309 potluck Thursday, Dec 24 2009 

There was supposed to be a 309 pot luck yesterday but… it doesn’t seem like a pot luck and less then half of the class went so you can’t exactly call it a 309 potluck. Everyone was supposed to meet at serangoon mrt before leaving for ivan’s place at 4. Before i went there, my parents wanted to go get my sis a new shelf to put here stuff and all of us went to ikea to buy it and have lunch in the meantime. So, as usual, my parents will just extend the timing so much that i was sooo sure at 30 min before they remembered that i was going out that i am going to be late. At least this time my mum decided to not be so evil and make me VERYYYYYYY late again like the previous time they tried to fetch me to the movies and made my father drive faster. Finally when i reached, it was 4.05 and i just remembered i didn’t buy bread… I then went to 7-11 to buy 3 loafs of white bread and headed for the mrt to meet up with the rest. Who knows, when i got there, there was still people even later than me… I really should join the facebook group ” I really hate it when i rushed to get there because i’m late then you were later …” After everyone was finally here, we WALKED to ivan’s house from there. Wanted to take bus since i was really veryyyyyyyyyy tired then.

The walk was looooong and tttiiirrriiiggg but we reached there anyway within a short time but i was still not feeling well. Especially when there is someone like timo who goes around bothering everyone he see. We played monopoly with the credit card machine thing then had dinner. Ordered two pizzas and ivan prepared alot of other stuff. The food was rather ok except that i kept scalding myself with the curry each time i tried to get it. After that was the usual truth or dare which i don’t wish to elaborate about. Then we had ice cream and a few people left. The rest played mahjong tiles :D for one set before leaving.

Not sure why i just lost my inspiration to type this out. Now all my post are all soooo short…

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Sort of recovered… Tuesday, Dec 22 2009 

I think i should have recovered already. Temperature back to normal, head doesn’t hurt anymore. HOWEVER, phlegm start to appear, flu also, and i feel a slight bit of giddiness in my head… From 太热 to 太凉………… why can’t my body just be somewhere in between both XD

Sick again… Sunday, Dec 20 2009 

Haiz… was down with a fever yesterday… Since early in the morning when i woke up, there was this weird pain in my head, whenever i stood up from my chair, i would suddenly feel my vision getting blur for some time before it slowly returned to normal. At first i thought i was just not feeling well since i’m stuck at home with nothing to do.

However, before i left the house for dinner, this weird pain in my head got really bad till it’s hard to keep a straight face… Then, without warning, my whole body felt really cold… but when i touch my skin, it felt oddly warm… That’s it, confirm its a fever… Now i’m feeling really sick, no mood to eat anything again… feel like sleeping for the next few days till i fully recover XD.

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无政府 :D Friday, Dec 18 2009 

Great! My mother just left for taiwan for vacation which means… (read title) Hmm… suddenly out of ideas of what to do XD.

In the morning, as usual, i would be lazing around on my bed while my father returns home from night shift work and sits on the dinning table opening letters. Then, he suddenly said out in a very loud and strict voice asking me to go over! As i walked over, i was getting pretty worked up since i didn’t know what was going on especially when he was reading a letter with a yellow line at the top which looked VERYYYY familiar although it took me some time before realising what it was. All sorts of weird thoughts kept appearing as i walked down the aisle towards the dinning area :S. When i saw the letter, i was seriously shocked! Finally after so long managed to get another bursary award :D!!! $2oo award voucher will be given when i return to school!!!

Just realised that i haven’t posted anything over the past few days so i decided to post some of the stuff that happened yesterday as i perfectly forgotten anything before that.

Yesterday was fun! One word describes everything. Supposed to meet ben, zf, cheryl, gen, cmc, dillon for cycling at 11 but got cancelled due to the rain so we went to marina instead. At marina, we went to play bowling. The bowling there wasn’t too expensive, $3 per game and $1 for shoes. Haven’t played for a really long time so it took some time before getting the hang of it again. Can’t imagine i even forgot how to grab the ball… The final score wasn’t pretty bad not surprisingly. We played till about 2 before going to k-box again. Just went a few days ago and now going again but i seriously don’t mind it :P. The room there was really LARGE compared to the previous time, it even have cushions and an extra large size tv! Although this time they didn’t allow us to go till 7… Everyone sang quite a bit except for ben and zf who obviously did not sing much as they don’t know any non-oldies chinese song. The temperature there was really COLD!!!!! Seriously, it was so cold till my hands were shivering while holding the mic and its hard to sing properly when you stammer in your breath. Left at about 6.15 before going home. Skipped dinner since the food provided there was more than enough.

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k-box Thursday, Dec 10 2009 

Woke up in the morning and felt that the house felt a bit empty, dunno where everyone went to. Without bothering about whats going on as usual, i went on with the normal stuff at home. Was supposed to meet up with cmc at bus-stop at 11.30 and meet ryan at 12. However, i called cmc at 11.25 saying i was at the bus-stop already even though i was still at home :P. Then, i left the house and headed for the bus-stop. Just as expected, we reached at almost the same time :D. We then met up with ryan at amk hub and had lunch at ljs.

Lunch was rather stupid as cmc kept on laughing at his own jokes which resulted in him spitting on ryan’s plate :s. Also, don’t get tartar sauce with your ljs fish… seriously… even more so if cmc is just next to you who will spread it all over your fish (luckily i don’t eat fish at ljs but some unlucky person did). We finished lunch around 12.45 and wanted to explore ther building first before deciding what to do next. While walking up the stairs to the third floor, i seriously don’t believe that i managed to trip and almost fall!!! Luckily only ryan saw that and kept on laughing… Went to raiders internet cafe after that to play l4d2 until 2. L4d2 was rather fun except that it is not as easy as expected. Don’t exactly get the names of the ” mad human disease” thing we are fighting but still rather fun.

Headed for k-box after that. There was this student deal thing there which is cheaper that normal but requires membership which none of us had… Rather obviously, ryan was made to sign up for it although the cost was split (unequally). Had a fun time there singing all sorts of random songs from new ones to old ones. The food there was also pretty good despite it getting cold very fast from the air-con. Most of the songs were chosen by cmc which resulted in me and ryan singing quite a few songs without listening to them before… but wasn’t that bad except for some really fast ones. Nothing much to say about it though… took a few pictures which will be uploaded a bit later due to photo censorship because of blackmail by you-know-who…

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Something fun at last Tuesday, Dec 8 2009 

Today is seriously some change compared to the past few boring days at home. Went to yio chu kang early in the morning to play tennis. Those who went are: Ben,gen,gen’s sis,cheryl lit,zf,cmc,burton. Played for around 2 hours. The problem is, not many people here knows how to play so we just anyhow whack the ball. So, the entire thing was rather stupid but fun enough. Some random stuff are when zf whack the ball all the way to the mrt platform. Then, some random lady went over and tried to throw the ball back but failed a bit too badly causing the ball to hit the fencing along the side and bouncing into the bus-park… We then tried to get the ball back but couldn’t find it… Cmc then suddenly found one which was soooo obviously not ours but who cares :P.

Went for lunch at amk hub after that. Ate the usual noodles at the food court. Met with zf after that to play table tennis at my place. Played till around 3.45 before going for a drink and going home. Got a free pack of preserved ginger from him cause he bought it by accident and don’t eat it. No mood to right anything… all ryan’s fault…

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D-day 4 Friday, Dec 4 2009 

And yes… its a dry day again… Getting bored of the holidays already, wish school opens soon XD. Will be hosting bbq again at my place on the 28th so i’m starting to invite people. Don’t feel like inviting too many since i’ve been turned down by 3 person already out of the 6 i tried to invite…

Pretty dry day it was today, was supposed to meet zf for lunch but he didn’t come due to some random reasons. In the end, went to the library with cmc which was rather surprisingly time consuming as i spend almost 2 hours reading without realising it. Found some book called “eating air” written by some singaporean author about a love story between a gangster and a photocopier. Rather funny and unpredictable but was filled with swear words that got censored out.

Now damn sian at home. Still playing ps0 online :D. Still find it a lot easier to complete with other players helping out to gang the over-powered bosses rather than stupid ai’s which i spend more time reviving them than curing myself. At least i get to see the high level force users spamming tech’s which is  very worth watching :).

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D-day 3 Wednesday, Dec 2 2009 

Read the title again and yes, it’s yet another dry day… Haven’t been doing much over the past few days yet again… 2 main points only.

Went to watch mulan at north point in the morning. The show wasn’t too bad except for the fact that i perfectly guessed out the entire story. It was soooo predictable. From the part where 文泰 got ambushed till the part where he faked his death and the part where the 大将 didn’t come which screwed up 花木兰 tactics and almost caused her death, everything was so obvious what was going to happen next. The storyline was still ok although i swear the ripped it off somewhere since i remember hearing the exact story before with another main character.

The other point. Can someone whose house uses a router WITH ethernet connection AND owns a nds/l/i WITH games that allows wifi connection such as phantasy star zero or call of duty: modern warfare: mobilised to help with this. Do not install the cd or whatsoever program that comes with the wifi usb thing that is sold separately for online purposes. Use the game you have to establish the connection with you home router by giving it whatever information it wants. Then, even if it doesn’t allow you to synchronise, press back and it will still show ready if the connection is correct. Finally, attempt to enter wifi from the game itself rather than from the connection screen. I don’t understand why but i managed to enter wifi and played phantasy star zero with other players! This is seriously weird so i need someone to help me try this with any other game. Was really shocked when the screen suddenly says connected to wifi and showed me the wifi menu after a few minutes of loading which i can’t cancel. Either way, playing online is really fun since you can see how other characters play which made me seem soooo noob :’( Didn’t know that NF are so strong… deleted my NF character some time back thinking it was really noob… now i know that my HR is so much worst XD.

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D-Day 2 Monday, Nov 30 2009 

Read the title and you would know fare well that i’m bored. At home nothing to do… Msn also not much people to talk to… facebook starting to bore me out… pardus war is taking a bit too long to start… 100 floors of phantasy star zero is not worth my time… What else to do then?

Over the last few days, christmas decorations at home are starting to go up. First was the christmas tree which looked rather… same as last year :P. The rest of the decorations are a bit different since i decided to be nice and help think of ideas. Too bad i had a cold over the last month which kept coming and going which is seriously pissing me off and it just so happens to come back now. Imagine me wearing a thick jacket meant for winter purposes with a vest and a shirt inside just to keep myself warm. The worst part is that i’m still freezing cold and can’t sneezing even after drinking 3 cups of boiling water where each contained different medications from tcm to western to my personal cures :D.

Now i accidentally changed my lifestyle in an odd manner. Everyday i have to wake up at 7… which i don’t want to since i rather wake up much later. Then, i will have to find a way to kill time till 12.30 before i have lunch. After lunch, i get really tired and sleep till about 6 which is just before dinner. I will then have dinner kill time till about 10+ before going to sleep again… Seriously think i will grow a lot over this month if i don’t kick this bad(?) habit…

In the meantime, just realised that i have tons of games i wanted to finish asap but i got lazy and jumped to another whenever i found something much better. The list are…

1) Metroid prime hunters. Wanted to finish this since last year but can’t find the time to bother.

2) Megaman starforce 3 Black ace. Just a bit more the finish but khdy had to come out so quickly :P

3) khdy aka Kingdom hearts 358/2 days. You seriously got to love this game <3. One of the best i played for quite some time already. Should be finishing at a really good rate until ps0 had to come out…

4) Phantasy star Zero ( ps0 ). Now hooked onto it since it’s really good. Completed main story as a ranged human already. But… there are still a few other games out there which might make me jump ship again…

Possible candidates :P

1) Call of duty Modern warfare 2 Mobilised. Long crap name. Fun like crap until you get owned badly by not understanding what the mission wants you to do. Almost completed the game on the first day i downloaded it but got stuck somewhere.

2) Harvest moon 3 ( if i didn’t remember wrongly ). I’m bound to download this the instant it comes out in english and “attempt” to finish it XD.

That’s it for now… back to time killing… If the next post is D-day 3, you should know better than reading it :P.

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Back from Obs – updated on 30/11 Saturday, Nov 28 2009 

Finally return back from 5 days of obs. Was too tired yesterday to post since i slept the instance i got home till this morning. The camp was fun but seriously too tiring. Can’t imagine how anyone was able to survive the 21 days camp. Luckily there was this journal thing that we were supposed to write otherwise i would have simply forgotten most of the stuff :s.

Day 1. The entire day was mainly packing stuff for the rest of the days. Got the rations pack which was everything we had for lunch and breakfast throughout the camp. Contained a lot of food stuff and powder drinks which didn’t seem like much but was actually quite filling when eaten after that. There was some trust falling thing after that where we were supposed to fall from a “structure” 1m plus high and trust our watch-mates to catch us from the fall. Was really scared at first since even if you really trust everyone there, it was still some height which you are falling from. At least everyone managed to carry my weight and prevent me from falling. After that was the belaying thing which is basically climbing up some wooden pole but the safety ropes were controlled by the belayer. Belaying was rather fun especially when you are the climber :P. After that, kerrie, the instructor, made us pack our stuff for the expedition. She told us that it would be a lot easier when clearing up if we used less haversacks which we regretted listening to some time later. I paired up with teck lim to pack the haversack but ours was sooo heavy that i was pretty sure no one in our watch could pack something heavier. Dinner was cooking with the solid fuel which wasn’t too hard except for the rice in which the timing must be correct. The rest is just opening can food and heating them up. Had to pitch the tent to sleep in. At least there was sleeping bag to double up as a pillow instead of keeping warm which was seriously NOT needed.

Day 2. Freaking tired. Not enough sleep plus couldn’t sleep well to begin with. Didn’t expect morning pt to exist in this course but it did remind me that there was something was veryyyyyy wrong with my legs as it was shaking during the warm-ups. First thing was the DDD ( completely forgotten the full name ) which was some wooden logs hung up parallel to the ground from a very high pole and had a few meters in between each one making it hard to get up. Everyone had to go in pairs so that they can help each other get up since doing it alone is simply impossible for most. Paired up with stacy to climb this which was supposed to be hard and tiring but i felt it was rather funny as i tried to do some funny stuff to go up like grabbing the log and doing a chin-up to which made it a lot easier until i couldn’t reach the log as the length in between was getting greater. In the end had to depend on stacy to help me up ><. Also tried to put both legs onto the logs and pull myself up which failed sooooo badly but gave everyone a good laugh :P. Next was the trek to camp 1 which was very tiring. Not used to carrying such heavy bags and complained a lot. Swapped with teck lim who was carrying water bottles thinking that his was a much easier job in which i regretted a whole lot. Luckily, jenz and teck lim decided to be nice and help carry it too or else i would have really died XD. When we finally reached, my hands was shaking so badly i couldn’t even clench my fist or bend my fingers much. There was the kayaking training after that which was a lot harder then i expected. Being the only 2 star kayaker ( dunno the correct term for it ) there, i was allowed to take the single kayak which made it easy for me to move fast. Hence, i was supposed to head quickly for the buoy and make everyone raft up with me. At first kerrie made me hold onto one of the bottle which was attached onto the buoy but i released it by accident when my finger started bleeding due to cuts from the sharp stuff on it. Had to carry on grabbing onto the buoy itself after that which was hard as the wave was really great and so was the wind. The buoy was also very slippery too. Luckily there were some people there like timo and gloria who kept on “cheering” me on otherwise it would have been a lot tougher. Held on for like 20+ minutes but released it in the end since my hand could no longer take it. The sight of my hand was rather scary since there was blood all over it. Some funny stuff that happened here was when melvin who obviously could not find anyone to partner with had the privilege of getting the last single kayak. However… … … … the first thing he did was capsize!!! Hahaha! Really funny watching him complain about the waves being too strong for his kayak to not capsize. In the end, jorg and truman went to rescue him. I don’t exactly remember what jorg said about melvin screwing up the rescue so go find him for the other stupid stuff that melvin did before he got back into the kayak. During that time, everyone was taking turns to be trained by the instructors on how to do a rescue in the middle of the sea which took really long. Now, the situation in my legs was getting much better but the situation in my hands worsened badly. Luckily there was sea water all around so the four cuts on my fingers managed to heal a lot faster. Dinner was fantastic. Ate catered food in the cook house and we had to do was to help wash the dishes :D. Kerrie then kept on pestering me about the wound on my finger due to the kayak training, asking me if i required any medication which i didn’t need since it was after all just some small cuts. Slept in the tent again which me, timo and tecklim pitched for us and melvin to sleep in.

Day3. Woke up really tired again and prepared to leave for the land expedition. We were supposed to find 4 out of 8 checkpoints somewhere in pulau ubin which were not very close to each other. The formation was just as expected where me and tecklim were navigators and jens was sweeper. Halfway through, one of the gates was locked and our road was blocked… … Was really amazed when timo actually managed to hack open the number lock. We then walked for another few hours and went to the check points. There was one at a german girl shrine which was a place where the people living there buried the german girl who was killed during world war 2. We were then made to find out about the place and prepare for a presentation to the mobile buddy group, nila utama. Just realised that my group wasn’t stated in this post, its raffles by the way. All the groups were named after famous explorers ( i think ). Our last check point was at ubin village where we had some activity in where we were supposed to throw stones to each other in a circle and catch the one which was thrown at you 3 times in a row. Was pretty hard at first until we used a staircase method which where we poured the stone downwards and let the last person throw his stone up for the one at the top to catch. After that, we got the location of our camping site and headed for it. Halfway through, almost the entire watch started singing to keep the moral up. Was really funny watching them laughing and singing despite the heavy weight on their shoulder and the bottles some were carrying. Even though what they sang was really stupid, it really liven up the mood and greatly boosted the morale. There, i was appointed sea expedition leader for the expedition the next day. Wanted to be navigator but was afraid that the wound on my hand wouldn’t allow it. Decided to be the port side “marker” instead. Yuki was then made navigator, truman starboard and jens sweeper. Had noodles for dinner where there was so much extra that i had 4 servings which was nothing compared the what the rest of the guys ate. There were people like chris who wouldn’t stop passing the food over despite me being already very full. There was a briefing made by the sea-ex leaders after that about what was planned the next day and stuff like the weather conditions and the tide. Went to sleep after that but had to wake up when it was my tent’s turn to do sentry duty. Despite being really tired, it was rather worth it since the night view was seriously perfect. Tried to head over to the other camping site with timo but gave up half-way since the road was very dark and that the road following after that had wasn’t tall grasses but was forest like again.

Day 4. Starting to get lazy to type already, exceeded the 1500 word count some time back. Either way, it was the day for the sea-ex! The original plan was for the first pedal to be at 8 and that we reach chek jawa at 10.30 and camp 2 at around 4. Lunch was also planned to be eaten before ubin village jetty. We were all made to use double kayaks for this sea-ex so i paired up with stacy which was a really good decision. Before we headed out, there was a morning assembly which was a tradition before leaving for any seas-ex where we each shouted out a word about our expectations for the journey. When we headed out, we went at an abnormally fast speed and reached chek jawa at around 9!?!?!? Keeping up the speed, we pressed on really quickly and at the point where we expected to have lunch, it was only 10+ and no one wanted to eat anything. The entire sea-ex was really fun, haven’t kayaked for quite some time already plus it was a double kayak so i didn’t dare try to do the really fun turning thing. Even though it was rather tiring being a sea-ex leader since controlling everyone who was moving out of place wasn’t easy, at least stacy was there to help kayak whenever i needed to rest a bit or even helping me to shout for the others to move back into formation. Was really funny watching melvin’s stupid paddling and hearing tecklim complain about him. Half way through, i accidentally scooped up a fish by mistake and it dropped into my kayak!!! Was rather freaky at first having a fish flipping in front of me but was really fun after it stopped flipping around swam in the water that got poured in. First time i ever had a fish in the kayak! Too bad timo came over and threw it back into the sea… Reached camp 2 at about 12+ which was the fastest and surprised the instructors there. Washed the kayaks till about 1.30 before having lunch on solid land :D. After that was the jetty jump that i had been anxiously waiting for. We were supposed to go up the plank and say out our goals for the camp before jumping into the water about 2.5m below. When jumping, i felt rather scared but it seemed like forever after that as i don’t know why but i felt as though it took longer than expected to enter the water. Unpacked all the stuff we brought and prepared to go home the following day. Had a really nice dinner which was finally normal food. Joined with other watches to have dinner which was really fun. Shared 2 mass tins with timo, jorg and tecklim, one for food, the other for soup. The food was really delicious., haven’t eaten anything like this since the start of camp. After that, when we were all really full, there was this remaining pot of soup which failed to finish as it sux badly compared to the soup cooked by my watch. It was then they came up with an idea where we played scissors-paper-stone and the loser(s) gets to drink a ladle of the soup :P. I lost 4 rounds in a row before giving up since i could feel soup somewhere in my gullet already XD. We then pitched tent one last time before “sleeping”. Timo was obviously not going to sleep before some fun and obviously i was in some really LARGE trouble. Don’t wish to elaborate on that but it was funny hearing the girls in the other tent shouting due to noise that we created.

Day 5. Finally the last day. Started to pack and wash everything within the store and prepare to go home. It was then that we realised that we lost quite a few stuff. Supposed to have lost a compass but we traded a water bottle for it. In the end, we were short of a tent bag ( amazingly ), a bottle and a jack knife. There was the morning circle after that where we wrote our journal and there was this cotton twine activity thing where we tied a ring around our fourth finger and passed it to someone who we wished to thank during this camp. The rope was then cut and kerrie begun on the usual lecture. The group photo and certificate was then given out to everyone which i didn’t exactly like a lot since i wasn’t looking or smiling either!?!?! We then gathered at the jetty before leaving finally towards s’pore. Luckily for me, the first 3 watches were made to ride the normal large slow boat while the first 6 people of my watch was then allowed to ride the speed boat back :). Was the first to return so the queue to check the bags wasn’t too long. Returned to the obs reception centre after that to buy the obs shirt before leaving. Really tired after that. Went for lunch at the nearby coffee shop before heading home to sleep.

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