I didn't get into shooting! Because i screwed up the interview! It seems they're not looking for people who can shoot, they're looking for friendly people....

Anyway, I'm trying to join the Interact club (INTERnational ACTion club). In case you don't know, its like SVDP, going around helping old folks, little children etc. At least I'll get a nice CIP column on my A level cert.

If I don't make it into Interact, I could join debate..or worst case the Bridge club(a card game).

*emo*

Oh btw, the Scout update kinda sucks...I really expected more from valve. oh well, better than nothing.

Something i fished out from the steam forums.

The scout update's fake cuz its missing the ® Logo.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/522/updateresearchmy9.jpg

And, if you look carefully at the Bonk! update page, the scout's holding a new gun.

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First week and I've already ponned one day of school. I knew something was gonna happen after that 300m in the rain..sheesh. Came down with the flu, so mum let me pon. Dumb thing about CJ is that we aren't allowed to give parent letters if we're absent, so I had to drag myself to the doctor to get an MC, otherwise I'll get detention for turning up on monday without one.

Friday's a pretty slack day anyway, I don't think i missed much. CJ's rules are that you are only supposed to end school at 1pm earliest. Friday for me ends at 11pm, so i would have to wait for 2 bloody hours to get dismissed. Or I could ninja myself outta the school gates...gotta pick up some tips from Bryant on how to do that xD

Still no word on whether I made it into shooting though. Oh, and my timetable changes next week. Teachers complain that their timetables change every 10 mins...so yea.

TF2! wheres ma scout update.

I was supposed to receive a call or a message telling me that I am confirmed to go for the Shooting trials today but I didn't. I went anyway. Surprisingly, there are just about as many girls as there are guys.

I was one of the first to enter to range with a fellow classmate Sonic(how COOL a name is that!?, though I wonder how he made it through primary shcool without falling into severe depression). Wrote our names on the form and saw checkboxes for "completed PT" and "completed shooting". Rifle was quite heavy, not to mention that it was the bloody cheap type of air rifle that you had to compress the air yourself after everyshot via a crank at the side. Would it be too much to ask for a more advanced one? Like those that feed air to the gun via a tube or something like that.

Saw some familiar faces in the tryouts crowd, Gabriel Goh, Aik Seng, Amos Lee, Alex(said he got sick of fencing) and several other SJI guys. I was in group 1, which started shooting first while group 2 went for PT first. I shot pretty well, and the J2s behind me kept asking if I had previous shooting experience xD Waited for about half an hour or so for the rest of the group to finish shooting(there were only 10 lanes). At some point in time Group 2 came back from PT, drenched in sweat. We heard that we were gonna do 2.4, 60 crunches and 50 pushups from some of them.

Skip the boring bits....went for PT, track's only 335m(pathetic) so we had to run 7 rounds. I realised I'm freaking unfit now. At the 3 round or so I was tired like shit already. Thank god by the 4th round it rained....but unfortunately I was starting on my 5th round so I was the last on the get off the track, and hence was the wettest. Worst part was they made us go back to the air-conditioned shooting range while we were drenched. Lets see who gets pneumonia tmr...

Chances of me getting into the shooting club would be pretty high..but if CMI then i'll go join some retarded club.

You see, this is what happens when you read Cheng Heng and Bryant's blog too much. You start putting titles for blog posts when blog posts don't really need titles because they're not freaking 500-word essays. (or rather 1000-word for the kind of stuff Bryant writes).

Anyway, back to the main topic. We got split up into our real classes today...the teary goodbyes and i-hope-we-end-up-in-the-same-class stuff aside, we were just made to spend the rest of the day after 9:30am as a class. It felt really weird, seeing my orientation facilitators playing icebreaker games at the other side of the quadrangle(parade square with running-track type of ground, except green in colour) while I sat in my new group. I was posted to 1T23, so we were seated not too far away from 1T21, which was my orientation group.

My new facilitators were kinda dull. I really loved the enthusiasm my previous facilitators showed, but the current ones are like...."duh". One half of the cohort went to Telok Blangah(sp?) to walk around while the other half stayed in school. I was in the half that stayed. We played games like floorball, captain's ball with a piece of dough, volleyball with waterbombs. Yeah, you get the idea.

My orientation group had a really nice mix of different personalities but I feel that my class is rather monotonous. You would probably ask me to give it some time...I thought the same of my group when I first stepped into CJ. Oh btw, we have a boy/girl ratio of almost 1:1. A really unlucky class, the one Keith and Mark Chia went into, had a boy girl ratio of 12:1. 26 ppl in a class, max. Really sad...2 girls in the whole class.

Tomorrow with also be a school day, this time the guys that went out will stay and the guys that stayed will go out. Will be quite a long walk, and will also have campfire finale at night. At least we'll be getting back into our orientation groups specially for the campfire, so that will be one of the things I'll be looking forward to. Day will end at 7pm. 12 hour school....sigh. Damn you Sam, you don't have to do any of this!

Aik Send transferred over today. Pity, he missed the fun games where we got to know corn flour, paint and food colouring so much better.

Our turn to go to Kallang for Dragonboating today. Turns out dragon boating's only a tiny part of the day. Rest is all bullcrap. We played games for a pretty long time.

Game 1
You know a strand uncooked spaghetti, that one stiff fragile yellow stick? Well, we had to pair up with a person of the opposite sex, each holding one end in his/her mouth, squat down and duck walk sideways for 10 metres. If the stick broke? Throw away the longer end and restart with the shorter part. Freaking gross.

Game 2
Piggyback a person of the opposite sex. Person being piggybacked gets to hold a styrofoam cup with two holes at the bottom filled with water. In their mouth. Water drains out totally after 2 seconds. So back to the piggybacking thing. Carry the person 2m, turn clockwise, turn anti-clockwise, then another 2m and then put the person down to dump whatever's left in the cup into a bucket. Water level must be a certain limit to win. We were literally filling it up DROP by DROP. so much fun /sarcasm

Game 3
One team gets to be attackers, other team defenders. Long pipe stuck into the sand with pingpong ball at the bottom. Pipe is riddled with holes. Defenders must fill the pipe up with water, with the team members covering the holes at the same time so the ping pong ball floats to the top. Attackers grab buckets of seawater and dump it on the Defenders. Fun. Very. Except when we had to switch teams....

We got to dumb our facilitators into the water too, so it wasn't so bad after all. We have one facil, Heidi, whos only like, 130cm tall. Seriously stunted growth. Looks a little like a walking barbie doll but kinda cute. In a barbie doll sort of way. She tried to escape by claiming she had a camera with her. Got one guy to grab the cam while Shriyas brought the water to her....splashy splashy.

Game 4
2 trees with a lot of strings tied between to resemble a spider web. Must carry guys above or thru the holes. very hard. We managed to carry Muhaimin through and then me, then the rest followed. Not supposed to touch any of the strings but they didn't enforce that a lot. No going superman through the net either.

Game 5
sit down and stack our feet to make a tall tower. thats all.

Then came the Dragon Boating!!!! Got into the boat, taught to paddle round, then the guy behind instructed us in the fine arts of water splashing with our paddles. Interesting. We were just going in circles around the Kallang Basin and whenever we met another Boat...WARRRR!!!!!! Had a little bucket too the scoop water out of our boat. After the 5th boat or so the next boat we passed hurriedly put up peace signs. We soaked them anyway.

Had a 2 mini-races. We got 2nd in the first one, 3rd in the other.
There was this instance when we passed one boat, then i turned around just in time to see them throw a bucket at us. I threw it back, and the instructor said "Oi!! thats our bucket lah!" Had a mini war because they refused to give it back. After we got it back, the instructor was like, "So whos the jackass who gave them our bucket!" then he proceeded to soak be with a bucketful of water

I actually thought today was quite fun, starting to gel together with my group.

End of day. Tomorrow with be until 6:30pm

Ok, random extract from the past few days. There was this time a few guys were dragged up to showcase their corniest pick-up lines in front of everyone, to a girl from the same orientation group as them. The funniest was this.

Guy: "Hey, are your legs tired?"
Girl: "No."
Guy: "*whisper* you're supposed to say Why?"
Girl: "um...Why?"
Guy: "So you can sit on my lap, and we can talk about the first thing that pops UP!"

d00d shud win 5 internetz! although he probably ripped it off from the internet.

mood: tired, but starting to think this may not be so bad after all...

Ok. Too many things to say, too little time/lazy to type it all out in one go. Most probably the latter. I'll make this as short and painless as possible.

Day 1
First stepped into CJ. Saw many guys around. Total of about 15 guys from 422 alone. If I can recall correctly it would be Alastair, Chris Chui, Chris Ng, Muhaimin, Kee Hao, Jordan, Shen Shin, Wayne, Gerard...can't remember the rest. Bryant was here for the first day too.

Found out that Muhaimin was in my group, with some 434 guy named Shriyas. 3 SJI guys, nobody else. Few guys from Kranji, Nan Hua, Swiss cottage. Mostly IJ girls. Ice breaker games felt weird and our group was extremely unresponsive. Stuck with Muhaimin for most of the time until the facilitators said we should sit apart. lul. One thing I noticed. Everyone, every single damned one was a head shorter than me. If it wasn't for Muhaimin I'd feel pretty weird. Seriously.

Day 2
Bryant went into ACJC. Bastard. Missed all the goddamn fun games we had.

Ok. This day I've come closer to mud, paint, corn flour and food colouring I ever want to in my life. You know the game Twister? A mat with a few different coloured spots and one guy would call out something like "right hand to a red spot!" and then you'll do so and a few more commands and you'll be twisted like crazy? We did the same. With plates of paint. PAINT. with corn flour. STICKY PAINT. And we didn't do the hands or legs things. It was stuff like "right cheek to red" or "all crotches on blue!". You can imagine the fun we had.....

Then the mass dance. I've never been in a mixed school before in my life and now they ask me to do a dance with a girl. hmm. Not so bad, just that the music was insanely fast and my partner was insanely short. ..... ....

Heard from Shen Shin that Bryant has problems with his Mass Dance too...but we'll leave that to him to explain xD


Day 3
Half of the J1s went to Kallang for Dragon Boating, other half stayed behind. I was in the other half. Highlight of the day? Telematch on the field!! Oh btw, the track surrounding the field is only 335m long. And only has 2 lanes. Thats like 2 Cheng Hengs standing beside each other. I'm starting to appreciate SJI now..

Ok. Telematch details. 4 groups, each group for itself.
Station 1: Two sponge balls soaked with water, one between your knees and one under your arms. Run across to the other side and squeeze the water into a pail. Water level has to reach a certain limit to move on to the next station. The game masters sure were encouraging though

Game master: "Go! Go! Go! Only a little more!!!!"
Guy beside me: "Yea right. If by little more you mean another half a pail...."

Station 2: Whole team log rolls across a quarter of the field.

Station 3: Every one wets their hair, applies a little showering foam and Voila! head full of foam!! Must fully cover a person with foam to move on. I pity that girl we chose....

Station 4: army crawl across a quarter of the field, spin 10 rounds on the spot then get a soya bean from a plate fill with flour, with your mouth. When it was my turn the guy holding the plate shoved it into my face. Instant makeup!

Station 5: Run to the top of some stairs, grab a bite of watermelon and run down. Next guy goes. Rinse and repeat till watermelon is polished off.


Our group won! amazing.


Bleh, I'm too lazy to post more.