Bode'Wadmi- Day Four
Alright, thank God today's whether isn't bad. We went to the grand stand for the briefing for the second game and proceed to play. At first i wanted to throw the water bombs 'cause of insufficient people. But as people volunteered i decided to run.
When we proceeded tot he starting point, Alex went up to me and started talking about running as though i know a lot about running. He started to know my past like me running for sports day last year. He asked me whether i could run fast and i juz answered 'quite '. So i just asked him what was it that made him think that i could run fast, and he began his explanation. He said that since he is in the track & field team, he recognises the different types of calves. So let me get to the point: he praised my calves as of an athletes'!!
I was so happy 'cuz nobody has ever praised my calves.haha.
Well maybe the shape of calves is like that because in primary skool i was in athletics(i was a pathetic runner, seriously) and that now i run when there's an emergency(RC people are first aiders mah...)
Anyway, today's wargame was quite though. We had to like run pass human walls formed by our team members and our opponents alternately. For the first few times i managed to pass them. But later it juz seems quite impossible. In the end, i didn't score any points, but getting wet and running all over is fun enough. haha.
After war games, we got changed and went to the nearest mosque(in Woodlands) which was near the Woodlands checkpoint. The mosque was quite old(like Ansar in Bedok) and I didn't really like it there though. I hope theres another mosque other than An-Nur. Btw a councillor(Hanafi) led us to the mosque. I really should have known someone was having nose bleed. At least i could apply first aid. hmm...nvm he's alright...
After prayers we walked around checkpoint area. It was nothing much but just an old place with not many interesting shops. We missed clan meetings btw. haha.
We quickly made our way back to school and went to the CCA fair. It is today that we signed up for a cca. I knew what i was going to choose. Anything watersports =)
When i was at the hall, i saw a very prominent banner. It says 'Red Cross Humanitarian Network'. haha. I did thought of joining RCHN but i think i'd go for watersports. And guess who i saw?! DOREEN MA'AM! haha... Its been a long time since I saw her. I greeted her and she said 'hey!what are you doing here?don't you live somewhere in pasir ris/tampines?' haha... Then she tried to persuade me in joining RCHN and told the J2 that i MUST join RCHN since once an RC cadet, alwaes RC. haha.
Too bad they only have one watersports cca- Canoe/Dragon Boat. Well canoeing and dragon boating is quite ok. Alex kept on telling me to join track & field saying i have the legs. haha. NO WAY. I only run when there's an emergency =)
After dinner, was the BOOMBA nite! woohoo. Boomba nite is the orientation nite where the clans gather and celebrate. Also, the bets clan would be given the Golden Maple Leaf. I hope Blackfoot wins it!
The nite started off with the entrance of the principal and the emcees. Then, the four tribes presented their item. Firstly was Miccosukee whoch was quite impressive. Then Walla walla's was less impressive but good enough. Now i don't think Blackfoot can win. But we'll see. During Dakota's item, we went 2 the back of the hall and stole time to pray. It was raining then. Blackfoot's performance was engaging in that the last part involves the participation of the whole hall audience; that is the FRIENDSHIP DANCE conducted by KHALDUN! woohoo!
it was quite difficult to control the crowd-duh its like at least 500 studEnts. in the end it was fun.those who NEVER heard of friendship dance(thats sad) can now dance.then it was time to gr00ve!YAY...this time grooving is better than PRSS prom =x
haha...cuz its wif a larger crowd, there's spotlights and the deejay was cool. yes fine wtv farhan tpjc has 987 deejay but SO what?! lol
dance
groove
dance
hit nose
ouch!
bleed
bleed
toilet
really. it was quite funny though =x anyway fadhli, me, khal, nizham, faiz, heider, alex(the whole gang of us) were dancing in a circle. then fadhli put his hand up and suddenly hit alex's nose. ouch. 'im so sorry' 'nah its ok'
and then: 'n0se blEed!'
i rushed alex to the toilet at the back of the stage and applied first aid. this nose bleed took a long time to stop though. anyway he was afraid of this punch cuz he once got hit by a zooming soccer ball and thus fractured his nose. but thankfully his nose was still alright and not crooked whatesoeva.
unfortunately the gr0oving had to end.i was damn sweating l0r! haha..anyway the OGLs then treated us to anotehr mass dance by pink. ian the president paired up wif this hot gal. haha. wtv. i tink this dance is better than the other mass dance('its so easy'). the moves are cooler but u have to be paired up lah. mebbe thats why they didn't teach us this mass dance cuz it wud be messy for freshies to find partners. n same sex partners would be t0tally wEird. hmm.. dance dance. we thought it wiuld end just like that but then the OGLs continued by dedicating songs to us. they sang songs while playing guitar. gosh it was so nice. this councillor hanafi sang well man. he cud like reach a higher pitch voice or wtv u call it. damn impressive. i found out later that he's from choir. not surprised. OGLs shud stop this. its preventing me from going home. going home is not fast alrite. approx 45/50mins frm woodlands to tampines. thank god they ended it. we went back home. we as in easterners. yup. its me n khal frm PRSS, masselia frm TKGS, faiz frm TKSS, heider frm East Spring SS n nizham frm Dunman SS. we easterners shud stick together. go skool together etc. i juz hope they all stay after Os results are out. hmm...
30 January 2006
28 January 2006
Innova Junior College Orientation 2005
Bode'Wadmi- Day Three
After assembly, we handed in our subj. combi forms and went down to the grand stand for mass dance. woohoo! its so easy. That's the song. Its quite easy indeed though.
After mass dance, we had our Boomba briefing followed by the clan meeting. Boomba is the name of the orientation night. I heard that there's no campfire. Thats sad. Anyway i hope its gonna be fun.
During our clan meeting we invented our performance. In the end, a group of Northlanders came up with an idea. It sounds great, but i dun know how well it will bring us to the success of getting the Golden Maple Leaf. The GML is a prize the clan will get for being the best clan. That's according to legend. It is said to possess magical powers. hmm...really?
Lunch wasn't really great cuz i couldn't eat, but i met 2 new friends via Khaldun. Best of all, they're easterners! They're Nizham from Dunman sec and Heider from EastSpring. Intitially, i thought Heider was Hydil but pronounced wrongly by pple. haha. And i got confused whether the Dunman guy is Khairul or Nizham. Then i found out that he is Khairul Nizham. hahaha. i thot i was wrong!
Unfortunately due to bad whether, my clan and another couldn't play wargames 1. Only the other 2 clans managed to play. But fear not, theres another wargames the next day. woohoo!
After assembly, we handed in our subj. combi forms and went down to the grand stand for mass dance. woohoo! its so easy. That's the song. Its quite easy indeed though.
After mass dance, we had our Boomba briefing followed by the clan meeting. Boomba is the name of the orientation night. I heard that there's no campfire. Thats sad. Anyway i hope its gonna be fun.
During our clan meeting we invented our performance. In the end, a group of Northlanders came up with an idea. It sounds great, but i dun know how well it will bring us to the success of getting the Golden Maple Leaf. The GML is a prize the clan will get for being the best clan. That's according to legend. It is said to possess magical powers. hmm...really?
Lunch wasn't really great cuz i couldn't eat, but i met 2 new friends via Khaldun. Best of all, they're easterners! They're Nizham from Dunman sec and Heider from EastSpring. Intitially, i thought Heider was Hydil but pronounced wrongly by pple. haha. And i got confused whether the Dunman guy is Khairul or Nizham. Then i found out that he is Khairul Nizham. hahaha. i thot i was wrong!
Unfortunately due to bad whether, my clan and another couldn't play wargames 1. Only the other 2 clans managed to play. But fear not, theres another wargames the next day. woohoo!
13 January 2006
Innova Junior College Orientation 2005
Bode'Wadmi-Day Two
My sister said that the second day of orientation is where most of the fun activities would be done. Not true though. It's all talks and talks for the whole day. Thank God i miss almost all of them.Nope i didn't play truant. In the morning i went to National Dental Centre(NDC) to put in spacers. What it does is that it moves some teeths away from each other so that the next stage of braces can be done. The feeling is so uneasy. It's like flossing with a super thick dental floss. Probably about 1mm thick. geesh. Anyway when i returned IJC, i had to walk all the way to the front gate at Champions Way. Firstly i walked the wrong way. So i had to walk more. haizz. But thankfully Faiz was there to accompany me. Btw Faiz is this guy from TKSS and from my orientation tribe.
Did i mention that i missed a bus stop when going to skool?causing me to end up in Sengkang? It's like this: NDC is at outram park. So from there i took the train to woodlands. True enough. Then i took 161 to skool. True again. But because the bus stop isn't directly in front of IJC and i didn't know the distance from IJC to woodlands, i missed a bus stop, leading me to Sengkang via SLE. haiz...
I couldn't eat much for lunch. After queing up i saw this girl staring at me from the corner of my eye. I looked pass her and she's still staring. So i looked at her in the eye. EH! 'Are you frm Temasek?' Indeed it was true. It was Bao Zhen. See i remember her name though she didn't. haha..I've met my long lost primary skool friends. woohoo! haha...
After break we went to the hall for a super long subject talk. I regret returning to skool.haha...
My sister said that the second day of orientation is where most of the fun activities would be done. Not true though. It's all talks and talks for the whole day. Thank God i miss almost all of them.Nope i didn't play truant. In the morning i went to National Dental Centre(NDC) to put in spacers. What it does is that it moves some teeths away from each other so that the next stage of braces can be done. The feeling is so uneasy. It's like flossing with a super thick dental floss. Probably about 1mm thick. geesh. Anyway when i returned IJC, i had to walk all the way to the front gate at Champions Way. Firstly i walked the wrong way. So i had to walk more. haizz. But thankfully Faiz was there to accompany me. Btw Faiz is this guy from TKSS and from my orientation tribe.
Did i mention that i missed a bus stop when going to skool?causing me to end up in Sengkang? It's like this: NDC is at outram park. So from there i took the train to woodlands. True enough. Then i took 161 to skool. True again. But because the bus stop isn't directly in front of IJC and i didn't know the distance from IJC to woodlands, i missed a bus stop, leading me to Sengkang via SLE. haiz...
I couldn't eat much for lunch. After queing up i saw this girl staring at me from the corner of my eye. I looked pass her and she's still staring. So i looked at her in the eye. EH! 'Are you frm Temasek?' Indeed it was true. It was Bao Zhen. See i remember her name though she didn't. haha..I've met my long lost primary skool friends. woohoo! haha...
After break we went to the hall for a super long subject talk. I regret returning to skool.haha...
10 January 2006
Innova Junior College Orientation 2005
Bode'Wadmi-Day One
Me, Boon Ern and Khaldun coordinated with each other and took the same bus to IJC;168. The bus came at about 7am and the journey on the doucble decker bus was about 35-40 mins depending on the speed of the bus. After leaving Tampines Library, the bus went to a few more stops in Tampines(say about 6-7 stops...) before entering the TPE. And whoosh we went to skool. Actualy i shouldn't use the word 'whoosh' cuz the bus wasn't travelling fast. We then went to the Seletar camp after about 15minutes in the expressway and returned to TPE/SLE for another 10 minutes of travelling before reaching school.
Unfortunately the bus stop isn't directly in front of the school. We had to walk a distance to school. Probably like from Tamps. MRT to Tamps. interchange. Yeah. So good luck to people like me on rainy days. From far(and later near) the school looks marvellous. Duh its a new school set up last year(2005). We went in the school and hang around the canteen area. Then we moved to the parade square. When we were told to assemble, i could see the disorganization of the 1st Student Council and Orientation Group Leaders. They were holding papers that has the orientation group number written but the SCs and OGLs did not raised the cards. Instead they just stand around and talk among themselves. Later, we were told to line up in rows of 10. Hello?Like how many of us will cooperate? And it'll make matters worse when we proceed to the hall later. Btw, we saw Ms Yeo!haha...
The flag raising ceremony was odd. The commander said 'school sediya!' when it should be 'maktab sediya!' rite?I mean thats what most JCs do.
Anyway after the flag raising ceremony we proceeded to the hall and settled down. Ms Yeo started talking about the school and i found out what our school name and motto means.
Innova= a new(in-) star(-nova)
Ad astra= to the stars
School emblem= the blue waves symbolizes water(continous learning-i think), orange line symbolizes something like fresh or vibrant i think and purple star means eagerness to learn i think. Also its like a torch and it is in the figure of '1'.
The names to our Orientation Group number were revealed-both clans and tribes. My clan is Blackfoot while tribe is Atsina. Basically clan is like houses while tribe is like group. yeah. After moving to our tribe, played ice breakers and received our orientation bag(an M1 bag with stuff including IJC bottle and shoe bag and 2 Bode'Wadmi shirts-mines green), we continued with the programme, that is mass dance!woohoo!They used this song that has the lyrics 'its so easy, its alright...' I don't know the title of the song though. Anyway it was quite fun and easy to learn.
After mass dance we had our clan meeting and then lunch. Unfortunately there's only two halal stalls.haiz. Other stalls include western delights, thai food etc. I bought mee siam for lunch. It was quite spicy even after i removed the sambal(chilli). wah seh. We report about 2 and played the station games. It wasn't quite lame and we enjoyed ourselves.
Day One orientation ended at about 5. Tiring but fun.
Me, Boon Ern and Khaldun coordinated with each other and took the same bus to IJC;168. The bus came at about 7am and the journey on the doucble decker bus was about 35-40 mins depending on the speed of the bus. After leaving Tampines Library, the bus went to a few more stops in Tampines(say about 6-7 stops...) before entering the TPE. And whoosh we went to skool. Actualy i shouldn't use the word 'whoosh' cuz the bus wasn't travelling fast. We then went to the Seletar camp after about 15minutes in the expressway and returned to TPE/SLE for another 10 minutes of travelling before reaching school.
Unfortunately the bus stop isn't directly in front of the school. We had to walk a distance to school. Probably like from Tamps. MRT to Tamps. interchange. Yeah. So good luck to people like me on rainy days. From far(and later near) the school looks marvellous. Duh its a new school set up last year(2005). We went in the school and hang around the canteen area. Then we moved to the parade square. When we were told to assemble, i could see the disorganization of the 1st Student Council and Orientation Group Leaders. They were holding papers that has the orientation group number written but the SCs and OGLs did not raised the cards. Instead they just stand around and talk among themselves. Later, we were told to line up in rows of 10. Hello?Like how many of us will cooperate? And it'll make matters worse when we proceed to the hall later. Btw, we saw Ms Yeo!haha...
The flag raising ceremony was odd. The commander said 'school sediya!' when it should be 'maktab sediya!' rite?I mean thats what most JCs do.
Anyway after the flag raising ceremony we proceeded to the hall and settled down. Ms Yeo started talking about the school and i found out what our school name and motto means.
Innova= a new(in-) star(-nova)
Ad astra= to the stars
School emblem= the blue waves symbolizes water(continous learning-i think), orange line symbolizes something like fresh or vibrant i think and purple star means eagerness to learn i think. Also its like a torch and it is in the figure of '1'.
The names to our Orientation Group number were revealed-both clans and tribes. My clan is Blackfoot while tribe is Atsina. Basically clan is like houses while tribe is like group. yeah. After moving to our tribe, played ice breakers and received our orientation bag(an M1 bag with stuff including IJC bottle and shoe bag and 2 Bode'Wadmi shirts-mines green), we continued with the programme, that is mass dance!woohoo!They used this song that has the lyrics 'its so easy, its alright...' I don't know the title of the song though. Anyway it was quite fun and easy to learn.
After mass dance we had our clan meeting and then lunch. Unfortunately there's only two halal stalls.haiz. Other stalls include western delights, thai food etc. I bought mee siam for lunch. It was quite spicy even after i removed the sambal(chilli). wah seh. We report about 2 and played the station games. It wasn't quite lame and we enjoyed ourselves.
Day One orientation ended at about 5. Tiring but fun.
07 January 2006
Prom Nite 2005
Shining Stars
Tonight was one of the most memorable days of my life. It was the first ever Prom Nite for Pasir Ris Sec. School after a period of silence for about 5 years-thanks to the 9th and 10th Student Council EXCO-hehe. Anyway I went to Orchid Country Club via Hakim's dad's car with him and Khairani. I quite thought i was disturbing their privacy.haha. The journey wasn't quite long cuz we went via expressway.
Upon arrival, we left the Mercedes car with glamour. I straighten my coat and went up the stairs. Btw, I wore a brown-cream striped OP long sleeve shirt, an olive coloured pants, a coat that felt like a carpet and has some shiny beads arranged to form the letter 'J'-i ironed that myself and a brown Puma shoe. So basically my colour theme is BROWN.and its shades.
We then proceeded to the ballroom.Sorry. A function room rather. It was quite small u see. We met up with our friends shook hands. Farhan's dressing was so cool! It doesn't fit his personality but who cares?he looks like Jon Bon Jovi seh. And yet he didn't like his dressing. He claimed that it was informal when the rest wore something formal. Hakim and Farhan should switch their outfit. Hakim's rather rough u see, while Farhan should go for formality. Hmm.
Anyway we treated ourselves with the buffet when Mdm Mariam came up to us. She should wear something more stunning tough.Anyway she was kind to tell us a place to pray. YAY. so we quickly finished up our food and proceeded to another room. It was our responsibility to inform the rest of the prayer room. However dissapointment came to us. BIG dissapointment. Can you believe it? OUR Muslim people actually would rather watch the performance than pray?OMG. One guy even shook his head which meant 'It's okay'. Humble my foot! Geesh. In total only 4 pple prayed there. Me, Hakim, Farhan and this sec5 guy i dunno his name. truely dissapointed. Well girls are quite excused cuz i dun think i saw a telekong(used for girls to pray) and they have make up on etc. To the rest of the guys who didn't get the news im so sorry cuz we have to beat the 8 o'clock dateline and we thought that pple would be smart and responsible enough to spread the news.
Anyway i enjoyed prom. For sure it was better than my pri. skool's cuz we get to grooved and there's a lucky draw. Wasted my camera battery went flat halfway through the prom. All 4 batteries aye. Food was nice but i didn't eat alot. Cuz time was spent grooving, chatting and sipping coke/sprite. I didn't have much soft drink-bad for ur health.hehe. Wasted i didn't win anything during the lucky draw. Farhan and Hakim got something.
Anyway prom was fun lah. I don't mine having an encore.
Tonight was one of the most memorable days of my life. It was the first ever Prom Nite for Pasir Ris Sec. School after a period of silence for about 5 years-thanks to the 9th and 10th Student Council EXCO-hehe. Anyway I went to Orchid Country Club via Hakim's dad's car with him and Khairani. I quite thought i was disturbing their privacy.haha. The journey wasn't quite long cuz we went via expressway.
Upon arrival, we left the Mercedes car with glamour. I straighten my coat and went up the stairs. Btw, I wore a brown-cream striped OP long sleeve shirt, an olive coloured pants, a coat that felt like a carpet and has some shiny beads arranged to form the letter 'J'-i ironed that myself and a brown Puma shoe. So basically my colour theme is BROWN.and its shades.
We then proceeded to the ballroom.Sorry. A function room rather. It was quite small u see. We met up with our friends shook hands. Farhan's dressing was so cool! It doesn't fit his personality but who cares?he looks like Jon Bon Jovi seh. And yet he didn't like his dressing. He claimed that it was informal when the rest wore something formal. Hakim and Farhan should switch their outfit. Hakim's rather rough u see, while Farhan should go for formality. Hmm.
Anyway we treated ourselves with the buffet when Mdm Mariam came up to us. She should wear something more stunning tough.Anyway she was kind to tell us a place to pray. YAY. so we quickly finished up our food and proceeded to another room. It was our responsibility to inform the rest of the prayer room. However dissapointment came to us. BIG dissapointment. Can you believe it? OUR Muslim people actually would rather watch the performance than pray?OMG. One guy even shook his head which meant 'It's okay'. Humble my foot! Geesh. In total only 4 pple prayed there. Me, Hakim, Farhan and this sec5 guy i dunno his name. truely dissapointed. Well girls are quite excused cuz i dun think i saw a telekong(used for girls to pray) and they have make up on etc. To the rest of the guys who didn't get the news im so sorry cuz we have to beat the 8 o'clock dateline and we thought that pple would be smart and responsible enough to spread the news.
Anyway i enjoyed prom. For sure it was better than my pri. skool's cuz we get to grooved and there's a lucky draw. Wasted my camera battery went flat halfway through the prom. All 4 batteries aye. Food was nice but i didn't eat alot. Cuz time was spent grooving, chatting and sipping coke/sprite. I didn't have much soft drink-bad for ur health.hehe. Wasted i didn't win anything during the lucky draw. Farhan and Hakim got something.
Anyway prom was fun lah. I don't mine having an encore.
02 January 2006
Thailand trip Day 6
8th December 2005
We didn't do anything much today. Just breakfast at the hotel restaurant, packed bags and checked out. The trip from the hotel to the airpor was VERY long, my sister slept during most of the journey. haha. We checked in and got in line for immigrations check. Soon later we hanged out at the gate and ate some fruit chips. Quite nice. When it was time, we boarded the plane. I went to the toilet once during the flight and found out that the plane has many empty seats. What a waste, but who cares?hehe. Unfortunately we ate the same thing we had when going to Bangkok from Singapore and i listened to exactly the same music as when going to Bangkok, in the same order. Dejavu. hahaha. Upon arrival at Singapore Changi Airport, we went through immigrations faster than the foreigners and took the cab home. HOME SWEET HOME!!
now, must prepare for tomorrow(9 dec)
PROM NITE 2005!
woohoo...
We didn't do anything much today. Just breakfast at the hotel restaurant, packed bags and checked out. The trip from the hotel to the airpor was VERY long, my sister slept during most of the journey. haha. We checked in and got in line for immigrations check. Soon later we hanged out at the gate and ate some fruit chips. Quite nice. When it was time, we boarded the plane. I went to the toilet once during the flight and found out that the plane has many empty seats. What a waste, but who cares?hehe. Unfortunately we ate the same thing we had when going to Bangkok from Singapore and i listened to exactly the same music as when going to Bangkok, in the same order. Dejavu. hahaha. Upon arrival at Singapore Changi Airport, we went through immigrations faster than the foreigners and took the cab home. HOME SWEET HOME!!
now, must prepare for tomorrow(9 dec)
PROM NITE 2005!
woohoo...
15 December 2005
Thailand trip Day 5
7th December 2005
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant was fabulous.There was a wide variety of food that my family could eat,like the mashed potato,danish, crossaint,vegetarian dishes and salad.I personally like the mashed potato (though some are not really mashed up) where i put an italian dressing and some salad dressings on it.It was perfect.The italian dressing made a bit of the sour taste while the salad dressing is healthy.But beware, don't take too much or you'll feel like vomitting.Yup. Not that i had vomitted though.We went back to the hotel to do what we always do;letting it all go.After that we left the hotel to start our tour around Bangkok.The streets of Bangkok hold many historic monuments and sculptures and decorations to commemorate the King's birthday. The streets were quite busy at that time and we passed several fast food restaurant including the ancient A&W.Unfortunately all of the fast food resturants aren't Halal.Now who the heck labelled A&W as a Halal foodstore on the internet?tsk tsk tsk.
Anyway we reached our destination.Surprisingly we had to take a long boat that could occupy about 30 people down the river.I was hoping a lot from this.The boat started moving and soon a tour guide started introducing herself and the river.It was the quite famous Chao Phraya river.The 'Phraya' isn't pronounced at it is.Instead it is pronounced as 'Phya'.That is if my memory did not fail me.The ride was a bit bumpy but all in all it was awesome.The tour guide was efficient.She ran through some key words to say during our stay in Thailand and introduced the significance of the river and the buildings we passed.There were many temples but I only remembered one.It was nicknamed as the 'James Bond temple'.No, James Bond did not build it but it was that temple that one of the episodes of James Bond 007 was shot at.Yup.We moved down the river and saw this place where we could feed the fishes with bread our tour guide gave us.It was catfishes that we fed to.The sign indicating the place where there is a lot of catfish was very funny.
Im so bad...
Anyway there was a lot of hungry fishes coming up to the surface as soon as we started feeding them.They must be really hungry!Soon we continued our journey where we saw this HUGE lizards on the edge of the river.They looked like komodo dragons, but a little smaller than that, probably half as tall and half as thin as me if they were to stand on 2 legs(in which they didn't). Later, there was a lady in a smaller boat that went against our direction.She was selling some handicrafts from her floating shop. There used to be a lot of such smaller boats that formed the floating market.The government then reduced the huge number to only a few as to make way for a passage for tourists like us.Yay. We stopped after a few minutes of travelling once again where we visited a local shop selling local merchandise like souveniers,clothes and handicrafts.The half an hour long break was a necessity to shopaholics and tolietholics.What a coincidence!My mom found out that one of our boatmates is my aunty's friend(with her family)!haha.What a small world.
Soon we boarded the boat again and stopped later at the local snake zoo.We didn't want to go in not only cuz its quite expensive but the fact that we were very tired and just wanted to rest.The rest was certainly fruitful but a little extra long.We continued our journey by ending at where we started.Unfortunately the tide was high and some barricades that protects the buildings near to sides of the river was activated.We had to wait for it to open, enter and wait for another barricade to open.Its somehow like the one in the Suez Canal just that it is simpler.It took about a total of 15minutes before we set off to our starting point, passing government buildings and more temples.
Back on dry land and in the van!We now proceeded to another restaurant for lunch.On the way, we saw something we don't see in modern Singapore.A protest.Yup.It wasn't scary as they weren't very rebellious.Armed with orange headbands, they marched their way against our direction.
The food wasn't that fantastic but it was enough to fill our stomachs.My mom ordered spring rolls that had chicken fillings, to be taken back to our hotel for muching purposes.After lunch, we prayed at a mosque across the street where we met my aunty's friend's family again!haha...
We then went to a local jewellery store where they showed us how they make their jewel studded products.The precious stones ranges from ruby to sapphires.If I'm not wrong, this is the only place where you can find authentic and cheap jewellery since it is the largest precious stone production factory in the world and that the stones are from Thailand itself.
Next, it was shopping time at the largest shopping mall in Bangkok.The Mah Bung Krong(MBK).That should be how you spell it.I guess.Here is where i bought my coat and belt for prom.The coat cost me 1600baht(about S$64) while the belt 350baht(aboutS$14).The coat was originally about 1880 baht while the belt 390baht.So it was quite a good deal i guess knowing that u can bargain.But don't even try to bargain at Tokyu.Tokyu is this shop that is similar to Metro or Isetan.And obviously u cant bargain with them rite?
We went back to our hotel my taking the sky train system.Let me introduce you to the sky train system.Firstly, like the MRT system in Singapore, it is run by 2 companies, forming the MRTA and BTS(we took the BTS).Secondly the distance apart between stations of the sky train is about the same to the distance apart between stations in our LRT system.So the prices isn't as expensive as the ones in our MRT if you were to buy the single trip tickets or the standard tickets.Its like 10baht(40cents) for one station.Well of course if you were to travel about 5 stations, it would be cheaper than50 baht.say around 40 or 35 baht?Did i mention that the Bangkok sky train would bring memories to our passe fare card?Well the Bangkok sky train system used the fare card system.You know, those thin flexible magnetic cards we have?I bought the cheapest one for memory.haha.
That's my sister buying the tickets.I taught her how to buy the tickets.haha =)
Our ride was 4 stations long.We boarded at National Stadium and dropped down at Nana.Btw the announcer had to speak both in Thai and English and the train is about the size of 2 LRT carriages and the ride was very seamless.Probably cuz its small compared to the 6 carriage MRT.Or is it 8?I forgot.
We reached Nana and with the help of a salesperson, found our way back to hotel.We quickly prayed and left for dinner at First Hotel, where we had our first lunch upon arrival.Today's dinner is a buffet of tomato rice or plain rice, chicken,vegetable, and frien wanton!YAY.Gosh the fried wanton was nice especially if u add the chilli sauce that was a bit hot.
After dinner we took the van back. My parents wanted to go to MBK centre for some shopping but then due to some miscommunication between us and the driver, we went back to the hotel. Furthermore, if we were to go MBK centre, most of the shops would be closed by then. On our way back we saw some elephants along the streets. I was so shocked that there were elephants along the capital state of Bangkok especially along the busy streets. There were two owners to each elephant who were selling bananas and sugar cane for people to feed them. The elephants quickly eat the food when given the food unlike in Chiangmai. The elephant must be very hungry. Things people would do to make business. They'll make the elephant go slightly hungry so that it'll eat whatever the people give.
Breakfast at the hotel restaurant was fabulous.There was a wide variety of food that my family could eat,like the mashed potato,danish, crossaint,vegetarian dishes and salad.I personally like the mashed potato (though some are not really mashed up) where i put an italian dressing and some salad dressings on it.It was perfect.The italian dressing made a bit of the sour taste while the salad dressing is healthy.But beware, don't take too much or you'll feel like vomitting.Yup. Not that i had vomitted though.We went back to the hotel to do what we always do;letting it all go.After that we left the hotel to start our tour around Bangkok.The streets of Bangkok hold many historic monuments and sculptures and decorations to commemorate the King's birthday. The streets were quite busy at that time and we passed several fast food restaurant including the ancient A&W.Unfortunately all of the fast food resturants aren't Halal.Now who the heck labelled A&W as a Halal foodstore on the internet?tsk tsk tsk.
Anyway we reached our destination.Surprisingly we had to take a long boat that could occupy about 30 people down the river.I was hoping a lot from this.The boat started moving and soon a tour guide started introducing herself and the river.It was the quite famous Chao Phraya river.The 'Phraya' isn't pronounced at it is.Instead it is pronounced as 'Phya'.That is if my memory did not fail me.The ride was a bit bumpy but all in all it was awesome.The tour guide was efficient.She ran through some key words to say during our stay in Thailand and introduced the significance of the river and the buildings we passed.There were many temples but I only remembered one.It was nicknamed as the 'James Bond temple'.No, James Bond did not build it but it was that temple that one of the episodes of James Bond 007 was shot at.Yup.We moved down the river and saw this place where we could feed the fishes with bread our tour guide gave us.It was catfishes that we fed to.The sign indicating the place where there is a lot of catfish was very funny.
Im so bad...
Anyway there was a lot of hungry fishes coming up to the surface as soon as we started feeding them.They must be really hungry!Soon we continued our journey where we saw this HUGE lizards on the edge of the river.They looked like komodo dragons, but a little smaller than that, probably half as tall and half as thin as me if they were to stand on 2 legs(in which they didn't). Later, there was a lady in a smaller boat that went against our direction.She was selling some handicrafts from her floating shop. There used to be a lot of such smaller boats that formed the floating market.The government then reduced the huge number to only a few as to make way for a passage for tourists like us.Yay. We stopped after a few minutes of travelling once again where we visited a local shop selling local merchandise like souveniers,clothes and handicrafts.The half an hour long break was a necessity to shopaholics and tolietholics.What a coincidence!My mom found out that one of our boatmates is my aunty's friend(with her family)!haha.What a small world.
Soon we boarded the boat again and stopped later at the local snake zoo.We didn't want to go in not only cuz its quite expensive but the fact that we were very tired and just wanted to rest.The rest was certainly fruitful but a little extra long.We continued our journey by ending at where we started.Unfortunately the tide was high and some barricades that protects the buildings near to sides of the river was activated.We had to wait for it to open, enter and wait for another barricade to open.Its somehow like the one in the Suez Canal just that it is simpler.It took about a total of 15minutes before we set off to our starting point, passing government buildings and more temples.
Back on dry land and in the van!We now proceeded to another restaurant for lunch.On the way, we saw something we don't see in modern Singapore.A protest.Yup.It wasn't scary as they weren't very rebellious.Armed with orange headbands, they marched their way against our direction.
The food wasn't that fantastic but it was enough to fill our stomachs.My mom ordered spring rolls that had chicken fillings, to be taken back to our hotel for muching purposes.After lunch, we prayed at a mosque across the street where we met my aunty's friend's family again!haha...
We then went to a local jewellery store where they showed us how they make their jewel studded products.The precious stones ranges from ruby to sapphires.If I'm not wrong, this is the only place where you can find authentic and cheap jewellery since it is the largest precious stone production factory in the world and that the stones are from Thailand itself.
Next, it was shopping time at the largest shopping mall in Bangkok.The Mah Bung Krong(MBK).That should be how you spell it.I guess.Here is where i bought my coat and belt for prom.The coat cost me 1600baht(about S$64) while the belt 350baht(aboutS$14).The coat was originally about 1880 baht while the belt 390baht.So it was quite a good deal i guess knowing that u can bargain.But don't even try to bargain at Tokyu.Tokyu is this shop that is similar to Metro or Isetan.And obviously u cant bargain with them rite?
We went back to our hotel my taking the sky train system.Let me introduce you to the sky train system.Firstly, like the MRT system in Singapore, it is run by 2 companies, forming the MRTA and BTS(we took the BTS).Secondly the distance apart between stations of the sky train is about the same to the distance apart between stations in our LRT system.So the prices isn't as expensive as the ones in our MRT if you were to buy the single trip tickets or the standard tickets.Its like 10baht(40cents) for one station.Well of course if you were to travel about 5 stations, it would be cheaper than50 baht.say around 40 or 35 baht?Did i mention that the Bangkok sky train would bring memories to our passe fare card?Well the Bangkok sky train system used the fare card system.You know, those thin flexible magnetic cards we have?I bought the cheapest one for memory.haha.
That's my sister buying the tickets.I taught her how to buy the tickets.haha =)
Our ride was 4 stations long.We boarded at National Stadium and dropped down at Nana.Btw the announcer had to speak both in Thai and English and the train is about the size of 2 LRT carriages and the ride was very seamless.Probably cuz its small compared to the 6 carriage MRT.Or is it 8?I forgot.
We reached Nana and with the help of a salesperson, found our way back to hotel.We quickly prayed and left for dinner at First Hotel, where we had our first lunch upon arrival.Today's dinner is a buffet of tomato rice or plain rice, chicken,vegetable, and frien wanton!YAY.Gosh the fried wanton was nice especially if u add the chilli sauce that was a bit hot.
After dinner we took the van back. My parents wanted to go to MBK centre for some shopping but then due to some miscommunication between us and the driver, we went back to the hotel. Furthermore, if we were to go MBK centre, most of the shops would be closed by then. On our way back we saw some elephants along the streets. I was so shocked that there were elephants along the capital state of Bangkok especially along the busy streets. There were two owners to each elephant who were selling bananas and sugar cane for people to feed them. The elephants quickly eat the food when given the food unlike in Chiangmai. The elephant must be very hungry. Things people would do to make business. They'll make the elephant go slightly hungry so that it'll eat whatever the people give.
12 December 2005
Thailand trip Day 4
6th December 2005
Thank God today will be the last dejavu breakfast at Lotus Hotel.Before breakfast i thought of looking at the swimming pool since i didn't have time to visit the pool before.Unfortunately it was closed so i couldn't swim.Instead i just walked around the premises.Its quite nice lah.Beside the pool is this place where you can chill known something as 'Sah Lah Fah Ham'.Well it sounds like 'salah faham' which means 'misuderstood' in Malay.haha.So funny
Anyway after breakfast we went to the pool area as a family before heading back to our rooms to let go and get ready for our departure.Yup letting it all go.Again.
We then went out of the hotel and walked around the area near our hotel.By the way, did i mentioned that there is a lot of 7-eleven shops nearby.Once i saw two stores across the street,facing each other.What the?I don't see any purpose.Anyway my sister came across a signboard to all drivers.Unfortunately it was poorly said.Meaning that the English was poor.Why not take a look.
Gosh that is so funny.
Fault 1:the sign is for cars only, not all vehicles
Fault 2:be afraid,or else you'll be finded...muhahaha...
Fault 3:"disobey must..."?
Fault 4:Pedestrains?Choo choo...
We checked out about half an hour early and so sat at the hotel lobby to read newspaper and wait for our tour guide.When it was about time, she fetched us and we took a picture together before leaving for the airport.Our flight was about at 12.15 in the noon.Yup.The flight would be from Chiang Mai to Bangkok.Taking the plane is so fun.hehee
The tour guide might look like Ms Annabel Ho at some angle.My hair sucks cuz i didn't style it.
Anyway we then proceeded to ChiangMai International Airport.Each Thai airlines has a name.The one i took to Bangkok from ChiangMai is called Srisoonthorn.By the way before the plane we bought some Lays to eat whenever we feel like muching.Now here's the twist.The word 'Lays' isn't written as it is.It is written as 'Lau'.the 'u' is actually a Thai alphabet.So instead of Lays, its Lau.WALAU! khahaha...Then what happened was the whole packet became very turgid when we were at high altitude in the plane.The Lau is so hard,its like a balloon.Gosh i feel like bursting it.haha...
Thats my sister.As in the thumbs up lah...
We reached Bangkok International Airport and there is no need for our passports to be checked.Well cuz its still within Thailand u see.Our tour guide wasn't there, but we were welcomed by the driver who could speak very little English.First stop, First Hotel for lunch.The road to the hotel was a long one, passing highways and busy roads.It feels like in Singapore where you have the expressways and busy road.The time in Bangkok is one hour later than Singapore.
We finally reached the hotel and waited a few minutes before food is served.We met a Singaporean family in the hotel.My mom chatted with them and found a similarity.We both know my sister's friends's family.Riiiite...
Food is here.It was quite hot but its still nice.Duh hotel food must be nice mah.
We left for our hotel(Ambassador Hotel) which is quite a distant away from First Hotel.We tooked a long time to checked in(I wonder why).Before that i went to the toilet to let go.I shall not elaborate much.But lets just say that the flushing wasn't easy.haha
Dissapointingly the hotel room wasn't fabulous.I expected the standards to be higher than in Chiangmai cuz Bangkok is the capital of Thailand mah.Firstly the design wasn't great, secondly the 'bed skirt' was dirty, thirdly there was no complimentary drink unlike in Chiangmai,fourthly the toilet is small and WORSE it had a bad view of a construction site(dun really blame the management much).haiyo...i mean WaLau..haha
guess what?I can't swim here.The pool is under renovation.Its suppose to end on the 5th of December,but its delayed.haiz...
We spent the whole afternoon in the hotel either relaxing, unpacking and then walking around the hotel area until about 6 where we prayed(its at 7 in Singapore) and left for dinner.It was only when we're going to our dinner restaurant that we met our tour guide and another family from Singapore.My mom chatted with the mum of the other family on our journey to the restaurant.When we reached there, we were invited to this restaurant where it had all the Arabic writings and nice Malay decorations.few minutes later a family of 7 arrived and joined us.So now we have a table with 12 people.All Singaporeans.All Malay.That is unless some of them are Javanese, Boyanese or wtv.Main point we speak Malay.Dinner was nice.Rice, fish, meat,tom yam, vegetables and some other dishes.After dinner we decided to go to the night bazaar.It was this time that we saw some weird coloured taxis.They come in green and yellow, red, purple and HOT PINK.Yup.Different colours represents the different companies just like in Singapore where we have blue, yellow, silver, white but sadly not pink.haha.
Thank God today will be the last dejavu breakfast at Lotus Hotel.Before breakfast i thought of looking at the swimming pool since i didn't have time to visit the pool before.Unfortunately it was closed so i couldn't swim.Instead i just walked around the premises.Its quite nice lah.Beside the pool is this place where you can chill known something as 'Sah Lah Fah Ham'.Well it sounds like 'salah faham' which means 'misuderstood' in Malay.haha.So funny
Anyway after breakfast we went to the pool area as a family before heading back to our rooms to let go and get ready for our departure.Yup letting it all go.Again.
We then went out of the hotel and walked around the area near our hotel.By the way, did i mentioned that there is a lot of 7-eleven shops nearby.Once i saw two stores across the street,facing each other.What the?I don't see any purpose.Anyway my sister came across a signboard to all drivers.Unfortunately it was poorly said.Meaning that the English was poor.Why not take a look.
Gosh that is so funny.
Fault 1:the sign is for cars only, not all vehicles
Fault 2:be afraid,or else you'll be finded...muhahaha...
Fault 3:"disobey must..."?
Fault 4:Pedestrains?Choo choo...
We checked out about half an hour early and so sat at the hotel lobby to read newspaper and wait for our tour guide.When it was about time, she fetched us and we took a picture together before leaving for the airport.Our flight was about at 12.15 in the noon.Yup.The flight would be from Chiang Mai to Bangkok.Taking the plane is so fun.hehee
The tour guide might look like Ms Annabel Ho at some angle.My hair sucks cuz i didn't style it.
Anyway we then proceeded to ChiangMai International Airport.Each Thai airlines has a name.The one i took to Bangkok from ChiangMai is called Srisoonthorn.By the way before the plane we bought some Lays to eat whenever we feel like muching.Now here's the twist.The word 'Lays' isn't written as it is.It is written as 'Lau'.the 'u' is actually a Thai alphabet.So instead of Lays, its Lau.WALAU! khahaha...Then what happened was the whole packet became very turgid when we were at high altitude in the plane.The Lau is so hard,its like a balloon.Gosh i feel like bursting it.haha...
Thats my sister.As in the thumbs up lah...
We reached Bangkok International Airport and there is no need for our passports to be checked.Well cuz its still within Thailand u see.Our tour guide wasn't there, but we were welcomed by the driver who could speak very little English.First stop, First Hotel for lunch.The road to the hotel was a long one, passing highways and busy roads.It feels like in Singapore where you have the expressways and busy road.The time in Bangkok is one hour later than Singapore.
We finally reached the hotel and waited a few minutes before food is served.We met a Singaporean family in the hotel.My mom chatted with them and found a similarity.We both know my sister's friends's family.Riiiite...
Food is here.It was quite hot but its still nice.Duh hotel food must be nice mah.
We left for our hotel(Ambassador Hotel) which is quite a distant away from First Hotel.We tooked a long time to checked in(I wonder why).Before that i went to the toilet to let go.I shall not elaborate much.But lets just say that the flushing wasn't easy.haha
Dissapointingly the hotel room wasn't fabulous.I expected the standards to be higher than in Chiangmai cuz Bangkok is the capital of Thailand mah.Firstly the design wasn't great, secondly the 'bed skirt' was dirty, thirdly there was no complimentary drink unlike in Chiangmai,fourthly the toilet is small and WORSE it had a bad view of a construction site(dun really blame the management much).haiyo...i mean WaLau..haha
guess what?I can't swim here.The pool is under renovation.Its suppose to end on the 5th of December,but its delayed.haiz...
We spent the whole afternoon in the hotel either relaxing, unpacking and then walking around the hotel area until about 6 where we prayed(its at 7 in Singapore) and left for dinner.It was only when we're going to our dinner restaurant that we met our tour guide and another family from Singapore.My mom chatted with the mum of the other family on our journey to the restaurant.When we reached there, we were invited to this restaurant where it had all the Arabic writings and nice Malay decorations.few minutes later a family of 7 arrived and joined us.So now we have a table with 12 people.All Singaporeans.All Malay.That is unless some of them are Javanese, Boyanese or wtv.Main point we speak Malay.Dinner was nice.Rice, fish, meat,tom yam, vegetables and some other dishes.After dinner we decided to go to the night bazaar.It was this time that we saw some weird coloured taxis.They come in green and yellow, red, purple and HOT PINK.Yup.Different colours represents the different companies just like in Singapore where we have blue, yellow, silver, white but sadly not pink.haha.
11 December 2005
Thailand trip Day 3
5th December 2005
Woke up abit late and almost missed the prayers time.Its so cold when i woke up.The aircon was put a little low.haha.After prayers and bathing we headed down to the familiar hotel restaurant for a familiar meal.Yup same thing.Crossaint, danish, egg cake and cocopop/crunch.Hmm..But after eating all the food, some have to make way.Meaning after breakfast i went back to my room toilet to..err...let go.Yup.We then get ready our cold outfit as we're gonna go up the highest mountain in Thailand and its gonna be VERY cold.Probably about 16 degrees.
The trip was long and boring that i slept almost throughout the whole journey.We stopped at a checkpoint for toilet break where some people sold tamarind and flowers.Not in the toilet of course.Hahaha...Anyway the trip to the peak of the mountain from the hotel is about 3 hours.
Finally.Oh yeah its so cold that i was shivering.The sun is shining but its so cold.Wanna noe why?Well obviously cuz its high up and that the clouds is practically passing through me.Its so gd to have the passing clouds to touch your face.It doesn't feel anything but u noe its good.haha.
Nono thats not a haze.Those are clouds.Yup
Then we took a picture at the signboard which says that it is the highest spot in Thailand.
Thanks to our tour guide,Miao I think thats how u spelt it.yes Miao Hua, she's your friend.haha
Anyway we went down to the sounvenir shop.Thats how they spelt it (American style) though the 'i' dropped,naming the shop 'souven r shop'.heheeIt didn't really sell a lot of interesting stuff except this fridge magnet which has a thermometer on it.I read it.16degrees.Mum bought it
Lets take the van.We went down a few metres and visited 2 Pagodas dedicated to the King and Queen.You know why there is a lot of people?Cuz its Father's Day today.Notice the position of the apostrophe.Confused?Surely.In Thailand, today is Father's Day.Not a day to celebrate all fathers but to celebrate the King's birthday.Since he is deemed the 'father' of Thailand and that today is his birthday, today is Father's Day!YAY
The pagoda contain a statue of Buddha each; the King's Pagoda has a sleeping Buddha while the Queen has a standing Buddha.I noticed too that the King's pagoda is higher than the Queen's.Well, thats not surprising.
Lets go down.Here its no longer cold.We visited a local tribe market where a lot of vegetables and fruits can be found.I saw this girl carrying her brother/sister by her back.Darn its cute.haha.
I thought of buying somthing and so bought some red cherries and white atapchi(whoever u spell it).You noe, those white thing u put in ice kacang?Yup.The atapchi wasn't hard, surprisingly.It was a little harder than a normal jelly.And for the cherry, its not really cherry.It is quite hard and has a seed in it.Then we went to have our packed lunch at a nearby seat.Unfortunately it started raining as soon as we sat down.Thankfully the hawker across the street allowed us to eat our food in their area.
Guess what?The chicken tasted like KFC's.Im serious though KFC's is still better.Its finger licking good!haha
Then we moved on and visited a natural water fall.It so big and its splashing water all over.But so fun...haha
Its vegetarian if u get what i mean.hahaha
Back to the hotel and left again for dinner.Since today is the last night in Chiangmai, we decided to take a picture with the restaurant people and the driver(since he won't meet us tomorrow).The mum of the Yunnan restaurant owner took a picture with my mom.As though 2 long lost sisters reunited.haha.Awww...
Next stop, Night market again!Hahaha...
I wanted to buy this traditional shirt that looks nice.Unfortunately i have to reserve my money for buying my prom stuff.darn.Anyway I'm quite choosy.Some of the designs aren't really nice while most of them are quite translucent.haiz...
My mum bought this cushion with someone who looks like a ladyboy.You noe, ladyboy.Guys who dress up like women.Yup IronLadies. I have met a few already.Its quite obvious they look a little like men.Well for all you noe half of the women i saw were previously men.MUAHAHAHAhaha...lets not be so bad here.
We returned home by the taxi.here are pictures of it
back hotel passed by the hotel and saw something
OMG!ITS NOT HALAL!its babi..there's pork in it...haha
babi=pig in Malay
Woke up abit late and almost missed the prayers time.Its so cold when i woke up.The aircon was put a little low.haha.After prayers and bathing we headed down to the familiar hotel restaurant for a familiar meal.Yup same thing.Crossaint, danish, egg cake and cocopop/crunch.Hmm..But after eating all the food, some have to make way.Meaning after breakfast i went back to my room toilet to..err...let go.Yup.We then get ready our cold outfit as we're gonna go up the highest mountain in Thailand and its gonna be VERY cold.Probably about 16 degrees.
The trip was long and boring that i slept almost throughout the whole journey.We stopped at a checkpoint for toilet break where some people sold tamarind and flowers.Not in the toilet of course.Hahaha...Anyway the trip to the peak of the mountain from the hotel is about 3 hours.
Finally.Oh yeah its so cold that i was shivering.The sun is shining but its so cold.Wanna noe why?Well obviously cuz its high up and that the clouds is practically passing through me.Its so gd to have the passing clouds to touch your face.It doesn't feel anything but u noe its good.haha.
Nono thats not a haze.Those are clouds.Yup
Then we took a picture at the signboard which says that it is the highest spot in Thailand.
Thanks to our tour guide,Miao I think thats how u spelt it.yes Miao Hua, she's your friend.haha
Anyway we went down to the sounvenir shop.Thats how they spelt it (American style) though the 'i' dropped,naming the shop 'souven r shop'.heheeIt didn't really sell a lot of interesting stuff except this fridge magnet which has a thermometer on it.I read it.16degrees.Mum bought it
Lets take the van.We went down a few metres and visited 2 Pagodas dedicated to the King and Queen.You know why there is a lot of people?Cuz its Father's Day today.Notice the position of the apostrophe.Confused?Surely.In Thailand, today is Father's Day.Not a day to celebrate all fathers but to celebrate the King's birthday.Since he is deemed the 'father' of Thailand and that today is his birthday, today is Father's Day!YAY
The pagoda contain a statue of Buddha each; the King's Pagoda has a sleeping Buddha while the Queen has a standing Buddha.I noticed too that the King's pagoda is higher than the Queen's.Well, thats not surprising.
Lets go down.Here its no longer cold.We visited a local tribe market where a lot of vegetables and fruits can be found.I saw this girl carrying her brother/sister by her back.Darn its cute.haha.
I thought of buying somthing and so bought some red cherries and white atapchi(whoever u spell it).You noe, those white thing u put in ice kacang?Yup.The atapchi wasn't hard, surprisingly.It was a little harder than a normal jelly.And for the cherry, its not really cherry.It is quite hard and has a seed in it.Then we went to have our packed lunch at a nearby seat.Unfortunately it started raining as soon as we sat down.Thankfully the hawker across the street allowed us to eat our food in their area.
Guess what?The chicken tasted like KFC's.Im serious though KFC's is still better.Its finger licking good!haha
Then we moved on and visited a natural water fall.It so big and its splashing water all over.But so fun...haha
Its vegetarian if u get what i mean.hahaha
Back to the hotel and left again for dinner.Since today is the last night in Chiangmai, we decided to take a picture with the restaurant people and the driver(since he won't meet us tomorrow).The mum of the Yunnan restaurant owner took a picture with my mom.As though 2 long lost sisters reunited.haha.Awww...
Next stop, Night market again!Hahaha...
I wanted to buy this traditional shirt that looks nice.Unfortunately i have to reserve my money for buying my prom stuff.darn.Anyway I'm quite choosy.Some of the designs aren't really nice while most of them are quite translucent.haiz...
My mum bought this cushion with someone who looks like a ladyboy.You noe, ladyboy.Guys who dress up like women.Yup IronLadies. I have met a few already.Its quite obvious they look a little like men.Well for all you noe half of the women i saw were previously men.MUAHAHAHAhaha...lets not be so bad here.
We returned home by the taxi.here are pictures of it
back hotel passed by the hotel and saw something
OMG!ITS NOT HALAL!its babi..there's pork in it...haha
babi=pig in Malay
10 December 2005
Thailand trip Day 2
4th December 2005
Woke up around 5.30 for morning prayers since it's earlier than in Singapore and watched the TV before heading down for breakfast.Darn the restaurant for not having an all Halal meal.So we could only eat the ceral, drinks and some of the bread.Today i met a new friend.He's from the southern part of Thailand and could speak Thai and Malay.Now here's the funny and regretful part. Firstly he greeted me in Arab and i greeted him back.Then he asked "Boleh cakap Melayu?", which means "Can speak Malay?" I said "Boleh" which means "Can" but accidentally, these few words came out of my mouth: "sikit-sikit".DARN. Basically it means "a little".HELLO?!I study Malay in school and although its quite bad, conversational Malay shouldn't be much of a problem rite?Haiz...so regretting.I told my family members and they laugh.Anyway I had cococrunch(they called it cocopops) with milk, croissant,danish and this thing which looks like an egg pie.It was quite okay.
Then we went to an Maesa Elephant Camp.Yup u heard me.I mean saw wad i typed.=P
Aniway in this camp we could feed the elephants with the sugar cane and bananas sold by the vendors and take a close shot with the elephants.
Its scary okay.Look the baby elephant seems to be smiling with the lion(me)
By the way, each elephant has a personal trainer.Yep.Then all of the elephant made their way to the river to soak, bathe and have fun and all of de sudden, this yellow coloured mass came floating.What on earth is that?OH GOSH!It's the elephant's faeces!By goodness its all yellow and could float.The reason is that the elephants are vegetarian and have A LOT of roughage in the faeces.Then we went up and sat at what looked like a stadium for the elphant show. My goodnes they're smart.They carried objects, lay down on the floor, placed the feet on their trainers body without hurting him,played with the owner's hat,PLAYED SOCCER(better than me) and PAINT(its nice, really for an elephant)
I told you.It's a plant with flowers.
After leaving the camp,which has their very own natural waterfall, we went to the Orchid farm where we observe how orchirds are being grown.The farm holds a wide range of orchids of different colours.In the farm there is this enclosure that has 'metal curtains'.I was wondering what it was until i read the heading over the door "Butterfly Fram" No, really fram.Why not take a look and laugh.Hahaha...
Welcome to Butterfly Fram! =>
In the enclosure theres quite a number of butterflies, many which likes to land on my sister's head(on the scarf rather).Sorry mum they don't like your scarf.Well probably cuz the colour is not very attractive.Yeah.
After that, we went back to our hotel for prayers and chilled out a little.It wasn't long until we went back to the van and proceeded on with our tour.Firstly we went to an umbrella factory where they make umbrellas using a fibre known as 'saa', from the mulbery tree.You noe, those traditional umbrella that looks like its been made of paper.Well its not really just paper from the tree, but saa paper.As most Malays like to say,'Saak ah!' Yeah something like that.It was quite interesting how they make the umbrella.By the way its mostly hand made, especially the designs.These artisans are really skillful okhay.The drawings on the umbrella are attractive.
Next we went to the jewellery store.Well they don't only show and sell how they make the jewelleries for accessories but product that has gold on it. Yup.For example these ducks you see here(below) are painted gold and then added gold to it.
Here ducky-ducky...
Then we went to the silk factory.Obviously u noe that silk comes from silk worm,but do u really noe how exactly it is being done?Well first they will feed the smelly silk worms until they become ultra fat.You normally see them moving.In order to see their movements, gently blow on them and they'll all move creepily.When they are ultra large they will go to the pupae stage by producing threads and wound themselves up.While some pupae are saved so that the young can be produced, the rest are thrown into a cauldron of piping hot boiling water where they simply die.RIP?Not really.The cocoon is then taken and the threads are taken out.Now that is raw silk.The person would then wound out all of the silk into a ball. And voila!A ball of silk.Now the ball is used to make lengths of silk cloth that can be used to make clothes, scarf and boxers.Yup u got me.Boxers.Well come to think of it its quite okay.Imagine something smooth protecting your little brother.Hmm.Your brother is so pampered.haha.
Anyway we went to the next factory,where all the wooden products can be found ranging from statues, furnitures and handicrafts.It was nothing really interesting.Just that they have an enormous gallery of wooden products.
The tour is done.Now we proceeded back to the hotel and wait for dinner.Yup same place for dinner.
After dinner is the fun part.Shopping!Well not at town but at the local night market.I heard that the night market is like in Brunei, where it is opened every night from about late afternoon to about 9 or 10 at night. By the way the time there is about 1hr 10mins later than Singapore.The night market sells mainly clothes and accessories.Not much of food.I saw many branded clothes ranging from billabong, adidas,abidas,Von Dutch, Guess,diesel and many more.Really.Its 99% original if u get what i mean.Cuz some of the Von Dutch has been changed to Vond utch, adidas to abidas and diesel to die sel.haha.You might think hard on whether the Billabong boardshorts and shirts are imitation copies or not.Think no further.If it is sold in the night market at low prices, you noe its fake.Furthermore, look closely.It says Billabong USA, instead of Billabing Australia.Hahaha.Yup
Thank God.We saw a stall that sells halal food.Time for me to munch!She sells 'rotee' which looks like prata with fillings.Btw the writing in thai looks like 'Isa'.Hahaha isa is rotee/roti.ANiwae the fillings include corn, milo, cheese or chicken.For me i still prefer the original chicken where we call is murtabak back in Singapore though the cheese is quite okay.I don't really like the corn.hehee...
Back to hotel.We took a taxi that looks like a van.We can bargain for the price and they can take more than a group of passengers.Which means strangers other than my family members can take it.But thankfully none did.I forgot to bring my camera so can't get a shot.Maybe tomorrow?
Woke up around 5.30 for morning prayers since it's earlier than in Singapore and watched the TV before heading down for breakfast.Darn the restaurant for not having an all Halal meal.So we could only eat the ceral, drinks and some of the bread.Today i met a new friend.He's from the southern part of Thailand and could speak Thai and Malay.Now here's the funny and regretful part. Firstly he greeted me in Arab and i greeted him back.Then he asked "Boleh cakap Melayu?", which means "Can speak Malay?" I said "Boleh" which means "Can" but accidentally, these few words came out of my mouth: "sikit-sikit".DARN. Basically it means "a little".HELLO?!I study Malay in school and although its quite bad, conversational Malay shouldn't be much of a problem rite?Haiz...so regretting.I told my family members and they laugh.Anyway I had cococrunch(they called it cocopops) with milk, croissant,danish and this thing which looks like an egg pie.It was quite okay.
Then we went to an Maesa Elephant Camp.Yup u heard me.I mean saw wad i typed.=P
Aniway in this camp we could feed the elephants with the sugar cane and bananas sold by the vendors and take a close shot with the elephants.
Its scary okay.Look the baby elephant seems to be smiling with the lion(me)
By the way, each elephant has a personal trainer.Yep.Then all of the elephant made their way to the river to soak, bathe and have fun and all of de sudden, this yellow coloured mass came floating.What on earth is that?OH GOSH!It's the elephant's faeces!By goodness its all yellow and could float.The reason is that the elephants are vegetarian and have A LOT of roughage in the faeces.Then we went up and sat at what looked like a stadium for the elphant show. My goodnes they're smart.They carried objects, lay down on the floor, placed the feet on their trainers body without hurting him,played with the owner's hat,PLAYED SOCCER(better than me) and PAINT(its nice, really for an elephant)
I told you.It's a plant with flowers.
After leaving the camp,which has their very own natural waterfall, we went to the Orchid farm where we observe how orchirds are being grown.The farm holds a wide range of orchids of different colours.In the farm there is this enclosure that has 'metal curtains'.I was wondering what it was until i read the heading over the door "Butterfly Fram" No, really fram.Why not take a look and laugh.Hahaha...
Welcome to Butterfly Fram! =>
In the enclosure theres quite a number of butterflies, many which likes to land on my sister's head(on the scarf rather).Sorry mum they don't like your scarf.Well probably cuz the colour is not very attractive.Yeah.
After that, we went back to our hotel for prayers and chilled out a little.It wasn't long until we went back to the van and proceeded on with our tour.Firstly we went to an umbrella factory where they make umbrellas using a fibre known as 'saa', from the mulbery tree.You noe, those traditional umbrella that looks like its been made of paper.Well its not really just paper from the tree, but saa paper.As most Malays like to say,'Saak ah!' Yeah something like that.It was quite interesting how they make the umbrella.By the way its mostly hand made, especially the designs.These artisans are really skillful okhay.The drawings on the umbrella are attractive.
Next we went to the jewellery store.Well they don't only show and sell how they make the jewelleries for accessories but product that has gold on it. Yup.For example these ducks you see here(below) are painted gold and then added gold to it.
Here ducky-ducky...
Then we went to the silk factory.Obviously u noe that silk comes from silk worm,but do u really noe how exactly it is being done?Well first they will feed the smelly silk worms until they become ultra fat.You normally see them moving.In order to see their movements, gently blow on them and they'll all move creepily.When they are ultra large they will go to the pupae stage by producing threads and wound themselves up.While some pupae are saved so that the young can be produced, the rest are thrown into a cauldron of piping hot boiling water where they simply die.RIP?Not really.The cocoon is then taken and the threads are taken out.Now that is raw silk.The person would then wound out all of the silk into a ball. And voila!A ball of silk.Now the ball is used to make lengths of silk cloth that can be used to make clothes, scarf and boxers.Yup u got me.Boxers.Well come to think of it its quite okay.Imagine something smooth protecting your little brother.Hmm.Your brother is so pampered.haha.
Anyway we went to the next factory,where all the wooden products can be found ranging from statues, furnitures and handicrafts.It was nothing really interesting.Just that they have an enormous gallery of wooden products.
The tour is done.Now we proceeded back to the hotel and wait for dinner.Yup same place for dinner.
After dinner is the fun part.Shopping!Well not at town but at the local night market.I heard that the night market is like in Brunei, where it is opened every night from about late afternoon to about 9 or 10 at night. By the way the time there is about 1hr 10mins later than Singapore.The night market sells mainly clothes and accessories.Not much of food.I saw many branded clothes ranging from billabong, adidas,abidas,Von Dutch, Guess,diesel and many more.Really.Its 99% original if u get what i mean.Cuz some of the Von Dutch has been changed to Vond utch, adidas to abidas and diesel to die sel.haha.You might think hard on whether the Billabong boardshorts and shirts are imitation copies or not.Think no further.If it is sold in the night market at low prices, you noe its fake.Furthermore, look closely.It says Billabong USA, instead of Billabing Australia.Hahaha.Yup
Thank God.We saw a stall that sells halal food.Time for me to munch!She sells 'rotee' which looks like prata with fillings.Btw the writing in thai looks like 'Isa'.Hahaha isa is rotee/roti.ANiwae the fillings include corn, milo, cheese or chicken.For me i still prefer the original chicken where we call is murtabak back in Singapore though the cheese is quite okay.I don't really like the corn.hehee...
Back to hotel.We took a taxi that looks like a van.We can bargain for the price and they can take more than a group of passengers.Which means strangers other than my family members can take it.But thankfully none did.I forgot to bring my camera so can't get a shot.Maybe tomorrow?
Thailand trip Day 1
3rd December 2005
Ok i forgot what time i woke up but ultimately we took a cab(2 cabs rather cuz got 5 pple) to the airport, checked in and waited for the gate to open.We were so early that we could spend time at the toilet, walk around the terminal and look what 'santa' gave us.It's this bag with brochures, chocolates and a plushie hung on the handle.It's so cute n i can hang it on my bag or use the sock to put my handphone in it.haha.
So exciting!When i boarded the plane i was a bit dissapointed that not only the personal screen wasn't there(like what i had when coming back to Singapore from Brunei) but they didn't have that mime!You noe the MacDonalds advertisement for the grilled chicken foldover.Yeah.But aniwae it was alright in the end.I ate curry rice with tofu and chicken,this thing which looks like an hors d'oeuvre and a cake with cream.Oh yeah i had orange juice but no plain water cuz it wasn't served.Darn.Oh and did i mention that i was listening to an audio Thai airways had while eating?Yeah.First up was Hilary Duff's Wake Up(haha), Simple Plan Crazy and some other tracks i forgot.
The flight to Bangkok International Airport was 2hours.Then upon arrival we had to move to the transfer gate for another domestic flight to Chiangmai.It was 2 hours.Oh yeah did i mention that when we board down at Bangkok, we had to take a shuttle bus to the terminal.So un-modernise but i was fun though its about 5mins.Flight to Chiangmai wasn't that fun.The flight meal was only a snack;no rice,no music, onli nuts,drink and dried longans.Lucky when we alighted there was no shuttle bus but only a passageway to the terminal where we checked out.The checking out counter was so cool, no wonder Chiangmai Internationaol Airport has an ISO 9000-something.The counter has this camera where you're suppose 2 look into.After the immigrations officer has checked your passport and arrival card for a few minutes, the camera will record an image of you from head to toe via the camera.Cool rite?
Anyway, we then met out tour guide and proceeded to the hotel;Pang Suan Kaew Lotus Hotel.Okay now i cant remember where we went in order.But i do remembered that we had dinner at this Halal Yunnan restaurant.The food served was in large quantities that we couldn;t finish it.So my mom started telling onw of the staff to cook lesser since we're gonna eat at the same restaurant for the rest of the stay in Chiangmai.Yeah u heard me.The same restaurant for 3days.Be it lunch or dinner.
That's my sister.The thumbs up says it all.But i'll give 3.75 stars out of 5.hehe
We went back and spend some time and money at the hotel shopping mall.After that its lights off for me.
Ok i forgot what time i woke up but ultimately we took a cab(2 cabs rather cuz got 5 pple) to the airport, checked in and waited for the gate to open.We were so early that we could spend time at the toilet, walk around the terminal and look what 'santa' gave us.It's this bag with brochures, chocolates and a plushie hung on the handle.It's so cute n i can hang it on my bag or use the sock to put my handphone in it.haha.
So exciting!When i boarded the plane i was a bit dissapointed that not only the personal screen wasn't there(like what i had when coming back to Singapore from Brunei) but they didn't have that mime!You noe the MacDonalds advertisement for the grilled chicken foldover.Yeah.But aniwae it was alright in the end.I ate curry rice with tofu and chicken,this thing which looks like an hors d'oeuvre and a cake with cream.Oh yeah i had orange juice but no plain water cuz it wasn't served.Darn.Oh and did i mention that i was listening to an audio Thai airways had while eating?Yeah.First up was Hilary Duff's Wake Up(haha), Simple Plan Crazy and some other tracks i forgot.
The flight to Bangkok International Airport was 2hours.Then upon arrival we had to move to the transfer gate for another domestic flight to Chiangmai.It was 2 hours.Oh yeah did i mention that when we board down at Bangkok, we had to take a shuttle bus to the terminal.So un-modernise but i was fun though its about 5mins.Flight to Chiangmai wasn't that fun.The flight meal was only a snack;no rice,no music, onli nuts,drink and dried longans.Lucky when we alighted there was no shuttle bus but only a passageway to the terminal where we checked out.The checking out counter was so cool, no wonder Chiangmai Internationaol Airport has an ISO 9000-something.The counter has this camera where you're suppose 2 look into.After the immigrations officer has checked your passport and arrival card for a few minutes, the camera will record an image of you from head to toe via the camera.Cool rite?
Anyway, we then met out tour guide and proceeded to the hotel;Pang Suan Kaew Lotus Hotel.Okay now i cant remember where we went in order.But i do remembered that we had dinner at this Halal Yunnan restaurant.The food served was in large quantities that we couldn;t finish it.So my mom started telling onw of the staff to cook lesser since we're gonna eat at the same restaurant for the rest of the stay in Chiangmai.Yeah u heard me.The same restaurant for 3days.Be it lunch or dinner.
That's my sister.The thumbs up says it all.But i'll give 3.75 stars out of 5.hehe
We went back and spend some time and money at the hotel shopping mall.After that its lights off for me.
01 December 2005
Official re-launch of ..::aqueous::..
Date:1st December 2005
Time:15oohrs
Venue:tampines Street 42
Guest of Honour: Mr Muhammad Jazimin Bin Haron
Speech
A very good afternoon to all present and welcome to the re-launch of ..::aqueous::.. . It is my honour to re-launch my very-own blog after a very long period of dormancy and silence due to my tight schedule.From now on, I hope to continue to update my blog and keep you inform with all the events and happenings.
Thank you
PS:there are some things not completed like some of the hyperlinks and some troubles with the music video...sorry...
Time:15oohrs
Venue:tampines Street 42
Guest of Honour: Mr Muhammad Jazimin Bin Haron
Speech
A very good afternoon to all present and welcome to the re-launch of ..::aqueous::.. . It is my honour to re-launch my very-own blog after a very long period of dormancy and silence due to my tight schedule.From now on, I hope to continue to update my blog and keep you inform with all the events and happenings.
Thank you
PS:there are some things not completed like some of the hyperlinks and some troubles with the music video...sorry...
23 November 2005
..::chlorine::..
[chlorine can be used as a bleaching agent in its compounds]
HEYA all!yeah u might kinda miss my blog(and me) cuz its like not updated for centuries...but anyway not that im kinda free and that OLEVELS ARE OVER...yeah...over...O V E R...khahaha...i can now update my blog...
i thought of making a whole new blog...something different from now...so these days ill be 'bleaching' my blog for a new one...getit?...wakhakha...any suggestions feel free to shout on the tagboard...for now...enjoy kelly clarkson: because of you...dedicated to all you people out there...
cheers
n selamat hari raya...(kinda late though but nvm...)
HEYA all!yeah u might kinda miss my blog(and me) cuz its like not updated for centuries...but anyway not that im kinda free and that OLEVELS ARE OVER...yeah...over...O V E R...khahaha...i can now update my blog...
i thought of making a whole new blog...something different from now...so these days ill be 'bleaching' my blog for a new one...getit?...wakhakha...any suggestions feel free to shout on the tagboard...for now...enjoy kelly clarkson: because of you...dedicated to all you people out there...
cheers
n selamat hari raya...(kinda late though but nvm...)
07 September 2005
..::sulphur::..
[S + O2 --> SO2]
[2SO2 + O2 --> 2SO3]
[SO3 + H2SO4 --> H2S2O7]
[H2S2O7 + H2O --> 2H2SO4]
Simple Plan- I'm Just A Kid
_______________
I woke up it was 7
I waited till 11
Just to figure out that no one would call
I think I got a lot of friends but I don't hear from them
What's another night all alone?
When your spending everyday on your own
And here it goes
[Chorus:]
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me
Tonight...
And maybe when the night is dead, I'll crawl into my bed
Staring at these 4 walls again
I'll try to think about the last time, I had a good time
Everyone's got somewhere to go
And they're gonna leave me here on my own and here it goes
[Chorus:]
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me
What the hell is wrong with me?
Don't fit in with anybody
How did this happen to me?
Wide awake I'm bored and I can't fall asleep
And every night is the worst night ever
I'm just a kid (5x)
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world.
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me tonight
I'm all alone tonight
Nobody cares tonight
Cause I'm just a kid tonight
_______________
-im just a kid who's in stress...haha...
[2SO2 + O2 --> 2SO3]
[SO3 + H2SO4 --> H2S2O7]
[H2S2O7 + H2O --> 2H2SO4]
Simple Plan- I'm Just A Kid
_______________
I woke up it was 7
I waited till 11
Just to figure out that no one would call
I think I got a lot of friends but I don't hear from them
What's another night all alone?
When your spending everyday on your own
And here it goes
[Chorus:]
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me
Tonight...
And maybe when the night is dead, I'll crawl into my bed
Staring at these 4 walls again
I'll try to think about the last time, I had a good time
Everyone's got somewhere to go
And they're gonna leave me here on my own and here it goes
[Chorus:]
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me
What the hell is wrong with me?
Don't fit in with anybody
How did this happen to me?
Wide awake I'm bored and I can't fall asleep
And every night is the worst night ever
I'm just a kid (5x)
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world.
I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare
I'm just a kid, I know that its not fair
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Nobody wants to be alone in the world
Nobody cares, cause I'm alone and the world is
Having more fun than me tonight
I'm all alone tonight
Nobody cares tonight
Cause I'm just a kid tonight
_______________
-im just a kid who's in stress...haha...
02 September 2005
..::phosphorus::..
[NPK fertilisers contain phosphorus which is necessary for plant growth]
McFly- All About You
_______________________
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you, baby(It's all about you)
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you
Yesterday, you asked me something I thought you knew.
So I told you with a smile 'It's all about you'
Then you whispered in my ear and you told me too
Say 'If you make my life worthwhile, it's all about you
And I would answer all you're wishes, if you asked me to.
But if you deny me one of your kisses, don't know what I'd do.
So hold me close and say three words, like you used to do.
Dancing on the kitchen tiles, it's all about you.Yeah...
And I would answer all you're wishes, if you asked me to.
But if you deny me one of your kisses, don't know what I'd do.
So hold me close and say three words, like you used to do.
Dancing on the kitchen tiles,
Yes you make my life worthwhile,
So I told you with a smile...It's all about you.
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you, baby(It's all about you)
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you baby
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you, baby(It's all about you)
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you
It's all about you
_______________________
That's our Teachers' Day performance by Contemporary (Ameerul, Afiq, Asyrani, Azri, Azfar and Jazimin)...Guess I'm the only 'J' out of the 'A's...hmmm...Anyway I think its a good performance overall though many poeple say that my piano couldn't be heard...Some even thought I wasn't really playing but only immitating...I guess onli the stage people could hear(thanks Ming Li for hearing me out)...
There was once when there was some technical difficulty only to find out Rhadji didn't turn on his guitar volume or somthing like that...so me, Hakim and Ming Li had to bravely come out of stage and entertain the crowd...We were some clueless so we just did some clapping...Well, only some botehred to clap...anyway I was dissapointed in myself 'cuz only when I got home then I could think what better ways to entertain the crowd...it goes something like:
Jazimin: Hey Ming Li!
Ming Li: Hey Jazimin!
Jazimin: Well you sure look pretty today and you too Hakim!
Ming Li and Hakim: You too!
Jazimin: Hey do you know what our school vision is?
-Ming Li and Hakim deep in thought-
Hakim: Is it PRIZE?
Jazimin: Well...it has PRIZE but the main vision is "Great Pasir Ris Waves-Shaping Learners, Creating Leaders"
Ming Li: Oh yeah, yeah...it's on the wall outside the AVA theatrette
Jazimin: Yupz, so why not we make some Great Pasir Ris Waves here?
Hakim: Ok!With pride and zeal that is!
Jazimin: So Pasirians, we not we make a wave from the back of the hall to the front and then from the front of the canteen to the back?
Ming Li: Ok, so at the count of 3, we will do from the hall to the canteen
Jazimin, Ming Li and Hakim:1, 2, 3!
-Great Pasir Ris Waves-
Ming Li: Ok, thats all we have, Happy Teachers' Day and enjoy the concert!
McFly- All About You
_______________________
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you, baby(It's all about you)
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you
Yesterday, you asked me something I thought you knew.
So I told you with a smile 'It's all about you'
Then you whispered in my ear and you told me too
Say 'If you make my life worthwhile, it's all about you
And I would answer all you're wishes, if you asked me to.
But if you deny me one of your kisses, don't know what I'd do.
So hold me close and say three words, like you used to do.
Dancing on the kitchen tiles, it's all about you.Yeah...
And I would answer all you're wishes, if you asked me to.
But if you deny me one of your kisses, don't know what I'd do.
So hold me close and say three words, like you used to do.
Dancing on the kitchen tiles,
Yes you make my life worthwhile,
So I told you with a smile...It's all about you.
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you, baby(It's all about you)
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you baby
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you, baby(It's all about you)
It's all about you(It's about you)
It's all about you
It's all about you
_______________________
That's our Teachers' Day performance by Contemporary (Ameerul, Afiq, Asyrani, Azri, Azfar and Jazimin)...Guess I'm the only 'J' out of the 'A's...hmmm...Anyway I think its a good performance overall though many poeple say that my piano couldn't be heard...Some even thought I wasn't really playing but only immitating...I guess onli the stage people could hear(thanks Ming Li for hearing me out)...
There was once when there was some technical difficulty only to find out Rhadji didn't turn on his guitar volume or somthing like that...so me, Hakim and Ming Li had to bravely come out of stage and entertain the crowd...We were some clueless so we just did some clapping...Well, only some botehred to clap...anyway I was dissapointed in myself 'cuz only when I got home then I could think what better ways to entertain the crowd...it goes something like:
Jazimin: Hey Ming Li!
Ming Li: Hey Jazimin!
Jazimin: Well you sure look pretty today and you too Hakim!
Ming Li and Hakim: You too!
Jazimin: Hey do you know what our school vision is?
-Ming Li and Hakim deep in thought-
Hakim: Is it PRIZE?
Jazimin: Well...it has PRIZE but the main vision is "Great Pasir Ris Waves-Shaping Learners, Creating Leaders"
Ming Li: Oh yeah, yeah...it's on the wall outside the AVA theatrette
Jazimin: Yupz, so why not we make some Great Pasir Ris Waves here?
Hakim: Ok!With pride and zeal that is!
Jazimin: So Pasirians, we not we make a wave from the back of the hall to the front and then from the front of the canteen to the back?
Ming Li: Ok, so at the count of 3, we will do from the hall to the canteen
Jazimin, Ming Li and Hakim:1, 2, 3!
-Great Pasir Ris Waves-
Ming Li: Ok, thats all we have, Happy Teachers' Day and enjoy the concert!
27 August 2005
..::silicon::..
[silicon oxide or silica is used to absorb water]
this is what is extracted when crude oil is being fractionally distilled
-petroleum gas
-petrol
-naptha
-kerosene
-diesel oil
-lubricating oil
-bitumen
the ones at the top have shorter chains than the ones at the bottom beacuse since they have shorter chains, they have a lower boiling points and so can condense at the top.Bitumen will not boil to the gaseous state but instead flow out of the frationating column
well...u can ask ameerul on how to remember the fraction order...yeah...
this is what is extracted when crude oil is being fractionally distilled
-petroleum gas
-petrol
-naptha
-kerosene
-diesel oil
-lubricating oil
-bitumen
the ones at the top have shorter chains than the ones at the bottom beacuse since they have shorter chains, they have a lower boiling points and so can condense at the top.Bitumen will not boil to the gaseous state but instead flow out of the frationating column
well...u can ask ameerul on how to remember the fraction order...yeah...
26 August 2005
..::aluminium::..
[aluminium oxide or alumina is used in the extraction of aluminium in electrolysis]
The prelims are here(darn)...gotta study hard n be XTRA hardworking...yeah...luckily i step down frm Red Cross alrd...but not officially lah...den i found out Mr Halim sae we're not havin Passing Out Parade (POP)...den i was like wad de? WHY? Red Cross Youth is a uniformed group and we deserve to have a POP...its tradition! Just that we didn't have it when Royce sir's and Chung Hang's batch step down...but we had it when Yong Cheng sir stepped down...so, why can't we have it this year...my idea is very grandiose: where we invite people from other school, people from other UG, head of departments and even principal and Vprincipal...why not? haighz....guess i have to talk Mr Halim out...
The prelims are here(darn)...gotta study hard n be XTRA hardworking...yeah...luckily i step down frm Red Cross alrd...but not officially lah...den i found out Mr Halim sae we're not havin Passing Out Parade (POP)...den i was like wad de? WHY? Red Cross Youth is a uniformed group and we deserve to have a POP...its tradition! Just that we didn't have it when Royce sir's and Chung Hang's batch step down...but we had it when Yong Cheng sir stepped down...so, why can't we have it this year...my idea is very grandiose: where we invite people from other school, people from other UG, head of departments and even principal and Vprincipal...why not? haighz....guess i have to talk Mr Halim out...
16 June 2005
10 June 2005
..::sodium::..
[sodium reacts VIOLENTLY with cold water]
Apocalypse
I woke up this morning with great reluctance, but thank God its the June holidays. Otherwise I'll start my short skit and act like I'm sick just to skip school. I wore my specs and then stared blankly at the ceiling, thinking of what to do. I guess I have to continue on my mountain height homework.
After bathing and having my non-so-mouth-watering breakfast, I dragged my body to the study room and chucked myself on the chair and started doing my homework. My mind wasn't focused on the Physics 5Year Series exam paper but instead on life.
I was thinking of me in a place I have always dreamt of. A place by the calming sea, a place where the flowers bloom and a place where people really enjoy themself. Just imagine yourself in board shorts, sleeveless shirt and a black neck band, sitting on the floor of the beach while watching children playing merrily. Then came a group of college students in their beach attire and starting to play a game of beach volleyball. Just imagine.
Unfortunately I came back to reality and saw the sky turning dark as the clouds marched in. Instantaneously, I got up and started closing all the windows myself since nobody else is at home. Today is different. Very different. Strangely, the clouds that conquered the sky began to rotate in a circle. Flocks of birds were then seen flying in the same direction and residents came out of their homes, looking out to the sky in curiosity. Drops of water started to fall and soon the morning was dark and stormy. I felt fear hugging me. A fear that something bad might happen. I threw myself on my bed and clutched my favourite pillow. Strange 'whooshing' noises began to be heard. "God, help me...I'm really scared." My heart began to pump faster as I felt a cold sensation runnning from my toes to the end of my hair. I dared myself to peep out of the window. I was very much taken aback when I saw people walking lazily towards the carpark. I got scared. Really scared.
After a few minutes of torture by the sights and sounds on that very morning, I saw the world starting to fall on me. The ceiling began to crack. I took this precious moment to reflect. The sins and good deeds I have done. Tears of fear ran down my shut eyes. I remembered, the moments of folly and the moments of joy. I remembered, of all the ups and downs my family went through. I remembered, about the days that I wasn't on good terms with the members of my family. I remembered, of the days when we came back together again. I cried even louder as I reflect on the things I did to my mom. The tears and joy I brought her. There's just so much things I haven't done for her. Too much. I regret. I should have been a more filial son. But it's too late now.
The time I wished would happen like in another few years time came too soon. It's here. Here now. The last day. The apocalypse.
Apocalypse
I woke up this morning with great reluctance, but thank God its the June holidays. Otherwise I'll start my short skit and act like I'm sick just to skip school. I wore my specs and then stared blankly at the ceiling, thinking of what to do. I guess I have to continue on my mountain height homework.
After bathing and having my non-so-mouth-watering breakfast, I dragged my body to the study room and chucked myself on the chair and started doing my homework. My mind wasn't focused on the Physics 5Year Series exam paper but instead on life.
I was thinking of me in a place I have always dreamt of. A place by the calming sea, a place where the flowers bloom and a place where people really enjoy themself. Just imagine yourself in board shorts, sleeveless shirt and a black neck band, sitting on the floor of the beach while watching children playing merrily. Then came a group of college students in their beach attire and starting to play a game of beach volleyball. Just imagine.
Unfortunately I came back to reality and saw the sky turning dark as the clouds marched in. Instantaneously, I got up and started closing all the windows myself since nobody else is at home. Today is different. Very different. Strangely, the clouds that conquered the sky began to rotate in a circle. Flocks of birds were then seen flying in the same direction and residents came out of their homes, looking out to the sky in curiosity. Drops of water started to fall and soon the morning was dark and stormy. I felt fear hugging me. A fear that something bad might happen. I threw myself on my bed and clutched my favourite pillow. Strange 'whooshing' noises began to be heard. "God, help me...I'm really scared." My heart began to pump faster as I felt a cold sensation runnning from my toes to the end of my hair. I dared myself to peep out of the window. I was very much taken aback when I saw people walking lazily towards the carpark. I got scared. Really scared.
After a few minutes of torture by the sights and sounds on that very morning, I saw the world starting to fall on me. The ceiling began to crack. I took this precious moment to reflect. The sins and good deeds I have done. Tears of fear ran down my shut eyes. I remembered, the moments of folly and the moments of joy. I remembered, of all the ups and downs my family went through. I remembered, about the days that I wasn't on good terms with the members of my family. I remembered, of the days when we came back together again. I cried even louder as I reflect on the things I did to my mom. The tears and joy I brought her. There's just so much things I haven't done for her. Too much. I regret. I should have been a more filial son. But it's too late now.
The time I wished would happen like in another few years time came too soon. It's here. Here now. The last day. The apocalypse.
09 June 2005
..::neon::..
[neon lights found on sign boards]
- Social Studies Workshop
- >I wore my yellow class tee under my black council polo tee
- >Gosh, it was so nice...it wasn't hot as the class was at the computer lab2
- >The class wasn't THAT boring...it was ok as i thought...
- >I learnt to analyse questions and the source
- >Gosh, it was so nice...it wasn't hot as the class was at the computer lab2
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