turning nineteen (or maybe eight)

actually the 8 years old thing is some gag in japan that i din't really explain. but everyone gets it anyway haha. cos im still this boy who could probably disguise as a year 1 during orientation or pay 55 cents in the public bus haha.

anyway, this week was quite a fun one haha. to be honest, the first week of 2014 was hell-boring for me, completely opposite for most ppl. yea my fault. i din't work. i still haven't actually, but its kinda sian that everyone needs to remind me about that.

so ya i was sitting at home, actually with a damn runny nose everyday that kept leaking non-stop, idk why. for 6 days. but i shan't describe more cos its too much info. i din't feel sick, but i din't fully recover either. but even still, i needed some excuse to get out of my house. so on wednesday, i got jio-ed out to adventure cove :D. up till now no photos though (even though i feel like putting in some for once instead of making a wordy post)

so ya everyone told me that adventure cove was no kick, but at the start i was being a complete coward haha. actually, it probably was kinda irritating lol. but after awhile, the slides got pretty addictive haha. there was one that had some whirlpool like thing, some that spun in circles many times. then there was the wave pool that i drank so much water cos im too short and my feet can't touch the ground to jump D:. but it was quite cool. after awhile i got pretty high and happy.

last ride was the best though. it was different from the rest cos there was some magnetic thing on the floor. reason is cos for every other ride, no matter how fast u feel like ur going down, u don't feel the float lose contact with the slide. but this ride u feel like it does. i got really scared, cos the whole ride did that 4 times. in 30 seconds. but after that i felt really, really great haha.

so i guess im starting to understand why ppl enjoy roller coasters. but i really shouldn't say anything. no u still can't make me take uss rides i think i'll be traumatized lol.

anyway, after that, we split up with nicole, boonchong, daryl's sister and her boyfriend, and i got treated to some really nice meal by fiona's parents haha. i din't know nus had some guild thing, but it was quite cool, and i kinda rarely get to even see places like that. adult life haha. i was kinda excited though, so i din't really eat in a very civilised manner.... but it was quite fun haha. it was a pretty damn good birthday gift actually haha.

on friday we went to play soccer again. this time i was really, really scrub. idk what i was doing half the time, but omg i failed so bad, rush out as a keeper, going to take a shot, only to olay myself. kinda lost all morale to play cos i kept laughing too much. but after that, i somehow suddenly scored 5 goals in a row haha. anyway, i wouldn't mind playing again, and futsal is only fun cos we fail so much heheh.

went to cca fair, this time as a senior lol. feels somewhat, just like in orientation, cos we're no longer part of the school so it was a bit extra. but in the end i din't do anything for my club :0. just played chess with jookee and loo, played cards, shouted "join army" when other ppl shouted join "---ball" or "--- club", and watch ppl do mass dance.

after that we went to play soccer again, only for awhile though, but it was a kinda good feeling, cos it feels like a typical friday night back in yr 6 haha. had some cool indian dinner at prata palace. ate thosai, and naan, and took other's ppl food alot too lol, though jen charged me 2 bucks for a drumstick of mutton :0. and damn, i talked so much bullshit urghh. idk why, maybe i was high again lol.

going out is damn fun heh, though in exchange, i spent alot of money in those two days, and i said too much nonsense everytime. im not like this lively at home though, so it feels kinda lonely here. i know i should get a job soon, maybe meet new ppl and joke around, if its possible at a workplace. its a bit much to hope for though. i think im being misguided by anime.

but i see how lar. sooner or later i'll get too bored of staying at home, though i kinda need someone to force me to go out to do things. k la that's all for now. bye~~

japan in 17 days

came back from japan today, and wow it has been a blast. there were many fun moments, rush moments, yolo-ing, and also torturous moments. but one thing's for sure, it was pretty damn eventful and memorable haha.

i guess i won't be going through the details in here, it would seriously take forever. each day would be the length of the posts i make, so multiply by 17, i won't be able to finish writing them either lol. so ya this post would be a summary of the stuff we did there. a long one i think lol.

we started off at kyoto, at first just me, jm and wong, all hyped up about the trip. we had our first onigiri in the train station after getting off the airport, and woa we had so much feels, and it made us all high and happy. then after that we roamed around kyoto, which was somewhat familiar, yet the experience of walking there alone without teachers or parents or anyone to guide us was somewhat interesting. met up with the rest at the end of the day after exploring shijo and gion by ourselves, and for the first few days, we probably were the number one public nuisance in japan lol.

in kyoto, we met up with our buddies for a dinner, heard some kinda -ahem- interesting stuff, then went to the arcade and took some super embarassing purikara (the machines that take those photos). yea the rest will kill me if i upload it anywhere haha.

after leaving kyoto, we went to osaka, and for this first half of the trip, everyday was pretty hiong. we woke up early, took bullet trains to other districts, and return back to the hotel quite late every night.

our first half of the trip was mainly sightseeing, taking all sorts of retarded photos, falling behind the itenerary and ended up cancelling many things. and there was lots of failing, arguing, teasing each other (lots of new jokes appear cos of the plenty of fails that happened), gaying, going into all sorts of shops, having suppers (with alchohol and other kinds of stuff) haha. was kinda tiring but lots of fun.

just to give an idea on what the days were like: on the last day in osaka, we went to hiroshima, which was all the way west (1.5hrs bullet train from osaka), saw deer, get attacked by deer, met a tsun-deer, went to a famous place to get lunch which ended up being closed, ate good food anyway, ate oysters (1kg for 1000 yen) for dinner, ended up missing the second last bullet train that we thought was the last and gave us a fright of our lives, reached back hotel at 12 am. ok that was a pretty extreme day haha, and wtf, so much yolo a day i was worried we would not survive the trip lol.


for the next half of our trip, we left for tokyo, and this was where our trip changed from sightseeing to almost purely shopping, and actually more like waiting for others to finish shopping lol. and yea there was something really unhygienic about those oysters we ate in hiroshima that for the first 3 days of tokyo, each one of us got owned by either vomitting or diarhea, or both lol.

during that time it was kinda sian, or more like really sian, cos those who felt well enough to go out got tired really quickly, we had to take all sorts of toilet breaks, food suddenly became not appetizing, and alot of time got wasted. for me i din't exactly miss out much, though the day i went down i vomitted 4-5 times, those really painful ones where nothing came out. such that the next day when i laughed my diaphragm felt painful haha. but yea when we all finally recovered, all the jokes and teasing came back double, and we were also doubly high and stuff. in some sense, it was quite an experience lol.

we resumed our itenerary, but turns out that no matter which city in tokyo we go, we barely did anything else but look for more anime stuff to buy lol. we went to like akiba 3 to 4 times until we actually got sian of it. and we also blew alot of money haha. jm and zhengwei blew on gundams and other huge stuff, while pin and jookee kinda spammed albums, even though they had the songs. i din't really buy much, cos i cleared most of my stuff before reaching tokyo, but even still i succumb to seemingly cheap temptations, like 400 yen figmas, 100 yen mangas, 2000+ yen nendos.

i guess the day with the most sightseeing in tokyo was odaiba, which was essentially the last day for the three going back one day earlier. it was this really cool island where everything seemed new and nicely arranged, and there din't seem to be any old streets or temple-ish kind of places. it's like academy city in railgun haha, though a better way to describe it is probably shin-japan haha. we din't exactly do much there, but it was really pretty, we did a bit of railgun pilgrimage, played at an arcade which jookee won some gigantic alpaca, went to see a gigantic gundam.

then at the end of the day, we had some pretty ingenious christmas celebration, cos jookee seemed kinda disappointed we din't have any christmas mood at all. so yea we had a christmas tree made out of onigiri, cake, some wine that zhengwei bought, and 50 pieces of karaage. cos we were suicidal and all. after eating like half the pack, i felt like never eating fried chicken again lol. but it was actually quite a fun christmas celebration after all. much crazy and high. among all the other supper celebrations that we occasionally had haha.

all in all, it was pretty damn fudged up, but fun, sometimes troublesome, sometimes unexpectedly crazy. quite a cool grad trip i've had haha. i definitely have much more to tell, but that's probably going to be done in person heheh. k la that's all for now. see u guys soon :D

media camp

reviving my blog after so long. stopped ever since sep and after i got a new phone, where i started gaming like mad. so anyway, the past few months have been quite interesting actually. i kinda overindulged lol. went to jap buffet, justacia, pizza buffet, played a LOT of games, x-box parties and stuff.

anyway, last weekend there was media camp. at first i thought it was really sian cos i came all the way from the east with all my sleepover stuff and camera and not getting any seats, made to run 4 rounds, and played some really tiring husband and wife game. but actually it was pretty fun, especially the second day.

so after all the work for stopmotion on the first day, we had a bbq with really good food and ppl shooting each other with water guns. there was even this gigantic water gun that jiamin brought, and damn, its powerful. and funny ppl like ernest kept going 'what hahpen' and singing the op for free! lol.

after that was the night activity that was similar to the one in pre-o camp. which was not bad la, all the running, but there's always this part where everyone gets hopeless and like gives up, until the last part where we just spammed any idea in order to defeat the facils. especially me haha. i was just randomly saying words even though they obviously won't work lol.

amazing race was really good, even though it was at school. cos the clues are solvable, and the tasks are challenging, but also doable. and the water games were legit. everyone really got soaked wet. at the end of the race there was some water fight section and lots of stuff got broken, but it was really fun haha.

at the end of the day we finished up our stop-motions, and then went to the sem room to watch, where sk was sleeping so soundly with his arms inside his shirt that everyone did retarded stuff to him and he din't even realise lol. before they screened our stop motions we also watched some retarded videos like 'what the fox say' and 'stonehenge'. was basically just a laughing session lol.

anyway, some group's stopmotions were really entertaining, such as waiyin's mario-kart parody. there was a pokemon-parody, and our group's one was a tetris-parody. and there was one that's censored lol, so they din't end up playing it. 

finished up with some shingeki like thing that the facils made, and the first 20 seconds were really good, but then they never finished the film. too bad i guess. maybe one day after exams i can go make one too haha. k la that's all for now. bye ~~

science center and west coast market

today was quite a fun day as well, despite how boring the schedule seemed. the start of the day seems like such a long time ago actually haha.

in the morning, after the introduction in the hall, we went to eat breakfast with the japs, which was mostly fooling around and taking unglam pictures, watching videos and one piece for the guys, and a mass gossiping session for the girls lol.

after that took normal lessons la. pe was netball, which is probably one of the more interesting sports they could teach. and yes, valles' lesson, but surprisingly i din't sleep. maybe cos i was in a good mood haha. at the same time, the japs were like visiting the cool stuff in the labs, and went to that demo room where u take the air gun and shoot at ppl, and the gyroscope, hovercraft and stuff.

at 12, we had lunch, where my buddy shingo downed like 4 mango puddings lol. yes the japs love mangoes that much. and they were also talking about how my buddy is popular with the girls from our school lol. anyway, halfway through, jookee, wong and zheyuan came to crash. cos ya he's sad that he couldn't crash anything. though we kinda told the japs that he likes jap girls and he just ran out of the room. lol.

anyway, we left for science center at 1, though not that many locals went. at first it was seriously only me and chee, and some ppl -ahem- wanted to go back to hostel to sleep lol. but in the end managed to get 7 ppl to go.

anyway, i thought that science center was actually quite interesting, even though i've been there like a thousand times already. actually, singapore's science center is much more interesting than science center's in other countries, at least for those i went, cos they are much more interesting (but much more confusing to understand). anyway, the most fun part of the trip was trying to explain what the stuff are or how it works. its hard actually, cos we ended up trying to figure out some of the stuff that we never bothered to find out how it works. and translating haha.

i actually kinda like the fact that my jap is like halfway in between. makes it really challenging to explain how the stuff works, but yet just nice so that its possible. cos of all the 'ohhhhh' moments haha. the most fun sections were still the optical illusions and the slow motion videos at the first part though. cos they were cool (and much easier to explain :P)

came back to school at 3:40, and we went in to the hall. and since they happened to be doing the talk about ritsumeikan at the same time, everyone was like staring at us lol. but its quite interesting to show them the montage of our trip over there cos our inbound buddies are different.

went to visit cca's after that. crashed quite a few cca's, but in the end, my buddy and chee's buddy decided to stick to soccer, cos my buddy is in soccer club in rits, and he's pretty damn good, like a junwei :D. so they joined for soccer training for awhile lol, and the soccer coach was being strict with them lol, like he's their real coach haha.

they din't join in the matches though, but after that, bradley was free, so we spent some time doing practice shooting with bradley as the keeper. he's a damn good keeper now btw. saved almost everything except two or three balls, so when they scored they were quite happy haha.

left for the music room at 5:30, where all the musical talents started coming out. more of on our side ba. dawn, yx and anh all started playing piano pieces, while isaac's buddy was doing drums. with a inverted brush and a fan lol. as well as a broken bass. but still, not bad :D

after that, we went to eat dinner at west coast, where -ahem- were like stalking us but pretending not to intentionally be there lol. din't eat zhu cao as intended, but it wasn't too bad la. let my buddy try mango juice (even more mango :0) after dinner, we all went to west coast plaza to look around at the movie shop, which they found cheap compared to japan. cos movies there can cost like $20 or more, and the blu-rays are like $100+, and they still buy them. for us, it's free though, because some programs exist that are possibly not perfectly legal lol. but of course we din't tell them that.

after that, we went to the supermarket, which i thought was quite a good idea. and wcp has so many jap goods. there's like a sushi section as well as a jap good section with sauces, curry and stuff. and yea spent quite some time comparing prices here and there lol. and teaching them how to make the instant chicken rice, or instant chicken curry. don't know how we managed to spend so much time, but we were just back in time for roll-call lol.

ok sry for making u read all this. its all my excited brain's ramblings haha. looking forward to bringing my buddy to class tmr haha. kk that's all for now. bye ~~

bringing the japs around

this weekend has been a really long and memorable :D. at first i was worried my buddy would judge me cos he's a cool guy and i'm like... this. but turned out he's a really funny and nice guy.

anyway, its really fun being the tour guide. i feel really glad when i manage to get my buddy(s) to be amazed or to laugh. it really helped that i went to japan before, cos i can understand how they feel. so i kinda put in more effort to make sure they don't get sian or something by trying to joke around and stuff. managed to have quite a good time talking to them haha.

anyway this post is going to be extremely long. ya.

saturday was our group outing. it had a kind of ice-breaker feeling, where we all just mixed around with each other's buddies. went to school early at 9 and ate breakfast together with the japs. after that, we went to bugis street to buy the drinks there. it was quite a sight, cos we just ordered ten drinks in one row. after that, we went to shop for souvenirs, and they were quite surprised at how cheap everything there was. actually, i'm quite shocked too haha.

after that ate lunch at bugis junction. i let my buddy try indonesian food, bbq chicken penyet. so one moment he was dying from the spicyness, then next moment he was like thumbs up haha.

went to gardens by the bay after that


rainbow in the waterfall :D

went up to the top to look at all the venus fly traps and pitcher plant and trying to explain what they are. then after we went to the crystal mountain section where we took group photos through the mirrors lol. it was like mass camwhoring :0

last part was the nicest part, cos all the plants had really nice shapes and structures :D. there was this plant that had a spiral and looked like spaghetti lol.


and weethean was talking about asses and d...

try to unsee that :0

after leaving gbtb, we decided to detour and walk towards promenade instead. we happened to walk past the ndp practice, and we were really lucky, cos we saw the parachuters landing, the helicopters, the tanks shooting. we even saw a group of ppl marching past us when we crossed the road haha. it was pretty interesting actually. i'd be really amazed if i wasn't a singaporean haha.



i realised it was quite a waste that i din't go flyer, cos there would have been fireworks, and that would have been really amazing. but ok la the bbq was also pretty fun :D. the food was really good, like the beef and the chicken wing, and the fish and the salmon. everything was tasty actually :P

anyway, things got interesting when they started trying to feed their friends food they don't like, like corn or mushrooms. and they were challenging each other to eat the spicy squid heheh. even i found it quite spicy lol.

the best part was the durian though. at first all the japs were like running away and shaking their head, but after that, they tried, and although some of them were like repulsed, some actually seem to like it, even though they felt it smelled bad haha. waa it was really enjoyable, the bbq.

anyway, yx's buddy followed me back home cos he wasn't able to host. learnt that our buddies also like playing games, like us. there was temple run, flow, badlands, etc. so maybe its not just us addicted to phone games haha.

reached my home at like 12 though, so we couldn't really do anything. mostly they were looking at my one piece comics and duel master cards haha. laid up like two mattresses in my room and we all slept at abt 1.

went to the market today, and showed them around to the vegetables, fruits and fish. part of the fun is trying to come up with analogies for the stuff they didn't recognize, and yea i use alot of broken english and japanese :P. after that we ate noodles, then walked around the market, and they were interested in the praying items.

after that, we left for sentosa and turned out yx wasn't coming. firstly, went to the merlion. after that, we took the train down to see the sea aquarium. at first, we spent alot of time queuing and stuff, but when we went in, it was pretty amazing :D.





after that, we went to the malaysian food street, where we ate the famous chicken rice ball, and i got the penang laksa which was delicious. after that, we shared chendol, which i nvr dared to tried until now, and damn, it was really good. the japs also seemed to like it (yea), though they were like saying cold most of the time.

intended to go to adventure cove for the afternoon, but turns out u can't just go in with any kind of clothes after all. couldn't enter cos our pants had zips and buttons, and it was too expensive to buy trunks and stuff. so had to change plans halfway and decided to go to luge and skyride instead




after that we just ended the sentosa thing by going to the beach and playing with the sand, writing stuff on the beach, and doing jumpshots :D

i guess we were too tired to throw each other into the sea lol.

ate dinner at clementi, and yea my buddies all knocked out in the car, though surprisingly i din't feel that tired even though my legs were completely dead from so much walking. ate at crystal jade. (ok its not that ex as it sounds, just around $15 per person).

after that we brought them around clementi mall, which they actually found pretty interesting cos there was the pineapple tart, and also the floss from the mei zhen xiang there. we also brought them to look at the fruits in the supermarket, especially at the mangoes, cos they love it and its much cheaper here than over there. basically, we were being evil and tempting them with all the food haha. they were like considering to buy, so i agreed to bring them back there if i had the chance.

so yea super long weekend (and super long post). really excited to see them in sch tmr haha. ok nites ~~

start of term 3

blogging again after mia-ing for so long lol.

anyway, its start of week 3 now (so fast), but at the same time i felt like i did quite a lot of fun stuff within the first two weeks :D. and school. i know some ppl begrudge not having time, homework sucks, etc, etc... but waa im seriously enjoying myself here haha. maybe its cos im a slacker who drops bio, who stays out late to play even though i live so far, who does alot of retarded stuff when i get the chance to. school's fun :)

anyway, even though i stopped blogging so much, i still keep a really short log of the interesting stuff i did that week haha. youth day, class outing (swag yo!). tuesday, gong cha, fun run! (and the very embarassing, stupid thing that happen that luckily not many knows about). wednesday, board games cafe, so worth the $6 spent. 

this week was pretty fun too haha. yesterday, art workshop :D. made something i'm unreasonably proud of and hidden somewhere retarded lol. today, RM, after such a long time off. made really retarded but fun games too haha. and we're planning a surprise for wong heheh :P.

excited for my buddy to come this friday :D. previously i was worried i'll get judged by my buddy, but now i feel like i got a dozen things that i might want to do haha. hope it goes well ~~

k anyway that's all for now. let's just say i'm also a last minute chionger haha. bye ~~

one whole month of travelling

sorry for being mia for so long. i kinda left without saying a word lol. finally received internet access yesterday, and boom all the notifications. but since now i have some time, just gonna make a short post.

so yea, im back after travelling for so long haha. first japan for sep, then london and ireland for my sis graduation. its been a lot of fun haha. experienced alot of things, took alot of photos, drank alot of tea, whether jap or english haha.

anyway, dunno by pure coincidence or not, the haze got really bad here lol. like seriously? 400? how's that possible lol. my eldest sister (back in singapore) even whatsapped herself wearing a N95 mask haha. and yea the haze is kinda gone now, and all school activities cancelled. maybe im lucky haha. but the weather's really weird now. it snowed? in singapore? ok more like chunks of ice fell at the west side lol. kinda wish it'll blow over to the east hehe.

anyway, england and ireland was really fun haha. this time more free and easy then sep. din't really have time to do much, but it was interesting. london was really nice, because the old buildings like the castles and villages are located next to modern buildings and yet it goes together so well. since for so many years they have been accumulating more and more over the super long history.

what's more i really enjoyed all the medieval history stuff haha. knights and weapons and armor and stuff. the history was actually pretty similar to the books i read, like the url of my blog :0, so i actually knew quite a bit heheh. so yea, i was really amazed by all the stuff i seen there.

ireland was also quite special, with its pub culture. the food is really good. drank some alchohol haha. guiness originated from ireland, and i also tried irish coffee, which is basically bailey's added into coffee haha. went to see some museum about vikings too :D.

ireland is also extremely scenic (according to my sister's photos), though we really had no time to tour around, cos was there mainly for the graduation ceremony. my sister's degree is like equivalent to a 4 year uni degree at trinity even though she went there only 3 months. that's pretty darn amazing haha. she's certified now heheh.

anyway, enough for now haha. im really lucky haha, still gonna go out for 2/3 more days in this holiday :P. gonna catch up with my anime, and RM haha. and need to finish my sep reflections lol. maybe i'd try to make some photoposts too, since photos of my trip are finally up heheh.

so little time left, and it'll be school again >.<. but i had a whole bunch of fun for 2 whole months already haha. dk how im gonna going back. been sleeping really late this days, and i can't blame jet lag lol. dunno how im gonna cope haha, haven't been in touch with any work-related stuff for 2 whole months :P.

k going off le. bye~~

back from SEP

just came back home today. as much as i would like to stay there for much longer, it somewhat feels quite good to be back home haha. the weather there was really great, but i guess im quite used to this warm weather too. probably will get sick of it within 1 or 2 days though lol.

gonna just post a short summary of the trip first.

first two days were really great. at first when i met my buddy's host family, it was really fun, because my buddy's family were quite a lively outspoken bunch.

my buddy's eng was pretty good, so almost everything that i know in jap, she can do it in english. yea din't really try talking in jap all the time cos it was somewhat awkward. but anyway, it was pretty fun talking in english + half broken jap, and actually the confusion in communication was what made it interesting.

we had no lessons for first two days cos the rits students had an excursion and some games day thing. so it wasn't that much to do. first day, i ate curry for dinner, second day takoyaki, which i tried making too and din't really succeed cos i broke quite a few while inverting them. regret not taking photo for this haha.

the third day we had to go over to NINS for some science workshop. honestly it was quite sian. and me and chee shudn't have chose basic bio, cos it wasn't basic at all, at least to us ppl who dropped bio. well we managed to get by without really understanding how it works. me, hong jing and chee were mainly trying to help them translate what they wanted to say into english.

and anyway, we stayed overnight at some hostel during the workshop. its abit shabby i guess, but wasn't too bad ba. bath was public, though there were screens for shower. food was not too bad actually. well the girls apparently stayed up gossiping about the guys, while the guys just talked random stuff. played some cards and so on.

so anyway our presentation was quite bad, cos compared to other groups, we couldn't reinforce the knowledge cos we din't really get anything. but we were first to present and it din't really matter i guess. went to toyata museum and it was really cool, with the car assembly demonstrations and some random place called technoland with a 15 m/s wind machine haha.

i kinda felt that we wasted two days though, since travelling from kyoto to nagoya took 3 hours, and it was like 5 by the time we came back. 

then it was the weekends. kinda wanted to arrange going out as a big group, or at least a small group with chee and hong jing and whoever else who wanted to follow us, cos we wanted to shop for anime stuff together. 

thing was my buddy had no wifi at all, so i couldn't use whatsapp and couldn't contact ppl directly. calling was really troublesome, idk why, cos their contract doesn't allow them to call much, its usually messages. so i guess i kinda put my buddy under quite a lot of stress trying to organize some outing to nara and shopping afterwards.

well it turned out pretty okay. visited a few places like some castle called niji-jo and arashiyama, which seems like a really nice place to hang around in summer. was without my buddy for both trips though. and i kinda wanted to go with friends too, but we weren't able to organize that so it was more like a family outing kinda thing. my buddy's young sister is very hyper and cute haha, so it was pretty fun too. sunday went to nara with yx to see all the deer :D. was really fun haha. but again my buddy couldn't go cos of exams.

well, i had quite a lot of fun for the weekend though i wanted to go with like chee and maybe spend some time shopping and looking for anime stuff and fazzing about stuff or something. i din't know it'll be so difficult to organize that, cos every family had their own plans, so i guess i created much more trouble for my host family than i expected, which i felt quite guilty about. but overall i enjoyed what they arranged for me

so yea i guess this trip i was pretty unlucky in the sense that i couldn't really interact much with my buddy. and after the stress of planning where do i go for the weekends, it got a little bit more awkward and we din't have as much to talk as before.

monday was like the last chance for desperate shopping. was a school day, and was pretty packed but there were lots of interesting activities. well their music lesson was unique, then a survival jap lesson. their pe was surprisingly fun. for physics we made a rainbow, and there was a flower arrangement after that, which we fooled around with. like making some spiral thing with the spare stems that we cut off.

after that, with some pleading and requesting i managed to get me, chee, yx, yong kuan and hong jing to go around shijo. we visited fushimi inari shrine first, which was some cool shrine near the school, though we spent less than 30 mins there. 

shijo was really fun for me. i guess the rest bought their stuff already, but i haven't, cos i din't get the chance to during the weekend. went to animate awhile, again, though me and chee din't really have time to look around much, again, so we just got jookee's mag and went out. too bad i guess, so no anime souvenirs.

went around to get shirts, headbands, some food souvenirs. ate ramen, played taiko for awhile with chee. and it was already quite late D: so we couldn't go to the 100 yen shop or go to animate to look for stuff again. went to see fireflies instead. there was only a few that day though, compared to other days, but still pretty interesting.

spent like 4.4k yen in the airport cos otherwise i wouldn't have any souvenirs to give u guys. so yep sry, there's nothing but food that i can give. since everyone seems to have came back from their own programmes and stuff, i kinda want to have some outing for everyone to share food, souvenirs, and talk about some stuff haha.

so yea the trip was over like that. it was 8 days after all, but i felt it was quite a pity cos i din't get to do as much as i expected. but i guess im pretty grateful to my host family because they tried to engage me. wasn't the tearful goodbye like some of the other buddies, but yea i kinda liked my host buddy's family and i guess i'll miss them haha.

so yea that's about it lol. maybe i'll add pics that i took with my terrible phone camera. and i guess this wasn't as summarized as i thought it'll be haha. but anyway, it's pretty good to be back :D

the outing after CMPB

came with lee to CMPB on monday. was feeling really nervous about medical check-up one week before, because tbf, i had a fear of injections. there was once in p6 where i kinda... ran away from the injection in school, and had to do it at some medical place afterwards :0

turned out the most crappy thing about the medical check-up was not the medical tests, but the freakin vocational test after that. maybe i just din't get enough sleep, but i absolutely died in there. the questions are just never-ending, u don't know how much time passed, cos no phone, no clock. alot of qns i wasn't expecting, like arithmetic progressions, quadratic, algebra, physics. there was an interesting one which is about following instructions. actually no it wasn't fun at all >.<

anyway, after everything was over, was really glad that we could finally leave. had a really weird feeling leaving the place, as though we were leaving prison. felt like we were coming back to civilization. met fiona, who was waiting for us for quite awhile at tiong bahru. wanted to eat at some place called strictly pancakes which we thought was near bugis. so yea it was the beginning of one hell of a walk.

so this is a good summary of the path we taken (take from fiona's blog lol)



day was super hot, and we got horribly lost at some carpark in between us that was full of dead ends. so when we reached strictly pancakes, we thought that finally, we can eat something. but turn out that of all days, it opens late only on mondays. +1 for bad luck.

but ok la, it wasn't that bad of a walk. ate some fish ice cream we got at the random korean market which tastes so good. i don't even know how. its just some fish like biscuit encasing vanilla ice cream with some red bean paste. korean food is good :D.

anyway, since we took all the effort of walking, decided to spend anyway. i thought i have enough money this week, so we went to spend at 日本村 at cathay. not too bad actually, portion was quite big, though of cos can't compare to the super good ramen last friday. ate until quite shiok la haha.

so yea today came back from chalet, and even went to studio for awhile. my wallet is completely empty now, with an untopped-up card, and im still in debt. but whatever. i will somehow be able to pay these off someday. someday D<

k la that's all for now. pretty excited bout tmr's outing :D

paydayyyy

today was an awesome day haha. was somewhat unplanned, as in we din't have anything exact to do, but 10 hours just flew by so quickly haha.

started by meeting at payar lebar and went to singapore post that building at 12:30, but cheeseng was late by 30 mins cos he was up recording the karuta readings.

dunno how, but we just came up with an idea for RM for cheeseng to do the moment he came lol. we just wrote some clue at the stabilo pencil, which lead him down to the popular downstairs, which led him to fairprice lol. the clues are still there now though, so some bo liao ppl might actually go and solve it :0.

anyway, after we met up, went to get ingredients for making brownie, ate lunch at some cheap place that sells waffles, then went to fiona's house to bake. baking was done pretty quickly cos it was pretty easy. wasn't exactly like a brownie, but it tasted like really tasty chocolate cake haha. took quite a few pics too. lee is a poser :P.

our brownie :D (why does it look so good lol. pro editting :0 )

after that we played a huge load of games. had some connect 4 round robin, jenga with coloured blocks. then there was the board game payday, which was pretty much the highlight of the day haha :D. its like game of life except the board is like a calendar with 31 days and alot of epic random stuff happening. super epic kay. completely died laughing many times haha

at first everyone was like freaking broke and had super huge debts to the bank, but after everyone else started hoarding the 'lao bei', cos of the old man on the $10000 note. a huge load of epic stuff happens. since i talked so much, got targeted like hell. i was the poorest, but they just took money from me, because lee wanted to make the game 'more fun'.

half the time was spent playing the lottery thing, and most of just like tried sticking to a certain number. like lee kept sticking to 1, like it's his car plate number, cos that's what most ppl who buy 4D do. they just stick to one number like forever. did alot of cockblocking and random donations to the 'charity', which goes to the jackpot lol.

since cheeseng was like throwing 1's and 2's all the time, three of us lapped chee seng at the last month of the game, and making huge load of jokes haha. we were like all retired already and shaking leg there with our money while chee is still investing :0. retired already still playing lottery and losing money and stuff though haha. aiya this game doesn't make sense, but its like 10 times more epic than monopoly. should bring to sleepover :D

anyway, after that was like 10, but we still played like karuta until 11. tried out reading without the pause between the number and the suit. im just so addicted to it, cos even though its boring to watch, its super thrilling to play :P. but turns out cheeseng is even more hardcore lol. his like faster and has better memory, so i realise im actually quite lousy at this game. so yea won 1 and lost 1. i think we got lee addicted to this game to haha. faster go watch then we can have some sort of tournament during sleepover :D

really excited for sleepover now, so many fun things to do. then there's bradley and loo and huang who's going to make it darn epic haha. hope it turns out well :D. k la that's all for tonight, so late liao. bye ^^

excited for SEP

been really excited for SEP ever since the meeting yesterday haha. finally haha. i know its slightly more than one month away, but it feels like its gonna happen so soon. feel so motivated to spam the brochure with info heheh. anyways, i need to spam mug jap for the next month haha. been slacking off way too long le.

anyway, ever since exams were over (technically not over cos there's still APs and english), been having a lot of fun haha. yesterday i kinda left school early. again. oops :P. went to fiona's house with kianwee and daryl to watch wreck-it ralph, which was a disney movie from last year i think.

i know im not a movie person, but damn, i was really impressed by wreck-it ralph. wreck-it ralph is really amazing, the plot is unique, an there were many genius ideas, the puns haha. so now i know not to judge a movie by its name haha. anyway, i won't spoil, but the basic plot is that the arcade characters are actually alive and have a life after the arcade closes haha. u can go watch if u want, its goooood :D.

after that i went to eat lunch, then went over to ryan's house, aka the after-exams gaming center. second time going there haha. was much better this time, managed to win the new ppl (hema, pin and jookee). actually hema is not new, and im pretty new, but yea. feels so good to snipe hema without him knowing where the hell i was heheh.

i know i missed out on quite alot of stuff yesterday haha, cos yesterday was like the play with ur teachers during lessons day. missed out on dm in 01 D:. i miss the water dark deck that i helped create from jookee's water deck. its the jian deck that uses an annoying strategy that makes the other guy keep wanting to rematch haha. brings back memories of what i used to do in hostel :P.

k la that's all for now. bye ^^

the starting break

din't expect today to be so long lol. but was really fun :D. getting into holiday mood alr haha.

lessons was nothing much ba. at least mr soh was pretty interesting. his analogies keeps getting better and better haha. and he talked alot of crap too lol. what with suitcase machine guns and umbrella resin needles to assasinate ppl.

played loads of frisbee today haha. its really fun playing the hall cos it was so smooth. and everyone's trying cool throws, forehands, hammers, bouncing throws haha. even had a really epic game of touch frisbee or something.

after that we played RM, the target game that daryl came up with. i was like the first target and died the moment i broke camping in the audi lol. too nub liao. even after i got wildcarded and revived to be the number 0, i still died. so yea. wong's really violent and scheming tskkk.

went back up to class. lee din't want to ditch me and kw cos we weren't watching 'Ah Boys to Men', so he was like reluctant to go. haha such a bro. anyway me and kw decided to tag along for dinner, cos we convinced that chill, we still have 4 more days left this week to go out haha.

had a really fun time reminiscing about childhood games on the bus, like pokemon and neopets haha. lol neopets. i realise how complex it actually was now. might actually go back and try it out someday haha. also had a pretty hearty meal before we went back. din't expect to spend so much today lol. must start saving tskk (or being cheapskate :P)

k la that's all for now. bye~~

a lot of running

sorry it's been reaaally long since i last posted. wanted to post about more stuff too, but i guess i owe this post lol. anyway, had quite a lot of outings during this period lol. not exactly broke yet, but im being really cheapskate nowadays cos i burn so much on thursdays and fridays haha.

last week went to SUTD open house, and to summarize, im actually thinking SUTD is not bad too, but i still don't know whether i can trust it to be good lol. and we also made some toys at the fab lab, which was mainly what we did there actually. daryl made this really cute couple toy (dk how to describe it). kian wee made some wizard and i made some running man thing haha, cos i din't know what else to make.

after that we went out to eat at wendy's. and even though quite a few ppl din't want to go bowling, we went anyway /o\. peer pressure :0. was pretty terrible, as in our scores haha. but pretty fun :D

mon-wed din't really have stuff, because actually most things happen on thurs and fri for me. by right this thurs we din't have RM cos cheeseng has medical check-up, and wong, chee, fiona and tann all couldn't make it. but lee still managed to organise it woot.

played two warm up chasing games, then we played the game he planned, where each person had a number, and the highest number becomes the target. everyone else has to eliminate the target. but the catch is that if the target kills someone, they switch numbers, so he'll become the target much later. until only the last man is left standing.

john huang really was the MVP haha. from number 6, the first target, he died, then got revived through wildcard to be number 3, then killed JUNWEI to become number 1, and finally killed kian wee, the second wildcard.

friday was pretty hardcore, cos of all the running. i kinda wanted to plan one game too haha, cos i got inspiration from cheeseng's wooden peg game. was tricky to pull it off, cos i was really brainstorming for places to hide the tags just one hour before the game, and yet make them very relevant to the clues i gave. so yea only managed to set it up by 2:50. quite proud of the game :D, though idk how fun it is cos i was moderator lol.

after that media had some scavenger game too, where ppl without cam suppose to find stuff while ppl with cam are supposed to take the face of the scavengers. was pretty sian though cos halfway ppl started walking around. and i couldn't find anything or take photos of anyone. but ok la, for the last session of the term.

played soccer after that, which was more like an artillery field, cos the soccer ppl were practicing shooting, and there's someone on the other side to kick the balls back to the field cos we refused to pick them up lol. so yea, balls kept flying from all directions, but din't really hit anyone. game was really balanced and fun :D.

after that, we left before it got too late cos IKEA was having meatballs for 10 cents. dayum that's cheap. the queue was scarily long, so almost all of us went to anchorpoint to eat instead, while pin and jookee queued. anchorpoint's food was really gooooood, but we were mainly equating it to meatballs. like the super delicious horfun that me and wong shared was worth 50 meatballs, and suddenly it seems abit little lol. but worth it, cos it was really gooood.

went back to IKEA cos jookee and pin finally got to eat and they bought about 60 meatballs for the rest of us to eat. and yea they made no loss cos someone paid them $4 to cut queue :0. what's the point of 10 cent meatballs if u pay $4 -.-. but yea they also made commission from us. but still, $1.50 for 10 meatballs isn't half bad :D.

kk that's it ba. actually went for grandpa's dinner yesterday, but probably nothing ppl would be interested in haha. shall try to blog more frequently lol. just 2 more reports and one english quiz, and everything is ovarrrr. need to catch up with my anime and learning jap haha. kk that's all. bye~~

to the playground

went to casa clementi for RM today, which was actually the flats just opposite our school lol. the layout looks really cool haha.

started off with virus to familiarize ourselves with the confusing layout, and it was pretty decent. the two mission games after that, honestly speaking though, was kinda messy. especially on the mission side, cos the mission was simply to darn hard and most ppl din't know what to do except chase or hide :/

the fun part abt today was after dinner though. we went back to the playground as we were supposed to cross it to reach the bus stop. ended up playing around so much, reliving our childhoods (actually im kinda deprived as i din't really go to playgrounds last time).

the wheel was pretty epic haha. basically its a horizontal wheel that is wide enough to stand on. however, it is inclined slightly, and is simply impossible to get to the top, cos the wheel keeps speeding up. something like a hamster wheel. in the end we just all sat at one end each and some one went to spin the wheel damn fast, like a mini roller coaster :D.

also played some monkey bar kind of game, where two ppl are supposed to hang on to a bar and try to pull each other down using the legs. we thought lee was darn good, but wong's the true master lol. he gripped the bar in a weird way, and ended up catching lee from the shoulder. then when he couldn't pull lee down, he jumped onto lee :0. gg man that guy so competitive, must win every single game de tsktsk.

we still did other things there, but shan't describe any further. fiona has the pics i think, though it's somewhat embarassing :P. anyway, conclusion was that we must come back here some day haha, maybe at night if possible so that its not so hot. should have done so last year, cos it's barely 5 min from hostel, but haiz, no chance for that le. nvm ba.

anyway, me and lee get to plan the next game haha. the chasing idea seems really cool this time, and lee even made a proposal for it lol. we're serious 'bout this, bra. hope next mission can be more successful than this one. k la its somewhat late now. good night :)

media outing

had media outing today to city hall area. was quite ok la. some parts were sian but we got to walk around and see lots of stuff.

anyway, being too paiseh to take ppl up and front, i was mostly doing random spying shots, like pretending to be resting or just walking by and secretly taking the photo. its fun cos even though u won't know how it'll turn out, if its good, u get to see ppl either being cool or being really happy haha. usually it goes bad, but there are 4 photos im proud of :D. (hey i seldom post photos anyway)

so firstly, i got wong looking like some pro :D

haha i think he lost all his avoiding photo skills alr :P

then i got jm doing some cool pose :P

how often do u get to see both of them smiling in the same pic? XD

png doing his :3 expression again

and pin doing idk what

haha i'm so gonna get murdered on monday >_<

after that came back to school to play soccer. reached back at 7 though D:. was fun but so short and the sky got dark damn quickly. sigh. anyway, today's the first week im eating out on fridays haha, and went with wong, yeo, kian wee, lee and fiona to koufu at commonwealth. and hema decided to tag along in the end lol.

so lee has a theory that when hema's around, we always start a convo, then hema says something, and then the convo becomes a sword and stabs hema haha. then the topic changes and the cycle repeats. its just too damn fun to insult hema haha.

its only during thursday and friday of this week and two weeks ago that we all come together like this, but it feels like such a long time alr haha. feels really great to hang out with this bunch of ppl haha. ok la need go off le. bye~~

first nush RM session :D

sorry haven't been posting so long. i was free the whole of today, but i have mainly been... procrastinating. anyway, i ranted abit too much on this post... ps la >.<

so finally, after so much planning and discussing, we had our first RM session this thursday haha. i lost almost every single game except the catching part haha. it was really interesting and fun. kudos to chee seng from planning all this :D.

anyway, most of us were already at the student lounge before the thing started. chee, wong and junwei also. we were mainly slacking and playing citadels, and in the end, they also decided to join our RM session :D. so we had lee, wong, chee, junwei, boon chong, me, kianwee and nicole at first.

started of with this ping pong game in some unused room at 4th floor E block, which was pretty random but funny.  it was somewhat like an orientation game. chee seng was mainly randomly throwing ping pong balls around the room, while we had a plastic bag between our arms.

we were all supposed to snatch for the ball lol. chee catches like 4 or 5 every round while i caught 2 for both rounds and got eliminated :/. in the end, was showdown between chee and lee, and chee got like 11 balls wth. too hackzz alr, using his buddha powers lol.

after that we played chicken fighting (which basically we are required to hold up one leg and hop around and try to knock each other down) in the room lol, which was probably wasn't chee seng's intention, but woa it was really epic. so yea we split ourselves into three groups, and we put chee and lee in the 2 man group cos they are super pro at the game.

wong was also darn ghey la, cos he uses like his whole body to ram ppl. even managed to knock down chee wth. i was mostly sent flying for both rounds, one by wong and one by junwei. i suck at these games haha. we only played two rounds cos after that everyone was like dead tired alr lol. after that, we played murderer to rest abit while waiting for fiona to come after her econs. we can never get sick of that game haha.

so at 4 the chasing game started. too bad it was raining though. abit tricky to run plus can't really hear the bells cos of the background noise. anyway, it was kian wee, nicole, fiona, lee and me in the mission team, and we were supposed to search all the 3-5 floor classroom lockers for numbers to a combination lock that was hidden under the faraday score counting post in the concourse (which i think was pretty brilliant :D)

however, the chasing team was wong, boonchong, chee and junwei la, which is really too damn overpowered lol. they din't know what our mission was, and they had to rip off the band on our wrist to eliminate us (which is pretty difficult actually). but still :/.

at first we kinda had a very good method, which was one person keep guard by staring down the corridors, while the rest of the members went to search the lockers. cleared about the whole of b block. but then when the chasing team closed in on us, we all just freaked out and split up. i kinda cheated abit by going out of bounds to the carpark area and back up from staff room.

but then chee suddenly came from 4th floor, and i managed to escape to the concourse (where ppl were having pe, who were probably wondering what the heck we were doing haha) when wong came. struggled and managed to keep them from pulling off my band for one whole min, but got reallllllyy tired, plus those two buff guys took turns to hold me down, so i couldn't run away. was first to be eliminated :/. slow and weak haha.

in the end, i still went to spy on them, giving info through whatsapp group lol. not as instant as walkie-talkie, but still pretty useful. nicole managed to find one '5' in the b block, while fiona got revived for the second half of the game cos the catching team was too pro. anyway, i personally saw kian wee and daryl get caught lol, and nicole got caught too. but fiona managed to avoid detection for the whole game after that and found the other two digits. the final code was 605 and mission team won ^^

last game was some angpao thing. chee seng hid 20 angpao's in the hall that day, and only one was moved from its hiding position. pretty amazing. and the game was super good haha. the hiding places were really cool. there were a few giveaways but the rest was really tricky to find haha. anyway, only managed to find 2 of the 20, and it was mostly chee stealing fiona's angpao's or the other way round haha. so yea we concluded the day with that game. looking forward to the next one :D.

ate at KFC with kianwee, cheeseng, hema, daryl, fiona, wong and chee. kept bugging wong with questions about phyllis haha. and kept provoking chee with that pose of him when he was young XD. apparently wong got it from phyllis cos phyllis and chee were in the same piano class looong time ago. the world is really too small haha.

ok la shall conclude the post with this. bye~~

awesome weekend

wow this weekend has been really fun haha. in fact, for these past two weeks, there were about ten days where i really enjoyed myself haha. but yea im so screwed for next week lol. haven't touched chem prac or english, and i had to make myself occupied fully for next week :0. but even still my mood now is really awesome heheh. the freedom of being 18!~~ :D

saturday i kinda crashed the WCD event, cos i was pretty amazed that so many ppl from our gang was going haha. even wong omg. seriously that guy is a changed man haha. so met wong and junwei at JE at 12:35. we spent like forever waiting for that jookee, cos that guy went to watch anime before coming tskkk. waited until 1:15 lol. but at least we got treated to mcflurry yay :D

by the time we reached macs it was already like 2 lol. almost no time to eat der. met daryl and fiona on the way, then chee seng came later once we were done eating. lee kept talking about murderer lol, cos he's super addicted to the game now lol. kept winking randomly.

but ya the first part of the thing wasn't really doing anything actually. tot we needed to help setup or something, but in the end didn't need to. so we ended up playing murderer until 3:50, then the people started coming.

got grouped with hardik. was supposed to get ppl to write their pledges for WCD, but i too paiseh le la. yea im not meant to do this kind of thing after all. my chinese sux so bad lol, couldn't talk too alot of ppl at first. din't know how to say 'make your pledge' in chinese lol. after awhile though, there were many more english talking ppl, and i realised u din't have to only approach the patients.

some ppl seemed really happy to write their pledges though. there was this aunt who had it for ten years already, but still she was really very cheerful and friendly. there was also another guy who requested us to sent the photo to him, or he'll come after hardik lol. not in the fierce way la of cos. just that he knew we were students so he kinda wanted to train us to carry out promises lol. so yea we did this for about two other ppl too.

anyway, after the event, most of us walked back to JE together. they kept trying to interrogate wong about what changed him haha. especially jookee lol, who was super jealous of wong lol, which he should be haha, cos wong has changed. but to protect wong's privacy, only the gang will know heheh.

today went to pin's house to make pineapple tarts. was pretty late lol. ironic considering i wasn't late yesterday when it was JE, but late today when its pin's house. i really like going to his house lol, cos his mum is damn nice, and his aunt, dad, and maid are cool people.

started off with making the dough. was pretty simple except im such a failure at this things and kept... failing haha. pin's maid was like laughing at me lol. and yea they were making jokes about having low yield o.o. was quite lol cos we needed three people to sieve. and was mainly pin and rong arguing who could cook better haha.

after that was cutting the dough. i completed failed at it, but i realised that u could decorate the tarts with small strips of dough haha. so i found my job for today, which was making lots of smiley faces lol. everyone was like complaining i was doing it too slow lol >.<. just like that time we were making meatballs heheh.

helped boon chong and pin make the dass and 605 rocks thing, cos i know their class absolutely loves this sort of thing lol. they even wrapped the dass thing and going to give her tmr. so yea in total we spent about two hours plus to finish making all the tarts, but jookee still wasn't there yet lol.



why din't i do this for my class too lol

he only came at about 4pm. never learn his lesson from yesterday tsktsk. but we seriously had nothing left for him to do haha. so ended up eating and talking about japan with pin's family :D. and also about dialects lol, which i absolutely dun understand. and i supposedly should be very good, since my mum's teochew and dad's hokkien. but no i couldn't.

we also ended up doing a bit of band stuff for fun haha, cos pin and jookee was there. ended eating dinner at pin's house again too. i think my house food is pretty okay, but their dinner there really very good. im jealous tskkk. but maybe its cos my standard for food is pretty low haha. anyway, took home my 14 precious smiley faces haha. my parent's liked it yea, but my mum claims she can make the pineapple jam better, which i don't really believe lol.

ok that's it for now. bye ^^

praises still make me feel so happy even now haha

reaching home so late

sorry i haven't posted in quite awhile. the last week has been really fun, did loads of things. came home past 8 pm for four days last week :0 (reached home at 11 on friday >.<). troubles of staying in the east :/ and yea it felt much longer than one week that i last posted actually. shall just mention a few things ba.

thursday had a really fun outing at boon chong's house trying to do self-made pasta. was slacking so much at first lol, until i got addicted to flattening the dough with a rolling pin lol. and quite retarded heheh, spent so much time just rolling. in the end most of the noodles turned out like ban mian instead of spaghetti cos it was so thick. the sauce was really good though, and so were the spicy sausages.

after that we just sat there for quite awhile. the wind at his 4th floor is really amazing. we played murderer for quite awhile, and it was really epic cos there was aris and anh, and then there was nicole and kian wee who were like opening their eyes darn big. and i kept getting killed cos i talked too much haha. fun game.

after clearing up, we kinda stayed awhile longer. was some random piano and guitar playing session, and kian wee going around poking ppl >.<. then after awhile, we all realised that adrian disappeared. omg that ninja >.<.

we were like really confused at first and searching alot of random places, until he was giving us clues with SMS lol. but the worst thing about trying to find him is that part of u doesn't really want to find him, because he will stare at u with those eyes from some dark corner. its darn creepy. so yea it took 8 ppl 20 minutes to find him lol. well its adrian XD

in the end, i was wondering how this cooking session suddenly turned out to be like some mini-gathering. its like a really fun outing without any special occasion whatsoever, but yea it was fun.

saturday was simin's housewarming. din't know any details other than meeting time though, so wasn't expecting the bbq to be during lunch time. so yea kinda just started of bbqing. first part wasn't much to do though, was just walking around joining a bunch of ppl looking at weiqi play 100 doors, or else just randomly talking. played murderer for quite a long time too, but this game wasn't as epic cos the murderers all don't dare kill de >.<

anyway, after that went up to her house to play. truth or dare again, but in the end the truth questions were really friendly, and i was the only dumb guy who chose dare the first time, so they made me do... ughhhh. damn. thank god the photo was blur. kinda played all the way till 6 and ate the ice cream cake, which was really delicious.

was intending to go home to eat, but ending up going out somemore, cos suddenly my parents said there won't be dinner at home. ate pepper lunch (again) at jcube. was mainly boonxin, yenling and rong talking about organising a grad trip to penang.

it sounds extremely feasible cos its not gonna be longer than one week (could be even before convocation), and the price would be in the hundreds only. so many ppl would be able to go. but i don't think i would ba. already have a super ex one to japan which would be darn special, so yea. plus i think they have their own ppl who would want to go to, so yep.

ok la, nth to say liao. actually i kinda reached home at abt 9 today, but anyway its getting late... so bye ~~

took too long to realise just one simple fact that wasn't so complex after all. shall try to be happier from now on.

turning 18

sorry din't post for so long. been slacking alot ever since school started haha.

first week of school was pretty ok la. felt really nice to be back :D, but then the lessons were really sleep-inducing lol. nah actually it was just valles' and ye xiajuan's lesson lol. the rest are pretty interesting, cos of the teachers.

so now there are only like two lessons per day, but maybe that's why its boring cos there's nothing to do during breaks (no more hostel! D:). but even still i reached home at around 6-7 everyday this week. the troubles of living in the east :/

anyway, mentoring sessions are getting interesting again. i guess dewey is back with his good mood. and we also did our class decor darn early haha. all the artistic ppl in my class lol. i never knew aluminium foil could be used for so many things. but when it was finally done, it looked really good haha. made up for the empty black piece of paper that we had last year lol.



on wednesday, went with jiamin, pin, daryl, chee seng fiona, and jookee to star vista to eat dinner at some ramen stall called musashi. not bad la, but quite overpriced lol. felt abit bad to get treated cos it was ex, plus i was given money to spend this week lol.

anyway, there was this offer where u could top up the noodles to five times more, and jookee's side spammed noodles, so they ended up buying more than me haha. after that all of them were like bloated, so we went to play loser drink one whole glass of water again /o\. after that we just walked around at art friend to get deco items for cca fair, as well as look for inspiration for running man in school lol.

went home and then got an awfully chocalate birthday cake yeaaa. i was already pretty tired, so i wasn't really expecting it. but yea i turned 18. without buying any alcohol or 4D tickets or trying to visit the pub. im still too young for all these things haha. maybe 6 years later heheh.

but yea i was really thankful for the presents i got haha. most were food though, which can't really be kept lol. and yea ppl were really nice to me this week! and the juniors that i station mastered made me a 'happy birthday dion :) with the rocks in the water feature haha. im lucky :D.

anyway, had our last cca fair this friday too. had to paint and cut alot of stuff beforehand. we ran out of paint repeatedly on wednesday, but miraculously being able to squeeze abit more and finish half the banner with one tube of paint lol. and cutting out the circles for the badges, photos, and flyers. when the booth was finally  put up, it looked really impressive haha.

all the hard work that went to this booth :)





but i guess there's a limit to how much u can influence the juniors. i mean those who want to play a certain sport or join uniform group u can't really influence them to change their mind. so yea wasted alot of time on that day advertising. should have went around more, cos there was so much stuff to see that i missed that i only knew of after photos were uploaded. haiz i regret missing out some stuff haha. no more chance liao :/

i kinda missed the finale comm dinner for AAR cos its my sister's birthday. yea we're just two days (and six years) apart. and my eldest sister is jan 29 lol. anyway, ate at sushi tei. my first time le haha. din't eat as much sushi as expected, but the food was good :D (of cos la so ex lol). bedok point is really a mall full of places to eat. so yea ate a lot of good food this week haha.

ok la ranted so much. still need to watch one ep of chuunibyou heheh. bye~~

confused, but ready to go on

6 days in boracay

wish i had more time. its only been about 24 hours since i came back, and im going to have to go off for camp tomorrow morning alr. ok la no complains, since its going to be fun, but i miss my idle days haha. i guess i can only finish code geass after orientation is over lol. but ya i had to squeeze in this post before the camp cos im scared i'll forget haha.

anyway, phillipines was actually really fun, cos it was really free and easy. we had abit too much time though, so the activities were spread throughout all five days, but it was pretty relaxing. so the first day was kind of just exploring the island.

the sand here is really white and fine. and some parts of the beach there's actually algae :0, but apparently it helps to keep the sand white. we went to like the same place everyday. d'mall, d'mall, cos everything was there. occasionally went to the wet market at talipapa to eat, where u just buy the fish and veg direct, but otherwise we always go to d'mall lol.

second day was a trip to ariel's point. we kinda spent almost the whole day haha, even though there was not that much to do there actually. had a really good sleep cos the trip started at like 11 am, so yea free and easy is amazing :D.

anyway, took a boat there. the place was essentially a cliff la, just that they built different diving points. 3m, 4m, 5m, 8m, and 15m for the suicidal people lol. there were lots of caucasians there, and they kinda livened up the atmosphere, so at first everyone was cheering for the brave souls who jumped first, and the hesitant people who managed to get the courage to jump.

it was pretty darn hot though, so that was like one of the main reasons why i jumped haha. of cos i started with 3m la. i tot it'll be no kick haha, cos its like jetty jump, plus its supposedly better than pool cos u can't see the bottom, so it doesn't look so deep. but when i jumped, the last part was actually quite fast, so i came out shivering. pretty scary actually lol, even though it lasted like less than 1 sec.

after that, ppl got bored of diving, so we ate, then went to snorkel, though there wasn't much to see there except like dozens of sea urchins. damn there were so many lol. also did kayaking for about 1 hour, and it was much, much more relaxing than the one at OBS haha. or maybe my sister's just buff lol.

third day we tried helmet diving and snorkelling. snorkelling wasn't much here, cos there was a typhoon two years ago, so alot of dead corals. helmet diving was really interesting though. basically its a heavy helmet, and they pump air inside to balance the weight, and then u slowly climb the ladder down the boat and stand on the sea bed, which was about 10-15 meters deep.

the pressure built up damn fast though lol. every step down, had to open my mouth to get rid of the pressure. it was pretty scary at first haha. there were alot of fishes,  and most of the time we were made to pose for photos haha, like sitting on the coral, lying on the floor. there was one part where we were supposed to lift our helmets up over our head, but surprisingly, managed to keep my eyes open for the photo lol. so yea it was pretty interesting.

after that we went to some mountain track, where each of us drove mini atv's. din't go very fast la, but there were things to see on the way, mainly their village. at the top, there was an observation point, and the view is pretty amazing. it was really shuang up there, cos the wind was godly. its like the kind of wind u get on an open-air speedboat, except u don't have to move. and it just kept blowing. i think we just stood up there for 15 minutes enjoying the wind haha.

also ate good food that day. actually everyday we ate good food la. spent the most pesos there on meals, but there isn't much to say, except they make brinjals here taste really good haha.

fourth day was the best, cos there was jet-skis. they were amazing fun haha. the first round, there was one of them to teach us how to use it, and he went holy fast lol. me and my sis were like freaking out cos the whole thing just kept jumping and water sprayed like non-stop.

it was fun driving it ourselves though haha. i just hecked that the jet-ski kept swaying left and right, so just charged straight, so we just ended up shouting all the way haha. i kinda overshot lol, cos couldn't see the yellow flags that marked the point. i realise its hard to describe how it feels like, except its damn freakin fun :D

after that was the boat ski trip to crocodile island, which really looks like a crocodile on the horizon. the waves were like sea-sized huge that day though, so as much as we wanted to go there, as we approached the island, it got kinda scary, so we just went round the main island instead. the people here are pretty pro at driving, managing to tank those kind of waves with a small boat-ski. but sometimes they'll just charge forward, so it was pretty thrilling haha.

kinda slacked the rest of the day off lol. took the tricycle like thing, which is like a cross between a trishaw and a motorcycle, but i guess i can't really show much without pictures cos my sis haven't uploaded them. went to watch the sunset haha. we were just using my sis' compact, cos the dslr battery was crappy and dead. so couldn't use the polarizing filter.

and then i got an idea to makeshift a polarizing filter with our sunglasses. lol using physics XD. my sis was like so amazed when i turned the sunglass and the sun became as bright as the moon haha. we kinda spent like 30 minutes playing with trying to take the sunset through the sunglasses lol. was pretty fun and retarded :P

fifth day was christmas eve, tried to do parasailing in the morning, though i was pretty hesistant about it lol. and just the boat trip there was freaking me out already cos the waves were so big lol. i couldn't even look away or get myself to drink water. but it kinda rained halfway while my parents were up they had to come down immediately. i dunno whether im lucky or not lucky that i missed my chance haha.

so ended up spending the afternoon walking around and buying souvenirs and stuff. then we just burnt our time just swimming, cos it was damn hot lol. walked all the way to the nicer part of the beach, where there was no algae.

the waves were medium sized, so it was darn fun actually haha. just waited there and tried to run and intercept the big waves, and doing all sorts of random stuff like trying to jump over them haha. too bad we din't get any frisbee or board to play with, but it was pretty simple and fun all by itself.

ate a really nice meal that day too, some italian restaurant for lunch, and some seaside restaurant for dinner. the celebrations here take place on christmas day itself though, so we din't have much to do, but the streets were still pretty crowded with tourists. in the end din't really do much, and ended up watching tv while waiting for christmas haha.

then halfway, we heard fireworks from the room. was being fired from one of the boats, so it was pretty close and it was damn big and pretty :D. plus the big once had like secondary explosions. wonder how much it cost for them to do that haha. but that kinda compensates for our not so eventful day at least :D.

last day was spent travelling, and was dying of boredom cos it was so long. and its funny how i've finally got myself to dive, to take the jet-ski, to find the boat ski rushing over the waves thrilling, but im still scared of turbulences lol. but after all the crappy travelling, it felt really good to come back. i guess i was pretty happy, even though i did nothing for christmas haha.

ok la that's bout it liao, need to wake up at 5.50 tmr for the camp lol. set two alarms liao, but im still pretty worried i can't wake up tomorrow >.<. k la really need to sleep now bye ~~

there's so much joy all around the world, just that its easy to overlook it