8:27 AM
Thursday, June 28, 2007
huh??
so, as i was saying, YESTERDAY.
like every other sch day,
i was walking out of Bugis mrt on my way home.
as i was squeezing past the cluster of ppl to get thru the gate,
someone called my name out of no where.
well that wasnt normal.
so i turned ard.
worst thing is, got no one i know leh!
strange hor?
it really got me puzzled.
well, aft analyzing i figured out that it could either be:
- it was a hallucination. my brain's playing a trick on me.
- i was jus over reacting over smth that sounds like my name. [maybe tat person was trying to say 'excuse me'?]
- he was calling another 'simin'. [ok la, i admit. SiMin isn't such a unique name.]
well, in any case. if you guys ever know who is that who called me, pls inform me so that i could apologize.
i didnt mean to dao him.
7:51 AM
sianz.
hols are over.
SIANZZzzz..
back to sch.
b4 i can barely get back used to waking up so early in the morning,
things start piling alr.
things i currently have on hand:
- LA film. (arggghh! we're on tight schedule!)
- Testimonals for portfolio (sorry ppl! i'll write the testis i owe asap.)
- Bio Viva (transport in plants. sighz.)
- Mock UN (i need magazines!)
- level camp + NYAA reflections
- study for chem test!!!!
ohh. i need really need some help with LA.
can i interview anyone of u? PLEASE??
it's abt IP verus O levels~
i'm sure u guys got a lot of things to say right?
11:24 AM
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
homework untouched.
suppose to meet the Xperience ext com online,
but i overslept.
spent the morning calling up sponsers,
not as easy as it seems.
i suppose it pays to be in the comm ya?
btw, homework's untouched.
that's the price to pay for being so actively involved in stuff?
argghhhh!~
10:56 AM
Sunday, June 10, 2007
TT training + BSP bbq!~
imagine.
being lost at AMK cos you walked in the wrong direction,
jus cos u came out from a wrong MRT exit.
ending up reaching at 10.15 when the training starts at 9.45.
that was the situation i was in.
sad right? but true.
but it wasnt entirely my fault though.
did i mention, there was also someone else who got lost.
apparently, AMK sec sch isnt such an excessible place aftall.
judging from the fact that LingXi got lost
due to the bus uncle givnig her wrong directions.
arent bus drivers suppose to be walking street directories?
ok enough of that.
luckily, they were still playing icebreakers when we stepped in.
phew.
we joined up with the rest of the HighFivers,
though there was only a few of us, + Benson
and started our Canto lesson.
Francis was a nice teacher,
teaching us what we need to know and more.
he said he'll join us for the event if he can make it (:
had a filling lunch,
(lunch cost $3, shirt $2! must be really hao liao right?)
[turned out that Benson knew ZhaoDong. this is such a small world]
joined up with the rest of the High5 gang
who came from Hokkien Huay Kuan with their bright red souvneirs,
on with dealing with elderly lesson.
it ended with: 'with speacial thanks to TSAO foundation'
haha. u guessed it.
it was 80% similar..
wheelchair handling lesson was real fun,
there was lots of laughter during the demo as well as hands-on.
time didnt go on as slowly as i thought it would be.
went to bt batok west mall.
spoke with this stranger. *shiver*
queued to buy hotdogs for BSP bbq.
what i've noticed:
ppl in the west bring their own shopping bags.
they come as a family.
they buy lots of stuff at one go.
which resulted in this super long queue.
sunday isnt a good day to buy gorceries.
173 was hard to wait.
peggy's house was really far away.
i would have lost my way if not for the bus driver.
[yupp, he gave right directions]
bbq was funn!!
celebrated SiYu's bday (:
with the choco cake tat Jiahui & Wanting baked!
it was super hard to cut, cos they put in freezer,
it was the 1st cake tat was so filling that i couldn't eat anything else aft tat...
there was this cheese cake speacially bought to zamp ppl.
luckily i only got abit.
haha. BSP outings are fun!
so fun, in fact, that on one wanted to leave.
i had to wake early the next morning,
but cant go home cos no one wanted to leave with me.
at last, i went home taking 171 as suggested by SiYu.
which was a much smarter then taking 173 i have to agree.
thanks SiYu! (:
looking forward to next sun's meeting at Sentosa!
10:34 AM
Friday, June 08, 2007
woah. what a day..
another busy day for a busy woman like me.
went down to Central Lending Library in the morning,
met up with Ching Hsien for BSP lun wen.
[yupp. very soon i'll be sending u guys surveys to fill.
help me out k? i've always known u guys are nice ppl (:]
hopped over to kallang kfc for Xperience'07 meeting.
my 1st meeting aft so long at camps.
they must hate me for not turning up for the previous ones.
but i'll make it up by putting in more effort (:
alr started calling our potential sponsers.
hardwork dont u think?
went back to meet up with Ching, Cam, YaoLu @ Bugis.
dropped by Proj Eden @ city hall to visit Wanga.
she was standing at de window holding this piece of paper which read:
'WAVE TO ME'
haha. jus imagine this young lady standing at the window,
holding this paper, waving enthsiastically,
grining ear to ear at the same time.
u sort of get the picture, dont u?
talk abt being enthu~ (:
we arrived at Victoria Concert hall,
the performance started, but esther wasnt here yet.
during intermission, i found out that she arrived at 7.30pm
apparently, she thought the concert starts at 7.30
even when i reminded her tat it was 7pm.
typical of esther. (:
went for supper @ Marina Sq.
were deciding whether to eat KFC or LongJohn
in front of the LongJohn counter.
this REALLY RUDE cashier gave me a charcoal black face
and said with the most irritating voice possible: 'KFC'
with a wave of her hand,
as if she's flapping away some annoying fly or smth.
EXCUSE ME. we're ur potential costomers, mind you.
she's lucky that i managed to supress my urge to give her a tight slap on her face.
talk abt gd service.
LongJohn have just lost a potential costomer.
shared MELTZ at KFC with Sam.
it was nice and cheesy.
but it's too oily to be finished alone though.
shared by 2 is jus right. (:
perhaps it was lucky that i didnt eat at LongJohn.
*Note to Long John Silver:
Make sure you send all your employees to GEMS workshops.
If not, you can forget about earning money from my pocket ever again.
I MEAN IT.
7:17 PM
Thursday, June 07, 2007
camp vivant~
hello ppl, i'm back from my 3rd camp and it was TOTALLY AWESOME!
spent 4 days at this ulu part of s'pore,
a rather fun 4 days too.
got to interact with ppl i wont otherwise get to meet;all with the same passion for youth volunteerism. (:
DAY 1
met my awesome grpmatez,
valencia, yingting, yingjie, siowyun, marcus, zhaodong, feipeng
decided on grp name squirtle jus cos it's blue. [marcus's suggestion]
all of us were stoneing, with the expection of zhaodong,
who was grining from ear to ear la,
so our facils jasmine & wenjing suggested bimbotic,
with zhaodong as our mascort.
thus, BIMBOTIC SQUIRTLES is borned!
using our awesome grp cheer [thought by yingting],
we're all set to take on anything that comes our way!
AWESOME, OH WOW, like totally freak me out!
I'm to SEXY for my shell x3, OPPS!
aft making the mascot,
complete with the bikini & miniskirt,
we went off for gamez.
the catching one, also the WET.
scissors,paper,stone; the winner gets to splash water,
while the loser would have to use umbrella to shield.
we won (:
wheel of 5 was next.
we traveled to BBC Mac, ate 5 ice-creams in 2 min.
then solved 'Displacement equals to zero' with lots of hints, of course.
we then went to orchard, took lots of photos, ate lots of food.
took this in front of GUCCI.
look ouf for the PRADA and LV!
Aft dinner, it was
Quest of the titainz.
We were split into 3 grps,
Mute, blind, crippled, with one healthy person.
At 1st it was DJ la, but they changed aft a while.
I got a chance to lead too! (:
But I didn’t do it very well though.
Could have done it better if given another chance.
We had to transport the whole grp of ppl from one place to another.
We came up with a solution.
The mute carry the crippled,
With 1 mute leading the grp of blind ppl.
But when we had to speed up, the blind started carrying too.
k. so I was crippled.
Being carried for most of the time.
Think tat was the slackest job.
But felt a bit paiseh though.
I found out tat being blind was the worst,
U don’t know what’s happening.
The blind leading the blind?
But I was alr better than some ppl,
Who had all 3 disabilities.
Soon aft I passed the baton to Aloysius,
We made it.
Earlier than wad they previous batch too! *clap*
DAY 2
Mass games in the morning were SUPER FUN.
We filled up all our water bombs in preparation for the war!
1st, was art attack.
Where we had to stain the opponent’s shirt with coloured bombs!
Ppl were really violent la,
But we all enjoyed it. (:
Next it was captain water bomb,
1 person from each team had to stand in loops,
transport water bombs to the betters at the diff ends
who had to burst the bombs to score a pt.
We lost, but it was all in gd sportsmanship (:
Here’s the best part: SLIPPERY SOAPY SLIDE!~
they laid these canvas sheets on a gentle grass slope
and poured detergent/soapy water/detergent powder all over
it was REALLY SLIPPERY!
we had to CLIMB UP on our stomachs,
get as much kaya as we could with our pinky finger
and slide back down!
What a fun experience.
We had so much more kaya then the other grp!
What a pity zhaodong chose this time to go toilet la.
Not to worry, we made sure we all give him a gd hug aft tat. (:
It was ULTRA FUN,
And we took lots of photos,
Including those of YeWei and FeiPeng… haha.
Everyone was soapy,
but we had a gd shower aft tat.
We then had this connecting with elderly workshop,
Which I partnered Valencia and Aloysius.
We took turns being grandmas,
With the knee strap, cotton bud, bandage, special glasses,
We felt really uncomfortable!
Esp we have to thread needles, fill forms, count $, and even walk ard!
Climbing stairs was the hardest..
Mass dance was really cute!]
It started off with this Indian dance then a funny one.
My partner was ChinYi, with her being the guy.
SUPER CUTE!
Shld see how FeiPeng dance,
Really pro man!
Hariz even got a video of him and YeWei dancing…
Up next was ‘Last Man Standing’
It’s like a small debate session la.
Ppl in my grp: DJ, Amanda, Al, JiaYun, XinYi, me
The class system in s’pore hospitals shld be removed.
We were opp.
We didn’t have any clue how to do it la.
It was DJ who saved the day.
There was an intense discussion between him & Mohandass.
The rest of us were just like, bewildered.
They were pro: KI student VS ex-debater!
How much more cool can it get?
Al summarized really well:
It’s like rich man & poor man choosing to eat at hawker center,
Jus tat this time, there are subsidies involved.
DAY 3 + 4
We napped in the morn.
As we were told tat we won’t be able to sleep at all tonight.
Then we set of to our various VWOs.
Mine, along with XinYi, YingJie, Yifang, LiJie, SiowYun, ShiQian,
was Good Shepherd Student Care.
We went to visit them, and had a gd time (:
Next was camp fire prep.
We had to screw our heads to link up our 5 words la!
You wont even wanna know what they are.
[hint: ___ sutra.]
we got zhaodong & Amanda to act it out though.
A little girl came to roll her eyes at us,
disrupting our rehearsal abit.
Cant believe she’s jus ard 7!
Atf dinner, our grp jus talked while the rest went to rehearse.
Well, correction. val and I stoned.
Campfire:
We were suppose to string our 5 random words
into a skit for the audience to guess.
Here’s what each grp came up with.
grp 1 (anything, whatever)
quiz show, at which Ben Chow goes 'at the count of 3 raise your hands... 1, 2... 2!') their own version of L from deathnote! [Al. 80% resemblance]grp 2 (pinky) not so typical classroom scene
with mohandass's falsetto voice [ absolutely WOW]
grp 3 (bananas) Blue’s Clues!
They really watched it lor!
YeWei was Steve while Sonail was blue..
Grp 4 (US! Bimbotic squirtlez)
Bimbotic squirtlez presents…..
BY THE FIREPLACE! (random)
Opens with Valencia narrating,
marcus as the lost boy paving the streets,
FeiPeng as Michael Jackson with the sexy moonwalk to seduce M to his house.
All with sound effects by YingTIng & YingJie.
M finding the KS in MJ’s house and starts reading…
A&ZD coming out doing the actions
With me holding the ‘CENSORED’
[But ppl said KS even b4 the start acting la, spoiler…]
SiowYun bursting the bubble,
MJ dropping his plastic cup nose.
M going AWESOME,
Endes with our cheer. (:
Campfire went on with
the Emcees leading us in out of tune songs,
fear factor,
Which they ate marshmallow w chili,
And we ate 99% chocolate.
[really bitter!!]
Charades with M being a mermaid,
SiowYun & I pokemon.
More like she press pokeball I pop out.
[they said ‘I choose u!’ even b4 we start acting la! Totally hilarious!]
at de end we played with sparkles and took lots of pics.
The day didn’t’ end,
As we made our way to little India on chartered buses.
We were zhao high on the bus la,
Singing all those NDP songs, etc.
We then began our trail,
Singing songs on top of our voices..
Surprisingly no one complained though it was alr 11pm at night..
When they continued with eng songs tat I don’t know,
I walked silently by myself.
I discovered tat I can be quite cool to jus
be emo sometimez, and walk by urself.
Enjoy the cooling air.
B4 long,
I met danqing.
She doesn’t listen to mainstream.
So for the rest of the journey,
Boon han, she & I sang non-mainstream mayday songs all the way!
WHoooOOO!~
We stopped at SMU to announce the winning grp, bananas.
Congrats to them for winning!
3 plus 4 equals 5.
We’re grp 5 aft all. (:
We ate snacks, we took photos,
ZD started telling us abt the SJI hist behind the SAM..
We continued walking..
KunWon, Wanga & I laid on the floor of the esplanade park,
And talked.
It felt like the park was ours.
I enjoyed the peace and quiet.
Only breaking it in order to play scooter. Haha.
S’pore river at early morn was really nice.
[by early morn I mean 3am.]
all was quiet. Clubbers went home.
We stopped at Macz.
Aft tat we walked all the way to the temple at Chinatown.
Slowly, of course.
Temple was big, and nice.
Smelt new.
It was too early for breakfast,
So we slept at the carpark.
Went to eat only at 6.
We were all dead tired.
Luckily ZD was nice enough to help us order food.
I shared a bowl of porridge with YingJie and Yingting.
Had you tiao, and soya bean, kueh too.
Waited till 8.30 for the bus.
Went back, bathe, pack, pick the guys up.
[we always do tat. They are really slow.]
grp reflections.
We had a whale of a time writing msg for each other,
In our powerpuff girls notebk (:
Video sharing.
It included a short clip of FP+YW.
Haha.
photos up later. *
what a fullfilling 4 days. (:
9:35 AM
Sunday, June 03, 2007
BSP camp facils gathering.
today was fun (:
met up with the east side ppl at bedok.
ended up camping at bedok mrt,
then breakfast at bedok food centre,
stoning at mac waiting for ppl to arrive.
ok la. it wasn't tat bad.
we started to get super lame at mac.
found out that DHS ppl are the lamest of the lot.
haha.
the rest joined us.
on the bus, everywhere,
we were super high lor,
lame-ed all the way to east coast.
[lucky the bus driver didnt punch us. haha]
jiahui went to print the facils photo for us.
wallet size, with msg behind.
so thoughtful of her hor! (:
more ppl joined us.
we found out that sum ppl cant cycle,
and laughed for a while.
aft we settled them, we started cycling.
erm. i have a self -confession to make.
as u know, my cycling very unstable one.
and, i'm super scared of having ppl very closely in front of me.
then. dunno why, there suddenly seemed to have a lot of ppl near me,
i panicked, then screamed for them to slaim.
but apparently libing didnt hear cos she was reading msg!
and so, i crashed to guo dan, then libing & vinette's bike. - 联环车祸
ooppz.. paiseh...
i'm really sorry!!
[wat happened to the dei-da yao jiu? 为什么??]
went to change.
took bus to plaza sing to watch sherk 3.
baoting joined us.
charles found out he lost his wallet.
dinner. we outcast vinette and jiahong. haha.
want to play pool.
shop closed.
went to pool/arcade shop.
said bye to them and went
HOME SWEET HOME with a few others.
packed for tmr's camp.
that's the end of my fun day. (:
9:10 AM
Saturday, June 02, 2007
skills training camp.
my 2nd camp of the june hols.
really wanna see how the juniors fared,
esp cos we're going to step down real soon.
1st shock of the morning:
there are no sec 3s to lead my patrol.
one transfered, one's sick, one overseas, one going off soon - wonderful.
so my sec 2s got their 1st chance to lead the patrol,
they on their own for the first time.
looking on the bright side,
it was the chance for us to observe how the sec 2s fared as leaders.
we made quite and observation.
some ppl are better than wat we usually percived them to be,
while the gd performance of sum are jus for show.
tat's how complicated the issue is.
Camp D.
their standard really lan.
cant even finish a standard kitchen shed la!
all their stuff we help them redo leh.
in the end everything is Sec4s zhong da de.
WHAT IN THE WORLD la.
is this their camp or ours?!
Campcook.
the sec 2s n 3s did everything.
the sec 1s were utterly useless.
what made selina n I angry was,
we ask them to go clean the zinc plate,
they dare complain they jus came back with 2 kettles,
very heavy, etc.
WHAT CRAP LA.
when we were sec 1s,
we wouldnt even dare to speak,
needless to say complain/agrue w the seniors.
they say so loudly somemore.
IS IT TO LET US HEAR ON PURPOSE??
OJ.
my patrol's spirit was chao low.
cos they dont have sec 3s,
then the sec 1s cant even cheer - utterly hopless.
it was only the sec 2s doing all the work lor.
sec 1s only cared abt themselves.
FEEL LIKE GIVING THEM A TIGHT SLAP ON THE FACE.
eunice got so angry tat pumped them
in the middle a checkpt.
right in front of soolin somemore.
THEY DESERVE IT. they deserve more actually.
Evaluation.
we gave them a scolding b4 supper.
but apparently it had no effect on sec 1s,
as there were improvements in their attitude at all.
Night Hike.
compass got prob.
we walked an ultra long way.
tired. slept while walking. (i've gone up another level)
breakfast at mac. almost everyone slept.
they almost forgot abt my big breakfast. arrgh.
west coast playgrd very big & fun (:
Strike Camp.
not much improvement.
there was evaluation. not tat i think it'll be of much use.
aft the camp, we came to a realisation:
why are we doing everything for the juniors ar?
when did our seniors ever help us with anything??
why are we doing all the sai-kang even though we're sec 4s?
WHAT ARE THE SEC 1s DOING?!?!?!!?
but i would have to say our sec 2s n 3s are not too bad la.
at least i feel save passing down to them.
as for the Sec 1s, they can go die for all i care.