About to Leave

Well I came back from my camp and the Spiritual Meeting. Theolo's about to start so I might as well write about the camp first.

OK so I only read the proposal for the camp the day before it. Big deal. OK fine it was one. I was completely unprepared for it. I was written in as the "welfare" IC. In case you do not know, that means I was the guy in charge of First Aid. So I asked Teng Chuan that day what to bring and he said that Justin (logistics IC) would have stuff prepared. Fortunately, he did have the First Aid kits. I was actually asking because Sufyan brought something to record the casualties during the Sec 1 camp down and I had nothing.

Well the First Aid kit seemed useful at first. Looked better than the NCO camp's this year. I had a pretty big wound and they gave me butterfly bandages (picture)...

So after getting to school, we all started talking rubbish. I, Justin and Kenneth (sorry about the bad grammar. I just so had to make it say IJK. It looks so cool) started talking about Red Alert 3 (I was the only one with an authentic version...). Afterward, in the room we were hiding in, they started playing C&C: Red Alert 3 and dai di or however you spell it. Well I was apparently the only guy who knew what to do. Yu Jun spammed sputniks because he thought they were offensive (they are not).

OK so afterwards, in the very first part of the camp when I wanted to slack and all, the casualties started pouring in. The first casualty was Javier I believe. He had gastric pain. Danish (pronounced Dah-nish) and Idris also came in. Danish had leg cramps and Idris had a cramp from the day before the camp started up to that point in time. So I went to buy Javier some food (hot dog [bun]). Oh and I just realised, the guys from the camp owe me 60 cents. OK unfortunately, I did not have anything for muscle cramps in the First Aid kit (Ironic. Now they were all mostly for bleeding). So Javier got better and went back with the rest and later came back again with the same problem.

A guy named Samuel also came in in the middle of all that. He fell down on a straight arm (in case you do not know, THAT HURTS). Mrs David later took him to the clinic and then realised that Samuel's mother worked at a hospital after giving her a call. So they went to his mother's hospital and learned that he had a small fracture(bone-break). My sympathies.

Fortunately, Danish had some burning muscle cramp cream for Idris and himself. Well Idris put a really huge amount on his cramp and it burned for quite a long time. We started talking about things like my OBS experience and our Malaysia Montage experiences. Take note that I told the two about my experience with my classmates putting bathing powder on their "little bros" on the day that we could not bathe on. Afterwards, I went out since I was involved in one of the events (they had to find me for the scavenger hunt).

So they made me escape through the window in the Junior Block once everyone found out they had to find me. OK I am still thinking of whether it was really necessary to do that. (Teng Chuan and Dhivian made me...) So I first hid next to the Staircase next to Staff Room 3. I heard a lot of noise but everyone passed by me. I went up the stairs and saw them all. I went back down the stairs and hid under a table next to the opposite staircase. I saw one of the "enemy"'s sentries in a reflection in the glass door. He never saw me. So after he was gone, I hid near the Lecture Theatres (where they were looking for me when I was at the first staircase). Accordingly after this, they went to look for me at the staircase. Well, they were too late. So I loitered around and I heard Nigel saying, "Wyz is on the first floor! Shhhhh..." Well he was right. However, they did not spot me. So that was around 15 minutes. I hid in between one Lecture theatres' doors (there were two/four doors). I saw that you could actually see me if you just looked at the door because the reflection of light would permit one to see a human sillouhette. So eventually, I was scared that the people in the LT would come out so I went off quickly. I crept around the heritage centre at the atrium. I hid behind a pillar to avoid being spotted by Nigel and some other people I saw looking for me. Unfortunately for me, Duranka saw me moving to adjust my angle. I remember him shouting "Down with Wyz! Wyz must fall!" So yeah he caught me. I then complained to them about how long they took to find me (around 20-25 minutes).

When I came back, Danish had allegedly put his burning cream on somewhere REALLY sensitive. So after lunch, both Danish and Idris came back and Javier went back with the rest. A guy named Dehn (D-uhn) came in because his flatfoot caused his shin(bone) to hurt. My brother, Joenz, has the same problem and tells me that it hurts like a pressing feeling at that bone and that it burns. So he asked for ice. I got some from the snack stall (with a warning not to eat the ice because it was pretty dirty). Well it melted a lot and the condensation caused his legs to get pretty wet. The cream would have been of no use to him because it was not a muscle pain he was feeling, but a bone pain.

So we started talking about our experiences and all that and it was already about 3 hours (around 6 for Danish and Idris). They went back home eventually.

After they went back home, I got to slack around and play Red Alert 3. I only lost one match to Yu Jun's engineer rush. And I won Justin and Kenneth in monopoly. In this game, I would have won if anyone had touched my super expensive place with four houses on it. Kenneth quit at the last minute and gave me all of his money and property. Of course, I won. I was playing Monopoly because Justin did not want to let us play with his computer... Ironic eh?

Afterwards, Matthew came in because he was dizzy. Brandon came in because he had gastric pain (he came before to get his antacid as well). OH AND NOW I REALISE HE HAD ANTACID THAT COULD HAVE BEEN USED FOR JAVIER. Oh well. That stuff tastes bad anyway (I know... I've had this problem before...) and Javier did get better. Well Mrs David suggested I give medical oil to Matthew. It turned from dizziness into waves (one side hurts then later the other side does, then the other, et cetera). Ivan came back from hell hour with allergic reactions on his skin. We got calamine lotion for him. They were asking me whether I was bored. Well actually, yes. In the end, Brandon and Matthew went back home.

That's EIGHT casualties in just one day...

Since it was solo night, people were sleeping in random places in the senior block (and the very scary science block). I had to write down where everyone was sleeping. It was dark so it was hard to write. Apparently everyone was scared after Neville Nah told them ghost stories about the place. So when I went back, I had one final duty. Kim Song was feeling sick and had to go home. I had to wait with him. By golly it was already 1 am. Luckily his father still came to pick him up. Well even though most of this took away my opportunities to slack and make the camp a vacation camp, it makes me not feel utterly useless.

When I finally went back in the room (a different one due to a power outage in the previous room earlier), the guys were still playing Red Alert 3. Wow. So instead of sleeping, I decided to watch them play. Shaun was hogging the computer all day and night. While I was watching, it was my 2.00am-3.00am shift for sentry duty. I wrote the list so I was able to understand it and rely on some of my memory to remember where everyone was. We only were delayed because Sean did not want to get out of bed/poncho.

So after discussing some stuff with Shaun, I finally went to sleep (was around 3.15 or so already). I woke up at 8.15 am. I should have woken up at 5.30 but at least I got some sleep.

I ate a piece of bread in two bites and went off with Sufyan to the RJC/RI next year track. Xin Cheng vomited water because he drank too much. Azhar told me he had rashes. I did not know what to do. I was feeling really guilty playing Red Alert 3 when I should have brought him to the sick bay. I was also thinking that since he was not with me, I could not just take him away and ruin his fun. Eventually, since I already sms'd Mrs David about it, she told me to get some calamine, but I got Azhar to me instead and then Mrs David came and we went to get some calamine lotion. He said the itches started getting crazy after that.

WHY DOES MEDICINE ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE THINGS WORSE?!?!

OK so Mrs David gave me some biscuits after hearing about my 1 piece of bread breakfast. I shared a wafer with Teng Chuan and no one wanted to eat the other biscuits. Later, I put the biscuits down and they seemed to be cleared away later. After all that, it was an uneventful day for me (besides Javier coming in again because he had drunk too much water and felt nauseous) and I mostly was just playing Red Alert. However, I was feeling guilty and went outside, asking Chen Wei whether there were any casualties I did not know of. He told me to check on Wee Kiang who was feeling nauseous. He told me he was fine. Well they were doing drills (it was supposed to be Hell Hour 2...). I decided to help identify mistakes since Teng Chuan and Dhivian seemed unable to or were not willing to. I should have stayed on and continued. However, I could not resist the temptation to go and play Red Alert 3 and went off. Oh, and Sean and Khairi did not plan anything for the War Games (there was nothing on the proposal either). So Teng Chuan and Dhivian improvised. I have no idea what happened after I left.

There was nothing for the obstacle course so we improvised and did the "put a shirt on as a blindfold and follow orders from the people mindlessly" thing. Well I was one of the guys commanding a group (the leader could not turn and face parallel to the right angles on the floor's edges at all). Well at one part, I put my arm in front of a guy and told him to duck. Clarence found out my ruse and I did not bother with it any more. I made them climb on a bench and get off (a guy from RJC took a picture telling them "you guys are very photogenic!"). When one person lost his grip of another guy's ankle, I put my foot there and he ended up holding Clarence's right foot and my right foot. After that, I was moving my legs so much and he ended up asking "Clarence, how come your legs so big, ah? Separate so far. Oh I think I'm holding the wrong leg." Heheh. Well then I just went with the flow and later they were given orders to slap another "caterpillar"'s butts/donkeys. So after that, utter chaos ensued. Well yeah it ended up with them being surrounded and trapped. I told them to crawl out but the others were still moving. One of the guys in that moving caterpillar stopped and was all confused. In one part, people were stepping on other people. Ouch. I did not intend that to happen. Well yeah so it was pretty fun for us people ordering them around. Heheheh.

The picture shows my group trying to crawl out of a flank.

So I just played Red Alert 3 to my heart's content (and won Kenneth and Justin in another game of Monopoly which I would have lost if Kenneth had not given me all of his money and property at the right time), gave people their medication back (only one person's because all the other people who gave me their medication already went home) and went off back home.

Final Count: That's ELEVEN CASUALTIES IN A TWO DAY CAMP AND SIX SENT HOME. The first count was 29 people and after that it went down to 27 people at the end of the camp. So you may ask me, wait so 29-6=27? Yoo Ma-t-matik phaylz raik mine schpeeling. Actually, a lot of people forgot about the camp and only came after calls from the teachers. This means that four people came late.

Analysis: One suggested reason which I quite strongly believe in for the number of casualties is the timing of the camp. It was in the middle of the holidays and therefore, a lot of people were playing soccer and things like that before the camp therefore making them weaker, prone to illness or already sick before the camp.

The MRT headed for home was really crowded. It was around 7 or 8 already (I ate dinner at Junction 8). A thread sticking out of my pants got stuck in the MRT door for a long time until the doors opened. When I re-entered, my sleeve got stuck in the door (picture). After taking two pictures, I got out with an elastic jerk.

The next day, I went for the spiritual meeting at church. It actually started on Thursday but I was at camp on Thursday and Friday. I wanted to go early and reach church at 8.20 am but I was too tired and overslept. I reached church at 11am instead. I do not know whether I was supposed to eat the food since my name was not on the list. WHATEVER.

So Joseph Chong was pretty boring and I did not get the relevance of his financial crisis sermons... To me it seemed better to have a lesson on finance or to just read the newspapers ourselves though what he said about just not buying too many unnecessary things to help ward off the crisis could work. However, most people DON'T buy unnecessary things at all. However, sometimes they have children and this really exacerbates the problem.

Simon Chin's final sermon about other churches was good and I think it should really be repeated or something for the evangelical service. Too bad the themes are already set.

The Spiritual Meeting was themed "The Crisis of the End Times". Stuff about Moral Depravity today and the Financial Crises. I missed the other parts.

OK the Theological Seminar is going to start tomorrow. I will be away from the 2nd (tomorrow) till the 24th of December (My birthday!!).

Well a lot of people asked me "Why didn't you sign up for the OIP?", "It was d*** fun!" and stuff like that. I have not heard any negative comments about it. Well I thought the OIP was a camp for leaders only and so I did not sign up. I also had a reputation of being the guy who gets bullied a lot so I did not want to go in case I ended up with gangsters and whatever. Anyway, Theolo will have its fair share of overseas guys (from Australia and South Africa mostly).

OK right. Word count is at least 2,000 now. Perhaps I should end my post here. Well alright then. Farewell creatures of the world!

Sayonara!

I'm gonna be gone for the next two days (till Friday night) at camp. Then there's the theolo coming up on the Tuesday after that. BuhBye!

Another impromptu poem

Close Calls:

Once I went back home
and saw a huge brown mouse.
Chased it far away to Rome
almost touched someone's blouse.

Luckily I got away
and killed the rodent too.
But then I slipped and hit the hay
the knife sliced someone's shoe.

When I woke up with open eyes
I stretched my cramped up legs.
One man walked by and then his thighs
had contact, saved by dregs.

Softly he was cushioned and
I got so very scared.
Out of anger I kicked some sand
when someone's eyes were bared.

Fortunately I had missed
Quickly ran to my haven.
Not looking right my lips had kissed
Some guy with lips unshaven.

I punched him in the face
Just feeling terrified.
When finally I reached my place
I in relief had sighed.

I put myself down to
sit and watch TV.
But during the show 'bout the zoo
the thing exploded, see?

Some of the glass had hit
my eyes and vital parts.
The pain I felt in my popped zit
had flown right off the charts.

Seeing the irony
my heart rate had decreased.
I wondered if seriously
my life already ceased.

My entire life flashed
right before my very eyes.
I felt that my huge dreams were dashed
With my horrid demise...





















Am I morbid or what?

OK I am seriously bored

So I decided to write a poem on the spot!

The Police Hotline:

Hello and thank you, citizen, for filing a report
We hope that you have not made any sordid lies of sort
But right now we have to go through that hassle called red tape
And have it all recorded so that thing's in perfect shape
So first we have to interrogate to see what you've to say
I know that it is troublesome to your great big dismay
So I'd need some details about this big bad guy
We cannot afford anything to go awry
Hello are you there? I cannot hear you make a sound
Is there some more trouble with more evil around?
Alright I'll send some policemen to see what can be done
To check up on you now they will each bring a gun
Oh wait I have a call from another fast officer
It seems like you did the wrath of the kidnappers then incur
So I am sorry that I have to have this conversation said
It seems as if I'm talking to a person who is dead

O... K... Some Weird Weird things thingy

So I got tagged by Amanda and she says write some weird stuff:
"Rules and regulations: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog entry of their own 10 weird things/habits/little known facts as well as state the rules clearly. At the end, you need to choose 10 names to be tagged & list their names."
Well I don't think I'm bored enough to choose more people to be tagged but I'll just do the first part then...
Here goes nothing.

1. When I was young, my memory was great. I remembered two Muppet movies worth of dialogue. (Muppets in Space and A Muppets Christmas Carol)

2. When I was a little boy, I was able to talk. However, when I was next to my younger brother Louiz, instead of talking properly (it was in front of a TV screen which was telling me how to speak Chinese), I said Goo Goo Gah Gah and some other random baby words. Why? It was the common stereotype. I went with it. Hmm probably because I was in Washington, D.C. The American mindset coming into me... JUST KIDDING. But still... Well yeah there goes to show you my awesome memory of the superlong past.

3. When I was in Mars 2112 (a supercool fast food restaurant in NYC), I cried when I saw those guys dressed up as aliens. Why? Not because I was afraid of them. But it was because Louiz was crying. See I tended to go with the flow...

4. I find believing in evolution unskeptical. If you want to be a true skeptic, you must go against the flow. Since the most accepted belief nowadays is evolution, even among Christians (I was once called dumb for not believing in it), it is not really going against the flow/being a skeptic to believe in it. Actually evolution to me is more like predicting the past that we do not know. And now I am a skeptic (in contrast to before).

5. I have a tendency to write redundantly redunant words in my utterly repetitive redundant sentences with redundant words such as redundant and making my sentences run-on as it is fun to do so and it is a habit and as you can see I still have not ended my sentence here and I do not plan on doing so. OK that hurt (if you know what I mean).

6. I have a tendency to make puns out of anything that I can. It's fun. And when I use another person's pun (from the Internet or whatever) and it's considered lame, I just say it's not mine. However, some people don't appreciate it.

7. I find it weird that others do not appreciate jokes. Hmm here's one:
If Scooby says Scooby Dooby Doo and Scrappy says Scrappy Dappy Doo, then what does Fred say?
Think for a while and scroll down for the answer...
















Yabba Dabba Doo.
The most common answer would be Freddy Deddy Doo. OK so Ding Hao and Daniel said: "WYZ YOU'RE SO CHILDISH". I find that weird. I take it as a classic cartoon. I think that if you cannot answer this riddle or understand the answer, you seriously have no childhood...

8. I am utterly insensitive. You see, underachieving delinquents, I do not feel like sharing my intelligence with you squabbling morons. JUST KIDDING. But seriously...
OK yeah so I usually only realise that I had made a really bad mistake in my speech AFTER I say it, or if someone TELLS me (subset of earlier point).

9. I DO NOT HAVE TOURETTE'S. Most people I know do. So if you don't know what that is... GO FIND OUT. Wikipedia and Google are your friends. =)

10. I try to critique anything... Utterly cynical I am. But I take it as finding out the other side of the argument, so as to either rebutt it, or to broaden my view of an issue.

11. From the last 4 points, I think you see that I have the tendency to RANT a lot. Yes FLAAAAAME and RAAAANT.

OK then Das ist alles. The End.


Wait. I don't feel like ending it yet... Ich würde soviel mehr gesagen habe... Aber... Ich habe nichts... Ach naja... Schöne Nacht jedermann!

Reviews

OK so I just came back from seeing the movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Alright so I guess I'll tell you how I felt about it.

It starts off with Alex the lion's background, ie. what happened before Madagascar. Then it shows how he ended up in the zoo in the first movie. It's quite absurd but still believable. So then later it shows them in Madagascar and all that getting out. You've all seen the trailers. So you would know that they end up somewhere in Africa. Well so they meet a lot of new animals and all of them get their own set of problems.

Alex cannot fight like the other lions and has the problem of the evil lion Makunga. This lion seriously seems to be like Scar from The Lion King. He is extremely deceptive and tries to get his way and in the end, he is quite like Scar. However, this being a comedy, his "end" is quite comical compared to Scar's getting eaten by hyenas.

Marty the zebra finds out that he is not as unique as he once thought he was and gets really upset about it. The way he resolves this conflict is really quite cliché but its good enough.

Gloria the hippo finds a new love, the hunky hippo, Moto Moto. The problem is that Melman the giraffe is in love with her (love transcends all boundaries I guess). Well you gotta pity Melman in this one.

Oh, and Melman also thinks he's about to die.

King Julian the lemur is similar to Patrick from Spongebob in that Alaskan Bullworm and Mad Snail Disease episodes. He is able to come up with ideas that spur everyone into mass hysteria even though they are just so dumb.

Maurice, King Julian's advisor, is not very important. But he is quite cute.

Mort, the cutie from the first movie, is now deemed as irritating by King Julian (it's the beginning of the movie. it's not that much of a spoiler). Well he ends up making King Julian believe in himself, the means being a giant shark. Unfortunately, well it does not seem that anyone else does.

The old woman from the first movie is turned into one of the main antagonists along with Makunga. She is also one who spurs many on, in contrast to Makunga whom everyone hates. Makes you think of Hitler, being so charismatic yet evil.The Penguins: The comic relief. Well yeah OK just enjoy 'em in the movie. They're fun.

The Monkeys: They help the Penguins get *cough* some opposable thumbs.

OK so I feel that the graphics in this may not be so great. People walk around on their feet and stuff and its not that realistic. But that does not matter. Must a movie always be realistic to be good?

OK it has consistent humour, unlike the first Madagascar which had all the humour in the beginning and end with a lot of sadness in the middle. Even in the emotional parts, this movie delivers some laughs.

The end scene was action-packed and all but quite unsatisfying since there are still so many things to be resolved.
I think that if the movie were to be longer, they would be able to make a more satisfying movie. 1 1/2 hours is way too short.






SPOILERS:
Plotholes:
What on earth happened to Moto Moto in the end?
What about the tribe of New Yorkers?
Where did the old lady and Makunga go?
Why did King Julian not do anything more after causing the mass hysteria and believing it? Probably because of the 1 1/2 hour time limit so it can be shown on Disney Channel and stuff.

Just Spoilers:
In one part, Gloria says, How the -- Hello? Are you going to fix that plane?

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG

Alrighty then I have not been posting for a long time so I might as well write a long post which is long in a long way.

OK so on the Saturday before the last, before going to church, my squad had to host a carrom (like billiards/pool except it uses chips/seeds for balls and you use a striker chip instead of a cue ball and you use your fingers instead of a cue stick) competition for NPCC (an inter-unit competition for Area 4 ). So then well I was in charge of moving people around and I was judging table 1(out of 3) for the last two rounds. Well it turns out I was one of the only (if not only) guys making people skip turns. So then the winner was Deyi Secondary School.

Then the next Saturday, there was Area Games Day at Guang Yang Secondary School. Yeah Kieng Wee went for Carrom and therefore I had to replace him for Frisbee... Fortunately, I was not the only one who had almost no idea how to play this. My Secondary Three teammates (Sufyan, Chen Wei and Ye Oon) had not touched a frisbee in at least 5 years. However we had one "star player" fortunately. Anyway, here was the matchup:

Kuo Chuan Presbyterian-----------
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||------KCP---------
Raffles Institution(us)-------------||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||-----KCP
Guang Yang Secondary School-----||||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||-------Cat High-----
Catholic High School---------------

OK fine we got eliminated on the first round. But we were fighting against the First place guys first. Anyway, not included in the chart is our fight against Guang Yang for the third placing. Well they were like sec 1's or something so seriously, they were pretty easy. So you see, this system is not that fair since if we fought GYSS first, we would have gotten second place. This system is only good in determining the first place person. The round-robin would be fairer but would take a longer time. Well it was a pretty memorable moment.

When we were fighting KCP, we lost like 7-2 or something like that. When we fought GYSS, we were thrashing them 7-nil. But then Chen Wei said he was feeling so much like the bad guy here. When a frisbee went flying and I tried reaching over for it he took my hand and put it down and said "No Wyz. Give them a chance." So when Chen Wei did that, he gave them a point extremely *cough cough cough* subtly. He threw the frisbee on the floor not looking like he had tripped or anything and said "Oops. It's your ball/plate/whatever." Well despite that, the GYSS people looked like they really fell for it. Their faces were still so serious and all.

Ah yes and in the beginning, I tripped on the string(scoring zone thing). Luckily, I was wearing black but my legs were not as lucky (but my pants were). And so I broke the string and they tried tying it up but had to replace it later with a blue string. Well in the match with GYSS, I tripped again but got up a bit faster and I did not break the string. Silly me. Well I cannot say I was much of an asset but at least I did stuff.

And yeah in the end, Sufyan and Ye Oon took pictures of our(the team's) muddy legs together to remember that we won third(out of four). Unfortunately, I have yet to receive that picture.

So then Monday was class clean-up but before that, we watched the Japanese movie:
10 Promises I made to my Dog. It was a pretty basic movie laced with irony, reversal of roles and all that. It was a nice story but it was not THAT good. And the dog's tail wagging was CGI. Oh yes and I HATED that girl(main character) singing the English song. Awfully high and with the Japlish thing. Eww. Well yeah when her boyfriend was singing it in his erm... supposed-to-be-French accent, he got it right but then the girl(Akari I think) just HAD to ruin it. Well the underlying assumption in this movie is that DOGS KNOW ALL.

Then there is the topic of the class clean-up. Well you cannot say it was fun but it was fine. So then Tuesday was fun. Well it was the day of the class chalet and Yiming and Vishaal did not want to bring their 360's so I brought my XBOX classic(I had to lug 6 kg of weight with me all the way there...) with Halo 2. But before that was school. The first thing we did was the Year Head Assembly after watching part of the extremely vulgar movie, Good Fellows (At least one "f word" every minute). THE ASSEMBLY WAS EPIC!

OK the first thing was in the Auditorium. I really think the laser show went kabust because the lasers were everywhere. I think it was only meant to be on the screen because when it shows like the Omnitheater in the Science Centre when the Audi is not, it just looks plain wrong. Then there was the smoke machine. Hmm I think it was used pretty unnecessarily but it was pretty cool still. There was a skit about the memorable moments for us which was not all that good. Then there was the magic show of Dhivian s/o Thirunaukarasu (I think I spelt it correctly). It was pretty obvious what it was going to be when Dhivian was mentioned (or was it that it was obvious it was going to be Dhivian? I forget) and well the snow thing was pretty impressive, though he should have made the snow higher. And he had to get Kelvin/Yeo Ping Yen to voice him over. Either because he sounds extremely condescending and sarcastic with his voice or just because he could not use the microphone.

OK why did I just say that the Assembly was epic then say it was pretty full of fail? Well it was the end part. OK everyone was given one Helium balloon each(but there was a shortage so I and some others did not get any). We sang our batch song (Hand in Hand) and released all of these balloons simultaneously. I think some people went to take in some Helium and mess around with their voices. And some people released the balloons early. However, this balloon thing was EPIC and it made the whole assembly EPIC! Well I managed to grab a snapshot of the balloons:
I bet it was raining rubber somewhere later.

Then there was the Headmaster's Assembly. Because of the merger with RJC next year, the Headmaster this year, Bob Koh Chin Nguang, will be replaced by the RJC principal, Lim Lai Cheng. So Tuesday had quite humorous exchanges and stuff. Well in the morning there was the announcement for the lameness competition which was so lame that it was not actually funny. But they were saying: When is a time when people come together on a stage and try to be funny? OH THE US ELECTIONS! No. But it is kind of true. OH THE HEADMASTER'S ASSEMBLY! No. But it is kind of true(This was met with some laughter and an astonished face from the HM with his jaws dropping a bit).

During the assembly, the Head of the PE department, Mr Eng, spoke and said something along these lines:

When I first met Mr Koh, he was a friendly and approachable man with jet black hair. When he first joined, I invited him to play tennis with me. And all these four years, I have never had that match. And now when you look at him, he is still a friendly and approachable man, but his hair, one can notice that it is greying a bit.

So when Mr Koh first went up, he gave his response along these lines:

All of these four years, I have never received that invitation. And you know that waiting for that invitation for four years can really give you grey hair.

OK before the HM's final address, I thought he was some slacker but I learned that he actually did a lot. He spearheaded the Raffles Programme(RI to RJC w/o O Levels), increased our involvement overseas with the OIP, got the MOE or whatever to approve of the 4 million dollar upgrading project, the Community Day thing and others which I do not know.

Then we went LANning. Yi Fan and I wanted to go bowling with Edward, Niccol, Norman and Soon Hong instead but they left without us. Then Edward still asked us both to go check the school for his missing MP3. Did he really expect us to do that after what they did?

I had to borrow Leon's shirt and Yi Fan borrowed Jian Yeu's shirt to get into the LAN shop since we did not bring home clothes. Well so then we both went to play Counterstrike for two hours with the rest of the class and I learned how utterly pathetic I was. I think I was the worst in the class. I am NOT good at Computer FPS's. Then Yi Fan and I played Tiberium Wars and he utterly PWNED me because I had no idea how to play. Then we played one match of Starcraft against each other then I won real easily because he did not know how to play.

Well then we went to the chalet. An epic story. We went on the MRT playing with Daniel's and my PSP (Burnout: Legends and Echochrome respectively). Then when we reached Pasir Ris, some people like Vishaal went to wait for the shuttle bus while the rest of us went to buy cards. So then we went into Comics Connection and some of my stuff triggered of the thief sensors. Woops. Well yeah so the guy helpfully removed a sensor from one of my boxes and then the Looney Tunes Box thing could not be removed. I think it was bought from America so maybe that is why. Since the cards were 5 dollars, we went to Seven Eleven instead. We got not as expensive cards but still not very cheap cards for 3 dollars per pack and we bought two packs I believe. So that was around half and hour and we went to the Taxi Stand/Shuttle Bus stop and the guys were still there. We waited and at around 4, the guy came but we were going to the other part of the chalet so we had to wait another half an hour. Some other schoolkids were mocking us with one guy saying: "Hey let's give 'em money for a taxi". Well we went off at 4.30 while some like Vishaal and Daryl took a cab to the place. We took the bus there and then had to take another bus to the actual chalet. We waited for so long and ended up at Changi Airbase. We should have just walked and Ye Zhou should have asserted his position more firmly. Ah yes, and I gave Vishaal and the others who took the cab there my XBOX but forgot to give them the games. So they had to wait for us.

MWUARHARHARHARHARHARHARHARHAR

So then some people were watching Good Fellows and people like me were playing Halo. Well I was not as pathetic as when I was playing CS. I landed a lot of kills on Yiming, the most professional guy in our match. My main problem was that I usually could not find anybody. In my first match, I got second place. Daniel Lim Si Yuan did not know how to play so I was farming off of him a lot.

Then I got third or last place for the Rockets match. Bleagh. Anyway, afterwards I got first for the rockets match. Rockets is real stupid. No skill.

I was supposed to go with Si Yuan and Nicholas but they went in KK's car instead. So I got a lift from Mrs Lim to the Bishan MRT. Luckily, the last train was at 12.05 and I reached the MRT at around 11.30.

Oh yes, and I left my XBOX there so that the others could play with it. I returned Leon his shirt and I took my XBOX back today.

Ah yes, great news today. OBI WAN! Er I mean, OBY WON! YES THAT'S RIGHT!
OBAMA WON!!
John McCain was pretty gracious today, but his supporters were not. Kudos to both of the candidates.

Ah yes, on Friday, I got Red Alert 3. Well it's pretty good so far. I only beat up to the second level of the Allied Campaign so far.

Ah yes, over the past few weeks, I have tried to subtitle the German version of the song from The Nightmare Before Christmas, This is Halloween (Hier in Halloween in German). I took a lot of reference from another subtitled video but that had a lot of mistakes. However I am not sure of the complete accuracy of mine but I believe it is much more accurate. I am taking German now anyway. Hmm... I am still not sure what they say at the part:
Skellington Jack bringt dich um vor Schreck. Springt dir ins ???? und dann...
One sub said that it was Genick(neck) but it really does not make sense so I put Ru(..)cken (back) which matches the English version. I am not sure whether the second subtitle's English translation is accurate.
"Kinder ho(..)ren wir unheimlich gern schrei'n" was translated as "Children here us gladly eerily scream".

OK I learned here that the Participle in German is not only used for haben(have), but also for wird(will). And I learned some other words which I should not list because I learned quite a lot.



Well I guess that is the end of my entry. So so long with my so long entry so we will be so far away so have a nice day and do re mi fa so la ti do and so long!