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

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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