on a happy note...HAPPY BDAE TO My BLOG!!! yay!!

do i get a present?? i.e tags on my tagboard?

well i guess not

i year is quite a long lifespan for a blog...perhaps i should just pass away now

no time to blog the past few days...it's been visitation and mahjong at relatives' places 24/7.

ummm We put the 'I' in Ink....ring a bell? it's the ACTabloid!!! A day after the cheesy slogan of cheese puffs (ahahaha) we get yet another weird tagline...so now ACSI gets its own newspaper/tabloid...what are the suggested topics? here are just a few:

DISCLAIMER: this is a spoof lor...if some of the ideas are seriously good...then wadever. :P

1) They will definitely write something about girls in the school...after all everyone's emphasizing their presence (all the teachers...LADIES and gentleman)...it's not like the girls are not sick of it themselves. Anyway DrOng cracked a pretty bad joke today telling the JC guys what they were missing out on.

2) Oh yes, the way the school utilizes its new 'resources' is amazing...first the cheese puffs then the dance (which wasn't too bad actually)....I mean at least it was the girls who wanted to put up an item (or was it?)

3) Ratings of SAC food, queue lengths and all. (then WantonAMerah will score low for queue length)

4) Comments on the IB tie :P

5) Ian's personal column...where he contributes a weekly random column speaking on some weird and obscure topics...also feasible is the BDFM column

6) 'Why (x+y) = (x+y)cube'

7) the Celebrity news....rumors and the low-down on teachers??? but then i don't think anyone would be that interested.

Then again we can't have such liberalism in school...as Daryl speaks of his article written for the tabloid on the LDP...'a large portion was edited'....

so starts another chapter of student's freedom of speech in school :)

As i periodically change my blogskin like a snake...i leave out links to everyone...wahaha...sorry guys..but i had to be fair to philip...after all he was left out..so might as well everyone. I shall be antisocial.

Then again..have you guys realised that i reply more readily to the beeping of msn messenger recently..i have turned over a new leaf.

Now for all u swho don't play soccer out there...or at least not crazy enuff to play during recess...here's a story to think about:

we went to play, the express guys came, lots of hesitation but we played them..and we did a pretty fine job..thanks to ppl from the express on our team as well :). However, we were on the basketball court...and on the neighbouring court were the ppl having PE and the PE teachers. Someone whacks the ball too hard, flies into a teacher, they let us off. Then it happened again...they confiscated it. We went forward with a sincere apology...saying not to play if we took the ball back or sth. But the teacher ignores us....here's kenny's dialogue with him.

Kenny: We're sorry, it was an accident, plz let us off and can we plz have the ball back?
Teacher: No
Kenny (worried): kk...how about we get ya a drink and then we have the ball back?
Teacher: you could...but i still won't give the ball back
Kenny: What if we took back and don't play anymore
Teacher: Still won't give the ball back *strolls ard and doesn't look like he cares*
Kenny (pleadingly): so what can we do to get it back?
Teacher: I dunno...i really dunno (with that nasty tinge of sarcasm) *strolls around..doesn't bother*

I would have not mind not getting the ball back...for all I care...or sean cares confiscate it and sell it away or sth...what i would have appreciated though was a little bit of respect when we were trying to apologize. It wasn't even kenny or I who kicked the ball into the PE ppl, nor was the ball ours...but still we went up sincerely to say sry...all humans deserve some respect...that was all i wished we could have got. Instead we got ignorance.

Anyway...i don't know how the story ended...where's the ball now sean?

Mr Azmi was cruel today..i got another 30 pushups..and he doesn't visit my blog anymore...so i will self depricate in rebelllion. I am lousy :)

I heard he spread it to his Year 5s...choosing instead to take fines of one dollar instead of pushups...for fear the guys will go low on the pushups to look up something....absurd thoughts...as lejon commented.

Sir: Go group dating...but remember to keep your pants on.

oops am i spoiling his reputation...no offence sir...just joking..ummm you can gimme more pushups but i doubt you'll ever read this post..haha:)

bye everyone

nothing much to say...i'm sure everyone agrees with me that today was a really long day full of languages and languages and then i had bio with the express ppl...just great

oh and daniel we had a great food party without you :)

and ding is still *slacking* at home with a fever

the latest from BDFM:

by the way it's chong wee's convo with me...

[09:55:47 PM] [12 Kingdoms: neh neh!
[09:56:38 PM] |||Lim ClaN : hello
[09:56:50 PM] [12 Kingdoms: im dying u noe...
[09:56:55 PM] * |||Lim ClaN struMMeR~|||TimLim|||!!~The Struggles of
Life...~LimIDTS`'- is now Busy
[09:57:17 PM] |||Lim ClaN : huh???
[09:57:20 PM] |||Lim ClaN : as in figuratively?
[09:57:25 PM] [12 Kingdoms: literally!
[09:57:37 PM] [12 Kingdoms: i currently am having a 40.2 degree fever
[09:58:40 PM] |||Lim ClaN : ahhhh
[09:58:48 PM] |||Lim ClaN : yea i know why you didn't come to sch
today
[09:59:07 PM] [12 Kingdoms: what! i left midway, thats all
[09:59:28 PM] [12 Kingdoms: so now my brain cells are ...
de-something-ing


I'll leave you guys with just that :P

haiz....stuff that ppl say about me :P

'Do you change skins periodically like a snake?' - Ian
'You're the male version of a slut' - Mr Jonathan Ng
'Why you've grown thinner' (in various languages) - My extended family members
'You have a lousy sense of balance' (after tripping twice during soccer, and slipping on the drain during BB) - Fab
'For Christmas i'll send you a mug...you mugger!' - Adriel (yes the head prefect is a bit lame)
'I once saw this girl on the street and almost thought it was Tim' - Mr Azmi
'I'm disappointed with you/everyone' -Xunliang

more to come once i jog my memory

until then...i played drums for church yesterday and my legs went totally jelly :P yikes...thank God i made it through

oh yes....i forgot one more thing from our Art Club discussion yesterday...we're going to redesign the IB tie!!! Apparently Mrs Sharon Woon thinks that it stands out and everything...but i think we all agree that it looks awkward...as Derek would say, we should just wear pants with yellow stripes as well.

Along with the IB school tie was sean's suggestion of redesigning...*gasp* the girls' school uniform. Having been criticized as shower-curtain like and pointless eye-candy that will result in a plunge in academic results....some ppl feel that it is necessary to redesign it to something better. Sean prefers a curved shirt bottom instead of the rigid straight cut that it is now....in the end we scrapped the idea that redesigning would just lead to worst designs that might be even more outrageous..if you know what i mean

Ian you must remember to SMS with your name in the future...Mr Alvin Tan almost didn't know that you were the one who was sick.

with that...i end of this post...feeling really glad...the first night i actually have nothing to do but slack a bit...a well-deserved break :) perhaps i should give some time to God...oh gosh it's tough to be a Christian.

i think tim is back to normal...i'm not going to do emo posts...that's something that umm ian likes to do ??

Ahhh i need to read more chinese stuff and practise reading aloud more....after all loo wasn't very happy with the reading today by everyone...saving our face of course was ian (thanks!). Anyway....got a long way to go...reminds me, when we go up to IB, will anyone of us actually drop chinese for another language? Hopefully not...it's so sad to drop a language that has followed us for 10 long years.

Other than that...today's fruitful Art Club Meeting and forecast of events: (btw Art Club is now labelled as an interest group...not a CCA...)

1) 'How to draw a straight line without a ruler' week
2) 'How to draw a perfect circle' week (competition included)
3) Making a sock puppet
4) An idea that truly Rocks!! (this is a secret...ha! you'll find out soon enuff)
5) Wire Bookmarks???
6) Painting shoes??? (By now we get bored...lejon goes cranky as well)
7) Computer design?? (blogskins yay!)

ok i gtg...it's late. i got tuition work to (try to) do

What am i doing at this time of the night/day? physics...bah...IB life is getting really tough...and i've seem to forgot my ABC commitment...but oh well.

I found out how absolutely lonely i was today in school...outside of a group...i'm really quite lonely. And as everyone enjoyed the first free period we had today, there i was standing outside the corridor and wondering if my parents were right...i think i'm an introvert or something. So i shed a few tears in private outside and waited to see if anyone would come...nah..not a chance. Of course i'm back to my bubbly self again once i'm back in class.

Such is me....there's a side that's not seen by anyone...only God knows how i feel. And that's why only God can be my bestest friend. I'm not saying i don't have any frens that care for me...that's definitely not true. I'm just saying..sometimes i reflect about myself and realise that i'm so lonely and...pathetic. It doesn't help being 'academically excellent' if you don't have any social life or frens to share the joys and sorrows with.

Maybe that's why i fear next year's IB reshuffling of classes most...because i can't make frens...i'll probably be an outcast or something.

such is my life....

Tim is back from kluang and seriously going to be back in blogging busiiness....doesn't matter if you guys don't want to read though :P the good news is that i have finally caught up to ian...we're back on even terms after the kluang trip..a new beginning and everything...yes (tim stop deceiving yourself...your blog is dead) yay

My comp was just infected by a trojan...in a few seconds i saw tons of pop ups of email scanning...this is when norton becomes your enemy. No worries..i found out there was something called 'system restore' after one year of this computer.

I have decided to change my habits of daoing ppl on msn and now i shall attempt to reply anyone who messages me..unless it begins with a 'rawr' or sth.

My password was changed to 'cleftis'. I now declare that as word of the day...go and figure out what cleftis means (by any means...googling...) and post it...i have no idea what it is...but i hope it is nothing weird. Thank you sean's email!

Here's the first attempt at defining 'cleftis'...contributed by sean :)

- seann_ is[sues] "the chongwee show!" // onli on BDFM, channel 69 -.LimIDTS`'- says:
IT"S A PW
- seann_ is[sues] "the chongwee show!" // onli on BDFM, channel 69 -.LimIDTS`'- says:
it's not supposed to mean anything zomggggggggg

My internet adapter can't work :(

Blogskins have gone on a standstill due to school and lots of work...i have 9 to date...so you could always go to blogskins.com...search 'limmdt' and find my stuff....it's not great...but i'm quite happy that i managed to conquer html and css

THE KLUANG STORY [finally]:

I shan't drone on and on...but i shall highlight a few highlights of the camp (haha):

1) Mud and Rain. Simply said it rained on the first day and it set the mood for the rest of the camp...dull and sad...until the third day at least. Needless to say, we got brown feet and toes for most of the camp

2) The first night was full of chongwee laughters....three word story's bawdy jokes, and the neighbouring tent's crazy pokemon game, where they messed up with names like korbat (that's a neopet...btw) and said that tangela was a big tangled mass of ****.

Nvrmind...i got my sleep.

3) Lake water feels good when you have nothing else

4) Friendships...something i would love to discuss later on in this post....

5) Patrick (aka blue boy) was the real joker throughout the camp...and my tent was nvr short of laughs with his antics....be it playing ace of spades in hearts....or playing queen of spades to win the set...or wearing his buff shirt...of course i give it to dan for cracking the jokes.

6) I sleep talk and dan sleep talks and ding sleep talks :)

Ok...now my discourse on friendship......

flashback to sec1...i always had a close clique with fab....coming from p1 all the way up...this was expected anyway. We remained as close friends...and we did our ISO together with Elliot on left handers and right handers. Still remember it was a time when the ACPS ppl were still closely bonded and everyone resided in their own school cliques. That time i was still relatively close to ppl like jin and maybe even elliot...but time does funny things to your frienships.

Fast forward to sec2...busking was a major event in my school life....the formation of the Lim Clan was a milestone...up to now...it is a term that characterizes me and probably of the fading links between Derek, Ian, Sean and I. That time we were so close...we went for sleepovers at sean's place...and did many projects together...stuck closely...chatted alot, probably something to do with fab not being in 2.13 that resulted in such a new friendship. I still held on to fab...trying quite hard to maintain that promise of 'best friend' with him..but it was difficult. Slowly i drifted away to the Lim Clan ...and it was a great experience.

Sad to say..from there it's been a 2 way split. Derek and I (bonded through SMP) and Ian and Sean (bonded through...ummm mutual attraction?) I wish i could have maintained the relationship on ian's side and sean's side...that's why i still try to participate in their convos...but i've realised that you can't be a close friend to everyone...and slowly our interests have differed and we have drifted....still i try to speak more often with those friends that were once close but have slowly drifted. I kinda miss Sean and Ian's company.

Another milestone was Ken Wei...most ppl don't have a good opinion of him...but we had quite a relationship going...till his separation to NUS High destroyed it. Still we have occasional reunions...but honestlyl...ken has his own clique and i'm the outcast in it....honestly...i'm an outcast almost everywhere.

On to Sec3. Fab returns...i think that's when i realised i had to amend my friendship with him...i did so..but at the expense of Sean and Ian. The BB freaks become esp. close due to BB...and Bong starts to speak up and in a way SK was something that bonded us too (but hopefully not the strongest thing that bonds us). Still Sec 3 was a story of BB bonding...and that leads up to this year.

Honestly Ding and Fab are probably the closest friends i've got...and sometimes i might get a little too close to them (Ding gets annoyed by doggish behavior). I'm actually quite an outcast in class...not v. outspoken and when there is lots of commotion...if you look carefully...i'm always either standing in a corner looking on at everyone's fun...or trying to integrate myself but often to no avail. It's quite sad...i think my social life is crappy. But i'm trying.

I treasure my friends...i miss my friends...and i shall make an honest list of my close friends and friends i hope to grow closer to:

Close: Fab and Ding
Closer(this will be long): Lim Clan, Dan, Bong, Kenny, Chongwee (a very caring friend indeed...despite his sometimes weird tendencies)...and the list goes on. only time will tell.

As i move up to IB...i feel the need for lasting friendships that will survive the Year 5 split..and it starts now...this year...the last year we'll all be together as one GEP cohort...

Let's make this one fruitful year and forge friendships that will last an eternity! Not forgetting that it is God who provides for fellowship and helps to sustain our friendships...hopefully you guys read this...*crosses fingers*

G is for....Girls....hmm that's the first thing new that comes to mind :P Yes and i honestly admit that Tim has his problems with being around ladies other than his own cousins. Not that Tim is the only one who finds this new....even Drong and the rest still say..Good morning gentleman (then like an afterthought) and ladies :) you can't blame me now. Walking along the corridor and seeing spanking new female toilets...the feeling is a bit odd, but we'll get used to it. Makes me think about next year's life....really will miss all my frens in the GEPer clique when we get mixed together with all the other express IB sec4s...new experiences we will have to get used to :(
Notice that all-boys and all-girls schools usu are the ones with better academic performances...sometimes makes me wonder why?

H is for....honestly...i don't know...help me!

I is for....IOC!!! what in the world??? Scary stuff....i won't even want to talk much about the 12 minute oral commentary that we have to prepare spontaneously and the fact that they will eyeball you when you stand and do nothing....it is just scary! Something i don't think i will look forward to, but then again will try to take it as it comes.

D, E, F!!!

D is for.....Drong....yep we're getting project 120 and we still have to pay 35 bucks for a bomber jacket that is compulsory for IB...man, we're fortunate to have the scholarship (at least some of us) Anyway, the target is 600...some ppl's dads can fish that out in a jiffy but i probably have to go out begging again....now how do you put on a sincere outlook? 35 bucks!!!! that's like the chinese books we're buying...and i betcha that they hope we grow bigger from year 5 to 6.

E is for.....Express classes. Starting this year, i still don't know who the bio teacher is (he's not even in the staff profile!!!) Anyway, being with the express class wasn't that bad....but we still felt like strangers and nvr spoke up. Express ppl kinda make funny jokes that sometimes do not make sense...yea it's quite a different culture. But then...it was the first lesson, soon it will all be fine (or so the saying goes). Anyway the teaching speed left much to be desired...could have been faster...but at least the teacher engaged the class and we had quite a fun time talking about how we could kill a person slowly by dripping purified water into his blood or suffocating on Carbon Monoxide.

F is for.....Feminine side...or rather the literary side that Mrs Mervlyn Goh would like us to get soooooo in touch in. So we did a bit of reading...realized that tien hated texts that went on and on and got no where. I don't read much but i guess if i did get down to reading i would actually quite enjoy reading books...just that most of the time i'm either doing hwk, resting a bit on the comp, or doing hwk :P. Anyway the IOC thing is sooo scary, what in the world, a 12 minute impromptu speech to be prepared in the span of 7 minutes? that's not even a 1:1 ratio....and it's not like we can speak nonsense, we have to speak about a text....nvrmind i do hope my love for lit will get better and better....ha! i scored 12 in the test! that is second highest in class. :)

By the way...wad's this thing abt the song 'Tim, I wish you were a girl'???? it's not funny

First Days...tsk

SCHOOL'S BACK!!!! Now that school's back i can finally have a blogging life again!!! Yes i know i missed the new year's resolution, or the 'great events of 2005' post, but still i finally have something to blog about again!!! Now...Dr Ong did say something about the A-Z of the new experience of being in Year 4 in the new block...i think i'll go slowly..starting with A today, and then that will last me 26 posts! yay! Then again....i better do 3 letters in one post.

A is for....(Mr) Alvin Tan...well a teacher i've nvr met personally b4...but from past experiences always thought of him as really strict...but from today it seems that as long as you behave yourself..well he can actually provide lots of fun for the class, at least he has that sense of humor...lol the formalities of voting class committee when you know who's unaminous...or his semi-democratic way of voting. Personality is always so important in determining a person. Mr AT is just like Mr Azmi or even Mr Sim, friendly when you behave and nasty and strict when you don't :P

B is for....Boys' Brigade....this year we're finally taking on the duty of looking after our own batch of sec1s....first the recruitment drive...terrible, our banners are either falling apart or they are not supposed/allowed to be where they are...how disappointing. Anyway the cool armor thing has also been criticized....what else do you ppl want? Back to the sec1s...the thrill is just so intense...being able to guide sec1s through camps and teach them stuff...and esp guide them spiritually...watch them grow up into capable students :) it's going to be enjoyable..and probably the main reason for my excitement toward sch this year!

C is for....(Ms Shue) Carolyn Chieng....I hope my first impressions toward her will change throughout the year....lol no offence but she doesn't seem to have a v.good sense of humor...and though tien was a bit extra in saying the stuff abt the circle...but i mean spontaniety is what IB is abt right...you can't blame him....but then Ms Chieng thought he was being a smart alec...heheh..now you know why i keep so quiet in class :P. Anyway i probably spent half the math lesson trying to wipe the whiteboard with a piece of tissue paper....and she was hurrying me!!! ahhhhhh.....nvrmind i guess i'll take it as like first time jitters or sth...as for the rest of the class...hopefully they'll have a better attitude toward her in the near future. Vaguely reminds me of BeePing....except Ian became math rep coz he 'scored highest in math last year' hehe :) sorry

That's it for today....hope sch continues on it's upbeat note that it started on today!

This is for sean who asked me to post...and to everyone else here!

WISHING YOU GUYS A BLESSED NEW YEAR AHEAD!!1

and don't forget your hwk :)

MALAYSIA TRULy ASIA!!!!

ok from 7-11....after camp temasek...i wanted to blog...but well too bad...had to go off to malaysia for a holiday...wonderful indeed. Oh well at least it was a holiday and we had a relaxing time doing either nothing or shopping. well here i am trying to tell you something when i did nothing. In classic ian style!! (yay to keep to my quota of including ian in every post)

1) Tuas 2nd link...best time to use in the morn...worst on Sunday evening: was surprised at the ease of getting into malaysia by car compared to travel bus...ha! we didn't have to get off the vehicle, or put our bags through the dumb scanning machine...or wait a million years for the bus to drive to the right place....or wait in the endless queues to check our passports...and on the Malaysia side as well...totally cool! Then it gets bad on Sunday evenings....i dunno if you read forums recently but it was the same sunday evening...terrible traffic...at least 1 and a half hours on a bridge...and as good citizens we queued as other impatient cars cut lanes...opened new lanes...and used emergency lanes....I'm thankful that i didn't drink too much that day...imagine waiting for the restroom...>< So we spent an eternity listening to BBC

2) Nobody really cares about the red portugese building: Quite true...when there's stuff like shopping at Makhota parade for cheap goods....to eating the super good gula melaka ice kachang...to walking to some shop to buy peanut cakes and eat durian chendol....to simply staying in the hotel suites and playing taiti.

3) Girls can shop for realllllyyyyy long: Get used to it now....having a girlfriend next time will be tough...so i watch my cousins go on a shopping bazaar...and trust me when i say they can spend hours just to buy a shirt or jeans and stuff. The secret to long hours (i learnt this): visit everything single clothes shop and check out what's in store. I'd be satisfied with a few shirts here and there....but they go for around 5? Anyway it's understandable that guys can't shop for as long....almost every shirt/t-shirt looks the same, berms, trousers, so ordinary....girls have like a ton more stuff to shop for....skirts, dresses....let's just say the clothing economy is gender biased. Most of the shopping mall is for the opposite sex.

4) Burgers go Moo!: Wow i tried a rabbit burger...the crust was great and crispy...but besides that it tasted like chicken....ahaha...not much difference

5) I can hit the archery target!!!: I said hit...not bullseye...after my Camp Temasek experience...i was slightly better than a beginner but still really lousy...after all shooting like 5 arrows in CampTemasek doesn't make you any better does it? Still i managed to hit the rim:)

6) Never judge a book by its cover: I refer specifically to the breakfast menu....i see chicken porridge, i get fish porridge, i see omelette, i get 2 sunny-side up eggs....what's a person to do? And the 1 RM durians are the 'spoilt' ones :P

Well on the overall Malaysia is still underdeveloped compared to Singapore, especially in rural areas...but then again rural always allows for some fresh air and a bit of scenery and nature....something we need a bit more of in Singapore. However, being Singaporean...it's hard to get used to the more laidback nature of Malaysians....we want everything done quickly but it's different elsewhere...time passes more slowly...and there are longer waits and everything...then again it's sometimes good to just sit back and relax. That's what holidays are for i guess :)

Next up....LDC 2...the camp that we pay to get tortured...when it shld be the other way!!!!

To be continued....Camp Temasek :)

8) Army food...all that bad?: Yes, I got a taste of army food….and it wasn’t that bad…there was actually like Western Cuisine and stuff, all was good until Day 2’s breakfast which was this carrot cake that tasted like coffee…yucks…and they give you so much of it that you can’t finish. Then again we always end up dumping the food into the large dustbins provided, what a waste…but then again it saves our tummies. Besides that it was pretty good….every meal had dessert and even a soup dish…so we kinda lived the good life…I mean we paid 100 bucks so I guess it was expected? On a sidetrack...the army bunks were pretty good as well except that you walk a metre on the ground and your feet turn black with dust

9) Suigei Buloh has a lot of trees: We walked through the whole park for 'Maplestory' (ahahahaha), some kind of thing to help us to better appreciate nature...but then again it might have done the opposite. Except for the occasional monitor lizard, buzzing mozzies and ants...there was nothing to look at. It was some amazing race game thing and my team got all the fast forwards but ended last:) go figure

10) V, 11, V, 11...the basic rules of inline skating: Yay i finally get a shot at inline skating...however it had to be done in smelly and stinky kneepads...as well as soggy helmets that had already been used by others like just a few moments ago...yes it was horribly inhygenic...:( Anyway i found myself standing on a pair of skates and moving at a measly speed slower than walking...but it was ll for fun...and those who could skate already went to play hockey

11) Hip Hop dancing is queer: Yea we try all kinds of stuff...including this....so the music booms and booms and we try with stiff bodies the slick moves....i think we were pretty bad but everyone was just as bad so noone laughed at each other...but the instructors must have had a ball of a time watching us trip over ourselves.

12) Lelong ah!!!!: Pasar Malam on the last night....we used like monopoly cash or sth to buy the stuff so within minutes all the cash was gone....i got stuck selling bookmarks..:P Lesson learnt, always save your money for the end of the pasar malam so that items get sold off at rock bottom prices and you can go around picking up the spoils...though with less variety than initially

13) Copyright infringements galore!!!: They used Maplestory, LOST, Spongebob Squarepants, War Of the worlds and Fear factor as names of activities...that's copyright infringement...well they got away with the 'original' G101 (golf...ahaha) and gunGbound....which is one letter short of infringement :P

14) Friends...sure you make a lot of them: Just want to name them in case i kinda forget them in the future...which i will :) hehe. Jerome, Jakes, Danny, Thai guy Thanan, Jeffrey, Wei Yang...and all those in the Knights....had a great time :)

continue with....(oh yes) malaysia holiday nxt time

sorry guys....recently trying to chiong chinese hwk (what's that? you may ask :P)

anyway trying my hand at making blogskins so maybe one day i can have a more personalized one...till then the end of holiday blues are getting to me....looking forward to christmas then after that nothing much to look forward to except a new school year...and that Kluang thingy...will blog more about the camps i had...but that's later on once i've finished the next essay :P

Tim's friendly reminder of hwk:
1) Essay on Science (EOS)
2) 8 Chinese Essays :(
3) Go revise your sec3 stuff b4 going back to school if not we'll all be blur like sotong

Saving Tim's Blog With this post :)

To all faithful blog-readers....you will be rewarded.......soz for the not posting, having Camp Temasek followed by a holiday in malaysia followed by LDCII is not the schedule i would have wanted if i had a choice...oh bummer, but now that i'm back, locked in the computer room, eyes half-closed....i think back on the past weeks, and no doubt...it's been eventful and memorable...a flashback to Camp Temasek in classic Ian style :)

LESSONS LEARNT FROM CAMP TEMASEK

1) Travelling up and down in BB full uniform is not the latest fashion: Yes you get stares from the public, comments about your shiny shirt sleeve (those are badges by the way), a crappy hairstyle after wearing the BB cap for hours and with a full pack on your back walking from YewTee MRT station all the way to Kranji Army Logistics Camp - it's pretty much a killer in itself, still somehow the Sec3s made it together (Fab, Wes, XL, Bong and Me) while the Sec2s hitched a ride from Caleb on the cab...boooooo!!!

2) They rig everything: I'm referring to the group choices, all sec3s had put same order of preferences for group choices....but very apperently they just rigged it randomly and we all ended up apart, at least i got in the same guild (hahaha a Mr Sim rip-off) as Shaun. And if you hadn't read the previouis post i was in the Knights guild!! Pretty sad though, we were in the saddest guild, our guild master didn't come till very late and stuff and we were pretty much alone and unmotivated...but we did get our act together eventually.

3) I cannot rockclimb for nuts: Actually i almost did....stupid rock was just tilted at some weird angle that possibly nobody in the world could climb. So i tried once and failed, and i tried again, made it a bit further, hit the dumb rock and failed. And as i watch almost every other person scale the wall like a squirrel up a tree, i realise that perhaps i haven't done enough pull-ups...or my thighs are just weak and lousy....fat....(that was NOT self deprication) Anyway i will try another day...rockclimbing is not just about strength, but strategy...aha!

4) One girl, many guys...hmmm: One girl guide in the midst of like 100 guys....must be tough on her...Wesley thinks that she's probably super despo because - girl guides don't get anything out of Camp Temasek (unlike the NE badge for BB boys) and it costs much more for ppl not in Boys' Brigade to go for the camp. Anyway, spare ya the details....i thought she was pretty lonely so i tried to like talk to her a bit and be more accomadating...though she probably got the wrong idea and daoed me for the rest of the camp :) Tim is such a loser with girls :)

5) Golf actually takes skill, and there are like over 10 different types of clubs: So yea we went golfing, tried the grip, did the sticking out butt thing for position, and tried to hit the ball, failing more than half of the time :). My best shot probably went 2 metres out.

6) Paintballs really are PAINtballs: We go to the Amoy Quee NCC campus...(familiar sean?), try game of paintball, and then i was probably too gungho, went forward too much and kena hit on my hand....well i wasn't that pain, but there was a 10cent coin red mark and 2 vampire-teeth -like marks...looks more painful than it actually is. Picture F&N flavoured balls, 'shoot me in the mouth!!!!' Anyway in my opinion it lasted too short but at least we got to wear the armor that made us look like Halo 2 characters (in the same way i stink at Halo i was crap at paintball). And on a lighter note i survived wearing shorts and playing paintball by kneeling more than half the time.

7) I don't know about SonicFest...but is the focus on God?: Sometimes we get carried away by music...third night, concert, Dream Factory played a couple of Christian Songs like 'Here I Am to Worship' and 'Tell the World'. Sure we sang and danced, and i tried to whisper a few prayers to keep on focus on God....but seriously, it's tough to keep the focus on God when music is being blasted into your ears! Nothing beats a silent QT with God at night...which we didn't get much of since there was little time anyway...well Christianity and a walk with God was never easy.

to be continued (4 days time...church camp sorry)...i promise...or this blog will die!!

Cheer Recaps

wow whee...several memorable cheers from gunGbound@temasekIV

Knights (woot!! my guild!!):
Eh- BOMB
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh.......BOOM!
Eh ah eh ah eh ah boom
Boom ah boom ah boom ah eh
Eh ah boom
Boom ah eh
Mighty knights, Mighty knights
Sut sut eh!

The Funny Dialect Cheer
What say you say I say
What say you say I say
I say Knights is number one
Don't believe very cham
What say you say I say
What say you say I say
Sua!
Mai Sua!
Ai Zai!
Ahhhhhhhh.....(in a hmm..seductive way?)


Judges (Wesley, Little Nicholas Tye and Caleb the On guy)
Order in the Court!!! *stomp* *stomp* *stomp*

Priests (poor loner Russell):
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Boo! (it was a gay cheer for booing people) I'll do it for you next time if you want :P

Missionaries (bong and Elliot):

Leader: Give me one 'na' !
Everyone: Na!
Leader: Give me two 'na's !
Everyone: Na! Na!
Leader: Give me three 'na's!
Everyone: Na! Na! Na!
Leader: Give me many many 'na's!
Everyone: Nani Nani na na...Nani Nani na na....(lol)

then there was the gu(1) niang(2) clap and the usual macho and sexy clap things....those weird things they make you do at camp..yet making you feel good doing it...though essentially it is quite stupid looking :P

next post will be on the camp itself

gunGbound@temasekIV and SGB

First off...condolences to JLow who recently lost his dad to a heart attack....though i'm not that close to Jlow...but i feel gravely sorry for what has happened to him...i pray his family will be able to take the blow and that they will remember that one day they will see his dad again in heaven :)

Well i'm finally back from gunGbound@temasekIV camp and in a word - very tired....so many things to blog about and so little time...I think I will flash back to the Sharity Gift Box of 29th and 30th of December, then follow on to a recap of the camp...nice and organized...yes :P

SGB: 29th November
As usual there was the introductory video that made Mr Alex Wong 'want to cry', but make us want to fall alsleep coz we've watched it tons of times...lol just joking...Anyway, there was the new video on how to address the public...and we secretly gawked at the boy in the video who was stiff....mechanic(eyes wide open)...and whose lines were seriously scripted. ('Sorry Madam, i cannot provide an answer to your query, please call the sharity hotline at 1800- SHARITY, or at 1800 7427489")

Anyway Ding and Xunliang were there...and that day we arrived at 730 though the thing started at 830...big waste of time...but it was fun catching up with all the Sec2s and Sec3s....

All my SGB years have been spent slogging in the warehouse and making delivery visits...so this year's posting to a Wish Tree was a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately...Xunliang was left behind....while Ding and I were posted to Allston Hotel (think air-con). Arriving there, the hosts were seriously well prepared and ready to receive us and teach us how to perform duties....surprised at their on-ness...:P

At the wish tree, we get people to take wishes of the elderly/children and fulfill them, eg. childern wanting a watch...and a kind person takes the wish, buys the watch and returns it to the wish tree for delivery....a personal touch to Sharity Gift Box. Most of the people who came were the hotel staff...and i think we must have stayed there for like...hmmmm 6 hours??? Entertainment came in the form of occasional blackjack (and the hotel people always saw us slacking when they came...pai seh), chatting with hotel staff...or simply greeting everyone who came into the hotel with a smile....which landed me with a stiff face at the end :)

Then there was the scottish guy who was from BB, who treated us as tourist attractions and took photos of us with the christmas trees. There was the card trick guy who did tricks on me...to the annoyance of his wife :)....and the guy who went in and out of the hotel at least 8 times...well it was interesting. Most were foreigners so we didn't get a huge response. But at least we got to eat in the staff cafe :)


SGB: 30 Nov 2005
After the previous day..hoped to be posted to somewhere nearer home....maybe Jurong Point or something.....and i had wanted to go with sam chan so we tried to rig the sign in chart to put our names together...unfortunately...everything went wrong.

Posted with my senior who i didn't know very well....and posted at (of all places) Marine Parade!!! i found at that 196 takes horribly long to come (are you reading this SBS?). NTUC at marine parade central...unwillingly...we both dragged out the big box...and put it outside NTUC, sat at the benches and braced ourselves for a long long long 9 hours. Fortunately, there was company in the form of both my partner Justin and the public....by the end of the day....justin and I were established friends ...they say that tough experiences are bonding experiences...and 9 hours outside an NTUC...with only a bench to rest on...is pretty bad.

We took half hour shifts...walking around..collecting money...advertising SGB....for 9 hours!!!!!!!! that simplifies my blog post alot...just remember...9 hours!!!!! it was bad! Anyway...at least my dad drove me home at around 9 pm....

The public were mostly open to the SGB...and we must have collected at least 20 dollars worth of ten cent coins...everyone used us as a way to dump their spare change from NTUC...the box was located next to an ATM...and while people were shifting through their big notes..they took out coins and dumped them in. In the end...it was the older generation and the parents who responded most generously...while the youth and younger folks were more 'stingy'.

haha we splurged our remaining 20 dollar allowance on sushi!

well it was a meaningful experience....seeing how the public responded to SGB...and realising that many are unaware of it...and that publicity is indeed important...unfortunately couldn't participate in the delivery aspect...so missed out on the most meaningful part...hopefully next year :) kk i'll post abt CAmp temasek in another post....or this will be toooooo long :)

sharity gift box.....past 2 days couldn't blog...too late now to blog....next 5 days at camp....soz guys.....just too bad :(