Time is 11:38pm

and i've yet to
1. pack my bag for camp
2.shower
study for art quiz tomorrow.

im soo dead man.Anderson campfire was not bad la.
we were the early birds, along with the(mf)scouts.
And we got this totally beautiful sign from 'em.a picture of a guide with an aluminium "MF"below.creative people man.

Will be MIA-ing from tomorrow-sunday,MFGG Annual camp,baby!

edithchuaqinshi totally rock my life by coming to come and by being soo enthu about it :)

I chiong my English assignment for nothing! Sid just sent an e-mail saying that it is postponed to the 3rd of June! Which means I spent two days researching and typing the damn essay for nothing, then again, I could finish it before camp starts. And I will have ample time to do the computer assignment. I swear Maths test on Thursday is the joykiller of the week, no, having double maths this week is. Add in another maths tution on Monday and Wednesday and by the end of the week I will be KO-ed out. I only reason I am going to hang on is cos of Anderson’s campfire and Guides camp on Thursday night and Friday-Sunday respectively.

Last Saturday was pure chaotic man. Went off to amk central mac for camp meeting, which lasted till 7pm then rushed to newton MRT to take bus to Tiong Bahur then took a train to Queenstown for the Indonesian BBQ . I ended up being 2 hours late for the BBQ but it’s was okay la. When I told them that I had been staying here for the past 13 years, they were like “WOW”!HAHA And it’s pretty weird la cos I spoke very little that night(mainly cos my Bahasa sucks) and what I did most of the night was to help with the BBQ. But I did meet new people la. Kevin and Vachry came too so it wasn’t that bad.

A miracle had just occurred! Andrew and Aaron actually spoke to me in a civilized manner over MSN a couple of days ago. For once, they weren’t teasing or bullying me.LOL. I guess they had grown up. Miss them soo much though.

My class hasn’t bonded yet, because of 1 reason, I think. Each trimester, we will be paired up with another cohort for classes, either with the senior or junior cohort so every trimester, we will have new classmates among us. Like that how to bond?

Anyway, 5 GALLANT ’07 LISTEN UP

CLASS CHALET.13TH-15TH JUNE.Organised by Weijie. YOU GUYS MUST COME! Time and date, I will confirm with Yusheng and Weijie.
SEE Y’ALL IN TWO WEEKS =) <3

To say you all had been a blessing in disguise is an understatement. Thank you 5G for the 3/4/5 years for fun, slacking, joy and laughter.

More quotes to add to my May 13th post

“Relatively few of us will find the time--or take it--to live an ever enlarging life.”
-Marilyn Vos Savant

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure - all your life.”
-John W.Gardner

“It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living—but neither is the unlived life worth examining.”
-Dan Millman

And more…

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely”
-Auguste Rodin

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
-Marcel Proust

Its 1am and I can’t find my YA tee.
Also, the water heater in my bathroom had been down for about a day so I have to use my parents’ bathroom to bath(oh yes, apparently, I am the one that short circuited the current.wth. when I bath, the water was already cold, how could it be me?! My eye power not that powerful de lor, besides, I love hot water).

GREAT. Just what I need.

Why can’t the guys in my class be as great as the ones in 5G(biasness intact due to watching the 5G’07 guys grow up)? Some are, but not all. Spotted a “suah” in my class but so far no “aaron” or “shaun”, lessons getting boring cos no entertainment.

Maths killing me, I am supposed to absorb everything instantly after I had 5 straight hours of maths lessons? bloody hell.
Egyptian art on the other hand, are interesting.

Campfire marathon for June
29th May-Anderson Guides.
5th June-Bowen Guides
18th June-Monfort Scouts
21st June-Crux Venture Unit aka St Gabs Venture Unit.
28th June-MF Guides

Thank god for all these campfires, I get the time to “zone out”, don’t even think about asking me not to go. I.Won’t.Listen. Period.

Long story, but now I know how Andreas feels like, except she is a little better off.

Putri-rambling-in-motion should be the title for this post.

1 good thing, school with Vachry, Hai,Kevin,Jason,Elsa, Sid and Vikram made my days more bearable.
Which reminds me, thanx Kevin, for telling me about bus no 5, save me a lot of money =D!

I FEEL LIKE SCREAMING!
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

We live only once, how long are you gonna wait till it is the right time to chase your passion? Later…when? When is the right time?You can’t please everyone, everyone can’t be all happy about your decision. So you might as well do it right now.

This is the adrenaline rush I can’t get enough of, cos every once in awhile, it reminds me why I am doing it and why I fell head over heels in love with it. My rewards can’t be seen or measured, in terms of skills or leadership, because the best things can only be felt with the heart. But mine adrenaline rush and yours maybe different, in fact, I only found a handful of people who share the same passion as me. Because no two people are the same.

“To be or not to be, that’s the question”
-William Shakespeare

So don’t wait and think about it.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

2:43 AM

I really shouldn’t finish my homework soo early, if not mum will suspect that I don’t have any homework. For now, the homework I am really stress about is IS-233, the assignment 1 that we need to use excel to do(Vachry aka the IT genius finished it already, he win already lor) so once I check out the prices, I will start doing and it’s due on the 9th of June! Better do it quick, if not, it will be big trouble if I go to camp FLAG.

I am more worried/stress/anxious about the campfire and amazing race preparation and proposals! Campfire is about a month away, camp about 2 weeks( no chance of sleeping during those 3 days) and we need to have a leaders meeting soon.

New items in my to-do list:
1. Find Miao/Yingjie/Kelvin on Friday to discuss 1st Aid course.
2. Tution homework
3. Get updated proposals from Aishah and Yinghan.

Today’s computer lesson made me miss my teaching team. Mr Raymond was teaching us how to make powerpoint slides to teach(his words) “our younger sister or brother how to use MS Access”. It remind me of Miao’s(mostly)and Andreas’s work on the Powerpoint on teaching those PBP kids how to use Paint and MS words, all those screenshots and everything. And the 2nd lesson, where he taught us how to use MS words, never though living, breathing and eating MS words and Paints for 2 months could come in so handy->me tilting towards emo-ness/the good ole days.

Random-ness: IT RAINED TODAY!YAY!

Saturday, May 10, 2008

2:40 AM

My June holidays are packed. All my Saturdays are booked from next week onwards, here’s roughly what am I gonna to do. Don’t look soo shocked(for non-UG people), it is summer after all. This year is more relax than my schedule last year.

17th May-McRitichie Hike.

24th May-North Division Day-hopefully there is one.

30th May-1st June- Guides Training Camp/FO camp(Wish I can do magic for this one and be at both, but let’s see which one needs me more, putting my money on MFGG)

6th-8th June-camp FLAG-hopefully, I can be a RP there.

14th June- MF Alumni bonding time, Siu Ngee gonna organize a makan trail. Going Changi then going to Pulau Ubin to hike/cycle then back to Changi/any other part of Singapore for lunch and dinner.

21st June-Guides Walkathon-PNA points, enough said.

28th June-MFGG campfire

And look at my tagboard, Andreas’s one was even worse, but that’s really normal for someone in Guides/Scouts.

I FINISHED ALL MY HOMEWORK! Yay! But I am gonna to do another journal by this weekend-as soon as there is inspiration so that I wouldn’t have a huge workload next week. And also learn Amaths,logs and sunbs(?), alien things to me, but gonna need to learn them since they are essential for damn calculus and I NEED to PASS that subject.

So here’s my new to-do list:
1. Learn damn Amaths-for a Emaths idiot, this is nightmare x 100000.
2. MFGG tee-go down to geylang to settle tee stuff with Andreas.
3. Guides Training camp facilitators list-what days they can come and all that stuff.
4. Journal Entry 2
5. Excel assignment-Thanks Andreas and Jie for offering your help :D Next Leaders meeting teach me la.
6. Get Campfire proposal draft 2 and amazing race proposal draft 1 from Aishah and Yinghan.
7. Make sure campfire invitations are sent out ASAP.
8. Find 4 art galleries/museums-this 1 not that urgent.

For my diagnostic essay for English, I had to write an essay on either “a life-changing event” or “a moment of glory”, no prizes for guessing what I wrote. Well, it is the only 1 that I could think of, what other life-changing event is there? And for my 2nd writing assignment, almost the same thing, mati la, I cannot write the same event,right? That’s why I need DREAMS 6.LOL. Just joking. I didn’t know what prompt me to write about ______ , wait, I think I know why, cos I know everything by heart so that’s the easiest thing to write and with 15 minutes to write, didn’t have time to stare into outerspace and daydream. Doing English homework just makes me wanna time travel back to time.

I don’t really feel like talking to anyone right now, or answering anyone, that’s why I am not on msn. No, nothing happen, not being emo or anything, although, I am still miserable. Went back to MF today for MF AYW(Mayflower Secondary School Alumni Youth Wing)meeting, and it still feels like home. But that’s beside the point. Maybe the point is I need some “thinking” time on my own.

Random thing, people at my school are surprised that I can speak Chinese. HAHA. Really! The moment I reply to them in Chinese, they will be like “eh, you can speak Chinese?”.LOL.And teaching them chinese/singlish is soo funny la!

Thursday, May 08, 2008

2:51 AM

I forgot how miserable the first week of school is when you don’t know anyone at all, after all it’s been 5 years-or is it 10 years since it happened.

How you can just catch your friend’s eyes and laugh cos you know they are thinking the same thing. Or take for granted how close your class is and how your class have your own “inside jokes”, the kind where you have to be there that kinda joke. Where you can walk by the corridors or hallways and be able to say “Hi” to (almost)everyone you pass by cos you know them from somewhere. Where you know who are the good teachers and all. To speak English/Chinese/Singlish and be understood.To cut everything short, where it feels like a home away from home. I miss 5G terribly and I am soo homesick for them.

Meanwhile, homework is piling up, especially for English. For IS-233 aka computer and art, we are gonna to have big projects, I think visit 5 art museums/galleries for art and some assignment for computer.

Here’s what I have left to do:
1. English summary
2. Critical Reading
3. Journal

Today’s computer lesson was pretty neat, we did it in the computer lab =D. And we did Microsoft Words for the whole 3 hours( I learnt screenshot!yay!)! HAHA. But Mr Raymond got too carried away and he taught till 12:30nn till someone told him the time.LOL.btw, I can’t do excel for nuts, I need someone to teach me!

It’s so damn tempting for me to pass the FO camp and go for my Guides camp. Which means I choose fan classrooms over air-con classroom, possible 2 days straight of chicken rice over good food, no sleep over abit of sleep, gangshow over campfire. But the thought of being with the people I am super comfortable with for 3 days, win hands down. The conformist in me wants to go home. And I am sure FO camp has no war game.LOL.Being the defender rocks man. But then again, how do I get close with my schoolmates if we don’t bond over such stuff, camp, as always, is the ultimate bonding experience, everyone knows that.

It’s funny, writing the journal is damn tough but writing this is quite easy.
Andreas is evil! She’s suaning me on her blog!!!

Monday, May 05, 2008

12:31 AM

HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY MIAOMIAO!
(i know this isn't the most glam pic.lol)

Saturday, May 03, 2008

2:42 AM

Darn!I accidently deleted the first part! So here goes again. Orientation was pretty fascinating to say the least,having classmates from different was kinda culture shock-that’s what you get when you been in the Singapore system for the past 11 years, all your classmates are Singaporean. And now, I am no more the lone Indonesian in class, which is pretty cool, after 11 years of being the only one. However, I am guessing that, they will only be able to pronounce my name by the end of the year or next year.LOL.

The figures for orientation

13-People who came for the orientation, I am guessing half of my class pon orientation.

5-China Chinese(Cheryl,Kiki,Tina,Joseph and I forgot the last one, they have Chinese names but they want to be called by their English, I am cool either way though)

2-Vietnamese(Hai and Dat-they have longer names but almost impossible for me to pronounce,much less pronounce.)

2-Indians(Swetna and Vikram)

2-Indonesians(Vachry-Pronounce Fah-ri and me)

1-Singaporean(Joel)

1-Burmese turned Singaporean(Ronald)

In the morning had academic and admin talk given to us by the programme executive and 1 of the lecturers, Mr Lai, who to me, seems like a cross between Mr George and Prem, strange, I know. But he’s more towards Prem than Mr George.Hopefully,my experience with Prem will help if I end up in his class this year. In the afternoon, we had a talk on Student Affairs and SC. And 2 ice-breaker games-1 in the morning,1 in the afternoon.

And the worst possible case scenario happened, 2 of my camps will clash with each other.mati la. The Guides camp and the “02 FO” camp, the “02 FO” camp will be from the 30-31st of May and Guides will be from the 30-1st of June. Funny how I am organizing one and participating in the other, at times like these, I wish I could split myself into 2. These camps also mark the start of my crazy June holidays schedule, as usual.

And somehow, I ended up hanging out with the guys, Ronald and Vachry to be specific. I am guessing cos Vachry is Indonesian and from Jakarta too and is a year younger than me so I can relate to him and maybe cos he sat across me in orientation and Ronald sat beside me in orientation. Either that, or being with the boys(from 5Gallant’07 I mean) for 3 years helped.

Friday, May 02, 2008

1:28 AM

The weather is soo hot these days! It is like what? 33-34 degree Celsius outside? Think air-con only helps a little bit only. So,what’s I’ve been doing to help combat the heat is put ice cubes on my hands and legs and it melts almost instantly- a method I tried last year when I got sunburnt after dreams 5. RAIN!!WHERE ARE YOU?SOS.SINGAPORE NEEDS YOU BADLY NOW!

Out of sheer boredom(and the lack of books to read), I begin reading “scouting in Singapore”, a book that Andreas intend to give to the Taiwan Guider and storing it at my place for the time being. The book is really very interesting, even though I am only about half way through it. And it’s making me wanna go to the Jamboree! Okay, not the book,youtube actually. I saw the promo video for last year’s Jamboree in UK and it was damn cool. Like 400K scouts(and guides) holding a massive concert called eurojam and doing like 40 different super fun stuff, not to mention the scouts/guides of different nationalities! But the next one is in 2011 in Sweden! And I WANT TO GO! Which means I need to save up money and find a way to be there for the Singapore contingent, guides or scouts,doesn’t matter, by hook or by crook. And I think Guides had a Mosaic in NZ in either 06/07, I am thinking a little smaller then the Jamboree but should be still as fun. Not to mention the next Guides international camp in 2011. Then camp FLAG,camp GALORE,MF Guides camp,hopefully DREAMS 6,7 and 8 and to visit the 4 World Centers and to hike mountains in Asia. I still got a lot of travelling to do.

This year they can do the mid-years in peace. Then why do I feel that we are missing something?
like chaos and dragging ourselves out of bed in an ungodly hour on Saturdays?

ying wei wo zhen di tai tian zhen le.xiang xin yi bei zi hui zi yang xia qiu-this beautiful friendship.