Yeah.. that's the end of another wonderful year 2010. Another year of much ups and downs, getting to meet new ppl, make new friends, getting to experience JC life for the first time... and PW... wow, what a year!
Yeaps... 2010 hasn't been a boring year for me indeed. It's been a really busy one and its all thanks to all those ppl around me who've made this year such a memorable one for me.
Anyways, with the end of 2010, this sees me through JC1 and through to JC2. I believe 2011 will be yet another fruitful, meaningful and memorable year for me with the eventful JC2 life ahead and opportunities of meeting more wonderful ppl.
With the coming of 2011, let there be a new beginning, with the unhappiness from 2010 forgotten!! Cheers to a wonderful 2011 ahead!!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
4D'09 class outing - Marina Barrage
Yup, met up with 4D'09 again today for a picnic-cum-gathering at Marina Barrage today. Met about 1pm at City Hall Mrt station and went for some lunch at 'Just Asia' at Marina Square. Wow.. didn't there was such a restaurant, and it actually offered free- flow of ice-cream and drinks. Lolx.. didn't know so didn't really work up an appetite. Therefore, was kinda full actually(dun noe why considering I hadn't taken breakfast, mind), so not much appetite. Didn't take the ice- cream and only had bout 2 cups of Pepsi.
Anyways, after having lunch headed down to Marina Barrage after waiting quite some time for the shuttle bus. It was really windy when we got to Marina Barrage. Well, of course! That's the place where ppl go for kite- flying. On the other hand, it could also have been due to the dark clouds forming above us indicating rain. Therefore, we looked for a sheltered spot and sat down to play cards --- Werewolf. And we spent the rest of the day being occupied with that, hahas! Did try to find the reservoir that was supposed to be there but didn't find it though.
Hung around playing cards until bout 5.45 and we set off back towards Marina Square. Made a huge detour though and ended up at Marina Square kinda late already, almost 7 pm. Planned to go bowling with John, Eugene and Farhan. However when we got there, the bowling alley was full and Pool required proper shoes and shirt. Therefore, since we were rushing for time, we decided to call it off and head for our destinations, me to a family dinner.
Anyways, after having lunch headed down to Marina Barrage after waiting quite some time for the shuttle bus. It was really windy when we got to Marina Barrage. Well, of course! That's the place where ppl go for kite- flying. On the other hand, it could also have been due to the dark clouds forming above us indicating rain. Therefore, we looked for a sheltered spot and sat down to play cards --- Werewolf. And we spent the rest of the day being occupied with that, hahas! Did try to find the reservoir that was supposed to be there but didn't find it though.
Hung around playing cards until bout 5.45 and we set off back towards Marina Square. Made a huge detour though and ended up at Marina Square kinda late already, almost 7 pm. Planned to go bowling with John, Eugene and Farhan. However when we got there, the bowling alley was full and Pool required proper shoes and shirt. Therefore, since we were rushing for time, we decided to call it off and head for our destinations, me to a family dinner.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Back to Singapore
Yoz.. its 21/12 today, bright and sunny in the morn. Just landed back in Singapore ytd(20/12) at 1540 hours ( local time). Really feels good to be back. Everything feels more familiar and the weather's much warmer as well. Most importantly, there is much less spicy food back in Singapore. Phew.. sure had more than enough of my fair share of spicy meals in Korea.
Anyways, all that said, I sure did enjoy my time in Korea and Shanghai. Took many great pictures as well. Will blog about what I did in my last 10 days overseas in my next few blog entries and will upload photos on to Facebook as well.
Stay tuned...
Anyways, all that said, I sure did enjoy my time in Korea and Shanghai. Took many great pictures as well. Will blog about what I did in my last 10 days overseas in my next few blog entries and will upload photos on to Facebook as well.
Stay tuned...
Friday, December 10, 2010
Off to Korea
Going off to Korea le tomorrow. Ahh... finally! Been talking about it for weeks alr, all the packing and buying of stuff for the winter there. Actually, it was only just last night that my luggage was finally packed finished. Yesterday just went to buy 2 pairs of jeans for this trip too. Probably coz my waist has grown old jeans seems a little tight, not much space down there, ya noe?
Anyways, leaving early in the morn at 7.00am. Will try to take lots of wonderful scenic pictures yeah! Korea's scenery should be wonderful, and its snowing too!
Be back on the 20th and 21st there's a mahjong session organised. Kinda busy huh? Hahas:)
So till the 20th, ciaos!
Anyways, leaving early in the morn at 7.00am. Will try to take lots of wonderful scenic pictures yeah! Korea's scenery should be wonderful, and its snowing too!
Be back on the 20th and 21st there's a mahjong session organised. Kinda busy huh? Hahas:)
So till the 20th, ciaos!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Finally... CYCLING!!!
Hahas yeahs.. finally. Today's weather report read "Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder over northern, eastern and central Singapore in the afternoon." Hahas, no western part of Singapore. So I set out at 2pm in the afternoon for a bike ride.
Decided to go cycle the Pangsua PCN just behind Pioneer JC and follow it to the end.(Apparently able to get to 7 parks with Pangsua PCN - Zhenghua, Bukit Panjang, Choa Chu Kang, Yew Tee, Limbang, Teck Whye). Took me about an hour to get there by first taking the Choa Chu Kang Park PCN from Bukit Gombak. Then traveled towards Zhenghua Park but didn't actually go there. Was actually trying to get to Dairy Farm road. Been intending to go cycling in that area for quite some time already. However, just couldn't get there, kept going round in circles. Even almost got onto KJE expresway too. Thankfully, as predicted, there was a bright sun shining above all through the trip. Finally decided to try again from Choa Chu Kang Park to see if it may lead to Dairy Farm Road. Therefore, I headed back the way I came.
However, as I approached Choa Chu Kang Park, crossing the bridge at the traffic junction somewhere near KSS, it started drizzling. Lolx! It was about 4+ or 5pm already by then, almost 3 hours after I left home. I started to cycle faster hoping to get some shelter at CCK Park and head back home after the rain stops.
Unfortunately, I was too late when I got to CCK Park. Almost all the shelter or pavillions had already been taken up. By now the rain had started to become heavier so I slipped into a sort of sheltered cafe and waited there. I didn't have long to wait though. The rain slowly started to reduce to a drizzle. From where I was standing, I could see that the place where I just came from was a blur. Seems that the rain has moved on. I then headed homewards.
Again I followed CCK PCN all the way to Cdans Bukit Batok. However, after circling a few times, dunno why, failed to locate the road which I usually took. Fearing that the rain would get here, I then took the only route that I could rmb at that point in time, the route that Bus 187 takes. Although a slightly longer route, I did eventually get home at around 6+pm. It didn't drizzle for the rest of the journey though, which was lucky coz I wasn't going too quickly. The floor was wet throughout though, seems that it did rain in this area before. Hope that I can cycle some more when I get back from Korea.
Decided to go cycle the Pangsua PCN just behind Pioneer JC and follow it to the end.(Apparently able to get to 7 parks with Pangsua PCN - Zhenghua, Bukit Panjang, Choa Chu Kang, Yew Tee, Limbang, Teck Whye). Took me about an hour to get there by first taking the Choa Chu Kang Park PCN from Bukit Gombak. Then traveled towards Zhenghua Park but didn't actually go there. Was actually trying to get to Dairy Farm road. Been intending to go cycling in that area for quite some time already. However, just couldn't get there, kept going round in circles. Even almost got onto KJE expresway too. Thankfully, as predicted, there was a bright sun shining above all through the trip. Finally decided to try again from Choa Chu Kang Park to see if it may lead to Dairy Farm Road. Therefore, I headed back the way I came.
However, as I approached Choa Chu Kang Park, crossing the bridge at the traffic junction somewhere near KSS, it started drizzling. Lolx! It was about 4+ or 5pm already by then, almost 3 hours after I left home. I started to cycle faster hoping to get some shelter at CCK Park and head back home after the rain stops.
Unfortunately, I was too late when I got to CCK Park. Almost all the shelter or pavillions had already been taken up. By now the rain had started to become heavier so I slipped into a sort of sheltered cafe and waited there. I didn't have long to wait though. The rain slowly started to reduce to a drizzle. From where I was standing, I could see that the place where I just came from was a blur. Seems that the rain has moved on. I then headed homewards.
Again I followed CCK PCN all the way to Cdans Bukit Batok. However, after circling a few times, dunno why, failed to locate the road which I usually took. Fearing that the rain would get here, I then took the only route that I could rmb at that point in time, the route that Bus 187 takes. Although a slightly longer route, I did eventually get home at around 6+pm. It didn't drizzle for the rest of the journey though, which was lucky coz I wasn't going too quickly. The floor was wet throughout though, seems that it did rain in this area before. Hope that I can cycle some more when I get back from Korea.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
I have heard about it... now I experience it...
Set off from home at bout 8.15am ytd morn and headed down to Farrer Park to meet up with Ming Yang for our scheduled Metro- SIF Cip at City Square Mall. Was supposed to meet at 9.30am but got there way ahead of time at 8.55am. Sat down at the Mrt platform area to wait for 9.30 to crawl by. At about 9.25am, Ming yang called me and informed me that he was alr in City Square Mall. Therefore I went over by myself. Upon meeting Ming yang realised that Chee koon had fever and would not be coming.
After that we reported to the security there and they brought us to Metro at lvl 3 where we waited for 10am to arrive. We placed our bags with the security and waited in a sort of staff lounge. At about 10.15, Xue Min and Hui Min and Joy arrived. While we were to be stationed at the mall's Atrium, the girls will be in Metro itself. We were then given a short briefing and given tags before being dispatched. Donations were to be for funding the education of needy Indonesian children.
After we got to the Atrium, we started setting up and decorating our booth with the gifts that we were supposed to give out. Minimum $2 donation and you get a Metro voucher booklet. Minimum of $5 and you get a Metro voucher booklet and either a pencil holder or drawstring pouch. Throughout all this, we realised that some items such as the drawstring pouches and voucher booklets were missing and so had to run up and down to the second floor countless times. Finally, we were ready to request for donations.
The first lady I approached was just browsing through some Metro Christmas items on sale around our booth. She was a non- Chinese and so I was feeling a little nervous as I approached her and explained to her what we were doing and requested for a donation. I think she intended to make a donation of $2 but she took out a $10 note and asked for change. However, after some thought, she donated $10 instead! Wow.. so generous! And the FIRST donation that I got.. TEN dollars! I then brought the $ back to the booth and dropped it into the donation box.
Took the $ back and dropped it into the donation box? Smth's not right. Oh.. I was supposed to bring her to the donation box and have her drop the $ in herself. We were not to handle the $. I made a mental note to rmb that, hoping no one had seen it. I then went back to her and passed her the voucher booklet and then got back to the booth. I then rmbed that she was also entitled to choose either a drawstring pouch or pencil holder with a $10 donation. I therefore went and brought her to the booth for a selection.
After that, things sort of quietened down as it was still quite early for a Monday morning and most people are either at work or still at home. Approached some passers-by and requested for donations. At first I decided to describe our beneficiaries, give them a background of what we were doing and then ask for donations. However, this proved to be futile as most ppl just walked away after I started speaking to them. Therefore, I changed it to "For only $2 you get a voucher booklet to shop at Metro" After that, I even changed it to "You get a voucher booklet for only $2", hoping that it will get their interest if they hear of the voucher booklet first. It worked!
After that, more ppl started donating. Most gave $2 while some gave $5 or $6. There were some who were quite friendly, like a lady who came over and joked with us before making a donation and then called her friends over to help in choosing an item. Then there was another lady who brought along two daughters and chatted with us as well. After making a donation, she then had her daughters choose an item. These were the few friendlier and humourous ones. Most others were colder towards us.
As I stood at the booth and observed, I realised that there seemed to be a 5-metre "force field" around our booth. Why do I say that? Ppl walking in our direction will make a huge detour around our booth just to get across. Then there were others who sped up suddenly when walking past our booth. Hahas... it was really humurous! Anyways, I still continued to approach passers- by.
After that at about 12pm, went for a quick lunch at 'Banquet' and met an aunt there. Said she will visit our booth later. Finished off with my chicken rice and left. Got back to the booth in 15mins. Then Ming Yang went for his lunch break.
My aunt came over with her friends after a little while and made a donation. After that she also gave me $10 for a meal later. Hahas.. how generous of her. A few other ppl came over to make donations as well and collected about $13 by the time Ming yang returned.
At that time it was about 1.15pm. We were starting to get bored. Although the human traffic started to increase as it was lunch break for most ppl, donations were coming in much slower. When approached for a donation, most of them declined. The ppl who donated were really minimal, almost to the point of zero. However, we were lucky coz our booth was located just beside the escalator landing so there was a continuous stream of ppl passing by our booth. Furthermore, there was a statue of a Santa Claus beside our booth where many children posed for pictures. We then grabbed the opportunity to get their parents to donate some $.
About 1 hour before the change of shift at 2.00pm, there were literally no more donations coming in. We got really sianzz, bored and tired as we have been standing for almost 4 hours alr. Although we still approached passers- by around our booth, most declined donating with a slight nod of their heads and with a smile. Although I do appreciate their courteousy in declining, it would have been better if they donated even just $2. Besides, it was quite comical to see them nod and then just walk off. "You get a voucher booklet for only $2, will you like to donate?" then, nod, and then walk off. Zzzz... it's like I get the feeling that they dun noe what nodding means. lols!
After that time really crawled, slower than a caterpillar crawling. We were counting down the minutes, then the seconds... really couldn't wait for 3.00pm to arrive.
Finally, finally... it was time to change shift. We went to return our tags and I went to buy some swimming caps at a 20% discount that we were entitled to. Went back downstairs and saw the girls at our booth. Apparently they had signed on for two consecutive shifts. Wow... so on eh! Can tahan 10 hours standing lols! For us, 5 hours was too much liaoz!
This really gave me an experience of what ppl at Mrt stations collecting donations have to go through.
After that we reported to the security there and they brought us to Metro at lvl 3 where we waited for 10am to arrive. We placed our bags with the security and waited in a sort of staff lounge. At about 10.15, Xue Min and Hui Min and Joy arrived. While we were to be stationed at the mall's Atrium, the girls will be in Metro itself. We were then given a short briefing and given tags before being dispatched. Donations were to be for funding the education of needy Indonesian children.
After we got to the Atrium, we started setting up and decorating our booth with the gifts that we were supposed to give out. Minimum $2 donation and you get a Metro voucher booklet. Minimum of $5 and you get a Metro voucher booklet and either a pencil holder or drawstring pouch. Throughout all this, we realised that some items such as the drawstring pouches and voucher booklets were missing and so had to run up and down to the second floor countless times. Finally, we were ready to request for donations.
The first lady I approached was just browsing through some Metro Christmas items on sale around our booth. She was a non- Chinese and so I was feeling a little nervous as I approached her and explained to her what we were doing and requested for a donation. I think she intended to make a donation of $2 but she took out a $10 note and asked for change. However, after some thought, she donated $10 instead! Wow.. so generous! And the FIRST donation that I got.. TEN dollars! I then brought the $ back to the booth and dropped it into the donation box.
Took the $ back and dropped it into the donation box? Smth's not right. Oh.. I was supposed to bring her to the donation box and have her drop the $ in herself. We were not to handle the $. I made a mental note to rmb that, hoping no one had seen it. I then went back to her and passed her the voucher booklet and then got back to the booth. I then rmbed that she was also entitled to choose either a drawstring pouch or pencil holder with a $10 donation. I therefore went and brought her to the booth for a selection.
After that, things sort of quietened down as it was still quite early for a Monday morning and most people are either at work or still at home. Approached some passers-by and requested for donations. At first I decided to describe our beneficiaries, give them a background of what we were doing and then ask for donations. However, this proved to be futile as most ppl just walked away after I started speaking to them. Therefore, I changed it to "For only $2 you get a voucher booklet to shop at Metro" After that, I even changed it to "You get a voucher booklet for only $2", hoping that it will get their interest if they hear of the voucher booklet first. It worked!
After that, more ppl started donating. Most gave $2 while some gave $5 or $6. There were some who were quite friendly, like a lady who came over and joked with us before making a donation and then called her friends over to help in choosing an item. Then there was another lady who brought along two daughters and chatted with us as well. After making a donation, she then had her daughters choose an item. These were the few friendlier and humourous ones. Most others were colder towards us.
As I stood at the booth and observed, I realised that there seemed to be a 5-metre "force field" around our booth. Why do I say that? Ppl walking in our direction will make a huge detour around our booth just to get across. Then there were others who sped up suddenly when walking past our booth. Hahas... it was really humurous! Anyways, I still continued to approach passers- by.
After that at about 12pm, went for a quick lunch at 'Banquet' and met an aunt there. Said she will visit our booth later. Finished off with my chicken rice and left. Got back to the booth in 15mins. Then Ming Yang went for his lunch break.
My aunt came over with her friends after a little while and made a donation. After that she also gave me $10 for a meal later. Hahas.. how generous of her. A few other ppl came over to make donations as well and collected about $13 by the time Ming yang returned.
At that time it was about 1.15pm. We were starting to get bored. Although the human traffic started to increase as it was lunch break for most ppl, donations were coming in much slower. When approached for a donation, most of them declined. The ppl who donated were really minimal, almost to the point of zero. However, we were lucky coz our booth was located just beside the escalator landing so there was a continuous stream of ppl passing by our booth. Furthermore, there was a statue of a Santa Claus beside our booth where many children posed for pictures. We then grabbed the opportunity to get their parents to donate some $.
About 1 hour before the change of shift at 2.00pm, there were literally no more donations coming in. We got really sianzz, bored and tired as we have been standing for almost 4 hours alr. Although we still approached passers- by around our booth, most declined donating with a slight nod of their heads and with a smile. Although I do appreciate their courteousy in declining, it would have been better if they donated even just $2. Besides, it was quite comical to see them nod and then just walk off. "You get a voucher booklet for only $2, will you like to donate?" then, nod, and then walk off. Zzzz... it's like I get the feeling that they dun noe what nodding means. lols!
After that time really crawled, slower than a caterpillar crawling. We were counting down the minutes, then the seconds... really couldn't wait for 3.00pm to arrive.
Finally, finally... it was time to change shift. We went to return our tags and I went to buy some swimming caps at a 20% discount that we were entitled to. Went back downstairs and saw the girls at our booth. Apparently they had signed on for two consecutive shifts. Wow... so on eh! Can tahan 10 hours standing lols! For us, 5 hours was too much liaoz!
This really gave me an experience of what ppl at Mrt stations collecting donations have to go through.
Monday, December 6, 2010
2010 EOY Hols 1st week
Well nothing much has been happening lately. I'm one week into 2010 EOY Hols alr. Mainly due to the need to cook for lunch these last couple of days, all the washing and preparing of food, seriously is killing me! Anyways, therefore I've only gone cycling like once since the start of hols and I didn't even get anywhere on that trip due to the Dec monsoon season thus the persistent 'showers with thunder' daily. Just cycled for less than 30 mins and the rain came. Was planning to get to clementi though.
In terms of studies, only done maths so far. Basically completed Chpt 13 DE and trying to complete 14 and 15 P&C and Prob by today. Got to start on Chem and Econs too alr. Then again, still lots to do. All hols Hws still not started yet. There's Chem, Physics. Econs and Maths hols hws.
Starting to pack for my Korea trip alr. At this time of year, of course its snowing there in Korea, therefore lots of thick winter clothing to be packed and bought. Going skiing too, yeah, so will be really cold I expect about -4 degrees C.
Oh yeahs, went for a briefing for this Korea trip couple of weeks ago and coz I just rushed to the briefing after school, was wearing my Byron PE shirt. Then a woman there asked me if I was from PJC and introduced herself as Mr Ivan's wife. Omg!!! She said that Mr Ivan was also going for the trip, TGT WITH US!!! Seriously can't tell you how suay that is. Well, at least we'll be speaking chinese there, that's an added advantage on my part, and he wun have much opportunity to be correcting EL, hahas. Not that he will bother of course.
Will be leaving for Korea at the end of this week, Saturday.
Will try to go cycling a few more times after I get back to S'pore on the 20th. Will have to complete Hols Hws by then too. Still lots to do towards the end of Hols. What to do? I'm J2! Hahas it rhymes.
ciaos!!
In terms of studies, only done maths so far. Basically completed Chpt 13 DE and trying to complete 14 and 15 P&C and Prob by today. Got to start on Chem and Econs too alr. Then again, still lots to do. All hols Hws still not started yet. There's Chem, Physics. Econs and Maths hols hws.
Starting to pack for my Korea trip alr. At this time of year, of course its snowing there in Korea, therefore lots of thick winter clothing to be packed and bought. Going skiing too, yeah, so will be really cold I expect about -4 degrees C.
Oh yeahs, went for a briefing for this Korea trip couple of weeks ago and coz I just rushed to the briefing after school, was wearing my Byron PE shirt. Then a woman there asked me if I was from PJC and introduced herself as Mr Ivan's wife. Omg!!! She said that Mr Ivan was also going for the trip, TGT WITH US!!! Seriously can't tell you how suay that is. Well, at least we'll be speaking chinese there, that's an added advantage on my part, and he wun have much opportunity to be correcting EL, hahas. Not that he will bother of course.
Will be leaving for Korea at the end of this week, Saturday.
Will try to go cycling a few more times after I get back to S'pore on the 20th. Will have to complete Hols Hws by then too. Still lots to do towards the end of Hols. What to do? I'm J2! Hahas it rhymes.
ciaos!!
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