back to school... really soon...
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fwc
Our grp took quite a while to warm up but wif a few siao-onz ppl like Wan Yu, Wei Liang and Louis, our grp became really fun to be in soon enough. Furthermore, we also have a "cheer-list" councillor Sherline, who made our cheers different from the rest. A lot of cheers were initiated by her in our OG and then copied by others later on.
The funniest thing is, our OG finished second when we were never in the top 3 OGs of the day for the first 3 days. We finished last in all the amazing-race kinda games due to our garang-ness. It was bad luck that we missed the tram during the Amazing Race which would take us from Siloso Beach to Palawan Beach but it was garang-ness(sounds better than stupidity) tt caused us to lose as we decided to RUN. Yes, no typo, we RAN from Siloso Beach to Palawan Beach, putting us effectively out of the race. I guess we got 2nd due to our excellent performance in the dry beach games, 15min challenge and our dance.
Our OG was also the most slack when it came to learning the dance for the competition on the 3rd night. Once again, Wan Yu, Wei Liang and Louis came to the rescue. They were pretty good dancers who each forgot only a small part of the dance. During the competition, the 3 of them were the main characters for our OG's dance but the rest of us followed behind pretty well I guess. One of the other OGs totally stopped for a moment during their performance as they heavily relied on one person to lead the dance and they altogether forgot a whole chunk of it.
I haven't participated in camps for a long time and the ice-breakers and games were very very enjoyable. Our OGLs and councillors each introduced new games throughtout the camp and we had loads of fun, particularly Jia Xing's "Drinking Goggles Up" game which we played on our last night together.
Finishing this camp, I'm now slightly better prepared to start studying at NUS. *thumbsup*
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language problem
This problem has been bugging me for years and years, but I failed to bring it up when I still had an English teacher cos I tend to shrug it off. But it's back, and I want to nip it in the bud once and for all. Hopefully someone out there chances upon this post and helps me with it.
I'm reading the newspapers when I came across this paragraph quoting the media...
"Limbs (are) lying everywhere, bodies (were) cleared from the tracks by local business owners who rushed from their shops," said a correspondent for CNN-IBN (CNN's sister network).
The (are) and (were)... What are those parentheses for?
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a place of my own
Little has happened but I've done quite a lot, haha. I've moved into my own room! What does this mean? The good thing is, me and my bro got our own privacy now. The bad thing it symbolises? My grandparents have left us lorz. It's more or less a new phase in my life without my grandparents le.
Before I moved into the room, psycho-ed by dad, I painted up the room (even the ceiling!) a chocolate brown. The ceiling remained the very pale white so that my room won't become too dark. It's quite tiring work actually, especially the ceiling. Had to keep my head tilted up while i painted the ceiling for more than 6hrs tt day. But the hardwork was worth it. This is now a place of my own.
After I got my bronze for IPPT on 6 June, very lazy to keep fit le. I now go swimming irregularly(cos not as regular as I wanted, lazy). Went back to CSS the other day for Mr Yong's retirement party of some sort. So touched and surprised tt Mr Yong still remembered me, lol! He still kept and remember the apology letter I wrote to him when I was in Sec 4. One of the few official formal letters I wrote to a teacher... In the capacity of a councillor... Thinking about it now is really funny and brings back fond memories though the letter wasn't a good thing.
Our class one of the most hyper in CSS sia. Rebecca offered to buy stuff from the mkt early in the morn before coming to sch and she took orders from the whole class. Think I ordered 2 lo mai kais... 3/4 of the class stayed back during tt fateful day's recess time to makan in class, illegally with a few councillors (from exco somemore =.=) Suddenly, the door opens up and in comes Mr Yong (his lesson is immediately aft recess) with his stuff for teaching later. He sees me with my lo mai kai chopsticks and I thought I was goner, lol.
He was disappointed with us for not setting a good example lar. So me and laoda decide to each write an apology letter to him. I cheekily added some humour into the apology letter hoping to cool things down a little and it was cleared up pretty quickly(luckily as well). That incident was a well-kept secret and the rest of the school didn't know about it, haha. Kinda sad to see all the good teachers who used to teach me leaving the school already. The only teachers left in CSS I still know? Mdm Chang, Mdm Aishah, Mrs Catherine Yeo.
The recent happenings in Isreal sort of caught my attention as well. Cool isn't it? Sending an army in for the sake of a lowly corporal. I guess this is what keeps Isreal going on til now. Their policy of leaving no man behind whether dead or alive. If they don't have such policies, they'd definitely have been bullied by their neighbouring countries. What caught my interest was the fact tt the corporal was a tank gunner, my vocation. Lol, consoling isn't it?
While everyone's hyped up by the HK, Taiwan, Jap serials on YouTube, I'm all over CSI, slowly working my way back from Season VI, lol. There's also this serial called Numb3rs which is rather nice. This FBI guy uses his brother's expertise, a brilliant(understatement) mathematician, to solve crime by using maths. With maths, he's able to discover patterns and stuff within a crime in a very special way and solve it very logically. Pretty cool, check it out. Well, that's all for now, signing off~
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