Saturday, September 30, 2006
lol, the exams have barely started but I'm already thinking about what I'm gonna do after the exams. Can't wait to get over the entire exam period.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
walao eh, nabu, cannot make the paper easier abit meh??? Want to challenge me issit. Then never mind, I take the challenge!!!
I want die already.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
It's been one year, so long, yet it seems so short. Hardly felt that time had passed since the time last year.
So long. Did I feel nothing? Surely there has been something. It can't be helped, it can't be avoided. There has to be some driving factor, but so far the only driving factor has been the want to outdo people. I guess that's what kept my want to compete ongoing, and perhaps also my want to show off, my image. Without that, I wouldn't be bothering at all.
There was another type of driving factor, during the PSLE period, during the sec two period. But the factor now is different. It felt great to know I was doing it for a reason, but now I feel just the basic need to outstrip others in a competition, my want to prove it, yet it is not as strong as that initial driving factor.
Haiz, I just want to say, it felt great when it lasted, and I don't know when is the next time I'll bump into it again. It doesn't seem short in any case, not being involved really puts you higher above the rest and allows you to see many things previously unseen, and to judge so much more carefully and impartially than being down there yourself. But what happens if you go down there again? I want to go down and get into it all over again, for it feels like great, momentarily great, yet I feel compelled to stay up and avoid things of such nature until next time, but until then, I just miss the feeling.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Got a bloody running nose, wth
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Today's run was kind of easy, I think. 9km didn't really seem that long, lol. The sheares bridge run was 10, but it felt so damn longer than this one, even though it's only 1km difference.
lol, towards the ending, nobody wanted to run at all! I felt like an idiot, running there by myself, everybody else was walking.
All in all, quite an okay run, or maybe they bluffed us or something.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
I think I'm gonna change to a new blogskin soon, coz this skin's lovelove thing all over the place is starting to freak me out...
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006
I'M BACK FROM MAWAI!!!
This is hand's down probably the best outdoor camp that I've had in a very long time.
We went for a swampforest walk on the first day of the camp when we reached there. I had only brought two shoes and I still wanted to keep both lol, and they told us we were going for a swamp walk. Then mr sutari introduced some trekking shoes to us. They were like budget soccer boots. They had studs and were made of rubber, lol. But it was very good, seriously, like what he said, "C&G, cheap and good". The first part of the walk was not so bad. Mr sutari showed us the asli animal traps and how they worked. It was surprising when he said that the demonstrations were only 1/8 of the actual traps in the forests, lol. Man, they were bloody deadly and I would really hate to be an animal crossing it's path... We saw many trees and mr surati explained their uses and which plants could be eaten. Haha, we ate the long grass and the fern leaves, which tasted like apple. Second part we entered the real forest full of MUD. The mud is really no joke, one step into the forest and your shoes are immediately brown. There was one part where I got seriously stuck in the mud. It was all the way up my knees, omgoose. I was afraid my shoe wouldn't come out. Then with help from jia hui I pulled out of the mud, and it was a damn horrible feeling with all the mud in my shoes and tracpants. We made it out alive and muddy as hell.
We had a movie screening that night of The Emperor's Club. I had watched the movie in P6 and knew the story but didn't really understand it. Now, in terms of a leader's point of view, I understand the deep meaning of the movie.
We played a team challenge the next day where we had to do alot of funny things like finding indentical leaves, reciting the aslis' names, exchange shoes, and even throwing a teacher into the pond, LOL. Of course, none of them would let us throw them in.
Then we played the asli water obstacles. It was fun, I fell for the first time at the long pole crossing. Quite a waste, coz I didn't fall for the other obstacles, haha. I crossed the asli bridge four times without falling, haha. Alot of other people were just eager to jump into the swampwater. Damn, your shoes could get stuck there as well and it would be really sad if that happened, lol. We then played water captain's ball in the swamp omgoose. Our team OWNED, lol. 18 to 4 was the score, haha. I tasted the water and it was horrible as hell.
Later we went for a firefly cruise at the river. Unfortunately, I forgot the name of the river, damn. It was quite good, coz I have never seen fireflies before at night. But truth to be told, I was more on the lookout for crocodiles in the river. Didn't find any, though...
Third day was the climax, for we had to trek up gunung arong, the so-called mountain, lol, not really, coz it's only 390m high. But it's damn steep man. I wore the C&G shoes and they were reallly very good for trekking up. The studs gave good grip and the rubber sole allowed our feet to feel and grip the ground. Not good for walking on flat surfaces though, coz it's really bothersome when you're stepping on rocks, it's like you're walking barefooted. Man, the ants there are HUGE. Probably 50-100 times bigger than singaporean ants. Not joking.
We reached the summit in about like, 50 minutes, which was supposingly good coz the estimated time was two and a half hours, lol. The climb down was way longer and more fun than the ascend. Long because we kept on going up and down. I don't understand why we had to go UP even further when we were actually descending. Fun because alot of people were falling down, lol. The asli climbed up and down the slopes like walking in the park, in SLIPPERS.
We returned that night to prepare for the campfire. It was pretty scary because we hadn't prepared our performance yet, only the planning, and we were left with less than an hour to wrap it up. It was supposed to be hillarious, and indeed it was, haha. I became the birdseller and there was a singapore terrorist and osama bin laden and HARD GAY, lol, won't say more, it's very funny.
Hah, I couldn't really sleep that night, coz people were all too high and talking bullshit all over the place.
This morning we woke and after breakfast we had a game on an egg astronaut. Very funny, we had to build a structure to propel the egg as far as possible on the gravel and keep it intact. Ours was pretty crappy, coz it cracked upon landing, but, we had the fun of seeing it fly anyway, WE THREW THE FURTHEST LEH. Then we had our final debrief for the camp. It was nothing much, just talking about what we learnt as leaders and what we want to bring back to the school in our own ccas. I feel that I really need to improve myself on the points that I had mentioned today.
Then we had AREA CLEANING. Surprisingly, it was super fast and only less than half an hour, lol. We had to clear the egg yolks on the gravel, haha.
After that lunch, then it was off to the bus and back to singapore. We said bye to mr sutari and the aslis. I was astonished to find out that he lived at the campsite itself. He has a house in singapore, but he said it was better at the camp, where there was more freedom, lol.
Back home now!!! Haiz, still feeling quite tired even though I slept on the bus back. This is really one camp where I enjoyed the most and created new bonds with other people.
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