Friday, December 29, 2006

muddy: happy 2007

hi everyone!

wheeeeeeee

please check your emails on school updates from mr kok. yep, lots of useful stuff there, like what's happening on 1st day (1st blk is civics), that the classrooms are now air-conditioned, CNY/total def/valentine's is at SENTOSA! WHEEEE! and the 7-11 branch in rj is open from 7am-11pm. more stuff there so go read.

see you all really soon, i can't wait for 2007. exciting! WHEEEEE

so5b at 4:19 PM

Thursday, December 28, 2006

pingni: happy 2007!

heyy guys.

hope all of u had a merry merry xmas!

back to revive this blog a bit or else its almost like dead. haha. anw its cool reading about laotians and cambodians from muddy and sau..n suddenly realising how forturnate we're to be living like how we're living now.

great to be learning new things! hmm me n xinying learnt a lot too from the taiwan immersion prog (althou not girls carring parangs like tote bags).

erm so for 18 days we were stuck with each other and im glad to have her company larh. esp when im sick for the last few days..gotta her thank a lot for taking care of me given her unsymphathetic nature (stil laff at me becos of my bad hair day and sick voice). eh btw, does she even read this blog?

shall share will u all random pictures.

my geog classmates! beaches without sand exist!

the whole beach is filled with rocks like these! i duno about u all but its my first time seeing so i was very very amazed!

and we saw statues with weird poses like....



these! (lol we laffed like mad here)

and we learnt that taiwan is in year 95 cos they count from their independence in 1911.


haha!

ok larh there're a lot a lot more pics but its impossible to upload all. and so for 2 weeks, xinying n me were dressed in bumble bee uniforms....experiencing the cold weather but the warmth of the taiwanese students! 1st time being in an all-girls school for both of us...n also did a lot of things for the 1st time!

like : making pottery, watching the military band march(with the flags n guns n everything..it was cool!), taking lessons in chinese and hearing weird terms for mathematics, strolling along the jingmei river which almost looks like our big longkang, break a gun into many different parts, hit the chinese drums, learning dragon dance, wrote chinese poems, sang aboriginal songs and learnt aboriginal dance( n omg we were forced to perform at the farewell ceremonies), went to the pottery museum and science discovery centre, ate ice-cream when we were freezing, drank tea from teapots at some cosy place where we met fellow singaporeans, watched a french movie n we all cried, played badminton together n we miss pe!, played paintball shooting, made pineapple tarts, did some espf measurement thing(similar to our napfa), learnt how to dance opera, learnt chinese painting, made creative little slides, learnt archery, played with the cheling(some traditional chinese toy that is like a yoyo) and tried to learn the trick 'ants up the tree', made our own weirdly-shaped dumplings, practised hip-hop while watching wochaiwochaiwochaichaichai on the tv, wrote xmas cards till 3am and heard weird noises, saw everything we could of each other in the hotspring and we also went to touristy places like taipei 101, danshui, shilin, ximending, etc etc.

haha impossible to blog in detail now-u-know. yarh n btw after this taiwan trip, me n xinying are gonna treasure singapore's toilet bowls n rubbish bins.

okok enuff about taiwan i miss it a lot already. hope u guys had loads of fun too this holidays! whether u went overseas or found a job. if possible, blog about it and dun let our blog die larh ok.

erm and 2007 is coming real soon yea! hmm jus wanna say that i lurve u guys as my classmates n im thankful to be in so5b no matter how screwed up we are. next year will be the last year as classmates so hopefully we'll treasure one another! n next year's impt so lets mug tgt and prove that we're not that screwed up n not make ppl laugh at the 5 classes during the evaluation of common tests result. all the best for the year ahead n make sure u make new resolutions n keep them! erm n..im looking forward to next year! hope u guys think so too!

happy new year, onward 2007! smiles, pingni.

so5b at 11:10 AM

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

sau: back from cambodia, in hk

hey guys!

hope u all enjoying ur hols too.. yup i agree w muddy, i guess going to all these asean countries make u realize how lucky u all are. and for all those taking geog, it brings out a whole new meaning to all those nonsense ur studying, like how tourism is so evil it erodes the culture, so true. and how war can really tear up a country.

yes it was really humbling for me too. n altho like most of the cambodians end up farmers they are actually super advanced in their studies n are super intelligent, prob more intellligent than us, and thus we got majorly owned when we tried to teach them english. but they were just so humble. yeah.

good to go on these cip trips;D and well enjoy the rest of the hols ppl! i guess we really must haf some major photosharing session when sch starts! keeping in mind xinying n pingni still in taiwan! heh i'm in guangzhou now in fact.

anw happy hols my dearest classmates!

lotsa luv
sau

so5b at 11:13 PM

Monday, December 04, 2006

muddy: we're back!

hey (:

back from the laos trip! must tell you all, laotian kids super super strong. they're quite small built compared to singaporeans, so imagine a 9 year old kid weighing barely 10 kg carrying not one, but TWO buckets filled with cement (abt 5kg each) and they can easily outwalk me. BAREFOOTED too.

very humbling experience there, my best attempt at chopping bamboo was 7 hits, worse was 20+++ and it still didn't want to break. haha, the womenfolk there, (some old lady) did it in 4 hits! and the kids can easily swim in the river without getting washed by the current, which is quite substantial.

and all kids above 12 get their personal parang i think. the girls carry it like it's some tote bag under their arm. how imba is that.

dinner time (:

so5b at 6:49 PM