JOWEEEEEN

this is everything i didn't say

fun & stuff

Sunday, 28 February 2016 || 5:13 pm

as i have posted in previous post, a lot has happened. and right now i should probably be doing my homework or studying for tests but nope i'm here. my attempt to journal everyday has failed sinice orientation (LOL) and so i just want to update some stuff about the past 2 months which i have yet to blog about. WARNING: THIS POST IS VERY MESSY COS ITS NOT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND I THINK IT MAKES NO SENSE.

firstly, chinese new year. so i finally saw some cousins after two years and it was really awkward. but the little cousins are pretty cute and i legit ate the whole long weekend away. chinese new year food are good!! i didn't even have time to do some homework and so i had to chiong on the last day of cny break v sian lol. and cny celebration in school was like one day after orientation ended and everyone were tired because literally everyone stayed back till late. but oh well. and like there was this survey the j1s had to do after orientation and matriculation and like we could see the comments they gave and it was really vvv sweet hahaha. post o's syndrome kicking in real. and on the wednesday after cny break our class had a little potluck party and lohei and it was kinda awkward cos we're a really small class. and funny cos only the girls were eating the lohei lol guys pls....

and then 12 feb was pj's valentine's day where like people got roses and stuff and like my whole group of mgl got a rose each and we were wondering who was it from and it was actually from zuo han!! i was honestly shocked hahah thank you zuo han you're a very nice mg kid!!! :----) then in the canteen nahyun passed me a packet of goodies saying happy vday and i was honestly shocked too hahaha and that night we had brothers appreciation day and i didn't really do much, just did what i have to do ya know. did a sharing and when i said "because yall know how noisily i laugh right" then i heard a couple of "ya"s and i'm like omg and joey said jason even said "friend for 2 hours" because that's what i say to him whenever i see him HAHAH. well..... and that was all. and took a picture with the junior because joseph teo is officially stuck in pj and he is gonna get embarrassed by me for the rest of the year. :) i was really moody that night. and we saw faith in the 912 which legit brightened my night for like 2 minutes hahaha. and on monday i gave some goodies to my mg and og kids and they all looked really shocked hahha. i passed to chee yee and told her to pass to the rest of the class and then when i checked my phone at 11am, almost the whole og was thanking me in the whatsapp group aww :') love yall yall are very nice individuals hahah.

and on one of the wednesdays i didn't go to school bc sore eyes and headache and really not feeling well. :( and that friday was the really cool visit to 11c4i battalion woohoo!!

then we had two steamboats on two consecutive saturdays. the first one was a j2 sisters steamboat and we just catch up and talked about random things from the teens ministry to chingay and school and stuff. it was a really relaxing 4 hours at fiona's house. :) and the second steamboat was during djc's first ever bibletalk. me and dayna kinda got lost lol but we found our way eventually. i thought that the attendance for our very first bible talk was not too bad actually!!! :) hue hue we played two truth one lie while eating and got to know everyone a little better. jared even brought a friend after his race that afternoon. and like... the sisters just kept eating.... and i called joseph teo junior HOHOHO and i'm literally gonna see that guy for 13 consecutive days omg so sian!!!! and last friday we said bye to the campus people.

on wednesday we had ogl appreciation lunch aka pizza party!! we did a few cheers and we took some photos and catch up with one another!! i really really missed my darwin 4 people because they're so funny!!! and i got bitten by jackie (omg) and i gave a loud high pitched scream in the concourse and i think everyone thought i was crazy HAHAHAH but omg. and on that day was like the first cca session for the j1s and we went and we knew some juniors from 16a05 whom we were gonna bond with on thursday. it was okay lol the game just talking to some people and stuffs ya. and on thursday we bonded with 16a05 and there was actually another ambassador!! we played blow wind blow and intro-ed ourselves and played whacko and i got hit like twice zzzz. anyway it was really fun saying bye to joseph teo when he still had lesson and after we can go home already HAHAHA. sorry i'm v annoying.

and i think that was more or less the really cool things that happened over the past month or so???? it's a very messy post i know because i had to post this fast and study for my test and do homework and get ready for school. if anyone has even read till here.... i didn't make any sense, did i?

cts coming soon and i really need to buck up i'm really scared just thinking that i'll be doing a levels at the end of the year. :(((

till next time x

sign on!!!

Saturday, 20 February 2016 || 10:58 pm

it's been almost a month since i last updated my blog and honestly quite a bit have been going on since my last post. one of the biggest events that have happened so far would be matriculation and orientation 2016 which was honestly the bOMB!!! (i'm still finding time to blog about it LOL hopefully it will be posted soon) (i haven't even talked about MY matriculation and orientation last year LOL i suck). HAHAHA, then there was chinese new year where we saw our cousins after quite some time, we had mg breakfast one thursday morning, brothers' appreciation day, steamboat @ fiona's etc. but today it'll be about the J2s' visit to 11C4I Battalion at Pasir Laba Camp in conjunction with total defence day. i honestly thought it would be boring and shizzles, but it turned out to be very interesting and quite fun in fact!!

the ride from school to pasir laba camp was actually quite fast and when we reached the (very big) camp, we assembled at the leaders's square according to our houses and in our details (or groupings). and our class is with s25 in detail 22. as the buses were late and we were the first few to reach the camp, we got some stuff like poncho, water, wet tissue and pamphlet then they distributed the combat food ration. it was in packets and interestingly, there were different types of food HAHA. we didn't dare to eat it at first, but me joey and safura shared a packet of satay fish thingy i think? and it was actually not bad!! and it was very filling too i think we only ate half a packet and then we're full already. now that we've eaten combat food ration from the packet, i guess eating squashed food would be a problem no more hahah. and when everyone finally arrived, we had a welcome address and briefing first before the different houses split to different stations.

while our detail was gathering, the s25 ct asked us "which class is this? a05 isit" and we're like ya and he told his class "ok you all must look out for a05 ah" HAHAHA so while walking to our first station, the noisy people aka me joey jas safura chun liming and sometimes kelvin and michelle sang songs LOL. we legit very noisy and it was so funny singing while walking idk but ya everyone just probably thought that we were noisy and annoying and irritating singing in an army camp but ok. so at our first station, which was the knots and lashing station, we learnt how to tie a knot. i was with chun and like we tied together but we faced a bit of problem because firstly, we tied the two poles too tightly, and secondly, we ran out of string to complete the knot. so i obviously started laughing like crazy already even though it was probably not funny. then we headed to the combat ration tasting station where there were more combat ration food to be tasted but i was really full already so i didn't eat anything. we ate the chrysanthemum bits though, straight from the packet without diluting it in water!! it was really sweet HAHAH. and like ameerul tapped me on the shoulder behind his friend while walking past and gave me a shock THANKS AMEERUL THANKS HAHAH. but they actually had buffet-style food ration thingy there. afterwards we headed to the survival village where we saw how one of their lizard traps worked and another a-frame bed-like thingy. the a-frame display was actually really cool and i jokingly asked jasleen to go try sit on it HAHAH but ya anyway it was really cool but it looked like it takes a long time to build it and much wood is needed but yeah i was quite amazed with that.

@ the knots and lashings station

probably looking at the trap cos i know we had to look upwards for the a-frame at the survival village!!

then, we headed to the next section which was the 11C4I battalion. there were a couple of stations there where they had static display by RSTA, Signals and TUAV. don't ask me what's that i just referred to the pamphlet LOL but i can tell you that the displays were cool. at a smaller spy plane section, we took a selfie with the spy plane camera LOL I CANNOT. then me joey and chun went to sit on the little truck thingy and like we wanted to take a picture when suddenly, from the speaker came "eh joween" and there was a legit picture where the three of us were shocked, turned out to be denzil HAHAHA what the please. it was super cool though sitting in there!! then we went to the photobooth where we had a legit picture taken. i wore the number 4 (?) shirt, a cap and held a rifle pew pew!! afterwards me and jas went to sit on another truck which was hidden at a corner hahaha and we took some more pictures there bc the background was nice. then we went to the radio station where liming carried the radio thingy which weighed 7kg i'm like holy cow but it was q cool cos there was an antenna or something sticking out real long. hahah then we went to the bigger spy plane station where on the hd tv, they showed some photos and chun thought she saw her brother HAHAH. it was super cool basically, with faster and larger features as compared to the smaller spy plane mentioned earlier. afterwards, we had our barrack walkabout of which we went to see how a bunk looked like. one word: neat. the bunk which roomed around 8 people if i'm not wrong, was neater than my own room. with almost no dirt at all. and even the cabinets, which they showed us which compartment stored what, were also neater than my wardrobe no joke!! and the people at the bunk were q funny actually HAHAH. then we headed to the night vision room AND THIS IS REALLY COOL. like we went into a completely dark room and used some special lens which helped us see in the dark. it was legit vvvv amazing for me to be able to see in the dark!! then we went to the pt station where they demo-ed how to do a proper push up and pull up and we cheered for kelvin. once again, we're very noisy. afterwards there was an army int talk and we kinda joined halfway so yeahhhhhhhhh.

the small spy plane!!

"eh joween"

the radio thingy liming is carrying? 7kg.

at the pt station and one of our detail ics!! xie xie detail 22 ics!!

then we headed to the imt part where we did simulation shooting with a sar21 rifle with like technology kinda thing LOL. it was v cool like i shot 8 times in total HAHAH and like i wanted to "restart" the rifle kinda thing but i just don't know and can't pull the trigger or something i'm just weak la basically HAHA but ya the shooting was quite fun and cool cos we first had to go down into a "hole". experience at best!!! afterwards we had technical handling with a sar21 rifle. probably one of the coolest part of the whole visit because that will probably be the last time i touch a sar21 rifle, the main weapon which singapore uses. we learnt how to strip a rifle, and for full experience, i tried striping and putting back one rifle with much help from the army guys there because i'm weak HAHA. the guy there was like "is it heacy" and i'm like "ya" and he's like "ok la" and told us about how there were heavier weapons and that they would actually be happy if they got a sar21 rifle. since there was also time, he also told us about how the rifle worked and how it can be used at night too. basically it was really cool and that guy was q friendly HAHA.

then we headed back to the leaders square for debrief and it was quite funny because the captain said "when i walked around, i realised that the ladies are quite good at shooting. this means one thing, never mess with a woman when she is holding a weapon" HAHAHA i cannot.but the debrief was kinda reflective and i actually felt like the whole day had been really interesting and i actually learnt a little more stuff about army. mad respect to nsf and nsmen after this learning journey!! (and cries bc won't be able to see the good looking army guys ever again) HAHA. and when we were leaving, we passed by our detail ics and said "thank you" just to thank them and they were actually sitting among other detail ics, but they waved hahaha.

yay company for the day!!! thanks for the laughters man!!

till next time x