Read this! Haha read this on my china friend's blog, tells you what Copenhagen is about in 2 minutes!
如果一百多人在漏水的船上讨价还价谁该往外多舀水，那是明摆着的蠢，事实上没人会这么干，连船上那最自私最无耻的人，也会拿出最大公无私的精神拼命舀水的。
但是事情如果再复杂一点，就会有新鲜的现象了。如果船上的人算计一下，在这条船沉没前，他们有足够的时间安全抵达港口，危险属于下一船乘客时，有很多人就会停下来安静地欣赏海景了。
哪怕这条船在抵达港口前的确会沉没一部分，比如灌满一个叫“马尔代夫”的船舱，其他舱室的人，基本上都会无动于衷。
更复杂的是，如果这艘船超重，需要乘客们把身上的金银细软抛下船的话，扯蛋就来了。穷人们说，富人钱多经得起糟蹋你先扔，至少得再扔40%；富人则说穷鬼 你那堆破烂儿又沉又不值钱你先扔；穷人说我扔也可以但你富人得拿出年收入的0.5%-1%，即3000块补偿给我，还得教会我发财致富的秘诀，富人说你丫 做白日梦吧老子已经一年白给你100块了，多了别想，你救的不是我是你自己。
穷人说老子才刚坐这船没两天，你狗日富人坐好几年了，生生把新船坐成了破船，现在多出点血是天经地义的；富人说以前天杀的知道这船是会坐破的，再说如果不 是我们富人天天捣鼓这船，你这帮农民今天还在刨地球，能懂航海术、看西洋景？今天这船要沉了也是我们发现的，要不你们这帮賤人淹死了都不知道咋回事。
蛋还没扯完，眼见船越来越漏的厉害。于是船客们聚到“日本房间”，穷人们靠着人多强行通过了一份《京都协议书》，要求富人赶紧扔东西，穷人却可以不扔。最 富的富人米利坚说，这是明显的仇富嘛，天下哪有这道理，俺不玩了。穷人说你B一家最重，负担就占了全船的近1/5，你不扔谁扔？米利坚说我的东西是最重， 但也最值钱。俺以全船1/4的值钱物件才占了1/5的重量，凭啥我扔？你们看看那叫拆哪的穷鬼，以不到3%的价值也占了近1/5的负担，为啥不让他多扔？
黑眼睛黑头发黄皮肤的拆哪一听急了：穷兄弟们别听他的，俺们可都是穷苦人家出身，你们要是把我推出来，以后你们中有人小偷小摸耍流氓谁罩着啊？好歹这船是 大家的，你米利坚就是东西最多最重，这船也属你坐的时间最长次数最多，看我干啥？凭啥？你凭啥？这最怕船沉的不是咱穷棒子是富人，他们经不起大规模人员伤 亡。
为了尽快把蛋扯完，船客们最近又在一间叫“丹麦”的房间开了一个会。据最新消息，把蛋扯完的机会已经很渺茫。最重大的成果将是形成一份《哥本哈根共识》，这份有所有船客签名的共识说：“我们都发现并且承认，这船在漏水，而且是会沉的。”
这份共识发表后，船客们纷纷接到恭喜电话，表扬他们表现出了高超的政治智慧，并且坚定地捍卫了国家利益。
Friday, December 25, 2009
Friday, December 04, 2009
Heh back with photos of the hostel! Eh pictures are uploading real slow. D:
First impression was prison, then haunted house.
My room, which is a little messy because we were packing. Mine is the further lower bunk and last table! Next to the balcony door hahah! I love windows and doors! Anyway the door is not safe because it can't lock, I mean it can, but you can open from the outside as well ._. So it's a little pointless by security means.
Heh see the blue basin? Our multi purpose ones. Rie's benefactor haha! And our washing basin where clothes are tossed and stirred around HAHA. Unmentionables remind me of an inside joke ;D Where's our green basin??
See the metal box/tank? It's our water cooler, er actually it only gives warm or hot water. And it tastes funny. Having a water cooler in the toilet is not fun ._. The line of people are brushing their teeth/washing their face/washing their clothes haha. So it's a share toilet, with taps running along a long drain, uh sink I mean. See the black stuff with sticks haha they are shared mops! They have to mop the entire level's floor periodically.
Ahh highlight of the trip! Toilet! haha really shocked at first sight, but got used to it eventually, I guess. See the bin? It's only emptied once a day, so it overflows. And EVERY piece of used paper goes there. Yeeks. Did I mention the doors can't be locked? You have to literally pull it when you do whatever you do in the cubicle. Sometimes people let go and blur people just pull it open. TADA. Haha we learnt how to make sure you don't do that. It's super embarrassing. You can see the doors don't cover the legs so you can see slippers if someone's in there. YAY no more embarrassing moments haha! There was once I went to a public toilet in suzhou/hangzhou and the door was only half closed so I opened and found someone staring at me, she didn't even close it back after I apologised and turned away. Haha many had similar experiences. Grace the winner had it more than once, no? hahah. I forgot to tell you guys haha. There's only one central flush. And it's so so so loud it roars and scared us like hell. Even when you're in the room with the doors closed you still hear the distant roar. LOL so in the middle of the night, you were dreaming abou visiting a zoo, and ROAR sends you screaming awake hahaha!
Disgusting, but tells stories haha. Shan't mention who, but someone was changing in the toilet, and her slippers dropped in HERE. Was clean and everything, but you see there's always some water(clean or not, not sure) flowing. She had to use a hanger to hook it up and nobody dared to touch it haha. Oh there's once I went to the toilet in the middle of the night, with some unknown person in the cubicle in front. She came out, and the most horrible thing happened! D: she flushed!!!!! Oh my. Haha you see everything if you look down. Nah shan't say anything anymore, in case somebody pukes in front of his/her computer. Yuck. Maybe that's going to happen on me. Wonder how I survived, somehow we got immuned to it after a while.
Bathing cubicles, 4 in each toilet, 8 on a floor. I DON'T KNOW WHY there's a chair. But some of the local students put their clothes there. And on the metal bars, hahah you can imagine what happens next lah. Huh. Suddenly everyone became interested with the ceiling. You can see on closer view, there's a pair of abandoned socks, and a towel on the metal bar. Very disgusting indeed.
That's one cubicle. The weird thing in the middle is a card reader, have to pop your card in before water gush out. So, be smart haha. It's a shower-head, can't change temperature. So everyone screams when water hits you haha. It's very very hot, and water smashes on your head. Quoting msGao: 怎么洗澡好像让人一直砸头呀？Oh best thing is that there are no hooks for clothes, have to bring hangers and force them on the door. There's the metal thing for us to put soap, as you can see, but sometimes there's unknown pieces of soap. Haha.
About this water supply, it cuts off after 630pm, they have study time at 630. So whatever left in the water tank remains, and will be so until 4pm the next day. Hahah, so hot water cools, and if people bathe water becomes lesser. Guess realisation came as a shock. With more shrieks ;D There was once, 45 of us came back late, around 8, and we had to bathe. Heh so I was the first batch to go in, fortunately. Water was cold, but there's water. The second batch went in, and happily shampoo-ed themselves, and realised the tank ran out of water. So here's where shrieks come in. And our basins came into use, fetched icy water for them to wash off shampoo. And more shrieks came along. Blah.
Like I said, the toilet gave us much fun XD
Shall post pictures of our Singapore classroom, china friends next time. When I feel like it. Blogger's slow with uploading pictures. But fb's slower. So....bye.
First impression was prison, then haunted house.
My room, which is a little messy because we were packing. Mine is the further lower bunk and last table! Next to the balcony door hahah! I love windows and doors! Anyway the door is not safe because it can't lock, I mean it can, but you can open from the outside as well ._. So it's a little pointless by security means.
Heh see the blue basin? Our multi purpose ones. Rie's benefactor haha! And our washing basin where clothes are tossed and stirred around HAHA. Unmentionables remind me of an inside joke ;D Where's our green basin??
See the metal box/tank? It's our water cooler, er actually it only gives warm or hot water. And it tastes funny. Having a water cooler in the toilet is not fun ._. The line of people are brushing their teeth/washing their face/washing their clothes haha. So it's a share toilet, with taps running along a long drain, uh sink I mean. See the black stuff with sticks haha they are shared mops! They have to mop the entire level's floor periodically.
Ahh highlight of the trip! Toilet! haha really shocked at first sight, but got used to it eventually, I guess. See the bin? It's only emptied once a day, so it overflows. And EVERY piece of used paper goes there. Yeeks. Did I mention the doors can't be locked? You have to literally pull it when you do whatever you do in the cubicle. Sometimes people let go and blur people just pull it open. TADA. Haha we learnt how to make sure you don't do that. It's super embarrassing. You can see the doors don't cover the legs so you can see slippers if someone's in there. YAY no more embarrassing moments haha! There was once I went to a public toilet in suzhou/hangzhou and the door was only half closed so I opened and found someone staring at me, she didn't even close it back after I apologised and turned away. Haha many had similar experiences. Grace the winner had it more than once, no? hahah. I forgot to tell you guys haha. There's only one central flush. And it's so so so loud it roars and scared us like hell. Even when you're in the room with the doors closed you still hear the distant roar. LOL so in the middle of the night, you were dreaming abou visiting a zoo, and ROAR sends you screaming awake hahaha!
Disgusting, but tells stories haha. Shan't mention who, but someone was changing in the toilet, and her slippers dropped in HERE. Was clean and everything, but you see there's always some water(clean or not, not sure) flowing. She had to use a hanger to hook it up and nobody dared to touch it haha. Oh there's once I went to the toilet in the middle of the night, with some unknown person in the cubicle in front. She came out, and the most horrible thing happened! D: she flushed!!!!! Oh my. Haha you see everything if you look down. Nah shan't say anything anymore, in case somebody pukes in front of his/her computer. Yuck. Maybe that's going to happen on me. Wonder how I survived, somehow we got immuned to it after a while.
Bathing cubicles, 4 in each toilet, 8 on a floor. I DON'T KNOW WHY there's a chair. But some of the local students put their clothes there. And on the metal bars, hahah you can imagine what happens next lah. Huh. Suddenly everyone became interested with the ceiling. You can see on closer view, there's a pair of abandoned socks, and a towel on the metal bar. Very disgusting indeed.
That's one cubicle. The weird thing in the middle is a card reader, have to pop your card in before water gush out. So, be smart haha. It's a shower-head, can't change temperature. So everyone screams when water hits you haha. It's very very hot, and water smashes on your head. Quoting msGao: 怎么洗澡好像让人一直砸头呀？Oh best thing is that there are no hooks for clothes, have to bring hangers and force them on the door. There's the metal thing for us to put soap, as you can see, but sometimes there's unknown pieces of soap. Haha.
About this water supply, it cuts off after 630pm, they have study time at 630. So whatever left in the water tank remains, and will be so until 4pm the next day. Hahah, so hot water cools, and if people bathe water becomes lesser. Guess realisation came as a shock. With more shrieks ;D There was once, 45 of us came back late, around 8, and we had to bathe. Heh so I was the first batch to go in, fortunately. Water was cold, but there's water. The second batch went in, and happily shampoo-ed themselves, and realised the tank ran out of water. So here's where shrieks come in. And our basins came into use, fetched icy water for them to wash off shampoo. And more shrieks came along. Blah.
Like I said, the toilet gave us much fun XD
Shall post pictures of our Singapore classroom, china friends next time. When I feel like it. Blogger's slow with uploading pictures. But fb's slower. So....bye.
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Haha yalah yalah, junqi I am posting now!Haha gzm be patient!
First week of the trip was spent in 东方绿舟, because it was 黄金周, and fudan hostel is closed. So we did team-building, which resulted in a almost- broken arm. And tada! I claim ownership to the poor arm ._.On the...2nd / 3rd day. LEFT arm, not surprised though. Anyway, we ran around the whole place, and climbed on almost everything we are allowed to. We lived in heaven, uh no, but resorts that are really nice. Visited a couple places. Didn't take many photos. And I have to sieve through and choose a few, because... well I don't want to spend forever waiting for them to be uploaded. We went to their international security education centre, smth like that. It's a huge ship, and a submarine beside it. Heh! We climbed, yes climbed into the submarine too (: Maybe pictures of it next time.
Pictures!
It's taking forever...
Gigantic chess set in the resort.
Is this the French house or the Italian house??
My building, Japanese.
2nd week was moving in to fudan! High School Affiliated to Fudan University! :D
Following pictures will show HSAFU, and outer view of the boarding school. They are opposite each other (: Btw our 'Singapore classroom' is in the boarding school international block.
International elementary school block. They gave us 3 rooms. Third floor.
School, big enough to put 路牌。haha the building on the right is 小卖铺！Our favourite place. They have their bandroom there as well. Oh right I forgot to say their band...has less than 20 people. And everyone has their own instruments, besides percussion. And all of them are super pro, but I guess they lack practises together.
Road to Holland! Haha random nice spots in the hostel.
That's the guard post, opposite building is HSAFU.
Nice school. That's a pond.
I better start another post. The photos are a problem. Shall post photos with buddies maybe and the hostel! Oh and our 'Singapore classroom'
First week of the trip was spent in 东方绿舟, because it was 黄金周, and fudan hostel is closed. So we did team-building, which resulted in a almost- broken arm. And tada! I claim ownership to the poor arm ._.On the...2nd / 3rd day. LEFT arm, not surprised though. Anyway, we ran around the whole place, and climbed on almost everything we are allowed to. We lived in heaven, uh no, but resorts that are really nice. Visited a couple places. Didn't take many photos. And I have to sieve through and choose a few, because... well I don't want to spend forever waiting for them to be uploaded. We went to their international security education centre, smth like that. It's a huge ship, and a submarine beside it. Heh! We climbed, yes climbed into the submarine too (: Maybe pictures of it next time.
Pictures!
It's taking forever...
Gigantic chess set in the resort.
Is this the French house or the Italian house??
My building, Japanese.
2nd week was moving in to fudan! High School Affiliated to Fudan University! :D
Following pictures will show HSAFU, and outer view of the boarding school. They are opposite each other (: Btw our 'Singapore classroom' is in the boarding school international block.
International elementary school block. They gave us 3 rooms. Third floor.
School, big enough to put 路牌。haha the building on the right is 小卖铺！Our favourite place. They have their bandroom there as well. Oh right I forgot to say their band...has less than 20 people. And everyone has their own instruments, besides percussion. And all of them are super pro, but I guess they lack practises together.
Road to Holland! Haha random nice spots in the hostel.
That's the guard post, opposite building is HSAFU.
Nice school. That's a pond.
I better start another post. The photos are a problem. Shall post photos with buddies maybe and the hostel! Oh and our 'Singapore classroom'
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
I suddenly have a very very strong urge to post here! :D
Haha you know my pencil smells like my clarinet now, because it was in the case for ......infinitely long. So it has the case smell. Then when I was writing using that pen, I was thinking "why do I smell my case?!" haha and I realised.
Ooh and I got into the shanghai 6 weeks programme! Kind of happy and feeling previleged. I would have been very very happy if it doesn't mean I have to miss FOA. And abandoning our section when they need me the most, right after passing down... Oh well. D: Parts problem haiizz. Trombones' not much better. So yeah, quite screwed. Ohh it's 1724. I shall go back! haha GEL later, need to work I think.
oops I am still here, so bye! feeling high.
Haha you know my pencil smells like my clarinet now, because it was in the case for ......infinitely long. So it has the case smell. Then when I was writing using that pen, I was thinking "why do I smell my case?!" haha and I realised.
Ooh and I got into the shanghai 6 weeks programme! Kind of happy and feeling previleged. I would have been very very happy if it doesn't mean I have to miss FOA. And abandoning our section when they need me the most, right after passing down... Oh well. D: Parts problem haiizz. Trombones' not much better. So yeah, quite screwed. Ohh it's 1724. I shall go back! haha GEL later, need to work I think.
oops I am still here, so bye! feeling high.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Just bathed. And I can’t sleep, so I shall blog! :D
So today’s hectic. First national anthem, didn’t want to eat breakfast, so I ended up going to school at 6.35. Talked to people a little and everyone got excited with pau’s present haha. A super amusing trumpet toy! Lala said our band sounds really weird (not in the good sense) down in the quadrangle. So yeah. I believe she will think of ways to improve that. After that PCCG we changed seats, went to the back, thankfully carrie came with me. I was doing my work decently, my computer *yellow feather just flew past in front of me* screen was facing the teacher. Chinese was more relaxing, with all SIA presentations. But then laoshi was too nice it irritates me. I was desperately trying to collect all Chinese homework, then she told the class that if they cannot finish they can hand in on Monday ._. Physics was super messy, because we were doing written task before that, and all the strings were on the table haha. And I sort of forgot to do the worksheets, luckily it’s easy- lenses. Oh she taught *supposedly* new topic on waves! haha most interesting worksheet ever, trying to draw all the particle movements :D then was Chem SPA! I felt so professional hahah! And surprisingly I used little P & Q and did 4 titrations with mostly accurate results and still had time to stone! Wooh! But that was because I got a nice clip. LA was sad, got back results, well my standard, so can’t complain. I thought I messed Q2 up, because I didn’t have time, but I realized my Q1 points all overlap. So it’s quite sad, I didn’t really have time to elaborate my points in Q2. Didn’t fail, but compared to other results it just sucked. And IH too. Okay I admit for my standard, it’s average as well. So yes, blocks this time round is quite okay. After that went up to band room.
Then it was the elections! I felt so nervous for them. All of them were confident, and yes I think they deserve the post they have now. Even those who didn’t get into comm. I think they can be good leaders as well. I am not 100% sure about the posts (failing memory) but Rachel Mianjun, Jingyi Huizhen Celine and Pau’s in committee. SLs. Quite lazy to write all out. But I shall write down, so that I won’t forget.
Flutes: Rachel
Clarinets: Sherlyn, Beishi
Saxes: Wanyu
Bassoon: Fangyi
Oboe: Liwei
Horns: Wenting
Euphos: Celine
Tubas: Alicia
Trumpets: Pauline
Trombones: Rie, who now has the excuse to have physical contact with her section mate.
Perc: Charlotte
Double Bass: MJ (not the one)
Passing down was quite emotional, I was trying to control, then when I turned around I see everyone crying, it feels like the other part of myself is crying. So I lost control. Tabby said I was slow, I am not! haha. The puzzle was sweet, with the cheep cheep not! it’s a quack. I love ducks too! Just that they don’t cheep. Only thing was the furry yellow thing. Haha forced to wear it around the neck with Sherlyn, and the furs are coming off, and flying around, and making me sneeze. Hmm but it’s still cute. I shall keep it and let sherlyn keep that later on. See how she will sneeze :p Anyway after that we had section circle, and the presents session. Haha it’s so funny, tabby’s teeth became blue after eating the icing. And I am so glad they loved our sewing! Our efforts paid off :D Haha feel so accomplished. And motherly.
Later, sincerely thanking my guardian/tutor/secondmummy for signing my permission even though it’s so late, I get to go for section dinner! At first we wanted curry wok but it became macs. Oohh it’s 2330, I want to go online! D: Never mind I shall go tomorrow. Yes macs, then everyone ate and stoned and evil juniors took videos of us when we were so unglamorous. Eating, puffy eyes, messy hair, oily face. LOL. Nothing’s worse. Besides the obs ones of course. Haha but it was fun! Tabby was so tired she looked like she’s going to fall asleep while eating. Left around 9pm. Sat around, called my mum, talked to my roomie, bathed and here.
I just realized I ranted again! So luosuo. Haha.
I hope I fit the position. I will try my best to do it anyway. With help from Sherlyn, should be okay. Haha let’s continue to make our section the model section! Woo. I feel quite bad. I get the feeling that sec 2s are not as close to us as we were to our seniors. I guess it’s some what our fault. Hope we can make them feel more towards our section. SL no. 2, I can do it!
It’s thrilling, exciting and stressful to be the leading batch, and I am looking forward to it.
But as much as I look forward to it, I dread the senior batch passing down. No more guiding, no more comfort zones. But every ending is a new beginning; everyone, seniors, us, juniors will all have a new experience. I think it is very important to move on, to look forward to the future, and work together to make it a better one, because it’s the only way to thank our seniors, for what they had taught us. When we keep thinking about sad moments in our lives, it only causes us to miss out more good moments of our lives. The three years we spent together will never be forgotten; moments when we share our joy and happiness, moments we feel together as a whole. We will cherish them, and store them deep in our hearts. Once from NYCB, forever from NYCB. They will forever be part of us, part of our lives, someone that had affected our lives, someone who helped to shape who we are today.
I believe that if we believe in ourselves, and try hard enough; surely, we can achieve our goals. Life’s a cycle, sadness, happiness, will all come and go. All we can do is to live our lives to the fullest, and pass down our traditional passion for nycb to the next generation, and let the passion live on.
NYCB <3 the passion lives on…
So today’s hectic. First national anthem, didn’t want to eat breakfast, so I ended up going to school at 6.35. Talked to people a little and everyone got excited with pau’s present haha. A super amusing trumpet toy! Lala said our band sounds really weird (not in the good sense) down in the quadrangle. So yeah. I believe she will think of ways to improve that. After that PCCG we changed seats, went to the back, thankfully carrie came with me. I was doing my work decently, my computer *yellow feather just flew past in front of me* screen was facing the teacher. Chinese was more relaxing, with all SIA presentations. But then laoshi was too nice it irritates me. I was desperately trying to collect all Chinese homework, then she told the class that if they cannot finish they can hand in on Monday ._. Physics was super messy, because we were doing written task before that, and all the strings were on the table haha. And I sort of forgot to do the worksheets, luckily it’s easy- lenses. Oh she taught *supposedly* new topic on waves! haha most interesting worksheet ever, trying to draw all the particle movements :D then was Chem SPA! I felt so professional hahah! And surprisingly I used little P & Q and did 4 titrations with mostly accurate results and still had time to stone! Wooh! But that was because I got a nice clip. LA was sad, got back results, well my standard, so can’t complain. I thought I messed Q2 up, because I didn’t have time, but I realized my Q1 points all overlap. So it’s quite sad, I didn’t really have time to elaborate my points in Q2. Didn’t fail, but compared to other results it just sucked. And IH too. Okay I admit for my standard, it’s average as well. So yes, blocks this time round is quite okay. After that went up to band room.
Then it was the elections! I felt so nervous for them. All of them were confident, and yes I think they deserve the post they have now. Even those who didn’t get into comm. I think they can be good leaders as well. I am not 100% sure about the posts (failing memory) but Rachel Mianjun, Jingyi Huizhen Celine and Pau’s in committee. SLs. Quite lazy to write all out. But I shall write down, so that I won’t forget.
Flutes: Rachel
Clarinets: Sherlyn, Beishi
Saxes: Wanyu
Bassoon: Fangyi
Oboe: Liwei
Horns: Wenting
Euphos: Celine
Tubas: Alicia
Trumpets: Pauline
Trombones: Rie, who now has the excuse to have physical contact with her section mate.
Perc: Charlotte
Double Bass: MJ (not the one)
Passing down was quite emotional, I was trying to control, then when I turned around I see everyone crying, it feels like the other part of myself is crying. So I lost control. Tabby said I was slow, I am not! haha. The puzzle was sweet, with the cheep cheep not! it’s a quack. I love ducks too! Just that they don’t cheep. Only thing was the furry yellow thing. Haha forced to wear it around the neck with Sherlyn, and the furs are coming off, and flying around, and making me sneeze. Hmm but it’s still cute. I shall keep it and let sherlyn keep that later on. See how she will sneeze :p Anyway after that we had section circle, and the presents session. Haha it’s so funny, tabby’s teeth became blue after eating the icing. And I am so glad they loved our sewing! Our efforts paid off :D Haha feel so accomplished. And motherly.
Later, sincerely thanking my guardian/tutor/secondmummy for signing my permission even though it’s so late, I get to go for section dinner! At first we wanted curry wok but it became macs. Oohh it’s 2330, I want to go online! D: Never mind I shall go tomorrow. Yes macs, then everyone ate and stoned and evil juniors took videos of us when we were so unglamorous. Eating, puffy eyes, messy hair, oily face. LOL. Nothing’s worse. Besides the obs ones of course. Haha but it was fun! Tabby was so tired she looked like she’s going to fall asleep while eating. Left around 9pm. Sat around, called my mum, talked to my roomie, bathed and here.
I just realized I ranted again! So luosuo. Haha.
I hope I fit the position. I will try my best to do it anyway. With help from Sherlyn, should be okay. Haha let’s continue to make our section the model section! Woo. I feel quite bad. I get the feeling that sec 2s are not as close to us as we were to our seniors. I guess it’s some what our fault. Hope we can make them feel more towards our section. SL no. 2, I can do it!
It’s thrilling, exciting and stressful to be the leading batch, and I am looking forward to it.
But as much as I look forward to it, I dread the senior batch passing down. No more guiding, no more comfort zones. But every ending is a new beginning; everyone, seniors, us, juniors will all have a new experience. I think it is very important to move on, to look forward to the future, and work together to make it a better one, because it’s the only way to thank our seniors, for what they had taught us. When we keep thinking about sad moments in our lives, it only causes us to miss out more good moments of our lives. The three years we spent together will never be forgotten; moments when we share our joy and happiness, moments we feel together as a whole. We will cherish them, and store them deep in our hearts. Once from NYCB, forever from NYCB. They will forever be part of us, part of our lives, someone that had affected our lives, someone who helped to shape who we are today.
I believe that if we believe in ourselves, and try hard enough; surely, we can achieve our goals. Life’s a cycle, sadness, happiness, will all come and go. All we can do is to live our lives to the fullest, and pass down our traditional passion for nycb to the next generation, and let the passion live on.
NYCB <3 the passion lives on…
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Woo. Band finally resumed today. The moment I stepped into the band room, them moment we played the first tuning note, all the feelings just came back. It didn't feel like we didn't play together for more than 5 weeks, it felt as if we were born together, it just feels so nice to be back with the band. It's refreshing, it's heartwarming to see all your friends, friends that went through so many things with me, friends that spent so much time together, with me. And the power of music, is just so great. Even simple things like a scale, I can hear enthusiasm. Though there's one thing. Okay I realle need more practice, I wasn't even able to play one long-note-scale properly. Seriously my mouth was leaking ._. But generally it just feels good to play as a band again. It's good that I survived PE! It's quite amusing. To do the agility training.
Motivation of the day: BAND AFTER SCHOOL!
It even made Physics bearable. Although I did close my eyes for a few seconds( and wake up finding mrs. Wong glaring at me) I fell asleep when I was trying to draw the dotted lines.
Why some people just have to suffer so much more compared to people of their age? When lost her when she needed her the most, I wonder how she moved on. Or did she just cover up her real feelings. If I didn't see the url, I am still oblivious to what she's gone through.
God, I feel guilty, for complaining so much about such insignificant things, and forgetting how others had to swallow heartbreaking, irreversible facts. Even friends around us, as we took for granted that everyone's as lucky as we are. You will never know what she's gone through, if she didn't tell you.
I can't help her, I guess she doesn't want to show her emotions. All I can do is to sincerely hope that she can live happily, and keep her memories.
I can almost feel the pain, it's so near. Yet so far. I really don't want to think about it, how will I react if that happens to me? I really don't want to think about it.
I appreciate what I have now, although my family's not with me, I know they will be there for me, no matter what. I am so glad I have them. Thank god, for blessing me with a complete, healthy family. Really, thanks.
No, I don't really have a religion. I am open to all.
Grateful.
I should go back to my room, for temperature taking. Hope he/she haven't arrived yet. Btw, xiaonan's quarantined, for some reason. Hope she'll stay healthy.
Motivation of the day: BAND AFTER SCHOOL!
It even made Physics bearable. Although I did close my eyes for a few seconds( and wake up finding mrs. Wong glaring at me) I fell asleep when I was trying to draw the dotted lines.
Why some people just have to suffer so much more compared to people of their age? When lost her when she needed her the most, I wonder how she moved on. Or did she just cover up her real feelings. If I didn't see the url, I am still oblivious to what she's gone through.
God, I feel guilty, for complaining so much about such insignificant things, and forgetting how others had to swallow heartbreaking, irreversible facts. Even friends around us, as we took for granted that everyone's as lucky as we are. You will never know what she's gone through, if she didn't tell you.
I can't help her, I guess she doesn't want to show her emotions. All I can do is to sincerely hope that she can live happily, and keep her memories.
I can almost feel the pain, it's so near. Yet so far. I really don't want to think about it, how will I react if that happens to me? I really don't want to think about it.
I appreciate what I have now, although my family's not with me, I know they will be there for me, no matter what. I am so glad I have them. Thank god, for blessing me with a complete, healthy family. Really, thanks.
No, I don't really have a religion. I am open to all.
Grateful.
I should go back to my room, for temperature taking. Hope he/she haven't arrived yet. Btw, xiaonan's quarantined, for some reason. Hope she'll stay healthy.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Reflecting on a very serious incident
I just went to the music room just now, and when I went to the office to return the keys I encountered something very serious that require me to reflect on my own behavior, which is what I am doing now. I am not going to reveal her name, because this is an individual reflection, and there’s nothing to do with the person concerned, it’s all my fault.
So, everyone was working in the office, and after I signed in on the music room book, I politely said ‘excuse me’ with a smile, to get a staff’s attention so that I can return the keys. Well yes I got a staff’s attention, and so I continued “Can I exchange the music room key for my keys?” The boarding school system is this; we have to give them our room keys to change for the music room keys or facilities, so I was trying to get my room keys back. Anyway, so the staff took a look at me, and maybe I am just too ugly, because apparently she thinks “Excuse me” is not nice enough and she said “Good afternoon, not excuse me. Yes?” I immediately realized my mistake, my mistake, and said ‘Sorry, good afternoon. May I have my keys back?’ And indeed I had my keys back and here I am, trying to figure out what is wrong the word “Excuse me.”
I am very disturbed by what the staff said to me, to the extent that I went to look up the dictionary, the big fat one to ensure accuracy, for the term “Excuse me”. The phrase can be found in the 7th edition of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (International student’s edition), first column of page 508. It explains:
IDM ex’cuse me
1. used to politely get somebody’s attention, especially somebody you do not know: (example)
2. used to politely ask somebody to move so that you can get past them: (example)
3. used to say that you are sorry for interrupting somebody or behaving in a slightly rude way: (example)
To prevent myself from being sued by the dictionary company, I only extracted this part of it, and honest to God, nothing under ‘excuse me’ conflicts with the above three explanations.
Now I reflect on what I did, the reason for the word choice. I chose this phrase because I wanted to (1) get her attention politely. (2) Apologize for interrupting her work.
Despite the fact that I was unable to understand why, I learnt that I must not say “excuse me” when I want to (1) and (2) as stated in the paragraph above. I also learnt from this incident that, “Good afternoon” can also serve the purpose of (1) and (2). Ironically the definition of "Good afternoon" in the dictionary did not mention anything about apologizing for interrupting, nor did it mention anything about grabbing attention. The only use for the phrase is 'to say hello politely when you first see each other in the afternoon'.
I am not being sarcastic, I just reflected and thought hard about it. And it’s a horrifying realization! I couldn’t understand what I did wrong. Had I been confused and lost the ability to tell right from wrong? Can anyone enlighten me? I would appreciate your help. Thanks.
Mood: Reflective.
So, everyone was working in the office, and after I signed in on the music room book, I politely said ‘excuse me’ with a smile, to get a staff’s attention so that I can return the keys. Well yes I got a staff’s attention, and so I continued “Can I exchange the music room key for my keys?” The boarding school system is this; we have to give them our room keys to change for the music room keys or facilities, so I was trying to get my room keys back. Anyway, so the staff took a look at me, and maybe I am just too ugly, because apparently she thinks “Excuse me” is not nice enough and she said “Good afternoon, not excuse me. Yes?” I immediately realized my mistake, my mistake, and said ‘Sorry, good afternoon. May I have my keys back?’ And indeed I had my keys back and here I am, trying to figure out what is wrong the word “Excuse me.”
I am very disturbed by what the staff said to me, to the extent that I went to look up the dictionary, the big fat one to ensure accuracy, for the term “Excuse me”. The phrase can be found in the 7th edition of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (International student’s edition), first column of page 508. It explains:
IDM ex’cuse me
1. used to politely get somebody’s attention, especially somebody you do not know: (example)
2. used to politely ask somebody to move so that you can get past them: (example)
3. used to say that you are sorry for interrupting somebody or behaving in a slightly rude way: (example)
To prevent myself from being sued by the dictionary company, I only extracted this part of it, and honest to God, nothing under ‘excuse me’ conflicts with the above three explanations.
Now I reflect on what I did, the reason for the word choice. I chose this phrase because I wanted to (1) get her attention politely. (2) Apologize for interrupting her work.
Despite the fact that I was unable to understand why, I learnt that I must not say “excuse me” when I want to (1) and (2) as stated in the paragraph above. I also learnt from this incident that, “Good afternoon” can also serve the purpose of (1) and (2). Ironically the definition of "Good afternoon" in the dictionary did not mention anything about apologizing for interrupting, nor did it mention anything about grabbing attention. The only use for the phrase is 'to say hello politely when you first see each other in the afternoon'.
I am not being sarcastic, I just reflected and thought hard about it. And it’s a horrifying realization! I couldn’t understand what I did wrong. Had I been confused and lost the ability to tell right from wrong? Can anyone enlighten me? I would appreciate your help. Thanks.
Mood: Reflective.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Eh so long never post already, haha yeeshin motivated me to post!
Now it's third week of holidays already, doing bio SIA now. Everything about coronary bypass angioplasty and stem cell tech. Cheemology uh.
Oh yes, sabbaticals was fun. Stained glass was cool, we got to cut glass! We score the glass and break it with our hands. Like, PIACK! then the glass broke nicely. Can cut curves also, just a little more troublesome. I did a tree! Soldering was cool too, I got to use a new soldering iron hah. Only grinding was horrible. The first time I put too little water so the glass bits wasn't washed down by the sponge, and everything flew towards me. So you can imagine what was I thinking then. Didn't even dare to sweep them off. Haha went to wash them away in the basin.
Philosophy was. Wow. Talked about things we don't normally talk about. Like what is truth. One thing happens, but there are many different perspectives, as of how do you see and analyse the event. So which perspective do you regard as truth? This kind of thing. And why do we do good things? Are we all selfish? Does God exist? What do I believe in? Do we do things because of the consequences or because it's our duty? And some ethical issues, about death sentence, discrimination ect ect. Heh. Sounds quite abstract and cheeem, but seriously it's not, if you really think hard. And lots of movies to watch. We watched part of batman. The detonater part. Learnt how to think properly, and importance of reflections.
But there's one thing that bugged me since the module. We talked about hiring someone who was a prostitute as a PR manager for a company. And I was disturbed by the way the address a prostitute. Everyone, regarded the job as a-wrong-thing-to-do, or a disgrace, where people who's in this profession are victims of circumstance. That in this case, she improved from her 'mistakes'. Well, I mean, it is one's opinion, whether your body is something that cannot be made used of, or compromised. It might be your religion, your values, that you cannot tolerate prostitution. But to some people, virtue is not a dominating factor. Just like a scenario, if your father commited a crime, would you be truthful and send your father to jail or tell a lie to protect your father? In this case, it's the weighing between importance of honesty and filial piety. There is no rights or wrongs, because it's the order of priority. Same for this case, to us, it might be virtue over, for example money, but it might be the other way round for others that do not share same values as us. So who are we to say that prostitution is wrong? It all again, depend on how we view this.
Now it's third week of holidays already, doing bio SIA now. Everything about coronary bypass angioplasty and stem cell tech. Cheemology uh.
Oh yes, sabbaticals was fun. Stained glass was cool, we got to cut glass! We score the glass and break it with our hands. Like, PIACK! then the glass broke nicely. Can cut curves also, just a little more troublesome. I did a tree! Soldering was cool too, I got to use a new soldering iron hah. Only grinding was horrible. The first time I put too little water so the glass bits wasn't washed down by the sponge, and everything flew towards me. So you can imagine what was I thinking then. Didn't even dare to sweep them off. Haha went to wash them away in the basin.
Philosophy was. Wow. Talked about things we don't normally talk about. Like what is truth. One thing happens, but there are many different perspectives, as of how do you see and analyse the event. So which perspective do you regard as truth? This kind of thing. And why do we do good things? Are we all selfish? Does God exist? What do I believe in? Do we do things because of the consequences or because it's our duty? And some ethical issues, about death sentence, discrimination ect ect. Heh. Sounds quite abstract and cheeem, but seriously it's not, if you really think hard. And lots of movies to watch. We watched part of batman. The detonater part. Learnt how to think properly, and importance of reflections.
But there's one thing that bugged me since the module. We talked about hiring someone who was a prostitute as a PR manager for a company. And I was disturbed by the way the address a prostitute. Everyone, regarded the job as a-wrong-thing-to-do, or a disgrace, where people who's in this profession are victims of circumstance. That in this case, she improved from her 'mistakes'. Well, I mean, it is one's opinion, whether your body is something that cannot be made used of, or compromised. It might be your religion, your values, that you cannot tolerate prostitution. But to some people, virtue is not a dominating factor. Just like a scenario, if your father commited a crime, would you be truthful and send your father to jail or tell a lie to protect your father? In this case, it's the weighing between importance of honesty and filial piety. There is no rights or wrongs, because it's the order of priority. Same for this case, to us, it might be virtue over, for example money, but it might be the other way round for others that do not share same values as us. So who are we to say that prostitution is wrong? It all again, depend on how we view this.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Hi. I am back, once again!!
It is not important, although we all know that our standard was not officially recognised, although we learnt that they were inconsistent, we also learn that we have other chances to prove ourselves, to show everyone our true standard. We also learn that we have concerts, festival of arts, to come. We are so going to show our best, aren't we? :) So why dwell on something silly like, oh not fairrrr. I am proud to say that, we have moved on! :) And it's heart warming to see other people, who were just as professional as them, appreciating our work and music and emotions. :D Well done nycb ((((:
Okay, so there's no band today. No band on Fridays until blocks are over. Oh well, I guess it's for our own good. I shall be a good girl and study hard and not let nycb down. nycb sacrificed 3 (4?) pracs for us to study okay. Wait, is the internet disconnected? Hmm okay it is. Fine I shall post this next time.
Oh today was hilarious. I was stoning during chinese when lilaoshi was talking about cao2cao1's poem. And I can't believe I wrote something so retarded haha I actually wrote 文言文 :)
问吾何为愁？ 吾答： ”愁乃无形也，无解也。奈我何！“ 愁，乃人皆有。既有，又无奈何，不如乐观以对。俗曰：借酒浇愁。 酒乃欢庆之饮，饮为欢，勿为愁而饮。又俗曰：借酒浇愁，愁更愁也！酒醉，欢乐乃短暂矣。酒醒，又何？！愁仍在！
Lol! See? and I drew a panda beside it. I think I wrote that cos the poem was about drinking and stuff.
Today was SMBO! Woo so many people. And invigilating was cool and fun. Although we were quite messy at first. And I went up and down for so many times today. Went second level (audi) to help to seat the students, then ran down to get testpapers, then run up to distribute, and walked around to make sure they didn't do anything they are not supposed to do during the test. It's quite cool to be the in charge. Because I get to walk upstairs and downstairs. Hahah. Then I had a lot of fun collecting OTAS. Very cool. I had to seperate all 188 papers and group according to schools. Quite confusing, but very very fun. Other people cannot help at all because only you yourself know what is what. LOL. Then I took the answer sheets up to the staff lounge. Saw yeeshin there haha. Helped her to sort out the schools again. And people can be so ganchiong and write their school name wrongly. I saw someone that missed out a 'g' haha. Then we went down to eat haha. Quite a scary sight, food on the floor, drinks and cups on the stairs and everywhere. But the students were gone already, for the promotion talk. Anyway was eating, then mslim told me to go up to help mr teo again. haha. Sound retarded, but it's really a tedious job. I wonder if people used 8B pencils or black crayons though. The papers were super scary. Can't say much haha but I am so proud of juniors :) Really feel old, I don't know any names on the list. HAHA when I was p6 they were like, p3. Little kids haha. Anyways we helped out until 5+ and went back to bs.
So, did I do my job well today? :) Hope so. haha. Feel super enthu about smbo now! :D
It is not important, although we all know that our standard was not officially recognised, although we learnt that they were inconsistent, we also learn that we have other chances to prove ourselves, to show everyone our true standard. We also learn that we have concerts, festival of arts, to come. We are so going to show our best, aren't we? :) So why dwell on something silly like, oh not fairrrr. I am proud to say that, we have moved on! :) And it's heart warming to see other people, who were just as professional as them, appreciating our work and music and emotions. :D Well done nycb ((((:
Okay, so there's no band today. No band on Fridays until blocks are over. Oh well, I guess it's for our own good. I shall be a good girl and study hard and not let nycb down. nycb sacrificed 3 (4?) pracs for us to study okay. Wait, is the internet disconnected? Hmm okay it is. Fine I shall post this next time.
Oh today was hilarious. I was stoning during chinese when lilaoshi was talking about cao2cao1's poem. And I can't believe I wrote something so retarded haha I actually wrote 文言文 :)
问吾何为愁？ 吾答： ”愁乃无形也，无解也。奈我何！“ 愁，乃人皆有。既有，又无奈何，不如乐观以对。俗曰：借酒浇愁。 酒乃欢庆之饮，饮为欢，勿为愁而饮。又俗曰：借酒浇愁，愁更愁也！酒醉，欢乐乃短暂矣。酒醒，又何？！愁仍在！
Lol! See? and I drew a panda beside it. I think I wrote that cos the poem was about drinking and stuff.
Today was SMBO! Woo so many people. And invigilating was cool and fun. Although we were quite messy at first. And I went up and down for so many times today. Went second level (audi) to help to seat the students, then ran down to get testpapers, then run up to distribute, and walked around to make sure they didn't do anything they are not supposed to do during the test. It's quite cool to be the in charge. Because I get to walk upstairs and downstairs. Hahah. Then I had a lot of fun collecting OTAS. Very cool. I had to seperate all 188 papers and group according to schools. Quite confusing, but very very fun. Other people cannot help at all because only you yourself know what is what. LOL. Then I took the answer sheets up to the staff lounge. Saw yeeshin there haha. Helped her to sort out the schools again. And people can be so ganchiong and write their school name wrongly. I saw someone that missed out a 'g' haha. Then we went down to eat haha. Quite a scary sight, food on the floor, drinks and cups on the stairs and everywhere. But the students were gone already, for the promotion talk. Anyway was eating, then mslim told me to go up to help mr teo again. haha. Sound retarded, but it's really a tedious job. I wonder if people used 8B pencils or black crayons though. The papers were super scary. Can't say much haha but I am so proud of juniors :) Really feel old, I don't know any names on the list. HAHA when I was p6 they were like, p3. Little kids haha. Anyways we helped out until 5+ and went back to bs.
So, did I do my job well today? :) Hope so. haha. Feel super enthu about smbo now! :D
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Hi, like I promised, I am back to tell you the results.
We got silver. Yes. We were speechless, disappointed, sad. But most importantly, we are proud of ourselves. Very very proud of ourselves. Because we did our best, and it was the best shot we had ever played.
Okay we reached there quite early and waited for a while. Went into the tuning room later. Then it was our turn already. We walked in, confidently, with our heads up, smiling at the audience. We started of with an impressive first note of overture no.2. And, I think we sounded good, awesome. And hymn was just. WOW. I was trying very very hard not to cry by the time we reached 156 crescendo. It was the essence of our hard work. I think those in performing arts will understand. The climax, and everything. That is really nice, the note. My heart really swelled, and I feel really really free. Like I am flying in the infinite sky. I tried not to cry because I want the music to go on even after we end it. And we moved on, the last note was so majestic. It bounced back to us. The piece is just...非墨笔可形容. Hymn to the Infinite Sky. The sky we always have. The sky that will still be there even when the music ends. We ended, we stood up majestically, and walked out of the hall, proudly. I saw mrs teo's face, she was crying. I saw people whom I don't know, tearing. I think, that's music. It just melts our hearts.
We were overwhelmed by ourselves and started crying by the time we were outside, it was happy tears. Everyone was so touched, everyone felt the infinity, the beauty of music.
When results came out, we were shocked, once again. We fell. We broke down. We went out, hugged each other, told everyone that it's okay. But in our hearts, we are still affected by the results. We had a band hug, real huge one. To share the moment, as a band. To wait for things to calm down. We cried, we felt sad. But we know we deserve much more than what they can give us. We, are still proud to be a member of Nanyang Concert Band. Our spirit will never go away. We fall, we stand up once again. We cry, but we cheer each other up. We break down, but we embrace each other, so that everyone stays together. We let ourselves be sad, but we pick ourselves up, we help each other. And walk out of SCH with pride, with our heads up, smiling. Because we are proud of what we did, and accepted what we got.
What I have learnt in OBS: What matters is not what we got, but what we gave.
So we actually learnt much, in the process of preparing for syf, performing on stage, accepting the results. We learnt to feel as a band, play as a band, bond as a band. We grew together. We shed happy, and sad tears together. We hug each other. We smile, encourage each other. We learnt to control ourselves, because we knew we have to move on. We learnt how to present ourselves. We learnt the point of music, we gave our best, for the audience, for the judges, for ms chong, for ourselves. And, not for the award. I am quite surprised that I never thought of playing hymn because of the award, but the motivation comes from wanting to share the music, wanting to let everyone feel and enjoy the music. We learnt to accept. Although we don't understand.
So, actually we are ready to tell the whole world, we got silver for SYF, but we tried our best, and we know how much we are worth of. And we will cheer on Tuesday's morning assembly, when Kayyun and Tabby announces our results. Because we are very proud of ourselves.
And we are ready to work towards a new goal. Festival of Arts, and our Appassionata concert. Go nycb, the passion lives on.
And I hereby confess that, I love nycb to the extent that only hymn can describe my love for it. Which is indescribable. And, I love you Ms Chong! The whole band loves you! <3
And thanks to those who encouraged me, encouraged the band; those that wished us luck. Those that cared to call or text me to cheer me up. Really lots of thanks :)
In conclusion, I am very very proud of band, of ms chong! <3 <3
We got silver. Yes. We were speechless, disappointed, sad. But most importantly, we are proud of ourselves. Very very proud of ourselves. Because we did our best, and it was the best shot we had ever played.
Okay we reached there quite early and waited for a while. Went into the tuning room later. Then it was our turn already. We walked in, confidently, with our heads up, smiling at the audience. We started of with an impressive first note of overture no.2. And, I think we sounded good, awesome. And hymn was just. WOW. I was trying very very hard not to cry by the time we reached 156 crescendo. It was the essence of our hard work. I think those in performing arts will understand. The climax, and everything. That is really nice, the note. My heart really swelled, and I feel really really free. Like I am flying in the infinite sky. I tried not to cry because I want the music to go on even after we end it. And we moved on, the last note was so majestic. It bounced back to us. The piece is just...非墨笔可形容. Hymn to the Infinite Sky. The sky we always have. The sky that will still be there even when the music ends. We ended, we stood up majestically, and walked out of the hall, proudly. I saw mrs teo's face, she was crying. I saw people whom I don't know, tearing. I think, that's music. It just melts our hearts.
We were overwhelmed by ourselves and started crying by the time we were outside, it was happy tears. Everyone was so touched, everyone felt the infinity, the beauty of music.
When results came out, we were shocked, once again. We fell. We broke down. We went out, hugged each other, told everyone that it's okay. But in our hearts, we are still affected by the results. We had a band hug, real huge one. To share the moment, as a band. To wait for things to calm down. We cried, we felt sad. But we know we deserve much more than what they can give us. We, are still proud to be a member of Nanyang Concert Band. Our spirit will never go away. We fall, we stand up once again. We cry, but we cheer each other up. We break down, but we embrace each other, so that everyone stays together. We let ourselves be sad, but we pick ourselves up, we help each other. And walk out of SCH with pride, with our heads up, smiling. Because we are proud of what we did, and accepted what we got.
What I have learnt in OBS: What matters is not what we got, but what we gave.
So we actually learnt much, in the process of preparing for syf, performing on stage, accepting the results. We learnt to feel as a band, play as a band, bond as a band. We grew together. We shed happy, and sad tears together. We hug each other. We smile, encourage each other. We learnt to control ourselves, because we knew we have to move on. We learnt how to present ourselves. We learnt the point of music, we gave our best, for the audience, for the judges, for ms chong, for ourselves. And, not for the award. I am quite surprised that I never thought of playing hymn because of the award, but the motivation comes from wanting to share the music, wanting to let everyone feel and enjoy the music. We learnt to accept. Although we don't understand.
So, actually we are ready to tell the whole world, we got silver for SYF, but we tried our best, and we know how much we are worth of. And we will cheer on Tuesday's morning assembly, when Kayyun and Tabby announces our results. Because we are very proud of ourselves.
And we are ready to work towards a new goal. Festival of Arts, and our Appassionata concert. Go nycb, the passion lives on.
And I hereby confess that, I love nycb to the extent that only hymn can describe my love for it. Which is indescribable. And, I love you Ms Chong! The whole band loves you! <3
And thanks to those who encouraged me, encouraged the band; those that wished us luck. Those that cared to call or text me to cheer me up. Really lots of thanks :)
In conclusion, I am very very proud of band, of ms chong! <3 <3
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Yesterday was the Earth Hour thing. Helped to set up to speakers and projectors and stuff, was super fun. But I didn't watch the movie haha I went for star gazing. Which I didn't really look at the stars through the telescope, but lie down on the basketball court and looked at the sky. The floor was real warm and comfortable. And me and jessie lay down side by side and hummed hymn<3 and looked at random stars, and felt like sleeping.
Which reminds me. A few days ago I listened to hymn and look out my window. I saw the evening sky, and hymn really describe the sky. I felt like I moved higher and higher by every cresendo. And got back the feeling I had during limelight. All the goosebumps. And feel like crying because I was so touched by the infinity. Like you heart suddenly increase in size, and your lungs expand like mad.
Haha what I am trying to say is just Hymn really made me know how to feel.
I believe in nycb, we just have to believe. And aim for platinum! When we reach for the stars, we will still fall in heaven.
Goodbye my friend. I will be back. Without regret.
FOCUS FOCUS! C.H.O.N.G CHONG AH! ;D
5 more days!
Which reminds me. A few days ago I listened to hymn and look out my window. I saw the evening sky, and hymn really describe the sky. I felt like I moved higher and higher by every cresendo. And got back the feeling I had during limelight. All the goosebumps. And feel like crying because I was so touched by the infinity. Like you heart suddenly increase in size, and your lungs expand like mad.
Haha what I am trying to say is just Hymn really made me know how to feel.
I believe in nycb, we just have to believe. And aim for platinum! When we reach for the stars, we will still fall in heaven.
Goodbye my friend. I will be back. Without regret.
FOCUS FOCUS! C.H.O.N.G CHONG AH! ;D
5 more days!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I thought she was the one that was cheering the loudest.
I think the point is how much do we feel for our band,
how we are always touched when we played together
I don't know why some can love the band so much yet
not willing to spend some time practising.
I must say, I felt a little relieved when friday prac was cancelled
because I can have more time with my family.
But is that all？
I felt more worried. Can we still make it.
What the band has lost is a full day practice,
out of 8. Thinking back,
band isn't just fun.
We need to give to have fun.
Is it fair if we only have fun
and not work?
Is it fair to those, or most,
I would say, who worked so hard?
What will matter is not what we got, but what we gave.
If the whole band worked hard and focused,
I won't feel sad even if we didn't get gold with honours.
Because I know we tried our best.
But, are we?
Believe in yourself. And we can do it.
If we choose to go on, we will find the way.
I think the point is how much do we feel for our band,
how we are always touched when we played together
I don't know why some can love the band so much yet
not willing to spend some time practising.
I must say, I felt a little relieved when friday prac was cancelled
because I can have more time with my family.
But is that all？
I felt more worried. Can we still make it.
What the band has lost is a full day practice,
out of 8. Thinking back,
band isn't just fun.
We need to give to have fun.
Is it fair if we only have fun
and not work?
Is it fair to those, or most,
I would say, who worked so hard?
What will matter is not what we got, but what we gave.
If the whole band worked hard and focused,
I won't feel sad even if we didn't get gold with honours.
Because I know we tried our best.
But, are we?
Believe in yourself. And we can do it.
If we choose to go on, we will find the way.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
OBS
Hello. Long time no see. But I spent much time in see (sea). Well the past week has been OBS. And OBS, oh well, only OBS. But.......HAHAHA it's super fun!
I woke up around 6am on the first day then get ready to go down. Went to find xinyung and realised she has a big fat bag too [; Anyway, we went to school and stoned until 710am and got up a bus and byee nanyang. FYI, I bet some people are still sleeping in the boarding school. I am in watch 7, with 15 other people. XY, joy, qiuluan, hannah, stephanie, carrie, cherie, pig, peizhen, yuehan, claire, jingting, yining, deborah and yijing. We stopped at the reception centre and waited in watches. We were the first to reach but last to leave. We practically stoned there for very long. Our instructor came really late we thought no body's taking us to pulau ubin. Anyway we got Bernard(toh)! as an instructor, and our watch is called " Marshall" :) so cool right. Anyway Bernard look very dao at first, like ._. but later he just proved me wrong. You know he kept calling us weird names, he called Carrie Jessica, Cherie Carrie, Xinyung Yihong, yuehan yuhan, steph vanessa or smth. Lucky he can remember part of my name haha so he calls me beibei. Sometimes he thinks I am jingting ._. He finally remembered most of our names on the last day.
Anyway,
We reached camp 1 which is very very nice, and big. Very big. I think we went for some opening ceremony. At that time it felt like some ceremony to celebrate our definite death in 5 days time. But anyway, everyone survived and came back in one piece. Oh, no. Before that Bernard and watch sat together to talk about people's allergies and stuff. Settled the jobs and collected valuables. Then we walked around in the camp (Bernard said it's small) oh well. Apparently I still can't remember where is the medical centre. But I know where is orchard road and lucky plaza and mph. Sounds weird. And I found that instructors have an amusing way of calling each other, they sound like the morning birds. x10 times louder. Later on we got our happy meal and group food. A LOT A LOT. I still have a big pack now. Then we had our first lunch then went to do stores. We took the bottles to wash and filled them up. It's quite disgusting at first because all the caps have black things in it. Everyone just adapted to it hmm. At least I did. Then we went to do belaying. It feels funny to wear the harness and the hat stinks really bad. Overall is fun and hot. Later we went up to the cook house for fresh dinner! Had a fun time taking the plates out and putting back into the box. Proper planning is the word haha. I think we went back to pack bags and pitch tents. I guess obs really did us good, at least people not so icky anymore. The first day people are like "eeww"-ing all the way (haha including me) when we walk in the mud and touch the mud when we pitched tents.
And we spent our first night in the forest. It's very hot and I was sweating when I woke up.
Day 2
Woke up at 5am. Unpitched tents and washed up. We were supposed to meet Bernard at 630. But only have 4 person showed up on time, not really on time actually. I felt quite frustrated then, for being late. But later I thought I was partly responsible for this. We should have woke them up before we left.
We did kayaking. We tested our life vests and did capsizing drills. Haha jingting and the pantie+dead fish. That's not the point. The first capsized I swam the wrong way and my legs were up haha instead of my head. It's quite scary yet funny. Bernard told me to relax then I stopped moving haha but my head still underneath then he suddenly told me to swim up. The second time was better, it was deeper in the sea and I swam the right side up. But I took very long to climb up the kayak haha quite sad. And I didn't stick my butt in first. I just climbed the only way I could think of. xD
We kayaked the shorter way since the sea ex leaders said there's not enough time.So we kayaked for around 3 hours and reached camp 2. Bathed and cooked. Actually bernard did most of the cooking. Later we were supposed to meet him at the instructor's place at 930 but somehow we thought we were supposed to meet him at the 'cooking place'. So everyone waited and waited. Now I think back, I wonder why didn't I go to look for him? Yeah, so at 10pm me and joy went to the toilet and dropped by to see if he's there. And guess what, he's stoning there. We thought he forgot then he told us that we were supposed to meet him there. We were giving the :o face and fetched the rest of the watch. He inspected the pots and messtins and made us wash again. At first I thought he did that because he was angry, but then I realised the black things really come out if you rub it with sand. I think he's quit upset with us. Well, I think he's pretty upset with us for the first 2 days. We were quite un-enthu and quiet and sian and passive.
Day 3
Mandy's tent woke up first and woke everyone up. At that time every watch was still sleeping. We kept our tents and brushed teeth and gathered outside the instructors' place at 6.30 sharp. Haha we were the first watch there. Since we had nothing to do we formed 4 rows of four. Like foot drills. The other instructors were looking at us in a weird way. He came out 3 minutes after we arrived and looked amused. haha.
Ehh too sleepy to continue. Shall post tonight.
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haha oops I didn't post yesterday night, was watching tv. You know, there's so little time at home you want to spend all the time with your family. Had stomach ache yesterday D: After the dinner in bs. Anyway, continue from yesterday.
Then we had pt, all the lame games but very fun. Some weird greeting game,captain game, and the 5 basic exercise. Then they did some running. After that we had breakfast and talked about the night before. After that everyone learnt something and everyone became better! Wee. Then we did rock climbing. Had a bad time wearing the helmets again. Belaying was fun, and glad that hsiao fong enjoyed me belaying her haha. I guess my hands are a little stronger than others. Being the butt-supporter is very funny, the hands look like 如来神掌 haha. Then the climbing part was really scary. I almost didn't dare to climb up when I was at the bottom. Then bernard told me to believe in myself and if I want to do it I can. Then he promised to tell me a story later on. The encouragement really helped a lot and I just told myself. Just do it! I want to climb up there! And I just climbed. It wasn't easy. I slipped down countless times and I wanted to give up. But somehow I thought of the point of coming to OBS and my supportive friends and instructors below, I managed to climb through the thing. Alas, I reached the not-so-top top of the wall and looked down. I really feel very very happy and accomplished when I see them cheering for me. Although I did not manage to climb to the highest part, I exceeded my own expectations. Seriously, I only aimed to climb one or two steps up the wall, even the red line look to far away. Oh yes, then all the cartoon things happened. XY climbed up and started shouting that she wants to come down. You know why, her shoes were dropping out haha! then we were like ._." Then when she's coming down amanda told her that she can see her butt, then she lost focus and flew to the other wall. It's very scary when you see it, but apparently she's enjoying herself up there. Around lunch time we all completed the climbing and bernard told us the story. It's about the deaf tadpole being the only one that made up to the mountain because it can't hear the discouragements. I think everyone was awed when he told us the tadpole was deaf. After lunch was rafting. Our group didn't really have a leader so we were quite inefficient. We didn't finish the raft but the other munshi did. They did a great job and passed the kicking test and shaking test. But the knots they tied were not enough to hold down the barrels and raft broke apart. Everyone was quite sad, but people also learnt from mistakes [without failures we won't taste victory] Then we went back to our cooking place and it started raining. M&M cooked dinner while waiting for bohseng and kurt to come back from rock climbing. Then we packed our things and waited for the rain to stop. After the rain stopped we let Berneard check all the tins and pots. Around 8+ the 4 watches walked to camp3. We walked in the forest and it was very scary because we didn't take out our torch and we can only see the bagpack immediately in front of you. So we hung on to the bag in front and walked. I slipped into some mud and my shoes were dirty, but there's no time to talk about these. Many people fell, hannah even sprained her ankle. But everyone had to continue walking and get out of the forest. The bag was super heavy btw. We didn't know how to pack and brought lots of rubbish. Oh! we saw wild boars! A few of them. We reached after 40 minutes of walk and my entire shirt was wet with sweat. We set tents in the dark and settled night duty after Bohseng and Kurt arrived. Our tent got the 130 to 2am slot. FYI, camp 3 has nothing but grass, rocks, trees, tents and us. Oh and the sea. We went into our tents to change out of the wet clothes and powder bathed ourselves. I think we took quite long because 5 minutes after you put the powder you sweat it away again. But it's quite fun haha. Then we slept and groaned when the rocks poked us on our heads and backs. Night duty was scary cos we heard loads of weird noises. We heard the mosques praying and some disco music. I partnered joy and when we walked towards the instructors' site we suddenly heard a disgusting croak. It's not even a frog croak but sounded like untuned radio. We were so shocked haha but the duty ended real fast and we went back to sleep.
Day 4
We woke up and went to the grass to pee haha. We didn't want to do it on the beach so we went further. It feels really weird, but it's good experience. To have 3 friends holding a poncho and you peeing behind. Then we went back to un-pitch our tents and got ready for PT. But somehow people wasn't ready Bernard and us went to sit somewhere for breakfast. Then we were informed that hannah's going back first and not joining us for land ex, sadly. We took photos again then we had games with camp 1 bravo(the 4 watches). Haha people from 303 worth 50 cents each but we are only worth 5 cents. Then we played some math game to bond the two classes. And did dodo dance. Adding in the 'fishball!' behind. Haha we created meatball and sotongball, the instructors were laughing like mad. But in the end they had to do them once. Super funny ;) Then we set off for the land expedition. The process was very very tired and we walked very slow so we had to miss a few checkpoints. But we went to the highest point in pulau ubin, and it's very beautiful. Then we walked and walked and walked and my legs almost gave out. I got that feeling that I will just kneel down anytime, but I didn't. I just kept going although I walked slower and slower and became the last few in the watch. Oh, but Bernard kept us entertained by singing the very meaningful songs. The umbrella song was hilarious and they said he kept singing one part wrongly. The journey was so tough it was almost impossible for me to stay positive. It just somehow got numb and I just kept on walking. And the bagpacks suffocates me. I had to spray ventolin to get my breath back. I kept telling myself I can do it I can do it I can do it. I just forgot about it and walked. We walked back to camp 3 and rested for a while. We actually overtook bohseng/kurt I can't remember. Then when the arrived we were ready to go again. We walked to camp 2 in 30 minutes without breaks, then they stopped at the gate of camp 2. We didn't know that we were so near, then Bernard said, keep on walking and see. Haha then I heard joy shouting in joy. Anyway we were exhausted and rested there. We were very lucky. 1 minute after we put our bags down it started raining. The other 3 watches from camp 1 bravo were still stucked in the forest. So we just waited in camp 2 until the rain stopped and continued walking to camp 1. Later on Bernard said he's quite impressed that we walked so fast when we were walking back to camp 1. Although we were the last group to reach we were the only group that's dry. Not for long huh. After we put our bags down Bernard wants us to change into wet shoes and wear our lifevests. And here we go, jetty jump!! Bernard demonstrated once(perfect example of facing your fears) first. Carrie was the first to jump I was second. Actually no, I was just standing there then I just went. But I couldn't see where on earth is the board ending I had to squint and squint. Then I just repeated 'I.Can.Do.It.' And told myself "weee!" and jumped. The moment I hit the water was quite shocking. I just winced and then floated up. Hah! Then I became super fun. I swam aside then Bernard told me to wait for cherie to jump. In the end cherie can still swim but I just let her go up first. Then everyone went for second time!! And good for steph, she made it finally! Me and joy stayed in the water for quite long and lazed around. After that I didn't go for third round cos I didn't have anymore strength in my hands(need to climb up the slimy ladder) I just waited there. Later everyone went back to bathe. Long queue because munshi haven't bathe also. We met Bernard again for dinner and pitching tents. Half of us cooked dinner the other half went to pitch tents. We had all the weird dishes then we presented our dishes. 303 has the interesting dish called 'china'. It's vegetable soup. haha because it's 菜呢? haha. Anyway Marshall did a cheer. A little lame but quite inspiring, I think it's quite meaningful. After dinner we cleaned up and went back to wash up. We met him again at 1030 but it suddenly started raining. So we stayed in the mph. 5 person from our watch didn't bring sleeping bag so our dearest kind Bernard lent us his tent and bluetub(for those who brought sleepingbag as blanket). So nice of him right. Then we set up the tent and slept.
Day 5
I have no idea everyone wakes up so early. Our watch woke up quite late compared to the others. Actually Bernard came to wake us up haha. So we went to keep tents and brush teeth and stuff. Then we ate breakfast outside our dorm(we never stayed there) and dried the tents and packed the store rooms. Then we went around to look for missing items (since people conveniently took our camping sticks)But we managed to find everything back. Then we took our bags and went to orchard road when Bernard went to get our valuables. We got back our valuables and went shopping haha. After that we sat down and took our obs photo and commitment sheet, then talked about our own strengths and weaknesses. And went to do the trust jump. I did a super retarded thing, I forgot to say the cue to jump and just jumped like that. But thanks to the rest of them I survived. Then we went back and talked more. Like the highest and lowest point in OBS, and what have we learnt and threw the twine around. When everyone finished talking he cut the twine and said, everything is over, the leftover ones are our memories, and he cut the twine "that's my memory" and he cut all the twine. We kept the twine tight in our hands, tied it around us, whatever. I guess that's something we will keep for a long time. Then Bernard gave us the other people's certificate and wanted us to give it to them personally. When I received it from my friend and the hug, it really gave me the sense of accomplishment that, wow, I completed the entire course of OBS! And the horrible ending feeling, But like what Bernard said, everything will come to an end, no matter sad or happy. So I managed to stay positive. But I see amanda starting to give the i-am-going-to-cry look, I felt hollow. Just then, I think he sensed that, he told us to be strong. Then we went down to mph for the final debrief. Later on we did three cheers for Bernard and Marshall. I really shouted my heart out when we led the cheers. Then I started to tear quite a lot when amanda hugged me again. Sort of lost control. Later on 304 did the crazy game haha. I can't remember how it sounds like, but it reminds me that when there's sadness, there can be happiness too. So let's spread happiness and let everyone feel it! :D Ahh then we said byebye to the building and went onto the jetty. After leaving the place, the natural smell just poofed. But we were quite happy again and went back to the reception centre to wait for our bus. Bernard came also haha then we found a bottle cap on the floor haha then we gave it to him. Huh he laughed at me and said there's no use anymore haha so he refused to accept our farewell gift for him. Yeah then later we got a very gay pink bus and went back to school. And then it's all the hostel and soft bed again. Not really happy over there. Emo-ed a little ehh then lingran saw me with the ): face and patted me haha. Then I bathed and had dinner in the canteen. Saw mr chia and told him about OBS. He knows Bernard too, not very suprisingly. Stoned in xinyung's room for a while and realised that her roomie ngan had Bernard as her instructor too! And we found the blog that said stupid bernard haha. That's actually ngan's watchmate. haha.
Then went back my room to sleep. Jumped up in the morning at 630am thinking that I woke up late for PT. Then I realised I am lying on my bed. Slept again and woke up at 7. Stared at the OBS picture for a while and went to wash and and look for xinyung for breakfast. Turned out that she's still sleeping. So in the end we only had time to grab 2 pieces of bread before our lesson starts (8am) Lesson was more bearable than usual will our fresh heads from OBS, full with encouragement. Then I went home to malaysia! :D Brother's at home too. Went out for lunch and I was so sleepy I couldn't eat properly. Plus my stomach ache. Went home and blogged for a while and wanted to sleep but didn't. So I walked around the house and stuff. Still having stomach ache at night but ate more. I love IB more than IPA I realised. My mum threw away my bread from obs lol. Slept very early around 10+.
Then it's today! Didn't do anything actually. Went to pluck two jambus from dad's tree but the birds pecked on it D:< Went out for a while. And came back to blog until now. I spent so much time here man. I shall go already.
Byee.
End from where you begin.
Pandas can fly!
I woke up around 6am on the first day then get ready to go down. Went to find xinyung and realised she has a big fat bag too [; Anyway, we went to school and stoned until 710am and got up a bus and byee nanyang. FYI, I bet some people are still sleeping in the boarding school. I am in watch 7, with 15 other people. XY, joy, qiuluan, hannah, stephanie, carrie, cherie, pig, peizhen, yuehan, claire, jingting, yining, deborah and yijing. We stopped at the reception centre and waited in watches. We were the first to reach but last to leave. We practically stoned there for very long. Our instructor came really late we thought no body's taking us to pulau ubin. Anyway we got Bernard(toh)! as an instructor, and our watch is called " Marshall" :) so cool right. Anyway Bernard look very dao at first, like ._. but later he just proved me wrong. You know he kept calling us weird names, he called Carrie Jessica, Cherie Carrie, Xinyung Yihong, yuehan yuhan, steph vanessa or smth. Lucky he can remember part of my name haha so he calls me beibei. Sometimes he thinks I am jingting ._. He finally remembered most of our names on the last day.
Anyway,
We reached camp 1 which is very very nice, and big. Very big. I think we went for some opening ceremony. At that time it felt like some ceremony to celebrate our definite death in 5 days time. But anyway, everyone survived and came back in one piece. Oh, no. Before that Bernard and watch sat together to talk about people's allergies and stuff. Settled the jobs and collected valuables. Then we walked around in the camp (Bernard said it's small) oh well. Apparently I still can't remember where is the medical centre. But I know where is orchard road and lucky plaza and mph. Sounds weird. And I found that instructors have an amusing way of calling each other, they sound like the morning birds. x10 times louder. Later on we got our happy meal and group food. A LOT A LOT. I still have a big pack now. Then we had our first lunch then went to do stores. We took the bottles to wash and filled them up. It's quite disgusting at first because all the caps have black things in it. Everyone just adapted to it hmm. At least I did. Then we went to do belaying. It feels funny to wear the harness and the hat stinks really bad. Overall is fun and hot. Later we went up to the cook house for fresh dinner! Had a fun time taking the plates out and putting back into the box. Proper planning is the word haha. I think we went back to pack bags and pitch tents. I guess obs really did us good, at least people not so icky anymore. The first day people are like "eeww"-ing all the way (haha including me) when we walk in the mud and touch the mud when we pitched tents.
And we spent our first night in the forest. It's very hot and I was sweating when I woke up.
Day 2
Woke up at 5am. Unpitched tents and washed up. We were supposed to meet Bernard at 630. But only have 4 person showed up on time, not really on time actually. I felt quite frustrated then, for being late. But later I thought I was partly responsible for this. We should have woke them up before we left.
We did kayaking. We tested our life vests and did capsizing drills. Haha jingting and the pantie+dead fish. That's not the point. The first capsized I swam the wrong way and my legs were up haha instead of my head. It's quite scary yet funny. Bernard told me to relax then I stopped moving haha but my head still underneath then he suddenly told me to swim up. The second time was better, it was deeper in the sea and I swam the right side up. But I took very long to climb up the kayak haha quite sad. And I didn't stick my butt in first. I just climbed the only way I could think of. xD
We kayaked the shorter way since the sea ex leaders said there's not enough time.So we kayaked for around 3 hours and reached camp 2. Bathed and cooked. Actually bernard did most of the cooking. Later we were supposed to meet him at the instructor's place at 930 but somehow we thought we were supposed to meet him at the 'cooking place'. So everyone waited and waited. Now I think back, I wonder why didn't I go to look for him? Yeah, so at 10pm me and joy went to the toilet and dropped by to see if he's there. And guess what, he's stoning there. We thought he forgot then he told us that we were supposed to meet him there. We were giving the :o face and fetched the rest of the watch. He inspected the pots and messtins and made us wash again. At first I thought he did that because he was angry, but then I realised the black things really come out if you rub it with sand. I think he's quit upset with us. Well, I think he's pretty upset with us for the first 2 days. We were quite un-enthu and quiet and sian and passive.
Day 3
Mandy's tent woke up first and woke everyone up. At that time every watch was still sleeping. We kept our tents and brushed teeth and gathered outside the instructors' place at 6.30 sharp. Haha we were the first watch there. Since we had nothing to do we formed 4 rows of four. Like foot drills. The other instructors were looking at us in a weird way. He came out 3 minutes after we arrived and looked amused. haha.
Ehh too sleepy to continue. Shall post tonight.
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haha oops I didn't post yesterday night, was watching tv. You know, there's so little time at home you want to spend all the time with your family. Had stomach ache yesterday D: After the dinner in bs. Anyway, continue from yesterday.
Then we had pt, all the lame games but very fun. Some weird greeting game,captain game, and the 5 basic exercise. Then they did some running. After that we had breakfast and talked about the night before. After that everyone learnt something and everyone became better! Wee. Then we did rock climbing. Had a bad time wearing the helmets again. Belaying was fun, and glad that hsiao fong enjoyed me belaying her haha. I guess my hands are a little stronger than others. Being the butt-supporter is very funny, the hands look like 如来神掌 haha. Then the climbing part was really scary. I almost didn't dare to climb up when I was at the bottom. Then bernard told me to believe in myself and if I want to do it I can. Then he promised to tell me a story later on. The encouragement really helped a lot and I just told myself. Just do it! I want to climb up there! And I just climbed. It wasn't easy. I slipped down countless times and I wanted to give up. But somehow I thought of the point of coming to OBS and my supportive friends and instructors below, I managed to climb through the thing. Alas, I reached the not-so-top top of the wall and looked down. I really feel very very happy and accomplished when I see them cheering for me. Although I did not manage to climb to the highest part, I exceeded my own expectations. Seriously, I only aimed to climb one or two steps up the wall, even the red line look to far away. Oh yes, then all the cartoon things happened. XY climbed up and started shouting that she wants to come down. You know why, her shoes were dropping out haha! then we were like ._." Then when she's coming down amanda told her that she can see her butt, then she lost focus and flew to the other wall. It's very scary when you see it, but apparently she's enjoying herself up there. Around lunch time we all completed the climbing and bernard told us the story. It's about the deaf tadpole being the only one that made up to the mountain because it can't hear the discouragements. I think everyone was awed when he told us the tadpole was deaf. After lunch was rafting. Our group didn't really have a leader so we were quite inefficient. We didn't finish the raft but the other munshi did. They did a great job and passed the kicking test and shaking test. But the knots they tied were not enough to hold down the barrels and raft broke apart. Everyone was quite sad, but people also learnt from mistakes [without failures we won't taste victory] Then we went back to our cooking place and it started raining. M&M cooked dinner while waiting for bohseng and kurt to come back from rock climbing. Then we packed our things and waited for the rain to stop. After the rain stopped we let Berneard check all the tins and pots. Around 8+ the 4 watches walked to camp3. We walked in the forest and it was very scary because we didn't take out our torch and we can only see the bagpack immediately in front of you. So we hung on to the bag in front and walked. I slipped into some mud and my shoes were dirty, but there's no time to talk about these. Many people fell, hannah even sprained her ankle. But everyone had to continue walking and get out of the forest. The bag was super heavy btw. We didn't know how to pack and brought lots of rubbish. Oh! we saw wild boars! A few of them. We reached after 40 minutes of walk and my entire shirt was wet with sweat. We set tents in the dark and settled night duty after Bohseng and Kurt arrived. Our tent got the 130 to 2am slot. FYI, camp 3 has nothing but grass, rocks, trees, tents and us. Oh and the sea. We went into our tents to change out of the wet clothes and powder bathed ourselves. I think we took quite long because 5 minutes after you put the powder you sweat it away again. But it's quite fun haha. Then we slept and groaned when the rocks poked us on our heads and backs. Night duty was scary cos we heard loads of weird noises. We heard the mosques praying and some disco music. I partnered joy and when we walked towards the instructors' site we suddenly heard a disgusting croak. It's not even a frog croak but sounded like untuned radio. We were so shocked haha but the duty ended real fast and we went back to sleep.
Day 4
We woke up and went to the grass to pee haha. We didn't want to do it on the beach so we went further. It feels really weird, but it's good experience. To have 3 friends holding a poncho and you peeing behind. Then we went back to un-pitch our tents and got ready for PT. But somehow people wasn't ready Bernard and us went to sit somewhere for breakfast. Then we were informed that hannah's going back first and not joining us for land ex, sadly. We took photos again then we had games with camp 1 bravo(the 4 watches). Haha people from 303 worth 50 cents each but we are only worth 5 cents. Then we played some math game to bond the two classes. And did dodo dance. Adding in the 'fishball!' behind. Haha we created meatball and sotongball, the instructors were laughing like mad. But in the end they had to do them once. Super funny ;) Then we set off for the land expedition. The process was very very tired and we walked very slow so we had to miss a few checkpoints. But we went to the highest point in pulau ubin, and it's very beautiful. Then we walked and walked and walked and my legs almost gave out. I got that feeling that I will just kneel down anytime, but I didn't. I just kept going although I walked slower and slower and became the last few in the watch. Oh, but Bernard kept us entertained by singing the very meaningful songs. The umbrella song was hilarious and they said he kept singing one part wrongly. The journey was so tough it was almost impossible for me to stay positive. It just somehow got numb and I just kept on walking. And the bagpacks suffocates me. I had to spray ventolin to get my breath back. I kept telling myself I can do it I can do it I can do it. I just forgot about it and walked. We walked back to camp 3 and rested for a while. We actually overtook bohseng/kurt I can't remember. Then when the arrived we were ready to go again. We walked to camp 2 in 30 minutes without breaks, then they stopped at the gate of camp 2. We didn't know that we were so near, then Bernard said, keep on walking and see. Haha then I heard joy shouting in joy. Anyway we were exhausted and rested there. We were very lucky. 1 minute after we put our bags down it started raining. The other 3 watches from camp 1 bravo were still stucked in the forest. So we just waited in camp 2 until the rain stopped and continued walking to camp 1. Later on Bernard said he's quite impressed that we walked so fast when we were walking back to camp 1. Although we were the last group to reach we were the only group that's dry. Not for long huh. After we put our bags down Bernard wants us to change into wet shoes and wear our lifevests. And here we go, jetty jump!! Bernard demonstrated once(perfect example of facing your fears) first. Carrie was the first to jump I was second. Actually no, I was just standing there then I just went. But I couldn't see where on earth is the board ending I had to squint and squint. Then I just repeated 'I.Can.Do.It.' And told myself "weee!" and jumped. The moment I hit the water was quite shocking. I just winced and then floated up. Hah! Then I became super fun. I swam aside then Bernard told me to wait for cherie to jump. In the end cherie can still swim but I just let her go up first. Then everyone went for second time!! And good for steph, she made it finally! Me and joy stayed in the water for quite long and lazed around. After that I didn't go for third round cos I didn't have anymore strength in my hands(need to climb up the slimy ladder) I just waited there. Later everyone went back to bathe. Long queue because munshi haven't bathe also. We met Bernard again for dinner and pitching tents. Half of us cooked dinner the other half went to pitch tents. We had all the weird dishes then we presented our dishes. 303 has the interesting dish called 'china'. It's vegetable soup. haha because it's 菜呢? haha. Anyway Marshall did a cheer. A little lame but quite inspiring, I think it's quite meaningful. After dinner we cleaned up and went back to wash up. We met him again at 1030 but it suddenly started raining. So we stayed in the mph. 5 person from our watch didn't bring sleeping bag so our dearest kind Bernard lent us his tent and bluetub(for those who brought sleepingbag as blanket). So nice of him right. Then we set up the tent and slept.
Day 5
I have no idea everyone wakes up so early. Our watch woke up quite late compared to the others. Actually Bernard came to wake us up haha. So we went to keep tents and brush teeth and stuff. Then we ate breakfast outside our dorm(we never stayed there) and dried the tents and packed the store rooms. Then we went around to look for missing items (since people conveniently took our camping sticks)But we managed to find everything back. Then we took our bags and went to orchard road when Bernard went to get our valuables. We got back our valuables and went shopping haha. After that we sat down and took our obs photo and commitment sheet, then talked about our own strengths and weaknesses. And went to do the trust jump. I did a super retarded thing, I forgot to say the cue to jump and just jumped like that. But thanks to the rest of them I survived. Then we went back and talked more. Like the highest and lowest point in OBS, and what have we learnt and threw the twine around. When everyone finished talking he cut the twine and said, everything is over, the leftover ones are our memories, and he cut the twine "that's my memory" and he cut all the twine. We kept the twine tight in our hands, tied it around us, whatever. I guess that's something we will keep for a long time. Then Bernard gave us the other people's certificate and wanted us to give it to them personally. When I received it from my friend and the hug, it really gave me the sense of accomplishment that, wow, I completed the entire course of OBS! And the horrible ending feeling, But like what Bernard said, everything will come to an end, no matter sad or happy. So I managed to stay positive. But I see amanda starting to give the i-am-going-to-cry look, I felt hollow. Just then, I think he sensed that, he told us to be strong. Then we went down to mph for the final debrief. Later on we did three cheers for Bernard and Marshall. I really shouted my heart out when we led the cheers. Then I started to tear quite a lot when amanda hugged me again. Sort of lost control. Later on 304 did the crazy game haha. I can't remember how it sounds like, but it reminds me that when there's sadness, there can be happiness too. So let's spread happiness and let everyone feel it! :D Ahh then we said byebye to the building and went onto the jetty. After leaving the place, the natural smell just poofed. But we were quite happy again and went back to the reception centre to wait for our bus. Bernard came also haha then we found a bottle cap on the floor haha then we gave it to him. Huh he laughed at me and said there's no use anymore haha so he refused to accept our farewell gift for him. Yeah then later we got a very gay pink bus and went back to school. And then it's all the hostel and soft bed again. Not really happy over there. Emo-ed a little ehh then lingran saw me with the ): face and patted me haha. Then I bathed and had dinner in the canteen. Saw mr chia and told him about OBS. He knows Bernard too, not very suprisingly. Stoned in xinyung's room for a while and realised that her roomie ngan had Bernard as her instructor too! And we found the blog that said stupid bernard haha. That's actually ngan's watchmate. haha.
Then went back my room to sleep. Jumped up in the morning at 630am thinking that I woke up late for PT. Then I realised I am lying on my bed. Slept again and woke up at 7. Stared at the OBS picture for a while and went to wash and and look for xinyung for breakfast. Turned out that she's still sleeping. So in the end we only had time to grab 2 pieces of bread before our lesson starts (8am) Lesson was more bearable than usual will our fresh heads from OBS, full with encouragement. Then I went home to malaysia! :D Brother's at home too. Went out for lunch and I was so sleepy I couldn't eat properly. Plus my stomach ache. Went home and blogged for a while and wanted to sleep but didn't. So I walked around the house and stuff. Still having stomach ache at night but ate more. I love IB more than IPA I realised. My mum threw away my bread from obs lol. Slept very early around 10+.
Then it's today! Didn't do anything actually. Went to pluck two jambus from dad's tree but the birds pecked on it D:< Went out for a while. And came back to blog until now. I spent so much time here man. I shall go already.
Byee.
End from where you begin.
Pandas can fly!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sometimes I can't believe people are able to react like that. And I am really glad that my parents are not like that. Until then, I never thought that she, someone I considered I knew, would do this to her child. Let's call her A. As you know, jb's not really that safe. A and her child(10 years old) went to someone's house. When they were leaving, her child was walking in front. Her child went onto the car and waited for her. Just then this robber came into the driver's seat and started searching for valuables. How would YOU feel if you were the child, I will be terrified, for sure. When the mother saw this, you really can't imagine how on earth did she manage to do that. She ran back to the house and locked the child out with the robber.
I really have nothing to say. Either she thinks that to sacrifice one is better than sacrificing two, or she's just plain dumb. I mean, even if you don't know the child, your first reaction would be to grab the child away from the man. She must have a certain level of determination, to lock her child out when the child was crying and screaming for HER help. Oh, congratulations ma'am, you deserve the 'best mum' award.
Oh well. I guess she's not someone I would trust with my life. And I finally understand what it means by 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量、患难见真情、路遥知马力，日久见人心。佩服啊，佩服。 我甘败下风！还请多多指教。
I really have nothing to say. Either she thinks that to sacrifice one is better than sacrificing two, or she's just plain dumb. I mean, even if you don't know the child, your first reaction would be to grab the child away from the man. She must have a certain level of determination, to lock her child out when the child was crying and screaming for HER help. Oh, congratulations ma'am, you deserve the 'best mum' award.
Oh well. I guess she's not someone I would trust with my life. And I finally understand what it means by 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量、患难见真情、路遥知马力，日久见人心。佩服啊，佩服。 我甘败下风！还请多多指教。
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Haha I just posted my long post I wrote last time. Anyway school's still fine. Would be better if there were less homework. But I guess it's just. Like That. I still have bio AS1.1, Phy AS1.2,1.3, WAS1.1, read Frankenstein extract, math textbook questions, and ion formulas revision. So I really should stop writing here. Although they are not really due on Monday. But still.
Oh no, I still have to read a chinese book called, 'happy ants' by Thursday. Okay I shall go already.
p/s: who's janesy? weird.
Fan!<3 I am so thankful ;D I need to bathe and unpack things! And I got a new dictionary! Woohoo!
Time my life, and you won't finish even after you die. Bottles smell weird, I don't like it.
Oh no, I still have to read a chinese book called, 'happy ants' by Thursday. Okay I shall go already.
p/s: who's janesy? weird.
Fan!<3 I am so thankful ;D I need to bathe and unpack things! And I got a new dictionary! Woohoo!
Time my life, and you won't finish even after you die. Bottles smell weird, I don't like it.
Hi people, school reopened! Well I guess it wasn't too bad for a start. You know, with new classmates. Oh and new roommates too! They're hilarious haha. So there's national anthem on the first day of school and was quite fun. Then went back to class with bandees. And did the usual things. Like filling in particulars, ect ect. Stoned most of the time in the audi. Talked about OBS (D:) and NYAA.
Ooh it's 11:25 now. Looks like my birthday! :D
Okay, continue. After school went to library with xinyung and peian to sign up for the nyaa library service and did some funny application form. Which I have to judge my own handwriting. Hmm. Weird. Then rushed off for cca and forgot to sign up for the interview slots. Shall go back on monday then. CCA was quite boring. Most of us were gone for the rehersals so the rest just self-prac. Then went back for dinner. Ahh the dinner wasn't too good, but better than the previous vendor! :DD But I hate carrots ._. Never mind. After dinner we went to A block :p Visited our juniors, they're quite nice. Ashley doesn't look like nicloe though. Cute sec ones and felt old over there. Sec twos were the same. Ahh there's this girl, with a name that starts with F(how come this sounds so wrong.) who seriously looks like yeeshin. It's so scary.On thursday night I saw her and I shouted yeeshin and she stopped. Fyi, she's yeeshin's ex-classmate. Haha then she told me she's not yeeshin. I think she's called feimian or something.
And my roomies! One's called lingran, the other one's xiaonan. Xiaonan's birthday was yesterday. So me and lingran sang birthday song in the middle of the night haha but xiaonan was so sleepy so we just went back to sleep.
Saturday was boring. Roommates went to school for some test in the morning. So I woke up at ..9？ Bathed and went to stone at xy's room. For the whole day. Went to eat dinner together with xy and jessie and talked to sec 4s. And felt younger finally. Wait, I need to go alr. Shall continue later.
Haha it turned out that later means two days later? Haha today's tuesday! Second day of week one. Sitting with XY. I guess all my teachers are quite nice and efficient. Which is good. But I am a little afraid of the chem teacher. But somehow I like her. Goodness, I really love Micheal Gold. I think I listened to his songs when I was in kindergarten and I still remember the tune. His voice is super nice :D Anyways, back to school. Math teacher is mrs tan(ms chooi), she's very very nice! Then physics teacher is Mrs Wong, who lives in JB. Chem teacher is Ms Tan, which I mentioned just now. Bio teacher is another Mrs Wong, who is very nice too :DD She was a ny girl and was in band! She played the french horn, thn trumpet. LA teacher is Ms Teng, I think she's okay, haha her games are so funny, and she has funny expressions. Chinese teacher is Li laoshi, who lives in the boarding school, one floor below me. IH is Ms Andriana Wong, I can't remember who, but someone told me she was also a ny girl and was in band too, and plays the clarinet. Hmm. I haven't seen her yet though.
Anyways, today we watched Frankenstein for English lecture. Which is nice. I have a feeling that the old man-what's his name, the owner of the ship I think- has something to do with the evil thing that killed people. It looked so cold over there. And the part where Elizabeth ran into the house and grew up when she reappeared is quite cool. For changing scenes. And my class was half-empty but 130pm because of the cca exibition. <--how is it spelled?Anyways, then I went for cca. And I feel very proud of myself haha because I helped my friends to take their work. Back to topic, so, cca. We had self-prac until most of the people came back from the concert then we had main band outside bandroom! It's very cool, except the fact that it's really hot. After a while we went downstairs to get sec ones to sign up for audition, and 67 people signed up! Then we went back at around 4 for main band again. Haha then ms chong very cute, she told the sec ones to join band first when they asked to cross over the band. I don't really make sense right? Never mind. Shall remind myself to read Frankenstein extract and forum from newspaper. And do chem ws 1 and 2, and study ions. Then I have nyaa library service interview tomorrow recess. And lunch is booked by gaoxinyi. Haha.
How come my computer seem so weird. Some parts just suddenly start blinking. But never mind, I shall save first.
Okay. And I saw the sec ones again. Charlene(Is it?)Melanie, Jityi, yinyi, and shuyun. Did I remember wrongly? Hmm. How come there's five! I thought there's only four when I saw them ._. Oh well. It's 1051pm. And my roommate is weird, she hope that when she sleep she would like her roommates to sleep also. So weird. But I am blogging. And you can tell I am ignoring her. Because I think this habit is weird and should not exist.
Oh and good news. I stopped thinking that I am crazy. Is it a good omen? Maybe I am too crazy to know anymore. But sec three is the reality world! So much different from sec 2. I am enjoying myself, but there's certain level of stress there. Like there's homework on the second day of school, or rather, first day of school. I hope sec 4 won't be worse. Oh no, what about JC and uni?!
Yeah, I think that's all I want to talk about, shall sleep now. I don't want to wake up late tomorrow.
Oh wait, PE was quite fun, and would be more fun if I exercised I little during holidays. Can you imagine, just three rounds around the hall I was already panting.
Hmm good night!
I decided to listen to micheal gold's songs before I sleep, and brought back lots of memories, like how excited I was when I heard the song again, after such a long time. Listening to the Cds with my family ect ect. Which made me think of my home. Oh well, I shall sleep and not come back today.
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