Can I get there by candlelight?

2008-06-10T23:24:00.000-07:00

i love my daddy (: and my new rock shoes whoohoo! i feel so lucky. ^^

2008-05-27T03:46:00.000-07:00

seriously, its been only 2 days and im skulking. my fingers are itching to hit the walls, and i've been obsessed with watching climbing vids of chris sharma, daniel woods, lisa rands and trying to make up for it and my two climbing buddies are in msia alamak and eli has camp now.

HOW HOW HOW.

meanwhile class cip went pretty well, ive finished normal tutorial (the tested parts), started on maths revision proper, met up with 7 6J people, had two consecutive days of nagging and silent headaches.

BLAH

2008-05-21T04:18:00.000-07:00

teengames was on monday, quite eyeopening. lol. after that me augy and yichao felt so "empty inside", to use an augy-euphesism, so we went to jurong east to boost our morale haha.

pictures :)

group photo

my team :)

group again

lol.

priceless. this was before his speed climb

grins. had a whole lot of fun on monday - another memorable day this odac year :)

2008-05-14T06:22:00.000-07:00

today was a good day :)

climbing at JE again, but it was way better than last week. haha. attempted 7 routes, completed 7 and two with overhangs :) (albeit with a bit of cheating here and there). Two were also damn fun corner routes, where it gives you the freedom to test out techniques. One overhanging route was done using the hook, the other was done with a bit of cheating because i didnt stick to the route color. haha. but it was a pretty on form day - good for monday :) the other two also hit their form, especially augy lol. all the egyptian power moves came out ^^ and we probably did better than last week because the gym owners didnt stare at us like wth is going on with these noobs lol.

i think im going to get a small notebook to write down all that i spend. i spend way too much, i think. :/

and i want to save up for a pair of climbing shoes especially. waiting for the two of them to buy a pair is agony lol. i might as well buy myself. sticks out tongue. lol. and doing some research on it. basically i want a slipper or a velcro type, cause most likely we are always in climber's lab, or safra, so something to get out and in quickly would be goooodd. ^^

i think i'll wait until i see the pro shop at camp 5 to decide. and ask like mspa ng for advice? i dunno. evolv, madrock seems good, climber's lab has slipper madrocks which are nicee.

ok back to chem

X/

2008-05-12T02:22:00.000-07:00

btw i really love this bunch of people

TC'08
yichao mel mark jared ian eli tian^2 augy chaga fangjin jonyee

TRAINING COMM ROCKS LAH.

2008-05-12T02:19:00.002-07:00

we had isle sharing session for the j1s who are taking vietnam today :)

damm funny. the clueless j1s asked one question which sparked the whole comm on talking and digressing for 10 minutes reminiscing about EOY ex. haha. and while they stared at us in their jawdropped state while we bombed them with facts like how there is only one toilet cubicle? basins for baths? bathwater which smelt like blood? lol. only people who were there can truly understand. hahaha.

it was also heartwarming to see (nearly)the whole comm together again, and it felt good to close our project together; and laugh at all the silly mistakes we made in the beginning. so good luck to the isle bunch (lol).

anw, me and eli have a plan to do something to mspa ng's car! lol. grins. when are we going out for icecream man!!!!!!

anw its next monday! ho. cant wait for the fun to start, this week is intensive climbing week. i hope the stupid rope burn gets better soon, it still hurts like some stupid shit. as in its a constant twinge whenever my shirt rubs against it. lol. and its definitely going to scar. sigh. luckily its on the underside of my arm, though it will be highly visible from the back.

wheeeee

2008-05-12T02:19:00.001-07:00

2008-04-29T06:14:00.000-07:00

today maths lecture was fun! the reightards sat together, ensuring that much hilarity ensued.

just like the good old days in our 408 homeroom man. haha. we should start bringing ties into maths lecture o___0. i can still distinctly remember the day mrs chew walked in on a certain reightard struggling to untie herself. grin evilly.

which hit me on how much i miss the reightards :/ why is every single one of them in the humans stream (i wonder whether i regret not joining humans actually, but i kinda like sciences more over econs and well ki, cause i would have taken lich's combi if i entered humans) therefore maths lectures are turning into highly distracting, fun filled bonzanas. amused look. and lich, who has nothing better to do. i swear im going to sit beside monkey the next lecture. scowls at lich. we just need mogu to complete the trio. :p

level 2 is over :( no more 9-6 saturdays of pure fun, where i can happily regress back to childhood and watch my teachers do the same thing, and jump on the HUGE trampoline in the RI gym. i have blackmail worthy videos. grins at eli consipiratorically. (ok there is something wrong with the spelling somewhere)

and then it suddenly hits me that my jc odac life is OVER. wednesdays seem so huge and empty now..somehow a 3 hour theory lesson doesnt seem that bad anymore. haha.

to batch 24; please really really treasure all the time you have. dont waste your time, dont cancel trainings because you dont feel like it, pursue all your outdoor interests (but of course do it safely lah) to the max, ask the teachers to share their experiences with you, never turn away the chance to talk to each other. because when you get to the J2 year you realize, when are you ever going to get the chance to sit in a tent with this person again, and watch the stars? when are you going to get the chance to laugh, trek, kayak, belay, climb with each other at least 2 times a week?

listening to handover you can really see the urgency of this message - because your senior batch didnt make full use of their j1 year and now they are regretting like mad. because they spent too long waiting for things to happen rather than making things happen themselves, feeling that people owed them expeditions.

but odac was memorable, because of certain people. :)

to eli and hien: my kakis :) what more i can say?
to yichao: thanks for single-handedly keeping the odac spirit alive :)
to mspa ng: thanks for all the encouragement and support that you have always been giving me :)
to training comm!: TC FOREVER! HAHA. thanks for giving me the chance to work with the most dedicated group of people in odac :)
to lvl 2 people: augy, nat, yy, yichao, eli, chaga - thanks for sharing the highlight of my j2 year with me. haha.
to jonyee and eli(again): my most memorable water expedition! 21 km woots!
to mrtan,mrshah, ms lim: for all the skills, outlook, and encouragement
to mrleong: thank you for showing me that learning is forever :) and always remembering to play and have fun!

and finally,

to germs: my silent pillar of support! i miss you still, even now. thank you for always picking me up after i fall, bolstering my faith, and relighting my passion for the outdoors in faraway italy! haha. im constantly inspired by all the faith you have shown in odac even though its been more than a year away already! :D

2008-04-24T04:42:00.000-07:00

so tomorrow marks the end of 23's odac tenure.

humms. i really wonder how we would have did if we had taken a lot of turns in the opposite direction. if the tree didnt fall. if we had june ex. if we didnt settle on vietnam, if we had final ex, if we had done blah blah blah blah..

a lot of people are saying that its damm sad for us to end this way.

personally i feel quite ambivalent about it. yes, its damm sad for most of us that odac23 didnt go out with the bang we always envisioned about. but really, as mrsh ah said, "who is to say that odac ends this month in 2008?" seriously. if you are serious about what odac really entails, then it is lifelong. it may end officially, but its up to you to continue the spirit for life.

and thats why we all admire people like mrleo ng, mrt an, mrch ua, mrshu kor, because they are all outdoors people for life, and we want to be like them :)

and really, i dont feel sad about it, or disappointed or anything. as i told yichao, i dont regret joining in at this batch, (i do feel envious of 24 though), because it has given me a lot of things, on hindsight, even though you dont realize it at that time. :)

it is not my case to argue, but i think that handover seems to be the last stop on everyone's mind because it means the end of all activites. but, on retrospect, its just an end to all OFFICIAL activities. and in fact, you actually get more time off from all the sessions to pursue what you like best. be it rockclimbing, cycling, training etc. and its funny, how i seem to be more active in these as a j2 than a j1.

meanwhile, im looking forward to loads of stuff! haha. lvl 2, more rockclimbing at the new gym and safra, myteengames, etc. :D

to 23:

see you in the outdoors!

2008-04-14T02:39:00.000-07:00

:(

WHYYY. WHYYY. :(

why do they not win when i watch them play important matches??!!? :( they were actually doing very well in the first half and taking the game to man utd by having more possession and shots :/ BUT, they dont have a killer player like torres :( who can kill games. instead they wasted a ton of chances which could have translated into.. well :(

but the hargreaves goal was very well taken, unfortunately. stupid wall didnt jump... :( but while we were at 2-1 down we were still throwing everything at the man utd woodwork but just just just cannot hit in :( wasted :/ and i dunno why he started alexandre song? hello? how many games has he played the season???

should have maybe gone with walcott first, when he came on he did make more runs, and its more true to our style also rather then having a defensive midfield with eboue.. and wth, he took off toure for hoyte?? and like look who's on united's bench - tevez, giggs, and all we have are bendtner, hoyte and walcott ALL LIKE BELOW 20 one!!! wahhh T____T

aiyah he should buy a striker with more verve i think, and probably more midfielders to go deep so he can release fabregas to pass and create more...and train adebayor to be a better finisher! yesterday all the long shots all anyhow whack :( into the goalie, hit left post right post anywhere but into the net. van persie also injure too much, if not he will be our matchwinner already - that cross for adebayor's "handball" was nice lorh.

need rosicky flamini sagna eduardo alumnia back. and van persie back to form :/ and need one more striker should let bendtner out on loan.

sigh. 2008-2009 bah.

2008-04-11T04:09:00.000-07:00

lol. today was quite a funny day.

first thing in the morning i ogled at sihao's new match attax cards and went to buy 3 packs from seven eleven. HAHA. i know its super primary school but being the sad students we are with no entertainment in life its good to laugh and revert back to the good ol' primary school days. basically these cards are trading cards with EPL players, and me sihao and priya have this funny trading system because we all convieniently support different teams.

went for a testing run with erkor around the school damm fun, see how hard can push for next week; and the verdict is im super unfit :/ am sad, need to run more alone i guess and push it. ohwell. thing is i hate running and i need motivation o___O i rather do sport than just boring ol running. but running with scenery is more fun :D

after that a very amusing session at IPU bars occured

after which i sucuumbed to temptation and twinn bought me three more packs of match attax. lol. after which came an intense bartering session within ourselves. and the forming of the useless midfielder and defender club. ohwell. i found how to play already, but priya's 'pool team is going to pwn mine/sihao's thanks to mr 101. grins.

anw pw results came out and the 08S03O rocked the canteen madly.

amused look

finally had the long awaited treat! tiramisu flavour is DAMM NICE. grins at cliff

2008-04-07T05:36:00.000-07:00

yes yes i owe eli a post. so, i proclaim

THIS POST IS DEDICATED TO ELI.

happy? o___0

haha. anw that woman accused me of wrongly slandering her all over my blog. yeah right. if you see how many times she slander me in real life you won't blame me :/

lol.

aww its alright eli i still love you.

grin evilly.

with all the broken parts here and there.

and even if we cannot finish a convo without shouting at one another

or shouting at hien

or both

or pigging out

or going for 21 km paddles without checking the distance first

and all the rockclimbing sessions

(when i dropped you for the fun of it 3 metres off the ground)

haha.

this is fun

2008-04-03T04:12:00.000-07:00

a plea: whoever finds a black billabong foam pencil case please return it to me :(

there is something about losing pencil cases which make it particularly gloomy. it is not as bad as losing a wallet or a handphone but there is some affinity to those pens and pencils and random bits of stationery that makes losing it rather sad :(

and some of the stuff there are really important

like my 4 year old pencil which i got from my dad on my birthday

and the new gold and purple pens which i got on this birthday, also from my dad

and the manuscript pen from my mom

buying them back is going to cost a lot :/ and its just not the same huh.

:(

what a gloomy thursday

2008-03-31T18:22:00.000-07:00

this is one of the funniest cartoon sites ever.

http://www.mroblivious.com/ocartoons.html

i grin. the camping one is one of my personal favorites.

http://www.mroblivious.com/camping.html

lol.

amused look. life is good with a holiday (:

2008-03-22T06:38:00.000-07:00

aha, after cts come a new layout.

WOOTS WOOTS NICE RIGHT.

lich wants a long commemeration.

c
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there. i grin cheerfully at lich.

today, mel jonyee and eli did 21 click round ubin from 10.00 to 3.30 and made it back ALIVE. HAHA.

rocks.

2008-03-20T19:23:00.001-07:00

woots exams are OVERR. been looking over the viet photos again thanks eli ^^

whee. fun times

2008-03-14T03:16:00.000-07:00

amused look. one should never study at ice cream land if you are broke.

stares at lich

lol.

good luck for cts, to whoever bothers to read this

XP

2008-03-04T04:48:00.000-08:00

hello world. life is progressing as we speak and revision is calling to be done

:O

but meanwhile, climbing goes for anything ^^ when you climb there's this special feeling - its you and the wall, and you trying to find out its secrets so that it lets you get to the top.

it is the process not the summit :D

attempted 5 routes today, completed three at the ri walls. the two i didnt complete were the one i didnt get the last time, missed by three panels. The other route was the 90 degrees overhang, missed getting onto the overhang by 1 foot and handhold.

but anyway, i feel myself improving. albeit very slowly. but one day one more hand up (or leg up) will get you steadily to the top.

i hope mrle ong conducts a level two!

:D

2008-02-29T20:12:00.000-08:00

so yesterday was a leap day :)

had GP ct, then went to climb the 15m walls at safra with Eli :D fun and happy times ensured before after and during. HAHA. and a lot of funny and serious discussions.

we ought to do this more often. amused look.

finished two routes, tried two others, so attempted four in total. a bit slow, because halfway we digressed to go and watch some other JC people, (we hypothesized they were the climbing club) lead climb the opposite walls :0 prooo. and lead climb the 25m walls. :O! haha. and we discovered how noob we are without the level 2 :O!

lol. at least we are inching our way along to improvement. i can do one of the left lanes! (i say abashedly)

lunch was a funny arguement about where to go, discussion of why both of us shouldnt eat out together, and how that if you want to eat, you might as well pay good money for good quality. so we headed to eat fish and co. HAHA. luckily it was only the two of us, the guys would have screamed to see both of us polishing off everthing. HAHAHAHAHA.

after that we headed for food again! HAHA. we only spend $$ on food lah please. and planning for future fun times like going kayaking, cycling and whatever.

yay we rock.

2008-02-24T06:09:00.000-08:00

after a long hiatus and many weeks of activity, BTC08 is over :)

mixed feelings about it, but major thanks goes out to training comm :D - the group of highly dedicated lunatics, well versed in outdoor skills, pyro-mechanics, hole digging, and rock throwing. ohyeah. we even made up a training comm song how cool is that.

grins at the world in general.

finally i just feel that as a batch, 23 is unforgetable in a lot of ways, even though we seemed to have more ups and downs as compared to other batches. And i hope we all remember our happy times - kayaking, MAC, EOY Ex, Fansipan, and fooling around in general. :)

in sorrows we care in joys we share

2008-02-06T05:34:00.001-08:00

because tmrow is the first day of CNY and i cannot ma chu hua

STUPID BROTHER.

rants.

IDIOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. BAAKAAAAAAAAAAAA. PEE-OH-SSESSSSSSSSSSSS.

confucius say, this is

zhong4 nan2 qin1 nu3.

o_____________________0

2008-02-01T05:13:00.000-08:00

hello world. what a stressful january. but im so glad the stress is not getting to me yet.

i am really really thankful for this great bunch of people called the TRAINING COMM HAHAHA. hanging out together results in a lot of hilarity, bullying of certain unfortunate souls, and general nonsense. amused look.

well and so we have come full circle and batch 24 will be going for their btc in about three weeks time. remembering the crazy times of 5 equally mad girls and their antics in ubin 1 year ago, something makes me want to relieve it agin. as well as the good times up the mountains, training, when everything ran linearly and we seemed destined for the best that i expected when i joined this cca. then the good feeling would fade. this cca provided one of the best experiences of my jc life..

good, but i always felt that we could have been better.

faster

something more...than just hi-bye at all the session, hi-bye in the corridors. something that goes beyond sitting together early in the morning. some high that lasts far beyond expeditions.

hmm.

muses.

no matter. lets just do whatever we can now.

go 23 go!

2008-01-24T02:30:00.000-08:00

i AM SO TIRED. (contd)

i ran 5k with mspa ng and muddy! lucky they took it slow if not i would have collapsed on the floor and imitate jonyee imitating a person with dehydration. listened to them gossip about us the way we gossip about them is seriously funny.

climbing yesterday was fun. augie is the champion of the msia national climbing team! woohoo. can feel improvement in going up. underhangs were tackled better. practice really helps woots. almost got up the third lane overhang. zounds. just missed the handhold by inches. need to train more armpower. time for serious work.

sub 2 for easy lanes :)

WATCH DEAL OR NO DEAL TONIGHT!

am supposed to do pc. sulks and skulks around.

this is so disjointed

byebye

2008-01-19T23:50:00.000-08:00

I Am Tired.

sleepy look.

dont want to do any homework, i mutter mutinously

2008-01-15T03:14:00.000-08:00

happiness is...

3 pure hours at a bouldering gym
even 30 minutes with a best friend

chilling out with old friends at the pool..or the ice skating rink

walking into school the first thing in the morning with monkey peh
throwing polite reightarded insults

walking through macritchie with 23 and talking
tying random knots in random fashions

happiness is a yellow nalgene bottle and a yellow deuter bag

happiness is knowing that others are happy with their donuts you bought in the pouring rain, and is a dark chocolate donut.

happiness is laughing at broken ang ku kuehs with your mom and eating freshly baked homemade and handmade pineapple tarts

is also sharing crinkle cut fries with lots of chilli sauce

laughing at the itur tle and laughing with your friends.

getting unexpected treats in the mail

school's being a sian student at bio lecture LT5, but there are lots of things to be happy for :)

2008-01-05T20:34:00.001-08:00

lol i dunno why i am so trigger happy to click on the publish post button.

bored slacking around,procrastinating on maths (which i promised to do in the afternoon), and helping my sister pack. which reminds me of packing for btc... haha at least my sister has smartly packed everything into my 25litre bag, and lucky her, she doesnt have to carry food and equipment heh. i remember i was using this HUGE ass 120litre pack lent by hien, with the tent shoved inside because mine was big enough to carry it lol. plus all the canned food and mess tins it was super heavy and we had to trek around with it hoho. thinking about it i should have loaned out a pack from the odac store. grumbles. but nevermind. btc was uber fun and i hope the 24ths will have fun lol.

haha and was playing with the knife just now, i went to sharpen it and i nicked my finger a bit and didnt realized because there was no blood. lol thats how sharp it is now. woots. and i keep on opening and closing everything just to hear the satisfying click sound. (why do i sound so murderous coughs) my dad was sceptical about it and sort of hinted very subtly that he may get me a real thing for my birthday! wow! a real swiss army knife. cool. now i need a coolios lighter like sihao's (the one with no flame one).

hmm was still thinking about yesterday - man i woke up today with my arms all sore. yesterday was SUPER fun. i love germ, she is the only one who would go to all this kind of stuff with me lol and she told me something interesting yesterday! lol. the other odac girls never turn up one. sulk. we were talking to meiting and she was telling us about her adventuring plans! woots coolios. i hope after we sort of "graduate" from odac i would still have friends who would come and seriously boulder and climb and kayak with me just like that group we met yesterday...germ i miss you already lol dont go back to italy. stupid eli heal your various injuries. haha.

weepin says we must plan a group outing now. hahahahaha. :D:D:D

2008-01-05T03:32:00.000-08:00

bouldergym today was damm fun. spent like a little over three hours bouldering, slacking and watching really good pros. 10 of us plus 5 seniors which two of them are really pro girls. haha. pro as in really, really pro. amused look.

is fun. can actually feel improvement, because slowly you learn how to grip holds properly and hanging in around there actually improves stamina (and we climbed for around 3 hours too) and watching the pros you learn in the monkey see monkey do style - how to place your feet properly, transfer weight etc. haha. granted most of us are still pretty clumsy on the wall - there was this pair of imba twinns transversing after each other, they moved like a pair of panthers - but well, we need more wall time!

downside is the well, highly exofoliated hands as well as numerous blisters, cause we didnt have chalk. so bring loads of tape. or rest your hands. haha.

went to army market afterwards with germs. bought this knife+can opener+fork+spoon swiss army knife pirated version (lol) 1) for the the fun of it and 2)since i need it for cooking anyway. plus two krabs and my new yellow nalgene! whee. army market has good bargains.

2008-01-03T03:23:00.000-08:00

2008 is a bad year.

baadd.

10 reasons why 2008 looks bad:

1) its COLD. i hate cold
2) i miss my old maths tutor
3) odac ends in well, april.
4) there is only ONE short day in my timetable :s
5) A levels.
6) there are now 2 common tests
7) no one else awake enough is taking moe h3 :/
8) the "rock wall" turned out to be some adv centre instead -___-
9) no more expeditions in the school year
10) i miss mr hodge

i love my sister though. she bough gummy haribo bears back. oh, and im one kg heavier again. zzz. time to erh, run.

2008-01-01T01:02:00.001-08:00

since im bored and i can't be bothered to do my chem tutorial 10, odd, because i did chem tutorial 11, i shall erh blog.

about.

the new year. which on the first day is COLD. why is it so cold grumble. i sniffed all the way from morning till well. now.

i hope 2008 is good. keyword being hope. sigh. well. a levels are not exactly the most happening thing in the world hurr hurr.

good things about 2007

Odac
MAC
EOY ex and EOY comm x)
Sibu Ex
night cycling lol
hanging out with this bunch of funny people
MT03. well at least we were enthu for nearly 3/4 of the year. credit to l'rulezes. grin
08S03O. and its basketball fetish. amused look
getting new double decker bed
always having old friends to be there for you
making new friends
reightardedness.
having birthday fall on chinese new year. nice.
arsenal goes into 2008 top of the table. GRIN EVILLY IN DIRECTION OF coughSIHAOMEERAGEETScough
finding fellow arsenal fans and bickering with the manutd/pool/chelsea ones

alrighty.

2007-12-27T21:34:00.000-08:00

hello world. my christmas was spent caring for my gran while my parents were out of town. hohum.

training camp was fun.

1. it is good to bring a frying pan
2. camp near other people who dont have gas stoves and they will give you free food
3. dont expect anything from changi wet market
4. bring army mosquito repellant and wear long sleeves at night or get attacked by sandflies
5. start a fire! funn.
6. tie complicated knots for fun.
7. organize camp first or have everything in unhygenic clutter
8. build proper bashas
9. ALWAYS CHECK THAT TENTS ARE IN WORKING CONDITION LOL
10. tell scenarios stories from 10pm to 11pm at night and talk about roald dahl's adult stories to scare the wits out of you

chuckles everyone play miniclip! its damm fun

2007-12-19T20:00:00.000-08:00

fwalala. i am bored, therefore i shall talk about ketam bike park.

me, the bangla and eli went cycling at ubin on tuesday, after our disappointing trip to changi sea sports club. first, we found out that it was not possible to do round ubin because of a new ruling by mpa. so the guy there recommended that we do a coastal hug all the way up to pasir ris. which was fine, until yichao couldn't go becuase of the two star ruling so well. we just hopped over to ubin as usual. why do i get a feeling of deja vu hurr.

so we went off to ubin. after the morning of checking out chek jawa and reccing the two campsites - maman beach and noordin beach, we headed off to the extreme end called KETAM BIKE PARK. which is essentially all these trails for mountain biking. which was fun to begin with.

tried the dirt skills park - damm fun. it looks something like this.

it looks simple, but its full of adrenaline rushes. the hillocks are approximately like 2-3 metres high, and well, angled at 60 degrees. so, grins, you get the picture.

after which yichao and i took off for the trails. in rising difficulty of blue squares, black diamond, and double black diamonds. the blue squares are pretty okay, considering that we were noobs, to use the term. the second difficulty level, the black diamonds were gasp. had to get down and push the bike on many times - up mud slopes, past huge ass rocks etc. we went down crazy slopes, did 70 to 90 degree bends, screeched our way down while spamming the brakes. lol. not to mention that the trails had killer names like black cobra, bird ridge, down roller. the only trail which i did not disembark to push the darn bike was on the razorback trail, where i just let the downhill momentum carry me up the next hill and blah. damm fun. plus, it had just rained. so by the time we finally got out of the trails we were well, heavily splattered in mud. woots.

but it was uber fun, considering the whole thing all together. by the time i finished my legs were burning. as well as my butt, and my hands from clutching the darn handlebars too tightly. the next time i get there means a cushion and some gloves.

yichao the madman went on the skills park, where he demo-ed the teeter totter, by which me and eli just watched and laughed while he well, continued to try the rest and risk his family line. amused look.

after the whole hoohah, changi village. the best hawker centre in the world. hurrah.

2007-11-30T06:00:00.000-08:00

hello world. family holiday to korea on 2nd dec. cold to colder. shivers.

meanwhile my so called studies are rotting away. tralala. happy look

eoy ex to vietnam was, hmm life changing. but i don't think i will describe it in full details. somethings don't need to be proclaimed to the whole world. for now i will just adjust back to spore for 4 days, then back on the airplane again. i hope its T2, T1 is starting to get a bit too, boring.

FSP was a good climb, managed to hit about 3000m (reached the second peak) before we turned back. As an estimate, the real peak was at 3104m. Unfinished business will hopefully bring 23 back to FSP again. whee.

Climb down from base camp was the most difficult climb i ever took. Those who were there would know. Being sick on the way down a steep mountain like FSP is horrible, and it really tested my limits to force myself to continue going and not holding the rest up by stopping. The miserable thing about it was that it was not really inhibiting, just nagging in the way that it makes you want to stop and freeze and not climb even though you know you can. brr.

SL component - Niem Tin. The finished products weren't what we expected, but from the conditions we worked in, and how much effort we poured into it, the eoy comm and odac 23 have all the reason to be proud of themselves.

sigh. miss the kids. should get something nice in korea to send over to them.

hate packing.

2007-11-10T06:14:00.000-08:00

alright, we go off to vietnam tomorrow!

2007-11-07T18:00:00.000-08:00

this is it. 3 more days before we hit hanoi, and i HAVE NOT PACKED MY PACK. i need jumbo ziplocs!!!! (argh, army market here i come) still oscillating between putting the day pack in, or carrying it as a handcarry luggage. hrumm.

problem is packing ALL the winterwear. plus i will have to carry the snakes and ladders board (i guess), so thats extra. PLUS, i have a HUGE ass box of books that will tag along with me.

packing is such a chore, esp, squeezing everything into 55 litres, and making sure its only 3/4 filled. grumbles

but the excitement is starting to bubble up. hopefully when we reach there we will be all hyped up. yay. but for the moment, this is insane. trying to get everything settled, disemminating information like a madcow.. etc etc.

there will be two reasons why the club will not summit togehter : one, you are injured, two, you do not want to make it up yourself.

2007-11-03T19:12:00.000-07:00

lol yesterday's match was exhilarating. watched with bro (utd fan) and dad (pool fan) and was getting slammed. especially when man utd scored twice, and at the 82th minute i thought we were already going to roll over and die, until the 91st minute! WOOHOO!

haha during breaks i would intermittently suan geets hahahahaah! zomg so funny! everytime she suans arsenal and celebrates man utd goal, the equalizer will come right after! hoho. eat your words geet! :P haha and was like exchanging sms other arsenal fans.

but seriously, even though we had so much possession, we werent getting anywhere. the shots were either all blocked or scuffled, and alumnia kept on doing weird things like coming out the box unwarranted for. he came out even where there was an arsenal player already marking the fella... then he gave away the second goal.... time to get a new goalie. someone like cech or van der sar. can't afford to keep on drawing. and utd were super dangerous on the counter, im surprised that they didnt manage to get shots in properly. the back four looked very shaky and inexperienced compared the the utd back four.

BUT but. we showed more fighting spirit and courage. a goal in the 91st minute is no joke, especially when you are playing against the other table topper. wheeeeeeeee. looks like a good team in the making. a few more seasons, and we will have treble winners. fabregas was brilliant yesterday. wheeeeeeeee.

2007-11-02T19:28:00.000-07:00

PW IS OFFICIALLY OVERRRRR. yay. now can slack ass off and sweat on our results.

then again, "slack ass off" is kinda an oxymoron, because there is a SHITLOAD of stuff to do before i fly off next sunday. garn. the snakes and ladders board is still awaiting painting, catalogue is still tottering on finishing, blah blah blah, as well as all the miscellanous details. i need to write myself another action plan.

but its so surreal to say im flying off for the EOY ex we have been planning for nearly ONE YEAR. i think all the preliminary excitement had been used up during the planning process, because all im thinking now is why are we still not in vietnam huh huh huh. but the two weeks of cip will probably be the the two weeks where i will experience adrenaline plus stress rolled up in one.

but it still amazes me that most people still take fansipan very lightly. lol. and just dont come for pt. or dont take pt seriously. haha. mrle ong and mspa ng asked both their friends, who said its tough. not withstanding we are going in winter, climbing in 3 days. lol.

amused look. more soon

2007-10-28T06:53:00.001-07:00

hello. while i was materialistically scouting around for a replacement for my fast wearing out school bag, as well as a smaller pack compared to my huge 55litre one, i shortlisted three candidates ahah.

well, and just now i was at carrefour and there was the deuter sale still there! 50% off... so i bought the ac lite. the cute yellow one on top. grins very happily. i told dad not to get me a christmas present already. this tops :D and it has a rain cover too...grins happily. its a little big for school though, but it will do. AHA. I AM HAPPY.

2007-10-26T03:18:00.000-07:00

hello world. quiz i kopped from belbel's blog

Seven things that scare me:
1)A' Levels
2)Any hint that EOY would be canceled
3)Withdrawing blood (eek)
4)Penalty shootouts
5)Erh, snakes.
6)Capping and being unable to get out of the cockpit
7)Sandflies. Lots of sandflies which means really bad allergy.

Seven thing i like most about myself:
1)i can draw cartoons lol
2)basal know-how of photoshop. whoopee.
3)im in odac.
4)i get to go for damm fun expeditions
5)i can cycle lalala
6)i don't care about calories therefore i can eat without feeling guilty
7)i think going 1 month without bathing is alright. lol

Seven most important things/person in my room:
1)my tablet :D:D:D
2)my beautiful blue osprey pack. wheeeeeee
3)my collection of quill pens lol.
4)my bunk bed
5)my sister ^^
6)LOTR posters lol
7)my trophies. lala. even though they are what 3rd/4th placing ones they still mean a lot to me because its about the team not the thing

seven random facts about me:
1)erh i can do ambigrams?
2)my lay-up shots are non-existent (from trying to play basketball today)
3)i like arsenal football club
4)i like playing minesweeper. and my fastest time for expert level is 203seconds
5)i have 5 filled 1.5litre bottles for weights for climbing tomorrow
6)i like to doodle on erh the tables in the lt - you know the ones you flip up, and there are two doodles on one such table in the lt1 on the 2nd row, 3rd from the left, and on the last block of seats on the far left.
7)i used to like harry potter (the books)

seven things i would like to do before i die:
1)climb to 2nd/furthest everest base camp (im realistic lol)
2)scuba dive in great barrier reef and see turtles
3)kayak into the sunset, and go over all the best spots in the world
4)have a live eulogy session with all my friends and loved ones
5)revisit all my expedition places - ophir, sibu, tioman, fansipan etc
6)climb more beautiful peaks and join germ on the dolomites
7)visit west end and the globe theatre

seven things i can do:
1)eat
2)read
3)write
4)kayak
5)climb
6)run
7)cycle

seven things i can't do:
1)eskimo roll (lol)
2)watch a scary movie
3)read chicklit without grimacing
4)drink alcohol
5)dance
6)climb the overhang
7)play shooter games (i get headaches watching it)

seven things i hate:
1)pw OP
2)exams
3)maths
4)cheaters and getting cheated
5)swimming pools
6)saccharine sweetness -honeydew. yuck x(
7)getting back results

lalala.

2007-10-04T02:08:00.000-07:00

hello folks.

promos are over. but why does it feel like shit busy.

i HATE PW for all the world. grawh looks at cliffy.

crosses fingers for EOY turning out successful

banner turned out pretty! yayyyyyy.

thats all for the world. arsenal has been on a winning streak. lets hope that is reflected in my results. grins.

2007-09-28T02:00:00.000-07:00

alright changed the picture at last.

had chem today. lol one word: TRAUMATIC

actually that pretty much sums up the whole exams except for lit exam. well

humms. lets not talk about it, shall we. monday is the last exam - modern lit. so after that is open house (with a lot of stuff to do), THEN PW and ODAC all the way until vietnam. woah. shitload of work coming. ah. haha. exam or no exam also stress. lol.

other than that im feeling a general sense of complainsance with the world now, while trying to forget about the past few days. hums. if you dont know you dont know. well. the consolation is that, the person behind me found this morning's paper well, killer as well, so. hrmm. post exam peace doesnt last long, but well. grab chance by the forelock i say, when you can.

and the feeling also stems from arsenal's wins. satisfied grin. looks like a vintage year. i hope no burn outs occur, and here we go! hoorah.

amused look. the mangaka for negi is a BIG PERVERT. at least he toned down for volume 19. after negi, i swear im never going to buy any of his series. that is if he doesnt cut down on the **jkfdgaksjdhgfjds**, and i dont think he's really going to, so well. amused look.

oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements
you owe me three farthings, say the bells of St. Martins
When will you pay me say the bells of Old Bailey's
When i grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch

lalala.

2007-09-15T18:22:00.000-07:00

(from top: fabregas, van persie, adebayor, rosicky, hleb)

WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
couldn't resist watching 90 minutes yesterday. (actually more than that, because i was waiting for the game to start) but it was a damm nice match, even though tott'ham scoffed like four-five clear cut one on one chances with alumnia (what the hell was he out of the box for??!!??) lol. sihao lucky fergie never buy berbatov 'cause his finishing is so darn bad lol it will not solve your striking crisis lol just wait for rooney lah.

fabregas's goal was darn nice, and wth he's only 20? the average age of the whole team is around like 24 odd.

YAY TOP OF THE TABLE. AND STAYING.

2007-08-29T05:34:00.000-07:00

Exerpts from Oscar Wilde's Reading Gaol:

"He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.

He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby gray;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.

I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by."

"I only knew what haunted thought
Quickened his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.

He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace,
Nor have a noose about his neck,
Nor a cloth upon his face,
Nor drop feet foremost through the floor
Into an empty space.

He does not sit with silent men
Who watch him night and day;
Who watch him when he tries to weep,
And when he tries to pray;
Who watch him lest himself should rob
The prison of its prey."

"At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,
At seven all was still,
But the sough and swing of a mighty wing
The prison seemed to fill,
For the Lord of Death with icy breath
Had entered in to kill.

He did not pass in purple pomp,
Nor ride a moon-white steed.
Three yards of cord and a sliding board
Are all the gallows' need:
So with rope of shame the Herald came
To do the secret deed.

We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy darkness grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or give our anguish scope:
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope."

"And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled into a scream.

And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry,
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
None knew so well as I:
For he who live more lives than one
More deaths than one must die."

"They think a murderer's heart would taint
Each simple seed they sow.
It is not true! God's kindly earth
Is kindlier than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.

Out of his mouth a red, red rose!
Out of his heart a white!
For who can say by what strange way,
Christ brings his will to light,
Since the barren staff the pilgrim bore
Bloomed in the great Pope's sight?

But neither milk-white rose nor red
May bloom in prison air;
The shard, the pebble, and the flint,
Are what they give us there:
For flowers have been known to heal
A common man's despair.

So never will wine-red rose or white,
Petal by petal, fall
On that stretch of mud and sand that lies
By the hideous prison-wall,
To tell the men who tramp the yard
That God's Son died for all."

"I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in goal
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.

But this I know, that every Law
That men have made for Man,
Since first Man took his brother's life,
And the sad world began,
But straws the wheat and saves the chaff
With a most evil fan."

"The man in red who reads the Law
Gave him three weeks of life,
Three little weeks in which to heal
His soul of his soul's strife,
And cleanse from every blot of blood
The hand that held the knife.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal:
And the crimson stain that was of Cain
Became Christ's snow-white seal."

"In Reading gaol by Reading town
There is a pit of shame,
And in it lies a wretched man
Eaten by teeth of flame,
In burning winding-sheet he lies,
And his grave has got no name.

And there, till Christ call forth the dead,
In silence let him lie:
No need to waste the foolish tear,
Or heave the windy sigh:
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.

And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"

although im not particularly religious (im a free thinker), the biblical allusions are pretty nice. but the line that strikes the most is bold and italicised.

"Oscar Wilde's Reading Gaol has the dope twisted. The man was dead, therefore he had to kill the one he loved." - LDJIN Act 4

2007-08-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

what we do in H3 Bio to keep michael awake.

twinn's food list:

yang zhou fried rice (crystal jade kitchen)
hor fun
sizzlers
NYDC*
pizza
carrot cake (bukit timah market)
cherry pie with ice cream
chicken rice* (boon tong kee)
homemade laksa (auntie's sister)
that taiwanese place (cheong chin nam street)
pig belly
lasagna
bacon wrapped prawns and char siew (teahouse at raffles city)
Steak medium/medium rare and burger* (Black Angus near Forum)
Banana chocolate cake (Secret Recipe)
Banana Leaf Apollo restaurant
Buffet - Triple 3 (Meritus Mandarin)

michael's food list:

banmian (s11, im guessing -_______-)
sliced fish bee hoon
hokkien mee
ba kut teh*
roti prata*
pigs trotters*
bee beehoon
tao huey
assam laksa from penang
tasty biscuits (the snack label, literally)
seafood spaghetti
roast pork rice
mom's wanton mee
prawn mee
dad's bbq-ed steak
crab bee hoon
zhi char
fried tanghoon
chin chow
chendol
apple pie a la mode

my food list: place and food specific lol

sambal stingray
crab noodles and chng tng (Adam road food centre)
fish and co (glasshouse)
island creamery
mutton pie (Piper's Pies)
pig trotters (gramma's both paternal and maternal)
oreo cheesecake (Secret Recipe)
awfully chocolate fudge cake (Awfully Chocolate)
tiramisu icecream (Venezia)
asam laksa (P'nang p'nang and jurong west market and Gurney Drive in Penang itself!)
xiao long bao* (Ding Tai Fung, for twinn its at Crystal Jade Great World City)
clam chowder (The Soup Spoon)
black pepper crab (Long Beach)
lastly, the best of all, RHEA'S MOM'S COOKING. SLURPS

drool. * means applies to one, ** to all

2007-08-25T06:30:00.000-07:00

quick update on life lol.

1. sibu trip - eye-opening. felt good to be back in the outdoors after so long. lots of fish and kayaking. got burnt. brought back sandfly bites for souvenirs.
2. hotwheels - eye-opening, esp xiaoxin's stunt. sleep depriving. buckets of fun.
3. germ left for italy! i miss you germ! have fun over there. amusing time at airport before she left with cheesecake. spent hours chionging the book. :D
4. paycheck arrives! whee. in the bank collecting interest now.
5. vietnam goes into full swing before sept. renewed interest and passion. EOY to be a blast.
6. odac23 rocks!
7. promos are coming in less or equal to 30 days. better start mugging
8. gen and wt are 17! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
9. a certain brat's birthday is coming. coughlichcough. on another note, rhea's bday is coming too!
10. i hate homework AND pw.

grins

2007-08-05T06:18:00.000-07:00

went umpiring again. blah. i hope i didnt embarrass myself majorly. i can still remember all the stupid mistakes i made. i think the best game was with nan, where i felt confident enough to call. otherwise it was too slow, and halfway through i lost my rubber band. curses. and mr goh told me not to be so tensed up, which i was during the u17s and sneakers game. sigh. luckily im not around for the second round; in sibu. yayness. any excuse to run away is good.

sibu's sounding really good. :)

odacia was quite fun, but the senior senior seniors were more interested in catching up with each other i guess. ahha. the captains ball game was fun, we played with people from batch TEN. goodness. they are like 30 years old already. and batch 11. 12. 13. blahblah. hahaha. but it was interesting watching them and wondering whether we would be even coming back in ten years time. HMM.

and i like the close, where the band was playing, even though they sounded a bit off this time. but when we all did the 23 cheer, you could feel the old spark, of togetherness. maybe all we have to do is to blow the spark into a flame...

alrighty. time to go pack bag.

2007-08-02T05:46:00.000-07:00

today had the long dreaded chem spa. it wasnt too bad, and some people wrote really funny things. ahhaha. grins at cheryl ^^

had the sibu briefing as well; felt the age old excitement bubbling inside me. havent felt that for so long - the looking forward to, the willing for it to come, savouring every moment in the outdoors... i never knew that the outdoors had so much passion to share, when i went to tioman and it set the spark to tinder.

what i like best about it is going there with absolutely no fixed program. which means we can enjoy, meander along if we choose to, spend our time with nature and Gaia, enjoy the feeling of just being alive on the sea or the earth, or halfway down the abseil.

dear eli, haha dont be too distraught. we will explore all the malaysian islands one day :D one by one, and we will take our time to enjoy it yeah. maybe you can go for the land and river one.

dear germ! i miss you a lot! haha. are you coming for odacia and hot wheels! i think sometime on a sibu island, i will be thinking... wish you were here x)

ALPS SEA! im so looking forward to it. :D

2007-08-01T07:35:00.000-07:00

bouldering yesterday was funfunfun. haha. we should do more of it next time. or even better still, get the 15m overhang walls. my legs ache, which is weird, because i thought i used more of the arms. and we definitely need some improvement for our climbing techniques, because i think we cling to the wall too often, and which, hopefull more practise and level 2 provides.grins. at least we have started on the practice part.

sibu next week. im quite disappointed in the turnout; i thought more people would turn up. well. hahaha at least the passionate people are going lol. ^^

chem spa tmrow. BAH.

2007-07-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

this blog is beginning to revive. ho.

had to umpire again on saturay, the recre teams as well as the clubs. it is also known as the strike lottery day, because it rained in the afternoon and i was saved for one week from umpiring the clubs, as well as being paid for just well, being present. which means if i turn up next week i will get paid too. the sadness of noting it is that i have come to treat umpiring as a job/chore for which i get paid. the perks are in the money duh. which leads me to wonder whether working life is just as 1)stressful, 2) monotone or demanding, depending on the game 3)just all about the money. bah. i hope i never get stuck in a job i dont really like, without any passion in it and follow after my mom. but on a brighter note, it means that i have earned somewhere in the range of a hundred bucks, from last saturday afternoon and the whole of this saturday. hopefully. which means, that i can probably pay the whole sibu trip myself,since im going to be down again on the makeup dates, if i make up my mind to go. or pay for avventura.

on the other hand, we should have gone for the recre teams category. not playing was a big joke, because the players arent that great at all. the play was a big mess, making umpiring hard, because its nearly impossible to make out who hit who, tangled up their feet, obstructed in the space of one minute. the rate of mistakes made was averaging about 5 per minute in a super messy one, which is quite bad, going by standards. sigh.

im not sure about avventura, but i think its going to be fun hohum. that is if we register lolx. the whole thing still has a shaky kind of ring to it. well. but it will be super duper fun. including all the training sessions we will have lol.

i have been slacking, since the weather is so cold, and reading. i can't belive i fell asleep reading neverwhere, but i suspect it was because i was tired out. how blasphemous. lol. but neverwhere's a good book man. just finished cry of a heron today. ending was disappointing. the flow of the book just stops, abruptly like that. its still pretty good, but long drawn.

speaking of long books, harry p and the deathly hallows suprised me by wrapping everything neatly. not bad at all. considering book 5 and 6 were such disappointments. well.

okay i shall do some PROPER work people. PW.

bleh.

2007-07-25T05:40:00.000-07:00

this blog is quite dead, but nevermind. after my loaded week im pretty much taking it really easy.

last week was adv camp, adv race and umpiring in the same span of 4 days. really tired me out, gave a lot of food for thought.

but adv race was one of the most fun things i will remember about my JC1 life. i will NEVER look at velocity the same way again. or ford factory. even now, when i pass by it everyday, i'll always see 3+1 standing there being delivered the bombshell that was elimination. haha. and maybe it has strengthened my resolve, if i ever join adventure racing next time, not to walk if you can help it, dont take extraordinary bus rides, hitchhike like crazy nuts, dare to try, and not to get eliminated so easily. and oh, carry a road map of singapore in my head.

shoutout to adv race people!

yl: thanks for ALL the help. like holding hands and running up the blastedly long hills/parts, squirming at the taste of bugs and power gel. when i was dying of aches it was wonderful to know that there will be always someone to help and wait for me :)

andre: LOL ORANGE FLAVORED POWERGEL! haha. thank you for all the encouragement, and everything else.

mark: the KING of lame jokes. omg. no wonder he and sihao are friends lol. but you really lightened up the whole amazing race even though your jokes are damm not funny but its okay me and yl always laugh (not outright) and groan in the extent of the lameness.

the sloths and 4 Blind mice teams: thank you for being there and helping us cope with our elimination! and im glad you all had fun after that lolx :P

the best part of adv camp with 3O has been covered and uncovered again and again by my classmates lol. but i must really say that the campsite is truly beautiful. i really want to camp there, solitary actually or just with a bunch of good friends, and take my time enjoying all the wild beauty ubin has to offer. being next to the mangrove and the sea is beautiful, where land meets the sea and shakes hands. love listening to the sound of the waves beating against the shore. love watching the beautiful sunset, and listening to the crickets. after that with the sunrise, trek to chek jawa and examine the intertidal zone. another beautiful place.

and the good thing is i discovered it with 3O :D

which brings me back to what i really joined ODAC for, as i was mulling today on the bus ride home. its so visible that 23 is really fragmenting. i dunno, but its pretty obvious to me that what you get out of it is what you really want to commit. I want to enjoy the outdoors, challenge myself. I dont want to again be stuck in some cca fighting and fighting to excel against the rest. I want to fight against myself, show that i can really do it; abseil, reach the top of the wall, kayak, summit a mountain, trek across singapore. and while i know that ODAC isnt the most perfect cca around, but what is a cca for if you dont commit to it wholeheartedly, or give without reservation, and look forward without regret.

its a shame that june ex was canceled, but i dont think i want to regret and resent it forever. i want EOY Ex to be a success, not a make up for JEX. i dont want to resent the fact that i joined this CCA and its currently not living up to my idealized expectations from RG ODAC. I want to remember why i joined in the first place, and keep on looking for it. this is why i will always give up everything for MY cca. because i chose it with eyes wide open, it is MINE. not some cca i chose to fill up my afternoons.

for that i do not resent netball. fighting for a team place is not a negative issue, it is just that 4 years of it is too stifling. it is time for something new. i thought i could channel all that passion into umpiring and i realize now that it will not fit. it was wrong, and i realize it only now. everytime i go for umpiring, i wonder why and how it is possible to enjoy it. other umpires can smile at the players while they call their decisions; i think i have this permanent intense scrunched up look when i umpire. it is the most stressful thing i have ever done; to me its a duty, an obligation. i dont enjoy it, or feel the same passion when i play. im sorry, but its true, i will give it up sooner or later. at most i will not take my badging and remain as a cadet until my license expires. i will fulfil my obligation when they call me up to ask, until the 2 years are up. but one thing is clear; i will never choose umpiring over odac activities. never.

i really want to visit all the beautiful wild places in the world before they disappear, before it its too late to see them. i think odac is a stepping stone towards that dream. i want to become a scientist in environmental science. i dont want to sit on my butt waiting for the world to die out; at least to die fighting is worthwhile.

thats why school really irks me. and i stone a lot now a days. the feeling of being trapped between 4 concrete walls, while inept teachers drone on, not even trying to inject some interest, or competancy into their teaching, really irritates me, when i could be somewhere else feeling more alive.

somewhere like, on top of a mountain.

:D

2007-07-06T07:26:00.000-07:00

me and eli's perfect day at ECP

1) Turn up early in the morning, go biking until butt sore (like two hours or something until the rental runs out)

2) Rent kayaks and kayak from the rental place down to wherever and back again. Until like its time to return them around like 4 or something.

3) Walk to New Zealand's Natural ice cream and buy ice cream :D:D:D

4) Rent blades and blade for another 2 hour+++++

5) And then go, "OH! THEY HAVE OVERNIGHT RENTAL FOR BIKES"

6) Slot in go SAFRA and climb somewhere :D:D:D

ALRIGHTY. who wants to join us

2007-06-24T19:19:00.000-07:00

In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.

even though i do not know you, i hope you are at peace now.

2007-06-24T00:06:00.000-07:00

went umpiring yesterday for the first time since march for the ntl league.

....

felt like i was stepping into some foreign world.

a lot of the other cadet umpires have taken badging test, and most of them want to go on taking it. and the whole load of them are still playing, while im sticking out like some sore thumb. i barely even know the teams anymore, who's up and coming, and emerging. the connection kinda fizzed and died when i left it for hrmm, a few months. its pretty ironic since i spent four years fighting hard for a cca i wasnt even chosen for. sigh.

dont know whether to give up the umpiring or not. its a last connection to a world i left behind. we shall see though, when i go for pesta sukan. put together with the other cadets i know i am one notch below, and the license expires next year, when i have the a's.

so i dunno. it isnt possible to have the best of both worlds. either devote entirely ODAC and the outdoors, or cut out one chunk to spend on umpiring.

choose mel choose.

SIGH

2007-06-07T03:57:00.000-07:00

back.

:D

i love kayaking. i love being on the sea, with every rise and swell. when you are paddling you forget about all the sand and discomfort. there is only you and your boat and just

"the sea! the sea! the white gulls are calling".

they have really nice names for the boats

the big fat tubby sea kayak: dolphin
the elegant spinner: dancer
the long slim yellow: pacifica
the red doubles: wanderers

:D

aha me and jared kept on banging into meili and ian during the ex. AHA. ian looked damm traumatized (oops) damm funny. and nic and andre were very funny also, nic kept on yelling at andre about where he was trying to aim them. LOLX. and mrle ong kept on camwhoring damm cute. ahah. he was paddling while biting his camera strap damm diaos -__________-

beached up on campsite there, then took the dolphins and dancers out to play. tried the eskimo roll while holding onto eli. pulled like some muscle on the waist there trying to get back up in the spray skirt. almost did it, but the skirt came out halfway up o___0 ohwell actl not that scary as it seemed ^^ but maybe because i was holding onto eli haha. watch mark goh roll up twice on the bandit. he took like 15 secs to get up. scary scary.

dinner ROCKED. we had the best menu of the lot. mashed potatoes, rice with mushroom soup, rice with baked beans, stir fried vegetables, grapes, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes.. but the mess tins are SUPER hard to wash. lolx. i was scrubbing and scrubbing just now. then after that BBQ. WAH. haha then we gathered and played all the fun games like animal concentration and polar bear. OMG damm funny. meili and i choose the best polar bears lolx.

camping was nice. sitting in june ex shirt, lying on the beach with eli peering at the sky, and the grass was as soft as a carpet. I think i fell asleep thinking to myself that the sound of the waves were damm nice. Next thing i remember was nic prodding me away. aww. lolx.

aha me and wanxi waved at every plane that flew past, because yl was taking the early morning flight lolx. everyone probably thought we were siao.

me: eh wanxi! AEROPLANE!
wanxi: yah! lets wave
both: wave frantically at plane.
lolx see yl! we are so nice :D

on the way back i was sitting the doubles with eli it was super fun and fast because the sea was as calm as a mirror. just cruise all the way back. then we kept on slotting in beside the food kayaks. and skimming around. ahhaa. funn. more fun if we take singles yeah. i was disappointed that we werent going out for another hour to play around in singles :( haha i miss the sea. i miss odac23. i miss having expeditions where we just sit around and soak in the company and sleep and wait for the teachers, and joke around.

had storewash today, so little people turned up. the atmosphere was gone. D: BEfore going for banmian with the exco peeps, me nic and amanda went to get our slurpee and caused mini volcanic explosions. ROFL. the 7-11 lady was practically glaring at us lolx. after lunch got this weird concoction of bubble tea - grape ice blended with jelly. o__O tasted like ice jelly with grape sauce lolx. interesting.

on the way back home on the mrt with zach we were talking about pedalling, climbing and cycling. quite fun. can really see and compare the different ways we like our sports. zach prefers sports that emphasize power, thererfore he likes taking the pacifica, climbing and cycling. I like sports with emphasize control and skill - i like taking the dancer, climbing not as much as paddling, and i like to experiment when im cycling (hence the numerous falling downs)i would go out of the way to go paddle; zach goes out of the way to climb. lolx quite fun.

alright time to full steam for EOY Ex. LETS GO. :D and eli lets go paddling some day yeah :D

odac23 :D

2007-06-05T03:12:00.000-07:00

leaving for our mini JEX tmrow.

JEX shirt rocks yeah. even though it has been scaled down, but its really nice to wear as a pullover. woot. jacket design by jared rocks too. now i wont freeze during the CTs.

had meeting with mrle ong today. aha. quite funny. we turned up at 1 and started meeting only at 2.15 how qianbian is that. -______-

eli its your fault that my whole left ear is completely blocked. ahahaha. stupid. im going to shoot seawater at you tomorrow. wonder who is my doubles partner.

cant wait! ;D

2007-06-04T05:25:00.000-07:00

2star today

was fun! again in the kayak. took the dancer for half the afternoon, and the dolphin for the rest of the day. You realize how stable actually the dolphin is, with its flat base and all. the dancer spins like anything. when you give it a nice hard stroke on its right, it takes you on a 360 degrees right. revised and learnt a host of new strokes:

-forward
-reverse
-drawstrokes
-sweepstrokes
-stern rudder
-low brace turn
-low/high brace

and got to use the cool looking spray skirt, which is not so cool, and bordering on scary when you are upside down in the water. this thing is like covering your whole cockpit. which means that when you capsize, there's this thing there preventing you from dropping out straight away. and since it is a snug fit, you would have to reach down, tug the skirt out, bang the hull, and then resurface. Which means an extra 5 seconds or so trapped there. And i shudder when we have to do the flip thing. Which equates to staying there for 10- 15 secs or so and wait for someone to flip you, with your skirt on. Which is creepy.

But the benefits of kayaking far outweight any darn thing. Dipping your paddle in the sea is cathartic. When you are skimming over the sea, you forget all the sand salt and just enjoy the whole experience. (In fact i can still feel the waves)

Stroke in, out, in, out, sweep, turn, sweep, turn, stroke stroke stroke...

this is when you truly feel free and unrestrained and the whole world is your playground :D

2007-05-22T04:02:00.000-07:00

GP CT tmrow. im erh, deluding myself with distractions and florida's naturals nuggets which i bought on an impulse to break my note. o_0

woot. jared rocks! new temp for odac blog and odac jacket he's designing. nice :D
too bad tahan canceled, my whole design is rotting away under my table. :S i got some ideas for the kayaking one, i guess i will redraw. lolx. what to do lorh.

am sad. wanted to watch A div finals tmrow against HCI. it would be the most exciting match ever lah! mr goh and ms chng. woot. they only lost 5 to them so they stand a super high chance of getting it. but tmrow got GP CT. :( the umpiring would be excellent also lah, probably vincent and like, hmm, the instructor in our course forgot her name. dammmdammmdammmdamm i wanna watchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

sulks.

okay no more floridas naturals. go read my materials.

2007-05-20T05:48:00.000-07:00

handover on fri rocked although im going to miss the 22s. 23s lets rock odac! it was so funny because mrsh ah started singing along during all the songs that red hot shiny apples was playing ahah. and he's quite something. lolx wanxi was telling me that he probably used to play in a band. chuckle.

this week was not a very good week. well one because gran suffered a relapse. two, tahan got canceled :X sad. but there's going to be kayaking, and more people can come too probably. like all the ex-grp three girls lolx.:D so well. but anyway, PXP AT EOY. lets look forward to it yeah. luckyseven lets go :D three, for some really selfish and personal reasons that i shall not mention. well.

and all the reightards are going to econs trip over the june hols. sulks. not fair. stupid reightards having all that fun without me. maybe i should have gone over to the humans classes.

i want expedition NOW. i hate school. sulk

2007-05-12T05:03:00.000-07:00

hello world. i am so sorry that i havent blogged for such a long time.

erh, my grandma's birthday tmrow! yay. she's so cute, she practically bounced up and down and clapped excitedly when she was making her cupcakes, aha, and telling us her plans for celebrating her birthday. bought her a nice cookbook. i was very careful to avoid titles like detoxifying soups, because sooner or later its going to end up on THE dining table.

o___O so never suggest anything you dont want cooked to the cook yeah.

also me = going to put braces. erh. and its free because im doing it for my dad's cousin's daughter's friend, in NUH, who is doing her final year project in dentistry. chuckles. well, so. yes. im enjoying all the food first before i cant eat anything.

liverpool versus milan sunday. woot. man utd champs after arsenal helped them by drawing with chelsea. go gunners go. its only the big games that they finally get their act together. sigh. wenger need to sign bigger people other than a 21 year old goalie.

erh 25x3 on wed. at 5.30 p.m. sharp, there is always this HEAVENLY smell of chicken rice wafting up/down from the eleventh story. yumm. and there were no chikopeks thank goodness. PT this week was siao. mon, wed and thurs, with PE in the middle.

other than that, no other interesting news.

2007-04-27T05:21:00.000-07:00

OMG.

i have to blog again. why?

cause i saw the milan versus man utd replay.

OMG. KAKA WAS SUPERB LAH. as well as ronaldo and rooney on the man utd side. too bad milan lost. both sides played damm nice football please.

kaka had a brace (2 goals)

first goal was a sidefoot in after a burst of speed. wahpiang damm nice van der sar stretched never go in.

second goal was brilliant. dida sent a long goal kick down, reached kaka sandwiched between two defenders. did a tap down with his head, SPRINTED past the both of them, and finished damm nicely. goal! all this happened in like 5 minutes.

OMG. rooney's last goal was also freaking good. giggs fed him very nicely from the flank, he sprinted and aimed it at the low corner. from the weirdest angle ever and it magically rolled into the net. WAH.

mouth drop open.

shit arsenal buy kaka. fabregas + kaka = EPL CHAMPS. need to get someone to feed adebayor from left right centre. and erh get robin van persie and henry back. adebayor does not do well as a lone striker. ARSENAL DREAM TEAM. YEAH.

i think should replace lehman soon cause he's always out of position. and he makes super weird mistakes.

OH MAN. HENRY COME BACK SOON AND WENGER DONT YOU DARE SELL HIM.

2007-04-27T02:18:00.000-07:00

hello all.

friday: today was maths test, which was quite okay the first three questions, but the fourth question was stumped. ohdear. i hope i dont screw up the CT until like that. if not how to mantain the gpa :S didnt meet up with the lucky seven today aww. me and sihao did a running football commentary all the way home.

thurs: stair climbing 25x3, then three sets. happy. :D after one year of doing this we all go participate in vertical marathon and kill off all the contenders. GRIN. go up make up random song by humming notes in my head. go down sing random songs in my head. and give each other encouraging looks cause we cant talk properly without gasping like fishes. haha. still, i dont have muscle aches on legs today, which means still can push. xD so next thurs aim at 5 sets or something. haha.

odac23 can tahan man!

wed: rainmaker acted up and hence we had two hours in bouldergym. whee bouldergym fun play around hang here hang there. just that i cant support my heavy body weight and lift myself up. the most i do is just hang. sad. watch the pros (meiting mrleong jacob) do the 180degrees overhang.

went up the 25m wall once, we got the harder route. still didnt get the top :( but i figured better not hog the wall, after like trying about three times already and augustine, jiehui and auntieyeowhua still below havent climb yet. NEXT TIME I WILL OVERCOME THAT PATCH WITHOUT ALL THE HANDHOLDS AND TOUCH THE TOP.

we shall employ mr leong's STUBBORN DETERMINATION :D

this is only the start of a long adventure!

2007-04-20T17:59:00.000-07:00

dear all.

this week has been hectic. with all the SPAs and all. so everyone's zonking out during the weekend.

my heart just dropped when i received the sms. please stay strong. s03O will always be there for you.

once again i am awashed with something like guilt, that how can i still feel and receive so much when others had so much taken away from them.

on a lighter side, today's climbing. which i have been looking forward to all week, just that the excitement has been stoppered there by this bullet of news. It just feels bad that i get enjoy myself and enjoy this moment. and it has affirmed my commitment to the SL trip at the end of the year; there is now a stronger reason to give when i have been given so much.

><

please let next week be better. so my blog does not erupt with all kinds of sad posts.

:S

2007-04-19T04:06:00.000-07:00

hello everyone.

bio test was okay lah.

am sick. sniffle. i hope can go rock climb in time. i was sneezing insanely throughout bio test. sneeze, tissue, sneeze, tissue, scribble answer, sneeze.

i feel like some clogged and dripping tap. got sore throat also. so erh make that clogged, dripping and rusted.

tmrow juniors playing finals! WOOT. GO JUNIORS. i hope they get their gold. ms chng must be super proud of the B div lah. i heard the c div got attitude one this year. yay tmrow got time to catch up with mstan, so long still havent invite us to wedding. hoho. my juniors are so pro lah. :D:D:D::D:D:D:D:D:D:D

yay i aced my napfa. but got a lot of people better than me. no ego here.

i love odac23.

and my insane class.

dear reightards, amused look, i shall blog there later.

2007-04-13T18:14:00.000-07:00

looking at my msn, i conclude that Odacians are early risers, S03Oians are not really morning people, and 408 people snooze late. amused look.

the rest of the household has gone to pick up my brother. who is coming back from the hostel. hoho.

choir concert tonight :) am looking forward to it. i shall do my homework guai-ly once i get off this. so i dont suffer an overload on monday.

no kayaking this month :( disappointed disappointed. climbing though. :D my only gripe is why they book so late :/ well i supposed cant be helped. and it is time we zhng PT if not we die on the mountain. o.O but i suppose we will be stopping like every five minutes or so to pluck off/or scream at leeches. o.O therefore i conclude that next wed we should have odac and do pt! (okay everyone's going to say im mad except erh, the hardcore guys) but this month is a very slack month.

one day i aspire to at least, erh, climb the region's highest peaks. keyword: AT LEAST. or die trying (touch wood)

which will lead to a list of other must do things. counting the number of at leasts in my head.

one day,
go backpacking an entire continent
scuba dive at GBR
kayak the SCS

ambitious. O.o but it will never hurt to try. x_x

2007-04-10T02:28:00.000-07:00

watching lulu dance the geisha dance around class today, i am suddenly quite amazed at the explosion of the diversity of erh, my social life now. for one thing, you meet tons more people, seeing that there are a thousand plus peeps in this madhouse. the guys are quintessentially funny, the girls are mad, everyone is mad and wild and crazy. rofl. especially the 3O guys and the Odacians.

like two years ago when i first met lulu while with rhea, you would never imagine seeing him dance the geisha dance around class under the tutelage of vic and cherylc. HOHO. or michael doing his famous action. or anyone bearing such extreme resemblance to a 2D character, with a immensely liking for fruitips, preferably the ones with sugar. or that guys like extreme concotions of super sweet strawberry milk tea with pudding. OR anyone as confused as yanneng. grins.

aha but i think hien takes the cake with her bear story, and me germ nic wamjoo trapped in the tent and trying to erh, zip down the zip cause it got stuck. damm loser i know. HAHAH. i am enjoying my cca where i dont need to worry about whether i can make the team, or berate myself over how suckily i played.

well.

on a lighter note, kayaking first! yay. and reightards for the choir concert ho. GRIN. we shall do something scandalous for cat. GRINGRINGRIN.

2007-04-08T06:40:00.001-07:00

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2007-04-08T06:14:00.000-07:00

back from reightards. as a matter of fact, better update the links.

at any rate, i shall erh blog about, odac23 outing! at wanxi's house, haha i think we made like enough noise to haul down all her neighbours. and we werent at full strength yet rofl. well at any rate, i met the guys at the minicanteen and it was a BAD mistake to send the two most gluttonous guys in odac to buy the food. why?

21 packets of assorted brands of marshmellows (cause they wiped out all the rocky mountain)
8 slabs of the huge cadbury chocolates
41 bananas (individual)
8 packets of chips
2 packets of 1kg milo powder

siao. and we polished off two buckets full of apples and one tray of oranges. Odac has a huge appetite. o______O

we spent the day doing fun stuff like playing bridge/pig/indian poker and other random games. and eating. sinful stuff like

bbqed marshmellow+chocolate+banana all wrapped in aluminium foil
the yet to be bbqed above
toasted marshmellows
marshmellows
burnt marshmellows
marshmellows dipped in 1kg milo powder fudge (we used like 500ml of water only hoho)
apples oranges pears, roasted,dipped in milo fudge or just plain raw
corn
loads and loads of chips

and the mahjong kakis all choped this table and played mahjong from like 4.15pm to like 9.30pm o__O (namely auntie\yeowhua, bermard, jay\ne, whysum, elizabeth, nat) yeah. vaguely.

hahah we went to the multi court and zhnged captainball (until taekwando people came)
and then the four guys got dunked (zach, yichow, geoff and jiaen)

jonyee and jiaen provided music! but they have psychomotor and cannot sing along. not that im complaining. grin. andre has a nice voice.

i love odac23 haha.

2007-04-01T00:49:00.000-07:00

class outing last friday! hahaha

before that me yanneng and joan went to bishan library to study. it should be said that it is one of the most conducive places in the world hahaha. and now yanneng can't put Long Day's Journey Into Night down thanks to me hahaha.

then went to kino and browsed around. i miss kino. twinn finally got her manga. hohoho.

and our class enjoyed the al fresco under the trees and i ate my portebello mushroom burger courtesy of yanneng. and we played a rather unsuccessful truth and truth and basically just enjoyed the atmospehere.

ho. such a nature loving class.

at any rate, nothing is happening in the cca department now except partying on thursday or something like that. i want to go to ECP leh, not condo. :( and i didnt get into the exco so im free for the week. hmm. and the news is that the baika and jiaen are in group 3, and i happen to be in group 3 AGAIN. with jayne and jiehui AGAIN. HAHAHA. germaine assures me that we not going to camp with them (breathes sigh of relief) we would probably have to order a whole supermarket by helicopter to get them full or something. on the other hand, kayaking and climbing are with them, so i would probably like fall off the rockwall or something. hai.

so, the next boring week of school starts. ta.

2007-03-29T02:34:00.000-07:00

hello hello.

WARNING: do not be deceived by joan's shy and demure manner. she is actually SUPER FUNNY. and a HUGE eater who loves KFC and cant finish her bubble tea. and she says all the funniest things at the most appropriate times.

grins. joan i hope you are reading this.

me and joan and kristine went to the ODAC guys' favorite bubble tea shop. i now realize the potence of strawberry milk tea with pudding. it has probably 100 teaspoons of fructose syrup in there or something. FRUCTOSE. shakes head. and it probably jacks up their testosterone level or something. i never knew guys loved strawberry.

hahahhaha. the resulting sugar rush left us laughing from bishan to woodlands. and we talk about the teletubbies and all sorts of random stuff. winks.

at any rate, i love the new exam copy of LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. it is deliciously new. and the play is darnably good. so is the iceman cometh.

at any rate. i shall go and do my GP essay. so here's the list of books i borrowed

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
The Snows of Killimanjaro and other short stories by Ernest Hemingway
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
something by Aldous Huxley i can't remember what it was.

i shall catch up on all my intellectual reading hoho. now the essay first. scowl

2007-03-23T23:13:00.000-07:00

on a decidedly brighter note, i have decided to go decidedly to the library in search of intellectual satisfaction, instead of wandering my house from the living room to the kitchen to the master bedroom to the bottom bunk to the top bunk and back again searching for something to do.

amused look. as such aided by mrwell man's beautifully done up and rather sparse modern reading list i have decided on the following:

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill (only if i cannot find the above)
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
similarly, if not the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
or maybe even The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot

and try to borrow the rest of the modern lit texts:

The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

at the same i wonder whether i can get my hands on more singaporean poetry.

like arthur yap. i think i have become a bit more addicted to the contempory/post-colonialists and modern writers rather than the 19th C writers. They have a lot more dimension and depth and more humanist values as compared to most of the 19th C people, and their texts are more stark, abstract and more diverse than the long windy way that chracterizes most of the Victoreans. however Mrwell man says that modern writing is only between WW1 to WW2 which i hopefully beg to differ. but all the same mrwell man is quite a historic piece of art and the time which he takes in speaking sentences can encompass the evolution of men from amoeba or something. amused look.

on another note, the smell of tea eggs is wafting really suggestively over. and on another sidenote, i shall add some margaret atwood to the list.

2007-03-23T06:24:00.000-07:00

hmm today was a better day.

hanging out with the class early in the morning and just enjoying being around them was great. i love it when i can sit at the table and soak in the class atmosphere, which was almost peaceful, for once, and watch everyone doing homework. hmm. i think after all the upheaval, i learnt how to appreciate my class more.

and after all that i also realize that i miss 408 a lot. and therefore we shall all go see kitty chan in concert. grins. well, and my daily drama serial between monkeypeh, cat and bel, well, seems like its in to be continued mode. chuckle. well at least i get to catch up with bel lich and monkey every morning in the amphi, but its not the same as banging into class early in the morning with monkey and getting greeted by christabel's loud good morning and cat half snoozy expression lolx. and listening to the ruckus of 408 with chinese songs erupting from one corner and english songs drifting from the other.

lunch at subway with yannengz, hengky, twinn, toady, wormy and kristine, while the rest hobnobbed at s11. lolx. i guess i would have gone with them, but i felt like munching on subway today. haha. and i bet they had fun at s11 too hehe. anyway we were discussing about nice random hawker food. which aptly needs you to look beyond their surface to get to the juicy bit that im trying to get across. amused look. well i hope the situation stabilizes and next monday will be alright and osmosis doesnt occur again. shrugs.

reading monkey's blog post, i can feel this twinge of guilt poking me...okay make that sea of guilt. i guess i am really quite a slacker. looks guiltily at monkey, as she can testify...my habits are quite...well..epicurean. i hate work, love playing around, and the only way my tutorials get done is because 1) its a lit tutorial and i love lit, 2) im in the canteen waiting for my OG to arrive at promptly around 7.15 -7.30 and 3) the pile of work is just so huge that it irks me, and then i go into homework machine mode and promptly just polish the whole darn thing off.

guilty look. thanks monkey you old dear for prodding me back into conciousness.

on a lighter note, group journal with the toombaians today! and jonyee i am not pissed off lah. hahaha. i think i had my sleepy dao look on. like after i concentrate too hard i tend to shut down. hahaha. i love my group3 they are the funniest and most screwed up group in the world but you guys rock because of that. hahahahaha.

okay i shall go and ponder the rest of today on my new top bunk! yeah. i love my new doubledecker. (as well as sis)

oh as a side note.

today i got this sms from my daddy, and i was very touched that he actually told me that he couldnt fetch me back today. and very rarely for my dad, he added : lots of love.

i mean, how many of us actually tell our loved ones that we love them?

yay daddy you just made my day happier.

2007-03-22T02:59:00.000-07:00

I WANT MY OLD 3O BACK. whine.

patrick come back! :( you silly old starfish. i miss all your kindergarten antics, and the atmosphere in class feels a bit stiffled now - there is no one to poke fun at and make us laugh at the crazy things you do. and i do not have anyone to tempt with fruitips. :(

now i realize what it means by too good to be true...i miss all the fun we had before the march hols started. and i kind of regret now not going to the class outing on saturday.

well, my class is kinda in mini crisis mode now...with new people coming in to spread the love every day of this bountiful first week of school. sarcastic look. the only person that we really welcomed and assimilated in is wormy and letch i guess.

i kinda feel really tired and sick of all these new people flowing in. and out. and i really can't be bothered with all the new people. if they socialize, thats fine and dandy and the class will accept them. if they clam chowder and stew in their fits of misery fine by me. go ahead.

daos.

2007-03-21T04:13:00.000-07:00

today group three got an earful from mrsh ah over toomba. it was freaky, especially when he threw the marker at jonyee (??!!). and especially cause i drew it.

is toomba really a bad word or something? :/

because it was adapted from the toomba joke. and my group's definition of it is shitting. and it was clearly meant for fun and not for the crudeness. and furthermore we were using it very clearly for the group name and the role call. and i hate it when they dont tell us they find it offensive first, in the expedition, then come and blow up later in the day.

anyway, group 3 ROCKS. even though we have been stripped of our name and all that is going to be remained is the ugly smear of the liquid paper.

well. except for the "little" event that occurred, we just had a briefing about the rest of the term, and mrle ong's ecology literacy. and mrle ong's funny, he calls people by location. currently we have one state of malaysia, one state of china, and erh, one city in vietnam. Namely, Selangor, Szechuan, and Ms Saigon. rofl. (and he paid us a rare compliment by complimenting the timeline which mrsh ah totally bsed.)

and anyway, S03O's donut party tmrow! yay i can't hardly wait. grins.

2007-03-19T06:54:00.000-07:00

dang it, i lost my draft from yesterday. nevermind.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO SIS AND MOM.
(i spent a nuclear arms programme's budget on my sis. sobs at wallet. but i love to make me sis happy. GRIN)

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY ME, from cat and lich, the buggers who live in february. lolx. it happens that i am seventeenth and one month older today. amused look.

i received alfian saat's collection of poems from lich. YAY. he writes VERY GOOD poetry. and especially more insightful than most of the metaphysical poets. singgers. okay i may be comparing a singaporean molehill to a mountain, but the molehill can stand up pretty well against its taller counterparts. especially if you make a mountain out of it. ;D

I LOVE ODAC 23 AND MY OG MT03. grins. we had pt today -_________- but PT together with them is funny. ahha. and super encouraging. but we have PT again on wednesday. hai. too much PT is NOT GOOD. TOOMBA-IANS enroute with journal! yeah.

and S03O has four new members and PATRICK LEFT FOR 3B :(:(:(:( EVEN THOUGH WE HAD A PETITION. waves fruitips wildly. 3O loves PATRICK and hopes that he will always crash our maths lessons. :/

well. i shall erh, resign from the com. and laugh at lich with her mountain of HOMEWORK. well, at least singapore can finally boast of its Himalayes ranges of worksheets, worksheets, and more worksheets.

woot.

2007-03-17T06:06:00.000-07:00

okay so i am happily typing away on bro's keyboard, screwing up eyes at the sharp lcd monitor, and his cpu (the brand's called icute how funny is that) is going whiz bam wham at a hundred thousand kilometres per hour. nice. it has the best power graphics EVER.

well. let me expound more on the art of iceskating with lichen. amused look.

1. GRAB HER VERY VIOLENTLY BY THE ARM, and WATCH HER SQUEAL FOR HER LIFE as SHE DOES A JIG ON THE ICE
2. ZOOM PAST HER and WATCH AS SHE HITS THE SPEED OF THE BULLET TRAIN SKIDDING TOWARDS THE RAILING
3. well, essentially watch the moron make a fool out of herself.

not to say that i skate very well too 0.o but i can skate tolerably fast enough if i want to, because i found out that it is a matter of just chionging and forgetting about the falling down bit. and after a while it just hits you that it wasnt so hard in the first place. and that it really feels like flying. (albeit a bit more wobbly)and me and toad were trying to skate backwards.

Toad says that you have to put your feet together parallel and shake your butt. (well, i dont think that really works for me, but people with ample booties should try it. lolx.)

i have to alter my skirt. mutters.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE SIS (and gosh, i spent like some nuclear arms programme's budget on her. looks tragically at wallet)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMMM! XD

but i must say, i wonder how such an unromantic person like my dad managed to snag my mom. the art of buying roses, and nice gifts, and muttering sweet nothings is totally foreign to dad. well. looks at mom and sighs.

i spent the whole of today slacking. ahahah. and watching final fu on MTV. in martial arts, women get discriminated A LOT, i realize. but there was this guy who really looked like he came out of some wuxia novel with his monkey style and drunken fist style. seriously no kiding, but it was kinda cool heh.

bro's keyboard is really loud.

oh yeah, as a side note, man utd is playing bolton and the score is...

3-0!!!????!!!! to manutd. well.

2007-03-14T19:36:00.000-07:00

woot. finally this thing is up, but lich you moron, the font is weird. stares. can you change the font at all, i wonder. to the font on my picture. i love that font. grins widely

so now lich's design comm has one involuntary member.

Me.

wails. why do i always get into this kind of stuff. (but i like any excuse to photoshop. ah well.)

my bro has just bought his new com. and i walked to and fro from simlimsquare to bugis junction for a grand total of 3 times. curses and swears. and i had to pay for him out of my bank. wails. and my saturday assignment just got canceled. boos. so currently i have ZERO CASH. i dont want to go out anymore. :(

which gundam seed art book is the nicest? and relatively cheap too. my sis's birthday's on friday, and i have to get her a nicer style to copy. grins. FMA style is odd.

iceskating later with the 408 people. well one eighth of the 408 people. by the looks of it. amused look. at any rate, i thought it was going to be a lich leening gen and mel outing. heh. where we would embezzle/squander all the ex-class fund. evil look.

okay joking joking.

i wish i was back up on Ophir with the toomba-ians and getting high in the tents. but ODAC next monday! yay. I think the expedition was a good start for us - what to expect in further expeditions, what to enjoy (splashing around in ice cold pools), what to appreciate (like having a nice person in front of you to offer you a hand), and to test yourself way beyond your current zombie state. it was exhilarating. woot.

and i think the best part is having ODAC23 bond sessions. It's hard not to grow attached to a group, sitting on blue stools/tarp and squabbling over a mess tin about how much pasta sauce to put. and ngiam cooks excellant campbell's soup. hoho. next time i want to make mashed potatoes. the best way to eat is to grab a nearby handy spoon and just muncheon. HAHA. and the best water is straight from the stream with no chlorinetabs. haha. and we discovered the merits of the so great water pack. grins cheerfully.

and i went to watch The History Boys with MT03 yesterday! It was a pretty intellectual movie. Well. with explicit themes. heh. and they had a sleepover :( which i was barred from. I bet those lazy pigs are only waking up now (heh joking joking) from the all night intensive mahjong :( which i want to play.

WAH. i miss my OG.

2007-03-13T19:58:00.000-07:00

MUAHAHAHAHA I feel so damn accomplished. Nevermind that I ripped apart and mutilated like 3 other blogskins to actually get to here, but still. I made the whole html myself okay.

MELMEL DON'T YOU LOVE ME NOW? MUAKS. XD

2007-03-13T07:52:00.000-07:00

Oh my tian. The blog layout is still kinda screwy. But ahwells. And this is lich, by the way. Cause melmel darling said I could blog here! For like one post! But still! One does not resist the chance to spam her blog!

~~Though it's sad that she expressively forbade me to say anything about hot passionate sex and whatnot. She doesn't trust me. Sobs. Why doesn't she trust me. Sobs some more.~~

LOLX. So here I shall proclaim my love for mel very loudly:

Ding dong bell
Melmel in the well
Melmel cannot spell
We all love melmel!

Yayy. Now wasn't that gay. Yayy since currently the about section of the blog is very screwed, I shall write it for Melmel.

Mel is...
A residential ghost. She insists on being a poltergeist. Ahwells.
An ex-netballer. Which is not that she doesn't play anymore. Try saying anything qianbian while she's within reach of anything throwable. Including but not limited to: paper, erasers, erasers, erasers, and did I mention erasers? She likes throwing those. -.-
A qianbian person. How qianbian? -.-" <- qianbian. That, and she throws stuff at you.
Gay. Because I say so.

YAYYY. MELMEL IS A DINOSAUR
FROM OUR IMAGINATION.
THOUGH SHE MAY HAVE A PURPLE BUTT
BUT SHE MAKES CONVERSATION.

Zomg I'm damn high.

YAYY WE WUV MEL! FOR AS LONG AS WE LIVE! (which will be shortened after mel sees this post) Ahwells.

<3