Zoo Part 2

okay, the continuation of the zoo excursion.

Next up, we saw the white tigers!! They're really beautiful and majestic! Take a look!



A white tiger stretching...



One beautiful one staring right at you!!



Here's a group picture of us with a FAKE pgymy hippo -.-"



Ahhh one of my favourites! A kangeroo or a wallaby, the smaller version of a kangeroo. Obviously, we were too excited about stroking the animal, we forgot to find out what it really was! They were allowed to roam free you know, and one actually crossed my path! I had to fight the urge to grab it and give it a hug!

There's an emu behind...





Okay haha, Cherie came across an empty buggy? Haha so we all piled in and she drove us to... NAH haha we just posed in it!



Aha, meet the tribal people!

There are the girls...



And the boys...



At the "attap houses"...





I actually climbed into the house thing! Haha! I was so scared i would get reprimanded for it; i was like "Quick quick, faster take!!" Oh, and take a look at jaden's house in the middle -.-"



There's a goat for you...



Krystel and Elizabeth



Er, deers, maybe?



AHA! Orang utans! And no, we didn't see Ah meng...



Oh oh! The baboons, and their flaming red bottoms! The males' are redder, and it's supposedly to attract the females! I wouldn't mind having a green butt =)





And look at this funny turtle thing! It's got a cute face though...



Iguana time!



Finally, we found an air-conditioned room. BLISS! Whew. Yep, a picture of what we felt and looked... Presenting, the sian duo!



A giraffe... We took another one with it as a background!





Awww isn't this the cutest? -grins-



Right, moving on... The zebras!



And then, the Rhinos...



Our second resting palace... Haha by then we were resting A LOT! I for one, was trying to find every oportunity to sit down at every rest-a-ble place available.



Krystel and Me



What else? Ahhh the mouse deer! Ultra cute...



But what's more sweetie pie are... THE RING-TAILED LEMURS!



We caught them at feeding time, so here's one having a banana!



If you go to the zoo, you HAVE to go to the children's farm, haha cause that's where all the tiny pet-ta-ble animals are!!

A miniature horse...



- to be continued once again -.- -

22nd May 2007

Right first official day of school, and it was madness.

I found jielong at dover mrt station, met audrey and gracelynn at the bus stop, and climbed up the stairs to class. I was scared of class, haha, cause the impression George Barnett made through his course syllabus was of a REALLY stern professor. In the end, he turned out pretty nice, just that he's a i-stand-for-no-nonsense guy. HOWEVER, whoa, our other communications teacher, Pauline Cheong.... AHAHAHAHA that's it. We can go jump into the sea already. She's like, jill peters times a hundred. Yep, die-ded.

Came home to be the maid for today, cause mum is down with gestric flu. Dog made a mess of things, mum was like paralysed, and dad was... as good as not there. No he was there, but he made things worse such as throwing his socks into my second attempt at porridge --> At my first attempt, the porridge overflowed, cause i was cleaning up my mum's mess in the bathroom. Yep, he kindly threw water onto my mum's face in the hope of killing her fever, but evidently he forgot that she was on MY bed, and so MY bed was wet. And so, i slept on the couch last night.

*mutter mutter*

And. all the toilets at home are stuck. They're either choked, not usable, or... So guess what i had to do when nature tends to call NUMEROUS times? I run down 21 stories to the clubhouse's loo, then run back up 21 stories to make sure nothing's wrong with mum and dad. WHY?? Cause BOTH the lifts at my block are not working.

My first official day in school. Ended as the official day loisa went nuts.

Loisa. Over and out.

=) Thank you Jane for the chain thing! I still can't quite read the chinese words on it, but it's sweet!! SHANGHAI! =)

Sorry angel, i couldn't call you back. =(

not good

ahhh certainly not a good day. okay see ya. loisa ain't in a mood to type. :/

RESULTS!!

Ookay,the results are OUTTT!! Ive got two As this semester! YAY! But, none of them are my Communications core modules. SHOOT!!

But hey, i got an A for that dreaded Jill Peters class. Okay, maybe i love her a little now... =D

And i think she secretly loves me too...

hehehehehehehe -grin-

After the zoo, at paragon...

Right so after the zoo, we headed over to Wisma to the food court there. We wandered around "like crazy beggars" as quoted from Jielong. It was nuts! There were no seats, and i was falling asleep standing up! AND, our stomachs were rumbling already. Thus, we walked down, or up, or sideways (no idea, i'm so lost in Orchard), towards the Cineleisure food court. Ahhh bliss SEATS!!

After dinner, somehow, we gained some energy to go over to arghhhh! PARAGON! Starbucks! Haha for coffee, yeah obviously. Had a wonderful mocha something there. Haha by 10 plus, we HAD to go home already.

Being ULTRA familiar with paragon, jia zhen and i refused to leave without taking pictures at that STATUE thing everyONE (tourists and singaporeans alike) INSIST on taking pictures with. SO being kia su singaporeans, and being jia zhen and loisa...


Jia Zhen and Me



Jielong and Kenneth (Goodness knows what on earth they're doing)



Group picture! haha

Jocelyn's birthday party and Jielong's nonsense

Cool! Haha yesterday, i attended my first 21st birthday party ever! Jocelyn, be honoured. HAHA! It was at aloha loyang, SEA VIEW terrace 4, so we were wondering, is the name sea view, or the view, a sea view... or... In the end, it meant facing the sea, and there was a particular name for the terrace --> Desert Rose. Our dear miss jocelyn, haha, didn't know that! Haha she's horrible lar... ahaha...

We got her kinokuniya vouchers, while the others got her a necklace, and... DELICIOUS PRETTY DOUGHNUTS! *drools* ahhhhh haha i think we, the guests, ate more doughnuts than the birthday girl herself. -.-" OOPS

The food was good, jocelyn was happy... But, halfway through dinner, cherie and me lost our appetites. YOU ARE HILARIOUS LAR ELIZABETH! hahahaha you're hilarious without even knowing it, which is more hilarious!! Whew... 4D... whew... ahhhh OKAY i should just zip it. No more teasing Eliz, no more being mean, no more spitting water back into the cup, no more holding stomach due to aches... Ahh you get the idea... One more snicker please *SNORTS* Okay i'm done.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOCELYN! *flys over to give joce a big hug*

Oh, we didn't stay over the night either, we decided to go home. So, jia zhen and i jumped into the pool, dipped here dipped there, run to the bathroom, anyhoe bathe, and ran for the shuttle bus. We couldn't afford to miss that particular 10:15pm bus, or we'd be REALLY late home! Glad we went though, i do love jocelyn!

Now, for insight to how bored some of us are, or rather one specific Jielong, here's what he was up to...

The Original...



The middle process...



The end... the SUPPOSED cooler jielong...



And... the silly fella was even free enough to do this...



AND this... (haha this one i love...)

Zoo on 11th May 2007

Right, so we finally made it to the zoo... And these are the people i went with!



OOPS now how about that? We missed poor jielong out!



Oh, and the joke of the day is...

All: *mumble mumble* We didn't win the 4D *mumble mumble* (check out the post before, about the 4D)
Eliz: How many numbers are in 4D arh?
All: *stunned* AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Eliz: *fake tour guide* Hey guys *claps hands* SHOO SHOO! (attempting to get us moving)
All: *half* HAHAHAHAHAHA *half* -.-"

So anyway, we were ahh late! Haha but three people were even LATER! It seems Jaden pulled off a "Jia Zhen" move, which means a "BE VERY LATE" move... (haha Jia Zhen, you may direct your glare at Jielong now)

Jia Zhen and me on the way there...



Elizabeth in KFC...



Krystel and Jocelyn...



The 6 of us who were there first... Krystel was the photographer!



The girls and the cow...



The boys and the crocodile...



The girls and the crocodile... OH NO! The croco's got Eliz's leg!!



Yeahhh... don't ask...



I have no idea what this is...



Next up, the Otters!



A mother otter with her baby!



Elizabeth and Krystel...



Yeah whatever... HAHA!



Here's a Babirusa, Babyrousa babyrussa ...



-to be continued- *i'm trying to find a way to put all the pictures together.. sorry, i'm too excited about the zoo. The animals were so pretty!

9th May 2007

Today was a... weird day. Haha a rainy day too. Can buy 4D, and the winning number is "4344". I think. Correct me if i'm wrong, jia zhen. Eileen couldn't make it!!! Another time yeah?

Plans for today:
- Be pampered by Jielong, who was going to make us breakfast, PLUS drive us to east coast park to cycle. (i love this guy! haha)
- Be done around noon time
- Go home and bring grandfather for his hospital appointment
- Go to bed
- Thursday free

Anyway, the day started off with me mumbling in the morning. I was ever so tired, but i had to force my butt off the bed since argh, jia zhen and i had to meet kenneth and jielong at bedok, at 10am! AM! IN THE MORNING! Haha okay so i've been sort of a lazy bum. Holidays are meant for one to sleep in, REALLY in! But so far, i've been waking up ridiculously early, and sleeping insanely late. My bad. Okay. So i rushed to dover mrt station, where i was supposedly supposed to meet jia zhen. The dear girl (slap) though, kindly smsed me to say she's still having her breakfast!! slap So, i walked back home, and waited. And waited and waited. Then, i thought hey, go to the mrt station already lar, scarly miscommunication then even later. I was super kan chiong because we were already late and i was so pai seh if the guys had to wait for us.

Aha finally jia zhen got her butt moving, haha, and we travelled down to tanah merah instead, which was more convenient for everyone. Meanwhie, kenneth was nagging nagging nag nag nagggggggging away on the handphone about "how fast we can fly to tanah merah", and "how slow we were" etc. Zzzz Okay nevermind.

So we finally got together, and chionged off to rent bicycles.

"hmmm interesting... WHERE IS THE RENTAL SHOP?!"

We had NO IDEA where the bicycle rental was -.- We walked, walked walked, ahhh it started drizzling. Oh well. Don't waste time. The bicycles were priced at $6 for three hours so hey, why not? It was ONLY drizzling, right?

WRONG!! It started to pour later, when we were at the jetty. Just when we were enjoying the breeze, commenting how lovely the sea breeze is, how relaxing it was..."ROAR" thunder thunder!! Oh man, such a bad day! Haha there was lightning too! So die die not choice haha, had to run for shelter, not before we were half drenched though! Right... So we shiver shiver shiver, shiver some more, shiver yet again, before we decided to cycle furiously in the pouring rain to find better shelter, and to EAT. We were STARVING.

*Peddle duriously* Destination reached! Jielong's nice warm car, paired with nice cold, soggy food -.- But hey, haha we were ever so grateful. At that moment, i could have bowed down to him and kiss his feet. He as good as prepared a picnic for us lar!! There was PIZZA! There was GARLIC BREAD! There was erm, some funny LEMONADE CARBONATED DRINK! Haha cool eh? Haha kai and eliz, both of you, take back your words now!

JIELONG CAN SO COOK GOOD FOOD! Hahahaha

Aha okay back to cycling, and my best record ever! That would be.. falling off my bike twice. An embarassmennt to the name of LOISA. Haha! The first time, i can't remember why i fell off, but the result was cool! I actually FLEW OFF THE BIKE! Like seriously, FLEW OFF. God's blessings though, absolutely nothing happened to me. I flew up into the air, one leg got caught under the bicycle, but since i was wearing slippers, it slipped off and i landed on my two feet. No foot was sprained, no bruises, no cuts. Just a terrified loisa. Whew!

Second incident --> Kenneth. Slap. Together with jielong, both of them were trying to squeeze me, like what the heck? Squeeze squeeze until i nearly pushed jielong onto the grass. I was so scared that he would fall, i turned my wheel, and somehow the whole bicycle went haywire, and i fell, again. This time, it was worse. The front brake broke, and loisa did not fly. Loisa got caught. MY SHIN!!! OOOOO two homongous bruises. (They will definitely be extremely colourful tomorrow. Probably black, blue, red, green, purple etc.) I had a few tiny cuts here and there on my foot, but that's about it. What hurt the most were the bruises. Wahhhh "donkey, pls die". They not enough, must try and squeeze jia zhen also. "Just slap them, you have my blessings."

Right, so we explored nearly the entire east coast park. Pretty cool. There were jettys; some stupid spiral path which made my head spin; beautiful sandcastles; some giant longkang which a kingfisher i never saw, plus NUMEROUS puddles which we cycled through on purpose; therefore, getting ourselves wet; an extreme number of cats everywhere!

Oh about the cats, HAHA! I don't know why, it was a cat population out there! I saw one, and only one cat, and being loisa, i HAD to play with it. Before i knew what was coming, a whole lot of cats came trotting towards me. WHHHOOOAAA???! Kenneth, being kenneth, had to scare most away by "ROARING", in which he went "WOOF!" (?? that's a roar? haha i think not!) The funny part was, kenneth started to attract the cats instead! Haha hilarious!

I guess that should be about it. By the time we were done, it was four plus, and my mum was working, so there was no dinner at home; my dad was having a dinner with his colleagues; my aunt wanted to bring my grandfather for his appointment instead; SOOO loisa was free! We had to wash our legs since they were full of gears oil, mud, rain, sand and what not. Then it was dinner time! YAY my favourite time of the day!

Ahaha jielong spoiled us again. He drove us to Bedok for the famous Bak Chor Mee. AHHHH mama mia!! *yum* Still hungry, kenneth ate nasi lemak WITHOUT the nasi lemak fish (which we don't see the point of buying nasi lemak in the first place -.-), and the rest of us had chicken wings. AHHH =) SHIOK! AND AHHHHH, jia zhen-and-loisa-go-crazy time!! We walked around a few pet shops... AHHHHHHHHHHHH the rabbits and hamsters were ADORABLE!!! The fishes were well, fishy, and the birds were uber cute as well! HAHA! I want a cockatoo!

Right we were feeling so full and sleepy, we just fell asleep in the car, so jielong drove to eliz's place to collect her schoolbooks, drove to tanah merah to pass the books to jaden... Ai yo... all that driving... And he finally chucked us at tanah merah mrt station.

Goodness we were so blur!! Haha we walked into the underpass to get to the mrt station, and when we went up the escalator, guess what we saw? The other side of tanah merah. HAH??? Hahahaha! We totally could not find the entrance to the mrt station! Then, we realized the entrance was in the middle. -.-"

Right train home, had supper, fell asleep in supper. Now i'm off to bed. Cannot take it. I'm dead tired. Loisa is beginning to resemble a stone fish. No NO! I CANNOT look like a kenneth!

Slap ownself

Okay good night people! Sorry this was such a long post!

Orientation

So well... all about the orientation from a helper's point of view...

WARNING: Bear in mind that this is how a helper experienced the orientation. It's not really important, cause it's the freshmen's day. It's their day. I pray that they make the best of friends in UB SIM. Orientations are neccessary i believe, because UB is such an informal environment, it's hard to make friends. Thus, with orientations, you can make friends faster and easier. I do sincerely hope with all my heart that everyone enjoyed themselves! Actually, i think the orientation was a success! Haha as Shanas said, it's one of the "most happening" orientations available.

From my side though, "helpers" were basically not needed, so as a human being, i feel ridiculously dumb for "hanging around, nothing to do but frown..." (carpenters song haha)

Yep.

To sum it up, it was like, MURDER, SAYANG, SLAP, MURDER, a tinge of brightness, SLAP, a little bit of hope, MURDER. Then dead. HAHA (the dead part is the falling asleep part -.-)I guess to most of the OGLs and committee members, it wasn't so bad, but for jia zhen and me, we were forgettable helpers. volunteers. extras. No one likes to be forgotten, but that we were. And it was well, it wasn't nice.

The first part was "MURDER", simply because it was like death, and it was hard to resurrect us. I arrived in school around 8.30am? Jia Zhen arrived at 9am. Our duties were to start at 1.30 pm. -.- So for most of the first part, we were dead really. Nothing to do, didn't know anything, blur tiao, extra, lost, possibly a bit sian. After all, people have fun when they have things to do right? Or rather when they have things to do, it takes their mind of the "lonliness of life". Jeez, there's something wrong with me. I'm beginning to sound like Kenneth. I enjoyed the pick up ride though, although it was super unglam since our hair was flying all over the place, but hey it was cool! =)

As for the "SAYANG" part, ahhh things started looking up when we started to get ready to be station masters. =) We started to feel a little excited and although the initial game wasn't feasible, we managed to come up with another game plan to go with. We had to wreck our brains a little, but that's good. We have to exercise our minds once in a while. It was all fun and games, and certain groups were pretty hilarious, (*cough* such as steph and kenneth's group which was super enthu and ACTUALLY listened to instructions!!) but...After a while things got a little stale. This was where we got "SLAPPED". It was kinda hot, and some groups were quite dead, so the game wasn't as fun for them as it was for others i think. Towards the end, the last few remaining groups were demoralized i guess, so they weren't very happy that they "lost" before they even played the game! There's this rule that if you're late for more than 10 minutes, you forfeit. Yeah? So yep. OH there was one funny part though! Haha we carried a whole lot of NEWater bottles for the freshmen and whoever else to drink, in case they dehydrate. But, as we placed them beside us in paragon, and we were sitting there so still and for ever so long, tourists who walked past believed we were selling water, PLUS the SAF camouflage cream (which were equipment needed for the forfeit of our station). A caucasian couple said "what a shame" that we were not selling the water, as it was such a hot day, so jia zhen directed them to the 7-11 nearby. It was hilarious! I started being cheeky and yelled "$2.50, $2.50, NEWater NEWater for sell!!" Jia zhen was glaring at me i think haha. We posed a lot too, since so many people seemed to be taking pictures of the spot where we were sitting... For a clearer picture, do take a look at jia zhen's blog. It's funny! Haha!

Anyway, we got "MURDERED" again later on when we had nothing to do but lean against a pillar and stare at everyone around us. There was seriously nothing to do, and we were stoning. Walling. Becoming cement. We were kinda out of place, sometimes walking in and out of the chalet, going in and out of the room, then sitting against our favourite pillar again.

At the end of the tunnel, there was a little light, "A TINGE OF BRIGHTNESS". We could be useful! Krystel was feeling really tired, effects of a lack of sleep, she looked bad, poor thing. But since she was feeling off, jia zhen and i were to take over the orientation group. So i thought "hey, we've got something to do, we can make the freshies feel more at home! Interaction! Make friends! They don't seem like such a bad lot, eh?"

WRONG. Okay not really, they were a sweet bunch. In fact, i quite enjoyed their company, but then again, both of us kinda "barged into" the group, and we did not have that bond with them from the start, so they didn't really need us to guide them or to glue them together. They could do that on their own, in fact, they were interacting with each other quite well already!

Right so nevermind. There "WAS STILL A LITTLE HOPE" left! There wa the NIGHTWALK! Oooo i just LOVE nightwalks. I love these stuff, these outdoor adventure kinda stuff. I couldn't wait! I thought all of us could try out for it! The reason we even went over to the chalet was because we were told "there were stuff for us to do" and we thought we could help out in the nightwalk. In the end, that little bit of wisful hope, vanished. -.-

It was "MURDER" all over again! The station masters for the nightwalk were chosen, and we didn't even know cause we thought we were already in it. Then alamak, ai ya, confusion and haywireness. Helpers were not briefed and everytime i tired to ask something, i was either ignored or given a ridiculous task. After i was told that our "duty" was to hang around and make sure everything was okay, i nearly lost my mind. I was hungry, tired, lost, and feeling utterly useless. It was beginning to be a waste of time too. And of course, i was feeling EXTRA. So well whatever. It was a bit hard to bring my mood up again. Sometimes, you're just so disappointed, you don't know what to do, and you succumb to your fatigue. Does that make sense? After a while, i guess i was so demoralized and bored that my eyes could hardly open. It wasn't on purpose, i was just feeling so frustrated and tired i guess. It was hard trying to smile and act like nothing was wrong, hard it was.

At the end, we waited for 2 hours plus for the chartered bus to bring us ang mo kio mrt station. That is, steph, jz and me! Wah i was seriously talking... erm, BS on the couch already. Was too tired. Then i fell asleep, and had a dream that eliz was kidnapped. Wah had a fright! Quickly walked down to the first level and realized she wasn't there! ZZZZ she had gone home with the guys -.- Make me panic. Gah. SO well, both freshmen and UB orientation members were all dead tired. haha, i guess tired is good eh? Means that it was a night to remember. We all went through a night of orientation together! Although some parts really got me down...

But hey, it's over! I guess that's what we signed up for right? To be a "HELPER", which is to hang around and be called upon only when they need funny stuff to be done. Ooops, maye this could be one of loisa's bad attitude, but i seriously had no fun at all. I didn't make friends, i didn't feel like i contributed anything, i feel... stupid and useless. Yeah basically.

Do i want to participate in the next orientation? Maybe. Haha, i've always enjoyed these stuff. But maybe i'm not up for it. Maybe... oh i don't know haha. I'm tired. I'm cranky. So is everyone. I do respect the hard work put in by the council and committee members though. It can't be easy trying to put together a whole orientation with a tight budget AND the exams on the way. So, not too bad, could have been better, but it's a great effort!

Good night/Good morning people. I'm off to eat, then bed.

True Friend Test

ookay, this was done during one of our MNC nights... (Midnight nonsense club)

This always happenes when we're done studying (or maybe not for some.. haha) and we want to take a break...

Anyway, here are the test scores! It all started with eileen, and because we did hers, we all created our own too! Haha so here you go...


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