I am so glad that the secondary four students got good results for their O levels last year. I really needed the one day of rest given by our principal, Mr Low for the great results. Yesterday, I was so tired that my legs really felt like breaking and I slept to 11o'clock today.
When a woke up, I was dazed and surprised that there was nobody in the house. I was so happy as I could do anything I want, which obviously, for most children who get to be alone at home do, which is of course, playing computer games. So there I was playing computer like a computer addict, and it was only until Yek Teng called and told me where we wanted to meet for the class outing.I panicked and at the speed of light, packed my things and headed off to meet Yek Teng at Pasir Ris MRT station.
I then found out that Zhi Rui was meeting us there too, and was quite surprised. I actually thought that I would be really late, but little did I expect that I would actually be faster than Yek Teng by about thirty-five minutes! With nothing better to do and not wanting to stand at a spot for thirty-five minutes waiting for someone like a fool, I went to the shopping centre just next to the MRT station.
Just then, I saw Harri walking past me, but I was too shy to say hi, so I just stalked him to see where he was going.( For those people who think I am a pervert, I hereby declare that I am not one! )First, he walked into MacDonalds, and after going for a stroll in the shopping centre, I saw him again, carrying a bag of fries and then heading into a seven eleven store. I really wonder how much food there was in his stomach at that time, I mean who can have a meal at MacDonalds and then go to a seven eleven store to buy somthing else to eat.And guess what, I even got to see my cousin with a group of his friends and also, after that, I saw Jerry walk past me too.
Yek Tend and Zhi Rui then grgeeted me by scaring me in the back and tried to make me die from a heart attack. We ate a really scrumtious meal at KFC and then took a bus to the class outing point. We had a few rounds of bowling and I felt that it was a really good choice for the class outing as everybody could participate in it and we did not have to pay a single cent. I really enjoyed myself there, we ended the game by giving out rewards to those with high points, in the end I got lolipops, well at least it is better than nothing.As I wanted to go home soon, I requested Luke if I could take a ride from his parents' car home, luckily, they agreed.
I really hope that we can have more class outings as fun as this although, all the time as we need to rest on holidays too.I loved the class outing and I would like to thank the class and Ms Shyamira for organising this event. Ohh.. and also Zhi Rui for letting us use the class fund to pay for the bowling fees, although, those fees were originally given from us, so I should actually be thanking myself!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
CNY! Happy new year!
26th January 2009
Hooray! It is chinese new year! Firstly I would like to wish all of you people a happy new year, now where are the ang pows.......oops....... I mean... hope all your wishes come true! I started off the day by kneeling down in front of my parents and holding two oranges in my hand, wishing them to have prosperity and stuff like this in chinese using rather chim idioms, half asleep. Well, as sleepy as I was, after staying up last night watching the celebrations, it was the only way to get two gigantic ang pows which contain alot of money of course!
We skipped breakfast like yesterday and went to my grandmother's house again. I sure hope I lose weight soon! Well what I did not know was that there was a buffet waiting for me at my grandmother's house. Well there goes my chance to do even one pull up. I started gobbling up the food as it was really delicious and probably had about two and a half servings, and I only came to my senses when,oh my god, I realised that I could not walk steadily for the second time after a meal, what had I done...
After that I took a few pictures with my cousins, well actually there was alot of pictures taken, so much that I think that was the only moment of my life I took so many pictures at one time. And I would not have done it if my aunt and cousins asked me to do so, and you don't normally say no to your relatives' requests, so I had no choice. As I tried to smile in front of the camera as hard as possible, alot of people came pouring into the house, phew, I did not have to take pictures anymore.
'Thank you' became a word that I kept using as ang pows from everywhere came towards me. There was not a moment I left the living room as from my past experiences, once you leave the living room, even for a moment, you might miss the ang pows too! It was not until about 15 minutes later that all of the ang pows were given out.
It was not long until one of the most important parts of the chinese new year celebrations came( well to me at least ), for some you might probably guess what it is..... Yes! It is time to gamble, and we mean the real deal!My family would only be able to do this once every year and that was during chinese new year. The games ranged from Bingo to blackjack and it was really fun, at least for the children as the money we betted was all from our parents, and if we won money it would be ours, and if we lost money, we would not feel sad as the money lost would be from our parents!It was hilarious!
However, on the second day of chinese new year, things were not as good. Even thought we recieved many ang pows on that day, my legs were beginning to break and I was felling really lethargic as we were moving from house to house, and you would not be able to imagine how tiring it is to have thirteen grand uncles' and aunties' houses to go to, and not even including my uncles and aunties. I was so tired that about every five minutes I would be asking,' can we go home??' and I even slept at one of my relative's house.
This has helped me learn an important lesson, never have more than five children or it will be hell for the future generation. No wonder people choose to have less kids these days, this has to be the reason... I think! Whatever the case, I wish all of you to have a great year ahead!
Hooray! It is chinese new year! Firstly I would like to wish all of you people a happy new year, now where are the ang pows.......oops....... I mean... hope all your wishes come true! I started off the day by kneeling down in front of my parents and holding two oranges in my hand, wishing them to have prosperity and stuff like this in chinese using rather chim idioms, half asleep. Well, as sleepy as I was, after staying up last night watching the celebrations, it was the only way to get two gigantic ang pows which contain alot of money of course!
We skipped breakfast like yesterday and went to my grandmother's house again. I sure hope I lose weight soon! Well what I did not know was that there was a buffet waiting for me at my grandmother's house. Well there goes my chance to do even one pull up. I started gobbling up the food as it was really delicious and probably had about two and a half servings, and I only came to my senses when,oh my god, I realised that I could not walk steadily for the second time after a meal, what had I done...
After that I took a few pictures with my cousins, well actually there was alot of pictures taken, so much that I think that was the only moment of my life I took so many pictures at one time. And I would not have done it if my aunt and cousins asked me to do so, and you don't normally say no to your relatives' requests, so I had no choice. As I tried to smile in front of the camera as hard as possible, alot of people came pouring into the house, phew, I did not have to take pictures anymore.
'Thank you' became a word that I kept using as ang pows from everywhere came towards me. There was not a moment I left the living room as from my past experiences, once you leave the living room, even for a moment, you might miss the ang pows too! It was not until about 15 minutes later that all of the ang pows were given out.
It was not long until one of the most important parts of the chinese new year celebrations came( well to me at least ), for some you might probably guess what it is..... Yes! It is time to gamble, and we mean the real deal!My family would only be able to do this once every year and that was during chinese new year. The games ranged from Bingo to blackjack and it was really fun, at least for the children as the money we betted was all from our parents, and if we won money it would be ours, and if we lost money, we would not feel sad as the money lost would be from our parents!It was hilarious!
However, on the second day of chinese new year, things were not as good. Even thought we recieved many ang pows on that day, my legs were beginning to break and I was felling really lethargic as we were moving from house to house, and you would not be able to imagine how tiring it is to have thirteen grand uncles' and aunties' houses to go to, and not even including my uncles and aunties. I was so tired that about every five minutes I would be asking,' can we go home??' and I even slept at one of my relative's house.
This has helped me learn an important lesson, never have more than five children or it will be hell for the future generation. No wonder people choose to have less kids these days, this has to be the reason... I think! Whatever the case, I wish all of you to have a great year ahead!
Sorry!
I am really sorry but for the previous post and the next few, there would not be any pictures as my camera is in my grandmother's house. I know you would probably find pictureless posts boring but please bear with it and continue to read my posts!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Chinese New Year Eve!
25th January 2009
Hooray!It is going to be chinese new year soon.I cannot wait for the ang pows to come, I wonder how much money I would get considering that I had two uncles, two aunties and 13 grand uncles and aunties and so many more relatives that I cannot even count.Well, the only bad things are that firstly, ALL the money would go into my bank and secondly, I would be travelling from place to place like a mad dog.
My family started off by doing spring cleaning for about one hour or more, we had skipped breakfast and planned on going to my grandmother's house to eat a heavy lunch, and there would always be many dishes on the table even if you were eating alone. I took a bath after cleaning the house and proceeded to my grandmother's house.
When we reached her house, we had a scumptious lunch and settled down to do our own stuff. When night came, the house started to crowd with all my cousins, aunties and uncles.Luckily, I was part of the many to be able to eat first, at first, when I saw the food I gasped in awe. There were more than ten dishes on the table an a gigantic steamboat in the centre.The food ranged from abalone to shark fins soup. I really wondered how in the world one fridge would be able contain this much food, not to mention that there were two tables that were filled with food.
I could not even jog or much less even run after that meal, I felt like my stomach would explode, I really regret eating so much but yet I enjoyed it so much. After the meal, my cousins and I had few games of bingo, but we did not bet any money, that is...... until tommorrow or the next day. That night, I stayed up for the countdown while my parents went praying. Sadly, I felt that the countdown was rather boring as all they did was sing songs and I only had a few laughs. I don't think I will be watching next year's countdown if it is at this quality unless they put some pole dancers in the show. Just kidding :)
Hooray!It is going to be chinese new year soon.I cannot wait for the ang pows to come, I wonder how much money I would get considering that I had two uncles, two aunties and 13 grand uncles and aunties and so many more relatives that I cannot even count.Well, the only bad things are that firstly, ALL the money would go into my bank and secondly, I would be travelling from place to place like a mad dog.
My family started off by doing spring cleaning for about one hour or more, we had skipped breakfast and planned on going to my grandmother's house to eat a heavy lunch, and there would always be many dishes on the table even if you were eating alone. I took a bath after cleaning the house and proceeded to my grandmother's house.
When we reached her house, we had a scumptious lunch and settled down to do our own stuff. When night came, the house started to crowd with all my cousins, aunties and uncles.Luckily, I was part of the many to be able to eat first, at first, when I saw the food I gasped in awe. There were more than ten dishes on the table an a gigantic steamboat in the centre.The food ranged from abalone to shark fins soup. I really wondered how in the world one fridge would be able contain this much food, not to mention that there were two tables that were filled with food.
I could not even jog or much less even run after that meal, I felt like my stomach would explode, I really regret eating so much but yet I enjoyed it so much. After the meal, my cousins and I had few games of bingo, but we did not bet any money, that is...... until tommorrow or the next day. That night, I stayed up for the countdown while my parents went praying. Sadly, I felt that the countdown was rather boring as all they did was sing songs and I only had a few laughs. I don't think I will be watching next year's countdown if it is at this quality unless they put some pole dancers in the show. Just kidding :)
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Secondary 1 RSP orientation
14th January 2009
Today was a special day for the secondary one students who had joined RSP(Regional Studies Programme). The secondary two RSP students had prepared a rather exciting and eventful orientation for the rather priviledged secondary one students, as we as the pioneer badge were not so lucky as to have one.
first up we divided the sec 1s' into groups and then assigned each group leader to each group, and from the corner of my eye I could see several rather discontented faces probably because they were not grouped with their friends. I hope the sec 1s' understand that we had our reasons for doing so, as we want them to make new friends and stuff like that.We then gave a little tour around the RSP room and our little garden in the balcony and also explained to them RSP related things.
A picture of the sec 1s' listening to our introduction about the orientation
I was the station leader for the garden and showed them the different plants in the garden. As they would be tested in our little 'suprise' later, i introduced most of the plants and then gave them a preparation test so that the 'surprise' test later would be a breeze. It was rather easy and most of the groups managed to tell me the names of five plants after just 1 round of introduction to the plants.
Group after group came, and when I found out that one of the groups were pretty 'dead', I decided to do something rather unimaginable to lift their spirits and be more enthusiastic about learning about the plants.I told them that if they could name five plants, their seniors will pole dance for you.They immediately became enthusiastic about the plants and were all able to name five plants. I was quite happy, that is, until I realised that I had to do a pole dance, well at least some of the other seniors were doing it with me. It was pretty hilarious, and I was quite sad that there were no pictures to show them to you people on this blog.(Hope Ms Shyamira and 'Ibu' Leo do not find out about this as pole dancing has absolutely nothing to do with RSP)
A picture of the sec 1s' naming and looking at the various plants
After the tour around the RSP room and the garden, it was time for the amazing race, as you would probably know, contestants are to complete various stations and go to the next one, and finally reach the final destination. The only difference was that no team was eliminated even if they were in last place.All the groups were so fast that one of the groups only took about 10 seconds and probably shorter to finish my station. We then ended by singing Bangawan Solo with Daniel Kong and Lok playing their musical instuments and then invited the teachers to sing it too, with Ze Xuan the lead singer with the microphone, it was so funny!
All the way Ze Xuan!!We support you( I think!)
All in all, it was a great experience for both secondary two and one RSP students and I wish the secondary one students all the best in the learning of South East Asia and their third language, Bahasa Indonesia.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Best NPCC training ever!!!
9th of January 2009
Today was a rather normal day, it was the end of school and I had NPCC training after school, as usual, I and several of my buddies proceeded to the NP room for training. I was surprised when I saw some of the 'ponners' who attended training that day. Usually the numbers will be about 60% of the total students, but today, it was about 80%.
My guess is that there was games today, which was probably why most of the squad were so enthusiastic about coming for training. We started out doing physical training, which consists of the usual crunches, push ups, half squads...After which we proceeded to the games, when we heard about it we jumped for joy.
We were playing captains ball, and I, one of the few "pro" players, was unfortunately in one of the lousier teams.We were losing badly until our seniors stepped in to help us.There was a really, really,really wierd thing that kept happening, whenever my indian squadmate from the opposite side scored, for some reason or another, he would shout 'I LOVE ROTI PRATA!!!'. It was so wierd that I simply cannot describe it, yet it was so funny that my stomach nearly exploded due to laughter.
It was a great day, and it got even better when we found out that there was no drills. This was one of the best and probably the best training ever yet. Even though I know that it is impossible, I really wish that every training would be like that!
Today was a rather normal day, it was the end of school and I had NPCC training after school, as usual, I and several of my buddies proceeded to the NP room for training. I was surprised when I saw some of the 'ponners' who attended training that day. Usually the numbers will be about 60% of the total students, but today, it was about 80%.
My guess is that there was games today, which was probably why most of the squad were so enthusiastic about coming for training. We started out doing physical training, which consists of the usual crunches, push ups, half squads...After which we proceeded to the games, when we heard about it we jumped for joy.
We were playing captains ball, and I, one of the few "pro" players, was unfortunately in one of the lousier teams.We were losing badly until our seniors stepped in to help us.There was a really, really,really wierd thing that kept happening, whenever my indian squadmate from the opposite side scored, for some reason or another, he would shout 'I LOVE ROTI PRATA!!!'. It was so wierd that I simply cannot describe it, yet it was so funny that my stomach nearly exploded due to laughter.
It was a great day, and it got even better when we found out that there was no drills. This was one of the best and probably the best training ever yet. Even though I know that it is impossible, I really wish that every training would be like that!
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