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.

<3
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

<3
Elaine