Day 4: the most important day

Day 4 was the most important day of our whole NPC life. We were to know the overall results oof the whole camp. During the campfire, we enjoyed ourselves. But when it was time for our Camp-chief to annouce the results, everyone was in deep thought and solemn. The camp-chief started with the bronze merit. Our team prayed that we were no to get bronze, since our team got bronze 2 years ago. When he had finished announcing the bronze results, our team yelled with joy-sliver was ours. And it certainly was, when the camp-chief announced our name during the sliver merit ceremony. We were overjoyed, and we celebrated after the campfire. That night we slept peacefully, knowing that we have done our troop well.

The 2nd/3rd day of the National Patrol Camp

The 2nd day was somewhat similar to the first only that wit was the whole day compared to the first day( the competition started around 2 that day), so I shall skip it.
I will only highlight the important stuff, which were backwoodsman cooking and orienteering we did during the 3rd day. 4 of our members were to do backwoodsman cooking and the other 4 were to do orienteering. I did orienteering, so the cooking stuff I cannot explain much. During our orienteering compeition, we were somewhat satisfied with our work. And then we continued with our campsite development until it was time to sleep.

The First day of the National Patrol Camp

6 days ago was the start of a nation-wide camp, involving 49 teams from 48 different schools( if you are wondering why there are 48 schools but 49 teams, then it is because the school called Raffles Institution( RI) has sent 2 teams). Each team consists of 8 members and every team has to work hard to earn every bit of merit they can get, for there were only 6 gold winners, 10 silver winners and 15 bronze winners( the numbers are estimated ). So for our team, well, you have to wait until I have written the results on our 4th day in camp.
On the first day, it had already started raining, so it was a hard start for our team. we were drenched by the time we were prepared for competition. When it started, all teams started at a very fast pace and we were somewhat behind them by abit. The whole day, nothing but campsite development. When it was time to sleep, everyone had felt some strength in them being used up during the day. We had to rest to conserve our energy for the following day.

Today's training

Today, like any other day, is about building things. We had to built a gateway in 2 hrs, which could not ne finished. Everyone was exhausted after the training. But what we scouts did not know was that we were going to one of our scout leader's house to have lunch. When I entered his house, there was this warm welcome that i received. And there was also food prepared for us. All of us had noodles and chicken wings for lunch and there were sweets too after everyone had finished their meals. It was great, really, to be at his house. All the tiredness, all the pains, seemed to like just lessen or disapper. When it was time to go, we all thanked our leader for inviting us to his house and to see him soon. After that, I made my tiring journey home.

WCG grand finals

Our Singaporean 'Dead Or Alive Ultimate' gamer Wilson Chia has gained himself a spot at the semi finals at the Worls Cyber Games grand finals yesterday. There was quite a crowd after he showed his true ability while gaming. Another Singaporean, Royce Rahaja also made it to the semi-finals by playing Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. But others did not make it though. Halo 2 team 7th Sin lost to professionals from Britain and Australia. Mr Marcus Choy, the local champion for Fifa 2005 also lost to contenders from Brazil and Germany. But stay tune for tomorrow's match; Singapore's best in action Team Titans will play at suntec at 11am.

East Coast Park transfromed

Yay. Now East Coast Park will be upgraded to 'meet increasing future demands'. Carparks there will be upgraded and changed, there will be new gardens and facilities, and an overhead garden-bridge will be connected to the park with Marine Parade Central. Things which are also planned are a visitor centre, there will be more facilities for outdoor sports, organised weekend events, and also more food and beverage outlets will be built. A cable ski park will also be built at the former East Coast Park. All this work will be carried out in 2007 and will be completed in 2010. I hope by then, we can all go there to enjoy as a family.

From royalty to just plain commoner

The only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko has married to a commoner. She wil be a commoner and will now live the life of a middle-class housewife. Although she is no longer part of the royal family, she will have not much difficulties as she has been given 152 million yen( S$2 million) from the government and tea cups worth 50000 yen each by her mother. Princess-no-more-to-be Sayakowill marry bridegroom Yoshiko Kuroda and may them be in happiness.

A bomb that did not go off

I read about this article on the first page of "The Straits Time" and it tells me that a would be suicide bomber had confessed that she and afew people had wanted to blow themselves up. Arccording to her, her vest could not detonate, whereas her husband's vest exploded, maybe killing some people( they never say). When the bomb exploded, and she found out that her vest could not work, she ran away, along with the fleeing crowd. She was later caught and arrested. We must ask ourselves why those people want to do this. What is their motive. How long will they take to realise what they are doing is actually wrong. All this can only be answered when they have all been arrested.

A very good chioce

This lady made a good chioce, and now she is living happily. She invested her money properly by buying 2 houses worth $63,000 and $80000 selling them 10 and 6 years later. By then, the price of their house has increased to $630, 000 and $200,000 respectively. And she also has formed a dance troop and teaches dancing at a community and is living in a 3-story house.

A new day

Its 12 am now. I was asleep for4 hours, due to tiredness being out the whole day. Now I cannot sleep. But it is a new day now, so this blog will be the blog for today; I'll be too tired to even wake up, yet alone write another blog for today. The previous day I was at school the whole day, building things such as a kitchen shed, tower, etc. All those in one day only. The heat has gave me sunburn for staying in the sun for the whole day, and has reduced me to being a so-called useless person.

Yet another tiring day

Today I had to wake up early in the morning to go to school for npc training. So at 9, we met up with the rest of the group and did some workout in the gym. At around 12, we went back to school to shower, and after that, we waited until 2 pm; we were supposed to be in school for our apc grouping. It lasted till around 6, and boy were we very tired. The whole day out. Again. I will be seeing more of these days next time, the next one is tomorrow. So I hope to get a good night's rest and prepare for tomorrow's training.

First day of our orienteering lessons

Today, the whole scout troop went to Scouts hq to conduct our first orienteering lesson. At first, we thought that we were supposed to help with the packing of clothes, but then we realised that we were actually going to start on our orienteering today. So we were out for half the day; we went from hq to bishan stadium, and from there we went to bishan park. We spent 1 or 2 hours at bishan park doing our own small hike. After that, we went straight home. It was a tiring day today and I'm glad that it was over.

My trip to Scouts Headquarters

I now am back from the trip to Bishan , and boy am i tired. When I reach the place, we were told to head to the 3rd floor. When we arrived, there was a moment of shock. Here in front of us, were heaps and heaps of clothes that were piled up. And worse of all, there were only afew people there, so I did not think that we can finish all the work by today and i was right; we only manage to complete half of the job. And adding to the workload was a cold that i got from the air-conditioner. Now I have a bad cold and I cannot stop sneezing. So at around 4 plus, we decided to head back home.

The most boring day ever

I've just come back home, feeling so tired. Not That I have been doing work for the whole day, but that there was nothing for me to do. At the zoo, we were supposed to be selling picture frames to the vistors that cam to th zoo, but there were so little people that came compared to yesterday. So Uncle Keith and I had to bear th minute crowd and tried hard to sell the frames. In the end, I was too tired and made my way home at around 4 plus.

Sunday's freedom

Usually on Sundays, it feels like the last day of the weekends; who would'nt want weekends? Some people feel that Sundays are a splinter in the skin, always reminding you that you still have to pull it through the next day. But for others whose holidays have started, they may think otherwise. They can stay up late due to the fact that they do not have to go to school, and need not worry about the next day, unlike the so-called stressed ones. I somehow feel that it is not because of whether we have school or not. I think that it is our own self, that makes us feel that way. So if these thoughts were to be cancelled out by oneself, then it would not matter whether we had to feel this or that way.

The day that Dad came back

Today is the ady whereby my dad is cominb back from his trip to Australia. He has been there for 5 days and now he is finally coming back to Singapore. He will be arriving in Singapore at around 6 in the evening, according to my mom. So we are really looking forward to seeing him later in the day.

TV Review: lost

Yesterday's "Lost" was abit thrilling. It started off as the few familiar people of lost building the boat. Michael, an African American was exhausted, so he drank his bottle of water. After a few minutes, it looked as if everything was going on smoothly then suddenly, Michael had a stomach ache. In fact, he was being poisoned by Sun( I think her name is pronounced that way), the korean lady.She had no intention whatsoever of poisoning Michael" .She wanted her husband to stay since he was leaving with Michael, so she tried to make him sick so that he cannot leave.But what i like is next week's episode where the intensity of the show is just too great for us. So if you want to find out the mystery, watch next week's lost.

Book review: A survivor's guide to school

At first when I saw the cover of this book, I thought hey, this is quite childish. But when I glanced through the book, it gave very useful information about school life. It tells you what to do, and what not to do, what to say to your teachers or friends and what not to say. It's very useful for all types of students.You should try reading the book, it's worth reading.

Book review: Strength Training

I read this book on strength training and it seemed useful for people who want to train on their strength. It teaches you how to good different exercises for different parts of the body example for the legs, squats, lunges, and leg presses are to improve your leg muscles.This book book can be found from our nearby library, so it more convenient to find more of these kind of books.

The first jamboree meeting among our members

Today our jamboree members meet up together at dhoby ghaut mrt station. We headed to a nearby "Burger King" and discussed about things regarding the jamboree such as what to bring, how many gadgets we need, etc. so that lasted till around 12. When the meeting was over, Victor and I went to eat at a nearby kopitiam and after that I headed home. That's all for now, i will write again tomorrow

The first day of the holidays

Today is the first day of my holidays and I am really looking forward to it. Now since I have nothing to write yet, I will continue writing later.

It is the end of the day, and i was in in the house the whole day. Today was an uninteresting day where there was nothing special. But tomorrow there will be a jamboree meeting between my jamboree patrol members, so I'm looking forward into meeting them and getting to know them

Movie Review: The Transporter 2

Yesterday, my brothers and i had watched a movie called "The Transporter 2". The storyline was about some bad guys who wants both money and deaths of the people by asking for ransom money and spreading the virus from a boy they kicknapped to his very rich and well-known father. This disease is air-borne, so soon the number of infected people start to rise. The character of the bad guy in this movie is pretty smart. He knows that he cannot die since he had injected the antidote into his blood stream. But in the end, he was still being trashed up by the good guy. I was abit intrigued by this scence, because at the start of the movie, there was this one guy in white fighting, I think 5 or 6( I can't remember) people. During the fight, the guy in white was very agile and powerful. But at the scence whereby both he aand the good guy were battling on the plane, he seemed to be another person, not the same quick and powerful guy. And that was not because he was tired; he was still sipping champagne and there was not one drop of sweat on his face. But overall, I think that the movie is quite a good one, and would be happy to spot mistakes in movies...only joking, I would be looking forward in seeing more of this action movies.

The first National Patrol Camp Training

29 of October,2005. This the date that we started our first national patrol camp training. Around 8 o'clock we did some warming and stretching exercises. Then we began clearing up the scouts container. After that we began building our 2-storey kitchen shed until it was around 1 plus. Then we tidied up the place and was dismissed form school. It was very tiring, the training. We were in the sun for the whole day, and after training, we were sunburned. The heat from the Sun had also sapped us of our strength and stamina, so were we pretty shacked up. Luckily it was'nt the whole day, or we were going to "die". I'm glad that it is finally over, but there is still more of these coming, so I better be prepared.

The last day of school

Today's the last day of school, and boy, am I happy that it is the last day. No more school until January!!!!Woohoo!!And now another great thing...Speech day is finally over!!!after all the traing and stuff, I am now feeling very tired. Not only was it tiring, it was also boring as well. Lucky for me it's over. I had saw a very important person today in the parade. Then everything happened like any other rehersal; things went smoothly and the performance was spectacular. That is the best part, feeling good about yourself is the best thing that can happen to a person.

Tomorrow's speech day

Tomorrow is the day whereby all my hardwork is being paid off. Speech day is just 15 hours away from the time i write this blog. Time flies very quickly for me. One moment is one day, and the next moment is a few days later. But this can be a downside. During the holidays, if time flies by quickly, then we will not feel as though we had a 2 month holiday. And one more thing, i was given the choice by a sec 2 to drop my history subject for geography. I think that, hey, this will be better for me, since i will be less stressed. But if I want to expand my knowledge, then this is probably not a good choice. I would tell my parents more about this.

My subject combination results

Today's the day that i receive my results for the subject combination.I managed to be in the Pure Science class. Although this has lighten me up abit from the exam results, I feel that there is a road that leads in two directions and i have to take only one route, so i'm in deep thought now, whether to stay, or to appeal into another class, which offers me geography, which i did well. But i feel that i should listen to my parents because they know me best and know which is the best solution to a situation. So I shall continue with being in the Pure science class

Scouts: The present problem

Now, our Scout troop is very small in numbers. Compared to the other uniform groups, which has at least 30 members, our troop has only 20-30 members due to the fact that most of the sec 1s are quitting. It seems that there is no close bond between them and us, so we don't know them that much, and they don't know us that much. The cause may be because their seniors including us, are too strict with them and the sec 1s distance themselves away from us. So I hope that next year, this situation will not happen, and that i will try my best to know everybody in my troop and have a close bond with them.

The last week of school

Monday. Today is the start of the last week of school and, boy am i glad that it is the last week. Finally, the holidays are coming and I hope to enjoy myself during those coming days. Although the days are decreasing, the speech day rehersal is still very tiring. I came back exhausted and hope that i can have a good night's rest tonight. All the footdrill traing and non-stop cheering has completely sapped almost all of my strength and I'm stuggling to type this blog, so that will be all for today...

Book review : "The Wave"

The Wave is a experimental movemont that happened in the past in a high-school class. After the students in a history teacher's class watch a video about Hitler and the NAZIS, they still could not grasp the fact that the germans had followed Hitler, so then the Wave was introduced and it spreaded all around the school. But Laurie Saunders thinks that the wave is like history repeating itself, so she and her boyfriend, David Collins had tried to stop the wave from spreading. With the help from the Grapevine Staff, she publishes a report that the wave has some after effects and if they don't stop it , then it may spread like when Hitler controlled the Germans. When that did not totally convinced the Wave members, she and David talks to the leader of the Wave, Mr. Ross. Finally after some time, Mr. Ross breaks the trance that the Wave members were in, and all was well once again.

Speech Day Stress

Speech day. It is an event whereby all uniform groups participate in. Ncc, Npcc, Red cross, scouts, and girl guides. These are the groups which require alot of time to train for this coming speech day on the 28th of October. There seem to be a rehersal everyday, and at the end of the day, everyone is feeling very tired. Why do I say that? Because i myself is tired after every reheresal. There is still at least 2 more rehersals next week and i hope that the days will past by very quickly( i don't like the feeling of being tired )

Holidays

There's this one last week of school that i have to go before i start my holidays. Although the days seem to 'fly' by very fast, i cannot wait for the upcoming holidays to start. After 3/4 year's worth of studies this year, a nice long break is much awaited. However, there are times when i have to go back for scouts training during the holidays...

My birthday

I'm 14 today. It does not feel as though i have turned 14; I fel that it is just another normal day. Our family did not celebrated anything but its alright; its a weekday so you know...they're probably at work. My mom is at work, my dad has contracted conjunctivitis. But at least, my family have warmingly welcomed me a happy 14th birthday.

New COMS

So exciting...now that we have our own computer...