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Monday, March 31, 2008

Shall try to keep this alive although its been dead for so long =/ Shall follow what everyone is doing and blog about camp =D

First Day
Went to school early and met up with the rest and compared sizes of our bags lol. All bring super bulky ones. Den went to parade square, took class jersey. Vincent's name got printed wrongly again. Wiojaja LOL!! Took attendance. Then the 4 relief teachers take our class. Boarded bus. Slept through the whole thing for first quarter of the journey. I think mogu tou pai wo! Halfway through bus kena some tire problem so bus driver dropped us off some funny place and give us some discount card. Think we so cheap arh? Like that give card can appease us liao -.- The things in the shop all so ex one .. Got discount card oso wun buy. Keep finding ourselves subconsciously converting the prices in RM to SGD lol. Everytime see something always will divide by 2 to find the rough price in SGD. After walking inside the store for dunno how long (X.x) all go sit at the steps and whole class kena some jelly craze. Kelvin observed something correct : 他们赚的钱不是店里买的产品,而是外面卖的jelly. How true!! ;D
Den later sian sian so James Kelvin me cross the road go see the statue shop or smth lyk tt larh. We only outside see only the ppl inside all like looking at us expecting us to go in buy something since we're looking at it =.= Dunno wait le how long bus finally come back. Reached YMCA dam late almost all the classes finished dinner le. Looked at the food dun feel like eating le. Sunil and Vincent still take until plate full X.x Kelvin n James didnt eat coz too full. Took key n settle down le den went walking around with KnJ. Walk past cafetaria so go order food to eat. 3 of us eat is lyk 40RM. Considered quite cheap le. Den HockSiong came in and order rice since we still have leftovers so he help us finish. He dam pro larh. Got empty plate and one bowl full of rice. He take the bowl go put on the plate. Den take all the food and put into empty bowl. Frm the plate transfer the rice back into the bowl again den compress it using his spoon. The rice finally put back into the plate. Den all the food like lor mai kai stuck on top =S YuanBo and TzeWei come cafeteria sit down with us oso. Lucky we never touch the food.. YuanBo say he eat the egg den so hard he go throw away. Ppl see le go ask him why he throw away the egg coz its the nicest out of all the food there =.=! He oso no mood eat lol. After finished eating, went back to the room and see the rest play strip taiti. HockSiong dam sad la. Kena ganged up until must strip till nothing left lols.. Played until 2+ den went to sleep.

Second Day
Supposed to get up for breakfast at 6.30. Woke up at 5.50 whole room all still sleeping. Then i oso dun care go back sleep until 6.15 den finally all woke up lols. Before we could go, got some problems coz the room key dunno go where. So all got held up. Went CIP. Kena the toilet group. So go take out the doors and hammer in the new one lors. Mr Hamzah like some expert carpenter one x.x Whack all the nails dam zhun never miss at all. After CIP went for the caves. Someone fell and broke his leg =S From Jerrold class. Saw him get carried out and the guy like nothing one =.= Continued with the caves. Quite fun overall bahs. Den the last part of the caves after climbing up the ''rock wall'' with all the staircases. Me n Kelvin run all the way through do PT LOL. The interior of the caves dam big and beautiful larhs!
Went back to YMCA, went to cafeteria to eat again, this time with 2e2 guys =D Kelvin, HockSiong James there eating oso. Bill this time was about 80RM =S Cannot blame. 8 guys eating marhs! Went Syafiq they all the dorm and witnessed some of the windows getting smashed =X Although we weren't involved, we dun want kena problem so quickly zhao. Go back room see the guy who broke his leg back from hospital le. He share room with us lols. The only bed in the whole room full of mattresses. Mrs Ong taking his class so she tell us must help him with anything he need. Surprised she still remembers us lols. Den the school counsellor talked to all of us. As in 2e2 guys + James, Kelvin, HockSiong. Say what we spend money like some rich ppl eating at cafeteria while others eating catered food =S End up become all jokes nia lol. HockSiong entertained us with his switching of Malaysian and Singaporean chinese accent coz the counsellor told him to prove to her his malaysian accent is not habit until cant change. Went shopping. Saw a lot of things i wanted to buy but ended up not buying. Went back room play strip taiti again but this time slept earlier. Midnight bah. James, Kelvin, HockSiong 3 ppl squeeze into 1 sleeping bag coz shortage of space due to the injured guy dam funny. In the dark see the shadow like some monster like that.

Last Day
Went waterfall and trekking. Not supposed to do any of the activities becoz of smth that happened previous night but i managed to get it sorted out.. Not gonna say anyway. Jungle trekking sucks man. Had to turn back halfway. No waterfall T.T Starting was Sunil Vincent James Kelvin me be rear guard den talk to the teachers. After a while we all started walking in front den dun care le. Reached the ''camp'' that time found out some ppl kena stung a lot of times =/ Den a lot of ppl tio leeches oso. Some even got 2 X.x Huei Min dam kua zhang la. One leech only make so much noise.. Den dunno whose leech was it. Suck until become so fat.. Ms Tan go use Sunil salt go put all over the leeches and killed them =/ Just to check, I took out my shoes oso den realised got blood inside. But leech gone le =S Only left the bite there. Did WWR. First batch if I remember correctly was Stephen Rakesh, James, Kelvin, Me, Yuqi, Adeline, Melissa, Magdalene, Vanathy, Wanlin, Yuhui, Agnes, Clarence, YenChu, Jaime and some i cant remember -.- The rapids not fun one D: Instructor dun let us go fast. Always stop stop stop! Bathing was ''cool''. Open shower! Mr Hamzah joined us lol. After bathing, ate lunch den bus back to Sg!
Trip back was awesome. James Kelvin Muizhen Me talk to the 4 teachers and all laughing about Peter Lee and Lim Seng Ghee.

My wish for tomorrow shall shatter my soul.
9:57 PM

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Finally finished the last compulsory day of job week yesterday.. Quite satisfied with it larhs. At least got hit target of $220 =D Got $220.30 lols XD So cheapskate rite? 30 cents nia. Shall skip sunday coz i cant remember much about it except that we were washing cars and whole of sunday was crap. $35 bucks only =.= Everyone got scolded by sir yesterday morning for sunday's earnings. Said if everyone did not hit a minimum of $100 for the whole of yesterday, all must come back to do one extra day which is today. All obviously don't want come back so when we left macdonalds d whole group of us was running all over d place. We went to Joo Seng first thing in d morning. Except that we had an extra person. Our Sec 2 junior Keen Wah follow us. Cannot be bad seniors rite? So let him come along lorh. Reaching Joo Seng, we all split up and each took a flat. Goddamn larh, the whole flat 20+ floors end up I only got $3 from it.. Received a call from WeiYuan, d whole group of them went to d semi-detached part already and I still at d flats =.= I took d lift down and ran to d semi-detached that area. Met up with them and split up again, each person taking a segment. ZhenJie, BoonChong n KeenWah together, Vincent and WeiYuan together. Left me one person doing X.x
Everyone did quite well esp WeiYuan and Vincent. Since it started raining at around 11+ and I was with WY and Vincent at that time( no idea where d other 3 were) we all decided to go to d food court for drinks while waiting for the rain to stop. Each one of us had around 40+ at that time.
While we were drinking, I was furiously spamming sms-es getting ppl to donate. Thanks to all who generously donated to me! =D Next time got any donation stuff can come to me ya? Will return d favour ^^ When d rain stopped for a while, we went back with me having about 50+ at the time ^^ Didn't manage to get much so i called my mother to see if she could get us a job at her office. She managed to get one for us so we left at about 12+ and headed for Raffles Place. Met up with my mom and she treated us to lunch. Thanks mom! =D At 2, Vin, Yuan and me went to d office to find her. Wah walk into her office liao damn fcuking stress.

EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE ALL LOOKED AT US LEH WAH SIAO! We 3 like super paiseh la.. We were supposed to sort out some files and throw away the old files while putting the ok ok ones into a box and carry some stacks of papers down from the 31th to the 30th floor. Didn't take us very long. Only about 45 mins at the most. The most fun part was all of us walking down the stairs and fumbling about trying to open the doors coz all our hands were full. Den getting stuck outside the office because someone closed the doors and we either needed someone to open it from d inside or someone with a passcard to open from the outside lol. After the job was done, went to look for the guy in charge. That guy wasted almost 1 and a half hours of our time.. While waiting, we were all guessing how much he would give us. After we finally managed to find him, he gave us $2 each =.= I mean, which part of "Please give a fair amount after the Scout has finished his task" does he not understand? Waste so much of our time somemore.. Then we thanked him(grudgingly..) and left d office n went to one side. We all go curse him like mad. At that time was about 2.40 or so already and we all only had about 50-60 bucks only.. Still $40 short of the minimum $100 with only 2 hours to go. How to get?! We were damn pissed at the point la. So while in d MRT back to braddel, we were discussing where to go next. Ask for jobs at SPH or Yellow Pages?
We didn't want that for risk of getting that "$2 treatment" again after spending so much time.. The two of them were complaining so much that I was getting pissed at them >.> So after we left d MRT station, I didn't say anything and just walked in d opposite direction from them to another block to look for jobs. Wasted 20mins at that block and not getting anything did nothing to help my already pissed mood at that point.

Went home to drink some water to cool myself down. Tried to contact ZJ and Vincent but both couldn't be contacted. Vincent was because his phone was out of battery like mine. WeiYuan couldn't be called because he was left with only 19cents in his prepaid card. I left and went opposite my block to the newer houses. After spending some time there, my mood was getting better and better. There were quite a few donations of $5 and $10. To add on to that, the residents were quite warm. Was talking to a particular grandma who could speak in english. Spent about 10minutes talking to her. She gave me $5 and I really appreciated the gesture. She wasn't working at all yet she still took out $5 to donate to me. It meant a lot to me compared to some idiot who gave us $2 earlier.. Then there was this guy. When i asked him for donations after failing to get a job, he reached out for his wallet but after he found out his wallet was empty, he told me to wait and he went to get some coins before walking into his room. I was thinking he was gonna give me $2 or so only but he came out with a red note! $10 leh! I was damn surprised larh =D He wasn't that old, around 15 or possibly younger yet he donated $10 to me. SHAME ON YOU, 2 DOLLARS MAN! Wrapped up one whole block and got about $40. It was about 6 at that time. Supposed to meet at Braddel Mac at 5.30 >.> Ran there like mad cow. Reached there and guess what? Not even half of them were there. Waste my effort sia..

Counted my money and got $101. Adding up my previous earnings on Sat and Sunday, i found that i was short of d target by a small amount. Used a bit of my money to top the remainder balance. If you hit d target for jobweek got badge ma. Past 2 years was always slacking the whole day at ZhenJie house on the last day because of the conception that on weekdays money sure damn hard to get because everyone all out working. So always no badge. Finally managed to prove myself and the misconception wrong because I also thought I wouldn't be able to get $100 for d whole day. Stayed back till about 8+ at Mac playing psp with d gang while waiting for everyone to count and tally up the total money. Before we left, Sir was talking to me. He gave me a personal feedback saying he observed that I wasn't too courteous towards my peers coz I was always shouting at them. Didn't realize it at first. Don't tell me it was subconsious behaviour? I had better watch myself from now on.. To anyone whom it may concern: Sorry if I had unwittingly shouted at you. Sincere apologies >.< Forgive me ya? ;D

Due to jobweek, my homework has been untouched.. Going back to school for whole day on thursday. Vincent,WeiYuan, Boonchong and I along with some others are building a gateway by request of the Guides and NCC land for their combined camp. In return, we're invited to their campfire in the night =D Need to start doing my homework or else I'm gonna be behind time.. Lets review by to-do list:
4 Geog newspaper cuttings
Geog Erosional and Depositional thingy writeup
Try the Physics WS on the bus
Bio FYS (3/4 done already)
Maths SLU
SS WS
Finish reading that lame Roald Dahl compilations.
Plus a proposal supposed to be completed by 22 march for the full day hike the Sec 3's going for with Sir. Gonna get killed if the proposal is not done by then..

My wish for tomorrow shall shatter my soul.
6:39 PM

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Today woke up at 6.45 to prepare for jobweek.. For anyone who still remains ignorant about it, its a compulsory activity for all Scouts that falls on the whole week of the March holidays. But since our unit's so cool, only the first 3 days are compulsory =D For this year, the 3 days happens to be sat, sun and monday. We have to go to flats anywhere in Singapore asking for household chores that we can do to earn some money. 50% goes to Scout HQ and 50% goes to us. That reminds me of d SS notes. Since we only get 50%, i shall only work 50% of the time =D So anyway after getting ready in full uniform, went to braddell macdonalds to collect the jobweek card and usual stuff. Breakfast was free of charge =D Sausage mcmuffin with choice of juice, coffee or tea lol. After dispersing, went back to Beatty with zhenjie becoz of his HCL giro form thingy. Supposed to find Mr Lim. Went up to d hall and saw adeline,yuqi, magdalene and benjamin. The 3 girls were helping out at biology i think. Ben was helping at geog O.O Couldn't find tcher in d hall, so we went to call him. Went outside the HOD room and looked for his name. Finally found his name and we all realized something.. His full name was Joe Lim SG. Doesn't sound familar? Go pronounce Joe-Lim fast and see what you get. I'm not gonna spell it out for you =P

Gay fag didn't pick up d phone when we called him so zj passed d money to raffles for him to pass on to teacher. When walking out of school, calista n chloe who were sitting at d red benches called us over. They thought we were doing flag day o.O Sure.. Maybe it's flag day. Why not call it ''go-around-people-houses-asking-for-jobs-and-money-day"? But to say the truth, I don't see why it's called flag day. You don't go around selling flags right? After getting out of school, we decided to tackle the blocks around school. After the first round yielded totally nothing.. We went to the area of flats just behind the parade square. By that time, weiyuan and boonchong had already broke away from the main group and went to tackle a few other nearby ones. So me, zhenjie and vincent did one block. Did after a while, totally no jobs and no donations so gave up T.T Vincent still continued and he came down after a while. He got $19 liao. We all nothing yet =.= Left 8 floors so I choped last 5 floors n gave vincent 6-8. Zhenjie still downstairs playing psp.. After 5 floors, had $11 with me =D Met up with the other two. Went to get drinks and then headed for the row of 80-86 blocks. Didn't manage to finish all since we all stopped half-way for lunch. Since there were so many of us, each person took a whole block. Found this job at block 80A or 82A (cant remember). Was this indian family. Weird thing was, master of d house was an ex-beatty student. Wife was ex girlguide n red cross member. Daughter, who was quite grown up, was ex girl guides. And whole family of brothers and uncles who were not living with them, all ex-scouts. X.X So d family knew about jobweek and gave me a job =D Helped polish 5-6 pieces of silver thai souveneirs that one of the brothers bought back a long time ago. The family was darned warm and hospitable. Kept asking if I would like a drink, talking to me about scouting, school life, outside issues like mas selamat issue, the elections in US, holiday trips and other stuff. Had fun sharing with them larhs. They gave me 10 bucks after the job was done. Rushed over to fork and spoon to meet the rest who had already finished lunch by then. Had $31 by then and was feeling quite happy until vincent spoiled my mood. $72 that idiot -.- Dunno how the hell he gets so much money.. Went kim keat area and then to whampoa/ semi detached part of jalan bahagia.

Ended day with ..
Vincent : $105.85
BoonChong : $60++
ZhenJie : $51
WeiYuan : $70
Me : $70

$150 short of the $220 target set by us.. Jiayous all! Have to work harder

My wish for tomorrow shall shatter my soul.
9:03 PM

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Short post coz not feeling well and feel like sleeping now.. Bad time to start to fall ill la.. Tmr Log test and I want to study as much as I can yet can't. Damn unhappy now larh. ZZ No mood to talk about anything..
Oh yah.. My mom reclaimed my phone today and confiscated it .. What's the diff between school holding d phone and mom holding d phone?

My wish for tomorrow shall shatter my soul.
9:37 PM

Monday, March 3, 2008

Short post from me today.. Went to sch hall for morning assembly today. Realised no power supply at all, lights not on, not using mic, even digital clock not even on. Must be no money pay electricity bill lor what else. Went moving monday. Did 7rounds around the school, 50pushups and 5pull-ups with my gang. Ms See started chapter 3 of amaths today and owned some of us with her alpha and beta =/ Den geog. Got back paper. 19/25. Not bad but i was expecting 20 and above =X ahh well. clarence got 22. Idiot >.> Rest of lessons not interesting so skip. Did SS test as well. Think its quite okay. Chloe n Starnia played truant for the whole hour as usual. What they didn't expect today was that we would be having the test. So when they came back from god knows where expecting to see Ms See doing maths LSP, they saw ms leow =D And of course, they got owned. Quite hard actually. Ms See returned emaths. Damn little guys got full marks la. So many girls >.> Lucky I in the few ^^ Nvm.. When log comes, see me fall D: I suck at log..

My wish for tomorrow shall shatter my soul.
6:31 PM