COS' WE ARE WINNERS FOREVER
Saturday, May 27, 2006
RI SEC 3 GEP'06 <3
IM BACK XD overseas learning journey was tiring, dirty, but in the end, rewarding and fun! I LIKE.-First Day-
Actually not really first day hor. More like from 4pm+ We started in school, then went to the train station which was really run down (i didnt know there were still places in s'pore where they charge you 2o cents for going into the toilet! And the train ride started from like 6.30. REALLY FUN. Haha though i didnt do anything much but sleep and watch people play and eat and read my book. I like such rides =) Cool experience too watching the outside pass by
-Second Day-
Started from 12 am -.- argh. Was a zombi this whole day. Anyway we got to pahang at around 2.30am+? And it was so dark and so ulu i felt so horrible. (so gu niang? lol). But we got to the palm plantation chalet. and they were quite run down =/ yucks but fair and quite big lah. at least our room didnt have frogs or flys or spiders or lizards like the other rooms xP WE WERE CLEAN. Yay i roomed with tian le and tedric. And we watched cool malay dramas.
Then wake up call 7 am. Horrible i say. Then we went back to sleep! Luckily tedric woke up at 7.15 haha. if not we would have been late. breakfast was quite fair and fun. And there were kittens around the pool! I was quite uncomfortable with all the open nature, grass mud all that. I am a superbly disinfectant shiny clean city mall person. 100% yes.
Then we split into two groups. Bus A and C go to the plantations. Bus B and D go caving! Kevin Mark Lee and Seetow stepped on an ants nest and it was so gross xP they took off their shoes and ants were crawling all over their socks. There was so many it looked scary +_+ Hmm anyway after lunch we swapped with the other group!
Now we went caving. The caves were dry for the most part lar. But there was one part in the dark where it was so muddy and squishy we were all like omg and ewwewweww. But i think we would have been quite blind without our head lights lar. And climbing in the caves was quite fun. Adventurous! Yay really damn fun especially that part where we had to climb throught the small opening in the ceiling. So small i almost got stuck! As it was i had to scrape through. But it was fun climbing through the caves together. Jump here jump there, climg here climb there and balancing on rocks! Though i was really a dead zombie lar my legs were so exhausted.
Then the last part of the caves. We went into this HUGE cavern. REALLY HUGE. The top was like hmm as tall as a condo? or shorter. I dunno x/ but REALLY HUGE. Yeah and the rock walls were really really cool. But the coolest was the rock island in the middle where it comes up and the light shines on it through an opening in the ceiling. Really beautiful when the light shines on the island. There were plants on it! Wow. Pity i dont have photos from the caves cause i didnt want to bring my camera in =( But i shall get from our professional photographer daniel lee! yes.
There was one part along the wind cave where it was super windy. Damn nice the breeze. And the whole place just looked natural in a cool way lar. Not like hiking up a bukit timah hill or smth.
Back to chalet to wash up! And then dinner. After dinner we went to night walk in the plantation. Tour guide brought us in a long way. Then we had to turn over all the torch lights and headlights put in a sack and each bus was only given 2 candles, and we had to find our own way back. So we walk in two lines in the dark hoping the people heading the line didnt lead us wrongly haha. Though it was quite easy cause the path was just one or two way. Ms tang and mr teo were behind me and haliim and they were very scared hor xP But titus as usual. Big dependable brother from primary 4 =) stayed at the back of the line behind the teachers.
Debrief was interesting. The kittens kept on sneaking up on us and walking among us that everyone was getting shocked frequently. Like halfway feel something warm and furry bump against you hand. Then look then AHHH. And HOHOHO ms tang is scared of cats.
I think i was high =) night walk quite interesting lar but had to bathe again after that.
-Third Day-
Hmm wake up call at 6.30 this time. Then after breakfast long bus ride which was damn fun. Bus ride to... Kuantan? I think yes. On the way we stopped at a batik factory which was damn cool. A lot of people bought fake billabong and quiksilver caps which were cool and only 10 ringgit. But i didnt buy. Come to think of it i was very stupid on this trip. I hardly bought anything back. But anyway there were a lot of mosquitos and flies in that place -.- But then bus ride to the hotel!
Oh yes kevin mark lee gave me his bag of food to keep for him and it was FULL of food. Haha damn fun and he let me take all! I shared it with lionel, sambor, benhong; and between us, we managed to finish almost all xP
After the chalet, the hotel was HEAVEN. The teachers ask for volunteers to go with them to buy stuff for the orphans with the money we raised but i didnt volunteer cause i wanted my free time in the hotel. I felt a little guilty since i just stoned in my room while a lot of others went out together to check out the cheap pirated stuff at the mall opposite xP Hmm but then we went for turtle release.
The turtle sanctuary you have to take of your shoes then can go inside. Hmm and we learnt about the place and turtles. Then we were all supposed to release a turtle each. but it started raining after dinner. So only those people who want to volunteer will go to release turtle. There were so many ants in that shelter that kept landing on you and hitting your head and all that. TOO MANY TO COUNT. Really the place was really teeming with ants, i was getting very freaked and stressed. And i was annoyed with our muddy shoes and sandals left out in the rain it was so disgusting; i didnt feel like releasing a turtle.
But after ms tang talked to us on the bus about it. How she said it was a really once in a lifetime opportunity. Cause the people do not let tourist release turtles or anyone else. The teachers and mr jimmy from the rotary club had to negotiate with them many many times before they agreed. And it was because of our school's name that they agreed too. So i felt really guilty that i had wasted such an opportunity and wasted the teacher's efforts.
So when ms tang asked for people to the mall and buy more things with our remaining money for the children again i volunteered. Guilty conscience mah x) Though i was super tired and irritated wiht my dirty and muddy sandals and dirty self. (it was 9pm+ already!) but i still went. And whee im glad cause it was quite fun. The shops were already closing and i think we were the last customers at the shopping centre. But we went back and the teachers asked us to spread the word that anyone who wanted to help to go down to the lobby at 11pm to help sort out all the stuff.
Im guilty again. I was lazy so i didnt go. i went to jiahong's room to play for a while then went back to my room. To my credit, i slept at around 11 =) See so i didnt not go down because i wanted to play. But i think, when i was in primary school. I would have volunteered for all these without any hesitation. Where did my enthusiasm go to? I guess i no longer believe in all these.
-Fourth Day-
We went to the homes! Bus A went to the orphans home. And we didnt need to clean the place cause it was very clean but the other 3 buses needed to clean their homes cause they were private owned and quite rundown. Someone got bitten by a centipede while cleaning! Scary. Anyway we went to their nursery too and there were so many cots inside. They looked like prisons. And there were a few babies and toddlers. They were so cute but it was so sad. We played with them for a while and michael bin gave one of the toddlers his watch cos he kept playing with it. I like that spirit =) That's very nice.
Anyway we went to the royalty beach after that for picnic lunch with the people from the homes and to play with them. It was quite cool. But couldnt wait to go home!
Then the long bus ride home was so fun. First we watched two movies, poseidon and triple x II. Poseidon was damn funny... cos you could see the shadows of people walking across the screen. Lol this one REALLY pirated. Gosh they videoed it in the cinema and halfway suddenly see someone's head moving across the screen. Lol. But i wasnt really watching. I was eating/listening to benhong's mp3/sleeping. Such bus rides are for gorging yourself on junkfood and spoiling your teeth, sharing your food, sleeping and being a pig. We all shared our food and it was so fun =)
Then after we passed the singapore checkpoint, titus came to the middle of the bus. And took out his guitar and and we sang songs. First we sang nonsense songs. Then later we kept singing our batch song and school song. I LOVED IT. You could really really feel the bus spirit and camaraderie . It was solid. When to the school song. We were singing at the top of our voices and it just makes you feel so =) and like crying haha. But we quickly sang one final batch song before we arrived at school. And ms sim was quite excited to see our bus and came up cos after all we're the coolest bus right x) Yeah but we really had the most fun. BUS A ROCKS.
On my bus i sat right at the front with daniel lee. Benhong and haliim/yansheng sat behind us and sambor/lionel opposite. Haha lionel scaredy cat! I liked the people sitting around me =) and the teachers to my right haha.
Hmm on this trip, it was fun but tiring. But i feel so much worse as a person after this. I experienced so many more things and witnessed so much more of my friends. I saw much nicer things of my friends that i never knew and i feel so bad for being such a judgemental person. I look at all the good qualities of other people and all the nice things they did and i feel like a horrible and bad person =( I dont like what i've become and i feel so inadequate.
Anyway i have FINALLY updated my links! Yay and ive uploaded the photos, they are in the links page. But silly me i mostly took pictures of myself and useless photos. The photos i should really have taken i didnt take. But dont worry! I shall get them from daniel lee, he has EVERYTHING. I shall get the nice cave photos too! Yay so wait for me to get then i will upload them too.
AND I LOVE 3L'06 <3
Actually not really first day hor. More like from 4pm+ We started in school, then went to the train station which was really run down (i didnt know there were still places in s'pore where they charge you 2o cents for going into the toilet! And the train ride started from like 6.30. REALLY FUN. Haha though i didnt do anything much but sleep and watch people play and eat and read my book. I like such rides =) Cool experience too watching the outside pass by
-Second Day-
Started from 12 am -.- argh. Was a zombi this whole day. Anyway we got to pahang at around 2.30am+? And it was so dark and so ulu i felt so horrible. (so gu niang? lol). But we got to the palm plantation chalet. and they were quite run down =/ yucks but fair and quite big lah. at least our room didnt have frogs or flys or spiders or lizards like the other rooms xP WE WERE CLEAN. Yay i roomed with tian le and tedric. And we watched cool malay dramas.
Then wake up call 7 am. Horrible i say. Then we went back to sleep! Luckily tedric woke up at 7.15 haha. if not we would have been late. breakfast was quite fair and fun. And there were kittens around the pool! I was quite uncomfortable with all the open nature, grass mud all that. I am a superbly disinfectant shiny clean city mall person. 100% yes.
Then we split into two groups. Bus A and C go to the plantations. Bus B and D go caving! Kevin Mark Lee and Seetow stepped on an ants nest and it was so gross xP they took off their shoes and ants were crawling all over their socks. There was so many it looked scary +_+ Hmm anyway after lunch we swapped with the other group!
Now we went caving. The caves were dry for the most part lar. But there was one part in the dark where it was so muddy and squishy we were all like omg and ewwewweww. But i think we would have been quite blind without our head lights lar. And climbing in the caves was quite fun. Adventurous! Yay really damn fun especially that part where we had to climb throught the small opening in the ceiling. So small i almost got stuck! As it was i had to scrape through. But it was fun climbing through the caves together. Jump here jump there, climg here climb there and balancing on rocks! Though i was really a dead zombie lar my legs were so exhausted.
Then the last part of the caves. We went into this HUGE cavern. REALLY HUGE. The top was like hmm as tall as a condo? or shorter. I dunno x/ but REALLY HUGE. Yeah and the rock walls were really really cool. But the coolest was the rock island in the middle where it comes up and the light shines on it through an opening in the ceiling. Really beautiful when the light shines on the island. There were plants on it! Wow. Pity i dont have photos from the caves cause i didnt want to bring my camera in =( But i shall get from our professional photographer daniel lee! yes.
There was one part along the wind cave where it was super windy. Damn nice the breeze. And the whole place just looked natural in a cool way lar. Not like hiking up a bukit timah hill or smth.
Back to chalet to wash up! And then dinner. After dinner we went to night walk in the plantation. Tour guide brought us in a long way. Then we had to turn over all the torch lights and headlights put in a sack and each bus was only given 2 candles, and we had to find our own way back. So we walk in two lines in the dark hoping the people heading the line didnt lead us wrongly haha. Though it was quite easy cause the path was just one or two way. Ms tang and mr teo were behind me and haliim and they were very scared hor xP But titus as usual. Big dependable brother from primary 4 =) stayed at the back of the line behind the teachers.
Debrief was interesting. The kittens kept on sneaking up on us and walking among us that everyone was getting shocked frequently. Like halfway feel something warm and furry bump against you hand. Then look then AHHH. And HOHOHO ms tang is scared of cats.
I think i was high =) night walk quite interesting lar but had to bathe again after that.
-Third Day-
Hmm wake up call at 6.30 this time. Then after breakfast long bus ride which was damn fun. Bus ride to... Kuantan? I think yes. On the way we stopped at a batik factory which was damn cool. A lot of people bought fake billabong and quiksilver caps which were cool and only 10 ringgit. But i didnt buy. Come to think of it i was very stupid on this trip. I hardly bought anything back. But anyway there were a lot of mosquitos and flies in that place -.- But then bus ride to the hotel!
Oh yes kevin mark lee gave me his bag of food to keep for him and it was FULL of food. Haha damn fun and he let me take all! I shared it with lionel, sambor, benhong; and between us, we managed to finish almost all xP
After the chalet, the hotel was HEAVEN. The teachers ask for volunteers to go with them to buy stuff for the orphans with the money we raised but i didnt volunteer cause i wanted my free time in the hotel. I felt a little guilty since i just stoned in my room while a lot of others went out together to check out the cheap pirated stuff at the mall opposite xP Hmm but then we went for turtle release.
The turtle sanctuary you have to take of your shoes then can go inside. Hmm and we learnt about the place and turtles. Then we were all supposed to release a turtle each. but it started raining after dinner. So only those people who want to volunteer will go to release turtle. There were so many ants in that shelter that kept landing on you and hitting your head and all that. TOO MANY TO COUNT. Really the place was really teeming with ants, i was getting very freaked and stressed. And i was annoyed with our muddy shoes and sandals left out in the rain it was so disgusting; i didnt feel like releasing a turtle.
But after ms tang talked to us on the bus about it. How she said it was a really once in a lifetime opportunity. Cause the people do not let tourist release turtles or anyone else. The teachers and mr jimmy from the rotary club had to negotiate with them many many times before they agreed. And it was because of our school's name that they agreed too. So i felt really guilty that i had wasted such an opportunity and wasted the teacher's efforts.
So when ms tang asked for people to the mall and buy more things with our remaining money for the children again i volunteered. Guilty conscience mah x) Though i was super tired and irritated wiht my dirty and muddy sandals and dirty self. (it was 9pm+ already!) but i still went. And whee im glad cause it was quite fun. The shops were already closing and i think we were the last customers at the shopping centre. But we went back and the teachers asked us to spread the word that anyone who wanted to help to go down to the lobby at 11pm to help sort out all the stuff.
Im guilty again. I was lazy so i didnt go. i went to jiahong's room to play for a while then went back to my room. To my credit, i slept at around 11 =) See so i didnt not go down because i wanted to play. But i think, when i was in primary school. I would have volunteered for all these without any hesitation. Where did my enthusiasm go to? I guess i no longer believe in all these.
-Fourth Day-
We went to the homes! Bus A went to the orphans home. And we didnt need to clean the place cause it was very clean but the other 3 buses needed to clean their homes cause they were private owned and quite rundown. Someone got bitten by a centipede while cleaning! Scary. Anyway we went to their nursery too and there were so many cots inside. They looked like prisons. And there were a few babies and toddlers. They were so cute but it was so sad. We played with them for a while and michael bin gave one of the toddlers his watch cos he kept playing with it. I like that spirit =) That's very nice.
Anyway we went to the royalty beach after that for picnic lunch with the people from the homes and to play with them. It was quite cool. But couldnt wait to go home!
Then the long bus ride home was so fun. First we watched two movies, poseidon and triple x II. Poseidon was damn funny... cos you could see the shadows of people walking across the screen. Lol this one REALLY pirated. Gosh they videoed it in the cinema and halfway suddenly see someone's head moving across the screen. Lol. But i wasnt really watching. I was eating/listening to benhong's mp3/sleeping. Such bus rides are for gorging yourself on junkfood and spoiling your teeth, sharing your food, sleeping and being a pig. We all shared our food and it was so fun =)
Then after we passed the singapore checkpoint, titus came to the middle of the bus. And took out his guitar and and we sang songs. First we sang nonsense songs. Then later we kept singing our batch song and school song. I LOVED IT. You could really really feel the bus spirit and camaraderie . It was solid. When to the school song. We were singing at the top of our voices and it just makes you feel so =) and like crying haha. But we quickly sang one final batch song before we arrived at school. And ms sim was quite excited to see our bus and came up cos after all we're the coolest bus right x) Yeah but we really had the most fun. BUS A ROCKS.
On my bus i sat right at the front with daniel lee. Benhong and haliim/yansheng sat behind us and sambor/lionel opposite. Haha lionel scaredy cat! I liked the people sitting around me =) and the teachers to my right haha.
Hmm on this trip, it was fun but tiring. But i feel so much worse as a person after this. I experienced so many more things and witnessed so much more of my friends. I saw much nicer things of my friends that i never knew and i feel so bad for being such a judgemental person. I look at all the good qualities of other people and all the nice things they did and i feel like a horrible and bad person =( I dont like what i've become and i feel so inadequate.
Anyway i have FINALLY updated my links! Yay and ive uploaded the photos, they are in the links page. But silly me i mostly took pictures of myself and useless photos. The photos i should really have taken i didnt take. But dont worry! I shall get them from daniel lee, he has EVERYTHING. I shall get the nice cave photos too! Yay so wait for me to get then i will upload them too.
AND I LOVE 3L'06 <3
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