MAN... I realised I've been gone for about a month. Oh well, June holidays was just boring doing Social Studies, Biology, Chinese performance tasks. Well, I did go for a movie with Karen to watch Transformers. XD With the first scene of Megan Fox humping a motobicycle. Both of us were laughing hard at the terribly cheesy jokes (even one about swine flu) and the 'wholly' plot where Shia dies and comes back miraculously to life again and Optimus Prime becoming totally IMBA, blasting every bad guy into pieces. Kind of like the old Ultra Man movies, only with better graphics, whereby ultra man always defects that bad guy just as he is running out of energy in one shot. :P

YEAH!

I just realised I haven't posted for a long long long time. YAY, the examinations are over, but sigh... the results sure are depressing. I'm not going to do a summary of it here. *cry*

My seat mates for this entire term is Jia Min aka Victoria and Sarah Tan. Life's been pretty boring. Lessons after lessons.

Math and Mr Yang: Welcome to Mr Yang's new dictionary includes the following:

massemasics
mass
anglerhythm
stewdents
zen
sursday
together - to get

math lessons never fails to be funny with these two seat mates picking up his every error. We don't really mean it in a mean way. It just happens to spice up the lessons (: Mr Yang and his defense on "I have only spoken English for 15 years." and wow we didn't know that. We have also only spoken English for 15 years.

It was Wan Shuen's birthday recently and we sang a song. Esther decided to smash a small piece of cake for fun and oh my, what a commotion did it cause. :P

another long time has past. (:

Recent updates include the March Holidays (in name only) and Learning Jouneys and the usual rants and ravings of an RGS student.

March Holidays
Went up all the way to Port Dickson in Malaysia. The bus ride was approximately 6 hours. I was starving when we finally arrived. We had the usual praise and worship, devotion and quiet time. This time, I was the assistant group leader and I had to lead QT and be incharge of the group (9) when the sec 4s are gone which is pretty much during most of the activities.
We had night games, normal games and then team building games and night surprise, all of which were held in the hotel (:

Night Games was quite okay, other than Kezia looking and laughing really freakily. Plus Hui Qing, the courtsean was all flirtatious and Valerie and Joelle actually played along with her --" Elizabeth was just bossy. Joong was the ninja, It was something about all the oil being used up and that we being different states and countries, are to complete task in order to find the oil reserve. Had quite a bit of fun but it was REALLY CONFUSING.

Team Building Games (By the mentors and teachers) was fun. We did the tie-shoe-lace-and-walk/run-thing, and the "I am a non-risky gymer" thing where we did a human pyramid. (: We also did our fancy footdrill for the company. The second part is by the Sec 4, mostly done on the beach.

1st Game: Given a 4XL shirt and we are allowed to squeeze as many people within the shirt as possible and run/walk to the end point. Do until everyone has reached. 1st to complete this one. YAY!

2nd Game: some web-maze thing. Tie team member's hand to another's leg and than cross the maze. Bonus marks for singing a song or dancing. This one was okay. Bonus part: Dancing as a team to a random song. And we did a hat-dance. --" to the tune of (super embarassing)

Beloved, let us love one another (clap clap clap)
for love is of God
and anyone who loves is born of God
and knows God

He who loved not,
loved not God for God is love
Beloved, let us love one another
1 John 4:7-8

Game 3: Answering random knowledge questions about GB and then getting "water bombs" to throw into a circle. This one was really badly done. I mean... I don't remember anything from the GBK I did in Sec 1 at all. Bonus Item: Dance a bollywood dance. (another embarrasing moment) :P

Game 4: We played lao ying zhua xiao ji, due to certain circumstances. It was rather fun, with Claire Mok and Renci being the lao ying and Sarah Tan being the mu ji. (:

Game 5: Hula Hoop Game. Bonus mark: Hula Hoop Dance. (What's with all the random dancing!?)

Game 6: Building the tallest STANDING STRAW TOWER. This one, we managed to make one that was about 1.7m tall? (taller than me T_T)

Game 7: Caterpillar Crawl. This one totally hurt my legs and hands. Couldn't complete this one.

Game 8: Given random pictures, you are supposed to act it out, form it or what ever, to represent the picture. Second part is to do a random 1 min play using all the props given with all your members. I acted as a spoiled kid. :D

I can't remember all the other games so that's probably it

Night Surprise's introduction was really stupid. HAHA! almost everyone got duped, especially the assistant group leaders. It turned out to be less scary, but still scary because of the unknown surroundings. Imagine hotel corridors dimly lighted by alternate orange lamps. Kinda gives me the creeps. Plus the lightings in the hotel rooms were the "romantic/creepy" kind of lightings. Also orange lamps. --" AS usual, there are random ghost/corpse around. The last time, Tiddy grabbed my leg. This time, its Hui Qing. All I could do was stand there and not step on their hands. The story was crafted quite well and the make-up was rather real. Well done Sec 4s. :D

The hotel was quite fun. BREAKFAST WAS AWESOME; the rest is just normal. We had stuff like roti prata, french toast, scrambled eggs etc. The only thing that really put me off there was the amount of houseflies flying around and the people there act like its normal! HOW CAN THAT BE!? There was room service too. We called them up approximately 4 times to ask for 2 extra towels each. Room mates: Diane, Amanda Lee, Micole Soh and me (: Will post up pictures next time. The sunset, sunrise and high tide/low tide is really awesome.

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Elaine

I have not posted for a really long time. Been really busy with Drill Competition which was recently over, SLI (student leader's investiture), Founder's Day etc.

Drill competition was yesterday. Seriously, I have never taken drill so seriously before. haha... neither have I polished my boots so seriously. (: It was separated in 3 portions: Uniform inspection, FFD (Fancyfoot Drill+Silent Drill) and Impromptu Drill. I guess it turned out to be a good experience after all. Even though there were times that I felt really pissed off and tired, especially having to 'suntan' (more like bake) in the sun doing drill at the netball courts for more than 5 hours. And during drill competition someone stepped on my boots and I had to do half of the drill with my boots almost falling off :P I thank God for putting me in drill competition and letting me have such wonderful team mates.

Learning Journeys just ended last week. With Day 1: Civic Tour (or something like that) whereby we had something like a math trail along the Singapore River. It was rather fun... but the math questions were just ... ...

" Cavenagh Bridge, very important,
Singapore got 1 merlion,
We're from RAFFLES and we love harmony,
Go RAFFLES!"

This was a retarded cheer we came out with in 2 minutes and gained extra points by using all the underlined words.My group: Gillian, Elyssa, Esther and ME (: The facilitators were pretty funny. Especially the one holding his notebook with the sign: FEED ME

YOG was okay... but I thought the displays were rather cool.
Lower Pierce was really enlightening. I actually expected the usual looking at plants thing. I learnt quite a lot... about the sluice gate and dam. AND WE ACTUALLY GOT TO SEE A FLYING LEMUR. (its a exactly a lemur but a flying squirrel as lemurs are only found in madagascar)

The chinese movie appreciation was ... I didn't really enjoy it. The movie they screened was okay, but the 交流part was just off.

FOUNDER'S DAY`09 was totally AWESOME. I really enjoyed myself despite having seen the rehearsals. The very 1st founder's day in the evening. The costumes, like the old british dress, the 'house guardians' and the violin performance that totally just blew everyone away. Thanks OT for putting up such a wonderful performance. (:

SLI was on the 29th Feb if I remember correctly was the 2nd one that I have attended. Its just that this year, its different. 5 people from 105 have become class chairperson.

303 Sandra Olivia Lee
305 Gloria Pang
306 ME
307 Catherine Shin
308 Victoria Woo

Updates:
Bleach 210
Ryusei no Kizuna (finish) I almost cried at the ending. It is really a GREAT show which I will watch again
Boys Before Flowers K.ver

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Elaine

Valentines Day aka Friendship Week is here :D Had a fun fun time.

Today started with a fire drill, followed by a half hour long free block. Recieved many many chocolates and random tidbits and a bear named (KOH) from Cat Shin <3 Thanks everyone!

Yesterday was Infocomm orientation and we had pizza. Spent the time playing stupid random games. This year's juniors are so much more experienced than us, coming from Infocomm clubs in their primary school life. Melissa and Shota con played random Fuwa Sho bottle throwing.

Beauty Pop finally ended with 51 chapters. Kiri and Narumi 1 couple with 2 kids that look exactly like them. SO CUTE! I really like the series.

finished
Skipbeat 18
Beauty pop 51 chapters

starting soon:
Nadome Cantabile

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Akane

Its been a few weeks of school. Other than the school rules becoming really sucky and the long school hours, life's been pretty fun.

In Bio, Mr Evans is just hilarious and his diagrams (although not the prettiest of drawings) are clear and concise. The experiements are quite fun - looking through microscopes, soaking chinese leek and quill eggs. Studying the fascinating cell membrane.

In Lit, Dr Saeker always digresses, which I find is a common trait between Miss Picca and him. He then tries to 'skillfully bring the topic back to frankenstein'. He even came to class one day carrying a 'stapler, paper clips, blue tack and rubber bands' doing a class 'sport hair check'. "If I find anyone with hair touching your eye brows, you would have to use one of the following to clip your hair up" ~ haha! Studying Frankensteins has been really interesting. Be it in the ambitious and stupid frankenstein, the inhuman yet really quite human CREATURE or the type-of-gay-person-in-modern-society-kind-of-guy Clerval.

My Yang is our new math teacher. Its really funny when he pronounces our names wrongly (not in the bad way) and that he is from Hwa Chong yet teaching in RGS. Apparently Ms Charmaine Sia (the super math and physics genius) left for MIT to continue her studies. You wouldn't say that she is a really engaging teacher but if you listen to her lessons (the important parts) you would DEFINITELY pass your graded assignments :D

In English, Mrs Goh came across as a really agressive teacher but she's really quite nice. We had this random activity whereby she gave us random passages from more random sources. And we were guessing that one of the passages was about prostituition. T_T It was totally OFF the topic.

In Social Studies, we are now currently doing a debate about the Tudung issue which happened about a few years ago. And what a 'common space' is. Too bad Mr Chew is away on reservist. He has the most intriguing stories of all coming from his experience. Also, he showed us this you-tube video about malay culture in a song ~ hilarious. Be it buying a christmas tree to people sleeping naked in the bed etc. Social studies has never been this fun.

In Chinese, Mr Li shows us random Chinese 相声 from china.(I wonder if this is right?) The one about changing of times and identity of singers and the one on customer service calls on telephones "If you want this, please press 1. If you want this, please press 2" DAMN FUNNY!

In Chemistry, Graham's law is a total headache. >< Plus the memorising of valency charts and molecular mass.

In History, we saw Copernicus' GAY picture. I think he looks like Prince Caspian from Narnia (hairstyle) and that Tycho Brahe's nose got sliced off while fighting with a random mathematician. And looking at all the anciet thinkings are funny. Like who people used to think that planets moved in crystalised spheres in perfect circles because they are thought of as heavenly bodies.

We camwhore during lunch, free blocks and free RS blocks.

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Akane

finally, we reach CNY. Had a really normal celebration just like usual. On Sunday, visiting relatives for 团圆饭. My family stayed up until 12am in the morning talking (with my sister sleeping) inside my room. Even though it was random crap... it felt like ages before my family had like a good talking time together. :D

Visiting relatives for 红包
The usual thing, say nice 四个字的成语：恭喜发财，万事如意，出入平安，心想事成，学业进步etc. Lets just put it that receiving 红包 is an extra 'reward' for visiting them. First to the mother's side, then the father's side. Did my nails by putting random flowers on them. basically, you eat, talk, share, bond, have fun, laugh and catch up with each other. I saving all my money to buy a new camera <3

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Akane

Welcome myself back into civilisation! OMG I survived 5 days of OBS and I kinda miss it already. I don't really want to return to the world of stress even though I don't want to live without proper toileting facilities. <3marshall:super>slack day. All we did was PACK. PACK. and PACK. We had food, bags, tents, pots, spady the spade, personal stuff, ponchos etc... Then we pitched our tents somewhere up in the forest even though we had bunks right next to our store to sleep. While checking the tent, there was this disgusting scorpion climbing on the inside of our tent and a stick insect on the outside of the tent next to us. We "screamed" and LJ came to the rescue, removing the revolting blue and biege scorpion from our tent. Note: green + red light stick = place you can pee in. Food was still catered for and the toilets were heavenly.

2nd day. Morning exercise
was extremely hilarious. This was always done within 4 groups: Munshi, Bo Seng, Eng Soon and Marshall. Our greeting changed from "Good Morning!" "The morning is good" to "Good Morning" "What so good about the morning!".
We did the "Trust fall". "Marshall ready, Marshall pull" haha... it felt really fun to be committing suicide for the 1st few seconds and yet survive it without any injuries at all. Well of course as the name suggest, you need to have trust in your fellow team mates to cushion your fall. Height challenge for my group was absailing down this menancing looking cliff with a hole at the bottom. It was also drizzling on and off... so irritating. We ate lunch, donated blood to the mosquitos, went insect hunting for bio journal and crashed into the absailing cliff many times. It was really scary to look down, much less walk downwards with your back facing below. We then treked 1.5km to Camp 2...got a taste of how heavy the bags were. (about 10kg~?)

3rd day. Water activities day.
Instead of kayaking, we did *drum roll* row boating. Everyone was screaming during the float test. And LJ had to say that nobody could come up with dry heads, the sea water was freaking salty! My group was the very first group to get towed (so honoured) It was a rather traumatising activity after 6 hours but fun nevertheless. Firstly, we were against the tide. Next, we were against the wind. We kept singing random songs and laughed and eat and applied layers and layers of sunblock. Arrived safely at camp site 3, one that I would never want to go AGAIN if I ever had the choice.

It had NO toilets and we had to sleep on rocks.

4th day. LONG TREK DAY

5th day. clear the store plus HOME SWEET HOME day

School has been not bad but what is to come tomorrow... is OBS (outward bound)... I certainly hope I survive. All the best to myself. Will be away from the 12 - 16th of Jan in Pulau Ubin. :D

<3
Akane

Updates:
Inuyasha ch 343
Naruto Shippuden ep 44
Ryusei no Kizuna ep 9
Ruroini Kenshin ep 10
Trinity Blood ep 6
Skip Beat ep 12-13 (my fav eps!)


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Akane

CELEBRATING THE 400th post of my blog!
Also "celebrating" the 1st day of school and the starting of hellish days once again. :( Well, the consolation is at least I get to see my friends. Other than that, it was totally boring. there is no point in opening school on a Friday. All we did were talks one after another, meeting of our form teacher for a few minutes, run into classrooms lacking chairs and plain sleepiness. To add on, I was having a bad cough.

Went out for lunch with Karen, Farah and Najwa. We ate under the escalator on the floor. Minutes later, another 3 big groups of RGS girls joined us. This is what we call illegal gathering of more than 6 people. haha!~ Karen and I shared SUBWAY and I went home.

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Akane

Class gathering for 2008 Dec :D

This time it is to welcome back Boon Kiat who have returned from China after 2 years. About 17 people turned up. Held at the function room.
Ai Wee
Claudia
Charla
Karen
Jia Ling
Hui Han
Pearl
Vivienne
Ding Yi
Justin Tan
Cheng Sin
Guan Koi
Yu Long
Isaac
Joshua
Boon Kiat
Arthur

We played poker cards and I learnt another way to gamble - HEARTS. It was Guan Koi, Yu Long, Cheng Sin and Karen competiting. In the end, Cheng Sin lost and he had to do a forfeit. HE TOOK LIKE FOREVER TO DO HIS FORFEIT. Well, he had to carry Yu long on his back around the swimming pool in the end. I really looked like Gai-sensei carrying Kakashi-sensei on his back when they were returning from the Sand Village from rescueing Gaara. DAMN FUNNY! ><

We played more card games like Indian Poker and Number guessing game. The penalty was eating a jelly everytime you lost. In the end, the 10 of us finished an entire tub of jelly. --" Had a good chat with everyone... hope to have another gathering soon next year!

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Akane

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 2 seconds to the year of 2009. Even though I kindof dreading it... I guess I still have to celebrate it huh :D Well, best wishes to eveyone out there staying up to welcome the NEW YEAR! :D

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Akane

CCAO on the 30th of Dec and my sister's first day of orientation to a brand new life of Primary school at Kong Hwa Primary. My dad managed to send me to RGS and I didn't have to wake up that early. (thanks dad!) There, I met with many of my old classmates and did what was the same every year... introducing the different CCAs in RGS before the start of their CCA trials.

Had fun collecting stickers and sticking them all over my shirt. Had a weird time explaining all the complicated CCA selection conditions and stuff to parents. It was as if the parents were more enthusiastic about joining the CCAs here than the students themselves. They were the ones who asked the most questions and took the most notes. (how interesting)

I then wanted to rush to Kong Hwa for my sister's orientation right after that, but it seemed like I was too late. Well anyway, I took bus no.7 with Karen and we both were quite high. I reached home and then slacked the entire day. 2 mores days to school reopening and I still have not completed my commonwealth essay. I'm so dead. ><

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Elaine

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE :D
have a great Christmas with your loved-ones and remember the true meaning of Christmas

*cry* school is coming closer and closer. 6 more days to go... I'm dreading school already.

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Akane

Had to go back to school for 2 days (15 and 16) for drill practice and while only around 5 of us turned up

My Saturday on the 13th was really fun :D In the morning I had the last Jap lesson for the entire course. In the afternoon I had maths tuition at Aspen. In the late afternoon I went for EOY together with Karen.

It was a fun fun experience. We took pictures of cosplayers, checked out all the booths (Karen went on a spending spree again. Her home may soon become an anime/manga museum), watch the cosplay competition. Although we missed the bakaninja team's performance, we managed to catch a super cute version of the Kurojitsushi dance and the famous Haruhi Suzumiya para-para dance.

Some of the booths were selling things cheap and the BLEACH cards were totally awesome... but I didn't buy any. No place to keep even if I bought them. --" Check out the photos when I get them from Karen and Jessie :D

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Akane

Done 6 hours of CIP at the Bedok Public Library doing the Marina Bay Countdown Well-wishes for 2009 thing. The 1st session was quite fun, there were 6 of us :D 5 girls and 1 guy. Among them is my long-lost kindergarten friend - Kimberly. We split up into 2 groups, the 3 girls at the 3rd level and Jessie, the guy and me at the ground level. We were all given super-large shirts to wear. --"

There were quite a few experiences... walking trees (people who totally ignore you), kids who love to 'vandalise', many of whom has big dreams of becoming rich, owning PSPs and become scientists. We had cheerful parents and adults, one of whom even thanked us for the work we have done :D. We had nasty people who were really rude, nice people who refused us nicely, people who have no dreams apparently --" and shy people who don't want to write.

There was this guy whom Jessie approached and he totally ran away like he was terrified of her. I was laughing so hard that my stomach was hurting. There was this particular old man who was really nice. He stopped us, talked to us, and after that signed, wishing (all three of us) a great year ahead. I really pity the guy who got terribly teased by him.

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Elaine

Went to Watch The Quantum of Solace with Natalie and Jessie at Cathay Cineleisure - 3rd Dec. We ate lunch at some Hong Kong Restaurant, being the most I have spent on 1 lunch ever in my entire 14+ years of life. It was $16.20 - gluttonus rice, carrot cake, pan-friend dumplings and Hong Kong 奶茶.

Went to Kinokuniya again, making it the 4th time within a short 4 months. I have made up my mind that I will buy a japanese book from there once I have fully learnt how to read! :D I have quite a number of books there in mind. Both Jessie and Natalie bought something to read there.

The Quantum of Solace was okay. I have watched numerous James Bond Movies, however apart from the action and the killing, the plot with all the chim code names just cannot be registered in my head. If comparing in wits, the Borne Ultimatium is better, but James Bonds' got more brut action. *punch punch* *kick kick*

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Akane

Did my first 2 hours of CIP at White Sands Mall together with Jessie, helping out with the JRA (Junior Reading Association) of the NLB. Our jobs were pretty simple cause the art and craft section was cut out. All we had to do were to distribute some flyers, give out small tokens to children who manage to answer questions correctly and take pictures.

We even visited the new 'movable' library which is in a bus form and they have quite a wide range of books considering the size of the bus. Went to ARIES together after the entire thing and wanted to 'humilate' my brother into wearing a girly hairband after he broke 2 of my plain ones. In the end, I bought a simple white one after being persuaded not to by Jessie. :P Both of us bought bangles and I bought my mother's Christmas present.

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Akane

I'm fed up with dealing with T-shirts. I'm never gonna do it again EVER! Its so troublesome when everything just doesn't go as planned and I have to be responsible for everything after. Worst still, other people get inconvenienced by it. Sighh... This shall be all for my ranting today.

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Akane

First time doing Flag Day on Wednesday. It was a hell of an experience. --" Firstly, there is the Asian Financial Crisis... although I really doubt donating a simple 50 cents would make you broke. However, I've seen a number of weird and funny reactions when you ask people to donate money. Here are some of the most funny reactions (some are rather cute)

1. There was this guy in a working shirt and the conversation went something like that...
"Would you like to donate(...)"
"Is there a minimum fee?"
"No, its any amount you like."
(and then he took out a $5 note and put it into the bag)

2. There were people who automatically donated. People who donated when asked. People who gave you a black face, saying "Go away you annoying pest." It made me feel like telling them "Its not like I wanted to do this anyway, I could be at home doing whatever I want. I'm doing this out of goodwill." --" There were people who were even worst, they turn to one side completely ignoring. I wonder how difficult it is to even say a small "No, thank you."

3. There was this dramatic girl who shouted "I am broke" at us when we asked. She was probably feeling depressed or pissed off at that time. But that was the most dramatic reaction I have ever seen.

I don't really know how much I collected by I treated Wan Ting and I to Coffee Bean as we were tired from travelling from Tanjong Pagar to Orchard, Bugis and then to Douby Ghaut.

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Akane