Right, I suddenly realised that today is the last day of 2009. Oh gosh. So fast. I woke up today very early cos I was at camp. It was only after breakfast that I suddenly realised that today is 31 December 2009. I can't believe it. One year has passed. It's just too scary that my Sec 2 life is over. And I have already spent half of my time in Cedar.

Sec 3 next year will be... exciting, terrifying, hectic, etc. My class next year, 3C, is going to be very, very smart and intelligent. Sigh. I hope I don't get too pressurized. Especially with Guides and PC next year.

Hello, I'm back from my Guides Annual Camp! It was... indescribable. It was quite hectic for me especially cos the PCs and PSLs had to go for Sec 1 Orientation Camp (which is exactly on both days of the Guides one), then when it ends, join the Guides and stay over. Which means, in the day, I'm involved in Orientation, then in the evening till night it's Guides.

I was so, so sad when told that I had to go for Orientation Camp over Guides camp. As in miss all those day activities happening over at Guides... Not that I don't like to go for Orientation, I like to, but I'd very much prefer going for Guides.

So basically I can't tell you what went on during the day for Guides, but on the first night was the campfire. VROOM VROOM POW's campfire item went so smoothly! It was fantastic! Awesome! I'm so proud of our patrol, for executing such a great campfire performance. :D This won us the title of the 'Best Campfire Item'! :DDD

Second night was the night walk. You know before the camp I was so scared for it? Cos all the Sec 3s said it was going to be very scary. I didn't know how true it was, haha, but just before the segment, I sort of felt excited. I was one of the first few to go, because I wanted to get it over and be done with. They (Guiders and Sec 3s) shortened the route, and they cut quite a lot of parts for the night walk, cos the Guiders felt it was too scary or dangerous...
But otherwise, even with this improvised route and everything, it successfully frightened quite a number of us! But I was a bit disappointed at the individual part; it could have been longer. After the individual part, I paired up with Carin, and from then on I wasn't really scared anymore, haha, cos you have someone with you! The stations were good, but throughout the whole thing, I wanted to laugh at the stations/Sec 3s! Sorry, no offence, but I just felt like laughing... But in general, the acting was very convincing!

Today we didn't do much (for Guides) cos there was Homecoming. There was supposed to be Patrol Challenge after lunch, but then it was cancelled cos the school was going to close at 2pm. So sad right! I thought that would be my first time playing games/having activities with my patrol (excluding campfire), and got so excited. Hah, who knows that the school had to close early despite us already informing them that we'll break camp at 3 plus.

Manito was good. :) Both my manito and angel are CLs! Haha! Carin pointed that out. I know I was very obvious, given my informal tone and leaking off so much stuff about me. Kaushi guessed it right from the first letter! :/ She recognised my handwriting. Haha.

I want to say this again. I was very sad and disappointed that I couldn't join the rest of the Guides for the day activities. For both days you know. (The camp was 3D2N btw.) Last year I had to leave halfway, this year I couldn't attend the day part. What about next year? It'd better be a full, 100% one. Seeing how the rest of my patrol and Guides went out to East Coast to do many different interesting yet tiring activities, I was so jealous and envious and sad that I couldn't go! ): I really wanted to part of it, part of the things, activities! I don't want to be so isolated from my patrol, especially since we're bonded and enthusiastic during the camp!

Anyway, Vroom Vroom Pow is a really great patrol, I love you guys, thanks for being enthusiastic and cooperative, especially during our campfire item. It was so great! I really feel sorry that I can't join you guys for 90% of the time in Annual Camp, just wanted to let you know that I also didn't want to have it this way. But anyway, great great job people, it's really alright if we didn't win the Best Patrol Award, even though me and the other Sec 2s thought we were in a good place for it... Well done, Vroom Vroom Pow!

To the Sec 3s, thank you so much for organising, planning etc for this camp, of course together with the help of the Guiders. Thank you for the amazing night walk that you guys planned so hard for it. :) It was great!



We are the Vroom Vroom Pow,
So cool and so wow,
We're gonna rock the house
And bring you down.
We got that cool cool look,
Awesome identity,
We got that Vroom Vroom Vroom,
That smashing Vroom Vroom Vroom!

Oh no, oh no, I'm going crazy! Stop worrying, Rachel! So irritating! How I wish I can just relax, and stop worrying and fretting over what's going to happen over the next few days! SHUT YOUR MIND, LIKE HOW SEVERUS SNAPE AND ALBUS DUMBLEDORE TOLD HARRY POTTER TO! OCCLUMENCY!
Haha, ok, just joking. Missing Harry Potter already! :/

Anyway, continuing from the first part, yes, gosh, I shouldn't have listened to what the Sec 3s were saying about the camp...! Gosh. Ok, now, a Guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties. So I must think positive! Yes! That's the way!

AHHHHH. Never mind. I shall talk about the more positive stuff. It's great to be in Vroom Vroom Pow! :) Enthusiastic Sec 2s! :D Whee, but sadly, the Sec 1s aren't as enthu as us, but it's ok, hopefully they'll be influenced by us during the camp! Hahaha.
Our campfire item is going quite well. I really hope that it will be executed out rather smoothly tmr night. Yes. Our campfire is tmr night. The first night of the camp. Haha, I know it's weird, but what can I say? AND NIGHT WALK IS SECOND NIGHT. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Why must it be the other way round? I'd rather get it over and done with! Anddd so that I have Orientation the next day to distract myself...

Now, switching the topic back to SINGAPORE IDOL, I personally want Sylvia to win, cos she's like, the full package! Hahaha, and we want a Female Singapore Idol! Oh well, I am sad and disappointed that Sylvia didn't win, but then again, it's all dependant on the voters, which is us, the public. Haha, anyway, what's done can't be undone. I'm sure both Finalists will be successful in their own ways. :)

I really hope to have a Female Singapore Idol!
Sylvia is really the full package, and she has such a nice voice!
I hope Tabitha's fans will support Sylvia! :D

Tonight's gonna be a spectacular night of performances! Hearing from summerr, there'll be many interesting performances by both contestants and Idol Alumni!

Great, I just can't wait now! :D

I'M SO SHACKEDDD!

I'M SO TIRED!

I'M SO EXHAUSTED!

Brrrrr. It's been a tiring and busy 4 days for me. Well, at least I had sufficient sleep and good meals. Anyway, hahaha, it's not that bad, I'm not saying that I'm really, really, exhausted till I can't walk or anything. Don't take it too serious, just having some repetition. :D

Registration today was quite a success! Yay. Ok, shan't elaborate anymore!

Then after regist today, me and Chelsea went from Cedar to Tampines to join the rest of our camp patrol members to buy more stuff for the camp. Whoa, I tell you, from Cedar, go to Tampines Mall, then Tampines 1, then Tampines Mall, and back to Tampines 1, finally, back to Potong Pasir! >!<

Ok, I need to update one more time here. It's going to be very busy for me this week! :/ Yeah, oh well, at least for these three days. Hardly have time to read my HARRY POTTER!

I think Sylvia should totally win Singapore Idol! She's has everything, the voice, the looks, the popularity! You go, girl! Go on and do us girls proud! HAHAHA. Show Singapore that the men should step aside, and let girls like Sylvia dominate! Haha! Hmm, ok, maybe not 'dominate', but 'be the ultimate star'. I'm definitely looking forward to this Sunday's Grand Finale! It's going to be so exciting, with so many artistes and Idol Alumni singing! Of course, not to mention the Battle of the Sexes. :D I shall be fair, and wish all the best, to both contestants! :)

It's time I updated, right? Hahaha. This week has been pretty boring for me. The only two interesting events that happened were on Tues and Wed.

On Tuesday I held this 'movie marathon' at my house with XY, WT and Nat. Actually, it wasn't exactly like an MM, cos we only watched 2 movies! But what can we do, we only had 4 hours! Watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and She's the Man. I love both movies! The former is one that I've always enjoyed, of course, because Harry Potter is just so amazing, and I love Chamber of Secrets! Hohoho, She's the Man is so hilarious! Yes, it's my first time to really sit down and watch the whole movie. Previously I only caught snippets of it, but this time, I watched the entire movie. Boy, the movie's great! A real laugh. Haha, it's a chick flick, for those who do not know. :)

On Wednesday, I had patrol outing! :D Yay, finally, a patrol outing outside school. :) However, the turn up wasn't very ideal. Less than half the patrol came. But it's alright, we still proceeded with the plans. Went to Iluma to watch The Princess and the Frog. Well, it's quite a ncie movie. The twist in the story is very nice, somewhat unexpected! I think the movie is also a bit similiar to that of a musical. Because sometimes there will be songs, and the characters will sing and dance etc. Hahaha, but what surprised me the most was that I was kind of freaked out (a bit) by the evil parts. As in the parts that showed the evil character... :X
After the movie, we walked around Bugis Street for a while. Then after that was goodbye. :)
I really hope more people can turn up next time. Sigh. But I guess there's still plenty of chances. :)

I'm back, and I have to say, that New Zealand is beautiful. :)

I still need more time to rest, yes, I don't have the mood to post about my trip, but don't expect much, I won't in detail, just talk about the country and the itinerary.

OK FINE SINCE I'M HERE I might as well talk about it now.

At first when I went there, I wasn't really keen about it, cos I don't really feel anything towards New Zealand, like, 'it's such a less-interesting place, no shopping' this kinda thoughts, haha. But then soon after I arrived, I was quite soaked up in the beautiful scenery. :) Yeah, so I told myself just enjoy! It's really rare that I can travel all the way down under to NZ! Great opportunity. :)

I saw lots and lots of farm animals, such as sheep, horses, goats, deer. Lots and lots of sheep! There are about 45 MILLION sheep in NZ! Wow. There used to be about 80 million of them about 50 years ago.

The first day we didn't really do anything, besides going to the International Antartic Centre, we went to Hanmer Springs to soak in the hot springs. Haha, it wasn't really hot, but quite a nice sensation. :)

The second day had lots of travelling. We went from the centre of South Island to the West, and all the way down South. Saw the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks. A nice natural formation! But I still don't understand about the blowholes part. =.= We passed by many townships like Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Haast etc. Stayed at the Fox Glacier hotel.

The third day was a rainy day. :( We were supposed to walk to view the Fox Glacier, but due to the bad weather, we couldn't do that, but only take the bus and view it from afar. Only caught a part of it. :( After that we travelled towards Queenstown.
Queenstown is a tourist place, tourist attraction, and the houses there are very nice! Lake Wakatipu is just beside, so there are many houses just at the front of the lake! Very nice. :) THe hotel there was also fantastic. Very modern and the facilities were good and new!

The fourth day was actually a free-and-easy day, which means you can choose what you want to do for the day. We chose to go to Milford Sound, the fjords place, where most other people from the tour are going there too. On the journey, we passed by many nice places, very camera-worthy. The creeks, mountains, they're all very nice. We got down the coach and took many nice pictures. :)
Milford Sound was very nice, haha, what can I say? Basically NZ is all about nice scenery! Ther water was not turquoise, haha, but then I saw nice waterfalls and moutains. (Were they mountains?)

The fifth day was the day to leave Queenstown. Sigh, I really like Queenstown, because I quite like their shopping street, haha! But of course, it's such a peaceful place, even though it's a tourist attraction. It gives you a very relaxing feeling. :)
Ok, so we left for a few places. I couldn't really remember where we went to, but this was the day when we stopped by many places. But in the end, we headed to Lake Tekapo, where we would be staying overnight in a hotel/extremely nice chalet nearby. Oh, Lake Tekapo is very beautiful! The water is really turquoise! And the Lupins (flowers) are really nice too! At night, we were supposed to go star-gazing, but then the weather was not ideal. Firstly, the wind is much too strong to go uphill, into the open air, and the guide said that the wind speed then was 100 km/h! Haha, anyway, I believe that we can be blown away if we really went up there to the hill, where it's completely open, no shelter what-so-ever. It's a pity, yes, because the star-gazing is one the highlights of the tour! Secondly, the sky was full of clouds. Even from our hotel/chalet, we could only see two stars! So we just had to succumb to our fate our not being able to go star-gazing.

The sixth day was heading towards Christchurch again. Actually, today was quite a boring day... As far as I could rmb (and referring to the map), we were sitting in the coach most of the time. We didn't visit any special place... OH YES WE DID! Haha, I forgot. In the morning, we were to go to the bank of Lake Tekapo to take some nice pictures, unfortunately, it was raining! And the wind was very, very strong! But then, suddenly, the tides were turned around, and the sun started coming out! Whee! To our right, the sun was there, but to our left, it was still cloudy, and both sides were still raining. So guess what, a beautiful rainbow appeared! :D And I'm telling you, it's the best, nicest, loveliest rainbow that I have ever seen! It was amazing! I could see the whole of it, from one end till the other. So after about 10min, the rain subsided, and we got down the coach and snapped a few pictures with the lovely rainbow and Lake Tekapo in the background. :)
We went to the Willowbank National Park where we saw some birds and animals of NZ, and of course, the endangered Kiwi bird, which I was so longing to see! ;) It's so sad, these animals/birds are all endangered! Man'd better learn how to cherish them!
Then we went to Monaville, which is some nice garden, with many lovely flowers there. To me it was alright, not say very fantastic, haha! But we saw the Singapore flag outside one of the houses facing the river in Monaville! :D
After that we visited the famous Cathedral Square in Christchurch. So that is the one that's always shown/featured in those fridge magnets/souvenirs!

And the next day was just spending time in the aeroplane going back to Singapore. I realised that there are many, many souvenir shops in NZ. Anywhere you go, be it a shopping street, cafe, restaurant, there's always a souvenir shop nearby. Even for those cafes or bars that we stopped by for toilet breaks, there's always a souvenir shop in it. Wow. So there were plenty of chances to buy souvenirs. Just depends on how much you want to buy.

The people there are very friendly and spontaneous. Unlike Singapore, haha, sad to say. The country is very clean, toilets are clean, roads are very neat and properly aligned. :)

Needless to say, the scenery was wonderful. Amazing. Yes, that's what you go there for. Pay for the scenery there. Haha.

I know my vocab is not good, cos throughout this post, the only adjectives I use to describe things are 'nice', 'beautiful', 'wonderful' and 'amazing'. =.=

I'm just glad that I can go to NZ at such a young age. Very fortunate indeed. :)

I'm feeling quite excited now man. :) What's going to happen in the future... Well, we can only wait and see! But I'm feeling excited about what lays ahead, for the next few days. :]

I really want to have a female Singapore Idol. I think both Tabitha and Sylvia deserves the title. But I think more people are hoping for Sylvia to win. Hmm, I'm really alright with either of the girls. Just that I hope Singapore will vote wisely! The Grand Finals is on the 27th Dec, Sunday, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Yay! I'm looking forward to that date. :)

Nownow, I'm running out of words to say.
...
Anyway, since there's nothing else left for me to say/type, I shall end of here.





I'm glad I can 'let go', at least for now. :)

Yay, my pimple is ready to be squeezed! HAHA! Actually it's already been squeezed. Lol. Thank goodness, just before the holiday. :)

I realise that nowadays there are nice patterns in the sky! Hoho. I have a lot of nice sky patterns in my thumbdrive and the camera. They're still waiting for me to be uploaded. But I won't upload everything though. But just one nice one here. :)

Oh no, one moment, I feel so cheated, and then suddenly the next, I feel... shocked! Yeah. Shocked. Surprised.

Whoa, everything seems so weird! Is everything just so connected? Ahh, I see it can be a good, and a bad thing.

Right. I need to think. *chillchill*

Ok back to the PC chalet. Hmm, the day activities like Amazing Race was okay, quite fun. We went cycling, and I didn't know that Escape is so near! Oh, and we cycled all the way to the Pasir Ris playground. The bigbig one. Hoho, pardon me for my ignorance, anyway, Pasir Ris is not my territory. xD

The BBQ was fine. I have to thank the Sec 3s for doing everything for us! How nice, they started the fire, cooked the food, and cleared up the area. Sigh, thinking back, I feel guilty that we didn't offer much help...

The performance was... fine! Haha, I really love our song, and we could see that the Sec 4s kinda get the 'joke'. But the second part was a bit messy, but it's alright. :) Good job Sec 2s!

After that we went out to the beach. Hmm, we didn't actually go down to the sand or sea, just stayed on the pavement. Then we started forming a circle, and sat down, and guess what, told ghost stories. Sigh. I knew this would happen. Haha, so, being the usual scaredy cat (or maybe not that bad huh), I 'opted' out of the circle and joined some other friends who also didn't want to hear. Gee, I'm relieved that I didn't stay in that circle. So me and my friends just played some games to 'past time'. Haha.

Then it was the 'movie marathon'. Haha, watched some livelier movies. :) Like HSM and Shrek 2. Slightly past midnight, I went to bed, after a tiring day full of activities.

The next morning we woke up with an orchestra going on. Haha, shall not elaborate anymore. Since we woke up so early, we just decided to sit and talk. The end. :)





Yes, I am disappointed.

Right, I'm back from the PC Chalet. Hahaha, it was very fun! But the attendance wasn't very ideal. For the day activities and BBQ, very little Sec 3s came... Oh well, are they very busy? Anyway, then after that, fewer people stayed overnight. There were only 14 people staying overnight, and this chalet is for Sec 1s to 4s! In the end, Sec 4s only had 3, Sec 3s - 2, and Sec 1s - 1!

Haha, I'm quite tired to explain more. I'll blog again tmr or some time when I feel like to.





Disappointed?