Δ A short and not so impressive TVXQ Video I made during CCA session

30 January 2011, 21:20

Δ Stressed out.

29 January 2011, 23:15

Okay, this is but the fourth, going to the fifth, week but I'm already so stressed out. Life's really hard for me. I cannot cope with maths and french. Especially french, I forgot all my frennch grammar and I cannot understand half the things in class. And, Mme Lee has totally noticed. Ah, and now, when I make careless mistakes, she thinks that I don't understand. Ohmy. English is really boring. I am learning all my 词语s during Chinese class while the teacher's explaining so as to prepare for 听写. Then we have social studies, which I think we have not done much. Biology too. Surprisingly, I am coping pretty well for Chemistry! Perhaps its because of the crash course I had before the science exam last year and thanks to me paying a lot of attention and making sure I don't slack any bit in class. (And I really hope this continues...)Geography is still the best. I can totally understand every single thing!

And, I recently joined Library, which takes up another 2 hours weekly. And, I want to be more hardworking for RS this year, which means I have to put in more time. And, I want to do a Service Learning that is really meaningful, which means time too. And, I really want to work hard in Infocomm this year, seeing that we have a nice new trainer teaching something that I am interested in. And yes, I want to prove myself worthy for any leadership positions in the club next year. I don't want to be voted in just because no one else wants to D:

That's my really stressed out life.

Sigh. Ganbatte~

Δ DA GAMA.

17 January 2011, 17:55

Yupps, that's my watch, or in layman terms, group. DA GAMA. Okay, according to Wikipedia, Vasco da Gama is one of the really great Portuguese explorers. Like, really really great. :D Similarly, my watch is really really great too^^ Oh, group members! From left to right. Back row: 310 Cheryl Lee, Teng Si, Yilei (ME!), -space/gap-, Kathleen, Vanessa, Hong Jing, Meiyi, Fangning, Claudene. Front row: Peiyu, Yifan, Ruoyi, Belle, Koh Huey, Clara (Tay), Ngoc. Front front loner row: Sham.

Anyways, OBS was really fun! That's the positive side of things. But well, if you want to look on the other side, I'd consider it really tiring and the place really dirty. And the thing you'd hate most there? The bugs. I just counted, I've got around 25 mosquito/sand fly bites and 5 blue blacks that came from I-don't-know-where altogether. And the bites, the sand fly ones I think, are so freaking itchy, I keep scratching and scratching and scratching and scratching. Now, let me bring through the course! :D

Now, first day was the normal introduction day. We got to meet our instructor, Sham, in short for Shameel. And we got to surrender our phones and stuff, then we went around the place, like, got introduced to our base camp, camp 2, and each of us got a job. I'm the day one I/C together with Koh Huey! (Heh, we're slacky people who chose to do on the shortest day.) We learnt how to do outdoor cooking and well, wheeeeeeeee, I finally am able to open cans! *happy dance* Then it was bathing time. D: You can imagine the small cramped dirty bathroom where everyone's queuing up and thanks to the rain, there were huge flying insects hovering around the light. Terrible terrible terrible. Then, we packed our bags into the huge backpack they lent us. Ew, it is really dirty. Oh, then we learnt how to pitch our tents within 5 minutes. Seriously? It was easy. :D Then? We slept^^ I shared the tent with Koh Huey, Clara (Tay) and Claudene!

Second day! We learnt how to kayak! We've got to learn how to capsize and recover. So, we got ourselves all wet and stinky. Yeah, stinky. (In contrast to our ideal image of the clean sparkling blue sea, omg, it's so dirty salty oily and filled with quite a bit of litter. Especially when the tide is getting higher, the dirt gets more obvious at the coast.) So then, we kayaked our way to camp 1! Kayaking is so so so fun! Okay, so again, we queued for the toilets at camp 1 that are equally dirty... Then, we went to pitch our tents in this forest near camp 1. Omg, there's a lot of mosquitoes there. And we learnt how to belay the 4-step belaying method, and it was really weird. The left hand feels really awkward. Yeah, but still, we had to learn. Then, we had dinner! Not really good, but still, at least no outdoor cooking. *sighs!* Hmm, so after bathing, we packed our stuff and went for this briefing about our really long kayaking trip. Then we went to play this team bonding game: memory game played in a group. Then we heard the lame mwachi (mochi) story, part one, that got us all fooled and felt really lame. We went up the hill to our tents in the dark with our flashlights. And wonderful, I realised we pitched our tents at the deepest part of the forest when some other group got their tents pitched at the outside, on this really green, nice and clean grass patch. Unfair D< D< D<

Day threeeeeeeeeee! We went to our bags and found that the food bag was infested with ants. So we killed the ants with 310 Cheryl's insect repellent. Only hers worked... We played the team bonding game again and we did amazingly well this time round. Then, we proceeded to do the high elements~ THE ZIPLINE WAS STUPID TTM. I gathered all my courage and energy to climb up to the highest element and halfway through, the fantastic zipline was so irritating, it wouldn't budge. Wonderful, so I made a graceful U-turn and climbed down again. WTH. Ohkay, at least the sea view was good ): Then then then, we went to trek with the huge, really heavy bag. It took about an hour, and the distance was about 3km. Ohmygosh, my shoulders were so painful. They backpacks were really heavy. D: Okay, then, we camped at this campsite. Loads of bugs, but luckily there aren't as many mosquitoes or sandflies (I think). We ate maggie mee, that had an extra seasoning of the rain water. Who cares, we just gobbled the thing down. Then sleep. (P.S. we got wiser and brought our food into the safety of the tent with us.)

Day four, cotinued from previous day. Then wake up for duty to keep watch from 1.30am to 2am. Then sleep. Then wake up at 5am. Whoa, so tiring D: Then pack pack pack pack pack. Pee in the bushes. (Ohmygosh, disgusting plus embarrassing!) Then breakfast. Then KAYAKING! We went kayaking round Pulau Ubin to get back to camp 2! It was around a 5 hours trip. So we started at around 7 plus 8, and if you do your math, you should be able to guess correctly that we ended at 12 plus plus 1. In fact, we ended at 12:51pm, when our target was to reach by 3! Yay. So, we washed the really dirty kayaks and went for... *drumrolls please* JETTY JUMP! Yay, it was so fun jumping from the height. Went twice went twice went twice! Okay, it was so so so fun. I don't know why, but all I know is that it is super fun. Epic thing: how I know I am in water already- when I heard the splash. We were supposed to breathe out before we go in so that water wouldn't get into the nose, but I didn't even know when I was going in 'cause my eyes were shut, and duh, water went in. Gah, everything's so salty in the sea. Then we packed and bathed and changed into the, omg, i'm so lovin' it, shorts! My hair felt really clean and it finally smelt of the fragrant shampoo that I always use at home sweet home. Then, we pitched our tent on this grass patch, which has quite a lot of mosquitoes. Argh. Then we had outdoor cooking. But this was really fun because there were fresh vegetables, better can foods, eggs and a nicer stove. Yeah, the food turned out good and even though we ate a lot, we still had extras. It was so fun! Oh then we had sharing, like what we learnt and this really emotional activity, to thank 2 persons and apologise to 1. (It got damn emotional and I got people thanking me for really small acts, of kindness, I suppose, and people saying sorry for things that I would like to thank them for. Gah, its kind of awkward the way I say it now, but well, it was emotional. Oh, and thanks to the long kayaking trip, my head was spinning for a whole minute.) And then, we got tricked into another lame story, which apparently is the mwachi (mochi) story, part 2. Oh, damn it. Then we went to sleep.

Try finding mwachi (mochi) on this Pulau Ubin coast. D<

Day five. Final day, awww D: But yeah, we packed the place, tried teaching Sham to play umjiji and shared our learnings with our teacher and proceeded on to the closing ceremony, which was mostly full of crap. Then we went on to listen to Sham's waste-of-time story of ah seng and can-be-emmotional story of ah seng's younger brother, ah beng, and crafted our very lame story of ah gao (dialect for ah dog), their father. The we camwhored! Yay. Then we went back, with mixed feelings. we, or maybe, I miss the place and the activities and the very nice and lame instructors, but at the same time, I yearn for home. So yeah, eventually, we still went home, with the fondest memories of OBS. And no, contrary to popular belief, the course isn't that physically demanding, unless you are so unlucky and is in the group that had to kayak to the day three campsite and trek approximately seven hours back to base camp with the very heavy bags.

Δ Going to OBS!

09 January 2011, 22:41

I'm all packed for OBS at Pulau Ubin tomorrow! Yay yay yay! Okay, my bags are going to burst out already xD Luckily, I am going to dump a pair of shoes there, so it should be quite okay. But all the "waterproofing" thing sucks man. I merely stuffed them into different plastic bags, which is pretty "LOL!", 'cause it's not really waterproofed~ Yeah, I'll be home like on the afternoon of 14th, which is like five to six days away (depending on how you want to calculate)!! Sigh, I am gonna miss you guys! Including my dear computer, the internet, Tumblr, etcetera etcetera! O: And, I'll be back looking like a cooked red lobster, with loads of mosquitoes or sandfly bites. Oh man~

Δ Hi sis, I'm the 310 social studies Elaine.

06 January 2011, 16:38

My social studies teacher is the best. She gives english names to those with chinese names so she can remember us more easily.

And here I am, the 310 social studies Elaine.

Δ Bonne année! Bonne 2011!

01 January 2011, 00:01

Happy 2011!
Yayyy. P.S. I was facepalming the second it turned 2011 'cause live streaming was lagging. LOL.