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| Back from OCIP Sarawak, and it was a great trip. At first I kinda dreaded it, thinking I wouldn't survive 6 days at a place with no reception, lotsa flies and mozzies, no hot showers, a log as pillow, etcetc.. BUT I DID AND I MISS IT :(
I'm doing a brief summary of the trip cuz it's something I want to remember. Awesome company, awesome place, awesome kids, awesome food, awesome activities!!
Day 1:
Arrived at the Kuching airport in the afternoon, traveled up the mountain/hill (idk?) to the Borneo Dayak Longhouse!! Self-introductions, met Aunty Maria and family (the hosts), toured around the vicinity, unpacking in our rooms, dinner!! And then we received the news that P1-3s weren't coming, and each level would only have 6-7 kids -.- So Xiaomin and I (supposedly teaching P3s) merged with Jin, Aldy and Nachu to teach the P6s! Wasted of a lot everyone's preparations, but it was good fun anyway, revamping our lesson plans.
Day 2:
Photoshoot in the morning with the traditional costumes, Stephen and Iyan requested to wear the girls stuff hahahahhaha funny!! Trekked up to the waterfall - tiring, muddy, rocky, lotsa mozzies, but the water was nice and cold! Too bad I couldn't go too deep in the water though :(:( Bad timing. Trekked back, showered, and met our kids who were very very shy on the first day of teaching. We also spammed them with toys and sweets heh. At night was debrief and did lesson planning for the next day!
Day 3:
Visited the pepper plantation, some guy was carrying durians down the hill and our hosts bought 2 from him for us to try!!! But the durian was crunchy....... don't ask me why. Hahhahaah it was quite funny. Picked up rubbish along the river, then teaching again!! So cute we played Pin the Donkey with them and I think they liked it! And we tricked Jin and led him elsewhere it was epic hehehe i have a video of it will post it up on FB soon. After dinner we were supposed to have our nightwalk BUT!! It rained so it was postponed and all the girls rejoiced while the boys moaned heh.
Day 4:
We had lotsa free time after breakfast so a few of us went to the pond where Jin was fishing. Anita and Weixin started fishing toooo but only Jin caught 2 fishes haha failll. Then we built our own rafts and raced across the pond!! FLORAL 5 FTW HEHE we had the best raft and won the race too ^^ There was more free time and some of us stayed in the pond to row row row haha very evil people were going around capsizing others. But fun too heh! Except I turned super black cuz of the sun :( 3rd day of teaching the P6s opened up more yayyyy! After dinner was supposed to be nightwalk again but it was cancelled AGAIN cuz we needed rest for the next day's trekking HEHEHEH (L)(L)(L)
Day 5:
2ND LAST DAY :(((((( We trekked for 4 hours, saw unbloomed Raefflesias, and visited a bat cave. We split into 2 groups for the cave so that no one will get lost. My group went in first and nicely no one had cameras so when the 2nd group went in, we went in again to take pictures and decided to sit and wait just before the exit to scare the others HAHA we were very successful. LAST DAY OF TEACHING :( Totally miss the kids now zzzz we will never meet them ever again :( Dinner was like a farewell. Each level did a short performance, and there were cultural performances for us too. After that we karaoked till 1am and stayed up allllll night. Listened to Stephen's joke/horror story, started talking about the supernormal, scary stuff. But after awhile we started talking about something else that's alot more interesting ^^ All the way till 5.30am then we went out to the pond for the sunrise but we loserly fell asleep -.-
Day 6:
Last breakfast at the longhouse, left for town, short tour around but no one paid attention to the poor guide cuz we were all dozing off in the bus, visited a museum, bought food, airporttt! Where our plane was delayed from 2.30pm to 6.15pm -.- So we had KFC for lunch and rotted the rest of the time away at Starbucks playing board games (they have board games at *$!) and retarded games and making a lot of noise whoopz. Haha Xm Nat Jin and I played ONE game of snakes & ladders for more than an hour zomg. But I guess it's meant to kill time! We finally boarded the plane at 6+ and flew backkkk.
Yay tmr we're meeting again for ice skating & dinner :) | | |
| You know, I think it's nice that every single thing in life has already been planned out for each and everyone of us. If something is meant to be, it will be. If it's not.. well then, it's not. I really still don't know what I want to do next time and I feel like I'm studying so aimlessly zzzz but I guess someday soon I will find out. Hopefully it's something I will enjoy doing.
Well I also love how we learn something new everyday. This afternoon I watched Gossip Girl and learnt that old habits die hard.
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Oh yesterday was family day we went to Marina Barrage for a walk, everyone else was having a picnic and/or flying kites. ENVY!! The sky was nice and the breeze was good. I love that place I want to go back there and fly kites so badly now.
Love this picture!!!! Love my nephew who just turned 2 ytd as well :)
And i realised i never put up this photo from my birthday:
 P.s. How cute is the bottom right picture!?!!!?
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| Have you ever wished for somebody to chance upon your secret entries, especially the ones about that somebody, but you can't actually reveal what you've written? Like... it just has to be chanced upon, as if the meaning of it will be gone if it was blatantly said out. I don't know if I'm making sense cuz I'm not exactly the best at describing my thoughts, but that's vaguely how I feel now.
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| Recently I've been using Tumblr very frequently. It's sort of my escape at the moment... from everything that's been happening. There are so much stuff that I can relate to over there and so many happy stories/pictures and all. I could be hooked on the site for hourssssss.Other than that, I've been going to school just to bum around like all the others. The post-promos timetable is awesomely slack. It's just a spam of PW, chinese (which is my breaktime), long breaks and very occasional classes. Everyone just hides in the library to watch movies/shows, play games, talk, or do PW. WHICH IS FINALLY ENDING SOON!! ^^ ..Oh yes now for the point of this post!! Last Saturday I met up with Caritas and Tammie who are my primary school classmates. Although we hardly have time to meet up nowadays, whenever we do meet it's like we've been close all the way so I guess that's pretty amazing! There was alot of catching up at Island Creamery/Burger Shack and then we went down to HC for their Halloween event. It was something different so it was quite fun heh watched 2 horror movies including Alone!!! IT'S HELL SCARY even though I was looking away from the screen 50% of the time. There was haunted house too and Subha was an awesome ghost she didn't get distracted by us saying hi to her hahahahahha it was epic though. So anyway, Tammie, being the sweetest girl I've ever known in this whole entire world (SERIOUSLY), dedicated a whole blogpost on me (25 Oct post) woweee and ____ is very lucky :) The post cheered me up so so much, love you tammie siewww   Last year:) | | |
|  My friends bought me a Care Bear today :) It's called Surprise Bear. Hahah thank you!!!  It was a very smart choice to give it to me today cuz it helped to calm our nerves before results and it might have cheered others up as well. So cuteee just look at its heart-shaped nose. Sigh, the mood in school today was pretty tense though... and then solemn. I guess I did okay in my standards? I'm very pleased with math, which I practised really hard for. The rest... haha try harder next time.You know everyone has always talked about how stressful JC is, but in Sec sch you don't really think much about it right? Now I truly understand it. It's really not easy at all. Whatever it is, hopefully moderation will do all of us good:) | | |
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