Guy waiting for Lift - "Is this Lift going down?" Me - [Blinks] "Well...We -are- on the top floor..." Well, it's 12.24 PM here in Perth, and in Singapore too come to think of it, since there's no time difference.
Although I remember there being a time difference of 1 hour or something. Oh well, whatever
Ok, it's 12.25 PM here in Perth, and I'm damn bored. And there's no Internet Connection. Yet. Well, at least not on my laptop. And silly me forgot to get Cassandra's account password, so I can't use the desktop, which has an Internet Connnection.
Note: i am using it now, but still copying my original post from my laptop.
If anyone wonders, I'm typing this out on OpenOffice Writer, the (lazy) person's guide to Microsoft Word. But I still find OpenOffice better.
And hell no, I am not blogging about LTC. I didn't want to, but kinda forced myself because I kinda felt it was the -right- thing to do.
I will, however, blog about PLC. Why? Because PLC>LTC!
First thing of the day saw us getting split up into our MegaGroups and just plain Groups. My MegaGroup, which is MegaGroup 2 consisted of:
Group 2A: Me Weng Keong Ze Wei Zhong Yi
Gruop 2B Joshua Jonathan Musine Alphonsus
First was...
A trip to East Coast Park where we drew/painted/mutilated our Megagruop logo/identity. Our group name ended up being Anthrax, after a fierce competition between Anthrax, WTF and Weng Keong's Shabalabadingdong
Then we had our Amazing Race entitled "Ring around the Garden." Should be pretty easy to figure out why.
Oh no, wait, before the Race, we had this game thingy. Basically, everyone in the MegAGroup lines up in a row facing one direction. Then a senior tells the front guy a phrase or something. Then the guy must use actions ala Chaerades to tell the next person. That person must then pass the message on until the last guy gets the "message" and hopefully translates it correctly.
Which, "funnily" enough never happened. in my group, "You Never Stand Alone" ( Peer Support Board's Motto) became "Shirtless" which then became "I'm Not Hot." Probably because the action involved pointing to yourself, then tugging at your shirt and waving to signify "No."
So anyway, had the Amazing Race. Ren An and Nicolas Yee following our group. Lost my Vivo City and Carls' Junior virginity. Carls' Junior rocks. The burgers rock, the honey mustard rocks. Only the Onion Rings weren't -that- fantastic, and they were still pretty damn good. Screwed up Nicolas Yee's order though, got him a Mushroom Burger something isntead of his Pastrami Burger. Stupid me.
Were the last group to reach back in school ( to the sarcastic applause of the other groups). Bathed, had a senior sharing session. That means the senior shared with us their experiences. And not that we shared the seniors as in "Oh I'll take half of Qamarul and you take the other half."
Then we probably did soemthing, but memory eludes me, so I shall take it as we stopped there.
OH NO WAIT I REMEMBER LALALALALA! CO camp was on the same day, so they were watching the movie "The Ring" in the hall. Hung out with the CO "mates" (Remember, I am in Perth ) for a while. Pummelled Max, then went to torture Yang En by means of tickling for screaming a twisted version of my name in front of all the CO juniors, senior and PSL people. Wanted to watch at first, then I remembered how stupid the storyline was, what with Sadako crawling out the TV wailing like a disembowled banshee and everything. So I ended up doing a devotion prayer with Weng Keong instead. Took about 1 hour ++ to do the devotion, but it was time very well-spent.
[Note, originally stopped here with the promise to update on Monday. One day late, but meh...Still, I regard it as a new post, and it will therefore have a quote]
Cassandra - "But...Rain is..." Me -"OH OH!" [Smirks] "Good evening, welcome to the 25 hour news. Today, Korean popstar Rain was on a mountain climbing expedition when disaster struck. According to reports, a flock of birds first attacked Rain, before a plane crashed into the very mountain Rain was on. Rescue parties have found no sign of Rain. One witness summed it up : "The Rain in Spain was hit mainly by the plane."
Ok, second day...
[Goes to Jonathan Tan's blog to help jog memory.]
Oh yeah.
Nanyang Girls came over for a sharing session. It was disappointing though, could see they were quite unprepared. Weng Keong and I ended up doodling on our PLC file ( You should see it, it's a mess. I"ll scan a page of it when I get home, maybe ). At first, Ren An, Nicolas and Marcus tried to stop us. Then they finally relented. I suppose they were bored themselves. The Nanyang Girls let us watch Goal. You know, the movie starring David Beckham.
Crappy movie. And bad special effects. Not to mention the plot was quite weak. I believe Goal's main attraction is just the soccer playing, and the many good-looking people inside.
Had a counsellor's session next. No, not just me, all of us. No, we're not mad. Not all of us. Especially not me. Nuh-uh, I'm 101.3024929384y2xxxHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE% sane. The counsellor, Ms Tasmine gave us a brief introduction to Peer Counselling.
Went for Bukit Timah walk later. Weng Keong, Nicolas and I were intially very sian about the whole walk up Bukit Timah thing. I mean, it -is- Bukit Timah.
First task was to walk up to the summit of Bukit Timah. We chose Medium difficulty, so we were given...14 minutes. And that damn Joshua was like "Linus is going to give up halfway."
I was leading with Jonathan ( Wong ), then fell back to help Alphonsus and Ze Wei ( helping Alphonsus carry his bag ) then still overtook Joshua to reach the summit. Take that, mr I-Think-I'm-Damn-Good-But-Actually-Immabitch.
Rest of the tasks were quite easy. Had to avoid some obstacle thingies ( aka our BAGS ) at the summit...Had to carry Musine on this canvas thing over a rope course and a bridge, and the SpiderWeb thing made RETARDED. Beautiful scenery at the SpiderWeb one though.
Reached back school thoroughly exhausted. Bathed, had some sharing thing, then promptly fell asleep.
Wednesday
RGS girls came down for a sharing session. MUCH better, much more prepared. And towards the end, when my attention was drifting, they played Nicolas' PSConvention Dancing video. *Snicker*
Had "Who Killed Roger Rabbit", which is basically a much longer version of Cluedo. Not to mention the evil seniors kept RUNNING away. Out of 12 seniors, I had to chase about 8 of them. And that darn Neng Wei was on a BICYCLE. Had to chase another senior, forgot who, but I think it was Yun Jun or Zhao Peng for a DAMN long time.
Were suppose to have some "wet" activities ( mind out of gutter, NOW! ) but due to rain, the wet activities were cancelled. Which is a bit...never mind. Ended up playing the "Aminal Game" ( Yes, I did spell it as Aminal on purpose ), then some "Boop" game invented by Jarren, then the Number Game. Got a cramp during the Boop thing, which led to me being booted out.
Number Game was hilarious. Guessed the number correctly about...4 times. Can't remember the 1st forfeit, but I remember having to catwalk then do 5 kawaii-nehh poses, doing a talkshow as Nicole Richie with Weng Keong as Paris Hilton ( But that was Weng Keong's forfeit ) and dancing them singing Madanna's "Hung Up." Scary shit.
BBQ after that. What ticked me off were the students who were playing soccer. We were cooking the food and everything, then they just came and took it all without asking for permission or anything. Wanted to scold them ( which I did, but only scolded Jeremy ) but since it was suppose to be a happy occasion and other crap, I decided to let it slide
And I must thank Nicolas Yee ( if he ever reads this blog ) for helping me and Weng Keong roast our marshmallows to slightly-burnt perfection.
Watched The Heirloom after that as our Nightwalk movie. The plot was seriously damn good, but it wasn't scary or anything. I have no idea why Matthias and some other senior took of their shirts and used them as a "shield" to shield their eyes from the movie. Couldn't you, just, you know, CLOSE THEM.
Nightwalk after that. Had a senior ( who walked around shirtless for the entire time which is totally -not- cool ) tell us all the creepy crap about VS, both in Siglap and the previous site. Most of the stories sounded so fake, only one ( about the foetus thing, but that could have been because the movie we had just watched was one about Demon Babies yadda yadda yadda ). Most ridiculous was the one about the Sec 3 boy who did the Nightwalk last in the Sec 3 camp, came back all terrified and crap, and Mr Maran called a bomoh. The moment I heard that, I rolled my eyes and tried to go to sleep straightaway.
And there was this "Don't look into the banana trees at night. If you smell anything funny, just try to ignore it."
I was like "Senior...I have a blocked nose, and what does a banana tree look like?"
Had a short delay, apparently "something" removed all the lightsticks from the spiral staircase ( part of the nightwalk route ).
Nightwalk itself was really ...I dunno. I had to have Jonathan go ahead to tell all the seniors not to scare me...I kinda just freaked out..Felt like shit after the entire thing. If I ever have another nightwalk, screw the whole "semi-shock" thing.
Sandpit station was quite...cute. First, Qamarul waved to me...Then in the pit inside, I knocked over a plastic hand. Only I didn't know it was a plastic hand cuz it was all dark and stuff. So I grabbed it and said "sorry" cuz I thought it was a senior's hand or something. Then it was so cold, so I realized it wasn't. Then for some reason, I said "Sorry." And a senior suddenly said "What the hell are you doing?"
Field station was creepy. Not too much detail, but I felt...very...creeped out. And I could have sworn I heard laughter. Very spooky shit.
Last station, the PSB room was -the- best. Stood in the doorway for a while, asking the unseen people in the room "Did Jonathan come by here." Must have looked like an idiot, but got a response from senior Ching Boon ( at least I think it's him.) "Yeah."
Went inside, accidentally kicked Syamil who was under the table, grabbed the item I was suppose to get and saw Mr Cheo's lovely message on the mahjong paper. Went out, then realized I had forgotten to sign the paper ( in fact, I only signed that station and the station before, forgot about the rest ). Went back in, and knocked over the dustbin. Ching Boon and Syamil were like "Orh hor...." I literally said "diao"
Up in the hall 5 minutes later, talked with the rest who had finished, then went to sleep.
Woke up at 5+ the next morning to go see the sun rise at East Coast Park. Then after that, cleaned up. Broke camp and went back home.
See, I said I'd get the post done, and I did.
And if I ever have the mood to blog about my most traumatizing experience, I'll go finish my LTC post. Don't count on it.
Lino squeezed Panda at 5:13 PM
Friday, November 17, 2006
Me - "Ohmygosh, I wanna be Cross-Eyed too lah, so cool! Ohmygosh!" Alphonsus - [O.o] Yang En - "Mad." Me - [Cackles]
I'm back from LTC, which is a common misconception that LTC is fun.
In which case, you are right.
Well half-right.
It's half fun, half a bitch.
My Squad: Danial Me Shervin Nicholas Cheng Zhi Yuan Justin Ho Walter Nawawi Wei Jing
First day did not get off to a good start. The instructors were pretty damn fierce, especially Sir Choon Meng who has uber-creepy LARGE eyes, like a frog, only scarier. Much scarier. *Shiver*
Arrived at an incredibly ulu place and found out it was Mawai. And damn, I tell you, when I saw how...natural that place looked, I was like "Oh...Crap."
Almost the entire place was made out of wood, the dining area, longhouse/briefing area, the bunk areas. And it looked ready to collapse. Which ironically, it did, but let's not jump da gun. Guns are bad to jump over. They tend to fire and you suddenly start speaking in a voice 2 octaves higher. Or if you're female, you just feel like your ass is on fire.
Developed a really nasty rash, or allergy, I'm still not sure, but it went down as we did the Water Obstacle Courses. My Mini-Group consisted of me, Justin Ho, Danial, Yang En and Wilnard. Danial and I ( as well as Nawawi ) were put in charge of carrying the eggs which we're obviously not suppose to break.
Water Obstacles were pretty easy, except for the beam balance. That one everybody fell off.
My egg slipped out of my (apparently) unzipped pocket and drowned. Danial's egg was smashed. Nawawi's egg...died.
Then we played Volleyball in this ...padi-field-esque thing. Which is just an euphenism for Pile-Of-Shit. At least, that's what it feels like when you walk in it, I kid you not.
After that was the Squad Challenge for Water Obstacles. Squad 5 went first, and they were hilarious. Weng Keong kept falling down, but he's such a good sport and everything, so yeah, bless him. Syukuri got halfway through the course ( and partially emasculated ) before he tumbled off too.
All in all, Squad 5 took 20 minutes.
Then it was our squad's turn.
Since we were smart / humji , we decided to cross the first section ( at least ) by sliding our butts across the pole. Turns out it's a lot harder than it looks, so I can see why Weng Keong was having such a hard time. Danial said it was easy, but Danial's all uber-creepy so I would take his words with a handful of salt. He fell in some...halfway through the thing, so I ended up being the first in line, with Nawawi behind me.
Zhi Yuan, Justin Ho and Walter all apparently fell off at some point during the course. Truth be told, I was more concerned with helping Nawawi across the toughest section than watching them fall. Finished up with a VS Power cheer with a timing of 15 minutes.
Had dinner at the dinner hall, which I simply must rant about.
The bloody thing was damn shaky lah. And there were a ridiculous amount of flies.
Sang along to one of the Sirs' guitars, after which we went to sleep.
Speaking of sleeping, CO Open House tomorrow at 8.
And I need to sleep. I'll finish this post up tomorrow or something. Hopefully.
Lino squeezed Panda at 10:36 PM
Monday, November 13, 2006
Me - "Jumping." Mr Siow - "Jump on." Me - [ Steps forward, slips and falls off Challenge Pole] "Warghaiya!" Everyone - -.-"
I'm back from LTC. Rejoice.
Yeah.
First day of LTC was pretty tough. Got sorted into group Martelo, along with Dexter, Pei Xiang, Danial and Hin Kai. Had to carry all the bags, plus the logs and other shizzy-wizzy down to the big field at East Coast Park. Thankfully, I am quite as weak as a kitten strong so I managed to drag the bags all the way there.
Then hell started.
Our group did the Water Expedition first, which basically involved a Water Confidence Course, then...sailing in some crap-ass raft/float thingy to the meeting point. David sucks as a rudderman ( if there is such a way ) so we veered way off course.
And as I would come to find out, David sucks, period. Even my brother is more mature than him. I'm not kidding. David's such a big guy, but his SHEER immaturity is sickening. It seems impossible to be -that- immature.
Then again, he hangs out with Matthew and Justin. Which speaks for itself.
Oh yeah, one more unhappy thing.
I'm taking Core Literature aka I got my subject combination. But, Maxi chee bong is in my class. I kid you not, when I saw the subject combination list, searched for my subject combination (2G) and saw Maximilian Wong next to one of them, I was seriously screaming the F-word in my mind. And it wasn't free.
Ok anyways, back to the camp ma-bob.
After struggling to bitch-slap some sense into StupiDavid, we finally got to shore, beached, then had to complete a challenge to rescue our "desperately drowning Red Shirt" who was Brian Lim. Or Bryan Lim. Whichever. Surprisingly, we came in first, because we had all along been soundly beaten by far by Thomas Beckwith's ( Sec 3 Red Shirt ) team.
Land Expedition was Hell. 23 people struggling to carry the over-packed, over-laden bags of 42 people is no joke. Carried 4 bags, and stumbled along with Hin Kai. Halfway through the journey, we had to go back to help the sedan-carriers, and a very grumpy and pissed off Miss Sheikha.
Then it rained.
Bloody hell.
In the end, Danial, Dexter, Mervin and I grabbed our bags and just stormed to the campsite. The entire journey took us about 6 hours, and we were late by about 2 hours.
The bunks were surprisingly nice. Got a corner sleeping spot, although there were quite a few ants, but gotta take the good with the bad. Unfortunately, Mervin had to join group Armada along with Jin Meng, so he didn't come along with us. Poor him. At least he had Li Zhi, Fadhil and Nawawi for entertainment.
Lunch was very nice, very very nice. Or I could have just been damn hungry. Considering my usually-high standards, I would go with the latter.
Rock-climbed and Belayed after that. Not exactly bad at Rock-Climbing, at least I REACHED THE TOP coughcoughMERVINcoughcough. My Belaying almost killed Danial though. No no, do not despair, there will be other chances to rid the world of him oops I mean, damn, I'm sorry.
Btw, I'm using Danial's blog as a memory guide to jog my memory since I"m listening to music, talking to Sophie Chew and Vincent Ooi on MSN, all at the same time
WAR GAMES after dinner rocked. Rocked. ROCKED.
Played 2 rounds of Gauntlet, my team compromising of Danial, Dexter, David, Pei Xiang, Andrew and others whom I cannot remember now. Won both games, forcing the other team to retreat and hide since everytime some of them ran out, we'd just shoot the living crap out of them with our uber-cool laser guns o' doom.
Unfortunately, even if they hid, Danial and I found a way to snipe at them anyway. Yeah.
When it was our turn, we had a much more effective strategy. As we had to find 10 numbers amongst at least 25~30 numbers strewn upside on the floor, Danial, Pei Xiang and I all ran out to grab as many numbers as we could. Turns out that we managed to grab 9 out of 10 members, and it cost us about 6 lives total ( each person having 10 lives ).
They figured out how to snipe at us too, which led Danial to lose about...8 lives, others to lose quite a lot and Nikko/Niko/Nico and David to scream bloody murder.
Then, once the last digit, a 7, had been grabbed, we were suppose to run out and place our respective numbers in their respective positions. Except, the ones in charge of number position 1 and 2, Hin Kai and Chun Yong respectively, had been GUNNED TO DEATH BANG BANG BANG. Which meant that I had to place the three numbers ( theirs and mine ).
Which wouldn't have been much of a problem, since I had three lives, I can run pretty fast and there's a lag/cooldown time of 3 seconds before another shot registers and you lose a life.
Except when I ran out, I got shot, and went down to 3 lives. Then Thomas ( Beckwith ) said that I was dead, so I walked back. Then I got shot again, and was down to 2 lives. Then Thomas was like "Oh no, you're still alive." So I was like "Darn you.", and got shot again as I ran out to put all three numbers. The last number barely left my hand before I got assassinated. Well, not really assassinated. But if it had been real bullets, I would have died of about...oh, 67 gunshots?
Anyways, the rest of the guys decided to use the decoy method, sacrificing themselves to let Danial and Dexter place the numbers and win the game.
After which, we switched to Free-For-All.
Sorry, did I say Free-For-All, I meant, Camplikeshit.
Broke up into two groups in our tribes. Won both games by shooting down all the opposition. The 2nd game was particularly hilarious, Pei Xiang screaming "CHIONG AH", running solo and crashing into a bench and falling down. I ran to the back of the opposing team and proceeded to shoot them like free ala Backstab while Danial and Dexter provided a distraction. I had 3 lives when I ran, once the opposing team "died", I was down to 2 lives. Then I walked around asking "Am I dead? Am I dead?" until I really was laser'd to death.
Long story short (oops too late ), our team won our games, unfortunately, the other team in our tribe losing once. But since the other half of our tribe who had switched over to Gauntlet won all their games, we ended up winning 9/10 of the games.
Slept around...12, to the pleasant sounds of airplanes ROARING above with their deafening engines. Woke up because Thomas and Nico were talking, or humping, each others, then abruptly fell asleep. Woke up about...6 times during the night, before finally getting out of bed at 6 and going to bathe.
Capoeira in the morning was a huge surprise. Learnt it quite fast, and it really is a nice sport.
Rained after lunch, so kayaking was cancelled. Spent the time playing cards and talking. Had a reflection session and a cheering session.
Ah hell, the 2nd day was boring as hell.
OH NO WAIT. WATERMELON SOUP. Well, not soup, more like crap.
Ms Sheikha, Mr Siow and Mr Amir drank the soup ( we all did, was pretty nice ).
Nightwalk after that, the first group to go. Had...David, Hin Kai, Joshua ( Band ) and Wilnard in my group. Got gagged, Joshua too, David and Wilnard being blinded. Had all our feet tied together too.
Walking through the toilet was pretty creepy. All the shrieking, made by Kwang Yi and Firdaus sounded like boys being castrated with boiling oil or something, pretty scary.
Oh damn, 10.41, and I've not been sleeping well for the past few days because I'm confined to CIC. Gotta be at school at 7 for LTC tomorrow. Better cut things a bit short.
Capoeira for the 3rd morning too.
Kayaked after that in a Gemini with Danial. Pretty fun stuff.
General Stations + Challenge Pole after that. General Stations were pretty fun, especially the Rope swinging on, Nitro Crossing?
Dexter fell down the first time, so we had to restart. Then after we got to the last person, he swung across, and SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER, I saw Danial go flying back out clinging to the rope. And everyone was like "WHAT THE HELL?", including Danial himself. Almost had that round voided because someone stepped out of the platform, but it was later "passed over".
Spiderweb game was sooo...I dunno..ew.
But the tyre thing was fun.
Challenge Pole was really scary though. I have severe acrophobia, so I'm scared of heights. First time I went up there, I was shaking like crazy, so I thought "Hell, let's just jump."
I stepped forward, slipped on the rounded portion of the pole and proceeded to fall off in a very unglam manner. Thank god for good belaying. Tried again later, this time, I jumped, but it certainly wasn't my best. I dunno, I could have grabbed that pole, I could have, but I was just damn scared. I think...I was scared of grabbing the pole...For some reason, I was scared of being able to grab that pole...
I dunno...
Campfire night was exciting, quite a few low spots here and there, but fun overall. Maestro Silvano, Lina and Harto came as guests and we formed a hado, the ring of people in Capoeira games, and started singing the songs. Then two people were chosen to start playing the game, I mean, demostrate the game. Said two people were me and Danial. We demostrated, then the rest of our tribe and the other tribe ran out two at a time, played for a while then ran back to let another group go. Then we formed a hado and began to sing the songs. And then the real fun began.
After a while, I began to try to get Danial's attention. 5 minutes later, I gave up and just screamed full blast at him and Pei Xiang. He finally responded when Pei Xiang tapped him and told him.
Did the Capoeira moves in the hado. The energy was really great. Saw Cal
Capoeira is really nice...And if at least 10 people want to take it up, Mr Siow can arrange something with Maestro Silvano. Ooo, exciting, I wanna go!
Slept at 12, with the "promise" of being able to wake up at 9 the next morning. But Syukuri managed to spread the rumour that they would wake us up at 5+ the next morning instead.
Oh, and Mervin came over to sleep.
Woke up at 5 to see Brian, Syihabuddin and the other red shirts packing their stuff and talking in a not-so-quiet manner. So I pretty much knew that the "rumour" was true. Most of our bunk managed to pack up and get down to the assembly area within the 5 minutes because of Syukuri's advance warning.
Cleaned up the campsite, then we were assigned the tasks of building a stretcher. Martelo, my group's one was really simple. Two long poles were slipped through Fadhil's sleeping bag and pulled the bag taut, Syukuri getting on top. Armada constructed a needlessly elaborate and heavy one that everyone paid the price for later. Miss Sheikha and Mr Siow took turns to sit on the stretcher, both times when I was carrying the stretcher.
Miss Sheikha kept screaming like a princess, because Sheikha apparently means Princess in Arabic, for us "Palace Slaves" to go "FASTER! FASTER! I DON'T LIKE TO BE LAST! CATCH UP!" since we were lagging behind because of the weight and movement-coordination issues.
Reached East Coast Park around 9. Built Sand Castles till 1 .50, then went back to school for the last Reflection Exercise and received our CIC Graduation Certificates and RED SHIRTS! AND WRISTBANDS! ZOMGZORZ!
Danial treated Mervin and I to a taxi ride to Parkway for lunch at Banquet. Went to Sembawang ( the music CD shop ). Wanted to buy Josh Groban's "Awake" album, but...lack of money. Danial bought Ayumi Hamasaki's LOVEppears album. Went to Starbucks, where we met Nawawi, Azri and Fadhil making their way to Banquet. For some reason, they had stayed back in the canteen. Ironic, since we went to Banquet because THEY were going...
Danial, in another surprising act of kindness, decided to treat me to another taxi ride back home, since it was on the way anyway.
Pizza for dinner, didn't really eat much, must have been the heavy and late lunch...
Blah, gotta go sleep.
If people from CIC pon LTC because they're "too tired", I'm going to chop them with a big black bloody axe.
Lino squeezed Panda at 9:03 PM
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Me - "Is that Khamarrul?" Clement - "No! That's Firdaus, our head prefect." Me - "Oh." [Few seconds later] Me - "Is that Khamarrul?" Clement - "No, that's FIRDAUS!" Me - "Oh." [Seconds later] Me - "Is that Khamarrul?" Clement - [Screams]
Camp Instructor's Course tomorrow. Stuff's all packed, although I'm not too happy about having to lug two bags, but since I need the other bag for LTC, gotta make some sacrifices. Shucks.
And Hin Kai just told me that, apparently, "Ren an said you are the one and only triple red shirt" in the whole level. I don't know whether I'm enthusiastic, or suicidal.
Went to school for the LTC meeting which pretty much became a lecture on our "Selection Criteria", "Ethics" and "Sangila Utama". To tell the truth, I nearly fell asleep.
Nicholas Chan - "Eh Linus, how long have you had your braces?" Me - "Um...About one year." Nicholas Chan - "Cannot see the effect leh." Me - "I hate you."
Grr...
Played, or rather, tried to play soccer with Yang En, Clement and the rest of the LTC guys, Ming Cong joining in as well. My marvellous defending skills ended up in an own goal, so yeah, damn. Score ended up as 5~3.
Lunched at Parkway with Yang En, Clement and Ming Cong. Clement and Yang En still think I like Jovina, as in not friend-friend "like", but as in "I don't know how to say this but I LOVE YOU MARRY ME" kind of like.
Which is completely incorrect, because Clement found a recording of OUR OPW project interview with Jovina. And he thinks I <3 Jovina because I didn't delete the recording. And that's because I'm just plain lazy.
Take that, Clement.
Had a talk with Yang En about the "future" commitee after our batch. It was really kind of ironic, lah, seeing as that we're not even the commitee yet. Well, Yang En's guaranteed to be Chairman or Vice-Chairman as far as I see, competing against John and Vincent for those posts. But I'm not sure about whether I'm in. I suppose I am, that I've got a fairly good chance, but then you never know.
Then again, Mr Maran did say that we Junior Leaders have to take up leadership positions in our CCAs...
I'm already Vice-Chairman of ELDDS though.
Which is not to say that that's bad.
I'm worried about ELDDS...Our current Sec 1, 2 and 3 COMBINED enrolment is about the same as the number of Sec 4s leaving us. Needless to say ( but I shall say it anyway, since that's what seems to be the thing to do ), that's wtfbbqhaxxorzomgzors bad. As in, really, really really bad.
SYF and EMD next year.
Haven't gotten a script.
Haven't got enough people to even ACT, much less do backstage.
And my juniors aren't the most committed bunch I've seen.
Worst of all, Li Zhi ( Chairman ) and I are much more in love with our first CCA.
I was looking through my older posts and came across some posts that said how much I hated CO and loved ELDDS.
While it's still true that I do like ELDDS, it's now become a like. I don't know why, maybe it's the lack of activities, maybe it's the slack-ass juniors, seniors and all-around attitude, but ELDDS is definitely "falling from grace" so to speak, and it's a pain in the ass to think about. And I have no idea how to save ELDDS from going up in flames.
Conversely, CO has become a much bigger part of my life now, to the point I actually like going for practices. I used to, and still do, complain about "having no social life", but when I actually thought about it, being in CO already allowed me to meet and befriend some of my now-close friends, like Yang En, John, Max, Michael, Wee Bian, Jing Qun etc.
So now, I find it rather sad that I wasted my Sec 1 life, not just in terms of Academics ( which was suck-ass poor ), but in terms of my CCA too. Had to give up my ELDDS SYF Gold and EMD, not to mention the points I could have gotten from CO if I had cleared my attendance. In fact, attendance was so bad, some of the current Sec 2s and Sec 3s thought I only did joined this year.
Which I practically did. It's this year that my enthusiasm for CO began anyway.
Hell, if I had been this committed during Sec 1, maybe now I might have a chance of being the Chairman or Vice-Chairman.
Now I'm trying my best in CO ( excusing the Dai Di playing XD )...Maybe it's just to compensate for my crappy attitude last year. I don't know.
I just know that I've really changed a lot since Sec 1. Grades have improved, my attitude towards life has changed from "Life sux" to " I'm pretty blessed" , doing quite well in CCAs ( although the "failing this year's attendance thing" is a bother ) and overall enjoying life in VS. Triple Red Shirts is definitely something to be proud of too.
O.o
Kind of just realized how much I typed out...Really meant for this to be a pretty short post, but...It feels good to just type stuff out like this, and not worry about what others think. I should do it more often.
Except, you know, I can't do EVERYTHING I want on my blog because of a certain branch of a certain organization.
Oh! CIC tomorrow, gotta wake up at 6. And it's almost 11.
Won't be blogging for the next 3 days because of camp.
Expect a post on 13th Nov, Monday. Should be quite a long post, unless I have a sucky time at camp. In which case my post would be like
"Ugh, life sux_xors."
Lino squeezed Panda at 10:37 PM
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
[Hougang Mall Taxi Stand] Mum - "Go to the taxi stand first and stand in line." Me - [Walks out, sees 4 empty taxis and no one at the queue] "Oh no, whatever shall we do. It is so full. Gosh mi gosh, what are the chances of getting a taxi?" Mum - "Where you get your sarcasm from I don't know..."
LTC meeting today was sooooooooo fun. [/Dry voice]
I don't like that Kay Fong guy. I mean, I...sorta...admire his initiative to start the cheers and all, but he screwed up VS Unite.
And I'm sure that most of you out there that read my blog already know that I don't believe in the "It's the effort" that counts thing. I believe in the "Iwantresults" kind of thing.
Went to Hougang Mall for dinner. Ichiban Sushi and Gelare were delish. Bought track pants, swimming trunks and new sandals for about $75 total. Quite a good day.
Though another LTC meeting on Thursday means shifting my tuition to tomorrow night, after going to school to clean up the CO room and other crap.
Strongly recommend reading Danial's Blog for his review of The Grudge 2. Pretty amusing read.
Got this off Danial's blog.
7 random facts about me
#1 Spastic #2 Hyper #3 Enthu #4 Younger Brother #5 Blessed #6 I have wonderful friends #7 I'm 1.64m tall ( approximately lah ) and 45/46 KG.
7 things that scares me
o1. Cockroaches o2. Clement's rape attempts o3. Mervin's rape attempts o4. Ants o5. Bugs o6. Uncommitment...I know it's not a word...But I'm too lazy to go find out the real word. o7. Losing my enthu-ness
7 people/things I fancy
one\ Handphone two\ Wallet three\ Laptop four\ Camera five\ MP3 six\ Friends seven\ Family
1; God 2; Friends 3; Music. 4; Reading 5; Playing Games 6; Drawing 7; Acting
7 people to do this
Lisa Randall Nicholas Sophie Hansen Si Cheng Ser Yang Daryl. Anybody else.
Lino squeezed Panda at 10:10 PM
Monday, November 06, 2006
[Soccer] Delson - [Gets ready to shoot] Me - "Nooooo...Back, back you beast! KICK FROM FURTHER AWAY! I LOVE MY FACE! Well, not really, but you get what I mean."
Fun fact: It's 11.44 PM Fun fact: I'm still awake Fun fact: I need to be at school at 9 a.m tomorrow, that means waking up at 7.30 Fun fact: I'm not going to be able to sleep until 12.30 at least..
Just realized about...6 hours ago that I won't be attending CO from 10th November to 4th December. Which is...*Counts* ...11 practices...
Bright side: No tuition for the same duration. Whoopedoo.
Due to O' levels Social Studies paper, dear Mr Ng and Mrs Raj came into the room. Mrs Raj was overly-dramatic as usual, saying stuff like "And remember, we are all Victorians..." blah blah blah. Throughout the whole thing, Mr Poh continued to pluck my Double-Bass, almost as a defiant cry. After they left ( and left us with an hour's break which we proceeded to make full use of aka play DaiDi ), Mr Poh went to read a book entitled "Don't Know Much About Mythology".
The name Kali popped into my head, and though it might seem lame now, it did strike me as extremely funny then.
Yang En's innocuous look belies his true evilnesss. For that, I must slay him before he gets out of control. To arms!
On another note, some people I know are just so incredibly stupid that I want to disown them as a friend. Don't get me wrong, the ( lack of ) intelligence is only 75% of a factor, the other 25% being that said people are what we call APPLE, Attitude-Problem-People-Something-Something.
Ok fine, I made that acronym up. Sue me. Aha, you can't! Cry, peasant, cry.
Bahhhhh...I think I'll just stone until I fall asleep or something. I have no idea what's keeping me awake. Other than my brother's earth-shaking, fats-wobbling, thunderous snores.
Edit: Quiz from Elmosius. It's a new name that I thought of after getting high on air. Also, the quiz has butchered the beautiful English Language, therefore I have taken the necessary steps to fix it. Thank me, people who will do this quiz, because I have saved you from screaming in horror at the powderful engrish, taking a big bloody axe and going CHOP CHOP CHOP! Because I'm down lik' dat' yo.
#1 (and the only 1) Never in my life I've had: Sex
The only person who can drive me nuts, and can always make me smile : ...A lot of people...Like Jo-Ann. With her spastic Bleachimaru Gin comments.
When I'm nervous: I get hyper.
The last time I laughed was when: One minute ago, reading Elmosius blog. I laugh practically 24/7 anyway
My hair is: Digusting and anti-style-able.
My feet are: ...Disproportionate to the length of my hair.
Last christmas: I got bored.
When I turn my head left I see: Table. Pillow. Wallet. A very messy table. CDs.
When I turn my head right I see: Xbox, Printer, Scanner, Photocopier, Fax-Machine ( Okay...the last four are all combined into one handy-dandy machine.
When I look down I see: My feet. Hello feet. *Waves*
The craziest recent event: ...DaiDi during CO?
I have a hard time understanding: Why members of my family and extended family have very varied reactions to menstruation.
One time at a family gathering: I became a Bleach Bitch.
If its the one I have every sunday: God.
You know I like you if: Friends - I hang around with you and poke/prod/punch you occasionally. For no reason. "Others" - I get all...shy...and stuff...
If i won an award, the first person I thank is: God. But then, I don't think of God as a person, he transcends that. So the next in line would be me. Waddya expect, I got the prize, I did something, why not me?
Triangles are: Gay
My ideal breakfast: Bread with smashed hard-boiled eggs and mayonaise.
If you really make me happy: I laugh like a retard.
Where do you plan to visit anytime soon: Perth.
Girls are: ...Females
I'll stop my wedding if: Something screws up. Like the wrong music being played.
The world could do without: Terrorism.
I'd rather lick the belly of the cockroach: No I wouldn't.
Most recent thing you bought yourself: ... ... Umm... ... ... ... Dinner?
Least fav time of the day: 3~4 pm. Especially after a heavy lunch.
And by the way, please hold on: For what?
The last time i was high: Five minutes ago.
The person i last talked to: My brother, bonking him with the bolster to SHUT UP AND STOP SNORING!
Last night I: Got addicted to Bleach.
There's this girl whom I know is: Dilligent, intelligent, special, has a strong character and out of my league.
There's this guy whom I know is: My friend.
I'll tell you the next person who can make me happy: ...That special person...She already makes me happy when I talk to her...
I'm listening to: The music of my brother's snoring. It's so emo...I hate it. Burn, emo, burn.
I last ate: Bread with smashed hard-boiled eggs and mayonaise. It can be eaten in the morning, afternoon, and night.
My bedsheet is: A ghost. Cute.
I smell: Seashells on the sea whores
On my table i have: Radio. cups, wallet, books, paper, stationery, electrical outlets, digital camera, cds, rubbish bin, chargers, tissue boxes, and other junk.
My full name is: Linus Ong Sze Wei. Well actually, it's Ong Sze Wei, Linus...But I don't like it that way.
Lino squeezed Panda at 11:49 PM
Me - "Oh my gosh...I'm going to become a BB!" Jo-ann - "What's a BB?" Me - "Bleach Bitch." Jo-Ann - "..."
Rukia is dysFUNctionally-cute =) Not to mention she's a Shinigami and everything.
Then again, Yachiro is uber-nice and cute too, but I haven't really seen much of her. And I cannot wait for her to appear in the anime. She hasn't come out yet, but according to Jo-Ann, she's really powerful.
Soifone's really... = ) too. Orihime seems to be hated by like 99.9% of the Bleach "community" but I find she's quite alright, although her stupid "Aie!" and "Aizen-Sama!" whining gets super irritating at times. But her brother rocks, fought the Hollow and everything.
Oh, and Jo and I were planning to kill Orihime. I'm suppose to become a Shinigami while she becomes a Hollow. Then we "fight" and I accidentally stab her and Jo accidentally eviscerates her.
CAMS and SAMS WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sooo slow to figure it out man..but...HAHAHAHAHAHA! Retarded crap man.
Slept over at Jo's house yesterday night. Supposed to "sleep" at 11.30 ( at least that's when we turned off the laptops ). Ended up sleeping at 1. Woke up at about 8.10, chiong'd breakfast then went to meet Randall and go church. Talked about some spiritual stuff which somehow or another ended up as a conversation about...Maple, Mu and other stuff.
And goddarn it, I'm so bored, I wouldn't mind playing fricking Mu right now.
Turnout for Church was pretty bad today, 8 people not inclusive of Robin or Shereen. Joy, Kaye, Debra, Sarah, Me, Lianne and the two dao'ers ...Got a nice prayer book too. Mine's gayHAWT purple.
Wheeee...
Now something to cheer me up:
~November~
10th~13th - CIC 14th~17th - LTC 18th - Open House 20th~23rd - PLC 24th~4th December - Going to Perth =)
Cannot wait for CIC, LTC and PLC.
Only thing is, and I'm going to be ( brutally ) honest here, is that I'm not really very happy with my current LTC group. Some people inside are like...such stoners lah... I mean, don't drag the entire group down with you. Because one "sian" person will really affect the group... And if that happens...I'm going to get so annoyed and stuff.
It's like, c'mon, be more enthu lah. Don't go there looking like someone threw you inside. If you don't want it, don't go. And if you go, don't demoralize the group lah. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's those people who just go for stuff then end up not doing anything and having a damn negative effect on the group. It really sucks to see your ( hard ) work get flushed down the drain because someone has that "aiya...do for what?" kind of attitude.
Which brings me to my next point: I shall not slack too much for CO =)
Lino squeezed Panda at 12:15 AM
Friday, November 03, 2006
Me - "Eh Delson." Delson - "What?" Me - "Wanna beat up Mr Poh?" Delson - [Snickers evilly]
Bleh.
Dunno why I'm blogging, but just felt like blogging. For no reason. Yar...Just spent about half an hour watching YouTube videos of MadTV. Such fun =)
1 1/2 hours of tuition today left me practically clawing at the door to escape. Not to mention, I managed to knee myself in the face while drawing my legs up onto the bed in my eagerness to return to my dearest laptop. As a result, I have this nice swelling on my lip, thanks to the braces. Lovely.
Stayed back after CO ( Which was particularly fruitful, because I named my Double-Bass Linda ) to play soccer. Some of the usuals like Ming Cong, Daryl ( both ) weren't there so it seemed rather...strange. Still, some of the seniors were there, Delson, Ren An, Li Quan and some others.
Had a first game of soccer with just John, me, Alphonsus, Yang En, Wee Bian, Jing Qun and Li Xuan. Won 5~4. Scored...twice. One an open-goal shot, one that I kicked, the ball rebounding off Wee Bian's chest ( or face ) and back into my leg. Then I used every ounce of muscle I have in my legs ( think 5 grams ) to drive that ball into that damn goal. Go me.
When the Sec 3s joined though...Ooooo...Scary...Lost badly. Benjamin Lin came over to our side since we were getting thrashed like hell by the likes of Ren An, Delson and Benjamin Lin. Alphonsus, John, Yang En and Benjamin Lin all left earlier...Leaving quite few people, so we decided to stop.
And the journey home was soo embarassing lah. Played for about 1 hour, so you can imagine that I didn't smell like a bed of roses. Unless, you know, manure fertilizer had just been added to that bed of roses. In which case, I smelt exactly like that bed of roses. If one person had mentioned even a word of it...I think I would have just died of embarrassment.
Better bring an extra t-shirt next time or something.
Or at least ensure that my dad can pick me up...
Bleh.
Lino squeezed Panda at 11:24 PM
And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men. Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ [Colossians 3:23~3:24]
Thanks Weng Keong =)
Edit: Just found this video, and I think it can speak a lot about my relationship of God...Or at least, what I want. The lyrics are pretty accurate ( ignoring the she/your man and other gender references though )
Lino squeezed Panda at 9:25 AM
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
[MSN Convo] Sophie - "Gaah..." Benjamin - "Baah..." Me - "... Waah..."
Li Zhi's in Hong Kong, and I am jealous.
Yarly.
So anyway, today was the briefing for the LTC and PLC. Met Weng Keong on the bus to school and started talking to him. As we entered the school canteen, he mentioned...something about God dying for us that made me say that I didn't want to give up the red shirts. I wanted to be useful. He then said that God already died for me, and is already proud of me...
Which makes me wonder: Am I doing this for myself? Or for God? Right now, it's definitely for me, because I want to feel like I've achieved something, that I'm not the all-talk no-show I was before. And I seriously think that I've got what it takes. Maybe the people around me have doubts because I've never really shown what I have. But now, it's time for me to step up, and I'm determined to give all I have. It's about time anyway.
And I'm planning on keeping all my red shirts, becoming a black shirt in at least one of the leadership positions, and getting a 75% average throughout the year. At least. Then I'll be satisfied. It does sound daunting, but dammit, next year's the year I'll give my all. And at the risk of sounding like a sociopath, I will get it, no matter what it takes (Read: Beat the crap out of anyone in my way)
It was really quite disappointing, for both me and the seniors, that our squad/group was so...dispirited. I mean, everyone was just stoning there...staring at one another while our senior Raoul ( I think that's how you spell it ) tried to get us talking. And if we are going to be like this during the camp, with such a lack of enthusiasm, then our entire squad might as well not go. We'd probably end up stoning there to, with our seniors yelling shit at us to participate.
Oh wait, I forgot. Yelling at someone to do stuff is particularly effective never.
Sometimes I wonder if I could meet my goals with just focus, determination, and an arrogant, judgemental and dismissive view of all others.
One more thing:
I now have an unopened envelope, marked " On Government Service", from MOE's Finance and Development Division and bearing the marks of Giro.
And it's for Ganesha. Which I forgot to give him on the last day of school.
Someone out there hates me.
And when I find him, I'm going to whip his ass.
Lino squeezed Panda at 11:07 PM
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Lino
Christian
13 April 1992
Meridian Junior College
