Monday, August 24
sat: spent the whole day (more/less) in church. =)
went down to study.. then at 1pm go watch the sat sound ppl do eq.. spent the rest of time in the lt (freezing) trying to do work.
was super cold there lar.
broZC wanted to do dunno-wat thingy when he came.. in the end nvr do. i think he see me studying so decided not to disturb me n let me study. i was waiting for him.. he nvr do anything so i continue studying lors..
in the end so cold i went out to warm myself up. then later go back i chatted with hannah (cos dun wanna study anymore.. xP)
then wanted to go out again (cos it was seriously superb cold.. colder than lt4 in sch! or maybe its bcos i spend like the whole day inside liao..) then when i going out broZC call me. probably cos he saw i not studyin liao. lol.
so he went thru the notes i sent to him with me.
he say i exceeded his expectations!! xD (though my sis say is bcos i keep telling him i cannot do so he lower his expectations.. xP)
God is good. last week i got broZC to sit with during service. this week, he go adult service. but He provided another companion. Janice!!! =)
dun get me wrong. i dun go to church only if i got frens there. like i mentioned the previous previous post, if i dun go will feel very uncomfortable one.. but its quite sad to "emo" during service by myself (which i had done once b4--not in service but another event)
P. Andy preached about the Horeb experience. touched on my personal challenges again..
janice very nice. she pei wo eat cup noodles. i feel bad. make her eat cup noodles with me.. so i paid for hers n refuse to let her pay.. xP
rushed down to toa payoh mrt after tat to meet sam n pat cos had to go watch some netball competition..
was late.. xP
but in the end no diff.. cos go there then find out the match was canceled or something. fan zhen no more netball match for us to watch.
so we go slack. n went arcade for a while. xP sam keep winning everything, i'm always 2nd, pat always last... dunno why. all the games we play also same result... lol.
went home too late to attempt to do anymore work.
sun: went down to observe eq again at 8am. the team was super surprised to see me. loved their reactions..! lol. shamus thought i forgot which week i serving then came on the wrong week. haha.
miranda was like "eh wat u doing here? jan told me u got a test later right?"
then i told her i only staying for half an hr then i zhao. xD
then when i had to go, passed chris my gift n ask him help pass to my mortal later in cell. then chris n shamus was like "eh where u going?" when i told them, shamus was like "eh! then why u come here for ?!?!?" LOL.
haha. he doesnt understand why i'm willing to come down early for no apparent reason just for half an hr.
went down to red cross house again (today's the test). was 10min late but heck, they havent started yet. did mock quiz and practical tests. but we finish very fast, so had a longer lunch break.
the test itself was super easy. as far as i know, i only got 1mcq wrong. (forgot wat causes stroke. wanted to put high blood pressure but put something else instead.. xP)
but still pass lar.
practical was easy. examiner very slack. cpr just say the procedures/answer his question. nvr really do the whole thing except do the two blows n 30 compressions. heard some of the other pairs got complications in the cpr. lucky mine dun have.
bandaging no prob. got eye injury. =) jae got head injury. haha. xD he do on me then keep coming off at 1st (cos [another guy say] my hair too smooth liao.. lol) my dressing no prob. =)
examiner very slack. just glance at the dressing then pass it liao. (not like out teacher, will go test whether the pressure pad will slip off, whether its bandaged the right way, etcetc)
then nvr do abdominal thrust.
like tat can go home liao.
last min was told we going my grandma house cos tmr her bday. so my whole evening gone.
n i still havent done eom. was suppose to do in the evening.. but now.. haix.
berwong is so gonna kill me tmr.
there's no way i can do by tonight.
too tired liao.
crap.
Saturday, August 22
think i made my injury worse.. the ball whacked my pinkie one week ago, and it hurt like nuts. then today, the ball whack the same pinkie again (though not so hard). but it havent healed properly yet.. now the pain is back. xP
collected a few more bruises today. xP
but netball is fun. ^^
though today was captains ball.
but its still fun. ^^
love PE. ^_^
finally finished n send broZC the notes liao. xP
tmr will be out the whole day.
study/church/stupid-pe-assessement-thingy-we-must-go-for
hopefully i'll be able to get some work done tmr.. sunday not much time, wats with SFA n the test.. ><
n i got so much work piling up.... ><
Monday, August 17
the weekends are gone so fast.. >< spent both days mostly in red cross house, standard first aid training... quite fun lar... most of the wounds i know how to treat liao. so the only thing tat interest me was the practical. abdominal thrust, bandaging/dressing, CPR. =)
abdominal thrust usually no prob. only sometimes stress then forget wat to ask. other then tat... quite ok. dun like being the causalty (we do pair work) cos dun wanna act pregnant (its weird) but if not pregnant then when she locate naval point the time very ticklish... xP
bandaging/dressing of wounds no prob... except for head wounds.... dunno is i tie too tight or too loose, the bandage always come off.. ><
CPR!!! one of the main reasons why i join red cross. cos i always wanted to learn CPR. i think its cool. last time my mom studying for her test, i kop her materials go read on CPR.. lol. my CPR no big prob. except when very stress then will forget wat to say, wat to do... but doing the thing itself no prob at all.. =) in fact, i'm the only girl who can give the breaths n compress with no prob. =) (the rest got prob either getting the chest to rise or compressing the chest enough, or both..)
oh. n today, when we were practicing again, out of the 17 ppl in the class, only 4 ppl passed (n of course i was one of them xD). n wats more, the teacher say i was the most perfect one he had seen so far.. ^^
but he bully me. cos i the most "perfect", he make me do the whole procedure (frm the top) until the checking of foreign objects in the airway then demo a kink tat the examiner might throw us. then make me repeat (frm the top) another two times. then redo everything n demo another kink. then make me redo a few more times etc.. >< did at least 4 or 5 times in one go... xP
then later we practise exam-style (cos exam 2 ppl will be doing simultaneously, so more confusing). me n fadhli were together. so we pakka do eveything together so we wont confuse each other. in the end, we were so conscious of doing everything together, we were both waiting for the other to start. lol.
ok, then fadhli made a mistake (locate landmark frm wrong side) so left me to do the rest alone. then teacher left me to do like at least 4cycles b4 he finally rmb to say "signs of life".. >< he say he "forgot" to say. i say is he purposely make me do so much (cos usually do 2cycles can stop liao. sometimes 1 cycle). of course real life we have to keep doing until ambulance come.. but still.. xP
for me is i got the energy to do (after 4 cycles i dun even start to feel tired --some gals felt tired b4 finishing 1 cycle...) but i'll feel very breathless. cos have to give 2breaths, then say
1&2&3&4&5&1&2&3&4&10&etcetcetc&3&4&30
then repeat everything.. so hardly any time to breathe properly. at least real life dun really need to keep counting out loud, so wont feel breathless.
the only thing i find very irritating about this course is tat its on the weekends. n it even takes TWO SUNDAYS!! =( so have to miss cell n my usual service. =( next week not as bad as this week, cos next week is only sunday, so can go saturday service. but this week both sat n sun got training, so cant go... =(
except God intervened. =)
cos actually was very sad, cos the course supposed to end at 6+pm. so by the time i rush down for sat service, service already end liao... but on sat, we ended early, 5.20. =D i flew down to pl. reached at 5.55pm. =) broZC say i missed only like 5min of the sermon, so not tat bad.. =) (sat at the back with broZC cos dun really know anyone frm sat service. he was surprised to see me on sat xD)
so glad i managed to make it there in time. =) if i dun go for service every week will feel very weird n very uncomfortable one.... so this one really thank God for letting me be able to go for service, n not miss the sermon either. =)
Sunday, August 9
i think my eq today was ><
broZC say it was ok.. but *shrugs* haix.
still not confident in doing eq...
wore full u today! =D cos we representing our diff institudes. sis meiping borrowed mine, cos we same pri/sec/jc.. josie very guai. came in his full u too! cos actually he dun want to wear full u de.. but he came wearing his hoodie to hide his shirt. njc the uniform not tat bad wat... lol. pam also wearing full njc u..
ryan nvr come cos he go overseas. everyone else came in their full u. =)
my cell was like the only one where everyone wore their uniform!!! sis serene also wear hers, hcjc. n she look so diff lar! really like one of us like tat.. lols. then we go tease her. "welcome, is this ur 1st time here? later we'll intro u to our adult leader sis serene. she's late today. wat is this. adult leader come so late!" LOL. bro jer look like a pilot or something. dunno wat sch tat is. but heard he specially go buy tat uniform cos he cant fit into his old one. LOL. n he happily go where his prefect badge. (showoff! lol. xP) Pda wore his army uniform. brokaf wore the sch u really make him look like a young kid. lols. oh, he also wearing prefect badge i think.. lol. 2 ppl came in nurses' uniform (cos they taking nursing course) then brokaf go find them mask to wear.. LOL.
played gel where we had to write 3truths, mix all the papers together, then let the cell guess who wrote wat. for once, everyone else one was easier than mine to guess. lol. cell was abt temptations. something i can identify in. wat chloe say is right. how much can we claim "it is written..." when countering temptations? i know i dun have much knowledge of the word to do so.
kop josie's hoodie so he cant hide in it in service. fan zhen we at the tech booth, not many ppl can see us liao.. still want to hide behind the hoodie. xP
service ran quite smoothly bah.. except certain parts where the rgb not really focus. had to tell ben to show the next point. they also not very familiar with the slides.. lights was nice. red n white stars.. xD got haoran to run the board for the front part of service (aka praise & worship) he's trying a bit more.. but still dun really dare play with all the instruments. learnt a new song, one God. cant seem to find it though. maybe its composed by us.. *shrugs*
most of the time in service today was spent praying. for ignyte. for our generation. for the nation.
after service very rush.. right after debrief, rush to go for a meeting with the leaders (abt which i cannot disclose til the info is released), then sis qy wanted to talk to my cell (core grp) cos of the cell planning, which only chloe turned up for (sry chloe). then the whole time can see broZC walking abt waiting for me and josie to finish. then sam,al,jan,miranda,n gang were waiting for me to finish too (n they were making a lot of noise.. keep trying to get my attention). then rush back to make sure everything shut down liao, then broZC gave me n josie extra debrief (cos we team leaders)
then finally done. apparently the gang help me take my stuff out. then cos i dump josie hoodie with my bag, they thought it was mine, so they bring out for me, n (according to jan n miranda) al go play with the hoodie.. lol. it was super funny when i told them the hoodie was not mine but joseph's. LOL.
went out with the gang to eat.
btw, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRANDA!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY XIUXIAN!!!
me, janice, asaph, al, sam, miranda, n drew went out to secret secret place to (sortof) celebrate miranda's bday. can tell drew is making the xtra effort to bond with his cell (sam n al) cos my gang very bonded. so very sway (in some sense) tat most of the gang end up in one cell.. so those in the cell but not in the gang will sometimes be left out..
went with jon n miranda to j8, cos they going to dunno-who's-house to celebrate etc. reached home quite tired. slept until NDP started.
jack n mom went to watch the actual thing. dad was part of the support team or something.
this yr ndp was refreshing in some ways.. yet i miss some aspects of it.. a lot of the styles were new. the grid thingy was totally cool. but miss the contigents forming NDP 09 tat kinda stuff. but was super high n patriotic. xD stood up with the ppl (proudly) to sing the national anthem (twice) n said the pledge loudly. xD sang alone all the songs i knew. then when the ppl there wave their lights, me n rach wave our red cushions.. xD love the fireworks as always.. xD
songs wise, i miss singing the old song as they were.. not the remix versions. but this yr song... what do u see.. not too bad lar. not as catchy as the old songs, but it'll grow on u the more u hear it.
tmr got tuition in the morning.. ><
then pw for most of the rest of the day... xP
Saturday, August 8
NDP celebration, went to sch at 8am. had some mini parade with the national anthem.. rmb pri sch days with the "they had no rights, they had no say, and they longed to be free one day... their happiness was not to be, until their country could be free... we pledge to keep our country free with justice and equality..." then go tell sam tat they had no rights etc etc.. (cos they're under my [tyrant] rule) then once they finally overthrow me, they have to "pledge to keep their country free" etc.. haha. lols.
didnt make it into the 100m race. but kinda glad i didnt. see the girls run.. wah.. i cmi.
was asked if i wanna join the captain ball competition, cos michelle nvr bring pe u, n they need 3 girls. in the end, michelle go change with danhui. saded. wanted to play.. xP
our class played quite well.. but we lost to the last team.. partially bcos the other team were mostly bball players, partially (i feel) cos the ppl playing were not the "best" combi for the team. kept swoopin players until we got (wat i call) the "optimum" combi. but by then too late to regain enough scores to even out.. so we lost.
oh wells. it was a good game. good job team!! wish i could have played though..
was quite high the whole morning. kept singing songs, aloud. mostly NDP songs and HSM songs.. lol. dunno why so high. usually i only this high with certain church frens (esp janice..^^)
went out to makan as more/less a whole class. superb long time since we ate together as a class liao.
went back for chem lecture. stupid sch. NDP celebration still want to give us lecture... >< sam n pat crash our lecture. joled was so bored he spam fy hp with at least 40 smses. lol. i got so bored i started drawing the pegasus symbol on the house T in front of me.. then go draw the pheonix one on ahpat's house T.. lols.
go do pw after tat.. at first we all a bit dead.. mei you xin qing qu zuo.. until something interesting happened... lol. shall not say wat happened. but after tat we all super high. then cannot really focus.. xP
do until xian.. dun feel like doing.. at 4+ i think.. jor pei wo, cos i need to hang ard until 6.30/7.. so we talked n listen to songs.. kop like all her songs.. shall slowly sift through next time.. =)
went down to pl with rach. we had IHAL post-production reunion dinner!!!! xD but was a bit apprehensive.. cos i told broZC tat i dun wanna be part of the tech training team. n he say he'll sms me once he's back in s'pore. but he nvr sms for 2days.. so knew most likely he'll talk to me then.. n i dun like talking face-to-face.. cos will sometimes forget wat i wanna say (but not as bad as last time liao.. last time i really can hardly say anything face-to-face with him).
just like i thought. he pull me aside to talk abt it. predicted some of the stuff he'll say. n i was right. in the end,he ask me if i can just give it a try. i kept silent. n he knew he cant make me reply if i dun want to no matter how hard he pressure me. so he say "if u keep silent,i'll take it as a yes" i was like "i cannot say no right?" then he say "ya". so tat means either way i'll be saying yes. lol. but i understand where he's coming from. but its just super hard for me.
went up to join the others. the dinner started liao. apparently each small grp had this hugh loaf of bread with curry inside. quite cool. jackie was super funny. he was cutting the bread to reach the curry inside. then bcos he scared he'll spill the curry or something, he cut super slow n carefully.. only to find the curry was in a plastic wrap, wrapped in paper, inside the bread. lols. waste his time n effort cutting the small hole in the bread. haha. then finally pour out the curry into the bread liao, then realise the bread was leaking. lol. then jackie go man man scoop the curry back into the bread, n jon go get a whole stack of plates (n the plates were small.. esp in comparison to the size of the bread) n wanted to transfer the whole thing onto the plates, cos they scared the pape surrounding the bread wont be able to hold the curry. lols. i was like "just quickly eat the bread lar! then no problem liao!" lols.. the guys are super funny. haha. =D
they go show the whole IHAL musical drama!!!!!! ^^ some ppl were watching it for the 1st time (cos they backstage mah) everyone was totally enjoying the whole drama. i was happily cue-ing everything again. still rmb everything perfectly! ^^ the guys were still obsessed with their "you stupid boy! guess who called this afternn! your teacher!!" LOL. alex n gideon danced their dance moves for the prom scene.. everyone was shouting "jerk!" at eugene during the break-up scene.. n we on our torch in our hp and waved it abt when rachel was singing her emo song... we were all totally into the show and absolutely enjoying ourselves. =) laughed super a lot whenever ben n jerry came out.. lols.oh! and when thiamkee stuck his hand in the bowl of punch to pick up the spider cos he couldnt find it with the ladle!! LOLOL!!!!
really miss IHAL. had so much fun then. ^^
Pda had a hard time chasing everyone out of the summit when everything was over. lols. in the end, he go off all the lights, so it was like pitch black except for the light coming thru the doors. then ppl finally start moving out. n he was like "it works! they're like moths.. moving from the darkness towards the light!" LOL. haha.
my only regret was tat uncle jeff wasnt there. even though by right he's not suppose to be involved cos its a youth production, but he really helped out a lot throughout the many rehearsals and the actual event. he always debrief us while broZC was debreifing the other departments, gave us loads of advices, did the eq, encouraged me... he was as much a part of the production as any of us. he always say he'll disappear to the back, or into his "office" rm once the event start, but he nvr did. he was always in the booth, with us. in case anything went wrong he can quickly step in. miss working with uncle jeff. can learn so much frm him.
had a great time all in all. =)
Saturday, August 1
woke up late.. was suppose to meet sam at 7.30am at pl mrt. i woke up at 7am.. xP in the end, dad fetched me all the way to east coast. wandered ard cos dunno where everyone was. so happened to spot sam sitting at one of the benches while walking back frm the beach towards macs. then sam "guided" ahpat to where we were cos she a bit xia.. so nvr see us.
jorene came with william. n pat (who finally sees him for the 1st time) got super high. she and sam keep trying to take a gd photo of them. lols.
walked (i heard 2km) to the red cross carnival place. (we were there to man booths for RCHN anniversary). sam and pat were super high n jor was the subject of their craziness. i was trying to get joseph to talk. but can only get him to say a few words.. cannot hold a conversation.lol.
once there, we fooled ard a bit until we were asked to help out in the origami booth. then the person in charge forgot how to fold watever she wanted to teach us, so we just fold watever we know. i fold crane, sam fold lotus, pat fold boat. so all we had to do was wait for the kiddos to come, then teach them how to fold, then let them compete. whoever folds correctly the fastest wins the prize.
william came over by then. but he just stand at a distance. then keep looking at jor.. lol. he's probably scared of us. xP
the kiddos were ok.. but i dun really know how to interact with kids, so ahpat is the one who mostly talks to them/teach them. one of the kids wanna learn the crane. n i'm the only one who know how to fold. n i forgot. >< lol.. dunno why.. forgot the 1st few steps then. so the kid had to go learn something else.. xP
took turns to go eat. the rest went to eat while me and pat stayed. realise it was a bit stupid.. cos their grp only sam know how to fold her lotus. other then tat they cant teach the kids anything else. lol. so had to go teach them once they came back. they took over 1.5hrs to buy n eat. (cant really blame them, kfc was crowded.)
when finally our turn to makan, me n pat buy frm kfc n go to the tables by the beach n eat. super shiok. the scenery was quite nice, got nice breeze, weather was perfect... plus nice food.. xD we eat finish then just sit there n chitchat. fan zhen earlier they also take so long.. plus the booth got like no kids lar, so they dun need our help.
sat there n talked until we heard co playing. then we ran to the big tent to watch fy. they play 2 songs then finish liao. lols. travel so far, perform so little.. we found fy later n told her william was here.. lol.
finally got jor to introduce william to us. lol. too bad fy not there with us.
decided to leave jor and william alone, so me sam n pat go sit on the bbq table near the sea n slack. slack the rest of the way. just talked random stuff n got high. at one point felt like singing the sch song. so me n pat go sing. lol.haha. xD it was one of the fun-est times in my life. plus get "free" cip hrs for slacking some more.. xD
best cip i ever did.
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