Campcraft.

Training was on Saturday. Woke up at 7am with that horrible feeling going back to sleep feeling again. =X Cause I slept at around midnight the night before (again =/).

Saturday's training was exactly 6 months and 1 day from the 1st training we had. Since August 15th 2007. O.o Kind of puts things in perspective when you realise we've been training for 6 months already. And the competition is in 5 days.

Trained from 8am to 1pm, by the end I was like going to sleep at any moment.

Went for lunch with Wei Kit alone cause the rest all got things on la. But Hao Xiang, Hao Yi and some other guy whose name I don't know joined us for lunch.

Walked home after that cause I felt like walking home. Yar I think I'm crazy or something la, walking that 5 or 6 km walk cause I feel like it. But I didn't feel tired after lunch. Heh.

Went home, and I no longer felt like sleeping immediately. Maybe cause I was so excited at the prospect of no longer having anything to do for the weekend or whatever. Cause the past 3 days or so were filled with consecutively occurring events.

So I went to use the computer. Can't remember what I did though. =X

Went out at night for dinner. Went to Sentosa. Haha. That's like the 3rd time I went to Sentosa for this year already. =/ Went to see this flower thing, super crowded with lots of tourists. Then went back to Vivo for dinner. Decided to watch Ah Long Pte Limited at 9.20pm. Yay. Best thing about watching movies with your family is that you don't have to pay for anything! =D

Ah Long Pte Limited was funny la. Some parts were extremely stupid, haha. Movie ended at around 11.30pm, caught one of the last few trains back home. And that was the end of my Saturday. =) Of course, I went home feeling dead tired la.

Inter UG Games Day.

Okay Friday was actually Total Defence Day, so there was this performance by a drama group for Assembly. Haha, some parts of their skit actually resembled the skit we did during POP last year; Troubles of an NCO. =D

We didn't get to eat any war-time food during recess, and our teacher largely ignored the Total Defence message and went on teaching. =X

Lessons were all pretty boring. We were briefed on how to do our Geography project, where we are supposed to create a blog and blog about the IMF, World Bank, or Asian Development Bank. And we were also briefed on how to do our LCE project, where we are supposed to create a powerpoint presentation on what courses are available at tertiary level.

Then was inter Uniformed Group games day. We lost to NCC in Soccer in the first round, but won SJAB for 3rd place. For badminton Stephen trashed us la. =X But we won for Captain's ball because of the numerous competitions we went to last year. =)

There were quite a bit of complications involving the games day, because some uniformed groups were girls only and some were guys only. =/

And some guy from St John tripped me during soccer resulting in grazed knees. Not very pain or bloody, but it feels like a paper cut. Gah.

Okay so the games ended at around 5+, but we still had PT time where we played tug-of-war. =X My group didn't win la. Haha.

NPCC ended at around 6pm, we were briefed on the upcoming Sec 1 leisure camp. =\

Then went for dinner at LJS with Hao Xiang, Chee Sheng, Eugene, Wei Kit, Nigel, Yi Hong, Joshua, Wei Ting, Woei Jiun and Elaine. Left early cause I didn't want to be late for cell group.

Took bus 74 and slept on and off during the bus ride.

I was late for cell group. =X Reached at around 8.20pm, so worship was over already.

Anyways, it was Friendship Friday. Haha, we were supposed to chose a song from a basket of cards and then choreograph a dance based on that song. The catch was the songs were like Barney, or Power Rangers, or Teen Titans, or HI5. My cell combined with Yu Rong's cause Sarah had to go home early, and we got Powerpuff girls. Bleh.

Haha, quite stupid and lame and whatever la. We sort of spent the entire 3 minutes of the song either running around or doing this open your eyes thing. Winner went to Aaron's group for their High School Musical dance. =D

Then was food. There was bread with scrambled eggs, tuna crackers and bread with Nutella. ella. ella. a. a.

Credit goes to my sister for thinking of something as cold as that. =P

Took 136 home. Didn't sleep once at all on the bus for some weird reason.

Valentines Day.

Yay lots to blog about. Anyways, I think the above graphic would be better if I put some cheesy romantic message inside. Haha. But I think I already feel super girly by creating that. XD

Went to school feeling super restless yet tired. My hypothesis at the end of the earlier post failed cause I went to sleep at 12.30am. =(

Haha, thanks to everyone who gave me presents! Although I didn't get you guys anything. =X

Had to write a letter during an arduous 1 and a 1/2 hours of Chinese. Then we had a surprise History structured essay question. Mr Maran was like: "You guys don't know you have a History test today?" But thankfully it was open book, because I totally did not remember why Japan adopted an aggressive policy towards Chinese between 1931 to 1945. =/

Got back our Chemistry test results. I think I actually did reasonably well even though I did not study. Actually, I didn't even know there was a test until the day itself. Blee.

We also got a Valentines day present from our English teacher. Haha, a 555 notebook. Like how many teachers do you know give away presents? =D

Went for a rushed lunch at the canteen, then went up to the hall to practice for the Valentines day performance. That was the first time we actually rehearsed together as a band.

Then went for maths extra lessons. Bleah. We went to the library again cause the classroom we were supposed to use was locked. I was feeling super nervous and restless la. Maybe it's cause I have never touched the guitar I'm using before, or because I'm performing a song I've never rehearsed before, or because of some other weird reason la. All I know is that I'm usually less nervous when playing for youth cell, or even playing at Gracehaven. Probably cause we have an hour of practice beforehand.

Anyways, went to parade square to meet the other members of the band, waited for a while at the Space and then played.

Aeternum Vale is my band name. =) At least we managed a somewhat decent performance in spite of so many problems. Haha. I won't describe the problems faced here cause that would make me sound like a childish guy making up excuses for playing badly. Ah wells, at least we survived man! And I realised I can't play when something is out of tune cause it sounds so horrible to me. Thanks to Emmanuel for lending me his electric guitar, and thanks to Lenson, Chee Hock, Jude, and Yi Peng also la. =D

Finished everything with a slight sore throat and back pain. =X I dunno where the pain in my back came from, but I guess the sore throat was from lack of water or singing horridly or whatever.

Took 119 to Compass Point where I finally got acoustic guitar strings. Cause my string snapped when I was tuning it 3 days ago. =X

Went home, spent about an hour just re-stringing and tuning, and slept. And for the first time in days, I slept at 11.30pm! Yea!

Valentines Day Eve.

Okay haven't updated on the past week since Sunday either, so I'll do it now.

Monday-School, then practice at Lenson's house.
Tuesday-School, Chinese extra lessons, then practice at Lenson's house.
Today-School, Social Studies extra lessons, Physics extra lessons, campcraft training.

I think it's like, increasing exponentially or something. =/

Anyways, practiced playing at Lenson's house for the Valentines day concert in school. Which is tomorrow. Haha, saw his Kawai piano made of ivory keys with a soft fall system. Cool man!

Extra lessons after school were spent with some horribly sweet dark chocolate from Lenson. (heh)

Spending the past few days catching up on homework too. Which is like this humongous gigantic pile which grows relentlessly. Just imagine some huge monster made out of books. GAAA. And I stupidly did the 2005 O level paper in the 10 years series for English when we were actually supposed to do 2004. =(

And I bathed Snowie yesterday, chased him around for quite some time, worse than shuttle run cause the thing you're supposed to pick up is scampering everywhere and hiding in corners and underneath chairs and tables.

Oh yes, I realised that I can't sleep at night. In fact, I haven't slept at night for about 2 weeks already. Like, I always end up sleeping at midnight, or 1am, or 2am, or 3am no matter how tired I am. Like, I tried to go to sleep yesterday at 11pm but only fell asleep at around 2am larr. Wasted 3 hours of my life tossing and turning. =( And any attempt to try and go to sleep earlier always fails cause of some random reason. Maybe my body clock is fixed on sleeping in the morning already. But I shall test this hypothesis tonight when I go to sleep early! =D

Except 10:55pm isn't exactly early lar. =(

First 4 Days Of CNY.

Okay I shall attempt to breeze through everything so I won't get bored. =D

Erm woke up at the amazingly early time of 10am on the First day. Haha =X Went to Vivo for lunch, then walked around the area with my family trying to find some way to get into Sentosa. Like, it was super crowded, super long queues at the bus interchange, the Sentosa Express and the Cable-Car station. So we gave up and took a bus to East Coast.

Haha, we walked like 4km from the bus stop at East Coast road to the beach. And it was super crowded too. Blee. Lots of people camping there. Stayed there for a while, then decided to take a bus to The Esplanade.

Esplanade/Marina Bay area was super crowded too. Walked around for awhile, ate dinner there, watched the fireworks at 9:30pm (Fireworks again...Yawn), then walked to Clarke Quay and took a train back home.


Second day was spent visiting relatives. =) Received about $100 in ang baos. Yes, Minghui is a very poor guy. =(

Went cycling at Pasir Ris Park on the 3rd day. Lots of people camping there too. Haha. Oh yes, re-stringed my guitar too cause the old strings all cannot make it already.

Went Church on the 4th day. Then went to Plaza Sing to buy a new guitar tuner cause the old one suddenly refused to turn on one fine day.

Yea, that's pretty much a short summary of what happened. Blee, I would have blogged longer, but I think there's too many things to do already la. =/

Lunar New Year.

Haha okay my blog's been pretty inactive for about 5 days already.

Didn't really update cause my life is pretty boring and repetitive lately. Like it's either campcraft trainings, or school, or some other thing that's slowly eating away my life. It sounds horrible when you put it that way right? =D

Anyways, nothing interesting really happened during school hours either, I think blogging about whatever lessons that happened gets boring after a while.

But we got to use computers and surf the net during History! Haha. Like whilst the others taking elective Geography were having a test, we were in the computer lab watching You Tube. =D Played Boxhead 2 Play with Joshua too, and we were like: "Why you go shoot the barrel?!" "Faster chiong! 100kills already!"

Haha, we went to the computer lab for Geography too. We were supposed to research on the various strategies a country of our choice has adopted for development. But we kind of got sidetracked and started googling ourselves and names of other people on blogsearch.google.com. =/

Like, check out what's the first result when you google minghui man! I'm so awesomely popular! Then I scrolled down and looked through the results, and clicked on this url. Then the people around me started clicking and claimed that minghui-feeling.blogspot.com was my blog and all that stuff. =\ Haha, I feel like a stalker looking through some stranger's blog. =O

Oh yes, Darren started telling me that he clicked on the url of my ex-classmate and tagged some stupid love confession under my name. I believed him cause I'm such a trusting person (Hee) and then he later told me the link was broken. -.-

No extra lessons this week cause of some reason that we don't really want to know right? Haha.

I went home super early on Monday with the intention of taking a nap, but in the end I watched Letters From Iwo Jima instead. It's a very nice film even though it was 2 and 1/2 hours long and I didn't take a nap after that.

It's about the battle between America and Japan on the island of Iwo Jima, and the war scenes are kind of graphic and bloody. Lots of people committing suicide by blowing themselves apart, people getting burned alive by flamethrowers, prisoners getting shot just because they're captors are tired of watching them, those kind of things. In the end you are kind of left with that O.O look and that realisation that in a war, no one really wins.

Now I want to go watch Flags Of Our Fathers. Although it's kind of like, a 2 year old film. =(


Went to Pizza Hut at Kovan for a farewell party for Wilbur on Tuesday. He's going to Dubai? Gosh, that's like the next upcoming city with the world's tallest building being built and the $2 million man-made islands and all.

Hao Xiang and me were like eating cheese with pasta. =)

Played Basketball at Kovan CC after that where we got trashed by 3 girls when playing a match then went home.

Went out for dinner at Jalan Kayu, ate at Mad Jack's which is kind of like Botak Jones but Australian?

Went grocery shopping at Festive Market near my Primary school. =D Who goes grocery shopping at 10pm in the night with school the next day? Me. Haha. The supermarket was extremely crowded and was open until 2am. The queues stretched all the way to the aisles, and my sister and I spent some time looking and joking about random stuff whilst queuing. Like how we could open bottles of cleaning liquids which were right next to us and no one would notice. That was when I picked up this Fabric Softener and realised some wise guy spilled some of it's softening stuff onto the side of the bottle. So my hand smelled like some soap thing for the rest of the night.

Reached home at around Midnight, went to sleep at around 2am. =/

I woke up at 7am the next day, but my parent's said I didn't have to go school so I went back to sleep. Haha. =P

Had steamboat for lunch/dinner at home. Then lazed around reading, and went out at around 11pm down to Chinatown to watch the countdown.

Blee. The place was super crowded as usual. Saw some people which I recognised but didn't remember their names. So that means I either have a poor memory or have very few friends. =(

Countdown was okay la, firecrackers were deafening, a tree nearby caught fire because some unexploded firecrackers dropped or something. =D

Walked around for about 2 hours jostling with everyone, then took a train home.


Okay now for random stuff! My younger sister came back from her P5 camp. Haha she went to the exact same campsite that the Sec 2's went for their camp. And she did almost the exact same things except the station games and rafting. Blee, even the caterers were the same people, and the food was more or less the same too. Weird coincidence. =D Although she has like millions of mosquito bites everywhere and I didn't even get a single bite that I know of when I went for the Sec 2 camp.

Snowie got a haircut. Now he looks like a wolf with a sharp nose. Haha and he's no longer blinded by his fringe.

Okay, it's 4:22am in the morning already. So I guess I should go sleep. =D Happy Chinese New Year to everyone.

The Swiss Army Knife.

Okay I've neglected this really stupid and lame incident that happened last Tuesday. And since it is my duty to blog about such stupid and lame things, I shall describe it here. =D

Okay Lenson bought this Swiss Army Knife from Europe and brought it to school. The Swiss Army Knife has extremely sharp blades, probably sharper than anything I've touched in my life. Like one 'swish' and it can cut through paper? =O

Then I asked Lenson to lend it to me first, which he did with a word of advice to be careful cause the knife was sharp. Haha, me being the lame one pretended to get cut by the knife and do all sorts of stupid things with it. But my short attention span soon busied itself with other things and I passed the knife back to Lenson.

Then Jude also wanted to see the knife, so Lenson lent it to him with a word of advice to be careful cause the knife was sharp.

10 MINUTES LATER, Jude cut himself on the thumb and Ivan, Lenson, Jun Han and me started laughing cause it was so ironic.

Then Lenson took a red pen and drew this fake cut line on his thumb, then pretended that he really did cut himself. XD

And I believed him and gave him tissue paper. =X

Haha, I think we should all learn from the moral of the story, which is, don't give your friends tissue paper unless they ask you for it. Yea! =D