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2008-07-06T04:23:00.001-07:00

haven't been blogging for a long time.
few pictures from the kuching trip.
some from zx as well.

pepper factory.

bridge.

white and black pepper from the same plant, different processing methods.

boys boys dancing.

missy ong here posing.

orang utan, cute cute.

missy ong posing again.

more pictures will be in friendster i guess. ;D

2008-07-06T04:01:00.000-07:00

2008-06-08T03:51:00.000-07:00

ytd, 8 june 08, i had our CIP for the Yellow Ribbon Project Flag Day. we were given several designated locations: sun plaza, sembawang shopping centre > close down already, kranji mrt, safra yishun, and 888 plaza. i din want to go to sun plaza, go back sembawang and back to woodlands to return donation tins and go back home to sembawang.

i chose safra yishun, with 3 other people. we collected our donation tins and were brieved. justin, chinpang and peishwen were on the same team. i din have justin's number, i asked him to key in his number, then he saved his contact name as JUSTIN- THE HANDSOME ONE. lol. handsome? more of funny, lame and not handsome? we took bus 969. i din know what bus to take directly there. there wasn't any direct bus though. 969 was to yishun interchange. -.-

could've just taken mrt to yishun, would've been faster alright. when we reached yishun, we walked from GV outside the traffic light. on the way, chinpang and justin all poached our customers.. they were taking the front as they had the maps. so unfair. it was drizzling so our tins had rain droplets. our stickers were wet too, the water sipped through. it seemed such a long way. we only managed to pass the yishun cc, over to some hdb flats to seek shelter.

i was so sick of justin, he and chinpang were pangseh-ing peishwen and me. i told justin to consider going to northpoint vicinity to ask for donations. we made a u-turn back. when we were outside GV, we split up. i din want to work with justin, who poached all the customers / donaters.

since we were not allowed to collect donations in the mrt or shopping centre, i stationed myself at the area outside the bus interchange and the shopping centre. i thought if i ask from only a few people whom i chose randomly for donations, they would have ''why ask from me and not the others'' kind of thought. so i asked for everyone who passed by me.

Tips by me when asking for donations:

1) Always smile.

2) Be polite. Always say please and thank you.
3) Don't pick people at random. Ask from everyone.

4) Be sure of your stuff of which organisation you are helping.

5) Even if people reject you, smile and don't let it ruin your mood.

so i kept asking, ' Sir ( for all men, young teenagers or old uncles ) / Mam ( if they are walking with their husbands, or they look married, casual looking or old looking ) / Miss ( even if they don't look so young at all or look a little too old or out of shape to fit that title, but this will make them happy to donate for you rather than calling them auntie, else they will hate you ) , would you like to make a donation? ( smile to them so widely until it look very real that they smile back at me and say a big NO! or actually donate. ) and end with thank you very much.

Facts:

1) Most aunties who look so fierce and unfriendly actually donate money.

2) People can go as generous as up to giving $5 for my donation tin, or $10 for weihong's tin.

3) Ah-ma(s) can be as generous as to drop coins into your tin automatically without you asking for them for donations.

4) Middle age women can speak english well even if they look like chinese speaking.

5) Some ah-ma and aunties can't speak english, so change your language when you thank them eg. instead of saying thank you very much, say xie xie ni. :)

6) When you say thank you very much to them, some people actually thank you too.

7) Teenage girls not very generous, most say no to me. Teenagers are overall stingy.

8) When you give them stickers for their donations, some people just don't take them.
9) Don't aim on men if you are a girl, because aunties, ah ma, and teenage girls will help you to donate as well. Men are so stingy. Most shun away from me.

10) Stay cheerful when asking and always smile. They will smile back.

after collecting alot of donations, i seem to be having the heaviest tin, with most stickers used up. haha, even if i din start earlier, i still had the most donations in my group. justin and chinpang ps us again. they entered the mrt ticketing machine followed by me. then ps was stucked outside, her card not enough money. i called out to justin, he and chinpang din reply me. they just carried on going up the escalator. then peishwen came in and i told her to go by the other end. i din wanna see justin-sucker. then the train arrived. i board it. halfway, justin called my hp. i ignored and cancelled the call. let him be worried. then at on the way, the train came to a complete halt in the middle of the track. peishwen wasn't holding onto any grip, then when it halt abruptly, the coins in her tin made a darn loud sound. it awoke an old man who was sleeping in the train, then everyone looked at her, all eyes on her, she was so paiseh she was telling me. lol. justin called several times, but i din feel the vibration of my phone.

when we reached the woodlands mrt, the area of our collection point, we were expecting justin and chinpang to be sitted with the group. we were already late, but there were others who were later. ms fu asked us how come we din arrived as a group after we returned our tins to the people in-charged. i told her that justin and chinpang left us behind first, we thought they were already on their way. so we left on our own. i called justin to check what happened, they boarded the train after ours. -.-

after some debrief, we were dismissed.

we went to kfc for our lunch. tanay, ziling, peishwen, chinpang and huiting went too. they talked alot of gossip which i felt pissed, because what's done - teachers's decision - is already done, can't be changed. so what if we petition, i think just forget it and do as we are told by our head. i went home to bathe again and change, i had the sec 4 bbq.

we took a bus from the wdl interchange 966 if i din rmb wrongly, but the bus stand was with 950. Two 950 buses left, but our bus din came. the instructors then joined us to board the same bus. waiean was very chatty in the bus. we reached east coast park, our pit was E56, so darn far. we walked along the shore line, took off our slippers and ran along the sand. my feet were sinking, foot prints were all over. we rented bicycle at the store near mac. rented for 1hr.

when i started riding the bicycle, i felt there was something wrong with the gear. i rode a little, kaiyuan said adjust the gear, i din know how. then they all just left, melody, lingmei, waiean, yixuan, kaiyuan and tanay all left. i still stuck at there, with my bicycle unable to cycle. i was waiting for someone to come back. all pangseh kia. eff them man. luckily tanay so good, came back for me. we went back to the store, the man helped me set the gear, and i ride. tanay taught me to adjust the gear to correct pace. we met kaiyuan at pit D that area. then we went to cycle to our pit. when we reached there, we couldn't find the rest of the sec 3s. kaiyuan thought they were at the jetty. so we headed to the jetty, but still din find them. we went back to the pit. cycle all the way to the end and came back. sec 4s asked us to carry to food, which had arrived. we went to the carpark E. Kaiyuan helped us buy sugar cane juice, very thirsty. then balanced the food on our bicycles. the 4 of them were playing in the sea. have fever still play. bu4 zhi1 si3 huo2.

i ran away from them twice. i din wanna get wet, they were all soaking in salty water. so sticky. we returned our bicycles again. and waiean fell down her bicycle. i went back to wait for tanay and kaiyuan coz the other 3 pangseh people again. we had to walk all the way back because the bus was so long. we came back to the pit at 7 plus. we ate some food.

the sec 4 guys were rather rough. they played water and were very lame. they were pouring water at each other using the small plastic disposable cup. then there was a bottle of cooking oil. andy asked them ' shui2 yao4 zuo4 dao3 you2? ' who want be pour oil / tour guide / black sauce or whatever the meaning? so lame. :)

left the pit at 2145h like that. surprised no one called me to hurry me home, actually my phone had little reception. weird. took 401 to bedok interchange and 168 to wdl interchange. reached wdl at 2340h. took the train back to sembawang. my dad was waiting at the station for me. i reached home and played 1 game of pq, maple story. SLEEP. :)

2008-06-06T04:06:00.001-07:00

went for the LMSC Leadership.&.Mentoring.Skills.Course on 5 & 6 June 08 @ Riverside Secondary. 2 day course, quite tiring but enjoyable. :)

1st day was more of the boring stuff. lecture on MOI / method of instruction, where CLs / cadet leaders volunteer themselves to come out to take over the squad, on the way to teach fellow cadets drills etc.. Introduction, explanation, demonstration, Q&A.. ...

after that, lecture on effective communication.. boring as it seems, we were all drawing away and talking. had some small activities, between lectures. rather fun when we played the charates: send representative out, act in front of the group, group's supposed to guess the actions.. different funny actions and themes. funny thing was that for the theme of cartoon, if i din rmb wrongly, lingmei dunno wad action for tom & jerry, someone just anyhow shout all the cartoon, including tom & jerry. then so lucky guessed correctly. but the instructor said not counted.

dismissal, we were last to go back, changed everything. our school plays host. :)

2nd day started off with leadership lecture. we got to know different personalities. DISC-Dominance.Influence.Steadiness.Conscientious. i'm steadiness, introvert, prefer to stay at home play maple story. -.- wtf. this kinda eg. ... Peishwen was combo of CSI= quiet on the outside, msn spam and flood, talk lots lots. haha. selected a few feedbacks from my friends:

Ziling says: determined.organised.able to give order clearly and assertively.professional:)
quiet.not very sociable.quite stubborn at times ( as in 'STAR-BORN' ) :D

Peishwen says: scolds cadets when necessary.prim and proper :D
doesn't socialize with squad mates enough.always never answer phone calls.
takes forever to reply sms. -.-

Kaiyuan says: Talk too soft at times.

Tanay says: confident.
can speak out more. talk too soft.

Weihong says: considerate.think beforehand.
take more initiative.

Lingmei says: reply fast on msn. :D

some good and bad feedbacks, which i have to made improvements to my own character. we had the teamwork lecture after that followed by games. 4 games played; quite fun actually though i have played before.

1st game played: fold poncho into as small as possible, everyone must be on the poncho.
we were all hugging each other. i think i screamed most loudly though. who cares. :D

2nd game played: hula hoop made of helium.-.- using left hand index finger, holding but not hooking onto hoop and lower it down to the ground.
we found ourselves raising it up rather than lowering down. no coordination darn lousy. psycho-motor siah. one side up and another down. then we tried to play cheat. all unsuccessful. either boyuan came to spot check or some ppl dun understand english when we say fingers drop right down. instead they clinged onto the hoop. guailan. >_<

3rd game played: using 4 pieces of card board rectangular size, cross over the 'river', each platform supposed to have one person on it else it would be washed away or confiscated. well they din use my plan to lay all 4 platforms spread across the river, instead they use 4 by 4 each time transporting only 1 person, 3 others return to transport 1 by 1. darn slow and ineffective.
i raised my voice alot. they then changed to my plan. -.- FUN when you had to jump over to the other platforms. :D

4th game played: 16 grids, numbers jumbled. form a chain of people. supposed to step on the grids according to the numbers. fun. we do the dance, billy banja, and the your side dance. cool.

we had debrief and played the fussywassy game. -.- fussywassy likes apples but not pears. fussywassy likes woodlands but not yishun. fussywassy loves food but not shit. fussywassy loves maggie mee! what does fussywassy like?

:D

2008-05-31T07:26:00.000-07:00

today's been a sad day.

i went with bearbear to northpoint today. saw bearbear so shuai, spiked his hair though he said he anyhow spike, but still cute. bout 1pm, we went to eat lunch first. bearbear said he wanted to buy some stuff for his trip; jeans, socks etc.. he's so last minute. lol still told me the previous day before ytd he was slacking away. so bearbear tried on the stuff, then bought them.

we went to popular. bearbear said he wanted to buy the map guide of sydney and he did. bearbear said he wanted to go back early to pack his stuff. so lazy, lol. then i went to the royal sporting house. wanted to check out the le coq sportiff bag / rooster bag, coz they say quite cheap. realised that 6 colors were available. umm maybe buy the bag, and another which i was thinking whether to buy.

went back to our usual place. bearbear let me see his nds. it was black, he bought it ytd but he delete the mariokart game. T_T actually i wanted to play. he said it was in the disc he deleted, coz i din say i wanted. YOU DIN ASK! :XX we played the brain age game, test your calculations and reactions. fastest i can get is car speed -.- bearbear's of coz faster than me, he got train speed before. kingz got rocket speed before, dunno true or not, lol.

played boggle on his nds. fun to form the words. lol. beginning quite noob, high score 34. =DD
bearbear genius. then bearbear bid farewell to me.

bearbear should be on his way to sydney le. will miss him for 2 weeks. won't be back till 12 june night or 13 june his bday. till then, i'll miss you. : )