the life of a jellyfish :)

New Year night duties

2012-01-03T22:47:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Finished 3 night duties, which were really tough, somehow.

31/12

Rota 3 had a barbeque and karaokae session at station rooftop. Heartwarming, with some Sec Comm and firefighters bbq-ing the crayfish and prawns. They keep on asking me to eat sia and dun be shy. Pity I cannot eat seafood... Ate a few chicken wings with lettuce though! Delicious! Halfway a small fire started, burning the food, while some firefighters panicked.

A random Sec Comm: "Wtf!? This is a small fire and there are 20+ firefighters over here who cannot handle the fire??"

I practically laughed at that statement. Encik Fazly sang a few malay songs, power!

Whole night never sleep, since we kena a lot of fighting calls and a call at 3.45am at hougang which lead us to CGH. Saw Bishan ambulance at CGH also, so it can be said that the dispatches were kind of screwed, thanks to the busy Central area. :D

Although the really busy night can make ppl tired, at least the new year atmosphere could let us keep on going. Eg, the control wished all ambulances a happy new year, and almost every ambulance crew wished back also, so work until happy, good sia! The Bangladesh workers also smiled and waved to us, wishing the ambulance crew a happy new year. This one power sia! How often do you see the public smiling to an ambulance crew? =P

The china lady at Hougang kept on apologising and thanking us for troubling us to convey her to the hospital. Well, I would say that kena slashed on the ear is not a small thing, so nvm bah. She must have thanked like at least 20 times, and said that it was a good time to rest, but had inconvenienced us greatly. She even asked if she could give the crew a red packet, which of course we didn't take, front-liners will only rescue and not accept anything else. :) Pity she is going to miss the annual chinese prayer, but I believe the chinese gods would rather her to recover first. :V

So overall, an extremely tired night, but at least the friendly ppl made the duty worth it. Did I forget to mention the fire post crew also offered satays and curry puffs to us? :D

1/1

Another busy night, which all 7 calls are unnecessary, esp the RTA call. I think the young guy who had his license for only 6 months can throw away the license already, not even 1 year then go bang ppl's car. 4 casualties, with the guy's mother saying she had difficulty in breathing.

Ambulance crew expression -> O_O

My thought -> Healthier than me sia~

Should have thrown everybody to P3, then all will be charged happily, wahaha!

2/1

Not so busy. 4 calls, including 1 anyhow call at 2.45am. The lady made a comment.

"Wa, we all such minor things only then also must activate the ambulance at this ulu timing, a serious waste of resource sia!"

If that comment was on facebook, I will definitely go like that. If the public had her mindset, then there would be no stupid calls already. Oh well!

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Tomorrow like nothing to do, so intend to initiate FAP! Forever Alone Protcol for short. Perhaps the activites would go like this.

0830 - Wake up
0845 - Go for a slow but long run
0945 - Wash up, breakfast
1030 - Iron uniform and outing clothes, rest awhile at home
1300 - Proceed to town area and perhaps the National Library
1400 - Arrive at location. Borrow books / Walk walk~
1630 - Random snack before leaving for home.
1700 - Go home before the rush hour starts!
1800 - Back at base, rest for Thursday's day shift. :)

That is if I can wake up at 8.30, the weather is fine and I have the mood. =P

Ok then, time to sleep! Encik Saiful posted the pic of me and a random ostrich on FB. Very anyhow sia!

Total no. of calls: 519

Christmas long leave 2011

2011-12-31T23:59:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Merry christmas to everyone who celebrated christmas, intends to celebrate or has a heart for christmas! ^^

By celebration, going out to drink, club, watch movie, makan without doing anything related to christmas (such as gift exchanging, singing christmas songs, reunion with friends/family) is not considered celebrating, but just another outing in a more fun manner. So by this definition, I didn't celebrate. ._.

Kena this long block of leave, after covering some days and applying leave for the upcoming Wed/Thur day block. 8 days to fully rest and enjoy life, if the 8th day never kena callback for standby duty. Like very long never rest properly and enjoy, esp the start of Dec, where I got a lot of night shifts and the offs are seriously for sleeping only. =P Suffer first, enjoy later, I like it like that! :D

Posting about how I spend the long leave, as a memory~

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23/12 (Friday)

(On the way back to station)

Encik Istamar: Jeff! Tonight working ar!?
Richard: No la Encik, he off 8 days sia!
Encik Istamar: WALAO!!!

Off-duty medic, medic Jeff! ^^

Never even go home to change or bathe, since I was rushing for time to meet RJ, ZH and SY at causeway point to watch movie. So just bathed in station, which the water was surprisingly not as cold as I thought. ^^ Ate LJS big fish toast with SY. First time eating that, the fish finger was extremely nice, but definitely not big. Watched MI again, which was much nicer with the understanding of the plot and the characters. Worth it, but I am not going to watch MI for another time. =P

After the movie, SY went first as he was meeting S20 for his class outing. The rest of us proceeded to Texas Chicken to have our lunch. Tried out the fried chicken, coleslaw and the honey biscuit with vanilla ice-cream. Compared to KFC...

Coleslaw of TC
- Size: Bigger
- Taste: Abt the same
- Worth: Ok bah.

Chicken of TC
- Size: MUCH smaller! Like tender size sia!
- Taste: Not as nice
- Worth: No~

Honey biscuit of TC
- Size: Same
- Taste: Nicer and softer!
- Worth: Ok bah.

Nothing special about the Vanilla ice-cream. The honey biscuit and ice-cream with chocolate sauce is really a very nice dessert! Good combination, and the softness goes well with the ice-cream. No need to fear of breaking your teeth with the surface of the biscuit. $2.50 for the dessert, $3.50 for the chicken and coleslaw together. The dessert is so much more worth it. Lol!

ZH went back after lunch as he needed to help shop for christmas furniture? Me and RJ went to town (specifically Plaza Sing) to shop for his christmas gifts for his gift-exchanging party. Bought 2 random small plants from toy exchange or smth like that, along with a random keychain non-usable camera.

Ran in the rain to a random bus-stop to wait for a 190 to CCK. The ETA signboard for the buses is seriously anyhow. We waited for 30mins and we didnt see any 190 although 4 buses were supposed to have pass by the bus-stop. Gave up and took the MRT in the end, so there was no chance to drop by RJ's house. Aw! :(

I didn't know RJ was in Armour, until he mentioned.

RJ: Eh! I dunno WL sia! How come he knows me!?
Me: You famous ma, ppl know you, but u dunno them.
RJ: That means he must be working in HQ Armour as clerk sia!
Me: Er... Ya?
RJ: Skali he working ops room duty, next time got admin things must find him~
Me: (Thinking: JACKPOT!)

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Sherlock Holmes with WL and War in the evening. Tried the Rodeo Beef shots burger for dinner, the taste was nice, as always with BK beef! There were onion rings inside the burger, which I took out seperately to eat. The burger was different from the illustration, which was a poorly cut burger which I had to split the two halves myself, unlike the picture which showed 2 perfect circular small burgers. Cheat my feelings sia! At least, the full burger size is worth it as it is cheaper than other set meals...

Talked a lot of random rubbish, esp WL's theory of not eating fried nor hard food. In the end he went to subway and bought the Roasted chicken sub. *(Which was hard)*

**** Correction! ****

WL bought a wrap instead of a sub, so the whole thing is soft, since wraps are softer. Yea WL ate a soft thing after all, which does not need to be porridge. (As War said =P)

**** - End - ****

I like fell asleep halfway through the movie sia, so didnt really understand the movie. -.-

Reached home at around 10pm, 1 proper off-day spent! Slept really soundly, as I didnt sleep since 4am. Luckily the night before was not that tiring. ^^

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24/12 (Saturday)

Woke up at 10.20am, which was extremely late~! O.O

Went to Turf city and the random horse dens nearby. The horses look really cute from far, but once you are near it, they really give off an aura of fierceness.

The manager of the stables gave us a few mins to interact with the horses, looking at our high level of enthusiasm. How nice. ^^ Took some photos with the horses, which are nt found here~ Don't really dare to go too near the horses, they look as though they can bite. Some of them look simply enormous...

After that we went to turf city to walk around. Nothing interesting there, except that Chong Pang BBQ had officially closed. :( I would miss that place and the friendly aunty who gave me 1 free ice-cream before. The shuttle bus service from Toa Payoh has also been terminated. Somehow there were still a lot of cars parking in the ulu carpark, wonder if they are the stallkeepers or seriously just visitors.

Stayed until about 1+, then proceeded to AMK hub to walk around. Boring. Ate pancakes with butter and honey at the usual AMK coffeeshop, which was nice as usual. Recommended the durian pancake to my father, and received a comment in return.

"Aiya, I think the pancake is nice because you eat with her la, I don't taste anything special about the pancake sia."

Me: O_O Are you kiddin' me!?

With the sleepiness and lack of understanding from the previous night, Ops 'watching Sherlock Holmes' samulah-ed, this time with Richard. Must be the traffic jam, and thus he was late. No worries there though, he booked the tickets before hand. :D

This time, with an alert mind and 100% readiness, finally I got the movie, and it is seriously as nice as the 1st movie! The plot makes sense, the final chess game also somehow matches what was going on in the real fight and the analysis was clear. =P If there is someone as smart as SH for EAS, that would be really power!!! Seriously recommended to watch, like MI, unless the movie is really not your cup of tea/coffee/milo. (Coughs Zul~)

Went home after that, since Richard had a night party. Bought KFC to eat with family, while being amazed at the sight of a non-crowded train from Orchard. How many times have you experienced a non-crowded train from town at night? =P

A lot of ppl celebrated/played till late night / morning, the ambulance crews must be busy with the large number of drunk cases...

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25/12 (Sunday)

Official Christmas Day! Once again, I felt that the Eve still had more atmosphere than the Day itself.

Rested at home in the morning, saving energy for the afternoon to help Encik Fhairus with his moving of belongings from his in-laws house to his own official home. Yishun to Punggol... Ate lunch at his in-laws' house which consisted of vege and mushroom bee-hoon, pepper fried drumlets and sausages! :D

The mushroom was very nice, the sausages were normal and the drumlets were fragrant! Very delicious! =P I assumed the meal was cooked by Encik Fhairus' wife, thank you! ^^

Not many things to move, probably because me and Zul can split the workload. The house at 8th floor was rather spacious, cooling and the colours were cool! Unlike some warm-coloured houses which would not ease a person's temper.

Rather cool stuff~

1. The small external balcony outside the living room. Can just stand there and talk about life, while looking at the greenery and enjoy the cooling breeze. Perfect for ppl who like to stone (me!)

2. The toy room main light was made up of a real toy, which leads to the moving of a small wheel when the electricity is generated to the light. Unique sia, I never see anyone using a toy as a light design before.

3. The lift is rather cool! According to Encik Fhairus, the lift would suddenly open the doors for him to let him enter w/o pressing the button. How many lifts have you seen like that? Rather spooky, but me and Zul never encountered before. Probably that is a special block with extra services? =P

After that, Encik Fhairus treated us to a drink and a small token of appreciation. Thanks Encik! This is definitely better than stoning at home. =P

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Next stop, KTPH and Nee Soon Central Fire Post~ Saw both Yishun's day crews, Encik Faridz, BB's A443, Razif, some staff from KTPH. A bit anyhow sia, leave and OIL medics come to visit hospital, which shows a strong sign of a lack of life from rota 1. :D

Talked about life, joked around, and visited Fire Post. Watch a bit of a boxing movie, rather boring, and A312 went out for call after the movie ended. We went back to KTPH to welcome them. Lol! Must have spent about an hour or 2.

Dinner: KFC @ Northpoint. First time I tried the chocolate egg tart. The chocolate is a bit bitter, which I assumed is from dark chocolate. Other than that, the taste of the chocolate was very nice! The egg tart was very nice by itself. If combined, a bit weird, since the chocolate was rather concentrated in the middle, not around the sides or evenly spread. Overall still taste good bah, although I prefer the original egg tart~

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26/12 (Monday)

A full day stoning at home, playing random facebook games, a bit of maple and online killer sudoku.

Has anyone tried buying Pita Bread from Giant or other bakery stores and then make your random pastry meal? This was what I made for dinner:

A random sausage 'pizza'. Important inverted commas, cos only the base is present. No crust, no sausage side bites, no cheese bites. I ate this at around 4.45pm, still feeling very full at 11pm. -.- Heng never make more to eat sia.

1 Pita Bread, 5 sausages, 1 slice of cheese, ketchup. Added too much sausage, blame it on the frozen sausages there were stuck in a lump, lazy to put back some of the thawed sausages to the fridge, so must well =P

After I posted this to fb, seconds later a comment was made.

[Inst Ahmad Hakim: IPPT!]

:V

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Haha, :V is one of the cutest smiley while chatting with WL for about 2 hours on fb. I called it the pac-man face, WL calls it the multi-purpose face.

Eg 1. Angry want eat you :V
Eg 2. sad sia crying :V

ANYHOW to the max!

Anyway just talked about life, about ppl, about guild outing. My father used to wonder, how the heck do teenagers talk about the same few boring topics and ended up talking for a few hours and then go home late. Well, it's just like that! I should be an expert at it, along with many others. :D

Surfing through youtube, and realised DJ Earworm 2011 song 'World Go Boom' was out on christmas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ail7D_k0s9w

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I still prefered the 2009 version. (Blame it on the Pop)

Watched 2 thai movies for December at home, namely 'Hello Stranger' (the one I watched with War, WL and PH when I enlist into Civil Defence) and 'Suckseed'. GTH movies quite nice sia. I saw the Bangkok Love Story trailer, and dont think I would be watching that. War going Thailand after CNY, should ask him to watch thai movies. =P

Suckseed's 'Deep In My Heart' for both versions were really nice, downloaded the acoustic version in my phone. Here are a few youtube links related to the 4 words 'Deep In My Heart'

- In order -

1. Deep In My Heart (Suckseed band version)
2. Deep In My Heart (Suckseed Acoustic version)
3. Deep In My Heart (Britney Spears)
4. Song related to the 4 words 'Deep In My Heart'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_x3lEC01wc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ViNq9s_7DY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRA1DpeKgkU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-7OikPUKc

Ok la, the last one had the 4 words somewhere in the song. Effectively is still related. :V

Haix, I realise some old songs were seriously nicer. Now like half the songs are dance songs and the meanings do not really make any sense. Suddenly reminded of my recruit and the first few days I entered Station...

Entered with a very sian feeling, and felt that every single day lasted extremely long, can't wait to go home, and every civilian hour feels very fast, esp station life. As what Zul said, must be more confident, must be able to make it and show an example for juniors... Must be able to change and adapt to our surroundings.

Got 1 paramedic also got say before, her own medic was very kilat, then kena other medics' influence and in the end became worse. Haix... NS 2 years, I think can really change a person sia! Of course, not everybody would change...

WL la, still same as before! =P

Eh off topic right!? Ah anyway thats all for the boring monday. Moving on to another day! :D

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27/12 (Tuesday)

A bright and beautiful Tuesday morning, 5th off day, and realised my official leave has not started. ^^ Shopping sort of summarised the entire day activities with my mother.

To be precise, window-shopping.

Left house at around 10.15am, and proceeded to Nex, enjoying a hotcake with sausage set along the way~ She was wondering why did I bring a bag (which I usually do) when going out shopping, mumbled something about inconvenience and non-carefree... until when she really shop and browsing through the women section, out from my bag appeared an ultimate anti-boredom weapon!!!

~ Killer Sudoku ~

:V

Well, shopping between males and females can differ greatly, don't you agree? Shopping styles in general:

Males - Swift and decisive, don't mind paying a bit more for convenience. Shopping goal is mostly achieved at the end of the day. The time between 'first-sight of an item' and 'paying for the item' can be done in less than 5 minutes w/o hesitation.

Females - Eh dear! This one nice or not ar? You see this one and that one, I wear which one nicer? Eh eh, there still have a lot leh! We go see!!

After 2 hours: Aiya, later we come back and see again. :)
After the shopping trip: Never buy anything, nothing to see here de... :(

I think if WL or War was the bf/husband, he would have screwed her upside down. (Not literally, no wrong meaning)

Oh by the way that was not my mother, she just wanted to go for a walk without intending to buy anything, she got diff style de, wahaha :D

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Lunch was french toast, eggs and iced-milo @ Ya Kun Kaya Toast, somehow I felt the price was cheaper than the one in CP. Oh ya, the shop is also somehow quite different. I always thought that the shop must always be painted red, just like other shops. The one in Nex was white, and sold some random Asian delights just like Toast Box. Anybody knows any other outlets that has this difference? O_O

Around 3.30pm, we proceeded to VivoCity. I have no idea why suddenly so random, but went anyway. Not much change since the last time I went there. Candy Empire is still there, with the top 10 favourites not having anything as usual. Shopped more, and more boxes were filled up with numbers. =P

Dinner! I remember when Vivo was just opened, we went there to shop, and I had this meal, except for the carrot cake, for lunch. Now like grow up le, still eat the same things. Still as delicious as before, except I felt there was lesser meat and the price had certainly increased! I think next time go there don't want eat these items le. This cost $12.30... -.-

Dim Sum Cashier expression -> :V

Walked around at Vivo Skypark to relax after a delicious meal. Saw some random sculpture elephants and a fake person doing chin-up. Amusing, didn't remember these items in the past. I rarely take photos, as many ppl should know, but this was interesting!

Heh, cannot smile with the cat ar? =P

Good wad smile, as PM Naomi from Bukit Batok would say, "it's good to see you smiling, but if ppl want to scold you, it would be very hard for them as they would suddenly be loss on what to do with you."

(Y) :V

We watched the sea also, along with a strangely big ship docked at the VivoCity harbour. I have no idea whether that ship is taking off, or is simply a shopping ship for decoration purposes only. Wanted to go in the ship and see as long as it's free, but my mother saw the black smoke coming out from the ship and advised against this idea. Aw. :(

Evening time, went home. A very relaxing day indeed. :) Did I forget to mention that it was the 1st time I wore a green shirt when going out? =P

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28/12 (Wednesday)

JM's mother was strongly against him for cycling, so the plan changed completely. Instead of going to East Coast Park to cycle, we went to the Zoo instead. Yes, very random! Met up at lot 1 for breakfast at subway, then travelled straight to the zoo via 927. There seemed to be quite a number of tourists who asked me whether 927 was proceeding to the zoo, apparently they were nt 100% sure about their route. =P

A very cooling weather with slight hints of dark clouds hovering over the park. A good day to visit the zoo, and even better for cycling, but too bad. Is at least better than the other days of December, it was not pouring / raining heavily for the whole day. Tean power sia, chose a day where the weather is the best among other December days. :D

Bought adult tickets at $20 each, w/o any offer from OCBC credit cards, random passion cards, home team cards... An extremely long queue, but surprisingly the service speed was quite fast, so I am constantly moving slowly in the queue. Better than stopping at one spot for a long time right? ^^

Oh ya, JM used his I-phone to take some photos during the trip. I took the nicer ones and put it in another post, or else this long post will become super chaotic. =P

START~!

Treetops Trail, the one which I clearly remembered from the mathematics challenge in BP. Number of rings and diameter of circle? The board hasn't change, the structure hasn't change, and the place is still as green as ever. Saw some False Ghavial (crocodiles) stoning. A couple of Proboscis Monkey were eating sunflower seeds on a tree branch, quite cute sia! They do not seem to be scared of being in close contact with humans.

Otters, Tapirs, Babirusa, pygmy hippo. I found the Babirusa name very random, it's a pig, but had a really fanciful name. Got a pic of this pig in the other post. The otters were really cute, except they had a rather foul odour, probably warning others of their presence.

Zoo had a boat dock to the corner of the island, quite nice sia, but it cost $5 per trip and $6 for unlimited rides.

Visited the 'Australian Outback' exhibit with slight drizzling. Kangaroos, Wallaby (another kangaroo?) and a random Cassowary placed alone at the end of the exhibit. Didnt find the Emu, maybe it was hiding somewhere. The grey kangaroos can travel at 64km/h when they are escaping from danger, and can leap 13m, IPPT 25 points straightaway if someone can jump that distance~

Next up was a whole exhibit of monkies in the Primate Kingdom. Hamadryas Baboon, Patas Monkey, Crested Macaque, Colobus Monkey, Capuchin Monkey, Douc Langur, Spider Monkey and a random big fish called Arapaima. Anyone reading this paragraph should know that I am typing all these names from the Zoo map. =P

I find the Douc Langur very cute, the cute-faced monkey. ^^ The Spider Monkey is the best, extremely flexible sia! It was featured as one of the animals for the animal show 'Rainforest Fights Back'. The Hamadryas Baboon was very interesting, monkies living together as a family, and one of the baboon was like stimulating another baboon or something like that. Lol!

Saw JL and his ODAC buddies at the Garden Pavilion, rather surprised RJ and ZY weren't there. The toilet was way too natural, rainforest-themed, a bit of exposure, and a mini waterfall was built there! The foreigners were also rather anyhow, bring their daughters to the toilet, even though some of them looked like there were at least 7...

12.30pm, the Rainforest Fights Back animal show. The amphitheatre seems to be changed, as I dont remember all the plants and rainforest background... The show was quite ok, but the amount of animal interaction with humans seemed to be lacking. Still preferred the past animal shows or Ocean Park's seal show, those were really nicer.

Nothing interesting at the elephant exhibit or with the African Penguins. Proceed to the kids' corner, passing by the Ah Meng Memorial that had a statue which stated about Ah Meng's Death Anniversary date and memories about it. The Zoo's loss, but oh well, at least there are a few Ah Meng Cafe, so this legendary Orang Utan would not be forgotten in Zoo's history. Took a photo with the memorial.

The Kids' Corner had some extra Carousel and other rides. Didnt see much of it since it needed a ticket to get on them. Visited the giant rabbits which were rather small, the goats, the happy horses having their lunch. :V

The changed design made the whole farm animals' area look a lot smaller. The past farm area was definitely larger, with larger visible signs, and u can really differentiate the diff farm animals through their areas. Last time can also feed the goats with random leaves and plants dropped by the trees, is no longer possible now.

Zoo's KFC dosent sell snackers, or I would have bought 1 and ate it along the way. The other things were slightly overpriced, but it was much better than the other food outlet.

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Fragile forest was up next. Nothing interesting, except for the vegetarian sloth and the flying foxes which were bats. The vegetarian sloth was just having his lunch peacefully, not caring about the large number of ppl staring at it. The flying foxes could really finish their meal neatly, w/o leaving rubbish all over the place like the Proboscis monkies. The cleanly pecked corn was a good sign of cleanliness. Power sia! :D Insects, nah... Didnt see them. Apparently this exhibition is sponsored by SPH, and named as SPH Foundation Conservation Centre. Fanciful name indeed.

A break from animals as we headed to Orchid Garden and Tropical Crops Plantation segments with a light rain. 2 new areas which I have not seen before. The garden was fenced up, but visitors could still go in and learn from the various descriptions about the diff. kind of orchids. Largest, smallest, most common, you name it. JM was looking for Rafflesia, which should be the most anyhow idea possible in such a beautiful orchid garden... Haix~

Tropical Crops Plantation - If there is another visit to the zoo, I must come to this segment again. A lot of various everyday condiments, fruits and toppings grown in this place! Although we use the products frequently, we do not really bother about the origin, its roots, its history. So this place would just show the products, the descriptions and even other language names! Cool sia! There must be at least 50 crops here, including spring onion, brinjals, sesame seeds...

I didn't know brinjals were yellow when they were young... Hmm...

The common animals w/o any fanciful names were the next area. Zebras, Giraffes, Lions, Cheetahs, Warthogs, Meerkat, Rhinoceros, Orang Utans. The Naked Mole Rat was featured on the map, but we didnt find it. Is there any special thing about this animal? The lions are somehow isolated from the lioness and the cubs, maybe the lions had a bad name for eating / bullying their own children, thus kena protected by the mother. Wahaha~ =P

We went to take a close look on the Cheetahs. 1 of the posing cheetah (got a pic) was somehow staring at me the whole time while I was looking at it. How many animals will keep on looking at you even if you keep looking at it? The Cheetah mimic my simple head movements and eye expression.

Eg. I opened my eyes bigger while looking at it.
Cheetah -> Opened eyes even bigger~

O_O

A lot of ppl stared at this posing Cheetah, it must have gained a lot of fame.

------------------ Highlight of the whole zoo trip --------------------------------

SUNBEAR!

I have no idea why is this the highlight. Perhaps it just so happened that the 3 of us really liked this animal, or perhaps the bear is largely associated to Tean for random reasons, or maybe this is a famous animal ever since the animal started.

The sunbear looked very innocent, like a small kid looking at his mother for sweets. Just crawling around and playing with one another. Is this the smallest bear? The size of the bears are rather small, and I am assuming they should not be children, or there will be no one taking care of them (except the Zookeepers). The U-shaped white patch was the cause of the name, it resembled a shiny sun, hence sunbear. Interesting, didn't know this. I must have visited the zoo blindly for the past few times, w/o knowing anything~

The largest bear is polar bear, with white fur covering its black skin (didnt know that also). Tean took a picture with the information board of bears, didn't upload it though. Every bear had a line connected to the world map that showed its exact location or the origin, 8 in total, but I forgot the names of the bears. T_T

JM told Tean to point to Singapore.

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The next few were stoning creatures... since they didnt move much, or didnt even move at all. Giant Tortoise, small and large komodo dragons, jaguars, snakes. The snake house was a bit scary, perhaps due to the extremely large snakes, didnt really like it in there.

Critter's Longhouse held the cutest furry animals in the whole Zoo! If got kids ar, definitely must visit this place. Chipmunks, mini cheetahs, smaller Orang Utans, etc. Really cute sia! :D

Nothing interesting about the Flamingos, we proceeded to the main gift shop and browsed through the random merchandise. My white shirt somehow glowed in the dark, even though it's not from the zoo. Quite nice, but I still prefer the original colour of it. :)

With that, we ended the zoo trip at around 3.30. A very meaningful trip, although it was totally unexpected. Luckily the weather was fine and cooling. :) Knowledge EXP increased! ^^

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Went to Lot 1 to eat ketchup fried fish with rice, still as delicious as ever. JM bought a random shirt from the foyer (which was quite all right in my opinion) and proceeded to JM's house.

JM bought 2 Nerf guns (they are toy guns) and had a good time with Tean shooting their guns off. I was posting the pics from JM's phones and browsing through the random stuff on his com, interesting. =P

Left his house at 7.30, and this concludes a very eventful Wednesday! Once JM's legs get better, must get him to cycle. =P

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29/12 (Thursday)

I kena callback with Kane tomorrow. Zul covering tomorrow, seems like the whole Rota 1 will be at station tomorrow~ Irritated sia, long leave kena disturbed, but I think Kane should be furious... So hmm...

That's not the point right!? :V

A very boring day, exception for the few hours in the afternoon where I watched 'The Darkest Hour' with RJ, ZH and Keith. The story has no ending sia! The creatures still lived, some ppl still survived, nothing was changed, except for the part where 3 ppl died. -.- Don't really recommend watching.

Besides that, everything is boring. Managed to change my Zoo structure and continue more quests in SkyScraper City. Listened to 93.3FM online, which helped killed some boredom.

"When your car kissed my car, we won't go for a date, instead... Oi don't know how to drive ar!?"

Haha! 93.3FM has a really humorous traffic report intro! :V

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30/12 (Friday)

Supposedly last day of leave, which kena callback in the afternoon for fire-fighter Falconites Challenge~

Reached station way earlier than 4pm, so just stone there, look at the rosters and key in my leave form, listening to Encik Jamil's account on the 18-yr old asthma/collapse call which I went on 21/12. Chatted with Hafiz about what rabak calls we havent kena calls, and stuff about EAS.

Hafiz: "Zul is on duty, and surprisingly you came here, wearing white T-shirt, just like Kane who turned up this morning which was totally unexpected."

Haha, the whole Rota 1 was in station even though it's a proper off day.

The event started at 5.30pm, which meant I stone for very long after I prepared the spinal boards and oxygen equipments, a lot of officers from other stations and 3rd Div came down to watch the event, including 3rd Div Commander. A lot of supporters from SRC (Special rescue company, should be former SRB/SRP) and Sengkang. Had no idea who were the 2 Emcees, didnt take a look at them~ They tried to liven up the atmosphere, but I think everybody was just waiting for the fire-fighter challenge to quickly start... :D So let the event begin!

The circuit:

1. Wear firefighter PPE
2. Jump through the random tyres
3. Climb through the wooden crates tunnel
4. Climb up the ladder
5. Pull up the heavy hosereel
6. Run down the stairs
7. Drag the 110kg Big John for a short distance
8. Push the commander's car for a short distance
9. On the hosereel and shoot down the target to end~

Quite interesting, esp the ladder and Big John part, cos those were the dangerous and endurance strength test respectively. Someone almost fell down the ladder twice, scare me sia. -.-

SGT Razali was the fastest among everbody, including SC, FF and DRC, 2mins plus? Power sia! One SengKang firefighter had trouble dragging the Big John, and spent like 4 minutes at that particular part. With his small size, it was rather incredible that he could even drag a bit. Didn't complete that part, but it was good effort~!

I always thought, who will put all the trivial every duty routine items into a competition and see who is the fastest. Question answered~ :V Heng medical side dun have, or else there will be random things like who can set IV line the fastest or push the stretcher through an obstacle course. =P

Yishun won the fire-fighter part, which was somehow expected.

The fire-fighter challenge ended at 7pm. Apparently there is another event after the challenge which is optional. Wanted to go home initially, Encik Jamil asked me to wait for him, so oh well, no choice~ :V

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The event was a 3rd div annual dinner. O_O

Extremely unexpected, I thought it was just a random buffet or something which was informal or something for the firefighters to celebrate or eat after the firefighter challenge. Seems like the dinner is the highlight of the whole night. Encik Jamil's table had no available seats left, in the end I kena thrown to sit with Rota 3 ppl, including CPT Khairul Anwar, Encik Nordeen, Sgt Rauf, and the MSO. Although I am not very close with Rota 3 ppl, it is still better to sit with ppl i know. ^^

The events and happenings hosted by the Emcee were rather interesting, including fashion shows, catwalks, random songs and audience events.

- Recycled materials costume -

The firefighters used various used packaging, coffee packets, etc to make costumes such as firejackets, clothings, etc. Yishun made 2 disposable plastic jackets made out of OWL coffee packets. Interesting sia! Can be used for both genders, and surprisingly it does not drop easily, with the cost of less than $5 (of course not including the power la, haha~) =P

Rota 3 earned 2 boxes of chocolates from this costume competition, good job! They were not the winners though~

- Songs! -

A random guy held a chinese puppet in his hand, and sang a few chinese old songs, the puppet is a female, so any dual voices can be split between him and the puppet. Quite interesting and unique, although I felt it should not be a segment where they were a lot of Malays as they could not really enjoy it...

A firefighter sang 'I'm yours', along with the audience. A bit off-tune, but he tried to sing it in a slightly different way. I still prefer the original version though, but good job. Almost everybody liked the song, including me. =P

- Hokey Pokey -

The Emcee demonstrated on how to dance a few steps, basically moving in, moving out, and turning around. Got 1 big family had no trouble with that, and enjoyed doing the whole dance. Got 1 table only got 3 ppl, and had a lot of trouble with the moving out part.

Emcee: Ok! Now you all hold each other's hands, and move out as wide as u can! :D
Table of 3 guys: Er... Aiya let's just sit down.

Lol! Anyway when the Hokey Pokey music started, the larger families and tables with more NSFs started to play along, cheered and laughed along~ Our table didnt do that dance, so we watched the other tables do. A very fun sight, and definitely heartwarming to see everybody enjoying themselves. The best few tables got prizes, and somehow the group of NSFs managed to get the prize at last, which made them extremely happy. =P

The best part of the whole event was the catwalk. Before the catwalk, they issued each table with the 10 'hunks' and 10 star stickers. David was one of them, which I wasnt expecting at all. The rest of the guys look like they were firefighters or sec coms. Well, we assumed the stars were to be pasted on the photos, so we pasted 3 to 4 stars on each Yishun personnel pic. Until...

"Hey everybody, later you will be pasting the stars on their bodies. Please don't paste yet, how can you paste the stars without even looking at the performance?"

Oh shit... Anyway we managed to cut out the pictures and squeeze under their belts or external clothing. =P I forgot who won, but I dont think is from Yishun. It really takes a big deal of courage to show off your shiny abs in a cold MPH in front of so many ppl. Machiam Gay Night sia! Some showed a lot of confidence, some like want to faster go off. Lol! After the 10 were gone, 1 bonus guy went to the stage and took off his shirt. Everybody laughed and clapped~ :V

"Everybody muscles on the chest, all his muscles concentrated on the stomach!"

Before the results, all 10 people were asked questions, which were a bit similar to the real-life model shows. Got some questions which were really hard to answer, such as saving wife or mother only. The question like Saw style sia, sacrificing one of your beloved ppl. David was asked on what he could do if he had 1 million dollars to use within 24 hours. "Drinks on everybody for the whole day!" Well said! :D I would actually put it in a bank, then won't disappear already. =P

Got some which I found quite meaningful, and perhaps can be a reflection all the way up till 2011.

1. If you wake up one day and realised you are back to being a young kid, perhaps 6 years old, what would you change about your life?

~ I want to watch animes, play toys and read comics! A big regret sia, that my knowledge about anime characters can be as bad as geog... Come to think of it, I really had no life all the way up till JC. Perhaps come Civil Defence is the 1st time I got a life... Haix too late to change anyway, so oh well~

2. If time stops, everybody stops moving and you are the only one who is able to move, what do you want to do before life continues again?

~ I want a day of this freezing moment and take a look at people's lives, perhaps from famous people to friends around me. They could be playing games, walking around at random locations, playing at beaches, or even watching movies. Although these may be common activities, it would be interesting to see what people are actually doing without being informed. Or maybe can looked at our crushes, eye candies and know whether they are thinking about you or not? Wahaha~

3. David's question on million dollars!

~Seriously, I would put it in a bank so that it won't disappear, or maybe buy new electronics for my home, for station, fore fire post, furnitures / items my parents would like, a whole stack of movies, CDs and a new earpiece for my phone, dinner treat for friends! Any remaining money ask Civil Defence buy 1 ambulance for woodlands, so that Yishun won't always cover~ :D

Thats about it for the interesting events, the last one was a Sing-a-long session, but many left after the catwalk.

OH WAIT, THE FOOD!

The whole dinner is a 10-course meal, plus orange juice and random chocolate cake. I have no idea why the cake is like the middle of the whole dinner, but the firefighters enjoyed it. I didnt try the cake~

1. Chicken and mutton satays. Delicious, esp the peanut sauce! The satays are a bit hard to bite, but still not bad. Captain Khairul must have loved them, he took like 10 sticks sia!

2. Tom Yam Soup. I tried the soup like how I tried the red wine, took a fork to dip and taste the metal part... Like spicy leh, so I never drink the soup.

3. Crayfish. Allergic reaction.

4. Prawns with mango sauce. Big and looks crispy! Didn't eat though, allergic reaction.

5. Herbal Chicken~!! The whole table only me, the MSO and 1 more chinese girl eat. The chinese girl ate a bit, the MSO ate a decent amount, the rest all I eat. Sweet soup, the meat is tender, and is extremely nice! Was really hungry, since I didnt eat the seafood... The main dish for me. The MSO still said that I would be scared of herbal chicken for the next few days, sort of agree. :V

6. Fried fish! Rather crispy, the taste was good! Once again, not many people like this dish.

7. Vegetables with mushroom~ The sauce was weird, didnt like it. Just ate the veg and particularly the mushrooms. The mushroom was tender, but I prefered the barbequed version. =P

8. Scallops - skipped, allergic reaction.

9. Glutinous rice. A seriously wrong timing to give rice, since like 80% was wasted. The rice was very dry, and the ratio of fillings to the rice was not right. Only me and the MSO tried the rice.

10. Mango pudding. The mango is a bit sour, but overall the taste is all right. Not as nice as the external mango puddings though. A bit of leftover, although everybody had a rather large serving.

Overall the dinner is fairly good, not bad for a Civil Defence dinner~ ^^

An eventful night, no off-in-lieu, but nvm bah!

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8 days long leave officially over, now back to duty shifts again~! :D

Total no.of calls: 502

Zoo trip photos

2011-12-28T17:38:00.009+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

These are the zoo trip photos which JM have taken. I shall put the nicer ones here, the rest are either unclear, repeated or anyhow in someways or another. Enjoy! =P

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3 entrance tickets to the zoo. Baboon for Tean, Zebra for JM, Giraffe for me, although I am not tall~

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A really large tortoise! Biggest in the SG zoo I think?

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Random ducks~ Lol!

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White tigers, apparently sleepy and drowsy after a comfortable day under the sun...

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Nice, peaceful water~ :V

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On the zoo map, apparently this exhibit is pictured as a small place with a big stone. Appropriate sia!

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Tapir~

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Kangaroo! Sed-ia!

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We are, oh wait, they are family~!

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Baboons playing, having fun~

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This picture should be rated M18? =P

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I forgot what's the name of this bird, oh wait, it's a Cassowary! Haha a random name sia!

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A rather large komodo dragon~

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2 smaller versions of the komodo dragon. Still a bit big though~

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Mysterious sia...

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2 Proboscis monkies?

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Random kangaroo~

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Another random crouching kangaroo. :V

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(Junior chimpanzee looking)

Jr: Eh Senior, what is this?
Sr: O_O Er...

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"I handsome cannot ar!?"

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"Lonely... I'm Mr Lonely... I have nobody, for my own~~~!"

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Another loner, but this time a white prince, I mean a white horse enjoying its lunch. Haha white prince, too much fairy tales already.

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Ah Meng's memorial, forever remembered by the Singapore Zoo. I shouldnt have smiled, it was tactless.

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Cats printed on an elephant statue, very unique! ^^

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The rainforest-themed toilet, nice right?

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I didn't know bear have stories. Enjoy reading the story, if you want~

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That's all! Hope you enjoyed the photos! :D

It's really the end! Watcha' lookin' at!?

500 over calls

2011-12-24T21:03:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Time has passed really quickly, Halfway to ORD! ^^

Just putting in some memories about the cases anniversary...

100th call - NSF with asthma, conveyed from home with PM Ade.
200th call - Very jialat RTA at 400+ Yishun, 1st time grounded with PM Pam.
300th call - Assessing a runaway thief at a ulu Yishun road with PM Herda.
400th call - DOA 99 years old at SWAMI with PM Pam.
500th call - 9 years old kid fall down, RC with PM Richard.

That's all! ^^

Total no. of cases: 502

Guild outing and lunar eclipse

2011-12-14T20:28:00.004+08:00

the jellyfish is back! :D

1 year ago, this was my enlistment date, the sad tuesday which many recruits were counting down to friday. The day when life became a lot stricter, the thought of 2 years has just started...

Today... 1 more year to ORD! =P

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Early December is rather interesting, but from now till the end of the year, like nothing going to happen, so blogging about 2 recent events. :D

1. SOH/SD 1st ever guild outing~
2. Lunar eclipse

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SOH/SD outing!

Should have guessed that people would not be punctual, maybe for the exception of YX and the big exception of WL. =P The big rain caused half the ppl to be late, due to traffic jams and difficulty boarding of the buses. 6 ppl went, me, WL, my mei, YL, YX and Eugene (aka apple).

Poor Trecia (Kardo) was sick, and Leo didnt turn up for random reasons.

After my mei arrived at 5pm (30mins late), we proceeded to buy 'Puss In Boots' tickets at 2045 hrs. YL wanted to watch the movie very much, so oh well. Cat watching cat movie. =P

It was still raining heavily when we exited Plaza Sing, so umbrellas and jackets out, chiong... to realise that the rain had stopped suddenly. -.-

Walked to The Cathay, with my mei trying to make YX and YL talk... A pity Judysmile never come, if nt it would be interesting to know how she is like. ^^

1740 - Jap buffet for dinner. The name is very similar to the one in Safra Jurong. Is it Ishi Mura or smth? Uh forget already. Nvm. The price for adult weekend dinner is $29, unlike the below $20 price which my mei described. So went in, chat about life and helped to tick the orders, very similar to the Korean buffet which I had with JM and Marcus.

Not easy sia, esp when nobody understands the random jap names, and thus a lot of explanation and showing is involved. In the end, we managed to get the orders, after about 15 mins... Haha~

Tried out the pork belly, mushrooms, teriyaki chicken, sushis, 'muah-chee', steamed egg, takoyaki, fried potatoes, etc... Actually nothing special about the food, except for the mushrooms which were rather sweet and the 'muah-chee' was very sweet and soft!

'Muah-chee' was named by WL, cos the texture was similar to the peanut soft kueh sold outside, but of course this jap place wont have any peanut kuehs, the filling inside was green tea / yam / read bean, etc. The fillings were sweet, including the green tea flavour! If I ever go there in future, must take more of those. =P

Of course, the focus is talk about life right? =P So talked about random rubbish, like life in NS, jobs, what we going to do in future, a bit about maple. The service also brought some laughter into conversations... mostly kena me... -.-

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Scene 1

Eugene: Eh, you guys want more drinks?
(Random muttering: Er ok, thanks)
WL: Yes!!!
Me: Dun mind, more blueberry drink. =P

(Waitress fills the cups which wanted lueberry drink, except mine...)

Eugene: Sorry, can we have Peach Tea also?
Waitress: Sure~

The waitress then comes to our table, with swift movements and fast reflexes, fills my cup with peach tea at the first moment w/o hesitation.

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Scene 2

Our orders were kind of messed up, as there were quite a few missing dishes although they were ordered very long ago, I think my mushrooms and drinks are examples.

Halfway through the meal, they served the chicken teriyaki and pork belly. The chicken was ok, the pork belly was nt as nice as I thought.

When everyone was quite full, the waitress brought 2 more dishes to our table, which was exactly the same thing!

Me: O_O
(grabs the order list and see)
Me: Eh! Never order so much sia!

Walao, gave extras of something which I dun like, give steamed egg or mushroom even better sia. Hard a very hard time finishing the 5 extra sticks, so outsourced some to WL. Thanks WL! =D

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Scene 3

This was the best and maybe last the longest. For dinner, there was an extra item which everyone can choose. So since we were quite full, we thought of getting the ice-cream which we can eat at home or during the movie.

Waitress: "Sorry, the ice-cream stock never come in."

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In the end everyone ordered the red wine, including my mei and YX.

Me and YX didn't touch the wine, my mei and YL drank a reasonable amount, Eugene drank quite a lot. Since there were a lot left, I sort of sabo-ed WL, and poured into his cup when he went to the toilet. Once he came back...

WL: Walao! Why all in my cup! (Drinks finish the whole cup within 5 seconds)
Everyone: O_O Wa! Drink the wine like water sia! He must be really thirsty.

That happened twice I think, know WL almost 3 years le and dunno he can drink wine like water... Power sia! Good job!

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After the dinner, we rushed back to Plaza Sing to watch Puss In Boots, the movie ok la, nothing special to comment about. The betrayal part and the ending a bit anyhow.

Not as anyhow compared to our celebration for YL. We sang the birthday song in front of the whole public sia! A bit fail, should have celebrated in a fast food outlet. YL said the cake was nice though, how sweet! :D

Thanks to my mei's friend, whoever you are, for helping out! =P

YX left earlier as he needed to get home early. WL suddenly became giddy while walking, and ended up sitting in front of an ice-cream store. I actually didnt notice everyone stopped walking, a bit lag sia.

O/A patient was sitting, conscious. C/O giddiness. No breathless, no chest pain, no fall, no trauma. Patient was thirsty.

That sort of summarised wad happened to WL, the ice-cream man still wanted to sell us the ice-cream to help make WL feel better. WL got hypoglycemia meh... He always eat sweets and candies sia! -.-

We went burger king to rest, with YL enjoying his birthday cake and WL sleeping with his hood on. Left town at 11.30pm as I was scared to miss the last train, only then to realise that the train service was 24 hours to support the Standard Chatered marathon. Lol!

Fun! A bit fail on the cake part, hope there is another outing again! ^^

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2. Lunar Eclipse

"Afternoon! I'm sian!"

This is the activation energy for the whole evening. It was at first just a dinner outing at Nex, to eat ala carte fish fillet or smth like that. In the end, we ended up eating McSpicy meal!? Talked a bit about life, a lot about her work and her boss.

Her friend messaged there was a lunar eclipse in the evening, at around 8 plus? So we went up to camp at Nex rooftop garden, getting a good spot to watch the moon. Quite a lot of ppl sia, so I must be one of the more lag ones to know about the eclipse. Listened to songs from our phones, and watch the moon rise, changing colours and shapes? Oranges, sharp edges, shadows...

Apparently it was quite cold, so I lent her my jacket, which in the end she used the sleeve to smack me, lol!

Eh thats nt the point! In the end we never properly watch the eclipse, after waiting until 9.15pm. When I reach woodlands at about 10pm, the ice-cream aunty told me the eclipse was at about 9.40pm, and whatever remains was the red moon in the sky, which was somehow similar to the one I saw during the night shift with Zul at around 0330 hrs. A random outing, but yea it was nice somehow!

No idea why did I blog about this, maybe out of things to talk about le bah. =P

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That's all! :D

Oct start leave block

2011-10-09T12:02:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! ^^

After a very long good fun week, tonight must go back to the cold, cruel reality of saving lives, seeing drunkard ppl at weird hours of the morning. Good things must come to an end, so oh well! At least this block leave is more worth than the previous ones... haha! ^^

So anyway, posting about the block leave events! =P

Mon (3/10)

It was a bright and beautiful morning, and i online fb to check how many ppl complained about their lives and about booking in, when I saw Marcus' post.

"Well.. It feels fucking good to be at home while all mother fuckers are going to start work now!!! 3 days VL!!! woooo!!"

7 days sia for me sia, double the price ar! So anyway we decided to call up JM and go for a walk in the afternoon. Went to AMK hub to watch Johnny English again since JM havent watch before. A bit hungry after the movie, and we dropped by a random ulu Jap restaurant near the hub. Forgot the name.

Ordered a saba fish bento for $3.90, along with free flow of hot green tea. The taste of the fish and rice was nt bad, the salad tasted horrible, esp the sauce. Then again, $3.90 for such a combo isnt easy to find in SG, so maybe the quality balances up the price ba, haha. JM ordered some egg rice and Marcus ordered curry udon, both had the same comments abt me, quality for price. Hmm~

The next stop was NEX, where I did the CA exercise. O.O

Walked around, while trying the cheese egg tart which Marcus recommended. Ok la... Talked about life and then proceeded to the library to read some random comic books to kill time. Saw a lot of ppl mugging, and was strongly reminded of JC life, where I and War mugged a bit at lot 1. Where got time sia! =P

Shopped a bit at comics connection which i didnt buy anything as usual. Home sweet home after that, which concludes the end of day 1.

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Tue (4/10) - Marcus birthday

A day of stoning at home. Wanted to go station to settle a lot of rubbish, but David isnt around, so heck care, haha.

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Wed (5/10)

There was supposed to be a makan outing, but in the end only me, Marcus and JM went, as usual~ Lol! Went to a korean BBQ restaurant to have a buffet lunch. The place is at Centerpoint, unit #04-13, I think? :D

The place was a bit dark, but definitely cosy with the black tables and red sofas. Didnt really feel the air-con, but it was nt as hot as other bbq places. We got the table nearest to the main door, and thus can see many diff customers from different countries. The ordering style was quite unique, as we use a pencil to mark the items we want and pass it to a waitress. They will then give u the raw / cooked food u ordered.

[Most places are self-service or just clip the tag to ur plate of raw food and pass to the bbq section]

Tried a lot of things. =P

Appetizers

Onion pancake - Very crispy and fragrant! Not very oily also, haha~
Cooked slice pork - Very tender! The taste was nt bad. ^^
chicken ginseng soup - very cocentrated, and nt very bitter

Main courses

Chicken
Dory fish
mid-chicken wing
pork
beef
oyster sauce veg
egg fried rice

Nothing much about the meat, probably because the taste is about the same as other BBQ outlets. The egg fried rice and oyster sauce veg are very nice though!

desserts

Coconut cake - taste like those coconut kueh, the taste is seriously concentrated and sweet, really very nice! ^^
Sago - Ok la, like normal leh.
Watermelon - ...

I think around $24 per person for a weekday lunch, nt bad sia. Can come and try again in future, must order more of the onion pancakes. ^^

After lunch, we walked to Plaza Sing and look at the random stores again. Nothing really interesting, should have brought Aaron along as he would be a 100 times more fascinated about the cosplay and knives. =P

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Thur (6/10) - JM birthday

The day started out by helping my father until afternoon. Met up with JM and Tean at lot 1 food court. Chatted a bit about life, tasting JM's strawberry macroons (this time got a lot sia), and complained why me and Tean's leaves have to be spent in a hospital. =P

Proceeded to NUH after that by our own means. (not by ambulance) Never really get to see NUH as the nearest hospital in woodlands and yishun is usually KTPH. Some things are really fascinating though.

1. The toast vending machine

I saw that in TTSH, but never really get the chance to use it. Me and Tean bought a '2-sandwich combo' for $4.50. I tried the pineapple and chicken sandwich, which was really rather filling. Just press the combo button, wait for 90 seconds, and then 2 hot sandwiches would just pop out, very interesting. ^^ Paid $2.50, quite worth it, if only KTPH have this vending machine.

2. Circle line MRT station

If only JM delayed his checkup for 2 days, then we will have a faster ride home, but nah. So next time travelling to NUH would be really convenient. :D

3. Starbucks

It must be extremely random to build a new Starbucks outlet in a hospital. However, the outlet is really hot and stuffy, unlike the usual shopping mall outlets.

How sad sia, to spend your birthday in a hospital, but at least got company. So throughout the long wait, just chat with Tean about life while waiting for JM to check his injury. Apparently it is more serious than we thought, something about ligament tearing? After the hospital trip, returned a P3 casualty by taking a cab home. ^^

Camped at my house while playing traditional board games. Ordered Sapprino's pizza (cheese sticks, macaroni cheese & some random herb-flavoured pizza which i forgot the name) for dinner. The size is so huge until we asked my parents to join in the pizza fun. My father commented that macaroni on a pizza is seriously anyhow. Haha! ^^

The cheese stick is really soft, but can really taste the cheese flavour. The macaroni cheese pizza is ok la, nothing really special about it. The herb pizza is rather fragrant? Hmm~

Tean left at around 9pm, while me and JM continued to play monopoly all the way until early morning, we slept for a few hours and continued to play until about noon, and then he went home. Got the remaining few macroons at home to enjoy! Thanks and happy birthday JM~! =D

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Fri (7/10)

After JM left, rested at home alone. Need some personal time ya? =P

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Sat (8/10)

Went to watch Legend of the white snake with War and WL at JP. The movie is extremely funny and the animation is rather good. The storyline is a bit anyhow though, which I have no idea whether does it tally to the real legend in books. Surprisingly War had the best knowledge about the book legend, so he complained it is boring.

During evening, we went to Fortune Cuisine (The place where we ate before my enlistment) for dinner, since War felt like eating although he had a buffet lunch in the afternoon. Sometimes, going to locations without PH is really like going to a random place without a map. We took 284M and took 1 round back to Clementi station, wasting 20 mins and 26 cents along the way. In the end managed to find it, and we realised we were the latest to reach among all the bookings (4 only).

Ok la, the food is about the same, except me and War spammed a lot of mushrooms, while WL spammed a lot of drinks. The mood of eating is really different and better compared to last time before enlistment. :D

PH should have come along, the dinner would be more lively, he was busy painting submarines and battleships at his camp though.

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Sun (9/10)

Night shift. Sian. Good things must come to an end though!

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The end of a fairly long post, a block leave well-spent! :D

Sep 11 udpate

2011-09-26T20:10:00.004+08:00

The jellyfish is back! Nvr blog for a long time already, so a few updates on recent outings. :D

Content

1. Random saturday outing
2. 2 random outings with my mei~ =P
3. Zhen Wen's wedding
4. F1~

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1. Sat outing on 17/9

Weekends are usually peaceful as people would want to rest at home to prepare for a whole week of intense torture or heat-rash (haha for War only) in Army. For some reason, WL and Tean feels like having a full day outing on that auspicious same day, so went for half each. Haha. XD

After Friday's night shift, slept or a few hours, then went to west mall with PH, War and WL to watch Johnny English Reborn. An extremely funny movie, perfect for a person like me, wahaha! The airplane and helicopter part are really anyhow.

(Helicopter) Your current Altitude? Inches?
(Airplane) Susan pronounce as Su-san to make it sound like a guy's name. Lol!

Shall give it 10/10. =P

After the movie, we went to mac and hear War bombarding army stuff to PH. Boring. WL was having a lot of trouble with his rather big chicken burger, and somehow all the contents keep on dropping onto the box. War enjoyed the fries a lot, until want to leave mac also want to take WL's fries! Lol! =P

They wanted to eat buffet at an unknown place, but somehow PH and me cannot make it, so I think the buffet was cancelled.

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So after the 1st half, rushed to JE to find Tean and JM, which JM showed no hesitation in reminding me that I was late... Ps ar :D

Went to Sakura - Science Center to eat. 1st time there, and it was seriously a small outlet compared to Clementi or Admiralty Park. The variety somehow seems lesser also, other than that the taste is about the same. Tried coconut ice-cream and the steamed white chicken. Both are not bad, but it dosent seem to be better than normal places.

Chat a lot of rubbish and random stuff. From Tean's 3SG rank to CD day to outside life to JM's macroons, etc. At about 9pm, we left Sakura and played with the physical exhibitions outside science center. The random Sound tubes, the musical instruments and the piece-less chess board. Since there were no chess piece, we acted as chess pieces and places my bag, cape and medic notes as obstacles, while trying to survive on the board.

No life sia, but at least it was entertaining. =P Saw 1 Jurong ambulance along the road, it was another busy night for Jurong, haha.

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2. Outing with my mei

1 was at Citysquare (again) and another 1 was at Nex.

- Citysquare outing

Ate at the cheap Italian restaurant which somehow had a drinks bar. The restaurant quite amazing sia. You can press a button on the table to call for the waiters, unlike most restaurants where u still have to wave or start eye contact. Once u said u want the drinks bar, u have a lot of choices, from juices to soft drinks to ice water to hot beverages and roasted beans coffee. The food is seriously cheap. I think the most expensive dish is $11?

We ordered a plate of sausages, 2 pastas, 2 sets of soup and salad, and drinks bar service for 2, amounting to $30. The only bad thing is the quality, it is not as nice as pastamania, so that should be the balancing factor for the cheap price.

Got 1 woman using the cappucino machine like very hard sia, she literally jumped at the sight of the hot steam~ Children are also amused by the large variety of drinks, lol~ An entertaining sight to watch while eating.

Ate until full, power! After that, we walked around citysquare when a guy called my mei to wait for him. o.o We waited for almost an hour, so ordered 1 strawberry sundae and enjoying while waiting.

The guy finally came. Later I know that he is called Leonard, and it was definitely an epic 1st encounter with him. Apparently he wanted to celebrate my mei's birthday, and somehow the table of girls behind seemed interested, so must well all help to sing birthday song. Haha!

Went home after that. Very abrupt ending. (Sounds weird, but nvm)

- Nex outing

Not counting the CA exercise during July, it was my 1st time visiting Nex. ^^

VERY big sia! I really got lost inside the shopping center. A lot of random shops at random floors. The escalators like anyhow place de sia, so must really familiarise with the shopping center then can have a pleasant experience.

My mei was late for about an hour. (Retribution for being late for JM's outing) We ate subway before watching 'Crazy, Stupid Love'. Wanted to watch Cars 2, but the timing was off.

The movie is as funny as Johnny English. Really enjoyed it! The funniest part should be the teenage guy, so young want to have a girl already sia! XD

A connected love chain is so troublesome, hope next time I wont kena this. =P

After the movie, brought a bread and went off le. Rushing for time that day. Thanks to someone for being an hour late. =X

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3. Zhen Wen's wedding (10th Sep, 1330hrs)

ZW and WR's wedding was held at a random church at Sembawang on a bright and beautiful Saturday afternoon. The location is seriously very ulu, I passed by Yishun and Sembawang so many times also bo notice it sia.

Danny fetched me and Encik Fazly to go the wedding venue. First time entering a real proper church and looking at a church wedding. Before going into the church, we signed the wedding wishes card and gave a red packet. 1st time I give red packet, haha lol~

Non-standby ambulance crew to location, random church in Sembawang, case of Wedding.

The wedding / church hall is rather big and has air-con. I actually expected a non air-conditioned area... A lot of people were there already, and the priest had already started with the pre-wedding prayers. Just took a spot and watched the rest of the wedding procedures. The theory of the couple is interesting. Should the husband dote on the wife first or should the wife listen to the husband first? Sounds a bit like the egg or chicken come first. =P

After the theory, it is the marriage vow, the kiss, the lighting of the candle, the signing of the marriage certificate. Very romantic sia, it is so good to have a gf. Aw.

The video montague after that was entertaining. Most of the pics were taken when the couple was in Army or CD sia, they must have loved uniformed group life a lot, unlike a lot of NSF. Encik Fazly was featured in Yishun Fire Station, he must be very happy about this~ :D Photo-taking was the last part, and there were seriously A LOT of relatives sia! Basically can form dunno how many fire-fighter rotas already.

The couple very nice rite? ^^

This was the wedding photo with friends and well-wishes. (Part 7 of the photo-taking) The relatives took about another 4 parts of the photo-taking, so you can go guess how many people were there. XD

After the photo-taking was the buffet. A serious lack of space, but nvm. The food was not bad, ate fried chicken, fish, a bit of cake, Cheng Ting, cherry tomatoes, random tuna and egg tarts... I still think PJ's buffet is nicer, but oh well! :D Took an ambulance crew photo with the couple, but cannot find it. Aw. :(

After that went home. Nah, proceeded to Woodlands swimming complex to swim with JM, but thats a minor thing, so not posting about it. =P

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4. F1!

This was one of the weekends where almost everybody I know ask me to go out, even unexpected outings like P1 outing. Rejected all of them cos kena F1, aw. Went F1 with Maam Genevie, Encik Istamar and Anish.

-> Day 1

Reached station at 6am, and checked that a lot of things failed on me unexpectedly... After the check, proceeded to Marina Bay straightaway. The standby area was a random white tent on the roof of a 2-storey building. A bit small, but nvm. The power generator had some problem, and it kept on restarting, haix.

So just did Sudoku, ate some tidbits and listened to the fire side revision plan in the afternoon. Nothing much bah, and it is good that the day is peaceful. :)

Lunch was not bad, 2 KFC fried chicken and a mashed potato. Dinner was spaghetti with sausage, wedges, some sotong rings along with a packet of pastries for snacks. Throw in 1 more cone ice-cream inside. Haha. Really is eat until full sia.

Day 1 was the practice sessions of the F1 cars. Saw a bit of the cars in operation while walking to the toilet. Very loud, but practice sessions shouldnt be very interesting. haha. The night sessions were shown on the Sports TV though.

Reached home at 1am. A long but not very tiring day has passed.

-> Day 2

Reporting time was 8.45am at station. Reached Marina Bay quite early also, so we went to the food court to slack. The food presentation is definitely traditional, but the price is definitely into the future. 1 ice milo and 1 slice of toast cost $3.30. I think my downstairs chicken rice cheaper than that sia. Saw a lot of stores with the past traditional names, but somehow dunno much about them... o.o

Everything was about the same as Day 1. Lunch was a fillet-o-fish w/o cheese and tartar sauce, plus 1 more apple pie. Dinner was strange, so I didnt eat that. Ate more of the puffs and pies though.

Watched more movies that day. The contractor also put some wooden floorboards to prevent flooding of the area when raining. I dunno how it helps though, until I spilled a large amount of water from the ice-box. O_O

Day 2 was the qualifying round to see who get into the finals the next day. Got 1 car crashed onto to the kerb, aw! Heng bo activated. Boring also sia, maybe because I don't know how to appreciate the art of racing. :P

-> Day 3

Finals of the F1 race! About the same as Day 2. Except that the race started at 8pm instead of 9 or 10. People need to work on Monday ma, so must end early to rest early. :)

Ate my 3 meals in F1. Breakfast was Mee Goreng, which was quite nice. Lunch was fried rice with teriyaki chicken, fried fish and fried brinjal (!?). Quite nice, but a lot of things were fried. Dinner and snack consisted of chicken burger, coleslaw, onion rings, wedges, samosa, curry puff, kueh lapis and a hard round doughnut? Skipped the chicken burger, it smelled strange. Ate my dinner outside of the tent, while listening to the F1 cars zooming by. It was also the 1st time I saw SCDF comissioner.

CPT Tay made 100% fresh orange juice with a garlic chopper for some random reason. Support him a few cups. Watched the last few laps on tv, and saw 1 crashing the kerb on the 60th lap, suay. Spent most of the time doing sudoku.

Overall the 3 days were peaceful, thankfully. ^^ Before the F1, I don't understand why people would spend over hundred dollars to watch the cars zooming past them for 61 rounds. After this standby, I still DON'T understand why people would do that, it is seriously nothing interesting, watch on TV at least still can follow the car's track sia. Don't give bullshit answers like help support the economy that's why buy 1 ticket, I will laugh and smack u. =P

Experience of a lifetime! ^^

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That's all! End of a fairly long post. ^^

8 months passed

2011-08-24T21:17:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Time sure pass very fast, as 8 months have just passed like that, although I dun mind the time to pass faster. =P

Nothing much happened these few days, except for the weekend trip. XD Went with JM, Tean, SY and Wen Jian to Killney Road to have a Jap food buffet. The place is rather comfortable, with rather light jap songs and waitresses. ^^

Reached at 6pm, and started ordering all kinds of random food. Ordered egg sushi, random unagi fried rice, beef, chicken, mushrooms, fish roe, soup, steamed egg with and without cheese, cold platter, and a lot more. All the grilled / fried stuff were seriously much more delicious than outside food, fresher, better!

Some of the items~
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Steamed egg - both variations were great! I prefer the one w/o cheese though, the one with cheese seems like a very anyhow combination.

Fried sweet potato - Delicious, and can really taste the sweet potato~

Potato with fish roe and cream - The potato is soft! Fantastic!

Unagi fried rice - Very nice sia, like pepper rice.

mango california roll - the mango sauce is really sweet~ =P

Chicken satays? - Very tender meat

Egg sushi - Ok la. That one is normal.

Mushrooms - JM said there was a very fresh mushroom taste. Er... ok?? =P
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The menu can be quite misleading though. Got 1 item says Salmon skin, so I thought the salmon skin is the one where it is purely fried stuff. So when the waitress asked me how many pieces, i just shouted 5. (5 ppl wad) In the end it was a rice wrapping salmon skin sushi. Haha. Anyway in the end I ordered 2 instead of 5, so I finished the whole thing.

Tean was trying to be funny also, a food item got the word 'shake' inside, Tean assumed that was an english word and just told the waitress, "can I have 1 shake pls?" =D

Shake that! Everyday I'm shufflin'~

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A great gathering, esp when you can eat and talk to your friends about going through different lives in NS. The sergeants, the funny people, the jobs...

The cold green tea was nice, except that the refill service is rather slow. The price is about $42 after loads of charges for a weekend dinner. Worth it to visit, but not too often though. XD

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Medic life is as usual, nothing much. Monday was slack, only went for 1 call at 7.45am then no more calls for me. Helped Encik Jamil to check his FRP things and do the new FRP checklist. A bit anyhow sia.

I think I missed promotion, but dunno for wad reason. I can think of a lot of reasons why I missed promotion though. Heck care, be a happy private until dunno when, haha.

Yesterday got 1 maternity case, which thankfully the girl did not give birth to the baby in the ambulance. Lucky sia, the hospital is definitely a better place to deliver a child. :) The girl's water bag burst for 2 days, and she holded on to it. Power!!! Hope such things would not happen again, can scare ppl sia!

Please do not leave your water bag unattended. If you see any suspicious liquid, please inform your parents, or call 995. Thank you!

Total calls: 264

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That's all! ^^

Mid Aug

2011-08-12T21:19:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Only working 2 day blocks this month, the rest all night~

Nothing much bah, the 119th medics have arrived in station, and I seriously have no confidence in teaching... Anyway welcome to station life! =P

R1: Kane
R2: Hafiz
R4: Goh, Amin

Lekha is also attached to Yishun for quite some time, so there is somebody to talk to for these coming few weeks. Fantastic~ There were some SAF attachments for these few blocks, and somehow there were rather enthu...? Got 1 even want to carry the trauma bag with him all the time sia. Somehow I still feel Syafiq (the one who likes hazlenut latte) is still the best SAF attachment so far. XD

Other than that, boring life. Haha. That's all!

3 months in station

2011-07-15T21:20:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Soon going to be 3 months in station! As Xavier said, I have no idea why do I keep telling myself that a new junior is coming soon, nothing to do with me anyway~

A boring July, with going out for calls as the most interesting thing that happened to me so far.

Grats on those who POP-ed recently, and somehow a lot of people went into SCS, eg. ZH, MY, Sean Chan, CY, etc... Dunno how SCS choose people sia, somehow a lot of ppl who were chosen to go SCS does not have the ability to be a leader sia, lol! Heng medics cannot be Sergeants, if not sure jealous like hell, wahaha~

Today got 1 NUS medical student attachment by the name of Leon? The best attachment sia, really enthu, and helped to kill a lot of time today. Showed him around station, played with the stretcher, looked around the store and office, helping to change some random equips, chat and look at other stations' cases. A pity only got 1 day shift, should have a night shift in his attachment sia. =P

3 days working with Maam Herda is quite fun, at least this day block is not as slow as other day blocks. Thanks Maam for the curry puff! ^^

That's all. Rather tired sia. ^^

2nd 1 week break over

2011-06-22T14:41:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Today is the last day of the 6-day break for June. Aw. =( Never blog for very long le, since I was rather busy... =D So shall throw all the things that happened since early June in this post.

Contents:

1. Random spamming on recent ambulance cases
2. 19th birthday celebrations
3. 4th June dim sum with parents
4. 2-off happenings. O_O
5. Spending 2nd 6-days break.
6. Other random stuff

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1. Random spamming on recent ambulance cases

I saw 2 ppl died. 1 due to suicide, 1 witnessed collapse. Very jialat sia, the wife of the suicide case crying very loudly and apparently would run to hug her dead husband if not held by her son. The witnessed collapse... Somehow the old lady was prepared for this to happen, but then she still cry sia. Feel really sad for both of them, esp the witnessed collapse case. Just collapse only still can save sia, but still die. Praying hard it is not due to the CPR.

On the other end of the happiness meter, 2 patients once again saw the Earth after the holy water was given to them, dextrose. =P

Just like the qigong aunty, they also dunno my existence, until after we IV dextrose, the aunties then look at me and smile. Lol!! Got 1 daughter really cared about her mother, kept on asking me whether her mother is all right. Actually the whole crew is very angry that we got a call at 0727 hrs, but then she said thank you when we reached KTPH.

Ok lo, got a thank you, suan le. =D Surprisingly both hypo cases were at Yew Tee. Maybe Yew Tee is famous for such cases bah, haha.

Also watched the rare lunar eclipse at 0330 hrs. Before 0230 hrs no call sia, until the police go call for an ambulance for 1 drunkard, so just nice watch the red moon at 0330 hrs. Ok la, not as red as I thought. A lot of wind and rain though! I still have no idea why is everyone so fascinated about this red moon thing. -.-

Recently got SAF combat medics attached to Yishun Fire Station, and somehow the days were rather fun... Yea.

D (3/6) SAF Syafiq
N (7/6) SAF Faizal

3/6

That day was unusually peaceful, so Syafiq got a rather peaceful day in station enjoying the delicacies of Yishun Fire Station and KTPH. Very enthu about calls and his Hazelnut Latte~ Ppl got plan for future sia! =D

So that day basically spent almost the whole day chatting in the office and canteen. Talked about life, relationships, food, and discussing wad should I do to kill time during off days. I also tried the Mr.Bean peanut glutinous ball in soya milk. Ok la, got 1 bonus ball (huat ah!) and I felt... nothing much. -.- It is just another random ball. Like no difference from normal leh!

Encik Jamil treated me to canteen lunch including 1 mackarel? Suay sia. I ate lunch inside ambulance, and just as I was about to put the fish in my mouth...

"Station 31 ambulance call, turn-out Alpha 311..."

Walao eh! I want to eat my lunch sia! X_X

7/6

Faizal actually followed Zul, but then 311 broke down and thus he followed me in 312. ^^ We cannot waste a person's precious attachment by hunting ambulances in the night right? His life not as good as Syafiq, as it was a normal night. The fun part should be around 1am, where we chatted about life in the pantry eating my home-packed sausage bread. =D

That night should be the last duty of this attachment, so the ppl must be rather guai lan to end his attachment with a collapse case. At least he would have a much richer and fulfilling story to tell the rest of his combat medics. =D

SAF attachments are somehow fun. I wonder if this happens once in every 3 months. Skali PH or Warren become combat medic, I will laugh if they are attached to Yishun. Wahaha!

Finally, the end of random medic cases spamming.
Total number of cases so far: 138

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2. 19th birthday celebrations

Unlike all the previous countdowns at home or anywhere else, I counted down in Yishun office with Encik Fazly. Got no calls after 2230 hrs, so just sat in the office, talked about life, and watch him make the training roster until about 0130 hrs. =D

0130: Sleep
0700: Wake up
1000: Played maple at home~
1400: Watched movie with SY and William

Thanks William for the movie treat! ^^ SY must have been really busy, since he was extremely reluctant to go Causeway point as it was dam far.

1830: Night outing with Marcus and JM

Went to Admiralty park Sakura to have dinner. ^^ Not much difference from other Sakura outlets, but the place somehow is quite unique, as it is situated in a park.

Tried out the HK style fish, siew mai, durian fireball as new items compared to the previous few buffets & Sakura outing food. The fish was excellent! If this dish was sold in Yishun canteen at 1 dollar, I may spam it everyday, wahaha. ^^ The siew mai was not as nice as I thought. The durian fireball was ok though! =D

Not much about the food, but the feeling of eating with your friends and hear them sharing about their interesting instructor lives is heartwarming. ^^

After the meal, went back to my house to rest for awhile before setting off to CP to watch another movie. Tired sia, I slept during some parts of the movie. 1st time I experienced how Warren felt while watching FF4. haha =D

So thats's about it for the night. Thanks Marcus and JM for the dinner treat, and for taking up your night rest time to celebrate with me! ^^ Not easy sia, for an instructor to not sleep during a weekday night.

Oh ya, also must thank Zul and SGT Khin for wishing me happy birthday also. Ya I am touched. =P Also, thanks everybody who wished me HB! XD
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3. Dim sum with parents

Overall: Shiok ar!

Went to Chinatown with my parents to eat at Yum Cha restaurant. Definitely a surprise, because I thought they want to give offerings or smth as a routine.

Dishes tried out:

Steamed~

Siew Mai (1 of the best. The meat is dam tender)
Prawn dumplings (Not bad, but rather ex)
Pork ribs with yam cake (Normal, rather special with the yam)
Shark-fin Xiao Long Pau (A lot of soup! Can't taste the shark-fin)
Chicken pau (Very nice. =P)
Char Siew Chee Cheong Fun (Very sweet! The char siew is quite soft also)
Chicken Glutinous Rice (Not bad. A bit sticky though)

Fried~

Fish fingers (The best dish for the whole lunch)
egg tart (Delicious! But not very different from outside)
custard roll (Dam nice!)
Fried You Tiao (Okay lah...)

Cooked~

Beef balls (A bit ex. Dont really like this dish)

The food power sia! But don't expect to be full after the meal. The bill also power, amounted to about 80 dollars for 3 ppl. -.- A pity it is all Ala Carte menu, if only there is a dim sum buffet, I will sure spam all the food items at double the price~ Wahaha!

After lunch, we walked around Chinatown for about an hour? Bought 2 small calenders for 1 dollar. The uncle was very funny though, when I asked how come the calender dosent show public holidays, he told me it is ok. Heng I dun need a public holiday calender (since I am on rota shift), if not I seriously wonder how he is going to sell all these calenders sia! Perhaps ppl would highlight the public holidays with a red marker or highlighter? =D

1 for 50 cents, ok la. Can mark out all the day and night shifts.

Must thank my parents for the treat! ^^

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4. 2-off happenings (13/6 and 14/6)

A rather busy off-block. Got 1 firefighter went 'Walao Eh!' when I told him how I would spend the off.

13/6 (Mon)

0830: RT (Aiyo sian)

The only interesting thing is before I left station, got 1 SGT suddenly hyperventilate, in the end SGT Khin, being the only PM left, went to rescue him. Epic sia!

1200: Outing / chat with mei~

Should have listened to Koh JH's advice on reaching at 1pm. Bo bian just walk around and somehow the hour passed... Went to Ishi Mura @ 5th floor. (The place where I called Safra Jurong in JC)

Ate the chicken cutlet omelette rice and 16 small egg sushi for $8.30 total. So just talked about life, her studies and maple for about 2+ hours. Went to shop for some biscuits and cake after that, and then chatted more at a random course while eating tako for another 30 mins.

It was about about 5+ when I got home. Power sia, can chat so long. Nice outing though. And nope we didnt go anybody's house / hotel, in case if anybody wondered for any reason. Haha~

14/6 (Tue)

1145: TP BTT

Passed! 48 out of 50, dunno where I got wrong but nvm. Trial test I got full marks sia, wondered how come this time got 2 wrong. Going to apply for PDL during next off-block. Perhaps that should kill some time during my future weekday offs. =D

1400: IPPT & visiting Delta

Such a coincidence that is the enlistment date for 120th intake. How fast, it's been 3 months since 118 intake POP~ Once again reminded of recruit days, where the recruits live in fear of being punished every single day, the vigorous training and lessons. The fun and laughter with bunkmates, esp WB. The morning breakfast where Marcus always told the group his brother is a LTA in army. -.-

120th intake is going to have the best time of their NS life for 3 months. ^^

Somehow there were some leftover food for parents, and so I got a share or 2? Oh wait, it was 3 packets of food I got. The food was rather nice and the packaging was great! Was it Sodexo which prepared this? =P

1 packet of food: 1 chicken pie, 1 ham & cheese sandwich, 1 peanut swiss roll, 1 apple, 1 random pudding, 1 packet of orange juice. Really nice leh! If only Yishun sells this for 2 dollars. =P

Aaron went back also since he got a storeman course. Weird sia, he became clerk le still go for this course. Probably he is tasked to arrange the store of white papers needed in an office. Chatted with him and a few 119th people about life. A pity never see SGT Marzuq. It would be more fun! =D Left Delta at 6+, I wonder when will it be the next time I can visit.

Oh wait, since this sub-topic has IPPT, i shall mention a bit.

Failed, running improve by 1 min since the previous IPPT. The end.

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5. Spending the June 6-day break.

Break period: 17/6 - 22/6

17/6 (Fri)

Never sleep after the night shift, instead I followed my father to deliver his goods all the way until late afternoon. During the lunch break, he brought me to POLAR factory, and woah a lot of cakes inside sia! The prices were rather cheap, 1 sugar roll would be sold at around $1.35 outside, but the factory sold 2 for around $1.50. I brought 1 normal box and 1 chocolate box for $3.55 total. Delicious! =D

Went out with Tean, JM and SY for dinner at Lot 1. Talked a bit about life and hear Tean enthusiastically saying about his air force life. Boring. Hmm. Chatted until 9+, and I slept straightaway after I reached home and bathe.

18/6 (Sat)

Rested at home in the morning. Afternoon went out with Tean and Warren to watch movie at CP. Rather nice. Warren apparently went to Lot 1 and called me at 2.15pm to tell me he would be late. Anyhow sia!!! After the movie, we went to mac and chat about life (again). I realised my main activity outside is always movie and talking about life sia. No clubbing, not many physical outings (eg Zul and his cycling club).

Oh anyway, Tean talked about his air force life (again), and War talked about his moments as a recruit. Unexpectedly War survived well sia, unlike his buddy who kena heat injury and must be sent in a helicopter to CGH. A pity War turned down SCS course, or he could be a Sergeant already. Sure would be funny if he becomes a Sergeant and sing the 'Knock It Down' song. ^^

At night, had a 03 outing after a very long time. Met up with Demas, Benjamin, RJ, WJ, Keith and SY. We went to Carl's Jr. for dinner. First time in my life, and it was seriously crowded. O_O Ordered one mushroom burger set meal which cost about $15? (Walao eh damn ex) Compared to other normal beef burgers, this one is really large and the meat has a grilled taste. Solid meat, delicious! ^^ The fries ok la, thick fries which taste just about the same as other fries. Drinks free flow, fantastic~ =P

While eating, everybody else was talking about army life... Talk about RJ inside SCS course, WJ being clerk, SY complaining about his life as always, etc. Seems like almost everybody (maybe except SY) is having a rather good life now, and had interesting experiences.

~Civil Defence is done in an urban setting, no need for forests and field camps, wahaha~

A lot of people was sianned about booking in on Sunday night / Monday morning. For some reason, I was the last person to be asked on when I book in. Epic sia, the moment.

Demas: Eh Jeff, when you booking in ar? Sunday or Monday?
Me: Oh, Thursday night.
(Someone else): Eh, then which camp you book in?
Me: Yishun Fire Station.
Ben: Wa, not a camp, but a Fire Station somemore.

Perhaps I should summarise all the advantages an ambulance medic have. =P

An ambulance medic has the best rota shift (DDOONNOO), around 12 hours per shift, can get to go home everyday, and can get to strip girls clothings (12-lead), wad more can a medic ask for? =D

Ok la, I agree to every part except the girl's one, I station 2 months only did that twice sia!

Before we went for the movie, William came! (Wow!) Helped us to take 2 photographs and thank you for his participation. Watched Green Lantern, rather nice. =P

That's it for the outing! Really enjoyed it. Pity ZH and William never join. Haix.

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19/6 (Sun)

Went with parents to Geylang and eat durian. Nice! =D Other than that, just rested at home.

20/6 (Mon) to 22/6 (Wed)

Rested at home. A serious waste of time. I rather go back station work and put the leave at other days sia.

July never take leave. August onwards until December must have at least a 1-week break per month. Hope it is eventful like the May leave week. =D

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6. Other random stuff.

Watched Kung Fu Panda, Green Lantern, X-men (1st class) for June. All 3 are nice! =P

Kung Fu Panda is funny, and finally the panda realised his father shouldn't be a crane, how slow. XD

Green Lantern was not bad, the boss like a bit easy to defeat sia! Should have added more HP or avoid stats to it. Can make anything you want with the green light sia. If only medics got the green lantern, I would make an X-ray machine that could see through the trauma bag and ambulance cabinets. Like that check would be much easier as I dun need to open up / zip open the compartments. Wahaha! =P

X-men was quite long... The ending was rather unexpected, maybe because I didn't know much about X-men anyway. The theme of betrayal is rather evident...

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Thats all for this long post! =D

End of May 2011

2011-05-29T07:47:00.004+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Tomorrow I am working night shift again, even though I worked 2 night blocks in a row already.

Content:

1. Night blocks interesting cases
2. PJC 10th College Day

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1. Night blocks interesting cases

I finally ran alone with Encik Norazni and Encik Rahul. Not bad la, they got help me somehow, esp Encik Norazni ^^ Maybe is the starting, but I somehow feel less stressed when running alone compared to running with a senior medic, probably because there isnt a person who will keep on saying "You got to do these things faster" everytime. =P Wahaha. Starting la...

Maybe in MOC, the 1st protocol which I really listened and learnt should be the diabetics protocol, esp hypoglycemia. I thought that since this is the easiest protocol to learn, then it should be the easiest protocol to do. Wrong sia!

I actually didnt know that if a person is hypo, the person may have an altered mental state. Just imagine a person looking at you, shouting random rubbish, but yet dosen't know that he is looking at you, and dont know you are there. Scarier than a drunkard sia! Thank god the dextrose helped her, or maybe she will think that she is in the hospital all along w/o the ambulance.

Loads of DIB cases, probably the air in Yishun is very bad, until everybody cannot breathe. -.-

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2. PJC 10th college day

Went back to take the 3 distinction award. Not bad la, $50 book voucher in a card form. O_O It was great to go back as an alumni, and see all the J2 faces looking very sian. (Eh I was also like that during J2) Some even more power, mug inside the LT sia. -.- Shall comment on the different segments of College Day. ^^

- Speeches, prize giving

Bloody boring. Heng JM was just behind me, if not I would really stone throughout all the 3 speeches. ^^

- Choir song & starting Band performance.

The Choir sang 'Go The Distance' in dunno wad language, which I thought was rather nice to listen to. The band performance was great. ^^ Probably the most entertaining performances for the whole day.

- A guy singing 'Meng Xiang Qi Fei' or smth like that.

Never heard of this song before. Some said that this is a very old song, which I am nt sure about it. In my opinion the song was nt bad, except at some very high parts which the guy purposely skipped singing. A very clever tactic, and is definitely much better than him trying to break his voice at those parts. Good job! =D

- A random slideshow / video showing SG in the past involving some PJ alumnis.

PJ should not repeat this thing again. It seriously serves no purpose sia, and somehow dosen't link to the school at all.

- School song and college creed

Probably the last time I sing the school song. Aw. =(

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After the whole thing, it is time for the buffet! =P Definitely the climax of the whole day. XD

Ate sausages, siew mai, prawn dumplngs, teriyaki chicken, sweet and sour fish, raisin rice, some random kuehs, satays. In so many prize givings from P1 until J2, this should be the best school buffet I ever ate. A great variety and the taste was great. The way they present also quite unique sia.

Normal buffets will be like throwing everything in 1 row or a U-shape, and you just get everything in 1 line. Boring. This buffet got seperate quite a bit. There is a seperate section for dim sum, another one for satays & other malay food, and yet another 1 for sausages. The rice and other dishes are then in the center of the concourse. To prevent overcrowding, they doubled the places for some sections.

A great day, but it took about 6 hours of my off day. =O

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End of post! ^^

1st 1-week break from Yishun

2011-05-21T23:37:00.004+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Had a 6-day break (since I took 2 days of compulsory leave?) from Yishun Station, which should be somehow the same as SAF's 1-week break. ^^

It somehow feels very good to be able to do what you want, have your own meals at your own timing, and do not need to fear of being interrupted when you are doing anything due to stupid reasons like gang fights or asthma attacks. =D

Probably that happy feeling will be significantly elevated to a much higher level when I ORD. Wahaha! =P

Hmm... A review of what did I do for the 6-days break, starting from monday to today. =D The 1st ever 1-week break in NS!

Monday (16/5)

Slept until the evening as I had night shift before. Tired sia, 7 cases, which the 1st one was a collapse case, and somehow all the ventolin inhalers were spoilt. Loads of ppl called for asthma attacks sia! Ate dinner and went online until late in the night. ^^

Tuesday (17/5)

Went to watch 'Priest' with WL at CCK. Somehow War was not free as he had army homework, and PH was as usual not free. The movie was all right, although I didn't really fully understand the whole story and the ending. Some stunts were rather cool, such as the woman throwing 2 stones for the guy to step and run even higher. If you like action-packed movies, Priest is not bad. I shall give it 7/10. =D

For the night, I went into Maple since it was the last night before Big Bang Patch. Nothing much interesting, a lot of ppl are counting down for the next day.

Wednesday (18/5)

Resting day to recover some mental strength. Lol? Packed some areas of the house and my room since it was rather messy after MOC course, and I had been dragging the tidying for quite long le. So now it should be ok already. Haha. Afternoon relaxed by watching random videos as promoted by WL and playing killer sudoku online. Wth sia, the online version is damn difficult, I took close to an hour in solving 1 easy puzzle sia! If only that can be made into a book, bring to Fire Post, and aim to finish before I ORD. Haha!

At night played a bit of maple, a bit of exploring of the Big Bang contents.

Thursday (19/5)

Half day of exploring Maple in the morning. Went to Jurong with William to swim and relax. =D Rented a big float and just circled in the lazy river for a lot of rounds and talking about life. Played at the wave pool also, and it is seriously much nicer and stronger than the one in CCK. (If WL sees this he will go 'Ha! CCK!') Just slacked and here those small kids swimming to nowhere, there was even this 1 girl who held on to the float and just swam towards me. -.- Cannot see ar!?

1 small boy even more power, he was like talking to his friends on a random subject, and suddenly the vulgarity CB just came out smoothly, as if it was the dessert to the main course. (Does this make sense? Haha.) William tried the blue (longest) slide with my float, and he said it was very very scary, and can even hear the wind sound against him. Woah. O_O

Ate dinner and walked around Yew Tee. Reminded of the days in JC where War was chionging the maths holiday assignment at Subway @ Yew Tee, and gave up integration in the evening as he wanted to chiong home to watch a movie. How fun it was in the past. ^^

Friday (20/5)

Spent an entire day resting at home. The best day to get some well-deserved sleep.

Saturday (21/5)

Morning went out with Marcus, JM and Brandon to Novena Veinna (smth like that) to have a buffet lunch. Recently I watched a buffet show on TV, and thus I had this first impression thing. So my first impression?

Wakao! After the 2 plus almost $42 per person sia! The environment was ok though. Somehow the deco a bit more grand than most usual buffet places. Tried out the following dishes.

Meat:

Wine-cold chicken (... a bit weird sia)
Roasted chicken (nothing special sia!)
BBQ chicken chop (Hmm not bad, with the black pepper sauce)
Dory Fish (nice!)
Salmon (not bad, at least dont really have the fishy taste)
Creamy scallop (Not bad! Considering I do not really eat that)
Unagi (I recovered 3000HP since I took 3 pieces. Delicious!)

Mini foodstuff:

Fried durian (Try 1, but it dosen't go well with me, the skin is too dry)
Durian fireball (Nice name and nice taste!)
Siew Mai (Excellent! Really a better standard than most places)
Fried tempura (Nice!)
Fried prawn ball (Er... Nah)
Random california sushi roll (Not special)
Bird Nest tart (Really can taste the bird nest...)
Corn soup with pastry (The pastry is nice! But maybe not the corn soup)

Dessert:

Coffee / chocolate cake (Nice! Strong taste!)
Kueh Lapis (Nothing special)
Herbal Jelly (DAMN BITTER!!! I assume that is an excellent jelly)
Custard jelly (Er... Like no taste sia!)
Strawberry & Mango ice-cream (Nice! But somehow isnt different from outside)
Chocolate marshmallow (Nice chocolate taste! Should have taken more.)

Drinks:

Orange juice (Nice!)
Lime juice (Nice!)

A lot of variety sia, still got abalone rice, random mushroom soup, beancurd, random sushis and the assorted prawns, crabs. Either they are out of stock / I cannot eat / I don't like. Great for seafood lovers, but somehow I don't think this buffet suits me sia.

For once a month and get to chat with recruit friends again, not bad sia. Hear random stories about Charlie & Delta which were rather interesting. After the buffet, we went to Plaza Singapura for a walk, and saw Samuel and Tean. Somehow everybody is surviving well, but wish to POP / ORD sooner. ^^ Good bah. This concludes the May outing.

Night went to watch Pirates of the Carribean with War. Somehow I prefer this compared to Priest, so go watch if can. ^^

Hear War talk about random Tekong stories (his friendly sergeants, his blur buddy, PT, etc). Interesting, a bit diff from Civil Defence life sia!

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That's it then, tomorrow and monday working night shift. Hope the block goes well and hope people don't call 995 for stupid reasons such as giddyness / asthma again. Asthma just use the inhaler and it is the patient's responsibility to check. 995 supposed to save more jialat cases wor. =P

That's it! Sleep! Good night! =D

Previous cases: 13
Total cases: 78

(P.S note to WL: I just updated, haha.)

3rd day block completed

2011-05-11T21:43:00.004+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Finally another day block has been completed! Super tiring block, with loads of weird cases. Well not really weird, is just that some calls are just misleading, esp the call texts.

E.g. Today

Call text: Hypoglycemia patient fall down.

I thought how hard can that be sia! In the end, spinal injury, head injury, heavy patient in confined area. Standby case somemore, I think the procedure to treat this is almost as bad as collapse. -.-

If not nothing much interesting, loads of chest pain and DIB cases. An old woman cried and looked at me as she had chest pain, and a foreign worker held my hand and told me to save him as he fell from height. I a bit stun sia, what could I do? o.o

Oh well, at least next 2 days can have some good rest. ^^ Off-run! Require 03 days to refill energy. =P

Block cases: 13
Total cases: 65

3rd night block 1st night

2011-05-07T11:59:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

Last night was a damn busy night. Vomit, high BP, false call, leg pain, DOB, collapse and 1 random.

Tired, hope tonight won't be as jialat... Going to sleep, good night / morning / afternoon all! ^^

Happy polling day to all. =P

Total no. of cases: 46

2nd night block completed

2011-05-01T08:33:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Today off, tmr and tuesday day shift. =D

The last night block was fun with Anil, Edy, Encik Norazni and Encik Fazly. The cases were somehow weird compared to the previous 2 blocks as there were MIA cases, abandoned cases and anti-climax cases. Overall not bad, but a pity the ppl I work with are not in Rota 1. How sad. =(

Ty Anil and Edy for going through stretcher drill so as to let me be more familiar with 312 stretcher, and also for being patient with me. Haha. ^^

Ty Encik Fazly for all the random jokes (WL should find him funnier than me), advices that would help me like station life better. =P

Oh well, fun times must end. I gotta feeling next block no more medic senior already... Wonder if that is a blessing or a curse.

Happy labour day! ^^

Block cases: 10
Total cases: 31

First 8-day set over

2011-04-26T16:53:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! At last, the 1st set of 8 days (not the magazine) has been over!

Shall post generally about life inside...

- Day Shift

Taken by Eugene (most kilat medic) and Encik Jamil. Learnt the most things through Eugene, and he really did his job well even though he going to ORD. Patient la, although I made a lot of mistakes to anger him. Encik Jamil is nice also, giving advices on how to be a better medic. ^^

Day shift is somehow less tiring than night shift, probably because it is the day and thus I am more adjusted to it. Haha. Cases are generally about the same, asthma, stroke, unconscious baby...

First time I went to KK - children hospital, and woah really a lot of kids sia! A nice and clean place, but I got a feeling I wont go there often...

- Night Shift

Taken by Xavier (another excellent medic) and Encik Rahul. Nothing much ba, somehow I find Xavier's way of doing things to be easier, dunno why also. My 1st case was also during the night, where there is an unconscious 16-yr old girl. Nothing much. Xavier I think also somehow lost his patience thanks to me... Haix...

Night shift ok la, but at about 5 or 6am, got temptation to sleep. A lot of weird cases at night though, like alcohol intoxication and walking injured casualty. o.O

No preferences over the shifts, but I think the 2 offs after the 2 days are the best~! ^^

Hope the next few blocks / shifts / sets are better...

Total no. of cases went: 21. Off-run now, roger out. ^^

1st day in Yishun Station

2011-04-18T21:15:00.006+08:00

the jellyfish is back! 1st day of Yishun Station has ended, and tomorrow is my off!

Got lost on the way to Yishun Station, thanks to the bus interchange officer who anyhow gave directions. Thankfully I followed an Yishun Station Clerk to the way to the station. He really guided me along. Haha. Now I understand why Sir Greg say even clerks can contribute to a lot! ^^

Nothing much about the 1st day, since it was mostly admin work. Morning met up with the 3rd division ppl and proceeded to collect our uniforms, CA suits and filled in some random forms. The Encik who briefed us about our future was quite ok, probably he tried to make us feel that our lives in station would be interesting and meaningful. ^^

Afternoon, only Yishun ppl stayed, and so we slacked in the admin office from 2pm all the way till 6pm. Apparently Yishun ppl love to take breaks, since I had about 4 breaks today? =D

I realised the medic and admin side ppl are really friendly, they try to help the newcomers in many different ways and how to survive in Yishun station, especially when dealing with higher ranking people. Some were seriously too friendly or helpful until I didn't guess their ranks correctly.

(3rd major misconception)

While me and Yasir finished filling up the interview form. This random guy asked us for a favour to help his friend out in transferring things from an ambulance to the other. He really asked with a question mark instead of most ppl giving a full stop statement which leaves us no choice to decide whether we want to help out or not. We agreed to his request though. So I looked at his rank...

He is a Sergeant... o.o

(2nd major misconception)

Since I reported rather early today, the provost department also like sort of confused on where should I go. So this random Encik came to help everybody out, and tried to ask people on where should I go and at wad time. When nobody knew, he guided me to the watch room and asked whether I was ok with a wet attire since I was caught in the rank. He also asked me to take care of myself inside and don't catch a cold.

A random guy in the watch room asked me this question.

"What did the RSM tell you just now?" O_O

(Major misconception)

After the afternoon canteen break, I realised my comics I drawn while I was in MOC were missing, and realised this random guy in vest and slack looking and asked whether I was the one who drawn it. He said it was nice, although he didn't understand some random medic terms. Haha.

He then requested something through the phone with an officer, and sounded quite informal but courteous. I was laughing all the way through his conversation. He then took some photos, looked at it and cut some into heart shapes. Apparently he was pleased with his cutting, and proceeded to show the office ppl, me and Yasir and asked for comments. It looked a bit ugly, but I said it was ok.

After a while, he left the office to do some things. The friendly office Lance Corporal asked us to look at the organisation chart of Yishun Station. Quite nice, I identified the LCP somehow, and I asked which picture was the random guy who was cutting hearts.

(Points to a Rota Commander picture) The guy you saw just now is this Lieutanant. A very friendly guy.

Wow, a 2 diamond guy talking to privates so closely sia! First time I experience this in SCDF. Generally a diamond guy and a private would have a gap, but this guy can really make everyone feel at home! ^^ After he came back, he brought us down to do some chin-up in a form of a competition. A bit random though. He somehow love to promote the ppl around him to participate in physical activities, a healthy habit indeed.

A pity he isn't my rota commander, if not it would be great! 1st day over!

Bunk 20 April outing

2011-04-17T20:16:00.003+08:00

The jellyfish is back! Posting about how I spent the saturday night after POC... ^^

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Before I went for the random bunk outing, I headed off to MOC outing at Changi Beach first, just to look around.

Sat (16/4)

1400 - Set off to Changi Beach

1630 - Reached Changi Beach -.- I was damn late as the BBQ actually started at 1600 hrs. Rented a bike to cycle and find Sgt Budd and the rest, which I didn't find until about 5.30pm. It was at a random corner that was nt on the main road. Didn't cycle for a long time, so therefore it was great to cycle again! ^^

Not many ppl were there when i reached, only Sgt Budd and his organising committee were there. Cpl Hazique and Sgt Izuan came after me and expected some food to be ready already. Too much.

1800 - JM called my phone and asked how come I was not at vivocity. Apparently I thought we were going to meet at 8pm, somehow I was wrong and I was supposed to reach at 1800 hours. O_O So therefore late... Really rushed all the way from Changi to Harbourfront, thankfully didn't miss the train and bus.

1900 - Finally I reached! Marcus, JM, Aaron, Willis, XW and Noel were there waiting already. Sorry guys! So walked around Vivocity and somehow the food outlets there were either too crowded or not to our liking.

2000 - We went to a steamboat restaurant near Bugis in the end. The food is sort of ok, considering I ate much more non-meat items compared to meat items. Spammed a lot of mushrooms, sausages... The bread with melted butter and custard was great! Talked about recruit life and the funny things that happened, and hear about Marcus talking about his instructor life. Pretty boring for the instructor part.

Another table around us was occupied by teenagers, and their voice volume was really damn high. In the end we tried to be louder than them, a bit of effort... A pity WB wasn't there, if not he would own the whole room. Lol! ^^

2230 - Sent Aaron and Willis off as they had curfew. XW also disappeared w/o a trace. We went for a walk to Scape~ Walked around the building, went to the rooftop to look at the stars, looked at the entertainment which was a bit boring. We also bought movie tickets for a midnight movie! =D

Sun (17/4)

0015 - Went to a Starbucks outlet to have midnight snack. I didn't order anything as I was not hungry. The others ordered random coffee and cheesecake. Slept for 1 hour so that there will be mental energy to watch the movie later.

0115 - Left Starbucks for Cathay, and watched Bangkok knock-out. A pretty interesting fighting show which kept me awake for quite some time. The starting of the movie was on medic scenes which I gave a -.- expression. The movie is really about trusting the people around you, endurance and strength. If you are a person who like fighting movies, go watch this. Is nice! ^^

A person like me also quite like the movie, let alone all those who love fighting movies.

0345 - Left Cathay and walked around Dhoby Gauht to find a soya-bean shop? o.o (It was not found btw) Then walked to another random starbucks shop to have breakfast. Ordered the apple fritter which was very sweet... JM ordered a cinnamon roll which had not much taste. Marcus ordered a random chocolate muffin. Overall an 'ok-la' breakfast. We then slept until about 5.15am. ^^

0515 - The 1st train was still not in operation. So we waited in the street until 6am, before dialing a cab home. Never really appreciated a night time scene in town, and wow, it can be considered still quite active at a ulu time in the morning. ^^

0600 - Me and JM took a cab to woodlands, and reached home at around 0630 hrs. April's outing officially over! It was a fun night though, since I do not really spend my nights outside. Wahaha! ^^

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Hope future outings can still be this fun!

118th MOC POC

2011-04-15T22:11:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Finally POC already! =D

So after all the random trainings, tests, the 5 weeks are finally over! ^^

Should be passed everything, with the exception of unknown final theory test results. Kena posted to Yishun Fire Station (3rd division HQ) for the rest of the 20 months of NS life.

Somehow many things have changed throughout these 5 weeks...

1. People whom I know do not speak vulgarities sent 1 sms of vulgarities to me... o.o
2. Having a girlfriend / having sex is no longer a 'woah so early!?' kind of issue.
3. If i forget the medical procedure, is no longer losing marks but losing lives.

Got some ppl who went through MOC with me most of the time~ ^^

- Imran aka Boy Kilat (kena posted to instructor)

One of the most kilat ppl I know who is not shiny. The person who I thought was an instructor during my 1st day as he really looked like one. A pro in first aid, since he knew a lot of bandages during the STI lesson while I was lost like nobody's business. A really good drawer of houses though... =P A person who like really answer a lot of crappy questions I ask. 118th MOC best trainee, KILAT!

- Faisal! (kena Alexandra)

A mini mama-shop, always full of golden oreos and bread, thus section 7 never goes hungry. ^^ Medical standard same same la, not so pro. A nice person to talk to, especially while talking about recruit life! Wahaha! ^^

- Samuel! (kena HQ)

A person who never fails to ask a lot of questions. But definitely a polite person, and helps out when needed. ^^

Ok, that's all for this random short post. I seriously wonder how life in Yishun FS is like. Haha! ^^

MOC 3rd week clear

2011-04-03T18:44:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! MOC 3rd week has passed quite peacefully? Well, if you minus out the excessive punishments, the delaying of time for no reason, and all the stupid reasons for doing things...

Post contents

1. Random things about MOC
2. Outing with D-MOC ppl.
3. Other random rubbish

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1. Random things about MOC

Recent tests:

- IV [Failed, veins cannot be found]
- Theory test [Pass! Surprisingly]
- Stretcher test [Pass]

I became IC on wed, which was damn rabak, and probably the suay-est IC for these 3 weeks. I even saw a Major and dun know whether that person is a male or female. Guessed wrongly for the person's gender... At least I do not have to be the IC anymore!

IV was nothing much, since me and Samuel veins are problematic. According to our instructor, mine likes to hide, Samuel's veins like to run. Wth does that mean lol?

Theory test i passed! 40% pass rate only though. Stretcher test I teamed with Imran, Samuel and Sahyd. Overall we made a good team, and passed quite well. Sgt Budden was evil with the sitting position, and also chose heavy ppl to be casualties. The stretcher test was fun! ^^

We got tricked during April Fool, thinking that there would be a re-test. I was glad that there was no re-test though!

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(to be continued!)

MOC 3rd week start

2011-03-28T20:42:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Finally reached the start of the 3rd week of MOC!

Medic can be said to a perfect vocation for me, it has very good instructors, excellent content to be taught, a very knowledgable Ma'am which has a rank of a warrant officer, very sociable and excellent section mates, skills that are usable in the future, delicious lunch in CDA...

If not for my lack of interest in bio.

Nothing much happened in these 2 weeks, except for the experience in a CA suit last thursday which was rather hot, and tmr MOC is going to do IV. O_O Wishing me and other medic trainees the best of luck!

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Things which are going on the next few weeks for me? =P

29/3: IV
30/3: Theory test
31/3: Stretcher test
2/4: 1st driving prac lesson
3/4: 2nd driving prac lesson
6/4: Theory test 2
12/4: Theory & PAM test
13/4: Final Ex
15/4: POC lo! ^^
11/5: Basic theory test (real)
1/6: Very important day! =P

Lazy to update other days.

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Post end! ^^

MOC 1st day

2011-03-14T20:26:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

After recruit life, I am now a medical-orderly trainee for 5 weeks! A bit sad that I am not in TMO, but nvm, take it bah.

Start: 14th March
End: 15th April (That's 5 weeks of training!)

I am now in Rota 2 Section 7, which my instructors and section mates are quite nice! Somehow a lot of ppl of the 66 members of 118th MOC came from SCC drop-outs and SPF. Some are even Staff sergeants / warrant officers which are of a higher ranks than the instructors. The instructors really showed a lot of respects for these regulars. =D

My timetable looks quite dry, except for 2 things.

1: a field exercise for 1 full day on 5th week
2. Passing out ceremony!!! ^^

Wish me luck for this 5-week course! Congrats to ppl who got their desired vocation. =P

Recruit life POP

2011-03-12T23:05:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! After 13 weeks, I have finally passed out as a recruit! ^^ So grats to myself and everybody else who have been waiting for this day. =D

I could still remember the day when I enlist, everything is very sian, I have been counting down to the number of days, or perhaps hours to friday. The feeling of water parade every morning makes the day long, makes you feel that you have lost your freedom. The temptations to sleep in lectures, the mental endurance needed in half-right position, the sian-ness when you see that there are a lot of 3-PT days in the week.

But is all over! No more lights-out and last movement timings, no more water parades, and no more PES BP food. But it also means that there is minimal interaction with instructors, nobody would be there to help you watch your diet, nobody else to help plan an organised life. Blessing? Curse?

I would definitely miss some of my instructors, bunkmates and buddies. =D

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LTA Greg - The most respected PC who dosen't give up on recruits and keep the rest going especially during route marches. A person whom you can easily confide your problems to w/o getting fear of being backstabbed or whatever. A person who shares his experiences which entertains us. Thank you sir, and for your photo also. =D

LCP Tay - Very simple. I learnt that the fan positions must be standardised. ^^

LCP Hasif - For not giving up on the non-footdrill squad and willing to share his recruit / instructor experiences with us. A very good LCP to have. ^^

DI Hisham - Ok la. ^^ A very funny DI to have!

DI Victor - "Sometimes when you want strawberry ice-cream, they give you chocolate ice-cream." Thank you for this advice! Must try to take this advice when going to medic on monday.

LCP Johnathan - A really fair LCP! ^^

Sgt Marzuq - The best sergeant ever! Really takes care of the recruits' welfare. ^^ Thanks for motivating the non-footdrill squad once!

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WR Leong - 帮我leh! 帮我leh! 以后就帮不了你了. NB, CCB, 我肚子又饿了! 以后再也听不到了.

Quek XW - 你做么! 为什么衣服会这样, 你看我的.

Kuek WB - 福建 K-歌之王!

Aaron - 脚一直抖, 就仿佛和chainsaw没什么两样, 不过我要谢谢你教我如何绑绳子, 否则我的测验就完蛋了. ^^

Neo JH - EH!? =D

Willis - 干吗啦!

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JM, Marcus~

Haix. 希望不会想你们. 真的希望.

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A level results released

2011-03-05T08:49:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Got back my A lvl results yesterday which was also PH's birthday. So here is a happy belated 19th birthday to PH! ^^

A glance at my subject grades...

H1

GP: C (nt bad!)
Geog: A (LOL!)

Maths: A (nt bad!)
Physics: A (good!)
Chem: A (lol!!!)

So Geog and Chem are really big surprises! Which I thought would get D and B/C respectively. Went up to stage to collect results which the feeling was quite good, and an experience of a lifetime. =P

Wearing Civil Defence uniform in PJ is really good, and cool!

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Oh ya, since I got the results, let's compare it to prelims, and see the improvements. =P

Prelim: A lvl for GP, Geog, maths, chem, physics

D:C (1 grade!)
S:A (woah, lol)
A:A
B:A (1 grade!)
D:A (3 grades! nt bad sia)

rank points for 5 subs, 5 subs with PW, 7 subs

59:78
68:86
76:95

Very satisfied! I must thank my parents, and subject tutors who guided me and thus i can score these results! ^^

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1 more week to POP! ^^

2 more weeks to POP

2011-02-27T16:55:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! 2 more weeks to POP!!! ^^

Scope:

- Soccer match on Thursday 24th Feb

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Went for a soccer match with Delta on 24th Feb to Bishan stadium to watch a soccer match between Home United and Gombak FC. A bit warm, but the atmosphere was very lively! There were a lot of HU cheerleaders and a large crowd. Supporters were give a Home United cap, a lucky draw coupon, a chocolate bun and a ticket for another chocolate bun. =D

The match was ok la... A lot of ppl like LCP Hasif was shouting random comments and curses when some parts of bias-ness was shown against H.U during the match. ^^ Half of the cheers were leaded by Delta though!

Halfway through the match, there was a lucky draw / break. The first ticket number shouted was 0695, which mine was 0690 and Willis was 0693. Willis sort of grumbled why isnt the number drawn be 0693... Somehow a lot of ppl missed their numbers and in the end the 8th price was won by Willis.

The prize? Another home team cap for Willis. Wth lol!

Home United won Gombak FC by 3-0 which 2 of these are penalties. Good job! ^^

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Since there are only 2 more weeks to POP, is time to start thinking about the future. =P

Vocation:

- Delta clerk

Ideal: To be a delta clerk with Willis and thus can see Marcus and JM. Able to mingle with Delta ppl and share relevant experiences. Can go home almost everyday with a few stay-ins.

- TMO personnel

Pros: Be able to go home everyday, the job should be rather interesting and TMO people are generally friendly. Rota shift / everyday shift which gives ample time to rest.

Cons: Goodbye to friends and close ppl. A brand new world.

- A random vocation

Pros: ?!
Cons: ...

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Booking in a few hours time, I should take some rest! ^^

BRT W2 clear

2011-02-19T22:56:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! The 2nd week of BRT has passed, which means there is only 3 more weeks to POP! Isn't that great? =D

Scope of this post

1. W1 Night Prawning
2. W2 Night PT

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1. W1 Night Prawning

Went out on 11th Feb with some Delta people to prawn after a tiring 1st week of BRT. Perhaps that session is for bonding after a long break during CNY? =D

2030 - Meet up at Bishan with Marcus, JM and Aaron. Walked to a nearby coffee shop and had our dinner there. The meal is damn nice as we had five spices, beansprouts, oyster omelette. =D Aaron wasn't hungry, but still those hungry ppl including me had a satisfying meal. ^^

2130 - Met up with Kelvin and walked around Bishan and then walked quite a long distance to the prawning place. This night route march was rather fun as there is no fear of getting pumped any moment.

2250 - Let the prawning begin! I fell asleep, while Marcus, Kelvin and JM prawned. Aaron was playing his PSP... They took quite long to catch 1 prawn.

2315 - Aaron left? The rest continued prawning.

0030 - Me, Kelvin, JM and Marcus went for night snack at a nearby coffee shop. I and Marcus ate toasted bread while the rest ate kway chap. The snack is Ok la... Talked about life in camp while eating, which I enjoyed the most for the whole trip.

0130 - Went back to the prawning place and stoned, while watching WB, JQ and his friends prawned. Dunno why JQ called his friends when it is a Delta prawning session but nvm. JH Ong was there too.

0200 - Prawning session ended, a total of about 10 prawns were catched and donated to another group of ppl who was prawning also. Didn't prawn personally but at least I gained some experience, haha.

0210 - Took cab with JM and Kelvin to woodlands. JM stayed at my house overnight as he forgot to bring his house keys. Once again, we talked about life in camp and other experiences. ^^

0330 - Lights out, last movement, sweet dreams.

0800 - Trip ends, JM went home. A prawn session has ended!

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2. W2 Night PT

Quote LCP Hasif: "This is going to be the best day of your recruit life, welcome to 115."

Best day? Maybe. Memorable day? Definitely! ^^

On Thursday, 17th Feb, our whole day was very different from the other days throughout the whole 10 weeks. It was the 1st time when

- we were early for lunch and dinner
- we really moved fast
- we heard a really loud bang
- we got encouragement from sergeants
- our PT was conducted by our instructors
- Plt 10 saw great determination
- we were much more punctual than usual
- we had night PT
- I know there is a routine order
- I learn high efficiency while doing things

Our thursday IPPT training was conducted by sergeant Danial and Sir Greg which was very diff from our 5BX and usual training. Did a lot of weird exercises and had to do 210 assisted chin-ups which we completed thanks to Dorm and many other people. Shall not elaborate much on the day part.

For the 1st time, we had a proper night PT conducted by both platoon sergeants. Plt 11 ran for a night run while Plt 10 did static exercises. Started at 8pm and sergeant told us the purpose of the night PT and gave us general info on our future vocations and his opinions on each one except dog-unit.

We really did a lot of jumping jets and push-ups. It must have been about 4 or 5 times as many as our usual PT lessons. However, Sgt did it in a fun way, until we were laughing while doing the exercises. I shall term it 5AX (5 advanced exercises) instead of 5BX (5 basic exercises).

AX1: Spelling push-up

We spelt Mohd Khairi which was really tiring as the r contributed to 18 push-ups already. Khairi's name made us did 96 push-ups. Sgt asked how many we did and i actually answered 96 which Sgt replied "wtf u actually counted ar?!" LOL! Should have kept the number to myself. He then proceeded to ask me maths question which the answer became 0. ^^ Aaron double checked the answer and it is correct.

AX2: Teamwork push-ups

everybody will stay in push-up position, and the 1st person will do 10 push-ups, and the next person continues 10 after the previous person is done and so on until the last person finished. We managed to clear this AX during our 2nd try, which was not bad!

AX3: Spelling jumping-jets

Spelt the items / names through jumping jets. So for example apple, there will be 10 counts of 8 as there are 5 letters. So Sgt made us spell

- BRANDON TOH KAY BOON (thats 34 counts of 8)
- JEFFERSON MATHEMATICS (thats 40 counts of 8)

thanks to me answering the 96 and 0 for the maths questions, everybody kena the extra 40. Oh well! :X

Tiring sia, especially if you are like me who forgot how to spell mathematics halfway. Sgt then asked me if my maths is good, I answered my maths fail. Haha!

AX4: Record jumping-jets

The previous few delta batches did 71 jumping-jets continuously as a record. The 118 batch did 100 counts of 8! =D

100 sia, damn tiring, but everybody is very happy after finishing it, even Sgt Danial was impressed that we could finish it. Plt 10 aimed for 118 counts of 8 before POP night, I wonder whether that will happen or not. Haha. ^^

AX5: Victory run

Actually this AX is not tough, is just that after u finished the many counts of static exercises, u are going 1 round which almost everybody is half-dead already. Sgt Danial lead the POP / ORD cheer while we ran the round. We also ran a morning run the next day with Sgt Neo.

Overall everyone felt tired, but happy that the night PT has ended and easy to pass. Just imagine the whole PT Sgt Danial is making jokes and u are laughing while doing at the same time. Examples...

Sgt: "Bob, help me throw shoe at them."
(Bob really takes out shoe and prepare to throw)
Sgt: (quickly stops) "walao dont need la!"

Sgt: "Bob, the light duties are not supposed to be sleeping."
Bob: (w/o warning) "OI!!!!!!!"
Sgt: "Walao, give warning la! I just say tell them but not shout sia!"

[a while later]

Sgt: "Bob, tell those light duties to wake up."
Bob: (w/o warning again) "OI WAKE UP LA!!!!"
Sgt: !?!?!

Sgt: "Khairi u look at my sms ar?"
K: "No Sgt!"
Sgt: "sure?"
K: "Yes Sgt!"
Sgt: "Half-right."
K: (half-right position) "But i really never look!"
Sgt: "too bad!! =P"

(abt 5 mins later)

Sgt: "eh Khairi! Why you half-right?!"
(Khairi recovers)
Sgt: "oi! who ask u recover?! Half-right!"
K: huh!? (half-right again)
Sgt: "ok la recover, dont look at my sms again."
K: "Sgt I never look!"
Sgt: "still argue! Half-right!"

LOL! How can you nt laugh, unless you have great endurance like HS or WB. o.o

Somebody said that the cemetry has a figure and Sgt felt a bit scared. I didnt see for myself, so i dunno about that figure, haha. Before going back to our bunks, Sgt gave us advices and encouragement for us to lead a proper 3 weeks before POP. Thank you sergeant! =D

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This post ends here! 3 more weeks to POP!

2011 CNY

2011-02-05T22:46:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

Before i started typing out this post, I went to relieve the memories of how I spent 2010 CNY.

The post is on 17th Feb 2010.

http://jumpinjellyfish.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html

Well, the 1st and 2nd days of CNY are sort of swapped compared to last year, except I didn't eat mac, and my father did not buy any durians. =D The movies we watched are not the same, if not the rest is still about the same. Drank chicken soup made by my father on the 2nd day of CNY instead of the eve, which once again is delicious! ^^

Without further ado / delay, the contents of the post.

Contents

1. CNY 3rd day outing
2. Random reflections regarding recruit recollections. (lol 5 R alliteration!)

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1. CNY 3rd day outing

Part 1 - Uncategorised group outing

Unlike the previous few outings which I mention which group of friends did I go out with, today's one is uncategorised.

4 people came to my house today for visiting / slacking / bai nian.

Tean ZY (P1)
War (S16)
WL (S16)
CT (Chess club)

Which is like huh??? Probably the most common link is that War knows everybody in the list. Haha.

1000 - Met up and gathered. War and CT didn't / forgot to bring oranges, so we ended up going to cold storage and bought some. Aw to War. =P

1030 - Reached my house, and after about 5 mins my parents came home from random grocery shopping. My father managed to caught the 'fake' oranges CT and War provided, which was quite funny. ^^ But hey at least there is a thought that counts, but don't try that again. =P

1045 - Played cards which i kept losing. Nothing surprising there. Somehow a lot of ppl kept going against War, especially CT and Tean. Haha. ^^ The time passed really fast, and before we knew it, 1145 hrs came, and sadly we left my house. WL passed me his mandarin orange bag along with the oranges. My father did a quality check to make sure they are not fake. ^^

This concludes the short approx 1h 30mins outing at my house.

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Part 2 - 03 bai nian

Went to RJ and WJ house this year, which somehow is the same as last year. Demas, AH, CS, ZH, WJ, RJ, Keith, Anselm, Vivien, Crystal, SY and me went for this year.

1230: We reached RJ's house.

Ate some finger food at RJ's house which included nuggets, sotong balls and potato wedges. It's not deep fried, so it tasted ok. ^^ Played cards at RJ's house and spent a lot of time on 'circle of death', which is a random game that involved drinking a lot of water and following instructions on a card. Here are some random examples which Demas suggested.

A - choose a drinking partner to drink with you
2 - Drink water for 2 counts
3 - Drink water for 3 counts
4 - Boys drink water / Shouting 1 onwards individually
5 - Girls drink water / Forbidding words
6 - Rhyming words
7 - '7-up'
8 - Category knowledge
9 - Changing an action of players
10 - Big fish, small fish
J - Waterfall (aka water parade)
Q - Banning somebody to answer your question
K - Toilet break (The best card!)

Quite fun, and definitely a training for water parades in future. =P RJ's mother was very kind to provide a lot of water for us. Thank you! ^^

Before leaving for WJ's house, we celebrated RJ's birthday with a cake, birthday song and taking of a few photos. ^^ Left RJ's house after that(sadly), and ZH left for his relatives visit.

1515: Reached WJ's house

WJ's house was seriously popular, considering that WJ's sister, father and himself invited friends over. Nothing much happened at WJ's house as it was a repeat of what we did at RJ's house, except some sang Karaokae...

Once again, we played the 'circle of death', except this time we added some random flavour drinks instead of plain water for the whole game. Somehow everybody liked the '7-up' game, and we played the sub-game after the whole game is finished. We managed to count up to 100 after many attempts! Good job! ^^

It is not easy btw, as it is really confusing since it involves banning of saying 'seven' and numbers that are multiples of 7. So 1 to 100 goes like this.

1 2 3 4 5 6 UP 8 9 10 11 12 13 UP 15 16 UP 18 19 20 UP 22 23 24 25 26 UP UP 29 30 31 32 33 34 UP 36 UP 38 39 40 41 UP 43 44 45 46 UP 48 UP 50 51 52 53 54 55 UP UP 58 59 60 61 62 UP 64 65 66 UP 68 69 UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP 80 81 82 83 UP 85 86 UP 88 89 90 UP 92 93 94 95 96 UP UP 99 100!

30 ups in 100, not bad! Left WJ's house at 1715 hrs, and here ends the 3rd day of CNY!

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2 days ago was RJ's birthday, and today is my mother's birthday. Happy birthday to both people! ^^

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2. Random reflections regarding recruit recollections

8 weeks of PTP has finally passed! ^^ I am guessing the worst part of NS life has been over for me at least, and next week will be the official BRT phase! Here's wishing good luck to the new recruits, wahaha.

Somehow, I felt that maybe after the 13 weeks, I would miss recruit life. Maybe perhaps there is nobody else shouting sian to you when the next period is PT, there is nobody to shout lame jokes or kena teased when we are posted to vocations, and there is no more push-ups as punishments once we are out of recruit life. If i read this after another BRT phase, I shall see whether this is accurate or not, haha. At least many people endured through the PTP phase! Good job! ^^

Delta didn't win champion for the footdrill competition, but rumours were that we won 2nd place out of 4 teams, which sounds quite an achievement. We also won the best PC award, so a large congratulations to Sir Greg! =D Sergeant Mazuk also very good, he should probably be the best PS in Delta already, haha! ^^ Fantastic job to the people who were in the footdrill competition!

Salehin is going off to FFC course already, which means my 'buddy' would be gone from next week onwards. Here's wishing Salehin all the best in the new stage of NS life!

Q: How about his bedsheets, who would pack for him?
A: Very simple, it means I would be doing 2 beds every thursday. O_O

Hope the next 5 weeks would be better! I need to pass 1 out of 2 more exams to graduate from recruit life!

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It is getting late, I should get some rest. Happy CNY to everybody! ^^

6th and 7th week outing

2011-01-29T22:06:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Posting about 3 outings during these 2 weeks, which 1 is during camp. =D

1. Singapore Discovery Center
2. Outing with 50-cents clan.
3. 7th week outing

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1. SDC outing

Went out on thursday afternoon with Delta to SDC to learn more about Singapore, NS, army stuff and of course SDC itself.

We started off with a bus tour to see some army stuff, including some towers, buildings, etc. Nothing much about it. Next, we entered SDC and watched a few short clips about the Merlion and how SG forces handle an emergency which is really cool! ^^

Some Delta ppl also played a quiz game on the knowledge of SG, which was seriously difficult. After the game was sort of an OTOT walk. Had a short cafe break of eating a small cake which could not compare to the standard of our night snack. After that, we went back to SDC and watched people play an army rescue mission game which should be interesting. We then walked to the army museum to watch another movie clip about army operations. Don't really like the last part as it is seriously not relevant to my current NS life at all, since I am in SCDF. o.o

A lot of ppl seemed excited upon seeing the AED while walking out of the cafe, seems like medic lessons have really influenced a lot of rescuers. Good job! SDC has much more interesting stuff compared to a few years before, maybe one day i should go there again. =D

Did I mention I saw SY during the trip, perhaps 27th Jan is a field-trip day for uniform groups. Haha! Overall the outing is really fun and meaningful. =P

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2. Outing with 50-cents clan

Went out with Marcus, XW, WB and JM for a 'bunk-outing' last sat.

Went to Chong Pang for dinner which nothing interesting happened. Unless you call XW, WB and Marcus critcising mine and JM's attire to their hearts' content as interesting.

After that we went to Bugis to get some new clothes for JM, and a new cap for me. Nothing much bah.

For the last item, we accompanied JM to get a mousepad with click 5 photo for CY's birthday which really looked not bad. =D Perhaps the best activity of the whole trip.

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3. 7th week outing

Part 1 - Fieldtrip with Aaron

Went out with Aaron at around 2pm to visit some shops that display cosplay items. Never really saw such shops before since I am really like a mountain tortoise during BP and JC life. =D

Somehow cosplay items really love to feature anime and jap school uniforms, I really didn't know that previously. Aaron is seriously knowledgeable about all these stuff, the extra accesories needed, the personalities of diff anime characters and how the clothing can be made or bought. Hormat Kehalapan to him, lol! Apparently Plaza Singapura and a shop in Chinatown sold a lot of anime stuff which many retail shops in neighbourhood shopping malls do not. Cool sia! Really an introduction to cosplay.

After the fieldtrip we went to Ah Mei Cafe to get a short snack before we set off to our different destinations. A rather meaningful fieldtrip! Ty Aaron! ^^

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Part 2 - Small outing with CT and War

Met CT and War at around 5pm for a small meal at West Mall while waiting for the rain to stop before going CSC to bowl. Talked about my life in CD, life about War working and other rubbish. ^^

After that, we went CSC to play 1 game as the game pricing rate is really ex. Our scores are around the same w/o PH around, and everybody scored around 70+ points. Very cui, but oh well. It was really fun, and definitely much less stressful compared to the 'bunk-outing'. ^^

Really great to see friends from PJ again, this should be the happiest outing in these 2 weeks. ^^

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Finished this outing post, eventful indeed! ^^

Another mini outing

2011-01-16T15:07:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! The 5th week is generally ok, except for friday where we are punished rather excessively, but oh well!

Went out with Tean, JM and SY yesterday to West Mall again to talk rubbish, talk about life and random stuff. Saw ZH yesterday also, and apparently he went to west mall to fix his com, hope his com can recover soon. =P

Somehow JM had a random ranking about random stuff. So for the theory and practical part, these ppl have the following ranks...

person - T / P

Me - Private / Private
JM - Major / Private
Tean - Lance Corporal / Private
SY - Sergeant / Staff Sergeant
YX - ?? / Staff Sergeant

LOL to JM's Ranking!!! Overall is a good day.

Heard next week there is a bunk outing, hope it will happen! ^^ JY to everybody for the 6th week.

4th week outing

2011-01-08T22:50:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Today went out with War, PH and WL.

Funny, how I can still get used to civilised ppl, who i know would not spit vulgarities at a probability of 0.3 or more every sentence, or say vulgarities smoothly like connectors in a sentence. ^^

So anyway, 5pm met up at woodlands station and ended up going AMK hub, ignoring all previous suggestions such as Jalan Kayu and Plaza Singapura. War was late as usual, no surprises there. We then went to eat pepper lunch at an official pepper lunch store. Ordered a beef pepper rice with ginger sauce, caramel ice-cream and non-sugar green tea.

The rice was already fantastic, and the ginger sauce made the beef taste better! ^^ The serving was also not bad, just the right amount to make me feel full. The non-sugar green tea was ok, nothing much about it. I would not try Pepper Lunch's caramel ice-cream again, weird taste and is also too sweet...

Watched Jack Neo's Ghost also Laugh movie or smth like that after dinner, which is a really random funny show, not really horror, but the ending of the 2 stories are really weird. I prefer the army part over the urban part, probably because I am in Civil Defence and thus understand army things better, wahaha. Overall is a nice movie, go watch if you haven't watch!

Enjoyed the short 4 hours! Hope there are more outings like this in future! ^^

*4 weeks PTP down! 4 more PTP and 5 more BRT to go!*

start 2011

2011-01-01T18:25:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! First of all, happy new year to everybody!

Going to 2011 means a few things...

1. Everybody is a year older, and therefore expecting another birthday within the next 365 days. =P

2. New commitments, new tasks, new responsibilities!
3. A year to start everything over again
4. Tearing the 11 tab instead of the 10 tab for the year part in the parking coupon.
5. Wishing Ying Xiang from SOH a happy birthday! ^^

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Blogging about 2 things in this post. Oh wait, must learn from what i learnt in BRTC

Scope

1. Summarised life in BRTC
2. Spending New Year's eve with click 5.

Learning objectives

- To be able to appreciate my life with full, little or no understanding of the post.

=D

1. Summarised life in BRTC

A lot of 1st time happenings I experienced. It is the 1st time that

- I felt strong homesick, even the one in OBS is nothing compared to this.
- I understand endurance training is beyond endurance PT lessons.
- I saw someone almost mentally breaking down due to high stress.
- I heard life experiences totally different from JC life.
- I have to resist and endure my anger against people.
- I am the minority for a lot of common things in life.
- I socialised with people from all walks of life.
- I thought of repayment, retribution and revenge.

Generally woke up like 4+ in the morning and sleep at around 10 at night.

PT lessons for Delta company are manageable, compared to other companies. Really can make people lose weight, and yea muscles ache, all the random stuff in the guidebooks are real. Wahaha!

Hated endurance training but loved aqua jogging, since the hot sun + swimming pool = great combination. ^^

Footdrill lessons are fun, sad that I am not in the footdrill squad, but oh well. Practise hard, and hopefully can learn something fun in the next few weeks.

The food in BRTC is great! Even for the low-fat diet my company is having, curry chicken, curry veg, fishcakes, sausages, nt bad wor! =D

Lectures and tutorials in the afternoon really can make people sleep, another endurance training. ^^

Somehow a lot of ppl can really echo out loud during fridays, probably due to it being a book-out day. Haha! People also look happier and gain back their sense of humour as the day passes by in the week. =D

So a typical day goes like this.

5: Wake up, water parade, 5BX
6: Breakfast, bunk cleaning
8: PT lesson
10: A random lesson
12: Lunch + bunk cleaning again
2: A random lesson
4: PT lesson
6: Dinner
7: Water parade, resting in bunk
10: Sleep

Starting to get used to life in BRTC, but the day is still very long! Nvm, 5 more weeks of PTP, and is back to 5 weeks of mugging, and then POP and goodbye to the worst period of my life! ^^

Ganbatte to my members, members of the public, and myself!

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2. Spending New Year's Eve with click 5.

Yong Xiang was absent.

So anyway, met up with SY, CY, JM and Tean for dinner at causeway point at around 4.30pm. Went to eat a simple meal in the foodcourt and talked about life in BRTC and gave advice to CY about surviving in BMT. =P SY and Tean should be slacking all the way, so not much to be done there! Ate the sesame seed sauce fish rice for dinner from Pots and Pans.

How was the food, you may ask. Learning from my Sir, 'OUTSTANDING!'

Speaking of that, after we have learnt the oustanding from our Sir, we used this knowledge and application swiftly in the following scene.

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- After a tough day and obviously worn out training, with our PTI and sir looking at us -

PTI - Physical Training Instructor

PTI: So recruits, how was the training today?
Many recruits: OUTSTANDING!
(Whispered to myself: Bloody liars)
PTI shouted: Fk you all outstanding! This is meant to be tiring!
Recruits: ... we are meant to reply this... (mumbles, curses)

PTI: So i ask u all again, how is the training today!!?
Recruits: Bloody tired la, want to die already... (curses)
Sir: Fk u all!!!
Recruits: LOL!! =D

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Oh anyway back to the outing. We then went to Party World KTV at Civic Centre until 8pm to sing a few random songs. JM was seriously very enthu, the others were not bad, and I was coughing all the way. :( Click 5's taste of songs seriously differs a lot from o3-ians. o.o The dosage of chinese songs has been cut by at least half, and perhaps I prefer the former's taste. Haha.

The snacks consisted of tapioca chips and wheel snack, which were ok. I drank cold chrysanthemum tea for the drinks, which was ok too. The total amount added up to $10.35 per person. For about 2 hours with snacks, drinks and friends around u, the price seems reasonable. ^^

After 8, SY left us (probably to find Reg or his parents) and the rest of us then went my house. =D

2030 hrs: Went down to the shelter near my house and I practised footdrill, while Tean was playing his TNT sparklers. Practising footdrill with JM was fun, since u can really learn smth and revise from ur mistakes w/o waiting for anyone who is slow...

Also learned some future learning points from JM and showed Tean and CY how a water parade is like. ^^

2115 hrs: Slacked in my room and played cards. Played cheat and 21-point or dunno wad is that called. JM sucked in the former and is pro in the latter. Punishments were push-ups. Lol! Never did a lot of push-ups. I think only 8 for that night.

2230 hrs: Bathe, slack, stone, and talk about life. JM and I also updated about our life in BRTC, while Tean and CY were chatting. =D

2350 hrs: Watched TV and counted down. =D

0000 hrs: Happy new year! 6 handshakes took place. =P

0005 hrs: We went down to 7-11 since JM and CY wanted to taste some alcohol. Tean and I didn't try any alcohol though. A lot of ppl were wandering about the carparks and pathways at this auspicious timing. ^^ After buying the drinks, we walked back to the shelter and played more sparklers. I tried playing 3 of them, 2 of them i wrote wishes for the year, the other 1 was a testing-out. Practised more footdrill.

0055 hrs: Went back to my house since Tean was tired.

0100 hrs: Lights off, last movement, sleep!

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It was another bright and beautiful day.

0700 hrs: Being told to wake up at this timing, then realised the rest were still sleeping. Chat with my father about life. ^^

0745 hrs: Wash up, and we went to the small hill in front of my house and demonstrated 5BX to CY and Tean. First time I played the role of a random PTI, how cool is that! Everybody enjoyed the short and sweet 5BX. =P

0830 hrs: Breakfast, with me eating a dim sum breakfast consisting of pau, prawn dumplings and prawn chee cheong fun. Nice! ^^

0915 hrs: stoned, slacked and played more cards, with half-squats as punishments instead. Talked about a lot of random rubbish. ^^

1030 hrs: Tean, CY and JM decided to go home and have some rest. So thats a goodbye and it was indeed a meaningful countdown with click 5. ^^

Thanks guys!

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And hey, I ended my post here! Wishing everyone a happy new year again! ^^

2 weeks down

2010-12-26T09:53:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

BRTC for the 1st 2 weeks is... still ok. Kidding, it is not good.

Yesterday went out with JM, Tean and SY to West Mall to talk cock. LOL! Thats wad they named the activity. So anyway it was really heartwarming, to be able to talk to ur PJ friends about almost anything w/o worrying about them sabo-ing, backstabbing, etc.

Celebrated christmas with my family also by eating out downstairs, which was quite a fantastic meal, and then spending time together. ^^ I suddenly feel that living with ur family is a really good feeling, compared to living in BRTC. =D

Merry christmas and have a happy new year soon. =P

Civil defence 1st day

2010-12-14T11:00:00.001+08:00

The jellyfish is now into Civil Defence!

From 14th Dec 2010, 11am.

Jy to myself and everybody! ^^

a day before CD

2010-12-13T19:08:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back! It is 1 more day before I go to Civil Defence!

Posting what I did for the past 2 days and today's life.

Sat, 11th Dec:

Nothing interesting, went out with War to Safra Jurong to eat chicken cutlet curry rice. 1st time I ate Jap curry rice, the curry is sweet and not the least spicy. o.o

The chicken cutlet is damn crispy and nice =P, a pity i didn't try it for the past few times I went SJ, but at least i tried once before going in CD! ^^

Ytd, 12th Dec:

Went out with PH, War and WL for movie and a buffet dinner.

We watched the Thai movie 'Hello Stranger'. I really liked the movie, especially the GL guy who is really damn humorous. Haha. ^^ It is sad that the girl has no bf in the end... aw. But at least is remembered by the guy. Seriously entertaining, and I like this movie than the CoN.

After the 2 hours movie, we went to Clementi to eat a steamboat / BBQ international buffet. The price of a weekend dinner is $28 after all the charges.

There is all the meat, veg, sushi, seafood, cakes, fruits, others and ice-cream. Seriously rather similar to Seoul Garden except for the sushi. Not a large variety of food, especially the ice-cream and sushi, but the taste is ok. =P Shall evaluate every section of food. ^^

Sauce: Tried the teriyaki sauce, soya sauce, and peanut sauce. Lol! If you translate peanut sauce to chinese, u will know what is it. The peanut sauce isn't the one used for satays. =D

Drinks: Drank the non-gasy orange juice. The variety of drinks is ok, many different kinds of weird tea, including the blueberry tea. The cold drinks is ok though, juices and other kind of carbonated drinks which I won't touch. Not bad here.

Fried food: Ate some fries, fried squid, and fried sweet potato. The fries is really nice, really cripsy on the outside and soft in the inside. =P The fried sweet potato is ok, the fried squid is weird.

Veg / soup: Tried the chicken soup, tasted nice, maybe because is probably the 1st time i drank soup from a steamboat. Haha. Tried the random mushrooms and chicken being put inside the soup, is nice! The hot soup is really heartwarming, best served when you are living in winter. LOL! The last part is random. Didn't try the spicy Mala soup.

Seafood: Not a lot of variety, but PH said the crayfish is nice. Didn't try this section.

Fruits: Skipped.

Sushi: Not a large variety. So i tried the egg sushi and crabstick sushi only. The sushi goes well with all the sauce, including the peanut sauce. ^^ Surprisingly the egg sushi is nicer than the one in Sakae's. No comments about the crabstick sushi.

Meat: Tried the teriyaki chicken, teriyaki beef, half a sausage, chicken and pork satay.

Somehow, the teriyaki chicken and teriyaki beef go well with the teriyaki sauce. The chicken and pork satay go well with the peanut sauce. The sausage dosen't go well with anything.

Quote War: I wonder why.

The BBQ-ing of meat is diff from Chong Pang and Seoul Garden, all is needed is to put the raw meat on a plate and clip the table tag onto the plate. A bit like Sakura, except that this is meat and not fried vegetables. =D

I like the satays and teriyaki chicken. =P

Cakes / Ice-creams: The cheescake is nice! But i only ate a small bit of it, since it is really filling. ^^ The rest of the cakes looked normal, nothing special about it. Somehow PH and PH's mother recommended the cheesecake, nice recommendation indeed.

There is only chocolate chips and yam ice-cream! -.- Ok la, the chocolate chips ice-cream is really nicer than expected. =P Didn't try the yam.

So overall, the ambience is ok, since there is really random christmas songs, and is not really hot as the BBQ is not done at the tables. =D

Warren suffered at the end of the buffet. Oh well. =(

Anyway thanks PH, War and WL for eating with me despite the random financial crisis. Haha. ^^

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Today's life!

0845: Woke up and said to myself, tomorrow go civil defence le.

0900: Watched TV and ate char siew rice for breakfast with my family... o.o

1000: Played futoshiki and blogged about things.

1200: Played maple with ninja and underfame. ^^

1600: Watched random korean dramas. O_O

1800: Ate dinner with my parents, which consisted of siew mai, har kao, char siew pau, and mixed vege rice. =P Damn enjoyable

1845: Packed civil defence things...

1945: Play maple, and say goodbye to guild members, buddies and alliance.

2200: Sleep?

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Things I may miss while outside.

- Parents ^^
- Home
- S16
- Playing maple with guildmates, buddies and alliance
- Nat mei
- Ninja, YX, Lazer, underfame
- Going out with War, PH, WL.
- Hear War grumbling about many things, wahaha =D

Hopefully if I see this post after 2 years, I may laugh at it. ^^

Boredom VS Non boredom

2010-12-11T09:51:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Is 3 more days and approximately 1 more hour before i go in to Civil Defence!

Not much happened within the past 2 weeks, considering i stoned at home mostly and did not go for prom, haha!

4 events happened... o.o

1. Guild PQ
2. Jack's place outing
3. Chronicles of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. Seoul Garden S16 outing =P

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1. Guild PQ

Had a guild PQ on 8th Dec with my mei, yx, lazer, Alvin and one more person. o.o

A smooth guild PQ, although we were out of time. o.o Managed to fought devil slime, but the jump quest was horrible. I think i had the same experience while doing GPQ with Gab's guild before, haha! Chatted with my mei until about 2+ in the morning, which is one of the few rare times i sleep that late. =P

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2. Jack's place outing

Went to eat with WL, PH and Warren on 2nd Dec at Jack's Place in Safra Jurong. Ordered the fish fingers student meal which consisted of fish fingers (duh), fries, chicken and vegetable soup, and chocolate ice-cream. =P

I thought that all the dishes were normal and had nothing special about them. The soup tasted nicer than pizza hut's one though.

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3. Movie outing

Watched The chronicles of Narnia - The voyage of the dawn treader with TY, Celine, Shawn, Defa and ZK on thursday. =P

The movie is really nice, perhaps as nice as CoN - The LWW. I shall rate it a 8.5 out of 10. Wahaha!

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4. Seoul Garden class outing

9/20 ppl went, along with Defa! =D

Went to Northpoint Seoul Garden with Defa, ZK, CB, JL, Jeffery, Ronald, BH, MY, WK yesterday. =P

The variety was lesser than the one in Causeway Point's, but the food was still ok!

Meat: Tried char siew chicken, garlic chicken, teriyaki chicken, tom yam chicken, beef. The garlic and teriyaki chicken are nice! The tom yam wasn't really nice. =P

Non-meat: Tried random mushrooms and beansprouts. They were nice! ^^ Spammed quite abit though. CB suggested cooking scrambled eggs, which turned out successfully to a small extent. Not much taste in the eggs, but hey at least it has a shape! Good job CB! ^^

JL spammed too much of the laksa sauce, which created a bit of chaos. Wahaha!

Dessert: Tried the mango, vanilla, chocolate chips, cookies-and-cream ice-cream. I liked the ice-cream the best of all dishes, a strong flavour, and damn satisfying. Added peanuts and raisins to the ice-cream, so it tasted even better. =P

Didn't try the strawberry and yam ice-cream though, if i ever go to Seoul Garden again, I would try that. Haha! The swiss rolls were perfectly normal, only took a bit of those.

I salute BH, finishing up everything, including the giant bowl of iceless kachang. Even after we leave, he grabbed a bit of prawn crackers before leaving, probably the most hungry person of the 10 when we left Seoul Garden, haha!

Didn't go with Jeffery and Ronald to watch the sea though, a bit of regret, but i do not want to be a fluroscent lamp. With that, it should be the 2nd last time i see S16. Sadly.

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That's about all, my life isn't very interesting, is it? =D

what's bubbling

2010-12-10T22:05:00.004+08:00

The jellyfish is back!

Went to causeway point, and saw the advertisement of 'What's bubbling?'

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I am guessing this means that what is coming up next in CP, which is supposed to be an improvement. ^^ However, what other things can be thought of?

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That's all! I must be bored to do this, wahaha. ^^

A level CLEAR

2010-12-09T21:06:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Its been a long time since i posted, and therefore i shall post something before going to civil defence 4 days later. ^^

First, A levels is officially cleared!!! ^^

Lemme summarise how i feel about the papers after maths P2...

Chem P1 - Easier than expected, maybe i expected a godly paper. Haha.

Chem P2 - I somehow feel is a bit hard, especially Q2 where it is a long relay question of 22 marks. At first I thought that P2 questions would definitely not be longer than the ones in P3, but oh well, this paper proved me wrong. The rest of the questions were rather ok though!

Hope I can get at least a B for chem. =P

Physics P1 - Can do! ^^

Physics P2 - Manageable paper, not too bad, and definitely much easier than prelims.

Physics P3 - Can do! ^^ I skipped the forces and oscillations questions, never really liked forces much, so skipped that bah. The nuclear and wave questions were ok. =P

I like the part where defining the principle of superposition was worth 3 marks! =D

After moderation, I hope physics can get at least a B! =D Surprisingly the same expectations as chem. =P

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That's all for A lvl things! ^^

relaxed A period

2010-11-26T17:29:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! (Finally nt the ruleofchaos, lol haha)

3 more days to end of A levels!

Jy to everybody! ^^

But meanwhile, it is time to relax for about 1 more night and perhaps 1 more day?

=D

2010-11-19T15:33:00.000+08:00

the ruleofchaos is back.

^^

2010-11-16T14:46:00.004+08:00

the ruleofchaos is back!! XD

so.. why did the mathematician take drum lessons? i seriously have no idea. maybe ask jefferson see whether he knows or not~

lets study hard for physics!! cause we all know how bloody hard the chem paper was. today didnt come out gas law sia!! lol anyhow why i type so much here for what. might as well write these on my blog -.-ll

hey another random video

Beautiful by Beast. woo go Kpop!

random catchphrase: jefferson, what happened?!~

if i were a jellyfish

2010-11-15T16:51:00.007+08:00

the ruleofchaos is back!!

ok ok fine the jellyfish is not here. wenlong is hacking into his account =P and posting random nonsense.

warren has justin bieber hair!

lol random nonsense number1

random nonsense number2:

random nonsense number3:

why do you care?

it's understood for obvious reasons. aw fail funny ar

jellyfish: LOL WL! =P

Seriously the 1st time my blog got video I think? Lol enjoy the post anyway!

Halfway through A-levels

2010-11-15T15:51:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

Warren said i didnt post anything, so here i am, posting something. Might as well post something about the exams and the Roti Prata trip with my father.

Ok fine it is not about RP only, we went somewhere else after that, but is not as interesting. Haha.

(Sidenote: Warren is emo-ing about chem P3)

Exams (1st week)

Geog - Should be can do. Hope to get C, but should be get D.

Chem P3 - WTH so difficult. Seriously it makes the practice papers really very useless, they are really much easier compared to the A level paper. Especially the SR 2009 paper. =P

Hope to get about 50 and above, but i guess should get around 44 approx?

GP

P1 - It came out the holy maths question!!! Ok la, that one can just copy some points from the outline. Somehow, a lot of questions came out in a similar form like prelims. E.g. 1st question, something about working from home, should and could, somehow similar to the prelim 'being desirable'. I did not do that one though, so haha.

WL's reading books came out, good for him.
PH did something about theatres closing down, random indeed!
War's pop culture didnt come out! Haha! But he did the sports anyway, and learnt some mistakes from mid-year? So good for him ba.

So overall, everyone by right should be quite happy. Hope to score at least 26 for this essay. =D

P2 - FOOD! ... Nothing much to comment. Hope GP can get C bah. (Wow this makes me needing a 29 for compre?!) ...

Maths P1 - Can do! Is much much relatively simpler compared to prelims. So like everybody also can do, except for those who cannot do.

Maths P2 - Can do! Once again. Is extremely simple. =P

A lot of ppl said is very easy and almost everyone (in fact I tink everyone) is saying that they could get an A! Oh wow, i wonder if cambridge would moderate the distinction rates down to 50% or lesser? Wahaha... =P

Ok la they should. Must get an A for the paper! =)

1st week down. 5 more papers to go!

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Roti-prata trip with my father

Went to Upper Thomson to eat with my father. Wow a really crowded place! Tried the durian prata, cheese egg prata, mushroom cheese prata and butter prata.

Anyway, the durian prata is nice! Although it sounds weird, but somehow the taste is fantastic! If I can go again one day, i would definitely try it again. ^^

Cheese-egg, surprisingly nicer than i thought, probably the egg isnt like fully cooked and hardened like most pratas do.

Butter prata, unique butter taste, very different from the one in Jalan Kayu. But i still prefer Jalan Kayu's one. JK's one is more fragrant somehow. haha.

Mushroom cheese, nothing special about it.

So overall, nice breakfast trip. =D

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Posted to SG Civil Defence for NS! Sounds much nicer than SAF though. The training is also reduced to 13 weeks compared to 19 weeks! Overall good for me bah.

Disadvantage, I am going in 29 days later, which means that my personal freedom of a few months is gone! Oh well! That means i cannot work with PH, WL and War anymore, but gained 2 weeks of personal freedom in return, which is considerably great? =D

So the 2 weeks, many activities in mind, like swimming, running, playing maple, bowling, going out... etc.

End of this post! Back to studying for chem! Yea rite.

drawing A levels

2010-11-08T13:45:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

Everything should be fine =D

15 more days to physics P3! After 23rd Nov 10am, I should feel happier. ^^

21 more days to physics P1! After 29th Nov 3pm, it would finally be the end. haha!

JY to myself and everybody. =P

2010-10-31T16:45:00.002+08:00

the ruleofchaos has hacked the jellyfish! =D

random!

time to do some stupid things on this blog.. lol ok seriously random..

chat log long memories

2010-10-27T22:53:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! I was bored, and therefore decided to look at how much have i talked to people. =D

So here is the list of who i talked to, and the chat log file size.

1st: WL [7.3MB]
2nd: Warren [5.1MB] <- Seriously i don't tink so lol.
3rd: Underfame [4.6MB]
4th: SY [4.2MB]
5th: William [3.5MB]
6th: Nat mei [2.3MB]
7th: RJ [2081KB]
8th: Defa [2063KB]
9th: TY [2.0MB]
10th: PH [1.5MB]

Random. =D

GP Snail

2010-10-22T13:25:00.004+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

- You sort of like walk in the garden, and teach the child, "oh look, snail..." -

Some may not even know what's a snail and smash them along their path.

Haha~! ^^

S16 sushi outing

2010-10-16T11:36:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! 15th Oct has finally passed. So ytd S16 had a random class outing to Sakae Sushi~ =P

So anyway, me, War, PH, WL, ZK, ZY, JL, CB, BH, Jeffery, Ronald, Defa and Shawn went to the Sakae Sushi near Plaza Sing to enjoy. It was my 1st time to Sakae Sushi, since I do not really like sushi (except for egg and surprisingly, crabstick)

2 big tables were reserved for us, so me, war, WL, PH, Jeffery and Ronald took one table, and the rest of the 7 took another one. Quite interesting, since the conveyor belt had a variety of sushi, along with other attractive discounts and promotions, and the different colour of plates also denoted the quality and the price of the sushi. Since we took the sushi buffet, we could naturally take the 2 dollar plates at an unlimited supply, and only 1 $4 or $6 plate.

So first up, WL was shouting "PH PH! Take the crabstick sushi!" Lol. I tried the crabstick under WL's recommendation, which was quite nice. It was just a simple crabstick on the sushi, I didn't dare try the crabstick mayo sushi, looks very weird. So while eating, i took another plate of crabstick sushi again, since it was rather nice. =D

I tried the egg sushi and the egg mayo sushi also. Somehow i feel the egg sushi is better than the egg mayo. =P [I don't really know the jap words relating to the sushi, haha. War and I also tried the cucumber sushi, dosen't taste nice to us... While eating the sushi, there were some brief mentions from WL about the random trivial english facts from a television screen, probably to entertain customers. Some are quite interesting, like random words having 3 pairs of consecutive letters, but some are rather lame like, if there are no traffic lights, bring a zebra instead. =.=

After a few rounds of sushi, we decided to start using the interactive menu to order random dishes. I ordered takoyaki, some random fake scallop, egg mayo sushi, a random jap pancake, potato crotteque. The servings were really small, compared to outside, and at 2 dollars per plate if I don't eat the buffet, is seriously not worth. For the taste, except for the potato crotteque, the rest tasted as normal as the ones being sold outside, somehow nothing is special... For the potato crotteque, it is excellent! ^^ Maybe last time i ate the BPP potato crotteque and it really sucks, that's why I think Sakae's one is better. ^^ Since it is rather hot and crispy, I think it is a must-try. =D

Throughout the whole buffet, we kept asking for a lot of water, I think the waiter must be quite fed-up already, but his constant smile really made me applaud him, good customer service indeed. ^^

Halfway throughout the buffet, Ronald clicked the ask for help button for some reason, and nobody attended to our table, so we thought that it was over. However when we asked for the next jug of water, the waiter told us not to click that button, or their busy list of orders will have our table number being spammed. Wahaha. ^^

War's orders were extremely long, he ordered miso soup, some green tea noodles? And also fried tofu. 3 of the orders took very long to process, making everybody at our table laughing at War. =P Is like we ordered a lot of random dishes after War's beancurd, then all our dishes arrived first. I think they mass fried the tofu, so when War's 2 pcs of beancurd came, ZK's table of approx 14 to 16 beancurd came at the same time. Haha lol!!! =D Poor War, dun cry.

WL drank more water than sushi, so this lack of dishes was somehow balanced up by me eating more... I ate about 12 dishes... Actually is the same as everyone else except WL... WL drank a lot of water though! If it was a drinking buffet, I think the buffet must charge WL 1.5x the amount of money, wahaha. =P Another part about the waiter was that since there were a lack of jugs in the restaurant (I wondered why), ZK's table also asked for a jug of water, and so the waiter took our jug and passed it behind, our table went diao... Haha!

I gave up my expensive plate dish to ZY, since I can't and don't eat the random seafood / raw food sushi... BH seemed unsure whether a dish of food can be eaten or not, and must be heavily and seriously prompted by CB and ZY to finish the food. Shawn had a random loud laughter towards the end of the buffet...

After the buffet, we asked if there were ice-cream, and hey there really is! So we enjoyed the mango sherbert ice-cream, which i vaugely remembered that I ate the ice-cream in PJ to support ZH or Tean's CIP thing, i forgot who already, haha. A scene being recalled from yesterday. =D

PH: So how? Got ice-cream?

Eh wait, that is the wrong phrase, restart.

PH: Excuse me, is there ice-cream for this buffet?
Waiter: Sorry ar friend, not enough le.
Manager: (whispers) [I am guessing he is telling the waiter that is enough]
Waiter: Oh ps, there is a lot! ^^

WL/me: OH LOL!!

From nt enough to a lot, a big change!!! Overall, I enjoyed the experience. =P

The total cost on a friday night for youths is $18.60. If i divide this by 12 plates, it is $1.55 per plate. =D Although this can be cheaper at Safra, but for the experience of eating with friends, it should be ok. I won't go and eat alone though. After the dinner, me, War and BH set off for the train. Talked about some random prelim results and life, haha. ^^

This concludes one night of a memorable class outing. =D

Reality VS Goals

2010-10-10T00:01:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Had a day of clearing my maths homework and finishing up P2 2007 for chem. Productive? Maybe....? An 'interesting' passage! Actually is not a passage, it is just a random piece of er... (Fill in the blank)

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X writes...

...While i flipped through the maths worksheets, one of the papers from the maths department contains the timetable for maths revision and the words of encouragement from the teachers. The encouragement was ok? A sentence that struck me, "Reach for the moon, even if you fail, u will land among the stars!" Something like that. =P

For the page of the maths revision timetable, another sentence: "4 weeks can make a big difference to your results at 'A' levels."

Indeed, some hardworking people can really improve their exam results by a margin, let's say about 10 or 20 marks? E.g, War has improved 12 marks from MY to Prelim! An achievement indeed, but how about for miracles to happen?

There are some random people who would say "I AM SO GOING TO GET AN A FOR A LEVELS!" Woah, a high target, but yet a dream for everyone, regardless of whether it is realistic. Upon inspection of their grades, you would have realised they scored almost all failed grades, even for the subject they wanted to get an A.

My question is: How on EARTH is anyone going to improve from U to A within 4 weeks!? I mean face it, miracles can happen, but how many people do have that miracle? Perhaps the probability which people have miracles follow a poisson distribution. Is anyone going to depend on a miracle to score?

Imagine if a person gets a U for a subject, and he goes about shouting to everyone "I am so going to score a B for A levels!" I think most people would give the "huh wth so random" reply, or simply a look of disbelief, or at the best response, "oh you can if you study really very hard." Yea study really very hard, hmm... How hard? 24 hours a day for 29 days? =P

Of course, choosing the easier way out may be a source of motivation to many. Oh, blame it on the careless mistakes, oh if only I calculated correctly, oh if only this... and that... Result: You realised you failed everything in the past due to these mistakes, and conclusion? You are going to score way better if you don't make these mistakes!!!

But think about it, how can someone get 30+ marks worth of carelessness EVERY TIME during an exam? Unless you always tio the inauspicious spot for every exam, and somehow an aura or a curse is hovering around you to decrease your accuracy, if not the problem shouldn't really lie on 'carelessness'. Once or twice, fine and so be it, but every time? It dosen't really make sense. Agree?

Reach for the moon, even if you fail, you will land among the stars. Some random ppl said: "Eh no wad!??! I thought the moon is closer than the stars?" Agreed! But something is quite true, instead of aiming for unrealistic targets, why not hit the milestones first, and only if time allows (somehow), then hit for higher targets. There is no point in shouting out loud motivation sentences to yourself and in the end flunk a simple mock exam perfectly.

Not biased against anyone, but I just feel that it is rather strange that people can actually dream of high hopes and goals, even when time and content knowledge is against them. 4 weeks can make a difference, yes it can, if time is made used of wisely. Big difference? Rare. I rather have the mindset to build milestones and achieve smaller but yet realistic targets, rather than jumping all the way up and fall with a breakthrough (with the ground also, perhaps).

For now, as RJ said, tie a knot, and hang on there. Or better still, climb slowly, and do your best. It makes sense anyway. =P

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For those who wants to practice GP, do this random AQ.

X expresses his concerns on people having an unrealistic target for exams. How far do you agree with his view? Using your own knowledge, do you think this is happening in your society?

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Ok! End of this random post! =D

A random wednesday

2010-10-06T20:35:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back. Today is seriously a random day, and so i am posting a random post. Haha!

Nothing much happened in the morning, unless u count WK and PH talking about random things during physics. =P

Assembly was rather boring, and Mrs Leong was trying to be funny by waving and signalling that she can't see, and Mrs Tan replied "Nvm if you can't see i read out for you." LOL!!!

Afternoon mock exam very interesting, apparently all the teachers had a meeting, so in the end they requested for the lab technicians to invigilate the place. OCC: "If you bully them you will get it the next mock." Haha lol!

JM was trying to be funny before and after maths mock, keep on waving to me lol.

Ate ice kachang with vanilla ice-cream for dinner, yes it's very random. Quite nice, CT touched the hot metal plate for some reason... Hmm...

Warren was quite hungry even after eating pepper lunch (during dinner), so we went to B1 to see if there is any more random food around. When we past by Old Chang Kee, a lady was asking me want buy anything or not? So i said ok, why not buy a curry puff? She then proceeded to ask me in Chinese: "do you still rmbr me? I was from causeway point de."

OMG LOL! Am i that easy to recognise?!?!? =P Wa heng never owe her money, if nt she will rmbr for life! An eventful yet random day indeed.

I shall now be totally random by doing geog. Hope i do not fall asleep! ^^

(Reminder to myself: Q4 urban is from mid-year, I should just copy the answers)

Prelim 2010 results

2010-10-05T21:30:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Prelim results!

GP

P1: 27/50 [highest GP essay marks i got in my life]
P2: 25/50 [Higher than expected!]

Total: 52 ^^
Grade: D (Very good. ^^)

Maths

P1: 89/100 (Lol?)
P2: 90/100 (Excellent!)

Total: 89.5 ^^
Grade: A (Fantastic!)

Chem

P1: 29/40
P2: 51/72 [Lol!]
P3: 49/80 [my Q2 got 8 marks only, oh well]

Total: 67.5
Grade: B (Excellent!)

Physics

P1: 27/40
P2: 28/72 [!!!]
P3: 42/80 (-.-)

Total: 50.5
Grade: D (Quite disappointing...)

Geog

Litho DRQ: 8/12 (Lol nt bad!)
Other DRQ: 18/38 (O_O)
Litho Essay: 4/25 (!!!)
Global Essay: 10/25

Total: 40
Grade: S

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Physics was quite badly done, concept very weak. Lol. G field question got 4/20, but somehow saved my thermal (16/20) within the same P3 itself.

Scored above expectation for geog, since i aimed about 20+ to 30+ marks? Ty Miss Leong for giving me a sympathy 1 mark towards the end. ^^ I shall be motivated to study geog. Hmm...

Chem and maths ok la, nothing much to comment. Not bad already, haha.

GP is unexpected, never scored so high in my life for GP before.

So comparing Mid-years and prelims, MY:Prelim for GP, maths, Chem, Phy, geog

46:52 [6% increase!]
89.5:89.5 [Lol still the same!]
63:67.5 [4.5% increase!]
57:50.5 [6.5% drop!]
43:40 [3% drop!]

overall like kena neutralised, since improvements are around the same as drops. But grade wise, i improved a grade for GP, but dropped a grade for physics, not very worth.

Rank points for this time = (20 + 17.5 + 12.5 + 6.25 + 2.5) = 58.75 (A drop of 1.25 compared to MY)

Rank points (5 sub): 59
Rank points (5 sub with PW): 67.5
Rank points (all 7 sub): 76

H2: ABD
H1: DS

No nice words being formed this time round, but room for improvement towards A levels! ^^

Grats Warren for exceeding his expectations for maths! ^^
Grats WL for getting an A in chem!
Grats PH for improving in GP and chem! =P

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Random post

2010-10-03T22:14:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back. Didn't play maple for a long time, and then I realised i actually do have a lot of free time if I don't play.

Taking out this time-consuming activity, a feeling of emptiness overpowers (wth lol) me. Does anyone have this feeling?

I am killing myself for not finish the value-added essay outlines for tmr!

Ending this post here. =P

HK trip day 3

2010-10-01T14:58:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Posting about the 3rd day of the HK trip! (Although it's very long ago, haha)

Contents of this post:

- Shopping trip
- Arena of stars at night

The 3rd day can be said my most disliked day, because most of the time was wasted on shopping. This does nt apply to my mother though, the day can be said the best day to her. Gender differences, hmm...

The 3rd day is also the only day me and my mother kena separated from my father, since he has to attend the company's amazing race, which features visitng various places of interest and have some photos taken.

0830 hours

Woke up, and ate breakfast at the cafe again. ^^ The dishes were around the same, just that there were extra spring rolls and paus. The spring rolls were very delicious, with extra crispiness and the filling were well, quite filling. Some spring rolls are quite empty, basically u are just eating the skin. =D

More waffles as usual. =P

After breakfast, me and my mother set off to our targeted shopping venues.

1st venue: Tsim Sha Tsui

The MTR network (Not MRT in SG) seriously contains a lot of railway / subway lines.

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A map of the MTR =P

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[Haven't finish updating!]

A bored saturday

2010-09-25T22:21:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back. Today went out with my mei, YY and GL (short for Guo Li) at civic center.

Guo Li reminds me of many people.

Mr Chiam - his humour dosen't fail to entertain people.
RJ - can be a very socialable person with the girls. Hmm. ^^
SY - GL seriously looks like SY!!!

A nice personality, so is really nice to mmet him, lol.

Did the vectors MEP WS and Set K WS while in the library. Perhaps i watched too much Batsu games recently, until I feel that going out to study / play today is just like another batsu game, gaki no tsukai, smth like that.

Well, the library is so quiet, but when GL was testing my mei about bio, her responses are very funny, making me laugh... Half expected to hear "JEFF, OUT!"

After mugging for about 5 hours (somewhat more productive than studying with War), we decided to take a break and play truth or dare. Most of us chose truth, 1 example i tio was, "what was the most embarassing moment you had with WL?"

... So anyway it was rather fun, my mei sure loved the environment, picking up a lot of library litters. Good job! ^^ After playing in the library (ironically), we went to mac to eat. Just reached home, so taking a break later! ^^

That's all for today, I suddenly realised YY looks like YS. Lol!

HK Trip Day 1

2010-09-24T23:49:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! This post is about the 1st 2 days of the HK trip which i went around 7 weeks ago? ^^

Departure Date and time: 29th July, 0640 hours

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Day 1

- Plane flight to HK
- Hotel Stay
- Women's street visit

Slept at 8pm on previous night, after making, i mean watching 'Love' on TV. Woke up at 2.30am the next day.

Rode father's car to airport, nothing interesting there. =D

0430 hours - Reached the beautiful T3 Changi Airport. I tink long time never go airport already, therefore see already like very amazed. =P

0500 hours - Checked in the babbage and everything, then walked around T3, until about 6+. T3 got a random OSIM massage chair, and random posters for colouring. Cute sia!

0640 hours - Departure from SG!

Plane Info: Boeing 747 plane
Flight no? : UA896 (United Airlines)
Class: Economy

A guy was trying to be funny, losing his black bag on the plane, even before it took off. The plane was quite crammed, and sadly my seat was nt the window seat. =(

Fortunately the seat was quite near the 'TV' screen, so it was rather not bad, since the view of the screen is clear.

The plane then took off. The speed is damn fast, but for obvious reasons. The temperature of the plane has a strong negative correlation with the altitude of the plane, cos it got very cold up in the sky, but was hot when on land. O_O

Watched random feature films and National Geographic channels, some were interesting, espacially the urban part of the tallest city (is it 300 storeys?). Geog lessons while in the plane, fantastic and excellent. Got another one is about people slimming down, and for some strange reasons needed mice, turkeys to do experiments. Got one more is about agriculture, but i fell asleep halfway while watching that...

When i woke up, I saw the screen saying that the temperature is -53 degree Celsius, while the flying speed is 888km/h. A bit scary ya? =D

Breakfast was light, consisting of a peach cheese bread, a chocolate muffin, and cup fruits, with cups of orange juice, wahaha. ^^ The food was quite nice, espacially the peach chesse bread. The adults didnt really like it though.

A pity I didn't take any pictures from the sky, but all I can see was clouds, and more clouds. Smooth flight, and thats about all for the morning flight!

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1030 hours - Hong Kong!

Reached this beautiful place, the weather is the same as SG for now, summer, or perhaps a bit hotter than SG.

We took a sky train (1 station only) to the arrival hall and then took all the babbages at a beautiful conveyer belt? ^^ After that took a bus for approx 30 mins to Royal Park Hotel. Saw HK's ports and beautiful mountains along the way. ^^

1230 hours - Reached the hotel, put down the things on the floor and went to the shopping malls to walk for a while and have lunch.

Ironically, the 1st meal isn't any special HK food, but tako instead. -.- For 32HK dollars, is not bad. (4 octopus balls, 1 jap pancake, and noodles)

Oh btw 1SGD = 5.3 to 5.6HKD. For convenience, Let 1SGD = 5HKD (c.c)

Cantonese is seriously important if you want to survive in HK. There were seriously minimal people who speak Chinese, and for English, don't think about it unless you are in the Airport. So for the shopping experience on the 1st day, i just remained silent, nod head, smile.

Halfway, went to a Coffee shop, which is a restaurant, to have some desserts / coffee. The coffee cup looks super small, although the adults said that the coffee is great. I tried the plain waffles, also look very small... The taste was ok, like nt much greatness, compared to outside. The price difference was significant though.

1430 hours - Room 709

Got the hotel key! The hotel room is quite spacious, 2 beds, TV, cabinet, fridge, and a toilet with a bathtub!!! ^^

Of course, being a super mountain tortoise, I went to use the bathtub. Stayed in the bathtub for 10 to 15 minutes, and since it was very boring while in the bathtub, so hmm...

Watched Tom and Jerry Cartoons in the afternoon... Thinking back, childhood memories are great!

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Approx 1800 hours - Women's street at night!

Women's street: A night market shopping experience, espacially for women.

This is a place where you must go if you want to shop for cheap clothing / cheap but nice food. ^^ Went with 2 of my father colleagues and parents, namely T and K for convenience. So just walked around, with all the clothing, shoes, luggages, souvenir, etc. My mother loved the place, for obvious reasons. ^^

Dinner eat a proper dinner, so ate some street snacks, which contained quite an amount of meat? Siew Mai, chicken mid-joint-wing and beef.

5 Mushroom and pork Siew Mai for 8HKD. So bought 2 sticks of these for 16HKD. ^^ (Estimated 32 cents per siew mai) The taste is ok, since nt many roadside siew mai in SG have mushrooms in it. The chicken and the beef are the recommended ones, since their flavouring and taste are both awesome!!! The beef was a bit spicy though, but most should love it. ^^

Also tried the 'Dan zai', which is actually just toasted egg crisps, the taste quite zai, just like the streets. (It works both ways)

My father was finding some sport shoes since it was rumoured that it is relatively cheaper compared to SG. Lost our way there, so wasted about 30+ minutes just trying to find the street with the shoes, and of course we found the street at the end. Seriously, the street is really filled with shops selling shoes. By turning 360 degrees, you can see more than 15 shoe shops...

Bought quite a few pairs in the end. One pair is 228HKD approx. (thats SGD45.60) It should be cheaper rite? =D After buying shoes, saw an ice-cream truck, so just bought a soft vanilla ice-cream and indulge. ^^

After the long walk in the streets, we went to mac to have desserts (the nearest place we found and rest). The mac things are seriously cheaper compared to SG.

One extra-value meal: Around 4.80SGD (Not MacValue lunch time btw)
6-pc Nuggets meal offer: Around 3.50SGD (wth!)

The Mac in HK sells sausage Mcmuffin with egg in the night, so i ate that for a snack. After resting, we bought some roasted chicken and goose to go back to the hotel and enjoy.

A tiring day, but hey at least is a shopping experience! I tried the chicken, it was nice! Didn't try the goose though. Watched Tom and Jerry at night again lol.

2330 hours - Sleep! And this ends Day 1 of the trip! ^^

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Day 2 post: Just below
Day 3 post: Not done!
Day 4 post: Not done!

HK trip day 2

2010-09-24T23:48:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Posting about HK trip day 2! ^^

- Breakfast in the hotel
- Ocean park trip!
- Night at mosque street!

Day 2 is my favourite day for the entire trip, since it really involves fun that involves me and is really a part of HK. Haha. ^^

So it is another bright and beautiful day near Royal Park Hotel, and my whole family woke up at around 8am for the hotel's breakfast. The place is at 2+2 cafe? At first, i thought it would be some Random Dim Sum (^^) or some chinese food, but surprisingly it ended up to be a western breakfast, with trace amount of NaOH, I mean chinese food.

The food is generally not bad, with special features such as pancake machines and a counter where you can order diff kinds of eggs with random toppings! ^^

Ate loads of waffles, they tasted really nice. ^^

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- Ocean park trip!

The highlight of the day! ^^

After breakfast, all 5 of us headed off to Ocean Park in a taxi, and got caught in a traffic jam. Aw. =(

The taxi ride cost about HK$157.5!!! omg lol!

Surprisingly Ocean Park was not a water-theme park like Wild wild wet, but more of a fun-theme park like Escape Theme Park. Quite a lot of ppl on that day though, probably is because is a friday and therefore there would be field trips! ^^

Ocean Park is divided into the animals section and the fun and games section, with a cable car of tram servicing between the 2 stations. We went to a few sections, namely the entrance (duh), the asian animals exhibitions, and took a view of the fun and games section, didn't really try the theme rides though.

The ballons were quite fascinating, and there were a few performers with very big eggy costumes performing some tricks and stunts. Fascinating! ^^ Somehow there were a lot of gift shops in Ocean Park, but all with rather different themes.

Section 1 - Animals section.

To be precise, Asian animals section. The animals consisted of alligators, crocodiles, seals, racoons and pandas.

There is a very dark enclosure for pandas, and somehow the panda was rather GL, since it only walked one round and everybody was seeing it sleeping through the TV. The enclosure was quite cool though, a very cooling temperature, dark, and a greeny scenery for the pandas to live in. ^^

Another enclosure was very bright, but yet MORE COOLING than the previous one. I bet a lot of money was used to cool the place, since it was really huge! The enclosure contained more pandas, along with alligators and racoons. Just imagine the Singapore Zoo's snake / bird boardwalk, where u can sort of experience the 'natural' habitat of the snakes, except that this time the boardwalk has a cooling device.

The alligators sure can sleep under the sun, while the racoons played under the bridge. =P Of course, there was another large spot for pandas. The pandas were considerably more active than the previous ones, and some even played together. Aw so cute. ^^

After the whole enclosure, we went out and there was a whiteboard to spam wadever random rubbish u want! Followed by another panda gift shop, and a panda cafe restaurant! (Photos are in other posts) ^^

After the panda exhibition, we went to see some antique chinese decorations, quite nice, but nothing significant at this point.

Watched the seal show before lunch! An excellent show, although the language being spoken was in Cantonese, it was still rather enjoyable to see the seals doing stuns and playing with the small kids! ^^

Section 2 - Fun and games section!

We took a monorail to the top of Ocean Park! The monorail ride itself was ok, but it has an underwater theme. The monorail is pictured as a submarine travelling through the ocean, but got stuck due to creatures knocking the glass wall, and in the end enjoy the beautiful scenery of the ocean. ^^ A short but free ride, interesting!

The fun and games section can be considered quite large, consisting of many standard rides such as roller coaster, teacups, skytower, etc... Did not play any of these, since there were a huge number of people waiting for the rides.

We headed to the cafeteria and gift shop for a break. I suppose that is one of the biggest gift shops of Ocean Park, since it consists of many items sold in various smaller gifts shops. Bought a few dolphins, panda, over there. For a short snack, we bought some fries and a coke-floats, Normal taste, nothing much interesting.

After lunch, we walked around for a bit, then went to watch the dolphin show. Woah to the number of people over there. The show starts at 1400 hours, yet at 1320 hours it was filled with people already, in the end had to stand and watch the show. This show is supposed to be the highlight of Ocean Park, hmm... I found it a bit boring though, a pity didn't take a video of the show.

It was about 1445 hours when the show ended, so we decided to leave the place, but halfway, we saw a jellyfish exhibition!!! ^^ For once, i saw my brothers in Ocean park, lol! =D

A lot of ppl who went for the show also went to the jellyfish exhibition, loads of various types of jellyfish were over there, just walked through the darkness of the exhibition, with dazzling colours all over the place. The jellyfish gift shop is rather small though! Drank a random green float with longans, pineapples and other tropical fruit cocktail while walking... Refreshing! ^^

Went back to the hotel after the Ocean Park trip. The entrance was FLOODED with people, wished those ppl good luck while waiting for their turn to enter. ^^

This concludes the end of the Ocean Park Trip!

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- Night at mosque street!

First impression: Mosque street is just like Women's street!

The structure is almost the same, the things sold are almost the same. The only difference i noticed was that the things sold in Mosque Street was more appealing towards guys compared to Women's street.

For dinner, we went to a 'ban mian' stall and ate. Apparently the stall is really famous for its spiciness, but the irony is that we didn't order anything spicy, but rather just the noodles itself.

I shared with my parents a bowl of plain soup chicken noodles, cos we thought just eat a very small portion each, thereafter can enjoy more delicacies. ^^ In the end, the bowl was damn big. For those who ate JE ban mian before, the bowl is about 1.5 times the JE size. The noodles looked very plain, but surprisingly the noodles tasted EXTREMELY nice, even nicer than JE's. Price = approx SGD$4.

The shopping experience is the same as women's street, so i will be talking more about the food. The food is quite ok, i bought a coconut drink, which was seriously very thick with a strong milk flavour. The uncle was a bit blur though, mixing up a lot of orders, haha. I think he thought mine was a special order, and therefore make the drink very concentrated.

Packet some roast meat, siew mai, and prawn dumplings to go back to the hotel and enjoy. The Dim Sum stall at the roadside was somehow quite cosy, and the paos they had were really big! Smells nice also, mmm. ^^

The siew mai were quite ok, the prawn dumplings were great!!!!!!! Up till today haven't found one nicer than that one. The roast pork were ok, nt much difference with the SG ones.

After the meal, watched Tom and Jerry for a while again, and then went to sleep! That concludes day 2 for the HK trip! ^^

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Day 1 post: above
Day 3 post: Not done!
Day 4 post: Not done!

End of J2 prelims

2010-09-23T21:31:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! It's finally the end of prelims! ^^

A summary of how I think i have done for the prelims.

For this week,

Chem P1 - Can do.
Chem P2 - Can do! ^^

Maths P2 - Definitely can do!

Physics P1 - Hmm... To me a bit hard, like about 10+ questions of guessing, no hopes on this one.

Physics P3 - Should be can do! ^^

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Overall...

Hope can get a B for chem, since it is rather ok. ^^

Aiming A for maths, no exceptions. (Heard from OCC i got 89 for maths P1, if thats the case P2 just get 51 can le)

Physics - Hope can get a C...

GP - Hope can pass.

Geog - hopeless. Haix.

Pinning my hopes on chem and maths then! ^^

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Today went to watch Legend of Chen Zhen? Or smth like that. ('Meng Xiang' as quoted by Warren)

Recommended to watch, NC16 though. =P

That's all for today! Packing up my table at the moment!

A random fb tag

2010-09-19T10:20:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back. I went to fb and saw this interesting post from Demas.

*Was studying at Mac where there was a Mac birthday party. The little kids were quiet when "Baa Baa Black Sheep" was played... and after a while were singing "Bad Romance" in unison. Epic win.*

Wa seh, lol! Now that's random! A change of culture indeed.

1st out of 2 weeks

2010-09-18T21:45:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! The 1st out of 2 weeks is gone! At last. Posting about 2 things!

Contents:

1. 1st week of Prelims
2. Outing with my maple mei yesterday.

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1. 1st week of prelims

Half of the papers were horrible for the 1st week.

Geog P1

Sure fail. My pen halfway no ink, just like the maths prelim 2 years ago. Is really very random, when my pen suddenly had no ink at 9.30, and this lasted for 15 minutes. At 10.30am, it had no ink all the way.

If i pass, it is a miracle. I regretted studying for test, but not being able to do it. Easy paper some more sia!

Grats to War who finally had his share of volcano essay questions. Haha ^^

Chem P3

Good! Except for Q2. Hope to score at least 48 for the paper bah. ^^

Physics P2

=.= May have a chance of failing. I have let War down for not knowing forces. The planning i anyhow do, ran out of time. I love the diffraction question though. It is fun!

Maths P1

Ok la, except for DE. Majority of the people do not have the same sentiments as me though. The DE i just simply anyhow do, even though i stoned for 40 minutes at the question.

WL so good sia, didnt attend the maths P1. Hope can score at least 85 for the paper bah! (Yeah,hmm...Somehow i doubt it)

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2. Outing with my maple mei

*My maple mei is not my gf, in case you are wondering*

1700 hours - we went to city square for dinner at the chicken BBQ restaurant. Somehow there was nobody, so i created the impression of me booking the whole restaurant^^

So we were looking at the prices, and prepared to pay about 10+ dollars per set... After looking for very long then i realised got a student set, which contained all the dishes we want. LOL

I ordered the chicken mushroom chicken steak (Lol why steak?) while my mei ordered fish and chips. Mmm, simply delicious! I really enjoyed the chicken for the first time. =P

Talked a lot of random rubbish, I drank mineral water... =P

1830 hours - Went to plaza Sing to watch a movie, only realising that my mei watched almost all the movies recently. Woah...

We watched Love Cuts in the end, after the choices were eliminiated to Devil VS Love Cuts. A touching movie, my mei cried for having a warm heart. Aw. =(

I stoned, yes it was touching, but i did not cry. A nice movie anyway. ^^

2130 hours - I asked mei to take a photo with me, for memory sake, shun bian bought a midnight snack. =P

2145 hours - We walked along the street by the river and had a romantic time.

Ok fine the 2145 hours was a joke, we went home in the end. Haha! =P

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Reached home at 2300 hours, played maple, taught MY maths and chatted with WL, SY and ZY random rubbish until 2am.

^^

That's the end of this post!

End of last sep holidays

2010-09-10T22:26:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

This week was totally burnt, although i didn't leave it in my oven for too long.

Monday - Studying chem T_T
Tuesday - Studying chem again =.=
Wednesday - Mock exam, slacked almost the whole day =P
Thursday - Physics consultation, slacked almost the whole day =P
Friday - Nothing productive.

Today went to swim with ZH, a good way to relieve stress in water? Just stay in the water and emo, and thought about life and upcoming prelims... ZH did a few turns in the pool, interesting, hmm...

Towards the end of the swim there was a random guy who was showing his friends how his bulge in his swimming trucks could expand. Imagine if i got a big stick and whack the bulge. Of course 2 cases would happen. =D

1st case: It was just air in this bulge, aw. =P
2nd case: That bulge is really his dick, er... nothing to say. o.O

Well, at least end of this random day! ^^

A day outside

2010-09-02T11:06:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! A short and random update!

Yesterday got a bowling score of 125. Never got this high before, although is way below PH's score of near 200. Good job! ^^

After bowling, we went to Safra. Warren sure love gyoza, considering he finished 2 sticks in less than 5 minutes?

Surprisingly War passed the test, after much leniency in marking. O_O

Oh, the bowling lanes went dry yesterday. ^^

HK Trip day 2 pandas

2010-08-28T22:43:00.011+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Posting something which is short, that is part of the trip of ocean park, the experience of the trip will be in other posts!

One of the section features, and the first thing that came to my mind?

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A deep enclosure of pandas awaits. But hey, actually there were 2 enclosures, this one was sleeping away, in the cooling environment, despite the brightness of the sun!

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This one a bit GL, walked out from its hole for about a minute, and then walked back. For some reason it reminds me of a boss being spawned, and the kena killed. Lol.

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The gift shop after the panda enclosure, this one is dedicated to my mei! Have a panda day! Wahaha! ^^

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Who says Panda do not make good food? They do! ^^

Haha, end of panda post! Other parts of the HK trip will be posted!

NJ trip, friday the 13th

2010-08-13T21:00:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back! These few days were quite ok, compared to Wednesday at least! ^^

Yesterday started off with a very sian day, since I have the mindset that GP will be another period of suffering, since I have to present something about the 25th hour.

All changed, when PH said during break that me, him and Warren need go for engineering exhibition. Fantastic and Excellent! ^^

The NJ trip was nothing very special, except that we really walked one VERY BIG round, just because War refused to walk through the school. =P

Same sentiments though, try walking into NJ with PJ uniform.

The exhibition was quite ok, but is seriously not as big as i expected, though they managed to cram some specimen booths for ppl to see. ^^

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I heard ZY got suan-ed during GP, is that true? o.o

Talked to WL until 11+ last night, although i said 'sleeping in 10mins' at around 10.15pm. Talked about random rubbish, preferences, and personal experiences (which are like lol of course rite?).

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Happy Friday the 13th, today ironically is the luckiest day among these 3 days. The day was pleasant and smooth-sailing. Maybe perhaps there was no GP.

Did some fieldwork tutorial during geog, which some of the skills were covered in maths, lol! There was one comparison which i thought was rather interesting.

Copying notes VS Counting the number of people.

There was a slide with some global fieldwork techniques which required copying, so I suggested taking a picture, and War did take a picture.

So Miss Tan was walking around, and see if we were done. and War said he took a picture already. This action was done with the assumption that War will copy the notes at home, but she then saw him copying from the picture into his notes.

Miss Tan: Eh? I thought u said you took picture already??
Warren: Ya... (Copies from the phone)
Miss Tan: Then you take picture and copy from the phone?? Wa I don't understand...

"WARREN YOU VERY WEIRD LEH!!!!"

=D

After that we went through some urban fieldwork techniques too, something about counting the number of people walking in / out of Lot 1. Obviously you need more people to ensure that the number of people you have counted is correct.

True, so some suggested using a camera, to ensure counting is done properly, since you can recount again? =D

Shawn's suggestion: Count the number of people from the camera on the spot.

".....!!!"

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Took a nap just now, cos very tired. Having a nap is really nice lol. ^^

A bad day, a good night

2010-08-11T20:27:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

As the day started off with the maths lecture projector being spoilt or something, OCC said: "Today is not our day."

Indeed.

Today GP was extended by 100% more [OMG!].

I got 16/50 for the time essay!!! What the Fxxx. Ok fine I have War to join me, good job!

Next tuesday kena night study for GP, such a 'blessing'.

It rained during GP lesson, it stopped after the lesson. Appropriate!

For some reason mark chem P3 like almost all wrong sia.

Today the pizza hut staff gave me more pepsi, although i dont like it.

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Well, today is a bad day, but tonight's going to be a good night!

Irony: I am chionging banded lecture WS!

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Happy birthday Demas! (Ugh who is reading this blog anyway? ^^)

random HK pics

2010-08-05T21:57:00.006+08:00

the jellyfish is back! As some ppl may already know, i just came back from HK!

Oh, is fun! Shall post some random pictures, and blog about the content in future! ^^

Enjoy lol~

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This one is taken at the Avenue of Stars during the day, where there are nice buildings, probably the CBD area?

Since sample size n=30 is quite large, by Central Limit theorem, the height of these buildings follow a normal distribution. Agree?

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To do well in chem, i should study...

Oh this was taken at Times Square, perhaps one of the featured shopping center to visit.

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Vulgar? Yes.

This picture was taken near the Avenue of Stars. Bored at that time while walking, so took a picture of this interesting bank. ^^

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I am not going to be packed in a souvenir. =P

This was taken near the jellyfish exhibition in Ocean Park. ^^

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The most interesting 'Please do not eat in the platform or train' advertisement. ^^

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Blogging the other content in future!

Leaving

2010-07-29T03:30:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back. It's time to...

Reach out, for the skies! With wings, we soar up high!

^^

Happy birthday WL!

NS checkup

2010-07-18T13:23:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back. Blogging about NS checkup!

So hmm generally, the checkup was ok, nothing much happened... However, I feel that going for this NS checkup is just like doing an orbis PQ.

My father took me to CMPB, ate mac in the morning in the car. =D When i reached there it was around 8.57am, so i called PH (nvr pick up phone) and BH. BH then said nobody knew how to go to CMPB, so oh well, i have to go all the way to Bukit Merah Bus interchange.

Got lost halfway on the way to the bus interchange, so took a bus there, then i realised the distance is around 800m. Suddenly, i recalled Warren's instructions for going CMPB, "go TB, take bus to bus interchange, then walk 5 mins to CMPB". The distance from the bus stop which is near to CMPB to the bus interchange is around 800m. So much for the 5 mins walking! Thanks ar! =P Oh, BH was like complaining about him seeing the CMPB building from home, and he went 1 full round to only get back to the building he sees. Good job! ^^

Of course we were late, but no direct / indirect consequence though, here comes the PQ part.

Party members: Me, PH, BH, WK, WL

Entrance: Changed IC for a small locker key to store our phones inside a small locker. Not bad sia =P

Stage 1 - [Entrance to the checkup]

Got a pink form over there which was supposed to be a checklist of stations. =D A few stations to clear. The entrance was very quiet though, and very cooling.

You have gained Experience (+6000)

Stage 2 - [Photo taking for NS card]

Disastrous stage for some reason, the camera alignment of the officer sucks. His instructions were like "turn ur head to the right, oh no thats too much, tilt ur head to the left, and wa seh."

The top looks quite nice though, and WL wore a perfect pair of shorts which perfectly mathces the colour of the top. Appropriate! Jeff likes this. (thumbs up)

WL's hair was short, but somehow he was requested to pull his fringe up, which was like huh?

You have gained Experience (+6500)

Stage 3 - [Registering for the health checkup]

Handed in the online questionaire, then WK somehow brought a blank one, lol! But hey at least he managed to get a checkup in the end. =P

You have gained Experience (+7000)

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Finally, it's the start of the checkup. For some reason, we didnt wait really long for any stations, so is time-saving and nt bad! =D

Stage 4 - [Urine test]

We were given a container each to go to the toilet and pee. Everybody was like huh pee where ar? Of course the urinal lol. Got one random guy was like come in and say
just pee la". And yea, pee. The container is really dam small, but heng i didnt flood it as i just stopped peeing halfway into the container and pee into the urinal for the other half. A lot ppl kena their hands, including me. Feeling, you ask?

PH's answer: Warm. =P

You have gained Experience (+7500)

Stage 5 - [Blood test]

One of the worse stages. The officer can't find my veins, and so my 2 hands also kena pricked. Not as pain as Gabriel described, and not as scary as WC described.

The officer told me to flex my hand, a bit like weightlifting sia. Wa heng left and he found the veins at least, or he will keep on poking until he found the veins...

Can't read my, can't read my, no he can't read my poker veins... He ain't got to poke nobody...

You have gained Experience (+7500)

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From here on, the rooms are jumbled up... =D

Stage 6A - [Hearing test]

Heard sounds of different frequency, and I am supposed to wave my hands if i heard something. So basically I waved my hands the whole test... Cos there seems to be something heard, haha =D

You have gained Experience (+7500)

Stage 6B - [Eye test]

Can see the charts well, should be no problem. Colour blindness was a breeze, the officers were very friendly at this stage, haha.

You have gained Experience (+7500)

Stage 6C - [Dental]

The only stage which i dunno how is it related to NS. A super quick stage, where the officer just said some random sentences which i supposed has something to do with my teeth. =D

You have gained Experience (+7500)

Stage 6D - [X-ray]

For some reason, i hate this stage. The machines were quite loud, which were like why ar? Holding your breath is like lol.... o.o probably checking bones w/o air. Haha!

You have gained Experience (+7500)

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Back to stages in order.

Stage 7 - [ECG - is it ElectroCardioGram?]

I think this is the stage where they see the problems of lungs. Passed this stage, with all the random suction things which made a lot of marks on my body, but should be gone by now. ^^

BH was making ppl laugh, he said something about 3 out of 6 suction things dropping off from his body, which took him a super long time to lie on the bed.

You have gained Experience (+7500)

Stage 8 - [Height and Weight + Pulse station]
Haix.

The officer I think was from PJ, cos he said something about the Principal's speech, and commented something on the suicide case.

1 minute of silence to the case.

I don't get how he knows the whole group of us is from 09S16 though, is there somewhere he could check? Hmm...

You have gained Experience (+7500)

Stage 9 - [Checking of genitals station]

Supposed to be the highlight of the whole checkup, but nothing exciting happened (it works both ways)

Heng bo get erection inside, if nt will be si bei paiseh. I don't what is the point of checking though.

You have gained Experience (+7500)

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Stage 10 - [IQ test] (Boss stage)

Encounted so many questions in like one go. Haha.

Got some random shape pattern questions, english questions, algebra questions, Orientation questions, sequence questions, physics questions and number pattern
questions.

I loved the algebra and physics, breezed through super easily. Hated the number pattern and orientation the most, can't really identify lol!

Took a very long time. At the end of the IQ test, they had this survey.

Q1: Estimated waiting time for this test.
Ans: <5 minutes.

Q2: Satisfied with the waiting time?
Ans: Er... Should I put no? XP

Q3: So how? Can wait?
Ok la i put this question myself. It dosent exist lol.

BH took dam long for the test. Everybody wondered why.

You have gained Experience (+33000)

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Stage 11 - [On the way out]

There is no bonus stage lol. Handed in the pink form and left CMPB.

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There goes one day of checkup. WL, WK and PH have to come back again.

We went Vivo to eat. =D An eventful friday indeed. ^^

Random mid year results

2010-07-13T22:06:00.005+08:00

the jellyfish is back. Random Mid-year results! =D

GP

P1: 23/50 [Aiya not bad la, sports saved me]
P2: 23/50

Overall percentage: 46
Overall grade: E

Wasted my effort for summary! Let's find out why.

Warren: 120 words , 5.5 marks
Me: 108 words, 4.5 marks
WL: 48 words, 4 marks [WTH!?]

LOL to WL's summary. =.= This is called win!

Maths

P1: 92/100 [Excellent!]
P2: 87/100 [=.=]

Overall percentage: 89.5
Overall grade: A

gimme 1 more mark! D=
OCC said my functions nt very strong, cos scored 7 out of 8. Wa seh thanks ar! I learnt to hate Venn diagrams. =D

the random equation question war got 6 marks for writing one step. Win sia! Again, this is called pro. =P

To WL and War's pro-ness, must use one of OCC's interesting sentence. =D

"Warren very good at these tricks, but the content not very good..."

It is true, i bet me and WL will give thumbs up, and of course, like this. ^^

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Chem

P1: 30 / 40 [Good!]
P2: 39.5 / 72 [Aw. But better than expected]
P3: 50 / 80 [Fantastic and excellent!]

Overall percentage: 63
Overall grade: B [^^]

Exceeding expectations, keep up the good job to myself haha! The P3 Q2 dam funny, the examiner wrote on the organic, PERFECT SCORE!!! Like jackpot haha! So pleasant to read =D

My P3 got 11 + 18 + 8 + 13 [Q1,2,3,5]

Jasima very random these few days, or like fascinated with a lot of things. =D

E.g. BH get 38 / 40 for MCQ {wa seh dam pro sia!}, she is like "wa in so many years of service, i nvr see anyone getting so high for MCQ, in PJ la."

Another one is like "usually ppl cannot score in P3, so if u get 50+ it is like wa...."

She gave out P3 is like saying out the ppl who got 40 and above, then i heard "TY 41/42 (forgot le) very good..." I actually quite shock dao, cos i depend on chem P3 to score. Wa heng got 50~

Oh ya, she forgot who is WL again. When she gave out the overall paper she was telling WL, "When Long... Oh you pass!!!! Good!!!!" =D

Apparently she forgot WL got A for common test and now dropped drastically and dramatically. I can swear WL gave the 'er-ok, walao eh pass only nia' kind of face.

So chem how? Can do? Yes! =D

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Physics

P1: 24 / 40 [Hmm...]
P2: 40 / 72 [I got 2 for planning... but hey it's nt bad!]
P3: 46 / 80 [Hmm...]

Overall Percentage: 57
Overall grade: C [Ok la, nt bad ^^]

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Geog

Litho DRQ: 5 / 12
Global DRQ: 2 / 12 [Wa thanks ar!]
Urban DRQ: 5 / 12 [Hmm...]
Hybrid DRQ: 8 / 14 [Full marks for the maths questions =P]
Litho Essay: 8 / 25 [Is amazing that i got 1 mark for the 9 marks question]
Urban Essay: 15 / 25 [OMG! First time i got so high! ^^]

Overall Percentage: 43
Overall Grade: S

It must be a miracle that i had actually not scored a U for geog, even though i didn't study maybe except for urban and a bit of the stupid limestone. Keep up the good work to myself! Haha!

Yeah i know is a fail. =P

Jeffery did the hybrid DRQ although he is in hydro. Good job! =D

Human geog scored above 20, LOL to the part where I asked Miss Leong whether i scored above 20 marks for human geog. She said dunno cos havent combine the marks. Lol!

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So in overall... Compared to common test

CT:MY

GP - 46.5:46 [dropped 0.5%]
Maths - 94:89.5 [dropped 4.5%]
Physics - 70:57 [dropped 13%!!!]
Chem - 67.5:63 [dropped 4.5%]
Geog - 31:43 [Increase 12%!!!]

Overall ar, everything dropped except geog, is that supposed to be a bad thing? Perhaps bah.

H1: SE [Not sharp eyes lol.]
H2: ABC [Yea, good for kids to learn english]

Rank points: 60 / 80

Not bad bah! Work hard for prelims! But lemme slack first haha =D

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Ionic eqm:

Jasima: You all ar, must rememember the Kc, Kp, Ka, Kb, still got wad, Ksp!!!
Warren: Kwl!
WL: (Takes out hammer and smash it on Warren's head hard)

Physics question: Define electric potential (1 mark)
War: Electric potential.

That's all for the random posting! =D

Edited by: Warren and Wen Long

Monday's boredom

2010-07-12T22:00:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

"... for more details of content of chitchat, pls refer to jefferson's blog which hopefully includes more details" - Adapted from WL's blog, lines ??

So after a boring Monday worth of lessons, me, War, PH and WL went to food junction and ate pepper lunch.

Well, take me out of the eating although it is seriously ironical on why would I be taken out. =P

So we sat there and really talked about life. From medical checkup and the PES being allocated to mid-year marks + banding to drama serials and random shows to WL increasing defence for wadever reason.

A random part goes like this.

Jeff: WL! Use harden!
(WL hardened himself)
War: WL! Use string shot!
(A string of white substance came out of WL)

Well, I think some string or called 'chan / can' (pronounced HanYuPinYin way) is somehow white. =P

Warren was very worried about his GP, predicted a whole range of marks which anymore numbers could contribute to the numbers in a normal distribution. =P

Anyway, we chatted like from 3.30pm to 5.15pm, a bit more time than doing a 1.5 hours GP paper. haha! =D

End of post!

Boring July start

2010-07-05T13:49:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

The start of July is super boring, there is seriously nothing much to do, except studying for exams or playing com. =.=

The recent papers were ok.

Chem P3 was ok, at least give me a pass, haha =D
Maths was definitely ok. =P

After maths paper on Thursday, somehow the time met the lowest common multiple timing for a lot of buses.

Cos me and WL saw a bus coming in the bus stop, and everybody rushed to it. So oh well, sat down there and stone, then skali another one came, half of the leftover crowd rushed to it.

So we were like prepared to board the 2nd bus, then the 3rd one came. =.=

LOL, we then changed to the 3rd bus, and thereafter, 2 more buses came.

The 4th one stopped for some passengers, the 5th one just moved on.

After the 5th one moved on, the 6th one came. (wth lol!?) We took the 6 buses, whoever say that there we no seats up there deserved to be smacked. =P Loads of seats, 20 choose 1 sia!

I think maybe PJ sent some notices, maybe it went like this.

"hey yo wassup! Due to loads of ppl having our maths paper, pls arrange some buses to clear off the whole crowd! TY very much!"

And yea, 6 buses, it certainly cleared the whole crowd. Win!!!

Good luck to myself and everybody taking Chem and Physics P2!

Random maple thread

2010-06-28T20:27:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Maths is so boring, therefore i decided to take a break and read something random, and saw this interesting thread.

http://forums.asiasoftsea.net/showthread.php?t=812804

As wad SY will say, UNFAIR!!!

Jeff like this =P

Today physics how? Can do? NO! T_T

Mid-year geog paper

2010-06-25T20:47:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back. =D

Today's geog...

Litho how? Can do? Er... No.
Urban how? Can do? Safer than usual!

[In War's definition, getting 2 marks is much safer than getting a mark]

Hybrid question how? Can do? Not bad, I must get the maths questions correct!!!

Global how? Can do? NO! (Or as wad WL would say, "Cannot la! What nonsense!")

So how many marks do I think i can get...

Expected: 20+ marks
Realistic target: 35 marks please... (At least must be better than CT rite?)
Unrealistic target: A subpass please!
Godly target: A pass please? =D

Geog is godly hard and boring to study, i realise this is my attention spam for the following content subjects, assuming i can concentrate without distractions. =P

Average values of course. =D

Subject: (reading notes timespan / doing work timespan)

Maths: 30 mins / 3 hours
Chem: 1 hour / Around 1 hour
Physics: 30 mins / Around 1 hour
Geog: Less than 5 mins / Less than 10 mins

Today geog keep kena distracted by surroundings, dunno why.

At least geog is over! For now. Litho and urban into the bin, until further notice! ^^

Oh, today i experienced a queue that has 317 people in front of me. Waited like siao, then i realise the wonders of stoning for about 1hr+ without doing anything. O_O

18th birthday celebrations

2010-06-02T22:10:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Yesterday had a fun time, therefore nt much time to blog.

Must learn from the 'Oh Carol!' which i watched yesterday.

Modified version: Who is the funny person who always tell lame jokes that almost paralysed everyone, be able do to maths but not able to excel in sports, and who is good in almost everything except the one who he is not good in, and also had his birthday yesterday? Me. =P

Ok la that is super lame, and after that part was shown, me and WL were like diao haha! ^^

Contents of this post

1. 1st June birthday celebrations
2. SMO and OCC's extra lesson.
3. Thanking everybody =D

1. 1st June birthday celebrations

had a good sleep ytd. woke up at 7.10am ^^

Ate a bit of breakfast with my parents, which included prawn dumplings, bee hoon with egg and sauasage and some char siew chee cheong fun. =P

After that travelled to PH's house, and i actually thought WL and Warren reached already, then in the end PH asked me: "Eh Warren leh??"

I like gave a O_O face, and then Warren reached at 8.45am, giving a 'ya la i am late' face. Haha! ^^

PH suggested bowling, and we had some chocolates along the way. I tink i kena the orange and one random flavour. Not bad. PH was thinking that the place may be flooded and we have to wait until 2pm for a bowling lane, then i predicted there would be nobody.

Result: There was really nobody. Because there was nobody, nobody but you. Ok that's lame.

We then played for about 1.5 to 2 hours of bowling. Warren was not bad, I suck at bowling, PH is too godly... I and Warren were predicting who will have the most gutters, and oh well i got the honourable title. Mine and Warren's combined score was lesser than PH's, which is like wa... Anyway it was fun! At $1.50 per game and the cold air-con, it was really fun! ^^ Pity WL did not come for the bowling, or it would be more fun, haha!

After that we went to PH's condo and swim, or as wad PH and WL will say, playing with water.

Long time didnt swim already, so yesterday was an opportunity to revive myself with water, and as wad Nat would say, "Kor go back water and swim le!" How appropriate!

WL came about 10 mins after we were in the water, i tried to splash WL, and Warren was sort of chasing WL all over like a monkey. Lol! We also tried the water slide and jacuzzi, which were like wa not bad, PH can enjoy that everyday! ^^

After playing the slides, we went to the 1.2m pool, stoned there for quite some time.

About 2+, we left PH's house for Chong Pang BBQ. Reached at around 3+, then we realised there was no customers (probably it isn't lunch nor dinner hours?). So oh well, we took the whole place and the food there were like all ours, wahaha ^^

It seems like 1st time Warren's first time cooking, cos he put too much oil, and wow the whole thing went boomz, cos oil was like splashing all over, and the meat burnt super easily. It was also the 1st time i realise that CP BBQ has eggs. Random eating for about 2 hours, WL and War ate like as if nvr eat before, for some reason. =P

War said he is not a great eater, i dont really think so though. O_O

Did i mention we got free potong ice-creams? ^^ The aunty said the reason was because i brought more people to eat, cos is the 2nd time i go to Chong Pang. Must partially thank RJ, lol!!!

We then walked around Giant, which was quite small. Then went home and enjoy the good good night. ^^

Played maple during the night at the guardians / chief guardians of oblivion instead of studying for maths. =.=

1st June then came to an end. ^^ Happy 18th birthday to myself! =D

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2. SMO and OCC's extra lesson.

Some people will be asking, "SMO how? Can do?"

Answer: No. T_T

OCC's lesson was interesting as usual, and she also asked the SMO question. Haix, nvr study, then must suffer the consequences, oh well!

Got back the random hard complex numbers test, which i got 22 / 27 for some random reason. Super satisfied! OCC then said something about "making all those who always get A to know that overconfidence by not studying will still give u an A is wrong."

War then stared at me, i wondered why. O.O

SY passed me a gift during the lecture, which turned out to be a shoe bag! Thanks ar! ^^

After that went to pizza hut to eat pizza hut. (Eh? This phrase makes sense though)

Dinner ate with my parents, and thats the end of 2nd June ^^

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3. Thanking people =D

Usually my FB / E-mail is like almost nothing, only got the rubbish e-mails and some random advertisements. But then i went to FB and my email account like Wa!!! Tio flooded! Suddenly i felt happy / guilty. Happy because there were many ppl who remembered? (Hmm or maybe from the reminder on FB) Guilty because i am not a person who always go write on the wall for greetings. So oh well.

So thanks to =D

- Haslin, Benjamin, Shafiq, Yian Lu, Gladys, WJ, Gordon, HJ, Sean Chan, WanTing
- Farah, JL, ZY, Defa, Bing Han, Celine, TY
- Geraldine, Ken, Kenneth (Senior)
- Yusoff, ZhongSheng, Tean, Wai Leong, RJ, SY, ZH
- Min! Alesair, Lazer, Ninja =D [They are nicknames in maple]
- Yong Loon, Priscilla, Bork Hang, Guan Wei
- Marissa (aka monkey), BS =D [JJ OGL =P], Amanda [aka Creature!]
- My small aunt ^^

And others! There is 1 number which sms me, but i change phone then i tink bo save contact. T_T

Oh ya, then must thank PH, War and WL, celebrate this year's birthday with me. =P

And last but not the least, my maple mei aka Nat. =P

As your kor will say, you are obviously trying to be funny! Tell me you are sleeping early then do so many things to accompany me until midnight. O.O And yea i enjoyed this year, so ty! ^^

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End of this post! Have a great month. =P

(The post has been completed!)

18th birthday

2010-06-01T23:00:00.001+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

Happy 18th birthday to myself. Thanks to all who wished me happy birthday haha! ^^

Birthday how? Can do? =)

Random junk timetable

2010-05-17T18:18:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

Tonight is the time for clearing junk! =D

Maybe this should be the timetable for tonight. Clearing these junk. (PH is amused by the phrase clearing junk)

WA denotes weekend assignment, PP denotes post-promo WS

1900 hrs - App of differentiation WA
1945 hrs - Intergration PP
2100 hrs - Maths random prelim paper 1
2230 hrs - Reivew: complex numbers
0000 hrs - Random 7 questions WS
0115 hrs - Functions PP
0245 hrs - Random prelim paper 2
0545 hrs - Wash up and go school =(

To survive through the night, maybe i should listen to the following songs...

Sunset glow by Big Bang
Pep shower by dunno who
Donald Duck 'quack quack quack' song by WL. LOL!

Oops, i suddenly realise that tmr got poverty test, haix, so maybe i should study for it?

Nah, wont. This is when ppl will start to say: "you are not being fair to GP, what have you done for the subject?"

Hmm, maybe i shouldn't do maths also then! =D

Quote Jasima: "Oh, so you are being fair to chemistry la." I shall use that quote for this case of maths and GP. =D

Random ironical phrase: Buying cash!

Happy evening! ^^

Working weekend and small test results

2010-05-11T19:46:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back. ^^

Contents of this post

1. Random test results
2. Weekend Working With William (4W alliteration!)

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1. Random test results

These few weeks the recent test results are good! XD

Quote Alexis: "Oi humble ar!"

Maths: 25/27 [Not bad! The vectors anyhow do lol~]
Physics: 19/25 [I got 4 marks for the bonus question!]
Chem: 26/30 [I got 4 marks for the bonus question!]

So as many ppl can see, if dun have the bonus question marks, the results will not be that good. ^^

Chem is totally random sia, I was still expecting to just pass... Lost 4 marks due to calculation errors. T_T But very good already haha, cannot ask for more le.

Room for improvement!

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2. Weekend working with William

Spent the whole Sunday typing out the CV of some 'famous' artists. (Which i doubt really anyone heard of them before)

The typing experience is fun, cos a lot of chinese words, then need translate this, translate that, and then keep the CV spacing need and tidy. The funniest part is that all the awards for the CV should be kept to 1 page. So some artists have a lot of achivements, and all their awards / exhibitions / showcases are to be typed in 1 page.

After I typed 1 random artist's achievements, it was about 2.5 pages, so i just changed everything to font size 6. And wow, everything could be seen so clearly, I just imagine how anyone is going to read that in any exhibitions.

Not bad bah. I realised that some artists are also obviously trying to be funny. Apparently I am supposed to receive some email messages about different artists so as to type out their info since last Saturday night. However, I still did not receive it up till today. I didn't know artists can be so punctual in their work. =D

(Showing duality again) Of course, some people may argue that the artists can be too busy to bother about all these small minor things. If that is the case, why bother to give a timing which you know you can't meet? Busy is not an excuse lol~

Luckily 1 day only. =P

Oh, for the 1st time in my life, i ate Starbuck's food items. Ate the Waffles and drank the hot chocolate.

The waffles are served with strawberry jam and butter.

The waffles are like quite ok, is just that they taste a bit nicer on their own. If you add butter to it, I think that KFC may taste better than Starbuck's.

The hot chocolate is nice! =D Only if PJ actually sold that quality of drink, I would buy it every other day, wahaha. XD
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Swimming in the ocean~ (WL don't take this as my catchphrase, haha!)

random sunday night

2010-05-09T22:20:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

Felt very sleepy, espacially when I was looking at WL's blog, so I went to Defa's blog to have a look and view the archives...

Suddenly felt awake after looking at the physics post. o.o

"For the last time - class stand" - Defa

Somehow suddenly got a chain of thoughs

For the last time -> reminds me of the "Shu Bao Tai Zhong" drama serial
Drama serial -> Miss Cheng was once a student before.
Miss Cheng -> can do!?
Can do? -> Silence in the class
Silence -> Chem class was rather quiet last friday
Quiet chem class -> Jasima's lesson
Jasima -> Guys must have high EQ
High EQ -> Bing Han!!! -> Thanks ar! -> Illya

Then i realise Illya is an enthusiastic person, and is rather optimistic like Defa.

Defa -> class stand! -> end of thoughts.

How? Can do?! =P

Start of May 2010

2010-05-04T21:00:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back! April is over and May is here! So happy May haha! ^^

Contents of this post: [Anybody got any interesting startings?]

Hmm maybe i shall copy the physics lecture notes style.

Readers should be able to:

a) Show a 'huh so random!' expression after reading about Jeff playing pool last week.
b) give a zzz expression and criticise on Jeff slacking during the long weekend.
c) do their best and give a neutral expression about Jeff's experience during the NAPFA test.
d) shout "wa zhen de jia de?!" after knowing about WL's pro-ness in PE. (Applicable to Jeffery only)
e) say 'lol!' to the random content

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a) Show a 'huh so random!' expression after reading about Jeff playing pool last week.

Last week went to play pool twice! Went to BB CSC with WK and PH on tuesday, and chess club people on wednesday.

Tuesday - 27th April

Never touched the pool table for dunno how long le. So obviously i suck in playing pool, but WK quite patient in teaching, so aiya in the end managed to at least poke the ball and let it move to a desired position (with a lot of uncertainity). PH also quite new i tink, but still better than me. Oh well!

WK is a good player sia, and very interesting. After playing for a while, WK suggested using the pool table and play 'kill people', which is to choose the ball numbers u want, and make sure those numbers do not go in the holes.

I and PH in the end gang up and went against WK, lol! I tyco won the 1st round. Pro rite? XD

2nd round I and PH draw, cos quite tired already. That day was fun! ^^

War and WL next time u all should play, is worth it! =D

Wednesday - 28th April

Played with 2 girls, Gab, CT, and SG. It was very fun, since we all 5 (excluding SG) are nt very pro, so scoring is like wow! and nt scoring is a 'haha better luck next time bah!'. SG is quite pro, since his balls are fairly accurate. At that time, i felt that was maybe the best time i had in chess club.

After that SG and 1 girl left, and Ifan joined in. Oh well, since Ifan is quite pro, there is nt much playing involved among the rest of us left. So I, gab and CT went to another table, leaving Ifan and the girl alone. Somehow at that time playing with gab and CT proves to be about 20 times more fun... ^^

After that took a chess club group photo, and that is the end of the formal CCA sessions, the rest of the sessions after that should be quite informal bah!

Ty WK for teaching me to play pool! I did enjoy myself for that 2 days! ^^

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b) give a zzz expression and criticise on Jeff slacking during the long weekend.

Sat - 1st May

Tried to clear some maths homework! Along with a bit of chem and physics, didnt really make much progress though!

Sun - 2nd May

Played maple full day. My Xbow lvl up 3 more times le, wahaha!

Mon - 3rd May

Did a bit of complex numbers with Warren in the morning, afternoon went to watch Iron Man 2 with PH and War.

Iron Man 2 nt bad bah, except a fair bit of talking at the starting of the show, if nt it should be rather interesting and the storyline is clear! Nicer than Avatar at least. The military troops at the end is quite random, and the boss of the movie a bit easy to defeat ya? I was expecting Pink Bean style. Oh well!

There was a random little prick quote, but i forgot what is it! Anyway, Iron man 2 is worth to watch! =P

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c) do their best and give a neutral expression about Jeff's experience during the NAPFA test.

Today NAPFA test: CUI!

The last round of 2.4 is the most difficult to run sia, cos chiong like siao. (To some my speed is like taking a walk in the park, but nvm)

At least didnt hit the bad timing (in my definition), but it did past the good timing either (once again, in my definition). Oh well!

Running last tends to grab a lot of attention for some reason, cos i am the only one left at the track for the last 1.5 minutes. Thanks to the people who actually motivated me to run the last round at a faster speed, which includes the class girls, the girls at the different exchange zones, Mrs Wee, Ms Alexis Yeoh, Mr Yaw, Mr Kwok, and some others who i may have forgot to mention. And oh ya, must thank Koh-Koh crunch who made me get used to the number of rounds during PE.

Oh, i realised the evening sky is quite nice, and the cooling weather made the run better I tink?

Congrats to Bing Han who got a gold for NAPFA, jy to PH for the retest, cos u can actually train to run de, haha! At least got more hope than me to pass rite? XD

War ar - haix... =P (If War see this, he will be 'liddat la!')

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d) shout "wa zhen de jia de?!" after knowing about WL's pro-ness in PE. (Applicable to Jeffery only)

Once again, I think that WL can run very fast. =P

http://jumpinjellyfish.blogspot.com/2010_04_16_archive.html

And oh, WL did 2 chin-ups, i totally shock dao. O_O

Must show duality: Of course, some may argue that doing 2 chin-ups is nothing, since it is only a pass, however, for a person who never did a successful chin-up before, getting 2 immediately is a very great achievement, since the percentage improvement is [2/0 x 100%]. How many people can do that? ^^

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e) say 'lol!' to the random content.

Before the NAPFA, I, PH, WL and Warren were very bored. So WL decided to show his bio knowledge by showing his sperms to us.

I mean drawing some sperms, and oh he also drawn more bio things which we were like huh?

So WL drawn a super big mutated sperm, which we were like laughing how WL is going to eject that super big sperm out.

I suggested how the sperm is going to fertilize the puny size of the egg.

Lol! =D

PH was dam funny at the cafe, apparently the cafe is busy on tuesdays, cos tuesdays are potato days, and so the potatoes were sold out quite fun. I should use a drama scene to illustrate wad happened at the cafe.

Cast:

PH
1st Cafe Auntie
2nd Cafe Auntie
Cafe Uncle
I and WL [Minor characters]

Uncle: Ar sorry no more potato le, so there will be muffins and honey-baked sandwich on offer.

(The queue moves)

1st Auntie: Yes boy, what do you want to order?
PH: Can i have a baked potato?
Uncle (who happened to be listening): Ah boy ar, sorry no more potato le, if you want have to wait for 20 minutes, you can buy the muffins or honey-baked which are on offer.

PH: Oh ok... (Dunno what to eat)

2nd Auntie: Ah boy, what is your order?
PH: Er, still got potato?
2nd Auntie: Should be bah, eh? No more potato le, if you want the potato need to wait for 20 more minutes.
PH: Oh. So no more potato already ar?

[WL and me gave a 'zzz diao!' face]

2nd Auntie: Ya, no more potato already. So what do you want?
PH: Oh er, can i have 2 more potatoes with chicken?
[Auntie takes out hammer and whack PH's head into bits and pieces]

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Ok lol the last scene is a joke, lol PH! At least this funny incident brightens up my day, wahaha =D

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SY asked me these questions....

Q1: Who was the last girl u sms to, and what was it about?
Q2: Describe the scene that is common when you talk to a girl.

A1: My maple mei mei, Morning! ^^

A2: I shall use a drama scene to illustrate again.

Scene - Jeff sits in the cafe alone doing physics, suddenly a girl walks to him.

Jeff: (Thinking) Sia la, got one chio bu walk towards me wor. [Smiles and waves at the girl]
Girl: (waves back)
Jeff: Hi!
Girl: Oh hi!
Jeff: Why haven't you go home?
Girl: Oh i am waiting for my friend, how about you?
Jeff: I got CCA later, want to sit down and wait for a while?
Jeff: Ok sure!
Girl: Oh ya, i got something to ask you.
Jeff: [Wondering what is the question] Haha sure! [Expecting the girl to ask to go out]
Girl: I actually wanted to ask you the question for a very long time le...
Jeff: (Excited) Oh what is the question?
Girl: You know during the complex numbers lecture, do you really understand what the lecturer is saying, cos i seriously don't get the part on the argument...

[Jeff takes out a super big hammer and smashes the girl into pieces]

Now then i realise, most girls who call me / talk to me is about studies or maths. Oh well!

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Haha! Ok end of post.

And yea WL i have just finished the post. =P

Random kino

2010-04-25T13:13:00.005+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

Percentiles (Rounded off to nearest percent except maths)

GP - 62

Geog - 12

Physics - 96

Chem - 92

Maths - 99.8

Richards asked how come chem never get A, then i said i actually expected 60 (the truth is i expected lower).

About me studying hard? Not true ya?

If i don't score well for GP, she will feel sadder than me. Suddenly feel guilty that i don't feel sad for my GP.

She advised that i study 1 hour everyday for geog, which is a torture. However there was an enlightening statement.

"If you can do so well for big subjects like chemistry and physics, wad is H1 geog to you?"

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Ah-ha! =D

(Picture taken from google which I tink is from maple anime about kino finding stones?)

2 days fail

2010-04-20T20:11:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back! These 2 days have quite a few funny things happening for dunno wad reason... XD

Yesterday during Maths, OCC was going through complex numbers, so i like stone a bit, then we went through a question that requires us to find 'a' and 'b'.

A few different methods, then MY suggested a method which OCC hear already, then like say until is very long...

Come to think of it, it is seriously very long! Lol!

So after she say already, then i realise that the question is i teach MY de, so just bombed my way through by saying: "Good wad! Short and sweet!"

OCC: "It's not short and sweet! It's long and, SPICY!"

Wth!? Lol!!! =D Totally amused for the day.

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Today the permanent secretary for MOE came to our school to give a random talk, maybe sort of give us advice or something that helps improve our lives, how to be a better person? ^^

Speaking of to be a better person, she was late for 1 hour, not due to traffic jams, but because it was too hot and she was tired, and therefore needed an hour to drink a at most 600ml drink. =D

Anyway we waited, and then Mr Suresh gave an announcement to ask a few specific students to come up to the stage for an urgent meeting, i noted down a few haha!

The talk was sian, i can see that the teachers look VERY bored, even worse than the students. During the Q and A part, i noticed that the asking question by students part is VERY spontaneous, as if being very eager to go up and ask. Something tells me that this Q and A is VERY FAKE, reasons being:

1. The questions are quite long, which i don't tink can be formulated by students in a mere 20 minutes?
2. Nobody knew what the speaker is going to talk about~ Oh well!
3. The people who went up were those in the urgent meeting, hmm...
4. The 3rd person who asked the question was super eager to go back, when the perm Sec asked if there was anything else, he was spamming no in the mike, lol! How enthu can that be? XD

Haix...

Feedback form was the last item before the whole talk was over. Listened to some parts, and since the duration is halved (from 2 to 1 hour), the duration is actually quite ok. The last question was a simple question, and brings out the whole point of the talk.

Q: "What key item did you bring from the session?" [Something like that]

When passing the form, i looked through some answers, which were like wth?

1. (Blank)
2. The government is doing something for us.
3. JC may still be better than poly.
4. Leadership is key [Look through the question again]
5. Very happy

LOL to the answers! I think most ppl are stoning instead of listening, one of the funny answers is mine, but definitely not the 'very happy' answer!

Fail things haha!

Quote PH: "Funny ar!?"
Quote WL: "Is like what the, diao...!"
Quote War: "Any-hau!"
Quote myself: "Obviously trying to be funny!"

^^

2010-04-17T22:59:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

Old memories of BP! Reminded of the 50th dinner coming soon! XD

I also remembered one of Mr Chiam's probability question, which i actually remembered until now, since it is a relatively simple to memorise question...

Q: Assuming that out of 3 people, what is the probability that EXACTLY 2 people have the same birthday? Also assume that a year has only 365 days.

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I then tried to improvise. which is like huh?

Q2: What is the total number of combinations for EXACTLY 2 people to have the same birthday in a group of 3? Same assumptions as above.

Q3: Prove that the answer to question 2 is the same as 1 / (Answer to question 1)

Q4: What is the probability that EXACTLY 2 people in a group have the same birthday out of a group of 3? Assuming that a particular person's birthday is on Christmas.

Q5: What is the probability that EXACTLY 2 people in a group have the same birthday out of a group of 3? Assuming that at most only 2 people can have their birthdays on 29th Feb.

Happy solving! ^^

Btw, is there anything wrong with the questions?

mid-April

2010-04-16T22:44:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

PW Results: B

Fantastic! ^^

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WL can be a fast runner at times! Last sat, I and War went to BPP to study electrochem. During the afternoon, WL came to BPP and returned me my things i left in school, cos i forgot to bring home. (Thanks WL!)

At around 6+, we decided to go home, so WL saw his bus 180 arriving in the interchange, so he ran all the way to the berth (i will reward him a gold for shuttle run), then skali the bus just went to park, and totally missed the berth.

WL sweated a lot with his hand gestures. LOL! Better luck next time! =P

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Can do? I also dunno wad to post lol!

A random Wed afternoon

2010-04-07T15:56:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

PJ has this english speaking programme to help correct the commonly mispronounced words among teenagers, although some were repeated, nevertheless it gives infinite value (although it is not an ideal voltmeter) to the J1s. One sentence was:

"Wednesday is my favourite day."

Indeed! =D

Contents of this post

1. Today's slack lessons
2. Tuesday outing to Lavender
3. Turf City Chong Pang BBQ

1. Slack lessons

Today's lessons are super slack! Only had Maths lecture, GP Tutorial and Chem Tutorial.

Maths lecture -> Just listen to OCC talk, seemed to understand almost everything.

GP Tutorial -> There was no teacher present! ^^ 90 minutes of freedom. da-bao chicken cutlet rice to class and eat, along with clearing a bit of complex numbers and the compre corrections.

Chem Tutorial -> Listen to Jasima talking about halogens, seemed to have a lot of crosses on my paper though.

Assembly (not counted as a lesson) -> Hear Principal talk about CT results, university admission points, and how should we improve bla bla bla...

One sentence went: "Some of you all when you reach home, you just on your laptop / com and go into facebook, some will go blog, do random things..." Then i am suddenly reminded that i had went into facebook and checked my lucky status, and of course do random things like going to others' blog. Oh well!

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2. Tuesday outing to Lavender

Yesterday went Lavender with PH, War and WL, cos WL lost his IC and therefore needed to make a new one. The building is so interesting, we were required to surrender our bags for X-ray checking to see any suspicious things inside or not, then PH made a joke that if the person saw our geog scripts all scored U grades through the X-ray (since u can like see through?). Lol!

After that we went up to the 3rd storey, WL took 4 photos of himself for $5.35. At first PH said that WL needed to wear home clothes to take photo, so when WL came out of the photo booth, i was like "Wth u go in change clothes take photo and now u are back in a few minutes?" Seems like that isn't necessary. Haha!

While waiting for WL to settle his IC matters, we just stoned at the seats, see War play LocoRoco on my phone (no he didn't play well).

Finally, the whole thing was settled, WL had lost $100. We then attempted to walk to Bugis to find some delicious foodstuff to eat. However on the way, due to over-hunger, we stopped at Banquet instead.

Nobody knew what to eat, so i just ordered a mushroom omellete to eat for $5. Didn't take a photo of it though.

The rest also didnt know what to eat, so they just ordered cutlets, and WL ordered spaghetti. The lady was rather friendly, and attempted to sell her chicken balls for the price of $1 for 3 balls. So I was shouting: "Anybody want to share balls?" Somehow the ppl near me gave me the awkward look, oh well! ^^

In the end War bought 1 stick of balls from her, and we sort of shared the balls. The chicken balls were quite big, and somehow there was some liquid oozing out from the balls (not the stick). The taste, hmm... A dash of pepper, imagine the minced meat in the minced meat noodles being rolled up into a ball, with nicer flavouring inside! It is worth to buy the balls! If you ever walked past the Banquet food court near Bugis, be sure to check out those balls! XD

Strangely, many western food stalls used the canned mushrooms for their mushroom omelletes, however, this stall used xiang-gu (chinese mushrooms?) for the mushroom omellete. Another place where I can think of using these mushrooms is in the Al-Funghi (is it spelt like this?) dish in PastaMania. The omellete is very big, i was the first to eat, but the last to finish. Even WL finished his spaghetti earlier than me, LOL!

After lunch, we went to Bugis station to take the train. Apparently me and WL did not have enough money in our ez-link cards, so i had to take the bus and WL borrowed a few more dollars from War to take the train. I then walked to the bus stop which brings me to Woodlands, then i realised, that was the bus stop which i was stranded at during the last time i went to Watch Avatar with PH, WL and War. Curse that bus stop. (Adds Jeff's angry face here, but nobody seen me angry before, so no illustration / visualisation here, haha!)

On the bus, looked around, read my notes (si bei boring), at 5pm i saw BPP through the bus window. Wth sia.

Then that's the end of another Tuesday outing! It sure has been eventful! ^^

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3. Trip to Turf City - partial 03 outing - Chong Pang BBQ

Friday 2nd April went to Turf City to Chong Pang BBQ restaurant to actually celebrate ZH's and Keith's birthday. However, Keith was not present.

Went with ZH, RJ, HJ, WJ, SY, Willam.

5pm - stoning around CCK, then took the train to Clementi.

5.30pm? - met up with HJ, RJ then mingled with her. Hmm...

6pm - the bus came? We then boarded the bus, admired the scenery...

Finally reached the place! The place reminds me of a chalet kitchen, except bigger! Then you can see loads of tables (duh) and is designed in such a way that almost any number can go in at once, from couples to super big extended families. We chose the table which has approximately 7 seats.

We then chose our food to eat. There are a few stations?

Station 1: All the fried food, french fries, buns, bread, fried wanton, along with some random curry and 'shark fin soup'.

Station 2: The place where u can take more butter / plates / cutleries.

Station 3: The chilled raw meat, there is about 6 varieties? Satay chicken, black pepper, normal chicken chop, beef, spicy varieties... I scooped the meat up into a plate as if is char kway teow, haha!

Station 4: Vegetables u want to put in your steamboat. Ranging from mushrooms, to green leafy vegetables, to fishballs and beancurds.

Station 5: Drinks! Sadly no non-gasy fruit juice, so i stick to ice cold water most of the time.

We then started to cook the meat. I, ZH, RJ and HJ shared one 'cooker', while WJ and William sticked to the other. I ate the french fries, a bit of bread, satay chicken, black pepper chicken, chicken chop, fried wanton. RJ is seriously a pro in checking whether the meat is cooked or not, whereas WJ and William cooking can be described as chaos.

The french fries is not crispy, and a bit cold, I think that is for appetiziers while waiting for the meat. The bread is ok... The wanton is the nicest among the fried food i ate, small and sweet. ^^

The satay chicken is not bad! A bit strange taste, but it has the satay taste haha! However, I found it a bit spicy, maybe the satay chicken had some spices added inside?

I like the black pepper chicken the most! It is strangely not as spicy as the satay chicken, and the flavouring is just nice! The meat is tender, I think that credit must go to RJ.

Ate a few rounds of these similiar foodstuff, soon after SY came, and he joined the 2 W for dinner. =P

I ate the chicken chop the last, cos everybody is full towards the end. The meat is super tender, i regretted not eating that early... T_T

A funny thing happened towards the end of the BBQ though, I, ZH and HJ went to the toilet, and when we came back, we saw a rising fire and I was thinking: "who trying to be funny go set fire lol!" After that we saw WJ backing out literally from the table, oh so the fire is at William's table! Immediately the stuff came and put out the fire. Damn funny sia.

Staff: "Later the fire burn your eyebrows, your hair then not nice already." LOL!

William apparently added a bit of coke to the cooker, and this increases the height of the butter oil layer, which somehow touched the fire of the cooker, therefore combustion occured. XD

[Extra: For chem enthusiasts, write down a balanced equation for the reaction(s) that occured above.]

After we left, William was obviously trying to be funny by leaving his wallet and phone and then walked off, sounds a bit like his basketball playing, hmm... So I and SY played a prank by keeping it and not reminding, luckily William remembered after a few minutes. =P

After we reached Clementi again after taking the bus, we wanted to watch a movie, so off we went to West Mall. Once we reached the top floor...

A super long queue greeted our eyes. All of us totally sian diao... So the movie was cancelled and I went back home.

A great outing haha! A pity Keith didn't turn up. Happy belated birthday ZH! Oh, if you want to go turf city to eat the bbq, go during the evening, per person is about $18, and there is a shuttle bus at the bus interchange near Clementi station. Check the website for any more information (wa as if i advertising for them, nvm). ^^

Happy advanced birthday Defa!

Swimming back to my aquarium!

Random pictures

2010-04-02T11:25:00.006+08:00

The jellyfish is back! Some random pictures taken over the last few weeks. ^^

Went Qian Hu fish farm, and saw this random duku tree in the middle of nowhere.

Tortoises in the farm, reminds me of myself running... Hmm...

Safra Jurong Jap Pancake!

Random LT4 table, apparently the tabletop is gone.

Dog prints on the pavement. Guess where is this?

My father bought a very big pau. This pau cost $3. Don't have another object to compare the size of this pau. Oh well!

Anyway this is a chicken pau with mushrooms, egg and chinese sausages. I used 3 small meals to clear this pau. Lol!

CT 2010 results

2010-04-01T22:57:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

Results of my CT... hmm...

GP:

Compo: 21 / 50
Compre: 25.5 / 50

Total: 46.5% [E] (Not bad, Room for a lot of improvement!)

Chem:

MCQ: 23 / 30
P2 (short): 18.5 / 30
P2 (long): 26 / 40

Total: 67.5% [B] (Super satisfied)

Physics:

MCQ: 17 / 25
P2: 60 / 85

Total: 70% [A] (Excellent!)

Maths:

Only paper: 94 / 100

Total: 94% [A] (Excellent! Too unexpected already lol!)

Geog:

DRQ: 9 / 25
Essay-P: 9 / 25
Essay-H: 5 / 25

Total: 31% [U] Hmm...

Anyway i got 4 marks for the random castle koppie, although the answer was tors. Oh well! Don't tink i should complain since these 4 marks are bonus marks.

Satisfied with Results! As usual geog i failed, maths was the best among all my subjects... Work hard for mid-year then! ^^

Nat i re-linked you! Jeffery i removed the "I want nobody, nobody but U!" thingy. T_T

Quote Nat: "Swimming back to my aquarium..." lol!

End of CT 2010

2010-03-25T21:56:00.002+08:00

the jellyfish is back. CT is finally over! ^^

What do i tink of the papers, hmm...

GP: Aiming for E

Geog: didn't finish the paper, oh well! Human geog is very difficult compared to physical geog. Hope can get at least S though, only a rare chance will pass.

Chem:

P1 - the organic part was hard (although i am the only one who have this thought)
P2 - better than P1, hope the eqm and energetics can save me!!! =)

Hope can at least get C.

Maths:

Didn't finish the paper, cos too hard le. The vectors 3 and app of integration totally stunned. Hope can lucky enough to get 80! lol!

Physics:

P1 - Horrible.
P2 - Suprisingly the field questions were quite easy, but the COE and DC like wth? The DRQ came out Boeing and Airbus, which is like huh?

Hope can get at least B. ^^

At least can slack for a few days, before the waves of tutorials hit us. XD

End of March Weekday holiday

2010-03-20T23:50:00.000+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Sadly, the end of the holidays is approaching, but happily, it's the end of the wretched Hwa Chong Chess Cup! ^^

Contents:

1. How i spent March holidays
2. HC Chess tournament.
3. DMC ROD Dinner 2010

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1. March holidays

Sat 13th - Went out with SY to the IT fair in Suntec

As the name suggested the activity and the place, we just went to see around, cos SY wanted to buy some random headphone or something, but in the end was not bought, due to super overcrowding... The experience was not as good as i had expected, too many people, half the time u must smash through obstacles and when u want to look at something, the crowd will push u like flowing water. So oh well!

After that we went to Swensen's for sundaes and fries, cos i wanted to celebrate vectors test get full marks (which is damn rare, LOL!)

Picture Below: A picture of the sundaes which me and SY ate. Mine is the fanciful one with cherry ^^

My ice-cream flavour: Banana split and chocolate peanut ice-cream.

toppings: butterscotch and strawberry.

Looks nice rite? ^^

I didn't know the toppings were optional, otherwise i would not have ordered. T_T

SY's is the mint and chocolate, it looks more like 2 of the topless 5 ice-cream rather than a sundae though.

The fries is quite ok though, just the right texture, the sweet chilli and tartar sauce were good! :D Should try it, but it is $5.50, so try to share with someone.

Talked a lot of rubbish while eating the sundae, from school life to homework to relationships to dinner to bla bla bla... SY kept laughing at my failure to behave in a 'high-class' manner. =.= Just because the chair refuse to budge, dosent mean i stone there rite?

After that i bought a pretzel (the premium one which has cinnamon and raisins), haha is extremely nice! I tink the butter taste and cinnamon goes well together! Actually i thought that is a medium pretzel, then after i found out is premium, oh well! Walked in Toysrus after that, and saw a few teddy bears (hmm maybe Tean will like that?) which are quite big and fluffy lol! After walking out, i realise that there actually is a mini-event, but somehow nobody is there, and so the organizers look bored... O_O A good saturday to walk, since like for the past week cooping in school / home studying and mugging. ^^

Sun 14th / Mon 15th - Playing Maple

Stayed at home and played maple, there is nothing interesting.

Tue 16th - Geog Day

Went school for geog, then went subway to study a bit of granite. Seriously i still don't get the point of studying this subject. Oh well!

Wed 17th - Physics Day

I thought chess was on Wed, so i waited from 6.20am to 8am, then like wth nobody!? So studied physics with Farah, WL, War, Defa. Learnt a bit about DC, while being bombed by War's G field questions. At night, Ace called me and told me is on Thursday 18th, i almost screamed in fury.

Defa bought a random dessert!

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Thur 18th - Chess Day (Part 1)

Played Chinese chess in the morning, near evening went to study maths with Defa, WL and War. Around 7pm go Yew Tee eat dinner with RJ, actually wanted to eat hokkien mee, then found the food court closed down! T_T So in the end, we went to eat western food.

It just so happened i had only $3.80 left, and the food court has a lot of $3.80 food. So i tried the fried chicken drumstick butter rice for $3.80, while RJ tried fish and chips!

The chicken is nice! Imagine KFC original recipe chicken in a crispier version! I don't really like the butter rice though... RJ said the fish and chips is nice, should go try one day!

Here is to Defa for studying maths: "How Defa? Can do?"

Fri 19th - Chess day (part 2) / ROD Dinner

Played chinese chess in morning, went for ROD Dinner in night. Shall elaborate in later parts.

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2. HC Chess Tournament!

Day 1 -

Met early morning with 11 other people at CCK bus interchange.

Hwa Chong is damn big, for some reason. So we climbed loads of staircases up, then we went in the room. My first impression, a big illegal gambling venue.

So like a lot of schools reached, and so I looked around, then realised the HC chess tournmanet consists of CC, IC and Bridge. I wondered why ZY nt there, LOL!

then finally round 1 started. I am in PJC team C.

R1 - VS IJ.

Feel like smacking the guy, i took one chess piece, havent even confirm on where i want to move, intend on putting down then slowly move, then he say cannot take back. Like wth? I didn't even want to move there!

Next time if have such thing, i should touch all my pieces, then can everything move at once. XD

R2 - VS NYJC

The guy i played with is a humourous guy. I tink i laughed more at his jokes than thinking about wad piece should i move. Made wrong move, lost to him, but oh well! It's a friendly game ^^

Halfway through the game, someone shouted the 'Fxxx' super loudly, until the whole room could hear. Everybody is like "wa power seh". Dun tink is a stranger shouting, cos all strangers should be in the chess room. Hmm...

Hwa Chong people are so civilised. ^^

Day 1 lunch - yuck.

I still tink PJ's PCC competition lunch is much nicer than HC's, they should improve on their food.

R3 - VS CJ

A good game with a friendly guy, and somehow i managed to use the chess tutorial... I tink he and me have a common interest, be more interested in other things than Chinese chess. I like! ^^

R4 - VS AJ

I finally saw someone who has the REAL 'i want to hit your face' look kind of person! After i looked into the mirror, i realise i look so much more friendly. ^^

Anyway this AJ guy is a china guy, so i tink his brain should be kind of straight. Cos like the IJ guy, i was wondering wad move to move, then i anyhow touch a piece, then i realise i would be killed! So i like anyhow turn 1 big round and move back (although i didnt even put a final spot). So he is like, "can meh?" and proceeded to ask around (oh disturbing many people in the process). So i am super fed up of him asking, so i just moved my next move, and by the time he ask, it is already 2 or 3 minutes gone.

He can't do anything except to ask me not to do it again. Ar too bad! I have no sportsmanship. Screw Chinese Chess. =P

Sick of playing with him. And that concludes a horrible day 1 at HC!

After that went to Lot 1 to study maths with WL, War and Defa. It feels so much better to be with real humans than people with 'thoughtful' looks.

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Day 2 - HC Chess / ROD Dinner!

R5 - A walkover

Slacked for the 1.5 hours. How fun could it get!

R6 - VS ACS (I)

Another good game with a china guy! I tink we seemed quite nervous, but played quite long, learnt a lot of tactics in the game, and also learnt that time is very important. I tink i learnt the most from this game, compared to other games.

Lunch was considerably better than the previous day's. But still not very nice...

R7 - VS PJ

Like wth? I just gave up totally, nt interested in playing. Is a draw game anyway.

R8 - VS ACJC

Both teams are very tired, and therefore out of 4 games, 3 were a draw, the other 1 lost to AC, oh well! Slack games, i like!

And the wretched competition ends here! Grats to HC (Team A) which got first!

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ROD Dinner!

Didn't stay overnight.

The food was ok, i like the eclair! The chocolate filling burst inside the mouth! ^^

The rest of the food was quite dry, but i believe coming back is for the atmosphere and see how many alumnis / juniors u still remembered!

Quote MingXuan: "2 years later, u will realise u don't know anybody already."

Oh well! For the dinner, i didn't talk much anyway, ate alone, and spent much time doing vectors in an emo spot! Oh, i found out that BP has a Good News Cafe, somehow the price for the pastries is 10cents more expensive than the one in PJ... If nt the rest is about the same.

After dinner, talked to Marissa and Eng Yew about a lot of random rubbish. From food to PJ life to BP life... Quote somebody, i talk a lot of random rubbish, no wonder i score Distinction for my O and A lvl Chinese! XD

I like that quote!

Randomly saw SY in school at around 9pm? Apparently he was summoned by William to accompany him. Marissa asked whether he was from S20, then i like "wth how do you know?"

She saw the class from his shirt, i totally diao-ed. =.= Eng Yew and Marissa has a random no f-words, but ph-words instead. Seems like PH is going to be famous! haha! Ok that was lame, and once again i added another 2 sentences of crap.

SY said we shouldn't be studying too hard. Because as almost all physics student knows, efficiency = (useful output / [Total output + Total input]) If we input too much content and not generating anything useful (cos we didn't score in exams?), the demoniator increases, therefore efficiency decreases. =.=

Ok then! End of the post! Should be posting random pictures someday, somehow. Haha.

Start of March holidays!

2010-03-13T10:36:00.005+08:00

the jellyfish is back! Finally is the March holidays! XD

Contents of this post:

1. GP common test
2. Results of physics and maths test
3. Jalan Kayu trip! again haha!

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GP Common test

The Paper 1 was random. When i opened up the question booklet, this is the list of questions i saw:

1. Guild alliances do not promote bonding. Is this true in your playing world?
2. Sharp eyes is a useful skill to arch mages and bishops. Discuss.
3. The prices of the items in the free market are never properly justified. Is this a fair comment?
4. There should be no such thing as ringers. Do you support this view?
5. Discuss the value of training with a party in today's world.
6. Ks-ers should be banned permanently, how far do you agree with this statement?
7. Man's best friend - not the money - but the EXP points. Discuss.
8. The spawn time of Boss and Master Monsters should be decreased. Do you agree?
9. Why hunt when you can get great items from Gachapon machines?
10. "If only i had this skill." Should different jobs trade different skills with one another?
11. The training today is so easy that people took it for granted. Comment.
12. Is spamming good?

Ok la that's lame. Anyway the real GP question which i did was Man's best friend - not the dog, but the mobile phone. Discuss. LOL!

I didn't write anything about the dog, probably fail already lol!

The compre was about space exploration, super random topic which i don't really think is of any practical use, so oh well. hope the compre can save me :D Aiming for E.

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Physics and maths test!

I didn't fail COE and DC test!!! Surprisingly! =P

Got 14/25, room for improvement! Oh well.

Got 26/26 for vectors test, yay!

Suddenly remembered Jasima's quote again, "your test ar, very badly done! It shows that your concept is very weak and you are not studying. If i were you, I would consider dropping to J1." Oh, grats to Jeffery who got 25/26 for the vectors test! ^^

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Jalan Kayu trip!

This time, me, War, PH and WL went.

On the Bus to Jalan Kayu, got a lady lost with the ez-link card system, she tried to scan the card on the screen instead of the sensor part.

Well of course I helped, since i am such a nice person. LOL! Too thick skin already haha!

Tried the paper prata and the butter prata! Cos last time tried WL's paper prata, so decided to buy one myself. Haha! The butter prata was super squarish, just like WL's neat handwriting. Didn't took a photo of it though. Surprisingly the butter prata was quite filling, although it is super small, and super squarish, probably the butter inside made it filling.

Try the butter prata with sugar!

PH and WL have their own recommendations though!

WL suggested trying the sugar also, since it is very kok-kok-kok. Hmm... o.o
PH suggested the curry, since it is very er... insert sound effect: [saying "she-loop" very fast]

After that the Jalan Kayu traffic flow increased for dunno wad random reason. So we tried to attempt to cross the road, aiya i shall attempt to make it more dramatic.

Scene 1:

(War tried to cross the road, when a big truck came rushing by)
PH: No War don't cross!
WL: Wa you want to die ar!

Scene 2:

Jeff: It's too late, we will never make it in time. I need 10 minutes to cross the road!
PH: We shall use the last resort, on the count of 3, we are going to cross the road safely, or perish together!
WL: Wth?
War: Any-hau like Peng Hau! (It makes sense btw)

Scene 3:

PH: 1,2,3....! RUN!

(All dashing for their lives. Quote IL: "Animals escape from their predators for their lives.")

After approximately 2 seconds (Jeff took 3), all crossed the road successfully.

War: "Eh reach the other side already ar?"

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In the train, someone random played Bad Romance on his / her phone, and War is like wth?

War is lactacting on the train, dunno why but nvm. All kinds of stuff, u name it! XD

Chocolate milk, milk, bla bla bla... Basically can promote to HL to sell already haha!

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Random picture not posted! Maybe these few days will post. =P

I realise my table is super messy with stationeries, should pack up some time. ^^

Ending post here!

2nd week of March 2010

2010-03-10T19:44:00.011+08:00

the jellyfish is back.

Here's wishing Nat aka nicestcleric a safe 14-day trip in Thailand. ^^

Do remember to visit the Dameon Saduak Floating Market. (is it spelt like that?)

Contents:

1. Punishment for Geog =P
2. PCC competition
3. Random GP lesson

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Warren said Hydro is very dry, oh well.
I feel that helping people may nt be good, let's be fishmongers today!

Oh well, as expected, the geog case study which i and WK handed up were caught, so the punishment was not as bad as i had expected, redoing another case study. Haix.

Wondering wad LYM said? Well nothing much, just an advice about not copying again, hand in honest work, dunno how to grade, and the list of standard formula, i mean sentences in telling students to reflect upon themselves.

The one which i handed up myself was quite well done, so oh well, blame fate.

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PCC competition! - 6th March and 7th March 2010

Woke up super early for the 2 days for the Pioneer Chess Challenge. lol!

Loads of schools participated, and i am supposed to usher ppl, but in the end i became a receptionist, lol! During the game play, did homework with other receptionists cos there is absolutely nothing to do.

Lunch was great for the 2 days! :D

Sat - chicken chop rice with fried onion egg.
Sun - Nasi Lemak with luncheon meat, fried onion egg, cheese sausage, chicken wing.

<-- Nasi Lemak, isn't the food great? :D

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^^

The chicken rice auntie very funny. Apparently some random primary school kids used PJ's tracks for sports day, so when I and Jeffery bought additional packets of chicken rice, she said that later the xiao dou ya (small beansprouts) will have nothing to eat. LOL!

Domination. Red in tooth and claw.

+18hours of CIP, PJ won 5th for CC!

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GP lesson was interesting! XD

Richards explaining about different structures for essays again.

Apparently my simple easy structure got praised, haha so shuang~ =P

Quote: "Simple, but you get the point rite?"

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I ended the post here!

A lvl CL - B

2010-03-05T21:19:00.005+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

A lvl Chinese result - B, Oral: Distinction

Comments: Happy! ^^

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Content of this post:

1. Inter-house road run
2. P1 dinner
3. PH birthday

Inter-house road run

Eventful run! Ya rite, anyway grats to the people who ran fast (with godly timing). I ran and walked with WL, then realise the scenery is quite nice. ^^

Grats RJ 7th haha!

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P1 dinner!

A heartwarming dinner :D

JG, MZ, Derrick, me, SY, Tean, Kenneth, Serene, YL, WX, Yuming, Defa, ZY ate seafood near Keat Hong there, ordered sotong, butter prawns, kangkong, hot-plate beancurd, sweet and sour fish...

Each person paid $5 for such delicious food! XD

Entertained by JG's jokes, espacially the part when Defa came and he talked about the ppl not clearing our table, haha!

Talked to Sy and Tean most of the time. =P

After the dinner most of the ppl went to Lot 1 to slack, and for the 1st time i tink i admired Lot 1's night sky, the food court is quite dim though. Then talked a lot of random rubbish, how ppl mug and didnt score well, who got gf, topics definitely not used in GP, bla bla bla...

[Definitely is absolute, in GP we don't do this!]

Who cares! XD

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PH Birthday!

Happy 1 day belated birthday PH!

Things weren't great for me though! (Same situation as Defa's past birthday)

The DC and COE test - like wth!? so many more times difficult than i thought. o.o I see the 1st MCQ question, immediately tio stun.

During break, a lot of ppl are super enthu, comparing answers and then WL is like shouting walao i teach u then u dun believe. Oh well, i dun understand his explanation /formula anyway, (cos i also dunno when he shouting real things or fake things) no regrets :)

Conclusion drawn: Quote dunno who, "You must assume whatever I've taught is correct!" :D Cheers WL! lol!

Oh i lost my GC in school, like so random F3-40 to MPR4 on the way can lose one calculator.

So after school i went to report the loss (although is not 24 hours), this was the ideal scenario of the reported case.

Office staff: Yes, may i help u?
Jeff: Oh good afternoon, er i'm here to report a missing GC
Staff: Oh ok. How does ur GC look like?
Jeff: It looks like a graphic calculator
Staff: (=.=) Er any other description?
Jeff: Oh, it has a smiley face sticker in the front plate.
Staff: Which smiley face? (Directs me to a cabinet full of GC with smiley face sticker in the front)

Well, in the end, surprisingly my GC was with Chong Boi. Although i dunno how it ended up with him since he didnt borrow my GC or talked to me during the day.

Anyway, me, WL and War went to LJS (wow?) and ate Cajun chicken, except PH. Someone turned 18 already oh well, haha!

Quote WK: "Wa 18 already can have sex already."

Wth? That was random haha!

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Si bei sian ar, my COE and DC physics test screwed up (although i have already complained). Tomorrow and Sunday still have to go back to school to PCC.

(PCC = Pioneer Chess Challenge)

That's all! Have a happy day ahead! Grats to all those people who got their desired results for A lvls!

The start of March

2010-03-01T23:18:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back. The 15 days of CNY have been over, and so has been the month of Feb.

Recent test marks:

Physics: 18 / 25 [Wow!]
Chem: 18 / 30 [Not bad ^^]
Maths: 24 / 25 [Excellent!]
Vectors quiz: 11 / 13 [Lol?]

Haha lol!!!

CNY 2010

2010-02-17T20:25:00.010+08:00

the jellyfish is back! The 4 fun days of CNY have passed. (sadly) Lemme see wad did i do o.o

CNY eve -

Packed the house a bit, then ate chicken soup (not the book!) for dinner. ^^

Slept at 2am i tink?

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1st day of CNY -

Went to Waterloo street with parents to do the GYNN PQ again! lol! Sadly there were too many ppl, so cant get in, should have taken a photo. o.o

http://jumpinjellyfish.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html

After that went to Bugis Street and randomly walked around. Bought one cup of mango juice, a bit ex, but is very nice! =P

My dad randomly bought 3 packets of durians! Then we went home and slack.

Ate seabass for dinner that night. O_O

Watched '200 pounds beauty' until about 2am?
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2nd day of CNY -

Stayed at home. Nothing much interesting happened, unless u count eating mac and shopping at NTUC fun. ^^

Watched TV until around 12.30am. "Just Follow Law' is still so funny! It could be better if the hokkien version is still there though.

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3rd day of CNY -

The most fun day of the 4 days! ^^

Basically only went to 2 main places.

Morning: RJ's house - o3 bai nian!

Reached RJ's house at 10.30am, and ate a plate of bee hoon, with curry chicken and zai er. RJ and ST playing snap, which is totally random. o.o

The curry chicken is not bad! Shan't comment on the others. ^^

After i ate the bee hoon for a whole 40 minutes, read RJ's PJ and the Lightning Thief. Shortly after, he comes the 03 people (late as usual), played cards, made a lot of noise, see and hear William say lame jokes. haha!

Ate a lot junk food, almond chocolates, kueh lapis, pineapple tarts made by RJ's mother.

The KL and PT were fantastic! Haha i seriously admire RJ's mother baking skills, nt bad la!

So we left RJ's house (sadly), and headed off.

Bonus stop: WJ's house

Went to WJ's house for about 20 minutes. Woah the house is damn big, (although only 4 people live in the house). Got rooftop garden, 2 TV (Wth?).

<<<- nice pic of CCK garden taken from WJ's house!

(nice view rite?)

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The funniest thing is the number of tables at the rooftop garden. There are about 3 tables and 12 chairs (1:4 ratio). I wonder why is there so many tables? So i made a suggestion.

Table A: For breakfast
Table B: For lunch / dinner
Table C: Midnight supper!

Isn't that great? A variety of tables, won't get an eyesore after seeing the same table for every meal. :D

Resources well managed! And oh! Northvale has this bread vending machine! Is so cool! XD

Once again, we left WJ's house (sadly)

Left only a few guys going Ben's house, i didn't go as i still need to go for Defa's steamboat at night. Sorry Ben for not visiting! T_T

Stone at Lot 1 and BPP for about 1 hr+

Evening: Defa's house - Steamboat!

I so PS at Defa's house, espacially the bai nian part.

Cos MY and ZK got bring oranges, then Defa's father took it, then come to me i said "Forgot to bring..."

(The truth is: I left it at WJ's house)

Defa's father look quite young, and Defa looks like his father. =P

Stoned in Defa's room and played cards with CB, Defa, ZK, MY. Wa bridge like wth? so many rules and up till today i still lost. If Jasima is the cards teacher, she will confirm say, "Jefferson, your card game very badly done, concept of the cards is very weak." LOL!

Then JL came, and so i PCC-ed with Defa! =O Is super fun and exciting!

A picture i took of the Chinese Chess game, dunno how we play until this formation. haha!

<<- Random one line formation!!!

CC lovers will be wondering which step should

red move next? XD

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After almost all the people arrived, steamboat! ^^

Sat in between ZK and CB. Close to the raw food / frozen food places. I tink should be the 1st time eat steamboat, sua ku rite? XD So i super amazed by the wide assortment of food, meatballs, prawns, sotong balls, fishballs, vegetables, mushrooms, sausages, cocktail sausages, prawns, prawn ball, fishcake in the shape of a fish, etc!

TY keep tio splashed, dunno why. Defa's father keep on helping us add soup into the steamboat, the steamboat food is not bad, but need to acquire the skill of differentiating (not with respect to x but with respect to food) which one is raw or cooked. Haha!

Strangely near the end of the steamboat, JL / ZK said got a mild taste of coke inside the steamboat, and this is where i ended eating. Enjoyed myself lol! Half the class sitting together to eat steamboat, warm feeling, haha! (Please don't add Fehling's Solution although is quite warm)

Random: A lot ppl ask me how come i F1 for Defa's steamboat, i thought i had became a racing car, lol!

Thanks Defa for the steamboat!

So my 3rd day of CNY ended. =)

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Argh tmr got physics test! Study time!

eve of eve of CNY 2010

2010-02-12T20:27:00.003+08:00

the jellyfish is back. CNY is approaching, and here's wishing everyone a happy Lunar New Year! ^^

Before the start of the post, thanks BS for the pineapple tarts! haha, and yea ur handwriting is still not bad. =P

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These few days dealt with a few tests.

Completed:

Maths - 24 / 25 [Excellent! =P]
Geog - 21 / 50 [lol..?]
GP (random essay) - 26 / 50 [Still got good attempt on the paper O.O]

In progress

Chem - seems ok, hope can get 60%, haha!

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Today in a holiday mood.

Morning got the CNY concert, which i enjoyed the MTV the most. the modern dance and CO were good, the teacher's dance and the showcasing of their kids are totally random.

Some kids are nice though, they take the sweets politely from the tigers. the N2 lecturer boys are the most automatic ones today, straight away take from the tiger and running on the carpet in the hall... so noisy just like the mother. F3

S16 got the 2nd for the CNY decoration, which is again totally random. haha!

after that, WL, me and PH went Jalan Kayu to eat, while i was singing the tune "nobody nobody, but you" and modifying it until it changes the whole meaning...

Roti Prata

I ate the plain prata, onion-egg prata and the chicken curry.

The pratas really do have standard. Some plain pratas at your everyday coffeeshop may make the texture so hard and u dont taste anything from the plain prata, but the plain prata sold there has a nice taste, and it is not too hard (not really anyway). A pity it is too small...

The onion-egg prata is awesome! They cooked the onions well, so that it dosent leave a lingering taste on your mouth. ^^

The chicken curry dosent have chicken inside (at least for the 50 cents version)
The fish curry dosent have fish inside (also at least for the 50 cents version)

I and WL mixed up the curry. so i ate the fish instead, dosent taste nice. o.o The chicken curry was quite ok, if i were to go again, i would not buy the curry. haha!

I also took a bit of WL's paper prata, i can only say totally fantastic! A must try if you are going there. I tink the 'restaurant' name starts with V. o.o (it is near the Jane's cake shop)

<- WL's paper prata. It looks good! The hole in the middle is caused by WL randomly poke, and oops it is so crispy until it broke XD

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Oh, bring a bit more money, the plain prata costs 90 cents.

No money no prata for you, (clap clap, clap clap) >.< After eating we went to the Jane's cake shop (265 Jalan Kayu i tink?) The chocolate cake looks super plain, but the small version costs $36! Farah's and PH's recommendation: MUST TRY! Random fact from the shopkeeper: If you bring the cake outside, it will only last for 1 hour before the quality decreases. Do reserve the cake if you want to have one after CNY, haha! ^^ After that took the bus and train to JE and stoned there for 1 hour waiting for BS, haha! So, i was bored after reading some ghost stories and counted that there are about 230 people queueing up for the CW3 bus to malaysia. oh well. :) =========================================== nothing much interesting then, ending post here. Oh, Miss Cheng said she was hungry yesterday and did a funny hand gesture. ^^

Start-Feb 2010

2010-02-04T19:11:00.004+08:00

the jellyfish is back. A tiring week due to the increasing amount of homework, which is a 1st order reaction. =P

I also forgot what is 1st order reaction already, even though the lecture is just this morning. Haha!

Anyway, yesterday I lost my phone in the geog room, so thank you Miss Tan for helping me to open the geog room to retrieve it, haha! ^^

Today's maths test is quite hard, hope i can still get 80% though! =P

Got back the sci and tech essay, 26 / 50. LOL! Loads of RFI!

Happy Feb everybody!

Random GP lesson

2010-01-28T17:08:00.004+08:00

the jellyfish is back!

Another GP lesson. Presentations are sometimes funny.

ZY and ZK's presentation about part of a song is funny! MY's showcase about the Hakka dance in New Zealand is interesting. :)

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We learn to be people who will appreciate the arts, and so GP teachers are well-cultured people ^^

Tear down absolute: most are.

Jeffery: (something about music)... for bad-tempered people...

Stares at Richards. O.O

R: If you stare at me again i will whack you! >.<

Damn funny lesson, Jeff likes this! =D

Lol to Nat mei's panda, haha! ^^