29th November 2006

So well uhh, it's been a long time eh?

I've been so busy... gosh, the exams are here!!! They'll end on 8th december i think, but right now i'm so so so gonna study real hard.

I lost my watch today. =( It must have dropped while i was rushing to meet jia zhen. The phone was ringing, i was trying to cross the traffic light, and a girl asked me for donations so i was like ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?

And of course you know the careless me, i obviously dropped my watch and off i went. Sigh... Brooding about it now; therefore, i had better go start on my UGC essays. Gotta do somethign to drown myself in my sorrow... -.-

See ya

JANE!!

I'm going to marry Jane. She's the love of my life. She helped me with computer science assignment 3!

The ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous javascript and algorithms thing!

Thank you THANK YOU jane!

Ain't she the sweetest? =)

-hugs jane-

Trek Part 4

Trek Part 4

So we reached our camp base, and the guys set about gathering firewood, for nothing, cause in the end they didn't use it. -.- They were very drama though. They actually pulled down this trunk/HUGE branch thing, like tarzans... And after they managed to get it down, they basically stared at each other, wondering how they were going to chop it up. -.- Sigh... the girls gave up staring at their bewilderment and headed for the river thing, our bathing area. Wait, let me rephrase that. We were off to bathe IN THE RIVER! Haha how cool is that? Sorry, no photographs on this, it's umm PRIVATE. Nah, though the guys and girls bathed together, we took NO clothes off OKAY? No cloth or whatsoever. Nada. We umm took quite a while to bathe haha. Initially we were a wee self conscious. It was so cold! A few seniors very kindly splashed water on us, and i nearly died there. I felt like "rose" in titanic who was freezing to death in the cold winds and waters. Anyway, we waded in, SLOWLY, opened our shampoo bottles, SLOWLY, poured out the soap, SLOWLY, and EVER SO SLOWLY washed our hair. And then an amazing thing happened. Jia zhen who was beside me, suddenly floated up, with her legs in the air, and sank back down into the water. WHOA. MAGIC! Haha, and on the other side, krystel and stephanie were washing each other's hair. COOL, a salon! Behind me, Eileen was trying very carefully to balance on a rock and wash herself without getting her hair wet. Okay so FINALLY we were done. We probably took 2 hours? Haha Longest bath i've ever had in my entire life!

Upon reaching our tentage area, our group members were hilarious! One commented that we drowned in the river, haha since we took so long. Hahaha. Dinner time it was however, so we had to assist in cooking! Unfortunately, the people there were so efficient, they had already started, and there didn't seem to be anything we could do. We were free... again. So we sat down, and LOOKED.

Ahhh we're cooking! =) That bright orange thing is uhh me. haha Wore orange as i was afraid i would get lost haha, so orange is well, see-able. hahaha

The fella looking into the camera is Caleb! Haha Jia Zhen thought he was a girl. We were looking through the names of those in our group, and i insisted "Caleb" is a boy... haha

Ahh something for krystel and me to do! PASTA! We took the mess tins and started cooking pasta. Obviously, we weren't very good at it, so haha, it was one unhealthy meal. We added too much milk, too much butter, too much of everything except the pasta, which was limited. -.- Yeah yeah, keep those comments to yourself. BUT, they still tasted real good =) Usually, unhealthy stuff taste good hahaha. There wasn't anything else to do other than the pasta, so jia zhen felt relaly bored and stoned. Poor girl, but it's alright, we all enjoyed eahc other's company. The two itnernational guys behind us (vietnamese and mongolian) were largi best. One was SLEEPING, and the other uhh, hmmm... Haha but when we were done cooking, we passed around spoonfuls of food feeding each other. Rex's a pretty darn good cook! Lucky us. There was mee sua, curry chicken and potatos, fish, egg, luncheon meet, and of course AHEM pasta!

Halfway through our meal... ... ... AIYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCORPION LURKING IN THE GRASS!!!

Ahhh our saviours. Someone put it away in a box. =)

I think they wanted to cook the scorpion and eat it or something, but ummm...

Oh yeah! And then sigh, we had to pee. Haha this was so funny! There was nowhere to pee! So jean, krystel, jia zhen adn i had to run to sme ulu place with bushes, and...

"one, two THREE! SQUAT AND PEE! QUICK QUICK!!"

Yep, that's what we did, we stood in a row, and peed for all our worth, and ran back to camp, half embarrassded but half proud that we did it. We were real jungle women! Now all we needed were leopard skin bras and bottoms. -.-

That was the reason why we held our shit the entire trip! Haha, we so did not want to dig a hole in the ground, shit, and then cover it back up! Though of course, it would have been good fertiliser for the soil... haha

Ahhh here comes the fun part of the night. We didn't want to sleep jsut yet, although it would have been a wise thing, since we hardly slept the night before, and we were going to have to set off at 6 plus the next morning for Bukit Paranoma. So we all gathered in the girls tent, for a reason. A 6 man tent filled with 10 people? Haha WHY? Let me tell you why. (jia zhen, laugh now) The girls were afraid of these humongous flying ants, plus baby ones, that were attracted to our torch lights! Thus, they all went screaming into the tent. I wasn't scared, but i was grossed out. Imagine them crawlign all voer me, *shivers* But i wasn't hysterical. With everyone screaming and yelling though, i started to panic a little. -.- Haha jz too! Initially she was calm, then she began to get clumsy like me! Haha i tried picking up the ants with tissue paper, but the more the girls squeaked, the mroe i dropped the ants. In the end, i think my tissue paper picking amounted to nothing. Sigh...

Well the whole thing was very dramatised lar. It was kinda like a comedy actually, cause the guys were relaly sweet. Imagine...

5 beautiful princessess are terrified of the dangerous man eating dragons. 5 knights in shining armour rode on their horses, took out their swords and slayed the scary dragons. All stayed in a palace and lived happily ever after...

But in reality, it were 5 girls screaming in a tent, afraid of flying ants. 5 boys in slippers and short, ran to our tents, and plucked/shoot/snapped these ferocious insects away with tissue papers, torchlights and tees. Everyone went into one tent, and played UNO plus heart attack plus bluff. Hahahaa cute eh?

Uno was... boring after a while. Haha It was such a long game and no one was winning! It was very obvious who was losing though, and that was Sebastian haha, cause he kept drawing, and drawing, and drawing....... 4, 8, 12......

Heart attack... Hmmm.. It was alright, but we couldn't ;play it forever, and it was hard for 20 hands to pile up in the center. haha

I think everyone had the msot fun during the game of "Bluff". It was nuts! We constantly guessed the wrong people, and had to take the whole pile. Jean was cute. In all the games, she was honest, and the ONE TIME she bluffed, she was caught. Haha. Guess who lost in the end? Yours truly. The last 3 losers had to do a forfeit, truth and dare. We were William, Krystel and me. WHO on earth would chose the dare right? So we chose truth. Our questions were basically the same.

"Which person of the opposite gender, in ODAC, do you admire the most?"

William never did answer, but oh well. Krystel chose Eileen's partner on the trek, and i wanted to too, but she was faster. Why? Cause he's a sweet guy! When eileen's track shoes died on her, he actually lent her his sandals and walked barefoot all the way back! Poor guy. Haha, but nvm. I had another one in mind. And that was, Jia zhen's partner, our hero! I mentioned he helped us carry our bag right, so that was one point. The other was that he seemed to take an initiative in doing stuff. He was the first one to get the firewood (albeit of no neccessity), and he was always the one sweeping away branches during our lorry ride.

Ahh so taht was about it. After the game, we went to watch fireflies. So pretty! =) But we didn't take pictures. Too busy trying to find our way in the dark. It was pitch black out there okay. Goodness! After taht we went to bed! Will tell you mroe about bedroom activities in part 5! Haha

8th November 2006

Gah now i'm in the computer lab, Waiting for class to start. I've got a huge painful pimple below my mouth, arghhhh... Effects of PUBERTY.

Anyway, wow angel replied to my posts! Thank you. I do want to support you, but i don't know how to. I'm sorry for that, but never forget that you ARE part of my life, and you've left a mark in my heart okay?

Anyway, i think i shall stop all this blogging thing and go do my computer assignments. Hurry hurry!

7th November 2006

ice cream makes the world go round! Best part of today? THE COFFEE ICE CREAM! =) Muahahahaha Thank you ie ting! Okay i will not be biased, thank you krystel, jocelyn, elizabeth, stephanie, jane, cherie, jia zhen, eileen, christine...... anyone i missed? Gee they put that smile on my face! Right, getting sappy here....

Anyway, this will be one short entry. Busy. Too many assignments to hand up. Exams coming. Tests. GRAAAAHHHHH

Something's funny with angel. I'm not sure if i should put it up here, cause usually i don't like putting things up on the blog, things that i might not want the world to know. But i think it's okay, right? And i can't seem to find the right time to talk to angel without interruptions so i just hope she reads this and not get mad at me. I haven't had the time nor energy to analyze the situation properly anyway, so i might be wrong. My point is, i'm feeling real guilty cause i haven't been there for angel. I'm not finding any excuses, i'm just saying time is not on our hands and i hope she understands. I think she's mad at me too, but i am at a loss. I don't know how to help her, and i can't sit down properly to think cause... everything's just too rush. I think probably my priorities have changed too, perhaps? Studies is at the top right now, and i'm just too kan chiong. Maybe it isn't as hard work as i think it is, maybe i'm just stressing myself up, but i really do find it stressful. Nothing i can't handle, but it does take up energy and brain power. AND TIME. Shoot time. It passes by way too fast.

Back to the point. Am i being paranoid, or thinking too much? Cause i sometimes think angel's smile is fake or something. Like, she's putting on a mask, and i don't know if it's an attempt to make me feel less guilty, or she wants me to guess what's up. I'm sorry angel, but it's messing with my head. I can't seem to guess very well anymore. Maybe it's ebcause i cna't see your expression, or hear your voice, so the esp thing isn't quite right. I don't know lar, but i do hope we wouldn't be mad at each other or drift like SUPER far apart, cause no matter what, it's a friendship i treaure.

Shawn smsed me but i don't quite want to disturb him. Don't know lar. Kinda tired right now. Sleepy.

So now i've said my part. I'm off! Back to studying something or toher. so many thigns to do, not quite sure where to start. And something's wrong with my dumb browser.

Maybe i need to eat more ice cream. hmmm

Trek part 3

Okay back to blogging out the trek. Sorry guys, i'll have to do point form now. There is simply no time to write in full complete sentences

We waded in a river to cross over to the other bank. For the other girls, the height of the wtaer was probably slightly below the waist. For me, it was either the chest, or in certain parts, the shoulders. Blah. I was soaking wet. Oh well

Everyone was assigned a partner to help then up the trek, and i... had no partner. -.- NVM i am superwoman, with muscles! So we climbed up slopes, walked on river beds, slipped on stones, climbed over tree trunks, slided on rocks with algae...swung from tree to tree... OKAY i was kidding with the last one, but there really was a part when we had to use a nylon rope to sort of abseil down this tiny cliff thing.

Yep, can you imagine us trekking through this kind of......

One of the girls in front of me, an ODAC girl, saw a leech on her leg and started screaming, then she fell. I panicked and knew i was supposed to tlak to her to calm her down or something, but i didn't know what to say to her! Argh, anyway, after that incident, i decided to continuously walk without stopping. Die die i wanted to keep on the move, cause i figured out that if i do that, leeches would not have the chance to jump on me!

How a leech looks like... =X

Incident of the day: Jia zhen had THREE leeches on the same spot, and another one somewhere else! WOW! POWER WOMEN! Such a drama queen haha. I think they truied to burn the leeches off her or something, but in the process, she was burned a little, by the lighter. Poor girl. At least the burnt mark is no longer there... =)

Eileen and Jia Zhen trekking...

Eileen and Jia Zhen yet again... Haha they look like shephered with those sticks. Useful stuff though.. Helped us along. It was like a third leg.

FINALLY we saw the waterfall. If i had the energy i could have jumped for joy, but my heart was jumping anyway. THEN WHAT?! That wasn't the end! Yes, we SAW th waterfall, but we didn't REACH it. GOODNESS i could have fainted right there... I was just looking up, up and up... wondering how on earth we were going to climb the boulders to reach the base of the waterfall sigh... For one moment there i thought we were climbing to the TOP of the waterfall but... nope. Whew! Anyway, sigh, boulders boulders boulders. Climb Climb Climb... I really felt like a spider. I was on all fours trying to find my footing, AND bearing, cause i was starting to get confused. My biggest fear was that one of the boulders would come loose and fall down on all of us. Thank you Lord for keeping me alive!

So well, Krystel, Stephanie and i were the first ones up there, so we decided to wait for Eileen and Jia Zhen.

We're in that tiny corner on the far left...

In the mean time, we waded into the waterfalls. Halfway though, uhh i fell, and dragged everyone down with me, so we were all shivering and cold. Sebastian, one of the guys in my gorup, then cajoled us to go all the way in, since we were already wet. So we did, and spashed around wondering where eileen and jz were.

There we are holding hands!

Ahhh mission accomplished! =)

Nice...

YAY finally we saw them, posing... -.- haha

Eileen and Jia Zhen

Eileen didn't want to go in, but jia zhen did! I swam back to the "shore" to "collect" her and at the same time grab a water bottle for Jean, one of my group leaders.

Jia Zhen - QUITE dry, before she went into the water

Somehow, jz and i spashed our way back to the girls, and within 5 minutes of jz's arrival, the girld wanted to swim back! Haha jia zhen was like "But i jsut got here!!" Therefore, we stayed a little while more. That was when we took pictures UNDER THE WATERFALL ITSELF! Cool eh? Too abd we haven't got those pictures yet. Sigh, must find the guy who used his waterproof camera lar...

Here are a few waterfall scenery pictures... ... ... Really pretty =)

The Waterfall in its entirety... i think

Hmmm waterfall again...

The top of the waterfall...

The bottom of the waterfall...

After out swim - Jia Zhen and me

After our swim - the wet me and the dry eileen

Group picure!!!

Right it was time to get back to "shore". Steph and i followed louis while the rest swam back. Louis led us through some sort of funny path, and steph and i were lik -.- "??? What kind of way is this? Haha" As can be seen from this picture, i FELL -.-

Poor me =(

Okay i was REALLY tired okay

By then, all of us were shivering lar. It was freezing cold! Gahhhh.... Time to go back! Sigh, going back down, back to our tents was one tough trek. To me, it was harder than going up. This time, i really needed a partner, and YAY louis was my knight! =) Haha i was so tired already; thus, more clumsy and had absolutely NO stability. Usually i fell, bringing louis down with me, or he fell, bringing me down with him!! -.- Haha a wonderful pair we make -.- Oh oh i nearly forgot! My group was the first one to go down, and it was my turn to carry the shared knapsack i had with jia zhen. Sigh i was a little afraid cause i was relaly scared about going down and the knapsack seemed to be hindering me. HALLEJUAH for jia zhen's partner! Ahhh more about him later! Muahahaha! For now, jsut take it that he offered to help me carry the knapsack, in addition to his own bag. BTW, he helped jz carry the bag on the way up too. Ahhhh =)

Okay blah blah blah fell down, got back up, fell down, slipped, got cuts, bruises, went back on track.... ... ... ... ... My group decided to take a funny route. Everyone used the dry root, which was the jungle terrain, but i don't know why my leader led us through the river bed -.- Oh well

The obscene river bed where i kep faling on my knees and backside

YAY! WE REACHED OUR CAMP BASE! Episode trek 4 coming up, the next time i'm free... Watch out for it! Don't give up on me! I'll finish this, i promise!

Bye rainbow falls!!

6th November 2006

Today was a rushy rushy kind of day. I woke feeling woozy, weird. Was wobbling everywhere. -.- miss wobbles. Anyway, my hp was ringing nonstop. There were so many messages! Haha all regarding the evaluations of other groups for Communications. Nightmare.

Rushed into class and realised oops, i was late. No matter, cuase the group i was evaluating is the second group, but then i had to evaluate the first group for eileen and stephanie. Felt like a little bumble bee. Haha somehow mondays are never good days. We're never on time. What can i say, it's a 9am class! And.... rekha was panicking too cause too had to evaluate a group. Hai ya, thsi evaluation thing is........... dot dot dot. Haha

Right, had english after communications class. Heard that johan had only an hour of sleep the day before. My, he's admirable! The fact that he could go to school so early (he was the first group who had to present in COM 101), WOW! I would have just continued sleeping at home and "heck care" the world. Haha oops. Okay, i FINALLY PRESENTED ON MY RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*panicks shivers panicks*

My stupid mindmap was so tiny, the font size i mean. I couldn't read anything, and i was shaking inside. I am SO not good at these public presentations stuff. Sigh...

Well the one good thing about today was that eileen and i managed to print out all our english info stuff, regarding the research paper. AHHHH feel so complete now. =) BUT no cause for celebration. WHY? I've only got the information! I have yet to do my draft of the paper! ANDDDDD There are THREE computer science assignments to hand up next week! Dying dying... Not to mention the psychology test coming up this thursday! PLUS the psychology PRESENTATION... SIGH... another presentation =( Do we have to wear ties?

Talking about psychology, gosh, my notes are everywhere! Literally! I just realised how many people have been photocopying my notes. Uhh i hope these people score. Haha if they don't, i'm so going to have a "hate club". Haha first it was jonathan, then johan, audrey, jadyn............. hmmmm...

What's the worst that could happen? They score, and i don't. Then i think i would kill myself. It's sec 2 all over again. Haha my lending of my literature textbook to timothy caused him to achieve the first position in literature, and i got a what.... 58/100 or something like that?? Haha rubbish. Oh well. I do hope i cna get a good B for psychology. Pretty disappointing, tis semester. I'm getting all Bs and Cs. Scary eh...

BUT i've got the greatest friends in SIM too! Cherie is so generous and didn't mind lending us her prison break vcds to burn. Sweet eh? She's no longer called "selfish", haha she's "selfless!" The problem is, we don't have burners. -.- Therefore, jane, my lady in shining black, came in! The poor girl's burning everything for us! Thanks you both! You're my princes who saved me from the wicked shamila! (is that her name? sha-mi-la)

Love you guys!

31st October 2006

Uhhh OOPS i've totally been lagging in my updates... I"m afraid my current "update" isn't very updated either. It's a continuation of the trek last last last......... week!

Oh before i forget...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! =) hahahaha

So the 5 of us boarded the lorry. Do not ask me what possessed us to sit on the lorry instead of a jeep, or whatever else they had. Mind you, the ride on the lorry is no ordinary ride. We don't sit IN the lorry, we sit ON the lorry. Literally. PLanks were nailed across the sides of the lorry, and we sat ON THE PLANKS. In case you didn't quite catch that, we sat ON THE PLANKS. Meaning.. ON THE PLANKS!!!!! We had nothing to hold, except the planks!!! Is that scary or what? We went up and down slopes, went SQUISH across HUGE puddles of muddy water, wnet boom boom BUMP over really ROCKY paths... sigh... haha our butts! No matter, only butts right? BUT the worse was yet to come. As we were going straight into jungle-like terrain, GOODNESS. The people sitting at the sides... Poor guys! There were branches and leaves swipping past them. It was so dangerous really. You could have either fell backwards off the lorry and rolled down, or you could have been knocked down by the hanging solid branch, or you could have been cut real bad by thorns. Poor Eileen, this bumble bee thing stung her on her head. One moment she was sitting next to me, the next moment she was yelling "Get it off Get it off VERY PAIN!" I was panicking lar. i saw it on her head and i actually thought i flicked it off, but it seems that it was stuck on her scalp. Poor girl, she was crying. I have no idea what that insect was. It was black with orange stripes. Anyone knows what it is? Sigh... Well at least she didn't blank out, or suffered from any i don't know, side effects of that sting. Except for a red lump, there was nothing much. What i was worried about was that that lump contained poison or something, and that if it was not treated soon, Eileen might be real sick later. She's okay now anyway, so i guess it's fine. =)

Well, we reached the campsite, an empty piece of land. Guess what? We were to set up our tents there. So uhhh heh, the guys kinda set up the tent. And we just kinda stood around. Haha i wanted to help, but there was just nothing to do. Felt a little bad though, cause later they set up the second tent, and gave us the first one. They did EVERYTHING. Like... Uhh feel a little useless? heh

Group picture before setting off...

Before we could do anything else, we were told to pack our day packs as the trek to to waterfall was immediate. Goodness panicked! Haha I whipped out my obscenely bright yellow pack, and started stuffing cereal inside together with louis (cute eh? he's nearly got the same name as me! He's this guy in my group too!). Haha well we were going to have our lunch there right? Therefore, we needed food! I shared the bag with jia zhen cause i thought it would be ridiculous to carry so many bags up there. Haha she was so cute! SHe brought along these water shoes thing that SUPPOSEDLY is so effective that water does not get in. Well this theory was SO proven wrong later. HAHAHA so off we went.

Sorry guys, it seems like this blogging of the trek will never end. Maybe i'll cut it short and write in point form the next time. I've got to go now. Need to study. This is a rare day when i am free to study "on my own". There is no homework or assignments due immediately, exlcusing CSE (comptuer science) that is. =) See ya

love, loisa

13th -15th October 2006

Introducing the trekking gang:

• Stephanie
• Krystel
• Eileen
• Jia Zhen
• Loisa

These group of able bodied girls embarked on a treacherous trekking trip to the Rainbow Falls and Bukit Paranoma in Malaysia. At Rainbow Falls, the highlight was duh, the waterfalls haha, as can be seen from the name itself. In Bukit Pranoma, it was the SUNRISE. -.- Yes, don't laugh, we trekked all the way up, to miss the sunrise. Haha right, here's the full juicy story from miss loisa koh. . . . .

To be continued.

Day 1 - 20th October 2006 (Friday)

JZ AND I WERE LATE! zoom zoom zoom! I waited for her at Jurong East Mrt station, an was hopping impatiently from one foot to another. SIGH haha it was coming 7pm, and that was the time we were supposed to be AT KRNJI MRT STATION! haha Grand entrance we made indeed, with out wild and erm moppie-like hair, and our blooming big knapsakcs, we rushed, no ran, towards the bunch of OutDoor Adventure Club peeps (ODAC). Riiight, we looked like we were participating in the amazing race or something, but hey, everyone else rpetty much looked the same! WAHAHAHA some had bags bigger than hours! *snickers* AND SOME, *hey steph!* had bags as small as a harversack/schoolbag. (you so want to strangle them eh?) Krystel was real early, and she was sitting there looking like an angel. Steph and eileen were lost on their way to Kranji, so we waited for them. No worries though, as there were others who were later! In fact, jz and i could be considered early. -.- hahahaha

So the trekking gang boarded bus 170 towards JB, but as luck would have it, it was jammed. We fell out of the bus, literally, as we were still unused to the big bags, and struggled throughout the causeway... ON FOOT! It was my first time WALKING to JB, so it was kinda cool. ONe thing i loved about this trip was the experience gained.

1) the jungle like-ness of it all
2) the trekking
3) the traditional way of going into JB (walking, stumbling trhough the crowds)

etc.

At the customs, it was ridiculous. Our Singapore customs officer sure had loads of comments for us. He told Krystel to open "her curtain" (hair) as she looked very difference form her passport photo, told jz all about the departure form, and called me "boy boy". The ultimate was the Malysian side, when the guy told me "10 year old little girls shouldn't be travelling without their mothers". Wah i nearly snapped! I furiously turned to my date of birth and wordlessly stuffed it into his face. See it for yourself, you big meanie!

ps: Passport covers were amusing! Mine was normal, thank goodness, krystel's had a very nice sunshine on it, but jz... hmm, it needs further elaboration. She's disney kid! A hello kitty passport cover, mickey mouse wallet, and... a tweetybird plaster! (ahem.. haha)

Well we took bus 170 yet again to Larkin bus station, in Malaysia, and stopped at Marybrown's to eat. Sigh, that was when i found out my malaysian one rinngit-s were expired. I tired to use them to pay for my iced milo and the cashier went "These are expired already!" How embarrassing was that?! Sigh...

Here we are at Marybrown's! =)

Right, onwards, march march march, to the coach we hired! ARGHHH a 6 hours bus ride! I could have died in there. We were rushing to put our bags at the back, so i took out only my windbreaker (GB's one), and left everything else! Thankgoodness Jia zhen brought her MP3 player along to entertain us. We listened to quite a few songs, so wasn't so sick on the bus. After a while, was a bit tired already, so went to sleep. I mean come on, it was like 2 plus in the morning? Haha our body clock went so wrong... Krystel sat with another guy in our group, and i felt a little cause she was alone. Anyway, i think it was better for her to sit there in the end, cause jz and i were a little uncomfortable in our seats. We were as good as stuck! Nevermind, we'll leave it as that.

FINALLY the bus had a rest stop. We all got off to pee, and pee, and peeeeeeee..... Everyone were so zombieliked and cold. So off we trooped to the coffee shop to get our hot milo. Before the milo could even arrive, the whole lot were back boarding the bus already. We were like "WHAT?!" *panicks* I was trying to gorge down my milo as quickly as posisble but it was so SO scorching hot!! Actually, i wanted to finish the whole cup, but since the girls were so fast in drinking, i decided to forgo the lasy half of my milo. =) Was quite sad. Haha, all the way to the bus i was literally thinking longingly of that half filled cup of MILO.

Well back to the bus.. sigh... back to our seats... sigh... back on the road... sigh... back to sleep... sigh...

ARRIVAL! SQ...

Okay so not so high class. Just the arrival of a very normal coach at Sungei Lembing! We packed our daypacks, AND GOT TO BRUSH OUR TEETH! Haha, a very rare thing down there... After that, the interesting part comes...

There's Krystel looking.. uhh.. REALLY stoned...

THE LORRY RIDE!!!

(to be continued once again) heh heh

9th October 2006

Well well well...

I got back my CSE (computer science) grade today! Just realised something, peopel are never ever contented with what they have. I mean, how much can we improve in such a short period of time right? Not to worry, i'm not pointing fingers at anyone, only at myself really haha. You see, i failed my first BASIC computer science test 2 weeks back, perhaps? I had 5/10, but in SIM, that ain't the passing mark. The passing mark is 60 %. Annoying right? haha Such high standards.

Anyway, this time round, for the mid terms, HEY i passed!!! BUT i got a C grade, i think. 25/40. I know i passed, but i dare not calculate the actual grade. It could be a C-, or a D, but whatever, i don't really want to know. Initially i was so ultra excited, SUPER happy, cause i thought " OEI LOISA KOH MEI SHI! You passed girl! You're the genius of the world! SUPERGIRL!" hahahaha yeah narcissist i know haha, but give me some credit here, i IMPROVED. That is the important thing right? Always improving, that's the best anyone can hope for.

Yet... After a while, i began to feel... sore? I don't know, like hey, why couldn't i have got better? Oh, but what the heck, i'll do better for the finals eh? As long as i improve, i'm the luckiest girl on the planet!

Thank you Lord. =)

ps: the peeps are back, they got their results already! HEY GUYS! haha =)

8th October 2006

I'm dying... from the haze. It's killing me. If i don't contract kidney failure from the high amount of carbon dioxide in the air, i'll suffer from respiritory problems due to the sulphur dioxide. Haha okay exaggerating here a little... but seriously, the psi level is at an unhealthy level already. The healthy level should be 100, and although it did drop form 150 to 140, it's still unhealthy!!

BRING OUT THE MASKS PEOPLE! 1997 is BACK!

Riiight, being dramatic here...

Anyway, on just don't open your windows and doors too much okay? It's very choking... I'm thirsty, i'm hot, and i'm uncomfortable, but somehow it makes me work faster and better. Now that the haze has cleared up a little, i seem to be more laggy... oh well.

Gotta run, literally. My dog's screaming for me. She's horrible lar. This morning she wanted to watch tv, so i turned the channel to "beyblade" on kids central for her. Not quite sure why, but she loves that show. -.- Don't ask. AND NOW, she wants to go for a walk. Siiighhhhh

see ya =)

Poem

It is the Lord, who will set me free
Watch, as He shines His light on me

No mountains too high, no waters too deep
My soul is for the Lord to keep

I lift up my voice, with songs so sweet
And it will be the Lord i'll meet

Forever faithful, i will remain
My love for the Lord, i will sustain

My name is in the book of life
The Lord has removed, all my sighs (?? or lies?)

Thank you Lord, for loving me. Oh,
I shall worship You, now and forever so.

(or Thank you Lord, for loving me
I shall worship You, for all to see)

I kinda came up with this on the spot after reading the previous post in an email i received. Haha it ain't too good, it is after all, just a small lil poetry of a thing. HEY i am an amateur okay! haha i had a little trouble with the second last stanza. couldn't seem to rhyme it. AND i can't decide which one to use for the lazy stanza. the "or" part sounds nicer, of course, but i kinda like the other one put there. haha oh well. It is for the Lord, so wh cares? It's what in the heart, that is true. Right? haha =)

The game was tight. Archrivals had faced off for three and a half periods in a seesaw battle that was going down to the wire. As the clock ticked down, the two sides traded the lead back and forth. Neither could be assured of victory because with the game so close, anything could happen. From the sideline, the coach watched his team getting more and more apprehensive as the seconds ticked away. They were missing shots they never missed. They were missing opportunities they didn't miss. Even their body language said, "This is bad. We might lose this one."

With less than a minute left, the coach called a time out. Now he knew that every girl on that court had been over the plays a million times. They didn't need elaborate help to set up a play for a last second win. They needed to calm down and play the way they knew how to play. So when they bent into that huddle, the coach told them something more than a little unconventional. "Go out there. Play the game. Have fun. Do your best, and I'll win it for you."
No pressure instructions. No you have to win this or we lose to our rivals. No anxiety-inducing strategy. Simply, "Go play, and I'll win it for you."

To my way of thinking, that was an audacious statement because in reality, it wouldn't be the coach taking the shot that would win or lose the game. He would be standing on the sideline with no direct control whatsoever. However, this coach knew something about the training these girls had been through, and he knew without a doubt they could do it. The problem was they didn't know they could do it, and so, he let them rely not on themselves for the win but on him.

The amazing thing to me when I really started thinking about this statement is that what that coach told his team is exactly what Jesus tells each one of us: "Go out there. Play the game. Have fun. Do your best, and I'll win it for you."

"Play the game. Have fun."

We think it's all on us-that we have to get everything right, do everything perfectly, or our "win" will never materialize. In fact, we get sucked into this mentality that Heaven may be just out of our reach no matter what we do. However, I think the reality is that Jesus is the coach standing on the sideline having full faith that we can do everything He's trained us to do. We can love just like He's shown us. We can give; we can live-not because we can do it on our own but because He's right there, and He has faith that we have been given everything we need to win through Him.

I'm sure you know the end of the story. When the buzzer sounded, the team who had just gone out, had fun, and done their best was victorious.]

One day the final buzzer of your life will sound, and the question at that moment will be this: Did you allow Jesus to be your coach? Did you have faith that He would win the game for you-or are you still trying to win it yourself? It's a question worth contemplating.

Big Face Cat

Haha just thought this was kinda cute. I was always attracted to grumpy faces or close ups... they're so cute! haha 

ANGEL! This one's for you! Hang in there, i'm with you the whole way! =)

Love, louie

ps: you had better appreciate this cause it's pink haha ;P

30th September 2006

Right, it is now 1am in the morning. argh! The last few days have been REALLY hectic. Never realised how fast-paced life can be. I though the worst was over after O levels, and then after the choosing of schools. Now this... -.- It's always going faster and faster eh? Like those dizzy tea cups you sit on at amusement parks. All they do is go round and round and roun, sometime sideways, then roung again, til you get so sick and tired, you start to walk funny. Yeah, haha i've been walking real funny nowadays, with my legs bowed inward.

I wasted a whole lot of time on wednesday night. Apparently, so did jia zhen. Haha we sure make a lot of boos boos, it's no wonder we get HYSTERICAL every now and then. We actually typed out our history )UGC) stuff, VERY nciely, and we were nearly completing the thing too, when.. we realised we were doing the wrong assignment. Instead of the week 5's homework, we were happily typing away week 4!! GRAHHHHH... After that, i think i usd up too much of my brain cells or something, i couldn't seem to understand what the heck i was typing for the REAL homework. Kenneth was grumbling away with me haha. We were both lost in the "light", we were so NOT "enlightened". Reading about plato, aristotle, daoism... i felt lke i was the one chained and in a cave, partly due the fact that my eyes were closing. Jia zhen completed hers so fast lar. So i stayed on the computer til...3 plus? Couldn't take it anymore and panicked, asking jonathan and gary to wake me up. Jon because he wakes up at 5.45am anyway, and gary cause, haha he was the only one alive on msn at that point of time.

5.45am. Jon called. I think i went back to sleep, cause gary woke me up again at 6am. Sigh, stupid homework. This is the first time in my entire life waking up in the morning to do homework can. NEVER before have i bothered to decrease my sleep in the mornings for school stuff. I sleep late, yes, but i NEVER EVER wake up early. And i obviously do not intend to again, cuase in school, boy was it nuts. I was falling asleep everywhere, and i actually fell asleep on the floor before UGC class started. Disugsting.

Then again, UGC has been giving everyone nightmares. Everyone has been asking and talking to me about that silly assignment. Let's count...

Gracelyn, Kenneth, Jia zhen, Jonathan, Cherie, Jocelyn, Eileen, Elizabeth... Did i miss anyone out? Ah well 8 then... SEE? Poor us haha *wallowing in self-pity*

*slaps ownself*

Right. I shall stop complaining. Gotta study study study. The mid-terms are

HERE!!!!

ANGEL! Hang in there! I'm with you! =)

25th September 2006

HADY HADY HADY MIRZA! ahahahahaha singapore's very own idol!

JIA ZHEN! mmmm? any comments? wahahahahahaha told ya, no jonathan for me. ahem heh... just alex. ahaha nah kidding.

right i shall ATTEMPT to stop gloating and uhhh, go uhh do something... something... can't quite remember... too many things to accomplish so... something... hmmm

ah

1. RESEARCH paper
(shucks)

2. communications OBJECTIVITY project
(double shucks)

3. computer science HTML WEBPAGE
(SHOOT!! but then again, many people have been really sweet, helping me and all that. Special thanks to kenneth cause now i found out how to do it PROPERLY!!)

4. communications exam
(i'm kinda hoping it'll be postponed, but i doubt so)

5. computer science xam! ah ah ahhhh
(thansk cherie, for helping us zap the book! she a darling isn't she? jon lent us the book too)

6. Grah, all the other examinations are coming up too. NUTS

haha, this is beginnign to sound like some kind of acknowledgement page. oh well. i shall stop here and so my

"something"

and i haven't quite figured out where to start.

right. ONWARDS loisa! uhh majulah koh mei shi! -.-

"Majulah"'s onwards right?

ha random. okay see ya!

ps: I'm gonna go for baptism soon! Whoopppee =)

24th September 2006

I found this small snippet of a piece of paper in my bible today. It made me reflect quite a bit actually

"Only one life, Twil soon be past
Only your work for Christ will last"

Hmm inspirational eh? Made me realise that my sole purpose on earth, and everyone else's i guess, is to glorify the Lord, win more souls, and bless everyone around me.

I shall try to do that, but i of course will stray halfway and therefore, i say a little prayer for the Lord to give me strength and faith to carry on.

On to a few jokes i read in an email. Pretty hilarious haha. I couldn't stop laughing.

- "work facinates me". I can look at it all day. (-.-)

- The wise never marry, but when and if they do, they become otherwise. (ahahaha!)

- A bus station is where a bus stops. (duh)
A train station is where a train stops. (sigh... yeah)
On my desk, i have a work station... (...?)
What more can i say? (heeee heee hee!!)

ooo boy, haha made my day sia.

OH yeah, and sammi made me one happy kid when she told me she ain't a com whiz either. haha no idea why, but it made me feel not quite a dumb ass. =) Thank you sam!! =)

Right, now i gotta go sleep early. AND i have to write that letter to cherie. She seems so sad lar, i cannot take it. Must write something. Although i'm not sure if it'll make a difference... BUT she jsut smsed me and said she's not feeling well. Grah, poor girl. Take care of yourself alright?

Adieus people! =)

Love, loisa

22nd September

funny. how come my blog's layout changed on its own? Hmm, looks like my very own website has a mind of its own. Creepy.

Anyway, i'm feeling quite proud of myself. I managed to conquer my frustrations and not go mad. I was on the verge of pulling out all my hair just now though, ha, that must be the reason why i looked so flustered and sick when i got in SIM. At least, that's what steph and jocelyn said.

I was trying to do a little on my CSE 111 project. I'm required to do up some html thing, my own website or something like that.

BUT

My silly notepad programme cannot save in html format. My MS word has hidden codes which automatically implant themselves into my already painfully typed codes, so my website comes out funny. AND i do not have microsoft office or front page, which can be used to view html stuff.

Wonderful eh? I had 29 copies of html codes saved in text format, and 29 similar ones saved in html format. Both formats did not work. SO in total, i typed 58 files worth of rubbish. Such a waste of my time, effort, and eyesight. It's no wonder i'm getting a headache now. Jocelyn was sweet though. She offered to help me. And i love my cherie too! She told me i could type my stuff out in notepad, and send it to her so she can help me save it in html format. However, i'm thinking of tryign to download my own MS office/front page thing. I don't want to bother her too much. We're all like super stressed here already.

Sheesh, assignment after assignment after project after project keeps pilling up. I'm not scoring fantastically for my tests too. I merely passed for my "world civilisation" and english tests, and i FAILED my first computer test can. See? I told you technology and loisa are just not meant to be. Oh well. I'm going to really try my best, at least i will not have any regrets. All the other things i can't do, God will help me do. =)

AHA another headache. The communications objectivity project. Sigh, i've been tryign to find articles but my silly computer can't get into any nice websites. It keeps going error error, and disconnecting itself. What is going wrong?

*PIAK* smacks a fly. This annoying fly keeps flying into my face. What the heck is wrong with it? I need one of those electronic rackets which can kill flies with just one swip, but then again, that's cruelty. Sigh...

Hmmm, i think i'm goign to be sick. I keep coughing and sniffing. Grah...

*sings* Virus virus go away, come again another day, or maybe not at all... =)

Right, sorry, going outta my mind. i'm off!

21st September 2006

Right i'm finally blogging...

to say...

that i will not be posting much for the next few weeks? or maybe for the rest of this semester. Haha, it would depends on how busy i am, and my mood.

Lately i've been ever so tired, and gosh i have like TONS of assignments now, so people, don't talk to me in long sentences or i'll get blur and go nuts on you!

Well busy busy, gotta run, literally. =) See ya!

love, loisa.