♥happy deepavali!
It's DEEPAVALI! But I don't care!
Woke up late, which also made us late for plans to suntan while fishing at Labrador's.Weijie made his way to my lift lobby to fetch me.We got to IMM's Giant to do some grocery shopping- ended up buying two halves of a two flavoured chicken = One whole chicken; and also a bottle of Maggi garlic chilli sauce, and 1.5litre of Pokka green tea (my favourite!)The cashier lady charged us the price of just one halve of our chicken, and we just shut up. Hahaha. Went over to Long John Silver for the main purpose of getting the knives and cheese.It started with a drizzle, then a downpour. We were still on the bus towards Harbour Front Interchange.We took a bus down to Labrador Park, and we thought we'd be lucky to avoid the rain. Nah- ah, we were wrong. It was drizzling by the time we arrived at the Jetty.I sat under the shelter to eat my cold chicken, and I swear the Maggi garlic sauce made the meat taste awful.
Weijie prepared the rod and the plastic bait, and I took out my french book to study! MY ASS. I had to write out 6-8 sentences about myself, so I had to use the book as reference.
Got my homework done, and joined Weijie to wait for a stupid fish to bite the hook.
I guess the fishes there at Labrador quite smart lah huh.
Before night fall, Weijie wanted to show off to me, and show me how to throw the fishing line far out into the sea.
Either he was blind or DEAF, he somehow just didn't want to listen to me telling him that there was another fishing rod in front. He just threw the damn line, without considering the fact that the line MIGHT entangle with the fishing line in front. Out he swung his fishing rod, and we tried to follow where the lines were heading. Oooh, the almost invisible line was moving upwards. When he tugged it, the fishing rod in front of us shook.
We did it several times before Weijie decided to break our fishing line and run away. As the guy came forward to reel in his fishing rod in thought that maybe there was a fish hooked, Weijie quickly packed up and asked me to quickly walk. Coward.
We took a bus back to Harbour Front Interchange and went window shopping at Vivo City. Surprisingly, we weren't at the least hungry.
There's a new Macaron and something Pattissieure, which looked awesomely tempting. Sheesh, we were just in time to resist.
Walked into CLUBMARC and got myself a pair of black shorts! Too bad for Weijie, because he saw and tried this pair of grey jeans, and intended to buy it already, until he saw a thread hanging loose from a leading hole.
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♥27th month!
Happy 27th Month FATS!
We still have a lifetime to lose all those saturated fatty acids in our body, and become slim yo.
Beginning of our meet up wasn't so good, because I was throwing a fit at him over very small things. SEE, I admit okay, I apologize to you in public. Hee hee.
What's that?
Our to-do list at Cathay.
We bought tickets at Cathay to watch Coffin, and then decided to take a walk around the vicinity while waiting. Then I remembered the Old School Qinjie was telling me about, so we climbed the extensive staircase which seemed so far-reaching. By the time we reached the top, I was panting like a bitch. Nahbeh, sibeh tiring lah. We walked around the compound, checked out the photo exhibition, snapped some cool pictures; but they didn't turn out very nice, I think. It was soon 5, so we went back to the Cathay theatre for the show. The show wasn't as scary as how it's title depicts, but there was a storyline at least.
Had dinner at Nihon Mura, and then walked over from Fullerton to Esplanade for Max Brenner Chocolate Bar's Chocolate! Wheee. A complete, hearty meal. Chilled out with Chua Weijie till late night, thanks for everything babe!
Fiest at Nihon Mura!
Failed attempt at jumpshot! But my dress look like marilyn monroe's style, and Weijie look like he's superman about to take off!
We should just be food photographers.
Sinfully chocolatey. Mmmmm...
Cinnamon Toffee with Dark Chocolate drink. Just "drink me"
Once again Chua Weijie, thanks for everything and I believe you loved spending your days with me this oh-so-cool girlfriend too. You suck and I don't love you, KIDDING! (inside joke) Except the 'you suck' part :P
It's seriously the ♥love.
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♥Dragonboating 08
DRAGONBOATING WAS DAMN SHIOK MAN!
I felt stronger, as if my right arm grew bigger. I applied numerous layers of Dark Tanning Lotion, and I am glad that I got slightly darker! I'm gonna buy that bottle in future.
I met up with Junxian and Justin at Kallang MRT control station, to wait for both BE division 1 and 2 to arrive, so we could bring them all over to the SDBA. By the way, I'm sorry guys for trying to bring 40 of you across the road, jay-walking. But we all did cross via green man traffic lights right? We totally had no idea where the place was, so I'm sorry again for leading the wrong way across roads and paths back and fro. Like Wayne mentioned, "Johnny Walker said, Keep walking". And at least everyone was still quite optimistic about it, and treated it like a warm-up exercise. After walking for long, we finally found the place. The whole main com was there already, along with Mr Wee and Mr Peh who were in support of our event. We quickly settled the people down, and got them changed into their respective division coloured shirts. Division 1 had Orange, and Division 2 had Blue. Main committee wore white.
Blue- Division 1
Orange- Division 2
White- Main committee
Everyone @ Kallang DB.
Coolio woman.
My Division One yo!
We started off with a briefing, then there we go onto the boat. Initially felt no kick, but later, we started to get tired. We had two mini races between Main com, Division 1 and 2. Main com had been proclaimed victorious for both races! Zai lah! Less than 2 hours on the boat, but it was a successful event! Thanks Benson for being in-charge of this event, I know he's bragging about it to everyone.
We, the Champion winners!
Had a quick shower, and then it was time for a main com outing, to celebrate Michelle's early birthday! Dinner at Old Airport Road was good and filling. It took us a really long time to decide where to go after that, we ended up at Suntec, but rotted at Kranji Memorial Park; sheesh, out of all places. It was the first time that Main Com almost had full strength, everyone was there except Felicia. Although so, it was damn boring. We ended up playing Truth or Dare, and Benson did the most funny dares neither of us could ever imagine. Run around the park screaming "I found a slipper I found a slipper!" Not forgetting that we weren't the only people there. Truth was boring, except for Weijian's one. HAHAHA. Reputation at stake huh.
Michelle's Salvatore Ferragamo perfume from all of us.
Cake smash!
Somehow couldn't wait to get out of there, and when we finally did, I thought I was going home. Instead, Michelle and I decided to hang around the remaining people, but then they were STILL walking around aimlessly, so we hopped on the bus home. We were super lucky to be able to board the last 185 home! Hahhaha. Had a hearty chat about personal matters and all with Michelle, and hope she likes her present although the day was quite dead!
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That mother chee bai James photographer. Have no freaking brain juice to even use common sense. Think we have pea-sized brains, don't know anything about photography sizings and all, nahbeh. COME ON LAH, we are not 5 year old kids lah. Call yourself professional, by seeing the photos you took and printed, every single person is cursing and swearing at you lah fucker. I think I can do better than you and this whole photo thing would have been settled long long ago. Still dare to lie about the price of printing the pictures. We even checked the exact location where you printed the pictures, and even confirmed with the person if the picture was printed from there. 4bucks for one picture when it's only $0.80, WHO YOU TRYING TO KID SIA?!
I still have to arrange everything for you, and right now, I must make things very OBVIOUS and SIMPLE for you to UNDERSTAND, by labelling every picture and telling you what to do with it. CHEE BAI LAH, PIEHOLE. Waste my fucking time only. I need to cool off and type a proper post. This is just temporary, but I will not remove the vulgarities.
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litteI'm meeting the photographer, the muther of all fookers today, the fact that 'today' is already Thursday. I'm damn sure I'll be winning the battle.
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I typed out a three page long list of things to shoot that fat photographer james, causing me to only have 3 hours of sleep. Sheesh. I was dozing off as per usual during lessons, and I left most of textbooks at home in exchange to bring my laptop out to use while negotiating with that bastard james.
During the last lesson, we all came out of class to wish my lao bu bu (JingYi) Happy Birthday, and cornered her at the blue dolphin tables, with the usual cake slice with a litted candle on top, birthday songs, and cameras on standby. But of course that was not the reason why we cornered her there. Alicia had prepared flour for some dirty fun. JingYi kind of anticipating something to happen already, but before she knew it, Alicia dumped the whole bag of flour onto Jingyi's head. It was hilarious! She really looked like an old grandmother! She started throwing flour at everyone, and tried to get Justin dirty. We took a group photo, and I stayed back to clear up with them. In the end, we started to play cake, and Justin was a poor thing. Awww, he had cake all over his shirt and face, and Alicia even dropped a glazed cherry down his shirt. He washed up and kept complaining about being very smelly and dirty, wanting to go back home instead of meeting up with the photographer and I. But no lah, he decided to accompany me, thanks GGG-Pa(great great grandpa)!
We sent Jingyi off in a cab, Justin and I still had to wait for another 2-3hours before meeting the stupid James photographer, so we decided to head down to Queensway to get him a clean change of clothes. We talked like damn alot of cock, and Justin super loves to gossip too! Hahaha.. Justin, only you know and I know. Halfway throughout the bus ride, Mr Peh called to tell me that James wasn't coming to meet us anymore. CCB lah, everything already confirmed a week ago, and now he says he cant make it, 2 hours before the supposed time. So last minute lah, and is like not like all of are so free to meet him anytime anywhere. Arse pitch. Justin and I were like soooooo pissed, but it was quite okay since we were out already, and we were going to eat curry chicken rice! At Queensway, Justin didn't want to buy a shirt anymore, so we walked around, talked some more cock, and ate our dinner there.
I still didn't want to go home yet, because it was still quite bright, so we walked over to Anchorpoint to check out the outlet stores. I wanna shopppppppp, saw so many things I wanna get already. I'm gonna drag one of my girlfriends or Weijie to do some hardcore shopping! We ate Mango Ice, and the mango was sour. It was getting late, so we wanted to go back already. Unfortunately, it was raining heavy cats and dogs, and no shelter to my bus stop. It was a good thing I brought my silver umbrella! Althought the umbrella is supposed to only be for a single person, we tried to squeeze and avoid getting severely drenched by the rain. We walked and talked, until the traffic light junction. I kept talking and then realised that I was getting drenched. Talking, I suddenly said, "Eh, Justin, what you doing? Shelter me leh." Then I looked up; NAH BEH, the umbrella had turned the opposite direction!
(incomplete post againnnn, sleepy)
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♥huishi and e-lis!
Went out with my Goh Huishi, and she still looks fabulous! Had a heart-to-heart talk with her while we walked, shopped, eat and cam-whored. We are like so so so so similar lah!
I spent an exorbitant amount on clothes and earrings at Bugis street, okay lah, below 100bucks. But it's still a heartache because I've not parted with so much money for a LONG time. We had finger-licking good Kentucky Fried Chicken, and I sure was satisfied despite all the oil spurting out. We decided to walk over to our usual hangout Suntec, and at the same time allow the fats to settle and deposit on our stomach walls, damn. We took pictures at the wrong places, and it was my first time in CHIJMES! A great chill-out place indeed, music, drinks and food tempting me. We had a mini cam-whore session, and then headed down to CityLink to try the Ice-cream at Marvelous Cream. Along the way we started to walk into shops, and we got so feverish over the pretty items in Accessorize! Marvelous Cream is like DAMN GOOD, the european cheese ice-cream with berries are fantastic! Go try it soon! We sat down at Esplanade till 10pm, then took Express bus 502 back, and continued to chat although we were already so tired.
I miss the times when we were like nut cases going crazy at almost everything. Sheesh, the good ol' days. Promise we'll meet on a more regular basis, and ALSO, the outings we were compromising on :D
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♥digital nail art
Huiqi and I met up with Amanda and Qinjie, in Eddie's car, to go to Amy tai tai's house to try out the nail art machine. I find it really cool that Amanda and Qinjie's entrepreneuring business is going to turn into a real business! Funding from the school has been approved, and now that they are progressing into designing namecards, designing a new package for everything, buying the machines, finding investors etc.We sort of lost our way, that Qinjie had to use his GPRS for the right directions. When we finally got there, we went up to get our hands on the machine. Digital nail art is like so totally neat! Did 5 fingernails on my left, and it looked like pasted stickers over my nails! By the time we were done, it was already 8.
Everyone went seperate ways, and even threesome got seperated. That fat bitch lah, need to go home for dinner. HAHAHA. Don't kill me Amanda, you mentioned it yourself. Huiqi and I went to Ang Mo Kio hub to buy our PIE KIA, at like only 1buck each, CHEAP SIA. I bought some fried cheese which tasted awful, and we wanted to buy our A1 Curry Chicken Puff but it was already "out of stock", so we got ourselves A1 Durian puffs. Still shiok lah. Got home and Daddy cut more fruits just for me! I feel loved!
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♥5hourbreak
WHAT THE F***!
Had a five hour break today, and I think it was well spent. We headed to the Multi-purpose Hall to play badminton and I think the architecture of the ceiling is distractingly awful. It's so difficult to spot the shuttlecock coming in any way because the cock just blends in so well with its surroundings.The few of us moved over to the gym for the 15minute orientation, Amanda and myself continued to stay on to work out. Felt gooooood. A full 20minute jog non-stop and 15minute walk. Not bad okay! Lost some calories, which equals another step toward slim-line-body-fit. Hahaha. I mean taking into account that my diet is atrociously frightening, at least I lose some fats instead of accumulating in my body, right? And the coolest part is that, the equipment all got television channel leh! SIBEH SHIOK LAH! I'm going back to the gym on a more consistent basis in future I hope.
Grabbed a bite during lesson, curry flavoured bun and Lo Mai Kai (glutinuous rice with chicken). Landscape Management class was pointless and useless to a large extent, and it was just copying of notes. Good thing for me, Fiona has everything copied out for me already! Thanks Fiona for the handwritten notes. Super neat and tidy lah, easy to read. I broke my personal record on sleeping in class. ONE HOUR STRAIGHT! When I woke up, I realised it was way past our break and it was already the last half an hour of class.
Had main committee meeting at the club house, and it was the usual banter noise we'd hear each time we meet. We dined at Bukit Timah Food Centre, and the Gong Gong damn shiok man!
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♥J'mapelle Eloise!
Bonjour! Je suis French!
I'm in L♥VE with French!
It's like the first time I ever listened attentively in class! Seriously no joke! I feel like I have a sense of achievement, and I can't wait to master the art of speaking French! Although I heard it's tough to get a good grade, but hey, I'm doing something I'm actually interested in!
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First day of school, one word to describe it,
HUMDRUM. It's just the monday blues. 6 weeks of holidays just flew past so quickly just like that.
I went to eat
Island Creamery with Eames, Jon Yeo, Huiqi, Amanda, Huadong, and Fiona. Ice-cream was still as delicious as ever, satisfying every part of our tastebuds, except for the slight bitterness coming from the burnt caramel that day.
All of us except Amanda headed down to
Kallang, for our Standard Chartered interview for leadership position. Too bad for our dear Huiqi and Huadong, their last minute registration wasn't approved, and they made a wasted trip down. I was initially very apprehensive about going into the interviewing room, but I mustered courage and went ahead. And hey, it wasn't as fearful as I thought it would be! I was pretty confident, but I know I wouldn't get chosen because of the things I said, because what mattered was the four of us getting into the same group. And also I wouldn't be able to make it for most of the briefings :D Later on, Huiqi and Huadong went home, and it was left with the four of us. We ate at
Nihon Mura in Leisure Park Mall, and I finally got to eat the Octopus thing, we ordered two plates of 6 sticks some more! Shiok but a little too salty.
On our way back, I was
teaching them THE Italian phrase I learnt from Josh, and it's hilariously funny when they got so piqued and hysterical over it. This is how Eames interpreted from what I said. "an to leo, ben zea da meh dea, vongolo, atoo grabria" HAHAHAHA. Joker man. It looks really gibberish, but it's really cool when you can speak Italian (vulgarity)!
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Simple pleasures in life, is just around you.I went out for dinner with Daddy at our house downstairs. The portion given to us for a 12dollar stingray was smallish for three people. The food wasn't enough, I managed to feed my hunger pangs, but my stomach wasn't full. Daddy said, "Not enough food, I will go and order some more." I took some time to ponder, and wondered what if one day Daddy gets retrenched during a recession or when he retires, would he still be able to say that again? He's the only one providing for the family right now, and in years to come when he retires, my brother and I will still be studying. Sis is leading her own life over at Sweden. Sheesh. I really wonder how man. When will be the day I would wake up from my materialistic and "perfect" world?
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♥OBS 5-Day Cutter Sailing Programme
Top: Samuel, Yixuan, E-lis, Raziff, Elisa, Izzam, Weiyang, Renchou (blocked), Asyraff
Bottom: Pecksi, Priscilla, Cheryl, Alvin, Teckcheong, Kenneth
Third time at OBS Yo! And this time, the special highlight was SAILING, like so totally cool right?This is how our sail looks like at sea.
Took this picture off the Internet.
FIRST DAY
Met up with everyone in school with Boyfriend sending me to school, thanks love! Xiangyun stole the fork and spoon from Canteen 1, and it was my idea. Hahaha. Boarded the bus, and had a hearty talk with the usuals, BUT, I was damn sad after the grouping was announced. I was seperated from ALL my friends; Lao Gary, Amanda, Xiangyun, Huadong. Shihao was sick and wasn't coming, and he was supposed to be in my group! Oh well, it was time for me to make some new friends!
Watch ELIZABETH, that's my group.
Met our new instructor Samuel, and he is extremely amusing. He appears to us as a host or a DJ, and he has a thing for Happy Tree Friends. He should enter the media industry as the next Gurmit Singh man, and he has like a damn nice body. I may sound perverted, but hey, damn tanned and toned lah, motivate me to exercise and suntan more.
I was initially telling Amanda and friends about this instructor named LJ, in my first OBS, and speaking of the devil, LanJiao was watch NEHRU's instructor! Hahahhaha.
Had a round of introduction, and had lunch at the canteen. Food was much much better than the last time I was at OBS. I guess they must have changed vendor lah. We checked into our Bunks, and I chose a middle bed. We had our first activity, being the Height Elements. The 3-D logs, it was definitely challenging. I was paired up with Araziff and I really want to thank him for lifting me up that obstacle man. I so damn heavy, he damn strong lah! We completed it and we are definitely proud of it because only a few pairs managed to get to the top! Our obstacle course was so high up, that the distance between the first to the second log was about our height, and the distance increases as we go up higher. We tried the other high element which was way easier than the logs man. Araziff and I had no problem with it, and got up there really fast :D We stayed there at the Multi-Purpose Hall (MPH, denoted as Mad People's Hall by Samuel) for a pretty long time, and it was soon dinner time already. After dinner was preparation for sailing the next day. All the stores and food rations, plus our personal belongings.
SECOND DAY
It's D-Day and I was sure ecstatic about being able to sail!
We had the usual morning circles, flag-raising, breakfast, lunch, and there was an inside joke about black dog, the chef, and the dog meat. At lunch, Cheryl stole fork and spoon from our locker in the canteen.
We took a watch picture in front our boat Semangat, which meant "spirit". Just getting up onto the boat gave me a sense of satisfaction. We had a trial using the stuff on the boat and getting things set up. It's incredibly difficult to understand and digest all that we were told. It was all bright and sunny, but it started to get very cloudy and windy. Elisa was having a hard time with the mainsail (the big sail set on the mainmast), so I helped her out by aiding her to pull in rope whenever needed. The winds were so puissant, the sails catching the wind were extensive, causing the boat to fall on one side. All of us tried to put our weight on the other side to balance out the boat, moving to Port or Starboard. It was somewhat frightening that it seemed like we were going to capsize anytime. We tried rowing the heavyweight oars, and I got quite annoyed when someone wasn't really helping rotate the oars 90degrees to the sea surface level whenever it went out of position, or pull with me. Instead she was just putting her hands on the oars, and this I know, I wasn't the only one complaining about her rowing. It's okay, I've already condoned to her effortless act. I was being put in-charge of letting go of the anchor in an anchorage, safe for the boat to anchor. Si Beh heavy lah! Araziff and I rowed the baby Avon to and fro getting people and items onto land. A few of us rowed back to the boat to put the lightsticks on the boat for easy monitoring at night.
We camped out at Kekek Island, and had the privilege to jump into the quarry to get ourselves cleaned, since we had no chance to bathe. It felt so much better after getting rid of the sand in my water shoes, and washing the seawater off our skin in the rainwater pool. Our toilet were just rocks and trees further down a man-made soil path. I already peed in the sea, so I just accompanied the other girls. We cooked dinner using mass tins and pots, and food was surprisingly filling despite the diminutive amount. I got to know more about the girls in the tent, labelled Cheryl "Bimbo" because of her actions and the way she talked as if she had no brains. We chatted into the night till Elisa and I had to Patrol Duty with Amanda and Xiangyun from the other watch. Talked about our instructors, specifically directed at LJ. Hahaha. Colonies of ants came swarming in at our cooking area, and it was biting us to the max. Went back into the tent to sleep, and it sure was squeezy with 6 girls in the tent.
THIRD DAY
We woke up early in the morning before daybreak, girls made Milo for everyone, whereas the guys packed the tents for us. Pee-d behind the fly tent sheet held up and changed out into our wet long-sleeves. We got onto the sailboat once again, and prepared to sail to our next destination. This time, we were slightly clearer about the sailing terms, and also on our roles on the boat. I aweighed the anchor, and took over Elisa's charge of the mainsail. Was still trying to grasp the concept on when to pay out the mains or pull in. Amanda was telling me that LJ was screaming "Ease Sheets" during the storm, which sounded to them like "Eat Shit Eat Shit!" Hilarious man, the way she told me. I thought I had already mastered it on controlling the wind capture using the mainsail. We had a great workout once again on the oars. There was minimal wind in the sunny early afternoon once we set out and got going. However, as we were halfway into our journey to our next destination, there was a storm cooking up in three different locations, leading us to having numerous gusts of wind. Totally awesome, we were soon Gone with the Wind! It rained chimpanzees and gorillas, so freezing cold that we had to put on our Ponchos and huddled together with Asyraff and Cheryl. Cheryl was captain for the day and she finally proved herself not Bimbo. Hahahaha. Poor us, the only three behind.
After this sailing journey, I realised that there are just some people that really annoys me to the max, because they just literally sit, stop and stare. Just getting a few bites, already all complainy and whiney. Nahbeh, friends is friends lah, but move your freaking lazy hands and legs to help out man. Call yourself a leader, after hearing you share with us that you're some vice-chairman back in secondary school. I also vice-chairman in secondary school, but I'm better off than you, at least help out whenever needed. When I ask for help to find things in urgency, you just sit there and look. WHAT THE FUCK. Nevermind, I condone to your unhelpfulness again.
We arrived at Sembawang park, and did our cooking there. We had lots of beans to eat man. After that, we had to go back onto the sailboat, because we were going to sleep there for the night! I was getting really irritated because there were so many sandflies sucking my blood, I couldn't find my wet ziplock bag with my adidas shorts inside, I was starting to feel constipated, and because of that I got so heated up whenever people didn't want to try and help. I didn't get to change on land, and so did I not intend to change out of my wet clothes once on the boat. But I did in the end of course. We were passing Prickly Heat powder around and it was super shiok lah, especially on the inner thighs. I was so in love with the powder that I kept re-applying. We slept on the boat with the fly sheet over us. After a round of sharing, we had intellectual games like black magic and maa maa, and a game of 5-45 with the 8 of us, to try and finish the Milo Samuel made for us at night. We slept in and I was in a very awkward and uncomfortable position. It was chilly, and I woke up with backaches and stiff necks.
FOURTH DAY
Sleeping under the skies above the waters, was definitely an amazing experience despite the shivery moments in the morning. Once again, I was the anchor woman but also teaching people the right way to take it out. I learnt how to tie the knots and set up the Mizzen, and also took charge of the mainsail once again. And this time I got confused on what to do with the mainsail because it seemed like everything I did was the opposite! Teck Cheong was the Captain for the day, and I sure felt the stress and pressure he was under by Samuel. Samuel is frightening when he's serious, and he was scolding him all the way. Samuel scolded him so much that he didn't really know what to actually do. "Captain! Where are you going? Bear bear bear, remain course! Move towards the wind! You are moving into Iron! Poor fella, I certainly did not have the guts to be Captain, Imma coward. We were instructed to find another role to take up, so I took a break as Elisa was brave enough to take over as captain. Cheryl took over me, and I went to help out with the Stays whenever a Tack was instructed. "Prepare to Tack, Tack NOW!" Everyone was so afraid that it wouldn't be successful, to avoid getting screamed at by Instructor Samuel. Sheesh. I started to get sleepy, and once we got into a small storm again, I took over Cheryl again because she had a hard time pulling the rope. After the storm, we switched roles again, and I tried being the Dipper, which seemed easy just required to pull across on the other side during a Tack. Waliao, Si Beh difficult lah, even me being so weighty, the guys had to help me get it across. I can totally understand how Izzam went through getting the mainsail to either the starboard or port side. Didn't get a chance to do the Jib Sail though. According the Samuel, we are very very lucky because we had great winds on all three days, whereas not alot of groups stands a chance to sail as much as we did.
We arrived back at camp, and we quickly unloaded everything onto the speedboat. We washed whatever we could possibly clean like the water bottles and life vests, and also helped out in tying up the ropes, and washing the sails. Friends found my shorts which left me much more relieved, and I was finally liberated from my distress, bombing the civilization's toilets, and also getting all the dirt and salt off my body. I smelt way gooood after my bath. We had dinner, and thank goodness the dog was still alive, and the chef still hadn't slaughtered it for dog meat. It actually came to find us at our Bunks! We started feeding it with biscuits and all. Dinner time and there wasn't dog meat, but the chicken tasted best out of the three days. Samuel and LJ told us a story, and they tied our hands to whoever was beside us. So hilarious, instead of teamwork on feeding each other or something, we were playing pranks on one another. I kept disturbing Weiyang by pulling the strings when he was just about to put the spoon into his mouth. In the end I got my desserts by Cheryl and Weiyang by getting my pants dirty with the food.
After dinner, we had a night walk into the forest, and were brought to this place with tunnels with dead ends. Cheryl was leading the way, and we had no idea where we were going. Thank goodness we went in as a group, if we were to find our way alone in the dark I'd be really scared. We had a sharing session again, and I was so disappointed in myself. Samuel asked us to talk about who is the leader you want to be. I hesitated, and just kept quiet. I just didn't know what to say, I don't feel as superior I once felt in the past, and don't know who is that leader I want to be. Instead I said "I want to have followers" but that was not what I really meant. I want people to look up to me as a great leader who is inspiring but at the same time, is still learning in the process. Gosh. I need to find my purpose back in life, I need to self-reflect. Although exhausted, Cheryl, Peck Si and I chatted into the night until 2am, whilst all the rest were already deep in their sleep.
FIFTH DAY
Supposed reporting time was 5.55am but all of us woke up at 5.45am! "Malaysia" (inside joke) was the only one who had a watch and never failed to wake us up at 5am, but he poor thing, we always don't wake up on time! We got ready by 6.30am and walked over with Nehru. We did some last minute packing, and then after breakfast, we had another high element courage jump, whereby we would have to climb up onto a platform, say what we would want to achieve after the course, and then jump to grab a handle at least 1m away, at eye level. It seemed scary, but all of us made it through! Teck Cheong was the first to go and seemed so scared, that dog. HAHAHAHA. He's so cute lah, those gullible mummy's boy, lauging and smiling at EVERYTHING. As the rest went back to clearthe stores, Weiyang, Teck Cheong and I went to keep the mainsails for Elizabeth and Nehru. Heavy siah. We had lunch, souvenir shopping and settling of administration stuff, then it was the already the end of our course.
Honestly speaking, out of the three OBSs I had been to, this is the not-so-fun one. I still prefer the CCA leaders Pinnacle OBS, that one ultra fun to the max with freaking mad people. I was also a totally different person myself, a much confident one. However, every OBS course with different people has their own highlights.
Time had passed so quickly, and the three day two night Sailing expedition was a whole new experience. Although there were people in the group who were not very co-operative, but I believe every single one was very participative. There were so many inside jokes like Bimbo Cheryl, all the "No lahs", Malaysia boleh, dog meat etc. It was fun being with the group, especially when we get very bonded out of the blues. Crazy and spastic bunch. So hereby I say, Thank you Elizabeth. :D
I'm
talking champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
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Went to AMK Hub with the expanded family to submit our registration for the Big Walk 2008. So cool, can't wait to go and lose some wobbly fats via long distance walking with the other fatty friends of mine. We watched a few people eat at the Food Court, whilst the rest of us had drinks. After food, we all went to the arcade to play! Shared the Tapz card with Jon, and we had numerous rounds of basketball shoot-outs and Daytona. Amazingly, I always got 1st or 2nd for Daytona when we all link play!
Later on, we all gathered around the capsule station just outside the cinema. Started slotting coins into the MarioKart machine, an NDS game loved by all of us in Semester 2. Sheesh, excitement comes in when we try to open the capsule to see what we get. I had a go three times, and I got the Banana Slip, the Ink Squid, Thunderstorm, and the Golden Mushroom (looked ugly orange) Eames gave me. The guys were so irritating, they actually stuck the donation stickers on my back, and it was on my back for quite long without anyone telling me about it, even all the ladies. Evil pigs. It's ok, since I'm so forgiving, I shall let them off this once. Hahaa.
Poor me. Kept in the dark.
Had Durian pancakes together with Auntie Huiting and Lao Bubu Jingyi, and it tasted good alright! Life is good. Went home with Huiting and Huadong as the rest stayed for dinner to meet the others.
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talking champagne wishes and caviar dreams.