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Gwendolyn N.
26 years young, a dreamer struggling ever so slightly to not let the world's negativities consume her.


Saturday, November 29, 2008

Hearts All Over The World Tonight / 1111th Post

Okay, just edited my blog posts title.

Its dumb, cuz if I just tweaked it a lil, the font would be like what it is now. I didn't know, so I kept adjusting it, from 11px to 140%.. all that jazz.

=.=

I'm not used to it yet but whatever, leaving it as it is for now.

I need to buy a new battery for my laptop soon! I can't stand seeing it at 0% all the time, its just so annoying. At least I'd be able to bring out my laptop without the charger next time.

I reformatted my laptop again yesterday night! :(

I think I'll install the Sims 2 again, but my laptop's super laggy!

But someone'll have to give me their code to use since Muhd lost the paper which contains my code number on it. Blah!

I love the song "Tonight" by FM Static, and was spamming it while SMSing and reformating my laptop. :):):) really lovely song.

okay, I'm hungry now.

Haven't eaten lunch yet. Hahaha!

Friday, November 28, 2008

Going moderately insane,

You tell me, you tell me!

HOW CAN A CAMWHORE LIVE WITHOUT A CAMERA.

Okay joking, but I seriously can't live without Cammie!

I used my old camera to take pictures of my wounds, wanted to post it up.

But now comes the interesting part:
I can't find my cable for the camera!!


I woke up at around 1pm-ish, and so I've not had my breakfast OR lunch.

Yet, I'm surprisingly not very hungry!

I feel like changing my blogskin to one thats premade and uploaded by the Blogger team. You know, those really plain ones? I saw one that http://spinningbecauseimawesome.blogspot.com/ is using, and the blog title just.. how you say.. captured my heart?

And my phone died out on me, and is going bonkers!

Firstly, an sms that David sent out at 11pm was received by my phone only at 5.42am!

Then, it turned itself off about 3 times already. And like his phone when we were in Thailand, the battery drained out when we didn't even turn our phones on!

Yeah, lemme do a victory dance cuz this phone's 4 years old.

But I've got no idea what phone to change to. Maybe I'll stick to getting an iPhone?


p.s. Wow, majority of my blog viewers aren't from Singapore, but USA! Hahaha! At least 54%. And 40 people viewed it at 8am. *gives huh? look*

Sailing camp @ Krabi, Thailand!

Note: EDITED! ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF MS CHENG, since my photos are gone with my dear camera.

Hello world! I'm back from sailing camp @ Krabi, Thailand! :)

We did caving, kayaking, snorkling, deep water solo, rockclimbing, abseiling..


I'm thankful to have such a lovely and family-like bonded sailing family and wonderful teachers-in-charge, because thanks to them we had our camp in Thailand instead of school, and the camp was successful!

But yeah, the sec4s got back their Level 1 already. :( will miss them!

I'm back with 16 mosquito bites, 11+ cuts (especially one from this morning's caving activity that made me look like I slit my wrists cuz its a cut thats longer than half my arm) and 2+ blueblacks.

But all thats worth it.

Oh, but losing my camera wasn't.

And it was lost in transit from our first staying area to the kayaking area, which makes me feel more pissed! Like, why was it MY bag that the uncle dropped out all the things from??

DAY 1

"bus" ride with the luggage.

MOOOOSH!

We kayaked to this island with loads of crabs.

And David did crab fishing with a water bottle. :)

Why so serious, Joseph?

DAY 2

When we opened our curtains in the morning, this was the scenery we saw.

Then we packed up and took the boat down to another place for kayaking, again.

Yup, these rocks and stuff were directly above our heads while kayaking.

Cool, or what?

Mrs Koh's trained us Pure Geog students too much, cuz wherever I went during the kayaking trip was,

"How was this formed?" "Why is it like that?" "Are the rocks pourous?"


It rained after we went to Krabi from our kayaking island. After the rain stopped we went to have a "small" trek (as according to someone) that lasted for like more than 2 hours?

We went up this side of the mountain then back down, on to a beach, walked past resorts that looked oh-so-comfy, and past 2 more beaches.

And I did it all without shoes!

Well, except the climbing of the mountain thing.
After that I washed my feet in the sea water so I refused to put my shoes back on.

So my feet hurt pretty bad and numb cuz of the pebbles on the beaches and all. David was walking beside me the whole time, so the poor dude had to listen to my "OUCH-es" and "OOOPFH!-es". :P

End up he forced me to wear the shoes he was wearing. Thanks! :)

Belle saw a chicken and she started doing the "bok bok bok!" sound chickens make thruout the day. LOL.


DAY 3

3rd last day started with Deep Water Solo and Snorkling/Beaching.


A chicken woke us up at like 5.30am Thailand time k.

It still went to every area the girls were sleeping in to give us a wake up call, and we all got annoyed at it lol.


We climbed like, super high? 2 stories+ high? Idk.

Oh, the kick?

No ropes and no support. :)

I climbed 3 times, only reaching the top at the last try.

Determination really DOES help, cuz I told myself, "Okay we're going for lunch, and I'll be really damn peeved if I don't climb all the way to the area and experience jumping off it!"

And regardless of the cuts from the first try, I just pushed myself.

The jump was... I can't describe it with words!

It felt like, I was committing suicide? Except for it was killing myself by landing on the deep waters below. Its like, you don't hit the water immediately.

There's this split second that you're hanging in the air and you're thinking,
Am I there yet?


Guys trying a different route than the one shown by the guides.

See where David and Ryan are?

Thats the high part I climbed till on the 3rd try.


Idk what Ryan was doing..

But he jumped so...

Jump David, jump! :)

Aaron J. jumping.


Me and Mr Shoo jumped together.

Thanks for all the encouragement! :)

No, don't ask me what they were doing either.

After that we had lunch on the boat, and went snorkling and beaching.

It was the best!

It felt made me feel like I was in Loola again,
Joseph agreed with me. :)

I didn't snorkle since there was nothing much besides the nice fishes that ate all the rice we couldn't finish.

We just sat out at sea, lying down on our lifejackets. Or just stayed on the beach, playing SANDball fights and all. Awesome.

And oh, not forgetting catching waves!



Since we finished snorkling etc early, we and went down to have Ryan's mango sticky rice.

It ended up raining, so we were stuck there, giving the aunty business since we all thought the bbq chicken was gooood.

I only bought mango sticky rice, which I shared with David.

Then he bought chicken and gave me a whole drumstick after he ate how much he wanted. I was like, omg thats a lot! then he and Ryan said they could finish it in two bites.


DAY 4

View from the cave of the route that the other 2 groups took, I think.


Today morning was rushed, cuz we had to leave by around 2pm+ to catch our 8pm flight. The boat ride+bus ride was like, total of 4hours?

Our cave route was shotened, and before it we did rockclimbing.

In my group only Aaron and Yanling made it to the top. I hit my knee and like, couldn't continue already since I had a blueblack and a lot of cuts from the Deep Water Solo from the previous day


Caving = we go into a cave. And oh, abseil down from it which is at least.. about 8-9 stories high? Okay it felt like it.

This was how high up we were when we were going to abseil down.

As in, this was what we could see!
NOT that we were as high as the mountains in the picture!


I ended up crying because while going up the cave, it was super dark and the sand was super fine. I fell backwards and slid downwards.

Can you imagine? You falling down when you know if you kept sliding downwards, you would end up falling from a damn high height?

.

.

.

Okay maybe I started getting scared when I saw a plank.

I thought I had a phobia for nothing, but from this camp I found out I am terribly afraid of crossing bridges/ladders made of planks/bamboos.

Abseiling down.

The guys were laughing at me cuz the moment guide Alex told me to release my hands, my face "totally changed", and Ms Cheng started snapping pictures.

You can kinda see how nervous I was the moment he said,
"Okay now you release your hands".



The guy's accommodation for the 2nd place was much better than the girl's, can you believe it?? So we hung out at their place for the last few days.

Besides that, the nights at Krabi were fun.

We mostly spent our nights after dinner walking around to the restaurants and roadside stalls near the beach.



Yeah, I think I'm still laggy and sleepy from the plane ride back.

The bus ride was around 2hrs. I fell asleep as soon as the bus set off to the Phuket airport and I woke up with my neck hurting cuz my head ALWAYS moves when I'm not sleeping beside the window. Again, poor David was sitting beside me so I think his shoulders suffered a bit. Sorry, and thanks! :)

Well,

THANK YOU & KUDOS TO MS CHENG, MS CHEW, MR SHOO, MR YEO AND MR NARA!
You teachers are the most fun. :)

And oh, Ms Claudette too!

Monday, November 24, 2008

Sorry about the post-spam guys.

Okay, done packing and all. Still not done with the powerpoint!

But I'm gonna hit the sack cuz my eyes are freggin' puffy.
Thank goodness David told me can go over to Krabi there and do! :)

He's so self-contradictory! When he came over today to see the powerpoint he say not nice. Then over MSN earlier he said its good.

But, thanks. Again.
Idk how many thanks I've said to you like in the past.
I'm sorry you're always the one I rant to on MSN when things get bad.
And yes, I won't if I could. :)
Thanks for cheering me up!

Oh, he saved me from finding someone to take cab with? :D cuz tmr Ryan and I were supposed to share cab, then I told him. Initially it was he, Jack, Teng and Nic? But he backed out to take cab with me and Ryan. But now they're all meeting us there while I'm cabbing down to airport from YCK with David and Jack..?

Blah, damn confusing.

Tomorrow, everyone, 6.30AM, Terminal2 (?) for breakfast at Burger King/(belle wants Swensens =.=), then take shuttle bus down to budget terminal to meet teachers at 7.25am.

Exciting, I can't wait to go.

LOADS OF PICTURES I SWEAR :):):)

Can't you tell, I LOVE THE SAILORS!

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Busy like a bee


Check out the number of programmes running now. And that was after I closed some programmes! Hahaha. So now my laptop's pretty laggy.

I find that now's the appropriate time to say..

I'M AS BUSY AS A BEE!

Cuz I really am. Mighty B. Hahaha.

Okay chat later, need to finish up the powerpoint and then pack my stuffs.
Sailing camp's tomorrow yay!

THAILAND, HERE WE COMEEEE.


p.s. Happy birthday to my mighty cutie, Neo Jiawen! :)
Photos up later when the Busy Bee's not so busy yo.

I ain't tryna save that girl,

She ain't got no money in the bank
She be walking 'round actin' all stank
Now she at the party looking at me
Boys said she can't get saved by me
I'm lookin at her like,
I ain't tryna save that girl,
She got her hand out but I ain't tryin' to pay that girl.


Yeah, watched a bit of Step Up 2 again since YL they all were watching it outside.
I love the final dance! :):):)

Okay, busy doing the powerpoint now.

Blog later if I'm still sanely awake! ;)
Oh, I've not packed yet.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Keep it together,

My laptop's been bad recently, and I reformatted it yesterday.
But now I'm gonna re-reformat it again. :\

Cuz I think I didn't do the reformatting properly, and now my wireless, bluetooth, My Videos folder and everything else is kinda screwed.

Whatever.

Eh, a bit lazy to reply tags, think I'll do it in a post one day since the tags I need to reply are like more than 1 page already. Hahaha.

Thennnn I need to work on the powerpoint for the sec4 sailing seniors!
And David can't help since he's coming back Sunday.

Blah, photo-hunting and stuffs with my laptop in this condition is like wtf.

Jiawen's birthday party later,
and my parent's badminton kakis mahjong session.

Busy day, huh?

Was supposed to play bball with Cia and Eileen earlier, but I thought JW's birthday party would be like, earlier in the day. UGH. Sorry girls!


LAST SAILING SESSION-

This picture looks funny! Hahaha.

With Jhing.

SIN367 = me. :)



LUNCH WITH CIA & KER-




GUITAR HERO: WORLD TOUR SESSION-


And no la this isn't some picture of slitting or whatever.



See those brown/darker areas on the sides of my hands?

I know whats causing it to be like that! MY LAPTOP.
Yeah, meaning I got burnt by my own laptop.

Cuz I (obviously) lean my hands on my laptop's keyboard when I type, and that area is hot if the laptop's been used for quite a while. So yeah after I play Maple or whatever, those areas are like, red. :(




Buahaha, Johnny's Mini Sports in Arashi no Shukudaikun!
Look at the way Matsujun ran! x) was laughing my head off.
Then the stupid guy who's not from Arashi copied the way he ran. >:(
BUT HE STILL DIDN'T BEAT JUN! ;D



Super cute, Aiba trying to clean Matsujun and Nino's ears!
JUN LOOKS MECHA KAWAII IN THIS VID K.

Serious.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

BEEEEYOTCHHH.

PISSED PISSED PISSED PISSED PISSEDDDDD.

Like, wtf why am I bothered by your STUPID demands?
Like, can't you figure every motherbloody thing yourself?
And awwww, you're WELCOME!

Didn't you learn from shows like High5 and Barney that it is acutally GOOD to say "please" and "thank you" after someone helps you? I just saw an ad for this DVD for children's shows, and I saw this: "The magical key to everything is to say Please and Thank You."

Oh, incase you had a childhood being spoilt by your parents who didn't actually let you watch all these WONDERFUL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES (and instead, rot you to death with expensive gifts like those you've been trying to show off),

HERE'S A PICTURE OF BARNEY, NOOB.

Aww, doesn't he look friendly?
*big hugs and muacks!*

I posted this up just for you, too!
Say THANK YOUUUUU. :)

Okay I am done ranting.

I am just annoyed by people who demand so much yet appreciate so little, especially when people like MUA doesn't like being bossed around. Like, you don't even give me the basic respect, what for I respect you?


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Sailing today was aweeesome!

Good winds (dying slowly..) and team racing, super shiok!

Team Captains were Cheeteng (team 1), me (team 2) and Ryan (team 3). Loser team had to wash all the 8 boats. 8 boats so that just nicely two teams can vs each other.

Ryan's team lost after the finals with my group. :P
But we all washed each others' boats in the end.

"Thats why we're called a TEAM what."
(and no, I didn't say it, which is why I'm really happy!)

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE MAYFLOWER SAILING TEAM LAAAAA.


Photos later, when Jhing confirms my Facebook request.
And her real name is damnnn cool I tell you. :)

I'll miss her!

I almost beat Ryan for the first race! But ya he was behind me on the run so he blocked my wind.

Brought 4 panadols to school today, think I took 3 in total.
I think I'm immune to panadol already!

3 different people just asked me out tomorrow! Hahaha.
Why is everyone wanting to go out tmr?

1. Quin asked me to go her place.
2. Ker asked me to go out for lunch.
3. Juniors asked me to go out.

Heh.

I need to reformat my laptop.
ASAP too! Cuz I gotta work on the powerpoint for the sec4 seniors.

David asked me to do it with him, so yeah, designing and editing.

His laptop doesn't have powerpoint either, and his CD drive is spoilt like mine is, so Quinneh said I could use her lappy tmr to do. :) thanks loveeee.

DAVIDDD, hurry come back Singapore, before Sunday!
....... eh, Sunday? OMG thats like, 4DAYS!
4 days to do the whole powerpoint. :\

Take care k.
Remember to call and tell me when you're coming back!


omg, talking to Cia and Ker on the phone now.

Ker: "I cannot eat steak."
Me: "STICK?"
Cia: -says something I can't hear-
Ker: "Steak is beef!"
Me: "s-t-i-c-k???"
Ker: "Beef mah."
Me: "Oh OKAYYY. Omg I heard it as STICK, s-t-i-c-k!"
Ker: "Oh okay. OHHH OKAY. Walao ei!"

Hahaha, comical!

Cardcaptor Sakura

:(

Of all the Cardcaptor Sakura songs, the only song that I couldn't find was Fruits Candy!!! The final opening song! :(

Someone get it for meee.

And oh, Cardcaptor Sakura was released on my 5th birthday!
Yeah, 8th April 1998.

Thats how old the anime is, and yet it never gets old to me.
I WANT THE 2ND MOVIE! More Shaoran and Sakura madness. ^^

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Teh fever.

I'm down with teh feverrrrr.

I spent the whole morning to afternoon nua-ing at the sofa,
drifting off to sleep then waking up again only to fall asleep.

No appetite to eat lunch.

Took panadol and my vitamins from the docs and slept again.
Woke up and started sweating so I'm feeling better. :)

Whatever, when I'm done transferring my stuffs into my external hard disc I'm going back to sleep. Cuz yeah, I think I need to reformat my laptop again soon. Its kinda obvious that there's a virus in it.

So I'm just waiting for lappy to crash, and yaaataaa!

Whoo its raining!
My favourite weather.

But theres training tomorrow so PLEASE don't rain!

Onegaishimasu!

Ack, now my stomach hurts.
BLAH, NEXT WEEK'S SAILING CAMP, CANNOT FALL SICK.

Photos!

Photos were what I promised,
Photos are what you'll get.


PART NUMERO UNO:
UNCLE DARREN & AUNTY SYLVIA'S WEDDING



I had my hair curled at Uncle Ken's. Hahaha.

And yeah, I have more pictures of my hair.
Only that I don't wanna let you see it. :)

(hint: unglam.)

Sec4 seniors go prom night, I go wedding like I was going for prom.

Okay kidding.
This was one day before the senior's prom. :)

Ages ranged 12-15.

Amanda, Mel and me.

My uncles and aunties were shocked to see us so dressed up, cuz if you remembered Uncle Collin and Aunty Angel's wedding like, months back in around June..

.

.

.


.. You get my point, don't you?


Back to Uncle Darren's wedding pics!

My dad's photography skills,

SUCK.

Ladies. :)

L-R:
My mom, Mel's mom (sa-m), Aunty Desiree, da gu ma, ge-m.

Posh, grand, elegant.
Whatever you call it.

Its The Fullerton Hotel anyway!

Their wedding pictures, taken abroad.

It was funny, cuz Zhiyi and Zhiming gege spent the whole start of the evening debating if the wedding photos were taken in which part of Australia.

I was thinking,
"What if it WASN'T taken in Australia?" x)

But whatever. They were guessing the pics weren't taken by a Singaporean photographer too, cuz Singaporean wedding photographers aren't as creative.

This was one of their wedding photos!

So now you think its taken by a Singaporean wedding photographer? :)

They used things like graffitti on walls,
Aunty Sylvia sitting in a shopping trolley with Uncle Darren pushing her,
Uncle Darren and Aunty Sylvia walking down an alleyway, holding hands, but Uncle Darren was jumping in mid-air.

Super nice photos they had I tell you.

And they're perfect for each other, no doubt!


The gifts for guests.
Amanda and Tim got the girl body ones. Hahaha cute!


Fanciful plates we didn't get to use directly.


And yes, that's Timothy!

Me and Mel thought he looked like some working businessman, with the suit and all.


Wine and the gift.

Aunty Desiree was the only one who came over and told us we can order as much wine as we wanted, then she looked at Zhiming gege.

"And he'll pay for it. ^_^"

Zhiming gege was like, "Huh? Eh? What?"
Then he looked at me and Mel.

"I only heard the 'pay for it' part."


For some reason, I found these two photos very nicely taken.

And Tim, you totally spoiled the I'm-some-20plus-yearold-businessman look with your PSP playing.

The plate of abalone.

Even at Uncle Collin's wedding, which was at M Hotel, gave more than one measly slice of abalone! Hahaha.

So much for The Fullerton Hotel being a 6-star hotel, ei?

Shots of Brandon..

Mel asked me to take the photo below cuz she wanted to show Ker.
Hahaha!



Chio toilet!


With the granny who rocks our family's worlds. :)


And a grand piano that looks..

.. lets just say the keys felt like someone poured acid on it.

:)

Cool carplate number! :)

This person was looking too forward to year 2009.

Random.


PART TWO:
VIVOCITY WITH VIR, CHIAEE AND DAVID







Everyone do the kissy-face! :*



Idk what I was doing.
I only know I was talking.


Chiaee workin' it. Hahaa.


Impersonation of someone. LOL.

Live walking advertisement for how yummy water is. :)

Nah, no shots of David since he came so late!
My camera doesn't like taking night shots. :(



Okay, enough photos galore?
On to events that happened today. :)

Woke up to the lyrics "Four, tres, two, uno" from the song Fergalicious.

Saw the time and it was like, 10:30am.
Late was I, duh.

Called David since he was supposed to help me tell the teachers.
He had his I-just-woke-up voice and I knew he was at home. Hahaha!

Told him that I felt damn lazy to go to the polyclinic, and he said he'll come with me! :)

Thank youuuu. :D

Supposed to meet him around 3pm, and he was earlier than me!
I was telling him that he'd be late, since he's like me-

-NEVER ON TIME.

Walked down to AMK Polyclinic from Jubilee.

Silly person, the sign was literally flashing in our faces: ANG MO KIO POLYCLINIC, and he was telling me he didn't know where it was. Haha.

While waiting, we were listening to songs from my iPod.

After talking about the song "Starlight" by Muse and how its not really well known, someone's phone rang and the ringtone was Starlight! Hahaha, ironic.

Doc said my blood pressure was on the low side.
AGAIN. :(:(:(


Didn't cheat Cia's feelings this time cuz me and David went to visit her at her workplace!

Actually he didn't wanna, cuz he didn't feel like going out to anywhere except accompanying me to the docs, then going home. But I asked him again and he said okay. :)

He pretended to order something, and I was hiding somewhere she couldn't see me. He's like, "I'm directly in her view and she like, cannot see me leh. =.="

Cia finally saw him, then David said "No la, I'm alone, then I saw you so decided to say hi." and Alicia believed him! LOL. I popped out laughing and she was like, "Walaooooo eh youuuu!!!" teeeheeeee. :P

We bought waffles: banana chocolate and butter waffle.
David was still coughing like damn badly? So no chocolate.
And he treated me! Walaoooo.

I swear I'll treat you to something k.

Cia put in extra chocolate for meeeee. :):):)
BIG SMILEY FACE!


Waited till 6pm and we went for dinner with Cia.

Eggplants are nice, gosh. I take back how gross I thought they used to be!

Had Long John's Silver AGAINNNN.

I think I'm gonna die if I carry on eating Long John's.
David, your fault! Hahaha so much fast foooood.

Again, didn't eat more than half of the whole meal?
I only drank milo and I was full.

Went back to the shop, said bye to Cia and left Novena.
Was feeling super sleepy, so I was damn quiet.

Reached AMK around 7-ish, so we went to the arcade to watch people play.

I felt like playing, but we'd both rather play Jub's Drummania V2.
:( I miss the arcade there!

Left Hub around 8-ish and he fetched me home by cab.

The moment I sat down on my sofa I fell asleep. :\
Woke up around 10-ish, changed and went back to sleep. Woke up at 12am again only to toss and turn, unable to sleep. :(

If this keeps up I'm going to die of sleeping late!