Ahh yesh yesh Common Tests this week. IT'S SO STRESSFUL!! I'm surprised I even lasted this far... Gosh what can I even say? I'm so so sooo rubbish-fied by this whole week of tests, oh yesh I am but at least it's not too bad also... Monday was GP and Geography, I wrote about animal experimentations for the development of products beneficial to humans and whether this was morally acceptable... Hee hee that's so typical of me, so yup naturally I said it was a sick, depraved and perverse, blooie hooey then Geography was kinda "scraped through"... I didn't touch the subjects on limestone at all, then Malthus was too much a pessimist and I think I invented some of Boserup's theories... Anyway on Tuesday it was Mathematics, they gave us like 500 million identities to prove, so I just conveniently did some junk workings, worked backwards a little bit and equate them whenever I had the chance... Don't think the teachers are going to buy that though... But what is the point of proving identities when they are already shown to be true?!? That was some dumbo's logic...
Yep, yesterday for lunch Kai Jie, Atiqah and me went to Namly Cafe at SIM, Creamy Mushroon Pasta was superb!! Oh well partly because of the huge amount of mushrooms that they laddled into the plate... Hee, then for the rest of yesterday I tried to study for Economics (which was today) and crap, I failed miserably. Ended up online for most of the afternoon playing Neopets... I wanna create a Kacheek!! Then I went to the Money Tree and donated 1NP one at a time until I donated a total of 50 NP... And after that wherever and whichever shop I went, I got a lot of Random Events and picked up a lot of cash and items... Okay okay (smacks myself) back to trying to study for Econs. THEORY OF PRODUCTION AND COST IS ONE NONSENSICAL SCREWED-UPSIDE-DOWN FAILURE OF LOGICAL CONGECTURES!! Gosh that theory had billions of graphs and formulae... And things are not helping when all the terms seem so similar, like you need to know the difference between Marginal Costs, Average Fixed/Variable Costs, Total (Fixed/Variable) Costs... Then there's the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns and Returns to Scale and concepts of economies of scale and least cost combination and LOADS OF ADDITIONAL JUNK!! GAARRRGGGH!!
Oh well I gave up trying to understand them. Maybe they should try and understand me instead. Bah I went to bed at 10.30pm last night, but woke up at 1am because I felt so bad about not studying that lousy chapter and it was an important chapter and likely to make up 50% of the test which also equates to 10% of my grades for Promotional Exams... GAARRRGGGH!! I took 5 minutes to look at the Econs notes again, decided it to be rubbish and went online again... Ha! I'm glad I did so because I was whining to Hsiu Tzu and she suggested that I try revising for it again later in the morning. Okay I went to sleep shortly after, woke up at 4am to try and study but nothing went in... All I could only remember was the Total Fixed Cost curve because it's just one straight horizontal line on the x-y axis... Went back to sleep, woke up at 6am and went to school early... AHH YESH YESH!! I revisited the topic on the bus, then sat at the grandstand and suddenly things just made sense!! Don't ask me how, I just read the notes s-l-o-w-l-y again and *poof*! It just made sense, it so very did... But the crappy thing was morning assembly was starting soon and I was still left with economies of scale... So I proposed a plan to Sheng-De that we skip assembly and go hide somewhere to study... We chose the toilet next to the Student Lounge, there was this big toilet with well-lit and enough ventilation... But best of all there was even a bench there (yesh in the toilet) for us to sit down and revise... HA! What was nonsense to me earlier became logical theories... And the Econs paper asked for the difference between all the economies of scale and I was able to answer that because I spent my last half-hour before the test in a toilet covering that exact topic... WHOO HOO!!
After the paper ended I was very happy!! Very very happy... Ate lunch in school then hung around with my friends who were waiting for their Malay/Chinese papers. Well I don't have any, and neither did Siew Peng, so we went walking around, found Janvin and his "girlfriend" hiding in one sleazy corner of the library, tried to make the dispensing machine work cos I wanted Minute Maid Limeade, drawing smiley faces all over the foolscap paper... Bargh I do a lot of rubbish and crazy things, so unless you think I'm normal, well just adapt to Guan You's behavior and hope I turn normal soon.
Ooh this is a pretty long entry... If you made it all the way to this statement, thanks for enduring all my shuffle notes... I'm going to sleep now... *Swelling like a baked potato*...
Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Sunday, 26 June 2005
Yesh thank you all for all your concern... Oh well I was very sad yesterday, as in very very sad, and all I did was put a "unhappy smiley face" on MSN Messenger... I think it's quite dumb, how can a unhappy face be a "unhappy smiley face"??? Okie that's not the point... Later on the single "unhappy smiley face" slowly grew into 5 "unhappy smiley faces", then the most "unhappy smiley faces" at one time was 7...
Thanks everyone who cared enough to ask why I'm so sad and everything... Then Tammy sent this rubbishy news report of this Iraqi nut and hee hee hee hee... Oh and after a while I got so bored of being online, so I started switching my status from Online to Appear Offline then back to Online again *process repeats itself*, nope I'm not nuts I'm just trying to irritate everyone... So the whole time I think everyone on my contact list who's online must be pissed off with the "Display alerts when contacts come online" tool, or they just might be pissed off with me... But it's cool don't you think?? Peiying did the same thing to me, and the alerts just kept appearing and piling themselves one on top of the other, so all I see are many pictures of Patrick and many lines of her nick Mrs. Starfish... Gaarrrgggh okay that WAS irritating, so I stopped doing it after a while...
Now my unhappy mood is non-existent already, but I still put 4 "unhappy smiley faces" just for the effect... Oh and thanks to the anonymous person who put Galatians 6:9 on the quackie boxing...
I hate grapes. I detest them. I just hate how the skin is tasting like rubber and no matter how much I chew the skin it always ends up in a chewed ball and refuses to get itself down my gullet. And if the grapes has seeds and I accidentally chew on them then there's that bitter taste and raw chunks of the broken seed and in the end whatever that's in my mouth has to be spit out... YEUCKS... The worst is the squishy too-sweet fruit that just squish and squash and mash in my bicuspids and molars, and mixed with the rubbery skin and OMIGOSH... How can anyone like grapes???
Thanks everyone who cared enough to ask why I'm so sad and everything... Then Tammy sent this rubbishy news report of this Iraqi nut and hee hee hee hee... Oh and after a while I got so bored of being online, so I started switching my status from Online to Appear Offline then back to Online again *process repeats itself*, nope I'm not nuts I'm just trying to irritate everyone... So the whole time I think everyone on my contact list who's online must be pissed off with the "Display alerts when contacts come online" tool, or they just might be pissed off with me... But it's cool don't you think?? Peiying did the same thing to me, and the alerts just kept appearing and piling themselves one on top of the other, so all I see are many pictures of Patrick and many lines of her nick Mrs. Starfish... Gaarrrgggh okay that WAS irritating, so I stopped doing it after a while...
Now my unhappy mood is non-existent already, but I still put 4 "unhappy smiley faces" just for the effect... Oh and thanks to the anonymous person who put Galatians 6:9 on the quackie boxing...
I hate grapes. I detest them. I just hate how the skin is tasting like rubber and no matter how much I chew the skin it always ends up in a chewed ball and refuses to get itself down my gullet. And if the grapes has seeds and I accidentally chew on them then there's that bitter taste and raw chunks of the broken seed and in the end whatever that's in my mouth has to be spit out... YEUCKS... The worst is the squishy too-sweet fruit that just squish and squash and mash in my bicuspids and molars, and mixed with the rubbery skin and OMIGOSH... How can anyone like grapes???
Saturday, 25 June 2005
I'm tired. Stupidly tired of everything the way things are. Feeling so dimb that sometimes I just feel like giving up. "Give, but never give up"... Which idiot said that? I gave my all, everything that I had, all my time and energy and EVERYTHING, and in the end it all came to nothing. All along I just assumed that things were fine because I didn't know what troubles existed in the first place, and if I didn't even know of that then how am I supposed to even go about solving it?? I feel so spent now... Investing everything that I've got, and here you come popping by not appreciating, but demanding more... "Give, but never give up"... Thrash that lousy piece of advice... What's the point of you giving so much and nothing constructive comes out of it? Worse, people don't even realise how much you've done and they demand some more out of you... Would you give, or would you give up??
Oh well... On the brighter side I recovered from my sicknesses... Had flu, then shortly after chasing the flu virus away I got fever and cough... Now my fever's subsided but my throat is still a bit squeky... Was supposed to be going down for Animal Conference on Thursday but something else cropped up and by the time it was settled I had 3 missed calls and 6 messages unanswered... Shucks, then yesterday morning I actually had a Literature lecture at 9am in school, woke up at 8am and after I changed and was just about to leave house, when Cheryl forwarded a message from Ms Teo cancelling the lecture... Shucks again, things just never ever go right for me... I ended up meeting Atiqah at school at 9.30am to water the plants at the Spice Garden, then went for 2 hours of Maths trigo revision.
I feel like I have a million things to do. Common Tests in 2 more days, oh okay at least I studied quite a bit, but still not enough... I just want to throw everything aside and not bother about anything at all. Sometimes the situation is just so bleak that I really question myself what is the point of going on at all??
Alright maybe not all the time. Cell group last night was a refreshing time, for me to know that no matter what may happen in my life the whole week, every Friday night I still have 12 awesome people alongside me... Yep we gave Biru a special birthday surprise, I met Rachel Tan and Ming Hui, and later Jolene to go buy her cake, then Ben was incapable of lighting a matchstick and I got burned by candles... Yup but it was fun. Biru came up with this Certificate of God's Ministry, where everyone just pass a personalised piece of paper around and write the talents that God has blessed the person with... And when we finished with the activity and I took a look at my own CGM, I'm just so encouraged by this group of people that I'm leading... Somehow it makes your time so worthwhile to see each of them horsing among themselves and growing in the Lord and using their talents in a positive way...
Give, but never give up? We'll see... There are times when I give till I want to give up, yet there are times too like last night's cell... Father in Heaven, I need the strength to persevere and go on...
Oh well... On the brighter side I recovered from my sicknesses... Had flu, then shortly after chasing the flu virus away I got fever and cough... Now my fever's subsided but my throat is still a bit squeky... Was supposed to be going down for Animal Conference on Thursday but something else cropped up and by the time it was settled I had 3 missed calls and 6 messages unanswered... Shucks, then yesterday morning I actually had a Literature lecture at 9am in school, woke up at 8am and after I changed and was just about to leave house, when Cheryl forwarded a message from Ms Teo cancelling the lecture... Shucks again, things just never ever go right for me... I ended up meeting Atiqah at school at 9.30am to water the plants at the Spice Garden, then went for 2 hours of Maths trigo revision.
I feel like I have a million things to do. Common Tests in 2 more days, oh okay at least I studied quite a bit, but still not enough... I just want to throw everything aside and not bother about anything at all. Sometimes the situation is just so bleak that I really question myself what is the point of going on at all??
Alright maybe not all the time. Cell group last night was a refreshing time, for me to know that no matter what may happen in my life the whole week, every Friday night I still have 12 awesome people alongside me... Yep we gave Biru a special birthday surprise, I met Rachel Tan and Ming Hui, and later Jolene to go buy her cake, then Ben was incapable of lighting a matchstick and I got burned by candles... Yup but it was fun. Biru came up with this Certificate of God's Ministry, where everyone just pass a personalised piece of paper around and write the talents that God has blessed the person with... And when we finished with the activity and I took a look at my own CGM, I'm just so encouraged by this group of people that I'm leading... Somehow it makes your time so worthwhile to see each of them horsing among themselves and growing in the Lord and using their talents in a positive way...
Give, but never give up? We'll see... There are times when I give till I want to give up, yet there are times too like last night's cell... Father in Heaven, I need the strength to persevere and go on...
Tuesday, 21 June 2005
OMIGOSH SQUIDWARD IS SOO CUTE!! HE'S PROBABLY THE MOST ADORABLE CREATURE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!! Oh well, okay maybe not, cos ducks are the cutest already... BUT SQUIDWARD IS STILL IRRESISTIBLE!
Okay I just watched Spongebob Squarepants on Kids Central. Well it's not as if I get to watch it everyday, but then today was an exception cos I was quite free, and gosh the "Squid's Day Off" one was very very shuffle and cute and funny and interesting!! Cos it had Squidward as the main character rather than all Spongebob only or Spongbob and Patrick or some other weird combination... AARGH I'M GOING NUTS but then Squidward is so charming and I can't help it! Especially when he was haunted by Spongebob's superfluous tone "I'm going to destroy the Krusty Krabs!"
And that grumpy tormented image which made him so old-looking...
And the last image of him naked with that last pink bubble and Spongebob had to lend his Squarepants to him...
OMIGOSH!! SQUIDWARD TENTACLES IS SOO CUTE!!! HE SHOULD BE MADE THE STAR OF THE SHOW!! AARGH!!!
[Oh, the flu bugs caught me... Sniff... But I think Squidward chased them away... Blooiee...]
Okay I just watched Spongebob Squarepants on Kids Central. Well it's not as if I get to watch it everyday, but then today was an exception cos I was quite free, and gosh the "Squid's Day Off" one was very very shuffle and cute and funny and interesting!! Cos it had Squidward as the main character rather than all Spongebob only or Spongbob and Patrick or some other weird combination... AARGH I'M GOING NUTS but then Squidward is so charming and I can't help it! Especially when he was haunted by Spongebob's superfluous tone "I'm going to destroy the Krusty Krabs!"
And that grumpy tormented image which made him so old-looking...
And the last image of him naked with that last pink bubble and Spongebob had to lend his Squarepants to him...
OMIGOSH!! SQUIDWARD TENTACLES IS SOO CUTE!!! HE SHOULD BE MADE THE STAR OF THE SHOW!! AARGH!!!
[Oh, the flu bugs caught me... Sniff... But I think Squidward chased them away... Blooiee...]
Monday, 20 June 2005
Hee! I can't believe I actually got down to serious studying! I feel so proud of myself... For once I managed to sit down still for 3 hours to complete my Maths assignment questions! WHOO!!
Okay that aside... I went out with Rachel Tan, Peiying and Minghui today to go buy Biru's present... Yesh I know Biru will be reading this entry, so I shall not reveal anything about what we bought her... Ah ha I'm so smart! Okay I was 5 minutes late in meeting them, cos all three of them early birds were at Orchard MRT at 12.30pm when we were supposed to be meeting at 1pm, and yesh I know I'm not exactly very punctual... (Hollers: I'M WORKING ON THAT!) Yup we merrily went shopping from store to store, saw like millions of nice stuff that we probably would want to buy for ourselves rather than Biru, but yesh after an eventful one hour half of walking (I think) we finally managed to get the present/s... Yesh it was quite entertaining to go shopping with them, cos Rachel is probably more interested in her own shopping, and then Ming Hui has some funny ideas somewhere and Peiying is totally unexpectedly shuffle EVERYWHERE... Anyway we went to MacDonald's for lunch, then all of us took bus 162 home including Ming Hui... The bus was very crowded, then all of a sudden Peiying just gave one of her high-pitched cries, turned out that she saw this friend called Daniel who was on the bus too, then she was too shy to go talk to him or whatever, I have no idea cos she just kept whining and sighing in those high notes... Then somehow me and Rachel ended up hitting each other's head and shoulders (Nope it's not the shampoo) a lot... We were playing the ubiquitous "orgh-gui-chia" game, hee... Then after a while it became "spot-the-yellow-vehicle" game and hitting the shoulders and going "banana vehicle"... Yesh we were that lame... Yep then I took to my bus-stop and went home... (:
Okay that aside... I went out with Rachel Tan, Peiying and Minghui today to go buy Biru's present... Yesh I know Biru will be reading this entry, so I shall not reveal anything about what we bought her... Ah ha I'm so smart! Okay I was 5 minutes late in meeting them, cos all three of them early birds were at Orchard MRT at 12.30pm when we were supposed to be meeting at 1pm, and yesh I know I'm not exactly very punctual... (Hollers: I'M WORKING ON THAT!) Yup we merrily went shopping from store to store, saw like millions of nice stuff that we probably would want to buy for ourselves rather than Biru, but yesh after an eventful one hour half of walking (I think) we finally managed to get the present/s... Yesh it was quite entertaining to go shopping with them, cos Rachel is probably more interested in her own shopping, and then Ming Hui has some funny ideas somewhere and Peiying is totally unexpectedly shuffle EVERYWHERE... Anyway we went to MacDonald's for lunch, then all of us took bus 162 home including Ming Hui... The bus was very crowded, then all of a sudden Peiying just gave one of her high-pitched cries, turned out that she saw this friend called Daniel who was on the bus too, then she was too shy to go talk to him or whatever, I have no idea cos she just kept whining and sighing in those high notes... Then somehow me and Rachel ended up hitting each other's head and shoulders (Nope it's not the shampoo) a lot... We were playing the ubiquitous "orgh-gui-chia" game, hee... Then after a while it became "spot-the-yellow-vehicle" game and hitting the shoulders and going "banana vehicle"... Yesh we were that lame... Yep then I took to my bus-stop and went home... (:
Sunday, 19 June 2005
Tammy just introduced me to Hoops and Yoyo... Gosh I don't even know what kind of creatures they are... But they're cute!! Yesh yesh!! They're some product of Hallmark (the card manufacturer)... Go check out their site! Both Hoops and Yoyo are a bit spastic, but you'll find wallpapers and screensavers and other rubbish, and yesh there are emoticons over there for MSN Messenger... And guess what's the best bit?? HOOPS IS PINK!!! YEEHAA!!
Hoops... & Yoyo...
Hoops... & Yoyo...
Saturday, 18 June 2005
Oh my gosh I lost 4 kg in the past month!! My grandma came over to visit and she asked me whether I was on a diet or something... I said no and then she thought I was stressed from school work cos according to her I looked like I lost 10 kg or something. Seriously, do I look that bad?? Everyone is commenting that I look so sleepy or tired or haggard or whatever else they're calling me... And all along I thought it was my hair cos my hair is quite long now and it's moggy and scrumpy and kinda making me look like a ol' dump with too little sleep... BARRGHH... I don't even know why I'm losing weight in the first place... I WANT FRIED CHICKEN!! I'm hungry now... All I want is crispy fried chicken (with loads of chilli sauce) and tender and crispy and fattening and oily and greasy and unhealthy fried chicken... Oh crap this is killing me... GARRGGHH...
Monday, 13 June 2005
Yup, I went to Pasir Ris Park today with my church cell group... Rachel Kwan and Charmaine couldn't make it, barrgh, but oh well, other than that we had quite a good time... Gosh I think I'm waking up earlier and earlier every morning... IT'S THE HOLIDAYS!! Oh well, I woke up at 8.30am, got a quick shower and went to corps to meet them first. The meeting time was supposed to be 9.15am, and I think I stepped into corps at 8.45am, couldn't be sure... Guess what? Jolene and her cousin Jo Yong were even earlier than me... Oh did I mention Jolene decided to bring her cousin to tag along... So while the two of them are indulging in their breakfast I just sat there stonily, until Biru came and shortly after Rachel Tan arrived too... Waited till 9.30am? For Andre and Coleman and Felix to appear... I think we were never on time as far as I can remember. Hee, to quote Joel, if you want to be on time you sit on a clock... *SHUFFLE* Okay, we actually arranged to meet Dora on the bus after all of us have gathered at corps, but the "good" news was that the sleepy girl was still at home... In the end we waited for Dora to turn up at 10am, and poor Ming Hui and Peiying... Told them to meet at Pasir Ris MRT at 10am, but we were still in BIshan at that time... Hee... Took bus 88 there, along the way we're trying to interrogate all of Andre's love stories, checking his phone messages etc. The bus trip took 55 minutes, ah ha, just short of a full hour... Met up with the 2 poor lost souls (Ming Hui and Peiying) who looked so romantic waiting together... We wanted to take a bus there but decided not to cos our butts were sore after sitting down for 55 minutes... Walked to Pasir Ris Park, snapped a photo at the signboard, went straight to the playground and we went crazy! Yep playing swings and slides and climbing the spider-webbed structure and horsing around. Gosh it was hard to believe us people sometimes. And yesh, I never realised that Peiying is capable of screaming or whining or shouting or whatever-noise-she-was-making at a constant high G note... Most of them scrambled to the top of the spider-webbed structure, took more photos then we went for lunch. We ordered our food, the total bill came up to $23.70... Then we walked over to the bike rental shop, we each got ourself one bike except Biru and Ming Hui who got a tandem bike cos Ming Hui didn't know how to cycle, then we cycled our guts out for the next hour, covered the entire Pasir Ris Park at least twice?? Yup yup, we returned the bikes at 2.30pm with wobbly legs, headed down to the beach for some frisbee-tossing and wading in the sea. All was well until Andre found this dead snake that was washed in by the tides... And so began a most intriguing time of trying to dissect the snake... Andre found this chopstick somewhere, and started stabbing the snake in an attempt to try and cut the snake body open, well, it didn't work... Could see the blood flowing out from the head, but after lots of jabbing all that remained was this small opening at the side, and when Andre tossed it back into the water, immediately this swarm of water maggots swam over and just started to feast at the opening... And yesh, you can literally see the maggots geting bigger and bigger every minute; they started out small but swelled to the size of a small beetle... Okay even I'm grossed out now. Change subject... Okay Andre went top-less... Not like we wanted to see anything anyway... Oh and the frisbee fell into the sea and Jeremy waded in till the water was chin-high? Other than that it was pretty much it, till we went home on the bus back to Pasir Ris bus terminal and on the bus 88 again for another long trip home...
Friday, 10 June 2005
Honey & Lemon drink
You'll need:
1 tablespoon of honey
half a lemon
warm water
ice-cubes if you want it chilled
Squeeze the lemon and collect the juice in a cup. Mix the honey together with the lemon juice and add warm water. Sweetness can be varied by adding more/less honey. Add ice if desired.
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My sore throat disappeared after that... Somehow, in some weird way, the sour taste just numbs your gums entirely, but after that is a underlying sweet taste of honey that lingers on your tongue... Ahh yesh that was soothingly sweet and refreshing...
Monday, 6 June 2005
Yesh I know I just changed my blog music to this chinese song titled 童话... Surprise surprise... There's a CHINESE SONG on Guan You's blog... I think this is some kind of record for me... Hmm, Hsiu Tzu sent me the song, then the kids at the K3 camp loved this as well. I don't see the fascination with it, except that it sounds like a nice, soppy love song... Hee... Got lyrics too!
忘了有多久 再没听到你
对我说你最爱的故事
我想了很久 我开始慌了
是不是我又做错了什么
你哭着对我说 童话里都是骗人的
我不可能是你的王子
也许你不会懂 从你说爱我以后
我的天空 星星都亮了
我愿变成童话里 你爱的那个天使
张开双手变成翅膀守护你
你要相信 相信我们会像童话故事里
幸福和快乐是结局
一起写我们的结局
忘了有多久 再没听到你
对我说你最爱的故事
我想了很久 我开始慌了
是不是我又做错了什么
你哭着对我说 童话里都是骗人的
我不可能是你的王子
也许你不会懂 从你说爱我以后
我的天空 星星都亮了
我愿变成童话里 你爱的那个天使
张开双手变成翅膀守护你
你要相信 相信我们会像童话故事里
幸福和快乐是结局
一起写我们的结局
Sunday, 5 June 2005
Whoo-ooooo-ooo-oooooooooo! I'm back from the K3 Roots and Shoots camp!! Left for Pulau Ubin on Saturday, stayed overnight then came back this Sunday afternoon... It was so very fun with all the kids!! Ah ha... Okay where shall we start? Ahh... Saturday...
Yep, Saturday woke up at 7am? It was too early for me to remember, packed some last-minute stuff into my bag, fed Nutseed 2 days worth of seeds, then I went to school for Greenlink cos Huimin wanted us to practise for the skit that we're supposed to be preparing for the kids at K3 camp... Well, I was half an hour late, and in the end we barely practised anything more than our lines... Didn't even manage a dry-run of the entire skit, so we turned to the spice garden beside the Oasis to water the plants and slack around. After that all of us went to Suntec City, cos Carrefour is promoting World Environment Day and I'm the i/c for our school volunteers. Met Perl Han finally for the first time, (Perl Han is not in Greenlink, but he's volunteering) and he's a nice guy... The rest went for lunch at the food court, while me and Perl Han went to Carrefour and got entertained by Mr Adventure who was juggling and magic tricking and stuffing his head into this huge balloon. Then Liyong joined us after that and we basically went around the whole Suntec City getting people to fill up questionaires on plastic bag usage. And in that process you learn how it hurts to be rejected, or slightly less hurting to be rejected politely, or happy when people stop and take time to fill in the questionaire. Around 2pm, the whole group of us except Liyong left Suntec to go to Changi Village Jetty, along the way out of Suntec we met Adeline and Fenella, went to meet Grant, Grace, Jerryl, Mindy and some other Green Volunteer Network (GVN) volunteers at Changi Village Foodcourt, then went over to the jetty to meet the Anderson Primary kids... Well, they're all Primary 6, in their school's green club, and there were 14 boys to ONE poor girl... Haha, Huimin was the ONLY girl from NJC who went for the camp anyway, so I guess it's pretty much "evened out"... Oh and this boy named Gary Toh was SOOO CUTE!! The moment I saw him I think I was telling everyone about him and how cute he looked and what a "pretty boy" he is... Yesh he's VERY CUTE... Okay enough, anyway we lugged all the equipment, supplies etc to the bumboats and zoomed off to Ubin... Once there we settled down, the kids went for some trail walk while the facilitators (that's us by the way...) and the GVN volunteers helped to set up all the tents for the kids, cleared the area and settled all our stuff down. When the kids came back we were split up into 3 groups, me and Jun Ying took Team Cheetah, and too bad Gary the cute boy was in Team whatever, Team Weird if I can recall correctly... Yup, we played games, and my group lost the first game which was to pass the hoola-hoops through our bodies, and the forfeit was to spell the word "DETERMINATION" with our butts. Yea, it ended up quite obscene... Then after throwing all our bags into the tents, we went for dinner at the eatery by the seaside, had loads of yummy food and Gary was sitting opposite me on the same table, so both of us ended up glancing/staring a lot at each other, even though I haven't spoken a word to him yet. Then Faith called me to ask about her computer and I got her envious of the fact that I'm in Ubin right now... Then Cheryn called me also and I told her about Gary also... Hee... After dinner we sat down in a circle at the campsite, used our torchlights as a "campfire" and played all the silly "campfire" games and sang all the silly "campfire" songs that Jerryl and Mindy were teaching us. Then Grant came along with the carbide lamp, impressed us all with the lamp but refused to tell us how it works... But oh boy the carbide lamp was enough to illuminate the entire "campfire" circle... More games/songs later we went on the nightwalk. First we saw the strangling figs, then walked into the Sensory Trail routes and deeper into the jungle and passed by all the mud holes with the mud lobsters, the fireflies, and lots of other greeery which I shaldn't bother to describe... We ended up back at the campsite, and it was barbeque time... While they were starting the fire, Grant was mixing yeast and fruit bits together to make bread, and when the charcoal was burning we roasted the bread and it was delicious... Somehow the salty taste mixed well with the raisin bits, and the hot roast just adds on to the taste. Yup, Jun Ying told me later that Grant is a great cook, and I don't think I doubt him... We mingled around with the kids, me and Perl Han felt sleepy and went to one of the empty tents to talk about stuff... Then I was talking to a lot of other kids also, oh AND GARY!! Yesh yesh, did I mention?? During the night walk at one of the head counts, Gary was asking "where's Guan You" cos I was supposed to stand in front of him during head counts... Ooh... He's so cute!! Yep, then there were these 2 girls also, they're siblings not older than primary 3 and their parents were the ones who opened the eatery business that we ate at for dinner. Yup, both the girls were very charming too, and they sort of remind me of my 6-year-old cousin...
The night sky was great. I spotted 3 shooting stars!! Yesh, I don't think I spotted more than 10 shooting stars in my whole life, so it was kinda fortunate for me to gaze up into the sky at the right time and see all 3 of them... Haha, Huimin was always a second too late... Yep, Jun Ying (he's in astronomy) showed us Scorpio and the Big Dipper, and at around 1am in the morning I fell asleep under the stars. Woke up later at around 3am or thereabouts, everyone else was sleeping except Huimin, Grace, Grant and Jerryl and a few other hyperactive kids who couldn't fall asleep... Oh Gary slept like a baby... Hee... I decided not to sleep anymore, so all of us who are awake sat around the barbeque pit and the carbide lamp to roast sweet potatoes and marshmallows. One by one all of them went to sleep, excep me who was still roasting loads of marshmallows and I simply loved the crisp marshmallow exterior but melted marshmallow interior... Then I sat on the chair stargazing in the chilly coldness of 5am in the morning, decided to sleep there and then after I got drowsy and when I woke up again at around 7am, it was freezing cold... Went to warm myself up at the still-hot barbeque pit, except that it was mostly ash and some ambers left... But it was still very hot cos the charcoal is still burning, so I roasted somemore marshmallows, brought this kid to the toilet, whining about the cold, looked at the sea and whined about the cold, walked back to the campsite whining about the cold, said good morning to everyone including Gary, positioned myself permanently in front of the barbeque pit and stop whining... The kids went for breakfast, while we stayed behind to pack up the tents. Ha... Me and Perl Han were trying to stuff everything, the base, the fly sheet etc into the bag, and the bag zip was threatening to give way until we slowly forced-zip bit by bit... Then it was our turn for breakfast, excellent lontong... Then more games which my Team Cheetah all got 3rd... Yesh, we got 3rd for all the games that we participated in right from first day, keeping in mind that there're only 3 teams in total...
Skit time. The Anderson kids went first, something about bringing awareness to the harms done to the environment, I'm not too sure, all I know is Gary was in it... Then it was our turn and we pranced around as trees, I was Baby Tree 1, then it was something about Great-Grandfather Tree bring chopped down and the trees crying out latex... We officially ended camp after that, took pictures, then Gary came over to say goodbye to all of us, AND ME... So sweet of him... And they went to cycle while all the facilitators and GVN volunteers went home...
And the funny thing is, I don't think I have any mosquito bites at all, but I've got millions of sandfly bites...
Yep, Saturday woke up at 7am? It was too early for me to remember, packed some last-minute stuff into my bag, fed Nutseed 2 days worth of seeds, then I went to school for Greenlink cos Huimin wanted us to practise for the skit that we're supposed to be preparing for the kids at K3 camp... Well, I was half an hour late, and in the end we barely practised anything more than our lines... Didn't even manage a dry-run of the entire skit, so we turned to the spice garden beside the Oasis to water the plants and slack around. After that all of us went to Suntec City, cos Carrefour is promoting World Environment Day and I'm the i/c for our school volunteers. Met Perl Han finally for the first time, (Perl Han is not in Greenlink, but he's volunteering) and he's a nice guy... The rest went for lunch at the food court, while me and Perl Han went to Carrefour and got entertained by Mr Adventure who was juggling and magic tricking and stuffing his head into this huge balloon. Then Liyong joined us after that and we basically went around the whole Suntec City getting people to fill up questionaires on plastic bag usage. And in that process you learn how it hurts to be rejected, or slightly less hurting to be rejected politely, or happy when people stop and take time to fill in the questionaire. Around 2pm, the whole group of us except Liyong left Suntec to go to Changi Village Jetty, along the way out of Suntec we met Adeline and Fenella, went to meet Grant, Grace, Jerryl, Mindy and some other Green Volunteer Network (GVN) volunteers at Changi Village Foodcourt, then went over to the jetty to meet the Anderson Primary kids... Well, they're all Primary 6, in their school's green club, and there were 14 boys to ONE poor girl... Haha, Huimin was the ONLY girl from NJC who went for the camp anyway, so I guess it's pretty much "evened out"... Oh and this boy named Gary Toh was SOOO CUTE!! The moment I saw him I think I was telling everyone about him and how cute he looked and what a "pretty boy" he is... Yesh he's VERY CUTE... Okay enough, anyway we lugged all the equipment, supplies etc to the bumboats and zoomed off to Ubin... Once there we settled down, the kids went for some trail walk while the facilitators (that's us by the way...) and the GVN volunteers helped to set up all the tents for the kids, cleared the area and settled all our stuff down. When the kids came back we were split up into 3 groups, me and Jun Ying took Team Cheetah, and too bad Gary the cute boy was in Team whatever, Team Weird if I can recall correctly... Yup, we played games, and my group lost the first game which was to pass the hoola-hoops through our bodies, and the forfeit was to spell the word "DETERMINATION" with our butts. Yea, it ended up quite obscene... Then after throwing all our bags into the tents, we went for dinner at the eatery by the seaside, had loads of yummy food and Gary was sitting opposite me on the same table, so both of us ended up glancing/staring a lot at each other, even though I haven't spoken a word to him yet. Then Faith called me to ask about her computer and I got her envious of the fact that I'm in Ubin right now... Then Cheryn called me also and I told her about Gary also... Hee... After dinner we sat down in a circle at the campsite, used our torchlights as a "campfire" and played all the silly "campfire" games and sang all the silly "campfire" songs that Jerryl and Mindy were teaching us. Then Grant came along with the carbide lamp, impressed us all with the lamp but refused to tell us how it works... But oh boy the carbide lamp was enough to illuminate the entire "campfire" circle... More games/songs later we went on the nightwalk. First we saw the strangling figs, then walked into the Sensory Trail routes and deeper into the jungle and passed by all the mud holes with the mud lobsters, the fireflies, and lots of other greeery which I shaldn't bother to describe... We ended up back at the campsite, and it was barbeque time... While they were starting the fire, Grant was mixing yeast and fruit bits together to make bread, and when the charcoal was burning we roasted the bread and it was delicious... Somehow the salty taste mixed well with the raisin bits, and the hot roast just adds on to the taste. Yup, Jun Ying told me later that Grant is a great cook, and I don't think I doubt him... We mingled around with the kids, me and Perl Han felt sleepy and went to one of the empty tents to talk about stuff... Then I was talking to a lot of other kids also, oh AND GARY!! Yesh yesh, did I mention?? During the night walk at one of the head counts, Gary was asking "where's Guan You" cos I was supposed to stand in front of him during head counts... Ooh... He's so cute!! Yep, then there were these 2 girls also, they're siblings not older than primary 3 and their parents were the ones who opened the eatery business that we ate at for dinner. Yup, both the girls were very charming too, and they sort of remind me of my 6-year-old cousin...
The night sky was great. I spotted 3 shooting stars!! Yesh, I don't think I spotted more than 10 shooting stars in my whole life, so it was kinda fortunate for me to gaze up into the sky at the right time and see all 3 of them... Haha, Huimin was always a second too late... Yep, Jun Ying (he's in astronomy) showed us Scorpio and the Big Dipper, and at around 1am in the morning I fell asleep under the stars. Woke up later at around 3am or thereabouts, everyone else was sleeping except Huimin, Grace, Grant and Jerryl and a few other hyperactive kids who couldn't fall asleep... Oh Gary slept like a baby... Hee... I decided not to sleep anymore, so all of us who are awake sat around the barbeque pit and the carbide lamp to roast sweet potatoes and marshmallows. One by one all of them went to sleep, excep me who was still roasting loads of marshmallows and I simply loved the crisp marshmallow exterior but melted marshmallow interior... Then I sat on the chair stargazing in the chilly coldness of 5am in the morning, decided to sleep there and then after I got drowsy and when I woke up again at around 7am, it was freezing cold... Went to warm myself up at the still-hot barbeque pit, except that it was mostly ash and some ambers left... But it was still very hot cos the charcoal is still burning, so I roasted somemore marshmallows, brought this kid to the toilet, whining about the cold, looked at the sea and whined about the cold, walked back to the campsite whining about the cold, said good morning to everyone including Gary, positioned myself permanently in front of the barbeque pit and stop whining... The kids went for breakfast, while we stayed behind to pack up the tents. Ha... Me and Perl Han were trying to stuff everything, the base, the fly sheet etc into the bag, and the bag zip was threatening to give way until we slowly forced-zip bit by bit... Then it was our turn for breakfast, excellent lontong... Then more games which my Team Cheetah all got 3rd... Yesh, we got 3rd for all the games that we participated in right from first day, keeping in mind that there're only 3 teams in total...
Skit time. The Anderson kids went first, something about bringing awareness to the harms done to the environment, I'm not too sure, all I know is Gary was in it... Then it was our turn and we pranced around as trees, I was Baby Tree 1, then it was something about Great-Grandfather Tree bring chopped down and the trees crying out latex... We officially ended camp after that, took pictures, then Gary came over to say goodbye to all of us, AND ME... So sweet of him... And they went to cycle while all the facilitators and GVN volunteers went home...
And the funny thing is, I don't think I have any mosquito bites at all, but I've got millions of sandfly bites...
Thursday, 2 June 2005
OUR GPP IS APPROVED!! Yep yep, I went to meet my PW group mates this morning at KAP MacDonalds... All of us ended up being late except Chiew Yee, and Khairi was soooo late that we just decided that he don't need to be present anymore... So the supposed PW meeting turned into a chit-chat session about whatever nonsense that came to our minds, and then we were more worried about our GPP cos Mr Leong refused to approve it cos our class haven't submitted our learning style and brain inclination and whatever rubbish... So we went over to school and bargained with Mr Leong over the approval of our GPP, then after making sure that all of us (MOST of us, actually... Haha) handed in our learning styles, he finally returned our approved GPP after being more than 5 days late... Yup, then Ruth did this funny jig and everyone was so happy cos this was our 3rd attempt... Hee... There was nothing to do after that, and being slackers we went over to West Mall to slack, borrowed books at the library and tried to act mugger-fied but we weren't... At around 2pm I left them and went to town to meet Biru, cos she wanted to watch Monster-in-Law but I wanted Madagascar, and in the end we both agreed to watch Monster-in-Law. Haha, lunch was at PastaMania cos I've completed all 11 of the chops, so I get to redeem a free pasta and a free dessert... Oh and the movie was hilarious! It's quite predictable and monotonous at times, but it's CYNICAL and REVENGEFUL, which is so SQUIDWARD... Haha, SQUIDWARD RAWKS...
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