Wednesday, April 30, 2008. 6:45 AM .
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Thursday, April 17, 2008. 9:47 AM .
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Quick blog please...
Tags reply from start of April till today.
Azila: Hey hey..yeah. i hope u really did enjoy yourself. i was pretty much having fun too. But goodness me, after the camp, the bed seems to be the best invention on Earth.
val: haha. yup!! cool right. haha. and btw..i realize the whole world seems to be using the world awesome. LOL. like was there a movie that use that word?? why is it suddenly so frequently use. LOL. ok..sheesh..i'm random. LOL. like whatever.
kel: Ha! I knew u would complain of those really long blogs with super duper horrid English. but come on kel. u've gotta get use to it. u're singaporean after all. =D
hmmm...so what are u trying to say?? it is time for me to get a gf???
lex: sheesh..patience my brother. take things easy.
end of tags.
Alrighty people.
It has been long since i last told you guys adventurous stories of basil.
But yeah. this is how it goes.
My fishing expedition.
Some of you people know i've been going nuts over fishing right??
yeah. i've been spending countless night by the sea side star gazing and fish hunting for those who are a little lost i'm what i'm talking about.
yup! so since fishing is usually done in the late night, obviously, with basil around, things will not stay as the usual "fishing trip". First few nights of fishing, we decided to enhance our staying environment, we had a tent. well, that is still pretty normal in a fishing trip to have a tent. It didn't stay long as we started to evolve our way of having a fishing trip. When we fish late at night, we realize we often have one common problem, and that is becoming hungry in the middle of the night. So eventually we started bringing our steamboat equipment such as a portable stove, the steamboat pot, bowls chopsticks, ingredients, etc. YES!! We started steamboating in the middle of the coast and fishing at the same time. There was one event when we were steamboating, the tide kinda was rising. So we had to move off, but there were no more coast, and the grass was filled with ants, so we had no choice, we walk to the nearest bus stop which wasnt very far, and we had our steamboat in the bus stop like around 3 to 4am. pretty funny.
Continuing with the evolution of our fishing trip, we eventually start getting bored with fishing for fish. I guess we kinda lost our minds for a little while, we bought snorkeling goggles and when snorkeling by the coast, taking along a bucket with us, catching jellyfishes. Catching jellyfishes was truly an out of this world experience as on one hand, we're so enthusiastic about catching the jellyfish, but on the other hand, we don't want to get stink by it. Super funny and super fun. Very stupid at the same time.
After that, sea fishing was getting a little tiring, we went a pond this time. The pond was bad. The fishes were laughing at us. We tried using prawns to catch them, but they didn't bite. Instead tortoises also known as terepins were biting our hooks. And sheesh...these terepins weren't those cute little tortoises u guys were thinking of. We are talking of tortoises as big as our heads. As soon as we got the tortoise out of water onto land, we held it by the shell and another friend of my stepped on the shell. It was kinda like no use, the tortoise was like still stronger then us. Ya i know. we're pretty pathetic, got own by a tortoise, wait till u encounter one. Even then, while we're grapping hold of the tortoise to release the hook on it's mouth, it hiss at us just like a snake. woah. it was pretty cool as none of us were expecting that.
On our most previous fishing trip, which was like last night, we fished out a little coral. And in the coral, there were like a dozen of starfishes and half a dozen of baby crabs and one little lobster. It was gross alright cuz the starfishes were like wiggling their long legs like worms and they were all brown. hmmm...that is about it for my fishing adventure.
I'm like damn tired now.
so yeah people. imma go sleep now. Nights=D
Tags reply from start of April till today.
Azila: Hey hey..yeah. i hope u really did enjoy yourself. i was pretty much having fun too. But goodness me, after the camp, the bed seems to be the best invention on Earth.
val: haha. yup!! cool right. haha. and btw..i realize the whole world seems to be using the world awesome. LOL. like was there a movie that use that word?? why is it suddenly so frequently use. LOL. ok..sheesh..i'm random. LOL. like whatever.
kel: Ha! I knew u would complain of those really long blogs with super duper horrid English. but come on kel. u've gotta get use to it. u're singaporean after all. =D
hmmm...so what are u trying to say?? it is time for me to get a gf???
lex: sheesh..patience my brother. take things easy.
end of tags.
Alrighty people.
It has been long since i last told you guys adventurous stories of basil.
But yeah. this is how it goes.
My fishing expedition.
Some of you people know i've been going nuts over fishing right??
yeah. i've been spending countless night by the sea side star gazing and fish hunting for those who are a little lost i'm what i'm talking about.
yup! so since fishing is usually done in the late night, obviously, with basil around, things will not stay as the usual "fishing trip". First few nights of fishing, we decided to enhance our staying environment, we had a tent. well, that is still pretty normal in a fishing trip to have a tent. It didn't stay long as we started to evolve our way of having a fishing trip. When we fish late at night, we realize we often have one common problem, and that is becoming hungry in the middle of the night. So eventually we started bringing our steamboat equipment such as a portable stove, the steamboat pot, bowls chopsticks, ingredients, etc. YES!! We started steamboating in the middle of the coast and fishing at the same time. There was one event when we were steamboating, the tide kinda was rising. So we had to move off, but there were no more coast, and the grass was filled with ants, so we had no choice, we walk to the nearest bus stop which wasnt very far, and we had our steamboat in the bus stop like around 3 to 4am. pretty funny.
Continuing with the evolution of our fishing trip, we eventually start getting bored with fishing for fish. I guess we kinda lost our minds for a little while, we bought snorkeling goggles and when snorkeling by the coast, taking along a bucket with us, catching jellyfishes. Catching jellyfishes was truly an out of this world experience as on one hand, we're so enthusiastic about catching the jellyfish, but on the other hand, we don't want to get stink by it. Super funny and super fun. Very stupid at the same time.
After that, sea fishing was getting a little tiring, we went a pond this time. The pond was bad. The fishes were laughing at us. We tried using prawns to catch them, but they didn't bite. Instead tortoises also known as terepins were biting our hooks. And sheesh...these terepins weren't those cute little tortoises u guys were thinking of. We are talking of tortoises as big as our heads. As soon as we got the tortoise out of water onto land, we held it by the shell and another friend of my stepped on the shell. It was kinda like no use, the tortoise was like still stronger then us. Ya i know. we're pretty pathetic, got own by a tortoise, wait till u encounter one. Even then, while we're grapping hold of the tortoise to release the hook on it's mouth, it hiss at us just like a snake. woah. it was pretty cool as none of us were expecting that.
On our most previous fishing trip, which was like last night, we fished out a little coral. And in the coral, there were like a dozen of starfishes and half a dozen of baby crabs and one little lobster. It was gross alright cuz the starfishes were like wiggling their long legs like worms and they were all brown. hmmm...that is about it for my fishing adventure.
I'm like damn tired now.
so yeah people. imma go sleep now. Nights=D
Tuesday, April 01, 2008. 10:09 PM .
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Topic today. [Yeah yeah, i know, I'm late again, but this post is really huge.]
Leadership Training Camp 2008.
Time of event : 0800, 14 March 2008 - 1230, 16 March 2008
Location: Changi Camp
But first...tags replies from 22 March till today=D
lex: i actually got wear around. Ching and Karen has seen me with it already.
xiaojiao: Yeah. i'll update. but i really need time, cuz i realize I'm getting much more lazier then b4. updating is such a choir to me. haha..okay okay..this entry less zhi lian picture of me.
py: yeah..this nursery rhymes really can be quite saddening at time yeah. Oh. and my fingers may be fat, but your whole is fat. so yeah..you still own me in FATS.=D
STO: WTH..are u advertising in my blog, you better pay me if u want free advertisement or at least give me commission from pple who buy from my blog.
val: hey hey..it aint me who created those crazy nursery rhymes men. i dunno when this stuff kinda actually started. but whatever it is, it sure can be depressing.
Wilson: Fishing was awesome. i'll blog about it once i get the pic from u.
Boss: Hi boss. eh. sia lah..i forgot to ask if u wanna come for service. shucks. eh. you wanna come for service.??? LOL.
end of tags...
Okay. Continuing on for LTC 2008.
Introduction...
HuaiXin and I, once again, after dunno how many camps, we're still together in the same group, but this time, facilitating. Our group, group 3, that adopted the name "raiders" or "reders" or "red", sheesh, honestly, we've got no idea which was the exact name till now. How this name came about was from our red banner we were given.
This is the boss of this Leadership training camp. His name is Thiam Wei.He is a great leader, and an awesome friend. He is very respectable in my opinion.
This is my group. I would say probably the nicest group ever in the whole entire LTC. Every facils were like in love with my group cuz they were the most obedient group in the entire camp. Okay yes, they may not be very loud, but they certainly have great values in their life and will come out to be excellent OGLs in the future.
Well, my group was pretty cool, we had like half a group of motion sickness people. In the bus, we had to provide them with sweets. And sweets were kind of restricted in that camp. -_-"
Planes flying over our head like just 100 meters away from us was common a common sight. The sight of it was majestic but the sound coming out of it sounds as if the plane was cursing and swearing at you, it was horrid.
The beach was clean and clear. The weather was splendid.
So hell begins, we started by making them standardize their bunks and ensuring it is neat and tidy. We made them redo when we are not satisfied. Made them hurried for every point of gathering. And for every second they miss, they owe us 1 push up. We were fierce to them. We started out with ice-breaking games.
And then the 4 of us just sit and watch them do all the funny things we make them do. Pretty cool eh.
They cook their own meals with solid fuel, mass tins, and a little ingredients we've provided them.
By the time of all the ice breaking activities, it was night already.
And so we played candle wars. 2 rounds of it. Our group won the 2nd round. Haha. crap. but i dun have a pic of how our strategy was. but even then, it was also thx to the help of group 4 that we kinda own the rest.
After that, we had this night walk with everyone all blindfolded. As facils, we tickled them and spayed water at them. Making fun of them all.
Day 2
Started the day with morning physical training. After that it was the water games and canoing. Well, once again, my poor group who mostly suffered from motion sickness weren't really very keen of it.
Water games...
The day was hot, but the water bombs were cooling. Best time ever to play water bombs. The water bombs were made out of sea water. Once kena by the bomb, you'll smell like sushi.
Raiders!! Wooo...Eh. Paiseh ah that time, i had to join the other group to challenge u all. Then u all lose. Sorry .. but dun worry. i still love you pple okay.
After wet games, we had our lunch, then had feedback session with with Thiam Wei, the boss himself.
Okay, lets have a closer look at him...hmmm...nice thighs he got there.
Okay. So we had kayaking right after briefing. Poor group of mine. Suffered most in this event. All my motion sickness members have to skip this event. sigh. only half of my group could bare the treacherous waves of Singapore.
After all the water games and kayaking, we had an outdoor cooking competition. Once again, they were only given a limited amount of ingredients and made to cook. Mr Hang was the judge. Pretty funny.
Well, after much tasting from food with sand in it to those severely under cook food. He voted that team UNO was the best. 3 Cheers to you UNO.
Finally, day 2 was coming to the end with the final 2 event, perform their skid and Ugly Betty.
After all the tiring events, we had our briefing as usual, then we went to celebrate Thiam Wei, the boss of the camp, birthday.
Haha. I guess we kinda surprise him that we knew it was his birthday, yup.
Day 3[The last day]
Well, dun have much pics for that day cuz as facils, we were busy giving hell to the campers. 3am sharp. So no pictures to do the telling of story for me. So this is how it went. The alarm goes off and as facils, we rushed in into their bunks and started shouting at them to get up and pack their bags and assemble below their bunks in 5 minutes. However, 5 minutes was too short for them and them and everyone had to get down to push up position and hold there. After we spot check the bunks, the bunks had things left behinds such as shoes and socks. So everyone had to stay in that push up position until everyone have claim their items. Another spot check was done, this time, the bunks were dirty, and so volunteers were called up to clean the bunks while everyone remain at that position. Bunks now clean, and everyone still at push up position, Thiam Wei gave a command to get up relocate themselves with their bags in 10 seconds underneath another bunk as it was pretty sandy at were they were doing their push up position. However, they were too slow and they were made to get back to the sandy location with their bags. They did it several times but to no avail. So they all got back to push up position and thiam wei gave 2 minutes to those who hasn't pack their bags to get pack them properly at their bunks. Once all is done packing their bags, they were again given another 10 seconds to go underneath the bunk to place their bags. They made it on time this time. But however, in the process of panic, many left many rubbish behind. and so they were made to go back in their push up position at the sandy place and had a short lecture. So again they given 10 seconds, but this time with no rubbish left on the floor. They made it. In total, these campers have stayed in the push up position of at least 30 minutes.
After all the torture, we played black market where it consist of several station and task has to be completed in order to proceed. Then breakfast then camp closure. Yay. finally finish this post.
Okay guys, especially raiders, i certainly did enjoy the camp with you guys, and I'm looking forward to have an outing with u all. Hopefully one of you guys can do the organizing of the gathering. I love you guys and if i had a second LTC with the same groupings, I'll certainly pick you guys again.
Leadership Training Camp 2008.
Time of event : 0800, 14 March 2008 - 1230, 16 March 2008
Location: Changi Camp
But first...tags replies from 22 March till today=D
lex: i actually got wear around. Ching and Karen has seen me with it already.
xiaojiao: Yeah. i'll update. but i really need time, cuz i realize I'm getting much more lazier then b4. updating is such a choir to me. haha..okay okay..this entry less zhi lian picture of me.
py: yeah..this nursery rhymes really can be quite saddening at time yeah. Oh. and my fingers may be fat, but your whole is fat. so yeah..you still own me in FATS.=D
STO: WTH..are u advertising in my blog, you better pay me if u want free advertisement or at least give me commission from pple who buy from my blog.
val: hey hey..it aint me who created those crazy nursery rhymes men. i dunno when this stuff kinda actually started. but whatever it is, it sure can be depressing.
Wilson: Fishing was awesome. i'll blog about it once i get the pic from u.
Boss: Hi boss. eh. sia lah..i forgot to ask if u wanna come for service. shucks. eh. you wanna come for service.??? LOL.
end of tags...
Okay. Continuing on for LTC 2008.
Introduction...
HuaiXin and I, once again, after dunno how many camps, we're still together in the same group, but this time, facilitating. Our group, group 3, that adopted the name "raiders" or "reders" or "red", sheesh, honestly, we've got no idea which was the exact name till now. How this name came about was from our red banner we were given.
This is the boss of this Leadership training camp. His name is Thiam Wei.He is a great leader, and an awesome friend. He is very respectable in my opinion.
This is my group. I would say probably the nicest group ever in the whole entire LTC. Every facils were like in love with my group cuz they were the most obedient group in the entire camp. Okay yes, they may not be very loud, but they certainly have great values in their life and will come out to be excellent OGLs in the future.
Well, my group was pretty cool, we had like half a group of motion sickness people. In the bus, we had to provide them with sweets. And sweets were kind of restricted in that camp. -_-"
Planes flying over our head like just 100 meters away from us was common a common sight. The sight of it was majestic but the sound coming out of it sounds as if the plane was cursing and swearing at you, it was horrid.
The beach was clean and clear. The weather was splendid.
So hell begins, we started by making them standardize their bunks and ensuring it is neat and tidy. We made them redo when we are not satisfied. Made them hurried for every point of gathering. And for every second they miss, they owe us 1 push up. We were fierce to them. We started out with ice-breaking games.
And then the 4 of us just sit and watch them do all the funny things we make them do. Pretty cool eh.
They cook their own meals with solid fuel, mass tins, and a little ingredients we've provided them.
By the time of all the ice breaking activities, it was night already.
And so we played candle wars. 2 rounds of it. Our group won the 2nd round. Haha. crap. but i dun have a pic of how our strategy was. but even then, it was also thx to the help of group 4 that we kinda own the rest.
After that, we had this night walk with everyone all blindfolded. As facils, we tickled them and spayed water at them. Making fun of them all.
Day 2Started the day with morning physical training. After that it was the water games and canoing. Well, once again, my poor group who mostly suffered from motion sickness weren't really very keen of it.
Water games...The day was hot, but the water bombs were cooling. Best time ever to play water bombs. The water bombs were made out of sea water. Once kena by the bomb, you'll smell like sushi.
Raiders!! Wooo...Eh. Paiseh ah that time, i had to join the other group to challenge u all. Then u all lose. Sorry .. but dun worry. i still love you pple okay.
After wet games, we had our lunch, then had feedback session with with Thiam Wei, the boss himself.
Okay, lets have a closer look at him...hmmm...nice thighs he got there.
Okay. So we had kayaking right after briefing. Poor group of mine. Suffered most in this event. All my motion sickness members have to skip this event. sigh. only half of my group could bare the treacherous waves of Singapore.
After all the water games and kayaking, we had an outdoor cooking competition. Once again, they were only given a limited amount of ingredients and made to cook. Mr Hang was the judge. Pretty funny.
Well, after much tasting from food with sand in it to those severely under cook food. He voted that team UNO was the best. 3 Cheers to you UNO.
Finally, day 2 was coming to the end with the final 2 event, perform their skid and Ugly Betty.
After all the tiring events, we had our briefing as usual, then we went to celebrate Thiam Wei, the boss of the camp, birthday.
Haha. I guess we kinda surprise him that we knew it was his birthday, yup.
Day 3[The last day]
Well, dun have much pics for that day cuz as facils, we were busy giving hell to the campers. 3am sharp. So no pictures to do the telling of story for me. So this is how it went. The alarm goes off and as facils, we rushed in into their bunks and started shouting at them to get up and pack their bags and assemble below their bunks in 5 minutes. However, 5 minutes was too short for them and them and everyone had to get down to push up position and hold there. After we spot check the bunks, the bunks had things left behinds such as shoes and socks. So everyone had to stay in that push up position until everyone have claim their items. Another spot check was done, this time, the bunks were dirty, and so volunteers were called up to clean the bunks while everyone remain at that position. Bunks now clean, and everyone still at push up position, Thiam Wei gave a command to get up relocate themselves with their bags in 10 seconds underneath another bunk as it was pretty sandy at were they were doing their push up position. However, they were too slow and they were made to get back to the sandy location with their bags. They did it several times but to no avail. So they all got back to push up position and thiam wei gave 2 minutes to those who hasn't pack their bags to get pack them properly at their bunks. Once all is done packing their bags, they were again given another 10 seconds to go underneath the bunk to place their bags. They made it on time this time. But however, in the process of panic, many left many rubbish behind. and so they were made to go back in their push up position at the sandy place and had a short lecture. So again they given 10 seconds, but this time with no rubbish left on the floor. They made it. In total, these campers have stayed in the push up position of at least 30 minutes.
After all the torture, we played black market where it consist of several station and task has to be completed in order to proceed. Then breakfast then camp closure. Yay. finally finish this post.
Okay guys, especially raiders, i certainly did enjoy the camp with you guys, and I'm looking forward to have an outing with u all. Hopefully one of you guys can do the organizing of the gathering. I love you guys and if i had a second LTC with the same groupings, I'll certainly pick you guys again.