Sunday, December 20, 2009
I shall blog abt the taiwan trip so far! It's going to be very narrative cuz I need to remember what happened so that I can 'translate' my reflections to chinese when I get back. Oh I hope youth camp was good :)
First day:
Reached Taiwan airport and met daddy there:) Then went to the hotel to stay. The room is super nice and big with a nice toilet! And we went shopping! Bought one notebook which was really expensive! Didn't look at the price before buying. I was thinking 'notebook prices all abt there so nvm'. Well, learnt my lesson. The hard way:/ Yup, then had dinner and went back to the hotel. And played pool! There was a pool table there and we could play for free:) Yup, after that played cards a while and went to sleep. Oh the tv there has like 100 plus channels -.-
Second day:
Woke up and had breakfast at the hotel. It was really nice:) Then took bus to mingdao high school. Met our group members and all the teachers and students there. The school is really big and the ppl are nice. I have nice group members:) That morning we had our first 'lesson'. It was abt yushan. Some mountain in Taiwan basically. Then we had lunch. They don't use spoons to eat and they drink soup from cups o.o After lunch, we went out to see a train station. It's quite cool. And also went to make sun biscuits! haha. It's a direct translation from tai yang bing. It tastes not bad:) Then we went to meet the shi zhang. Erm... mayor? I dunno. He's quite hmm inspiring? Just gives the feeling that he's a good mayor haha. Yup, then the first night was home stay. The sight of all the school buses coming to fetch the students home is really something we will never get to see in Singapore. There were like 50 over school buses at the carpark waiting for the students. Singapore like have abt 6 at the most? And that's only half the students cuz it was the second round of school bus already. So we took the school bus to one of the students house. Her house is super big! Even bigger than caroline's-.- It was I think 6 storey high and there's a lift in the house. There's also a basement which was the karaoke room. We slept there. Like can fit 7 ppl. But we sang karaoke till like 2am before going to sleep haha. Yu Xuan's voice is super cute! She sounds like a small kid. Oh dinner was at a night market:)
Third day:
Woke up super sleepy and slightly late so had to rush for school bus. Didn't have time to eat breakfast. There was morning assembly and we were introduced to the entire school. Stood in front of like 7000 plus people. Fortunately not at the first row and I didn't need to speak-.- Then we went to visit the paper dome and a tea place. Followed by lunch then ri yue tan, sun moon lake XP We cycled at that place. But for a really short distance only:/ Then we went back to school for a talk abt the different 'racial groups' (for lack of better word) in taiwan. the speaker was really good. Her singing is pro haha. And yan was chosen to dress up in one of the costumes. After that our buddies told us to grab our stuff and hurry to catch the school bus. I was rather blur but just followed. We dragged our luggage like across the entire school to get to the main gate, hoping that the school bus haven't left. Super cool, Like weaving through all the ppl and running in the wind. Fortunately there was a red light at the school gate there and we managed to catch the bus:D Went to Yun Yi's house this time. Her house is big too! She has 3 sisters and each of them have their own room o.o Yup, went to feng jia night market and ate a lot of different kinds of food. Nice:) Haha I think the food in the ye shi is like the nicest. Cuz there's like a huge variety for us to choose and the food is really not bad. Then her sis came to fetch us back and we slept after bathing.
Fourth day:
Had a lesson abt poems and songs in the morning. Then went to a literature museum and had lunch on the bus. McDonald's! Haha I wanted to try taiwan macs. Ate some burger that Singapore doesn't have. Quite nice:) Then we went to this school to have a talk by yu guang zhong. He's supposedly very famous. And walked around the school to look at his stuff. Had dinner at huang que lou then went to 'love river' to take a boat ride. It was cool:) Like both literally and non-literally. After that went to the place we were staying to sleep. We had 13 ppl sleeping in the same room:/ Took like super long to bathe cuz only had 2 bathing cubicles. Then we taught the taiwan ppl how to play PIG! :) Haha super funny as always. And we also played I never. Then started talking to this shanghai girl or rather listening to her. She was really entertaining. All her stories were hilarious seriously. She just talked for like 1 hour and we just listened and keep laughing. I fell asleep at abt 3am. Apparently the Shanghai girl didn't sleep at all o.o I can't remember her name:/
Fifth day:
We basically were in the bus the whole day. Travelled from taizhong to taidong I think. Spent abt a total of 8 hours in the bus. We were singing karaoke the whole day throughXP Actually I wanted to sleep but end up singing. Slept for half an hour only. Oh and we saw the pacific ocean. Very pretty:) Went to take pictures also. We went to some museum place and watched a dance performance by one of the 'racial groups'. All children. Very nice:) Then they made us dance also haha. Oh one of the songs they danced to was 'every move I make'. I bet they don't know it's a Christian song. But isn't it so cool? Reached our staying place at night. It's a lot nicer than the previous night's. Had 6 ppl in a room and we have a view of the pacific ocean from the balcony! The waves are really really nice! Can sit there and see whole day. Makes me think of how amazing God is to have created this. I sat at the balcony watching the waves and listening to 'Indescribable' :) OH! There was an earthquake! Quite big like 6.8 on the Ritcher scale and the center was at the place we were staying in. Like we were in our room and suddenly the whole room started shaking quite a lot! We were like 'what's happening?!' cuz we didn't have any taiwan ppl in our room so all nv experience before. Then someone started banging on our door and we opened it to see everyone standing outside their room. Apparently the first thing u do when there's an earthquake is to open the door so that the door won't go out of shape and we all get stuck inside. The shaking stopped after a while. It was super funny. All our room ppl were super excited and laughing, like cuz we never experience earthquake before so I guess it was quite exciting. Then taiwan ppl super scared. Zhe Yi was like 'why are u all laughing? It was so scary!' Then we laughed even more haha. After bathing, went to the other of our group's room. Played UNO and pig. Some ppl don't know how to play UNO o.o Yup, then went to sleep abt 1am.
Sixth day:
Woke up and had breakfast with an ocean view. The breakfast was delicious! Nicest breakfast in taiwan so far. I'm looking forward to tmr's breakfast:) Morning was quite cold. My hands were like freezing and a bit numb. Had another lesson abt poems. I think the poems are quite cool, especially the one with lots of puns. Then we went to tai lu ge. It's this place with a lot of natural scenery esp mountains. The mountains were magnificent! Reminds me of God's awesomeness again:) I want to go there and climb it some day! Then we went for lunch. Nicest lunch so far also. The soup was nice! After that we were supposed to go cycling. So we cycled. Yan and I were cycling together and we just followed the ppl in front. The ppl at the back were quite slow and we couldn't really see them so we just cycled on and on. After a really long time, we saw the front ppl turning back. They said we went too far, like a lot further than we were supposed to go. All the other ppl already went back and returned their bikes! So we had to cycle back. And after cycling for so long, our legs were very tired. And we were really very late:/ Then we went to visit some place abt the racial groups again. After that had dinner by ourselves at this street. Like just walk ourselves and eat whatever you want. Didn't really eat a lot. I bought shoes! Then we returned to some coffee place to listen to this author talk. It was really cool! He talked abt the ocean and all the ocean creatures! He has awesome pictures and really entertaining stories. I think he's one of the best speakers so far:) Yup, then we went back to the place by the ocean and that's where I am now!
So that's the trip so far. Made a lot of friends:) There are 10 ppl from Singapore, 20 ppl from Taiwan, 2 from Beijing and 7 from Shanghai. And the day here seems very long. Or rather the night. Cuz it's dark really early like abt 6. Then I'm very used to sleeping soon after the sun sets. So it seems like I spend a lot more time awake cuz I spend a lot more time in the dark. Hopefully it makes sense -.- English is so much easier to 'write' than chinese. I'm supposed to review what I learnt everyday in Chinese and I think for super long and write one short paragraph -.- So I gave up and decided to go home and slowly think. So narrate everything here so I can remember what happened:) ok, shall stop here.
trumpets forever - 9:20 PM :)
Monday, December 14, 2009
Had baking session today with cell! :) haha quite fun but tiring...
Baked from abt 10 to 6, including buying ingredients and lunch break. so long... but i think consider quite fast already. cuz quite a lot of ppl doing together. That time I did 2 batches alone, took super long. Yup, it's for jael to eat during youth camp :) hope they like it.
Tmr going taiwan. going to be there for 10 days. missing christmas in singapore :(
Have fun at youth camp ppl! :)
I just have to post this XP
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trumpets forever - 10:14 PM :)
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Sunday! :)
I'm still tired. Don't know why. Millie came today! And she's going for youth camp:) But I'm not :( Ps Andrew didn't manage to rush back in time:/ I realised that when you have more things to worry abt and focus on, being afraid of hearing your own voice seems like such a small problem-.- At least I tried. That wasn't so bad after all, was it?:) Didn't have cell in the end. Baking tmr! Joyce has one of the recipes and she's not coming -.- let's see how we bake. Iain didn't come :(
trumpets forever - 10:38 PM :)
Saturday, December 12, 2009
I woke up early today to pack my stuff cuz I wanted to go Angelia's house to play guitar hero. Then I got a call saying that they're only there until 1 so I couldn't go in the afternoon. Got cheated to wake up early -.- But well, I guess it's a good thing or I would have like slept until dunno what time.
I realised you need quite a bit of knowledge to print booklet:/ I printed like 2 times wrongly before I managed to get the correct one. Firstly, you must know how to insert ur paper so that the ink comes out on the correct side. Like visualise 'if it goes in this way, it'll come out this way...' Secondly, must get the page numbers correct cuz it's not in order. As in one piece of paper will have 2 pages from the front and 2 pages from the back so you better get it right. Thirdly, in order to print it nicely two-sided, some pages u type the page numbers with the smaller one first while other pages you have to type it with the bigger number first so that the left and right will be correct. know all these and it'll save you paper and ink :)
And I also filed everything. ok, actually not really file. In fact, I took everything out of their files -.- ya, and put them into stacks and into plastic bags and seal nicely and put them on top of a cupboard. I was like 'If I find any random piece of notes now I'll just throw it away'. Like seriously. No way am I going to take everything down and unseal and file that one piece of paper and put everything nicely back again. so troublesome.
yup. and had elmm gathering. had 'christmassy food' sort of haha. and had games, or rather, game. the game went quite well i think. It lasted for 45mins haha. Thanks Jeremy for carrying it out:) I really didn't want to/: And I didn't get any prizes:( actually koped one. Then Gabriel wanted so I gave to him lo. I should have taken 2 then Cheryl could have one too. I am actually quite tired after the gathering although I didn't really do anything. Maybe stress makes u feel tired too haha. I'm glad that one thing is over. Now left cell since camp booklet is done too! I left out one name. I'm sorry:(
I really feel like sleeping already. But need to pack for tmr. I shall go pack and go sleep :) or maybe watch tv XP
trumpets forever - 10:53 PM :)
Thursday, December 10, 2009
I realised how one word is so open to intepretation and can mean so many things depending on how you see it.
I realised that the best kind of hurt is most probably physical. It heals the fastest I guess. Other kinds of hurt may not heal even over time.
I'm done with camp booklet! :D
trumpets forever - 11:10 PM :)
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
"Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life." Philippians 2: 14-16a
How do you differentiate between complaining and venting frustrations? will someone die of having too much vent inside? Is complaining to nobody counted as complaining? Is venting frustrations in a blog counted as complaining?
honor your parents. so where's the line between listening to everything they say and having your own opinions?
I'm not even sure if i really want the answers
trumpets forever - 10:27 PM :)
Haha I really got something on everyday. very good :D at least I know that I did something that day and not like waste it away in front of the com.
Yesterday went to play frisbee at wcp! Quite a lot of people, not bad haha. But as usual I just did catching. Didn't really catch a lot though. Maybe I should try running ard next time, more fun and exercise more. But I need to be able to throw properly first XP
Today woke up early to file notes. I filed everything except GP. not bad right XD and i realised it's not my school notes that make my table messy. Cuz I file finish already but it's still messy -.- yup, then went jurong east swimming pool to swim/ play. Due to Thaddeus' great planning, end up only got 4 ppl XP me, isaac, thaddeus and willy. But still very fun. Oh gosh. even before we started swimming, an iguana got into the pool first. It was like swimming in the lazy river and the lifeguards were trying to catch it. Cause quite a commotion cuz it was like almost one metre long o.o we started swimming after it was done with its swim :)
went on slides, lazy river, wave pool, even went to swim laps. and we did the 'hardworking river' too! haha like walk against the current for one round. tiring..... and the guys just like to keep capsizing each other lol. yup, and I came home with muscle aches. half from yesterday and half from today:/ But had lots of fun lah. and exercise! :D oh should see isaac behaving abnormally. super funny! whee! willy and I laughed like mad haha.
ok time to do camp booklet. did the elmm thing yesterday. one thing off my list!:) there's still like 9 items there -.-
trumpets forever - 7:59 PM :)
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Prom is over! Photos on facebook. No point posting both sides right? :D
Haha I spent really little on prom. Like $7. Borrowed dress, shoes, bag and accessories from xiao gu :) And xiao gu helped me with make up too. Thank you!!! I think she's really pro. I should learn from her some day:D
Went ama house with yang lu to get ready with xiao gu's help:) did mask and everything. gosh. so many things to do and put can. haha when we were done I wanted to take photo with ama. She's so cute. Purposely go into the room to comb hair then come out take photo XD yup then took cab to city hall. I think we were quite late:P
Hmm to summarise the whole thing, it was just trying to find everybody you know to take pictures :) Didn't really eat also. They clear away the food very fast lah! Haven't eat finish then they take away already :/ But the food was not bad, at least those dishes that I ate. I think I managed to take picture with most ppl that I wanted to :) And as usual, facebook will take a really long time to upload them -.- Oh Luther performed with the choir ppl. And Jillian and Kian Kheong won most compatible couple! :D Eh I really don't know what else to post cuz we really only take pictures. shall stop here then! :)
trumpets forever - 1:29 AM :)
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Have quite a lot of things to do but I have decided to blog first! Later must do camp booklet, elmm gathering thing, erm comm stuff? ya.
Yup, so A levels is officially over! Haha a bit lag but nvm.
After that went for the Edge conference. It was awesome! I am really impressed with the youths there! :D and the worship band! and the messages! Haha it was really great. And I think it came at a really right time. Cuz like A level period didn't really have a lot of time for God so the conference fired me up again. And what better time to listen to those messages about us having a lot more things to do for God than after A levels and I have like 8 months of holidays before me! XD Yes! SHOUT for God :) I want to go back vfc again:) Learnt too much to summarise here. I'll go internalise them first before I decide if I want to post them:) I really like their band!
I realised I cannot really multi task if that's counted as a task lol. But good way to forget abt the previous task haha. Millie came for church today :D And the movie was nice:)
Do the right thing, come what may.
Set us apart for You.
trumpets forever - 10:25 PM :)
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
I think I got a job o.o I was still thinking aiya just apply lor. so many ppl apply not so easy to get one. Then without any interview or anything, I think I'm supposed to report for work at the end of this month. Good thing is can earn money :) But there goes all my play time:( mon to fri 9-5 must work. sat maybe need also. no time to play!
I sort of want to do camp booklet. I think I should get 'permission' to do it officially and not do it unofficially then obviously it won't be used in the end. waste my own time. dumb dumb:/ But then I think I want to do it now cuz I don't feel like studying then got nothing better to do. Cannot! Must study:/ still got bio mcq haiz... must be focused so that i won't screw up bio.
Oh i'm done with my chinese essay:) But i think it's a bit off focus. It's supposed to be a holiday experience. the first one third of my essay talks abt before the trip. the middle one third talks abt during the trip. and the last one third is sort of reflections. what holiday experience -.- and I was doing word count after every paragraph XP
I almost forgot to send out the minutes. Break for too long already. See what A levels do to people. Today they had band outing to sentosa. Cannot go cuz still got one more paper. Physics ppl finish already:( Luther still had to call me to remind me that he's going -.- haha ok lah. it wasn't on purpose. I think Mr Khairul's half of the class have mcq camp today and tmr lol. meng mug mcq. I think I should reread some of my notes cuz my bio knowledge seems to have disappeared:/
I went to watch some survivor episodes on youtube. Quite interesting actually haha:) Now then I start watching tsk. But I think quite difficult to simulate the show.
I want my fac shirts :)
trumpets forever - 9:31 PM :)
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