Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Ok, it seems to have been weeks since i last wrote a blogpost.
Well apparently as i think most people who know me well should know, i have been away at Beijing for 2 weeks and now i am back home.
The weather is obviously different from Singapore as it was approaching winter at that time.
When i first arrived, it was about 13 degree celcius and it was already quite cold especially when you get a direct wind blowing into you.
Well and by the time i headed home, the temperature had dropped to a merely 2 degree celcius and there was even a bit of snow.
So how was that!
Of course, i will not like write some Journal on my Beijing trip due to the fact that it really is troublesome.
I will only write like bits and bites of my journey that i find is interesting.
Of course no one will stop you from reading my daily journal.
But for that you gotta be prepared to read it in chinese.
Due to the fact that it was a chinese home work that we have to write our daily journal.
So i also had this holiday home work to put up a chinese blog cause i am in the TDP higher chinese.
So i will be putting my daily journal entries in chinese into that blog.
Well firstly in China i like went to the famous great wall on the first week's Friday.
Here is the picture of the group i went with (i look kinda stupid with that beanie but it is damn cold!!!):

This Second picture is what i took on the way climbing the great wall:
Anyway that is what happened on that Friday.
On the next day i went to the famous forbidden city which i took a picture of from the top of a mountain:

This other picture is one of the frigging palace hall inside the palace can you imagine how big this place is?!?!:

Well as you can see it is actually quite big already and this is not the biggest hall. Of course i also went to do some shopping but can't really find much souveniers to bring back for friends so really sorry man. Most of the shopping was not for clothes it was mainly for souveniers which i couldn't find and alot of DVDs! The DVDs there were like $6 per DVD that is equal to one pirated one in Singapore but they are actually all non-pirated! Hows that man!
Anyway apart rom the fact that i got sick on my last few days in Beijing i really got nothing interesting to say. Just have one last photo to show. This is what they do every morning and hope Mr. Arul won't see my blog and decide to do this for acers day:
Well so if you want my chinese blog addy or the video of their morning excercise just tell me so, CYA!!!
leaving the scene// 2:24 pm
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Ok... came back from that hell of a camp - ACE on Friday
no time to use the computer to blog apart from preparing gifts for Beijing trip on the 13th.
And have to start packing now thx to my PSL camp.
Later will still have prefect's camp once i come back from Beijing and have to pack at night cause my plane arrives at 10pm++.
So basically my schedule is giving me a hell of a time.
The ACE camp was like super crap.
Couldn't have ever participated in a camp that is worse than this one.
Firstly, we had to have our 4 daily meals including supper in a place which smells like a horse dung area filled with flies.
Another bad thing happened to me on the first night when my name was somehow mentioned in a tent slashing incident.
I was like damn pissed and shocked.
Then that hell of a teacher Alfred Nathan accused me of lying!!!
Come on lar... i am such a good boy =)
Anyway i was damn pissed already.
Then guess what, the next day still got super PT from some commando asshole.
Had to do hornet drill in mud.
We did river-rafting and camoeing and had no chance to bathe.
That night a little water entered our tents and made it hard for me to sleep.
Then on the third day we climb a hill and it rained.
Of course, on the hill top it will feel like a darn drizzle.
But it turned out that at the campsite, it was nothing more than a STORM!!!
Then all our stuff got drenched and soaked due to the fact that our tent collapsed.
That night we had to clean up till 1am cause the ACE leaders did not allow us to bunk out at our friends tent.
On the 4th day when we headed home, we were so happy.
Of course, other than the fact that we stink due to the lack of four days of shower and having flies as our companions, we were all darn happy to arrive at Singapore.
We even had the mood to sing some national day songs!!!
Then of course i was more than prepared to get a good rest but never did i expect that i will have to prepare this week for my trip.
Firstly i have to prepare the gifts and that mainly took out most of my rest time.
Then i have to start packing due to the fact of my camp.
Anyway, today something that was rather terrifying happened to my dear dog.
He actually got chased by another dog which is twice his size.
At that time i was not at home.
But i happens that Junior ran all the way into the back of my house and that bull terrier came in and pounced on top of Junior and clawed him.
Although we have tried to whack that bull terrier continuously, it did not falter.
Junior ran out of the house again and almost ran right into the middle of the main road behind my house.
Finally my dad managed to scare the dog away by actually whacking it until the aluminuim stick bent.
That bull terrier appears to have a history record among the neighbours for ripping off the head of a live chicken.
Thank god that Junior has passed another dangerous barrier in life, the first being a car accident.
Anyway, we took a taxi to the vet for juniors checkup and it was all paid for by the bull terrier's owner.
Oh, and did i mention?
We made a police report.
Anyway, i think i have nothing much to write and this may be the last tinme i write till the start of december.
So hopefully i will still get to blog.
leaving the scene// 7:46 pm