SO, school ended on 29th October, if my memory serves me well enough,
That surely was a long long time ago, fresh and new.
The holidays were an adventure, with fresh prospects ahead.
Surely it seemed a bit busy, but what's a little busyness anyway? There's sure to have pockets of free time.
And on 2nd November, IBA Began, and would only end on 13th October.
Aaaaand it was better than I could ever imagine.
Whether it was breakfast, lunch, snacks,
tehping, bubble tea, root beer,
work, food, play,
ninja warrior, deliveries, calling,
computers, books, logistics,
pool, connect 4, ping pong,
testing, fixing, squeezing,
climbing, running, fooling around,
rolling on the floor laughing,
prank calling, turning crazy,
bosses, colleagues, or friends,
It was pure awesome.
Tiring as it was, tehping was the sponsor for hyperactivity, though from the second week of IBA starting 9th November regular visits to Sixth Crescent would add to the everything.
Though I must admit Brandon Chia was very funny, yes. Could be a stand-up comedian or something.
NOT FORGETTING,
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HOME COOKED FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Ahh, to think the days when my house had home cooked food was when I could hardly eat many things anyway.
Thank you, thank you.
However, as fun and tiring IBA was, it came to an end, on 13th November.
Aye, how sad a day it was, we finished our work and did everything that had to be done before leaving REACH Family Services Centre.
Humph. Next day was 14th November though,
BB SGB FAA Duty Briefing at BBHQ in the morning (Man, acronyms could BBQ your brain)
Choir Meeting thingamajiggy thingamabob somewhere in the day,Reach @ 10, which was revisiting the sadness and rejection of IBA withdrawal,
LDP Meeting @ KAP Macs in the late afternoon.
OH WAIT,
Flight to Shanghai at knight. Not to forget packing somewhere before. As could be expected, only highlighted events were attended.
No rest, straight off to CHINA.
I really can't be bothered to look for a picture, so yeah.
And for anyone who does not know, the great wall is in Beijing, not Shanghai.
Not bad, I must say, it was a free holiday, sponsored by CP Kelco and various Membership Cards that accumulate points. So my mum books stuff for her company and redeems free flights and accommodation for us. Not the first free holiday summore, though it is the furthest free holiday. Went with my mum and my cousin and her mum. A lot of good food in Shanghai, Um mum mum mum mum.
And shopping and stuff, typical eat and shop holiday.
And mahjong.
Yeah. On top of a towel on our suitcase on the bed. That bad.
World EXPO does look cool and stuff, but I really can't be bothered to elaborate too much ont his trip and I am very tempted to just go and sleep now. Ah well,
Got back to Changi International Airport on 19th November night.
And on 20th November was More Meetings Meticulously Made, Moo!
Supposed to buy candles from IKEA int he morning, but my dad went to get it, so he could ride his motorbike again or something. Hmm. So afternoon was LDP meeting, travelling to Saint Andrew's Autism Centre to meet Ms. Serene. I would not elaborate, but it was so boring and such a waste of time I felt like just falling to the floor and sleeping. It was about the 12th Day straight of very very busy and tiring days, with 7 days of 7-12 IBA+Choir, 1 day of rushing around from 7-2+, 5 days busy overseas, and one horrible day staring at Ms Serene's face as she stares at blank air.
Yes, her staring at blank air took up most of the meeting, as she did that for nearly a minute before she said anything. Minutes of silence, one after another. Hmm, and I missed out on so much at the meeting @ KAP I didn't understand a lot of stuff.
Went off to school after that (long long journey) for Choir EXCO meeting, cos apparently a lot of thigns happened when I was away.
Yeah. Ate dinner with prefects at Broadway. Though I will always be loyal to Wah Chee. Can never eat there too many times, even in the same day.
21st November (the next day) was more relaxed, I would say.
Met Bryan and Ivan in school, and though I thought I was late, I was earliest. Oh, and I caught Seniors lurking travelling towards the school on Seniors' Morning on the day of Seniors' Night.
Yeah, decorations, paint, wah chee, TEHPING, good stuff.
Oh, met Noel at Wah Chee too, drinking TEHPING.
Gotta love the MERCUREAN LASERBEAM PENGUINS OF TEHPING.
Yeah, Seniors' Night and stuff, eventful, eventful, yeah.
Rushing here and there, running around, seeing JonJon run around, having fun, yeah.
Though I do miss IBA D:
Hmm, still longing for a free weekday to do stuff. But the choir portion of the holidays was not to last a few nights and 1 full day. Practices and a Peformance (serenading as a workshop) Perpetually Pulled me back again.
23rd November had a busy morning, with Choir Practice which was to be left halfway for BB Meeting. Leaving me more clueless about the songs to be sung at the performances pretending to be a workshop. Yeah, took the music scores home though, and yeah.
24th November was the first free weekday of the holidays! :O :D XD (hehe ex-dee) Yippeeeeeeeeeeee!
The days were growing freeer!
For on 25th November, I had time to watch a movie. Choir Practice in morning, then lunch at Wah Chee and SSEF Meeting (SMP thingy) with NQX and QYJ. 3 of us were in school in the morning for different reasons. And yeah, full of nonsense. QYJ went back to Compserv camp, nqx and I went to watch 2012. Quite funny, once you're turned crazy and you've learnt how to laugh at everything, which was what we did. Thennnnnn
26th November was the day of the performance in workshop's clothing. Our Choir got 7th Place :O!
(out of 7 secondary school choirs)
Went out with sec 2s, Glennnnn and Song Yeong. Quite..... Amusing.
Took a "leisurely" walk from MacDonalds at Shaw Centre to Sixth Crescent. About 7-8 km. In about, dammit forgot how long,
Yeah.
I cannot remember what happened on the 27th of November, though the 28th of November was the date for the Sharity Gift Box opening ceremony. Monumental Marking of the end of the choir segment, and the beginning of BB SGB. I would go on now, but it's 2:49 am and I really need to sleep, so I'll continue tomorrow or later or whatever.
And I'm back!
So, if you've read to here, I must congratulate you. And, if you find missing letters in the parts of the post following this to form a word, tell me the word in school and you get a prize! :O And if you can't get it then I'd give you cloos if you ask. yeah.
First prize ORANGE eclipse.
Yeah, SGB duty usually commences around 8-9 in the morning, in BB Full Uniform.
And from 28th November to 1st December it was 4 days of SGB.
Ho boring and tiring, to sum it up.
Oh and I realised I already elaborated on it before, so,
After that was 2nd December, the 2nd free weekday of the holidays for me.
Slacked about and packed for Church Camp, which was from 3rd December to 6th December.
It was great, yeah. There were beds! And there was hot water! And there was Stansfield Hall of Residence! And Bartley MRT! And good stuff!
Yeah, can't really remember much to say about it though :p
Hmm yeah, the second part of the holidays doesn't have as much to elaborate on.
So, left camp earlier on the 6th December to go for lunch my mother was buying. Tim Sum. Dim Sum. Yeah, was my brother's birthday too, went to watch Ilaine's new musical, horrible mass-produced music again. Then it was time to go home, and rest. For once.
7th and 8th December was spent at home, again! :O Count 4 for free weekdays.Stayed at home relaxing, playing computer games for once, finalizing stuff for the 10th. Yeah, good days.
Then 9th December! T'was a good day. Can't remember the exacts of what I was doing, but I remember it was good stuff. Good day, yes. Good day. OH YEAH! Went to Jacks' Place for dinner :D Good steak and stuff. Nice stuff. Oh! And a cake! Yeah there was a cake bought the day before, from Swenson's :O Can't remember when I last had a cake, but yeah. Too bad it was only cut 11th night when my bro came back from camp.
Then 10th December! Met QYJ at Braddell MRT and shared a hotcakes meal at McDonald's. Then took MRT down down town to Harbourfront MRT, and met everyone else at Long John Silver's, before eventually taking the Sentosa Express!!
Whoooooo! Into the future!!
Yes, and in the future we found the beach station, and waited for the tram! XD Awesome tram, it looked super cool and purple and newish and nice and faster than we thought. The tram then went past us as it was going along Siloso Beach, and us people going to Palawan/Tanjong beach had to wait quite a while longer for the pathetic tram to crawl over. Seemed more like a few big golf buggies put together, using only the pwoer of one of them to operate the whole tram. Well, eventually we did get to tanjong beach, without the anticipated frisbee or anything. Sooooooooooooooo,
We tried to make a sandcastle as some people played cards under a huttish place,
gave up and buried Shah in the sand,
Ventured into the water,
Lay there, swam there, did all kinds of things there, too many to list, and it was like 2+ already, so fast.
So rugger brought us to Palawan to wash up before grabbing TEHPING!
TEHPING!!
TEHPINGTEHPINGTEHPING!!!!!!
Yeah.
And headed back for sooshee boofay.
Ate a lot of sushee. Ate a lot of boofay. And ate a lot of mochi ice cream. And stuff. Not cheap, but worth the money I guesss.......
Following which we went around aimlessly till it was time to watch New Moon.
Or should I say, The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Now that really was a complete waste of time, and money, and effort to go in.
Well, I guess now I can say I know my enemy better, which is always a good thing to know.
Very very very stupid, feeblish plot and it's as if the whole movie was just to introduce the existence of werewolves.
Also, all Bella knows is
I love Edward
I can't live without you
I want to kill myself now you're gone
I can't do anything without you, yet with you I don't look much happier either.
And and and and and, the climax of the movie was when Edward wanted to take off his shirt and sparkle.
Now that's some nonsenseface. Anyway Bella is more emo than Ebony Dementia Darkness Raven Way.
Yeah, then the movie ended, went to the National Geographic Store (2nd in the world!) then went home.
It was soon time for some 11th December which was pack for BB Camp Day. Leadership Development Camp 2, required for a badge. At the BB/GB Campsite at Sembawang, right next to the sea. The only problem: You don't see the sea, because they block the view up, for the view of bushes are a lot more therapeutic. Yeah.
And I was warned it would be boring, but there's no way to prepare yourself for that D:
So it was a horribly torturous 12th December to 13th December due to sheer boredom.
The following days were sure to improve, though. for from 14th December to 18th December, my week was free! Free free free free free! Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Spent the time watching The Big Band Theory, trying to read, doing all kinds of random stuff. On 17th December, the Thursday, however, I did go out with Nat! Notch yew, but Nat! Haha, geddit? Nevermind anyway he just got back from The United States of America and all.
Went to eat at Manhatten Fish Market for lunch :O :O :O 10 dollars for a very nice soup and a very very huge drink and really nice rice and a lot of fish though.
Hmm but before eating bought something very very sneaky for someone to be more sneaky. Nah, just for his birthday.
Took the Mass Rapid Transport down to Orchard Road, where we went to Kinokuniya and I bought the missing books from the Wicked series I did not have, along with 2 Jetstreams which came with a free new jetstream colour pen, which was shiny and all. Yeah, used one of my 2 $20 Kinokuniya vouchers.
Went around looking for more stuff and ended up on a bus further downtown to Suntec City, via Millenia Square where there was Candy Empire :O Which we spent 3 minutes at without buying anything.
Then, at Suntec City we walked the length of the 3rd level before walking the length of the 2nd level, then the length of the second level again, then the length of the second level again :p.
(3rd level for toys 'R' us, 1st length of 2nd level to get to mini toons, 2nd to get back to start point to buy haato, 3rd time to get to MRT.) :D
And did I mention Nat was jet-lagged and went to sleep at 5pm? Heh, evil agenda to keep him awake. By then he had no more time to sleep by 5 I think, though he was very tired :p
Then we got a tehping from the kopitiam-ish place at citylink mall! Such a waste of money, such a disgrace to tehping! :O D: At least it kept Nat awake :p
Yeah, and that's about it.
Next day on the 18th it is notable that I downloaded WoW Trial because I was extremely bored D:
The rest of the holidays would mostly be festivish holidayish familyish stuff, yeah. From 19th December to 28th December.
19th December was the day of my bro's Passing Our Parade. As in you go army, you go BMT, get out of BMT, go to vocation to learn stuff, finish learning and pass out, then it's slack all the way. Yeah, passed out, drove inside the camp and went to the bunks and random stuff like that. Soon left, went to IMM and did lotsa stuff, yeah.
Things started to get real holidayish around then.
21st December was a Monday, and we were all free. And we went to Jay Bee. We were filled with glee, if only you could see. Parking was at a low price, that was very nice. Food was of good price, we couldn't believe our eyes.
Yeah, went to AEON Tebrau City, some big shopping centre, with a JUSCO and a TESCO next door.
Went there extremely hungry due to lack of breakfast and prolonging jams at the causeway. Cheap food resulted in us ordering a lot of food, and eating it. Being overseas puts my father in a not miserish sorta mood, and coupled with everything being so cheap we usually spend not little when going to Malaysia.
Basically walked around and bought stuff, and went to TESCO and bought a lot of stuff. Since parkign is nearby and JB is close to Singapore, even cheaper supermarket items were bought, which means a lot was bought. Yes.
Once leaving that area, it was about 5 so we went to Holiday Plaza, where we used to go to. When I was in kindergarten and P1 we used to go JB a lot more often, and we revisited the place, yeah.
Ate at the Chinese restaurant in front of the carpark where we used to park, except the carpark had become a building. Yeah, Chinese restaurant was the same, memories memories whatnot. Walked around there too, a smaller shopping centre with a lot more fake and pirated goods than the rather more upmarket but still cheap Tebrau City.
Yeah, ate and shopped and stuff, good to revisit old places. My father also learnt the wonder of Google Maps and how it could show you how to get from one place to another. This led from one thing to another and now our car has a newly bought GPS (Bought yesterday, 9th January). Yeah, got home rather fast and stuff.
Didn't get to eat A&W's D:
Did go home with one new pair of burms and one new T-shirt, though.
24th December was Christmas. Yeah, typical Christmas stuff, went to aunty's house, played rock band for a while, prepared ham, didn't play mahjong this year, yeah.
But this year their house just got a newly installed karaoke system. So before Christmas at 11+ we were choosing Christmas songs to play, then when it turned midnight, the uncles went in while the rest of us came out, our cousins got Singapore Pictionary for my bro and I ! :O
Its literally pictionary with a sticker stuck on saying Singapore Edition, and an extra box of Singapore only cards. And a shiny certificate saying you own one of the 5,500 copies available in the world. Yeah, so we played that till like 1 or 2 as the uncles sang horribly inside the TV Room place thingy. Yeah.
Quote: "My friend, you are not drunk enough to sing karaoke"
"Uncle Teck Lea, your friendly neighbourhood drink pusher"
Yeah.
On 26th December night, went to a place at Hillcrest called Pepperoni's, very very good place to eat, though not cheap. Their huge pizza is so huge you wouldn't believe it, yet so thin and nice you could eat more. More taste, less filling! My nephew came back from Australia later that night, my cousin's family with 2 sons, yeah.
Soon, it was 29th December morning, early early at like 4, leaving to the airport to go overseas again! :O This time with my brother and stuff, went to Hong Kong from 29th December to 2nd January.
Ate burger king at the airport, got on the plane, United Airlines, only flight available since we booked so late.
United was okay I guess, food was crap and everyone shared the screen and the flight there was quite horrible :p Pressure very bad too, yeah.
Took the Airport Express to Hong Kong Station and checked in at the Island Pacific Hotel, not very hip but it would prove quite a nice place to be after all. On the west of Hong Kong Island.
We left and went to Yung Kee, some famous duck place, waited 45 minutes for a place, ate good food (Even century egg plain never tasted that good for some reason) We then walked to the peak tram and took it to the peak, the tram was super cool, going up at liek 45 degree angles and possibly more than that at times. Definitely cannot support standing passengers. Peak was damn damn cool, but it was so foggy we couldn't see anything. And it's very scary when everything is so slippery cos you're literally like part of the clouds kinda thing already.
Went back down, went to Causeway Bay and ate wanton mee, and shopped and stuff, went to Sogo.
Next day went to Ocean Park. We learnt to take the tram which was right in front of our hotel, and would prove to be like damn cool and convenient and useful and cool. Went to Ocean Park, which was awesome, except for the Tai Shue Wan escalator system, that was just pissing. Yeah, all kinds of rides, very naise. Though we didn't get to go on the mine train coaster D:
And Snack and Cooler was damn cool,
Yeah then went to some Factory Outlet place nearby that was in some book, turned out to be super high class and even though cheaper it wasn't great, very bad and a waste of time actually. Went to Tai Koo, Cityplaza Mall, yeah stuff.
Next day was 31st December! We went off earlier a bit to get to Mong Kok MTR area, to eat at a 1 Star Michelin Restaurant selling TimSum cheaper than like a cheap place in Singapore. The chef has like a restaurant at Four Seasons Hotel selling stylo TimSum, but he set up another store with normal more affordable TimSum for everyone. It opened at 10 and closed at 10, and we arrived there 10:15 in the morning. Took a number, we would have to wait at least 2 hours. We asked the guy when we should come back since we'd go walking elsewhere, he said in 2 hours we still wouldn't get a place. The place could only seat like 30 people at a time after all. So in the end we waited 3 hours 20 minutes to get a space, but the TimSum was chickenbacksidebananafishcake awesome! I mean, TimSum tasting like that isn't supposed to exist! Like really, woah! Worth the 3h 20min wait.
Then we went to Ladies' Street, another market place with lots of stuff to buy, really good. Went out halfway to Fa Yuen street though, like the Hong Kong Queensway, but along the street. And cheaper than Singapore, and more types that look nicer and stuff. Really awesome. Bought stuff bought stuff, found dinner at Ajisen eventually and rushed to the Avenue of Stars at about 9. Basically Hong Kong has many many islands, btu the two main ones are probably Hong Kong Island and like the part connecting to mainland China, Tsim Tsa Tsui. So there would be fireworks at the top of Hong Kong Island at the hip central area called Central, and we got like the perfect view, which we had to wait another 3 hours for. For 4.5 minutes of like boomz. But it's only like stuff coming out of buildings, not high in the sky fireworks, cos I guess they're scared of bad fog and stuff. So a beet disappointing but cool lah. Especially the tallest building, ifc 2, bursting with sparks all around and displaying 2010. Really cool.
Eventually we got back and it was the 1st. Went to a factory outlet place on Lantau Island, the Island with Disneyland on it. It's like a huge shopping centre with food republic, just that every shop is a factory outlet selling good stuff at cheap prices. Bought school shoes there and stuff.
Yeah then went to Temple Street at night cos we spent so much time at the outlet place. Yeah another market place, not as impressive as day before.
Then we took the Star Ferry from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hong Kong Island and went back,
Last day we checked in our luggage and everything in town!
Probably the most cool thing about Hong Kong aviation. Since they have the train going to the Airport from the City, the users of the train and check in everything, everything in the city, and the luggage would end up on the train to the airport. So we did that, ate TimSum at a cool nice place with ncie view but expensive since it's stylo and fully English enabled.
Went to Kowloon shopping mall Elements, did stuff. Went to the airport, ate Popeye's chicken for the first time! Also ate Ben and Jerry's ice cream on Offer. Good stuff. Got on the plane, this time better than the last. We were on like the slightly betetr economy prolly cos we checked in so early in the city, more leg room and stuff. Then I learnt how nice the radio channels were on United, yeah and got home nicely,
Arrived home, saw Joel Yap at the void deck. What a surprise.
3rd January was spent coming back and settling back and stuff, getting ready for school. I did wake up with a sore throat, which by the end of the day would include a headache.
4th January was supposed to be a day of Choir meetings and BB Admin Standby, both of which I did not go for because of sickness. The headache became bad bad bad bad. Stayed at home suffering and feeling sick and ARGHing and stuff. Everything like fever without the high temperature. Pissing. Yeah, went to school the next day. And that was the last day effectively of the holidays.
Oh yes, edit: Nearly forgot to dump in 4 music videos in a row.
In alphabetical order:
its the original vdeo
the killers at abbey road. the recorded version of the song will be avaliable on the "For Reasons Unknown" single. (You can import it from the UK.) Along with the Romeo and Juliet recording.
Music video by Bryan Adams performing Summer Of '69. (C) 1984 A&M Records
Music from movie "Grease" (1978).Olivia Newton John, John Travolta. All information about Grease on: http://www.imdb.com/title/t... . . . Paramount pict.
All captions taken from the videos themselves
Thank you everyone or anyone for making the holidays naise, T'was a good holiday.
If you actually read the whole post, please tell me, there's probably something about you to look up on.
IBA
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Shanghai
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Choir
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BB SGB
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Camps
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Holiday Festive Stuff
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Hong Kong
The holidays for me
Were really filled with Glee
And now I'm back to school
And I feel like a fool :p
As 2010's here
I really must not fear
For everyone's alright
I need to sleep, good night
Bye bye holidays, hello tiredness and busyness, here it goes dammit I'm tired
and it's 11 January now, 1:36 in the morning
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