Thursday 29 November 2007

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okay, stop lazing around, stop playing, stop sleeping till eleven, stop idling,
stop wasting time AND STOP PROCRASTINATING!

STOP!

start homework, start studying, start thinking about school, start doing CHINESE! >.<
start thinking about christmas gifts, start earning money...

oh man.

the holidays are half gone...

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anyway.

yesterday i did do a little work.

mummy dragged me (okay fine i volunteered but after much convincing) to be her assistant at her gardening workshop for librarians.

not too bad. i enjoyed my job staying in the room all alone watching their stuff while reading my novel(a very nice one at that) and playing with my mum's com.

the workshop was interesting and quite fun lah. while teaching the ppl how to garden she managed to cover whatever we learned abt plants during bio. haha. now 3A...oops! 4A can go for the workshop too! =D

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now i live beside an earthquake.

there were 5-6 jackhammers next door yesterday. my very nice neighbour has so suddenly decided that he needs to renovate his house and invited the jackhammers over yesterday. the sound was driving us out of our skulls and we took refuge at my parent's office next door.

STOP NOISE POLLUTION TODAY!

we also went to vivo's Daiso shop (that jap shop sells everything at $2!) to escape the noise

that place is really dangerous

"ooh! i neeeeed this. and you can't get it for so cheap outside! only $2!"

*take take take take take take*

we ended up with a full cart and huge sum of *undisclosed* taken from my mum's wallet.

dangerous i tell you.

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thing's to do:

  • DO HOMEWORK!(that's been on my list for 3 days already)
  • write a pack list for bintan (yes finally doing somewhere)
  • pack for bintan.
  • tidy up my room (AGAIN)

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knickknacks~

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=)

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i like feathers? don't ask me why i took a photo of that

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i found a eedy beedy teeny weeny tiny frog

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it was this big

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he got bullied

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beyond scary

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donkey in a hut

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mmmm.

Sunday 25 November 2007

changi beach

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yesterday,

the tide was very low, not the lowest but low enough.

low tides  should always be spent on the beach.

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the cute mooncrab

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a cute baby fish we found. still un-identified

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a green marine shrimp

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BUTTON shells!!! we found GAZILLIONS of them.

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pipe fish, the cousin of the seahorse

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the squishy, sticky, jelly-like carpet anemone

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sea star

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peacock anemone. very pretty underwater

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the rare sand dollar!!!

we usually collect them overseas like tioman but it was so cool that we could find them here too! and alive as well.

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you'd never guess this is a crab. yeah. he got his own camoflage

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sea cucumber, whose name i cannot remember.

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the elegant pretty brittle star, cousin of the starfish

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a flatfish about to die because of some irresponsible fisherman!!!!!

GRRR...

some guy left his fishing line and HOOK lying around and this unlucky fish got STUCK in it.

it not only hurts the fish but kids who accidentally step on it too. X(

irresponsible, inconsiderate people. tsk tsk...

anyway after we tried so hard to get the hook out of its mouth (it really looked like the POOR fish was in terrible pain) we freed it from the line into the water but it died shortly after. sobs. poor fish.

=((

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six kids and one hole full of mud

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correction: six kids and 2 holes full of mud.

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the clam diggers.

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the foolish men built their house upon the sand. the bible was rite.

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today.

nothing much.

went to Borders bookstore.

it was Bustling with Busy Buyers Buying Billions of BOOKS!

and i just discovered that books aren't cheap.

but books are worth it. =D

Thursday 22 November 2007

back form camp! =D
i ENJOYED it alot!
had alotta fun
hehe. no point typing it out. pictures say a thousand words...
DAY 1
we played wacko. nothing much, just to help the sec 1s


then we played "turn over a new leaf" which is another cliche-ed game.
we tried, and it was funny and disasterous
so we played fold-the-mat-as-many-times-as-u-can game half the team at a time
not so easy eh? they ended up carrying each other...
rusyaidee shake so much shariff was gonna drop him. haha
they managed only this much ^^


den we had lunch. not the best. explains all the leftoverswent to hang out in our AIR-CONDITIONED dormitary after lunch.
here's Ariel =] sharmaine n vivian playing.

oh ya and both of them are going to 3A!!!!! along with estee!!!!
haha. happy for them. now they taking bio with me. haha.
this is meryl. she opened and closed the door so quickly that this is what i caught. cool effect =D
then we went for rockclimbing.
in the bus on the way^
sorry for the shake. the bus was bumpy
we climbed here. they are located at west coast recreation centre.
so far!
louis...
sharmaine belaying.
sharmain coming down
ariel let her down onto the floor =D

vivian tried out the overhanging part. haha.
weird pose

louis in the same pose
the gals in my dorm =D
vivian and sharmaine the monkeys. they climbed almost EVERY wall! this is part of the wall where they stuck one big sticker and put stones in the worng places.
poh yee climbing and mian yu belaying. sweet juniors

samsul on the wall which was barely 3 metres.
ariel belaying sharmain(again! lol) and louis in a weird pose
ooh. there was a elephant in the wall.
on making that discovery, our instructor clambered up the overhanging wall, rather the hardest to climb.
and he reached the elephant!! haha.
sharmain touching the blue thing
our instructor did a demo. how he got into that position really beats me.
and he reached the top again. pro-ed!.
btw he was hanging with one hand for so long, waiting for me to focus the camera.
haha.
then we made vivian sit on the blue rock-of-sorts.
and she managed

vivian trying to get down.
went back to NSC and after dinner we had a 19-clue-long treasure hunt and i admit that they were pretty smart as they managed to finish it under 45 min.
the clues were really hard. like this:
(deep-p) oh are am ai tea (tray-tr) are why? (5+4)
what does this say?
gave every team a diff coloured light stick ahah so in the darkness you could only see coloured lights running around.
so much fun.
we had macdonalds for supper =D

DAY2
can you guess who this is?
played games in the morning. the guys were incharge this time.
we played:
-4 legged race with 3 people and i, estee and zaki were totally last
haha. zaki had strides twice ours so we were kinda always falling over. besides the rafia string was PAINFUL!
-a water bomb version of dog and bone called dog and bomb ahah.
that was fun cus we got wet. hehe. throwing water bombs at each other.
i couldn't take photos of these games cus i was playing and didn't want to risk dropping/wetting my new camera.
then meryl played with the others this really fun/cool/wet game called human battleships while we started cooking lunch (that day's lunch was a cook-your-own-lunch thingy)
shariff chucking a water bomb at meryl over the other side of the cloth

Glenn got soaked

then in the afternoon we went windsurfing.

i found windsurfing really cool and fun.

but it would have been better if there was more wind. and waves.
i was doing quite well when i was approched the water breaker and saw 3 huge jellyfish in a row and panic-ed, dropping the sail. haha.
again i had no photos cus i was windsurfing and it kept raining.

later we had BBQ!
estee the cook cum fire-fanner
they had this 'prawn fight' where they tried to steal ariel's prawns. haha
mmmmm. food...
we had a difficulty cooking them cus the others lined the grill with foil and the heat couldn't get through because there was a layer of air between the food and fire and air is a bad conductor of heat... blah blah blah shariff's satay shop which he open on a mini make-shift stove cus his satay didn't cook over the actual BBQ.

it cooked much faster there. and tasted much much better! hahahe ended up cooking chicken wings too cus they were taking forever to cook on the main BBQ.
besides, he ran out of satay.
Mmmm. chicken wings!!!
the rest of the food. not as apealing =]
then it rained, wetting the BBQ and the food was salvaged

we got out the gas stove and cooked the remaining food with a pot and oil. form barbacued chicken to butter-fried chicken

after the BBQ we stayed up playing until 3 am.
we played wanyi's version of heart attack.its a really torture and anti-social game. haha but fun la. from it you can really tell who cannot keep their mouth shut. =D

DAY3
we woke up late. haha. so breakfast was delayed
we didn't clean the shed after all cus mrs khairul said we looked really tired. and we were.
so we just did brainstorming and discussion and such until 11
den we went to clean up and check out.
i played tai-ti until my mum came.
so wanna go back to camp =D

THE BEST CAMP EVER !!! haha. sailing camp has always been like this.

sailing camp is for:
just having fun
trying out new things like rockclimbing and wind surfing as a team
bonding with the sailors!
staying up late playing games in the boys rooms until 3 am
getting to know the sec ones which are all quite nice and funny. and enthu.
ordering macs in the middle of the night.
having pizza in the dorms
disturbing people in the middle of the night by knocking on doors
climbing out the windows to other rooms. haha

so much fun...