recap
Friday, June 29, 2007 @ 10:33:00 PM
long time since i last posted an entry. i always have the mood. it is either i will get too engrossed with my games, if not will get fed up by something after a while. finally have the time and nothing to get fed up with. brief recap of 16th-24th june.
i did not manage to trace my canvas by the end of the art camp. now, as of today, i have completed only 40% of my canvas. i am very slow, i spent too much time on the teddy bear. and at the same time, it did not really turn out nice. aiya.
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160607 first ndp training for the three of us. recap on drill cane drills, did basic drills with drill cane and shouting of commands with drill cane. my first time training with drill cane. well, not really well-done or badly done. i did not shout my loudest and emphasize on the last syllabus, which is the most important. haiz. i am afraid of going off tune for the last syllabus so i did not really dare to shout. even if i dared to, i would really go off tune. how. what to do. train more and frequently.
after lunch, i went to my sister's birthday celebration at a chalet with my cousin. we went to meet thomas then waited for my sister and her friend (i suppose) to drive us there. decorated the place a little, went to get mangoes from the tree and ate 2nd lunch. blah blah blah. i was so tired, i went to sleep. haha. bathed before going out to have dinner. a lot of my sister's friends came. blah blah blah. the so-called highlight would be my sister's ex's birthday present for her, $540 worth of chocolates and cake. i think i might have a picture of that. after the whole thing, we cleared the place of the litter and stuff. i stayed over at the chalet with the rest. we went for breakfast the next day at chong pang, home, dreamland.
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180607 art, amaths lesson, council camp. i joined the camp during their dinner time. their packed dinner is not bad, i can say. a bit dry though. the first person reported early, but their actions are not that fast either. their camp can be considered relatively very slack as compared to the previous years. no more than 10 push-ups allowed at once.
HMM. i was the bad guy. i knocked them down first. it was during debrief or buffer time. the purpose is more important than the time.
they screamed because they saw a cockroach. fine. samantha asked them to shift over to the other side, and they took their time,
to discuss about how horrifying the cockroach is and how shocked they were. seriously, i don't think it makes sense, thus the three words, knock it down. anyway i repeated the three words, not once but twice. movement slow, not alert. they must have had the wrong impression of this camp. blah blah blah. i half-killed a cockroach. there are just so many cockroaches. toilet, parade square and parade square again. oh yes,
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190607 i spent half the night at the 'balcony' at the third level. i waited for the turnout until 1.30am then dismissed at 2am. saw another cockroach AGAIN. no one had any reaction this time round. weird huh. too shack? cannot be. i discussed some things with some of the sec3s, ate maggie then went up to sleep from 315-345 when i found out i have many mosquito bites on me. what the heck. i went to one random classroom and slept on the tables. cooler (coz nearer to the fan) and softer than the cold hard floor. in the end, i only slept for 2 hours. woke up, washed up, made milo and pt. went for art. took council's lunch and had the discussion with the top 5. art again. council camp again. went to bathe and change into home clothes. blah blah blah. not to mention our anger. had powder bath and changed to bromo tee and shorts.
NIGHT TRAILi went around scaring and making fun of the councillors like every senior is doing. haha. the most important thing for night trail is,
"although you are having great fun, you must always have the juniors' safety at the top of the list"
wash-up, supper and debrief. they slept well, i guess. we had a talk with mr tay, mr tan and ms tan. i accidentally fell asleep. oops. well, mr tay kept making fun of me. feng2 jiao4 zhu3 (something like the pugilistic life in the past; the leader of the sect) and must end the talk earlier to let me have my 'beauty' sleep. i went to one random classroom and slept. this time round, i slept on the floor.
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200607 woke up, washed up, made milo. milo was not as nice as kaiwen's, youwei's and mine for 19th's supper. mine was a bit too milky. went for amaths retest. i did not really study for it. no time. after retest, went for art again. 70% by the end of june holidays. i know it is rather impossible as my painting skills is still unstable.
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210607 art.
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220607 art and sec 1 camp. it is hard for the current ncos to not feel sian when 4 sec4s ex-ncos are staying for the camp. we know how it feels, we had the experience, which is even worse. but the thing is, we hope for things to go smoothly too. we experienced more from the inspectors and the officers then what all of you. what i can say is, we tried our best not to interfere in too many things. there are many things all of you have to learn, likewise for us the same time last year. we did not have the luxury of time to do as much we wanted to do for the unit and Corps. passion is as important as your studies. please do not sacrifice your studies like me and some other of your ex-ncos.
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230607 pt was supposedly at 6, but they reported at 530, so they started earlier. the 4 of us took part in the pt, but at the back. me and jiajun tested the bread for nothing. in the end, the officers bought new bread. we were lucky we did not spend the rest of the day in the washroom, if not... after that, i changed into my half-u for 2nd ndp training. we did more of the parade sequence with the officers then shouting on our own. anyway, i did tried to shout for the last syllabus, but unsuccessful.
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240607 last day of the holidays. i did as much homework as i could. ya, unsuccessful. slept early, coz i know i will oversleep the next day. i only touched like 10% of my homework. sian.
art camp!
Friday, June 15, 2007 @ 11:10:00 PM
after the entry below, i went to pack my stuff. i went up to the bunk to wake people up. all of them were too tired. the earliest to wake was huimeng. 0540. haha. i started to see people stirring from their sleep. amanda and sheena sat up and then returned to their sleep x=
the people started to wake up and i helped to rearrange the tables and chairs back. i went to the washroom, said good morning to everyone in there, got no response then returned to the bunk. i joined two tables and slept 15 minutes on them. tired. as said by mr tan yee kan as he referred to a study in, i think japan, taking a short nap helps in increasing the efficiency and productivity. blah. and 15 minutes is the peak of the efficiency and productivity graph. blah. i ONLY felt more tired.
wah seh. today's physical training was tougher than yesterday's. so strenuous. haha. 20 counts of 8 for jumping jacks. more than half of the people stopped before completing. i almost had cramps. breakfast at northlink. i went to ask about the $7 i lost yesterday and the supervisor said she will give the $7 back to me if i go there tml. i don't care. i am going to get my $7 no matter what. haha. anyway i am going to school tml. i just go to school half an hour earlier to northlink to have breakfast and $7. YEAH. randomly, she returned me $1.80 while i was only walking past and past her table. ($1.80 a lot of coins? i have got $10 worth before x=)
the work time!
sheena, geena, ansar and i (not sure about others) kept falling asleep. time passes very fast. everytime i open my eyes, it is a different time. lol. as in for example, 0920 to 0930 that kind, not 0921 to 0922. my sub-conscious always work when i accidentally fall asleep in class. i was 'dreaming' i was doing my work and falling asleep then whenever i hear a loud sound, i will wake and continue my work. that was what happened too: i fell asleep while colouring my colour scheme. ms kwa asked what was i doing. i was listening to music and sleeping, i did not reply. she asked the class if i was sleeping. masdiyanah did a great favour by tapping once on my chair. sprang to action immediately and started colouring VIGOROUSLY. i was baffled why the class was laughing until they told me what happened. it was rather embarrassing but nvm. at least i was entertainment to the class than 100% nuisance =D
15/06
@ 4:58:00 AM
hmm. long time since i last written an entry. last entry was 29/05. WOAH. haha. i have came back from taiwan for quite many days. the updates on taiwan expedition trainings and happenings in taiwan will be posted later. i need to have time to collate everything. haha.
*currently 4.55 am of 15/06, in school, art camp.*
i shall update on art camp first. haha. first day: 13/06. we reported at 8.30, slightly later than the design students. we put our bags in 1n2 and 1t8 then went down to start on our coursework. the art room was very packed as this year's cohort of art students are many. i finally got a seat. haha. i started to draw and stuff. less than 1 hour, mr francis tan wanted to meet the 4e5n art students for the schdule for the camp. i was shocked to discover there is 1-1.5 hour of movie time for us.
we did our work as usual. i ate lunch (maggie mee) with them (lazy to list out). we went back to do our work as usual. actually, nothing much happened. i was told to do layout. my layout skills are lousy, so my work was of course rejected. i waited till the second day then i really started on my photoshop layout. first time using photoshop, using a foreign computer, iMAC. same as others, i was not used to it. there is no right-click, no internet explorer/mozilla firefox (only safari), no other things we see in windows computer (duh).
i sat for almost 6 hours, before coming up with four of my own layouts, after ms kwa showed me how a proper one should look like q= my first layout was a total+complete disaster. at around 1230 i guess, i was shown with what ms kwa has edited from her and my four layouts. the effects are great, but i am afraid i cannot bring the effects out, due to my painting skills. therefore, i must improve on it.
i am currently done with tracing the layout. my next task, if i am not wrong, should be colour scheme and tracing of CANVAS. i am so, so, so excited. i am going to pack my things now, if possible, catch a short nap. the others are waking up soon. last day of art camp. I MUST TRACE THE CANVAS BY TODAY!
yeah~
mas just told me she cannot find melissa. hmm. my conclusion from this camp is, either people are 'not used' to technology or lazy? i was wanted by many people the previous two days, but less than half of them tried to contact me via my handphone. hmm. yes, i do not answer phone calls at times, but i will try my best to find the person who is looking for me in a way or another. aiya. random topic.
ansar just said, hey pang. ok. now zahiruddin just spoke in malay, which i still do not understand. aiya. if i continue, i can spend the whole day in front of the computer. the one i am using now is apple. ansar said he loves the iMAC. so what can i do? nod in agreement huh? whatever. nap now!
