okay. i'm like FINALLY back from all my adventures and i'm leaving again at the last week of november. this entry would be about my experiences on the ipoh trip and the chalet i went to.
ipoh tripthis trip is for the council main com and ncc sec3s. wilsonsum couldn't go so he was replaced with laura and i'm really glad she came. boy, wilson missed out tons.
dayoneboth fion and i had redcross in the afternoon and then we went for dinner after. yuliang-sir and brandon-sir came along too. we talked nothing but gong, princess hours. me and brandon were like arguing about it. it's like he watches it for caijing and that ballerina girl while i watch it for xin and lu. how can people hate lu? though he's evil but he's just dead-drop gorgeous. on the way back to school, i bought an archie comic to read on the bus trip. the council gathered in the canteen first. joysim and gina started giving out cookies that they had baked the day before. wow. and they baked tons.
thanks joysim and gina for the cookies. then, both ncc and council gathered at the foyer. filled in our white cards and had some sort of a briefing. during this time, i was like looking around. wow. the teachers who were going with us were mr ganesan, ms ng, mdm toh and miss lee chee peng. ALL MATHS TEACHERS. boarded the bus and headed to killiney road (little india). we didn't know little india well at all, so joysim became our tour guide for that period. little india didn't seem like singapore at all. it looked like india or malaysia. we were the ones who were outcast now. boarded another bus. it was a SUPER VIP bus. wows. it's name was lapan lapan (88). when we thought our bus was the best we've ever seen, up drove another bus. each chair had its own television! it's like an SIA bus. wow. okay, in the bus, it was a single double arrangement so fion sat on my right and yiling sat on my left. behind us sat zhihong, mahattair and jarold. in front of us sat gina, joysim and yanling.
during the bus trip, there was this period of time when everybody was sleeping and the bus ALMOST crashed into the car in front of it! every one was jerked forward, our belongings were like some sort trown forward. an ncc guy had one of his shoe flew all the way to my chair. anyway, our journey was 8 hours. had two stopoevers. one was a koi farm. the koi was gigantic! about 2m. it is said that if you manage to drop a coin onto the koi's body, you'll experience luck. anyway, the bus trip was relatively pleasant. a comfortable chair, blanket, aircon... oh. we also watched two shows on the bus. kungfu hustle and shaolin soccer. *yawns* oh! mr ganesan, caleb, jingming and natlee took another lapan lapan bus to get to ipoh. the bus that i was sitting in, had not enough chairs to accomodate all of us, therefore, they had to
topang another bus.
reached the area where we were going to do our first activity
limestone caving. there were some delay time, so we girls were like playing around. playing our childhood games while the guys
siam with the donkey. had breakfast and then there was this cat which was like trying to eat our food. it's so cute!!! and now i know that both joysim and mr ganesan doesn't like cats. anyway, then we headed to the limestone cave. boy was it STUNNING and BEAUTIFUL.
my vocabulary is quite limited so i don't really know how to express it. the cave just made me realise how GOD WAS SO MAGNIFICENT that his creations could result in such wonders. we then came to this wind tunnel, the moment you stepped into it, you could feel WIND. cool wind. we also came to this steep slope where we had to slide down. NO KICK. haha. then next was this small tunnel where we had to like squeeze through. NO KICK. the small tunnel led down to the water. we then flowed the water. it was the only way out. along the way, there were other people visiting the cave. the water flowing around us was cool and very shiok.
there were sometimes when we had to get on all fours and crawl. the cold water made us shiver and scream with enjoyment. the hilarious thing was that there were two ncc guys, kenneth and junwei, they brought their addidas jacket and they tried at all cost to keep it dry. and they accomplished it. then there was a time when we sat down, switched off all our torches and stayed in darkness for 5 mins. listened to the serenity and the flowing sound of the water. continued our journey. at the end of the journey, we were where we started off. mr ganesan then made them do pushups, situps and jumping jacks in the shallow water. haha. ncc is mad. how i wish that redcross could be like that too.
had lunch. and our next activity was
white water river rafting. boy oh boy. that was the highlight of the day. we had to take a lorry and a van to our campsite and then walk to the starting area for river rafting. i sat in the van with joyyeo, yiling, fion, laura, rophi and ms ng. while the rest stood in the lorry. it was quite some journey. anyway, the campsite really amazed me. it's a wonder that they could have such good facilities like in the middle of nowhere. anyway, we put down our things and headed to the starting area for briefing. our briefing instructor was HILARIOUS. he had this fake australian accent. because he would start his sentence of with an aussie accent and end the last 5-8 words with his malaysian accent. funny. i think everyone was like trying to control their laughter. so, all the water rafting instructors were tough, muscular and friendly men. the boat i sat in had me, mahattair, yiling, fion, natlee and jingming. white water rafting was the FIRST for me. i was jolly excited!! when the boat set off, we encountered our first rapid, everybody screamed with laughter! we were enjoying ourselves.
then, my boat people looked back, we saw that already one boat had capsized. it was joyyeo's boat. their boat totally flipped. and the nearest boat was like trying to assist. it's really tough. but who cares, my boat was already onto it's 2nd rapid. *boom* we got stuck. our instructor told us to move to the back and start to bounce on the boat. me, jingming and nat started to burst out into laughter as we said that the action made it seem like humping and we'll become shag after that. haha. i'm glad that mahattair was on the same boat. he was like our translator. our communication between us and the instructor. after many rapids and after many times we got stuck and after many times we went under branches, there came the most serious rapid. at that rapid, i got thrown into the center and yiling got thrown out of the boat and into the water!! everybody in the boat panicked!! everybody went :"where's yiling?! where's yiling?!". and there came our muscular instructor to quickly pull her out of the water and into the boat. during this period, many other boats had MAN OVERBOARD too. everyone in my boat had practically fell into the center. even the instructor was thrown into the center even though he sat at the back. then there was this time when the rapid was quite vigorous that fion landed in the center and i grabbed mahattair's leg was support and i almost pulled his leg hair. oops. sorry. then more rapids and then meanders. meanders meant that our journey was ending. the white water rafting journey ended. we lugged the boat out of the water, up a hill and placed it down and we then climbed back into the lorry waiting to bring us back to the campsite.
then it was bath time, the girls had two toilets and there were only 9 girls! so we like had all the time in the world. then there was like 19 boys? and they also had two toilets, so they had to bathe fast. it was then dinner and then devotions. okay, before devotions, we girls were fighting with this miniature palm-sized hairy spider that was in our bunk! i used me slipper to try and whack it, but to no avail. then gina took my slipped and WHACKED IT HARD. it died. gruesome sight. the spider really made us girls scream and scream. during devotions, it was like really quiet as the ncc guys had slept. FINALLY. during the day, they had made TONS of noises and bangings that we girls found it TREMENDOUSLY irritating. devotions time was like some sort of WAR OF THE INSECTS. the insects were really bugging us. they came in all types of sizes, shapes, colours, species. it's like they made us scream and scream and scream. when one girl screamed, all the other screamed too.
like dominoes.
after devotions, it was sleeping time. we girls cramped up tight and close with each other and we were afraid of the insects.
actually, i'm not really afraid of insects. it's just that it was a FEAR FACTOR moment that made me panic. it kinda like set off the scared trigger and i became scared. kinda hard to turn it off. so the next time, i must knock some sense into those period of fear. oh damn.daytwowoke up early. brushed me teeth, washed my face. had breakfast and then, it was time for
waterfall abseiling!!! we took the lorry to the waterfall area. i was so excited to see the leeches. i really miss the leeches from sabah. all that screaming. haha. anyway, the first 10 went up and i wasn't one of them so we all had to go to the base of the waterfall. boy was it freezing cold. all that water trashing down onto the rocks. making a plunge pool. anyway, it was really freezing cold but we still cheered for joysim and gina as they came down.
so time passed while waiting for my turn. fion, joyyeo and i got our gear and went up together. since both me and joyyeo were the experienced climbers from sabah, i took the front, she took the back. i kinda like make an easy route for fion to climb up. she just had to place her foot at where i placed mine. joyyeo supported fion from the back. i think fion almost felt like she was going to die at one point of the climbing up to the waterfall. her foot kinda slipped twice, so yeah. because i was in the front, i went down the waterfall first. followed by fion. from others opinions, they said that water really trashed down hard on them, but i didn't really feel it. i went down the waterfall, not afraid at all. went down cooly. reached the bottom of the waterfall and it was COLD down there. cheered for the teachers as they abseiled down the waterfall.
after everybody's turn, we headed back to the campsite. dried ourselves in the bright sun before lunch. during this time of like 2 hours, some ncc guys played cards, some slept and the council played cards too. whoohoo! i won the game of bluff! man. this game, bluff, can be like played for half and hour! we had lunch, packed our bags and went on board the lorry! the lorry was to take us to this town near the highway. there, we waited for a bus to take us to the hot springs!
next activity was the
hot springs. we played around in the 20degrees celsius to 30degrees celsius hot spring. then proceeded to the 40degrees celsius to 60degrees celsius hot springs. boy was it HOT! really hot! you really had to let one body part by one body part to slowly sink into the water and get accustomed to it. then, there was this little area for people to boil eggs. that little pool was at 100degrees celsius, so one can definitely not soak in it. freakin' hot. we could only spend an hour there and then we had to leave for ipoh, the city area. it was another 1 1/2hr journey.
our hotel we stayed in was
hotel excelsior. it was really the lousiest hotel and it wasn't also the best hotel. but i'm glad for the WONDERFUL beds. changed into our council tee before heading out for dinner. we gathered in the hotel lobby and took a photo. boy. do we look like the mafia. anyway, everyone had ipoh horfun for dinner except for mr ganesan and the malays. they went straight for parkson grand. our dinner was delicious. even the
tou gay was good. anyway, ms ng led the way to parkson grand after dinner. everyone was so excited. both council and ncc. SHOPPING. my eyes just lit up. shopping within a time limit of 1hr 45mins? with 150rm to spent? what?! before the shopping at parkson grand, ms ng brought us to this biscuit shop. man. the
ungrateful ncc guys only went in to buy stuff for themselves, such as gum and sweets. we council, both guys and girls, bought food for your family. you people should have seen mdm toh. she's the best. she spent RM$50.70. i spent RM$20.90. so then, it was parkson grand.
went shopping with yiling and fion. we were like rushing from shop, to shop, to shop, to shop. from level 2 to to level 3 to level 1 to level 2 to level 3 to level 2. what a great way to lose weight. yiling and i always looked for the same stuff. we had the same thinking. always looking and buying the same stuff. okay. the first thing on our agenda was to shop for presents. earrings for both sihui and allicia. a multi-multi-multi pen & handphone keychain for may & shuyi. fion bought TONS of stuff for her friends and others but not much for herself. wow. yiling and i bought the same pencil box! it's from bodyglove. it's in the shape of a surfboard. it's white. and it's cool. bought a quiksilver for my bro. he really likes it. bought a roxy wallet for myself. when it was time to gather back, went to see what joy and gina had bought. man. i really liked what they bought. GINA!!! she bought this really nice white skirt at a price of RM$22.50 and it's actually price was like RM$77 plus? about 70% discount? damn. gina also bought this shirt which said, PROUD TO BE PRETTY from the reject shop. joysim bought this two jean skirts. simple, common but pretty and nice. joyyeo bought this pack of AMAZING playing cards for her brother. the cards were in the shape of a surfboard and it's casing was this egg. it was so CUTE and really great. joy said that it was from this santa claus shop. then, both me and yiling screamed. we thought that shop only sold christmas decorations, so we didn't go in, but who knows, it was a great shop which sold stuff like sleek notebooks, and stuff which you could give away to your friends as great presents.
while yiling and i were agonizing over those stuff that we didn't get, we almost got knocked down by a car while crossing the road. whew. when we were back in the hotel, fion bathed first, then me, then yiling. then it was devotions time in the guys'room which were natlee, caleb and jingming's room. after devotions, gina told us to like confront each other, throw out our grudges, and talk to each other. you know, thrash it out. joysim made the first move. she went to talk to a girl,
can't remember who. and they both cried. man. i started to feel that crying sensation. the whole room was filled with it. then jingming came over to me, he sorta told me why he hated me at first, i said my part too, we made up with each other, shook hands, and were friends. truly friends. at this period, i was already tearing. then yanling came over to talk to me, she told me what she hated, i said my part again, we both cried, gave each other hug to signify that everything was over. true friends. then, i went to talk to laura and rophi, we three thrashed it out, cried, and gave each other a hug. close friends. next, i went to joysim. at first, i really had alot of problems with her, i hated her, but after the thrash out thingy, we're really good friends. she's like my role model, i told her. joysim's strength and faith in God is really strong and good and firm. i have to learn from her. i have to do my devotions with God reguarly. joysim is one good role model. i guess i had been under too much peer pressure influence. we were both crying when talking to each other. gave each other a hug to make up. during this time, everyone was going to each other to like thrash it out. gina was talking to yiling, laura and rophi, joyyeo and joysim,.... i went to talk to fion. thrash things out too. the guys also thrashed things out. some were so serious,
i won't mention who. that they went to me, yiling and fion's room to really thrash some serious stuff out.
you people probably won't understand what happened that night. this THING happened from like 10pm to 2am. all our conflicts and troubles and grudges were totally gone. i really give thanks to God for letting this thing to happen and that now, we main com are a much better group of poeple. this EVENT, totally changed EVERYTHING. and we had ramly burgers, maggi mee to eat and just be merry and watch soccer!! this sobbing session was now over! time for food. all that crying really made everyone feel hungry. the match we watch was arsenal vs liverpool. haha. arsenal thrashed liverpool!
anyway, time for bed. everyone had slept at like 3am.
daythreewoke up at like 7am for breakfast. had an american breakfast. then went back into the hotel room to get our luggages. board the lapan lapan bus again. i didn't really care about sleep. i just wanted to hav fun for the rest of the 8hours of the bus journey. the first hr was spent watching windtalkers in which many people on the bus fell asleep including fion and yiling. i was BORED. war shows don't really appeal to me. then one of the ncc guys asked me to play taiti with them. i so ROCKED at taiti. i had plenty of good hands. even if i didn't, i still won. i think the ncc guys were like shocked at me some sort thrashing them. anyway, the bus was divided into 3 sections. the sleeping section, the bridge section and lastly, the taiti/heartattack/bluff and whatever section. i was in the third one. the guys whom i was playing taiti with was amar, eddy and shawn. haha. they were super funny. shawn tan just couldn't win. so the loser had to shuffle the cards, and i only needed to shuffle ONCE. i lost one round. the rest of the rounds i was either the first, or second. *whew*. anyway, it was lunch. had nasi lemak. the council and ncc were like buying stuff, chewing gum. then some were like worried whether would they get caught. they were like panicking. anyway, back onto the bus again. this time, i played taiti again with the ncc guys, but with hannkenn, eddy and amar. hannkenn was like self proclaming he was the KING OF TAITI. what a load of rubbish. he won the first two rounds. he was like so air-headed already. then, i won the next three rounds. hannkenn was shocked. haha. anyway, there came in gina and yiling who had woken up. then joined in the circle, and we played heartattack. gina always won! what a lucky girl. and eddy always lost. ahha. he had a slow reaction. so funny. eddy is hilarious. he's like the funniest loser. but what amazing sportsmanship he has. he always lost, but he NEVER complains, or scold vulgarities. gina left. then we played bluff. yiling won and then awhile later, it was down to me and eddy and hannkenn, i think. and whew, i won. so the losers were eddy and hannkenn.
then there was a break, stopped at the stop where had the LARGE koi. then, boarded the bus and continued the trip to singapore. we were very close to singapore already. the ncc guys started playing among themselves. boy did they make lots of noise. the bridge section was still going on. the ncc guys were playing this game where all of them had to take a card and put it on their forehead so that they couldn't see the card and that the other could see theirs. everyone had three chances to switch their card with the one in the deck if they felt that theirs was low. the one which had the lowest number had to do a dare. poor shawn tan. he always kena the most. ncc dares were outrageous. feeling bored, me, gina, yiling and fion started to play stupid games. first we played truth and dare. it was crazy. gina had to snip off some of kenneth's hair. sigh. kenneth was so persistent so gina had to cut junwei's hair. haha. one of my dares was to drink the water that zhihong was drinking and my lips must touch the bottle. zhihong was shocked but nice enough to let me drink from it. we got bored of that game and moved on to this game that required you to play scissors paper stone and stretch. my my. even though gina was short, but she can stretch. flexible sia. got bored of it after playin like 6 rounds? then moved on to this game which gina invented.you had to continue one action after another. quite stupid. but funny. whoo! we have reached the malaysia customs. after that, the causeway to singapore and
whoo! i love singapore! missed it so much. the bus brought us to school. everybody said their goodbyes and left but me, gina and the ncc guys. gina was taking a lift from my daddy. and the ncc guys, i really don't understand them. after a long and tiring trip, they immediately put their stuff in their ncc room, got a ball, and played soccer. -_-". seriously, were they tired? upon reaching home, i did my best to stay awake and yes i did. slept at 11pm.
the next very day was CHALET day.
just some photos.
council with miss ng
ipoh. somewhere in the village
me n gina in our sabah jerseys!~
ipoh. somewhere in the village too
the council. in our council tees.chaletdayonemet yiling, lennard, natlee and caleb at dover mrt. procceeded to tanan merah mrt to take the shuttle bus to the changi safra. upon reaching there and being so excited, i left my wallet on the shuttle bus! but then, there was this really nice RJC guy who returned me my wallet. anyway, i was elated when i saw the bungalows that we had. put down my bags and saw the rest of the people. i screamed. i was just so happy to see my friends again after the ipoh trip. me and yiling went to the beach where we had so much fun and nonsense. allicia and sihui went to fly kites. shuyi then joined me n yiling on the breakwater, talking. the guys just spent the time in the bungalow and play the playstation and mahjong, cards and guitar.
then many of us went bowling and some went to play pool and the rest remained in the chalet. had so much fun. i now know how to control my arm and aim properly. the guys were like wondering why was i playing so seriously. i was like silent throughout the game. actually, i was just willing my arm to swing correctly and concentrate on the game and picture what would i do later, like how would i swing the ball... jacon won both games... he always wins. 7pm. 7.00pm. we girls quickly ended the game and rushed out of the bowling alley, ran across, back into the chalet, and watch princess hours.
for dinner, we ordered kfc. everyone had exactly 2 pieces of chicken each. then it was like relaxing time. we continued playing mahjong, bridge, playstation, guitar, whatever. then, i got out my dvds and we watched silent hill. man. allicia was scared stiff when all of us were bored watching the show. anyway, lennard left halfway. nat practically jumped out of the kitchen when his parents allowed him to stay over for chalet. the guys then left to play midnight soccer and returned back topless and they stank. anyway, everyone slept at like 3am. then we girls talked in bed till like 4am before we drifted off to sleep.
daytwowoke up at 11am and the guys were already awake playiin all that crap. had breakfast. yummy. cereal with milk. played mahjong. the guys left for soccer again i think, then it was lunch. had fried rice. played more mahjong while the guys played their games again. then, some of us gathered to play the guitar. the guys then taught sihui how to play the guitar. the guys then told me that i have to imprve my strumming.
i know. then more mahjong. some guys went to play pool. some went to fly kite. then it was night time. bbq time! everyone helped out barbercueing all the food. then jacon told us to get into the house. so we all sat in one big circle and talked about how we knew each other and all the memories and stuff like that. we sang the song that keith tuckyan n jacon came out. i think, in the future, keith would make a good songwriter. he'll make money. anyway, after the sharing seesion, we saw that both dogs and rats had come to our bbq pit as we left the otah outside. but who cares, we were all full up. more playing. played bridge for a few rounds and i felt really tired and went back to sleep with the rest of the girls.
daythreewoke up at 8-9am? need to pack stuff. and get ready to leave the chalet. at 11.30am, everyone of us were out. time to go home. i accompanied shuyi n caleb home. man. they still owe me money. my cab fare. $5.10. anyway, reached home really tired. tried to stay up, but i couldn't go past 7pm. so i went up to my bedroom to sleep. woke up at 4am to check my mail and stuff like that. then went back to sleep at 5.30am.
that's the end. during this whole chalet, i really had so much fun. it's my first time having a chalet with friends. and during this whole chalet, everyone had practically 3 cup noodles each, or more.
just some photos.
our footprints
me acting cute
some shells
us
yiling
the guys at the bowling alley
caleb n keith
us
the girls
the girls
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