Sunday, September 12, 2004
and today is my last post until exams are over.
Friday, September 10, 2004
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
It's a Tuesday, night and you are at a church prayer meeting when somebody runs in from the parking lot yelling, "Turn on a radio, turn on a radio!"
Saturday, September 04, 2004
okie. finally got time to blog. haha.
today's the last time you guys are gonna see me.
its time to mug and study and practise and whatever.
bleh. and i dun even feel like touching my books cann.
i dunno how im gonna last through. sighh.
but yes, i must must must discipline myself mann.
time to get down to SERIOUS study. lol. well, try to anyway.
o well.
slept at about 0100 last night. haha.
was on the phone with riana since 9 to 12. shes such a giggly person. hahaha.
was hearing her play guitar. shes like so fecking pro cannn. so kewl.
and shes gonna become a rock star and create her own rock band. haha.
and shes serious about it.
okay anyway.
woke up at 5 today. was hoping that my plan of feeling sleepy enuff to sleep early today.
which worked. haha. *yawn*.
gonna get up at 4 tmr to try and do my jian bao. and zuo ye. lol.
been doing maths today, well, trying. hehh.
im so hopeless can. bleh.
im gonna practiseandpractiseandpractise until i can do every sum i see.
haha.
gooluck to me.
then gonna start studying other subjs. sigh.
im starting to panic now.
but yay. im gonna be studying with chum everyday in library.
cept on tues and thurs.
tues studying with zh. and thursday got tootion. so, yeah.
hope i can persevere through. =)
and i juz found i have to get msg of 3.5 or better and pass all subjs to keep all my 9 subjs.
otherwise i have to drop. fuck. thats scary.
im freaked.
bahh. wtvr la.
think i better go already.
i'll see the cyber world again in 31 days. i think. or 32. wtvr. its a thursday anyway.
byeee..
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And while the church listens to a little transistor radio with a microphone stuck up to it, the announcement is made: "Two women are lying in a Long Island hospital dying from a 'mystery' flu." Within hours it seems, this thing just sweeps across the country.
People are working around the clock trying to find an antidote. Nothing is working! California, Oregon, Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts.
It's as though it's just sweeping in from the borders.
And then, all of a sudden, the news comes out. The code has been broken. A cure can be found. A vaccine can be made. It's going to take the blood of somebody who hasn't been infected, and so, sure enough,all through the Midwest, through all those channels of emergency broadcasting,
everyone is asked to do one simple thing: Go to your downtown hospital and have your blood type taken. That's all we ask of you. When you hear the sirens go off in your neighborhood, please make your way quickly, quietly, and safely to the hospitals.
Sure enough, when you and your family get down there late on that Friday night, there is a long line, and they've got nurses and doctors coming out and pricking fingers and taking blood and putting labels on it.
Your wife and your kids are out there, and they take your blood type and they say, "Wait here in the parking lot and if we call your name, you can be dismissed and go home."
You stand around, scared, with your neighbors, wondering what in the world is going on and if this is the end of the world.
Suddenly a young man comes running out of the hospital screaming. He's yelling a name and waving a clipboard. What? He yells it again! And your son tugs on your jacket and says, "Daddy, that's me."
Before you know it, they have grabbed your boy. Wait a minute!
Hold on! And they say, "It's okay, his blood is clean. His blood is pure.
We want to make sure he doesn't have the disease. We think he has got the right type." Five tense minutes later, out come the doctors and nurses, crying and hugging one another ... some are even laughing. It's the first time you have seen anybody laugh in a week, and an old doctor walks up to you and says, "Thank you, sir. Your son's blood type is perfect. It's clean, it is pure, and we can make the vaccine." As the word begins to spread all across that parking lot full of folks, people are screaming and praying and laughing and crying.
Then the gray-haired doctor pulls you and your wife aside and says, "May we see you for moment? We didn't realize that the donor would be a minor and we need ...... we need you to sign a consent form." You begin to sign and then you see that the number of pints of blood to be taken has been left blank.
"H-how many pints?", you ask.
And that is when the old doctor's smile fades and he says, "We had no idea it would be little child. We weren't prepared. I'm sorry sir, we need it all!"
"But but .. You don't understand."
"We are talking about the world here. Please sign. We need it all!"
"But can't you give him a transfusion?"
"If we had clean blood we would. Can you sign? Would you sign?"
In numb silence, you do.
Then they say, "Would you like to have a moment with him before we begin?"
Can you walk back? Can you walk back to that room where he sits on a table saying, "Daddy? Mommy? What's going on?" Can you take his hands and say, "Son, your mommy and I love you, and we would never ever let anything happen to you that didn't just have to be. Do you understand that?"
And when that old doctor comes back in and says, "I'm sorry, we've GOT to get started! People all over the world are dying.
Can you leave?"
Can you walk out while he is saying, "Daddy? Mommy? Daddy?
"Why, why have you forsaken me?"
And then next week, when they have the ceremony to honor your son some folks sleep through it ... some folks don't even come because they go to the lake or the seashore ... some folks come with a pretentious smile and just "pretend" to care. Would you want to jump up and say, "MY SON DIED FOR YOU! DON'T YOU CARE?"
Is that what GOD wants to say? "MY SON DIED FOR YOU. DON'T YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I CARE?"
"FATHER, Seeing it from YOUR eyes breaks our hearts. Maybe now we can begin to comprehend the great Love YOU have for us."
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obs.
got mobile! funn. hahaha.
but then got so many injuries and sandfly bites. >.<
AMUNDSEN ROCKS.
=D
okays anyway.
so day one.
waited so long at punggol point dunno do what lah.
then reached pulau ubin at about 10+ i think. or arnd there.
group sorting and all that.
then started the day off with the trustfall thingy.
first one was 2 pple stand at the front and back of 1 guy.
then push him arnd lah.
second one was damn scary. haha.
must fall backwards off this platform kinda thingy and then the pple below hold this sheet of plastickish thingy lah. that they use to catch you.
that one veh scary. my heart really beat damn fast. lol.
after that we did belay practice!
haha. i like. but veh tiring also.
cuz i so light hor. then the climber always heavier than me one.
then i always floating in mid air. lol.
then anchorman must really pull me down. hahaha.
after all that, went to pitch tents and have dinner. haha.
oh yeah. didnt mention yet. my instructor's shan. haha.
and abraham so sick. keep on mentioning that shes flat. -.-
idiot la he.
had dinner and then wash up.
hated washing up la. bleh.
after that sleep liao.
and i didnt know i snore. hahahha.
day two.
uhm.. cant remember what we did. lemme think.
got this stoopid talk la. some fckers go and use the fire extinguishers. bastards.
then the co-owner of obs come and talk to us abt it. i think.
OH YEAHh.
the expedition! hahaha. kayaked from camp 2 round the west side of pulau ubin to the rock quarry down there. did it together with raleigh.
we were expected to reach there in 4 hours. but we did it in 2 hours! whoooo. we're pro.
haha. thanks to tide la. =D
once we did the bend, tide was with us. so veh fast liao.
when we reach there, straight away pitch tent.
then we had a dip in the quarry!!! wheeee. damn song man.
the water is like so clear lor. and its rain water.
haha. damn shuang. clean off all the salt. =D
then cook and sleep. haha.
oh yeah. had maggie mee for dinner that night. veh shiok. lol. =)
day 3
did rafting in the quarry. wheeeet.
our raft WORKS. LOL. i didnt expect it to. wahahaha.
we were planning for it to pass all the tests, but let it break it in the quarry so we could take a dip. and everything went according to plan. hahah.
damn farnie.
and shan was telling us about not getting off the raft all at once.
"can you tell me why you shouldnt get off the raft all at the same time?"
then one of the barrels came loose and the whole thing crumbled and everyone got thrown off. hahahahaha. the irony of it all.
after that we trekked back to camp 1.
but then we had to do some orienteering la.
find some checkpoints that kinda thing first.
then we trekked back to camp one. with our beeeg heavy backpacks. urgh.
pack liao then pitch tent. as usual.
we reached there before raleigh. dunno why.
they say they climb some mountain or dunno what. -.-"
oh well. after that cook dinner by the dinner and watch the sunset. haha.
preeeety. =)
then after that clean up.
then go sleep.
day 4.
funnn.
high elements. wheeee.
we used the stuff in the camp 1 hall la.
snake and ladder was fun. i did together with abra.
but then from the snake part to the ladder damn difficult.
the gap so wide. eek.
and then the buddy line hor. nvr give us space lor. then gotta move up tgt.
quite jialat.
then the nutbreaker. lol. that one the last log damn freaky.
so far away.
and i feel so honoured man.
abra keep on saying that without me arh, he wouldnt be able to make it up there. haha.
rock climbing!! hahahah.
man. i lurveee rock climbing.
thought the basic wall was a breeze la. haha. =p
the one thats tilted forward a bit. that one. the chickenest one. haha.
after that did the one in the middle.
wah kao. that one damn jialat.
i used 4 lives. hahahaha.
but i managed to reach the top! wheeeeee.
was the only one in my watch to climb all the way up. haha.
i thank amundsen for giving me all that support man.
i was dyingg. my forearm muscles all numb cannn.
but i reached the top! wahahaha. im so damn frickin happy wit myself. =DDD
then i did the basic wall again. with blindfold. hahaha.
still veh easy la. juz hear what pple say and follow. lol.
then after all that, we trekked back to camp 2.
we whack thru the jungle. wah damn jialat.
i was carrying all the bottles with chow.
like about 12 bottles arh. use the camping stick. wah can die lor.
so heavy.
then got one part got one fcking plant with thorns.
then i only got one hand. kena scratched like what lyddat. urgh.
then there was the red chair there.
eeeee.
sends chills down my spine mann.
later i tell you the ghost story shan told us about the chair.
then when we reach that time, we were at the camp 2 campsite down there.
the one with the flying fox and rockwall and belaying practice down there.
then walk down the stairs and chuck our backpacks there.
then i think we pitch tent and had dinner.
wah. then nigel's tent like shiet lyddat. lol.
forever flying one. keep on collapsing. pple keep on tripping on their invisible dark green nylon cord. no one can see. lol.
then there was one night ben was holding the pole and sleeping cuz the tent collapsed. LOl.
every night i must help them pitch sia. haha.
then first night was damn funny.
nigel ben marcus and yee hsu all striking their tent. then me and abra strike ours.
then we start later but finish earlier than them. lol. what a joke.
anyway. after that, clean up all.
then we were rushing cuz she said if we finish by 830 we get a nightwalk.
we wash like siao man. haha. and then that night everyone keep on saying i got fetish for washing the stuff. LOL.
i think i was going abit siao. i was stealing the mess tins and pots from justin and abra and anthony. lol. fighting to wash it. lol. hahah. i was siao la.
but we were 4 mins late. finish washing all at 834. then she dun let. bleh.
but got a good side of it la.
give us more time to clear our stores.
we were the last few to start, but then we finish first! hahahah.
amundsen ROCKS.
waha. =D
then we had our ghost stories.
shan said that last time all the instructors were night trekking.
then they say that they can see a singh there combing his hair.
eeeee. so freaky.
and we WALKED PAST there lor.
ee. gimme goosepimples. that night i didnt sleep veh well. haha.
then another one she said was her personal experience.
cuz last time shan had leukemia. then she was hooked up to the machine and all. in sgh.
then when she looks at her ceiling, she can see the street lights and all la.
cuz the light go in.
out of the window can see the street la. that kind of normal view and stuff.
then she said for like a split second, everything was dead silence.
the machine got no more sound at all.
she said it was as silent as though vacuum lyddat.
then on the ceiling she could see a shadow walk by.
then before the shadow left out of the door, he said 'excuse me'.
then the second the shadow left, the sound came back on.
my god. thats so freaky.
but atleast the ghost was a gentle one la.
but still. omg. freakyyyyy. eeks.
then theres one more about the night cycling. but that one not veh scary la.
she juz kept hearing someone screaming 'oei' into her ear.
then after all that, we went to sleep lor. haha.
and anthony didnt dare to sleep by the door of the tent that night. lol.
but then he still did la. haha.
day 5.
pack up and say byebye lor.
thats about it la.
we finished all the remainder for our breakfast. lol.
oh yahhh.
we got so many extra stuff. lol.
dunno how we got 1 extra backpack. 2 bottles, 2 bottle stoppers, 1 bottle cap, 1 jerrycan cap, 1 whistle, 1 compass, 2 camping sticks.
at first we were missing one whistle and one jackknife.
then we barter trade until we got everything back. haha.
then shan took away our extras.
oh yah. one farnie part. hahahah.
after we got everything liao, we ask pple to do chores for us, then we give them the item they want. haHAHAHA.
we got delvin to use the brush and scrub our map. wahahahah.
man, we're assholes. lol.
then we traded smth damn cheap for a compass. lol.
i think it was a camping stick. worth 80 cents.
then the compass was 930. lollll.
aiya, then after that. juz collect cert.
and amundsen made our last circle.
man. so sad.
then the parting of ways.
mann.
oh well. then after that go home lor.
got a ride from kevin home. =)
today.
went to rg open house.
felt so awkward.
like im the only guy of my age arnd the place.
anyway. went there wit ally. haha.
took 105 with her.
then walk in that maze in circles. lol.
like some idiot lyddat. wahha.
but odac is so funn.
if sji got i sure join ah. haha.
climb rock wall whole day. =ppp.
and i saw my dear tami mei. hahahaha.
but then so paiseh lyddat. damn weird.
i look at her. then she look at me. wahahah.
then i made myself scarce. lolll.
after that went home.
and sleep. hahaha. got up at 4 to have my lunch. haa.
then had a fight with grandma la. haiya.
dun wnana talk abt it.
aiya. think i can end here liao. this post is liek so frickin long.
i started at 1814. and now its like. 2105. lol.
take dinner and continued after.
kk. time to playyy. haha. ciaos.
and *gasps*
i put on two kilos. hahahaha.
52 now. =D
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