yo guys,

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Seeya there!

AH SHUCKS WHEN I EDITED THE POST DUNNO WHAT HAPPENED THE SECOND AND THIRD DAY LIKE WENT MISSING. SHIT HAVE TO TYPE AGAIN.


haha im finally posting! (: Don't know how long i haven't posted, but since i have some time to kill before the manutd match at 10, i'll do a post about my OBS trip(: OBS was the best man! it rocked like nobody's business(:

1st day
First day was boring. the only boring part of obs(: reached punggol jetty at about 830 i think. it started raining but there were not enought ponchos for us, so we had to wait in the rain for the boats for a long time ): and we 2g people from camp one guai lan and nv hear the instructors calling for people from camp one to go up the boat so the we like could go on the same boat(: haha all for lagginess... and then we got to know our group name when we reached the campsite, which was Rajaratnam, named after the late politician. We had some teambuilding games before lunch, and then we had more teambuilding games after it. We learnt belaying, in preparation for our rock climbing the next day. Josh was complaining that i was pulling the rope too tight so then his *ahem* was damn pain. haha(: but that was what we were supposed to do in the first place. haha. So then we had to pitch our tents, and my watch’s instructor, vivien, helped my group to pitch our tent, while showing the rest of the people how to do it, so while the rest were like pitching their tents, we were slacking inside our own tent(: haha so cooked dinner, which was rice and canned curry chicken, so we combined both, and ate. It seemed quite okay in the dark, where we couldn’t see anything. But when it started to rain and we had to go to the shelter, bringing along the curry chicken rice, we realised how disgusting it looked. Haha I never ate after that. Lol. So then it went into rain stop rain stop mode. So when we were supposed to go back to our tents, it started raining rats and frogs(my own phrase (: ) and we had to run to our tents to secure them, before running back to the shelter. So on the way back we got stuck behind four guai lan people who were wearing ponchos and carrying their tent, blocking the whole road, and we walked like 50 metres behind them, before we finally managed to squeeze through them and start our run back to the shelter. An interrupted night of sleep, because it was damn cold.

2nd Day
Woke up at 540 and was 15 minutes late for the morning exercises, which i’ve gotta say, was total crap. We were like doing some activities which were of no use and instead of waking us up, we were even sleepier. Haha had breakfast, and then proceeded to do what was called morning circle where we do our reflections in a circle and then proceed of alone to an area to write our journals. Thought about some stuff during that time, which really helped me a lot. And then we had our rock climbing (: Used my belaying skills learnt the previous day to like belay for people climbing, because most of the other people were like slacking at one side and were unwilling to do anything to help, except perhaps to climb the rock wall themselves. Haha I managed to climb about 7 metres before getting stuck. My watch were unable to complete the task given to us by our instructor, which was to try to paste up pieces of papers with words onto the rock wall, and the words were supposed to form a phrase. She was rather unhappy, because she gave us a lot of time to do the task, but we were still unable to finish it. Had lunch at the cookhouse after that, and had inter-watch games, where my group finished joint last. Hahaha. Learnt how to kayak in the evening on land, and then had one of my highlights of the trip, the jetty jump, where we had to jump into the sea from a jetty, first stepping onto a plank and jumping. Haha it was very very fun and I wanted to go again and again but due to time constraints, we were only allowed to go once): Dinner at the cookhouse, and then did some other stuff which I can’t remember any more. Good sleep, although in a stuffy tent. Haha.

3rd day
Morning exercises again, and it was lame again>< so then we had to get ready for kayaking, and had to practise capsizing. Twice, once in shallow waters, and once in the deep ocean. The one in the deep ocean passed with not much events, but then the latter gave me one of the scares of my life. When my kayak capsized, the currents suddenly changed, and me, huiyao and the kayaks were pushed towards a floating platform. Two currents were actually meeting at the spot below the floating platform, and could have caused a cyclone like thingy under the platform, and once I was sucked under I could have died. I was stuck in between the platform and a kayak, which was pushing me inside. Luckily I somehow managed to push the kayak away, and swim to safety. Realised that josh was also in the same position as me at the same time, although only his head was above the water. He was lucky too. Motor boats came to save the four of us, and I was very relieved, having escaped that near-death experience. Had the sea expedition in the afternoon, kayaked for about 2 plus hours, before reaching our new campsite. While pitching our tents there, we were like constantly bombarded by sandflies which kept biting us, resulting in me having more than 20 bites on my left hand alone. Another dinner that was cooked by ourselves, and each of us had like two packets of instant noodles each, and although there was like very little soup, we still ate because we were hungry. Good night of sleep again, interrupted only by sentry duty, in which each tent had to take turns to guard the campsite, to prevent any animals or strangers from coming into the area.

4th Day
Woke up at about 545 i think, and we had to unpitch the tents, which took rather long as we were all shack. In the end we were late by half an hour, and we had to clean up the whole campsite after that, resulting in us having to leave the campsite for the trek 2 hours late. There were many people who threw away their wet shoes into the forest, and while we were cleaning up we found many of the shoes, resulting in us wasting in even more time man >< haha josh like found his left shoe but his right shoe is still missing. Its probably somewhere in the forest. HAHA. So then we started our trek, with like a 10+ kg backpack and either water bottles or the camp bag, which was about 5kg. trekked about 7-8km. took about 3+plus hours, and we were all very very tired after that. We made one wrong turn, and our instructor did not tell us and let us walk for another 25 minutes before our navigator realised that we had went the wrong way so we had to turn back and trek back up. Found our checkpoint, and then proceeded to the campsite where we had to pack up our store and account for the things that we had lost throughout the course of the camp. We each had to pay $6.40, one of the highest in the history of OBS. HAHAHA. So that means we lost (16 X $6.40 = 102.40) worth of items. We lost a cooking pot!!! (: haha it was like 30 bucks lol although it was like so old and could be bought in the supermarket at like 10 bucks. Then we had our last circle where we thanked the other members of our watch, and then got some souvenirs, bought 2 shirts and one notebook, then took the bumboat home.

It was certainly a very enriching experience for me as a whole, as we were out of our comfort zone, and many people showed their true colours. And through this I also realised that people in some classes which I thought were like bad, were not so bad after all. Shout out to my rajaratnam watch mates:
Huiyao, for being such a nice guy throughout the trip, a good tent mate, and a very good kayaking mate.
Kenneth, for always talking about golf and killing time with me,
Josh, for being the joker of the group
Ruijin, for being josh’s assistant in being the joker,
Tingwei and Leezi, for being such nice tent mates,
Julian, for being the ‘leader’ of the group
Wayne, for your always sensible comments
And not forgetting: hongkang, evileyes, zhihao, deezhen, sean, Stanley and zhenyang.
RAJARATNAM WATCH WAS THE BEST BEST BEST(:

Now, results(: (:
Maths A1
English A1
Chinese A1
IS A1
Literature A1
IH A1
Science B3):

MSG: 1.29 (: 9th in class!!! J but if I A1(ed) science I could’ve gotten the perfect 1.0):

Ah wells, still, got a new phone!! W660i, decided not to buy 580i cos a lot of people are complaining that the keypad breaks real easily, so bought something more trustable.

Long long post, gotta go now(: Seeya

I'm 14!!

Haha thanks to all the people who wished me happy birthday today, and especially to those who bought me presents (Cedric and Hazel). THANKS A LOT!

and sorry for the emo post yest(: just felt emo. haha its just me. sometimes i feel emo.

a NEW LIFE(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:

hmm. counting down. one hour.

wonder whether im seriously treasured by my friends. Sometimes its the friends closest to you who disappoint you, while the friends who are just acquaintences who suprise you. But nobody cares about acquaintences who suprise you. They care more about friends closest to them who disappoint them, and they certainly do feel hurt about it.

Yes and No. I'm talking about council elections but also about other incidents at the same time. I've been betrayed countless times. Sometimes i let them go. But its those betrayals caused by the same person a few times which does hurt me. I'm really not sure who my true friends are. I've nobody to count on. Nobody to help me when i'm down. Nobody to comfort me. One Big difference from last year. At this point last year. Throughout the whole of last year.

I've learnt from this year, that nobody can be trusted. Betrayed. Many times. And teased. or should i say niaoed. Looking at it from my perspective, the people who niao me are those people who can't take getting niaoed themselves. _____ almost broke somebody else's finger when he was niaoed. To think i have to endure niaoing almost 10 times more than what ____ or anybody else is enduring.

I've had this battle inside me for the pass few days. I don't know whether i should let it all go because the battle seems to have been lost. I don't know whether i should still continuing fighting for what i really want. What i would really treasure.

14 Years. 14 long and tiring years. Or should i say, 12 nice years; and 2 years of pain and suffering within. After some of you people read this post, you may feel sorry for me, or have a guilty conscience because you were one of them who afflicted pain on me over the years. But i just want you to know that i don't care anymore.

Nobody can stop me now. Not until i reach my goal.

A Birthday in lonely solitude; i expect.

hey(:

had a nice trip to malaysia the past weekend. it was fun(: but too short only 3 days. haha.

okay today nothing really much interesting happened. just that tangc sang for us during chinese again!! haha he was so funny.

and im leading fantasy premier league. okay not really leading but like tied for the lead with kaiyuan at 61 points, then cheihloong with 36, timng with 35 and marktern with 25. haha only one week then do so well(: haha im happy.

mugging geog now. okay not really mugging. just doing homework. homework is like starting to pile up now that its term 4. its like we have so much stuff. the worst's still essays la. like history and lit and geog. haha those take a long time.

haha okay i think i gtg.

better mug harder

Nick

haha i think today was rather evenful(:

morning- went to school and then when i reached the terraces someone told me that there was a fire in the canteen!! haha then another person came by and said that mr tan said that school was going to be cancelled so we all got like so excited cos we wanted to go home. haha. the ncc guy had no mike to shout so he tried to shout the commands as loud as he could. haha kudos to him cos i could even hear him 50 metres away(:

reading period- went back to class - BLACKOUT. haha then there was this funny smell in the class. smelt like gas. so then we all camped outside and like waited for mr tan to come along to tell us that school was cancelled. HOWEVER, only ms ting came, and we thought that she was going to say that school was cancelled but instead she said, " Go to LT@SRC". we were all like so pissed? haha then we started to hope that the LT had no power but in the end there was actually power. i thought that it was a backup generator or something.

science- some presentation on the research module. then they showed us a video on mentos and diet coke. IT WAS DAMN DUMB, I TELL YOU. its like it showed us how to do the experiment like what was needed. then they DIDN"T SHOW THE RESULTS. so boring >.<

Then was walking back to class when i noticed that all the classes had lights again ): so no going home.

History- spent studying maths.

Maths- i KNEW HOW TO DO ALL THE QUESTIONS BUT THEN THAT 7 MARK QUESTION!! its like i knew how to do it, but just one calculation error screwed the whole thing up. its like, -7 marks from a test which is upon 40! and i desperately need a good score this time. shucks.

break- something very funny happened. first lumbin moved behind to sit with oswald. then i saw the space in front and moved in front. then dom saw me move in front so he and timtam came to sit beside me. then it became a free for all and everybody started moving. so it like became:
Solomon Kaichin (space) Darius ME Dom Timtam
Mark Jonathan(space) Qifan Jiexuan Huiyao
Trevor Aylwin (Space) jon kaiyuan chiehloong timng
the thing goes on like that. IT WAS SO FUNNY!!

Malay- the teacher walked into class. then stared. and stared. then asked us to move>.<>.< so we learnt about: FRUITS today. lol. so she was giving a test then called oswald up. she said the names of the fruits and then he had to pick the fruits up. so like she named something and he picked something else, and then lumbin would've to tell him its wrong under his breath(lumbin is in front of the teacher's table. lol, it was funny too(:

Took 74 with dominic. haha there were these two cute children on the bus. then dominic did the unexpected. he was like winking at the girl and the boy>.< haha i was like trying to hide my laughter. dom likes YOUNG(when i say young i mean young) girls (:

Mugged history in the afternoon.

Cycled again. BROKE MY RECORD again. this time was 27.48mins. haha by one minute(: that's like damn good but was tired(:

couldn't watch drake and josh cos had chinese tuition

k i gotta go guys.

Seeya

hey(:

haha today was quite okay, but again not very eventful

chinese - Nothing much, just the pian1 zhang1 again.

pe- briefing>.<

recess- played soccer. scored a goal (:

history- got mr tan to tell us the important topics in the history exam(: haha finally i managed to get a teacher to reveal some exam stuff to us(: as mrs khoo says, "fishing". (:(:

geog- presentations. Dominic's group was funny la. halfway through the screen suddenly went blank, they say that there was an error. Everybody saw dominic pressing something before the screen went blank, but he was like denying it all the way. haha after class i asked him then he said that he could have pressed a button, after much thinking(woah press button gotta think one ah>.<)

lit- mindmap drawing.

english- assignment. haha quite okay.

tried to study maths but realised there was no use cos i would just be wasting my time doing, mainly because i've done so many exercises and am sure of the questions, etc. so then i look at the question then realise that i know how to do it but then it would waste a lot of my time like slowly working it out. So i decided to do lit instead. Touched up on my mindmap.

Then went downstairs to cycle on my cycling machine ( the one you have at gyms). today i cycled 14km. in a new record time of 28.47 mins!! haha that rocks la. i was cycling like crazy(: and was listing to 987 at the same time. quite fun leh(:

in the night did a few more lit mindmaps. OHYA. DRAKE AND JOSH ROCKS LA. haha they're damn funny, especially josh. but apparantly many people like drake better cos he's more good looking (whatever... ). haha. but the show just rocks la. better than zac and cody too(:

hmm. going to malaysia on friday. my grandmother's birthday on saturday so have to go back to celebrate lorh. haha. wanted to go back there and play a bit of tennis but the whole problem is that my uncle's house doesn't have a tennis court!! ): so i like won't play for two whole weeks unless i play with somebody after i get back from malaysia. GONNA GET RUSTY, JUST WHAT I DON'T NEED NOW.

haha okay gotta go sleep now.

sleeping early today. have been sleeping at 12 for the past two days.

Seeya.

haha back from learning lab

did a compre on superheros today. gotta complete hmk at home. shucks haha.

i did a speech brought over from last week. was almost finishing, then had a mental block. couldn't think of anything to say. so, AWKWARD SILENCE. lol.

doing my maths now. hopefully can get a1 this time. so that my possiblity in getting a1 for maths is higher. gotta aim high for the rest of my subjects cos my science is alr b4.

ah well. may be playing soccer tomorrow cos i think lit's after recess and recess's after pe. so chiong to play. haven't played in a while(:

k im gonna try to get a jukebox or something

seeya.

haha new blogskin(:

i think i've used it before, before the previous blogskin, but heck, its nice. haha MANCHESTER UNITED ALL THE WAY!!

school today was... okay. haha not very evenful. just that i've maxed my lit ace.

ARGH i wanna play tennis. Just realised that i won't get to play tennis this friday and saturday cos i'll be going to malaysia to celebrate my grandma's birthday. shucks won't be playing for like 2 weeks!!!! DIE DIE. will get rusty all over again.

had maths remedial just now. asked mrskhoo a question. guess what. the equation was like half a fool scap paper long la! and its not those two fractions a line kinda thing. its like whole lines!! crazy man>.<

haha gonna play fantasy football manager with chieh loong, timng, kaiyuan and mark. league set up le! im gonna win(:

learning lab later! but the whole problem is: i haven't done the speech yet! so how? die die die. haha maybe later chiong or something. heard that we are going to do a compre or something on heroes. maybe mrslim will let us like watch a heroes episode or something(:

Heard from somebody that dominic's mom was reading my blog. haha. but i don't post >.< haha xD

and its confirmed!! DAVE HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO ORGANISE A TRIP TO KL FOR US MAN!! FEDERER SAMPRAS HERE I COME!!

k gotta go eat dinner now(:

Nick