropped so drastically!
When it was about 1.45pm, we walked back to the cinema. We bought a popcorn combo which costs $7! Same price as a movie ticket! We had to take the escalator up to the entrance and there's another snacks bar..
Woah! Gold Class movie sounds great! You get special seats and service! Wow! But it's too expensive for us..haha..
Yay! It's movie time! The starting was something like that: Larry, the main character, was finding a job that was stable so that his son will not despise him. So he got the job as a security guard at the musuem! When he first arrived there, the three old guards told him the rules and etc. Then at night, he was alone..He didn't know that the exhibits would come alive at night so he was very afraid when the t-rex came charging at him. He called one of the old guards about it and he told him to read the rules. Rule no. 1- throw the bone
While he was at a lost, a bone dropped from the t-rex. So he took the bone and threw it as far as he could and the t-rex ran after the bone! Then it came back to him and wanted him to play with him! It was so funny when the t-rex bend down and wagged its tail at him..and everybody was like laughing.. ((:
Then the show started to get hilarious! It was so funny that we were almost laughing throughout the whole show! You must watch this movie! It's funny! And it might make you want to visit a museum after that..
It's quite different here. Most of the time, after a show, you'd be out of the shopping centre, but it's different here. You came back to where the ticket office is. And we could see more people queueing up to purchase tickets. And the queue was until minitoons! Long right?
There wasn't much to see so we decided to go to plaza sing. We went into Action City to look at the cutie toys!! Then..I saw Zoe! I didn't know she was working there..haha..then we chatted for a few minutes..for she's working! Then we walked around the whole shopping centre. We're shopping for free! I'd just wish I had enough money then I could buy some stuff..Spotlight, Daiso, Sasa etc. It was about 6pm when we finally decided to return home.
I'm now feeling quite tired..didn't get enough sleep yesterday..but when I reach home, I suddenly felt energised! I guess TV will always make me stay awake.. :))
I just felt as though I'm starting relax, then I got to know that we've got to do 3 proficiency badges, cca open house preparations and I still haven't completed my homework! Gosh! I'll be doing last minute work again! When will I ever not do things at the eleventh hour??

bowling at marina square

2006-12-23T23:06:00.000+08:00

I'm feeling happy now!! Wee..
I had a mini gathering with 6a classmates..
We met at City Hall MRT station at 9.30a.m. before walking to Marina Square shopping centre.
At 8.55am, Tan Cheng and I met at Ang Mo Kio first before taking the train to City Hall..Then she told me that Weng Jun's meeting us too but she's in the next train. So we got down at Newton, counted 7 doors from the back and sat down to wait for the next train to arrive. After 5 minutes of waiting, the train finally arrived. I think we counted wrongly because we couldn't see Weng Jun at first, then when we turned to look at the other door, we saw a girl in a pink shirt who looked like her. We didn't know if it was her so Tan Cheng smsed her and yes! it was her..
We sort of sneaked behind her and tried to scare her but she seemed to be expressionless.. :
When we got to City Hall, I realized we were the first to arrive! Gosh! Next came ShuBing and Regina..then Brenda,and after about 15 minutes came Huei Ting. And after a very very long while, Larissa, Min Gee and Josephine finally arrived.. I thought there would be more people but it turned out to be only 10 of us..
When everybody arrived, we walked to the shopping centre..Most of the shops are not yet opened in the City Link and in most shopping centres I guess..it's too early for them to start work.. :)
At the exit to Marina Square, there was this signboard showing the escalator was not working and it sounded quite funny. It's something like that: Escalator's not working so as to save energy! Wow! I didn't know people can save much energy but not using the escalator..lols!
I've been to the bowling place once, so I sort of know where it was..but anyway, Larissa's taking us there and we followed them. It's kind of empty there..only a few kids who are learning bowling..
We had to pay $3 for the game and $1 for the shoes, so it's $4 a person..and those who are not wearing socks have to buy their socks at $1.50 per pair..
We didn't know how to play so we tried playing.. Wow! Amazing! I've got a strike in my first round! But after that, the bowling ball kept rolling into the 'drain' or canal or whatever it is called.. Bleh! And I've got a total score of 55! Weng Jun and Huei Ting are so pro! They've got over 90 points! Pro right? I don't know how long we stayed at the bowling centre but it seemed quite short. When the game ended, Shu Bing and Regina went off with Shu Bing's sister..
After that, we went to have our lunch.. I can't believe we're having lunch at Pizza Hut?! I'm too poor to eat that you know..and well, we still had that for lunch.. OMG! I could have saved a few more dollars to buy other stuff if we ate something cheaper yet fulling..duh! At Pizza Hut, we ordered the family set I think? We had BBQ chicken with stuffed crust and Hawaiian pan pizza, 8 mushroom soups and 7 coke..and we spent a total of about $70 there! OMG! It's the most expensive lunch I've ever had with my friends! I think I shalln't think about it anymore..what's over is over..so don't regret..
Then we went our separate ways..Larissa and Min Gee were going to Larissa's house, then Brenda had some other meeting..so that leaves 6 of us.. We went to the arcade! Wee! :))
I didn't play, just watched the rest play..it's quite fun, but not many types of games to play..
Then we saw Brenda and Josphine play a game that looked fun..Tan Cheng and Weng Jun decided to play the game after Brenda ended.. The game was really funny.. too funny and exciting to be explained in words..you really must try the game with your friend! While they were playing, a man came up to us to ask for donations. It seemed like a nightmare to me though! I told that guy that I've no money to give and he was like "Just $4, please..", then I said I really got not enough money! Then he bit his lips, blinked his eyes quickly, looked as though he's flirting! OMG! My hair really 'jumped' up! He really looked like a gay or some sissy guy..I'm feeling cold right now..yuck! It's so disgusting..a man trying to act like a woman?! It really makes people vomit!!
Then later on, we went window shopping! We went into quite a few shops..MiniToons, BearyHip, a clothes store, PUMA, and a few others which I can't think of now..
The things sold are too expensive for me..I've no money to buy them..Oh well, I will only have enough money for my ownselve when I start working..maybe..
Josephine and Petrina left halfway through and the four of us are left now..
We walked and walked and talked and talked until 4pm when I had to leave for tuition..
We went to Suntec City as well..I don't know why we went to Carrefour..we were just following our legs for our legs will take us to wherever they want..
I guess we've walked more than a kilometre for my legs had started aching..haha =P
I'm late for class! Argh! I have tried to hurry up but well, there are so many fanciful things to look at and so we took up quite some time again..so by the time I reached the tuition centre, I was 20 minutes late! Duh!
After tuition, I went to J8's MiniToons to buy some Christmas presents for someone..wah! It's so crowded inside, so I just bought one thing and quickly left for home...

amazing race with Catholic High School

2006-12-18T22:19:00.000+08:00

Ok, it's the 18th of December and we had an 'amazing race cum treasure hunt' with Catholic High School scouts. Early in the morning at 7.30am, we guides had to meet outside Bishan MRT station. While waiting, the security came and told us to move away as we're blocking the entrance..but the entrance is so big, how can we block the whole entrance??
When everybody's present, we walked to Catholic High School.. We went the wrong direction at first, until Jie Ling told Zhi Ling that we're walking in the wrong direction..We're walking towards RI instead of Cat High..lols :)
I don't know what time we reached there coz I don't have a watch..anyway, when we reached the school, we couldn't find any scouts.. Then the guard directed us to the canteen..
We gathered at the space next to the canteen and waited for them to appear. It seemed like ages before they came..then during that waiting time, we discussed about the CCA open house. My patrol is in-charge of the Display..haiz.. Sharanya is not here and we don't know what to talk about..
Wah!! We have to do so many posters.. It will be tiring man! And it's to be done on vanguard sheet!
Then Zhi Yan became 'hot-headed' all of a sudden.. Our cheer was not loud enough, we're quite sleepy then so we did not have enough energy to reply her lols, and we were punished! We had to run up and down the stairs thrice! And at the end of the 'run', my legs had gone wobbly.. Too long never do exercise..haha.. was rotting at home.. =D
When the scouts finally 'arrive'(they were already in school, but somewhere else..), we got into patrols for the race. Every patrol consists of 10 people. As patrol 'Swallow' has only 3 people, a few other people from other patrols were to join. And I joined! Now, my patrol has: Me, Jing Qiu, Jia Hui, Lisa, Zi Ying, Lu Peng, the Indian girl whose name I don't know how to spell, Zhi Wei, Louise and Sengyu. =))
When we were in our patrols, we were told to get to the field, and play the 'ice-breaker'. Our ice-breaker game was really cold! Lol! We just briefly, very briefly, introduced our names and that's all. Then Yi Teng said we're too quiet and then some guy suggested to play the name game.. You have to think of an adjective that has the same first letter as your name, say it out so that everybody can hear, then the next person has to say your name and his/ her name as well. Then this continues until the last person. The first person will have to repeat everybody's name, including his/hers. This game was really very cold! After that, we were told to gather back and the leaders briefed us on the rules and regulations and etc. Then each patrol will have 2 to 3 instructors to guide, or should I say keep watch over us to see if we broke any rules. We've got Yi Teng and Gary..
Finally the race started! We had to get to Bugis to check all our clues and so..So when we reached Bugis, Yi Teng gave us our routes and staff - list of the treasure hunt items we're supposed to find. At Bugis, we've got the Fu Lu Shou complex to visit. We had to find out how high the building is. We spent quite a long time there! We didn't know whether we're supposed to find the number of storeys or metres high..and our estimated answer was +/- 20m! I think we got that wrong..??
Along the way, we collected flyers as the treasure hunt list stated that we collect 25 different flyers from different shops. And we took quite a long time to figure out where we should go next.
So the next place we went to was City Hall. First we went up to Raffles City, found Billabong and asked the counter for the price and serial number of the purple swimwear. Omg! That swimwear costs $59.90?!! Pay so much money just for such a small piece of clothing!
Then we tried to find the 120 bronze cast plagues.. This was the worst part maybe. We went to Esplanade as we thought it was somewhere there. Then the instructors told us that we hadn't walked past there so we went back to City Link and finally found the plagues. I thought they were big and bulky, but it turned out to be quite small and are hung up on the wall! And I walked past this thing for don't know how many times and yet I don't know it's a bronze cast plague?! Omg! I really suck at observing my surroundings!!
And guess what? We've spent 2 ½ hours searching for only three things?! Oh god! There's one more item in City Hall called the Civil Defence Gallery but we dunno where it is so we decided to skip this. Then we took the MRT to Orchard. It was raining when we came out of the MRT station. We had to find the Gasi travel agency in the Mandarin Gallery and copy out its logo. We did not think of it as a shopping place in a hotel and until one guy telephoned someone did we find the place. During that time, we went to Wisma Atria/Ngee Ann Shopping mall. We went to the library to get 5 receipts and visited the Art-friend shop to get the items needed for treasure hunt. We've got quite a lot of stuff there. There's the Xmas bell, tree, candycane and stars and we spent a total of $8 there. That Gasi travel agency was so far inside the shopping area..we had to walk so far to get there and it's like wasting our time. When we came to the open again, the rain had stopped! Yay!
Then we walked to Somerset MRT station, took the train to Dhoby Ghaut station, which was just a stop away, and walked to Cineleisure cineplex. I thought it was the Cathay shopping centre where you can play bowling, watch movies and stuff like that..
We're to find out the colour of the Christmas tree there..and you know what? The tree is pink! A PINK christmas tree?? Well, it looked like candy floss..
Then we went to SMU to look for the business course thing.. I can tell you we've had a tough time there. I really hate going to SMU!! It's just like a maze, and in the end, you still can't find the things you wanted. Like the previous time when we came to SMU to search for the artwork, we also couldn't find it until we took the bus did we see that it's somewhere between 2 buildings.. Well, we didn't find that signpost or whatever and gave that up.. Wth! We spent about half an hour searching for that and we still couldn't find anything?! I give up! Then we walked to the art museum. We took down the dates and time of free admission. Then we walked to the church which was something related to Cat High School..Check out who funded the church and so on.. Then we realized that we forgot to do something at the art museum. We returned to the art museum and found the tablet thing.. As we're running out of time(it's 2pm then and we had to get to vivocity at 2.30pm), we had to skip all other places and go to vivocity directly.
Well, we were late! We thought we'd be the last one but it turned out we're not! We're the second to arrive there..but as we're late, we had to do forfeit! We handed up the items for the treasure hunt and chose a forfeit to be done - someone pretend to be a shark, then the rest had to shout 'Shark!' and run around and we had to attract attention! I was laughing all the while..it's just too funny =D The guys pretended to be the sharks while we girls will be shouting for help.. We had quite a few NGs.. lols :))
Then we returned to the empty space in the shopping mall. The people in-charge had calculated our scores and it's time to bid for food! My patrol had got 455points! *cheers! :)* We bid a total of four prizes - mentos, oreo, jelly and twisties! And we still had 165 points left..
So after that, the event offically ended! Great, now we can go home!! But before we went home, we had to do a cheer.. Fancy shouting loudly in a shopping center..attracting attention.
Then Lisa, Jing Qiu, Jia Hui, Lu Peng, Zi Ying and I went to have our lunch at Kopitiam. We're having lunch at 4pm?? After that, we returned home. Took the train all the way from HarbourFront to Ang Mo Kio..then I got home at 5.30pm.. Legs are feeling very sore then..
I'm looking forward to 7pm as it's the last episode of the show..it's nice..coz Bosco Wong's acting.. hee :)

hanoi, vietnam

2006-12-16T21:54:00.000+08:00

I was in Hanoi, Vietnam with my family last week, from 10/12 to 15/12.
It was the best yet worst trip..
We were supposed to return to Singapore at 1am on Saturday but due to some technical problem, the flight was delayed for more than 12 hours! I will tell you more later in the post..
But anyway, I still like coming to Hanoi.. :)) It's a wonderful place..probably better then Bangkok, except for the airport part..
Ok, this is gonna be a very long post as I'm going to type out the itinerary for the past five days.
*ST - Singapore time

Sunday 10/12/06 :
We(my family and uncle) arrived at the Hanoi Airport at 9.15pm(ST). We waited for about 50 minutes at the customs before we were out. A driver from tour hostel(Little Hanoi) drove us to the hostel. The roads of Hanoi are so dangerous. One motorcycle just cut across the expressway and it shocked us all! The drive from the airport to the city took about an hour's time. When we reached our hostel, we had some problems checking in. They did not have enough rooms for us to stay so we were told to go to another hostel, which I supposed was one of their branches. By the time we unpacked all our stuff, it was about 11pm+(ST). We hadn't had our dinner yet, so we headed out to look for a place to have our dinner.
The weather's so damn cold! 15ºC I didn't bring thick clothes to wear!! Bbrrr!! As it was cold, we decided to have hotpot(or steamboat) for dinner! Their hotpot is quite different from us..they cook noodles in the pot as well while we don't do that. We had the mixed hotpot and they gave us stuff that we don't usually eat..Their fish is so 'boney' that I daren't eat a piece of it for fear of choking the bone..
There's like prawns(one for each person), yam, tofu, meat, squid and quite a few kinds of vegetables. We didn't know how to eat(as in cooking the stuff), then the 'boss' came and help us with it..she stood there for quite some time and we chatted while waiting for our food. I like their prawns and squid! The prawns are so juicy and sweet! While the squid is so 'chewy'?? I don't know what's the word for it..But anyway, these foods are the best of all. By the time we finished our dinner, it was already 12am+! We paid for the food and quickly returned to our hostel.
The water in the hostel tasted like rotten seawater..and we're supposed to drink it?! Just can't stand the stinking odour!

Monday 11/12/06 :
Woke up at about 7am(ST). We had breakfast provided by the hostel - a bread with jam and butter and a cup of coffee or tea. It's nice though simple. After breakfast, we tried checking into the hostel that we're supposed to be staying in but the guests seemed to leaving only in the afternoon. So in the end, we went out to shop while they tried to reserve 2 rooms for us. The temperature is sure low! About 17-18ºC in the morning. We could stand the cold no longer and we went to buy winter coats from the shops nearby. I bought a windbreaker that cost 200 000VND(S$20) and it sure has given me some warmth..
Then we continued shopping around for more clothes and other stuff like gloves and hats. As it was about lunch time then, we had our lunch at 'Ocean Tours' restaurant. The food is nice..we had pizza, rice, vegetable, meat and spring roll(nem). The nem is delicious! It has a crispy 'skin'! Yum! We spent a total of 219 000VND on this meal. Then we visited the Hoan Kiem lake and took some photos. We're starting to feel cold again and we went to have a drink at the coffee bar. The vietnamese coffee is so special! They let the coffee drip from the metal thingy instead of just giving you a cup of ready-made coffee. When we came out of the bar, we saw a few people buying ice-cream?! People eating ice-cream on such a cold day?! That's just so crazy!
After that, we went to book tickets for the water puppet show which was just around the corner. We're going to watch the show on Thursday night! Later on, we shopped a little while longer before returning to our hostel. The rooms now are much larger than the previous ones and it's not as cold. We rested for a while before going out for dinner.
We took a taxi to 'Brother's Cafe' and it costed us 16 000VND. 'Brother's Cafe' is quite a high class restaurant. Adults cost US$12 while children cost US$6 per person. We had lots of barbequed seafood - prawns, clams, squid and fish. We were enjoying our dinner when suddenly someone from behind us vomitted. Yuck! That was a disgusting sight! He must have had too much wine..At about 10pm(ST), we finally left the restaurant. We were the second last to leave the restaurant. We took a taxi back to the hostel. This time, the taxi fare costs 44 000VND! What a big difference between the two taxi fares! Something must have been done to the taxi meter for it went too fast!
We'll be going to Halong Bay tomorrow and are spending the night on board the boat. =)
And how on earth did that '好朋友' come?!! :((

Tuesday 12/12/06 :
Woke up at around 7.30am. Took a bath and packed the bags that we’re taking to Halong Bay. After that, we checked out of the hostel and had breakfast provided. When the minibus that is taking us to the bay arrived, we loaded our bags and boarded the bus and we left for Halong Bay. The bus trip lasted for about 3 ½ hours. I was sleeping throughout the trip. During the trip, we stopped for a short break at a factory. It sells hand-made items like embroidery, handbags, pouches etc. A while later, we finally reached the harbour! We got the boat tickets and boarded the boat. We’re staying on board for a night before returning to Hanoi city. We had our first meal, lunch, on board. Our lunch included tofu, omelette, fish, cabbage and rice. Then we were given a small cabin to sleep in. The cabin is quite small, just big enough to place a queen size bed or two single beds, a small drawer and a toilet.
In the afternoon, we visited a cave in one of the many islands there. This cave is specially made for tourists to visit. It’s very big and quite dark inside. Our tour guide gave us a tour around the cave. Some rocks looked like animals or some parts of a body..it’s quite interesting actually. We finally came to the end of our tour around the cave, and we’re standing high above the ground! We bought ice-creams and later climbed down the cave and boarded the boat. Later on, we came to a place where people are allowed to kayak into caves and their surroundings. I wanted to kayak, but due to some constraints, I didn’t kayak after all. L Some people changed into their swimsuits and dived into the sea.. OMG! The water is so cold and they dared to swim in it?!! We stayed there for about an hour or so..Those who didn’t kayak or swim, like us, stayed on the top deck to ‘sun tan’.
Then it was dinner time! We had fish, chicken, French fries, vegetables, soup and nem. When we were finished with the main course, they served us fruits – orange. After dinner, I went to the top deck to view the night sky. It was so beautiful.. It’s cloudless, so many stars could be seen shining brightly in the sky. I was feeling cold by then and went into our cabin. As I was feeling quite tired, I fell asleep immediately.

Wednesday 13/12/06 :
Breakfast is served at 8.30am (ST), so we had to get up about an hour before that. It is very cool, but not as cold as it was in the city. For breakfast, we had bread(sliced), jam, butter, egg and ham. It tasted quite okay, but the caucasians do not seem to like it because they did not eat much. There are quite a few pieces of bread, all the ham left when they left the dining room. Maybe the food is not as good as food from their hometown..
After breakfast, we are told to check out as we are going back to the harbour. On the way to the harbour, the boat stopped for a while at a small island to pick up a few people there. The island is like a resort where people can stay there and do things that they like. After a few people boarded the boat, we left the island and headed for the harbour. At about 11.30am, we reached the harbour. We had lunch there at a restaurant. They served us many dishes - fish, nem, vegetables, soup, fried noodles and rice.
After lunch, we set off for the city. Before that, the driver drove us to another island, it's something like Sentosa, to pick up someone. The island is quite bare. Very few trees and buildings there. The bus trip back to the city was a little longer than before as we travelled slower and when we reached our hostel, it was about 5pm+. We bathed before going out for dinner. We had hotpot for dinner again. It was at the same place but in a different stall. The hotpot stalls are only opened at night and it's located outside the wholesale market. This time, we had seafood. The prawns are live prawns, not frozen ones. They put the prawns inside the pot when it's about to boil, then the prawns are like jumping about the pot. It's quite funny seeing the prawns 'jump'. My dad and uncle are so hungry that they finished 4 packets of maggie noodles and mee hoon and the brown noodles. We didn't know how to eat the vegetables they gave us so we sort of exchanged the vegetables with maggie noodles. And they gave us 4 packets of it. I thought we wouldn't be able to finish them all but we did. It's unbelievable. We had to refill the soup twice!
In Hanoi, it seemed that beer is cheaper than soft drinks! One small glass bottle of Halida beer costs the same as a can of 330ml of Coke or 7-up. But in restaurants, the soft drinks are a little more expensive than beer. It's quite the opposite here right?
Then after dinner, we walked around the area and returned to our hostel. It was about 11pm then.

Thursday 14/12/06 :
We signed up for the city tour today and it costs US$18 per person. It started at 8.15am. First, we went to the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum. The security is so tight there that you could only bring your valuables like money and jewellery in. If you have cameras, they will keep it with them until you come out of the mausoleum. Ho Chi Minh's dead body is placed in a display case-like coffin in the middle of a room. I can't really see properly as it was quite smoky in the room and it's quite dark inside. It looked like a fake one as it was plastered to prevent decaying or something like that. The tour guide told us that every three years, during November, the body of Ho Chi Minh will be taken to Russia for restoration, so the mausoleum would not be opened to tourists.
When we came out of the room, we were given a tour around the garden behind. It's very big! There are rooms there to show where Ho Chi Minh worked, slept and there's a car exhibition showing which cars he had used. There quite a few pagodas there, like the one-pillar pagoda.
After that, we visited a temple which shows us the history of Hanoi. It is a big temple! There are Confucians teachings, historical recordings of special events like royal examinations etc. We took quite a while to view all the exhibits.
Later on, we visited the 'Vietnam Museum of Ethnology'. Here, we learnt the different minority groups or tribes living in Vietnam, what they do, how they lived etc. There are many artefacts left there by the different minority groups. We can also see exhibitions on the 'subsidy period' where people still used coupons to purchase items like rice, fish, meat, fabrics etc. The 'subsidy period' lasted till 1991! We were already quite advanced then.
Then we proceeded with the outdoor exhibitions. There are four different houses built by five minority groups - Tay, Bahnar, Giarai, Ede and Viet. We climbed up the Bahnar house which was built in 2003 by 42 villagers from the Kon Rbang village. It is 19 meters tall! According to the Bahnar, the communal house is the symbol of male power. Then we went into the Ede longhouse. It is over 40 meters long and would have accomodated the families of daughters and granddaughters of an extended matrilineal family. The Giarai tomb is very obscence! It had large wooden figures encircling the tomb. "Sexually carvings and those of pregnant women are symbols or fertility". Eww!
After that, we had lunch at a small restaurant. It was already 3pm(ST) when we sat down to have our lunch. We were served pumpkin soup(yucks!), chicken, pork, nem and fruits. After lunch, we walked on to our last destination - the pagoda at the lake. It is built in memorial for the turtle that lived in the lake which helped the Vietnamese army win the war against the Mongolian army. There are a few people there praying and there is a cast of the turtle in the pagoda.
After the city tour, we returned to the hostel. A little while later, we walked to 'Ocean Tours' restaurant for dinner. We had quite a lot of food. We had pizza, spaghetti, noodles, french fries, steak and rice. Later on, we walked around the Hoan Kiem lake to search for ice-cream! We came to an ice-cream cafe. We ordered 7 scoops of ice-cream - chocolate, coconut, rum with raisins, strawberry, durian, chocolate chip and vanilla. It's not as good as Hagen Daaz or Ben and Jerry's :)
We then walked to the water puppet theatre. It's at the end of the lake, so we took quite some time walking there. (The lake is very big!) When the doors are opened for the show, people rushed in to watch. Some people sat at other people's seat so there are staff going around to check where you should be seating. (40 000VND for the front/best seats while 20 000VND for the back seats) Finally the show started. First they would play some musical for us to listen before starting the performance. I didn't really enjoy it and was half-asleep throughout the whole show. =P It's also stuffy and smokey there. I can't stand the smell of the smoke and I had running nose. OMG! The performance lasted for about 45 mintues. After the show, we returned to the hostel as it was quite late then.

Friday 15/12/06 :
Today's the last day at Hanoi. I'm feeling quite sad though.. We didn't do much as we had to leave for the airport at 6pm. I woke up a little later than usual. In the morning, we walked around Hanoi Old Quarters which is where our hostel is located. As it was nearing lunch time, we walked to Nikko Hotel for the Japanese buffet. The hotel is very far from where we stay. We took about an hour walking to the hotel and by the time we reached there, we were sweating and are feeling hungry. The weather now is not so cold.. We immediately went into the restaurant. There are not many kinds of food there, but it's delicious! I love the beef in the French sauce and potato tossed with herbs. I ate quite a lot of food..beef, potato, soup, sashimi, rice, bread, biscuits and DESSERTS!! The desserts are the most delicious food there. There are many colourfu, carefully decorated desserts! I took a cup of chocolate mousse, chocolate custard puff, mini cakes, fruit cocktail, fruit tarts and ice-cream! Yum! It's so delicious! After lunch, we took a taxi back to our hostel(48 Hang Ga).
We bathed, packed all our stuff and waited for a taxi to fetch us to the airport. The taxi arrived a little later than planned and we're afraid we might miss the flight. But we got there on time. Our plane was supposed to leave Hanoi at 9pm+ but we told that the plane encoutered mechanical faults so the flight was delayed. We thought the delay would only be a few hours long..but who knows..we waited for about 15 hours before leaving Hanoi. This was my first time encountering a flight delay. We waited in the departure hall till 4am in the morning, then the airport staff told us to leave the hall and wait somewhere else. We got back our luggage and slept in a bar outside the arrival hall. It's so cold that I couldn't sleep. I was there shivering.. 2 hours later, I woke up. The bar is now opened for business. We ordered noodles and hot drinks. As more people are coming into the bar for breakfast, we left the bar and sat down somewhere else. I began to feel sleepy and fell asleep on the chairs.. Later, we had another meal at another bar. Then someone told us the new boarding time would be 12.30pm. So we checked in at about 11pm and waited to board the plane. Finally, after 15 hours of waiting, we finally are able to board the plane and leave Hanoi. I was so afraid that we may be stuck in the airport for another day or maybe we have to stay in Hanoi for another week because there are only 2 flights a week.
At 5pm, we finally reached Singapore.. When we came down the plane, two people gave letters to us, saying that Tiger Airways is sorry for the long flight delay..
"Tiger Airways is extremely sorry about the disruption caused to your travel plans by the delay o flight TR309 to Singapore. The aircraft requires maintenance action and certification after it was struck by a bird during approach to Hanoi last evening. This work is currently underway and we expect the aircraft to be available around midday. In recognition of the disruption caused Tiger Airways would like to refund the cost of your flight and we request that you write to our Commercial Services Department stating that you were affected by this delay..."
Oh anyway, I don't mind about the refund. As long as we get back to Singapore in one piece, I'm happy alright. Ha..and I've missed my tuition..
Well, this trip to Hanoi was really the best and the worst trip ever!
But, if I have the chance to visit Hanoi again, I would want to go there again..maybe for the Sapa trekking trip.. and maybe we shall take another plane..haha :))

We didn't have any food since 11 o'clock in the morning, so we quickly left our stuff at home and went downstairs for dinner. After dinner, we went home to unpack all the stuff, sweep the floor and wash all the dirty clothes. Then it's time to sleep!

olio handphone is spoilt!

2006-12-08T17:38:00.000+08:00

This week was quite uninteresting..only sitting in front of the computer playing games and that's all for the whole week..
And how on earth did my handphone spoil?!
I didn't realise the speaker was spoilt until two people called me and I couldn't hear anything..
Then I had to use another phone, my old phone that my dad passed to me..Nokia brand..
But anyway it's better than nothing.. :)
My dad's changing phone again..wonder if I can get his old phone.. :P
Well, I'm leaving for Vietnam next week, in fact it's just 2 days away..I'm gonna miss my home..
We'll be leaving this Sunday and will return next Saturday at 1.00am in the night!
It's my first time there and we're on free and easy trip..not feeling safe now though..
Then lately there's the typhoon thingy at South Vietnam..hope it doesn't happen in North Vietnam..
There's just three more weeks to the end of holidays and we'll be returning to school! Boo!!
I'm gonna miss the holidays!!
Why is it that we'll feel bored during long holidays and want to go back to school?
Then we want long holidays when we're in school?
Strange right?
And up till now, I still haven't completed the chinese worksheets that were given to us before school holidays..and we have to hand up when school reopens!! Arrghh!!
I hate doing the comprehensions!! And there are 8 open-ended comprehensions to do?! OMG! Have to start working on it now..

sale of guides cookies at lot 1

2006-12-03T16:25:00.000+08:00

Woke up early in the morning as I had to reach Chua Chu Kang Lot 1 shopping mall at 10a.m.
Wearing full guides uniform took me almost an hour..and that left me with 15 minutes to have my breakfast..
I'm meeting Jing Qiu and Izzah at 9a.m. at the Ang Mo Kio MRT station.
When we reached there, we saw Kai Ling already waiting for the train..then when the train was arriving in 2 minutes time, we saw another guide crossing the road..and that was Lisa! So we waited for Lisa to arrive even though we missed that train. But anyway, we reached there on time..
There were five of us there, and the stocks were not here yet, so the guider told us to walk around the shopping mall until 10.10a.m.
We returned a little earlier than that time and sat around the area.
Then the guider got a call saying that the stocks are here and all of us went down to the carpark with 2 NTUC trolleys to carry the boxes up. There were only chocolate cream and macadamia cookies only..the mint was probably sold out yesterday..
We couldn't start selling the cookies without our own guider-in -charge(Mdm Hasniza), so we waited for her to arrive..and you know what?!
She arrived at about 11a.m.!! That's like one hour later than the given time.
So we immediately set off to look for 'customers'..
Although it was quite early, there were many people in the shopping mall already!
But we couldn't sell the cookies inside the mall..so we walked and stood outside.
People were like rushing to some place and they weren't even listening to what we're going to say(how rude of them!).. and they just walked off..*humph*
Stood around for more than 2 hours before having our lunch break..
During that 2 hours, I sold only 2 tins of cookies..(pathetic ehh..) while Jing Qiu sold about 7 boxes?! That's incredible!
I guess Singaporeans are really Singaporeans..when it comes to donation stuff, they wouldn't even look at it..
We asked people politely if they want to buy cookies..some people treated us as though we're invisible and walked away while others nodded their heads or put out their hand..Only a handful of kind people bothered to ask us about the cookies..
I guess it's too expensive and it's too big so that's why the sales was quite poor..
They could have redesigned the container and sold it at a cheaper price(fewer cookies obviously)..
Then maybe more people would consider buying it..
It's quite difficult for people to take out $10 note than $2 or $5 note right?
Well, after our shift, we counted the number of boxes we've sold and tallied the amount of money earned..
We've sold a total of 40+boxes, earned a total of $446..
I'm not going to do this anymore..it's tough job!
Legs and arms are already aching at the end of the job..
Lol..and the moment I came back..I'm sat down in front of the computer playing Neopets!! :)

guides briefing

2006-12-01T14:58:00.000+08:00

Had guides meeting at 9am at Guides Hq today..
Thought it was going to take us a few hours to give us a briefing about the sale of cookies, but it turned out to be only a few minutes..less than half an hour!!
OH GOSH! I had to wake up so early just to listen to this very short briefing?!
And we had to be in half guides u!
I mean, if they're giving us a short briefing, why not just tell the guider to tell their guides the message? Waste of time..
Anyway, it ended at about 9.30am. As it was quite early, we decided to go to the library. I had a book to return, so we went there..
The library hasn't opened yet and as there were 'only' a few minutes before it opened, we decided to wait for it to open..
Ages must have passed before we were let into the library..damn!
Borrowed 2 books..then Jing Qiu said she wanted to go to minitoons in J8, so we sat down in the library to read our books while waiting for the shop to be opened for business.
We thought it opened at 10.30am, when we went up there, the shop was still not opened, so we went to Popular. Jia Hui bought a notebook and some other stuff for whoever and it took us quite some time there.
When we came out of Popular, it wasn't really opened yet, so we went to another shop..
This time when we came out of the shop, minitoons had finally opened..
So we went there..Jing Qiu and Jia Hui bought sweets(they sure had sweet tooth)..
After that, we went home.
Our shift of the sale of cookies at Chua Chu Kang Lot 1 is from 10am to 3pm..haiz..have to wake up early in the morning again..(it takes about an hour to get to Chua Chu Kang)..
...Haha..the first thing I did when I reached home was to switch on the tv and tune in to 'Wars of in-laws'(wo de ye man nai nai)! This show is really hilarious!! Except for some parts when it gets 'serious'..
Lol..today's the first of December!! Time really flies!! Another month or so, we would have to return to school..

science center

2006-11-26T23:00:00.000+08:00

Visited Singapore Science Center today.
Had five free tickets, but only the four of us went..but never mind
Left home at about 12nn and had lunch at the market.
Took MRT to Jurong and walked there.. :)
Entered the Science Center..same exhibits at the entrance..boring..
But we took about half an hour's time viewing those exhibits which we had already seen before.
Then there's this electricity thingy show at the Atrium. I've seen that the last time we went there, and it's the same old stuff! Duh!
Bought tickets to the 'Deep Sea' Imax show at the Omni Theatre at 2pm, so after a while, we went to the Omni Theatre to watch the show..
We were a little disappointed for it was not the same as what we had expected..
We expected to watch deep sea creatures like the angler fish etc. but it turned out to be starfishes, corals, turtles etc.
Got a little dizzy while watching the show..but anyway, it's still quite interesting..
Wanted to ride on the Morphosis Ride but didn't got the chance to coz we've still had other exhibits to view at the science centre..
I think we went to the 'physical science' part..lots about force, living creatures..
Didn't had enough time to view all the exhibits.
At 6pm, when the science centre closes for the day, we went home.
Shopped around the shophouses at the Jurong centre before taking the train home..
Wasn't feeling that well, so I went home to rest while my parents and brother went for dinner..
By the time they came back with my dinner, it was already about 9pm..haiz.. having dinner so late is not good for health..
...26 days have passed since the end of school, and there's only about a months time before school starts again..I wonder why holidays passes so quickly..??

soreloser!

2006-11-25T21:47:00.000+08:00

My brother is a total SORE LOSER!!
He and his best friend met at Jubilee at about 9pm..
So, during dinner, he quickly ate his dinner(this is the first time I've ever seen him eating so quickly). Then he hurried all of us to finish our dinner quickly as well because he wanted to meet up with his friend.
So when they met up, his friend's father took us to the arcade on the third floor of Jubilee *p.s. I've never known there was an arcade in Jubilee in all the years I've lived in AMK*
We were like suakus there..I felt a little out of place though..(not suitable for an innocent girl like me :P)
(Ok, enough of the crap!)
His friend challenged him a game that he has been playing quite often, so apparently, that friend would win right? At first, he played by himself and he lost both rounds to his friend and he got a bit frustrated..
Then I was kind enough to lend him a helping hand..but in the end got punched by him!
We won the first round but lost in the second round..then he blamed ME for causing him to lose.. He's a total SORELOSER!!! I just can't stand his attitude and temper..he has all the bad qualities of what a bad guy would have..weird and bad temper, no sportsmenship, liar...
I can predict now that he will have a hard time in the future if he does not change his character.. but anyway, serves him right!!
I HATE HIM!!!

anderson open house

2006-11-25T14:59:00.000+08:00

25th November 2006 - Anderson Secondary School's Open House cum Carnival
Had guides duty, so woke up at 6.50am. Checked my phone and saw this message: hey pls come school by 7.30 to help out pls thanks spread the news
I didn't know who sent me this message, and thought that it was guides-related, so I quickly changed and grabbed my breakfast and rushed to school.
When I reached school, I couldn't see anybody at the car porch, so I walked around the canteen searching for our class' booth...Later did I realize that that message was meant for me to reach school at 7.30am to help out at our own booth. Ah!!
So, just stood around the booth, and guess what?! Jun Yao's 'buzzer game' was so simple! Just one straight metal rod without any curves or whatsoever..and we sold friendship bands as well..
Then Ying Chyi and Bao Yi arrived before 8am. As she didn't had her breakfast yet, we accompanied her opposite to buy breakfast. Bought a Hi5 coffee bread..Hi5??!! Lol :P
Then we returned to our booth..stood her and there, then we saw Mr Neo, so we walked to him. He's so funny..when he saw us guides, he went up to the GO or staff room before coming to see us..sian diao -.-
Later, he gave us a short tour around the school and told us how we should tell the parents and p6 about the school and so on..and we have to SMILE always :D
At first, there were only a few people coming and we were like 'who wants to give them a tour??'..pushing the job around. But later on when more people came in, everybody had their own 'tour group' and were busy showing them the school blah blah blah..
The first 'tour group' I took consist of 3 people - a father, a mother and their son. This was my first and longest tour around the school. The father, especially, asked quite a lot about the school and was like so curious about everything..well, we can't blame them coz they are so anxious about their kids. Well, for me, I didn't visit any school's open house..didn't even know when their open house was..ha :)
Ok, back to that family..
Went to the AVT, looked at it for a moment then asked a few questions like how often do you use this room and what do you use this room for...Next, we went to the music room, and they asked the same questions. Then we proceeded to the cookery room. Many pupils were like do guys have to take cooking lessons?? They looked sorta' bored when I told them 'yes'..you know guys don't like cooking..but most of the famous chefs around the world are males!
There's this student activity room, which I don't know what it's for..then the cultural corner or room for pupils to rest and study. Next was the library..a guy explained to them about our school's library..ahh..I don't have to tell them about the library..anyway, there's nothing for me to say about the library..
Next up was the Inspire Town, cybernetics room, then the Research labs..at the Inspire Town and lab, there were sec 4s there to explain about the room, so I could rest a bit. :))
Then we went down to the hall, multi-purpose studio, d&t rooms and the courts..lalala..We walked around, then the wife and the kid went to the hall to listen to the principal's talk at 10am. As there was still time, the father went down to the canteen to buy some drinks.
He's so kind to treat me a can of coke..and a pack of cookies which he bought earlier(thanks though)..yeah..then he went up to join his family..
Went back to the guides 'table' or whatever you call it..let Ying Chyi drink the coke while I went to usher a parent to the hall. When I came back down, she told me to drink it quick for dunno what reason..but I gotta know it later, when Yi Teng told me to go to Guides Den and drink it there in 10 counts?! There's more than half left in the can, so I couldn't finish it and left it in the den..with the cookies as well..duh!
Went back to the station..ushered parents to the hall for the talk when it was already 10.20am..
But after that, as it was too late for them to listen to the talk, we gave them the tour around school..
I didn't give many tours..just about 3?? but a few to the hall haha :))
Then there was this mother who was so..anxious about his son I think..She was like asking questions that the principal should answer like how is my son going to be in school..will the classes be like, the good ones with the good ones while the not so good ones in another class.. I mean, she's so bothered about the marks..what's important is that her son will make the effort to study while in secondary school ain't it? While nearing the end of the tour, she asked where the toilet was. Told her it was downstairs, and she later asked me if the toilet was smelly.. Her question is very 'diao' right? Who in the world would ask if the toilet is smelly?! Omg! She's just being too clean!
There's still some time before the end of the open house, so we're still giving tours to parents..
My legs were aching a lot when the open house ended..
Finally, the open house has ended. I feel so happy!!
But the sad thing is that the carnival has also ended..we didn't get the chance to visit the stalls... sad :(
Wonder how our class' booth was??

2nd day of skills training camp

2006-11-22T17:24:00.000+08:00

It's the second day of the skills training camp..yay!! And it has finally ended and we can finally have more sleep..
In the morning, we spent more than an hour's time waiting for the Catholic High scouts..OMG! They were late for 1 1/2 hours and poor A.Guides had to sit outside the guides den waiting for them as though they are the kings..
So before they arrive, other UG came and slacked around like us..and the Brownies(the earliest) went to the classrooms to have their own personal training on knots and lashings(by our own guides I think?)
So, at 9am, we settled ourselves at the field, got into groups and went around different stations learning different gadgets.
The first gadget that my team practised was the table. It was so troublesome..had to tie so many square lash, a few diagonal lashes and the snake lash. Snake lash was so troublesome..had to tie a knot here and there..got a little confused..duh!
After this, we had our ELEVENSES! This time round, it's biscuits..Julie biscuits! We got 3 packets and shared among ourselves(Valerie, Manisha, Yun Hui, Bao Yi and myself). Drank plain water only.. :) And we rested while others were still eating..
Then we proceeded on to the Shoe Rack! Had to hammer or mallet four poles into the groud...haha..quite fun..:)) Just some simple square lash to tie and that was done! Yay! When we pull out the poles, there were quite deep holes in the ground..then the in-charge for that station were wondering if Major Chong would notice them..but I don't think so..grass grows so quickly that by the time he goes round for checking, the grass would have covered the hole..so..there's no need to worry.. :D
Next we practised making the luggage rack(I think so??). It's also square lash throughout the whole gadget..
Yay! It's lunch time! Feeling rather famished right then..but since it's also the same meal as yesterday's, Nasi Lemak, I suddenly had not much appetite..And the rice seemed uncooked! It's hard! Eww!! Five of us couldn't finish our packets of rice and just threw them away..
Later on, we carried on our last station - clothes rack!
Had to tie diagonal lash for the two standing poles, then square lash for the other parts...
OMG! My knots and lashing really sucks! Don't even know what hitch to start before lashing..damn!
Must remember: Clove Hitch - Square lash; Timber Hitch - Diagonal lash!!!
I mean, I've always been tying clove hitch for the diagonal lash!, and the timber hitch had to be around the two poles! Argh!!
Then this guy told me to tie a thumb knot or whatever after the clove hitch to tighten it or whatever, but I don't know what the thumb thing is until YiTeng told us about it at the end of the camp. (Hao diu lian wor!)...blah blah..
Wah! It started drizzling and everyone began running into shelter with the poles and everything..
We had to 'protect' the poles, not to let them get wet blah blah..so our current job was to remove the twines and everything, dry and clean the dirty poles, tie then poles into a bundle etc. Got us busy ehh..quite a few maybe.
Later on, we had the prize presentation thing again! S2pid lar..
Miss Ong's presenting the token to the representatives today..every brownie got a small little thing which I dunno what it was coz the band was there making lots of noise..
Then the scouts left while the Brownies and us guides left behind for a little game! Lame games!
Had this Guides Own?? thingy..find the other part of the brownie or guide law and then explain what it means etc. Lame right?
Then there was this game where it's quite er..dunno how to explain it but..it's more for Brownies than us..
Brownies had to turn 5 rounds(Guides to turn 10 rounds), place the ping-pong ball onto the spoon which is held in our mouths, then had to walk inside the given space, walk on the brick steps, stand behind a white line and start throwing the ping-pong ball into the bucket..
Yay! My group won! Oriole plus two Kingfisher - Bao Yi and me.. We actually wanted to lose but well, in the end, we still won..duh!
Nearing the end still...
Brownies had already left, we're still outside the guides den listening to people making their speeches..about the knots and lashing, 'amazing race' with Catholic High, YA open house etc. Took up quite some time..but ended earlier today! At 5pm! Hurray!!
Yay! There'll be no more 'training'(getting more sunburns and cuts rather than learning new skills) camp tomorrow!! Haha! :D But it's still quite fun despite the hot sun and boring skills stuff..
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Ok..I'm sidetracking now, not talking about the camp and so on, but I wonder to myself why many people dislike Miss Ong.
"She looks like a freak"
"She's so..."
Er..to me, I find that she's still quite a nice person(though I'm sure many diagree with me). Once you get to know more about her, she can be like a good buddy. Teachers can't be a student's buddy, but you know what I mean...having a good relation..so this is all I have to say..

1st day skills training camp

2006-11-21T21:39:00.000+08:00

The first day of the training camp has finally gone..and I can get a good night's sleep before preparing for tomorrow's tough training..bleh!
Ok..here's what happened during the training :
Gathered outside guides den at 7.30am. Waited for the Mayflower Guides(I think?) for an hour till 8.30am before starting the events..
First up, we've got the 'lesson' from the Montfort scouts on making a flagpole..
We took quite a long time getting that done..
It was quite stupid(my group)..having them tied the thing to show to us how it looked like, then loosen the ropes, showed us how to tie the poles together etc..Then they got us to loosen the ropes again and re-tie the whole thing.. -.-`
OMG! The weather's darn hot..it's freakingly scorching hot!!! Just a few hours under the sun and some of us got sunburn(including me)..lols :P
After this 'short' little thing on flagpole, we had a break..called the Elevenses. It was 10am, so Naf was like arguing with the ma'ms that it being called 'tenses'..
It was just bread with some stuff in it(jam, peanut butter, kaya and tuna). Sorta' didn't had the appetite to consume these food..would rather have my cheese bread which was in my bag..but anyway, took one peanut butter bread and ate it all up.
Couldn't have the blueberry drink(or cordial as a few call it) coz we can't use the plastic cups they provided..well, a few of our own guides had very large bottles of their own, so they used to it fill the drink..and the rest of us(the poor little ones) were left with no other choice but to drink water from the cooler..bleh!
(I have a bad memory, so can't really remember what happened in sequence)I can't remember whether we had lunch first or the Jacob's ladder..but anyway, I slacked most of the time. Stayed in the shade while a few and the scouts made the ladder(which turned out to be unsuccessful). They took quite long..really felt like going for a nap..
After that, had some kind of water break, people rushed for toilets and drinks...had to keep the ropes, poles or spars..duh duh duh..
At the end of the activity, before our guests left, we presented a small little token to each school(Montfort scouts and SengKang guides).
When they left at about 3.30pm, we proceeded on with our own activities(why do they have to keep us till 6?). Had the amazing race thingy, chair thingy and spider strings??..We're already so tired and they still made us run here and there, up and down??!!
3 hours finally passed and it was 6pm!! Yay! We can finally go home!! :))
And the first thing I did when I reached home was to switch on the computer, grab a cup of iced drink and sit in front of the computer. Checked the Neopets' Tale of Woe plot..I'm feeling so down now.. :(( Couldn't get the chance to beat the Mayor Thumburt..I think he was already beaten early in the morning at 3am(11nst as predicted?)..It's just so sad.. :(( *boohoohoo*
*sniff* Going to bed now..saving my energy for tomorrow's activities..but I just can't get over with the plot!! Argh!!

bangkok 2006

2006-11-14T03:18:00.000+08:00

This post's gonna be quite long. :P
For the past five days, I was in Bangkok..
Enjoyed the trip and learned a few things.. :)
Okay..I'm going to type out what I did during those five days and what mistakes my family made.. :)wee =D
Day 1 -9/11
Plane departs at 6pm+, so we reached the Budget Terminal at about 4pm. Had tea break at Killiney Kopitiam..and waited to check in. The budget terminal was a little plain though..seemed as though the security was not as tight as the other 2 terminals..??
Everything was 'budget' - the shops(Hang Ten, Minitoons, etc.) instead of branded items. Well, it's a budget terminal so everything must be affordable. :)
I was feeling happy while boarding the 'Tiger Airway' plane..we had to walk on the runways instead of the sheltered thingy..but it felt cool! It's my second time boarding a plane like this.
By the time we reached Bangkok, it was already 10pm Thailand time, which was 11pm Singapore time. We searched for restaurants but it seemed that all shops are closed?? Then this Tuk-tuk driver came to us and offeed to drive us to a restaurant for just 10 baht?!
We didn't know and so we took up the offer and went to eat in that restaurant..and we spent about 2,400 baht(SGD$100). This is so not worthy..five dishes for $100, the service is not good either and the ambience..well, it's not so good too.
WE WERE CHEATED!!
So, we learnt a lesson..never to believe in such 'deals'?? We would rather pay more to an honest person than to those drivers who use this kind of trickery to cheat us of our money! The reason they charged us for only 5 or 10 baht is because they will get free petrol when they bring in customers.. OMG! How can they do this just because of free petrol?!
Haiz..after dinner, we took a taxi back to our hotel, Baiyoke Suite. Had a good night's sleep..
Day 2 -10/11
Had breakfast at the highest level in the hotel, 43rd floor. The view was nice, but the breakfast didn't taste good. I don't really like American breakfast which includes toasted bread, buns, etc. Ate very little for breakfast..I think we had our breakfast at 9am+? That was the earliest day we went for breakfast.
After breakfast, we went to Chinatown. Went to the shop that sells Chinese sausages..and bought 2 bags of it. Walked around and almost got lost..but we still got out of it in the end.
Then we went to Mabukong(I think so and is it spelt like that?), MBK in short. It's a large shopping centre. Shopped around for many hours..then we had lunch at the food court. I think all food courts in Thailand use coupons to purchase food? It's quite troublesome because you have to change money for coupons before you buy your food, and if you have any extra money left, you have to change it back to cash again..troublesome ehh?
Later around evening, we went to Lotus shopping mall.. The traffic jam was so serious that no taxi driver would drive us there by meter..so in the end we walked there. I thought it was just a few km away, but it turned to be further away from the hotel..We took about 45 minutes getting there and our legs were sore..had to sit down somewhere fast..
I think my mum's legs doesn't hurt much because she immediately went to the the hypermarket to shop. We bought lots of clothes, food..and the bill totalled more than 2000baht..wow! That's so much money..Bought home bags of stuff..
We didn't have our dinner in the shopping mall.. We walked to some other place away from the mall..Somboon..a Chinese restaurant for dinner..Had Tom Yum soup! Today's bill was slightly cheaper..1300 baht..lols :) Can't believe we're spending so much everyday..
Went back to hotel quite late, as usual..
Day 3 -11/11
Morning's as usual..had very little for breakfast..can't believe that kind of breakfast costs US$10?!
The foods the same as usual..I think I'm already getting tired of the food there.. :(
After breakfast, took a taxi to Jatujak or Chatuchak weekend market.
It's was quite crowded there..Bought quite a lot of stuff, mostly clothes, my mum's and brother's..damn! There were so many cute stuff there I want to buy but they said 'NO!'..haiz.. :((
I've got a few stuff for myself - ankle socks, hair clips, a bigger sling bag('brandless')..
Well, it's shopping whole day long..boring..and tiring. -.-` It was so hot in the afternoon there.. Was sweating like siao there..
Then we visited the 'Four-faced buddha' near the world trade centre..prayed for a short while.. then went shoppinng again around the area..many shopping centres..but their things are expensive.
Day 4 -12/11
I don't know where we went to today but it's like a wholesale market. All the stalls are crowded along the streets..very stuffy, hot! My mum bought lots of clothes again..duh! Walked and walked and walked..I saw a train! It's my first time seeing a train that carries passengers!! Cool! And I see a few Caucasians.. We walked again..and this time we came to a dead end, so we walked back again and flaged a taxi to take us back to the hotel. Took a long time to find one taxi that would go on meter..(It's always better to travel on meter than the driver giving a price). Today's activities were quite boring..didn't have much fun..
At night, went to Big C supermarket and bought some stuff..no..6 bags of stuff..clothes!!Grrggghhh! Clothes! Clothes! Clothes! We have already bought so many pieces of clothings and we're still here buying..
Day 5 -13/11
Today's the last day we're staying at Bangkok..feeling a little sad :(( *sobs*.. Just walked around the hotel, bought a stuff or two.. then went back to the hotel room to pack our stuff..
Left the hotel at 5pm and headed towards Suvarnabhumi Aiport! Quickly swallowed our burger(our dinner) as we were late for our flight..our flight was delayed by half and hour and so reached Singapore at 12 midnight..
And it was about 1.30am by the time we reached home.. And here I am writing this blog..at 3.30am!!
Bleh! Going off to bed now..mum's getting angry..haha :P

to bangkok

2006-11-08T16:59:00.000+08:00

I'm going to Bangkok tomorrow until Monday..
I'm going to try to enjoy myself there by shopping the whole day and doing some other boring stuff.. :)
duh! Well, what I'm actually looking forward to is having the chance to go board a plane! I don't know why but I love to 'fly'!!
I wanted to go somewhere further like Japan, Europe..but that's impossible.. :((
And again this school holiday, I've started playing Neopets..
Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it can get very frustrated..(like that Tale of Woe plot)..
I'm now playing games while doing some homework..cool huh? But I'll be at the comp most of the time..duh duh..
Just one more thing..I haven't started doing the chinese papers yet.. The moment I look at it..I would be saying to myself: I'll do it tomorrow. And guess what? That tomorrow will be the day before school reopens.. Hahaha :DD

results for sub. comb.

2006-11-06T08:45:00.000+08:00

First thing I did in the morning was to check Anderson portal to see the results for subject combination.
And I've got D1, my first choice!!
Valerie also got the same choice as I, but she's going to school to appeal for triple science..She asked me if I want to appeal for triple science..but.. I don't know..
If you want to take triple science, you have to spend more time on studies than others and you must be able to cope with it.. HOW??!!
Well, who's got D1 as their result??

orchard hotel

2006-11-05T09:10:00.000+08:00

Stayed at Orchard Hotel for a day.. today and yesterday..
Mum had a dinner at Hilton which lasts till 12am..so we stayed in a hotel.
Hilton's too expensive, so we had to go to a cheaper hotel around the vicinity.
Packed all the stuff into 3 bags in the morning and took an MRT to Orchard before walking to the hotel...(an odd way to reach a hotel ehh?)
We waited for about 20 minutes before we were given a room..
Then we went to the room(1132) and unpacked all the stuff..
Waited for my dad to return from his office..
We went to Hagen Daaz for ICE-CREAM!! Yum!! I love the ice-cream there..
I got 'Belgian Chocolate', my brother's got 'Cookie and Chocolate' while my parents' got 'Strawberry' and 'Chocolate Chip'.. Thinking of chocolate..I want to eat Chocolate Fondue.. arrghh..
I went back to the hotel room to read my book while my dad and bro went 'shopping' around Orchard. Mum's preparing for her dinner..bathed and put some make-up..blah blah..
My dad and bro were like 4 hours gone..and came back at 8+ for dinner.
We went to Hard Rock Cafe for our dinner.
I couldn't eat much then.. I ordered the 'Twisted Mac..'(couldn't remember the name of the dish) and had to share it with my dad and a cup of lemonade. My bro's got Lil's Fish and Chip..
Stayed there until 9+ before returning to the hotel room.
Watched this hilarious chinese show until 1am before turning into bed..
The next day, Sunday, I had my breakfast, Korean instant noodles, in the room. Both my parents went down for the buffet breakfast.
Later in the day, 3 of them went to have a swim in the pool while I stayed in the room reading again.. :)
We left the hotel at 1pm and headed for home..
When at home, I immediately fell asleep on the sofa chair.. guess I didn't have a good night's sleep..

holidays

2006-11-02T14:12:00.000+08:00

Holidays are as usual, boring as ever..
For the past four days, I've been staring at the computer screen for many hours..playing games..
If not, I'll be sitting in front of the TV watching some shows..
I've finally finished watching Goong..I know I'm slow but well, it's faster than what Channel U.
To keep myself occupied, I've started on another cross-stitch..hehe..and there's this NWSP too..(NWSP means National Weather Study Project)
Urgghh!!
Still thinking of the title of our project..something related to global warming, climate change...still can't think of anything..
Tomorrow, I'm going to Valerie's house to do the shoebox thingy..
Dunno how long we'll take..
I want to go to Tanglin Camp if there's still time in the afternoon..

mum's birthday

2006-10-28T12:52:00.000+08:00

It's my mum's birthday today..
We celebrated her birthday early in the morning..we had a cake for breakfast! Special ain't it?
The cake was so beautiful..and it tasted delicious too..blueberry flavour..
(picture of mum's b'dae cake)
It looks beautiful and delicious right? It's from Breadtalk..(just knew the chinese name for it - mian bao wu yu)
We're going to have dinner at Swensens again..bleh!
...And! I've finally finished the whole pouch..really..my end product :

It's my first completed cross stitch work..yay!! It took me about two weeks time to complete this..
Shall post later in the day..

art biennale

2006-10-27T22:26:00.000+08:00

Today's the start of the end of year holidays..
I met up with 2 friends..
Went to the Art Biennale...
Around City Hall..
From 1pm to 6pm..
We met at AMK MRT station at 12nn, but Jing Qiu and I were a little late, so we started later than planned..
We took the mrt to City Hall.
First, we went to the National Library..it was my first time there, and I thought it would be beautifully decorated, but it turned out to be quite plain..
There were two exhibits there, we took some time viewing them and collected two badges..
Then we went to some churches, chinese and indian temples to view the art exhibition..and collected a few badges as well.
At the Sri Krishnan temple, we were to take off our shoes and take the lift to the third floor..the art work was so wonderful..the 'stairway to heaven' was totally beautiful! splendid!
When we went to SMU, we couldn't find the art work. We asked the guard but we still did not know where that was..until we took the free shuttle bus did we see the large room with the word 'singapore art biennale' painted on it..
We went the City Hall, the supreme court..that was where we had lots of fun!!
We bought a ticket which cost $5..
(Here's a picture of the ticket..a souvenier..)

There were a few rooms which looked and felt eerie so we didn't dare to go in..(especially Jing Qiu).. then there was this room where it was empty but you can hear many people laughing loudly..
Getting goosebumps ehh??
We took about 50 minutes viewing the whole of City Hall..then we took a shuttle bus the Orchard Road
Bee Yee wanted to visit Tanglin Camp again, but we would have to stay until very late, and we weren't allowed to..so we decided to go there next Friday..
pss..it's free on Friday evenings(from 6pm to 9pm), but the biennale will end on the 12th of November..about 15 more days??
There were so many people at Orchard Road doing late night shopping(I guess so?)
We should have come here earlier..didn't realise that it closes at 6pm..so we missed 3 exhibits..
and 3 badges.. hehe :D
After that, we went home..it was about 7.30pm when I reached home..
Bee Yee went to AMK centre to have her dinner..then she and Jing Qiu talked while walking there.. I couldn't and wouldn't wait for them so I walked off first..anyway..it's as though I'm not present anyway..

subject combination

2006-10-23T18:57:00.000+08:00

Today, everyone received a form on choosing subject combination..what subjects I want to take when I'm in sec. 3..
When I saw the form, I was like..which one to choose..biology or physics..3 science or 2 science..want geog or don't want it..
Anyway, I'm not going to take literature(pure or elect.)..for I'm very bad at it.
Well, I told my father : I want to choose by myself..you give me opinions..
Lol..that was like..dunno how to describe that..
Well, I shall decide that when I get back my results on Wednesday.
..Hehe..tmr's a public holiday!! Woots! Another day to rest..

buffet at peninsula

2006-10-22T10:48:00.000+08:00

I accompanied my mum to a buffet at Peninsula tower with her ex-colleagues..
It was international buffet..
I didn't like some of the food there, but the rest was ok..
I like the desserts - jelly pudding, ice cream, small cakes, deep fried stuff..
I didn't like its raw salmon because it's got a stink in it..I think it's smoked salmon..but it's too salty..
We started eating at 1.30pm (that's when the buffet starts)..and chatted while eating till 4.00pm (when the buffet ends).
I was feeling quite full then..
(Something disgusting happened..and I don't think I would want to go there for lunch anymore.. I saw a cockroach running about the 'Char Siew bao' area..at first I didn't know what that insect was, then I told my mum to see what it was then she told me it was a baby cockraoch..YUCKS!!
After that, we went shopping at Suntec City..wanted to collect the scented candle from Crabtree & Evelyn..but it was out of stock, so we went to Carrefour..
Bought quite a lot of stuff..chicken, ham, a tent, plates..etc.
We took MRT home, so we had to carry all the things back home..tough work..*huff*.

ervin/bbq

2006-10-21T23:41:00.000+08:00

Visited my fourth aunt today..saw my very cute but naughty cousin..he's got 5 stitches over his eye.. poor little thing..
My aunt ordered pizzas..and garlic bread.. and drumsticks!!
Didn't know why my appetite became very big..ate 2 slices of pizza, half a garlic bread and 2 chicken drumsticks..
Played with my cousin..watched some shows and left for home 3 hours later..
Rested at home for 3 hours by watching Goong..then left for Downtown East..
Mum's colleague had a bbq there to celebrate his son's birthday..
Ate a lot of food too..chicken wings..tom yam sotong..sausages..taiwan sausages..stingray..otah.. and my all time favourite Marshmallows!!
Was very full after the bbq..then walked to the mrt station instead of taking the bus..
If I take the bus or taxi right after I've eaten a lot, I may vomit..urghh..
Well, reached home at about 11pm..did some things..and went off to bed..

go through exam papers/check scripts

2006-10-20T10:29:00.000+08:00

For the past two days, we went through answers for every subject, except home econs.
It was quite boring and I was nearly yawning throughout the whole day..
On Friday, we got back our exam papers..it was quite shocking and saddening...
I failed three papers : English paper 2, Chinese paper 2, Literature..all of these papers are related to language..haiz.. :((
I just passed my History and Maths..sad right??!
Well, exams are already long over..there's no time for you to regret what's over and passed..

roller blading

2006-10-17T22:20:00.000+08:00

For post-exam activities, we had roller blading instead inter-class competitions.
I just realized that roller blading is very tough..though it looks easy, but it's difficult in actual fact..
We took quite a long time to put on our gears..
Then we started our first training..trying to stand up!
It really was very very difficult..my legs were trembling while I tried standing..
Fell down once during that time..
Then the person told us to try skating forward..and I always nearly fell down..I didn't know how to control the blades..I just find those 'shoes' too heavy to lift up..
I was skating quite fast, didn't know how to stop them, in the end knocked into a few classmates..so sorry.. :((
Then we had to do something like move four times then touch your toes..I couldn't do it..
Later when we proceeded to skating around the parade square, I didn't know how many times I had fallen down..
Ying Chyi and I skated together..and we were like wobbling throughout the whole thing..then someone knocked into us, nearly fell down..nearly..but while trying to cross the black strip, I fell down in the end..
Well, it was quite enjoying..even though my butt and almost the whole body ached..

school reopens

2006-10-16T17:16:00.000+08:00

School is reopening tomorrow and our holiday ends..and I'm waiting impatiently for the end-of-year holidays!! woots!
Well, I've finally finished sewing my little pouch..just left the sides and string to be sewed..and I've been watching 'Goong'!! This show is really hilarious..but I think something bad's gonna happen..Hyorin's gonna spoil CaiJing and ShinJun's relationship..tomorrow's showing the "prince's" birthday party..well I've watched a small part of it..but I still looking forward to the show..Youtube's too slow and I don't have the patience to wait for it to download..grrgg..
And!!, the results of the exams will be out..and my future depends on the english results..if I fail..I will be very despaired..probably take my own life?? Just kidding!! I always fail very badly for the comprehension..omg!!
Haiz..do not worry too much..I shall have to 'guo yi tian suan yi tian' le bah..lolz!
:)

mina-san house gathering

2006-10-14T23:58:00.000+08:00

My mother's colleage invited her to her house for a small gathering..she is a Japanese, Mina-san I think?
She prepared lots of great Japanese food for the guests and my mum made jellies for them. The food was YUM-YUM!! I love the tempura kagi..vegetables..the japanese pancake..yum! I want to learn how to make them so I can eat more of those!!
Haha! :DD
While the adults chatted their own business, my brother and I watched the tv. We watched 'Xiao Hai Bu Ben'..that show was hilarious..valentines' day..lol!
Then after that we all went home. We took MRT home so by the time we reached home, it was about 11.30pm??
Was feeling very tired.. *yawn zzz..*

stairway to heaven

2006-10-13T16:53:00.000+08:00

Ooh!! I finally finished watching the 'Stairway to Heaven'..the story was so damn sad..the beginning was sad..and so was the ending..
When they were still young, Chaegyung and Jungsuh were very close and often played together..but then. Jungsuh's father got married with a star and they had to move away from the 'beach house'..
The step-mother and her girl ill-treated Jungsuh..and the girl, Yoori, fell in love with Chaegyung. She wanted to snatch him from Jungsuh..and she was jealous of her..Then Yoori's brother, Taehwa fell in love with Jungsuh because he felt that she gave him care and concern more than anyone else..
After Chaegyung returned from England, something bad happened..Yoori knocked down Jungsuh because she did not want her to meet Chaegyung..but she had already met him. When Chaegyung went down to search for her, he found their photo lying on the floor covered with blood. Jungsuh did not die, but she was unconscious. Yoori sent her to her biological father and told him to hide her..and that was how Jungsuh lost her memory. She could not remember anything about her relation with Chaegyung..But slowly she regained her memory and remembered how her step-mother ill-treated her. So this time, she's out to seek revenge. Yoori and Chaegyung had already planned to be married, but he secretly planned to marry Jungsuh the day before he and Yoori got married. On that day, truth about the whole thing was spilled out. Taehwa told everyone what exactly happened five years ago..and the truth was learned. Yoori was sent to jail while the mother was sent to a hospital..
The sad thing is that even though Cheagyung and Jungsuh got together, Jungsuh had disease..some kind of disease that caused her to be unable to see. Taehwa wanted to donate his eye to her so he purposely die in a car accident. Both of them were very sad..now that her eyes were cured, she should be happy, but another misfortune came upon her..her brain was mestastazied..?? Well, in the end, she died at the beach in front of the 'beach house'. Jungsuh would be waiting for Chaegyung in the heaven..and that was 'Stairway to Heaven'!

end of EOYs!!

2006-10-11T16:43:00.000+08:00

Hurray!! Today's the end of end-of-year examinations, and that means that we're free!!
Feels like a bird set free from a cage..
Well, after the last paper which was Home Economics, BeeYee, YingChyi, Meifeng and I stayed back to do some stuff..ART! The proposal..
Then after that about 10.30am, we left for the badminton court at Cheng San CC. We were there a few minutes earlier and started playing..I don't think they minded??
We played until 1.00pm..and by that time, I was already feeling very tired..but I enjoyed myself a lot.. :))
We 3 took off our shoes to play, except Meifeng, and our feet turned very black at the end of the game..and it was sore too...so we went to the toilet to wash our feet in a sink!!
Bleh!
A cleaner came into the toilet after we washed our feet there secretly..we were not scolded by the cleaner.. :D
After that, we all left for home..haha..my house is just a few metres away from the CC so I didn't have to walk a long distance home..pity Meifeng and YingChyi..
Then..I spent the whole afternoon watching 'Stairway to Heaven'..I was like crying throughout the whole show...*sniff sniff*..
That Jungsuh was really very pitiful..and the Chaegyung(kwon sang woo) and her were deeply in love..so sad that Jungsuh lost her memory..haiz.. :((
signing off..off to watch more shows!!

unhealthy air levels2

2006-10-07T11:37:00.000+08:00

The Air Quality is so bad that it hit 130. This is considered unhealthy level..the newspaper reported that it was only 80 but now it rose to 130!! I really can't stand the smell of the haze..
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Haze can cause eye irritation, repiratory problems, headaches etc...
I think I 'll be affected - repiratory system..
Just because one country had its forest on fire, its neighbouring countries were also affected. So what does this tells us??

unhealthy air levels

2006-10-07T11:21:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, I totally wasted the whole of the afternoon playing comp. games and watching tv. lols..
It's like because it's Friday, then can get one day's rest before continuing the rest of the exams..
I played Neopets..(it ain't childish kaes..)..for quite a few hours..chatted with JingQiu..and she tagged me!! *lamo*
As it was Mid-Autumn festival, most of my relatives came to my grandma's house to celebrate..they came around evening time as they had to wait until the kids returned from school..
I ate half a mooncake..absorbed 500 calories...fattening ehh?? And drank chinese tea..a good combination..lols..
The chinese paper had a passage about 'pin cha' and I didn't manage to finish the paper!! *Sad!*
After the paper, Ying Chyi, Ann Gie and I went to 505 to buy some food..I bought Nachos with cheese..*YUM!*..Ying Chyi said the cheese looked gross and she didn't like eating that...
Went to sit at 507..chatted and ate while Ann Gie wrote her diary? Her secret diary..containing lots of secret information bah..
At night, it was very terrible for me..the haze was getting so worse that it looked hazy even in the house..I think visibility was less than 1km?? I wonder how the pilots see when flying the plane??
Well, this Mid-Autumn festival is quite interesting.. can't see the moon coz it's all so hazy..bleh!!
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After many hours of staring at the computer, I went to watch "Yu Xia Sian Ren", and continued watching it until 7pm, bathed and continued watching "Yi Dao" and "Yu Xia Sian Ren" again..then finally went home at 10pm?? Quickly switched on the air-con..can't stand the haze..stinking and harmful. Bleh!!

long post

2006-10-04T11:06:00.000+08:00

Bleh! After a very long break, i'm going to post another blog....
Well, just had the SCIENCE paper, and it was quite tough. I think I will pass the paper, as in the border line..didn't know how to do 10 questions in section A, 2 BIG questions in section B, erm..i could only say that I didn't do well for section C. My answers are either incomplete, or some nonsense..bleh!!
Even though I managed to finish the paper at the last minute/ second, I can be sure that I'm not gonna do well for this, unless a miracle happened!
There's the ENGLISH paper 2 tmr! And that's what I fear most! If I fail this paper, I will have to be retained at sec 2!! I'm not having faith in myself...so wad if I did many comprehension passages, it doesn't mean that I'm gonna do well in the paper..I'm so bad at ENGLISH!!
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> Exams started last Friday...just 5 more days to the end of exams!! Must work hard, and persevere to the end (GO GO!! Jia You!!! - quoted from Full House)
On Friday, there's ENGLISH paper 1 and HISTORY
On Monday, there's CHINESE paper 1 and GEOGRAPHY
On Tuesday, there's MATHS paper 1
Today, there's SCIENCE
There's still ENGLISH paper 2, CHINESE paper 2, LITERATURE, MATHS paper 2 and HOME ECONOMICS to go..
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> Wish myself and all the others who are having exams currently all the best in their exams (though it's a little too late )):)

Shi Ping's b'dae

2006-09-30T23:18:00.000+08:00

Today's Shiping, my cousin's birthday!! Went to her house to celebrate her birthday!! Two days ago, it was my birthday, but she was born 2 years before me..so you can guess her age now..??
After my tuition(again!), I went home to get ready to go to my cousin's house..I was held back at tuition for 15 minutes because I couldn't finish doing the comprehension..then I reached home at about 7pm?
We went there quite late too because they had to do this and that, and that took up quite a lot of time..but never mind, I watched the tv at the same time.
We left the house at 8pm?
By the time we reached the house, there were already many people at the house - her friends and some other relatives..
Ate dinner, sat down in front of the large screen to watch DRUMLINE. The show was nice! About the blacks..oops..should be known as native americans..training for the competition..that was cool..you'd better watch it if not it's a miss!!
In the middle of the show, my cousin cut her cake and we all sat down and enjoyed the lovely, delicious, mouth-watering cake..so chocolaty, so fluffy, when it enters the mouth, the cake melts..woah! The cake sounds so deliciuos, but it really is..And it tasted so much better than my birthday cake..this chocolate is good quality one, but my cake has only a layer of low quality cake.. damn!
My cousin and her friends took amny pictures around the house ( i don't like taking photos cause i'm not photogenic! so nvr include me in a photo!) lalala...we finally went home..
I have to study for my exams!! Argghhhh!!!

sungei buloh

2006-09-23T20:54:00.000+08:00

Today's my mum's company day?? Went to Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve Park..an odd place to get together for gathering isn' it? And it's so far from the city..at Kranji..
Did I realise that Sungei Buloh is somewhere further up the road where we went for the Battlefield trip - the reservoir there, where the British poured oil over the surface of the sea and lit it with fire, killing many Japanese..
I only realised this when we passed many dirty and ugly-looking factories and the 3 tall buildings??
I had to wake up at 6.30am, and leave the house at 7.15am as we have to reach the office at 8.45am. Then we had lunch at HAN'S..I had my favourite sandwich(cheese and egg)..but this time, it had a kind of odour, maybe because of the cucumber?, it tasted bitter. My mum was very frustrated because my brother took a very long time to finish half of the sandwich, and we were nearly late! Well, I also couldn't stand him, he's like a snail! Wonder if he's reincarnated from a snail??
After we reached Sungei Buloh, we were divided into small groups where a volunteer guide would take us around..I looked at the brochure and it stated there that it would take one more than 5 hours to tour the whole area..and we are only spending about an hour or so there only, and it's like so short?!
The guide is a Caucasian, and it's like odd to see a foreigner guide a local for a local tour..
At first, there were lots of mosquitoes around the area, and we all were like busy scratching ourselves instead of listening to the guide speak..and well, there's something I'd like to say. I find that some people are quite odd. They wear very short shorts and sleeveless shirts or even tubes to a park when they know there would be lots of blood-sucking mosquitoes?!! They are practically feeding a whole clan of mosquitoes!
But later on, I got used to it. During the tour, I could only see mudskippers..big and small..but after the tour, I saw a huge changable lizard or komodo lizard on the tree and in the pond outside the centre. Then we were like "Wow! So cute.." The lizard must be thinking "Suakus..first time seeing me?"
LOL!
Well, I enjoyed the trip and really hope to come back again the next time and spend the whole day enjoying the view and the nature.
Then we had our lunch at a restaurant outside the park, and we were asked to buy plants?! But I didn't..
And after that, it's time to rush home to get my tuition stuff and rush to tuition..I guess I'm always rushing to or from tuition these few Saturdays..busy schedule.. hee. :P

malay oral exam

2006-09-21T18:10:00.000+08:00

I had the Malay Oral exam today..and I guess I flunked it..
It was supposed to start at 3pm, then we left school at 1.30pm, ate at the school canteen. The three of us(Me, HX, JQ) took the bus to the mrt and, we took the mrt to Bishan station. Then we waited for 410 for a very long time, I don't what we reached the MOELC..ha.
We started revising the advantages of practising a sport and other stuff, then it was time for us to go to the exam room. It looked so dull..
JQ and I paired up, then HX and the only guy in the class paired up..haha(evil us)..
The examiner gave us a card and on it were instructions on what we were supposed to say..."Why you like to play GOLF". Oh wth!!
What advantages can playing golf have?? And what are we supposed to say?!
Then we started out fine during the private time??..and later I don't understand what we are supposed to say..
Then when we were in front of the teacher, JQ and I were like erm..er..
Actually I don't understand what JQ say and I don't know how to reply her..so I guess I failed the oral bah..anyway..it's done very badly, no depth..
Well, next Thursday is the written exam, and it falls on MY BIRTHDAY!! Oh damn it..!
After the exam, we immediately left the place, then we bought an ice-cream at McDonald's. I couldn't really finish it so I let HX have a bite or two..and we went to J8 to jalan-jalan a while..lol. Then we finally went home..
7 more days to EOY exam..better buck up!!

ah peng

2006-09-16T23:51:00.000+08:00

Went to another relative's house again...so after tuition that day, rushed home so that we could be be there earlier. The house we're visiting is at Hougang, quite near my house..
It's quite boring there, no people of the same age as me to talk to..only 3 small kids playing their own games..sian!
Then there are delicious food to eat, and I began to eat and watch 'Incredibles' at the same time. There's cheesecake(yum!), junk food, french fries, etc. I'm gonna get fat if I continue eating and eating..well, I'm over-weight already and is in TAF club..damn it!
After most people had gone home, my family then went home, and took home some cheesecake for breakfast tomorrow(yay!!)..
And EOY exams are coming, but I don't feel the rush to start revising, in my mind, I can only think of me enjoying myself after the exams, watching tv shows..haiz.. :((

last guides meeting

2006-09-15T21:26:00.000+08:00

I'm so happy that yesterday was the last day for guides meeting...and I'll be free on Fridays!! Yay!
During the meeting yesterday, we did some boring stuff - fill up some kind of form, PLs to check what badges we have done etc. and footdrill.
I don't really like footdrill, especially when they ask us to close our eyes and do the statistic drills(squad ke kiri pusing, ke kanan pusing, ke belakang pusing..)
It's like you get dizzy easily and that some people sure turn in the wrong direction...then we did the march on the spot and YiTeng laid strings around us, and we had to close our eyes while marching. Isn't this torture? When we open our eyes, we could see that we had moved up and up a lot...(ha.. :D)
But at least guides aren't that torturous, strict as SJAB, NPCC(or you can say other UG)..
Well, it finally was 6pm and we went home..
And the cookies are finally here! I'll have to collect them on Monday(when I have to go for Malay!!)

13/9

2006-09-13T22:34:00.000+08:00

I did not have malay today so I was free during afternoon. After school, which was 12.30pm, BeeYee and I went to the library to borrow the past year exam papers to photocopy. But other people had already borrowed them, so the librarian gave us a CD to copy the files and send it to our e-mails. The computer's so slow that it took us more than an hour to upload 10+ files..but it can't be blamed because some files are so big, a few MB. After that, she bought rice to my house to eat, while I ate my porridge. At about 2.30pm, we left for the AMK library. We went there to study, but when we were there a few minutes later, we wasted our time playing. But we're not really playing...studied chapter 8, then we asked each other questions, played a 'science' hangman, then she went to search for recipes for Home Econs practical exam.
Later, we went to NTUC, and she bought spaghetti and fusilli(a type of pasta, one of my favourites), pasta sauce and toothpaste. It was about six at that time and we quickly went home. As she was carrying lots of things, she took 265 home while I walked home..
Luckily, I wasn't scolded by my parents why I was late.. :))

4th uncle's house

2006-09-10T15:46:00.000+08:00

I don't know what the occasion was but these few Saturdays, I've been going to my relatives' houses for dinner. We visited this uncle who lives at Pasir Ris, 2 floor flat. After my tuition, we quickly rush there. When I reached there, I used to toilet, and well, something embarrassing happened. Shall not elaborate on that..
After that, we ate dinner, and the adults chatted while the younsters played or watched tv. I felt so boring at first..then I talked with one of my cousins, the 16 year old one about our CCAs..she's in GB while I'm in GG..ha. :D
Well, time passes so quickly and it was 12 +am..and we still have not gone home..but my cousins have already gone off home. After the adults finished playing Mahjong, one of my relatives sent us home..he's got a van, so we sat behind in the 'space'??
By the time we reached home, it was 2am in the morning and I slept at 3am. I woke up at about 11am. That was 8-9 hours of sleep.
And tomorrow is 911..scared huh?

sept. holidays

2006-09-06T23:27:00.000+08:00

It is already Wednesday, and four more days to the end of the September holidays...
I have wasted a lot of my time..
I spent most of my time reading Jane Eyre..the book is interesting and so I spent nearly 6 hours a day reading that book..
And the rest of the day, I either sleep or do the maths worksheet or chinese workbook..and finally, I finished the maths worksheet. But I still have many pages of the workbook not done yet.
I should be revising my work now, but I guess I'm too lazy to do that, and anyway, I forgot to bring home few of my textbooks - geography, literature, and files(these are more important than textbooks)..guess I'll have to wait till Friday, when I go back to school for maths extra lesson, to bring them home.
Let me see what I've done for the past few days.. :
last Friday, I was out most of the day, so not much time could be spent doing school work,
Saturday, had tuition in the afternoon, and later in the night went to my aunt's house for dinner, Sunday, was out for the whole of that day - went cycling at east coast park at noon and got back looking burnt, then Changi Airport, just for a while, and at night, went to Kallang to have our dinner. So I couldn't have possibly been able to sit down to study?
Monday, went to centre to buy assessment books(is it a little too late to buy them?) and it took me almost half an hour to choose just 2 books...
Tuesday, dad took a day's leave and well, could sleep a little longer, woke up and I started reading Jane Eyre till noon. Cooked lunch, and after clearing up, sat down at last to do the maths worksheet. When I looked at the worksheet at first, it was like wth! how do I do it?!, but I somehow remembered that I had to use the variation theory..how dumb of me.. =_=
And today, I finally finished reading Jane Eyre(am feeling great to have finished reading that book), and did a few maths questions, and just spent the rest of my time day-dreaming..
Well, I've gotta go to bed now, and wish that I'd be so hardworking as to spend the whole day doing the boring stuff - studying...
Btw, I read a bit of , and it said in there that nowadays, those who know how to apply the accounting skills and so on to the real life, they'd be able to make a lot of money compared to those who study hard and work under big bosses..so the myth about 'study hard now and you'll get a good job' is not true then?

titleless

2006-09-03T23:15:00.000+08:00

Well, my dad's boss had been out of the country for about a week and today, he's coming back to Singapore, and he lent my dad his car, so we had to return his car today as well. So, to make full use of the car, my parents went to somewhere far from home to buy our breakfast, which was about 10am then. Then after having breakfast, we went to East Coast park to cycle. Reached there at about 1.30pm, rented 3 bikes for 2 hours, and you know what?, we returned our bikes later than the time stated.. lols :D
I think I ain't used to sitting on the bike for too long, b'cause my butt started aching after 5 minutes? of cycling...but we still had a very long way to go..
You know how long the park is right??, and 2 hours for my familly is sure not enough. I couldn't stand the ride anymore, but no choice..I sort of felt like I'm having constipation and I couldn't stand straight..it's just so unbearable.. :((
Along the way, we stopped by to look at things, like at the jetty, we paused for quite a few times just to look at people catching fishes. Well, the fishes they caught were quite small, like the size of our fingers??, and I even saw a person having brown jellyfishes in a container..YUCK!! BROWN jellyfish... :[
Then we continued the ride and we came to this 'inland' water skiing..you can enjoy this activity without having to rent a boat to go into the seas to do it..with the use of cables, you can easily experience the feeling... (duh!) But the problem is : the water is shallow, and there are no currents etc., so it's not really that great.
We cycled and cycled and came to the racing car area. People could be seen playing with their remote racing cars..and there's the smell of burning oil?! ooh..had better been off now..
It's my first time cycling to the end of the cycling trial of East Coast park..first time ever...I'm so happy, so proud(well, I did not actually cycle on my own...u know the 2 sitter bike..), but well, I also got something in return : sore butt!
Ha.. :DD
By the time we went back to return the bikes, my butt had already became very sore..and I can't stand it..
And after that, we went to Changi Airport to return the car..had BK 'honey mustard fillet burger'..(yum!) and we went home by bus..
We went to our relatives' house to have our dinner(Kallang), at the hawker centre, and as I wasn't that hungry, I ate a 'little' only..
a bit of :
-pisang goreng, sambal chilli sting-gray, satay, ice kacang, toads' meat..
After dinner, we took taxi home! Glad to be home, can finally go to bed, but I'm not in bed yet, still bloggin..
When I looked at the mirror, guess what happened?
I saw a person looking very red in the face and arms, and that's me! I guess I must have been in the sun for too long and now I'm RED!
No I don't want a dark skin..NO!!!

teachers' day

2006-08-31T23:52:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow's Teachers' Day, and it's a school holiday, and guess what? it's the start of the September holidays. WOOTS!
First, we had the ACES day workout, and as it was raining, we did it in the hall. Oh! it's just so lame. Shake here and there, point here and there..duh..and there's this obscene part. ew!
Well, there are 2 prizes to be won for this, and in class, ms thoo said before that our class would never win any of these two prizes..
But...she is WRONG! We got one of the prize : Best Synchronizing class
No wonder it's raining cats and dogs outside..ha.. :))
Anyway, we were all very excited and were screaming all the way..
So what was it that got us the prize??
After the ACES workout, we guides, changed into our uniform and had to assemble outside the room. I hate to wear full u..
Before we all went down to gather, guides in the class were busy helping with making the class decorations, while ms thoo came up to give the report cards..(not happy with the results though..)
Then Jia Hui had to call me to get us all down there before the m'ams scold us..humph..and they briefed us on what to do during the concert and party etc.
But things turned out differently from what I expected..thought it was a party that the teachers would enjoy peacefully, but well, students went in and out of the classrooms to give teachers the Teachers' Day presents.
I feel embarrassed when I do not have anything to give to the teachers..well never mind..after the party, my friends and I rushed to our primary school to meet our teachers..
Thinking that the school closes at 12, we took a taxi and rushed there, and who knows, the school only allows ex-students to enter the school premises after 12..and so we had to wait for quite some time..and during that waiting time, we met up with some other friends..happy was I :))
I just felt as though I'm wasting my time, I couldn't even find a single teacher! Then I decided I should change into school uniform (I was in guides u at that time), I took off my badges and scarf, and I went to search for a toilet. And damn HIM! he locked up all the toilets! Oh how on earth am I going to change??! I suddenly felt as though I'm half-naked..dunno why..
We decided to go J8, and I went there to change. We wanted to enjoy ourselves, but a few of us didn't felt like doing anything(cept for meeting with bfs??)lols..well, I also met Ying Chyi and her friends there..cool man..they were going to watch MONSTER HOUSE!! I wanna watch it!! Haiz..
Ying Chyi's classmate is Sze Han's neighbour who is Ying Chyi's friend. We are related!!
It's still raining and we can't do anything, so we decided to go home..took the mrt and went home..felt kinda lonely...
But anyway, gotta meet up with old friends..and one teacher..- Dou lao shi! She sort of grew older, had more freckles on her face..well, have to go to bed now...
Ciaos :))

dad's birthday

2006-08-15T23:10:00.000+08:00

Today's Dad's birthday! I feel so excited because we're going out at night to celebrate his birthday. My parents went to Seoul Garden to have a very very heavy lunch, then they were quite full even though it's already 7+pm, then we went to Bishan Junction 8 to have a dinner - At Swensens!
I didn't really like the interior design of this Swensens, it just gives me the feeling it's not..pleasant enough. We ordered our food - one fried chicken, fried fish, burger(children) and 2 ice creams. I also felt a little full at that time, or maybe I can't eat much for dinner. I couldn't finish a plate of chicken and had to give away almost half of the food in my plate. After our main course, we had ice cream! I love ice cream! The chocolate and strawberry! There are dried strawberries in the strawberry ice cream! and there are chopped almonds added! Yum! It's mouth-watering!! We took pictures of ourselves eating ice cream and so on..ha.
After our dinner, we went shopping around Junction 8...bought movie tickets for this Sunday's 'Ant Bully'..yay! Going to watch a movie this weekend!
Bought tomorrow's breakfast at the Crystal Jade. I like the curry bun and yam bun(suddenly love food containing yam)..finally went home. Walked past BreadTalk when coming out of the shopping centre. Saw this puff which costs 80cents. You know how small it is?! It's only about the size of the ez-link card. It's so damn expensive..
Went home, rushed all the homwork. When my dad has slept, took out my science paper and left it on the table for him to sign. So as to prevent him from scolding me why I have done so badly in that subject...
Yeah..off to bed now..looknig forward to my birthday on 28 Sep!!

malay camp 2006

2006-08-12T22:39:00.000+08:00

Today was the annual malay camp held at MOELC. Well, actually, I didn't want to go for I thought it would be boring, but it turned out to be so fun..!!
We had to be at the centre at 7.30a.m (god, have to wake up so early and go home so late at night..) HuiXian and I were supposed to meet at the MRT station, then I a was waiting for her call so that I can leave the house to meet her. Waited and waited, it was already 7am, then I decided to leave first, then when I was about to board the train, I saw her in the MRT carriage already. Woah! If I left later when she called me, we would have to waste some time waiting for each other, and we were almost late!
Duh!
Walked there, signed up at the booth, so sad that we had to be 'separated' into groups. First thing we did there was to get into groups and think of a cheer and have our name tags pinned onto our shirts or whatever. Then we went down to the canteen to have out breakfast. It was all spicy food, almost, so HuiXian had to eat what was not spicy...hee :))
I like the chilli fishballs, b'coz it's sweet and spicy..yum! And there's the kueh-kueh, sedap too!
After that, we had our first competition - making of batu seremban (5 stones). It took us about 40 minutes just to make 20 of the stones. Well, we got the first in this activity! Hurray for us!
Then we had the second competition - playing of the 4 stones. Ha..we got last in this..
We practised playing this game before that and we had to choose one representative from the group to challenge the rest of the team. Duh! JQ and JH told me to go up, but I didn't want, then that leader whose skills are better than me also don't want to go up, then in the end, I had to go..
OMG! I was like missing all the catches, and the stones keep falling on the ground and I had to waste time bending down to pick them up. The person standing next to me was like so pro at it and she was so so so pro lar. She got the 2nd I think so, 76 rounds in 10 minutes. The champion played 90+ rounds, while I got 23 rounds..ha..well, I beginner only wad!..
Then the teachers introduced to us 2 games for us to play - sepak raga and the round metal ring where u have to roll it across with a stick. Looking at the teacher playing seems easy but in actual fact, it's so damn difficult! Just 2 seconds later, the ring will fall to the ground..haha..:D
I wasn' that hungry during lunch, so JQ and I went to find the teacher to borrow the sepak raga to play, and we were like shunning the ball everytime we kick it each other. I'm so scared of the ball. Come to think of ot, during the 'training' session, in our groups, EnHui and the rest of the girls were like screaming all the time when the guys kick the ball to us..that was so funny!!
And after that, we had a sort of 'amazing race'- like race..where we had to do a task at each station. We got last for this again!! Aye.. We were stuck at quite a few stations,especially the one where we had to write down the ingredients used for each type of food. I think we spent about 20mins there, when already one group had reached the finishing point. Shalln't talk about it anymore..
Damn it! I had a stomach pain during the malay literature lesson, and I was almost sleeping through the whole lesson. Then at the end of it, we had to compose a poem of any theme. My group chose 'Cinta'. The poem we created was so funny lol. It was something like this : When I look into your eyes, my heart beats faster. Is this love? Love oh love!..."cinta oh cinta' I love this phrase..!
I really can faint from this pain! Then JQ gave me a cup of hot tea, and it's like a immediate cure and the pain just disappeared! Thanks lots! Now I know I should drink hot drinks next time..
In the auditorium, we presented our poems and there's the prize presentation. We only got one prize and that was for the making of 5 stones. Then we got 2 other consolation prizes..well, I was happy though..finally could go home. Took our packet dinner and went home.
I wanted to watch the last fireworks, but I was really too tired to go there. When I reached home, I ate my dinner and watched tv. My parents had ordered pizza, but it ahd already been 1+ hours since they ordered it. And at about 8pm did the pizza man came to deliver them. They were supposed to go to Marina Bay to watch the fireworks, but because of this delay, they had to watch it at the tall buildings near my house. The pizza was not really that nice, just the ingredients, and the crust and base was so thin! Only about 2 mm thick?! Finally went to have a bath and here I am writing this blog before going to bed.
Cya!

national day

2006-08-09T22:53:00.000+08:00

Today is Sinagapore's 41st Birthday!! It's a sad thing that I can't watch the NDP at the stadium.. and this year's the last year they are having the NDP at the stadium as it will be under renovation.
Well, anyway, people would already be at the stadium now (1+p.m.) trying to get the best seats, while I have just woken up.. :)) haha..
Nahh..staying at home and watch the live telecast would be good enough..
At 6pm, switched on the TV, and watched the uniform groups march in..it's so long a process.
Then when the 'leader' (or whatever you call him) asked the president if they could march off, it's like so funny..(oops..don't mean to insult them), it was funny.
Ate dinner while watching the show..delicious dinner..pork chops, fish..
I hate it when the fighter jets fly past! My heart will be thumping so fast that it's going to burst..duh.. ;(
Lalala..it's fireworks time! It was so beautiful!! How I wish it could stay in the sky forever..
going off to read my Totto-chan le..
gdnite..s'pore :))))))))))))))))))))))))))

fireworks by team singapore

2006-08-08T23:24:00.000+08:00

At last, I could finally watch tonight's fireworks!
Waited for Dad to come back from centre, then rushed to mum's office as it was opened to the workers' relatives (which was about 7p.m. then).
Reached there at about 8.30p.m.
A few people were there already..then I went to explore the office. Woah.. there's a binoculars in one of the rooms, and I went to check it out..
Cool man! I could see as far as the sea, further than the Merlion area..but it wasn't that clear as it was very dark..
There were many cars below on the expressway, traffic jams! Luckily we didn't come by taxi, if not we would be late for the fireworks show..
Ate some tidbits, drank packet drinks..then..BOOM!
Woah!! The beautiful fireworks! woah..Woah..WOah..WOAh..WOAH!!..
The children were like shouting 'woahs' over and over again..so noisy!
The colours were quite plain - red, white, green, orange, gold, etc..
I would prefer the one on the August 5th by the Italy team..that was more..(wad's the word for that?)
grand?? colourful??
Well, anyway, got to see another fireworks this year!! Yay!
"These fireworks are our money!"
"How I wish the golden glitter falling down are gold. Money!"
Haha..those aunties were so funny..
At about 9.30p.m, we went home. We walked from the office, all the way to Raffles MRT station..that was a long way..
Walked past many shops, but all of them were closed..past Lau Par Sat. Many people were there eating Satay and other food..they were people who watched the fire works at the Merlion..and they all came down to enjoy the delicious food there..
Couldn't find any seats, so we went back home. Well, we've got our pizza to eat! But it's all cold..Went to Astar to drink coffee and tea..and by the time we reached home, it was about 12 am..
*yawnzz*..off to bed now.. ; O

2006-08-08T12:39:00.000+08:00

Today is the eve of National Day, so we had our concert and then do our CIP thing...
We had the march past, then concert, then competitions, before we set off to the beach (for sec. 2s). I didn't like the concert, it was so boring, just giving out colour awards..duh! boring isn't it? Then we had some kind of competition to make the biggest flag and decorate someone into a merlion..ha.. Mr. Tan became our model!! :DD
I think I must have lost my $2 note during that time..how sad! I don't have money with me now..I can't go shopping..( you must be thinking how on earth am I going to go shopping with only $2!).. i usually go window shopping only lar..and buy some food to eat..
Damn it!
At the beach...
we did not have gloves and trash bags, so we had to wait for Yann Qi to get them for us. During those times, we walked around the beach, enjoyt he scenery and the wind! It was so windy that it caused my hairs to stand up! Anyway, I love East Coast Park! It's so cool..
Came back to school, I was feeling very nausea, suffering from car sick, trying hard not to vomit. Both my shoulders hurt from letting BeeYee lie on me. When we went there, she laid on my left shoulder, and now, right shoulders..haiz..
Looking forward to watching tomight's fireworks..
The sad thing is that I can't watch the fireworks this Friday and Saturday, because there's school and malay camp. Damn it! The camp is from 7.30 in the morning to 7 at night, to learn more about malay. Duh! Maybe I can rush to Marina??
See ya then.. :))

tests

2006-08-07T12:28:00.000+08:00

Today, we had three tests : Literature, Science and English
For the Literature, we had three questions only, but each question holds more than 6 marks!!
Oh, I think I'm going to just pass or fail this test as I have nothing to write for it..
BeeYee wrote about 2 pages?! huh!
Then for Science, I find that it's still ok, just did not know how to do a few questions..
I didn't remember the Carbon cycle, I only remembered the Nitrogen cycle, and the 'Draw the Carbon cycle' question came out!! oh..i still sort of can remember some parts..
Haiz..wonder if I can pass my English..must..better pass..if not i really die ler..
Anyway, the tests are all over, I have to concentrate on the Chinese and Geography test now, which are on Friday..must work hard arh..
3rd lang...
I am alwyas late for it..then today there are 2 teachers in the class to see how the class goes..then Cikgu Patimah asked me why I was late, then I 'told' her I had tests..deedee... :))
When I came into the class, she told me to greet the teachers, and I was like blur blur de, 'huh?'..'ohh..'..'Selamat Sejahtera Cigku'..today's lesson was damn slack lar..
first half of the lesson we did about golf, the teachers kept on talking in Malay and I ciuldn't understand a single word..duh!
Then during the second half, we were supposed to have the presentations, but some NY girls asked the teacher to help them out with something, so it took them until the end of lesson.. yay! we did practically nothing today. shouldn't have come, then I can stay home to sleep..haiz.. :((
bb..

fireworks

2006-08-05T12:17:00.000+08:00

I went to watch the fireworks at Marina Square with my family. We reached the shopping centre at about 8p.m and there were already many people. In the MRT, it was very squeezy and almost all people alighted at City Hall. Then there were 2 or 3 caucasians joking around..when they came in they said aloud "mind the gap" and they were acting as though they were drunk.. then my mum whispered to me "mind your heads". ha... :P
First, we went to have our lunch at the food court.. there were so long queues at the McDonald's and other shops which usually is very empty..there were many people there..
We had to wait and look around for empty seats, which took about 15 minutes? I just had something, so I just ate a bit of the baked rice(it wasn't that nice though..) and a char siew bao.. nice. yum! At about 5 minutes before nine, we went outside into the open space, where those people who want to smoke can smoke there.., waited for the fireworks... dunno whether they are late or is my mum's watch fast, they fireworks only started at 9.05p.m. :(
The fireworks was so wonderful!! There were new and special designs.. like glitter falling from sky and shooting stars, etc. I prefer the gold colour ones as I find it more appealing..?? all in all, I really like this fireworks!! :))
Well, I'm going to get another chance to watch it next Tuesday, at my mum's office.. yay!!
And there are tidbits provided?? hope it's true.. :D
AND, I love Marina Square! It's so cool, the wonderful shops there, and there's the bowling area, snooker, cinema..I'm like a suaku like that.. first time see those things.. hehe..

2006-08-04T21:44:00.000+08:00

damn her...just asking her to sign a thing for me
and she started talking non-stop..can she stop nagging
so wad if i can't do this
or too lazy to do it?!
aren't there many people out there who also don't know how to do it either?!
why does she have to put all blame on me
f*** her!
it's just a piece of paper
wad harm can it bring
she's just being overreacted
causing me to lose one badge will make her happy
sadistic!
go hell with ur attitude!

2006-08-03T23:29:00.000+08:00

Ohh..today, some disgusting occurred.
Well, I feel that it's disgusting, BeeYee too.
It's about 'wee'.. well, i lent him tissue, and i am not getting the tissue back.
It's contaminated! It's just this way.. whenever i see him, i feel disgusted, disgusting boy, nerd, retarded, germ! Yuck!
... ...
tmr have to hand up book response
only read 45 pages out of 218 of the book
have to finish reading the book
spent the whole day reading it
just scanned through the book
anyway i managed to finish it at ten
done the book response
trying hard to finish all the work
was up until 1250am
finally went to sleep...
hoping to pass the maths test tmr...
:)

2006-07-30T23:04:00.001+08:00

Had only a day left to finish up all my work before i can go to my aunt's farewell party.. it's so sad that she will be leaving for China on tuesday.. don't know how long would i be able to see her again.. *sobs*
Woke up early in the morningm, at 6.15am. Crazy am i?? Tried to finish up the work..but half the day, i was day-dreaming.. lols :P Well, i managed to do my maths, chinese, history, geography. I'm still left with the english reading task and art wrapping paper design.. and sadly, i didn't have time to revise my work. I'm having CA3 this week! Can u believe this?! And i did nothing, really. oh gosh!!
at about 7pm, finally went to that condo. But before that, i finally 'completed' my job..which is to return Tanch her sister's jeans.. it's that we couldn't meet up, although she's living near me..well, finally got the chance. Yay! :))
But I didn't really enjoy this 'party'. It's like little kids playing all the time, and i've got nothing to do..so bored!! But Tanch's not at home! oh damn it!
In the end, I went home in a puff, because my mum was there, wasting my time waiting for another person, whoever it was, i don't care..i'm going to rush my malay project! And i was doing that malay project before writing this blog..i guess i was too tired, and i changed to the blog..haaz.. :))
got to go to bed now..cya many days later.. and hope i pass my tests.. *fingers twisted*

sick

2006-07-30T09:38:00.000+08:00

I was feeling very sick yesterday..and yet I went to tuition. Haiz..was forced to..
Anyway, I had a headache the whole day, and when I woke up, my head was feeling so painful that it was going to burst or wadever. Tuition was changed to 10 am, so had to wake up earlier. My voice sort of became high pitched..hee..wonder how it sounds like..??
After tuition, I saw Evonne at the bus interchange, but sadly, she did not see me. I think she just came back from Hwa Chong..??
It was 12+ when I reached home...ate my lunch and medicine, and slept for 4 hours.(maybe becoz of the medicine or I was tired?)..woke up at 6+, about 7pm. Had dinner, watched tv. That was how i spent my saturday..boring isn't it??

Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man's Chest

2006-07-23T00:20:00.000+08:00

Ooh..I've just watched 'Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man's Chest'..and it was so cool! I love it! Though my parents say that the first series was better..
After my tuition, which was 6.15pm (guides attended RI campfire..mum said they saw guides at the MRT station, and i knew it was ACG!) then we went to buy tickets. The 6 o'clock and 8.10 pm show was almost full, so we had to watch the 8.50pm show..it was 2 hours later, so we went to have our dinner and went home to take our jackets and put our bags. We reached J8 at about 8.40? Bought a box of popcorn and a big cup of Sprite. Spent a total of $22( had 2 free tickets. ha..).
Went into the cinema, ate popcorn while watching the advertisements..it was like going on forever..and finally, the movie was screened. I've calculated the time - 15 minutes of advertisement before the show starts..
Oh, come to think of it, how did the movie started? Erm.. can't remember. Duh :(( It was like Elizabeth was about to marry Will, but the authorities hand-cuffed Will and Elizabeth and was sent to prison. Then Will was asked to find Jack Sparrow to get the compass and hand it over to them. But Elizabeth was held in prison. Will went around asking where Jack was and he was slapped by a woman..(that's so funny) Then Elizabeth's father helped Elizabeth to escape from prison. But the captain of the ship was killed and the father was held back. Luckily, she managed to escape to find the head??..got his signature(something like that)..then went on board a ship to find Captain Jack.
She left her gown on the ship, and the crew found it and thought it belonged to a female ghost. Then she tried to scare them by swinging the gown around and showed them the direction where they should go..Tortaga. There, Elizabeth found Jack and his crew(they were looking for brave souls to help out)..then she went on board and followed them.
That Davy Jones was not that scary at all..just disgusting looking..the funny thing about the crew on board the 'Flying Dutchmen' was very old, and they had barnacles,corals etc. sticking onto their bodies. Cool huh? The front of the ship has a sharp pointed tip..Will hid there and Davy Jones could not find him..
At the island, it was the funniest thing there..Will was caught by the natives while trying to find Jack?? Yeah..then he and other crew members were being caged up, and were hung to the bridge..it was so scary if you were up there.. Then they tried to swing to the sides to grab hold of the vines, then they climb up..when the other persons in the other cage told them that the ship needs only 6 people to work, they competed to climb the top. Will saw the native person coming and told them to stop and not make noise but the other people would not listen. In the end, they dropped down cliff(i suppose they were dead) but unfortunately, the native saw them and they had to quickly climb up to the top. They rolled and rolled until they came to a halt, then they walked hurriedly, like a girl wearing a dress. It was very very funny, and I was laughing till my stomach hurts.. and they continued rolling and they dropped into the valley?? they natives were hot at heels, and shot them when they were in water..then they got notice that Jack was making trouble at their village and they all rush away and they could escape from there. They got the ship set for sail and were waiting for Jack. When they finally saw him, he was being chased by the whole lot of natives. They wanted to eat him but could not as he has boarded the ship. Then the dog was left behind and the people chased the dog around(wonder if it was being roasted for dinner..) That was so funny. Jack had already knew that Davy Jones was coming to get him and The Pearl into the sea, then he went to see Tia. When Tia gave him a jar of dirt, he was wondering if it was to any use.. "If you don't want, you can give it back.." "No, I'll keep it." Lala...I'm too tired to write anymore.. watch it to know more.it's so damn funny.
The ending is that Jack was sort of eaten up by the octopus' very big and scary mouth..then Tia suggested that the other captain of the pearl to show them the way to find the 'flying dutchmen'. He with his green apple and monkey..duh..!
I feel that this series is more comical compared to the first..and this was not as exciting as the first..lol
There will be a third series and I wonder when it will be in cinemas (maybe 2009 or 2010..that's so long!)..I will be waiting..

polling day holiday

2006-07-18T21:44:00.000+08:00

Wah! When I woke up this morning, my whole body was in great pain! I must have exercised too much yesterday,and that's why..oh I forgot to apply Yokoyoko! Damn it! If not I wouldn't have difficulty getting around. Can't do much with muscle aches, or pain if you call it.
In the morning, I was still being an obedient child, sat at my table doing my assessments etc. But after an hour or two, the moment I switched on the computer, I was glued to the screen. And my butts are glued to the chair. Not until my ah gong came and told me to have lunch did I leave the area. Computers are so addictive, and you just totally forget what you were supposed to do at first.
Time passes so quickly. It seemed as though I just used the computer and it's 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
BeeYee and Ying Chyi went to watch Pirates 2 this afternoon..so cool! I will only get to watch it this Saturday, provided I finish all my work..Duh!
Well, I'm hoping that's it's Saturday tomorrow..heard that Captain Sparrow died in the end..must watch to know more..

Pirates of the Carribean

2006-07-08T15:40:00.000+08:00

PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN rox!
You must watch it! The newest one - Dead Man's Chest!
And there's the movie of Pirates of the Carribean - The Curse of the Black Pearl on Channel 5 on Sunday at 6.30p.m.! Must watch wor..
I'm looking forward to 13th July coz that's when the show is in all cinemas! Woots!
PIRATES rox!
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Orlando Bloom - Will Turner
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swan

Yay!

2006-07-07T15:33:00.000+08:00

Finally, I've finished my history project. Ha...we wanted to interview Mr. Ng a few days before, but couldn't find him. Then on Thursday afternoon, we went to D&T room to find him doing some project. So we told him do you have time to spare? Then he said he need to finish up his work. Then BeeYee begged him that it will only take 5 minutes, and he gave in. Then guess what, we talked and talked and it went on for half an hour, when Mr. Ng said, you said only five minutes..ha... Well, we sort of interviewed a person, and half the job is done.
At night, after typing out the report nicely and about to save it in a diskett, the computer just hung up! Oh damn it! Luckily it recovered my work, if not I will die typing it out. Lala...
At 10 plus, I was rushing my science mindmap, then read the pao dao until 12.30am then sleep..LOL.
I'm just happy to finish this, and maybe all other projects! Yay!

2006-06-25T19:51:00.000+08:00

Oh damn! I'm left with som much homework and today is the last day of theschool holidays!! Argh! There's english reading thing, maths notebook, sci. mindmap, chapter review, geog, history...that's so much to do..i hate it..
I still want my holiday..i dont want to go back to school..

damn

2006-06-14T11:29:00.000+08:00

Oh damn! I only did my chinese cheng yu worksheet and one or two science mindmaps and I still have a lot to do in 3 days time! I will not have much time to complete them next week 'coz I have courses from Monday to Wednesday and some other things on Friday!! OMG! When can I complete everything?! There's English(storybooks), Chinese(jian bao), Science(mindmap, chap. review), Maths(w/s, ntbk), Geography(newspaper article), History(project). And there's malay project to do! Oh damn...it's so impossible now..

overview

2006-06-12T21:32:00.000+08:00

It has been a month since I last posted...I'm too lazy too blog..haha..that's me!
A quick overview of what had happened during that one month.. :
1) May 19 - School's Sports Carnival
2) May 28 - 6A's class gathering @ Castle Green; Tanch's birthday @ Grandeur 8
3) May 29 - Went to the Zoo and Night Safari with the foreign students and PRC scholars
4) May 30 - Went back to school to do campfire preparations
5) May 31 - Guides Campfire (Medieval Moonlight)
6) June 1 - Went back to school to clean up
7) June 2 - Had Science and English extra lesson
8) June 3 - Hwa Chong Campfire
9) June 4 - Went to the Science Center to view the Dinosaur exhibition
10) June 6 - 2/5 class gathering @ Costa Rica
11) June 10 - Mum's bbq @ East Coast
Woah! So many things had happened since then..I wish I could return to the past to enjoy all these..that would be such a great thing..haiz..
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~Let's go into details..
>>>>>SPORTS CARNIVAL<<<<<

I feel that it's pleasant because my class 'seldom win anything' for sports carnival..and guess what? We won the best class flag award! Yay for ourselves! To think that such a dull looking flag could win the prize is such an unbelievable thing..all thanks to this : "the 40 pieces of puzzle joined together represents us, together united as one" (i think it's like that??) It's such a gloomy day..but our spirits were high. The rain did not dampen our spirits..we had the counsellors dancing for us(entertainment)..haha..duh duh duh...but to be truthful, it's quite boring actually..lol :P Well, it finally ended and we went home all feeling tired - the screaming and cheering for classmates are actually very tiring, you know. The special thing is that this year's sports carnival is held at Yishun Sports Stadium.

chent

>>>>>6A class gathering<<<<<

This is our third gathering, I guess so, and it's held at Castle Green. We couldn't do much as it was raining heavily that time and the badminton court was fully booked. Damn! When the rain had subsided, we went to the basketball court play, and in the end we got chased out of it. Oh hell with the person who complained us!! Then we stayed in the function room chatting, eating, playing cards until 4.00pm, when it's time for us to leave. Just wish that next year's gathering would be a bright and windy day so that we could play...

After that, Hueit, Petrina and I went to Tanch's house to 'celebrate' her birthday. She only invited me, but I asked them to tag along..well, it was much more fun than at Castle Green. The rain had stopped and we could go out to play at the courts. First, we went to the gym. It's so cool that we don't need a parent to supervise us, just a residence is enough. We stayed there for half an hour..then went to the tennis court. We don't have any balls with us, so we somehow borrowed a soccer ball from the guys. (ty yufeng!!) We didn't know what game to play and in the end, we played Monkey, Volleyball, Netball. When the guys had left, we immediately went into the basketball court to play. It was so fun! At 8.00pm, we finally went back to Tanch's house. It was so embarrassing for me!! I shall not say it here..only the 3 of them know what happened..hehe.

They went to KFC to eat, while I went home for dinner. I feel so happy! and so embarrassed..

chent

>>>>>Zoo and Night Safari<<<<<

Today, we went to the Zoo and Night Safari, from 3 to 10pm. Bee Yee is a foreign student and she can bring a local friend along as well, so I went with her. We assembled in the school, then a bus transported us there and we started walking on our own. That's so cool..Bee Yee and I walked and walked...we spent more than an hour's time to get to the Kid's Place, which was only half the trip. We were supposed to get back at the entrance at 6pm. We saw lots of animals, took quite a number of pictures..and walked until our legs were sore. It's lucky it didn't rain, if not we wouldn't be able to see the animals. Phew! We were almost late, we reached the entrance at 5.58pm. Wasn't that just 2 minutes before time?! We didn't see much during the later part because we were rushing to get back. Well, the baboons were the funniest thing! The red thing, ir butt, looked as if they had some kind of illness - cancer? Duh..lols. After having lunch at KFC, we went to Night Safari. You know what happened at KFC? My set meal did not have french fries but I told the person when I went to get the food, a burger and 2 fries - one for beeyee. Haha..

At the NS, we didn't walk much because it was all so dark at night. We took the tram ride which include a guide to tell us wad's around..then it was nine plus when all ended. The bus took us to ang mo kio mrt station and we were off home.

chent

Speech Day(11 May 2006)

2006-05-11T15:02:00.000+08:00

Today is my school's speech day..and we guides(those we volunteered) had to help out with the refreshments. We had to report at 5pm, outside guides den..took attendance and so on..then came the Mrs. Kumar. She asked two guides to go opposite to buy a pack of ice, and me and Ying Chyi volunteered..and so.. we went opposite..7-eleven. The cashier looks familiar, looked like Krystal's mum...and we brought the ice pack to the home econs room..and went back to the guides den.
Then the Mrs. Kumar came to us again to ask for 3 volunteers..and me, Ying Chyi and Constance volunteered(you see we so helpful)..we prepared the orange juice for the VIPs..served to drinks to them..and guess what?! When one of them drank and wanted to put the cup back on the table, the base of the cup dropped and he didn't know, and in the end, it dirtied his pants(hahas :D)..i cleaned it - as in the table. They left and we cleared the cups and went back to the home econs room to wash the cups. You know what? We secretly drank some orange juice and ate ice..that was so damn funny lors..and after that we went to the canteen to do other refreshments job. This was supposed to the actual thing we're supposed to help, but since we're a little 'kong xian'..
At about 8 o'clock in the night, the guests came down and we guides started serving the drinks. Many people wanted cold orange juice, dunno why...and so it finished quickly and the uncles had to change the container..duh duh..time passes so slowly..I'm waiting for the people to leave so that we could eat and drink..we cleared the plates when they finished eating their food..
Duh duh..finally we could have our food..i didn't eat much..only a bowl of mee siam and a cup of tea..duh duh duh..it's raining and it's time for us to go home..
Home Sweet Home..*yawnzz..*

Seniors' Farewell Party(10 May 2006)

2006-05-10T14:44:00.000+08:00

I'm so happy that today the Seniors' Farewell Party..not that they are leaving, but because there's delicious food! Well, that reminds me of something..ShuBing still has not given me the presents since last year..woah! Well, nvr mind..lols..so sad..
This time, I skipped my malay class..don't tell anyone yeh..later kana scolding from teacher..lols
First, we went to L1 to practise our song 'Because You Loved Me', practised a lot of times..then HuiXin scolded us for not being serious..many minutes passed..
Sec4s are coming..we were singing the 'Welcome song'..(there's a welcome here for you, there's a welcome here for you! we are glad you came into guiding's name, there's a welcome here for you..)..we clapped our hands so hardly that they became sore after a while..but nvr mind..
They sat at the back, then the current CLs and ACLs gave their speech, invited the Guiders to say a few words and so on..and finally there's the exchange gifts between the ex-leaders and leaders..LayLing to present to Sharanya and Sharanya to LayLing!!(applause!!)..blah blah..it took quite a while..and oh! it's time for us to eat! Yay! The Sec 4s got to eat the chocolate cake!! with strawberries!! Oh..so sad we didn't get to eat..
Well, they got the food for us..there's fishball, sausages, marshmallows, jellies...and we tucked into our food immediately.
Then the leaders walked around, giving out the gifts they got to their juniors..sweets, chocolates, cards..
Later, HuiXin called us to form in pairs to play a game - that was so disgusting, I shall not say what it was - and Ying Chyi and I went up..we were very innocent..we didn't know what we had to do until we went there..OMG! It was so damn disgusting..but fun lar..(clue : we had to do something to a fishball..) Well, we dropped quite a lot of fishballs and we had to take another one..well, in the end, we stil lost..but nvr mind..it was an 'experience'..hahas!!! :)
Went home feeling so happy!!

Exams are over!!

2006-04-28T22:01:00.000+08:00

Yay!! Exams are finally over! I'm over the moon..but I'm worrying abt the results..haiz..got a bad feeling that I've done quite badly in this test. Well, the happy thing is that there's a holiday on Monday..and one more day for me to rest..woots..
After the exams, I just kept thinking abt chocolates - chocolate cakes, muffins, ice-cream - oh my! I'm gonna make myself sick by eating all these..I'm already having a sore throat now.. :(
I can't fall sick..I've got so many things waiting for me to do..CIP hours..guides stuff etc..
Today's chinese paper was like alien to me. So many words..I feel dizzy just looking at it, moreover reading it. Duh! I don't even understand the questions..sure fail de..I'm so weak at this.. People will tell you to read more books, and when I look at the book, I will be like 'wad?! i'm gonna be crazy after reading this book!' I can't sit down on the chair and read by myself..almost 90% of the words will look strange to me and I will start asking my mum and she gets fed up with me. I'm too lazy to look up the words in the dictionary..lols :P
Off now..to enjoy the 3-day holiday..

worst most boring ever EFL

2006-04-11T23:24:00.001+08:00

i don't know how u phrase that five words, but just to say that this EFL abt leadership qualities and so on is so JADED! That person..Mr. Martin or sth..was just so jaded..
He was lik keep on talking and talking..and we were there, heads down, half falling asleep. Can't he make his talk a more interesting one, not those where u're asked to stand and do those stupid stuff and so on, but more of those..how do i put it..still thinking of the word..can't think of it..maybe will think of it the next time..We were all drowned in his talk..his words..he's so exaggerated..think he's wad real english speakers??..duh..he doesn't have the accent..lols(rolls my eyes at him).
Well after the EFL, we were kept back by that idiotic mr singh...wth lor..it's those sec ones fault lor..'basket'. Eat into our lunch time...can he think abt the poor mrs kamal having to wait so long to meet the students.lolz..
The english remedial was okay..but i can't resist the sleeping syndrome..my eyelids were so heavy..heads were drooping down..wonder why teacher's lessons are so boring..haiz..
Ending off here now..signing off...going off to bed..byes!~

March - a 'summary' of events..

2006-04-02T14:42:00.000+08:00

I broke a record of not blogging for about a month. Just two more days to the fourth and that's a full month..haha.
The month of March..has many interesting things to be remembered..but I'm too lazy to write it
down..

March 9 : Cross-country
March 11 : St. Nicholas Girls School Fiesta
March 13 : March Games(1st day) ; English Remedial-not so interesting..
March 15 : March Games(2nd day)
March 25 : Russian Nights at the Esplanade
March 28 : Went to JY 2's house to do English Project
March 30 : Went to MinShan's house to do English Project

The thing I enjoy at St. Nichs is the Chocolate Coated Marshmallows..yum!!! It's so delicious..I still want another one...
It's my first time going to Esplanade..so cool..I even wrote about a factual recount about it..coz it's for English Project..if not I wouldn't do it..
Went to JY 2's house..did not do much things coz his brother kept disturbing us..and we in the end played with hamster..remember how minshan was playing with it..haha :)
Then at minshan's house, it's my first time again, to stay there so late and reached home at about 7.15 pm. LOLs.. :P

Mum's company's family day

2006-03-04T18:03:00.000+08:00

Today, my mum's company's family day!

9.00am, we are rushing to the office..didn't have breakfast yet, so we rushed to HANS to buy our breakfast. I like their sandwich(cheese and egg). And we also bought hot drinks..I still feel hungry..hehe..

We went to the NEWater visitor's centre. We went there to understand how our NEWater is being produced and so on..and anyway, i've been there 2 years before..the trip is very short. I find that it's not really wonderful, cauz the trip is only 1 hour long. I want it to be at least 2 hours long..We all got one bottle of NEWater each, for free! ... Time passes so quickly..the guided trip has come to an end and we have a talk by the PUB. So sianx. The speaker's tone is so flat and she's not looking at us when speaking, so I was like sleeping the whole time. Zzzz...

At about 12pm, we left the NEWater centre and went to have our lunch at a small and cozy 'restaurant'. We had chinese food like Oats Prawn(my favourite), and fish...The family day has come to an end..so happy :) My parents and I went to Orchard Road to shop.

First, we went to the Singapore Post Office to collect something, a watch, from SWATCH. Later on we went to Takashimaya Shopping Centre's Orchard Library to borrow books. Wow! It's my first time coming to this library and I love it very much cauz it has many comic books unlike the AMK one. Wah! It has my favourite comic : Ranma by Rumiko.. I borrowed many comic books and 'Around the World in Eighty Days' for the reading task. And later on we went to the very big bookshop : Kinokuniya!! It is so big! So big that you can get lost easily.. wow! There are soo many books! and comics! and magazines! Wow! I would sure want these whole lot of comics and some English books. lol. Give me $1000 and I can spend them all..hehe.

And after that, we went to have our dinner. My brother wanted to have something more xpensive, but I can't decide what to eat, so we went to Yoshinoya to try the prawn set. It is not nice at all..and I felt full after finishing half of it. Ill. Not nice..(no wonder so cheap).lol. Finally we went home! Get ready tomorrow's tuition stuff and do my homework! ... 10.30pm..time to SLEEP! yeah! Zzzzz...

Kinokuniya :

It's my first time here. And I love it from 1st sight. hehe. I just wish I own this bookstore where I can spend all the time reading this wonderful books! The section which I like most is the section where there are many Japanese language books. They are so colourful and beautiful. I wish I can read Japanese words..so sad..if I can read then I can read the Japanese comics le. Woah! There are Naruto comics(my fave.), Inuyasha comics, Slam Dunk and so on..but I can't find my favourite Ranma..well anywayz, my mum wouldn't buy them for me. Haiz, then I shall visit the Orchard Library every weekend! Hehe. :)

Dotz...

2006-02-28T18:37:00.000+08:00

Today, me and some other had to see ms 2 3 times this day! so sianx arh! too bad she's our english teacher. Her temper hen gu guai de leh, shi bu shi luan fa pi qi. Then the next moment she's like so good to us.. Dunno wads on her mind. English lesson : read story book, and she crapped quite a lot during the lesson lar. CME : didn' talk other thingz. English remedial : did talk about her 'experience'. Today's remedial was so short, only 45 minutes, wonder if she realised she only gave us 45 minutes of lesson..lol. and during the lesson, we only studied 'apostrophe'. Like where to put the apostrophe and so on. The lesson was quite alright lar, but then must see her thrice a day is like a torture leh. lol.!!
Doing SRP can stress me up! Juz by looking for information is already so messed up, wonder how the experiment will be like. So unfair!!! I must do 2 lit. search. Idiotic!!!
Well, pray hard that my voice could be heard at the end of the classroom..coz if it can't be heard then I will get low marks. I think I must bring a loudspeaker tmr. Hahaz..now busy memerizing the lines that I'm supposed to say..byes!

A bad day.. : (

2006-02-24T21:53:00.000+08:00

Today's such a bad day for me...haiz..for guides. Didn't get to go for the Annual Training Camp. So sad..Why can't I go? Heard ppl say that it's the leaders who chose who are going for the camp? If it's true, then why mdm! why don't let me go?! I'm dying to go u noe? Anywayz, its fate..lol.

For that whole afternoon, wad we did was axemanship. It was so damn boring..watching the few sec 3s demonstrating to us how to handle the axe and so on.. When watching them, u could straight away notice that CPeng was like qiang LiRong's gong lao. When LiRong got the wood split up, she would be so extra like that go take the axe and complete the rest of the job. LOLs. Time passes so slowly today. My turn to chop the wood..I'm left-handed and of course I have to use my left hand to chop the wood wad! Wad the heck lor, she keep on telling me to use right hand, u think I can use my right hand is it?! The axe weighs a ton if I use my right hand to hold it. Khaes..?

Yawnzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Finally, woots! it has ended! Time to go home! Yays!

Tent pitching

2006-02-11T13:41:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, we guides had tent pitching at the Guides HQ. We had to go there by ourselves and had to bring along our big and bulky bags. I was like wondering why the school doesn't provide a bus to take us there and why do we have to carry our bags along?! It's so damn heavy.
Too bad it's raining that day and so we didn't got a chance to pitch the tents ourselves. We stood under the shelter watching the instructor telling us what t first and so on. And we were all like 'huh?' here and there. I can remember the first few steps to pitch the tent at first, but as more info came, i totally forgot about them. Can't remember which step is first and what to do and so on...
The instructor was quite fun lar..in the beginning he was teasing Letch. about her being so talkative and so aunty like..so funny..haha!
But as time passes, I got bored. *YAWNZZ...* Yay! Finally! It's finally the end of this 'lecture'. We can go home! Haiz..still must carry that heavy bag home..and the day is still so gloomy. Me and YC went to McDonalds to buy some french fries. I wanted to oreder the medium sized fries, but I told the person I wanted a regular fries. But the person has already taken the fries, so had to accept it. Well, anyway, I'm not really hungry, unlike YC. She finished the fries when we were about to reach the MRT Station. I had only finished the fries after I reached my destination.
*To YC's parents(if u ever saw this msg) : YC had skipped lunch for that day..later kana gastric pain..lol.

In the afternoon after having lunch at house, I was walking nack to school, and it rained so heavily. Shucks! The roads were flooded in such a short time, and my shoes are made of cloth, so when I tried not to step on the puddles of water, the water will still seep into my shoes. Then in class, i took off my shoes and went bare-footed around. When the socks and shoes are not dried yet, I took them to the toilet to dry them under the dryer. U know what? I held the socks so high that when the dryer start blowing at it, I can smell the stink of my socks! Poof! And after that, we quickly ran down to the den to meet...getting ready for the meeting and so..

Me&MyBlog

B'Day cards

Problems with usage of bags!

A Cry In The Night

Christmas Eve 2007

Asian Idol 2007

Chiang Mai, Doi Tung, Lampang 2007

photos

Whee!

Summary-Oct/Nov

Never Judge A Book By Its Cover

My 15th birthday

A.Guides Annual Campfire 2007

nothing..

BeiJing trip

End of Mid-year exams!!

Ah Hock!

HIM!

English paper 1

Rockclimbing/Raffles campfire

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STRESSED UP!

Anderson Clover Guides Annual Training Camp

23/03/07

STRESS STRESS STRESS!!!

Mayflower Scouts Campfire

CNY day 2

happy chinese new year

-.-

update

class allocation

Night At The Museum

bowling at marina square

amazing race with Catholic High School

hanoi, vietnam

olio handphone is spoilt!

sale of guides cookies at lot 1

guides briefing

science center

soreloser!

anderson open house

2nd day of skills training camp

1st day skills training camp

bangkok 2006

to bangkok

results for sub. comb.

orchard hotel

holidays

mum's birthday

art biennale

subject combination

buffet at peninsula

ervin/bbq

go through exam papers/check scripts

roller blading

school reopens

mina-san house gathering

stairway to heaven

end of EOYs!!

unhealthy air levels2

unhealthy air levels

long post

Shi Ping's b'dae

sungei buloh

malay oral exam

ah peng

last guides meeting

13/9

4th uncle's house

sept. holidays

titleless

teachers' day

dad's birthday

malay camp 2006

national day

fireworks by team singapore

tests

fireworks

*sick*

Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man's Chest

sick