Jeremy's Birthday

Staff Training Day = No school!!! I woke up in the wee of the morning at approximately 8+am to read 2 smses.

From Harish :

Guys i cannot go ice skating today i not feeling well.

From Jonathan :

hey, sry but i wont be able to join you guys today, still sick...

I swear, this is da bomb and so basically after waking up and watching Team Supremo on Disney Channel, I decided to call up the whole venture unit on the outing today and remind them to wear jeans and gloves for the ice skating. SOooo, i called Ram and he said that he went to see a doctor and he was not feeling well. Between you and me, i think he got bitten by a king cobra. So, to cut things short, in summary, a lot of people couldn't go at the last minute due to unforeseen reason such as having to do Maths ( Relax, Shide, i won't say it is you. ).

So, it turned out that only 6,7 + people could make it for Seoul Garden. Anyway, i was deciding whether black jeans would look OK on me and i asked Yanwei on MSN and he replied:

Dude, there is a reason why we have a mirror.

So, after getting changed and bring along extra gloves and jeans in case people forgot, i left the house with my spanking cool new cool crumpler. I was like making my way to the bus-stop when i saw my neighbour who asked me : You don't have school today? I was like : Yeah. Then she went " You sure? Confirm ah?" I was like" Yeah." I felt like a schoolboy playing truant.

Did i mention that 30th Januray is Jeremy's Birthday? I mean, i thought like God was always there, didn't know he had a birthday. So, when i reached Woodlands, only Yanwei, Jeremy, Samuel and I were there and whilst waiting for Cheeyeow, Yanwei talked about his godly act of acting as a J1. Nothing between you and me Yanwei but the truth has to be told, it has to. So, during assembly on 29th Janurary which was supposed to be a CEC council Meeting, our dear Yanwei and his accomplices( who shall not be named) basically went to the den to do some "cleanup work". I am not sure about the details but it is like the prefects who were outside the hall saw them at the den and when they went to the den, the prefect saw one of Yanwei's accomplice eye through the eye-hole and they looked at each other. So, when they wanted to book them for ponning assembly, our dear Yanwei braved them and said that they were J1s and were merely at the den clearing up the pulleys, which he was holding on to for some random reason. It is not suprising that the prefects believed him as he always has an RJC badge on his pocket but the prefects are quite dumb as one of Yanwei's accomplices was wearing shorts.

(Yanwei, i hope you don't take it as a personal insult)

Moving on to our main story, so after Cheeyeow came, we made our way to Seoul Garden :) i was starving like mother and was so happy to be able to eat. SO, before we entered, JEremy was saying that they all pass me the money so we can all give at once and cheeyeow was like DOUBTING my integrity and so i gave him the honor of collecting the money. So, when we found our seats, i went to start taking the meat. As i took, I remembered what the guy at the RE talk said about beef and vegetables and i felt guilty for a second but after that i continued on taking the chicken and beef.

So, we started talking cock and started cooking our meat. Jeremy was complaining to me about me keep saying the word" I swear" and i was like what's wrong... Still, because he was the birthday boy, i had no choice but to give in to his request. Really pity those people who never join us in Seoul Garden as it is really worth the money when you are going there with your friends. By the way, Yanwei is dam knots, go there eat the fried dumplings and food and then eat a bit of barbecued meat by Cheeyeow and then sit dere and emo with his earpiece and his incessant flu. Anyway, Zhixuan arrived at about 12+ and joined us and he said he was playing caged soccer and Jeremy asked, what is that? Answer was playing soccer in a cage :)

Then, whilst eating, we were chatting about CCA choices when we go over to RJC and Zhixuan was promoting fencing and discussing who in the batch could make it to fencing. I don;t make to name names but basically at the end of the convo, apparently no one could make it to fencing. Then, he started saying he wanted Frisbee... Suddenly, there was a group of people who suddenly sang a Birthday song for their friend and we were so close in singing a birthday song for him which Zhixuan managed to dissuade us from ( lucky :) So,at the end, Cheeyeow and I made this cake which was brownies and ice-cream and that was Jeremy's birthday cake.

Let me tell you, there is a serious problem with Seoul Garden's security as WEekien managed to sneak inside without paying but of course, being a scout, he did not take anything for free. So when we left Seoul Garden and made our way to Jurong East to ice-skate, Yanwei received a call from Haoqin and apparently, Haoqin had sms JEremy to tell him to call him when we were leaving while he loiter in Causeway Point but our Dear birthday Boy simply forgot about it and so we left Haoqin Behind.

I just realised i am talking too much details so i shall jsut cut short and be on my way to mugging bio, COme on CCTS are in like 3 WEEKS times, so you shouldn't be reading this blogpost but figure out what is sinxcosx=tanxcosxsinxsinxcosx...

So, apparently a lot of people forgot to bring their gloves and i had brought a lot along so there was enough for everyone. Kelvin and Ivan joined us on the way there and soon, we were at Fuji Ice Palace, waiting to ice-skate. I estimated the total price for 3hs to be about 20+ but because it was a wednesday, there was a special promotion and we just had to pay 11.80 for everything. YAY!
- So sorry, the blog starts to get boring because i am so sleepy rite now . ZzzzzZzzzz
So, upon getting our ski blades and wearing our gloves, we braved ourselves by stepping on the ice rink and we were all like some cute little ducks, clinging on to the handrail for dear life and it was pretty funny except for Zhixuan who was like suaning us at the side as he knew how to skate. Don't really remember what happened as i was concentrating on trying to skate by myself but i remember that our dear Ivan kept falling and it is really dam funny when he fall and the second on the list is Cheeyeow who fell down a couple of times. Time really flies when you are skating and 1 hour past like within a second and soon they had to go and resurface the ice.

Jeremy, Weekien, Cheeyeow and Haoqin can really skate very well and i kept trying to keep up with them, i cannot say that i am not sastified with my performance but i have this strange feeling that i am doing it wrongly for i ended with a lot of blisters at my legs while de rest didn't. By the way, i fell down this once which was like very not fair lor because this guy who was in front of me suddenly stopped and to prevent from knocking into him, i tried to stop , lost my balance and before i knew it i was one the ground.

So, at about 430+, Cheeyeow and Zhixuan decided to go to Queensway to go and buy tennis racket while the rest of us decided to continue. Then, we decided to decide what we wanted to do, with options, Lanning, Arcade and Movies and we all went ahead with movies so, Jeremy KElvin and Samuel stayed back continuing to skate while de rest of us went to check the prices for the movies. Sadly, most of the movies were at 7+ and so we couldnt make it as it was too late and so we decided to settle for dinner and go home. Whilst waiting for Jeremy, we stoned at the Arcade and were looking at this guy playing Time Crisis 4 and he was dam mother pro as he never even lost a single life till stage 3 or 4.

So, all's well that ends well and Jeremy birthday, remember don't buy photo frames for him next year! To end this blog off with a High note, let me dedicate this song to Jeremy:

Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday to JEremy!
Happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

heeeeya I uploaded a photoslideshow of everyone from the Venture Unit of 2008.



Any complaints of your photo, or anyone who wants to use another photo please send it to me. Thanks. (:


And I still need Zaki, Ivan, Ram and Joshua's photo. someone send me (:

Tennis Lesson

Today we went to the tennis courts opposite Dehong's house for our very first tennis lesson. We took 156 to a busstop near Dehong's house, but then it was raining. We decided to take a bus to another bus stop, then another bus from there. While we were waiting, I decided to squeeze Jeremy's tits for fun. Our wonderful CCAL started doing the same to me, and frankly it was far easier for Jeremy to get me than it was for me to get him, due to some size issues.

Well, we took a bus to the busstop, then we decided to walk instead of wait for the second bus, which was pretty dots since it would take longer, so we should have just walked from the first bus stop. I'm not saying anything about you at all, Dehong. Except that you're pretty smart.

We did get to the tennis centre in the end, where I found out several important things about the batch:

1) Wayne was suffering from some illness or other, so he couldn't come. Personally I'm expecting syphilis or something along those lines.

2) Haoqin is a dirty ponning bugger who didn't come for his NYAA tennis lessons. =)

3) I'm lousier than Kelvin. Yuck. I shall now copy Yanwei and put random Google pictures on the blogpost.



4) Speaking of Yanwei, he wants me to lend him my guitar. Ha, right.

5) I paired with Yanwei for a game, we got 10 points. Yanwei got 2 out of 10 but he is still better than me because he is a property mogul and could evict me from my house.

6) Jeremy said my tennis damn zai. =) =) =) =)

Seoul Garden tomorrow, then ice-skating = 2.5 hours of fun then 4 hours of pure shame and embarrassment. Yes, Seoul Garden rocks.

Hi guys!

On Monday, we had Scouts Skill training together with the SU. Now, why am I posting this only now? Well, it is because I'm a lazy bugger very, very busy person with alot of personal commitments. Anyway, we shall just have to delete Shi De's post discreetly so that we get the chronological order correct.

Anyway, I am sure that you guys are desperately craving for the scintillating details about knot tying and first aid, which is afterall a highly interesting activity. But this is a wenture'08 blog, and interesting as skills training might be, it loses all meaning without its star attraction.

Shi De gives his
very ugly Handsome Smile™

Oops, it seems like all our female blog visitors whom we all pray and believe exists (some people do believe in aliens and the Loch Ness monster after all) has just been scared away, but we will just have to make do. We accept no responsibilities for any deaths or injury caused directly or indirectly as a result of Shi De's megawatt hansem smile.

Anyway, back to the story: so we first had orienteering, where we basically covered some of the stuff that we did for our Gold standard like constellations and finding directions and stuff, which was taught by Zhao Wei Jie. Then, we had First Aid, where we did SRIT with Ng Jun Jie, and did the arbitrary CPR demo, and throw in a couple of broken limbs, burns and a delicious assortment of excruciatingly painful injuries and you get a recipe fit for a... Scout?

The last one was knots, where we were just supposed to recap our Gold knots. However, some of us who were bomb lazy already well-versed in the arts of knot tying decided to screw around, and I soon created my own spanking cool new cool knot, which I happily named a Donut Knot and went around showing others.

Example:

Me: Hey Haoqin! Look at my spanking cool new cool knot!
Haoqin: Is that your spanking cool new cool knot?
Me: Yeah! Its my spanking cool new cool knot?

...Ad infinitum.

However, Koala had other plans for my spanking cool new cool knot, and upon me showing it to him, he proudly demonstrated his advanced knowledge in biology by calling it something else, which made me throw my Donut Knot at him. See Kelvin, its a Donut Knot, you sick freak. The owner has the right to name it.

This was actually the highlight of my knots session =O

Speaking of knots, it seems that we all need to give some gratitude to our dear VQM:

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Mag Mell. =) says:
benhong/sarun took the bucket of ropes which i spent 2 1/2 hours on last friday coiling and stock taking

Mag Mell. =) says:
i stock take the ropes how many good how many bad, then sort them all out

Mag Mell. =) says:
then they take out lala

Mag Mell. =) says:
good job
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I shall copyright this font size and colour on the use of this blog. =)

Harmonica

Hi guys, i shall take a break off writing the VEXCO Meeting Minutes which currently consists of three k words.


Today we had our harmonica lesson for our NYAA (Silver)



The ventures present were:

Chee Yeow
Zaki
Yan Wei
Zhi Xuan
De Hong
Wee Kien
Hao Qin
Jeremy
Shi De

Apparently our dear Venture Chairman forgot to call the ventures and inform them about the harmonica lesson, as a result ninety percent of the batch did not bring our harmonica. Or ninety-nine if you don't count Shi De as one.

So we ended up having to share harmonica which is rather...

sick.



The session ended off with a test, which requires us to play the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and "Oh Susanna"


Yanwei now continues the epic story of (a portion of) the batch of 01-2005 in their harmoc lesson :

Meanwhile, we also played the Twinkle Twinkle with the slider which helps us play a seperate range of notes which are called sharp notes. You know those black keys on the white keys on the piano? Something like that. As some of the slider notes are actually the same as some of the normal notes, we had to replace the normal notes with slider notes so we could get more used to using the slider.

Anyway we took the test and we passed.

But now, for the more interesting story of harmoc lesson (there's always interesting stories), it is an extremely unfair and unjust deal between Shide and myself. Yes. Extreeeemeeeelyy unfair.
Remember how the Jew loanshark wanted a pound of flesh in that whaddayacalltat Shakespear play? This is just a modernised version of the story where the price is much more cruel than just a pound of flesh.

As you all may have read, most people didn't bring their harmocs. Yanwei was one of them. And Shide was another one of them. Cheeyeow, being a nice guy, decided to lend Shide his harmonica. However, Shide would not share the blessings of the harmonica with poor Yanwei. No matter how hard Yanwei pleaded and begged, and told Shide how many families he had to feed, Shide would not lend him the harmonica just for that one little tune he wanted to play to rehearse for his test, and the only form of practise for the test Yanwei had was singing the notes.

O'Lord Shide, pleaseth, lendth thy thou harmonica.....


Yes, singing. Not blowing a harmonica. Sick of Yanwei's incessant begging, Shide tries to find a way to make Yanwei go away. Shide thinks, "I ponned maths remedial with the NYAA Harmoc for excuse. And the teacher is hot after my ass for my Maths Assignment which I haven't done. And I am supposed to pass it up by today afternoon. How do I walk out of this classroom with a maths assignment which has been done?"
And yes, my friend, he gave me that look, into my saddened eyes, and I knew, my friend, that the deal was settled. I would blow one simple tune, Oh Sussana, on his (Cheeyeow's) harmonica, and I would be enslaved to eternal misery and chained to his maths assignment with shackles made of lead.


I started on all those radians and stuff. I mean who cares about sine cosine area rules, and who cares about trigonometrical ratios, and who cares about radians and formula for the area of segment. I don't know, but that is what maths is all about. I wonder if any non-mathematicians grow up, find a job, and look at circles and think about those formulas....well.
I mean like, try to find a head or tail out of this :



Ok maybe not that bad. But you get what I mean. And I tell you, doing a maths assignment like that is still OK. But if you try doing that in a room with 8 people blowing harmocs, you will seriously go nuts. But after much perserverance and frantic pressing at my calculator, I finally finished the assignment. And Shide looked like this:


And to end off this post abruptly, below are the scores for Oh Susanna.



Oh Susanna

5 5 6 7 7

7 7 6 5

5 6 6 5 5 5

5 5 6 7 7

7 7 6 5

5 6 6 5 5 5

6 - 6 7 7 7

7 7 6 5 5

5 5 6 7 7

7 7 6 5

5 6 6 5 5 5

and the scores for the favorite pop song by Jay Chou.

Secret - 不能说的秘密

Verse:

3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

6 6 6 7 6 5 5 4 4 5

7 7 7 7 7 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5

3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

6 6 6 7 6 5 5 4 4 5

3 5 7 7 5 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 5

Chorus:

5 9 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 6 6

5 9 8 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 6 6

5 9 8 9 8 7 5 8 7 8 7 7

5 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7

5 9 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 6 6
5 9 8 9 9 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

5 9 8 9 8 7 5 8 7 8 7 7

5 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7

6 6 3 5 5

Verse2

3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

6 6 6 7 6 5 5 4 4 5

7 7 7 7 7 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5

3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

6 6 6 7 6 5 5 4 4 5

35 7 7 5 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 5

Chorus2:

. .

5 9 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 6 6

5 9 8 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 6 6

5 9 8 9 8 7 5 8 7 8 7 7

5 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7

5 9 9 9 9 7 7 7 7 6 6 6
5 9 8 9 9 7 7 7 7 7

5 9 8 9 8 7 5 8 7 8 7 7

5 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7

10 10 7 9

Footdrill

Hello People!

After 1 1/2 years since the last footdrill in our Sec2 July, our footdrill session has finally come!
What an ~Exhilarating~, **Exciting** and ^^Captivating^^ activity footdrill session is! A time of our lives! I just can't emphasize how fun it was! Certainly the time of our lives!!

Ok for those who don't really understand sarcasm, footdrill is boring. But it is something that we HAVE to do, because of all those "cool, hip, and trendy" Muster Parades which have come our way. Meanwhile for your information, the SU did pioneering.

So, before we did our footdrill, we did our stylo-milo Muster Parade. We did a dry run which lasted until somewhere at 4.15pm. Then the proper thing ended at 4.30pm.

Then, we were given a leisure time of 7 minutes to change up to PE from Scout Uniform. I am not being sarcastic here as 7 minutes is much more than what we are usually given. I even got some spare time to patronise the water-cooler =D

The goal of the footdrill can be easily explained by the simple diagram below:

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(Rojak) to (some impressive army)


So, we practised our footdrill with Wayne, Chuyong and Zhixuan as timers. We practised a lot of commands, which I don't know how to spell nor pronounce. We learned sedia senangdiri, moving left right front back by 1/2/3 steps, size up commands, marching, turning right, left, and 180 degrees static footdrill. Although this was to us challenging, I tell you that the other uniformed groups with the exception of 01 (us) and 02 scouts, do more advanced footdrill EVERY session. We do it like once a year =D

After the end of footdrill, we didn't exactly achieve our goals of being some impressive army. But all the stamping of feet and marching on the spot allowed us to priviledged access to various facilities with this label :

Yea, our legs tanhuan-ed. Anyway, frankly, we felt that our footdrill improved quite a lot after all the hard work, but there is certainly room for improvement. I mean if those NCC cadets still have room for improvement, and they spend at least 2 hours a week on footdrill for EVERY week in their year, you get what I mean. But since the focus of scouting isn't on impressive footdrill, so I doubt anyone would really care about it. I think that those 5-10m high structures we build totally prawns footdrill. Everyone agree?

Ok, tata for now. Please blog actively and don't let the blog die out!

Muster Parade Rehearsal

Just today, we had another activity.


We continued on with our footdrill practice for the muster parade that will be held every fortnight in school.

(These guys learnt footdrill from us)

Muster parade is basically an fortnightly activity where students from all six uniform groups in RI gather together to do a short fifteen minutes ceremonial parade. The objectives of this parade is to foster a camaraderie and interaction between the officers and cadets of different uniform groups and to standardize a common muster parade procedure for all Raffles Institution Uniform Groups in future.

The activity started off with attendance taking, with the ventures having to do thirty seven push ups despite our count of "zero" latecomers, as well as the fact everyone handed in the parent's letter.
This guy must be from a Scout Group with a lot of latecomers

We later proceeded on with our activity proper. Initially we did combined muster parade rehearsal with the other batches, however, halfway through the the rehearsal, amidst the horse kicking, repeated "semula"s as well redoing of the whole procedure.

Our favorite Group Council decided that our footdrill is... cmi, and thus we were split into our batches for a crash course on footdrill.

For the next one hour, we did basic footdrill commands, and later proceeded on wioth muster parade rehearsal as a batch.

The activity then ended off at 4.30 pm after a final rehearsal with the Scout Unit.


Please don't mind my grammar. ;D
Pictures and captions by Yanwei =D

Pole Management & VEXCO meeting

Yesterday, Sarun continued on his QM regime and began working on the poles at Braddell Westlake Secondary School. We re-painted all the poles and re-marked their heights, since their colour was fading and the height measurements were mostly grossly inaccurate.

5 hours under the hot sun and we were rewarded with an arsenal of much better-looking poles which are now more organised and easier to pick out. Of course, that wasn't the only reward -- the entire troupe was presented with 8 bottles of soft drinks. =)

Following the activity the members of the VEXCO could only take a breather before proceeding on with the meeting at 2:50. It would be the first VEXCO meeting for the year where many issues were to be discussed in depth, and as a mark of how seriously we took the meeting, we all reported for the meeting in full scout uniform.

As expected, the meeting ran over time with many new issues brought up. Since the blog is open to the public, details and minutes of the meeting will not be posted here. However, all can be said is that we had a very fruitful meeting which lasted for about 2 and a half hours. =)

After Jeremy declared the meeting close at 5:35 thereabouts, the ventures went off for soccer, albeit having already spent so much energy for the day.

It seems Chu Yong is really an energizer bunny. >_>

Not Another QM Session....

Act started off with footdrill, and then there was the batch project meeting. I had managed to pon two PT sessions – today’s, and Monday’s (cos I was doing QM stuff =D). Well is my fitness good? The answers to such questions are rather obvious rite…
So anywaes, that morning I saw an ad for Men’s Health magazine in the papers – it had the following subtitles: Get back in Shape, a flat tummy by Feb, use food to fight fat etc. Well, the Man looks Nearly As Good As Me..
Hahas… I could use those tips =)

Anywaes, we had foot drill out in the raffles square which was really hot. Most of the Sec 2s were fidgeting(n some sec 3s n 4s) – I tink we might need really serious foot drill sessions like that in SUTC. Foot drill is not easy but if every other cca can execute it perfectly n win competitions, I think we cn too… But I lyk the part when we demonstrated our sizing up n all… the ‘bang!’ was good – loud n mostly together. But the disappointing part was the marching – it was rather screwed up….

Batch proj meeting was cool(the air-con temp was jus rite)… but quite boring…cos we kept going over the same thing again n again….

We should build ourselves another den or pole shed; I noe of a construction company that wouldn’t mind employing us…. Or we could go learn building at the college behind my house (batch proj anyone?)……


Oh n I appeal to you who read this to donate board games, carom seeds, balls, n anything that we can play wif to the den =D lets make the den a wonderful place to be at….



P.S. I can’t wait to roast frogs n eat them…