Sunday, December 31, 2006
Today is new year eve, the last day of 2006 and guess how I spent it.
Tuition in the morning! At my grandma's house watching TV in the afternoon! Attended the countdown celebration at my condo's function room where there were lucky draws, magic shows... Wah, what a way to spent this day.
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Saturday, December 30, 2006
How I wish I can turn back time or maybe fast forward it. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve and I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready to welcome 2007. Not when I still have so many homework undone. Not when next year is the year I dread in my Secondary school life.
Shining FriendsA little faith, brightens a rainy dayLife is difficult you can't go awayDon't hide yourself in the corner,You have my place to staySorrow is gonna say good-byeOpen up, you'll see the happy sunshineKeep going on with your dreamChasing tomorrow's sunrayThe spirit will never dieSun will shine, my friendWon't let you cry, my dearSeeing you shed a tear, Make my world disappear,You'll never be alone in darknessSee my smile, my friendWe are with you, holding handsYou have got to believeYou are my destinyWe're meant to be your friendsThat's what a friend should beI like this song alot. (:
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Friday, December 29, 2006
Ok this post is for Lynette who I hate very much, who kept pestering me to blog and who cannot remember what happened during anco, so she wants me to refresh her memory. (:
9/12/2006
My dad sent Huiying, Kaixin and I to Northview Sec really really early in the morning, but we got lost half-way. When we reached, the school gate wasn't even opened yet! After falling in, we ran from place to place because of the unpredictable weather. Had barang check at the parade square. It wasn't as bad as last year's but this year's was more careful with illegal things. We got split into our respective bunks. Bunk 2! Shared with bnco people as well. We had lectures before and after lunch including MOI footdrill which I don't really like. XP Anyway, time passes quite fast and we had hiking briefing before supper. I was the group ic then so copied down alot of things. Bathing was chaotic. Managed to wash my hair only cos unlike last year, both bn and an were sharing the same toilets. Firedrill in the middle of the night. One thing I regretted doing was not tying up my hair before sleeping. I didn't had time to tie up my hair during running so I was feeling quite hot. Run up run down then in and out of bunk. So basically, we had firedrill cum bunk check cum changing parade. Tired.
10/12/2006
We woke up super early cos we didn't know what was the time since there was no clock in the bunk. So bunk 2 woke up first followed by bunk 1 and then the bn nursing bunks all woke up too. And it was only 5am! We had physical training, luckily this year both bn and an had separate physical traning. After breakfast, we got ready for hiking. Avocet plus Squirrel were the 4th to leave for the hike. We had a girl in our group that know her directions in Yishun very well, so with her, we could get to our checkpoints easily. (: The 1st checkpoint was the most exciting cos we need to overcome obstacles. I was the first to go but I still lost to Whye Keat from the other competing group. In the end, we still managed to win the other group and we thought of our group cheer! hahas. Carried on and we kept competing with group 3. During the hike, we had quite a number of casualties, one needed to be brought back in the ambulance. We were all very tired but we managed to complete the checkpoints and made our way back to school. My group was competitive enough to run all the way back to school, coming in first! (: Had outdoor cooking. Didn't eat much as usual. We had our first triage after that. I was one of the spotters, spotting for all the casualties. Quite an easy job to do. Being the duty group for that day, we cleared the canteen after dinner. Debbie, Hidayah and I even had to clear the dustbins. Unlucky for us, there was one bin with vomit inside and we had to clear it! Disgusting. We took quite a long time getting rid of the garbage so we were missing from the lecture. We had lectures after that and prepared for our campfire item with Otter. Managed to bathe today cos we were given a longer time as our group cleared garbage again after supper. Thinking that the hike was quite tiring so they won't wake us up in the middle of night, I slept quite soundly. But they did wake us up again.We had firedrill again, this time our timing was good but the bn didn't take their strength correctly so we had to stay in pumping position for a very very very long time. It was really tiring and my hands were all numb. We kept repeating the SJ 8 pointed cross to distract ourselves. Lynette made me cry cos she said her arm was very pain and she was on the verge of crying. When we were recovered, we had to help some people up and I helped Boon Yi wear her beret cos she couldn't even lift up her arms. an was very good cos everyone persevered and only 1 fall out sick. (: Sore and tired we went back to sleep. My arms were aching throughout the night. My group had sentry duty that night but it was quite slack.
11/12/2006
Woke up, wash up, had physical training. We had a mini competition during physical training today. My group won! (: So we managed to skip the remaining exercises done during physical training. We had telematch after that. Teamed with Otter and played water, non-water games. Fun fun fun. (: Unlike last year, I managed to play water games this year. After the different games, we had telematch with the other groups. We were quite ahead at the start but when we came to the 3rd station where we had to bite an apple in a pail filled with water, we took really long doing it. So we lagged behind and there was this station that everyone had already played, except us, but even the game masters had left. This showed how slow we were. The other groups cheered for us when we were at the last station. Coming in last wasn't that bad after all. Footdrill MOI right after lunch. We got to command then. Community singing and preparation for campfire! (: We helped to set up the seats for campfire. This time, we really had a real fire. Groups performed their items, sang songs and there was a wonderful display of dressed-up tribal people. My group did the tarzan and jane song. We had fun singing, dancing around the campfire. It was super late already so my eyes were always shutting. I almost fell asleep while waiting for supper. Didn't bother to bathe cos I was really sleepy and so Olivia and I just fell asleep on the groundsheet while others were bathing. Got woke up again in the night for bunk check. I did something super embarrassing. I guess my mind was still sleeping then. The bunk check didn't last very long and we were back to sleep. (:
12/12/2006
Woke up super late today. It was a few mins to 6.30am already. Quick wash up and fall in at the parade square. Many people didn't even had the time to wash up. hahas. Last physical training so it was quite slack. We were even allowed to lie down and look at the sky. We had another triage before area cleaning. I love being a spotter! hahas. Area cleaning. My group was given quite a clean location so we ran from firedrill area to ava room to canteen to hall to instructors' bunk and finally to campfire site to help out. We had to clear the charcoal and sand and it was really tiring cos the weather was really hot. We spent quite a long time clearing it, we even had to carry the big big garbage bin cos it got stuck when we were pushing it back. Finally settled down after hard work and we had evaluation at the ava room. Lots of feedback form to fill up and we were briefed on our exam day. Lucky draw was carried out and the prizes were remaining food. hahas. We had phototaking and we all had to change into our full uniform. EVERYONE STINKS! After phototaking, we were dismissed! anco camp had came to an end. Time to go home, bathe and sleep. (:
Wah. I finally managed to type out the events during anco camp. I'm not sure if I remembered everything correctly. Lynette yap! You better thank me for this!
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Went to collect my new specs this morning. It's now super clear but I'm not very use to wearing it. Also went to see the dentist at Orchard. So she checked on my teeth and my next appointment will be on Feb for moulding and x-ray. I will only be able to have my braces on near Mar next year.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Supposed to do homework in the morning before going out but I ended up doing spring cleaning. I cleared my cupboards and drawers and I have 3 plastic bags full of old books and rubbish. After lunch, met Huiying at YCK mrt station and we waited for Jaslin at bishan. Can you believe that we were supposed to meet her at 2.20pm and she left her house at 2.15pm, somemore had to take bus. Wah. We waited for her for 40mins! We were super late when we reached Marina Bay mrt station. Walked out of the station and we had to take bus to the bowling alley. But a tree collapsed and blocked the road so basically no vehicle can pass that stretch of road. We wanted to wait for the bus but it will take very long to move the fallen tree so we decided to walk there which is 3 bus stops away. Our walk there wasn't easy cos it was raining quite heavily and it was quite a distance. Finally reached there and began bowling. (: My scores were like increasing by 1 each time until I had a strike. Basically it was the first strike then so everyone was fussing that I had to treat them to dinner later. We played 2 games before some went to the arcade while some stayed to play other 'games'. We left the bowling alley for marina square for dinner. We cab to the mrt station cos we didn't want to walk again and it was still raining. We ate at the food court at marina square, sitting outside to admire the beautiful scenery. hahas. Left early with Huiying, Jaslin and Xinrong.
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Monday, December 25, 2006
MERRY CHRISTMAS This year's christmas is the worst christmas ever. Usually every christmas there will be a celebration at my aunt's house but my aunt migrated to Australia so basically this year, there's no party. Sad. I received a lot of wishes but I don't even have a present this year. How horrible can that be. Spent my time watching TV today cos I don't like the idea of doing homework during christmas. Wells, that's christmas this year. Luckily I have something to look forward to tomorrow.
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Friday, December 22, 2006
Waking up like normal school day feels so weird. Reach school by 7 cos todays the day when the new sec ones come to st nics. Went to the hall to usher the parents and the students in. My first 'customer' was a girl from my primary school and she was so early so I sat down and chatted with her. (: People started streaming in and performances were going on to entertain them. Speeches and introduction then brought the sec ones to their new classroom. We did some registration and played ice breakers. For ice breakers, we did self-intro, played games and taught them school pledge, school song and line dance. After everything, we could all go home. (: Went to plaza sing for lunch and then walked all the way to the singapore museum. Its disappointing. We had the view of what a perfect museum is like after watching the movie: night at the museum, and to see that the singapore musuem has nothing much to show. Everything you want to see must pay to go in. So basically, we didn't want to waste our money so we see the exihibits that are free admission. The free admission exhibits were so little and theres nothing much you can gain from viewing them. The only thing I enjoyed was reading comics on display. My dad told me that the London's musuem is really nice, free admission for everything and there is even a build-in roller coaster to take you around. So cool. Too bad I can't really remember cos I was so small then when I went to London. Speaking of young, my aunt just gave birth today! (: Bundles of joy! I have a new cousin!
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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Return to school today. We sorted out every single sec one student's form. We even had their information before the results of the posting of school was told to them. It was quite tiring though. Went to make new specs. My eyesight increased as usual. Now is 675 and 750. I know its alot. Changed my frame and now the front colours are orange and grey while the side colours are white, blue and purple. Very colourful. hahas. I tried on many pairs of specs before coming to a conclusion. The few 'finalists' were purple and green, metallic blue, red and my choice. I did tried on yellow, orange and white, white and black and many many more. (:
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Night at the Museum is such a funny movie! Went to watch it just now. The scenes usually make you feel scared but then it turned out really funny. Go and watch it! I love the phrase: QUIET!!!!! My dum dum friend wants to talk. Its so hilarious. (:
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Monday, December 18, 2006
Went to thomson plaza to have breakfast today. I wasnt feeling well when I woke up so I had porridge for breakfast. After shopping, we went to suntec. Had lunch at Marina Square's foodcourt. All the memories... After lunch we went to the garden festival at suntec. We saw lots of plants and different garden designs. I love the orchids exhibition. At first everything was interesting then I got kinda tired walking for so long.
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Saturday, December 16, 2006
ANCO exam day. I was chao nervous in the morning. In the car, I was rambling out everything that I learnt from the notes for huiying and happy. Reached hq and realised that whatever we learnt for footdrill yesterday was wrong and so, started to panic. First parade then photo taking. We all had theory and the paper was 2 hrs. I finished the paper quite early so was very bored staring into space. We went out for lunch before returning for MOI. Avocet and Dingo partnered again for MOI footdrill. I was the first to begin. Chao scared and I was totally lost on how to report. My lesson was quite dull, only Debbie replying to me and so, I replied loudly for hers. Anyway, I thought MOI footdrill was quite a failure. Went for MOI classroom. I suddenly became quite high. The only thing bad was my voice was shaking and sir said I look like I was doing disco cos I had alot of body gestures. But sadly, my group highest is only average. Since we had time to kill, we looked at pictures from the pre-camp, course and camp. Some were really funny. After debrief, we were dismissed. I guess I'll see everybody only next year. Went to change before going out for dinner with squadmates. As usual, we were very noisy, gossiping alot. hahas. I am really going to miss ANCO. (:
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
ANCO CAMP IS OVER! (:
JUST WOKE UP FROM MY 20 HOURS OF SLEEP!
usually i will type out everything that happen during the camp but i too lazy now. got a lot of things to catch up on. so ya.
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Went to Sentosa today. Visited my uncle's house there. We took the chairlift up to the 4-D show. The 4-D show is really nice and the things seem so real. There's one part where the bees attack and they really looked like they are going to sting you. Took the luge down and drove to Pallawan beach. We crossed the bridge to the southern-most point before going to the foodcourt for dinner. Left Sentosa at 8 plus and reached home just in time for Amazing Race. I taped Channel 8 show while watching Amazing Race. It was so exciting cos Singapore team was almost eliminated.
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Went to do group flag today. Supposed to meet Debbie at 9.40am at Bishan but we couldn't find each other in the train so only after we reached City Hall then we saw each other. Waited for the rest to come. While the guys went to spot light to buy paint, I drew on the flag while Debbie started sewing. After 1 hour, the guys finally came back and we started painting avocet. We finished sewing too and thought of group cheer and group item. Since our group is avocet and we are joining with otter for the camp fire item, our combined name is AVOTTER! cute right? We decided to do an energiser and also dance to Tarzan and Jane song. So don't copy us! Anyway we realised our flag is super big and will touch the floor so we resewed it again. We also did the props for our camp fire item. Went for dinner with Debbie, Dingo and a girl from BNCO. We had like the craziest time at macs, laughing and laughing away. She is chao comical and kept burping! In the end, reached home at around 9pm. One whole day out to do group flag and group item! Wow!
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Monday, December 04, 2006
ANCO Course is finally over! After a tiring 3 days, it is time to rest and prepare for camp. Besides footdrill, I kinda enjoyed most of the time during the course. Some of the lectures are interesting too. Before camp must meet to make group flag, prepare item for campfire and pack for camp. haiz... I am chao scared for camp now.
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Friday, December 01, 2006
I just finished a hong kong drama series 'Ten Brothers'. The show is super nice to watch. The ten brothers are actually quite good looking except for their funny hairdos. All of them had to shave their hair for this show. I like the 4th brother! He is chao shuai. Don Li Yat Long! hahas. Anyway, went to watch Casino Royale yesterday. I don't think this movie has a lot of action compared to previous James Bond movies. sad. Tomorrow going for ANCO course liao. Time passes so fast.
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