Berkelah participants dinner + Mid-autumn gathering turned out to be fun Fun FUN!!!
Was running with Zhihan in school on Thursday at 8pm. Even though it was late, the haze was pretty bad. We both wondered how the heck we managed to complete our NUS-Dover Rd-NUS route. Sheesh. Amazing, but true! Munchies had their 2nd anniversary, yet they closed early at 9.30pm. Woah. So in the end, we had to make our way to Clementi, where we had dinner (and he had his fix of stout).
It was then that I realised that Octoberfest has arrived! Wishing you were in Germany now with free-flow beer? Haha....
Next, had to endure 5 listless hours in school yesterday. But well, managed to meet up with some of my Berkelah participants like Phoebe, Lijun, Terence, Hong Quan, Tan Ching and Steph, my junior from my course!
But the day turned out to be better even thought the haze got worse.
After meeting the Berkelah paritcipants - Lijun, Hong Quan, Dennis and Terence at the Science Library, together with Weiguang, we proceeded to meet Grace at Fish n Co at The Glass House. Being the hungry us, we quickly ordered our food, and whilst waiting for them to be dished out to us, we photowhored like mad. Muhahaha...That's how the battery runs out damn fast even with 2 cameras present!
Jason and Phoebe arrived later, and after our meal, whereby Weiguang and Jason had to leave earlier, we finished up the food with some good 'ol games!
With too much money left over (due to some calculation errors o_O") we proceeded to PS to do our shopping for our lil' MAF celebration. The haze was getting worse and we could see lights lighting up the dust particles along the light pathway.
And the underground path was so dense with smoke! (Another realisation: Grace cannot reach the ceiling of the underground walkway even though she jumped o_O")
Shopping in Carrefour was fun! Searching high and low for our lanterns and candles...an almost impossible task that was finally done after our meticulous searching! Being non-smokers, we had to buy a lighter (as always) and we trooped to Marina Square, where we had more pictures, more haze inhaled, and realised that the skyline of Singapore became super blur.
A surprise find was a "Start" sign to the Lantern Lighting Route. Totally amazing! We didn't know that there was an event being held at the Esplanade. We set about lighting up our paper lanterns and gingerly held them with our ultra-long satay sticks...it was super duper fun! Walking down the Esplanade area with our lighted lanterns, enjoying the haze (O_O") and the friends around me...simply amazing! I'd think that this group of participants would bond more after the trek...can imagine the continued gatherings which might happen...
Whilst the others left (having Geo field trip the next day), Phoebe and I stayed for some drinks...and live band. I just needed to get myself into the mood of Octoberfest! Hahaz...Hoegaarden was great! But more people would definitely be better...More talk, more fun :)
I'm looking forward to more gatherings! Whee~ Happy, happy, happy!
Current Mood: 
Celebration to Octoberfest!
Current Music: Sun Yan Zi - Yu Tian
It's finally over...YES! 3 consecutive tests over! Just a take-home test which still has approx 27 hrs to go before submission. But should be okay la...Been busying myself with the books for the past 3 days, it's sure horror.
Why do we mug and study so hard? Just to get that paper? Maybe there's more to it...
Like how you stupidly study so hard for a 6 question MCQ with differential point system, and it's a clear sign that you'd either get full or none. Wow. What a way to boost one's morale. It's just plain lazy of the lecturer to want to sit down and mark 300 scripts. It's all on the wall for us to see.
Well, we are lazy by nature, aren't we? It's easier to want to do less things than to do more things and get yourself bogged down by the indocracies of having to settle the 'more' things.
Time to get some runs done. Been a while since I trained. It's gonna be bad if I just can't run during my SCSM. It's like a long way to go...
I can't believe half a semester has gone by. Some things have changed, interesting things have appeared, and I think by spending more time with my class, it seems better...Crazy moments and talk-cock sessions surely a part of our 'gatherings'. Haha.
Feeling better now, won't get depressed or down for too long anyway, since that's ME. But things will always be at the back of my mind. Maybe by not thinking of the situation, it would be better?
A nite of slacking yesterday sure pays off...even though I'm pretty pissed with myself for not knowing my stuff when I tried to do homework without revising. Sighs...
Looking forward to the Berkelah participant gathering on Friday! Woohoo! I wanna go pub! I just need to relax... ;)
But time and tide waits for no man. This, is absolutely true.
Current Mood: 
Hyper
Current Music: Dong Li Huo Che - Zhong Yu Ming Bai
I've never liked hospitals.
It just reminds me of sadness. Why?
And there I was, standing there, looking out at the very same view as I did 2 years, 3 months ago.
Why such a surreal feeling? I hate it. Pls dun let it happen again...
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed. And giving a silent prayer.
Sorry all, if I'm kinda 分心 now. I'm really sorry.
How I wish some things can turn for the better instead...
Just being strong...staying firm in despair? I hope so. Well, life is full of lessons anyway.
Current Mood: 
Oh man...back into the great outdoors sure is a wonderful (and long overdue) thing.
One word to describe the ENTIRE trip: 悴 (or cui)
Maiden trip with the 27th: Hwi Bee and Weiguang being ICs and Jason & me being the supporting cast (i.e. co-ICs). Managed to get Kian Ann along for the trek despite some last minute problems prior to departure.
Was wondering whether there would be any hiccups during the trip. My doubts became unfounded.
It was a trip full of 'stunts', from the beginning to the end, but all went well! Smooth sailing, I must say, and all thanks to WG, HB, WJ and KA for making it well done! Well, like always, there's things to learn from every trip, and this one would be:
Met up with the rest of the comm and participants at Kranji after rushing to get food and the stores from CK, who could not make it for the trip due to his vomitting. Packed my bag, had dinner, and dad zoomed me to Kranji asap. Phew~ managed to reach on time! And we realised...(after HB had arrived) that we did not have eggs, so off WJ went to Causeway Point to get the eggs (which apparently he cannot live without it on treks o_O")
Geraldine, Geok and Yings came along before we left Kranji to send us off! And I saw Ninghan! (like finally) But wells, a totally different setting to meet her, hope to talk to ya more ger!
And off we left for Malaysia...
Why many 'stunts'? Well, for one, WG lost his hp at Larkin, and the poor guy cant find it even though he checked with the bus uncle. It was pretty sad to lose your own hp, especially with all the contacts and stuff which you keep inside, not to mention the cost for replacing it. However, there's nothing we could do further other than ask the bus uncle for help. Hopefully he gets a replacement phone asap. Sighs, can't do much except try to cheer him up.
Then whilst waiting for the participants, Jason and HB were busy wrapping the eggs with newspapers.
Hwi Bee and her egg wraps
And off we went to take the bus! Only to find out that WG saw the wrong plate number and place, and we waited for a lil' while more prior to going up the bus. The small mistake allowed us to interact more with the participants!
Photo-taking!
Getting onto the bus, it was a comfy ride and soon it was lights off for us. Well, for most of us that is. I was talking to HB and Lijun (ppt) throughout the first-half of the bus ride! Was slowly drifting in and outta sleep at times whilst talking. The fact that my seat could not recline made sleeping all the more difficult.
At the rest-point, it was a much-awaited supper for me, as I ordered a pattaya whilst 5 other people looked at me eat. So paisei. The meal made me feel full and more energised...but in the end I still fell asleep whilst talking to LJ. Haiz.
Reaching Kuantan at 5am in the morning, reminds me of the previous 3 trips I've been there. Always early birds, awakened from our deep slumber (this time not) and getting off the cold bus freezing, taking our big bags and climbing the long flight of steps.
This time round, met Abu and his friends at the bus station super early, and realised that due to Ramadan many things have changed - no more prata at the usual place, timings have to change, etc. Made some planning on our side and we decided to get food from the coffeeshop nearby, then meet up with him and his taxis to go to Berkelah. The food we got, was pathetic, considering that due to Puasa, the shops close at 0530. So, it was kind of a bad start to the day -sighs-
Whilst the rest went to get food, me and KA were busy taking pictures...This particular store usually does not open for business till later in the morning, so it was a surprise to see the cups it has!
Our cuppas kopi (above) and milo (below) in cute cups!
KA and his kopi!
Me and the pipin' hot Milo!
Our breakfast o_O"
Was grouped with Amy, PK and Vincent for the taxi ride. Seeing that they're pretty sleepy, little small talk was held. And we reached the foot of Berkelah earlier than expected.
Photo-whoring resumed. Haha.
When all had arrived, we prepared our stuff, did the usual briefings, warmed up, and started the trek! All the participants were pretty much revved up for the trek by then, and we made quick progress to the first waterfall, and thereafter to the campsite.
Participants were there busily taking pictures, 自拍, absorbing the wonderful scenery unfolding in front of them as they moved ahead.
WG and I!
HB...starting off!
Terence and Grace holding on for their lives!
Lijun, Phoebe and Me!
This one's totally random. But it looks nicer HAHA.
How amazing, that a trek can bring people closer :)
3rd waterfall is as amazingly beautiful as ever, and the place in Berkelah was tranquil. Not surprising, considering that it was Puasa and a weekday to boot. Basically we had the whole place to ourselves, but we could not use our regular campsite due to flooding (which is man-made, I believe.)
Help me!
Jason and another of his 'act cute' poses
Terence resting on the log
Acting cute!
Group pics!
Okay Hong Quan is supposedly scaring them. HAHA.
The ladies taking a dip in the water near the 3rd waterfall
Another group pic! Dennis, Jason, Lijun, Me, Weiguang, Grace, Cecila
High-ing on 'act cuteness'
The confidence jump was still on! Good weather prevailed, and we had fun jumping down, going up again, and jumping down! It was made much safer with our new pill pillow which we got for the trip (and for future ones)! It was much easier for the safety IC down there.
Yummy lil' pill!
And when we were about to cook, we realised that we have not enough food! (Or at least I thought that way) So this was another "stunt" which we had, the lack of food (apparently). Luckily, the participants had too much food and we got some spagetti from them to cook our curry sauce, tomato sauce as well as to go along with the chicken bites I had brought up!
Total morale booster man.
But I was so unlukcy to have spilled food all night long - from the mushroom and hotdog pieces I've cut out, to the chicken patties which I've painstakingly tried to preserve, to the nata de coco which I spilled have a packet on the ground. Sighs. What a waste of food.
What to do with marshmallows without any satay sticks? Use spagetti sticks! o_O"
Then, we went over to the middle of the river to watch the stars. I missed the shooting star the participants saw earlier, but I was hoping to see another. So there we were, lying down in the middle of the river...till I fell asleep. The air was cooling, I was not in the water, and it was so so so nice. It's this type of condition that you can go to sleep so easily. Hahaz. And LJ said I cui-ed too easily. Oh well, I was shacked after all the Cyclohunt. I need a rest.
Returned to the tent to find WG cooking pasta (cos he's hungry already) and we went inside to play bridge. Was tired, but played for a couple of rounds before shackness took over and I dozed off to sleep.
The next day was a hurried morning. Having to catch a 2pm bus, we had to wake up early, cook our breakfast and get ready to move off by 9am. And the committee had no Milo! OMG. I was so dui cos I saw Milo at Larkin and HB told me next time she would get Milo from there instead cos it's cheaper. Darned. We should have gotten it.
So we did the usual, going down Berkelah, going to bathe, and then meet Abu and off to Kuantan we went, stopping at the row of Chinese food stalls this time round 'cos Abu said it's Puasa and A&W is closed. Well, it wasn't. And I'm slightly pissed with that.
Luckily, the saving grace was the RM3 noodles, of which I had 2! Had a serving of 叉烧面 and 烧鸭面 each. Totally awesome! Maybe next time can bring the participants there also. But I would very much liked to have gone to A&Ws...which we went in the end! *beams* Had my root beer there, the others had fries as well as waffles! Woah!
Peter and Tan Ching
New eating place!
烧鸭面
The ride back was pretty uneventful. Seats were very comfortable, and most of them were asleep on the way back, except Terence, Hong Quan, Lijun and me, 'cos we were busy playing bridge for half the journey! Destressing period, and we had fun! Oh and Tom & Jerry was showing on the TV in the bus. Fun and laughter...
After the pit stop at the petrol kiosk, the 2 guys were tired and left to meet 周公 whilst Kian Ann, Lijun, Cecila and I talked the remaining of the journey home. The others were pretty much awake immediately after the stopover, but drifted to sleep soon after. For the 4 of us, we were just crapping around and it was nice to finally let loose and crap out. Haha.
Reaching Larkin, had a short debrief and most of us went to Taman Sri Tebrau for dinner! But there was a minor scare as Pooi Khay said she lost her handphone on the bus. Luckily, Weiguang managed to find it for her, and we proceeded to meet the rest.
I can never describe the dinner
ABSOLUTELY SUPERB! (Too bad, hungry me did not take the spread we had)
Cereal prawns, Sambal kangkong, Stingrays, Sotong, Ou Lua...and to top it off we had the most expensive durians ever! (Courtesy of my 3 cute participants...I shall not name them to protect their
U'll have to ask me how much I paid to eat just a seedling. o_O"
But it was nice. Thanks guys! The dinner left me super full, and it was really great! Food is good, as always...
Cheers!
Now we know...30% more, but the circumference decreases! Hmms...
Reached home at about 1040, bade goodbye with Jason who left for home from the same bus stop which we reached. Unpacked my stuff, switched on my desktop, and went to bathe. Not in the mood to msg, just in the mood to totally sleep in. Hazy night...indeed.
Some things need not be said - they are too cliched.
Current Mood:
Exhausted, but Full and Hyper!Current Music: Jay Chou - Hong Mo Fang
15 people came together, with less than a month to consolidate themselves, get themselves attuned, and work together for a major project. And this project ended on a high note just today morning.
We've done a good jobs guys, it's time to give yourselves a pat on your shoulders, cos it's finally over! (Well, till the next event that is...)
Though it was not smooth sailing, with stunts (like NParks, rain, SMU event??) happening, we managed to deliver a great event for the participants! And for that, we should congratulate ourselves. We managed to overcome our serious shortage of manpower, got some of the 26th to do saikang despite them competing, and we had 212 participants in 53 teams! That's superb...I've never expected to have such a strong response for Cyclohunt! People from diverse places came together - NUS people, cyclists from togoparts.com and sgrunners.com, NTU and NAP students - we're letting our event known more to others!
I hope next year would be as good, if not, even better!
And to see my friends forming up teams for the event to support me, THANK YOU LOADS! I love you all guys and gals... :)
Thanks to...
Yi Si, Minghui, Joyce and Xiangyu in Team SKADI; Ryan, Lionel, Chin Khiong and Zhanwei in Team OneOrange Ver2.0; Jinyao and his Team Brotherhood; Tianqi, Wanling, Laiyee and Shuanghui in Team Tequila Weasels!
Not to forget, Edison and his friends, Daniel and his friends, Andreas (for helping out in his busy schedule!), Henghong and her team...have I missed any? :)
And suay suay all of them kenna the North route. Muhahaha. Now all complain to me.
Staying at the hut for the whole nite was fun! But listening to repeated tracks of Jay's album is seriously not good. The pub seems to be playing it the whole nite long lors. Haha.
Okailer!
CK and his 'interesting' bike
The monkey of the comm. HAHA
27th...acting cute ;)
Well done 27th!
Current Mood:
Tired
Seeing her lying on the bed, without strength, talking with some difficulty in breathing, does not help things.
She's been working hard all her life...now's the time for her to take a rest? Maybe not too long a rest, but well, a rest is still a rest. A little worried now, I am.
Rest. Now so devoid of meaning.
I enter school each day with a power failure in the grey matter of the head. I end school feeling half-satisfied, thinking what else I have to do. I rarely think. I act on impulse.
And impulses are bad. No coherent structure, no coherent thinking done. My facial expressions are...expressionless. Stoned. Yea.
Where's me?
Thanks Andy, for the ice-cream. Been some time since I had such a great ice-cream (okay, DQ's ice-cream cone counts too haha).
All the best to Ghim for his presidency ;)
I'm missing my calculator...who took it?!
Am I slowing down?
I think I am...
Lotsa things to do:
- Prepare for Cyclohunt (like neverending -_-")
- Prepare for Berkelah Trip (oh yea...4th time...)
- Revise my CN21xx mods (3 in 3 days after the hols >.<)
- More trips (I hope so *muses*)
- Shopping...
- Movies...
- Indulgence...
- Prepare for SCSM (oh gosh the thought of it now scares me -_-")
- IPPT (aim!)
- Personal time for self
- Crazy things
Just need to keep adding to the list...Looking forward to post-Cyclohunt reds.
Was slightly pissed with what happened today. Suddenly it dawned on me why it ended up like that. Maybe LG is right...It's time to learn. Let go. Let loose. Learn from mistakes. And come back get scolded (haha...added e last one in myself).
But you get the point.
Maybe, I'm just afraid of having things go wrong...
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Was running around school today with Yings doing Cyclohunt form collection. It's much more fun to do things with others than doing it alone. It's different from running. From PGP to Biz to Sci we went, and we met Hai Ping (who was gg to gym during lunch hours o_O"), Geraldine, Weiguang and Sharon (She's so funny...standing there whilst both of us were making calls out to our participants! Haha)! Roaming booth, as we call ourselves. Sure beats the normal booths set up in fixed locations awaiting for participants to sign up! Well, it didnt fell like 2 hours of our life in NUS has just passed us by, so that was a good thing...After that, met Jorin (gg for field trip...I wan!), Tze Hwee (long time no see gal!), Pei Geok (had to pass her some ai-xing-food frm her buddies), Wanling and Shuanghui (I've not met e 2 of u for a long time!) Had a great time catching up and basically zuo-boing whilst the 2 of them waited for class, and me having a briefing at 6pm for Berkelah.
Well, can't believe I spent a whole day in school -sigh- Things are not getting done. Why?
Rain keeps falling on my head this week...Helps to keep the hair growing. lols.
Don't we love rain? Rain brings us the joy of life.
Just that some joyous moments could have been in much better scenarios.
Current Mood: 
Pensive
Current Music: F.I.R. - Tian Tian Ye Ye
More Cyclohunt stuff. Yea I'm gonna go mad soon. But I'll grit it through. Seeing the magical 6-days-to-go sure helps.
Had our bike recce yesterday night, after a long shower in the afternoon. Was pretty scared that the weather would not hold, but it still managed to stop the shower and allow us to continue with the recce!
The whole comm was down, with the usual presence of late-comers etc, and we proceeded to start with the bike recce. Was with Pei Geok, Weiguang and Xiuling recceing the North route. They were kinda unsure of the north (yea I think only 3 ppl in the comm know??). So I tried to offer my pointers. In the end...sighs. I think I just ended up telling them how to go. And me bringing a bus-directory-lookalike ain't helping when you need all the smaller roads available (found in street directories of course).
And we had fun at The Prata House eating prata, and I saw Freddy, Zhenming, Wai Leong and Andrew! Okay, so it was a medicine faculty gathering.
Bike recce was fun...having the wind blowing at you whilst you speed downhill, and having to go to places which we are used to having lotsa ppl! But of course, I had gone to those places before, so it was just...another recap. :)
It was gratifying to know that Xiuling improved over the night for her cycling technique, and that we seemed more cohesive. Oh wells. And the other teams had their own share of fun too! We did, of course, like meeting Yiyang at Kovan MacDonalds (during our toilet break) at 5am in the morning! Not to forget the super big joke on PG. HAHA.
Rainy day...what a great day to rest at home and lie snugly under your blanket. How I wish I had the time to relax, to find my rhythm back, to get a little bounce in every step I make. How I wish I had a time to sort out everything in life.
Well, time is running away from me now ehs? Time always have. Or had. Whatever. My language sucks.
Could I have more time? I'm sorry. Time...please slow for me...
Sighing accelerates aging. Maybe it's true, after all...
I'll believe...believe in a better tomorrow. ^_^
Current Mood: Exhausted
Current Music: Emi Fujita
Yea. A whole night devoted to Cyclohunt.
Again.
Recceing 3 places, yet it took me almost 3 hrs to complete them. Shacked.
Tomorrow night, another recce!? OMG. I'm so-so-so gonna die.
But never mind, gonna tide through this tough period man.
It's the critical period. Nothing can go wrong. Should go wrong. Cant afford a slightest error. Play by ear if need be.
On a lighter note, LSM lab is over! But that means I've 5 hours of break on Fridays (which sucks?). And no more "Mr Sexy Chemical Engineers" in LSM Labs.
Wearing lab coats without the nitty gritty problem of having googles over your eyes, doing things freely and easily in a noisy environment full of sharing. And you laugh off the stupid things you do in the lab.
Yea, it's those lighthearted moments, so reminiscient of o-week, that I'll miss.
Fun. Joy. Laughter.
Where am I headed?