CHOIR CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SIGHT, SOUND, SENSES AND SOUL

yep... tats rite.. choir concert is TOMORROW...
can u believe it?.. its lyk.. a shock wave jus hit me or sth..
i mean, i've been preparing myself for this day...
but still, it seems too fast...
time rilly flies...

de thing is, we only got a month to prepare for this concert..
which is way way way too little time...
but there is no other choice...
but i'm rilly proud of choir for being able to reach a certain standard within this time limit...
haha...
though i'm kinda scared cuz i dun feel super duper secure lyk be4...
neither do i feel de emotions of de songs each time we prac...
its lyk.. we can get pass de song but i dun feel de goosebumps..
get wat i mean?
but anyways, we shall do our very best 2morow...
we shall not let de audience down, neither shld we let mr toh or mr tan and
our frens who'll be supporting us down...
most importantly, we can't let ourselves down...
and we WON'T!!!!!

the choir has been working hard for this...
really hard..
and 2morow is de day tat we show everyone wat we've got...
so lets jia you!!!!!

GO AHSCHOIR!!!!!!!!!!!

OBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M FINALLY HOME...

heyhey... warning- this is gonna be a VERY LONG post

haha... tock seng, pls go to de end of de post, there are some THANK YOUs for u guys:)

yep.. i'm finally back frm OBS...

heh... was there without my phone for 5 days..lol

anyways, it was kinda cool...

i only tot so aft de activities actually...

during de tough process, i never rilly found it fun...

lol.. i'm gonna share my experience day by day so if u're interested, read on..

if not, nvm..haha



DAY 1- 22 june



meet up in sch wiz everyone in de morning..

wiz my heavy bag, dreading everything abt camp..

yea.. was put into grp 1..

which we later realised its called TOCK SENG...

there were 4 watches frm our sch..

tock seng, washington, sui sen and barker...

team members: me, eunice, charlene, annabella, queenie, audrey, qingying, liying, yuping, zhidan, christopher, dave, aaron, jasper, khai rui and elton...

16 of us in total..haha..

got Boo as our instructor...

we had a long long long long long introduction, got to know one another...

dan we went on wiz food rationing, lunch, packing etc...

yep.. we were given a 5 day supply of food for all of us and were supposed to rationed them out..



dan we had our very first activity: TRUST FALL

we were supposed to stand on a platform abt 1m above ground level and back face our frens...

our frens will be holding onto a mat and when we are ready we'll jus fall backwards and let our frens catch us... cool huh?..

we ALL had to do it one by one.. yea..

i reckon its called trust fall cuz we had to trust our frens to catch us when we fall..

it was kinda scary at first but when u fall, u'll find tat its quite ok..haha

and theres a certain "command" to it.. it goes sth lyk tat..



person falling:" tock seng are u ready"

frens:"tock seng pull, tock seng ready"

person falling:" (name) falling"

frens:" fall on"

and dan de person will fall..lol



yea...dan we had belay prac...

which was kinda cool...

dan came pitching tents, bathe and our first self-cook dinner..

we had rice... which were suppose to be a blessing...lol

and our first nite in a tent...

which led to a JOKE...



i woke up in de middle of de nite hearing pretty loud voices frm de guys tent..

dan i suddenly heard some guy saying.." hey.. 5.30 alr leh.. wake up.."

and i was thinking: what?! we were supposed to wake up at 5am... damn!

so i went:" hey guys guys.. wats de time now?"

reply:" 5.30" .... so i immediately woke everyone in my tent...

dan we later realised it was only 2.30am!!

we were lyk: WTH?! only 2.30?!

i reckon somebody read de time upside down..lol



DAY 2- 23 june



major events of de day: inverse tower, capsize prac and mini expedition



inverse tower was rilly funny.. haha...

everyone took turns to climb de tower and belay each other...

yar... so somehow i belayed jasper up de tower and it was VERY difficult cuz he climb VERY fast.... i was rilly struggling to pull de strings and everything...

but de funny part came when he was falling down de tower...

somehow, my assistant let go of de string and i didn't lock properly so de rope jus keep running through my hands.. and de friction was so painful i jus totally let go...

and de next thing i knew, jasper was on de ground.. in other words, i made him fall from de rope...

yea.. and i feel rilly rilly bad abt it... i mean it..

and i'm rilly rilly sorry... so pls stop harping on it..lol..

i dunno how to put it.. its lyk funny and at de same time i feel kinda guilty...

so yar..

but i guess i got my retribution as well..

i fell frm a certain height frm de rope also..

somehow... so i've got 2 bumps on my shin and a HUGE patch of bruise on my left thigh..

yar..



dan we had capsize prac... we were taught how to capsize and how to get back on de kayak...

yea.. somehow de basketballers capsized THRICE cuz when de first 2 finally got up de kayak.. de last person will capsize it...haha.. so they end up capsizing until they let de 3rd person go up first....haha... it was kinda funny seeing them capsize over and over again...haha

i partnered eunice and we pass de capsize thingy but definitely failed de kayaking part..lol..

it was SO embarassing... it was during our mini expedition to our camp site...

both of us jus couldn't padle together and we end up going in dif direction frm de rest all de time... de instructors helped us thrice but yet we cannot make it..

so in de end, we had to swop partners...

it was so embarassing!!!.. i end up partnering jasper and elton and eunice wiz khai rui...

it was crazy!!!! de 2 guys in my kayak kept speeding up until de whole kayak was shaking..

so i kept screaming.. can u imagine? i bet everyone was staring at me...but it was rilly scary...

i mean.. de way they padle.. so yea...

we took abt 2 hrs to reach our campsite.. and both eunice and i felt pretty bad 4 splitting de guys..yar...



and dan de joke of de day.. PRICKLY HEAT..

de guys decided to put prickly heat at their "uh um"...

yar... and it was so painful they all shouted and squirm in pain...lol..

tat scene was pretty funny...

one of them first said he felt nth and aft 3 sec, he shouted and squirmed even louder than de rest...lol

and de day soon ended...



DAY 3- 24 june



major and only event: SEA EXPEDITION- KAYAKING



it was actually quite fun.. both washington and tockseng combined and went 4 expedition together... so there were 4 leaders: dave(navigator), guan jie, annabella and another guy..

sry.. forgot his name...

so a map was thrown at us... technically, 2 maps and compass...

so me, dave and charlene shared de same kayak on tat day...

we had to make our way through de mangrove swamps, stopping at 4 portages..

and each time, we have to get off de kayak, pull de kayak up some slope and continue kayaking ..

it was very very exhausting....

out of de 4 portages, 2 were lyk mud pool or sth...

almost everyone sunk into de mud pool..lol

of course, there were funny and interesting moments...

lyk how eunice and elton kept crashing into mangrove trees...

and each time we hear: " oh GG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

first thing tat came to mind was : eunice and elton crash....again lol

and chris capsized, eunice drifted frm shore aft elton alighted and stuff...

yea..it was pretty cool...

so when we finally were out of de mangrove swamp into de open sea...

we cld see WHITESANDS!!!!!! and we were lyk: so near yet so far...

LOL... so we kayaked for abt 2okm i tink.. and finished in 7 hrs..yea

we soon reach campsite and had a PEE PARADE...

everyone jus pee in de sea together...haha

and de water arnd tat area became warm... u noe why.. haha

on tat somehow, everyone had de urge to shit...

so there were some funny things abt de shitting part...

yea...shall not mention them... ppl in tock seng shld noe...

haha....

and dan came incidents which drown half our mood...

first, we waited rilly long for our bags and realised they dropped into de sea...

so de obs ppl took out some of our stuff and dry-cleaned them for us...

prob is, they put them in garbage bags and somehow many of us lost some of our things...

lyk some of us lost some clothes...

i tink some guys totally dun have a single clean clothes....

yea... and our sleeping bags, poncho, tents and other stuff were wet...

so we didn't have anything to lay in our tents...

and dan one of our tents went missing...

yep.. totally MIA...

so in de end 6 guys had to squeeze into one tent...

and we borrowed poncho frm other grps..

but some of de guys ended up sleeping outside.. which was rilly quite sad...

yea.. and i rilly have to thank li ying & others 4 helping me at nite...

when i was shivering lyk mad and felt lyk de world was moving...

yea...


DAY 4- 25 june- treking to explore pulau ubin..

yea.. we were given a map to visit some places of interest and ultimately return to base camp...

it was tough lyk hell....

we trekked for over 10km for sure and our bags were so super heavy...lyk over 10kg or sth...

and there were still tents, food, cutlery, jerry cans and water to carry...

i admit i didn't do anything much cuz i had blisters and abrasion so i cldn't walk properly...

yea.. and i noe there were ppl who rilly slogged so yea.. sry..

so ot of de 7 places, we visited 4...

de bird's eye view, goddess of mercy, pulau ubin village and de german girl's shrine...

de bird's eye view was pretty cool... but de climbing was quite tough...

it was abt 65m tall and we cld see tampines and changi...lol

and dan we shouted at de top of de hill and cld hear echo...

it was so cool...

we went lyk:" GG!!!!!!!!!!" and dan we cld hear: gg...gg...gg..gg

and dan we went:" go home and bathe!!!!!" and we heard: go home and bathe....bathe...bathe

yea... cool huh? de view on top was rilly cool... heh..

yea de whole thing was rilly tough... we end up splitting tents to share de load...

plus most of us had injuries and we had to climb up and down hill on rocky roads and stuff...

we wldn't have made it if not 4 de motivation and encouragement we gave each other...

rilly common commands were:" keep left" " keep right" keep together" slow down" "catch up"
and "water break" lol...

of course, there were cold jokes and gossip to keep our minds off things...yea..

and we finall celebrated our victory when we reach base camp...

so we suffered lots of injuries but at least we were at base camp where there were proper
toilets....

so we pitched our tents for de last time and bathed lyk siao!!!!!! lols...

and we had celebration dinner which we decided to cook fried rice... yea.. quite nice..

haha.... some of us visited de medical centre cuz of abrasion and azheima and stuff...

we later went back to our tents and realised tat all our tents were wet and de guys tents were de

worst... there were lyk sand flies... IN de tent...

so we wanted to stay outside but got scolded instead and were told to go back to our tents...

ppl in my tent end up sharing a wet sleeping bag..... and we spam powder lyk mad...

and we finally finally slept...


DAY 5- 26 june - last day

woke up wiz a headache as usual...

last day of camp and everyone was naturally exceptionally excited...

haha.. it was packing aft packing, washing aft washing, drying aft drying...

and my legs were still damn itchy and abrasion was killing me...yea..

u get de idea...

and we formed a human chain so we can pass things faster..

which is also good so i dun have to walk too much... lol

and yes, i noe i cannot walk properly, i look retarded....

and thks to jasper and kang yu and gang, u noe wat.. yea...

VERY FUNNY hor....

yea.. our last activity was another version of trust fall...

this time, we fall forward and try to hit de bell..

yea.. it was quite ok.. though i didn't hit de bell but its ok... haha

so we had sharing session, got our phones and valuables back, our cert and grp photo...

i bought 2 outwad bound shirts... honestly, i feel quite proud wearing it...haha..

we gathered wiz other grps for and inspiring session wiz another instructor be4 we finally leave..

actually i felt kinda sad cuz when we go back to sch, it'll all be diff...

i'll miss those bonding times we had wiz one another, motivating, helping each other out...


here are some of TOCK SENG commonly used LINGO...haha

- GG!!!
- QQ!!!
- Hello, wo shi chris... qing liu yan...

haha....


INJURIES

- 2 bumps & bruises on my shin
- 1 HUGE bruise on my thigh
- shoulderache, backache, muscleache
- rashes, azheima
- abrasion
- blister
- ZERO mosquito/insect bite
- became BLACK!!!!!! zzzz
haha...


THOUGHTS & FEELINGS

was very negative abt camp @ first... for abt 2 days..
be4 i start to be abit more positive.. i tink cuz i got to noe more ppl...
de process was rilly tough and tots of giving up and going home will jus keep hovering in my head.... but it was aft de activities tat i found it quite cool...
its lyk thinking back, it was quite fun...
never tot i'll miss obs but i kinda miss camp now...
somehow i have de urge to walk or exercise abit more now.. lol

anyways, i wld lyk to thank EVERYONE for their encouragement, motivation and help

thank liying, eunice, audrey,qingying whose always there to help me, we pee and shit together..

thank queenie and zhidan for lending me stuff and helping

thank yu ping for her cold jokes which kept everyone moving forward

thank annabella and charlene for doing most of de cooking and alot of sai-kang

thank all de guys for their contribution esp. carrying most of de heavy stuff

thank chris and aaron for offering to carry tents and jerry cans frm me and eunice

thank dave for his navgation skills, which without, our grp can jus live in de swamp..haha

thank jasper, khai rui and elton for carrying alot of stuff despite their uh um injuries..

"thank" them also for their 'humorous jokes' and 'entertainment'

"thank" them also for ganging up wiz some washington guys and bully me..
(pls delete those unglam picts... post them and i'll kill you!!!) haha...
and yes thank instructors for their guidance and everything...
will miss those bonding times and i rilly rilly appreciate each and every member in tock seng...
hopefully we'll still be great frens aft camp:)

i went for OBS.... NO REGRETS...

OMG... JONAS NEW ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heyhey...
so.. been pretty busy lately..
confession: barely started hols hw and projects...
lol...
think i'm gonna die...
plus, i'm SO DREADING OBS....

anyways, i'm posting cuz i jus realised that 2morow, 16 june,
is de official release of de new JONAS album, LINES,VINES AND TRYING TIMES...
OMG!!!!!!!
but its only available in de US right now...
wonder when it'll arrive in s'pore...
OMG... i'm so gonna get it!!!!
haha..

btw, if any of u guys is interested in attending AHSCHOIR concert, pls let me noe...
tks:)
haha.. tats all 4 now...
bye...

paranoid? or not?...

so.. i dunno wats wrong wiz me..
getting all spaced out, lost and confused...
its lyk there are so many things in my head tat i got brain blockage or sth...
can't seem to think properly...
dunno why...
used to be so clear-minded..

my senses are telling me to beware...
lyk a "ward off" sign kinda thing...
or izt jus me being paranoid? i'm not very sure...
i noe i can sense it.. its pretty obvious...
but nobody notices it cuz u're not britney spears..
but dan again...
i noe i have dis weird paranoid sensitive thing in me..
is it de cause of all my confusions? i dunno..