goin to cps for the first time aft so long!!! wonder how the sch has become, wat new facilities did they add to the sch, wonder if there are still some familiar faces (other than my fren vanessa) there or not:) think the last time i went back to cps new premise was when i was in sec 1? haha...which was like 8 or 9 yrs ago liao leh! O_O! haha...so so long ago liao, but im glad some of my pri sch teachers are still there! heehee...wonder if i could catch a glimpse of them tml?? :D think the induction shd be abt an hour only, cuz van told me they having meeting at 2pm :) practicum starting next week! abit scared but at the same time oso quite looking forward to having students around. cuz they always make me feel younger :P yes, younger and not older! haha...think is their spirit, their drive and cheerfulness and the sch atmosphere that always make me love sch life :) but im worried that i will be very sleepy! Zzzz...had to wake up early go sch liao....must reali pull myself up and get used to it soon! :D
meeting rongrong to shop ard vivo tml before i meet up with lia chris n josie for dinner!!!!!! wooootssss!!!! :D
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
home sweet home :)
yes and im back frm pulau ubin!!! went there on 23rd to 25th. i must say that is a life that is so peaceful and away frm the hectic singapore! minus away those mosquitoe bites, i think i reali love the life there. u dun see cars zooming by every road u cross, only the some vans driving some tourists frm one end to the other end of the island; u dun see people walking ard in fast-paced steps or rushing for their work. all u see will be people walking ard leisurely, cycling ard and enjoying every minute that they have in their everyday :) is not a long stay there and i think most ppl wouldnt choose to go pulau ubin when they can go to other countries and islands. but is always nice to spend time at an island far frm the bustling city and spend some time with the nature and slow down the steps to admire wat beauty the nature has given us :)
Day 1
met up with rongrong at changi village to have our lunch tgt before we set off for our ubin trip!:) by the time we finish our lunch and walk over to changi point ferry terminal, it was already ard 1pm? was just a 5min walk across the road to the ferry terminal and once the uncle saw that there is ard 12ppl waiting to take the boat to ubin, he will then set off immediately. and just nice there were already quite a few ppl waiting there and the two of us just nice made the number for the boat. so we set off towards ubin! heehee...it was a bit rocky initially and i sort of quite scared of it cuz i dun like the viking-ship-heart-sink feeling:P so held on to rongrong quite tightly. haha...it got better awhile and i soon begin to enjoy the ride and the scenery more than take notice of the rocking boat:) took some pictures and less than 15minutes we reached ubin! woots!! it was so near an island to spore, but it just feels different when u step on it. while we waited awahile at the information kiosk for ah huat (the driver whom we called to pick us up to celestial resort) to come and fetch us, we took the map of the celestial resort that we are goin frm the information kiosk!:) and by the way, ah huat uncle is the driver which the resort suggested that we can call him to pick us up frm the jetty to the resort. his name and phone number is provided online too and that's how i manage to call him in advance:) reached the resort in abt 5-10mins ride and we walked into the resort and saw alot of rooms. but it seems quite empty, no crowds ard but just some groups of ppl here and there. we managed to find our way to the reception area to check in, by the time it was nearly 2pm. and quite thankful was the sky slowly get dark with the gloomy clouds and not long aft we reached our room it started raining super heavily! and i swear it was reali very very very very heavy, tgt with strong winds and no doubt u will get urself at least 70% wet even with ur umbrella :P and it wasnt that bad if we do not have to leave our room but the thing was when i checked the toilet, it was leaking and quite badly. so no choice we had to walked back to the reception area and tell them we want to switch room cuz the room do not have any phone provided and i do not have the reception number to call. so rongrong and i walked back tgt using my umbrella and the strong wind just blew my umbrella (already quite old and cannot make it:P) outwards. so needless to say, we were both drenched when we reached the reception. plus there were already large puddles of water collecting at the pavement so even with a good umbrella lower part of our body will stil be wet :X the receptionist immediately gave us the key to the room next door, frm 206 to 204, and even lend us their umbrella, big and sturdy! haha...think such heavy downpours are very common to them :) so we walked back and transfer over. luckily there's one staff who came shortly aft, and we just have to return him the 206 room key and save the trouble to walk back on our own again. so it was bathing time aft tat and we slacked in the room playing monopoly deal all the way until dinner time ard 7, when we walked ard the resort and see where are some places we can explore and saw this small jetty where we camwhored abit :) then we walked to the hornbill restaurant which is inside the resort for our dinner :) it was a nice restaurant, just on the opp of rooms, separated by a river where there are fishes inside. can oso see the beach vb court frm there as well :) food served there has a variety too, both western and chinese food. we decided to try the western on the first night and the chinese food on the 2nd night. so i ordered fried chicken fillet and rongrong had chicken wraps, and top up with a fruit salad, prawn dumpling and two chicken wings!:) heehee...the food was nice! but we had to endure the mosquitoe frm attacking us and kill them before they land their mouths into our skin while we were eating our dinner:P killed 5mosquitoes each leh, wat achivement rite. was still telling rongrong i wan to kill 5mosquitoes in this whole trip and i did it over a meal-_-! it was back to our room for tv shows (all local channels available) then tidbit and monopoly deal and rongrong use his laptop to check the world cup news (but internet connection is super slow in the room though) before we rest for the night:)
Day 2
woke up at ard 8am in the morning cuz we checked with the staff the previous day wat time is breakfast served and they told us was 730 to 10. wanted to have it early oso so that we can leave for chek jawa which was on the other side of pulau ubin frm our resort. we packed wat we need into rongrong's bag (water bottle, tidbits, our valuables, insect repellant etc) and i carried the big umbrella in case the heavy rain came uninvited suddenly again. we took a map frm the reception the night before and checked with them how long does it take if we were to walked there and she told us ard 1hr. being adventurous (and rongrong dun wan to take double bike cuz he nv tried before and i was not confident to cycle on the stoney roads on my own:P) so we walked all the way to the chek jawa with the only map that we have:) but it was not too complicated cuz it was just a long road down, just keep walking and walking and walking. but before we set off we had to applied insect repellant and it is a MUST BRING thing when u come to pulau ubin for hiking trips k! haha...cuz in the midst of walking, we took some longer routes instead and ended up in this sensory trail where we seems to walk on areas which like walking into forest like that. not that secluded as a forest though, but enough to hold alot of mosquitoes!!! Zzz...both of us were being attacked a few times lor, and i even killed like 2 or 3 while there were still attacking me and enjoying my blood-_-! slapped them and i can see my own blood lor. we had to stop again there to spray insect repellant again. and luckily aft spraying it reali helps to deter those blood suckers frm attacking us! wahahaha....so we walked walked and walked, feel alot alot closer to the nature through this walk and by the time we reached chek jawa it was already 11plus liao. took a break at the information kiosk inside chek jawa and bought cold h2O drinks there to replenish, cuz my bottle was already halved even before we reached chek jawa. then sprayed more insect repellant before we continue walking into chek jawa. inside chek jawa the scenery was alot nicer than just seeing trees and green plants everywhere ard u. there's this tower where we climbed up and have a great view overlooking the big sea and could oso see spore, buildings which were so small frm the distance we saw them. took pictures there and enjoyed the breeze and that was where our only map flew down the tower and landed somewhere beyond our reach:P so nvm, rongrong's theory, "Just walk, sure can go back one." :P haha...aft which we walked on the trail (wooden platform) into the coastal broadwalk (sth like tat) where it feels exactly like walking inside sungei buloh:) could see some hermit crabs there, big spiders and other life forms which u nid to look in closely before u can spot them easily. then aft tat it links us to the big sea where the wind there is super shiok aft walking so long and me sweating profusely frm the heat:P again it was a long platform but this time round it was bounded along the sides so that u wun fall into the sea. enjoyed the sea breeze and camwhored abit before we walked to the last viewing gallery where they showed us what kind of species of crabs or other live forms we can find in chek jawa. frm there there's again another platform out into the sea, like the jetty at east coast park, where me and rongrong do jump shots there! haha...rongrong din wan to take the jump shot one, but aft much persuasion he gave in! heehee...but he jumped without giving me any count, luckily i managed to take a quick shot of him still in the air but he complained that was when he was coming down:P haha...dun care, ask him jump again he dun wan so we made do with it. haha...went for a toilet break just next to the gallery there there's a toilet and there's toilet paper! haha...actuali nth big lar, but i was quite surprised cuz i went in with the thought that i have to use my own tissue paper leh, and the cleanliness of the toilet (plus with toilet paper provided) it was thumbs up! haha...aft tat we walked back to the information kiosk there and rongrong bought another can of drink before we set foot back to our resort. it was again another long way back, but this time round we din walk the sensory trail but took the shorter routes instead. so saved alot of time and blood (in case more mosquitoes attacked us again:P) without map this time round, but it was ok cuz once we cross a pavillion, there's always a map there to check our spot. but we did walked some wrong routes and u-turned. but is ok, cuz we see some scenery which we wun see it if we din walk the wrong way :) but i must say it was reali quite tiring and my feet (the boney areas) start to ache abit aft all the walking. heehee, but with rongrong ard, managed to tahan till we finally reached the resort! haha..during our walk saw quite a few groups of students, think shd be jurong sec, they having their (npcc maybe?) camping at ubin most probably and they were carrying even larger bags and water carriers while walking. think quite tiring for them under the hot sun too. by the time we reached our resort it was already 230pm. wooots! back into the resort was heaven, cuz i immediately went over to the hornbill restaurant to buy more cold drinks to replenish while rongrong walked back to the resort to boil more water cuz we wanted to just have instant noodles (which we brought over frm spore) for lunch. but before we go bathe we decided to head down to the beach vb court! haha...yes, very tired liao but we din wan to dirty ourselves again aft we bathe so we decided to play awhile first then go back to bathe and eat our late lunch. but while playing i seriously walked super slow to pick up the ball cuz i was quite tired already and my legs are giving way :P initially my movement was very slow but slowly slowly as we play it gets better. haha...but still we din play long cuz both of us was reali very tired liao, so we went back to our room to bathe and eat! at least din waste the effort of rongrong for borrowing the beach vb frm soowen and then bringing it to ubin :D so it was bathing and eating tht noodles and munching on more tidbits (again we brought frm spore one) and monopoly deal before we take nap! haha...so tired can! just knocked off aft lying on the bed for awhile:P in the end we nap till ard 830pm before we go out to the hornbill restaurant for dinner. but wat's shocking follows. the restaurant was closed liao! still quite early for dinner rite, but yes, they were closed liao. so no choice we had to go back to our room and eat on the last packet of tidbits that we were left with and tahan through the nite without proper dinner. but luckily both of us din feel quite hungry aft the late lunch with tidbits in the afternoon :) and then it was watching soccer at 10pm! :) haha...din noe the indonesian channel will telecast soccer lor, was just nice when i tuned to that channel in the morning tat day when there's a repeat telecast of the previous night match. so we managed to watch the match of Slovakia against Italy and it was the first time watching soccer with rongrong! haha...luckily it was quite a nice match (at least for a noob like me:P) with many exciting shots frm both teams but we both thought italy could do better. ended at ard 12am and i was all ready to slp :P haha...the next game at 230am, and both of us decided to take a nap first then wake up to watch, but of cuz, i din manage to cuz rongrong saw me slping so soundly that he din wan to wake me up even though he promised he will :) haha...so he watched himself while i slept :P
Day 3
woke up at ard 718am in the morning. was quite awake by then liao, but to continue slping is still possible of cuz :P haha...off my alarm before it sounded at 730am so that rongrong can slp longer:) i washed up and wanted to take my bath when i heard the thunders and then shortly the rain followed. so in the end din bathe first cuz if we walk to the restaurant to eat will end up probably lower body drenched again. so i brushed my teeth liao, wake rongrong up and went over to eat our breakfast aft he washed up too :) same american breakfast as the previous day, but i still enjoy it cuz i just love to eat such american breakfast :D heehee...then we walked back to our room for tv shows and monopoly deal and rongrong continue to play my itouch hippo blast before each go bathe and pack our stuff to check out by 12. din reali feel like goin home though, even though i dun have to suffer any more mosquitoe bites tat often, but i would soon have to say goodbye to the quiet and tranquil atmosphere in ubin and head back to the bustling little city. we decided to have our lunch at the restaurant to make up for the dinner we missed the night before :P haha...so we order chinese food! saw quite a few tables eating fried rice so i ordered fried rice while rongrong ordered seafood mee soup, tgt with braised beancurd (cuz no sambal kangkong) and black pepper beef! slurps!!! the food was damn nice leh! can fight with spore's tze char stalls lor. shall organise some trips in future to go back to the restaurant there to eat! :D and then, it was heading back to the jetty (again called ah huat uncle to drive us back) and waited for awhile to make 12 ppl for one boat before we left the island pulau ubin..... :)))))))
a very nice trip spent there, though there may not have nice shopping centres to shop ard, but the nature that u get to experience there is something which is quite worthwhile. and i think is definitely one of the places that u can go to spend some quality time with ur love ones, spend time talking to each other, enjoying each other's company in that small little island :) at least it is for rongrong and me :)))))))))))))))))) photos on facebook! :)
is not the place u go, is not the things u do, is who u r with that matters.................... :D
Day 1
met up with rongrong at changi village to have our lunch tgt before we set off for our ubin trip!:) by the time we finish our lunch and walk over to changi point ferry terminal, it was already ard 1pm? was just a 5min walk across the road to the ferry terminal and once the uncle saw that there is ard 12ppl waiting to take the boat to ubin, he will then set off immediately. and just nice there were already quite a few ppl waiting there and the two of us just nice made the number for the boat. so we set off towards ubin! heehee...it was a bit rocky initially and i sort of quite scared of it cuz i dun like the viking-ship-heart-sink feeling:P so held on to rongrong quite tightly. haha...it got better awhile and i soon begin to enjoy the ride and the scenery more than take notice of the rocking boat:) took some pictures and less than 15minutes we reached ubin! woots!! it was so near an island to spore, but it just feels different when u step on it. while we waited awahile at the information kiosk for ah huat (the driver whom we called to pick us up to celestial resort) to come and fetch us, we took the map of the celestial resort that we are goin frm the information kiosk!:) and by the way, ah huat uncle is the driver which the resort suggested that we can call him to pick us up frm the jetty to the resort. his name and phone number is provided online too and that's how i manage to call him in advance:) reached the resort in abt 5-10mins ride and we walked into the resort and saw alot of rooms. but it seems quite empty, no crowds ard but just some groups of ppl here and there. we managed to find our way to the reception area to check in, by the time it was nearly 2pm. and quite thankful was the sky slowly get dark with the gloomy clouds and not long aft we reached our room it started raining super heavily! and i swear it was reali very very very very heavy, tgt with strong winds and no doubt u will get urself at least 70% wet even with ur umbrella :P and it wasnt that bad if we do not have to leave our room but the thing was when i checked the toilet, it was leaking and quite badly. so no choice we had to walked back to the reception area and tell them we want to switch room cuz the room do not have any phone provided and i do not have the reception number to call. so rongrong and i walked back tgt using my umbrella and the strong wind just blew my umbrella (already quite old and cannot make it:P) outwards. so needless to say, we were both drenched when we reached the reception. plus there were already large puddles of water collecting at the pavement so even with a good umbrella lower part of our body will stil be wet :X the receptionist immediately gave us the key to the room next door, frm 206 to 204, and even lend us their umbrella, big and sturdy! haha...think such heavy downpours are very common to them :) so we walked back and transfer over. luckily there's one staff who came shortly aft, and we just have to return him the 206 room key and save the trouble to walk back on our own again. so it was bathing time aft tat and we slacked in the room playing monopoly deal all the way until dinner time ard 7, when we walked ard the resort and see where are some places we can explore and saw this small jetty where we camwhored abit :) then we walked to the hornbill restaurant which is inside the resort for our dinner :) it was a nice restaurant, just on the opp of rooms, separated by a river where there are fishes inside. can oso see the beach vb court frm there as well :) food served there has a variety too, both western and chinese food. we decided to try the western on the first night and the chinese food on the 2nd night. so i ordered fried chicken fillet and rongrong had chicken wraps, and top up with a fruit salad, prawn dumpling and two chicken wings!:) heehee...the food was nice! but we had to endure the mosquitoe frm attacking us and kill them before they land their mouths into our skin while we were eating our dinner:P killed 5mosquitoes each leh, wat achivement rite. was still telling rongrong i wan to kill 5mosquitoes in this whole trip and i did it over a meal-_-! it was back to our room for tv shows (all local channels available) then tidbit and monopoly deal and rongrong use his laptop to check the world cup news (but internet connection is super slow in the room though) before we rest for the night:)
Day 2
woke up at ard 8am in the morning cuz we checked with the staff the previous day wat time is breakfast served and they told us was 730 to 10. wanted to have it early oso so that we can leave for chek jawa which was on the other side of pulau ubin frm our resort. we packed wat we need into rongrong's bag (water bottle, tidbits, our valuables, insect repellant etc) and i carried the big umbrella in case the heavy rain came uninvited suddenly again. we took a map frm the reception the night before and checked with them how long does it take if we were to walked there and she told us ard 1hr. being adventurous (and rongrong dun wan to take double bike cuz he nv tried before and i was not confident to cycle on the stoney roads on my own:P) so we walked all the way to the chek jawa with the only map that we have:) but it was not too complicated cuz it was just a long road down, just keep walking and walking and walking. but before we set off we had to applied insect repellant and it is a MUST BRING thing when u come to pulau ubin for hiking trips k! haha...cuz in the midst of walking, we took some longer routes instead and ended up in this sensory trail where we seems to walk on areas which like walking into forest like that. not that secluded as a forest though, but enough to hold alot of mosquitoes!!! Zzz...both of us were being attacked a few times lor, and i even killed like 2 or 3 while there were still attacking me and enjoying my blood-_-! slapped them and i can see my own blood lor. we had to stop again there to spray insect repellant again. and luckily aft spraying it reali helps to deter those blood suckers frm attacking us! wahahaha....so we walked walked and walked, feel alot alot closer to the nature through this walk and by the time we reached chek jawa it was already 11plus liao. took a break at the information kiosk inside chek jawa and bought cold h2O drinks there to replenish, cuz my bottle was already halved even before we reached chek jawa. then sprayed more insect repellant before we continue walking into chek jawa. inside chek jawa the scenery was alot nicer than just seeing trees and green plants everywhere ard u. there's this tower where we climbed up and have a great view overlooking the big sea and could oso see spore, buildings which were so small frm the distance we saw them. took pictures there and enjoyed the breeze and that was where our only map flew down the tower and landed somewhere beyond our reach:P so nvm, rongrong's theory, "Just walk, sure can go back one." :P haha...aft which we walked on the trail (wooden platform) into the coastal broadwalk (sth like tat) where it feels exactly like walking inside sungei buloh:) could see some hermit crabs there, big spiders and other life forms which u nid to look in closely before u can spot them easily. then aft tat it links us to the big sea where the wind there is super shiok aft walking so long and me sweating profusely frm the heat:P again it was a long platform but this time round it was bounded along the sides so that u wun fall into the sea. enjoyed the sea breeze and camwhored abit before we walked to the last viewing gallery where they showed us what kind of species of crabs or other live forms we can find in chek jawa. frm there there's again another platform out into the sea, like the jetty at east coast park, where me and rongrong do jump shots there! haha...rongrong din wan to take the jump shot one, but aft much persuasion he gave in! heehee...but he jumped without giving me any count, luckily i managed to take a quick shot of him still in the air but he complained that was when he was coming down:P haha...dun care, ask him jump again he dun wan so we made do with it. haha...went for a toilet break just next to the gallery there there's a toilet and there's toilet paper! haha...actuali nth big lar, but i was quite surprised cuz i went in with the thought that i have to use my own tissue paper leh, and the cleanliness of the toilet (plus with toilet paper provided) it was thumbs up! haha...aft tat we walked back to the information kiosk there and rongrong bought another can of drink before we set foot back to our resort. it was again another long way back, but this time round we din walk the sensory trail but took the shorter routes instead. so saved alot of time and blood (in case more mosquitoes attacked us again:P) without map this time round, but it was ok cuz once we cross a pavillion, there's always a map there to check our spot. but we did walked some wrong routes and u-turned. but is ok, cuz we see some scenery which we wun see it if we din walk the wrong way :) but i must say it was reali quite tiring and my feet (the boney areas) start to ache abit aft all the walking. heehee, but with rongrong ard, managed to tahan till we finally reached the resort! haha..during our walk saw quite a few groups of students, think shd be jurong sec, they having their (npcc maybe?) camping at ubin most probably and they were carrying even larger bags and water carriers while walking. think quite tiring for them under the hot sun too. by the time we reached our resort it was already 230pm. wooots! back into the resort was heaven, cuz i immediately went over to the hornbill restaurant to buy more cold drinks to replenish while rongrong walked back to the resort to boil more water cuz we wanted to just have instant noodles (which we brought over frm spore) for lunch. but before we go bathe we decided to head down to the beach vb court! haha...yes, very tired liao but we din wan to dirty ourselves again aft we bathe so we decided to play awhile first then go back to bathe and eat our late lunch. but while playing i seriously walked super slow to pick up the ball cuz i was quite tired already and my legs are giving way :P initially my movement was very slow but slowly slowly as we play it gets better. haha...but still we din play long cuz both of us was reali very tired liao, so we went back to our room to bathe and eat! at least din waste the effort of rongrong for borrowing the beach vb frm soowen and then bringing it to ubin :D so it was bathing and eating tht noodles and munching on more tidbits (again we brought frm spore one) and monopoly deal before we take nap! haha...so tired can! just knocked off aft lying on the bed for awhile:P in the end we nap till ard 830pm before we go out to the hornbill restaurant for dinner. but wat's shocking follows. the restaurant was closed liao! still quite early for dinner rite, but yes, they were closed liao. so no choice we had to go back to our room and eat on the last packet of tidbits that we were left with and tahan through the nite without proper dinner. but luckily both of us din feel quite hungry aft the late lunch with tidbits in the afternoon :) and then it was watching soccer at 10pm! :) haha...din noe the indonesian channel will telecast soccer lor, was just nice when i tuned to that channel in the morning tat day when there's a repeat telecast of the previous night match. so we managed to watch the match of Slovakia against Italy and it was the first time watching soccer with rongrong! haha...luckily it was quite a nice match (at least for a noob like me:P) with many exciting shots frm both teams but we both thought italy could do better. ended at ard 12am and i was all ready to slp :P haha...the next game at 230am, and both of us decided to take a nap first then wake up to watch, but of cuz, i din manage to cuz rongrong saw me slping so soundly that he din wan to wake me up even though he promised he will :) haha...so he watched himself while i slept :P
Day 3
woke up at ard 718am in the morning. was quite awake by then liao, but to continue slping is still possible of cuz :P haha...off my alarm before it sounded at 730am so that rongrong can slp longer:) i washed up and wanted to take my bath when i heard the thunders and then shortly the rain followed. so in the end din bathe first cuz if we walk to the restaurant to eat will end up probably lower body drenched again. so i brushed my teeth liao, wake rongrong up and went over to eat our breakfast aft he washed up too :) same american breakfast as the previous day, but i still enjoy it cuz i just love to eat such american breakfast :D heehee...then we walked back to our room for tv shows and monopoly deal and rongrong continue to play my itouch hippo blast before each go bathe and pack our stuff to check out by 12. din reali feel like goin home though, even though i dun have to suffer any more mosquitoe bites tat often, but i would soon have to say goodbye to the quiet and tranquil atmosphere in ubin and head back to the bustling little city. we decided to have our lunch at the restaurant to make up for the dinner we missed the night before :P haha...so we order chinese food! saw quite a few tables eating fried rice so i ordered fried rice while rongrong ordered seafood mee soup, tgt with braised beancurd (cuz no sambal kangkong) and black pepper beef! slurps!!! the food was damn nice leh! can fight with spore's tze char stalls lor. shall organise some trips in future to go back to the restaurant there to eat! :D and then, it was heading back to the jetty (again called ah huat uncle to drive us back) and waited for awhile to make 12 ppl for one boat before we left the island pulau ubin..... :)))))))
a very nice trip spent there, though there may not have nice shopping centres to shop ard, but the nature that u get to experience there is something which is quite worthwhile. and i think is definitely one of the places that u can go to spend some quality time with ur love ones, spend time talking to each other, enjoying each other's company in that small little island :) at least it is for rongrong and me :)))))))))))))))))) photos on facebook! :)
is not the place u go, is not the things u do, is who u r with that matters.................... :D
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
pulau ubin trip tml till fri! :D
yeah!!! another getaway trip this holidays - ticked! :D :D :D though not goin to very far countries or islands, im just happy enough to go on a trip with rongrong! :))) initially our plan was to go to bintan, but we decided to save up and go other places in my next vacation! :) heehee...so instead of not goin anywhere, i suggested to rongrong to go pulau ubin! haha...nv hear of ppl goin there to stay in for a few days rite? i oso nv!! haha...not until i found this resort online, and i decided to treat it as a little graduation gift from me to rongrong! :D haha...and so we are goin to set off tml! oso dunno wat we will be doin there, mayb will just walk ard the island and explore abit and oso try out some of their indoor and outdoor facilities! they got a beach vb court there, but they dun provide the vb, so we had to borrow frm my vb fren instead! and luckily enough she has 2 and left one to lend us cuz the other one was with her fren! and she is not working today so rongrong will go over to her hse area (serangoon) to get frm her :) heehee...hopefully is good weather all the way till friday!!! will update wat we do there when im back! :)
love the way u reach out to hold my hand....... :)
love the way u reach out to hold my hand....... :)
Saturday, June 19, 2010
end of DVC June 2010 :)
ok! and that is the end of my one week working at dvc! :) was a nice week spent working with the children and is nice seeing some familiar faces, children whom i was their leader previously in the camp past few vacations:) they will first look at me with the innocent look, until when i smiled at them and ask them do u still remember me??? then they will break out their smile so broadly and said yes :D hahaha...worked with the older group this week, usually i will be posted to the lower primary class, but im glad is the older children, primary 4-6, cuz most of the things they can do on their own, and like meal times i do not have to portion food for them for fear that they cant finish their share. this week think cuz the students are under going puberty, we had problem with not enough food than cant finish the food-_-! usually we will have extra food left cuz the children always cannot finish and end up sharing one portion among 2. so in the end food was barely enough, only cuz they wanted more aft each taking one portion :P so with all the experiments done and the week passed, the students have to come out with the concert item to perform on the last day. which is one of the few things i dun like to do, cuz sometimes i get so busy preparing the materials for the students for the concert :X very tiring leh...haha..plus tis time round i seriously nv reali mingle with the students much, only those few who will come and look for me and chit chat with me cuz most of the time i will sit down and rest during the meals. haha...old liao, wat to do leh :P nice week spent again! though is a tiring one week, but still, the last day saying goodbye to the children still feel abit sad too, but will still look forward to seeing them again the next camp IF im joining the dec camp :)
photos of the children from all the classes during their performance! some look reali cute!!! :)))))
(from left) Cleo (do i look like her???cuz my partner Benjamin keep saying we look alike-_-!), Annika, Joy, Tasha, Vanessa, dunno-who-cuz-another-class-one and Zann! :)
hopefully they all grow up to be successful and beautiful ladies in the years to come :)))))))))
next thing to look forward to - my pulau ubin trip with rongrong next week!!!!!!! :D
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
midst of the dvc camp :)
is either im getting older or im getting weaker but the week's activities seem to take away alot of energy from me...quite tiring to wake up every morning at 6plus, only to take a 45mins bus ride to bukit timah and walk into rgs campus for the day...plus this few days keep raining, like ytd, when we were supposed to head to the hindhede park at 9plus, in the end we had to wait till about 10plus then can travel out cuz of the rain. but still when we reached the place it was still drizzling. but the monkeys there are too friendly too be chased away by the rain :) even before the bus come to a stop at the carpark, the monkeys seem to notice us coming. then no choice, we made do with a quick bite of our morning tea near the reception area where is sheltered before we head towards the nature park in the light drizzle and finally to the hindhede park where there are some obstacle course for the students to try. children being children, seeing those stations in front of them, they ignored the wet handles, the wet sand and dash towards them and start climbing. then there's this little gal Kellie, she is very small size, height slightly above my waist only, cuz she is only 9yrs old, but cuz she was born on the 1st jan, so her parents enrolled her for primary 4 in school. the obstacle course have ropes that are quite high and the teacher got the students to walk through the course slowly one aft another. cuz Kellie cant reach most of the ropes, i carried her most of the time:) let her hang and move across the ropes. so at the end of the course, she tired i oso very tired :P luckily aft that we can walk back to the bus and head back to rgs before more mosquitoes attack me:( of cuz, there are some children in the camp who are super pampered and reali take u for granted, just hope they will change for the better as they grow older. alot more activities done in the sch this few days and more to complete for the last two days of the week. tml we are goin to marina barrage! but not to fly kite. is a guided tour to walk ard inside marina barrage, looking at the water system i think. hopefully it doesnt rain as heavy like today and flood-_-!
went back to ntu for a vb game with rongrong ytd evening and trg tml evening at chung cheng finally resume aft stopping so many weeks. hopefully tml is a good weather day cuz i think the rain/my sandals oso cause my left feet to feel sharp pain every step i walk and even when im sitting down. hopefully it gets better tml. how not to admit im old leh...zzzz... :P
dinner time.... :)
it just takes a little more effort to bring about a smile...
went back to ntu for a vb game with rongrong ytd evening and trg tml evening at chung cheng finally resume aft stopping so many weeks. hopefully tml is a good weather day cuz i think the rain/my sandals oso cause my left feet to feel sharp pain every step i walk and even when im sitting down. hopefully it gets better tml. how not to admit im old leh...zzzz... :P
dinner time.... :)
it just takes a little more effort to bring about a smile...
Sunday, June 13, 2010
work tml :)
the coming week is a week at dvc again! haha...seems like i just cant miss goin dvc during the school vacations:P this time round din register for it but still got the lobang to do it again, cuz eelin called me and say this time round the leaders who registered was abit weird, cuz many of them last min withdrew from the camp or say cannot commit to the whole week's camp. so in the end eelin had no choice but to get me to help her out. i din register this time round cuz i tot i have tuition on monday at 530, but the camp ends at 5, and have to wait with the students their parents to come, which will make me late for my tuition and rescheduling tuition to another day is very tedious so i decide to just miss doin this vacation. but in the end i told eelin abt it and she say i can leave earlier :) so yup, gonna work for this whole week! cannot accompany my rongrong in the day, but will be meeting him after my work:D this camp i always look forward to the tuesday and thursday cuz is outing day!! this time goin to dunno wat hindhede park on tue and marina barrage on thurs! not reali exciting places but dun care, just love outings! :D handling the upper primary group, dun have to worry about portioning their food during meals is definitely alot much easier :) hopefully they are not too quiet or too rowdy and let me survive the week peacefully and earn some quick bucks :)
did chores today, quite tiring cuz i was sneezing away while doing-_-! haha...but feeling better now already. goin to rest earlier tonight since i have to wake up at 630 tml, leaving hse and head to RGS by 8am. Zzzz...so long haven wake up at 6plus liao.......hopefully i survive tml :P at least for the half of the day there before i head home first then go for my tuition at jp :)
goin rest soon....goodnight :)
did chores today, quite tiring cuz i was sneezing away while doing-_-! haha...but feeling better now already. goin to rest earlier tonight since i have to wake up at 630 tml, leaving hse and head to RGS by 8am. Zzzz...so long haven wake up at 6plus liao.......hopefully i survive tml :P at least for the half of the day there before i head home first then go for my tuition at jp :)
goin rest soon....goodnight :)
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Zoo!! :)
yeah!!!!! finally get to go to the zoo after dunno how many zillons years ago leh!:))))) think the last time i went was when im in primary school? cannot reali rmb who brought me there and wat i did over there, but all i could rmb was i miss goin to the zoo!!! haha...and so rongrong and i went to the zoo ytd!!! just nice could use the world blood donar day voucher (20% discount for the admission tickets) they sent via post! :D was quite glad that the weather was ok, with the sun and abit of the drizzle in the afternoon after we had our lunch at the kfc there :) there were of cuz alot of crowd! think mainly because it was june holidays and parents took leave frm work to bring their children to the zoo to play :) plus there's a group of toddlers, think shd be frm a childcare centre was there also! esp when we went into the kfc to have our lunch, it was super crowded leh! nearly cannot find a seat and rongrong had to queue for very very long then finally get to his turn to order :P and poor rongrong with his already aching and sore legs had to tahan the wait. while waiting for rongrong to come back with the food, i saw this little boy got missing frm his mum. he came running into the kfc and keep calling out for his mum in between his tears. so in the end got one auntie very nice, asked him to sit tgt with them and wait for his mother to come and look for him. he was first spotted by the mother's fren, and immediately called to inform the mother who was looking frantically for her child. then shortly after the mother came with two zoo staff. think she was so worried that she reported her child lost. in the end they both hug so tightly together and i could feel how relief the mother was, with all the beads of perspiration on her face in exchange for her child to be found safely :) with rongrong's superb map-reading skills, we managed to comb the whole zoo ytd! :D haha...managed to see all the animals that we should see, watched all 3 performances at the 3 different amphitheatres! and seriously it was people mountain people sea whenever there's performance somewhere at the stipulated timing :) esp at the Splash, where the area for the audience to sit is so small and cramp, most of the people had to cramp themselves at the walkway there to catch a glimpse of what the performance was all about. but still, it only feels like holidays when u see crowd isnt it? :P so we saw many many different animals, the white tigers, lions, baboons, parrots, chimpanzees, monitor lizard, turtles, deers, elephants, seals, penguins, manatees, giraffes, zebras, rhinoceros, goats, polar bears and many many more!!!!!!! hahaha...think is nice to visit the zoo once in a while! get to see the cute and nice animals in a habitat, though artificial, but at least u know that they are gonna be safe staying in that place for good until old age takes them away :) after we left the zoo at ard 5plus, we took bus back to ang mo kio mrt station:) it was slping time for rongrong throughout the trip back cuz he was too tired after all the walking plus the vb session her went the night before :) and then it was dinner at jp before he sent me home and i bathed and head out again to meet the ah lians at holland village :) chat and chilled with them till ard 12plus and then it was home sweet home :)
had a wonderful day out ytd!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D
loves.................
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
prawning for the 2nd time @ Bottle Tree Park! :)
woooo!!! went to bottle tree park for the 2nd time to prawn with rongrong! :)))))) heehee...was glad the weather was good and it din rain like the previous time when we went. the only not so good thing was that we din manage to prawn alot this time round :P haha...but......in the end we counted our prawns we have 27 prawns!!!!!!!! wahahaha...dun wan to say how come we have so many prawns, just take it that we are so pro ok! haha...in the end we left the place at around 5pm cuz i had to rush for tuition at 530 :( in the end we had to take a cab down cuz i will be late if we take train instead. but the funny thing was we had to change 3cabs, finally the 3rd one den can bring us to jp. the first cab we took frm khatib mrt station the taxi uncle told us that he is goin to change shift, so cannot take us to the west side. so we alighted and hail for the next one and told the uncle that we wanted to go to jurong point. in the end the taxi uncle heard NORTHPOINT and drove us there. when we saw him turning in to NORTHPOINT, i asked the uncle, "Uncle, we want to go to JURONG POINT not NORTHPOINT." then the uncle replied, "Orh, JURONG POINT ar, i heard NORTHPOINT. i changing shift leh, so cannot drive you to jurong point, you have to alight and take another cab." -___________-! but luckily he din ask for the fare to northpoint and we had to hail for the next cab again. so finally, the 3rd cab was able to send us to JURONG POINT. haha...a very tedious journey back to jp and by the time we hop between cabs and settle for the 3rd one it was already 520. luckily i called in to the centre and told them i will be late and got the staff to tell the students to self-study while i rush down :) so it was for me 2hrs of tuition before i head home and rongrong head to hougang to meet his friends for dinner and K session :)
going to zoo tml!!!!!! wheeeeeeeee~~~~~~ :D :D :D :D
Sunday, June 6, 2010
synergy outing + kushinbo buffet with rongrong :)
been missing trainings on thursdays for a month and still counting liao lor!! haven been able to use chung cheng for trainings for the past few weeks, and no other available venues too. but luckily just this thursday melvin decided to ask us out for a dinner and bowl session cuz we reali haven been seeing each other for so long liao! so in the end we meet up at marina square to have our dinner and went to bowl after that! :) was a fun session catching up with each other and cuz it has been dunno how many yrs since i last bowl, i have difficulty not sending the bowling balls into the drain leh! haha...but i think i got slightly better aft ah ling jie teach me some of the techniques! haha...the couple is pro leh, still got their own bowling balls custom-made as well! haha...laughter and more laughter until ard 10plus before we all head home :) look forward to more ppl attending our next gathering!! :D
kushinbo buffet with rongrong! first time eating at the kushinbo in jp, there were a variety of food to choose from! :D heeheee, but all i have to do is to sit there and wait for my nice rongrong to serve me! haha...had fun eating the crabs!! though sometimes will have the zhap splash onto us when we try to open up the shell and get the meat :P hahaha...and then this rongrong had to stare at the china lady sitting next to our table cuz she din realise the zhap from her crab splash onto rongrong's leg...hahahaha...very funny when i saw his expression and when he told me wat happened :))))))))))) wanted to try to go out of the restaurant before 7pm but in the end we decided not to cuz we dun wan to rush through the good food or miss eating the desserts! :D so in the end we left the restaurant at ard 8pm then was back home to play monopoly deal which i bought for rongrong!! :) saw it during the math fair held in rv during the last day of the mathematical modelling event on fri and it was sold at a very cheap price, $4! but the difference is that the properties are places in hongkong! haha...dun think it matters alot since the playing techniques are still similar :) so play till ard 10pm before rongrong head for his mj session at his fren's hse! :)
a couple more weeks before my practicum in july!!! haha...hope these few weeks dun pass too quickly cuz i still wanna slack and enjoy my holidays! :X
wasnt feeling that fantastic this two days but ur presence and ur words give me the comfort that i need....... :)
Saturday, June 5, 2010
results out :(
hai...read my title can tell im not reali satisfied with my results liao rite...Zzz...din manage to climb back up to wat i wanted to achieve for this sem, second uppper. hai...think i reali pin too high hopes this sem, not saying i did reali badly, but it just nv satisfy my expectations...
ACE301
Teaching Reading and Writing 2 - B- (quite glad is not a C )
ACM301 The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics II - B (expected a much better grade than this seriously:( )
ACS301 Assessment Modes and Resource Management in Primary Science - B+ (the anyhow slack through mod, only busy near the end of the mod cuz of the video-making, oso can get the best out of my 3 CS modules-_-! least expected it lor )
AAM333 Modeling with Differential Equations - A (was hoping for an A+ though they have the same grade point 5, just cuz is dr soon my tutor and my first A+ was frm her, wanna get a 2nd one but cant :X )
AAM342 Modern Algebra - B+ (nth to say for this lor, i just feel that getting an A frm this tutor just seem to be impossible. super sian abt this, both lia n i dun think we shd deserve such grades lor. not when we come out of the exam hall feeling that we can do the qns, dun tell me most of them wrong??? hai....anw wun be having that tutor for next sem oso, so forget it.... )
cap of 3.97
been hoping to get As for both my core this sem so that i can help pull up abit for my pri modules, but cant get wat i wan. next sem 7 modules, only one core math module to give me chance to score an A (if possible), how to get back to upper leh...hai...deflated balloon syndrome.......Zzzz........... pop!
ACE301
Teaching Reading and Writing 2 - B- (quite glad is not a C )
ACM301 The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics II - B (expected a much better grade than this seriously:( )
ACS301 Assessment Modes and Resource Management in Primary Science - B+ (the anyhow slack through mod, only busy near the end of the mod cuz of the video-making, oso can get the best out of my 3 CS modules-_-! least expected it lor )
AAM333 Modeling with Differential Equations - A (was hoping for an A+ though they have the same grade point 5, just cuz is dr soon my tutor and my first A+ was frm her, wanna get a 2nd one but cant :X )
AAM342 Modern Algebra - B+ (nth to say for this lor, i just feel that getting an A frm this tutor just seem to be impossible. super sian abt this, both lia n i dun think we shd deserve such grades lor. not when we come out of the exam hall feeling that we can do the qns, dun tell me most of them wrong??? hai....anw wun be having that tutor for next sem oso, so forget it.... )
cap of 3.97
been hoping to get As for both my core this sem so that i can help pull up abit for my pri modules, but cant get wat i wan. next sem 7 modules, only one core math module to give me chance to score an A (if possible), how to get back to upper leh...hai...deflated balloon syndrome.......Zzzz........... pop!
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