MINing of Life

Sunday, 31 August 2008

VS campfireY

I just got back from supper actually.

This year's campfire was much better than last year's, probably because my seniors shut me up when I was trying very hard to hype up the atmosphere.

Anyway, I like the gateway. It's very interesting and innovative. If they were to make that as a mini-structure gateway on East Division Day, they would have got the 1st prize!

There were no more seniors to hinder us and no more TK scout seniors to do dumb acts, hence it was totally us this time round. The games were quite okay, I thought. Just that the Arrow Scouts were not very thoughtful in the first game, having the participants to speak into the microphone around their neck. It was like talking to their necks?! Hello, there're guides, you masked guys.

One more point to note was that their choices of songs were almost similar to last year's. Maybe because they're using the played musics to the songs and they only have limited songs? I don't know. Other schools just sing aloud with any music to follow.

Hmm... managed to see Yong Jia and Kun Hao.
Yong Jia was from TK and transferred to VS only this year. He was in the Student Council. It's such a pity to lose a great leader like him... he would have easily got into the main exco next year...
*senior here wishing you all the best. you seemed very satisfied with what you've got so jia you and thanks for all your encouragements you've been giving me.

Leong Kun Hao was disappointed that he couldn't go back to Maha Bodhi yesterday for visiting. He even emphasized that he had to camp in school overnight to prepare for the campfire.
*must have been tough on you, but lucky your sister is still shorter than you. don't worry, your "height-shooting period" has yet to come, I won't be surprised if you'll be as tall as WeiCong.

The unexpected person was Zi Jian from Boy's Brigade. Goodness gracious~ But I did take a picture with him 'cause I wanted a picture of the BB uniform (see post below on TK NDP celebration with NCC (Land), NCC(Sea), Red Cross Youth and NPCC).
*I've got nothing to say. Old pal who had forgotten me? I remembered everyone in my class okay. Won't blame you lah, we're Primary 1-3 classmates which was like 6 donkey years ago?!

Oh oh oh, and Manjusri Red Fox Scouts, my korkor's scout unit. Ya, all know me as my brother's sister accept for your senior who bothered to ask for my name... at least you peeps said hi =D

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Saturday, 30 August 2008

Update!Y

Gosh, indeed it has been a long time... many things had happened, ups and downs...
Term 3 ended quite nicely with Teachers' Day celebrations but the last week of the term was definitely not easy for me (talk about it in a while)

This post will be long, so bear with it if you can take it =P

August 2 and 3
Talk cum Training with the Singapore Women's Everest Team

Early on the Saturday morning, the Student Leaders, who will be heading to Hong Kong for this year's Leadership Expedition at the end of the year, had to meet Mr Rizal at the National Library. We went to the top floor where the Prime Minister delivered his National Day Speech last year!
It was quite a different Saturday morning, knowing more about exciting mountaineering and outdoor expeditions. At least it's better than staying at home to sleep for a little while more. Basically, these ladies are awesome peeps.
They'd been to Cho Oyu in Tibet and crossed the death zone and reached the summit! Death zone in mointaineering refers to the altitude above a certain point where the amount of oxygen cannot sustain human life. Incredible to be able to hit the summit of the world's 6th highest mountains isn't it? Moreoever, they're females!!!

So it was more or less a sharing session on Saturday.

It was time to get physical on Sunday! We headed down to Safra Yishun (where the ladies usually train for high elements) for training, or rather a gain an experiencial try. There were 3 elements, the "ice" wall, abseiling and I forgot what's the last one.

We did the one I've forgotten first. It's climing without belaying, so we slide the agent upwards as we climbed. It was quite interesting and it made climbing faster, not having to worry whether your rope was loose or not.

Then we headed to the second element which was abseling. The initial feeling was quite scary 'cause you had to "sit in the air", but after that, it was a breeze. I wonder why the other schools had so much problems on that.

Due to the time frame, unfortunately, only a few TKsian had a chance to climb the "ice" wall. It's the first artificial ice wall in southeast asia and it's made of high-density foam. So climbers have to wear those spiky-sole shoes and use the blade-like hooks to aid in their climbing. It's quite a pity that I didn't have the chance to climb up that one.

The Women's Everest Team actually planned to go for their final destiny this year, but because of the lack of funds, they have to postponethey trip to Everest till next year. So do give them your support as Singaporeans or mountaineering lovers by donating or buying their products.

For more information, check out http://www.womenoneverest.com/index.html/ .

National Day

The school decided to go for a rather different approach this year; the National Day Parade style. Instead of holding the concert in the hall immediately, the entire show was down at the Assembly Plaza.

The programme was divided into 4 parts: Pre-parade, Parade, Concert, Grand Finale.

I was in the first 2 segments, and the 2 are of extremely different atmosphere!
Pre-parade was a sing-along cum cheering session and I was super high, trying my best to hype up the school, but I didn't know why my hyper councilors became quite dead and muted when leading the crowd, so frankly speaking, it was unsuccessful.

Right after the tiring screaming, cheering, rara-ing, I ran all the way to my contingent to get into position. I was the contingent commander for guides >.<>

I went around snapping pictures with my dad's camera (mine's servicing)after that...

And more pictures on NDP actual day...

Fund Raising

For the year-end trip to Hong Kong, the school will kindly be subsidising 25% of the whole cost and our parents have to pay 50% of it. On our side, we have to come up with the remaining amount by getting sponsors or selling things or any other legal means.

Together with Estee, Sharmane, Clarissa and Si Yuan, we've been working on hand-painted shoes with other accessories for the pass 2 months. Do support us and purchase our products once our blog shop is up =D

9:50 am;

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Thursday, 28 August 2008

Pre-UpdateY

I know it's been more than a month since I posted something...

...no intentions to give up this LaLa Land of mine cus

it's

..a place where I share thoughts and nice things with people
..a place where I actually practice proper English
..a place where I update about the latest happenings and things I learn from these experiences

It's going to be dearest bloggie's 1st birthday in 3 days' time.

I'll update soon...
... just too much to catch up
'cus everything happening to me is either enriching or fascinating..

8:22 pm;

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