Im dam lag compared to the others, but here i am writing about all that has happened yesterday, haha, a really fun day. So, woke up in the morning at 6+, when jim woke up to go to school for PTM, but realised that I dont have to, when walking out of room, and ran back to bed again. lol. Then woke up again, later at about 7.20am. And got ready for orienteering! Lols time quite well and reached there a while before the horseshoe was called. Everyone was looking quite awake already, while I was still halfway in dreamland haha. Every patrol, except Hawk, lol, got decent maps. Hawk got a map where punggol was an empty field lols.

Thanks to help from Tak Wei, Falcon plotted that checkpoints really fast and so we got to leave the start point one of the first. Okay, my memory is very bad, so can only remember the rough order of checkpoints. The first one was near a mosque and the clue was quite hard to find, and we spent about 10 minutes looking for it. In the end it was a code on a label on a power box thing, which was like only 10% visible when left untouched. Just as we were about to take the photo and leave, we saw Owl on the overhead bridge close to us, lol. And so they saw us take the picture and saved quite some time, haha.

While waiting for the traffic light to turn green, they caught up with us and we were fated to be going for the checkpoints in the same order, lol. And being competitive, we cant wait to separate ourselves, and so we did, and somewhere we went our own ways. We eventually reached an area close to Kenneth's home, and so he knew the way around and took us to the next checkpoint without difficulty. We passed by the old rosyth campus on the way and memories returned...fond memories of the rosyth and parry campus. Okay, there, somehow, we met Owl again at a T crossroad. we were coming in from one side and they were coming in from another, both heading towards the third. Lols, we couldnt believe that they could be so fast... But, because they were in front, they did not see us take another side path to the cemetary lols.

It was actually quite a nice place, and I even used the toilet there lols. I loved the Japanese-style small building there. Then time was spent looking for the exact place we needed to take a picture at, and again Owl caught up and saved time from seeing us, lols.

Then went out of the area and towards Hougang point. Close to where Darren used to live, and that was the third checkpoint. Rather easy one, so left quite quickly. But by the time we were there, could see that the sec 1s were looking tired already and Haixiao even needed water cos he didnt bring his. but we thought we could buy anything during the activity, so we left, while kenneth was asking the J1s. It turned out that we could, so Kenneth ran back to buy a bottle for Haixiao while the rest of us rested at a bus stop. Talked to some J1s there, haha and took a close look at the Silva Range compass I have been studying for the test. Then we left again after Kenneth came back. But nice work Kenneth, running all the way...haha

Then the next was a place quite out of the route, and so some patrols didnt go for it. Its a playground close to the area near the current Rosyth school, at Serangoon North. We were contemplating which way to turn, looking at the long barrier. But in the end, we took a safer way, and it turned out to be ok! Owl was ahead of us for this checkpoint, haha. While turning back the way we went, we saw Kestral (I think) walking towards the checkpoint on the other side of the road haha.

The next checkpoint was Punggol Park, an area which was quite familliar to me, since i live near there and used to go there when I was young haha. So was quite confident on the route and just walked there, though I do admit I wasnt very sure about some parts of the route and was thinking that there might be a shorter way. But its ok, we were fast on this one, and reached punggol park before Owl haha and Tak Wei found the green box. And the same thing happened yet, when Owl saw us talking the photo. lols

Then chionged into the next checkpoint, which to me, was the longest distance between 2 checkpoints that we travelled, all the way to some place which was rather ulu. It was a pavillion next to a field and a condo, but still quite middle-of-nowhere. As we were moving off, we got stuck at a traffic light together with about 3 other patrols lol. But after we crossed, Falcon was the only patrol which bravely bashed through, and we did it almost perfectly, lols and got to the next checkpoint much faster than the others. But we were looking aroung for a big pawan...didnt know what it was and just took some random pictures, but we werent sure, so hanged around looking. We even saw a malay turn around looking at us when he heard us say pawan, but he didnt say anything... So we looked...until we saw other patrols running in together and taking pictures with the whale (or the bones). We were asking what pawan was, and finaly got our answer. So we raced, together with the other patrols, towards compasspoint. It was quite horrible lols, so many people running and crashing into the MRT station, then looking for a way to get down to the first floor. Haha, so in the end we lost out a little but here and wasnt exactly the first few to reach.

Found out that KF reached 15 minutes before the rest of us, woa... Hope we can one of the first! Anyway, after a short debrief, we all went for patrol lunch! Ours was at Mac's, very crowded, but had a really fun time talking about stuff and waiting for the queue to shorten. Many people were sharing the coupons Wesley brought, haha. I chose McFlurry as the free side, lols, cos I needed a dessert haha. Had a nice day with Falcon: Kenneth, Tak Wei, Ming E, Haixiao, Wesley, Zi Wei and Daryl! (hope I got them right...) After the fun slack lunch, the sec 3s and one sec 2 left for a lanning session!

Haha, so we chose a bus which takes a long way to go to AMK so that we can rest and play on the bus, lol. Hiok Yang, Francis, Alvin and I played worms, haha. Which Hiok Yang was winning when we were about to get down and decided to pause it, lols. The others, Anurak, Kenneth, Ming E, Sup, Amos, Jon Ed and Zhong Jun were playing random stuff like finger games or listening to music or drawing lol. Then got down and walked up a smelly staircase...and Hiok Yang asked me to look at the wall, but I couldnt see anything. Wat?

Then walked in. That was probably only my...3rd or 4th time going lan so didnt expect it to be like that. Okay, then we played...and I completely suck. I was the worse there and bought wierd items and didnt know the right time to use skills lol. And Alvin who claimed to be bad, was so much proer then me la...haha. Shall get better next time! I used: Luna, Faceless Void then Pugna. Havent used them before actually, lols, but still liked them, haha. Then we all went off because some were saying that their parents were asking them to get home, and I had too too, so...we went home. Took 13 with many people: Amos, Anurak, Hiok Yang, Alvin, Sup and Zhong Jun. Haha, very fun to sit all around those kind of seats and discuss about stuff, lols.

Really sad, cos that unreliable camera of mine just died as I was about to take my first photo! So no photos, omg. This extremely fun-filled day but no photos. I mental wreck lol.

Anyway, after I got home, just stepped into home, my father was asking me to get my stuff and clothes to go to my grandmother's house right away. That's like so anxious. And after I got there and bathed, all I did was eat and sit on the chair and watch TV while the others, including Jim, were playing games...haha tired, thats all. So I watched the show 聊斋, the 宦娘 story. You might have heard of it if you read the book for the chinese test last time, lol. I didnt. But the story was quite interesting and touching, like they love each other, but were separated at first by their backgrounds, then something happened, and they were running, then they decided to die together, but only the wife died. Thats like sad, right? Then got home, and...fell asleep? So didnt blog yesterday.

Today is Mother's Day, I our family had to go to our grandmother's house again, cos she was like the mother all of all of us, something like that. Then all the families brought food, and we all share the food. Thats our tradition. So, we ate, then played with cousins, like yesterday, then all of them left, except me, to watch Ironman, which I have watched. While I went home to do homework, lols. Did some physics and now im going to do geog. Then I really want to play and relax. Okay, thats about all so far!

Next week will be a little busy too, with NUS mentor visit on Wednesday and Climate Change Ambassador Launch on Friday. Hope I wont miss too much...

End of long post haha.