Sunday, March 16, 2008
1 week in a post ~1000 wrds
8 Mar: Sat
Today was IT fair as well as start of holidays. Went to Suntec in the afternoon. Spent about 1.5 hours just getting through the crowd and into the exhibition hall. Met Kailun and Daron at CityLink Mall Prints. Wanted to get a nice notebook (paper kind, not the laptop) but didn't see any I liked.
After collecting/being bombarded by enough brochures to compile a book, we finally went around looking for the thing I really wanted, a big screen LCD monitor. Saw one rather nice one but you had to buy the whole computer set and everything. Was dearly tempted too but that was like so extravagant.
Settled for an ASUS 22' widescreen one at $489. Still within budget. Also got a thumbdrive (4GB, $32) and very very cheap keyboard and mouse. Yay! New workstation.
Then, went to celebrate my brother's birthday at Kuishin-Bo. Stuffed myself silly there but hey, the food was really good. There was a chocolate fountain too so I ended up drawing stuff on the plates. XD
9 Mar: Sun
Set up my workstation and packed for camp. Slacked off the whole day. o.0
10 Mar: Mon
Ah, beginning of my 5 day back to school week. Had NCC camp. Reported at about 7.20 as I had to go submit my GeogRAphy assignment. Though I was late as everyone was like falling in. Camp got off to a not so good start with push-ups (many!). Couldn't really do too much as my stomach still hurt from dieherra.
Then did some random stuff (aka, revising IFC) in the classrooms before we had lunch. Food was acceptable. but not enough vegetables. Then it rained! Which was like Thank God cause it met NO camo in the rash-causing red-ant infested mini jungle. Reduced to some history essay. Ha!
So, we did IFC.
First station was range card. Scores were bad. Well, I have like no sense of estimation anyway. Then was range indication. Ended up indicating the flagpoles whilst facing the canteen (Squad, Right, about 40m, Astro turf, tall and silver [?!?]. FIRE!).
Then moved on to Camo, in class 4B! Was some stupid History question [15m] which asked how different techinques aid in camo. (Shape, Shine, Silhouette, Shadow, Space, Color).
Had sentry duty afterwards. Don't think I did well coz I wans't enthu enough. -.-"
Tactical movement was as usual. Fullstop.
Turned out I was tied fourth with Max in the end.
Then had free time [?!?!?! discipline camp?!?!] to slack. Was talking to Sec 1s and doing differentiation on the board. [Math in UG camp?!?!?!?!? o.0] Had dinner then Fright Night!
Watched Dark Water (seriously, I don't like horror movies). Then started randoming around the school led by light sticks. Started behaving very bitchily and the whole group just kept screaming in high-pitched voices. Haha. Got grabbed from the back twice.....one by Kieth and someone else.
Final station was PB room. Was drinking NEWater (free of hair!) there from the storeroom.
Had solo night after that. Slept at Raja block 3 floor, furtherest from toilet. Only fear was freezing to death (which happened). And the light was on.
11 Mar: Tues
Woke up late but still had time to brush teeth. Most didn't at all. Then, we got PT/punishment which was push-ups. Shall skip this. Did drills. Like one person at far end of raffles square and platoon diagonally opposite. Finished that, then sat down to slack/talk, after hentakking into a car 11 times as punishment for auto-piloting. Played floorball (violent tenancies) before lunch.
After lunch was really completely slack. Were in classroom teaching cheers till like 5? Sec 2s left at 4 btw. Got called for OOC interview (shock!). Contents restricted of course.
Dinner then more movie. Tears of the Sun, NC-16 - Violence. Some random war movie lah. About human conflict/horrors of war and stuff. Was ok. After that was war games. Got chased from clock tower till Admin block. Urgh. Got fragged 4 times. First time punishment was gambling (sissor paper stone: if I lost, 50 push ups). Well, I won. Second was 40 sec holding push up. Third was a math question. (10 secs, find x) Oh c'mon....seriously larh.
Fourth I got jacked (discrimination against GeogRAphy people loh)....capital of Ethiopia?! and capital of Eygpt....ans: E.
Then at abotu 23.30, OOC platoon called out to do drills. Hence, did drills until like 1.30 am. and push ups of course. didn't get to bathe so just washed up, powder bath and sleep.
12 Mar: Wed
Had parade (leg cramp) before zaoing home in taxi. Then, bathe, eat, wash clothes sleep. Planned to go for ICC camp at 7 but overslept. Decided to go tomorrow.
13 Mar: Thurs
ICC camp day 2. Breakfast was bread and margarine. Thank God I ate before I went. Got assigned to Group 8 (not too responsive) and kept mixing up names. XD Went to Sim Lim for some random challenge. Pretended to buy stuff but finally gave up and just directly said : "Hi, we are doing a project and we need your advice, could you help?" kind of stuff. And it worked.
Went back to school about 1 hour off schedule and had some rubbish design-a-futuristic computer challenge. MacPaper?!?! Random robotics propaganda (robotics are behaving very EXCO-ish) before screwed up dinner at dinning hall. Had night games (got damn pissed off with some insensitive arseholes) that night. Ok, it was so random larh. Ended at 11. Then, lots of sec 3s zao home, which you could. Just say: "Manek, I'm not staying overnight" So dumb to have actually stayed loh. Haiz....Slept at 12 +.
14 Mar: Fri
Woke up at abou1 8.10 am. Talk about slack camps. Then skipped breakfast (thanks Sam for his sandwich). Went to Science centre. Actually saw the answers beforehand so went around tell pple loh. Must share right?
Came back to school for TQ and got flamed by Yap.
Went home and made a new gloomier design...haiz, reflect my mood sia.
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