Bits and pieces of mid-term holidays
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During the holidays, I caught up with Alyssa together with Woo, Fung Yee, Ming Jun and Wee at IOI Mall. We decided
to have a food outing together and I thought it was quite successful. Had green
tea doughnut and a cup of frozen yoghurt from J.CO Donuts and Coffee, sushi from Aeon, stole a bit of Woo's takoyaki, cheesy wedges from KFC obviously, Taro milk tea from Dong
Cha and soya bean ice-cream from Q Bean.
Also I went for a water sports activity organized by SE at Asian Water
Sports Village.
The water park is actually located on a man made beach, so
in order to get there we had to take a ride on a speedboat. I think it was my first time sitting on a speedboat, not too sure but the ride itself was awesome! I love it when the wind blows towards my face and it was pretty adventurous I would say because there were not many handles for us to hold on to so.
When we first reached, we were given a life jacket each. The facilitator (who wasn't very friendly) then gave out instructions on what to do and what not. Before he ended his talk, he said that he allowed us to sabotage our friends in the lake as long as the float comes back in a good condition lololol.
The beach was average-looking but the facilities were great! What I meant by facilities are the types of floats and boats not the toilets- let's not get there. There were lots of types of floats to choose from where it will be connected to the speedboat controlled by the facilitator of course at a very VERY fast speed. /.\ The float goes so quickly that I thought I was going to die that day (okay I am exaggerating but it's true). Out of the three floats I sat, I fell off all three rides. Even the ride which nobody fell off (I believe it's called the Turbo Blast) I literally got thrown into the lake because before it was my turn, Bailey and Christon told me to lift my butt a little higher for it hurts when the waves hit their butts at a really strong speed. I lifted my butt a little too high and thus got thrown into the lake, real hard.
Besides trying out motorized water sports, I also tried kayaking for the first time. With zero knowledge of kayaking, I decided to share the same boat with Christon because he was the most experienced one available loool. Kayaking was indeed a very very tiring sport especially when you're sharing a boat with Christon because of his weight hahahaha kidding! We spent too much time kayaking 'till we missed the third ride (Evo Pro 3) which I heard it was the scariest of all four rides. Fyi there were time allocated for each ride, so you have to be quick if you want to try all rides. Felt quite sad but at the same time felt quite relieved also because I was drained out of energy and getting thrown into the lake didn't sound like a good idea.
I have come to a conclusion that water sports are super tiring sports as they require a lot of arm strength which I absolutely do not have. The rides were thrilling and exciting but at the same time so damn tiring because each time you fall off a float, you have to climb up the float which is the tiring part. There was not once I could climb up the float myself (either I was helped by the facilitator or one of my friends) T.T. I need to start working out on my arms man *inserts arm flexing emoticon*.
Jokes.
When we first reached, we were given a life jacket each. The facilitator (who wasn't very friendly) then gave out instructions on what to do and what not. Before he ended his talk, he said that he allowed us to sabotage our friends in the lake as long as the float comes back in a good condition lololol.
The beach was average-looking but the facilities were great! What I meant by facilities are the types of floats and boats not the toilets- let's not get there. There were lots of types of floats to choose from where it will be connected to the speedboat controlled by the facilitator of course at a very VERY fast speed. /.\ The float goes so quickly that I thought I was going to die that day (okay I am exaggerating but it's true). Out of the three floats I sat, I fell off all three rides. Even the ride which nobody fell off (I believe it's called the Turbo Blast) I literally got thrown into the lake because before it was my turn, Bailey and Christon told me to lift my butt a little higher for it hurts when the waves hit their butts at a really strong speed. I lifted my butt a little too high and thus got thrown into the lake, real hard.
Place to chill out while waiting for our turns to ride hahaha.
Jokes.
12-14th April: Leadership Camp 2013
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Here is a long overdue blog post on my school's Leadership Camp 2013! Initially, I was going to blog about this during the holidays but due to lots and lots of procrastination, it is only up today haha. I tried my best to recall what I did during the camp with the help of Suet Ling and Woo's blog posts, so forgive me if I missed out on anything.
This year's camp was held in Shah Alam Extreme Park in Shah Alam of course. It is an open area completely built with many facilities plus an air-conditioned hall (!!!). I was more impressed with the toilets because they were equipped with water heaters (but there was no hot water) and most importantly they were clean! There were even fast food restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut & Burger King) right opposite our camping site can you imagine how happy we were when the bus passed by them. But too bad (and obviously) the facilitators didn't allow us to go to the restaurants due to safety precautions.
I was quite satisfied with the campsite until I found out that we had to sleep in tents (okay lies I knew we were going to sleep in tents before arriving the campsite). Things became worse when the facilitators separated my friends and I into different tents with different tent mates (and they were mostly juniors). With amazing sneaky switching skills with the juniors, Suet Ling, Woo and I managed to share the same tent. ^_^ Our tent was smaller than the others because there were only three of us while others had about 4-5 people sharing the same tent.
The tent Suet Ling, Woo and I shared.
DAY 1
The camp started off with an ice-breaking session where we were asked to gather in a circle. There were two games altogether- one was called the 'Round the Clock' and the other was a 'Rock-paper-scissors' concept game. I am too lazy to explain about the games, so all you need to know is that us seniors won the game!
We were then split into groups and told that we had to come up with a group name and a group cheer. I suggested the name Sexy Carrots (yes I stole the name from Pre-Mad Camp and I copied their cheer as well hehe sorry). Cant deny that our cheer was one of the best (though we shouldn't have added the word 'so cheap'), so thank you Ken for your idea haha.
After tea break, we gathered again to play Battlefield. The objective of the game was to get your group member whom is blindfolded to the other side of the circle without touching any of the obstacles within the circle. In order to direct your blindfolded member, you have to make sounds indicating the directions he/she is supposed to go. We did pretty well mostly because we could actually look at the ground when we were blindfolded HEHEcheatersHEHE..
At night, we gathered at the hall (we got to experience the air-conditioner hehe) and were handed out files. The facilitator told to write down our strengths, weaknesses etc on a piece of paper. It was easier to list down my weaknesses compared to my strengths 'cause you know, we teenagers particularly tend to have low self-esteem. With the help of my friends, I listed out my strengths which I was quite surprised when they mentioned them. It is nice to know what your friends think about you at times especially when it comes to compliments.
Highlight of the night was the 'Touch and Speak' activity. In a group, we had to enter the hall silently, touch the puzzles containing alphabets and numbers in an alphanumeric order using our left hand and say them out loud then leave the hall without a word BUT we knew none of this during the game. Every group had to brainstorm, discuss among each other and try their luck each time. We were so frustrated each time we failed but we were even MORE frustrated when the group we secretly co-operated with managed to figure it out before us. We were just one step closer to winning but.. sigh. :(
Little did we know that it was already 11pm by then (we started the activity from 8-ish I think), so we were told to wash up and to get a proper rest. Since it was an open park, there were strangers skateboarding from the moment we entered the tent till the moment we woke up. Please tell me WHO skates in the middle of the night. -_- The juniors made it worse by staying up to talk with their friends all night. Please don't get me wrong, I am not against the juniors for talking with friends at night in fact I think it's alright since it is a camp. I am just not happy with them for not controlling the volume of their voices which interrupted the others who wanted to sleep.
To be honest, I was more annoyed with the skateboarders than the juniors but the worst part was still the fact that I had sleep with the insects. Have I mentioned how afraid I am of insects? T.T We spotted a tiny frog in our tent and many tiny bugs flying in our tent. Imagine the horror I had please. T.T
On a side note, I didn't take much pictures on the first day because our schedule was packed with activities. Cannot believe I had no time to take pictures of myself too aiyo hahaha.
DAY 2
Woke up early and did some exercises before getting reading for the exciting activities ahead of us! Together with our groups, we got to experience flying fox, abseiling, rock climbing and archery(!!!). It was my first time trying out flying fox and abseiling, so I was feeling really excited for these both. But being the coward I am, I screamed all the way down the flying fox hahaha.
This is where we had the flying fox, abseiling and rock climbing activities.
After lunch we had paintball (!!!) (!!!) (!!!) hehe. As much as I was excited for paintball, I was also feeling very scared at the same time. I am very afraid of pain one leh. T.T Hence, I was protecting myself behind things throughout the game and contributed pretty much nothing for my group #badgroupmember #horriblesenior. There was this junior (F1 girl) from my team who was so brave that she was still willing to play even after getting shot several times. *hidesface* Lucky me, I only got shot in the mask once and it wasn't painful. While everyone else got hurt due to the paintball activity, I got hurt when I was playing archery lol 'cause I held the bow in the wrong position. If I were to ever go for another paintball session in the near future, I must be more daring in the battlefield!
Did anyone notice Wee flexing his biceps behind Shas? FUHH.
Asian eyes hahaha.
Suhaasan and Woo with a very grumpy Suet Ling.
In the evening, we did the antenna activity where we had to build the tallest and the most stable antenna using just pipes and strings. Then the facilitators stopped each group and said that all of us had to work together to build the antenna taller than the rock climbing wall. ._. It was a hassle in the beginning as there were too many people giving out instructions but eventually we managed to work together after tons of screaming and shouting.
After dinner, we were instructed to draw out our experiences so far on a piece of mahjong paper using our creativity. Each group had to present their pieces one by one and Xin Yue did it for our group. I remembered being so sleepy and exhausted that I all wanted to go was to crawl back to the tent and snooze away. I had to constantly keep myself awake to avoid being noticed by the facilitator for falling asleep. /.\
I thought the day had came to an end until the facilitator gave us another task. Each group had to come up with a dance within 3 minutes, YES THREE MINUTES along with a mashup song he chose. Initially the whole group was a little reluctant to dance but after a while, we started to get pumped for the performance! We came up with crazy ideas and dance movements- yep we were prepared to be embarrassed on our last school camp 'cause YOLO.
But then not every group was prepared for the performances. The first group who went out did pretty badly as the members of the group weren't sporting. Most of them just stood there with sulky looks while watching one or two of their members perform. ._. The facilitator got mad and called the performance off. Damn we were so prepared to go all out for the performance.
The second night was much more peaceful than the first night as the juniors got warned by the teachers + facilitators and the skateboarders decided to take a night off I guess lol. That night, we decided to unzip the outer layer of the tent (which functions to keep the tent dry if it rains) because the weather was like 90 degrees outside. Luck wasn't on our side- it started to rain. I remembered feeling water droplets sprinkled towards my direction and waking up to Shas throwing shoes into our tent. Suet Ling and Woo woke me up to help them but I was so tired and exhausted that I immediately fell back asleep. Sorry guys. ._.
Also bumped into Bryan and Darryl in the middle of the night when I was walking to the toilet. They said I looked as if I had not slept for 10 years.
Yep, that is how tired I was.
DAY 3
I remembered being the last to wake up that morning among us three heh. Chilled and chatted with the seniors after washing up. Then, we had an amazing race concept activity which involved searching for check-points, orienting (this activity pulled us down horribly), eating bitter gourds, making shapes out of wooden planks, carrying buckets of water, bouncing a tennis ball and balancing nails (the facilitator gave us the answer actually). Each group was further divided into smaller groups and mine came in last. ._.
We gathered in the air-conditioned hall again for the last time to say goodbye. Packed our bags and left for home.
This year's camp was something different compared to the previous years and it was fun! The activities were exciting, the place was considered hygienic and also spent quality time with the besties plus some of the juniors. Met so many unfamiliar faces from the afternoon session as well. This is a camp I would want to remember. :)
But then not every group was prepared for the performances. The first group who went out did pretty badly as the members of the group weren't sporting. Most of them just stood there with sulky looks while watching one or two of their members perform. ._. The facilitator got mad and called the performance off. Damn we were so prepared to go all out for the performance.
The second night was much more peaceful than the first night as the juniors got warned by the teachers + facilitators and the skateboarders decided to take a night off I guess lol. That night, we decided to unzip the outer layer of the tent (which functions to keep the tent dry if it rains) because the weather was like 90 degrees outside. Luck wasn't on our side- it started to rain. I remembered feeling water droplets sprinkled towards my direction and waking up to Shas throwing shoes into our tent. Suet Ling and Woo woke me up to help them but I was so tired and exhausted that I immediately fell back asleep. Sorry guys. ._.
Also bumped into Bryan and Darryl in the middle of the night when I was walking to the toilet. They said I looked as if I had not slept for 10 years.
Yep, that is how tired I was.
DAY 3
I remembered being the last to wake up that morning among us three heh. Chilled and chatted with the seniors after washing up. Then, we had an amazing race concept activity which involved searching for check-points, orienting (this activity pulled us down horribly), eating bitter gourds, making shapes out of wooden planks, carrying buckets of water, bouncing a tennis ball and balancing nails (the facilitator gave us the answer actually). Each group was further divided into smaller groups and mine came in last. ._.
We gathered in the air-conditioned hall again for the last time to say goodbye. Packed our bags and left for home.
This year's camp was something different compared to the previous years and it was fun! The activities were exciting, the place was considered hygienic and also spent quality time with the besties plus some of the juniors. Met so many unfamiliar faces from the afternoon session as well. This is a camp I would want to remember. :)
Publika Live 2013
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On the 1st of June, Publika held a talent competition called Publika Live at The Square. It was my first time watching a talent competition live, so I was looking forward to attending this event! I had not heard about this event until my church friend, Boon Keong made it to the semi-final round together with his band TANGS. Being nice (hehe), I went to support his team with a group of people from church.
I was stuck with the Pangs at Publika for more than 30 minutes thanks to Caleb who wanted to leave early for no particular reason haha. We just walked around, waited for Caleb to get some stuffs and chilled at Chatime. The band reached later and they were told that they had to come up with another performance for the semi-final round around 15-20 minutes before the competition started. It was a last minute thing for every contestant, but lucky for TANGS, they already had a backup song.
Samuel.
Kailey.
Debbie.
Bailey.
Caleb. Poor guy he had a plaster on his face hahahaha.
There were 10 contestants altogether competing in the semi-final round and only five of them will be chosen by the judges to compete in the finals. Each contestant had to perform twice for the semi-final and once for the finals. Their performance were judged based on a few criteria such as showmanship and originality. As for the judges, I do not recognize the most of them except for Mark O'dea from The London Boys. And it turned out that it was his birthday! One of his fan bought him an iPad as a gift for his birthday wah damn lucky lor.
Out of the 10 contestants, there was only one dance group and the rest were either solo singers or a band. I was telling Bailey that I was sure the dance group will make it to the finals cause they were the odd one and indeed they did lol. But they were really good and their dance was humorous and entertaining! We could not even guess which was their third performance because three of their performances were perfect. I was very impressed with some of the singers too such as Lizzie Parkinson who sang Sweet Nothing with a twist to the song.
The band, TANGS.
On stage!
Sadly, TANGS did not make it to the finals but at least they had one of the best supporters around! When it was their turn to perform, we stood up and cheered for them haha. Since they did not make it to the finals, we went to have our super late dinner at Fatboy's Burger Bar. The restaurant was located few feet away from the stage, so we could still catch the finals. Decided to share a burger with Kailey because I wasn't that hungry. Their burgers are of huge portions and the patties are so so juicy! Yet the burgers are damn overprice lor- one burger costs more than RM15, so if you are on low budget it's best to not visit that restaurant haha.
But I can't deny that the burgers are yummy...ahh.
The amount of supporters who came. There were more who are not in the picture!
It was indeed a great day and I enjoyed spending time with my friends! Also, it was interesting watching a competition live for the first time and listening to the comments from the judges. Some of them were really strict on judging the performances while some were lenient. There was this one guy who seemed to have very little words to say. Each time, his comments consisted of less than 20 words lol. There was once he commented more than 30 words and we were indeed surprised haha.
Anyway, congrats to the winners who did an amazing job and to all the participants as well!
OIC Camp 2013
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Attended Taylor's OIC Camp again this year at
the same venue: Taylor 's
University Lakeside Campus! I blogged about last year's OIC Camp too. Click
here to read if you're interested.
This time, there were 7 of us who went. We
arrived at the venue earlier that day because Suet Ling's dad was busy. Registered for something different this time; T-shirt printing! No la actually
we wanted to go for cake pops but the workshop was full, so we had to pick
another one. There were many other interesting workshops to pick from too such
as Photography, The Art of Fine Dining, Event Management and such.
From left: Ming Jun, me, Suet Ling, Woo, Hedy, Samuel, Chui See
#ootd
Love this picture of us! #bffootd
Huge crowd.
We were the first to
registered at our counter, so we had plenty of time at the Grand Hall. Each of
us was given a goodie bag which contained a cooking book (which I will probably
never use), a tupperware, an elastic band, a few samples of face wash and
tissue wipes. Sam Qmar (Yindian) was the emcee of the day! I'm not sure whether was he the same emcee as last
year's. While waiting, they played some funny videos to keep us
entertained. He also managed to call up a few volunteers (actually they got
tricked by him saying that the first five who come up on stage will win
something) to do a super unglam Gwiyomi. Some of them were really sporting
while some were not so sporting, but the most hillarious one is still the guy
in the video! In the mean time, we also made use of time very produvtively by
camwhoring. ^_^
Yindian!
Contestants watching the video of a super unglam Gwiyomi hahaha.
Our elastic bands!
Love this picture too but it is blur. :(
Spotted myself and Suet Ling on the screen! It was taken during last year's OIC Camp hahah we are famous! *jokes*
Each of us was given this tiny ticket and schedule which had
the list of activities planned for the day. The workshops were separated into
two different timing (like last year's) and we were lucky to have our workshops
first. So we headed to one of the rooms (I can't remember if the room had a
name) and we were told that the T-shirt printing is separated into two types;
one was manual and the other was digital. We quickly rushed into the manual one
but we were too late because there were not enough places for us. Hedy, Chui
See, Ming Jun and Samuel had to move to the digital one. So it was just me, Woo
and Suet Ling left in the manual one lol why are we always together is this
fate or what hahaha.
Our facilitator was a guy whose name I can't remember grr.
He was really friendly and tiny in size. We were asked to introduce ourselves
by stating our names, schools and what we ate for breakfast before we begun our
workshop. I think it's a nice thing getting to know each other a little (not
that I remember any names actually) before we began.
The facilitator showed us
a cosmic t-shirt that he made within 10 minutes and told us how to create a design of our own using bleach. Yes just bleach plus a little volume of water, so that the bleach
wouldn't be too corrosive for us beginners. He also taught us a few ways to
create unique designs using rubber bands and masking tapes. After all the
explanation, we started designing our own t-shirt.
The guy asked us to stand on chairs when we are using the bleach to avoid getting bleach stains on our bottoms but after a while everyone started getting down.
The t-shirt I simply designed lol not bad right.
With the facilitator hahaha look at him!
Met up with the rest from
the digital t-shirt printing workshop for lunch. Intially, we wanted to have
lunch at Old Town
Ordered Carbonara Spaghetti which was a little dry.
Our shoes! Suet Ling wanted this picture so.
We were supposed to have a 3 hours break but after about 2 hours or so we
were called to gather back at the Grand Hall. Next up was a station game known
as Millionaires In Action. We were divided into groups of ten. 2 boys (Brandon
and Smith) from USJ 12 joined our group because we didn't had enough people and yes
there were only nine of us in our group. Our group name was Dinosaur and the leader was Ming Jun.
Before the game started, the emcee gave
us the instructions and told us to choose three people from our group to be
blindfolded. Suet Ling, Chui See and Smith volunteered to be blindfolded and I
had to guide Suet Ling throughout the game. Suet Ling was indeed a very noisy
blind person and she kept saying how sociable she became when she was
"blind". Pig.
Chui See and her guide ngaww.
The objective of this game was to collect as
much money as possible from each station. The downside of this game was that
there were too many groups and too few stations to go to. The stations were
based on a first come, first serve thingy, so we only managed to complete five
stations which was quite sad. Last year's issue was the group was too big and
now that they made it too small, it does not solve the issue either. Other than
that, I still enjoyed some of the stations but just not as much as last year's.
Then, we gathered back at the Grand Hall for the results. The winners were
announced and sadly it wasn't our group. Ok lah kinda expected it already
because we didn't collect that much money anyway. Congrats to the winners anyway! :)
Yindian then announced that
there was a concert organized by some charity raising fund organization and Jason Chen was
going to perform. Yes, JASON CHEN. BUT, he lied. Hedy checked Jason Chen's
Twitter account and he tweeted that he was in the States. Wah like that also
can lie to us, what a letdown. The whole concert was a letdown actually. The
stage had numerous technical difficulties, so most of the time we had some free
time which we made use of it by camwhoring again. ^_^ But there were some of
them who sang really well and I enjoyed watching the K-pop dance. We even took a
photo with them and they look so pretty that I look like a potato beside them.
The huge crowd!
The stage with its numerous technical difficulties.
The dancers!
OIC Camp this year was just okay as the activities weren't well planned and the concert wasn't as great as last year's. But I still enjoyed the workshop and most importantly the quality time spent with the besties. :)
