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Spending my last few days in Bintan was one of the most enjoyable times of this year, it was truly pure relaxing and fun, with the accompany of  my fellow ah bangs.

I’m quite glad that the whole trip finally pulled of successfully, it proves that i am quite a great planner actually Though i was rather afraid that there might be some coordination problems with the accommodations and logistics, but it all turned out well and smooth.

Day 1

We took the earliest ferry to Bintan, hoping to maximize the amount of time we can have there.

The moment we reached there, there’s no time to waste. Its banana boat time! There were decent tanning decks around, despite the low cost resort we were staying.

When Mr Sun decides to shun off a little, we went off to our next activity, Kayaking. Now i finally understand why kayakers have such nice arm shape. Its really tiring even after a short distance of rowing.

We had doubles kayak, me and DW, while CS and JH. The fitness level is quite imba of the 2 teams. Unfortunately, me and DW’s boat capsized within like minutes. The waves was just bringing themselves onto the shore, and its difficult for us beginners especially to get the ball rolling. But it was not until too soon that we got the hang of it and managed to row to and fro the coast.

Sadly, all of us were in the waters, so no pictures taken.

The food prices there are exorbitantly high. Its all in Sing Dollars and a meal can easily go up to SGD20.

Luckily, we got our rations ready beforehand. We brought lots of cup noodles, biscuits, chips and even mineral waters. Being the typical Singaporean, we will not let ourselves be slaughtered at such places, spending money on unnecessary commodities.

Rain started pouring and we have not much choice but to stay indoors. We were all tired after the kayaking hence the visiting of the zee monster was inevitable.

We visited Pasar Oleh-oleh in the evening, it was probably the only place we managed to find cheaper food. Actually, what was cheapest there was… BEER. Check out the price.

There wasn’t much to shop there also, while waiting for the arrival of the coach, we spent most of our time in one particular store, while up and down to waste time. Also on the store which sells mind games.

Day 2

Looking at the prices for water sports, it seems that kayaking was the cheapest and worth the money. So we decided to go for another shot of it. This time, me and DW took single kayak. While JH volunteered to be our photographer.

Single is definitely more tiring, but it requires lesser coordination.

In the afternoon, after our cup noodles lunch, we headed down to the beautiful Nirwana Resort Hotel. It was the higher class version of our resort. Since it was under the same organisation, we are able to use their facilities.

We were there swimming, Jacuzzi-ing, playing sun tanning.. The number of sun tanning beds there is scary. Its all over the resort.

Back to reality, this is our resorts at Beach Club, which has great budget rates.

We spent the night playing cards, spamming the chips and biscuits and other food stuffs we brought for dinner. Check Jiahao out after he drank “Bintang” which is their local beer. He started going like a drunk dog and started his acronym fever.

Something like instead of saying ‘Orange Juice’ he says  ‘OJ’.

Day 3

Knowing that we wouldn’t be eating for the rest of the day, we spammed the breakfast at the resort. Ordering as much as we could, since its charges is inclusive of our room rates.

We got our room checked out and headed to the beautiful Nirwana Resort Hotel for more fun and activities. There was this huge chessboard there, check out the position that i am standing at.

I’m the KING!

And we started messing around with the chess pieces.

The last few stuffs we did was archery and rifle shooting, not very encouraging due to the super strong wind, which teo describes it as more powerful then Mitsubishi Speed 4.

True enough, the wind speed there was really very strong regardless of the timing. Especially now the monsoon season, where it is directly blowing down from the South China Sea.

The 3 days was truly well spent, with the company of fellow brudders.

Actually most of the time, we were just lying on the tanning bed enjoying the breeze and the sun. Something which is not achievable on Main island. To escape from the urban life and slack, real slack without worries.

It would be long till the next one while we spend our time the next 2 years serving the nations.

Play hard.. 11 more days!

The title’s self explanatory.

This’s year band dinner was a total different experience from the previous ones i have had years ago. Well, probably of the venue, its not a hotel, its at some restaurant. I can’t really remember the name though.

The food’s quite bad i should say, maybe it’s my taste. It’s either too salty or too sweet and the variety for the buffet is like not even 10 course. So.. i more of less stuffed myself with fruits. I finished almost half a watermelon and another half of a honeydew.

Fruits buffet.

Such dinners are mostly about enjoying and taking pictures, so i shall cut the crap and post photos.

Here goes….

Mrs Tan, the most motherly figure in the band. She’s pregnant with another baby, very responsive to the government’s effort to increase birth rates.

The handsome boy clement, whom dressed so like a waitress i can’t help it but asked him to clear my plates. But he’s funny in it anyway which somehow spiced up the whole event. Especially in the limbo event.

This is just so candid. Pris just pop out of nowhere and it so fits the picture of laughing at Wei Jie’s Bird Nest hair.

My 2 legend band mates for 6 years.

More spastic photos, in appreciation of the flowers yuqing made.

So what group you think this is? The biggest party in NYJC Band.

Some post dinner activities, drinking. But it so doesn’t feel like it when there’s limited budget and time.

I shall post the rest of the pictures that i own in my gallery soon.

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The Bintan’s trip finally finalized and we are really embarking on it on the 28th. So, if i happen to have internet access there, u probably can see me online. If not you will see me back here in 3 days time.

Stepping foot onto Sentosa once again equates to more tanning. However, sad to say the intensity of the Sun isn’t that great today especially with the light showers in the afternoon, so we had only mild tan.

But according to TDW and LJH, such sun intensity is great for more solid tanning. Just like the slow cooker, it takes time to produce a good bowl of soup/dish. Too much fire will cause it to get burnt(human skin as well) easily. So believe it or not.. I’m a little more tan now than this morning.

This is the scene of Coasters during the high tide and heavy rain, when they tried to salvage the situation by retrieving their tanning beds and chairs back . Apparently, it wasn’t very successful due to the strong wind and rain.

Dinner was what we were waiting for, after starving the whole day and so much activity going on. Pariss International Seafood Buffet @ Marina square, with AMKSS Band Teachers, conductors.. and guest Kenneth’s girlfriend.

Seriously, i think the food’s pretty decent, not very extraordinary, but alright. Unlike BT and DW, i don’t really like mussels, so there isn’t much expensive food for me to spam. Unless you want to include fish, which i think was the main animal of the day and abalone.

Something which might interest you guys, especially if you are a chocolate lover.

Esther, you looking at this? Jealous..? haha..

And they actually took a whole bowl of that chocolate from the fountain to the table. Easier access to the chocolate, haha.

There was this waitress, quite unfriendly one. She came to our table and collected the used plates. Apparently she didn’t see that there was still fish on one of the plates, maybe the fish camouflaged itself too nicely with the colour of the plate.

I think we posses some kind of eye power, when she removed the plate from the table. All of us didn’t make a noise, instead we locked our eyes on the plate as she took it away from our table. Within seconds, the waitress placed the plate back on the table.

Great isn’t it?

It’s so another day of shiokness, but right now i’m feeling so darn shag. After few days of hectic schedules i’m more or less burnt out.

 More events lining up for me, got to rest more to survive the fun.

Till then,

Have MORE FUN everyone!!

Alright, my grandmother’s been admitted into hospital again, period.

Its the almost 3rd of 4th time since she has visited there a few years ago , mostly due to diabetic conditions of further complications leading from diabetes.

Sometimes i really feel that old people are bunch of stubborn people, they refuse to heed the advice of people and carry on with the unhealthy dealings they are doing.

Take for example my grandparents, they folks know clearly that they are not really in the best of their health, yet they continue to eat all the most unhealthy food they can find.

What’s worst, my grandfather smokes, even with past records of heart and lungs problem.

What exactly is their problem i don’t get it, really i don’t.

Its not that i am trying to dampen the relationships between them and me, or try to be an unfilial grandson. The fact that we provide them with the best information and advices for them to lead a better life ahead, they just can’t get it into their head.

What’s the joy of scrimping every cent of them they have, only have to suffer the pain illness, which is going to cost even more money still.

Why can’t they understand that it is not going to implicate themselves but also the people around them. I can see my dad these few days, running topsy- turvy to and fro the hospital to visit my granny.

Well, its definitely the responsibility of a child to take care of their parents when they age. But do it have to end up this way where one is lying on the bed, while the other by the bedside looking after?

I guess what’s best is to get them to live healthy NOW!, yes now, before its too late. I’ve seen too many cases of illness due to persistent unhealthy lifestyle and i would not wish that to strike on any of my family members.

Its not a case of denying the role and responsibility of a child, but think of it. Wouldn’t it be good for both party if both can enjoy the bliss of family happiness without much suffering pains and trouble.

You guys get the punt?  

You never know what’s going to happen in due course, start early and reap the good karma in the long run.

Well, I’m currently in the AMKSS Band Room, using the ingenious method of obtaining wireless connection using the school LAN Ports.

The dreadful exams have finally ended like 2 days ago for me, and somehow the feeling is just a block of emptiness in my mind, though i have tons of stuffs that can keep me accompanied with.

The life in Nanyang was a swift one, in a twitch of an eye, its all over. Reminiscing the early days in there where i practically hated everything there, the school , the system the band, the people and stuffs. But i had to succumb to fate that NY was truly my school and i’m going to spend the rest of my 2 years of pre university education there instead of AJ, though ii am quite glad now that i have made the right choice that is more suited for me.

After about 1 and a half years there, though short, but still something that had left an impact in my life and will be remembered through the memory lane in the later part of my life.

 Some of the nitty gritty things  that i will probably miss..

• Chasing the 133 Bus from my house’s busstop.
• Sleeping in the library with 0603guys during breaks.
• The hell load of fun during the PW period, where we gamed more than we worked.
• The tremendous amount of tutorials AK would throw at us.
• The criticism and sarcasms of TJW.
• and a the list goes on and on…

Now that exams and schooling is officially over, its kind of weird doing things that we don’t usually do in the past, or for the pass few months and weeks.

I was lazing around the bed the other day, then i suddenly had the thought that i was supposed to like not waste my life around but to revise through my notes and stuffs. It was only then i realised “hey man, alevels’ over, exams’ over”. Its not like a sinful thing to just lie on the bed, looking aimlessly on the ceiling, unlike the past.

Its a breakthrough from the monotonous life that we once walked on, going through the same procedures over and over again everyday. Waking up and heading to a fine destination to mug, and then back home.. SLEEP.

After the 12 years of education, this is like the biggest transition in life. To get into the workforce and serve the nation(for guys) and stuffs. This is the point where it marks adulthood. No more concession fares for students, be it on buses, gyms or swimming pools. I guess the burn in our pocket is just going to get bigger when January 1st strikes.

Congratulations to Bio Students which apparently just finished their last paper.

Till then

Happy Holidays

It seems that my life without studying is rather busy still.

My body seemed to be still under the fatigue of the studying of the alevels. i don’t really feel as energetic as before i don’t know why.

But anyway, i have been too tired to update the last few days, especially after the wedding dinners.

At least after 2 nights of wine and delicacy, i’m in a more refreshed state now.

Some picture from the wedding dinner.

My handsome brother trying to act cool..

I shall embark on the last paper for A Levels, and probably the last time i am going to wear the piece of brown cloth.

I shall keep my updates going soon, been rather busy these days. Especially after A’s, ironically.

It feels great to be back on the track, in the swimming pool and in the gym again. Now i can feel a little aches here and there which makes me feel great.

I think its more or less time to revert to my normal healthier lifestyles, exercise more and eating out less. Knowing that if i eat at home, the food would be like 937649 times healthier than outside stuffs. But sometimes its a little hard to keep the taste buds down yea also..

But looking at the dealings i have after 20th Nov, it seems that it is almost impossible to eat out less looking at the amount of dealings i have..

17Nov – Wedding Dinner

18 Nov – BBQ w WestWinds

18Nov- Wedding Dinner

21 Nov – AMKSS Alumni Band Dinner =x

26 Nov – Dinner with teachers

27 Nov – NYJCSB Band Dinner

and a couple of family gatherings at restaurants..

Hmm, somehow i am looking forward to these events.. haha. Well, with some exercises along the way i guess they wouldn’t add up to that much of carbo.

Any one interested for run or swim or any physical activities pls come look for me.

I got free lobang for swimming pools entry. Yes FREE.

How i wish Physics was over.

This is what happens to me when i get so obsessed in getting AAAAAAAAAs..

Haha, kind of scary isn’t it.

I’m kind of reaching full employment, i am on the PPC curve now.

I need to expand out my PPC curve, to memorize more things for Economics and Human Geography.

Some factors that can expand my PPC curve includes Supply Side Policies. Some of these policies can include..

• More cash for newer toys like PSP, or set up a PSP fund for me.
• Some nicer people in my life.. hmm heh..
• MORE SLEEP
• Get to use more of muscles than the brain..

I’m getting madder as the day passes, don’t be surprise that i visit Buangkok before 20 November.

All these mugging better be fruitful, if not its will be so sad.

T_T

Love, (mugging)

Daryl