recuperate

just came back from the polyclinic with a 10day mc from heavyduty activities ie canoeing.
nyeh im sure as hell gonna flab up like crazy.. doc wrote tt i have muscle strain on my back.. but he said some stuffs bout muscle tearing and developing into more/stronger muscles.. =/ i duno he wasnt all tt clear.. but he said canoeing is hardcore and i have very hard muscles hahaha!

anws the past few days have been a whirlwind of activities and im teh shagged.

Batch jln raya 3-4/11/07
was really amazing. haha it really is the best jln raya we've had in years.. the guys really are a fun bunch and they seem way more bonded than us girls who have for the previous years, stuck to our own cliques.. well there are the girls who keep sidling up to the guys and there were the random bunch who just hung out together and i think i managed pretty well without nana the first day cos she couldnt come..

some memorable moments:
1. family shots. haha basically we took group shots of those who wore same coloured clothes. mine was pretty traumatising i must admit but hoho all in the name of fun i guess..
2. makcik canteen! and her amazing baked chicken omg yummy. and khairul leading the doa thing which happened to be the stuff he baca-ed "lepas sholat" =/
3. bus uncle who played along with us in the driving off escapade and his mischievious grin lol..
4. the scarily smart-mouthed little boys at adly's hse.
5. the kitten that got stuck at the gate of the house next to hab's. and taufiq stepped on cat poo.
6. LOL-ing jokes in the bus and the guys' retarded reactions.
7. camwhoring like mad
8. the dudes thumped down the stairs at mairah's house. madness woo!
9. karaoke at taa's. khairul and ain have awesome voices! =)
10. the guys jamming at ari's house. they were really honestly very good. and they were somewhat stripped waist up and hence the girls couldnt enter ari's smelly room, plus it was really smelly in there. in any case, it made me realize tt i wanted to be a boy! so i asked farish whether he'd like to switch bodies, and his reply was, "what's the difference?" ACK.

oh but then taufiq taught me how to drum the first bit of Starlight and it was really difficult but fun! adly and ari claimed tt taufiq took forever to learn anw so i shall take comfort in that haha!

aight forgive me if i forgot anything particularly interesting.

Class chalet! 5/11/07
was unbelievably fun.. i cant believe we actually pulled it off! with it being last minute and all.. THANK YOU longqing for booking the chalet! haha and i was really worried that the food wouldnt come since i only ordered the food on sunday.. got the confirmation call on monday morning itself during trg lol..

ohyes and i planned the chalet without realizing that i had trg monday morning too lol.. so anw after trg, i took a straight bus from bishan to pasir ris int tt took less than 1hr woo! so yar we had lunch at whitesands, only 9 of us then haha.. then we got bubble tea and proceeded to walk to downtown east, stopping for some time at the playground otw.. the huge puddle under the swings! the mad seesaw! the hot slide and the main attraction! *drumrolls.. THE STRANGE SPINNING THINGEY! which left nigel and fungs giddy and pukey haha! i must get yq to send me the vid lol.. yup then we walked to costa sands pasir ris..

checked in, loaned out the bbq pit thing and waited awhile for the cleaning ppl to wrap up before we could put our stuff in the chalet.. then zijian arrived so now we had a ball to play with! so we went to the park outside and the grass was real muddy so we took off our shoes and played soccer at capt ball in the mud hoho! it was really gross at first but we kinda got used to it tho we ended up with only 6 ppl in the end haha..

yupyup got back to the chalet, washed feet and the food then arrived.. then while the dudes attempted to start the fire, i went to shower since i hadnt showered after trg and was getting really stinky.. =/

yup then the bbq was awesomely exciting and we discovered hidden cooking talents in ppl like linda and fiona haha! and fiona has firebreath! and i have great talent in slashing chicken yeahh!=D the food was too much tho oops.. haha after eating, we just sat ard outside singing so many random songs, cheered raffles cheers while choking on the bbq smoke and eventually lost our voices haha! we were like madmen and extremely noisy compared to the bunch of ajc ppl in the chalet next to us haha! yar and royce/nick brought their ps2 and it was funn! me and zr suck at the car racing game haha! okay fine i was worse but tt's cos i wasnt familiar with the controls pfft!

took a nice long walk with na afterwards and then sent off fungs and nigel and jean who returned after showering at home.. =/ dad fetched me at 11 and dropped xinge off at khatib yup..
i love 08S05A.

CIP @ Pertapis children's home 6/11/07
was an eye-opener. it was actually na's cip thing where she's sposed to tutor the bunch of kids there.. smu sucks btw, for initiating the project but leaving it in the lurch by expecting the rj ppl to "expand" the project. tsk.. yup so the turnout for the kids were little and there were too many volunteers, so the station games were abandoned and so the guys played soccer with the boys and the half of the girls played dog-and-bone while the other half were playing polar bear amongst themselves.. after our turn, na and i approached the older girls there, who were training up for a street netball competition next sunday, and we played a friendly match.. the girls were realllyy good and they're pretty cool too.. -nods.. oh but at one time, i jumped and landed on my right foot strange and now i have a damn pain ankle poots..

yup then i took a break so we ventured to the soccer field to watch little iskandar play a penatly shootout with one of the rj guys.. sho cute.

then we moved on to the playground where two small girls were playing.. we played at the monkey bars awhile and then Crocodile when more kids started arriving.. catching.. spun some of the few kids around and around.. etc. those kids are really hyper manz and they were hardly tired whilst na and i on the other hand were dead shagged hoho..

hmm the experience was really fun.. i was scared of the kids at first cos they were all so noisy and rowdy.. they really are quite naughty and i spose the other volunteers weren't as disturbed as i was cos they didnt understand the multitude of malay vulgarities tt the little kids spewed.. i didnt quite understand some of the terms either cos it was mat lingo.. =/

and violent omg they can get so violentt! scolded some of em a few times for their language and actions..

in any case, i think i've done okay enough time with the Special olympics, and they have enough publicity to do well for themselves, so now, im gonna try to do something for the less priveledged kids in the malay society. i know i once said tt i wanted to be an MP, truth be told, i wanted it so tt i can help others And myself at the same time.. but i realize tt im politically-illiterate anw so i'd be quite useless.

ultimately, in the future, i wanna open a daycare or activity centre tt targets the kids of the primary school range, who are left at home while their parents work. i know quite a number of kids get sent off to the various daycares in spore, but these places are usually ex. the kids tt im targetting are those whose parents aren't very well off. left to their own devices, they often mix around with the wrong crowd, learn all the wrong things tt lead to their downfall and get sucked in further into the world which they've grown up i. the kind of life tt i seek to help them break free from. it's so painful to see all these children tt have the potential to live fuller lives, but are unable to see beyond the walls tt they are confined to.

i wish i had more time. more time to help others and do something more worthwhile. something else to worry about other than myself and my grades. but i also have to be aware that if i want to truly do something for these people, i must first get myself somewhere. be someone who has the power to do something more than just simple volunteerism. until then..

okay i shall now rest my back, which is starting to ache bad boos.

olivejuice//