Sunday, August 31, 2008

I want to thank Aijia and Abigail for helping me to collect homework etc the whole of last week.
Hope i can catch up with the new things the teachers have teached as soon as possible.

Abigail and Sky happy holiday. One at Hong Kong, one at Korea(: Enjoy your holiday my two loves^^

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Outward Bound Singapore(fri 29aug08)

Its our last day of OBS.
We played some games.
Activities (1) tunnel climb
(2) bell
Everyone will have a chance to climb a undergroung tunnel all by your own. This was the first time, i really felt that im all alone. I can hear my own body movements. The tunnel was damn dark. I can't even see myself. I can really feel how the blinds had always felt--alone, dark, lifeless. So people out there, stop emoing...you wasn't alone!
Attempt a activity(a wish activity?)

#something like that#
One person stand on a particular height, front facing the others, ready to jump forward to hit the bell.
The command goes like this:
person: say out loud the wishes
person: Raleigh ready?
group members: Raleigh ready, Raleigh pull
person: jumping
group members: jump on
^^back to square one...BUT...it was not the end of the perilous journey...

Outward Bound Singapore(thur 28aug08)

That day, we kayak from Sebawang's campsite back to OBS camp2.
We took 4 hour on the return journey. Before we start off our journey back, i saw the rainbow(my first time--so pathetic).
During the journey, we were damn complacent--we raced in the kayak(there were participants from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, China, Singapore, New Zealand) haha(:
This might be a feasible method to compelled us to kayak faster.
Fishes jumping into the kayaks.
Reach safety to OBS camp2^^
We have conquered the sea expedition as a mobile!
The bonds between Raleigh has strengthen. We even have a hand sign...hahas.
That night was significant. Raleigh reclined on the platform of the jetty. See stars and pen down our reflecions.

Outward Bound Singapore(wed 27aug08)

That day was a memorable day.
My kayaking partner had changed due to some issues. From kevin to Rong Tat. Our backpacks are transported via two rubber dinghy.
We kayak from OBS camp1 to the campsite at Sembawang.
It took us 8hour to complete the 13km distance.
The weather was appalling. As a mobile, we kayak through two storms, lightning and heavy rain. Waves and currents smacks against our kayaks. I can say, our kayaks are susceptibe to capsize in the midst of this treacherous sea expedition.
The storms had compelled some of us to kayak more rigorous. The storms had also caused some of us to give up. There were people with sea sick in the expedition and they vomited. One even dislocated his shoulder joint. What will you do when you have dislocated your shoulder?? You would have asked your partner for help. BUT...he didn't. He tried to fixed it back0_o. I knew some of us prayed fervently for the rain to subside and it really does after some time. We have to be vigilant at all times so to manoeuvre the kayaks or rocks, if not, we will bump onto other kayaks or worse, rocks, that are very dangerous. The relentless rain did not discourage us. It gave us the power to treasure the things we had. We have short breaks in between the expedition in the middle of the sea. Instructors threw food to us on their rubber dinghy. The food won't sink.
When we reached the campsite at Sembawang, we heaved with glee. Although, we were devastated during the storms, we have surmounted all the obstacles in the expedition.
The crucial skilled we had used is...persevered! So no matter what obstacles we have faced in life, persevered. Because i believed...after the storms, we will see the sun shines.
Camped at Sembawang. There were no utility or water supplied there. All we have is sea water and bushes to cook and do our business.
Everyone has their duties to do on that night. We have to patrol around the campsite to look after the bags, life vest and the rubber dinghy.

Outward Bound Singapore(tue 26aug08)

My group woke up very late and Fong was very disappointed with us. She lamented our efficiency of doing work that we decided to work extra hard on our efficiency. We have our morning exercise and jogging. Played some games before we start our activities.
Activities (1) Rock wall climbing
(2) Hiking
(3) Kayaking
I injured myself during rock wall climbing but was oblivious to it. Scratches here and there. Haha:p
Hike for half an hour. It is not just hiking...we have to carry lots of things that was really very heavy to OBS camp1.(two person to one backpacks provided by OBS^^i shared with Tricia^^--our two days clothes each , one poncho each, one life vest each, basic necessity each, two 2litres bottles each etc)
My kayak partner is kevin. We have to carry all the kayak near the shore. Learn to kayak and capsize(a drill). When i was going to stand up on my foot after capsizing, my knee come in contact with rough rocks. The rocks inflicted a wound on my knee.
Everyone will take turn to kayak and capsize.
After the drill, we kayak for approximately 2 hours. It was consider a short distance away from the shore. My partner and I capsize at the deep sea. Not accidentally but delibrately(assigned by instructor). Another kayak act as a rescurer to rescue us. There is actually a technique to rescue. Bear this in mind. You cannot rescue another kayak by jumping into the sea which the television programmes always showed.
The food i/c for that day is Hariz(regent). He likes to cook so i appointed him. He was so lucky, he did not need to cook at all, OBS provide us with a proper meal.
We have to pitched tent away from OBS camp1. It took us 15min to walk to our sleeping area where we could pitced our tents there.

Outward Bound Singapore(mon 25aug08)

At punggol jetty, a boat ferried us to OBS camp2 at Pulau Ubin.
There are two mobiles all together. Each mobile has a total of 4 groups.
I was the only girl from regent in my group "RALEIGH".
The first friend i knew from other school was Tricia. Nice to know her(:
On that day, our instructor, Fong appointed the various i/c.
Im the food i/c for the first day and i was like lost in the wonderland.
The first time i had to coordinate all the rations that was given for five days for 16people. I was like freaked out.
Took a group photo on the first day. The photo was lifeless to me...cos i cannot sense any togetherness yet. We were very shy and were unfamiliar with each other.
Feel like going home and was regret about going to OBS at first. I thought i was facing a dismal perilous journey of OBS at first.
We did a particular activity to test if we have mutual trust between our group members. 7people were to pull one side of the sheet, 8people were to pull another side of the sheet(there was handles to hold on/pull by the sides). One person stands at a particular height on something, back facing the rest of the groups members, ready to fall on the sheet. Everyone has to attempt it.
The command goes like this...
person: Raleigh ready?
group members: Raleigh ready, Raleigh pull.
person: falling
group members: fall on

#something like that#
Climb a 'high' element. It was sarcastic;p Learn to be a climber, belayer, ankleman, ropeman.
I was assigned to cook my group dinner. If you know me well...you should know i CMI. Luckily, Pei Ling, Foong Mei, Hafiz, Shariff help me with the dinner.
We have to pitched our own tents for us to sleep in. I was damn sleepy but cannot fall asleep. Maybe, i had not get acclimatise to a new condition.

Oh ya! Let me introduce my instructor and group members.
Instructor: Fong
Group members: me, Tricia, Hafiz(regent), Zhong Yi, Shariff, Pei Ling, Foong Mei, Kevin, Rong Tat, Nisa, Hafiz(yuhua), Aaron, Gurmeet,Karthik, Hafizah, Nelson.

Friday, August 15, 2008

YAY! Just one more test to go! Im so sleepy. Lesson were as usual today except the fact that chemistry leeson was used for biology test which doesnt concern about me--a non bio student. Just after our english common test, Alaine gave Ms Eng a surprise for her birthday which is tmr. Alaine walked towards Ms Eng with a birthday cake on her hands. And the same thing again..we sang the birthday song. Haha it was so coincidence...today is Kailer birthday. So the birthday cake was shared between Ms Eng and him. Oh ya, during recess, Sky, Abigail and me dilated upon hairy men. And the whole conversation was like..ok hysterical. I shall not go into it further.

Two more weeks, i wil be going for the OUTWARD BOUND SINGAPORE. I heard that it is very tiring and tough...hope i can smoothly overcome any obstacles that i will be facing in the camp.


# a tower makes of small triangles #
PE lesson was used for the Character Building thingiiee. On wed 13aug08, Mr Khoo distributed poker cards. Do not get the wrong idea...the cards is not for a cribbage.
It is for building a tower. The group with the tallest tower will win. Can you imagine that?? The cards were so fragile. Mr Khoo told us that other students from other class can reach a maximum layers of six. Whoa!

So every of my group members were doing their own tower...trying to figure out whose methods will work. I was trying too and an idea hit my mind. So the above individual triangles were my idea. Our limited scotch tape is not sticky anymore when the idea hits me. So we took the scotch tape from the teacher desk but must be careful not to let Mr Khoo finds out.(ppl invovled:sky and me)

Some of us make the individual triangle while others were planning the arrangement of the small triangles to build the tallest tower.

Our effort doesnt drained off--we build the tallest tower!

Thursday, August 7, 2008

It has been times i did not post. Extremely tired...yawn,feel like sleeping.
DONE
5aug08:
1.physic common test
2.geog class test
7aug08:
1.emath common test
2.physic class test

FORTHCOMING
12aug08:
1.amath common test
2.SS test
14aug08:
1.chemistry common test
15aug08:
1.eng test
18aug08:
1.MT test