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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
1:21 PM
today!

today is gamelan day! but first, let me start with the first lesson of the day!
we went for ite! yup. and we DISCOVERED that our video cam was spoilt all along, and it CORRUPTED our tape! so we're going to have to reshoot everything, something that we're probably going to do tomorrow during lunch and something that i DONT want to do. its not really that fun having to act out what honky says. aaaanyway, we learnt basic video-editing skills! like um. inserting titles, words, transition things and stuff. HAHA. okay wokay.

langarts! faith wrote yh is a prostitute?! on the board. and pt saw it before i could erase it off. >_> darn that faith! just because i was saying random stuff like i need love!!! and then vanessa said something about prostitutes and i said i dont need prostitute love, DOESN'T mean i'm a prostitute! faith's conclusions are always baseless! that is inductive. it might be a logical fallacy, but i don't careeeeee! so ya. pt launched into his schooltime reminisces and told us in jc there was this guy call fasham in his class.

"fasham is one of those really irritating guys who are capable of virtually nothing but still acts like he can do anything. so we got really fed up with him one day and decided to write on his table 'fasham _____ pomeranians' *me and eehui started laughing like mad here. no one else laughed though. AIRHEADS.* and we all were very happy and laughing. -makes laughing noise- then our lit teacher, he was this big british guy. walks into the room and starts teaching. and you know fasham is those people who are always late, so he wasn't at his table. then my teacher walks walks and then -stops and stares- and he saw what we wrote. and then we really got it. inside-out, outside-in, right and left
in and out again."

what he was trying to say was that "not all teachers can stand stuff like these -point to board-. so ah you all be careful what you write." then huiyan literally orders me to go rub it off. >_> ITS NOT MY FAULT THAT IT WAS UP THERE HUIYAN. -blows raspberry- anyways, found out that i didnt bring my handout. (where the fuck is it...) so i was writing it at the back of my disabled poem paper. yah. dulce et decorum est! we got to the gas part.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

he told us about when he was in secondary school he had a 9-day OBS course for NCC guys. so the last day, they had to go pulau ubin. "and pulau ubin then is very different from pulau ubin now. now it's developed already, not so bad. last time it was really scary. it was like this jungle out of a movie, scary shit man. then the instructors led us to the middle of jungle and told us, 'okay we're going to leave you here and you must spend 24hours on your own out here.' 24hours can you imagine? in that dark dark scary place. you're supposed to spend this 24hours in isolation, and if they catch you communicating with the other boys you'll be taken out and sent straight back to mainland. they gave us kits, from the army, and inside there was uh...chocolate bar, lighter, matches, poncho, maggi mee, really really hard biscuits to take place of rice and things like that, to replace your carbohydrates, and lemonade, and sulphur. *gomen forgot the rest* so this 24hours right, you either be lazy and sleep the time off, or you do things like cook the maggi mee and stuff. and then there was this guy, he was one of the active people lah, so he cook maggi mee, eat chocolate, the biscuits and all that. so you know after you eat, you get thirsty, so he decided to open the lemonade. so he took it out and started stirring. and you know, sulphur is what colour? yellowish green right. and lemonade what colour? also yellowy right. and in the dark by the candlelight, you cant see very well. and in the kit, they put the lemonade in these satchets, so you take them and drink. but in his mind, lemonade came in packets, and they put the sulphur in these sort of packet stuff. so what he actually did was he took out the packet of sulphur and thought it was lemonade, so he poured the powder in and started stirring. and then he drank it. *we all were like OMG here* and he started choking. and in the pitch darkness right, suddenly you hear this choking sound, like qi yue lidat, very scary. -makes choking noise-"

someone asked if he died. "well they got him just in time, they immediately evacuated him. because you see, even though they say you're alone, you're never alone. so they quickly took him back to mainland."

we were also talking about how tired the soldiers were. weak, exhausted, fatigue. HAHA i remember. he was telling us about this yearly examination in the army. its an obstacle course, and apparently it's one of the worst exams you can ever take in NS.
"you start with running like mad for 700m, with all your full gear...which adds up to about 6 or 7kg. you run full out for 700m, and then you get your first obstacle, which is like a wall about this high -shows a height way over his head- and then you have to climb this wall. and you can imagine, 10 obstacles, which are either so high -shows height again- or there are a lot of barb wire and things like that. and the last obstacle you have to scale this really high wall and then jump off. and below they put a lot of barb wire, so you must jump over them or you sure kana. so you know after like so many of these obstacles, you have to run another 700m of nothing. and by this time, you're so tired, all you can hear is your breathing. -makes very very exhausted breathing sounds- and we know lah, when our men run then we always shout at them, eh you _______ lah! why lidat? so _____!whatever thing also can come out. but they can't hear us at all cos they're so tired so i dont know why we even shout."

D: LA lesson. END. had pe! hahaha. eehui and lydia taught me how to serve properly. and i kept uh unconciously throwing the shuttlecock then trying to hit it. (of course, i dont hit it.) and i'm supposed to drop it. so........well anyway i got the hang of it. though i have to take quite some time to serve. woo! i got 13/15 for overhead clearance. ANGELA IS EVIL. she whack all the way from like near her end, to outide the court on MY end. wtf! then so high somemore hit also cannot hit back liao. -jumps- and cherry and me were like rallying, coz we were like HAH! -whack- HAH! -whack- HAH! -whack- lol. yah. quite fun lah. we're going to have theory test, apparently. after pe lesson we still stayed inthe hall and whacked a few shuttlecocks around..played doubles and triples and whatever shit also got..haha. papa has this stance when she serves, its kinda like crouched, and then she whacks the ball all the way to the back of the other court. yah. hahahahahaha. peiyan hit no strength one. yup. for the rest of recess we played this neopets game called typing terror. its lame and stupid. but still quite fun. these robots come and they have words on them and you type them out. yah. then wusehngqiang came.

haha! he explained a bit more, then after that he told us okay you can start writing now and hand in by end of lesson! then we're like WHAT! and then he says latest by the end of second recess bell. sad lol. we protested really badly, so he went "you mei you ren du zhe zhang proverbs de zhi?" and no one raised up their hands. then he said "ru guo you ren you du jiu rang ni men you geng duo shi jian xie!" and then everybody raised up. XD then he said "okay very good! then i ask you any ju zi then you can explain to me!" then everybody put down their hand again. XD lol... then yuhsuan was like "wo men zhi shi sui bian du er yi..." then he was like "na wo jiu sui bian wen ni me ke yi hui da lah!" then we're all like WHAAAAAT. lol .but in the end he let us look through the paper in groups. and then ask him the meaning if we dunno. hahahaha! then yu hsuan kept quoting them to use against him then he quoted more..and everytime there was something along the lines of if you dont put in effort, you'll never succeed, then he'll be like "ke yi yong wo lai zuo li zi" yah AS IF. he very successful meh. after all, he is a teacher. AHEM. anyway, we went through everything, and we had five mins left.

wsq: okay! ni men you wu fen zhong. ke yi kai shi xie le.
us: HAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WULAOSHI NA LI YOU ZHE YANG DE
wsq: she mo? wo you mei you shuo jie shi le jiu bu yong zuo... -GRIN-
us: mei you shi jiaaaaaaaaaaaan!!
wsq:...................................hao le. ni men yao ming tian jiao hai shi xing qi wu jiao.
us: XING QI WU
wsq: i knew you all would say that. (this is uh supposed to be chinese.)

yay! so we're handing it in on friday. which means we have to do it today. LOL. okay. no diff. D: umm. during lunch i refused to donate for stupid huiyan's stupid thing. SO she threatened that she would tease me. so i was like >_> tease lah tease LAH! so now everytime she sees me she HAS to go yonghui.... -shake head-

audi was fun. cherry played school song and screwed up a little. we were too busy laughing to sing it. XD um. this really huge fat angmoh guy from hwachong came to gave a speech about humans! he's really very funny. the first thing he says is "thank you for giving me this podium to stand behind. it really hides what i've accumulated over the years i've been in singapore. believe it or not, when i first came to singapore, i was a lean, dashing young man." everyone was like UHHHHHHHH. hahahaha. i <3333333>

mrs ee was being pissed with the bus driver or something. haha. he came late. on the way there we played concentration. cherry had to walk up and down the bus aisle saying "I'M STUPIIIIDD!!!!" and valencia had to go to the guy's leg and look at it seductively. something which she DIDNT do. she just ran there, looked, came back. and uh i had to ask if jiada and partner wanted chips. and wenyi had to give it and ask some other guy if he wanted. XD and then cherry also uh, waved at jiada. lol. he asked if she was sec2. so she decided to ask him if HE was sec2. (duh no but who carez. XD) stupid bus ride. laugh like shit.

then in the javanese gamelan room where we all went first, the sec2s (us) were going to stay back to do javanese gamelan first, then balinese gamelan. and jiada wanted to do javanese. so he went. "i'm sec2!" then the whole sec2 hmp burst out laughing like SHIT lol. haha anyway. me and tifa got the kendang!! <3 drums =" fun!" drums =" CONDUCTORS!">

ttpb bp bp. and then the rest is offbeat b then p. so p is on the beat. until the last line, where we go something like p bp b pb bp bp. then it ends! lydia, being the oldest, played the gong ageng! woot. hahahahahaha. we played a 32note piece. then we switched places and i played the bonang! haha. damn cool lol. very cool! -nods- the woman is very cool too! but she went off halfway for a meeting hahaha.

went over to balinese aka bach room. it was so much cooler lah! wahahaha. the wooden stands for them are so much more intricate and they're all painted gold and red. i played kempli ! i mark the time! hahaha and i was having fun making everyone go faster and slower. XD funny man. and mrs ee thought that i was really unstable. XD i was a bit lah, when he started teaching them the drums and the reyong. the rhythm was all offbeat-ish and i got a little confused. XD mrs ee likes reyong! hahahaha. tifa ceng ceng very funny. i played the kempli non-stop lor. my left hand holding it was sweating like mad, the kempli was shiny with sweat. XD the mallet/stick is very cool. the string part. its so tight and neat! hahahaha. it sounded really nice altogether. lydia got the ugal. another big master instrument. XD "its a calling!" to quote from the instructor. he's going to be interviewed! haha. there's a gamelan show on arts central on monday at 9pm. yup! he's on it. hahahahaha.

i asked him if we cld switch. so he let us! hahahahaha. i played the lanang! the male drum. tifa played the wadon, the female drum. male drum higher. hahaha. THE RHYTHM IS COOL. and then after we were sppsd to leave, me and tifa didnt wanna stop playing. so we just continued on and on. and then the instructor taught us how to play jet-are you gonna be my girl on the drum!!! WAH SO COOL <33333>
went back to the javanese gamelan room. the indonesian guy who is really specialized came when we left, and he was teaching them. yup. i think he's really pro and amusing. he let us join in! i bagged the kendang. MUAHAHAHAHA. then me and tifa were sharing. XD ttpb bp bp! hahahahaha. we tried out the rebab after that, the two guys were playing with the suling. obviously jiada is one of them. and tianyuan broke the rebab string. -_- rebab like banhu lidat. quite easy to play what. lol. hahaha. then they tested us with some gamelan music. then gave us our certs XD and sent us home!! woo. hahahaha.

there's a concert on sept 11, 3-4pm. esplanade. FREE! omgwtflol. I'M SO GOING. move yls up a bit lah >_<>_> showed me the label. SALT AND VINEGAR. lol hahahahaha. XD she asked her dad to say "thirty five dollars" and "thirty four fifty". there is a bit of accent there, but russell peters exaggerated lah. lol.

yup thats about it. aside from this weird angry woman who wanted to get off the bus and had to squeeze by me and i cldnt make way for her coz i was already against the seats and this fat guy was sleeping. not my fault k. i read the ppt notes of this person who was sitting beside me. duno what crap material lah. and atomisc or something lidat lah. XD hahahaha whatever. chim stuff. okay. yup. nice sky. orange and purple and blue. kewl man. i think i blog too long already. seeya.

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