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Short holiday to Malaysia ( kukup)- Potian

2009-09-20T23:48:00.001+08:00

Today, i work up early in the morning to go to Malaysia with my father and his friend. Actually, i go is because i can get to drive in Malaysia. haha.. I loved driving a lot. It take us quite a long time to reach kukup as the person who bring us go take the long road or somehow lost their way i think, cause when i drive, i saw some similar place twice or thrice. But nevermid, i enjoy long distance driving. When i reach there, was like darm hot as it is near the sea. Expected. Firstly, we went to the restaurant to have our lunch. Their restaurant look very busy as we have to wait for quite long before we have our table. Mostly people who come here are in big group. When they serve the food, i was kinda disappointed as it is not as nice as i thought and their potion of rice is less. After eating, we go find the person who is renting his "Resort" to us. It is something like attap house.
His attap house is quite far and we have to walk further in. Once we reach his house, we pay the rent, which is RM90 for 2D1N cum 1 Breakfast, 2 Lunch of seafood and 1Dinner of BBQ seafood and a tour at their fish farm. The facility in the house is ka-ra-ok, mahjong and playing cards. I think is very worth for teenagers as teenagers mostly go for ka-ra-ok and for only less then $40 dollars, the meals is all seafood. WOW.
After we pay the rent, we quickly move into the room to turn on the air-con, cool ourself down. I went to take a sleep as i reach home 2 am in the morning as i help boss to tidy up his restaurant as his restaurant is under-going renovation. Very tired.
When about 1530, i wake up as i feel boring and i ask my father if we can go walk around and explore the place. One thing bad about this place is that there is no shopping center, if not the people who come here will definitely a lot. After a short while, we went back to take a rest and get ready for dinner. Our dinner ends very early as we eat little things. My father friend afraid that i will be bored, he bought fire-cracker to play. I was quite happy as i did not have the opportunity to play as Singapore ban us from playing. Thanks to Government. After playing, i went back to room to enjoy the air-con and luckily i bring the book on sudoku to do, if not i will be bored to death. Then my father friend teach me how to fish, he is very patient. I set myself a target like getting 5 fish before i sleep. But after catching the third fish, they went to sleep, i plan to carry on but i do not know how to unhook the fish, so no choice, i give up.
The next day, we have our breakfast, slack around, then leave the house for the fish farm. After which, we had our lunch at another restaurant then we leave for Singapore le.
Overall, i think that this trip is fruitful as i found out a place for teenager to hang out, but it is in malaysia.

Dilemma

2009-05-23T23:16:00.000+08:00

Today is where i start work after my two days off for my driving test. I was so happy that i finally pass my driving test, but i do not want my chefs and boss to know that. So i did not said anything about it to them. After my sister's driving test has ended, i call her to ask her the result as i think that she for-sure fail de. Then on my horror, she pass. OMG.. How on earth did she do that? She said she gets 18 points. I was like wow.. so badly and you still can said that you pass happily. OMG. I ask her where she gets the points from. She said that she did not check blind-spot and fail to comfirm safety. I was like wad the hell.. Like that also can pass. The Traffic- police sleeping or what? During my break-time, i went to beauty-world center to take a walk, hoping that my cousin will be there as she is opening a shop there tomorrow, hoping to share this good news with her. Her shop is on the second floor. Once i reach the second floor, i saw my first uncle, and my cousin over there. I was very happy and i told them this good news. They are happy for me as well.. as now, learning how to drive in Singapore is very difficult, but once u got the Singapore car lisence, you can use it anywhere as it is universal. After that, i help out a bit here and there to set-up the shop etc, as i don't know anything about nails and her business is about nails.

An achievement in my life

2009-05-22T23:02:00.000+08:00

Today is the day where i got my driving license.XD.. I'm very happy about it. I purposely book at the time where there's no car in the circuit, so that there's no learner to block my way. I hate that especially. I got a total of 18 points, all because that i did not use the correct braking technique. But, i pass, who care. HaHa. After everythings is over, i go to find my friend and talk for a while. When i reach home, i realised that i forget to buy the Probation plate. Luckily my sister is going to have her TP tomorrow, so can call her buy as well.

Weird Mother day

2009-05-10T23:38:00.003+08:00

Haiz.. this year's mother day is very different from the previous..i have to work!!!
Today is quite busy for lunch and dinner desprite the economy downfall. Tonight after the last order, i scoop out a ice-cream and eat. Once i sit down and eat the first bite, i saw something strange. I saw thick smoke coming out from al-meen muslim restaurant. I thought people is burning something, so did not think till that deep. Then my friend heard that people were shouting :"fire, fire". I walk over to see. I saw their worker carrying a heavy pipe running to the kitchen which become bright red in colour. Then my friend, Jack said cannot use fire to extinguish them, then i remember what i study before, kitchen fire cannot use water to extinguish it and we shout to the uncle.. but it is too late. When they spray at the fire, the fire went even bigger and the exhaust pipe on the roof collaspe. The boss finally take out his phone and call the fire engine. A few seconds later, the fire engine come and out out the fire. A few minutes later, the police come and surround the place.
haiz.. wad a thing that happen on mother day..

Happy day in Vis- A - Vis

2009-03-16T00:29:00.002+08:00

Today is a day which i'm quite happy about. At night, my colleague from ML call me and ask me about dinning in my restaurant- VIS-a-Vis and how to go from Bukit Batok to there. I try my best to direct them here but they end up missing 2 or 3 bus-stop. when they alight, they could not find the place, so they call me and ask me. I told them that i think they miss the stop le. they decided to walk back a few stop and they reach Bukit Timah Plaza. They call me again. I told them still need to walk 10 min before they can reach my restaurant. They give up on walking and take a taxi. I thought they were kidding about coming to my place to eat. When they reach, they call me again. i walk out of the restaurant and i was so surprise that i saw them there. I walk out to them and chat awhile while waiting for them to take order. They order 2 Promo juice, John Dory & pork for main course and chocolate souffle for Dessert. After serving the main course, i went out to my boss and ask if she can bill 50% of their bill to me as they are my best buddies. I'm glad that she agree. After eating the main course, the dessert was being serve. I was very happy that they like the food that is recommend.

Attachment

2008-12-18T23:58:00.002+08:00

Finally, exams are over and i can relax for one month before my attachment start. I got a call from a french restaurant Vis- a Vis and they accept me in their restaurant to complete my 1 year internship. I headed down to the restaurant to sign the contact and went back to school to report on which restaurant will i be attach to.
I found a part-time job, - intro by Hui Feng , in Bukit Batok. When i first report to work, i was afraid that i could not did the job well as i have totally no experience in it. Luckily, the boss is very good. She gave me plenty of time to cope. Although this is a weekend job, i told her that i can help her work whenever she need help as i'm having holiday. She said ok and allow me to work for her on weekdays too. During this 1 month of holiday, i learn a lot of things from her and the full-time staffs.

A Miserable day

2008-11-17T22:29:00.001+08:00

Today was a miserable day for me. In the morning, we have the WSQ test. I was told that this test is mainly on MCQs.. so i did not really study for it.. just read through.. During the Kitchen Organisation lesson, Mr George Koh come in and distribute the test paper. To my surprise, only 15 mcq questions.. the marks that carry the highest is the Short Answer Question. **** how dare u bluff me.
during the test, i try to think what i have just read, but i just could not remember anything. Darm frustrated..

After the test, i headed down to the NUH for settle my attachment thingy. I'm supposed to meet the person in-charge over there. I took the train to Buona Vista. After alighting, i went to find the place to take the shuttle bus that will bring us to NUH.. After walking around the place, i could not find the bloody bus-stop, so i went back to the Control Station to ask them where is the bus. They said is at Dover. WTH.. i took the MRT train to Dover and went to take the bus to NUH. When i reach there, i could not find the building/ kitchen, i went to the information counter to ask for direction. Being kind enough, they tell me the direction. To my surprise again, i found out that the kitchen is under the Basement.. WTH.. I wish i don't want to work there as working in the kitchen is already hot enough... somemore the kitchen is underground.. What will the temperature be? like Sauna. i reach there a bit early, and the person is still having his lunch, so i wait for him outside for like 1 hrs.
After 1 hrs, i went back to the kitchen and look for the person in-charge. When i saw the person, the person look angrily at me and ask me who told you that you can be attach to here? i was totally stunt. I explain to the person that i was just following the list given by my school. The person told me to hand on and he went to check it out. I stand there patiently and wait for 20 minutes. When the person come back, he told me that they are not accepting any trainees. I reply thanks and walk off quietly and cursing in my heart that WTH the school give me the wrong information. Luckily i was smsing to chat with Heng li at that time and she manage to cool me down. Thanks Heng Li. ^^
I look at the timing in my phone, it was still too early to meet Minyi. I took the bus back to Dover and stand Outside his school to wait for him another 1 hrs. -.-.. too many time to waste.
While waiting, someone call me. I turn around and was surprise to see Amy. I did not know that she is in that school. We chat for a while and she have to rush back to do her project so we end our conversation in a short while. After meeting him, his friends together with me went to the Bukit Batok Driving Center to attend our first Basic Theory Lesson. After the lesson, we went back home

2008-11-08T22:25:00.003+08:00

Today i have a great fun. Firstly, early in the morning, my friend Min yi and me went to Bukit Batok Driving Centre to Enrol for Car Driving lesson. -.- a bit Gan Cheong.. haha...
When i reach there, the person- in- charge told me that i need a passport size photo.-.-.. no one told me that i need to bring.. so i have to take the photo at the machine. After that, i proceed to the service counter to get the number. Then i went to the self- enrol system to enrol myself.
After which, i go to the counter to comfirm the particular, then i proceed to the payment counter to make a payment..
By the time it finishes, it was about 9. They told me that they have a briefing at 9.40.. i have to wait for so long.. waste my time.. We walk to the canteen to sit down and i read the basic theory book.. When i open it, to my surprise, i have know almost all the thing already.. haha.. thought of not booking the lesson and straight away go for the test.. But they said must go the the briefing.. No choice... Singapore = law by law..
Then when the whole briefing is finish, we walk out of the BBDC and went to makan. I order minced meat noodle for my brunch. After finish eating, we walk to the MRT, i took the MRT down to Paya lebar to attend an event : Christmas Gourmet cooking with Chef Eric Teo. I'm happy that i can have this opportunity to cook with Chef Eric Teo. When Chef Eric know that i'm from SHATEC, he appoint me to cook the Turkey.. SO good right? As if... i have to pluck out the dirty parts. Luckily only that part. Heng.. I help Chef Eric Teo to cut the ingredient for the stuffing. He do the marination of the Turkey.
Firstly, he Pan-searing the Turkey for colour, then add the stuffing inside the turkey and we put the Turkey into the oven. After that, i help him to clear up, then wait for him to present the next dish.
When the Turkey is ready, he served the turkey to the guest. Luckily, the guest never complain about the taste, PHEW!!!
After the whole event, we take some Photo taking with the chef, i did not get any of those in my phone, maybe the organiser will send to us bah.. But my friend got take picture of me and chef when i'm on stage..^^
In the token of appreciation, the Chef present a bar or chocolate and his appron to his helper. COOL..^^

MY Kitchen Practicum

2008-09-21T22:59:00.003+08:00

HAVE not been blogging this few months as i'm busy in the kitchen practicum..
My first 5 weeks of Kitchen Practicum is at Charcoal. The chef in-charge are Chef soon, Chef William and Chef Thong. During the first week, we are told to get ourselves familiarize with the places, knowing where are all the thing put. My station for the first week is Entremetier. This station involve cooking the starch and the vegetable for the set and a-la-crate meals. My stations for the second week is Portager. In this station, we have to heat up the soup whenever we starts. As the soup that we served are think, the chef taught me a way to took care of the soup as think soup burnt easily. After which, the chef also taught me how to serve the soup carefully so as not to dirty the sides. My station for the third week is abouyer. This station may seems the easier job among all, but i also have to learn how to control the speed of the orders, how to place the order so that i will not mix up with the meal is ready to pick up. Sometimes i will get mix up when the service staff's manager come in and mess up my station by putting the order paper in his order. One if the days, one of the classmates wanted to change shift with me as he want to do EC. That day, i took over his station for Garde marger. On that day, i have to know the garde marger station as i know that i'm poor at salad and i'm afraid that i cannot handle when a lot of orders come. Luckily, one of my classmates Jane comes and help me. My forth station is Staff meal. This worry me as i'm not a good cook and i'm worry that the service staff and chefs don't not like the food that i prepare, so i seek help from my classmates. Sad to say that only a few of my classmates is willing to help me, like Edwin, Saiful, etc. The others don't even want to help me whenever i approach them. I am kind of disappointed with those who does not help me when i need help. Finally, the other group from A class come and join us in the kitchen. I took care of the Portager station, guiding them throughout this week, sharing with them what i have learn from this restaurant.

Kitchen Practicum

2008-09-21T22:15:00.000+08:00

My next 6 weeks if Kitchen Practicum is at Rosette. The Chefs in-charge are Chef Ganesan and Chef Wong. In afternoon shift, all we need to do is to prepare for the dinner set. The covers for the night is very less and we have nothing to do in Rosette. As for the morning shift, we have to prepare for the breakfast the moment that we step into the kitchen. After breakfast, we have to prepare for the lunch set. For the morning shift, at least we have something to do then the afternoon shift. Overall in Rosette, I did not learn as many things as what I learn in Charcoal.

My EC is held in Rosette at our 5th and 6th week. I play a part in cutting mise-en- place for them and filleting the sea-bass and during the service time, I help them to pass the food to the service staff for pick-up. These six days are quite busy as we hit 557 paxs. Throughout this 13 weeks, I find that everyone in the kitchen is important, be it your roles is Garde Marger, mise-en- place, Portager, Grillers, Entremetier, Saucier or Abouyer. Without the help of everyone, we won’t be able to present the dish to the guest on time.

Marathon

2008-06-08T21:35:00.000+08:00

Today is the day that i'm running Marathon, my first marathon. Haha.. Since this is my first marathon, i'm going for the 10k de. Before this day, i have been practising alomst every Sundays for nearly 3 months. During this training, i took about 75 minutes to finish, but after i ran, i found out that i took 90 minutes to finish the race.. WAD THE HECK!! WAD HAPPEN??
It was after then i found out that i have been running for about 12k.. -.- But anyway slow hur?
I don't really run fast as i'm not a good runner yet and have just start training only. Hope i can run more and more faster.. ^^

Short trip to Malaysia day 2

2008-05-19T20:28:00.000+08:00

Today i wake up around 7+ in the morning. I had a good sleep yesterday.^^
I sit in the room, looking outside of the hotel room while waiting for my uncle to come back. When he come back, he bring me down to have a breakfast then we took a last walk around the place before we went to back to our room to rest. By then his workers have already woke up and we went back outside to walk while the workers went to have their breakfast.
Then we gather below the hotel. While we are about to enter the hotel, something caught my eye. There are a "pool of blood" on the ground in the shop beside our hotel. ZzZ. EArly in the morning saw blood. We went back to our room to pack our back and get ready to get back to Singapore. When we are ready, we went to check out and took car and went home. When we reach the custom, there were no jams and we reach Singapore smoothly..
I really hope that i can go Malaysia that often.XD

Short trip to malaysia Day 1

2008-05-18T20:44:00.000+08:00

Hmm.. it has been a long time that i have ever step into Malaysia..^^
Today i woke up early in the morning, to meet my uncle, who is going to bring me to Kuala Lumpur and Genting to play.. ^^ Thank you uncle.. I so long never go genting le. We went to have our breakfast in Jalan Ampang. I heard my uncle say that there de yong dao fu very famous. After eating finish, i feel that the food was ok lei.. Then we set off to Genting. We park the car by first world hotel, then go walk walk. He bring us to walk around. Then he and his workers go inside casino. I go walk walk in the shopping centre in genting. The things sold at there are quite reasonable. I bought 1 pen for my sister. Then i go walk around the other shop.
when it is about time, i meet my uncle and his worker, then we go for lunch. From the hotel, we took the van with the number 9100, which will bring us to mushroom garden. My uncle order for us. The food there is nice. I quite like the chicken in curry sauce. After tasting the food, i try to think wad did they put inside and i come out with the list of ingredient as i plan to try cooking it at home. After eating, we walk a little while then went back to the hotel. We slowly walk back the the casino area. I started to feel bored. i think that i should give it a try to enter to the casino. I walk in and manage to pass by the police officer. i feel happy as this is the first time that i went into the casino. In there was very chaotic. A lot of people smoking and the place is very big. i followed my uncle and his workers to see people gamble. The people there place the bid very high and some of them also lost a lot of money. From there, i started to hate gambling as once u started it, it is very hard for you to stop it.
When it was about 4+, we went back to the car went head back to KL. We search for a hotel to settle down. when we settle down, it was still early for dinner,we went to walk in pasar malam. In there, we bought some souvenir. When it was about 8, we went to eat the claypot rice. It was quite yummy. After eating, we bought some tidbits and went back to the hotel to rest.

Little trip to little India

2008-03-15T10:18:00.010+08:00

This is the first CTIS ( Course Tutor Interactive Session) that is conducted outside.. So special.. HaHa.. With compared to the trip to the Chinatown hertiage centre, this is much more boring. I paid $5 for the China town trip and we got to eat pizza for our lunch. And i paid $8 for this trip, i expect much more from them. They made a lot of mistakes that i feel that the tour guide should not made. When we board the bus, they told us that we will be having our lunch at the resturant. Firstly, they did not tell us early in hand that they will be bringing us to have breakfast so most of us have eaten breakfast before they came to school. That is the first mistake being make. They should tell the tourist what they plan before they did.. so as to respect the tourist. If their plan is having the breakfast, then the tourist can don't need to eat their breakfast before meeting them. Then they can save time to do other stuff. When they serve the food, i saw it was something like roti prata, but it cost about few dollar. and the food is not up to our liking. I paid $3 more and i expect something nice.. but they serve this type of thing. Second mistake that they make. They did not ask the tourist weather what they are allergic to and just serve like that. I feel that this mistake is very serious. Once they are bringing a group of tourist, they need to take care of them- being their diet and stuff, even the health. but they did not managed to.
After having the breakfast, they brought us to the shopping centre to shop. I brought the thing that i needed. After some shpooing, they brought to visit to temple. I'm a kinda of disappointed as we could only know the history without having a chance to see what does they temple look like. Third mistake is being made. The tourist could not see the temple, could only know the history. I don't think that as a tourist should waste their time on things that they could not see and only knowing what is it about. After visiting some, they bring us to some history place and explain something about them. Sometimes, they did not know things and just tell you that they are not sure. Fourth mistake that they made, they bring us to a place they do not know anything, then don't bring us there. I feel that when you bring someone there, you should know how to explain, if not you should not bring them there. After the whole thing, they have amazing race for us. They made us ran like mad dogs, all over the place. Fifth mistakes that they made, they could not care for the safety for the tourist. After the whole thing, they made us wait for their teacher. We have nothing to do over there, so we take some group photo. Overall, the whole trips will full of mistakes which i think that the tour guide should not made. I feel that it is a waste of time of this trip. I feel that the group that bring us to Chinatown is much more better.

Tour to china town

2008-03-08T11:43:00.000+08:00

On 8/3/2008, i went for the trip to the chinatown hertiage centre organised by SHATEC students studying in Diploma in Tourism management. I reach school at about 8.45. just to catch the bus that they provided. The trip to chinatown was great. The tour guides did try their best to make the trip enjoyable. In the chinatown hertiage centre, i roughly know most of the thing cause i went there before. After that, they bring us to the disleyland to eat pizza... and the pizza looks darm cute... wo bu she de eat.. -.-. it have the looks of a mickey mouse head.
After they serve the pizza, they serve some creamy thingy... it does not look attractive so i did not take a picture of it.
after having our lunch there, we took the bus back to chatec and went home.

2008-02-21T20:30:00.002+08:00

Today At Shatec, something happen in our class. There was one students abraham and he is quite a nice guy actually, he likes to writes stories and his memories is very good. He can remember what exactly wad teacher teach. But there something in in that make him a person that is different from us. He likes to keeps every things to himself and he had a little bit of EMO problem- i not sure about this part, but that what people says. On this day, we had a spot check on the second last period and the spot check on attire was very quite long. He is being caught on his name tags, he is being called out of the classroom and Mr horse( the Shangri-la guy) talks to us about how important is our attire. After a while, he was being dismiss and he return to his sitting arrangement. Then it was the English period. He did not pay much attention to the teacher. My teacher knows that our class keep calling Mr horse,the Shangri-la, and told us to stop it. Then he suddenly shout at kian hoong across the classroom. After which he bang the table which is behind him-which is Ian's table and scold joel for laughing at people. Then he flip the table and wanted to hit him as joel denied it. At the moment, Sufian and Wayne drag him outside and i ask for teacher for permission to rush to the staff room to find my course tutor to solve the matter.. This part quite shock sia

2008-01-18T20:53:00.001+08:00

14/1 is the first day of my school at SHATEC. VERy relaxing.. The school ends quite early.Even early then the primary school. Our teacher said cause no textbook.. that cannot teach.. lol.. for the entire week. We introduce ourself for everyone and teacher give us our lesson shedule for the whole term.Basically that's all for the whole week. We even play tai di in class during our break.

N-lvl result

2007-12-18T20:26:00.000+08:00

Today was the day that i'm getting my N-lvl result.. When i have reach school, i have come in prepared that i will fail my N-lvl, as i don't think that staying in this class longer will make me concentrated in class as the boss are noisy. Moreover, i don't like to study anymore. I found that cooking is my interest. When i collect my result, i was shock. I get all 4 per subject.. only one fail which is humanities. lol.. that the subject that i comfirm fail one so before the both papers, i did not prepare that much. But i have two O-lvl subject that i have took in the early November, so that i can be promoted. After i get the result, i went to my niece house to pei her and my cousins... somemore i don't want to go home that early. After we talk talk a while, i went home.

Cousin outing 2

2007-12-10T22:51:00.000+08:00

On 10/12, my niece and i organise another outing for our cousins.. Unfortunately, this day turn out to be a bad day for outing. We organised a sentosa trip so that we all can play and enjoy ourselves before our school start. At first, the weather was good and we thought that we can enjoy our day out @ Sentosa. When the train reach Dover MRT station, it started to rain.. WTH... When i reach Vivocity, i took the sky train to Sentosa and alight at Beach station.By the time i reach there, all my cousin are already in there waiting for me and have a mini rest.. LOL.. we wait for the rain to stop. After waiting for half and hours, the rain finally stop. We quickly change to our wet suit and went out to play. We play for petty long then it started raining again. We rush into the shelter. We change back to our clothes then went back to the car to puts our things. when we walk out of the car park, the rain stop again.. zzz.. After that, we went to take a shuttle bus to carry on with our outdoor activities. Firstly we went to watch a 3D cine blast. When we went in, there are nothing but a railing for us to lean on. We thought what we need to do is to sit down there to watch the screen and listen to the music. After about 5-8 minutes, the people working at there open a door and call us to go in. Each kids are being accompany by an adult so that they will not be afraid. When the thing start, it nothing actually. Only the chair keep on rocking.. machiam like disco nia. After a while, the thing ended. we walk out and take some photo before we proceed to take skyride and the luge. I accompany sheryl while the others solo.. LOL. The five of us, Mabel, shiru, shilei, shiqi and of course me and sheryl as one, machiam like racing with each other like that. At first, i tired to see how do the thing works. after i am familiars with the thing, me and mabel wait for shiru, shiqi and shi lei while we talk. then they like not catching up with us so we proceed on. i chiong all the way down. HAHA.. got the skills liao. After that, we take the sky-ride up. We are afraid that our slipper will drop, so we put our legs up.. LOL. After the whole thing, we went back to vivocity. Shiru, Shiqi and shi Lei went back home while me, mabel, dasao and her kids when vivo to have our dinner. Then we procreed to buy medicine for my father. After that, da sao drive me home. i quite enjoy this day. XD

Cousin outing

2007-11-27T00:58:00.000+08:00

On this day 27 of Nov, i plan an mini outing for my cousin. We watch the movie enchanted. At first, my niece-mabel, come to my house to meet us.Then me, my sister and her went to vivocity to meet my my other cousin- shiru, shiqi, shilei and Tim. Shiru, shiQi and Shi Lei reach after we reach.While we were waiting for Tim, we went to the rooftop to take some pictures and play with the water. When Tim reach Vivocity, he call my niece to meet up with us. then we to have our mini-lunch at the kopitiam at the Basement. After we eat finish, we went to walk around Vivocity while waiting for the time to pass. When the time reaches, we meet da sao and her daughters and take some photos before we went to watch the movie. When the Movie finish, the rest of the cousin wanted to went back, Left only Tim, my sister, me and mabel. We sat down at one place and started to talk among ourself and we plan for the next outing on 10 of dec.Then we went to Orchard- Far east plaza to have our dinner there and walk walk a bit before we go home.

Chalet Day 3

2007-11-15T15:36:00.000+08:00

It was the third day of my chalet.And the whole room was very quiet, cause only 9 people around. The others left already. So among the few of us, we play games that we could think of while we clear us the place. Then we started playing games and wait for the time to fly pass. Soon it was about 245. We walk out of our bungalow and rush to the main office to catch the bus. unfortunately, we miss the bus. we walk further down the road to the another chalet hoping that we can take their bus back to Paris ris MRT station. When we reach the other chalet, the bus timing was far too long. then we decided to walk to the nearest bus-stop which is opposite the downtown east. Then we take the bus back to the MRt station, then we take the MRt back home.

Chalet Day 2

2007-11-14T13:15:00.000+08:00

It was the second day of the Chalet. I woke up early and found out that there were two people that did not sleep. Then i went to talk to them. Then it was breakfast time then they have not wake up. We decided to wake them up, if not we are behind time.While we are waiting for our breakfast, we did some quiet time. Then we have our session then i went out with some of them to buy lunch.When we come back, we have our lunch. Wow, the lunch that we ate was a lot. Most of us ate till very full. then we have our second session for the day. After which, we went for water activities. i did not went down to play as i don't want to wet myself on second day. After that, we start to prepare stuff for BBQ. There we are again.. we have two ventures in the chalet and we went to start out the fire while others help out in the kitchen to cook. Then we BBQ till 10.30pm. lol... that was a bit late. While we were BBQing, we see that neighbour could not start out their fire... HAHA... While Ben help us continue, we went for session 5.. which is our last session. As we are getting ready,they start out with a birthday songs. I thought who birthday was that. Then the cake come out the the cake came to me.. lol.I was very shock at that time. My birthday was over a week ago. they said that we will celebrate every birthday for every person. Although i'm new in the family, they treat me well. They make a card for me. I was very touch at that time. After session 5, we start clearing up the mess before going back to our room. they went to play games while i went to help Ben with the BBQing. I went to BBQ mush Marrow for them as well as for me. After eating, i went to the living room to chat with those who are not sleeping. After 1pm, there will no TV for us to watch, they started ghost telling stories. Although they feel scared, i did not as i like to listen to that..Weird right? We exchange songs and we play rubic cube for the night until next morning.

Chalet Day 1

2007-11-13T23:46:00.000+08:00

It was the week after i went for school to attend lesson to prepare us for Sec5. My friends from FCBC organise a chalet for us and i went to join them as i was feeling bored at home. This is the first time where i went to chalet and was the first time where i went to mostly the people whom i don't really know them well. This was from 13-15/11/2007. The chalet name is call Aloha Roya. it is located at the Pasir ris. We meet at Pasir Ris MRT at 1pm and we went for our lunch. Then we went to wait for the shuttle bus which will bring us to the resort. The bus schedule was darm long and my friend start taking out his guitar and started playing. After the long hours of waiting, the bus came. All the people that are waiting on for the bus chiong up. My friends decided to take the taxi as we know that not everyone of them can board the bus. When we reach there, we have to wait for them as our taxi speed. Then we went to find the others where they are already there. As per normal, we would start the ice breaking game. we need to know each other well then we can communicate together with them throughout the chalet. After that, we went to play human maze. the game was great. there were two scouts.. venture i mean in my group. At first, there were warm up and after warming up, my group took 6 sec to finish.OMG.. You all might think that it was unbelievable to to that... but there was a secret in doing in. After which, we went to play captain ball. At first, we are winning..... then after time, all the player are to be subtitude with others. Then it was my turn. In the end we lose as we do not have any tall guys in our team. Then we thought of a brillant idea. There were one basketballer in my team. we put him as a shooter and we keep passing to him to shoot. In the end, we catch up with our opponent. Then it was dinner time, i took a quick bath then went to eat our dinner. After dinner, we have our session then i went to sleep when some of them went to watch videos.

EXAMination are over

2007-11-09T08:53:00.000+08:00

Wow.. finally all the examination are over le.Isn't that great?? lol...
Sry for not posting for more than one month due to my N's and my O's..
My n-lvl are spread over 1 weeks 2 days for 4 subject... WTH.. after which, our school start to chiong for o's.. 2 subject only hae to chiong for 3 weeks...Wah.. what will be life be like for next year.. 5-7 subject.. chionging for 4-5 months??zzz
After my o's, my school organised a program for us to let us start our work earlier as the o's lvl are bringing forward.I have been in school for the past two weeks.Lesson have been boring..

EXAMination

2007-09-28T15:16:00.000+08:00

Haiz... Examination is just around the corner..Have not been studying. My class just opened IR- Casino in school... lol.. We played Ti-De almost everyday before school, during recess, during free period and after school... Besides IR, we have also open Chess club for those who like to play chinese chess and we also open Rubix Club for people who are pro in Rubix.. Recently, i just brought a rubix and i finally know how to solve a rubix... WTH.. so mafan.. Anyway, i won't be posting due for the next week due to my N-lvl examination.. so sian.. Wish myself all the best.

My sister birthday...

2007-09-21T14:40:00.000+08:00

Actually, my father and i have planned a few days ago on how to give my sister a surprise on this day..she came to Earth 18 years ago.. first time celebrate her birthday as a family.. At first, we planned to order KFC for dinner. then this morning, my father said he got sore throat.. WTF.. spoil my plan. then he said he buy birthday cake for my sister. We intend to keep the serect from my mother as her mouth very big.. When my father call home and call me to go down, i bring the money down and we went to Bukit Batok. My father de worker injured and had to bring him to see doctor. Then planned to see Dr Tan de, then wait super long.. Diaozz... then we went to the cake shop to buy the birthday cake for my sister. lmao.. We send the worker back to the factory and return home. when we reach home, we quickly hide the cake and ate our dinner. I keep my sister busy with the videos that she took today in KBox with her friends. She told me to make into the video for her.. zzz dam lagging. Then it was about 9.00. we my sister and i went to watch the show.. then we watch the part when the girl birthday and her brother give her a surprise... lol same as what i'm doing.. then it was about 9.30... my father call me to get ready the cake. When we are ready, we bring the cake into the living room and call my sister to come out the watch the tv, then she saw the cake.. OMG.. she was shocked. then we sang the birthday song to her. then before she blew off the fire, i take a picture together with my parents.. she then blew out the fire and cuke the cake. i took another picture of her cutting cake. Then we ate the cake then i went to continue editing her video.. very sian.. edit till 12.30...

My meal with my friends

2007-09-20T12:52:00.000+08:00

wahoo.. today i very slack.. After i come back from school, i went to sleep.. don't know how come this few days dam tiring. When i was about 5.45 pm, i get ready for the dinner with my friends... actually not friend... good friends. They are Stanley and KS, both of them are teacher hor.. don't play play. We are suppose to meet at Lot 1 @ 6.30.i reach there quite early.. 6.10.. lol... so i decided to take a walk in Lot 1. when it is about 6.30, i went to the front entrance to meet them. When i reach there, i could not find them, then i walk to the another entrance to find them, then i saw them and Stanley was there testing his new camera.. lol so good. After taking picture two pictures, first picture is KS and Stanley, second picture is me and Stanley, we went to the kopitam which is located at basement 1 to have our dinner. Before eating dinner, Stanley told us to pray to god- our father and thank him for the meal. After eating, we chat for a little while then we went for a walk in Lot 1. Firstly we went to the Singtel shop as KS wanted to buy a phone.. but we think bo hua lei as his contract have not finish and have to pay $100 in order for him to renew the contract. Then Stanley wanted to buy something from the Popular bookshop. then KS and me talk until the topic- advertisement. Then we said about the Mocca advertisement and the M1 advertisement Super de lame.. OMG.. After which, we went to the library as i want Stanley to teach me something about Physics which i am weak in. After teaching, we walked out of the shopping mall talking about the charlet in NOV holiday. Then i went home straight after we ending our talk.

Si@nS@tion X 4

2007-09-14T20:26:00.000+08:00

Haiz... today very de sian....
first period is English... nothing to do..SIAN, i do a-math.. as our English n-level have finish and our teacher allow us to revise our own things.Then the next lesson is P.E. . i thought of playing football the the street soccer court as i have not play soccer for a very long time. they call me to be a keeper. zzz. i totally no mood to play le.. i cause my team-mates to lose. zzz.After that is D&T, we have a talking session as the teacher never prepare for the lesson.. NABEI.... where got this type of teacher de... after recess, we have our e-math period. zzz that lesson a bit of fun. Mr Tay, our form teacher put the effort to let us see the short movie clip which is regarding about the success. Then came to de SIAN part. he bring up the 16 schools de test paper for us to complete them when he is not around for the next two weeks when he is going for reservice...
after the lesson, it is time to go home.. i didn't went home and stay back in school to play chinese chess with my friends... then one pro came.. why do i call him pro? he is from triple science de class. then my friends and i wanted to challenge him on the chinese chess. 4 VS 1 also lose.....
lol no face liao.After which, he go off liao. Then we play 2vs2. we play darm long lor.. the first match, Eugene and tan yuan vs me and Tai Wang. i at first like very slack... then after a few minutes, i cannot wait to have the next match le, then i help Tai Wang to win.. ^^
Next match was me and Eugene VS Tan yuan and Tai Wang.... lol.. this second match, we play super de long lor... 30 minutes for a game.. our teamwork very de good hor.. then the opponent play cheat lor.. quite rewind.. zzz.. waste time. then in the end we win liao. lol
then we went home together. XD. once i reach home, i went to play maple.wah.. SIAN.. my friend went to change the setting... then i cannot heal myself.. in the end, i died.. omg. i retrain to that percentage. After which, i went to dl the game which my friend introduce to me. darm long lor.. i wait until sleep.. 1 hrs+ lei... when i wake up, the game i thought can play liao.. then i go try..then i found out that cannot play sia.. SIAN.

A bad day outside

2007-09-08T12:16:00.000+08:00

Today as i was feeling bored, i went out with mine friends to Jurong East swimming complex for a swim. when we reach there, the weather look just fine and we went to rent a float in order to play the slide. We have to wait dam long as there were a lot of people. zzz. then after that, we went to the "Lazy pool" with the float. We have a small race. we lie on the float and use our hand as a paddle to "row the float". lol.. With this, we can train our hand muscle as we need to use our strength to push ourself as far as possible. Then we went for a swim at the deep pool. Then we saw some wave at the wave pool. we rush there with our float to play with the wave. It was fun.XD. After that, we went to the "Jagoozii pool" to have a mini massage. Then it started to rain.. we felt sad as we have not enjoy finish. We went to return the float and went for our dinner at Jurong Point. As we were walking, my sandal tear off and i have to buy a NEW pair. Once we reach the food court, we search for a table. Finally we see a table but there was no chair.. OMG. Then we walk around to look for a chairs and sit down. we went to order food. After eating, we went for a walk then we went home for sleep..
After i went home, instead of sleeping as i am very tired, i turn on the computer to play computer games.... lol i play until 0100 then i fall asleep.

Marsiling Primary School SLC Training Camp Day 2

2007-09-01T23:09:00.000+08:00

today, i went there early in the morning.When i reach there, they are conducting Camp inspection. Then we have our Breakfast and i went with the teachers to the shops nearby to buy for things that are needed for the camp. when we come back, they are ready for outdoor cooking. During Outdoor cooking, we cook bread bits and we cook rire and chickren. The recipt of the Bread Bits are simple. just water, plain flour and sugar. the bread bits are yummy. Next, i conducted badge system with the cub-scout. it a kind of boring tutoring session. Next, i conduct Initiative and Teamwork Games for the cub-scout.
After the game, they went for dinner and we went to set up the campfire pitch. After the campfires, i went home.

Marsiling Primary School SLC Training Camp Day 1

2007-08-31T20:39:00.000+08:00

On friday, 31/8/2007, after our teacher day celebration, my friends and i went to Marsiling Primary School for the SLC Training Camp organised by Mr Sim Eng Hock. the camp was surpose to start at 2pm, but it was being delay as some of the venture cannot reach the school on time. Firstly, we will have our opening Ceremony. Next, we went on to the camp development which involve tent picthing and gadget making. After which, we conduct outdoor cooking outside the scout den. We have to cook our own food. we cook maggi and i realise maggie mee add cheese veri tasty. After that, sing-a-long session was being conducted by ming han. At there, we learn songs for the campfires which is held tomorrow.

Pulau- Ubin Trip

2007-07-14T22:15:00.000+08:00

Today, South View Primary School organised a hiking trip to Pulau Ubin. During the hike, scout leaders from Bukit Panjang Government High School conducted activities such as boiling water using the mess tins, and knots tying. At the knots station, we have to supervise and guide them in the tying of knots. .For those who are ‘forgetful and blur’, we have to teach them again. During the boiling water session, we taught them how to start a fire by using matchstick and how to sustain to fire in order to boil the water. After the activities are finish, we decided to head back but it start to rain. we had to rush so me and my friend Jia Xiang walk in the rain. This was a wonderful trip, as I got to enjoy the nature and revise my outdoor camping skills as well.

South-view Primary 5 Campfires

2007-05-28T22:12:00.000+08:00

Today, South View Primary School conducted their annual camp for their Primary 5 students. The event was held in the school campus. The scout leaders from Bukit Panjang Government High School we went there to set up the campfire pitch. During the campfire, we lead the students to sing songs throughout the campfire. We also sang with them and keep them company. This event reminds me of the good memories that I had in my primary school. I wish all primary schools could have such an event for their students.

An interact session with Japanese Cub-Scout

2007-05-12T22:10:00.000+08:00

today,the Japanese Cub Scout from the Japanese International School in Singapore visited South View Primary School on an exchange program. During the meeting, the scout leaders from Bukit Panjang Government High School were responsible for conducting activities such as Trust-task force, Commando Crawl, Sheeting folding and Tug-Of-War for the junior scouts. Throughout the activities, we have to help the juniors. This event provided me with the opportunity to interact with scouts from other school and countries and we are able to share our experiences and make new friends.

Hiking @ Bukit Timah Hill

2007-04-14T22:04:00.000+08:00

Today, i went for a hike organised by Mr Sim- my Scout leader which was for the Cub-Scout meeting at South-view Primary School.During the hike, my teammate and I conducted the activities for the primary school scouts (about 40 of them). The main activities conducted were knots tying and gadget making. We have to teach them how to tie some simple basic knots like reef knot, square lash and ship bent. The scouts have to learn how to tie these knots before proceeding to the next station which was gadget making. At the gadget making station, they were taught how to tie structures based on what they have learnt. From this event, I have learnt how to plan and conduct activities for a large group. I was able to exercise my command and control skills and it helps to improve my confident as well.

3-day 2-night camping

2007-03-18T15:56:00.000+08:00

This camp is a 3-day 2-night combine camp held by the scouts and guides in our school. The leaders, the Patrol leaders and the Assistant Patrol leaders had spent a lot of time preparing this camp. On the first day, we had our flag break and we carry on with camp development. The scouts and the guides pitch the tents. For my patrol, as i have experience in camping, i had to teach the others members in the group on how to pitch a tent so as they do not know how to do it. After pitching the tents, we change to PT-kit and we pro-creed on to teach the other members in my patrol on knots like clove hitch, square lash and diagonal lash that might be useful. After that, we went on to the activity. The first activity is the SRIC. This have four different stations. The first station is blindfold-man.The second station is trust-four and the acid pool 1 and 2 come after next. After SRIC, we went to have our lunch and we went on flag-making. After the flag-making, we have a sing-a-long session and we are bring teach of a songs for the campfire. After the sing-a-long, we went to have outdoor-cooking. At first, we were happy about it but something spoil our mood. When we cook half way, it started to rain heavily and we have no choice but to stop the activity. We pour hot water on the noodles to cook it and have our dinner. After we have our dinner, we have war-games2. We have to prevent our enemy from entering our territory to find their wooden-chopstick code. After the activity, they have their supper and after they wash up, they call it a day. The leaders had to stay-up till quite late for a meeting for the camp as on how to improve on the camp.
On the second day, we had to wake up early for out PT. Then, we went to build catapot. My patrol is the lousiest one as i never build catapot before. We cannot even shoot the thing. After building the catapot, we had our lunch. After lunch, we played treasure hunt for about 1- 2 hours then we went to prepare campfire items as we are going to have campfire that night. After a few hours, we went to eat our dinner and we went to start the campfire. We held the indoor campfire as it rain just now and the spars were wet. After the campfire, we went to play war-game 1. The game didn't turn out to what it should be. A lot of people cheat during the game. The game was cancel off as no point of us continuing us like this.
On the third day, which is the last day, we also had to wake up early for PT. After PT, we had our breakfast. After our breakfast, we went to pack up our bags and bring down the tents. After that, we had our tele-match. Tele-match is one of the match that require us to play some disgusting game. After all, the tele-match was fun. After the tele-match, we had area-cleaning and after which we had our prize presentation. After the prize presentation, we had our flag lowering and we call it a day.

-THE END-

Job-week

2007-03-11T12:55:00.000+08:00

Today is the first day of the march holiday, it is also the first day of the scout job week. Job week is the day that we scouts went all around Singapore to help the community and after we had finish the task, they will give us some money. The money that we collected will go to the Singapore Scout Association. I'm glad that i can reach the target that our teacher set for us.if not i had to come back on the second day which will be quite difficult because many of the area will have be conquer on the first day.

A Rain-Hike

2007-03-02T17:47:00.000+08:00

Today i had a hiking trip after school with my school scout troop. This trip turn out to be a bad hike. When we reach the Hill, the weather looks fine. We decided to carry on with the journey. We walk into the forest part by the jungle road. As it had just rain before, the ground looks slippery. This make the journey more adventurous as we had to make sure that every steps we walk is safely so that we will not slip and fall.We are half-way to our destination, it started to rained heavily. We decided to walk back as there are no way for us to continue the journey. Walking back to the starting point is fun because there were a lot of floods everywhere and this make the journey more interesting. Firstly, we get to walk in the heavy rain and we are all drench. When we reach the starting point, we went to do a head count before we call it a day. We promise ourselves that we will come back to have the same hike again as this was not a successful hike. After sending the lower Secondary scouts off, we will being brief on the Job-week next week. This year DE Job-week is totally different. This year, we had to go as a group and the target for each patrol is $800. We had to help each other to get this amount as the secs one might be new to this things and the amount that they get will not be as many as what we get as they are inexperience.

Chingay Parade

2007-02-23T21:39:00.000+08:00

On 23 of February, i went for the Chingay parade( rehearsal). We has to reach the Cat High School by 1PM. There were about 300 participants from Cub-Scouts, Scouts, Ventures and Rovers. Those 300 participants were divide in groups- by schools. Bukit Panjang Govt High fall under group "B". My School was enrolled to fire the fire poppers. We had our rehearsals for about 20 minutes, then the sir that take charge of us gave us a "short "break but the break turn out to be 1hours 30 minutes. After the break, we carry on with our rehearsal. After the rehearsal, the sir gave us another break, and sad that we will had our another rehearsal before moving on the the orchard where the Chingay parade is held. While we are waiting for our turn to be call, it started to rain and the rehearsal was cancel due to the rain. The whole lot of us cheer as the break was dam boring. We had our dinner while waiting for the bus to bring us to the Orchard. We thought that we can have a nice meal but the meal turn out to be mac. We had apple pie and a small burger for our dinner. After eating the dinner, the bus arrive and we board the bus. When i'm inside the bus, something caught my attention. the bus mirror where the emergency exits are. Some letters was being tear off and the whole thing read like this:

"EMERGENCY EXIT
BREAK ASS TO OPEN". My friends and i will laughing like hell when we saw that.

When we reach Orchard Rd, we walk to the place where the Chingay Parade will be held. We had our very last briefing and we went off the collect the poppers that we are going to pop it. We went off the take our marking and stand there until the parade start. I'm very glad on that day as i get to see Bryan Wong, Michelle, Gurmit Singh and and Quan Yi Feng. It was the first time that i could see them right in front of me. When the VIP came, we fire off the poppers and we went off to get our seat to watch the Chingay Parade. The whole thing ends at about 10.30 and i went straight home after that as i was tired.

Introduction

2007-02-19T11:21:00.000+08:00

Name : Teng Xiang Bin
Age : 16
School : Bukit Panjang Govt High School, Hong Kah Primary school
CCA: Scouts
> currently, i'm a only son in my family studying secondary 4 this year.
>> likes to surf the net and play Online Computer Game, like Diabio, Maple story and Gun bound.