Lots of shit

Hello. This is the massively long update for the events of the past four hectic weeks.

Firstly was overnight. Nothing much to say except that it was quite stressful planning out all the things like cooking race and our BLOODY AWESOME damn fail skit. As I'm typing this a month later I can't exactly remember the exact details of what happened. For the sec 3s/PLs/random people it started at about 1pm where we had to build the flag staff. But since we were slacking and taking our time we eventually finished it at about 3pm+. We didn't have the experience of building a quick flagstaff, which was to our disadvantage during SUTC.

Once horseshoe was blown we had the usual things like tent pitching etc. Then we had cooking race, where since I'm absolutely bloody hopeless whenever it comes to food and everything I touch ends up poisoning people, I went to wash the chicken. After getting over the initial reaction (you know, the reaction when you stick your hands into a raw cold fatty disgusting squishy chicken), it became slightly entertaining as I tried to high five everyone I saw.

So it started raining like mad and we all migrated over to the gym hall atrium to cook. Rain + soil + grass = mud, and during PL call the last person there would have to down 10 in the previous equation mentioned. Unfortunately due to the J1s lacking control over their new-found power to down people, they eventually made us all down in the grass through their cunning ways. They SMSed us, "PL Call". And then they started blowing the whistle. So since we were all late we downed a total of like 30 in the mud. Those who got wet started to pull those who weren't into the mud, so we all ended up wet, dirty and stinky. My patrol's food actually tasted pretty decent, but then I only tried the chicken.

After cooking race was the campfire. Boring as hell, but its the first time 01 was having this segment in overnight so initial quirks were to be expected. Once again they exercised their power with the whistle and had random calls. And pumping. Owl's skit naturally placed me in the lead role as super-cow, and I think every patrol's skit was something similarly stupid (lol alliteration). After that was Fright Night. I will not elaborate.

The next day I can't really remember what we had. Most likely we had stuff like station games and shit, but it was quite insignificant. In the afternoon we had footdrill practice, especially for the sec 1s to get ready for the investiture that night. Investiture was predictably boring as usual, but it was amusing to watch the sec 1s mess up their foot drills.

Overnight was quite a new experience especially as a PL, since there was hell a lot of stuff to coordinate and plan beforehand. Hopefully I'll be able to cope with AC, which would be pretty damn sucky if I already find Overnight that difficult.

The two (??? I think so) weeks following that was spent working on pre-hike log for First Class. I was paired up with Terence so at least I had a decent partner, unlike some people whom I do not care to mention at this point (:

First class itself was pretty sucky, our route was bloody foam. And I have finally appreciated how much doing route map sucks. Nothing much to say, except that pitching bashas at night was damn screwed up due to mis-alignment and everything. But staying up and doing sentry and cooking noodles was fun :D

The three days after First Class was spent rushing out hike log. Damn sian. I chionged checkpoint maps all the way till early Tuesday morning, about 1-2am. On Tuesday I stayed back after school in the den till 6pm to finish off route maps. Then that night I stayed up till 4am to wait for Terence's part and put together everything. On wednesday we rushed to printing shop during lunch to print and bind everything. After act that day the J1s told us that they were giving everyone a universal extension. FML

So since we had finished our hike log (ONLY PATROL TO DO SO LOL IMBA) we didn't have much to worry about. I ended up helping a certain someone to finish his hike log since his partner isn't exactly the most competent of people. But meh, I'm a nice guy :D

Then the week after that was Job Week. I cannot even begin to describe the immensity of the turd this year's jobweek sucked. I got $x on the first day. I got $x + $40 on the second, where the additional $40 was due to my parents taking pity on me. But yeah, it sucked. Especially the first day, where I thought that all the people living in newly developed areas like Punggol would be nice people. But nooooo, they're mostly complete assholes. As though they think that I can't tell when they look through the peephole but still don't open the door since the ray of light coming through the peephole disappears when someone looks through. Incoherent gibberish trolololol.

But meh, it sucked.

After that was SUTC, where I was elevated to the honorary position of SS I/C, aka cheeboh. For the uneducated, cheebohs pump a lot. Enough said.

But SUTC was pretty fun. Well, not on the first day where us SS got completely owned by the J1s for general incompetency, such as our flagstaff up 20 minutes late, flag prematurely opening, facing wrong way, dragging down trainees with slow timings, 4 minute improper inspection. Over the course of the three days we slowly improved damn a lot, such that at the end of the camp 9 SS were able to suan the trainees with 1min40sec inspection (: Sense of accomplishment ftw.

But SS was pretty fun, the pressure and the stress of trainees were virtually non-existent, except during Night Call. Although according to SS J1 ICs they were impressed with our imba nightcall :D

Quite a lot of funny stuff happened along the way, such as Mus cramping his back when pelvic thrusting cans of longan syrup. Once again my memory is failing me even though the camp was just two days ago.

Right before the final horseshoe us awesome SS managed to do 100 pushups in a row as a batch :D Then after that we were all foaming during final clearing. But the experience was worth it. I think our batch is pretty damn awesome (:

After four weeks I'm starting to fall sick from all the past events. Bloody tired. And I lost all my comp skills after spending so much time away from games :(

Cow

Is feeling damn tired. Doing Geog essay, the past few days have been taken up by First Class - pre hike log, hike, hike log and now the bloody essay. I'll update 4-in-1 after jobweek and SUTC: OVERNIGHT, FIRST CLASS, JOBWEEK and SUTC. Now I'm damn tired. Slept at 4am yesterday, got owned by J1s in PT today for not being zai enough.

Cow

Is feeling damn tired. Doing Geog essay, the past few days have been taken up by First Class - pre hike log, hike, hike log and now the bloody essay. I'll update 4-in-1 after jobweek and SUTC: OVERNIGHT, FIRST CLASS, JOBWEEK and SUTC. Now I'm damn tired. Slept at 4am yesterday, got owned by J1s in PT today for not being zai enough.

Overnight

Is tomorrow. Now is lots of last minute planning and stuff. And packing. And sorting out a whole shit-load of money issues.

Longer than (currently) usual update when i get back.

01....

Being a PL is tiring.

I'm tired.

Do I give up?

Why do people always question my decisions?

Why am I always getting angsted?

Why is my patrol always failing?

Holy crap

That's a lot of plogs that we haven't done.

15 posts to a century!

And being a PL feels weird. Hmm.

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It is better not to speak and be thought a fool then to speak and dispel all doubt.

AWESOME?

CNY.... sick

It's the first day of CNY. It's the fifth week of school. Most of the time has been spent adjusting to the new screwed up time table.

The guests left the house about an hour ago. The time between then and now has been spent lying down and trying to cope with my fever. Not fun.

OWL PATROL 2011

www.owl-patrol2011.blogspot.com GOGO

Goodbye 2010...Hello 2011! (And OBS)

Super long post coming up.

2010. The first half of which I'd prefer to forget. Started off with overnight, meeting new sec 1s (and failing the batch pioneering), then on to Jobweek and SUTC. After that was mid-year preparation, or for me, non-mid-year-preparation, since I didn't prepare. So my results sucked and I was pissed, and following that was AC where I was a total asshole and an attention-seeking ass. But after that was stuff like Ni-Ke (nighthike) then EoYs where I actually prepared then was GTC then was group celebs.

A year in a paragraph. I guess if it had been a little more memorable the description would be a little longer and more detailed, but 2010 sucked in general. But there are a few people I'd like to thank/acknowledge for making it a little more bearable.

Family, for putting up with my shit the whole time.

Classmates. In class I've always been really quiet and shy and only talking to teachers when I'm asked a question. Sometimes I can be quite -.- because I don't contribute much to class stuff. I didn't really get to know any of them (other than 01 people) really well and I think none of them got to know me well either. I think the most they'd remember of me would be my CoD4 skillz and my EoY maths score (+43.5% improvement, anyone?). But thanks anyway for making each lesson somewhat fun, and not always because of the teachers. Random jokes flying everywhere, talking cock, bullying joking with teachers, talking about work and stuff.

01. Probably one of the biggest parts of my life (other than school -.-). To my seniors, sorry if I've been too sarcastic or too uncooperative or too annoying or anything, that's just how I am. To my juniors, if I've been too bossy or at times angsty. And lastly (cliche of "last but not least" ftl), my batch mates, who are totally awesome people. Thanks to all of you guys for just being yourselves :D.

I think 2010 was actually better than 2009, which sucked even more. 2009 was the year where I was a little idiot in 01, the quiet guy who barely existed. In class was pretty much the same. I hardly knew my class and people liked labelling me as fail (scroll down a lot for details). That's when I started my stupid emo thing which barely lasted and looking back, was more born out of self-pity than anything else. 2010 was more of a roller coaster. A sucky start and a pretty awesome ending. This time I did complete GTC (scroll down for more details), got a PL post and everything.

When I'm typing this on 9Jan2011, I'm thinking of how much 01 has changed me. Maybe you'd think (especially seniors) that I'm just a noobshit little sec2/3 and I don't really see the impact, but I really think I do. I've been that little bit more confident, that little bit more contributive. Without 01 I think I would have been the same quiet little shit who barely existed at all. In 01 I've also gotten to know a bunch of awesome people, most of whom I admire greatly. Seniors, batchmates, and even some of my juniors. The pumping and discipline is typical of a UG, but all that only brings people closer together. So once again, thanks for just being awesome.

2011. A year of great expectations. As a PL, the responsibility of about 10 people on you for the whole of their 01 year. In a way, for the sec 1s, a responsibility for the rest of their RI life. 01 really changed me, and hopefully if I don't screw up as much I could get them to see how much it can change them too.

In academics, with my new-found skills for mugging. Pressure is on to not screw up mid-years, to not screw up EoY, and generally to not screw up. To study hard, pull up my socks and focus. Hope I can cope with it.

I would say it's almost mid-night on the new year soon, but unfortunately that was nine days ago.

I said I would post this on the eve of new year, but I was at some wedding thingy. So to everyone, belated happy new year!

On to the second part of this bloody long post.

OBS. After GTC OBS never seemed that tough anymore. The bags were the same weight, the food even better, the physical aspect less tiring, and not much mental strength required to complete the camp. The only thing that was quite degen was sleeping in the wet tents, but even that was memorable and a new experience.

The first day was made up of logistics and was bloody boring. The second day we set off from Hotel Ubin Campus 1 (camp 1 alpha oi!) and row boated (NOT KAYAKING I DAMN PISSED OFF OKAY) down to cony island then headed west to Singapore, the same place where we launched off on the first day. Spent the night there. Third day we headed North to the tip of ubin in some gravel-ly area, met camp 1 beta there. Fourth day we hiked back down to base camp, then did some high elements stuff which looked something like this: http://tinyurl.com/picture-of-high-elements except indoors and about 7 poles high. The last day was cleanup which sucked as usual (I mean, who enjoys cleanup?). Then I came back from OBS and I have 60 sandfly bites.

Merry Christmas... and a happy New Year!

I swear if I hear another Christmas song I'm going to go mad.

Just tried to change my blogskin like 3 hours ago, and the damn thing is telling me that the html thingum was not well formed even though I copied it off the damn website. EDIT ok I changed it, but not to the one I wanted, since this is just a default template that admittedly looks a lot better than the previous one.

Came back from ---- like 2 weeks ago, quite uneventful, just an opportunity to relax and vegetate in the hotel room (a lot) after a strenuous week just before I flew off.

Came back just in time for group celebs. Actually not -just in time-, since I just arrived from the freakin' airport and I had to rush to vivo to the monorail station and since I'm damn swaku I haven't been to Vivo before (shopping's not my thing) and I couldn't find the bloody monorail station where everyone was waiting and when I finally did I saw the monorail which everyone had just boarded. And it was leaving. So being extremely tyco and I had to buy a ticket and board the next one and managed to catch up with the guys who just arrived at Beach Station at Sentosa. Some horseshoe and briefing stuff, free time till when, where not to go etc.

Sec 2s embarked on a project to build a series of holes (near the sea). Actually it started as digging a whole and realising that after digging deep enough it would magically fill with water so we started digging a hell lot of holes (3) and dug canals through, then we dug a final canal to the sea that both drained and filled the holes with water. Had some cool architecture going on there, but eventually we had to go for the special event of the day.

First Task, photo taking. Bleh.
Second Task, each patrol dig a hole large enough to fit a person. Essentially, a grave.
Third Task, send one volunteer up. (ME, again, wtf)
Fourth Task, choose a J1.
Fifth Task, J1 and unfortunate-volunteer have a competition. Each person has to do the number of pushups that corresponds to the number of letters in his post/name. So Since mine is Project Comm Chair, and FRANCIS' IS STL, yeah so naturally I won (fat hope). Cunning J1s made sure that all the unfortunate-volunteers lost this "competition".
Sixth Task, lie down in the hole.
Seventh Task, chuck a bit of sand on yourself.
Eight Task, patrol to BURY THE UNFORUNATE-VOLUNTEER IN THE SAND.

And thus because I am extremely unlucky/unfortunate/stupid, I had to be buried in the sand and I didn't have a change of clothes. Which we were all supposed to have, but since I am the above-mentioned adjectives, I didn't. So I got buried in sand and it was damn ticklish and damn scary then eventually they took a picture then since I didn't have a change of clothes my patrol didn't help me wash up (ie, dunk in sea) so I did that on my own. Had to borrow Sean's shirt to change, so thanks! Still haven't returned it though.

Then after some semblance of removing the sand from EVERY-FREAKING-PLACE-ON-MY-BODY (-.- don't overwork that mind of yours) we had postholders announcement. I'm owl PL (owl '11 ftw) and NIGEL AS MY APL YAY. Lol I swear Nigel is damn funny and damn random and thanks for the two electrolytes during GTC :D it tasted like shit.

It's now Tuesday at 7:10pm and it's four days to Christmas and eleven to the New Year. I'll update again on New Year's eve. :D I hope.

Done and (dusted? More like blistered)

GGTC is over. Whole body foaming.

Started off on day 0 (sunday) with a lot of last minute stuff, contact lists, rations etc in preparation for the big day where all our ScoutySkillz will be put to an extreme test of endurance. Damn drama.

Day 1. Reported at some field in the middle of nowhere (landed property, near serangoon MRT). Final last minute organising, then the first horseshoe which signaled the beginning of the end. Actually after the end there is a new beginning, which is today as I post this and I sit on my chair to move around because my legs GGed.

Inspection. Inspected on the second try (due to rain? I hope) but later on had to redo simply (at least that was what I thought) for the sake of redoing and to add on to the general foam. Brought about 4 plastic bags with me for dirty (hurhur dirt) clothes, but at the end of inspection ended up with about 10. Given our checkpoints and an egg, which will be elaborated in further detail later on. Set off, at first super slow, slow like sotong. Reached checkpoint 2 super late, like around 12-1pm plus. On the way to checkpoint 2 it started to rain damn heavily, then everywhere got rain. Sought shelter in some HDB after correctly guessing (ie, anyhow hantam) the checkpoint. Made poor Wilson go out into the rain to draw the checkpoint map, since I'm just awesome that way.

Had lunch there I think, I can't really remember because the past 4 days have been a complete blur of haz recollections, nothing too specific other than some memorable things that happened. Such as the aforementioned (omg nice sounding word) egg which each patrol had to carry safely to the nightpoint. Suffice to say, 0/6 eggs made it back intact. Our egg exploded in Sean's shirt pocket, which was pretty awkward, especially since he had to use my waterbottle to wash the shit off his shirt and my bottle ended up smelling of egg. So we hiked super slow, then reached checkpoint 4 at around 8pm. At that point Wilson started foaming due to cold (I can't remember what the condition is called and I'm too lazy to find out) so he was picked up. Then we were given a choice. Either we walk from Khatib MRT and bash and chiong all the way to the nightpoint, or we take the MRT to Sembawang (which shaves off about 5km) and clear 50. Quite a simple choice actually. Reached the end point, horseshoe, pumping, sleep in nice dormitory. Did sentry with random people, ended up 2 hours of sleep. Yay for planning ahead.

The next day we tried to hike faster, but after checkpoint 2 were really demoralised by the mega long 10km route to checkpoint 3. At that point it was mid-day and it was super hot so its extra degen and we had to keep taking rests at bus stops along the way. Eventually we reached the checkpoint and had lunch which was super nice cuz we had nata which was super nice after that mega long 10km route. Then after that was more foaming as we tried to continue, but the rain started to cause us to foam. Soaking wet clothes + super strong wind = bloody cold. Shivered, SHAKING in a void deck for about an hour and a half to wait for the rain to stop. I've never actually experienced something that cold. It wasn't just shivering, I could barely talk because every part was SHAKING. And it was virtually uncontrollable. It's like taking a shower then without drying yourself standing in front of a fan at high speed. AFter the rain stopped we eventually piaed all the way back to nightpoint cuz can sleep mah. So all happy happy.

Then we had nightcall. Actually this nightcall was damn slack. Only need to take all our bags then lump in some pile then run here run there pump a bit kenna shouted at then can liao. Breakfast, checkpoints, (inspirational? nah) talk by mr yuen about not dropping out of the hike then we started walking. walkwalkwalkwalk until damn far. Second checkpoint was Faber point, right at the tip of mount faber and the walk up there was super foam. Right after that checkpoint was Fort canning which is another some damn high hill. Foam.

Here's a short summary of the three days of hike.

Checkpoint plotting
walk
foam
foam
foam
walk
walk
foam
walk
foam
lunch
walk
walk
walk
foam
foam
foam
walk
foam
walk
foam
dinner
walk
walk
foam
foam
nightpoint
sleep.

Eventually we reached the end then we had dinner at J8 which was super nice. Musn't have been pleasant for the other people around. Some stinkbomb walk into J8 then kope all the chairs then leave all the stains and shit behind.

Then at night me, nigel and weiteng were doing sentry cause we wanted to be awake when the nightcall was called. Actually before that we were joking that nightcall is like phoning someone at night, cuz night call hurhur. So obviously we were all super tired after 90+km of foam so we slept in 2 minute shifts. When nightcall was called we all started foaming, then we went to RJ basketball court to do inspection for about 3 hours, which is super foam.

Then was breakfast, then was watching (holyshitsoimba) STLs do inspection and show the noobs how it's properly done. Then was PT, which was just a way to clear our (at that point) 1.5k count. Then sec 2s built a lot of bashas and we cleared some then we had another inspection then we cleared more then we had some random shit then we had final horseshoe then final 200 pumping then end of camp.

At the end of the camp I received some award for the best trainee, prize was the whistle comprised of parts by kenneth and francis. Frankly I don't know why I got it cuz I felt that other people actually deserved it more than me, but bleh, I got it all the same. More pressure to live up to expectations for next year? Hope I can tahan.

After GTC I felt this mega sense of accomplishment (not to mention people who wanted to come over and say "wah damn pro ah best trainee sia") that I completed the camp. All will be clear if you read the post before this. At the end my (battle?) wounds included - seven blisters, super mega slightly infected graze on my knee which kenneth thought was just some surface wound, twisted ankle, aching shoulders and super mega sunburn. All these will go away but deep down I think I've learned a lot more about my limits and what I can do. At times I seriously considered giving up (especially when I got that super mega slightly infected graze) but I'm glad I didn't do so.

Felt that this year my batch were actually quite good in terms of individual skill/standard, but I guess there's a lot more to improve on in terms of helping others, taking initiative etc. Like what francis said, the sec2s inspection damn good then the sec1s one like sai. Maybe we could have helped them a little more? I don't really know.

Started this post on Thursday when I came back, and now it's 11.18 on Saturday. Flying off on Monday to ----, coming back on Friday hopefully in time for group celebs.

GGeeTeeCee2010

GTC in 35 hours 25 minutes. Nervous, apprehensive, dreading etc. Really damn scared, especially inspection which is so fun <----- if you can't sense sarcasm go die in a fire.

Luckily this year it's only four days, and especially given last year's embarrassing drop out by ME I really hope I can actually complete it this year. Will come back on thursday, friday is RnR, weekend is rushing hike log, then i'm flying off to a certain country. Will (hopefully) update after that.

EoEoY

If you look back into my previous posts, by scrolling down a hell lot, you'd find a post with the same title. Alternatively, you could press ctrl + F and type EoEoY, in which case you'd have to press enter 4 times before you get to the above mentioned post, since there is 2 extra EoEoY(s)which have occured since the title of this post.

Exams are over. Results have come back. Thankfully this time I won't say like, don't want to talk about anything blahblahblah, cause this time I did quite (relatively relative) well. I passed Chinese. 50/100 ftw. Geog and History were ok, Science and English slightly disappointing but nevertheless at least a slightly half-decent score. Maths far surpassed my expectations, and when I say far, I mean really bloody far. Like from here


to here. 67.5/80, when I was desperately hoping for a 58/80. Considering that mid-year I got 24/60 (yeah once I get a better score I don't mind revealing my !@^&#&^ score), it's a 45% improvement for those mathematically challenged (hahaha see what I did there, mathematically, maths heeheehee).

Past few days haven't been anything much. After EoY came initial joy and freedom and happiness and other adjectives that describe general approval. Then came the post EoY boredom and "sian-ness" and other adjectives that describe a general degeneration of the mind. It is at this point where the path splits into two. One: Sadness and fear and anger at results, due to an extreme lack of marks. Two: Happiness and Joy at extreme high marks.

I've gone in the path of 1.5, between paths one and two (zzz I'm thinking about maths too much) so I'm in a little bit of both moods now, knowing I (could have?) done better but at the same time happy that I achieved my target of GPA 3.2. Once again considering that my mid-year GPA was 2.93 (yes I'm revealing crap scores again) I'd think that 3.2 is a rather realistic target, no?

Update...A small one

Lots of stuff happening. I don't really have the time to do much now, but its (THE END OF) september holidays and its not really holidays again. Nighthike was random. Bah. EoY in 4 weeks. Bah. More specific detailed update within the next week or so.

EDIT SHIT EOYS NOW I SHOULD BE MUGGING HISTORY OMG NEXT UPDATE NOT WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO FROM LAST MONTH, BUT WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO FROM TODAY.

Ecksploding Printer

Here I am and it's 12 midnight and I'm printing a total of 18 maps and my printer is dying and so is my body. Saturday and Sunday was taken up by FirstClassHike (which was kinda easy TBH) and Monday was IronMan and now I'm tired but I can't sleep until I've finished printing out the 18 sheets. Last one now if I'm not wrong.

Spent about an hour trying to attach a damn 3.45mb doc to my email. Failed miserably with hotmail. Finished attaching in about 5 minutes with Yahoo. Either someone up there controlling the interwebz is screwing around, or yahoo is just better than hotmail.

It's...it's alive!

Yeah.

Long time no update again.

June holidays were nonsense like last year's. But the weekend before school started was taken up by kayaking which I swear is way more awesome than any other course which 01 can send me on.

Started off Saturday with basic intro and logistic shifting and stuff. When we finally got onto the water it basically gives a really weird feeling, like when you're on the go-karts because you have total control of what you do with the boat. Well, not exactly total control because I don't think many of us had control over the boat, but slowly over the hours we eventually gained some measure of skill in maneuvering the kayak. And capsizing at first was rubbish, because you just get panic attacks and panic. The first time I tried it I panicked and got out without doing anything. The second time I didn't panic as much but I got out on the wrong side of the boat. The third time I finally managed to do it. But later on I got out the wrong side of the boat again.

Then school started, (some) new teachers, new timetable (ZZZ IMSER 3 MT LESSONS BEFORE RECESS CONSECUTIVELY FOR 3 DAYS). Got back results, which were disappointing to say the least.

Thus I conclude this post. Look out for another update by the great awesome omg imba me within the next month or so.

Teh Ossum Pwn

It's June holidays.

First week was taken up by AC.

First day of AC was the usual setting up of structure (well the basic structure at least). The rest of the days were just adding on stuff to the structure and doing cool stuff along the way. Haha damn funny.

Kenneth: "get one sec2 per patrol"
*Finds sec 2s*
Kenneth: "are any of you doing anything important now?"
Us: "No"
Kenneth: "okay lets go play captain's ball"

Lol. Owl's structure was so zai. 2 floors, second floor damn cosy, but it's right above our cooking area. So ended up those who are up on top have bits of dirt and shit off their shoes falling into the pots. Hygiene fail.

AC as a sec2 I guess provides a new insight. In sec1 you don't really focus much on the big picture. Just do what you're told and try to ignore the dirty pans and stuff you're cleaning. Try as hard as possible to avoid work and slack. (Oops).

But in sec2 the PL/APL are way more reliant on you, because you're supposed to have the experience and maturity (hohoho) to do all the saikang work and not complain (too much).

Aside from all that, AC was really fun. With owl's fire in the frying pan, kestrel's exploding stove, eagle's foaming structure, hawk's failed tarp on day 1, falcon's one story structure, and KF's flag raising, it really was a new experience.

The rest of the June hols were spent slacking and going to people's house for project meetings (slacking) and more slacking. Well, some work too. I guess. Barely a week more to the start of school.

:(

Moar Updates

Long time no post. heeheehee.

Some big events in the past month.

Mid-years. Frankly, I don't much purpose in having a major set of exams mid year and end of year. The midyear carries so much weightage, if you just screw it up a little you could screw up your entire GPA for the year. Isn't it better to just have little CTs every now and then so that it's not so taxing on the students?

English was okay, Maths was retarded, Chinese was impossible, Science was bleh, Geog was painful on the fingers and history is expected failure. Completely went out of point for the 17 out of 25 total marks essay. Barely mentioned the topic question at all, since I didn't even know what it meant.

Just came back from Malaysian Montage yesterday. Before the trip I didn't understand the hype, but my view has changed, like, completely.

Day1. Assembled at RI at 6:30, then took the coach for like damn long and reached Malacca at 1-2 plus, with customs checks on Singapore/Malaysia checkpoints and toilet stops + breakfast stop along the way. At Malacca we went straight to some kampong village, quite cool, can see the monkey climb tree and throw down coconuts. Also saw the way rubber is collected for our everyday use. Then went and checked in to our hotel, Puteri Resort. Quite a nice place actually, very different from the cheapskate 2star shithole I was expecting.

Day 2. Missed morning call at 5:30 so we woke up at 6:10 instead. Chionged through the usual morning routine then took some damn long bus ride to an ostrich farm. Quite educational, at least learnt a lot about ostriches. And also found out that the bury your head in the sand thing that ostriches supposedly do is false. They don't stick their heads in the sand, they charge at you and kick you and stampede all over you. Apparently their kick exerts 200 pounds per square inch of pressure. So zai.

After that went to the city centre in Malacca. Had lunch there, some chicken rice thingy. Then had some amazing race which was damn boring, took damn long also. Then after that went back to hotel to stone and stuff.

Day 3. Went for some reforestation rubbish which was cut short because of epic thunderstormz then took some damn long bus ride down to Johor. Reached hotel at 3:30 plus, checked in, stoned until 5:30. Took another bus ride to some random place in the middle of nowhere. Had dinner (IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RAIN. Actually under some shelter), then took some fireflies river cruise thingy. Damn cool, the fireflies like some Christmas tree, and its actually believable, unlike the glowworm caves in Australia/New Zealand, because there's so damn many glowworms and they don't move at all and you begin to wonder if their actually light bulbs. The lightning in the sky also damn cool. Damn big, some family tree la.

Day 4. Checked out of hotel and went for some coastal trek thing. Quite cool also, then took another damn long bus ride back to Singapore.

Heehee at least I updated. Be. Grateful. You. Retards.

01 Annual Show 2010

Saturday, 24/4/2010, a day where all our efforts were put together in a 2 hour show. Glad to say it was a blast! (:

Assigned the job of VIP usher, so spent 2 hours ushering the scouts and guides who came in the way they weren't supposed to come in from, also nervously waiting for the VIPs, whom some in the end didn't turn up.

When I entered the hall through the gateway the show was getting underway, emcees went through their lines..... when the video failed. Apparently one video cable was screwed so the movie (which explained the storyline) couldn't be played. Fortunately, the emcees improvised brilliantly and acted out the movie instead! It was really nervous sitting behind the VIPs and praying and hoping that the movie could be played, then the emcees came out and started spouting some crap. It took a while for me to realise that there were actually acting out the movie.

Eventually they managed to get the video working again, so the rest of the show passed without a hitch. Then came the souvenirs. Really proud to say that our hard work and effort and staying back almost every day payed off eventually. Hoped that the groups at least appreciated what had gone into each individual souvenir (:

Activity/Batch Outing/Campfire

Heehee. Saturday was awesome. In the morning from 8-1 was campfire preparation which Terence ponned so I had to solo the circus tent frame as well as fix the cage so it doesn't look so shit. If you don't know what I'm talking about and you're from 01 you can see it like on friday-saturday. If you're not from 01 then too bad.

After activity was batch outing which was awsumz (: Waited at the den for everyone to arrive and get in the mood to leave then went to J8 for lunch then went to AMK hub, bought tickets and waited for Edison to come. Watched How To Train Your Dragon which was a fantastic movie. No problems watching it again, no problems giving 5 stars for an awesome movie. Probably one of the best movies I've ever watched.

Once the movie ended we had something to eat then went to Potong Pasir MRT to change into Scout U then went for the St. Andrew's Scouts campfire, which was really good (:

The theme was "Lost?" and their gateway, although not very impressive, fitted the theme really well. The show was great too. Everyone was really enthusiastic even when the sound system failed. The breakdancers were epic pwn. Almost perfect synchro, cool dance moves, etc. Felt it ended a little early though, but great job the the St' Andrew's Scouts!

Hehe, took the circle line back home, not too bad la, not much difference from the regular MRT.

EXCEPT today, where it took 8 minutes from Paya Lebar to Macpherson, which is 1 stop. Cause train travel damn slowly, stop for 1 minute, then go again, got some stupid delay because of some stupid track fault. Although I suppose I can't blame them since it's really new.

Hypocrites

You know when you were young (or for some, even now), your parents always said how they want their kids to have moral values, to be generous, to be kind, to be compassionate, to be giving.

Yet parents don't even display these values in their everyday life, they don't show their children the way to uphold these so called, "values" that they want their children to have.

What's the point of a mother telling her son, "You should be compassionate and generous", yet when walking along the street, ignores the desperately hungry beggar?

Take for example a family I came across at the MRT. The parents and two kids. An old beggar behind the railing on the steps. A glance of disapproval, a glance of distaste, then carrying on walking as though the beggar didn't exist.

I donate to that old man whenever I can. That day, all I had in my wallet was 50c, but I gave that to him.

*edit*

Offensive to some people, so I cut out 2/3 of this post.

Hmm

It's April. It only just vaguely registered.

This probably shows the degeneration of my brain or something. Like how I just finished 4 consecutive books of Garfield in 2 days. Yes, you read that right, Garfield, the fat cat who has been such a world-wide success. See? I'm even advertising a children's book.

Anyway, I have decided to post at least twice a month, so yeah.

March......Holidays? Right.

Yeah, I'm still updating.

March holidays passed in a blur. It was a 9 day holiday, including the weekend. Felt like 2 days actually.

Jobweek was once again bloody retarded. Once again I failed the batch target. I didn't even reach half of it. Makes me jealous of everyone else with that mountain of notes and coins.

SUTC. I suppose before the camp I was quite excited about skipping the third day but strangely enough, when I left the den to get my bag I didn't really feel at all that happy.

Quick summary of events during SUTC:

Day 1
horseshoe
pumping
inspection (which sucked as usual)
flag break
-ABSENCE OF PT-
first aid teaching
lunch
stuff which i can't remember
footdrill
flag lowering
dinner
night orienteering (yeah we got second because we're just too pro)
SENTRY FTW

Oh and something really spastic happened on that night. We were all randoming around during sentry and then it started raining so we threw our bags into the shelter and I ran around the tents zipping them up and shoving shoes and uniforms under and into the tents respectively. So it sucked because I got wet and it sucked more cause I was too tired to go and change so I stayed wet for the rest of the day.

Day 2
horseshoe
PT (WHICH SUCKED)
breakfast
SOC
some survival thing which turned into 600+ clearing
lunch
SRITs
footdrill
flag lowering
dinner
go home feeling guilty about going home so early.

Yeah, so after that was Wednesday, which was the RE seminar which was the reason why we had to skip the last day, Thursday was (well deserved) rest and recuperation, friday was go to school to do some spastic compre then go for dentist, saturday was more R-R, sat night was falling sick, sunday sucked, Monday no school because of a 2 day MC for my fever + flu.

On a side note, I still have my bruise from like 10 days ago as mentioned in my previous post.

Updates

No, I'm not dead. Yes, I'm still alive.

Just a few quick updates. Tomorrow's Job Week (aka walk around and die week) and after that is SUTC (aka die). Feeling quite nervous about it, but I'm going home at 7am on the third day to skip 5 hours of the last part of it :) which of course, is the most "fun" part. I would have to go for some RE seminar. Lol.

On a side note, I banged my shin really really hard today while playing soccer and I can't walk properly so I'm not sure how I'm going to do Job Week tomorrow.

Sure, I'm stupid, everything I do is wrong, I'm this, I'm that

You know what? I don't give a shit.

Happy CNY

Yeah. A bit late, I know. But still.

This is another one of "those" posts. So skip if you feel like it. Frankly, I don't actually care that much. I'm not in much of a position to anyway. (BTW 1K VIEWS ON THIS BLOG WHOOHOO ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED)

Basic review of this year. More high hopes and expectations, but yet more disappointments and failures. Literally. And then there's this person who seems to think that everything I do is wrong and he's superior in every way. I won't actually name this person, and I'm not going to reveal it, but let's just say I've mentioned him before.

And you're just such a smug arrogant irritating little bitch. Everything you do is better, you're smarter, you're superior in every damn way. You call me fail and laugh. Maybe it's just a sign that you're what, trying to assert yourself? Boosting your ego at the expense of someone else's?

I don't think you actually realise it's affecting me in more ways than you think. Sure, I ignore it and sometimes reply with the usual humour and everything, but I think you've crossed the line. Especially today.

I may have gotten a demerit point and I probably deserve it, but I don't think another regular decent person with no self-boosting-egoistic ideals would put me down even further. You look at me and smile and say, "fail". And within me I'm containing this burning urge to just punch you really hard in the face and possibly break your bloody nose.

So yeah, rant over.

Happy CNY all.

Stuff

Long time no post.

Didn't go to school yesterday because of another big-ass headache plus cough and cold and stuff that makes me feel like shit. Then today had a lol-the-ground-is-shaking-is-it-an-earthquake headache. Which isn't nice.

First month of school has been blah. Usual random crap, new topics, new everything. And yeah, it's fun to see the new sec1s blur-blur and everything and when walking past them act really mature and cool. It's also nice to see that they are also better than the sec 2 batch in soccer.

2010

Well. It's 2010 now, a new decade, a new........year.

I have 2 New Year resolutions.

1) To have 2 newyearresolutions

2) To keep to the 2 new year resolutions.

On a slightly more serious note, its kind of funny to watch the sec1s and imagine us like them just a year ago. Makes you think about how fast 365 days have passed.

Group Celebrations

Which ended on a sad note, for me at least. Took MRT to AMK hub to meet with HAWK WHOO, then bought Alvin and the Chimpmunks 2 (OF ALL BLOODY MOVIES WE WATCH THIS) then lala around in the arcade then had lunch then watched the movie which was spastic then lalaed around somemore then uh. CHIONGED (took our time) to go to east coast park where everyone was lost because we had no idea where to find the Macdonalds. So we had to take a cab and waste money.

So we had to go to this jetty like 1+km from the macdonalds and we RAN (strolled) to the jetty only to find that we were given free time up to 7. It was 4:45 and we were 45 minutes late. -.-

So we lalaed around, tokcok then went to watch people bowl and go to arcade then went back to the jetty (btw I keep spelling jetty as jerry) for teh roflmao barbacue. So in between eating and patrol talk (screwing around) I took off my shoes and walked in the sand and let the sea wash over my feet and it wuz kewl lol. So there was some emoing then the post holders ceremony.

At least I managed to get a post. Then came the "Which ended on a sad note" news. 

I'm moving from Hawk to Owl.

Like seriously, why switch a sec1 when the year has been spent like bonding with the patrol and everything. I mean, the main point about 01 is for all the batch and patrol bonding and everything, so doesn't this defeat the purpose?

So everyone started emoing. Well, looking on the brighter side at least someone (deluded lol) thinks highly of me, so I suppose this is a chance to prove myself that I'm actually worthy of the post they gave me. And Roy is some kewl guy, and Ter's in my patrol so maybe it isn't really that bad.

Events

Here I am sitting at home in front of the computer and I'm back from NZ and I'm still suffering from jet lag and its been nearly a month since I posted. Past 3-4 weeks have been very busy, with GTC prep, GTC fear, GTC, falling sick, coming home, packing for holiday, then the trip itself.

A lot to write about. So bear with me or just close the page.

GTC. The usual stuff, first day, pumping blah blah inspection blah. Which sucked again as usual. Well, GTC inspection didn't suck as much as SUTC inspection, but it sitll sucked. So after the USUAL pumping blah blah blah, we had SRITs where our group's imba knowledge of first aid made us the proest. Then some other random stuff before hiking to Bukit Timah. -.- Bukit Timah of all places. Why couldn't we hike to like. Like, the school field or something.

Anyway. The sec2s told us the route was about 10km (I think? With all the turns and stuff). It felt like about 100 km. And according to another sec2, the next day's would be sooo much more enjoyable, with the sun and no wind and our uniform. I think if not for my bag I would have attempted to run across the road and hopefully get hit by a particularly fast oncoming taxi, but my stuff would all be squashed.

So we (ZOMGFINALLY) reached Bukit Timah CCAB where we collapsed and then had dinner then built bashas then pumped then continued building bashas then fell asleep then woke up again to do sentry then fell alseep. End of Day 1.

Day 2. Woke up nice and early to a brilliant breakfast of bread, baked beans etc. (BTW I'M NEVER FREAKING EATING BAKED BEANS AGAIN TYVM), then plotted our checkpoints and left. So we hiked. Hike hike hike, foam foam foam. Halfway through I had some big-ass headache so I half collapsed so Wayne took my bag but I was still foaming but I managed to reach the end point. Of Pasir Ris MRT station. Like -.-, Bukit Timah CCAB to Pasir Ris MRT station. Straight line distance would make it about 20km, which is appoximately half the width of Singapore. Plus our checkpoints and twists and turns and fail navigation would make it about 25-26km. I later found out that our route was supposed to be 26km, so its probably about 27 given our imba navigation.

So day 2 night we were supposed to have Survival Night. Midway through our basha building in the middle of freaking nowhere, it poured with rain. Like, seriously, poured. We got out and reached Tanah Merah ferry terminal, where we had some food and a FREAKING HOT MEAL WHOOO. Then we went back for our bags (when the rain stopped, like, obviously) and went to some random building to sleep.

Day 3 was almost exactly the same, except that I completed like a quarter of the hike. My headache started again but I stupidly went to volunteer to navigate and ended up failing quit badly because I couldn't concentrate. So a quarter way through the hike I half passed out and had to go with the teacher to drive me to West Coast park, the end point. So that day's hike was basically across Singapore. My headache didn't improve so I went home.

Then the NZ trip.

1st day: flying.

2nd day: resting at motel in Auckland

3rd day: drove to Paihia

4th day: 90mile beach tour (where I had motion sickness -.- and I kept falling asleep)

5th day: Hole in the rock cruise where I got owned by the wind because the boat was travelling like really fast.

6th day: Drove from Paihia to Hamilton, which took about 6 hours.

7th day: Drove from Hamilton to Taupo.

8th day: Huka falls jet, which is like a really fast boat ride with lots of twists and spins and stuff. Went for it twice. In the afternoon went for a helicopter ride to see the hotpools.

9th day: Drove from Taupo to Rotorua. Then went for like a luge thing. At one point there was this slope where I was going too fast and I was airborne for like a second then I fell so hard my ass hurt and I got dislodged from the luge and I couldn't control it properly then I was going so damn fast (like 40km/h) and I crashed into a corner and I flew off the luge and I landed in the grass and completed 2 full turns and I have 2 swells on my legs and my hip hurts.

10th/11th day: went to see geysers and stuff

12th day: Drove back to Auckland.

13th day: Flew back to SG (in the plane I watched G.I. Joe again lol)

Well.

That was a long post.

But all (good) things must come to an end.

So this post comes to an end.

-.-

Weh. I'm surprised the counter is still going up. I mean, why can't it go down?

Anyway. GTC is coming up in a week. Really nervous about it. Just spent the last few weeks slacking around, lazing, wasting my (awesome) brain away. Typical holidays. I suppose every holiday is the same, sometimes you even wish that school would come quicker. I think the term is "sian". Sigh. After GTC things would be much better, without the dread and thought of, "crap GTC is coming I'm going to die I'm going to die help me I'm going to die".

-.-

Gah. Realised I like saying -.- a lot.

Got my guitar already. Still quite lousy at it, but I'll go no where but up from here onwards. I mean, I can't go down, can I?

Btw yes I did that on purpose.

Quick update before I go do tuition work.

Just a quick update before I go do tuition work. So far results have been received, and I don't want to talk about any of them except history. Past few days have been slacking around and doing stupid surveys that feel like EoYs after the long period of brain degeneration. People bring laptops to school and play the CoDs, PvZ and all those random games.

Well. Everyone from 01 is getting in the mood of GTC now, so the discipline and pumping starts, the smiles drop, and our hands get dirty.

-End of Update. Be grateful that I'm actually doing this.-

EOEOYS

Hay. Exams over. Woot. Slacking time begins. Emoing continues.

Came back from Marc's house 3 hours ago. Went there at 3pm yesterday, played Halo etc., went to his grandparents' house, had dinner, went back to Marc's house, played, read, read, read, played, finally gave up and fell asleep at 7am. Woke up at 12, played some Halo matchmaking, then after lunch was Halo ODST campaign.

Just woke up an hour ago after falling asleep because I'm tired lol.

I'm strong on the surface, but not all the way through

And maybe not that strong on the surface either.

Although I'm supposed to be on a hiatus, I just have to get this off me.

For this entire year I've been hiding behind the usual facade of laughter and being laid-back, although admittedly that is what I always do. But now I'm not so sure whether that's even a good thing.

I'm surrounded by people who are really good in academics, and having my name always at the bottom of the class actually, despite how I react when I first hear it, is really depressing. Of course, I can have the usual defense that academics isn't everything, but its not that simple. I'm torn between continuing with the usual bullshit of just screwing around and enjoying life as it is (terrible), and getting the typical "I'm going to mug now so go away" attitude which seems to have come over most people I know.

Yet, even if I continue as I am, I'm not even sure that's a good thing. Laughing everything off might be good in the short term, but I'm sensing that most people regard me as a fail. In class I just laugh and pretend to ignore it, but deep down I feel more and more uncomfortable and insecure.

I've also been a hypocrite, and I have to apologise to all those people (not many xD) who I've been an asshole to, argued with or just generally get rather pissed off at. I suppose most of the time its probably my fault, yet I still continue to argue. I'm starting to feel really insecure, like to my closer friends, I'm starting to wonder whether they stick with me because I stick with them and their just being nice and not asking me to screw off, or they really treat me as a friend. 1 year, or even 6 months ago, I've never had this feeling before, but this is becoming more frequent every day.

I've been meaning to post this for some time, but just couldn't bring myself to do it. I don't know if I'm just burying myself under a facade, hoping that it would all somehow go away. This is the first time I've ever felt so under pressure and insecure, not even during PSLE. The timing of this post is quite crap, just after my birthday and just before EoYs.

I can't really find many words to express what I'm currently feeling, although I find Linkin Park's songs have a lot of relevance. I suppose you have to read deeper into the lyrics to figure out how I'm really feeling.

Crawling - Linkin Park
Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real


There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface
Consuming/confusing
This lack of self-control I fear is never ending
Controlling/I can't seem


To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence, I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

Discomfort, endlessly has pulled itself upon me
Distracting/reacting
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection
It`s haunting how I can't seem...

To find myself again
My walls are closing in
(Without a sense of confidence, I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take)
I've felt this way before
So insecure

Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

Crawling in my skin
These wounds, they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing, confusing what is real
(There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface)
Consuming, confusing what is real
(This lack of self-control I fear is never ending)
Controlling, confusing what is real.

Test/Exams

Gah. Recently there has been a lot of test being given out. Can't say I did exceedingly well, but I did manage to pass maths, despite my emo angsting that I would fail. I actually passed :D, by one mark though -.-

Got back English compre today, pwnt everyone with mah 22/25. Lost to Gabriel though.

LOL filmed science advertisement today. I washed my hair and applied the shampoo, but since I'm totally do not have a crew cut the foam didn't appear. After I delegated my responsibilities to Mr. YY since he has like more hair than me, we filmed the thing. Well, we filmed scene 1 and 3 where my filming was pro.

Then did scene 2 after several million dry runs and trials and failures.

Gah going on a hiatus until after EoYs, just like (mostly) everyone who has a blog.

Mugging/EOYs

They go hand-in-hand, unfortunately. Firstly, I'd like to thank the same guy whom I'm having an MSN conversation with for asking me (FORCING ME) to write this post.

Actually I'm posting this when I'm supposed to be mugging, unfortunately once again. After this I'll probably go finish up the Maths Supp Ex that I really need to complete if I don't want my Maths score to be so pathetically low as compared to the rest of my class. Sad.

On the bright side, once EOYs are over, its slacking time! I probably won't pon school with the excuse of bronchitis but I'll just go there and stone. And stuff. Lol.

On the other hand, Mr 01 people like moi have certain things such as GTC and GTC preparation (TERENCE AND JUNXIANG YOU BETTER NOT FREAKING PON OR YOU DAI) to look forward to (um I mean dread). I just realised that GTC is made from the worst of Night Hike and SUTC.

I have come up with a recipe for GTC.

Item: GTC
Ingredients: Sadistic J1s, suanning manly people, Worst of Night Hike, Worst of SUTC, 5 days to spare.
Preparation: Extract the worst of night hike and SUTC with the method of crystallisation, since night hike and SUTC are mentally unstable. After this, roll the two together and beat well. Pump them as well. Roll them out flat with a rolling pin and make them do inspection. Then, add 5 days to the mixture and stir well. Make them walk well too. Then, put it in the microwave oven for 5 days, followed by rain for 3 days. Serve warm.

Well

First of all I need to thank a small boy from my class who I'm currently talking to on MSN for giving me inspiration to write this post. Due to extreme pressure from him I shall not describe or talk more about his size :D

Can't really think about much to write about, especially since the whole week has been dull and repetitive. Except that today's swimming lesson for PE pwned. It was the first time I actually had a proper swim for like 2 years, so it was kinda refreshing today. And I also realised I forgot how to do freestyle xD

So.

The Irony

Nothing to post now so I'll leave you with this.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and
smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more
problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read
too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too
much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to
life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but
have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered
outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better
things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom,
but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but
accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more
computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but
we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small
character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of
two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are
days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night
stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to
quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and
nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to
you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to
just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going
to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because
that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the
only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but
most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes
from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will
not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious
thoughts in your mind.

Pioneering + Night Hike act

I don't usually post this often but I feel obliged to after a foamy camp on Saturday/Sunday.

Reached BWL at about 7:50.

Talk cock for a while, helped with the poles. After briefing went to start building stuff. Started on the (???)trachsel(???). The whole thing passed in kind of a blur, all I remember throughout the process of tying the ropes and poles is that the Oreos by John were pwnage and so were the soft drinks.

Then we had to erect the structure. Epically failed 2 out of 3 we built. First one went up in the second try. Second one, one of the poles cracked. Third one, one of the lashings came loose and a pole nearly GGed someone on the head.

Then dismantled structure and general clearing of mess. Went back to RI, briefing, shower, SPAM PRICKLY HEAT, refill bottle, prepare for hike etc. Dinner at J8.

Hike started at RPMRT. Basically just walked, walked, walked, break, walk, walk, walk, walk etc. Then we were changing the lyrics to some common songs. "Let's take a break this hike is shit, I really really need your first aid kit" etc. Time passed kinda quickly that way.

Finally reached RI at 2am after 6 hours of hiking. Needless to say, we were all half asleep standing up and our legs were dying. So we went to sleep etc.

Next day had some ossum Macs breakfast with JX and Terence LOL.

If not for the foaminess and the aching legs it actually would be kinda fun :D

Quick post

Just a quick post before I go for tuition =(. Why can't they banish tuition into some far corner of Africa. Life would be so much easier.

Anyway. Results so far have been like shit. Failed CL, barely passed History, but a reasonable but still below average for Maths. I still got 15/20 for poetry test though, so suan everyone who didn't get as high :D

Ok maybe I'll post like 3 times a month or something. That's quite demanding.

And my internet modem is screwed up. Keeps DCing.

EDIT: LOL I FORGOT TO POST ABOUT THE EX-TNS GATHERING

Lol.

Outing was fun. Reached TNS at about 11+. Reached there, saw Marc and some other people. Found Anton at the bookstore so we started to make fun of him (LOLLOLLLLLOLOOOOLOLOLLLOL).

Crapped around for a while, talk to people. Everyone looked so freaking different o.0

Went up to the hall, watched the speech, then the dance. The dance was fail, they were dancing to "Nobody" and they were totally rubbish. Anyway, during the Chinese drama club presentation thingy, Reynold decided to be evil to the JLJH and zhao before he could catch up with us since no one wanted him to come for the movie too. Lol. Plan failed. So we went to play soccer, then attempted to meet the teachers, but they entire corridor was like packed with students.

So at like 2 we left for Tampines Mall. Bus 31. Ate at KFC (DAMN NICE) then went to book tickets. Before that we were arguing which one to watch. Then went outside to play truth or dare. Damn retarded. Then the epic moment came.

I FREAKING SAW GERALD CHOA KAI KIT AND HE LOOKS SO............

Weird.

Voice changed, some manly mature deeeeeeeeeeeeeep voice. Specs change, some cool red thing which still looks retarded, but not as fail as the previous one. Emo clothes again. Sigh. People change so much after just a few short months.

Watched "Up", which I guess was ok and sort of touching but not really the sort I'm looking for. I probably can understand the themes of friendship & relationships etc. but doesn't appeal to me lol. Wanted to watch G.I. Joe. After that went home with Dommy, but we stopped at some bubble tea shop and I bought grass jelly because it pwns.

Lol fun.

*END OF EDIT (LOLWUT LONG POST -.-)*

zzz

Something happened to blogger? It looks retarded.

Anyway. Haven't posted for like a while. Lol. Too busy, too bored, too lazy.

The past few weeks have been quite crap. Tests, exhausting 01 acts etc.

LOL SET NEW HIGH SCORE FOR TTC VIVA LA VIDA LOLOLOLOL.

zzz.

The tests were largely ok. Science practical was somewhat easy. Maths too (although I got the last part of the last question wrong -.-)

OK THERE I'VE FREAKING POSTED SO SHUT UP ABOUT ME NOT POSTING KTHXBAI.

Poms

Lol I finally finished the first draft of one of my poems, the narrative.

Took a dang long time to come up with it, even so, its quite miserable and pathetic. Maybe I'll just post the first stanza?

EDIT: I JUST DELETED MY POM BECAUSE ITS SO DAMN EMBARRASSING.

Ok.....

Ok.....

I dunno.

Lots of stupid stuff in the upcoming week. Let's recall.

Monday: English poetry test.

Tuesday: Nothing :DDDDDDD (lol my 7 chins).

Wednesday: Major sadface/angryface/surprised face since there's 2 CCTs and one practical. In one day. Recap - History, Geography, Science Practical.

Thursday: Nothing too

Friday: Submission of English Creative Writing Portfolio - Poetry.

I really don't like poetry. I can't explain. Poetry on its own is fine, I just don't like coming up with poems. It makes my head explode.

(Long awaited?) update

Ok, so I've been under pressure recently to post on this blog. So I am doing it.

For the past few weeks, I don't really feel like posting since I've been doing other stuff.

Anyway, we got back a few tests and I've done ~soso~.

Today, saw that old man sitting at the steps of the MRT station, playing some kind of flute thingy. Again, contemplated whether to give him money, then the light changed, so I crossed the road. Along the way, thought about whether what I had done was right. Next time I'll try to save up and give him money whenever he's there. Feel kind of sorry for him.

Anyway, we got back our marks for our fail history project in which our exhibit looked so....awesome?

2 hours of last minute Andre work > 2 weeks of group work.

Sigh

Fail

Quick post

Hi

Quick post time

This week sucked

Bye

Stop complaining

...

Let's just classify the several groups of people in this world. 

First, theres those who are really good at something, but boast and brag about it and basically be a complete idiot.

Then, theres those who completely suck at something, but they still boast about it like they don't, and basically be even bigger idiots.

Then, theres nice people who are really good at something, but their humble and everyone respects them.

Theres also those who suck at something, but they know they suck and they just get on with life, or try to improve themselves.

Then theres those who are just average who either just keep quiet, or boast.

To me, it's like everyone I know can be classified into one of these six groups.

Rather stupid that my CS/CLE project website is called, imhumble.com (its not up yet :D).

School Holidays

Don't feel like posting much now-a-days. With the threat of H1N1 looming, hanging above like a dark thunderstorm, and MRS LIM LAI CHENG NOT CLOSING THE SCHOOL!

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Sigh.

H1N1

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/437803/1/.html 

Look at that BS.

Even though the cases in SG are about 150, and 95% of people who voted on CNA say to EXTEND THE DAMN HOLIDAYS, our dear friend the Health Minister decided for schools to continue as scheduled. :@@@@

Anyway, I've decided to revert back to the old way of typing perfectly (not really perfectly) since I've discovered it really helped a lot in typing my plogs.

Anyway (again) I've completed quite a few of my projects already but there will be the constant nag of studying, mugging....

hay guyz

im back. and ive decided not to bother with posting with kengji style grammer and punctuation.

Danang was kind of ok lah. 80% motorcycles, 19% bicycles and 1% cars.

the trip was kind of disastorous. you'll see why.

Car drivers in Vietnam are srsly crazy. its like one hand on the horn and the other on the gear thingy. epic spam horning. even just coming out of the hotel must horn like xiao.

first day. arrived. foamed in the airport (not really airport. more like "failed attempt to be an airport" airport.) Went to the hotel. Lunch. Sleep until evening. Went to the beach and took random pictures of sunset. Unluckily there was no sun because there were too many clouds.

i just realised that im too into the habit of typing perfectly that im (almost) typing perfectly.

Anyway after taking all sorts of pictures with my fathers new imba 1337 camera, we went back into the hotel. washed up and went for dinner. came back, slept.

next day. after breakfast and shitting and stuff, went to hoi an. srsly hot, a lot more hot and humid than singapore. our original intention was to walk around hoi an and see random stuff. what actually happened was stoning in a cafe for 1 hour because it was so srslysrs hot. didnt have lunch because breakfast was too full lol.

went back to the hotel. washed up, stoned for half an hour, then took a taxi to marble mountain (sounds like marba mountan when the vietnamese say it lol.) walked up the steps to the top, took pictures, went back down again. went back to hotel, stoned, dinner, sleeeeeeeep.

dinner was quite.....interesting. There were 2 eating areas, indoors and outdoors. we were moved to a place outdoors, with the sea breeze and everything. Only problem was, everyone was smoking. we opted to go indoors. we ordered our food. First, the abalone. quite nice. next, the prawns. quite nice. next, the crab. quite nice too. then we waited. and waited. then the waiter came over and said: "im sorry we dont have anymore fish, chicken or beef". 

quite impossible for a restaurant that size to run out of these 3 main foods right?

we had the last plate of  veg, then quickly left. we were all so :@ and D: that our dinner was gone. sigh.

next day. same morning routine which involved me sitting on the toilet reading for about 15 minutes. lol. then took a taxi to ba na mountain, where we were supposed to take a cable car up to the top. the cable car system actually (according to the information provided) set 2 guiness world records for height and length. it was 5 km long and about 1.5km high. quite scary lah.

on the way up it started to rain. it stopped after a while and i continued snapping pictures with my fathers new imba camera. i srsly took infinite bajillion pictures coz its ossumly addicting to spam pics. then it statred to rain even mroe at the top...so much so that they stopped the cable car system. since it was raining, we couldnt take pictures, since the system had stopped, we couldnt go back down.

in other words, we were trapped up there. for about 2 hours. damn sian lah. everyone around was either smoking or stoning. they just unrolled newspapers and picnic mats and started playing cards, while we just stood there, trying to keep away frmo the heavy smoke that hung in the air. once the rain stopped and the car system continued, we took a van further up the mountain, snapped pictures, went back to the cable car station, then rode down.

on the way down, it stopped again. i was like omgwhattheheckishappening. it was srsly damn scary, especially after you've read all those compos about how the cable car stops in mid air....

after a while it continued and i was like HENG SIA. 

we took a taxi back and stoned, dinner, sleep.

Next morning, my father woke me up at 5 to go watch the sunrise, since one of the hotel staff told us that the sun would rise at 5:15. When we left the room at 5:05, the sky was bright. :@. 

We went down to the beach to watch the sun complete its rising. it was already like in the air liao, but extreme bad luck combined with cloudy skies largely prevented us from even seeing the sun. :@

We just stoned for the rest of the day, sleeping and watching TV, drove to the airport, stoned some more for about 2 hours, got on the plane and went back to SG!

Danang

Flying off to Vietnam tomorrow.

Weathers going to be really hot and humid, much like Singapore's, so I'm bracing myself for HEAT.

Will blog more about it when I come back. Won't say when though :D. Keep you guessing.

AC stuff

AC was seriously fun. Really slack camp, basically meaning for the most part we could do anything we wanted between meal times/planned activities. 

For the first day we just set up our sleeping and kitchen tents as well as started work on our gadgets, tables and gateways. We also cooked our own dinner, which consisted of rice, egg, black pepper chicken with onions as well as an epic dessert called creme buerleadfasdfasdfhiausgdifoagsdufoiasdf. The dessert was made with sugar, egg, butter and ice cream. At night, we had night (duh) games. Each person had 2 pegs (clothespegs) pegged to their backs. The aim of the game is for each patrol to attain as many pegs as possible by snatching it from other patrols. Each sec 1 was allowed a maximum of 4 pegs on the back, sec 2s 5, and sec 3s unlimited. If a person ran out of pegs, he had to go to a penalty area for a forfeit until a member of his patrol came to redeem him. Aside from the funness of this activity, the downside was it became incredibly...well quite violent because I was elbowed in the face. Along with the pain, the two extra bonuses were a big bruise and a swell at the bridge of my nose, as well as getting my specs owned.

Second day was the same, pioneering and tying and tying and cooking and eating and sleeping and shitting. Night activities was EA, short for external activity. Each patrol was given a checkpoint clue. Once the patrol had figured out where they were supposed to go, they had to go to that place (not in school, around Raffles Place MRT and Dhoby Ghaut). Once there, the patrol would be given a task clue. It was up to the patrol to decide how they wanted to complete the task. Judging was based on creativity and originality. Quite fun, extremely exhausting. I took a panadol on the way back lol because I had a headache lol.

Third day was exactly the same, with the addition of more rope burns. At night we had Stupid Quiz 2009. Rules are quite long and I won't bother to explain. What matters were that we won :D.

Fourth day. In the morning, after eating breakfast, we ran 2.9 km. Of course, I could exaggerate a bit and say it was 3 km, but I'm feeling honest now and I won't. After the run, we just went back to tying and pioneering again. At night was Festival of Lights. We just had to create as much lights as possible and have some theme/storyline to it. Quite fun, except our safety was fail and we probably got zero. Reason being we had fires next to wooden structures and ropes. We also lit up out tea lights with a gas stove and it was really LOL. Another reason was that we put sparkler dust into a glass jar and lit it with a sparkler. Soon after, the glass (GLASS) jar exploded. 

Fifth day was cleaning up and it sucked. Quite self-explanatory. Then patrol standings for AC were announced and Hawk got 3rd place D:.

OH YES. An epic thing that happened on the second and third night. It rained. 

For the second night, because I was sleeping in the kitchen tent which was open air, I knew about the rain quite quickly. We were all extremely afraid of the rain because firstly, it would mean our kitchen tent would collaspe, and secondly all our stuff would be wet. We stood there bailing out water for about 15 minutes, until a J1 told us to get out since it was a thunderstorm. Meanwhile I went back into the tent to push all the bags further in and attempt to close the flap. This was impossible for two reasons. One, the zip had broken off. Two, the string to hold the flap up was in a dead knot. Translation: half of the entrance was wide open. While I struggled with the flap, the rest of the patrol did a controlled collaspe of the kitchen tent and we ran into the shelter, where we slept for the next 2 hours until about 8am. I forgot to mention the rain occured at 5am in the morning. When we went back to our tents, we found out ALL our stuff was wet. Two simple reasons: the reason above and the fact that the bottom of the tent was not waterproof. 

The third night it rained less heavily, so it was quite ok. We collasped the tent and ran into the shelter. 

The rain was quite expected since it seems that every Annual Camp it rains, turning it into Annual Rain. 

End result of the camp, I've turned multiple dozen shades darker due to prolonged exposure to the sun. aahhhhahahhaha D:

AC

Will be going for Annual Camp tomorrow all the way to Friday. It's going to be (supposedly) a fun camp but after SUTC I am quite skeptical about all 01 camps.

Will blog more about it when I come back, hopefully in one piece.

Another piece of news, the J1s made us bring our thermometers, which shows that the level of alertness is increasing due to the addition of another H1N1 case in Singapore, bringing the total to 5.

Benny you got your wish. Sadly it came during the school holidays.

June Holidays

Not really holidays.

Projects: History, Chinese, CS/CLE, RE and English. A grand (grand!) total of 5 projects for the entire duration of the June Holidays. I would probably have to go to other people's houses lots and lots of times.

Coupled with the fact that Monday will be Annual Camp till Friday, it's going to be fun but doesn't help matters much with my workload.

Anyway, for today and yesterday I foamed to finish the stupid banners and cutting and stuff. Friday was emulsifying spam. Today was painting spam. Had to use turpentine (purtenpine o.0 lolz) to get the paint off me.

Not really holidays.

I still can't think of a title.

Is this blog dead or dying?

I don't really have the time to follow the strict rules set by Benjamin that I have to post once a day because it's quite impossible, taking into consideration the fact that the workload has increased by a lot.

I have a fungus on my leg. Yes it's disgusting and its not mushrooms. It's not really that visible but you can see some bumps and rough surfaces. It is actually growing under my skin and thats seriously disgusting, gross, creepy and scary.

I shall now talk about the miniolympics which I said I would blog about in the next year. Be grateful that I actually remembered.

It was actually quite simple. For each win, the patrol gets 6 points, as opposed to the usual 3 points of the EPL. For each draw, the patrol gets 2 points, also as opposed to the usual 1 point in the EPL. For each loss you get nothing.

Basically each patrol will play a variety of games against each other, such as basketball, soccer, badminton and frisbee. There was also track events.

As usual, due to my pro-ness, we got first :D.

I still can't think of a title.

I can't think of a title

So it shall be that.

Tomorrow is Science Practical.....really nervous because I'm still a little unclear about what to do.....so let me just recap here.

Starch Test: Add 3-5 drops of iodine(I'm not sure about this part) to the solution and shake. If starch is present, the solution will turn dark blue.

Reducing Sugars Test: Add an equal amount of Benedict's reagent to the solution. Boil in a water bath for 3-5 minutes. If reducing sugars is present, the end result will be an orange/brick red precipitate. (Remember to observe the transition colours).

Protein Test: Add 3-5 drops of sodium hydroxide followed by 3-5 drops of 1% copper sulphate. If protein is present, the solution will turn purple (thanks George).

Fat Test: Add 3-5 drops of 70% ethanol solution to the solution. Shake and pour 3cm cube of solution into a test tube. Add an equal amount of distilled water. If fats are present, the solution will turn into a white emulsion (whatever that means).

I'm not sure if there will be anything else so I will check with people tomorrow.

igtgkthxbai

My first ever quiz?

Found this on Alvin's blog.

[x] You have yelled at an inanimate object for 'hurting' you.
[x] You have ran into a glass/screen door.
[ ] You have jumped out of a moving vehicle.
[x] You have thought of something funny and laughed, then people gave you weird looks.
[ ] You have ran into a tree/bush
[ ] You have been called a "blonde"
[ ] You know that it IS possible to lick your elbow.
[x] You just tried to lick your elbow.
[ ] You never knew that the Alphabet and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star have the same rhythm
[x] You sang them to make sure.
[x] You have tripped on your own feet and fallen.
[x] You have choked on your own spit.
[ ] You have seen the Matrix/Star Wars and still don't get it.
[ ]You type with three fingers or less.
[ ] You have accidentally caught something on fire.
[x] You have caught yourself drooling.
[x] You have fallen asleep in class
[ ] Sometimes you just stop thinking.
[ ] Sometimes when you are telling a story you forget what you were talking about.
[ ] People often shake their heads and walk away from you.
[ ] You are often told to use your "inside voice"
[ ] You use your fingers to do simple math.
[x] You have eaten a bug accidentally.
[x] You are taking this test when you should be doing something more important. 
[x] You have put your clothes on backwards or inside out, and didn't realize it.
[x] You've looked all over for something and realized it was in your hand/pocket the whole time.
[ ] You repost bulletins because you are scared that what they say will happen to you if you don't.
[ ] You break a lot of things.
[ ] You tilt your head when you're confused
[x] You have fallen out of your chair before.
[ ] When you're lying in bed, you try to find pictures in the texture on the ceiling.
[x] The word "um" is used many times a day.
[] You don't know what "um" means.
[] You say "what" and "huh" a lot.
[ ] You used a calculator to multiply your score for this bulletin.

Total: 15

Multiply your score by 3 and you should be able to find out how retarded you are.

Eg, for my case, I am 45% retarded -_-

01 miniolympics win

For 01 act today we had mini olympics. Quite fun lah, just stone around and get up for a while to play then stone again.

Seriously tired today so will blog more about it in the next year.

Happy Vesak Day?

Today was "holiday" in-lieu for Vesak Day. "Holiday". More like "Foamingovermathssupplementryexerciseday". Spammed all five of it. I think I just lost 45% of my brain cells, wasted and splattered over crumpled worksheets, turning greyer as the worksheets turns soggier.

So Wednesday's act would be a "Neighbourhood run", which would more likely turn out to be a "Run around Singapore 5 times Run". Then two days later would be my 2.4 which I am planning to fail in since I still can get a silver even if I fail so I will purposely failfailfail. Maybe I should be like fjm and get 20 minutes?

Just maybe.

I need more chances to show off my manlyness, hence the maybe.

Manlyness.....manliness?

A problem with my digestive system

It is yet again official. I have constipation. 

It started like a week ago and since then I've been releasing lots and lots of inspirational air every day. Whenever I shit only a few tiny pieces exit my body. That's why I have been taking a long time to shit every day, struggling and fighting a losing battle to constipation.

We shall now have a song to end of the post. 

Uh huh, extra cheese.
Uh huh, Uh huh, save a piece for me.

Pizza party at your house,
I went just to check it out.
19 extra larges,
What a shame, no one came.
Just us, eatin' all alone,
You said, "take the pizza home.
No sense lettin' all this go to waste,"
So then I faced

Pizza all day, and everyday, there's cheese 'round the clock,
Is gettin' me blocked, And I sure don't care for irregularity.

Tell me,
Why'd you have to go and make me so constipated
'Cause right now I'd do anything to just get my bowels evacuated,
In the bathroom.
I sit and I wait and I strain and I sweat and I clench and I feel the pain
Oh, should I take a laxative or have my colon irrigated. 
No, no, no.

I was feelin' pretty down,
'Til my girlfriend came around.
We're just so alike in every way, I gotta say.
In fact, I just thought I might,
pop the question there that night.
I was kissin' her so tenderly,
But woe is me.

Who would've guessed, her family crest.
I'd suddenly spy, tattoo'd on her thigh.
And son of a gun, it's just like the one on me.
Tell me.

How was I supposed to know we were both related?
Believe me if I knew she was my cousin we never would've dated.
What to do now?
Should I go ahead and propose and get hitched and have kids with 11 toes,
And move to Alabama where that kinda' thing is tolerated.
No, no, no.

(no no)x11
(oooh)
I had so much on my mind,
I thought maybe I'd unwind.
Try out that new roller coaster ride,
And the guide...

Said not to stand, but that's a demand,
That I couldn't meet, I got on my feet,
And stood up instead and knocked off my head you see!
Tell me!

Why'd I have to go and get myself decapitated?
This really is a major inconvenience, oh man I really hate it.
It's such a drag now.
can't eat, I can't breathe, I can't snore, I can't belch or yodel anymore,
Can't spit or blow my nose or even read Sports Illustrated.
Oh no!

Why'd I have to go and get myself all mutilated? (yeah yeah)
I gotta tell ya, life without a head kinda makes me irritated.
What a bummer.
I can't blink, I can't cough, I can't sneeze.
But my neck is enjoyin' a pleasant breeze now.
Haven't been the same since my head and I were separated.
No, no, no.

Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj

Come to think of it, this is probably my longest title -_-. 

2.4 today was ok. Not what I had expected, but at least I got a D (I think).

The main point of this post: Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj has saboed the runners today to run AGAIN next week. Today's runners meaning those who ran today. The others could not because it was raining.

The main, no ONLY reason we have to run again is because Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj failed his lap counting. We were supposed to run 7 laps. He ran 6. He thought he ran 7. His lap counter, Zi Yang, failed too and said it was 7 (he later admitted it was 6). It was quite obvious that Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj skipped a lap because Yi Yong was always in front of Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj but Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj finished 6th and Yi Yong finished 7th. Obviously Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj skipped a lap.

And so, Mr Sarkkunan succumbed to student pressure because we all knew that Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj skipped a lap and we wanted Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj to retake the thing. So mr Sarkkunan asked Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj whether he wanted to rerun. 

Lets analyse this question. There are two possible responses for Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj to choose from, Yes or No. 

Yes = Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj would run again and today's runners can sit back and suan him.

No = Everyone has to run again to avoid the discreppancies. 

The stupid part is, no matter what answer Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj gave, Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj would still have to run. The difference is whether today's runners (me included) will run with Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj.

So Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj said No, ie, Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj saboed everyone to run again.

And so now Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj owes us 2 tofus.

I don't care if Jedidiah Andrew Seth Xayaraj sees this, but I am seriously :@ with him and I am going to be the main person in the tofu.

I'm so :@

The contrast

Just realised the huge and majorly huge contrast between primary and secondary school. I was at TNS today after LJD to pass my RE survey to the P6 GEP students. So because I couldn't find my teachers, I wandered around the school in hopes of seeing a familliar face (which I eventually did). Since it was the afternoon session, the epic lameness of the P1-P2 failures in life shouted out at me how huge a difference there IS between secondary and primary school (actually some are no better than P3 but I shall not name names).

Maybe its because as we age our view on life and perspectives changes, our priorities (prioritIES) changes, and basically a lot of things about us and our maturity (or lack of it for CERTAIN people) changes a lot too.

TODAY

Today was quite slack. Me and Benjamin were singing our batch song during science because we were sooooooo bored. Then played some random 1980 song during guitar lesson, and now my hands hurt.

Yesterday was also quite fun, because we had match support for the C (or B) Division Basketball South Zone finals. CHS coach super funny. Firstly, he is FAT. He had one gigantic paunch sticking out of him. He was so fat his paunch looked like one of his six pacs. The other five were stored elsewhere in his body o.0.

The CHS coach is seriously an epic fail as well as an epic loser as well as an epic failure in life. At the start, CHS was six points down and he was uber :@. Shouting and swearing and shaking his fat paunch and stamping the ground like an unintelligible, uneducated bulldog brought up by bulls. He was manhandling his players. The CHS basketball players probably weren't fighting for the trophy, rather for their lives, judging from the epic failness and angryness of the epic fail coach.

"Our basketballers fought hard, eventually emerging champions of the South Zone by a convincing scoreline of 69-47. May I now invite Mrs. Lim up on stage to congratulate the players. Mrs. Lim, please."

Blog title?

thisisaweirdblog.blogspot.com doesn't really fit the theme and purpose of this blog. Shouldn't it be, thisisanindianblogaswellasanemoblog.blogspot.com?

Geography test today was ok. Within 1 minute of the ending of the test, there were about 4-5 debates going on about the last question. This House Believes That the diagram for the last question should be a transform boundary. I am the opposition.

Good evening judiscators (or whatever it is) and members of the desktop, I am the first and only speaker from the opposition team. Firstly, it is important to realise that the question was asking for the cross section of the North American Plate and JUAN DE FUCA PLATE, not the Pacific plate. In the atlas, it states that the JDF plate and the NA plate converge. If the question was asking about the Pacific Plate and the NA plate, then it would be true that the diagram should be of a transform boundary.

For my second substantiate, a subduction zone would be the area where a denser plate (in this case the oceanic plate) subducts. In Figure 2, the line where the cross section should be drawn indicates that the subduction zone should be included in the diagram. How would a transform boundary have a subduction zone?

Therefore, this argument cannot stand.

01 Campfire

Campfire was ossum. I sang ok and everyone was like clapping along and screaming and stuff, but they did that for every song -_-. Everyone in 01 must now epic suan Jun Xiang. He was mike spamming stuff like "Justin, don't forget your lyrics!" into the mike backstage where everyone could here and they were like o.0?????????

Then Qie Hua forgot his lyrics, but it was ok cause everyone kept saying, "so cuuuuuuuuute" o.0.o.0.o.0.o.0

Then today Terence said that in Jamaican farewell, me and Jia Sheng were not singing in time to the music so he cut off the last part so it wouldn't be so paisehhhh. HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAAHHAHHHHAHAH

Animal Abuse

During assembly we had a talk by the founding member or ACRES, or *somethingsomethingsomethingsomethingsomething*. He was talking about stuff like animal testing, how in 40 minutes, 8000+ sharks would have been killed and whale sharks.

My point is, I am actually quite disgusted with people like these who abuse all these animals. A question posed to us by the guy was, "Do animals have rights"? My answer would be, "why not?"

Even though animals may not be as intelligent as us, why should it mean that they are given less or no rights? They were put in this earth for a reason. Should humans be so blind and ignorant as to not see that?

Maybe because I'm quite different from others. I don't really know how to explain because I don't really know myself, but why must humans be so self centered? Is it really hard to imagine if you were kidnapped, brought to a country on the other side of the world and made to do something you dislike for the rest of your living life?

And the case about sharks. 8000 sharks killed, slaughtered, every 40 minutes. In one year thats about a 100 million sharks killed, or should I say, murdered. Just a thought, if 100 million people were murdered every year, would the world take action? Would there be an outcry? Naturally there would be. Not saying this is a bad thing. But if the people were replaced with animals like sharks, would the reaction be the same? Why should it be different? Aren't they living, sentient beings like humans?

What should make homo sapiens so special?

01 campfire

Just received email from Yan Wei. According to the email, we will be staying back in school up to 6pm because we have another campfire reheseal. That sounds bad. The rest of the email was covering details of the campfire. We report at Choa Chu Kang MRT station at 7:30am. That is total shit. Firstly, if my parents drive me there, we will have to leave at 7am. If I take MRT I will have to leave at 6-6:30 am. Then we have to stay over night up to 11am the next day. Firstly, that means that I would be missing my last catechism lesson of the term. And I still have not fully recovered from my illness last week. AND I would have to perform during the campfire.

Would I dare to say that I regret a little joining 01?

Just a thought

Just a thought. I hate it when people say, "don't waste my time". Firstly, what makes their time so much more important than others? Why can't they just be a little nicer and less self-important? Why must they be so selfish and self-scented till they can't find their butts with both hands? Why must they be so arrogant that they only see the tips of their noses? Why am I asking so many whys?

This thought actually came a while after SUTC, which, as some of you may know if you have been loyal to me and reading this fail blog, is one of the toughest (after GTC since GTC is twice as hard) camp ever to exist on the face of this universe. It aimed to teach us batch bonding, discipline and others before self, and it sucsseded (however you spell it). Maybe SUTC was more worth the 3 days spent on it then I thought o.0