Monday, November 13, 2006
the stories that happened yesterday
Surprise,surprise!I am finally back to post!Geez...guess it's been a very long time since I posted anything...think I must be feeling guilty that's why I am back to post[woops!]Actually you can't really blame me for not posting anything for a long time,it's just that I have nothing to post about on account that I am a life-less('no life')person like what SOMEBODY said and I lead a totally boring life where my daily routine is...awww let's not elaborate,I don't want to bore you away.
Think you should have known about the Leadership camp that I just came back from since so many other blogs have mentioned it(and when i say other blogs,I mean my friends' blogs.....-_-)Yup,that camp gave me a topic to write about,at least it will save me from being nagged at to post for the time being...
1st Day...
As expected,the first day of camp is seen to be the most boring day of the week.Just like other camps,it's the same thing...assigning of groups,group name,cheers,ice-breaking games,etc etc etc....
Group name:10 Nova(nice right?our group consists of 10 members including the 3 facilitators) Group vision/mission(or whatever you call it):Reach out for the the highest star!(cool right!) Group cheer: Hey you!Listen Up!
10Nova 10Nova
We are the best
10Nova 10Nova
We gonna kick your ass!
oooooooooooooooo
10NOVA!!!
Group members:Maggie,Yan Peng,Wei Xin,Shaun,Zhao Xuan,Nikhill(spelling?) and ME!=) Facilitators:Pei Fen,Wei Quan and Kok Peng
We played wacko after the introducing part and we combined teams with Super Kachang(if I'm not wrong,that's the name of the group)Had fun during the game even though Camillie kept calling my name and I had to be the wacker twice because of her!
Later on during the day there were 2 workshops.The first one was by Ms Chia and the second by Mr Halim.Ms Chia's workshop was about planning or organising(something like that...can't remember).The activity was for us to imagine that we were crossing a river filled with pirannas and we were to cross it with purchased items such as recycled paper, leaves and others.Well,we could have easily stopped imagining but a games a game.Luck wasn't on our group's side as we were the last group to be able to purchase anything or anything useful at all and guess what?!We got ourselves a chair for 7 to cross on the imagined river which is filled with pirannas.How can you cross a river with four-jointed-legs of a chair and a plastic which is bent for sitting???Answer is simple,we used left-overs of what other groups used to cross the river. We did two activities during Mr Halim's workshop,list down the qualities of a good public speaker and talk for 1 min in front of two groups.For the 1 min talk,it's more like 1 min crap,free-talking for everyone.The guys from another Group 5 kept talking nonsense and disgusting stuff like...let's not talk about it,don't want to have you guys turning green after reading the stuff that they said.See,I am kind to have censored the part away yet evil at the same time in every way=P After the extremely boring workshop,things sort of went a little more eventful and brighter.We had some games in which there were 5 stations in total and each station concerns differrent activities in which two groups have to participate in.Water bomb....plastic balls....11-steps...traffic jam....had FUN(at last)!
At night...haiz...had the most torturing PT in the entire history of my life!So sad,distroyed the skin on my palms and knees for the pumping position.I would rather do pumping than pumping position,at least i could cheat.Mr Halim and Mr Ng made us all wait for other groups to finish running 1 round around the field while we were still at pumping position!Whatsmore,I'm in Group 10!Talk about the skin peeling off you palms...Maggie nearly couldn't take it anymore and when it was our group who's running I thought she was about to faint.Those teachers are soooo cruel,hais...but served us right for not having a 'sense of urgency'.
Dinner was horrible as well.The rice tasted like incense paper burnt during the seventh month,with the 'black stuff' in between some rice grains.I had no choice but to swallow down the rice and mark my words,it's SWALLOW.That's right I didn't even taste or bite the rice.It's too disgusting!And do you know what I did?With every bite of the incense paper rice,I took another hugh swig of my soya bean drink and shook my mouth to sort of use the drink to 'break down' the hugh chunk of incense paper rice into smaller rice particles.By using this method,I'm able to create my very own soya bean porridge.At least my method isn't as gross as the rice=)
Later we had a game of buying disassembled skateboard parts and re-fixing them with the tools and parts that we managed to buy.Our group did that pretty fast as Nikhill is a skateboard-er,but our product wasn't very stable.They chose me to sit on the skateboard as I was the lightest and roll it to the finishing point at the dark carpark.Our group won first!Yay us!!! Queued for the toilet till 11 plus but Melissa managed to occupy the whole toilet and was the 2nd to finish bathing.Must have used her usual sly way to achieve that=P Slept at about 12 plus nearing 1.Slept in between Elaine and Melissa.Shared my sleeping bag with Melissa.See,I'm kind and evil again:) But I wasn't repayed for the good deed.Instead I was KICKED!,I repeat KICKED! in capital letters and an exclamation point,by Melissa through certain periods of my sleep(if you count waking up several times during your sleep because of some DISTURBANCES as sleeping that is)....
2nd Day...
Woke up at 4.30am by my watch.I barely had any sleep.Had difficulty waking Melissa and Elaine up(Elaine is the heaviest sleeper I've ever seen,didnt even budge after shaking her vigorously sevreal times).Decided to let her continue her sleep as Melissa and I tried with failed attempts in waking her up.Found that there wasn't any saliva stain near my mouth(disgusting me..lol...)Washed up and had difficulty from keeping the kinks away from my usual after-bed messy hair...Was too tired to even bother changing into more presentable clothes(it wasn't that bad was it?pajama-like clothes aren't that disgusting,RIGHT Melissa?)Went back to the classroom and found that most of the others have woken up and Elaine still hasn't.*Guess you must be really tired.*
The days' activity or should I say 'challenge' was the Amazing Race.For the race,all the groups were further broken up to 2 groups.I ended up in Group 20,a 2 guy,1 girl group consisting of Shaun,Zhao Xuan and me.Wei Quan(xiao bai!) was our group's facilitator.Didn't even have at least a female facilitator to accompany me but I came to realise that my group wasn't that bad.That was one of the things that I learnt after the race.The race was fun despite various set-backs throughout the entire race.We practically ran all around the whole of Sentosa island to complete the tasks.My poor feet......but enjoyed getting blisters on my feet....=) Our group cooperated pretty well with one another,not counting the fact that Zhao Xuan always asked Wei Quan for breaks and free sponsered drinks(big glup!!!).I felt lonely at times due to the fact that I was the only girl in the group but I was still entertained by the others of their exaggerated version of ghost stories.Although our group didn't win(we ended up as the last few groups that reached the finishing point),I still had fun.
Had a better dinner compared to the first day.
Later at night,we set up tents at East Coast Park.I was the last one to shower.There was only one(private)shower room and I was the last in queue(not exactly,actually one girl[can't remember who]who was last,cut-queued).Glad that some friends waited for me cause they were worried that something will happen to me since it was already so late and the place was so dark.(thank you ever so much!)
That day's reflection was fun and crappish!Xiao Bai asked us questions about what we learnt after the race.Zhao Xuan kept saying that he was dehydrating and needed more food-_-I was the only one saying sensible stuff but they ended up saying "Huh?Don't understand,can you explain?"
Slept in the tent and wasn't disturbed one bit by the noise the aeroplanes made.I was really beat....
3rd Day...
Woke up early to watch the early sun rise.Was disappointed due to bad weather conditions....=( Breakfast was.....disappointing.Had PT again,this time by the SLs.Played some games.Water games,sandcastle building,rolling down the slope into seaweed-filled water and others.I AM SUNBURNT!!!!ARGH!Lunch was nice,I think.Washed up after that.Since I had extra time,I washed my shoes and socks as well.Ewwwww,my socks were filled with grime,sand,seaweed and who knows what else.It was gross! Went back to school and Miss Lim distributed the Student Trainee shirts.Mine is huge even though it's XS.After the long de-briefing,we were 'released' from camp! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Class gathering was....ok I guess... Met Melissa and Ding Yang who were late!!!Told me to be early and ended up late....
Later met Chuan Kai,Garret and Min Hui at Tanah Mera MRT station(or near there).Melissa,Ding Yang and I ran out of the train once we reached the station but still turned out late(it was only 1 min...)Actually,it should be Garret who was the latest as he forgot his Ez-link card and caused us to miss a bus.
No ez-link card=no bus=LATE!=McDonald's meal for us!(yay free treat!)
Reached Savannah at 7++pm.Very dark at that time and the statues of animals in the condo grounds are creepy.Felt tired and restless at first from the camp but was revived when the barbequing started as I was dead hungry!Maggie=satay mei,Min Hui=otah mei,Tiffany and Corrina=butter and honey 'spreader',me='flipper'(I was the only one with the tongs) The crab sticks were niceeee!Yay us!Being one of the workers at the grill had its advantages.I could reserve the nicer ones for myself=P The chicken wings were so black due to my carelessness...so sorry...
The gathering ended at 11pm.We intended to walk to East Point to take buses or trains home.On the way,I figured out a way to walk home from Savannah(clever me=) Also found out that Hanafi was also walking the same route as me.
Reached home at 11+ to 12.Home Sweet Home!Snoozed off the moment my head touched my pillow...zzzzz
Signing off...till the next post!haha...happy waiting!
4:46 PM
