tales that come true

Saturday, March 24, 2007

in an attempt to escape from the 100000000 facts about gay artists and extreme feminist perverts with convoluted minds that can only think of copulation as a tool to portray their emotions and thoughts on society and politics and stereotypes and everything else, i shall use the filtering net to cleanse my mind.

i feel my mind getting corrupted every second i stare at the notes. no wonder i made those freudian slips, which aren't exactly freudian slips. those thoughts just happen to be swimming in my subconscious for the time being for the sake of doing well for my aep paper. haha. they'll be gone after blocks!

i was telling karweng how flabbergasted i was with cindy sherman, and simultaneously he told me how pretty she was. SEE THE DIFFERENCE!!!!!!

shucks...i'm turning into a feminist. arghghghghh.

@#%@#^@$&#& OMG I HAVENT TOUCHED BILL VIOLA AND NAM JUN PAK @#$^@$&@#$&

W@%@#$&^#$&$% ART IS SQUISHING MY BRAIN CELLS FLAT #%^@#&^$@&#%*

enough ranting..back to work. (:

posted @ 11:53 PM

Day 0

getting physically and mentally prepared.

Day 1

we were half full of vitality when the night just started.

but when half the night has past, all drifted off to la la land.

we lugged stacks of notes heavier than everything in the packing list to the ops room on Monday morning, hoping to salvage a little of the bleak outcome of our blocks. we downed mugs of coffee and mifee and nescafe and ginger latte, whatever that might work miracles in keeping our eyes opened, but fatigue overtook our sheer determination to mug. even with eyes wide opened, all that went into mind was the schedule of yl day 2, 3, 4, 5.

slowly our heads nodded off one by one. there was this night i was the only one left awake in the ops room. it was a funny sight, watching the instructors sleep in their most unglam moments. heh. =/ then suddenly it dawned on me that i was not alone. there're 22 other instructors to share the joys and lethargy tgt with me, like how we endured the pain and agony during yltc a year ago. whats blocks compared to months of sweat and toil? so i decided to dao my notes and go to sleep. and on subsequent days, we lost our interest for mugging. haha.

Day 2

sadistic nature reveals

dorms checks. havent they been what we've been looking fwd to since the end of yltc last yr? from a trainee's pt of view, picturing what you'll be undo-ing to the trainees of yltc '07. its evil. i agree. but seeing them rolling on the floor in an attempt to dry the floor in desparation, singing songs and doing cheers to distract them from the pain during mroc, never failed to remind me of the times 10 little terrified girls huddled in unity under the scrutiny of the towering female dorm instructors. we were small in number, but nevertheless grateful for the presence of each other's support. thank you dear female trainees06/instructors07. for the tears shed. i'll never forget those times.

clarissa,fungg,hanyun,huijin,tracee,waikuan,wenhui,xinyi,yimtong.

dorm checks aside, day 2 was also a day where 5 instructors went out on a hot date. but it was pure and innocent. as pure as milk. heh. the only corrupted thing we discovered was jiexun's dirty little secret. haha. this secret shall be kept. (:

it must be the first time the cashiers at carrefour settled the bill for a trolley full of 29 superloaves of bread and baguette and cakes. woah.

Day 3

We lost our sanity and started acting eccentric. i.e. posing for impulse ad.

this was kayaking day. and i got to kayak. i never realised how much i miss kayaking, till i felt myself floating on the familiar kallang river again. though the water doesn't smell and look very inviting, imagining yourself floating in a blue lagoon was good enuff. haha. i want to kayak somemore!!!

i distinctly remember the especially tight schedule on this night. 'night orienteering' was a rush and the dorm ics were eager to conduct their last dorm check. the dramatic one. jingkai n i almost died of panick and hyperventilation. but thankfully everything worked out fine. a great thank you to my fellow landchief jingkai for sharing the stress with me, and for making things run smoothly. landchiefs rock! thanks to the instructors who bravely hid among the eerie bushes, putting your life to danger before others. haha.

the most dramatic moment of yltc. girls rushing in to save the guys. i bet no one can ever forget this.

Day 4

hearts cringed as changi jetty slowly diminished in sight. Probably the last time i'm going to stand on the bumboat, watching the waves crash onto the deck. at least in the near future.

this little jetty has probably meant nothing much to me for the past countless times i've been here. but this time, it felt like coming home.

WE! who surived yltc 'o7. a splash of our favourite colours and a surge of energy ready to conquer ubin.

shawnees gis!

a year ago we set foot on this shady paradise.

a year later nava meets again on the same land we once shed wonderful memories.

we were once the little trainees suffocated by our paint-sprayed caps and scarves.

now we've graduated to be able to feel the wind ruffle your hair and the sun rays warming your cheeks.

the long awaited campfire where we finally donned our straggly identities, caps and scarves thats been residing beneath the cobwebs like protection under a plastic wrap. we immediately smelt like we haven't bathed since yltc last yr. our antennas tuned in to sense the approach of dear 31st instructors, and there was this omnimous hunger to pick on our mistakes lingering in the air.

despite the fact that some of us were trembling, it was great hearing our anthems and pledge again. after so long, the only thing that seemed to have change is that we've grown closer as a batch. (:

Day 5

the usual photo-taking session. the only thing you could take away from ubin. and so everyone was scurrying about determined to leave an imprint of their faces permanantly in the memories of others.

this is navajos '07 and their exes. they have been a fun-loving and noisy group. haha. as seen from the meet ex sessions that brewed so many scandals just in a night's time. haha. from what i heard from their gis, they indulge in self-torture. haha..or rather, self-discipline. every individual proves to be capable of surviving the utmost challenge, but tgt, they are a unique bunch. i feel proud being their ex. (:

and hope they pass on the photo-whoring tradition that has been with nava. since 1993. =D (we found a photo album in the qm room that belongs to navajos '93 batch 19)

the journey back from ubin was hard to bear. the usual lethargy and eagerness for changi nasi lemak was replaced by a sense of loss and nostalgia. it was like a portal back to reality. when we reach land, we'll have to revive our status as a student, as a mugger, accept the fact that yltc'07 is going to end in a matter of hours, and our term in oac ... the blink of an eye.

i never knew ubin meant so much to me.

shawnees 'o7

really proud of these 8 jnrs who pulled thru frm precamp1 to yltc day 5. they never wailed, they never told me they felt like giving up. their spirits were always high and they always had lame jokes to entertain us. even when they weren't that funny. haha. but i'm really glad i got to be ur gi. great job for living through yltc with a smile. best spirited grp 'o7. shine like the red red ang ku kuehs. (:

thank you fellow gi yongsheng. for being my fellow gi. haha. despite the fact that u incessantly told me abt martian dreams, you were great company. (:

thank you shawnees rovers shiu and weixiang. for the saigang u did for us, for the breakfasts lunches and dinners, for the sentries and incoherent blabbering. and the holy water that saved our lives on that scorching aftn during land ex. (:

i could still clearly remember the moment the clean yltc shirt and encouraging pat fell on my shoulders. it was a moment of relief and gratitude. 18th march 2006. i'll always remember that day. the day we graduated from yltc. the day 23 people forged friendships that forever bind.

thank you 32nd instructors. for adding on truckloads of fond memories from yet another yltc. it hasn't been easy these past mths, but now that its over, i wish i could live it all over again. maybe our story will not end even when our term does, but anyway, lets just cherish the time we have left tgt before everything fades into black and white.

the flag flies high and our legacy lives on.

so much memories to recollect, so little time to treasure.

-32nd land chief, shawnees gi, programs comm.

posted @ 4:46 PM

Thursday, March 22, 2007

i spent the whole day drawing marshmallows. how productive.

posted @ 10:03 PM

i'm enjoying my little 5 day break from blocks, from panick.

i just hope i don't fall into the self-delusion of time abundance, and forget that there's still two art papers awaiting me on mon and tues. blocks aren't really over for me. heh. unlike peiyu! who's enjoying the time of her life now. she even revived her dormant friendster account.

anw we finally had our geogger's field trip to the heart of the metropolitan city ytd and led the lavish lifestyle of an urban dweller, submerging ourselves in the highly destructional air-conditioned arcade in the shopping centre of a gated estate. when you chuck 5 guys into a box of virtual gigantic spiders, especially when there's kenny and gaobin, you get noise pollution worthy of a year's stay at the construction site. they were hysterical, seriously. heh. now i really applaud aunty leeyang for her unwavering bravery to turn up for the weekly dates at vivocity with these guys, at the stake of her reputation. (:

girls deprived of retail for too long turn photo-whoric at the sight of cute changing chambers.

we watched music and lyrics too. beautiful comedy. haha. and many re-enactments of gaobin's favourite hobby. do look out for his new dance moves at stj. and lets hope he won't need a hip replacement this time.

presenting to you...the very free geoggers! FULL ATTENDANCE! (:

posted @ 11:47 AM

Monday, March 19, 2007

ahh i noe i shd be studying for geog now..which i havent barely started. and its tmr tmr TMR!! ahhhh! and i WILL blog abt YL after blocks, in fact, its half done.

but but but...gladys suddenly asked me a mind-bogging qs, "Whens SYF?"

suddenly suddenly i remember...there's something called SYF that used to exist in my life. something that meant so much to me. something that occupied my entire life 2 years back. and then jnrs start signing in with nicks like 'GO NYCO!'

omg. nyco is going to get on that stage THAT STAGE 2 weeks later! 3rd of April!! how long have i not visited nyco? how long have i lost contact with the co realm? how long have i neglected my dizi? how long have i thrown something so important to the back of my mind??? probably not very long. but it seems quite long to me. i feel like a total outsider. am i?

point is. NYCO IS GOING TO FACE SYF SOON! omgomgomgomg. suddenly i feel the jitters. although i'm not part of the team anymore. but its still where i grew up, the place that nurtured me into who i am. i feel quite guilty for not having visit them and giving my support. i rmb ger and karin and xuanxuan and snrs coming back so often during this period, giving us advice and sweets and hugs. but where have i gone to this time.

omg! TWO WEEKS!

gwh. ahhhh.

jiayou jnrs!

i'm hysterical.

posted @ 8:25 PM

Saturday, March 17, 2007

yltc 'o6

yltc 'o7

its been a year. in fact, the official anniversary falls on 18th march, tmr.

watching the trainees go through yl reminds me of what we went through together a year ago. i miss those days. even if it means getting scolded, tekan-ed, hiong mroc sessions. i wouldnt mind enduring all that shit and shedding those tears once again, as long as ezoac is with me. (:

i envy the jnrs. coz their journey has just started.

posted @ 7:58 PM

Monday, March 05, 2007

i guess i'll just have to get used to the fact that 'change is the only constant'.

haha...i suddenly find what i told aaron so inspiring. opps. =/
its a blessing to be able to worry over oac. i'll miss doing that when i don't have the chance anymore.
yea...haha. i feel so much better now. there are 22 other wonderful batchmates with me. and i'll never walk alone! =)

jiayou for YLTC! =D

on a lighter note, land recee was fun today! and we went according to our alternative dry weather plan for the first time in hist. hm...tracee...mabbe its really true that the rain follows you to ubin. it din rain in ubin today! ok..it drizzled a little, but surprisingly, there was no downpour. hehe. nice. i love the west!

Sucess is often a matter of
Hanging on longer when others have given up

Perseverence
Prevails when all else fails

it feels great scamming pple. haha. =/

yltc 2006 land ex checkpt card discovered at the bermuda tree. brgs back fond memories. hehe. navajos, cherokees and comanchees. the west side pple!

navas

90km bike hike!

in an attempt to photowhore! haha.

and these are all self-taken! quite zai lor! (:

the huge ship that got us all excited. hehe.

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mini class outing ytd to talentime was enjoyable too. a break away from all tt stress. (:

junhong and jeriel stare in wonderment as guobin eats in a horrendous manner.

junhong seems like he has not completely let go of his okinawan. haha.

the girls photo ruined by ggb!

so we destroyed his face! hehehe.

i think this shot of hongwei is artistically nice. (:

it took them soooo long to settle down. haha.

posted @ 1:07 AM

Sunday, March 04, 2007

ahhh..i really hope everything wld fall in place nicely. please let there be sea ex. i really don't see the point of having ONE STAR kayaking. seriously. i don't want a lousy program for yltc, when we are the ones planning it. if i have to do it..i want a good one.

please please.

posted @ 11:10 PM