Monday, December 17, 2007
Sunday, December 16, 2007
i drew a picture recently. More like coloured it though.. because i just used the smudge tool for all the hair instead of drawing literally. Redrew outlines over original pencil lines for the face. Spent 3 hours!! on a head -_- so lame.. one hour or so on the hair alone.it looks better in bits!
This isnt the whole thing either but i still think looks better in bits? :/
the whole thing looks weird :/ And i realised the face looks slightly more yellow yellow on my other com although its beige here. The colours i see on this com are different from the other com :/ Even the blue here looks really dark on the other com. I wonder which one is the correct one...
Saturday, December 15, 2007
No i did not watch it in the cinema, it was opened last year and NC16...
and im gonna spoil it!
so dont read if you dont wanna get spoilt.
yea.
dun read! dun read!
dun read!!!
ok, if you're still here it should not be a problem. And its rather long...
The movie starts with a little girl who has blood flowing backwards from her nose, like in a reverse. Then an intro about a princess who ran away from her kingdom, and she went into the mortal world and forgot her identity because the sun erased her memories or something like that.
Then they show a girl who is following her pregnant mother to see her 'father' who is known as Captain. On the way there the girl, Ofelia sees an insect-like thing that buzzes and she asks it if its a fairy cuz its long and thin and looks like a praying mantis. Then her mother calls her and says that she wants Ofelia to call the captain her father.
When they meet the father Ofelia doesnt call the captain father, she stretches out her left hand for a handshake instead, and the captain grabs it and says its the other hand. Ofelia sees the insect-like thing again and she tries to catch it, and drops her books. She follows it into the forest and to the labyrinth. A maid Mercedes brings the books to Ofelia and tells her that the place is a labyrinth and not to go in because she might get lost.
There is a war going on and there are people hiding in the forest and the captain wants to capture them of course.
Ofelia is with her mother in bed and her mother is sick with the baby. The doctor prescribes some medicine and Ofelia takes it and puts it on the table beside the bed. In the middle of the night, Ofelia sees the insect-like thing cuz it comes into the room where Ofelia and her mother are sleeping, and it crawls onto the blanket. Ofelia asks again if it was a fairy and shows it a picture of a fairy. The insect-like creature morphs itself into a fairy, green with a human body. It itself looks surprised at its little hands. It then asks Ofelia to follow it by making movements. Ofelia follows it into the labyrinth.
There, she meets the faun, Pan and he tells her that she is a princess Moanna i think. And that she must complete three tasks before the moon is full to ensure that she has not become a mortal. He also tells her that she has a marking on her left shoulder to prove she's the princess. He gives her a book and a pouch and tells her that the book will tell her what to do and she must read it when she is alone. She flips the book but its empty.
So the Captain is holding a party and Ofelia's mother has prepared a dress for her. Ofelia goes into the bathroom for her bath. She sees her left shoulder in the mirror and sees the moon mark. She opens the book and pictures and words start forming. The first task is to throw three stones from the pouch into a giant toad's mouth, and retrieve the key from its belly.
So while the other people were occupied, she goes into the forest in her nice little dark emerald green dress. As she reads from the book, she walks to a tree that the book is talking about, which is dying because the toad is living off it. She takes off the dress and hangs it on a tree [yes she was still wearing stuff underneath] and crawls into the tree. It's like shyt inside, all muddy, with squigly squirmy bugs that squirm up her arm. Then she sees the frog. Its huge and fat. It shoots its tongue at her and licks her on the face. She speaks to it, telling it that it should be ashamed, living off the tree while it dies and blah. The frog rooars at her. She drops the stones, but as she picks them up, she picks a bug up as well. The frog makes a movement. She decides to use the bug to lure the frog, so she pretends she is throwing the bug into the frog's mouth but instead she throws the stones together with the bug. The frog's tongue suddenly grows bigger and bigger and bigger and erupts from its mouth until there is nothing but a blob of tongue left on the mud and a frog skin. its just sick la. Then she retrieves the key from among the grime of the tongue and goes out. She finds that her dress has been blown by the wind onto the ground and is covered with dirt.
Meanwhile, the grownups are looking for her. Mercedes sees her return and her mother tells her that she is disappointed with her and the captain would be even more disappointed. Ofelia smiles behind her mother's back. The next day Ofelia goes into the bathroom again to open the book. But the pages start filling up with blood. She hears her mother moaning outside and slams the book shut because its getting more bloody by the second. She goes out the bathroom and sees her mother trying to walk, but she's bleeding and there's blood on her hands and all over her dress, its everywhere. Ofelia goes and calls the captain.
The captain tells the doctor who checks on her that if he has to choose, save the baby, cuz its supposedly a boy. The doctor says that Ofelia musnt sleep with her mother anymore and her mother must have rest. So Ofelia has her own room now.
The faun appears to her at night and says that she hasnt completed the next task. But Ofelia says that her mother is sick so she cant. The faun says thats no excuse and gives her a Mandrake root and tells her to put it in fresh milk and drip two drops of blood on it then put it under her mother's bed and her mom will get well. Then he tells Ofelia what she must do for the task.
She's given a piece of chalk and an hourglass. She has to draw a door on any wall of her room then set the hour glass and she has to return by the end of the hourglass. She has to go retrieve a dagger but there will be a sumptious feast before her that she cannot eat or the buttugly guy will wake up and eat her. She is given fairies to guide her. So she draws the door and enters. She sees the feast and she sees the buttugly guy who has eyeballs on the plate in front of him. He just looks like a super undernourished person with no gender indicator.
She unlocks one of the three locks on the wall and gets the dagger. But on the way she is tempted by the grapes and eats two of them. The fairies keep flying in her face to warn her but she swipes them away. The buttugly guy awakens and picks the eyeballs from the plate and stuffs it into the eyesockets on his palms. He puts his hands to his face to see. Ofelia turns around to see that he has awakened. He eats two fairies. She runs. But the door that she drew earlier is already closing because the sand in the hourglass is running out. It closes. She put a chair earlier to get down from the door so this time she uses it to draw a door in the ceiling and climbs up. The buttugly guy cant catch her of course. He's too ugly.
So she escapes but she tells the faun that there was an accident and the faun says she cant be the princess anymore.
And i cant remember when but she puts the root under her mother's bed and her mother gets better. The root is like a baby, it squeals and curls up like one. But later on the Captain discovers it and wants her to stop her nonsense. Her mother throws the root into the fire and it screeches and burns. Her mother then suffers constrictions and dies after giving birth to the baby boy.
Meanwhile, the Captain discovers that Mercedes is a helper of the people in the woods. He tries to interrogate her in the storeroom but she slashes him while he turns his back. She slits his back all the way down and when he turns around, she stabs his left shoulder. Then she sticks the knife in his mouth and slits it towards the left so he looks like he has an extra big smile now. And there is blood everywhere of course. She runs. The guards outside notice and wonder why the captain let her go. The captain comes out of the storeroom and tells the men to chase her.
They do but they get shot by the people in the forest. They then set fire to the place where the Captain is staying.
The faun returns and tells Ofelia that she'l get one more chance. She has to bring the baby to the labyrinth. So she does but the Captain [who was earlier sewing up his face in the mirror] sees her and chases her into the labyrinth. At this time, the place is being burnt down. The faun says that she has to prick the baby to get a drop of the blood of an innocent to open the portal. But Ofelia refuses. Then the captain appears behind her. He takes the baby from her. She says NO! But he shoots her. She falls, but lets herself fall near the portal so that her blood will fall in.
The Captain runs out of the labyrinth, but he is met by the people in the forest, who shoot him and tell him that his baby will not even know his name. Mercedes goes into the labyrinth and sees Ofelia on the ground. Her blood drips and trickles and flows into the portal. The scene then becomes this royal place, and Ofelia is wearing a satin metallic dress that looks royal. The king says that she made a good choice by letting her own blood flow instead of her baby brother's. The faun appears and applauds and says it is a good choice as well. The scene then goes back to the labyrinth. Ofelia is smiling, then she dies.
The end! Its NC16 for all the gory bits... they didnt censor them so you get to see his face sliced apart too. It's a really nice movie! Hope my memory was sufficient for the whole story.. I left out most of the war conflict bits though, cuz they arent so interesting :/ I have selective memory. Those parts dont come back so clearly.
私は孤独である.
boooo..
Friday, December 14, 2007
Anyway i had a dream this morning.
The lot of OBS people were on this ship, made of wooden boards, the very large kind of ship of the olden days with the paper thin sails that could rupture any moment. I remember at first we were all walking around normally on the inside and there was a captain sailing the ship. The inside was clean and white, just like a modern ship, with a blue strip running along the horizon of the wall. The floor was white with sparse black speckles, like marble but not that smooth.
We were watching people from a two-way mirror and they didnt know they were being watched until they were told about it and they rushed out of the room. The rest of us dispersed and went our own ways and then suddenly we all went onto the deck. The sky was overcast and a dark dark grey, it was stormy. The waves were crashing but there was no sound. No thunder, no lightning. Just clouds that were getting mixed up with the waves because everything was thrashing and everything was grey. We were all searching for the last scraps of food rations lying around, but we needed the stuff that could be eaten right away. There were many bags of potatoes confused among the ropes, but we couldnt take them cuz they had to be cooked. I found a bag of pistachio nuts and made off with it, and other people found other stuff. We had to load all the food onto our rubber life boats cuz the ship was sinking. We had no instructors or anything, it was just us. The rain was falling down on us and we hurried to pull down the sails, the ship was beginning to tilt. The waves were catching up on us.
One by one we jumped off the ship into the life boats. Then another ship approached. it was the instructors' ship, theirs wasnt sinking they were just watching us and clapping at our escapade attempt.
Yea, then i think i woke up. I think this dream must be linked to cycling in the rain + seeing uncooked potatoes on the chalet table + OBS memories. somehow. Although i'm not sure where the pistachios came from.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007



sit on the roof of the house but XR said i would die :C Saturday, December 08, 2007
*This is hilarious...even an Englishman could not construct
> > sentences using numbers!
> > Exclusively only to great Malaysian and Singaporean........
> >
> > Ah Lek was asked to make a sentence using 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 .
> > Not only did he do it 1 to 10, he did it again back to 1.
> >
> > This was what he came up with...
> > *
> > *1 **day I go 2 climb up a 3 outside a house to peep. But the couple
> > saw me, so I panic and 4 down. The man rush out and wanted to 5 with
> > me. I run so fast until I felt 6 and throw up. So I go into 7 eleven
> > and grab some 8 to throw at him. Then I took a **9 **and try to stab
> > him. 10 God he run away. So, I put the 9 back and pay for the 8 and
> > left 7 eleven. Next day, I call my boss and say I am 6 . He said 5 ,
> > tomorrow also no need to come back 4 work. He also asks me to climb
> > a *! *3 **and jump down. I don't understand, I so nice 2 him but I don't know what he 1 .
From my sis. lolol.
Friday, December 07, 2007
93 98 96 93.
dont know whats wrong. But actually i know some were aimed wrongly.. but some were aimed so exactly yet they landed somewhere else. So actually i dont know afterall.
Anyway after that we[xr and i] had to go find huiwei and kristy. So we flew off to paya lebar mrt first and got some food cuz we were dying of starvation. Then it was raining like crap so we took a shower while walking to the busstop. And then we took a bus.. which stopped quite far away from that ulu place that we were supposed to go -_- so we took another shower and finally got to the place with the tiny little kbox.
So XR and Huiwei and Kristy sang while i ate macs and slept and took pics of 'em.

Maybe the rain can create new fashions


i am tall! i see the world down below!
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Maybe.
Cuz no one wants to stand beside you in the rain.
Even the people with umbrellas will just walk past.
We're all going different ways, arent we? They calm their conscience.
But it doesnt matter.
It makes the rain a good place to hide.
Maybe.
It was all over my face. And through the lenses it made the backlights of the car look fractal. Giant starfish. But everything blurred. Just like it should be.
Everything just blurry.
Then there will be nothing to see.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
We had to carry all the guns and suits up to LT3, where we had our dark room training. But first, there was a lecture about how to shoot 10s by none other than our wonderful ever-reappearing senior. Then for dark room we had to hug gun for 3 times of 10minutes... it was suanifying for my left hand and my left palm started feeling tingly at the last part of the 3rd 10minute. We were supposed to get the feeeling. I felt stable but maybe i was moving without knowing. And cheeking down hurts.
So after that was lunch. And then lane training. First, we shot 3 10 shot groupings.. the first one was to focus on not moving the left hand. 2nd was to focus on grip and last for lowering gun to target. I'm not really sure about the differences because i pretty much did the same thing for all 3 10s. But the results varied largely. Only my last 10 shots were relatively good.
After that was holding gun for 2 minutes before firing off. And i did EXTREMELY badly for this one cuz my gun kept jerking off and every shot would jerk like siao so i shot stuff like a 6 and a 7. And only the last 5 shots were closer to the 10 ring cuz i barely hit any 10s for the rest. And my neck was like gonna break and my feet felt like dislocated already...
We ended off with 10 shots of one shot per card to boost our morale [or rather mine, i dont think anyone shot as shyttyly as me for the rest.] I shot either 97 or 98. Strangely i dont seem to be able to shoot groupings, and my single shots seem to do a lot better. But its all in the mind huh. I wonder.
XR, look at what you missed!
I was still not feeling hungry when i left the range at 5+? But i fell asleep, or rather i decided to not alight from the 67 bus so it was a one hour ride back to bedok interchange, and that was enough to make me feel like puking from hunger. And that stupid bread shop didnt have rainbow sprinkly doughnut -_- they have it like everyday except the day when i want to eat it. So i settled for something else. And i also gave someone the wrong directions for a block number by accident.
And that was my day. Theeendd...
Monday, December 03, 2007
And wish they would all just Shut The Hell Up.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
1. He commented: "The wantan very big." [At my wantan] THEN HE KEPT STARING AT IT. like he wanted to eat it with his eyes. I couldnt even eat properly after that.
2. Qiaowei was eating dao hui and he wanted some. and he said "You look so beautiful eating the dao hui." at first i didnt hear. then andy was like, OMG did you hear that?? And he GLADLY repeated, "You look so beautiful with the dao hui." and so i said, stop disturbing our air rifle girl la [you idiot.] And he was sitting close enough to lean over her shoulder. DISGUSTING SHYTHEAD.
3. He wanted chocolate from us and it was right in front of me, so he gave me this totally blindingly painful pitiful look by quivering his lips and furrowing his eyebrows. [green for the puke factor]BUT HE LOOKED SO GROSS I WANTED TO PUKE. So i just said, the chocolate is for gen. [cuz it was] so i passed it to her. And he turned to give her that pitiful look, but she ate the chocolate. Anyway he looked so shytty i dont think anyone would want to give him any food. Whats with that disgusting fake look anyway.
Thankfully i didnt have to go OBS with him like last year -_-
The next day, we trained first, then had Lee PT. It was awesomely painful. By the end of it we were all crumbling to the ground and holding the wall for support while going down the stairs. We went to do senior's farewell video after that since we were too crumbly to train again but after lunch, we had to train again. I think our shots were all horrigible compared to the morning. After training, Nicole and i went to celebrate some failure by shooting hoops. We suceeded. After that we had to go for road run + 20min on the track. Jiapei was filming us suffering together.
At night, seniors fred and yi xiu[i think] gave us a talk of their experiences and then we had to learn the club mission: To develop NJ shooters into leaders with passion, marksmen with perserverence and sportsmen with integrity in the journey of self discovery. Lee tested two people and they got it wrong and we had to do 2 x 10 times of his horrendous squatting and getting up exercise...
Then we had dinner while hearing another two seniors talk, Sarah and i dunno the name of the other one. After that was to labrador park for mental training. We had to make the railing disappear so that we could see the whole sea. I managed it but i kept wondering how our brains were able to perceive what was behind the railings since they are supposedly blocked. So as the railings disappear, how come the pattern of the waves still can be formed.. I wonder if we can use this to look through walls. At one point, 1/2 of xiu rong disappeared diagonally, which was quite scary cuz she faded off very fast but shot back into view the moment i noticed. After the exercise my eyeballs were thouroughly strained.
The last day was nothing much. We shot mock com again and then final 10. I shot the same score as i did for the first day for the mock com and final 10 i shot 101 point something.. but without all the point-somethings to save me it would have only been 96. I didnt improve at all and i have no idea why Im shooting how Im shooting cuz sometimes the shots just have their own life and go where they want to although i seemingly aimed at the same spot.
A few of us also helped to neaten up the range after that. It felt like quite a great accomplishment because the range really looked much nicer after the packing and everything. And there were many many xiao qiangs with long legs and feelers [wonder why its pronounced fee-lers and not feel-ers since they are used for feel-ing and is that not the reason they are called feel-ers?] crawling around that got shot by sprays of xiao qiang killers. And one died right outside the range door.
Chalky is very annoying. But not as annoying as jeremy, who is VERY VERY ANNOYING. His mouth should rot so all his teeth sink into his gums and he becomes disfigured and his throat gets clogged with fallen out teeth so he cant shyt through his mouth anymore like he was doing the whole camp and polluting the world. DIE JEREMY, DIE!
Monday, November 19, 2007
Memories from the deep
But none of these are memories
That I want to keep
Take away these memories
Etched deep inside my heart
Cuz one by one these memories
Are tearing me apart
Please believe, these memories
Are nothing that I want
Don’t know how to get rid of them
Somehow I just cant
Someone please just set me free
Free from all anxiety
Cuz now all that I can see
Are these dreaded memories
Don’t know if you should even be a friend
Just know I wont be deceived again…
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Today on the mrt something scary happened. I was standing there, innocently, when suddenly this woman gripped my shoulder. I looked at her, she looked at me. She glared at me. [or maybe i just thought she was, but in truth it was actually a worried look i think] I thought she just needed something to hold on to so i didnt say anything. But she kept gripping. And she gripped harder. Then her whole arm snaked over to my other shoulder. I tensed. "Move forward" she whispered "The man behind is unwell".
Wa lau.
Say so la! I thought wth are you trying to do man -_- yes. she was just telling me to move forward, but she had her arms around my shoulders man. I didnt say anything the whole time, just wide-eyed, puzzled and then hit with realisation, relaxed.
The man was unwell. yup he was. He was huffing like a i dunno what. Like a dragon about to breathe fire? And when people got near him he put his hand up and glared really scarily.
And so that was my adventure for today..
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I had actually wanted to post about something else, but maybe not today.
oh yea i will not rot at home like someone said i would! i will do a lot of things...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
then they reappeared!! :/ we were almost going home already...
so train train train train.. for 2 and a half hours.. but i fell asleep halfway :/ in the suit. zzz so sleepy.. my shots deteriorated very fast.. oh well.. something wrong with my elbow placing... then got blueblack on my hip -_- so pain. dunno come from where.
after that went to eat kfc with xiu rong! so long never eat yay
then.. bought something for mo mo ren as christmas present... and then i realised it was 5 o clock liao! then gotta fly home.. reached home at 540.. left house at 6 for... OBS dinner!
OBS dinner was fun, we ate at sakae, but the instructors both didnt turn up :C so sad. but we had fun eating. the buffet people had to pay $28 each! The non-buffet people, me, jolene, shu jen, davina, christine, jocelyn and amanda made up a grand total of $90, so much more worth it. and we were super full after that too.
after that went to arcade and played air hockey thing. That was super exciting too. I played with jolene against wen loong and matthew. They so violent, of course win right... > <>
then the buffet people came along and they also played a bit and then we all went home happy C: the end.
Monday, November 12, 2007
so after chiansai and huiwei came along, we went to eat. Fudi was supposed to treat lynna so she refused to eat at food court or macs or kfc or subway... so we went to cafe cartel, just to make fudi pay more -_- we ate alot... so full after that.. i shared chicken stew and fish and chips with kristy and i also had a funny drink with hard ice cream in it. Huiwei had a mango one and i had a passion one. very weird tasting... like milky soda. We also gave lynna her birthday present... a bikini that huiwei chose :/
after eating we went to play arcade! I never play at arcade usually cuz i will waste a lot of money, but today was super fun! me and huiwei tried playing the throw basketball game, and failed miserably cuz we both couldnt even see the ring of the net and it was dark too... then fudi and chiansai were quite pro! [since both ex-bballers whattt...] after that i cant remember what we did, i think we left, to go to another arcade.
so we went to another arcade, this time with the basketball game again! and this one was higher so we could actually see the net! and had no ceiling so less restriction, plus there were lights around so it was brighter. Super fun, i played with chiansai and fudi played with huiwei. Then chiansai fudi and zi chao and kristy and huiwei also played detona. Then we also played some smashing buttons game which made our hands super pain but also very fun la cuz everyone could play together! But i was like super lousy cuz of a spoilt button so i died very fast -_-
after arcade we went back to play pool again. i teamed with chiansai kristy and we won cuz lynna hit the 8 ball in! yay! aiya.. but i also hit the 8 ball in.. [together with the ball i was aiming for!!] so we also lost becuz of that -_- play play play..
after that, dinner! we went all the way to outram to some hawker center to eat cuz lynna wanted to go there and said it was nice. We had claypot rice and a veggie and tofu dish. it was all pretty nice . Super full after that..
then of course, we went home! yay fun fun day.. xiu rong missed out :X
Sunday, November 11, 2007
7-day course
5th - 11th november 2007
Destination... PULAU UBIN! [feel the excitement.]
22 of us happy people and not so happy people had to go for 7 day obs at the end of the year since we missed the mid-year one due to ccas and germany trip and other reasons, so we met at the atrium at 0700h to take a bus to pulau ubin.
When we got there, gideon talked to us about stuff like introduction and all that, and then we were introduced to our instructors, cindy and mauricette. Our two watches were NEHRU and ELIZABETH CHOY.
Nehru[SEMANGAT.CINDY]:
Xiu Rong
Chuyun
Davina
Saniah
Eugene
Matthew
Geraldine
Shu Jen
Christine
Bee Him
Diana
Elizabeth[ENDEAVOUR.MAURICETTE]:
Desiree
Jolene
Jocelyn
Amanda
Rachel
Wen Loong
Zile
JiaSheng
Tiffany
Gillian
Sherlene
Day 1
I was separated from xiu rong!! and left alone with jiasheng -_- and other random people that i never really talked to... other than tiff of course. So it started out quite lonely. We had to do some activity where we had to walk around the place and look for checkpoints and it was in pairs, so i paired up with Jiasheng and we went searching around. Met xiu rong along the way. This activity was nothing much, just to get us warmed up i think.
Afternoon, we went kayaking to the other obs camp on pulau ubin to do our jetty jump. I kayaked with sherlene and jiasheng and it was pretty ok. I think Jiasheng was giving most of the power though XD. Jetty jump was not so bad. Jolene and I were the last to go and when i walked on the plank it was ok, until i reached the end of the plank, where i threw myself off before i could think of being scared cuz my legs were starting to shake. It was a looong drop down and i wondered how come i hadn't reached yet.. and then splash! All the shyt water goes into your nose and mouth.. wa lao eh. dam disgusting taste. > <
then at night we had to learn how to read maps because of a small little expedition the next day. zzz
Day 2
So the next day we had to go for our expedition to find checkpoints with little black signs with alphabets on them. I grouped with sherlene jolene and diana and we got lost. -_- We went climbing up a rock wall and coming back down to the same pathway that we climbed up... We didnt know where we were supposed to go although we tried to follow the map.. it looked weird :(.. so we tried to go into the forest instead, where we followed the path until it disappeared. We walked on and got lost > < . So we decided to turn back. Since we didnt know where we were at all cuz everywhere was just trees... and grass and spider webs, we just anyhow walked. Somehow, by some miracle, we found a sign! Except that they didnt even put which checkpoint it was... and it was so tiny and hidden on the dam tree! so we still didnt know where we were, but we were glad we found at least one checkpoint [out of 4 assigned to us, out of 21 in total] so we continued our way back... higher... and higher... and higher... until we realised we were like staring at the top of the super high flying fox! Shocking man. Then we had to climb all the way down and decided to follow the sea and we finally managed to find back the path and got out of the dam forest... all shytty and crappy with our shirts full of mud and spider webs.. When we went back to the room we were the only group that were so covered in shyt > <> <
That was the main activity of the day cuz after that we had to go pack our stuff for our sailing expedition!!
Day 3
Sailing! We were introduced to our cutter, Endeavour! Nehru got semangat, which means spirit in malay. and endeavour, well, means endevour! We were taught how to hoist the sails and all that. There are 3 sails in total, the sail at the back's name sounds like me-son, but i have no idea how to spell it. Then the middle big one is called the main sail and the one at the bow is called the jip! I was in charge of the jip so i had fun hoisting it up with other people also in charge of the jip. Clipping it onto the metal cable thing was painful though, cuz the stupid clip was so hard to press, together with the dam wind that kept anyhow blowing the sail.
Before leaving we had to pack a lot of stuff, and carry all the necessary things for the cutter, like one 10kg anchor and one 5kg anchor, and a box of rope together with this lighting diamond thing to make us detectable by radars. We had lots of rations like rice and lots of can food, instant noodles, biscuits and so on.
Finally when everything was done, we could go out to sea! Cuz we couldnt possibly push the whole cutter out, it was like driven into a sea by a truck on the structure with wheels, then we took a little speedboat to it. We climbed on and had to rooww ourselves away from the jetty. ROWING!! Like a kayak! Super strenuous man... Finally, we could hoist the colours~ After hoisting the sails that we were in charge of, we all had to help out hoisting the main sail, cuz its super heavy and big and goes across the whole center of the cutter.
So yay hip hip hurray we hoisted it [though a bit slowly] and started sailing! whee! sail sail sail. we sailed to the other camp where we did our jetty jump earlier, and had our dinner there. Instant noodles and apples. Jolene kept drinking all the soup and eating apples only -_- left me to eat the noodles.. then couldnt finish of course.. i saw a wild boar yay! [We had to go in an avon to get to the campsite from the boat and jiasheng and zile paddled us all the way!]
Day 4
Shall not be too long winded now [how appropriate], we sailed off again, to our reeeaalll campsite, at sembawang! We had to take down and pull up the main sail a few times because of the random wind, which was tiring.. but we learnt to do it faster and faster, and we also sang miracles! and then the wind really came! dam pro la... XD
We also played and practised a bit of our jives and tacks. I was the person pulling one of the sides of the jip ropes and that was dam hard la. Feel like youre gonna fly off the boat cuz the wind is pushing against the jip sail and you have to hold on to the rope so that it doesnt lost the bubble shape. so the rope is like giving you a slimming session...
When we reached the campsite, Jolene, Sherlene and I helped to set up tents together with the guys while the other girls went to cook food. Food was dam nice that day! Jolene and I shared instant noodles. Plain flavoured. But we were trying to open the can of mushrooms so we poured mushroom essence into the soup too, then there were baby sausages and then we poured a can of curry chicken in as well. Super nice!! We finished the whole thing unlike the night before and had cups of orange flavoured isotonic drink. It was raining while we were eating, and we saw fireworks from malaysia too. That was dam nice.
After that we slept in our tents, mine consisting of gillian, sherlene and jolene and me. It was dam hot in the tents at first but in the middle of the night it started raining and the whole tent shook like crazy and we were swinging about like a blade of grass. Then my tent had to wake up for sentry duty at 4 and go outside and shiver in the cold to watch the cutters. In the middle of the night jill was like waving her arms around like some possessed thing, dam scary. I had to push them away cuz i was sleeping beside her. And she was tapping her fingers on Jolenes legs... :b like a hentai...
Day 5
The race "home"! A race between Semangat and Endeavour!! Guess who won?? Endeavour of course! Everyone was singing like crazy all the way home and we were so bent on winning we rowed all the way back from Sembawang to our camp on pulau ubin, and sailed at the same time. This time we sailed with minimal help from Mauricette. I gave up rowing halfway and went to do the pulling of the jip sails instead so everytime we did a tack or jive i had to release one side of the jip rope and pull the other while two other people had to dip the main sail, like flip it over to the other side so that we would turn the whole cutter like 90 degrees or something. We chiong-ded like mad cuz at first we were first, then second, then first again and semangat started slacking halfway, they stopped rowing, so we just continued on to finish the race and win! yayyy...
After that we had to wash all the stuff on the boat like the ropes, and take down the sails and wash them as well and so on. Then we sat down to eat the remainder rations together. The mad wen loong actually made a peanut butter mountain 5cm tall and 10cm across on top of a natural or nature valley bar and ate the whole thing. And felt like dying after that. Jolene ate a spoonful of peanut butter and strawberry jam and 3/4 pack of prunes while the rest of us ate normal stuff like spreading peanut butter on biscuits. Jolene also drank one cup of isotonic drink, one milo and one ovaltine at one go. During dinner she drank like 6 cups of sarsi. After that she lao sai-ded many many times.
We were super tired and had the rest of the afternoon to ourselves so we went to do our own stuff like bathe!! Since we hadnt bathed for 2 days... and then sleep some of course..
Day 6
It's still not over!! Another small expedition! This time, kayaking around half of pulau ubin through a mangrove. It was the same route that i went last year though, yet totally different. We had to set off early so that we wouldnt miss the high tide and get stuck in the stupid mud bank [like we did last year] We got lost once or twice but other than that, we were great and were done in 4 and a half hours! The tide was so high, the last time we had to climb over the whole wall of mud, but this time we could just slide our kayak over the little bump of mud. of course i was dumb enough to forget it was a mud wall, so i flew over the other side while pushing the kayak across the mud wall halfway, and plopped into the shyt water... then i had to climb back onto the kayak. Jiasheng and i came out to push while Sherlene stayed inside cuz she cant get back onto the kayak... > <>
After that, washing the kayaks was fun too, had to get all the shyt mud off though, by rubbing and rubbing. Then bathe and meet up with instructors again... and we had to do a... MUSICAL!
The musical was dam crap la. It started out with us being segregated into our classes at first then having to be separated into different watches. Rachel and Eugene did solo start of somthing new, then everyone joined in to show how we started to accept the whole thing about being separated.
After that was the jetty jump scene, where jiasheng and zile did some titanic you jump i jump thing and then everyone started singing and humming the titanic song while the rest of the guys did stupid poses while pretending to jump. It was dam funny la all so gay... > <
Then after that was the trekking scene where the guys kept knocking into us trees and how when you walk in front and push the branch away it swings back into the face of the person behind, which swaying like retarded rag dolls, we sang the lion sleeps tonight and then did a wavy arm parting to introduce... the spiders!! So the spiderman song came along! And matthew, wen loong and zile made up the spider, they did really gay wavy arm actions which was dam hilarious and dam entertaining.
Next was high elements, where the guys acted as really really daaam gay belayers [especially zile who was waving his butt from one side to the other while pretending to pull the rope] and the rest of us sang i believe i can fly [but changed to we believe you can climb] as diana pretended to be scared of climbing. Then she did a solo of i believe i can climb. Sounded so opra.
Then finally we had the sailing one where matthew said, theres no wind. and zile goes OOOOOOWH MAI GOED [oh my god ] in his china boy way which sounds dam funny. And the rest of us did kallang wave at the side while the rest sang miracles i think, and then we ended off.. with everyone being happy together at the end with the song, we're all in this together.
the end!
of the musical.
and then we had new guests halfway so we had to do the front part for them again. But it was nice! We churned the whole thing out in about 3 hours or so? yea.. so at least it went pretty well :D
Day 7
The final day!! They still wouldnt let us off!! We had to do a stupid scary trapeze jump which i totally couldnt do!! I wanted to grab the bar but i couldnt even push off the platform -_- since it was so small.. and i didnt dare to jump at the same time.. so when i jumped [after a long while] i panicked... and so i didnt really reach for the dam bar but grabbed onto the stupid rope holding on to me instead, where i got ropeburns from -_-
So i didnt even touch the bar. NOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH..... but it was really really scary... wa lao eh. So far away and so slanted some more.. i tried to picture a platform below me but totally failed -.- oh well. tiao-ing lou is not for me, at least now i know...
The guys all managed to grab on and hold, although zile, who was the first to go, was dam scared and stayed up there for 10 minutes crouching in a ball and crying out to the world that its dam scary. It was really dam scary anyway. The other girls didnt manage to grab hold of the bar, but some touched it, some slipped off and others just didnt even reach for it [like me.] arhhg.g. im quite regretful. But i didnt even want to jump off at all anyway... couldnt take it like jetty jump....
after that, souvenir shopping! yay, our whole watch got the same shirt yay. Then i got a notebook too which is really nice, the cover is a drawing done by one of the instructors.
then.. home! home! home!!! yayyy!!
will miss everyone.. but we have sushi buffet on tuesday together yay! so not so bad. it was fun although it was lonely at first.. but after that it really ended up all right.
A lot of funny stuff happened along the way like imitating diana lol.. dam funny la... and we had a zile cheer which went like. When i say zile you sayyyy!! OWH MAI GOED!
Oh yea, and Jia Sheng totally flew off the plank of the jetty jump. Like, flew.
*and oh yea.. the me-son thing is actually mizzon..
for more information, do tune in to xiu rong's blog to read about what heerr watch experienced!
bye bye. [aiyo. so long this post.]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Xiu Rong.
Height: slightly more than 3/4 the height of your average door
Colour: Unidentified
Number of fingers: More than enough for her evil needs
Thoughts: Censored
It doesnt matter how old you are, as long as you look relatively pleasant.. stay away!! Or face the consequences of your carelessness... This xiu rong thingy has a certain scary way of stalking people... looking into their contacts and flipping through folders containing their life stories which she has collected over the years. [no wonder she needs to swing about in her house cuz its too cluttered with files]
teachers, students, strangers, friends... doesnt matter. Xiu Rong will have them all.
-this is a product of bordem-
Thursday, October 25, 2007

2005 - 2007
The pixies of the old folk lore
Dance like fire, under stars
Their songs and voices drown in wind
To reach those that have traveled far
Their melodies leap to the sky
Etched in every scar and cry
Which burn our mortal hands that bleed
From sorrow between every heartbeat.



















