ALright...another lag entry. Lemme change the date.

27th January Saturday

Sailing training today. On the Byte again. A small speedy boat but extremely unsteady. It's my second time sailing on my baby and I resolve to "tame the beast". Nasty boat gave me a hard time the other week. Capsizing countless times and sucking the energy right out of me trying to upright her. Anyway B17 is too boring a name for a beauty like her. So I shall give her a name: ShadowJayde. Haha, like owner like boat. Shadow Camper and ShadowJayde. Haha. I'm a madman who names his boats. Too bad I can't christen it with a galss bottle, or else Mr Yong will take a METAL one and clobber me to death.

 

Alright, today sailing figure of 8 around 2 marks, both on reach. I wanted to try something more exciting like going upwind but i shall leave it till next time when I get better. Had a bit of a tough time rigging up my baby. Considering that it's only my third time rigging up a byte. Actually I think I'm not that bad already when it comes to rigging up a byte. Just that I revered the outhaul and other minor mistakes...Heh heh. We got bungs today. Last week nicole and I had to use TAPE to seal the hole. Or else water will start leaking into the hull of the boat and it'll be quite tough to get the water out. NSC water = water with lots of oil scum and litter. Frightening thought of all that rubbish spewing into my precious. So we got bungs to seal the hole PROPERLY. I was very pleased. I also bought a burgee, the wrap around kind. That stupid thing cost me $20!!! Some plastic pieces and a screw cost me TWENTY BUCKS??? Haiz, no choice. Can't get it cheaper anywhere else. Then when I got back to ShadowJayde, i realised that there's no screwdriver to fix the burgee on to the handle! ARGH! This means that I can't use it this week. Shucks.

 

Now that we've launched, the accidents started to begin...The sky was threatening but NO FEAR! The Shadows have nothing to lose (me and my Byte). I shall recall all the calamaties and blunders that happened to me.

Number 1:

I got hit by a 420 on the starboard side. I got hit by a 420!!! That thing is like 1 and 1/4 times bigger than my Byte and about 1 1/2 wider??? Not to mention much heavier and deadly too. The 420's bow struck ShadowJayde's starboard side and as a result...I got thrown off the boat and into the water with my boat following suit. After righting the boat I found a dent on ShadowJayde's starboard side. SHIT, I'm screwed...I was still in a daze to figure out why Andrea (the 420 crew) didn't see me. I was on a reach so I didn't see them but they were approaching me head-on. SHeesh! I recalled Zhaoey saying, "My God! 3 pairs of eyes and we're all blind." How true. Thankfully the dent popped itself out and there were no cracks or holes. She's a tough one I say...

 

Number 2:

 

I got hit by Kai Xin on a Laser which is, again, bigger than my Byte. This time when I say "I got hit" it doesn't mean my boat got hit but seriously I got hit, in person. On the left hip. We were on collision course and I wanted to bear away but my stubborn boat refused to listen therefore I got bumped on the hip. Thankfully I didn't fall off or something.

 

Number 3:

 

My tiller extension broke. I don't know how it happened but it happened anyway. First capsize: Tiller ext bent around 45 degrees. Second capsize: the bent part fell off. I was stunned. Stuck in the open sea when it's raining, strong current and with a broken tiller extension isn't a good thing. But nonetheless I managed to head back to shore very slowly. I don't want to capsize and impale myself with the broken tiller extension which was quite sharp since it broke. I was back to shore early so i sat down on a concrete bench flicking away all the scum on my legs and doing a little reflection.

 

Number 4:

 

All the bumps and cuts experienced while sailing...

 

I feel very abused...poor ShadowJayde also took quite a beating. Oh btw, I kinda managed to "tame the beast". She was much more obedient than last time.

I take back what I said earlier on. I may not be the best in whatever I do best, nor can I do anything spectacular. I may not be at the top of the social ladder nor do I have skills that will help me get to the top. However, I'm not at the lowest rung either. When you're among the best you sometimes forget who you really are. You start to compare yourself with others and see your many flaws and weaknesses. Nevertheless I will not say that my strengths outnumber my weaknesses. So I must really give thanks that I am who I am and that I am given all that I need to make a difference to myself. My most precious possession is my identity. And there'll always be one Shadow Camper who thinks the name Oxalis Jasmine is the sweetest sound on this world... ...

Ms Low asked us what legacy would each of us leave behind today. And it stumped me...Why should I leave a legacy? If i'm gone, i'm gone. People might be sad, some might rejoice. Even if i do leave some piece of myself behind...why should anyone bother to remember it? Alright, assuming that everyone leaves behind a legacy which they probably do...what legacy would i leave behind?

Since long long time ago...everyone used to say that i'm a cheerful kid full of energy and excitement. Now that I'm in the IP, all that cheerfullness, energy and excitement has all gone. What's the point? I've tried and failed. It always happens like that. When you think you're good in something there's always somebody to step over you. Even if you think you're an all rounder or a jack-of-all-trades, there'll always be somebody rounder and a jack-of-MORE-trades. Fine, we don't have to excel in everything that we do or beat others who are better at what we do best. So we can stay at the bottom of the social ladder and be content? Nooo...In the IP, you're exposed to the REAL world. Exposed to people who can probably squish you with their fingernail and others who are simply better at everything you do. I had a dream once...I wanted to join the DSO, get a defence science scholarship and get a few patents. Now it seems that there's no more defence science scholarships left for me and all the ideas that I had were already existent. Maybe I'm wrong to despair. But I'm not. I'm doing a reality check. Hope to succeed but always always prepare to fail. You'll probably fail more times than you succeed. Now, I don't believe in optimism. It never works. Optimism drives you up a wall thinking: YES! I can do it! Just let me try! I CAN do it!" Whatever for? Some can jump up the wall, parkour over it. Know your limitations. Go AROUND it, no point banging at it just for the sake of optimism. It's too ideal to be true.

 

So what kind of legacy do i want to leave? I want to be known as the Camper. A practical, down to earth jack-of-all-trades. Of course not without the lameness. Just camp, watch how others do it then make a move. Look what the situation is like before making a decision. Silence is golden. Reality is too cruel, learn to live with it. It smacks you on the head and before you can get up it hits you again and again and again. So what for get up? I'd probably move faster crawling than those clowns trying to get up and falling over. The ones who are standing are the ones who have no heads for life to take aim at...

 

Camper legacy...

List of things that I did today:

1. Write a letter to my mortal, guess what...I wrote part of it in rune! Hahahaha! Poor dude has to go and decipher it himself...

 

2. Played volleyball during PE. As usual I was camping again...hardly touched the ball. Zhai Juan, Donovan and Cui Yue were playing, fortunately CK couldn't play, if not they could start playing 2-a-side volleyball liao...

 

3.Took my weight and it turned out to be a whopping 63 kilos...I was stunned. Seriously hope the weight is muscle weight, not fat weight. Anyway I am officially above 180 cm. I'm 181!!! Woots! Congrats to myself! Oleh!

 

4. Went to fence Nicholas again...with the wooden swords that I brought back from Japan for cultural night. Couldn't bear to leave it there so I brought it back. Now it's put to good use...I taught myself a new move today. I was so pleased with myself...maybe I'm praising myself too much but hey...I'm from Sailing not Fencing...

 

5. Had a ridiculous conversation with Christine

Xtine: Where are you guys going?

Me: To Beyond!

Xtine: *stunned

Lollerskates

 

6. Went to beyond childcare to do some sai kang...Seems to be that I was the only one around who knew how to use a laminator. Haha, the other group had to read with the children while my group had to do "teaching aids"...SO we did the usual cutting, colouring and laminating...Interesting thing was that after we finished laminating the crossword puzzles with the children's names on them...we found out that there are a few poor kids with their names MISSING from the crossword puzzle!!! Like this guy called Solehein(at least I think it's spelt like this) was left out. There wasn't even an 'O' in the crossword! How to find sOlehein??? Lollerskates...

 

Anyway now it's time for the more philosophical part...

I've always been very interested in social science. My current interest is now about sociable people and anti-sociable people. It's a very interesting study. IPs already display some very intriguing personalities...

Type A: The truly sociable character. Very friendly and mixes very well with people without any problems

 

Type B: Also very sociable but has a few dark sides like a short temper, aggressive etc. Nonetheless, friendly and likeable

 

Type C: Sociable but only to certain groups of people...they are despised and hated by the others

 

Type D: Fallen socialites. Used to be liked by everyone but when something happens or a secret is revealed...yeah u get the idea...

 

Now...for the anti-socials...

 

Type 1. The ultimate anti social, does not have friends at all.

 

>>>To be continued

Just came back from Sim Lim Square (SLS for short). Collected my sis' lappy and bought a new motherboard for my com. My sis spilled water on the lappy and fried the motherboard. So there, A very intelligent thing to do. Anyway...I hope now that i got a new motherboard...i can start using my PC and play games...I was so dissappointed last Sunday when I got call of duty from my friend only to return home to find that my com isn't working...Sad...so sad. Anyway I haven't put in the motherboard yet...But I sure hope it works...

 

Summoning PC: 0% completed

How interesting...during physics lesson today, ol' Boyo was teaching us, and will be for the rest for the year. But he made us think alot. About physics. I like the one which he said that physics is all about probability. Just like what I was thinking! If you jump on the floor, what are the odds that you will fall through it? Very low but you cannot erase the probability. How interesting...I have foresight...

 

And here's an interesting thought. If objects prefer to be in constant velocity or stationary...which means that an object will not move unless external forces act on it. BUT...if you could reverse this, and make objects prefer to accelerate...bingo. You get energy. Free energy! At no cost! Turbines would move on their own! Imagine a bullet which will accelerate on it's own, coupled together with the energy supplied from the exploding gas within the gun...you can make rail guns man...firing bullets faster than the speed of sound or even a rubber band lol. But of course not everything should tend to accelerate.

 

Okay just an interesting thought for the day.

 

And I believe that we live in a damn sad world. Feeling happy is the negative of sad. And we are always sad when made happy. Not happy till made sad.

NACLI was a complete nightmare...and a total rip off. Actually couldn't really blame them...who knew that they would be situated smack in the middle of a forest so that the facility recieves ample amounts of rainfall and off course non-human visitors from the forest...Anyway, we all tried to make the best out of it so we turned the whole thing into a gambling den. Without the money of course...budden it wouldn't be called a gambling den wouldn't it? Hm...fine, we were always playing cards. Without the cards...there wouldn't be much left of us...thank goodness for the cards...

 

First day...

We were given a lecture on service learning...All that I took home was that service and learning must be equal. You can't serve more than what you will learn and vice versa. I wonder why not. Later on in the day we went down to the centre at Bukit Merah. I tell you the kids are adorable but bloddy hell hard to handle. The centre was called Beyond social services. Went to check around the place and interacted with the kids. The kids are quite smart actually, but have extremely short attention spans. It was damn hard to get them to do anything, let alone READ to them... This is going to be abit challenging...Wonder whether you can evangelise to them...Heh Heh, their parents will probably slaughter me if they find out.

"I want you to draw a BIG BIG fish."

"Alright, I'll draw you a big fish."

*Finishes drawing a big fish

*Kid is nowhere to be seen

Cunning fella...

So I will use THE modern approach...It's called IT. Bloddy hell, the place has computers and LCD TVs...Like wtf? That's better than my own TV!

 

Alright...so the next day was about to get worse...Everyone was split into Courses A and B. So we had a smaller group and could "learn better". I'm not going to record what they taught because everything that they said is already in my head. I have learnt everything and am practising them now, setting goals...team building...etc. What rubbish. Didn't get anywhere exciting...Kenny was stoning around and I was pretending to be excited, at least I tried to make the most of it...The fun parts were AFTER all the rubbish activities...

 

Fun parts...

1.

Ok, this is not so fun but it's interestingly irritating.

*David enters my room

"Hey check your bed and pillows for bed bugs."

*everyone shows the WTF face

"My bed and pillow got alot"

*I check pillow

*And it was bed bug positive...I flung it to the otherside of the room where nobody walked to and I used my inflatable pillow instead. Thank goodness I have excellent foresight (To bring the pillow, not expect the bed bugs)

 

2.

*Feels cold in the middle of the night, roughly 3 am

*Realises that the air-con was set to 16 degrees and nobody changed it

*Didn't bother to change the temperature. Wraps blanket around self and tries to sleep

*Hears a funny noise 5 minutes later...sudden realisation that somebody is playing Jay Chou music and it's Joel

*Tries to sleep again but cannot

*Tosses and turns but unable to fall asleep again

ARGH!!!! Darn you Joel. Ar....

 

3.

Context: I just moved into Sheng Chow, En Wei and Kenny's room to bunk for the night. We were all laughing and joking lying oon our beds in complete darkness. The mood was very high...

"OK...enough enough, we should go to sleep/
"Ok, I'm saying goodnight for the last time. Good night"

*Awkward silence...

Sheng Chow," I love my balls."

WTFOMFGBBQ....That was the ultimate random shit statement that was ever made...We all started laughing again for probably 15 minutes or so before knocking out. Thank goodness Cephas' bed doesn't have bed bugs...

 

4.

There's another traumatising incident regarding vtsxu jptdr but I'd rather not disclose it. Rather scandalous if you'd ask me. But either way it was traumatising for me...i got the shock of my life.

 

So that was all at NACLI...

 

And when I got home...my com broke down and today I lost my phone charger, i brought it to the camp but I clearly remember packing it in...dunno what happened to it...

 

 

I just read the email ol' boyo just sent us about the NACLI camp about what to bring and what not. And I personally feel that I have to yell at NACLI...it's gonna get dirty...

 

 

zzZZ...NACLI camp is going to be a bore...Service learning at NACLI...so much for the word "camp" that got me all excited. Then Ah Boy has to give us a briefing and throw a wet towel at me...service learning is totally different from a proper camp. Unless you teach other's how to camp haha. So I'm going into NACLI bored and xianded. Nothing but lectures and "leadership training". Honestly I tell you that none of them ever work, except for the one that i went to at yfc. That one was the best, i'll never forget what i learnt. But NACLI??? ALright, maybe there'll be some games where teamwork and leadership is required...but the whole thing feels like a deflated balloon to me. Seriously. If you want to train leadership and teamwork, why not dump us in some uninhabited island with nothing but a knife, flint, a bag of uncooked rice, bait, fishing hook and line, a map and a compass. Survive for 3 days. Sounds like fun? DEFINITELY!!! WHat a way to spend the day hunting for food and learning to throw the knife. Cool...but for now, NACLI isn't going to do that...pity.

I can still remember the financial literacy course in IP1, John Cheah's gp won the praxis game with a large lead over the second winner.

"How do we make money?"

"We sit down and make money!!!"

That was their motto

 

Coming to the point, I need to find a way to raise three grand quick...The IP2 indieventure trip is in the first week of june and they're going to whisk us off to some ang moh country. Average cost after the $650 subsidy? 3 grand...I almost fainted...Sell my house liao. So...going along the line of "sit down and make money"...I thought of the ultimate money making scheme that doesn't require you to move around...just SIT DOWN AND MAKE MONEY!!!

 

Scheme 1

Xbox/PS/console gaming competition. Well, since some of us already have consoles, why not use them? We can always go arrange with the teachers to allow us to use some of the classrooms as gaming rooms. We don't have to sign up for Xbox live, just use the cheapo split screen method. Round robin style. Charge everyone $5 to enter the tournament and offer a $100 prize for the winner. Remember we play different games for each console, Xbox alone has a few worthy games to play, that means quite a few tournaments and one person can take part in more than one tournament. And each game can be played differently. For Halo 2, you can sign up as an individual or a team. Shiok right?

 

Scheme 2

I call this one: Reliving the old days...

Remember when we were kids there will always be different fads. For example, yo-yo, beyblade, tamiya cars? Hahaha, why not re-live the old days? We still have them right? Beyblade competition, tamiya car racing? Isn't that cool? But of course we need a tamiya car track and a bey stadium. No problem, ask any hobby shop and there you have it.  Of course you gotta charge people to enter the competition. PS. My ultra-modded Dranzer-S will pwn the rest...I got spark disk hahaha...

 

Scheme 3

Tired of VJ food? Why not let us order for you? You order, we deliver 3 days later...heh heh. This is totally unlike subway. We offer food and beverages from any restaurant, you name it. Of course there will be that small little surcharge...heh heh heh. Starbucks, KFC you name it...

 

Scheme 4

Abit unorthodox but hey this is bound to work...We rent handphone chargers...what are the odds of having your phone running out of juice without you knowing? VERY HIGH...assuming you don't have a charger with you. But who carries a charger with them? So uncool, not "hip"...so we do it for you. heh heh. a dollar for a full charge? Hey electricity is free, we're just renting the charger...

 

Alright, so here are my money making schemes. I'm going to need business partners so anyone who wants to jump onto the band wagon is welcome. BUT you must make an active contribution or you won't get your full share...Gamers will be the preferred business partners. If schemes are successful, we might be able to extend it to the public! SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

 

 

Alright, another lag entry. lemme reset the date

Date: January 05 10:35 PM

 

Okey dokey...let's get things started. SO for the helmsman week me and a bunch of others from IP2 will be going to at-sunrice to learn how to cook (mind the pun)  (actually that's the name of the workshop) What a dreary day I thought. Cooking is interesting, the possibilities are endless...you can make a thousand varieties from one dish, which the Koreans are exceptionally good at. (If you read the entry: Korean Frenzy you'll get what I mean) I a;ready have some intel about what we're going to cook: chicken, popiah and another dish that I cannot remember. Intel also says it's poison. Unfortunately, we have to cook our own lunch. Heck, just do the way of the premchand: anything bite-sized can and will go into the stomach. So I hobbled over to the bus bay, still reeling in from double shock, Japillai's scolding about not attending assembly and running away like mice coupled with Huang laoshi's reminder that chinese homework is due next week. I'm dead...but I'm already dead. I was born to die the moment I was born! Er... nvms. So I met up with all the PRCs from our class. It seems like all the PRCs and ME from our class is going together. Do I look like a PRC to you? Wait till I speak chinese and you'll know I'm malay...whoops Singaporean Chinese I mean...Enough about the pre-trip let's get to the main part.

 

After playing taiti on the bus with cui yue, yu hang and esmond, we reached fort canning. WTFOMFGBBQ??? Fort canning? ALL THE WAY THERE? I wonder how far I am from simei...so after getting there and getting to know the chef, his name is chef A btw, his real name is to long for conversation, so we'll call him A, we got on the spice hunt. We were split into groups by drawing lots from a glass goldfish bowl. Esmond was nudging me to take group: Asam which was obviously the same as his. It was pretty easy to get Asam as well. All I needed to peer into the bowl and see the label: Asam staring at me. I picked it out without difficulty. Later we got to find out who was in our groups. I was in teh same boat as Esmond, Beau and Prohan. Soon after we went on our hunt around the spice garden in Fort canning which at-sunrice was smack in the middle of and to jot down the locations of each spice on the list onto the map given to us. When I first saw the map I almost puked. A hand drawn map, at least with ruler and no scale. Worst of all, NO NORTH ARROW!!!

 

ARGH!!!

Oh the anguish! You have to feel the same pain as I do...because all of us will be going through it...Actually it didn't matter, cuz we don't have a compass. BUT!!! You can always make your own. All you need to do is to stick your arm in the air during mid morning or mid-afternoons to get a direction. Very simple, problem is...there was no sun there, only shade...I almost went bonkers. So after hunting around for some lousy weeds, we finally made it back to at-sunrice hot and sweaty. The humidity over there is way over the limit. Me and Esmond were squatting infront of a fan that was placed on the floor. And we all took gulps of lemon grass tea that so many of us used to water the plants before the hunt began. Honestly it tasted like cough syrup but you people didn't have to throw it away...so what if it tasted like strepsils? Coca cola was originally meant to be cough syrup too you know...So, the results of the spice hunt. Guo Wei's group turned out tops with a full score of 10 out of 10. He was pointing Ls with his index finger and thumb at everyone. How "L"ucky, his prize was to be able to enter the kitchen first! HAHAHA! My group came in second with 9 points and tied with at least 4 other groups. Heh heh, nubbad eh? SO after the announcements and stuff, we have to learn table setting. Like, WTH? I'm from CHINESE family, I don't eat with ze fork and spoon. I use a pair of chopsticks. Honestly, I hardly touch a fork unless eating western food, which is rare on the dinner table. But the napkin folding was interesting. Being able to fold it into a Kimono, tuxedo and T-shirt was simply fascinating. I doudn't do it very well but blame the napkin...it wasn't perfectly square. After which the chef announced what we will be cooking. That will be Thai food. I almost did a parkour off the ledge of the building and flew 2 stories downwards. I was so happy with the nine out of ten and then you tell me THAI food??? Aw...c'mon...too bad, gotta cook it gotta eat it. In the end, we cooked pineapple rice, some funny pumpkin plus chicken curry and steamed fice with lemon grass. Wasn't so bad because it wasn't really thai food. I eat this all the time. except for the pumpkin and chicken curry. I only ate pumpkin once in my life and I know why people carve it into such hideous shapes during halloween.

 

The cooking was interesting. All of us had different tastes. Imagine a venn diagram. Three circles, labelled Spicy, Sweet and Salty. Esmond and Piao Han was in the Salty circle, I was in between the Spicy circle and the Salty circle and Beau was in between the Spicy and the Sweet circle. While me and Beau were discussing whether to add more chilli padi, Esmond would object. And when me and Esmond were comtemplating how to add more fish sauce into the pineapple rice, Beau will VIOLENTLY object with rebuttals such as: You'll die of Kidney failure, and the classic: You guys are mad. In the end, we all reached a consensus. Not too spicy and not too salty. If you're wondering why Beau didn't want to add more sugar is because there wasn't much of it to start with. All ingredients were given to us in nice portions together with a piece of tree bark which they call a herb. All we had to do was to cut, chop and stir fry. Simple. And one interesting thing that happened was what happened to Esmond. After cutting up the chilli and standing next to the onions, he decided to rub his eyes...and he almost went beserk...his eyes were super red and he said it felt like putting muscle relief cream on your eyes, that kind of burning sensation...Lol. As my policy goes...help first, laugh at the poor guy later.

 

After lunch which was nubbad, considering all the effort into cooking the food. We didn't steam the fish btw, and thankfully it was beautiful. The Thai chilli sauce which was a simple mix of fish sauce, lime juice, chilli padi and garlic was heavenly. After laughing and joking at the lunch table, we all went back to do friut carving. We were given extra-sharp knives to cut the fruits. I was paying more attention to the knives really. The feel of the knife through fruit was sensational. Only if my knife could do that through flesh...not human flesh of course...unless...just kidding...am I...? we were supposed to carve flowers out of chillies, CARROTS and make a basket out of a cucumber together with something that looks like a fern out of a piece of spring onion. I made two "flowers" out of a carrot then gave up. I cut the spring onion leaves so delicately but when soaked in cold water, it ended up looking like shredded Kang Kong...sad...so sad...So I decided to make something out of the cucumber. I split the thing lengthwise and gave the other half to esmond. I hollowed out the insides and made a canoe with carrot oars and carries two carrot and one chilli flower and a piece of Kangkong longer than the canoe itself. Esmond made an engraving onto the cucumber and filled the spaces with carrot such that on the outside it looks like an oval pencil box with orange letters: VJC IP. You can ask him for the photo.

 

After the carving I had to part with my beloved knives. Knives so sharp, yet so delicate, drop them and they will bend and lose the sharpness. Just like a young child, you have to shower them with care and concern...never mind, not many people share the same love for knives as me.

 

What a day at at-sunrice...or what a day at-sunrice. Hahaha, mind the pun again. Lollerskates.

 

>>>Camper signing off with a fruit carving knife

Purpose, what is it? Is it something that drives us, that pushes us, that connects us, that creates us? Purpose. What is my purpose? What is the keyboard's purpose? Is purpose destined or preordained? Or do we give purpose to something? What is purpose's purpose?

Helmsman week is next week and there's a camp! Not a real camp-camp but it's still a camp! Overnight and we're staying at some wierdzor chalet at some nacli leadership thing. Best of all, it's next to a forest. HOW COOL IS THAT!!! That's it, campers it's time to arm yourselves. Everyone strap a kinfe to your belts and hang a compass round your neck. We're goin' CAMPIN' ! WOOHOO! Then there's this cooking thing that I believe is going to be hilarious considering the people that's going to be there. Their cooking skills are miles apart...and I'm gonna have a good time laughing. And there's this miserable GSE aka Group Smulation Exercise. It's a stupid program where they throw you into a group with people you absolutely don't know and give you a problem to solve within an hour. Bad thing is...you have to present your solution and there will be 3 teachers shaking their legs watching the bunch of you. WOrst of all, is that there's going to be a video cam taping the whole bloody thing. I'm going to sit with my back facing that bunch of lens and hey presto, it can't see me. Muahaha.

 

Anyway for CT session, Ms Loh showed us a picture of a woodland deer and 4 trees that have branches so twisted and so obscure that if someone doesn't tell you that they also look like a deer, you won't see it. Morale of the story:Be open to possibilities. Yea, I'm open, open to the fact that there's also a possibility that there are no possibilities.

 

There were 2 operations carried out today. Operation S and Operation E

 

Operation S 1.0

Mission type: Search and Recover

Armnaments: None

Threat level: Negligible

 

Mission Brief: Intel reports that the now IP3s from former class 06v13 are vacating room T23. We have important goods that we need to be moved to T33. The goods that you will be carrying will be 2 sofas. A three seater and a two seater. Both sofas will have to be returned to T33 in good condition. In the event that you face resistance from the current T23 inhabitants, you have been given authority from personnel Cristine, goods must be transported out within 20 minutes.  Command will be dispatching an experienced Spec-Ops soldier to assist you in this mission. Use him wisely. Good luck stike team Zulu. Remember, do not harm the occupants, they must be kept alive and unharmed.

 

Mission Specs: All strike force members are to gather at Nav point Alpha at 0710 hours. Zulu one will enter and alert occupants. Once occupants have vacated the sofa, Zulu two and three will enter and assist Zulu one to carry the sofa out through the back door. Zulu four will open the back door. Spec-Ops leader will scout ahead and make sure escape route is secure. Zulu four will escort Zulu one two and three and rendevous with Spec-Ops leader at T33.

 

Zulu one reports mission success. All inhabitants and Spec-Ops leader is unharmed.

 

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Operation S 2.0

Mission type: Search and Recover

Armnaments: None

Threat level: Negligible

 

Mission Brief: Intel reports that inhabitants have left T23 for orientation. T23 is therefore empty. You will now transport the 3 seater sofa from T33. Mission Specs are similiar to Operation S 2.0. Strike with stealth, SPec-Ops leader will also be assisting you in this mission.

 

Zulu one reports mission success.

 

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Operation E

Mission type: Escape!

Armnaments: School bags

Threat level: Low

 

Mission Brief: Intel reports that the security guard does not allow victorians out of compound before 1240 hours. Personnel Priscilla and Jillian have been repelled by the Security guard. Strike team Zulu is in desperate need to leave the compound for classified reasons. All other exits from the compound is deemed unsuitable for use. Leaving the main gate the only way out. Security guard remains as the highest threat to mission success. Reccomend sending for back up. Dispatching Agent Loh to eradicate main threat

 

Mission Brief: Classified

 

Zulu one reports mission success.

 

 

Noooooo! The holidays are over! In another 9 hours I will have to get up and get ready to go to school. Haiz...another year of torment. Why can't things be like the matrix?

"Operator. I need all I need to know about physics to clear the exams."

"Yessir, uploading information now."

*Eyelids flutter

"Got it."

But of course I would have to insert a needle which length is larger than the diameter of my neck into the back of my neck. And the knowledge is only available in the matrix...Sad...so sad.

 

Anyway have to be optimistic hey? So I'll walk into class smiling and wishing everyone a happy new year. Yeah, like that's going to happen. Actually there is...a 50/50 probability that it will happen. I have to learn probability soon. AN interesting concept that will never work. Your percentage can be soooo low but there's always a chance that it'll happen. Unless you can eradicate the chance, there's no point doing probability. Just like winning the lottery, the odds are so low but someone always wins...

 

I don't want to go to school, but I must. I cannot let my mind degenerate into some brainless creature that suptters nonsense. I'm packing my bag now...clearing all the papers in my file and I just realised how much I didn't go through during my revision last year...anyway stack 'em up and shelve 'em. Easiest way. This year...after the EOYs, I'm going to burn all the paper that I have amassed during my 2 years in VJ and create so much smoke that people in Australia will think that east coast is on fire. That's a new year resolution...talking about new year resolutions I better make them now.

 

1. Burn all worksheets after exams

2. Learn how to throw knives from Wilbur

3. Learn to study smart

4. Finish reading the New Testament and the books of Moses

5. Finish the campaign on Halo 3

6. Share the gospel to at least 5 people

7. Give up being a leader

8. Sleep less

9. Play more...whoops study/work harder

10. Grow closer to God

11. Buy Xbox 360 to accomplish resolution 5

12.Get more RAM for my PC

13. Finish top 20 for Inter schools sailing

14. Do 10 chin ups

 

Optional resolutions

1. Upgrade my bloddy samsung phone.

2. Get better results

3. Train for WCG: Halo 2

4. Go for an "outing" with Jason at least once

5. Get a 6-pec

 

Things that I resolve not to do, absolutely cannot do and must not be done or else certain doom will face me

Never...

1. be in the class comm.

2. go back to Changkat Primary

3. whack Jun Han

4. kick Mr Hwee's balls

5. climb into the tree house via the bridge

6. lose to Cui Yue during cross-country

7. join any sports day event

8. do anything stupid

9. define stupid

 

Alright so there, all my new year resolutions for 2007. Happy new year and I still don't wish to go to school...

 

It's 11:10 am now and I'm pretty much in a daze...Blame my church's watchnight service for all my fatigue. But I guess it was worthwhile. Dedicating the new year to God is something that is better than some rubbish countdown party. Anyway I woke up to the new year with a very bad start. I wonder what a really bad stomach ache in the 4th hour of 1st Jan means. Probably death in 4 years time I think. I'm just sputtering nonsense. Anyway I hope this new year will be better but it never happens because I have been hoping the same thing thousands of years back. Since it never gets better than I should be thankful since last year would be better than this one.

So there are some people I would want to thank...*play star awards music

To sum it all up...I want to thank EVERYBODY! Those whom I like dislike everyone...for playing a part in my life. Making it the way it is now. SO I thank everyone for being themselves...

 

SO now to start the new year with a bang