Wow, nice to know that I'm actually part of 'the best orientation camp in years'. ;) Orientation camp was damn fun la.

Wow 1M is quite a nice class. I think everything started improving after The Journey. They only completed two out of eight checkpoints, spending two and a half hours and using two lifelines on the first one.

"How many stations have they completed?"
"Only one, mdm."
"Huh, why they still so happy?"

Quite amazing. Loved every moment of the camp. 1M. 100% Raffles. :)

And something to note. Shimonoseki Station was burnt down yesterday. Only two weeks after we were there. By some 74 year old arsonist who felt irritated.

Merry Christmas everyone! Woohoo Japan was quite fun. Finally slept enough to blog about it now.

Hmmm so we landed at Fukuoka airport on the 14th. Wa the fugu fish we had that night was damn good. My first time eating the poisonous blowfish. You need to have some license to prepare the fugu properly so we never had the chance to eat it in Singapore. Pity we never watched the fugu chef at work. I was happy enough just trying the fugu fish that night, and I didn't know that we would be having lots more fugu throughout the trip.

Took a bus to Yufuin, after stopping at Beppu. They had this street where the shops were all selling stuff under one theme, and the dog shop was so cool. Didn't find Rufus in any form though. Walked through the street in the snow, and the people from the inn picked us up from the train station. Wa the inn was excellent. We had our first proper Japanese dinner where they serve course by course. Can't remember all the dishes, but everything was delicious. And the onsen (hot spring)! You just soak inside, with your body in the hot water and your head in the cold, and it felt so relaxing. I could only think of how lucky I was inside the onsen.

The next day we took another bus to Nagasaki, and we found a Docomo handphone at the bus terminal. Trying to sell it now. ;) Went to the peace park and the atomic bomb museum. It's shocking looking at what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki and the people, seeing the horrors of war, and wondering why the US had to drop the bomb on Nagasaki. But then we've also been to the museum in China where you see all the nonsense the Japanese did during the 南京大屠杀, and you just dunno what to think.

Yabuku was scary. We arrived at some ulu ferry terminal when the bus driver was supposed to drop us at the bus terminal, and the sky was dark and it's damn scary thinking that you're gonna be stuck there for the night. Thank goodness we managed to find someone in the ferry terminal who helped us find an inn. In the end it was okay la, just that Yabuku wasn't that wonderful. Only went to the fish market where they sold lots and lots of sotong. Lunch was weird, but I enjoyed it. They served us LIVE sotong where the legs were still wriggling, and you're just supposed to throw it into the sauce and eat it live. Haha. Damn fun. And when we left the boss of the inn just gave us this purse from their shop. Somehow it's just the small things like this people do that make you feel so good.

Went back to Fukuoka after that. There's this HUGE shopping mall called Canal City, and it's actually 3 connected shopping malls. I made a pair of spectacles there, upon noticing that my entire lens was scratched. But the prices there are reasonable and I think the frames are much better as compared to Singapore's.

Now for the 'second half' of the journey. Btw, this was on the 19th. First met up with my dad's friends at the airport, then we went to Hagi. Hmm the other group of bankers turned out to be quite fun. Met up with them for 2 days in Hagi, but I only saw their fun part after they had loads of sake. ;) Seems like once the sake appears on the table, everyone goes crazy liao. Haha. Dinner that night was quite good la. It had to be, seeing that we were having dinner at the bankers' inn and they were paying 26,000 yen per person per night. That night, beside be was this ACS guy who's working now, and opposite me was Ari whose going to HCI. How fun. Really had fun talking to them, quite surprising cos we never really talked a lot whenever I met them.

I lost count of how many potteries we went to in Hagi. The pottery there was very good, but I didn't really know how to appreciate the pottery, so I just stood and watched while my dad and his friends were buying. These potters we visited are supposedly the master potters of Hagi, and they all have their own style and character. Very interesting, especially the last potter we met, where we actually went to his house. He's like an all-rounded artist, designing his house and all that stuff. Had lots more fugu in Hagi. Fugu sashimi, fried fugu, fugu in steamboat, and it's all in one dinner. o.O

Went back to Fukuoka again. And we snowboarded! There was this indoor snowboarding facility and we just went there to try it out. Hee I managed to go down the higher slope without falling down. :D It was damn fun.

Went to Shimoseki the next day. Whoa we met up with this councillor of the entire prefecture, who's some young and rising politician. He actually entertained us in his house, and his property is DAMN BIG. Half of the hill is his, and I dunno what he does with the apartments we saw on the way up the hill to his house. He has this huge garden ending in a bamboo forest of sorts, separating his property from his neighbour's. Lol and his daughter was damn cute. I think she's 4 years old, and she can only speak Japanese. But she still made friends with Maya, who's 9, and it's damn funny watching her play.

Lalala and we're back in Fukuoka again. Went to Space World, this theme park in Kitakyushu. Had a lot of fun that day, then we went back to Hakata (where our hotel is located) and counted down to Christmas while having Yakitori. Ari and Maya are damn fun, I just sat there laughing at what they were doing throughout dinner.

Hmm back in Singapore liao. Japan was fun la. And now it's December 26th. One year after the tsunami. This year passed damn quickly la, it didn't feel like one year at all. I hope next year drags on and on and on and on..

I GOT A NEW PHONE!!! And it's 3G!!! I dunno why you must have a 3G phone to use in Japan, but my dad decided to get one using my plan cos Singtel ran out of phones to rent. So I benefit loh. :D Sadly it's Sony Ericsson. I want N90... Aha 3G!

:'( Leaving tonight liao. At least we're leaving after CSI. Hope Kyushu is fun. :)) What a coincidence. YiJing just went there for his holidays, but only for 2 or 3 days. And I ended up telling him which places he went to. -.-

K I'll blog more after I come back on Christmas. Bye everyone. Happy holidays!

HongKong wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. :/ I think we probably went there during the wrong season cos most shops were selling winter clothing. Hardly bought anything. Met up with some friends whom we've never seen for 8 years. Hehe. That was fun. And the dim sum was delicious. I could only nod my head whenever people ask me to eat more in Cantonese and learning how to say 'I'm full' as well. Bleh I think it's quite sad that I dunno how to speak any dialect. :'( Dunno why I didn't pick up any Hokkien when I was young, seeing that my grandmother speaks Hokkien. Now I can't really communicate with her properly. I speak to her in Mandarin and she answers in Hokkien. At least I can get the gist of what she's saying. Otherwise it would really be veryvery sad. Oh ya I wanna learn Spanish and sign language as well also. It's so cool! But I also wanted to finish my holiday homework by November...

Wahh and I'm going Japan from the 14th - 25th. >.< Not really looking forward to it. I dunno, I just don't think that it'd be very fun going on holiday with my dad's friends. I just feel uncomfortable and restricted. Dunno whether they'd be staying at all the expensive hotels. For this kind of holiday where you reach the hotel late at night and leave early in the morning it's quite pointless and a waste of money to be staying in those hotels. Lucky the air tickets were on promotion. But I love Japan! Still remember when I went to Hokkaido with family friends. The scenery was beautiful. I love snow.

Ahah and I was walking Rufus yesterday evening. He's so timid. Dunno why he doesn't want to go to the park, and it's only until you pass the stretch of road outside my house then will he start walking. And to get him past that stretch of road you either have to carry him, or you wait for something else that scares him in that direction. But it's damn fun walking him, and you hear people walking past saying that he's a very beautiful dog. :D Even WenJun likes his hair when he's afraid of dogs. Unlike seanie. :P

It's nearly December and I haven't done any homework. And I'm going to HongKong from the 1st-6th and Japan from 14th-25th. Happiness. I shall just buy loads of stuff back, and presents for Guang and Kern!

Hmm WeiYuan, Daryl, YongHan, SeanOng, Kern, Ian, WenJun, Jasper came on Friday. Everything was damn messy so I didn't even know who was coming until they came. It was quite fun. Setting Rufus on Sean. Losing around $10 in mahjong, and I haven't paid anyone yet. Owning in gunbound (I still can do ultra high angles :D). Eating prata at 12.30am. Walking in the park at 1am, looking like delinquents from ABC school. Spying on a couple, who turned out to be just talking in the pavilion. Falling asleep while watching Johnny Depp in Secret Window, and still knowing more about the movie than STBL, who watched the whole movie. Rejecting Daryl's (Japanese Slut :P) request in French to sleep with him. Watching WenJun have fun with Sean and Daryl. Beating WeiYuan's score of 72 with 2 darts, only to have YongHan remove the darts before WeiYuan saw them.

I think WenJun is damn funny.

Me: Eh WenJun what's the longest name you have? Sean The Bitch Laggerong ah?
WenJun: No it's ChiaChiaChiaChiaChiaChiaChiaChiaChia.

And Ali wants this journal entry to be h0t. How? First we start with a nice title (Ali gave me this one). Next we talk about how Gary is damn mean to WenJun, forcing him to pose with him in photos so that he can post it on his HunkGary site. And then we talk about WenJun and, in order of their cheeks' value,-

1. YiJing, YiCheek
2. SeanOng, STBL, SSYBL
3. Daryl, Darly
4. Daryl, Darly
5. Daryl, Darly
6. Daryl, Darly
7. Daryl, Darly
8. -removed-
9. Guang, Oh-My-O/ Kern! Stay right there!
10. Kern! Stay right there!/ Guang, Oh-My-O

Lastly we post a photo of Gary and WenJun. I don't have any, go to hunkgary.blogspot.com for the photos.

Went for Singapore - The Creative City seminar, part of the Singapore Design Festival, with WeiYuan today. Hmm it was quite interesting, but I didn't understand some parts. Dozed off during one speaker's talk, and couldn't understand what the speaker after him was talking about. Haha I only remember Tay Kheng Soon. I think he was the most entertaining speaker, haha. He was saying something about the head, heart and hand being disconnected. You think something, but you don't feel it. You feel something, but you don't think it. And in all cases you don't do anything. Lol. And can't really remember what he was talking about exactly, but he said something like "Now the only hope left is for them to do the right thing for the wrong reason. I don't care." Ahha sounds like Daryl. Hmmm out of the 160 or so people I think there were only 3 students, excluding all those from university. Me, WeiYuan and some guy who came with his mom. It was quite okay la, just that it was a bit long. :/ Too bad HweeLeong and Daryl had last-minute meetings.

KEANE LEFT MANCHESTER UNITED. I wanna cry liao. Bye Keane. We'll miss you.

I feel a sense of accomplishment. Actually cooked some stuff during the class chalet, and I think the cooking was pretty much all that was fun. Mahjong, PS/PS2, GameCube, cards etc are all fun, but everyone is doing it la, and cooking made our chalet different, only for those who cooked though. If not for the time spent in the kitchen this chalet would hardly be fun and memorable. Apart playing soccer and having Kern thrash all the fake AhBengs, and Axis&Allies with JuanHe, KiaLiang, Yonghan, and SiHao, it was really quite boring. Hmm the cooking commitee.. HweeLeong, Leonard, KiaLiang, Royce, YongHan, Seth(breakfast), Ms Kuo, maybe Daryl and Auyong, who were singing to the onion rings to soothe them. It's damn fun cooking la! Hmm but it was quite irritating, you cook the food, bring it out so that those playing the gamecube can eat, and they tell you not to block their view. Mmhm you're very welcome.

Breakfast was hilarious. I FRIED A PROPER PLASTER PRATA WITH LEONARD! HAHA HWEELEONG. It was thrilling watching the egg yolk still intact after we fried it together with the prata. And you crack it and all the yolk spills out on your prata. And we did it ourselves. :D We fried all kinds of prata. Cheese, Egg, star-shaped, gingerbread man-shaped, and somehow we managed to make this French prata by putting the prata into the microwave, and using the roast pork settings. We tried to knead the dough to minimise wastage, and we succeeded in making one prata out of the ball. KiaLiang, Leonard, Royce and I stretched the prata, and we fried it and gave it to Daryl. We just threw the remaining ball of dough into the microwave, and Seth and KiaLiang had fun with the resultant 'prata' with the chopper. We just talked a lot of nonsense and fried a lot of nonsense as well in the kitchen.

Leonard (tasting the fries): It tastes like potato.
Ms Kuo: It's potato what!
Leonard: Nonono, it tastes like A potato!

HweeLeong Leonard KiaLiang Royce YongHan are how pro la. Really enjoyed their company. :) And Seth! Who came over in the morning cos 3P was sleeping.

Went home and slept until 4. Then I went for my first golf lesson! Whee I actually managed to hit one third of the balls properly. Fun.

Holidays are here. Wahahaha played soccer with some RJ people yesterday. They were being quite irritating and insisted that the got the astro first, hmm so we played them loh. We are too good. The score was 20-2 in the end, or somewhere there. Ngiam gave up keeping score after we scored 3 goals one after the other. And this is why if you take a team from GEP to play a team from Express we should most probably win. Hmm in school David Court was talking about the Sec4 graduation, and how it would be our turn soon. Time really is passing too quickly, but I don't wanna think so much about this. :P

Holidays are boring... This year was damn fun, and now it's 2 months without seeing everyone, unless they come and crash our chalet, or vice versa. Bleh. Haha nvm one day we shall get everyone to go to someone's house (like Ian's!) and it'd be nonsensical and fun. Don't really feel like going to US this holiday leh, I think I'd prefer it if my sister came home instead. Universal Studios can wait. :D Meanwhile there's not much to do, can't play too much DotA either cos my dad wants me to do some useful stuff this holiday. Like learn golf! Went to the driving range once and couldn't hit the ball properly most of the time. Hmm who wants to learn golf together!

And today's the 5th. Happy birthday Sean!
WeiYuan going overseas tomorrow. Have fun!

Hmm got my GPA back today. I think it was 3.64. Didn't really look at it properly because everyone refused to listen to John and stopped passing the list around in register order. Haha I'm quite happy with my results, and my Chem got 3.6! Even with a 22/60 for my CT. >.< Ya my Chem cannot make it. Don't care liao, I'll never reach the >3.8 GPA. I'm satisfied as long as I can get a H3 subject in JC. Hmm dunno what I'm going to take leh... Physics and Chem is required in so many faculties in university, and what a coincidence! They're one of my weakest subjects. And I still have no clear idea as to what I'm going to be next time.. Nvm, I have 1 year to think about this.

Hmm I think I wasted my time yesterday watching Zorro. YiJing was being nonsensical as usual. Haha everyone says that he's quite stupid but I like to think that he's just acting cute, and more express idiots will start hugging him and pinching his cheeks, and this is quite stupid seeing that some/most of them don't really know him at all. Hmm ya so SeanYap, WenJun, YiJing, Ngiam, YongHan, WeiYuan and I were walking from the top of Plaza Singapura to the bottom looking for somewhere to eat. Ended up eating at Burger King :/ Zz total waste of time lah, but I don't mind doing this more often in the holidays. No school for 2 months, can only see everyone through eurobattlenet. >.< Dunno if the chalet is going to be fun, what with 3Q and 3P around. I think it's quite sad when you're not satisfied with a 3.8 and think that it's the end of the world. Not that I saw anyone like that though. Lol. Why 3P and 3Q... Haha I think that the other classes might be more fun. :P

Haha might DotA later when ManU is thrashing Lille. Haha Alan Smith shaved bald. No more cool hair.

Inter-Class Soccer. We didn't get past the group stage, and I think that it was my fault. >.< Sorry 3M, we wouldn't have lost to 3H if it were not for my screw up, and we might have then qualified for the next round. Express people are really quite irritating, I don't remember playing a game of soccer with them where you dont't feel pissed off and feel like breaking their legs or whacking the ball in their faces. Edric and I were furiously attempting to get our yellow cards but pathetic refereeing meant that we did not get our wish. Supporting 3L and 3T was exhilarating. Yelling at those buggers whenever there was a foul, screaming at the referees who were friends with those buggers, etc. 3T lost in the quarter-finals, but not before JoshToh tackled MADDOG, who started yelping in pain, clutching his poor ankle, only to come on 3 minutes later.

The 3L match was the highlight of the day. 3L vs 3H, and it was nil-nil all the way until penalties. This match was where the GEP really rallied together and everyone was behind 3L all the way. Not like the express, where they most probably can't stand each other's faces as well. You see the entire GEP at one side of the turf, but I don't remember seeing any 3H people cheering their fellow buggers on. They were damn unlucky not to win. We were behind the netting, shouting our lungs out whenever Daniel saved a penalty, and it took Zenzel, supposed to be pro and all that nonsense, two chances to score against a goalie who just started playing goalie 2 days ago. Says a lot eh. WenJun is damn freaking pro. His shot from halfway which bounced off the crossbar was WICKED SICK. Really played damn well today and they didn't deserve to lose at all. No wonder why he cried at the end of the match. Us in the GEP really supported each other, whereas the express geniuses only knew how to send anonymous smses like 'take that you fucking GEP :)' to YiJing. That should be the only way they can get close to doing anything to YiJing, they can give up tackling him fair and square. What the hell? We are the real champions, and next year, we'll make those "champions" weep.

Because it is WRITTEN
1) Reply with your name and I’ll respond with something random about you.
2) I’ll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3) I’ll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.
4) I’ll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5) I’ll tell you my first memory of you.
6) I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7) I’ll ask you something that I’ve always wondered about you.
8) If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal. You MUST. It is written! (If you don’t have one forget it.)

Shang Hui
2) Incredible by Darius Danesh
3) Apple
4) You damn bad to me la in Sec 2.
5) Sec1, yay you were still as tall as me rofllll..
7) What’s that class you’ve been taking?

Haha thanks Jasper.

Haha I want to learn how to cook. Can be like YongHan and know how to cook all those dishes for your dinner. Watched Jamie Oliver and the Surreal Gourmet, and all their dishes are so funky. I want to cook like them. :D And it seems like my whole family can cook very well lah. My mom can cook very well, those who came to my house before should know. My uncle can just mix some stuff and cook all those delicious food, usually Italian, and I usually overeat whenever I go to his house to watch ManU thrash whatever pathetic team they are facing. My other uncle had this restaurant in France where Robert Pires supposedly went to before became famous. Haha I better learn how to cook some proper dishes this holidays. So far I know how to cook fried rice, pancakes, egg :P, and roast pork!! Haven't really cooked anything yet though. Even better if I learn some dishes before our chalet. Then the cooking committee can go cook maggi mee with egg for any idiots in class, and the cooking committee can go eat all the good food. :D If not then too bad, but YongHan and HweeLeong can go cook too, and I can be in charge of Quality Control. Dunno if I'm looking forward to the chalet, where we will most probably lose to 3Q in guitar competitions, lose to 3P in anything to do with work, but other than that we should sweep every Inter-Class activities that Raymond Fong proposed. Basketball, we have FuGinn, YongHan. Soccer, we have Kern, Edric. Volleyball, we have the only group to be able to progress to the Raffles Programme in class. Ha we can most probably win everything with our diverse talents. Whether it applies to 3L, R and T remains to be seen. Not saying that your classes are boring, but there are other classes that are more fun to be with, in my opinion. ;)

Had a lot of fun yesterday, with WeiYuan coming early in the morning to study. And we actually studied Physics, a little Chem, and Maths, with a few breaks in between. Played capteh with WeiYuan and got thrashed. It's damn fun lah, now I know why he played it for 3 years. Then we 2v1ed Jasper and his girlfriend and we lost. >.< magina vs drow ranger and "syllaballs", as WeiYuan called her. Hm I really had fun studying today. Lol.

We were supposed to celebrate my mom's birthday in the evening, and my sister, in the US, was supposed to order a cake and surprise her. Waited until 6+, and after sending the cake shop an email where I think I sounded quite irritated, they called and said that my sister ordered the cake for the 15th. Smart. So no cake loh. Disappointing.

Hm was chatting with WeiYuan at night, and he suddenly thanked me for being a good friend. Was very pleasantly surprised, and I also want to thank all my friends. You know who you are. Thanks! ;)

Wah Inter-Class soccer is only 1 week after the CTs. Haha I can't wait. Have only played in the Football Fiesta and Inter-House before. Where I screwed up both times. And I missed last year's 2Relax Day. I like to think that it was because I wasn't there that we lost :P but I shall stop dreaming. Haven't really been playing well these few weeks on the astro. Somehow I defend properly when I'm playing on Sundays with another group of people, but I guess that's because riGEP has too many pro people. Sigh, better improve soon.

Hello everyone. I had this sudden urge to blog, and since it's been so long since I last did it there should be quite a lot to talk about.
Hmm I was filling up the PSL application form today, when I realised that I had absolutely nothing in my responsibilities/CCA position columns. How to become PSL like that... I already knew that since Prometheum Day, but today was when it really become apparent, that I could have done so much more in the last two years at RI.

Hmm NCC... It was a CCA that I regretted joining in Sec 1 ( I was thinking that I shouldn't even have put it as one of my choices), but now I realised that it's not so bad, even though it must be said that I don't really feel any passion for it. Hmm thank goodness there are people like Mao, JuanHe, FangJin, Alex, Ben, Edric, Alric,(sorry if I didn't name all. I'm supposed to be studying now.) that made trainings more enjoyable. Otherwise I would have been like the Express NCC members (with the exception of 2 people) and just went home every Monday and Wednesday to play DotA. The Sec 4s made it enjoyable as well. Seeing that we're just one year apart, it makes it so much easier to talk to them. Hmm but I don't feel bad that I'm not in any leadership post this year. I just didn't make myself stand out in Sec 1 and 2, and I can't imagine myself leading people to do things that I don't even like doing. But I still think that I should have joined a sport in Sec 1. If not for you people, and Jeffery Chan daoing the fax that my mom sent in Sec 1, I would most probably have been in some other CCA.

To think that at the start of this year I was grumbling that I was in 3M. I was quite stupid. So this year I made so many friends that I wished I'd made earlier. It's already October lah... Only one more year in RI. My older sister used to say that her friend used to tear every time he walked past RI after he graduated. Hm I don't think it's that exaggerated but I want to go back to Sec 1, and yet still know all you people. Hm I wonder why I'm talking about this now. Just typing out the nonsense that I'm thinking at the moment.

And like YongHan, I have reached a compromise over DotA! I shall play 2 games in the weekday (Monday - Thursday) and weekends would be free flow of DotA, but I like to think that I still have some self-restraint. I just used up one game with Jasper, he was asking me to teach him over a 1v1 game. o.O I'm not exactly the best choice, but nvm. Boost my self-esteem. Sorry Jasper. :P

Hi. I shall leave this here in case anyone chances upon this, until I decide to move here. Mainly because I don't really like the diaryland site layout. As you can see I'm very fickle. Haha. Bye.