MIDNIGHT!/ Friday, June 29, 2007
We got some SAJC guy to take a group pic...
Reflections are always a good way of taking pictures.
And yet another reflection again, this time, the wall opposite our previous reflection picture.
What's a better way of spending time when waiting for others besides taking pictues? You can explore the functions in your camera as well haha.
*shakes head* guys. They must have been too bored watching us shop.
We stopped by this sony roadshow to have our picture taken and developed.
yet another reflection picture: the adidas shoe mirror.
I simply love this picture! We took it outside the hereen neoprint shop.
Our neoprints.
Past. Present. Future
6/29/2007 10:56:00 PM <3
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Yes, I'm relieved that my common tests are over. But no, I'm not looking forward to taking back the results. And I don't feel happy at all, despite the fact that the mid year tests are over, because I know that the results will be horrendous and I'm ashamed of facing them. So since I know I'll be ashamed of my results, I should have studied harder during the holidays right? I did study during the jun break, but somehow, information does not retain in my brain long enough for me to sit for the exams. So now, I'm worried. Worried not just about the results, but the upcoming prelims as well as A'levels. I know very well that I want to do well for my the A's. I do want to tell myself that I have the capability to do so.
If I were to rate the difficulty of this common test, maths would be the hardest paper, followed by physics, chemistry and econs would be the easiest paper. I didn't have time to completed maths and chem papers. Perhaps it's because I lack the ability to recall knowledge that I've learn. I understand the concepts (okay except for some physics topics), so why is it that I need to think so hard to attempt the questions? Maybe I didn't have enough practices...sigh.
Since chemistry was the last paper today, naturally, we have to had some activities to take our minds off studies for a moment. We deserve it after finishing 4 days of papers, don't we? Or do we? Hmm. So anyway, after we completed chemistry, sel jeanice and I didn't know where/what to go/do. The guys were going to amk hub to watch transformers while the girls were going town to shop. The 3 of us stood outside school, deliberating where we should go. Should we join the guys for lunch and then the girls to shop? However, since the guys' movie was about to start, we dropped that idea and went town instead. At somerset, the 3 of us debated having a k lunch or a sushi buffet. In the end, we chose the latter. So the 3 of us stepped into suki sushi, stayed there for nearly 3 hours and made our stomach bloated. Extremely bloated. Of course, there was the usual crapping and laughing and stoning over lunch. The food wasn't as nice as compared to sakae sushi though. For one, they had fewer varieties. And, we had to wait for quite some time before the food we ordered was served as well.
so while we were waiting for the food that we had ordered, we decided to take some pictures...
My 1st time eating COLD green noodles! BUT, I'm not particularly fond of it. =x
Sel and I always see the 2 of them after our common tests and at cine. And it was stef's birthday as well!
Meiying's class also had lunch at suki sushi.After lunch, I watched nancy drew with ariana. The cinema was virtually empty except for a handful of us, which included 2 guy among the female audience. I wonder why they would want to watch this movie together..weird. But well. I don't understand guys. Coincidentally, 4 ajcians came to sit besides us during the movie. Hmm. The nancy drew movie was short. It only lasted for 90minutes. I wouldn't say it's a money for value show. It' not very interesting. 
How can we leave out the toilet when we take pictures? -.-When the movie ended, both of us went to meet mingjie yt and lw for dinner and some shopping at mango before heading home. Hmm. I heard alot of gossips.
Group pic with a nice background!Shopping with odac tomorrow! yays yays. :)
Past. Present. Future
6/29/2007 12:20:00 AM <3
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MIDNIGHT!/ Thursday, June 21, 2007
Meiying baked brownies!! =) Yays. Just when I was complaining about my craving for cookies! And it was delicious! yummy yummy. Thanks meiying! *muacks*An elderly old lady, whose movements were graceful, boarded the bus. Despite of her age, she had maintained her complexion well. 50 years down the road, would we, young ladies, be as graceful as her? Or would we be old and haggard? Do we have a choice?
Past. Present. Future
6/21/2007 11:28:00 PM <3
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I have this sudden craving to eat famous amos cookies. And I think I'm getting fat. I haven't been exercising since last saturday. Instead, I've been eating and sleeping. Hmm. I finally got my computer repaired today, after leaving it alone for 2 weeks. But I spent a long time fixing it. An hour reformatting my computer and another 2 hours talking to the ISP, router person as well as the HP person, not to mention the bus ride down to The Riverwalk so that I can upgrade my router.
Past. Present. Future
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MIDNIGHT!/ Monday, June 18, 2007
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MIDNIGHT!/ Sunday, June 17, 2007
ajcians appeared in the AS video! Gina got interviewed.
yunlin and yihang at the sajc station!
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this babe came down after the tuition and joined us for the prize presentation!After the race, there was pre-packed lunch for us. We had lunch and then went to abseil down ngee ann city. Nice! We were even presented with a certificate after completing the abseil. As we were under 21, we needed consent from a guardian. Hence, stacy's dad, who was there, kindly signed the formed for us. Thanks uncle, for helping us and safekeeping our bags under the race as well!Later on, we went to eat again and then waited for the prize presentation. At around 7 plus, Mr Teo Ser Luck, the parliamentary secretary for ministry of community development, youth and sports came to present the present. Ant and eric went to collect their prizes. They got $200 cash! Cash voucher! Wahh. I'm envious.
we waited a long time for the prize presentation and so decided to take a picture with the 'non-moving' people..
the winners. =)We went down to cathay cinema to catch fantastic 4 immediately after the prize presentation. Ant's bro had booked 6 tickets for us. The movie was nice! haa. But I feel abit bad, cos half way through the movie, his bro actually sent food in. Like such good treatment! hmm. It was raining heavily after the movie ended, so since the guys were taking a cab home, they gave us a lift to the mrt station before that.the adorable little boy. he was walking along the streets of orchard road with his father and he was pointing at the sky. after walking for a while, his tiny hands held on to my index finger and he walked for a distance, still looking at the sky. we were also innocent back then and trusted strangers didn't we?
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6/17/2007 01:01:00 PM <3
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MIDNIGHT!/ Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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MIDNIGHT!/ Sunday, June 10, 2007
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checkpoint 3: somewhere between a river. task given: river crossing.After the trail biking segment, we had to wait for sometime before being allowed to continue with the race due to bottlenecks. We ran through part of our biking area into somewhere where there was a river. NTU oac had erected a 'bridge' and we had to cross the river using the bridge individually. Our team had to wait for quite a while before we could proceed, since there was already a team in queue. The bridge was made of nettings..it's quite difficult to explain in words, so I shall save the explanation. It was fun experience crossing the river though, especially since this is my first time attempting river crossing.checkpoint 4: tunnel near paya lebar air base.task given: tunnelling.After the river crossing, we had to run through the 'greenery' before we could reach the tunnelling segment. By 'greenery', it refers to plenty of tall grasses/bushes. We had to run up and down some hill. This part of the race reminded me of our rinjani expedition, when we were descending down on day 4 of the expedition. Coming out onto the road after following the race directions, we found out that our water supply was running out. Ant and jc were starting to have leg cramps as well. That however, did not made us demoralised. The determination, to win the race, was there. Arriving at the tunnelling area, we had to wear a rope-made-into-harness and then lower ourselves down into the tunnel. Then, we had to clip ourselves to a rope, so that if there was flash flood, we won't get swept away. I think tunnelling is bad for you back. We had to bend our back and run through the tunnel! That position, coupled with the running, left me quite breathless for a long while after that. And after the race had ended, my back hurt.checkpoint 5: ikea field.task given: walk on 2 planks provided and complete a series of obstacles.Done with tunnelling, we had to climb up onto the streets again. I struggled trying to climb. Without the help of ant and ken, I doubt I would be able to climb up. Once onto the streets again, we passed by a water point, which ran out of water. Hence, we had to be contented with ice to hydrate ourselves. The warm sun parted a large role in dehydrating us..Passing the ice point, we walked/jogged to the area outside ikea field. And thankfully, they had a water point there! In fact, one of the guys were kind enough to give us 2 ice mountain water. And he told us that we were at the 2nd last checkpoint then. At this station, we were given 2 planks and had to stepped on them. At any point in time, there must be no contact of our feet with the ground. Faliure to adhere to that rule would be equivalent to having a 5 minute penalty. The 4 of us worked as a team and managed to complete this station relatively fast. We had to walk around a distance and pass through poles which we weren't suppose to knock over as well as a spider web. Sadly though, we incurred a 5 minute time penalty because we touched the spider web. But, I think we exhibited great teamwork as well as wits, especially in the way we crossed the obstacles. :)checkpoint 6: pasir ris park maze.task given: hug and roll a pipe.Leaving ikea, it was long way to pasir ris park. We had to pass through another canal as well as the sungei api api connector. I liked the part where we had to walked through the canal! First, we had to lower ourselves down into the canal through the use of a rope, like abseiling down. Then we walked/jogged through the canal. Some parts of it was quite slippery though. Then, at after travelling a distance, we climbed up again. We took a longer route to pasir ris park after that. We didn't see any race signs and so crossed a bridge when I dunno if we need to or not. But, we still managed to find our way to the checkpoint in the end, though some time was lost. At this station, we had to hug ourselves to this thick pipe and then roll ourselves from one point to another. Any individuals who failed after 3 tries would be given a time penalty of 3minutes. jc is the pro one! After we had helped him to stay on top of the pipe, he rolled all the way to the end point. For the rest of us, we had to push/jerk/kick to reach the end point.checkpoint 7: white sands field.task given: complete the race.Having completed all the stations, we just had to proceed back to where we started off. The starting point was the ending point. However, there was no map given on how we should go back to the starting point. Either we use a shorter route, or a longer route. Asking the passer-bys which was the shortest route to pasir ris mrt station allowed us to take the shorter route back. But I think ken was so fierce when he screamed at the passer-by! Sounds quite unlike him. And so, we were the 1st team of our wave to reach back. 4 of us, hand in hand, ran past the finishing line, and collapsed. We took ourselves we'd complete the race before 1400, and we did. =)We rested for a while, and then went to pasir ris park again, this time strolling, to wash up. The bathing facilities there were quite good I should say. I lost one shoelace to the park though...Back to the field at 1610, we waited for more than an hour while the results were collated. And during this period of time, I felt nervous. Ken too I think. The team wanted to win. We'd already put in our best effort. We all felt that we stood a chance of winning, since we came in first for our wave. Around this time, sel and meiying joined us as well.Finally, the results were released at 1745. The top 3 teams did not include us. Rather, it all came from the teams in the last wave. Perhaps that was why the organisers took such a long time in collating the results. We appealed, but were rejected. We were too slow as compared to the winners.Not being able to win left me feeling disappointed/sadden/angry/demoralised..we'd train for this race. We set out with the mindset to win. And I'd daresay that we were a bonded and united team, all with the same determination to want to win. Sadly though, our best wasn't enough. :( And, we had disappointed those who had high hopes for us as well. We didn't stay for the prize presentation, but went for dinner at Swensens' instead. There at least, there was food to comfort us. Coincidentally, we saw Ivy having dinner with her friends there as well.It really hurts to face failure. You tried so hard, and you worked towards that goal with such the determination and commitment. And still, you failed. But perhaps, it's through failures where you can learn and improve yourself. Then next time round, you'll win. jak jc. The 4 of us started training a month ago, after we'd sign up for the race. 4 weeks to train, and today, we showed others what aj odac can do. I'm really proud of the team. Despite the leg cramps, none of you gave up on yourselves, nor your team mates. We cheered one another on when we had to. We pushed each other if we need to. Today, we've ran/kayaked/biked/climb/crawl. We may not have won, but, we did our best. We're definitely better than average. We may not have reached the top, but I know that we'll continue to work hard to reach there. So, three cheers. And, thank you.
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6/10/2007 08:35:00 PM <3
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MIDNIGHT!/ Friday, June 08, 2007
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MIDNIGHT!/ Monday, June 04, 2007
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MIDNIGHT!/ Friday, June 01, 2007
SG9 outing :)
18 of us met up at 1500 and went the 1615 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End movie at cathay cine. Thanks to jeremy for helping us book the tickets! Pirates is a nice movie!! Exciting! I thought I wouldn't be able to understand the movie since I didn't watch part I and II but I actually did! hee. Diyanah and Wen Si made cookies for us! Yummy. The movie lasted approximately 3h long so by the time it ended, it was 1900. Dominic and Xing Wuan joined us for dinner after that. As with all large groups of people, we had trouble deciding where to eat. And when we finally decided on what to eat, ie, Swensen's, we found out that there ain't sufficient seats to accommodate all of us. After making enquires at the glasshouse, we found out that they had enough seats and hence, had our dinner at fish and co. Then while waiting for the food to arrive, we played truth or dare. Most of them chose truth...maybe I should have gone the same then. =x Overall, it was definitely an enjoyable outing with SG9!
Jurong Bird Park outing
I joined the 8 of them at the bird park after finishing my econs test. It was my first outing to the bird park! Initially, the map gave me the perception that the bird park would be quite big with alot of attractions. After walking around for a while though, I realise that it wasn't the case. And, I found out that birds ain't something that I like passionately. =.= In fact, if they come too near to me, I'll be scared. Hmm. But overall, it was a great outing, because of the company that I had. :) Lunch at the bird park was expensive! They charge exorbitant prices. After lunch, we walked around for a while viewing the birds and watched the birds of prey show then bade goodbye to the birds..
Pre-University Seminar 2007
I had a wonderful experience at ntu. The bonds we'd formed, the friendship that we'd built. Certainly, the times which my group, SG9, had formed together, will never be forgotten. =) Perhaps I shall update on the details on another day, especially since my com isn't working now and I can't upload pictures. hmmph.
It's not the activities, but the company that matters -aj ODAC.
Past. Present. Future
6/01/2007 07:08:00 AM <3
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What's a better way of spending time when waiting for others besides taking pictues? You can explore the functions in your camera as well haha.
Group pic with a nice background!
