Friday, April 30, 2010

It has been quite a long time since I last blogged. Recently, there are a lot of things happening. After the SPSU camp, I had work, homework and joining CCA for these few days. My days were so occupied that I had to miss out on 2 swimming lessons. I also have been a midnight-oil burner. Doing homeworks at night, checking out facebook and etc.

Another piece of news is that my brother had just enlisted into army. The house is pretty quiet without someone to quarrel. Oh well, at least there isn't anyone fighting over the com for the next few weeks. =x It's the middle of the night, most JC students are already asleep and preparing to fight their own battles in schools tomorrow while a polytechnic guy is here blogging away and doing nothing else. xD

I am looking forward to what CCA could offer me and also how I would be contributing as a committee member in the CCA as well as a pro-active team player in my class. Life as an assistant class rep is pretty much slack when the class rep is doing all the work. Haha ! I just occassionally join in to help out in different areas. Doing some extra stuffs and cracking some jokes to lighten up the mood. I got cooperative classmates to lighten up my mood too. =D

Guess it's kinda late, I do not feel like blogging out everything that just happened within almost 3 weeks. I guess I will fill in the details on Saturday if I do not have to go to work. ><

Nitez peeps! Take care~!

Posted At12:30 AM

Regards, Ah Jo

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

So i shall continue on the Nightwalk. =)

I stopped at the walk through of the nightwalk the other yesterday, now I shall continue. =D So Elaine and I walked through all the corners and spots predicting the spots the seniors will hide. Haha ! So it was pretty UNSCARING liao. =x We kept chatting along the way and talking about the course, our secondary school and OUR FUTURE! =X (actually about what we looking forward to in SP. haha ! Don't think too much. xD) The walk was fun with us saying "HI !" to the seniors scaring us. Haha ! We then spammed biscuit at the station. Different biscuit station I.C.s different reaction. Haha ! Some say enjoy while others say leave some for others. So it is quite cute. ^^ The nightwalk ended in 4am in the morning with everyone sleeping til 12 noon ! ( special right ? Haha ! 1st time camp can sleep until 12noon. xD)

Add on: We also played some other small games which are quite cool. =) There was this game where we deep our head into water to get the lemon in the bucket filled with water. It was cool, other than the small incident. =D Our teammates tried really hard and I had to applaud for them. It would never be fun without them. =)

 Everyone woke up and moved so slowly. Haha ! Food cheer then lunch followed. Everyone ate and we started the amzing race ! =D We went around SP completing stations and doing stunts. We completed 1st part of minesweeper game at imba speed because Kevin from my team was so lucky to walk through it without stepping on any "bombs" ! It was like Lady Luck was beside him. We followed him quickly and completed the stations, beating Balrog. BlackJack FTW! =D

We head to the next station which I don't know what is the name of the game we played. It was a game of patience. Haha ! My team was leading as the other team keep too impatient to win.  V^^V In the last game point, they decided to make the game interesting for the other team with Sudden Death. One game win all. The other team was behind us in terms of game points, so it was advantageous for them. But we won in the end. =D I even walked out slowly since my teammates super enthu and chiong out ! =x One hell experience with six people surrounding one sweet. xD

We won the game and headed off for charade using only 3minutes to answer all the questions and there was also the marble game which we completed (with some cheating =x) quickly. xD Next, it was time to face-paint and go Bugis for outside school adventure. The amazing race was fun with the stations all around the central area of Singapore. Our team caught up with the other teams and rocked through out our games with cheers and etc. I found real teamwork I never realised in secondary school camps.(There are a lot of teamwork which I realised I lack in secondary school. I wanna become a better team player than b4. )  It was a truely cool experience. Secondary school camps are funny while poly camps are WILD ! =D

What I meant by wild would be the following example. Let's try blowing condoms in the middle of Orchard road. xD Cool ? haha ! 8 hours later, we return to school for dinner and followed by the pirate game. Our teams was planning from the start till the end. It was rather cute cause we keep meeting the "bandits" and kena rob. But the fun part was one group of "bandits" (seniors) working with us with the only condition which we do a nice group cheer for them. It was quite funny. xD

The third from what I heard was everyone had headed out to Sentosa followed by Disco Night which I missed out both since I left camp for family matters. It was the best moments to watch "nice shows" ! T.T But bo bian. Haha! I came back on the 4th day morning to find everyone totally worn out. Lunch swiftly followed after washing up was done. We did group cheers, collected our T-shirts and had prize-giving. =D Cindy from my group won the best camper award. *applause* Haha! I learnt quite a lot from this camp and hopes to be a better person in character and in academic. No more EMO ! =D Looking forward to joining DMIT club and becoming a GL next year. And for the twist, Alvin, whom I mentioned in the previous post, is actually a Year 3 student. He was called a "Catalyst". The "Catalyst" will join quiet groups, pretending to be Year 1s, to make them more enthusiatic. Haha ! The strategy worked really well. =D

All good things come to an end, so does the camp. It was exciting, meeting the members of BlackJack.
Ty GL Yixuan and GL Atikah for their efforts to put the team together and the other members whom helped in making all these wonderful memories in 4D3N.

Ty Cindy, Dexter, Kevin, Darren, Luann, Travis, Rozanah, PohChong, Hanafy, Brenda, KC and Alvin! =)
I love you guys and girls! Keep in touch yeah ! =D

Posted At1:08 AM

Regards, Ah Jo

Monday, April 5, 2010

Hi all, my 4D3N camp juz ended with me leaving with a beautiful camp shirt and lots of funny memories during camp. =) DMIT camp was a fun one with nightwalk on 1st night and the pirate game on the 2nd one. It was total fun !!! =D I missed out on the 3rd night due to a family outing with my uncle, aunt and cousins. The outing with them was also quite fun though. =)

Now I shall elaborate on the camp bit by bit. =D The 1st day started out with me being late as I met up with Justin( new friend from SP, not JSS's Justin) to have lunch before we go for camp. We talked about our school lives and cool people from our school and etc. We ended up late though. =x We met up with Boon Chong( another guy from SP) then headed in for camp. =D We played concentration game again after we registered. We, then, got split into our groups. I got into a group with quite a few quiet people at first (including me)because we do not know how to start a common topic. >< The Group Leaders (GL) then tried very hard to get everyone enthu abit more. Little did we know there was a twist in our group members. ( tell you all along the way =P). The GLs kept trying since everyone is quite quiet, so I decided to open up and start chatting around. The DPA students did the same too since they are more familiar with the school and etc.

The conversation topic widens as we played icebreaker games. Alvin who was quite an active member gave quite a few suggestions when we are cracking our brains for group cheers and motto. Haha! Our camp played a lot of small games till it was night time when we started to enjoy ourselves in the air-con bunk. Ahhh~~~ ^^V We got a pleasant surprise when we were asked to leave bunk and head down to foyer when it was really dark in school. We were going for a nightwalk ! =D Then the girls in my group wanted to pair with a boy each so it is less scary but it ended up with random pairing among groups. I was paired with this cute girl by the name of Elaine. Luann who was my "partner" (our group self-paired partners xD) ended up pairing another guy instead. It was so funny that she can play violence and gruesome games but cannot tahan scary nightwalk. xD.

Now too tired. I will continue the next part tomorrow I guess. Cya peeps~! =)

Posted At11:38 PM

Regards, Ah Jo

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Today was a tiring day. I travelled with Yihao to Woodlands to go to RP to pay for his school fees After that, we had lunch at RP. The western food he recommended was good except for the soggy fries, the rest of the food on the plate was great. We then headed off to Farrer Park to go Mustafa to source for phones of good pricing. (I am looking for one and sourcing for one of the Prism series phone by Nokia for my bro too). I guess I have not been to Mustafa for too long. I almost could not recognise the place and the Handphone Department was so hard to find since the counter was in the middle of the whole Jewelllery Department. =.=  Both of us explored the place going up and down, left and right, fro and back before we found the Handphone Department. >< I started my window-shopping, checking out the prices and finding out where to buy the Prism series phone.

To no avail for the Prism series phone but the window-shopping for phones was a good one. I managed to remember a few of the prices for the phones that comes with warranty. I am considering between the Nokia N5800, LG GW250 or the CJ W008. In terms of pricing, the CJ W008 woul be the best, coming in also with Wi-fi function and Java applications. The drawback would be the 1.3mp camera and the quality of the phone since it is not a well known brand, just that most outside phone shops has it showing up at their counter.( Not referring to the big branded shops like Starhub, M1 or Singtel.) The N5800 would rule with the 30fps video recorder and also the big touchscreen, however, this phone is the most expensive among the choices, reaching up to $400++ with warranty. For the GW250, the QWERTY keypad and the touchscreen function attracts me quite abit. Well, to put into words, with both keypads and touchscreen, there will always be a "backup keypad" should one of the either function of the phone stop working in any situation. The only drawback would be that it does not have the new Wi-Fi function in it which I am looking forward to try out. =/ The pricing, however, is still what I consider affordable compared to N5800 which the price is almost half a grand. >< So hard to decide ! I guess I will leave it to next week before I decide since I am only getting my pay next week. As this week and the first few days of next week is strictly booked for camp! =D Looking forward to it ! =)

Posted At11:45 PM

Regards, Ah Jo

Monday, March 29, 2010

Today I finally completed my enrollment !!! =D Woke up early in the morning to report at SP for my new student card and also laptop with mum, my uncle and grandma, plus Weiyang who came later on to meet us! The whole process took only one and a half hour whereby at 10.30am, I am already a free man ready to head out to play. ><

I met one of the guys from Ritz Carlton. I only had a mere greeting with him though before he left Room 4 when his configuration is done. I was too "suaku" looking at my own laptop, I forgot to chat with him. =x Ended up, he left without me noticing. ><

Following the configuration of my lappy comes fun time ! Weiyang and I headed to find Meiying and Freida in the SP roadshow area so that we have more people to play POOL ! It ended up with only Weiyang and I playing pool though.But we had fun doing stunts at the pool table. xD

I went to Orchard with Weiyang after the pool game to buy his laptop bag, only to find out that we missed the sale. It ended yesterday. >,< We went around to look for bags and slippers and also laptops before we start our journey to the west. xD The heavy downpour seems to only occur at the north side, leaving the west side dry for the day. It was a fun-filled day and I will probably end my post here for today since I need to go "suaku" more at my laptop.

Cya peeps~! =)

Edit: And to add on abit more. =)

As of now, Jo is a poor man le. T^T My uncle paid for laptop at the SP roadshow today but I am still gonna pay him back the money soon. Since well, it feels weird to owe your relative money. I am using my laptop and yet my uncle is paying for it. That does not sound right in my sense. Currently, the money in my bank won't be touched until further notice I guess. As for a new handphone, I guess I will reward my self when March ends and my bday follow suits in the coming April. Life will get interesting I guess with the two upcoming camps that I signed up for. =D FUN AND FRENZ !!!

Posted At9:44 PM

Regards, Ah Jo

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Today was a huge loss. At this time, I was suppose to be at the grand ballroom working as a waiter instead of being at home blogging. The morning started out with me acting like a bear in hibernation. Dad and Mum could not get me of bed after 15 minutes of endless shaking and pulling. >< Mum, in the end, concludes that I may be sick since normally a sign of tiredness in me meant a pre-sickness symptom. She left me to sleep on and told Dad to bring me to the doctor later on since Dad is not working today. I woke up only to find myself totally late for work and Dad only to told me to wash up and have breakfast before we head to the doctor's. My mood was grumpy since missing out on a shift could meant $100++ money gone for today. =.= Jo, the poor man, just got poorer.

After breakfast, Dad and I headed to the clinic with only 10 other patients waiting, so it seems fine. However, we ended up waiting for more than 2 hours with more than 10+ patients going in before us. It turns out that the FUCKING NURSE at the counter was rearranging the order of patients going in to see the doctor. _|_ Some patients who she seems to know well and is on good terms with came in after us, only to see the doctor before us. A few other foreign workers who was there at the clinic before me was still waiting when my 2 hours wait ended and I have finish seeing the doctor and collecting the medicine. The counter had a call before we left with one nurse telling her caller (seems like their boss) to come in the afternoon since the clinic is full but was told by the SAME FUCKING NURSE to tell the boss to come right now would be fine. _|_ What a BEETCH!

The doctor's trip ended costing me $30++. =.= With this weeks' last shift on Friday, I probably would be taking a rest till for next week since I will be having camp soon.(if i go pay the camp fees. =x) The rest of the day was boring with me taking long nap and clearing my email inbox of FB's mails.

Now the current plan would be finishing enrollment on Monday and getting my laptop. Following that, I will be saving up and looking out for a new phone. I will probably buy one from my old workplace if prices in other places are not within my range. I will probably be buying a touch screen phone since I am a bad keypad user. =x I spoiled my LG phone keypad and now I would have to go Sim Lim Square to find a shop to fix my phone. The only worry I have is that my mobile may never be fixed since I heard that some phones that were fixed there had parts removed without the owner's knowledge and the phone just broke down after a few days' usage. There were cases appearing at my old workplace with foreign workers phone parts being taken out too after their visit to Sim Lim Square. If anyone had good deals to recommend me, please do so. I admit I am an idiot on such issues. ><

Now, I am considering whether to forgo CCA when I enter polytechnic and concentrate on just work and studies since there were some year 2 and 3 poly students who told me that CCA requires a lot of commitment for poly students. CCA may hinder my work and studies if not properly managed and working would be needed now since I am taking out money from my own pockets to reduce Dad and Mum's financial burdens, not saying that we are facing any difficulties. I just do not want to give my parents any pressure over my own expediture. That is all for today I guess.

Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite ! =)

Posted At10:52 PM

Regards, Ah Jo

Friday, March 19, 2010

Now, I have decided to end off the day with another post. Double postings !!! Yay~~!!! I am going to post on the wednesday outing. The peeps involved in this outing are wanyi, meiying, yiyun and weiyang. The day started off where my phone spoiled. I did not realise my phone had problems and I thought it was my sim card that had problems occurring. Then, I reached the meeting place with wanyi, meiying, and weiyang (including me. =x) being late. We met up platform and head towards Dhoby Ghaut to meet up with yiyun. We reached Dhoby Ghaut and went for lunch. Things went on smoothly except with me heating up on body temperature. My brain got tired and was hardly thinking straight. Even buying milo was a chore for me as I took the wrong cup. >< Everyone else was worried upon seeing this and asked me if I needed any help constantly. Thanks peeps ! =) (im fine now.)

So we went in for the movie, Kaiji, and had a good laugh with some heartstopping moments there too. After that, I bid farewell to the rest as I had matters at home and needs to reach home by 7pm and the long wait at the Starhub shop was boring everyone out. I told them to go ahead to Sentosa while I wait for the my turn to be served. ( I was not going to sentosa with the time constraint). So the rest left and told me to contact them if I happen to faint or anything else. I joked about though. =x My wait at the Starhub shop took over 40minutes I guess before I was served at the counter and within 10minutes, I was out of the shop with the news that my phone is SPOILED ! Sianz... Now I would need to get a new phone since my LG phone's keypad is spoiled too. == Anyone wants to get me an early birthday present ? It's coming in a month time anyway ! You can send through delivery as long as the phone reaches me, no need to go through the hassle to give in person. =x jkjk !

After the wait, I headed home in the crowded MRT with my heating body. The passengers beside me seems to feel it and stands further away, giving me more space. (That is a good news right ? =x) I reached home and took panadol before I slept. Dinner came in late with all the house chores left undone since my body was in pain and moving becomes hard work at that instance. I gathered stength to shower with warm water before heading to sofa to rest again till Dad coems home. I avoided body contacts with my family members so that they do not know that I am having a fever. (panic control here ! Not acting tough. =P ) xD I took panadol again later on and made it through the night with a almost recovered body the next day.

Now my post is too long, I will type out the rest next time if I remember or if I could be so long-winded. Good night peeps~! Sweet dreams~! =)

Posted At11:58 PM

Regards, Ah Jo