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Hmm.. Today’s the start of the MID-YEAR EXAMINATION!

Didn’t proceed the day as expected, was supposed to wake up early, much early to revise and look through my notes and other stuffs like ironing my clothes and having a nice bathe. BUT… Ended up, waking up late because the handphone has failed to ring that alarm. Maybe because of that, things did not go that well for my Maths paper…

AAAaaaooooo…. EXCUSES MR. DARYL LIM

Haha. Alright, i admit. I haven’t been practising much. But the truth, wasn’t feeling very well during the paper. Though i think its much better and manageable then the block test one.Tomorrow’s the ultimate. The Physical Geog paper. Where are my hints??

Alright i found them… But do they actually look friendly enough to be called “tips”?

Hmm.. Let me clear some pictures and stories.
During the June Vacation, I was a Kota Tinggi and Kuantan, Malaysia for my Geography field trip . Though it was a short 3D2N trip, it was rather enriching as we Geog students get to see and touch what we have always been mugging on the notes.
The feeling of seeing the “real” thing makes you have the feeling

Hmmmm… So Its truee..

We can also get to revise some of the geological concepts and at the same time have some fun..
Let me post some of the seeing, at the same time revise my physical geog.Lets get down to some pictures, dun get to envied.

First Pit stop, even before proceeding to the resort is the Kota Tinggi Waterfall. I have been longing so see one for so long as i’ve never seen one before. Other than the man- made one at Jurong Bird Park which looks so fake.

Ok then, we had to climb all the way up the hill, as there are more magnificent ones at the top of the “hill” i suppose. Sad to say, we were all not in loose costume to get ourselves submerge in the water to feel the gushing of the water. I think it would definitely feel super refreshing and its hydraulic action which generates great force would make the experience better than jacuzzi.

You might think that the gradient of this place we are standing is so low, but the force of the water is rather great and people might fall if without a good foothold.

A Pretty Nice Group Photo of 0603 + huiyen

This is the end of the waterfall, it looks so muddy and cloudy because of it slow speed and it has high suspension load as the water from all the way high up the hill picks up other debris that has followed through due to erosive power of the Waterfall.

We saw this monkey at the lounge area where people have their picnics, there was this smart monkey which stole a whole bottle of Pringles and climbed up the tree where he consumed it himself.

However, not soon after he dropped the whole can. Attracting other of his own species to fight for it.

Next, we proceeded to the resort and then went for Tor Studies. For non-geog students out there. You might wonder what is a Tor. A Tor is a granitic landform. Where it is made up of minerals such as feldspar and biotite which undergo hydrolysis that chemically weakens the rock. It is formed mainly due to Deep Chemical Weathering and Exhumation, a.k.a Stripping of regolith. The process goes like this..

1. Deep chemical weathering
2. Stripping of Regolith
3. Spheroidal Weathering

Yada yada… Take a look for yourself. There are also vegetations which has emerged on teh Tor itself.

Other than that, at the bottom of the Tor, we also saw something.. The “Earth Pillars”

Aren’t they adorable, uprooted soil with a rock cap.

Sidetrack a bit a beautiful butterfly caught our attention…

The next morning, we went for River studies. The feeling of submerging your legs in the River is uber “shiok”. Where under the scorching sun, you experience coolness on your feet.

The river is actually very clean and clear if you look at it closely.At the river, we measured the river’s velocity, its wetted perimeter, distance and many other variables. We used the simplified version of
Speed=Distance x Time
where we use a pingpong ball and a stopwatch with a large measuring tape.

Watch us hard at work.

Then we headed for Kuantan, the bus journey was like 4-5 hours. As usual, we spent the time through our favourite pastime. SLEEPING. Though its a bit of chore to sleep while sleeping. But we are trained during lecture to do that, so its NO FEAT for us. Marvelous ain’t it?We arrived at Kuantan and we went to the beach

The beautiful scenery which is no where close to Singapore’s East Coast Park. The waters are much much cleaner too. I felt so ashamed. We had beach soccer and went for dinner at some Seafood Restaurant.

The next day….

We went to the limestone which was known as Gua Charas.

This was a tree that grows from clutching itself onto the limestone itself.
Look at those roots, they are hanging on mid-air.

These are known as Stalactites. They hang on limestone caverns where it is form when water is mixed with calcium carbonate

This is the picture of the smaller limestone cave at the top of the limestone. The Bigger one was too dark for me to take any photos.

Alright, a final group photo before we head to Kuantan Mall for shopping and then back to Singapore. The bus ride was horrendous. Super long journey. In the end we didn’t stop at Yong Peng hence spent very little.

Thats all i guess, for the Malaysia Field Trip. Hopefully i has revised some of my Geographical Concepts. Time to Sleep… ZzzZzzz. Good luck for my Physical Geog paper tomorrow, and all others taking Midyears now.

i experienced a fight at the bus lol, this old man suddenly went crazy and whacked this guy and they landed up in a fight and the whole bus had to stop and detain themselves while they wait for the police to arrive. Its just a dispute started when e old man hit the guyand it blew up so big. Initially i thought it was e rashness of the guy that started the whole thing, after knowing the whole situation, it was kind of diff to stand at the point of both parties. Somehow, i pitied the girlfriend that was standing beside him and see him beat the old man up despite she trying very hard to settle it calmy..

Why do people always want to take the hard way to settle things, why both parties take a step back and suffer a little so that it would benefits the majority rather then the minorities? must all things be settled under the violent and lead to some severe consequences that could be voided off easily.

Been too tired to blogg the last few days, since today gonna be the last day of school of the week, i’m gonna blogg ALL AT ONCE.. Hahaha..

17/1/05

Sec1 orientation, last minitue preperation for the kids, hoping that they will enjoy lol, but it doesnt really seem so bahs, all children camp and NCO camp stuffs, lolz they are neither children nor leaders, so its quite reasonable that they dun enjoy lars. But though they verbally say that they do not enjoy, but through the activites, could sense that they are starting to get the ruggedness and the names of their fellow friends. But for sure they know one thing, my name. Muhahahah. I guess i am too popular to this batch of Sec1s bahs. Haha.. Actually wanted to do my bonnie, but even my seniors are not up to this challenge. Even BT cant do it.. Sad:(

Band practise after that, Auld lang Sye, for Ms Tan’s farewell. Sightreading which sounds still alright bahs??

18/5/05

My Sec1s came and had their try out all the instruments, at least this time was a much easier time, do not need to poach and persuade and most of them could at least blow some stuffs out of the instruments, some of the rest are rushing their ass of the album that has to be given to miss Tan, pictures messages everythinng, this whole thing is a rush, madness total rush. Got to thank Christine and her section for planning and putting everything together, i think she deserve more than a pat on her shoulder. Well Done girl!When would everyone be like her and be willing to take up such kind of responsibility within such a short substantial time. And this time is really a self initiated, i din force her to do it! Yea, and moxi too, very glad to see her attitude improve a milestone.

Rehearsal for Fanfare, Ancient Airs and wadeva. Tuba did alot of cock and rubbish at the foyer. And i dunno what is the problem with Si Shuo, guessed from what he has told me, he has suffered alot. Tolerating and stuffs. Mayb its again a two-sided conflict. Partly my fault for not realising it earlier and he actually shouted at Pam in bandroom in front of a Tutor which was so embarrassing. I dun even dare to shout at Sec5 and he actually shouted lor. He really has e guts man and i was completely stunt when he shout lor. And during the rehearsal, he was completely gone for the first half and hour, and he had better thank god he didnt came down earlier if not i would have blasted him in front of the whole school in the foyer. Blood boiling with anger at the very point of time. Soon after playing the Auld Lang Sye than my temper slowly simmer down and spoke to him after the whole thing. Pls do not get my section into such a state like some others that have internal conflicts and it would be super diff to get back again.

19/1/05

Miss Tan’s farewell, got away for lessons early and get changed and stuffs, not prepared at all for anything. Slowly dilly dally at first den after that, everyone was rushing like hell uniform not changed, staged not set up everything. But dun care lahs. Its jus such a minor thing, not worth my effort to waste much time thinking too much abt it. The AMKsians simply sark in singing man, the whole band totally played notes for the song and CS and I cant be bothered at all, no one is in any sad mood for us to portray our feelings also. Simply played notes. Bwahaha

After the whole thing, took of blazer sash and all the uncomfortable stuffs on my body, den sum1 came running and tell me to go see Ms Seah to present the token of appreciation to Miss Tan. Totally shagg off by it, haf to wear everything back again. And from what Beatrice and e rest say, can say that me and CS are the most unkempt leaders bahs. Cs can wear white socks with his black shoes. Yea, went to the staff lounge to tidy up and still got to be taught what to be said to miss tan, stuffs like thanks for supporting us all the way through our music making journey and stuffs. Den finally when back and CS was there teaching how to be 30% musically for esther. Din stayed back to prac, went to Sim Lim and got infomation abt e comps i going to make and noticed about the market for digital cameras, thinking of buying one very very soon. The old one died off on Monday jus completely shut down.

20/01/05

Nothing much for e day, me Ed and Jan were having some kind of crying competion seeing who can cry first. I gave my first yawn, thought of some sad sad stuffs and drop my first tear while Ed and Jan were still trying hard to squeeze their tearbuds out of their eye. Soon Edward and me fell asleep while thinking and trying hard to cry. And after we woke up, Jancy drop her tear at last and it was like the whole 3 periods she was trying to cry so hard. Had some shit assembly and that cocky SIVA telling some SAD story of his. English test, totally out of ideas, jus crapped some stuffs outta my brains and handed up and went bandrm, and went out bandrm. Din even do anithing at all there lol, after seeing that Jessic was teaching Pamela, den i was kind of ok liao den i left. Went all the way to Habourfornt to get my Cam repaired and then went walk there. Never been there since so long and that place was completely out of my memory like never before. The bus journey was sick man. More den one hour, slept and woke up and slept still hvnt reach yet.

Could say that these few days, were so kept busy with these stuffs that i werent emotionally stabled for things. Moreover, the only support was fading off away from me and i am really unsure about how is it going on. Mayb its part of jealousy or other stuffs, i dunno. I jus know that my feelings are still the same or even stronger, but its just not getting any better. Hais.. I just need that little from u to brighten up my life, but i guess it isnt jus there after all.