15/12
Started packing my luggage to go china in the morning. Had to cancelled my lunch appointment with fengy cuz I needed more time to pack. Then went to somerset. When in came back, bathed and went to the airport with my mum. Mum sent me off. I was to call my mum to tell her I boarded the plane but my hp just suddenly couldn’t call. I tried calling my mum thrice, even my dad who is in china thrice but my hp still showed “error in connection”, haiya how? I told the lady officer that I needed to call my mum outside and luckily she lent me her hp.
I read and slept on the plane. When I reached shen zhen airport, my dad was there to pick me up. His company driver drove us to my dad’s dormitory. By then it was 3 plus in the morning.

16/12 to 22/12
Spend some time in china with my dad. He brought me around to the usual places he shops and eats. I watched quite a few DVDs there as well. In fact I watched more DVDs there than I watch in Singapore. I’m quite lazy to elaborate what happened but it was fun. Enjoyed it.

23/12
Mainly sorted out the gifts I bought for my friends then went out. Then ate dinner with my family.

24/12
Well at least I got to spend some time at home resting. I did the front page of my chem. Tutorial. Oopsy, haven done my sch work. Funny ah, I studied for an hour but I ironed clothes for 2 hours. Haiz. Then I began to fall sick. My dad was to come back from China tonight. Funny thing is that both my sis and I fell sick. What a nice welcome gift for my dad. Lol. I still wore the necklace my dad gave me when I was with him in china. Then I got me a white watch when he came back.

25/12
Merry Christmas!
Wells, this year, I cancelled quite a number of Christmas parties and all partly cuz I’m sick and also I wanted to spend some time with my dad.
Our whole family was at home today and we talked and laughed. We went grocery shopping after eating lunch. I spend the night watching a whole bunch of shows on tv. Haa!

26/12
My mum and sis had to wake up early to work today. I only had to work at night. So I went out to expo with my dad, supposedly to the Metro Warehouse Sale but in the end we realized it only begin at 6pm, so we popped by orchard. Oh ya, ii met quite a few ppl today. I met Eunice tan and Clare Sim around my house area, then Sherry while walking in the streets of orchard, then Hong Zhou and Marcus at a shopping centre. At about 5 plus in the evening, I had to go to work so my dad went to Chinatown. While walking towards Orchard mrt, I thought I saw Hong Taa, hmm maybe I was just my imagination. Anyways, I didn’t see Liling at my workplace today, instead Fly was there. Not so stress. Haa but he’s full of rubbish. Came back about 12 plus midnight. Usual.

13/12
Ooh one of my so called free days. Yay
I woke up and did a whole day’s worth of housework. More relaxing than rushing here and there, out of the house so on. Washed whatever I need to wash from my trips, folded and ironed clothes while watching lion king 2, prepared some dinner, read some stuff and then popped to bedok.
Came back to watch some tv and read a bit. See so free today

14/12
My dad called me to tell me that my flight to china was confirmed! Yay!
Abit the hectic today la. Hee
Met Audrey, em and germ at 11.30am for lunch at Breeks in town. We so called celebrated all our birthdays together. Haa! The nut cake was superb!
I didn’t realize my appetite was so big. I ate a huge portion of pasta and sea bass, then ate a quarter of a small cake and parts of food the others couldn’t finish and was still not full! Oopsy!
Then I left early, sadly I can’t meet phoebe. She supposed to join us for dinner. I went to ang mo kio jubilee to meet woon jeck for movie. Watched enchanted. It wasn’t that nice and it was only abt an hour plus. Well some parts were funny.
After that, we sat and ate somewhere near until 5 plus. After that, I went to work.
Oh wells, bad news, if the coming back flight for me from china isn’t confirmed, my dad may just cancel the flight. Oh wells, my mum said can tell him that I can come back earlier or later so that there’ll be a flight back. Hopefully I can go there.
Came back home at abt 12 plus. Cooked some noodles plus fish, dumplings, mix veg for supper. But still hungry. Shall need to pack my bag for tmr flight.

11/12
Phew! Doctor said it was just food poisoning. At least I know I won’t die so fast with unfinished business. Sounds familiar for those who read joy luck club? Haa like su yuan. Wanted to do lots of stuff today cuz it was one of my only few free days. But as usu, my body only breaks down on free days which is a good thing and a bad one. Good thing cuz it wouldn’t interfere with my activities but bad cuz in the end I have to spend my free time resting so cnt really enjoy or spend it well. Haiz.
Doctor said I had to take more salt by like drinking soup and so on cuz I lose salt when I vomit. I suddenly feel like drinking some anyway, so I went to toa payoh central to eat smth and walked around popular. Hungry. I didn’t eat breakfast. Oh yea I had some medicine too. Haiz. I forgot to ask if I can dun take medication.

It was raining so heavily that I took a bus home. Came back, slept till 7 plus. Went out to eat dinner with my sis and then we met my mum.

My flight to china not confirmed! Cries

12/12
Woke up early to go see the odacers run. Didn’t want to run cuz I just had my food poisoning. Baby and I talked quite abit. Then we went subway to eat after that. Then I went to work.
Came home, cooked for 3 ppl, in the end sis and mum say not coming back for dinner. Popped down to join in a potluck dinner organized by my juniors. Bad thing is that they didn’t really plan it so it turned out to be 3 pots of bee hoon, choc cake, fish ball, curry puffs, chips, sandwiches n drinks. Hmm… thank goodness I had food at home. But there were so funny and not to mention noisy! Lol! Then there’s the part when Priscilla and mushuang took revenge on each other while we were playin UNO. I suppose tht’s the karma. It happened during truth or dare for project eagles with Royston and lindy as well. Haa! I could have won not for the fact that I forgot to say UNO and UNO GAME!!!!!! Cries! Then we learnt their invented version of heart attack.
After packing up, my batch ppl sat and talked for awhile before we left. I packet sandwiches home to eat. Yum!
In the end, both mum and sis said they come home to eat dinner later. So we all ate at 10 plus to 11 plus.
Fengy scolded me for eating half raw chicken during the bbq. She said I would have eaten it anyways. True. I was hungry mah.
Flight still not confirmed! Dad said maybe by fri or the day before. Actually not that bad la, cuz nth much to pack also cuz I’m living in my dad’s dom.

30/11
Went to botanic gardens to look up some plant books with my grp members. Then we went to eat lunch and then went to kino to buy some plant books. Went home, packed a bit for tmr’s project eagles trip to Malaysia, kahang and went to work till 11pm. I think I’m so dead, come back still have to pack then only have a few hours of slp. Have to meet in sch by hm 7 plus if I rmb correctly.


Project eagles

1/12
Meet in sch at 7 plus and took a bus to Kahang in Malaysia, actually 2 buses.

Day 1
Reach KOREF, set up tents, lunch, briefing, do tetra map. I’m water then fire, then air and lastly earth.
My whole grp mostly water then a few air. So we would be a happy and logical grp but we’ll not get things done since we don’t have any earth ppl.
Then grp leaders had to talk to mr tan for awhile. He wanted us to think abt safety rules. I thought tt my grp ppl should just stand beside jethro during a lightning risk since he’s the tallest. Haa!
It was quite awkward during our first whole grp meeting with the bukit panjang gov high student called Josephine and our safety supervisor, a J2 called Yvonne. Then I tried suggesting playing a game called murderer. It helped a bit. Joel started getting a little involved and directed the game.
Then we went for our walk around the farm area to get ourselves familiar with the area so that it isn’t so difficult when it is time to do our research starting from the next day. We would be able to recognize the area.
The guide showed us the area and more like tried to make us independent by probing qns on what we see on the map that was given to us. The map had all the features erased and we were suppose to make them out by observing our surroundings. This was also the time I felt helpless cuz I really suck at maps. I couldn’t even make out anything on the map so I just kept quiet.
We had to sort of draw the map along the way but we gave up in the end. We were supposed to walk all the way to the dam but since my grp walked too slowly esp with zhi hua and joel, we had to turn back halfway. It was time for dinner.
Bathed, discussed and had a short leaders’ meeting with mr tan at the chalet room.

2/12
Day 2
Woke up, morning jog until the ducks farm then back. breakfast, got a guide to lead us to the outer part of the forest. We used raffia to tie across a small stream. It was quite difficult to cross it at first but by the end of the next few days, we got better at crossing it. we searched for plant samples and some of us got leaches on us. Some of the leaches dunno why came to suck our shoes instead. Haiz. Then I felt something cold above my waist. I just ignored it thinking it was my imagination. After feeling it a few times, I finally stopped it in it’s tracks and see what was it. it was a leach. Haiyo, I wonder why leaches dun like to suck my blood but like to crawl on me. After collecting and taking photos of plants, we went back to identify some of them. Soon it was lunch time and yups I spammed food with rod, ate dunno how many servings. Anyways, organic food mah. Purple dragon fruit was nice! i know my mum also buys them but it didn’t taste as nice. we also had organic brown rice milk.
After lunch, we got han choing, a guide to show us deeper in the forest to decide our plot. That place was filled with leaches and the girls were screaming. Haha. The forest was a bit unaccessible. Even with odac expeditions and other outdoor activities, I nv encountered such a dense forest. There wasn’t really a trail actually. I got some scratches here and there. Then again we demarcate the plot using raffia string and started collecting plant species. Then we went back to identify some more.
After afternoon research, we had some activities which helped bond our grp better. We were suppose to build a raft using barrels, sticks and strings. Although our grp took the longest to build the raft but it was all worth it cuz our raft could carry 8 ppl with sinking! Coolz! And we floated to quite a far distance.
Bath time! Water was cold! And we bathed with insects and the roof was only halfway. But it was still smth to bath in.
Dinner time!
Night time was spent trying to identify plants and I tried to see how to use the portable microscope. Unfortunately the CD for installation wasn’t in there so we can’t use it. mr tan asked me to ask arnd if there is any CD stuck in any sch’s laptops to see if the CD was in there but to no avail. then leaders’ meeting. Sleeping time too!
Apparently, in Malaysia, I was so tired that I didn’t take long to fall aslp.

3/12
Day 3
Woke up, ran all the way out to the gate and back, a longer distance. Hungry too!
Breakfast. Then we went to both plots to look for differences. I finally got a leach bite on my left ankle. Cuz usu the leaches crawl on me but dun bite me. I didn’t find it cuz I saw blood but I saw it on my. My blood didn’t clot for quite sometime. Came back, identify. Lunch, then started work. Joesphine was pro, she identified quite a few plant samples. Slowly we died one by one. Ing hian from the farm insects grp said tt I was the sole survivor of my grp haa!
Then we had our afternoon activities. This time my grp’s one was nature walk. A guide actually showed us how we could appreciate nature and recognize some plants like the durian tree. He told pet and me why the fallen leaves became white. It could be cuz the trees want to shed the leaf but must extract all the chlorophyll from it and excrete their waste to it before shedding the leaf. So it had no more chlorophyll hence it turned white.
Then he also told pet and me why the branches of trees grow upwards after it was being chopped. It was like starting a new plant. I really learnt a lot from him. He told the odacers more about the sealing wax palm too!
In the end, we ate quite late. Then start work. Then leader’s meeting. Thank goodness my gro was still there after the leader’s meeting. I gave them some instructions before we ate supper then went for some star gazing b4 sleeping. I saw orion, pleadies and even mars! It was through the telescope, so near! Mars was a red fire ball. Coolz!
After which pet and I went back to our tents to slp but we woke xin yi up. Oopsy so in the end we talked for awhile before sleeping.

4/12
Day 4
Woke up, ran all the way to the end part of the paddi fields and back. Got some seeds of a plants stuck on our legs. Then came back for some wonderful breakfast.
This time, menveer became our safety supervisor cuz Yvonne had to follow another grp. We went to both plots to take out our raffia string and to do any last min observations. After that, we came back, rest then had lunch. I felt that ,my grp bonded more and got whackier. Esp with the jokers like joel, zhi hua and Hubert.
After which I did the ppt presentation slides for tmr’s presentation while the rest continued identifying plants.
After which we had our activities. My grp had to do the orang asli’s obstacles which included balancing on logs and strings in water and tarazan swing over the water. I didn’t get water at all. Yay! I suppose it was partly cuz of my low center of gravity.
Bath time then dinner! Then we continued on the ppt slides for tmr. Leaders meeting. Wah, so much stuff! Thank goodness grp members nv slp yet. Bad news. We had to do ppt slides, 4 out of the 5 bio grps had to present for 30 mins, each 6 times tmr morning. The others had to present 9 times for 20 mins in the afternoon. So I got 5 other of my grp members to help me present or I think I’ll die tmr. Plus we had to prepare a short item for campfire. Haha
Then I knocked out soon.

5/12
Day 5
We didn’t have morning jog as we had to prepare our presentation. It started raining for the first time since we came and very very heavy. It really rained the whole day and it was the start to flooding actually. We had like water beds under our tents and since our tents had a hole, some of our stuff became totally wet. Haiz. We presented and went around listening to the presentation of other grps to learn more about what they’re doing. There were grps like the soil chem, soil physics, farm and forest insects, fish, 2 survey grps, the GIS and GPS grps, the water grp, the map grp, birds, weather, CO2 grp…
Since it was raining so heavy, we didn’t have our activities. Instead, we shifted our things from then tents into shelter and had dinner. After which we had our sort of campfire without fire. LOL! We ate supper during the performances. Since it was our last night here, we didn’t have a curfew. Many of us didn’t slp. I was sitting with my grp ppl and playing the thumb game. The ppl who lost had to drink a cup of water. We played until there was a black out. Then I also mingled with my 1st 3 months classmates and their grp members. We played peace by the river. I nv thought of the game as a girl’s game cuz I thought everyone knew how to play it. I mean even those guys I knew know how to play. In the end we had to teach quite a few ppl to play. Ming had the greatest improvement, but he really had to concentrate hard! Haha
Then we played truth or dare. Oh yea, we ate instant noodles and biscuits too!
Then I saw what a safari bed looks like. So cools! Cuz the boys had to slp on it while the girls got beds to slp on. The we sat down and talked, got to know ing hian better, Royston, rishi and menveer knocked out very fast. Soon at abt 3.30am, ya hui and I went to our room to slp. At least have a few hours of slp la.

6/12
Day 6
Woke up, actually no need to wake up so early this time. We had to pack up and stuff like that. Then had fried rice for breakfast. I bought 1kg of organic dragonfruit (2) and 1kg of organic brown rice. Both cost 7RM each. Then we had to strike tents and we took lots of last min photos while waiting for our bus to arrive. We boarded the bus and it brought us to eat lunch at some local coffeeshop. Then pet, xinyi and I walked around to buy some more snacks on the bus ride back to Singapore. we slept on the bus even though there was a show to watch. I rmb ming wanted to challenge me for a hand game. We played, he still concentrated super hard. LOL! And his knuckles were really hard. Haha! Then we went all the way back to CJ. I had to rush back home! Cya!

Back in Singapore, I had to rush to bedok. Haiz

7/12
Worked from 11am to 6pm but had to reach at 9am to collect my pay. After which I had to meet mr tan at Ang Mo Kio MRT station to claim my expenditure for project eagles. He gave me some guidance on the way home. Seriously he makes me feel less stress doing the project.

8/12
Met up with project eagles grp in the morning at botanic garden. Tried identifying plants. This joel and zhi hua took a lot of big files which were supposed to be on display to our table. In the end, there was a tour grp and I supposed the guide face turned abit the black black. The 2 jokers just displayed the files nicely one our table lol!
Then we went for lunch. Just cuz it’s in botanic gardens, my bowl of wanton mee cost $4! Wah! But it was not bad la.
Then I rushed to somerset after which I went to work but since I was early, I slept at Mos burger. Oh I was so sad that AMK hub didn’t have any place to slp, fast food restaurants were so crowded. Haiz weekends la. And I bought a wonderful smelling durian pancake! Yum yum!
I met Ronald at mos but I didn’t recognize him at first ha
Then I ate a staff meal then worked. Felt quite sick while working, feverish, cold. When I came back, I checked my temp, confirmed: fever. And not like my mood was nice either, at least Nicholas from my work place listened to my crap. Haaha
I have no idea if it was the start of malaria or not. Cuz I went to a malaria filled area previously and I was aching somehow, nausea as well. But neither my sis or mum knows it. they slept alr anyway.

9/12
Didn’t have appetite at all the whole day. Went to somerset then met my mum on the 143 bus and we went to vivocity to walk walk. How long since I was able to go some place for relaxation? Whenever ppl tell me to cut down and relax, it’s just easier said than done. Cuz there are responsibilities and implications in whatever u do. I just need support to go on.
Came back, rushed my intro report for project eagles. Haiz talked to my dad oversea, he told me my flight to visit him wasn’t confirmed. I’m supposed to fly there alone to see him cuz my mum and sis are not free. They’ll fly next yr in april when I cnt go. Haiya. If I’m suppose to fly on the 16th dec, which is soon, and my flight isn’t confirm, how am I suppose to pack my luaggage? All I know that I would be flying to hong kong first.

10/12
Overslept. Woke up at 12 plus. Went to sch at 2pm for class cip rehearsal. Learnt some dance steps from mei xiu, I think I look like some frog jumping around. We are supposed to perform on a Christmas party for project sphere. I have no idea if I can commit cuz my flight to china isn’t confirmed. If I am to fly, I doubt I can turn up for rehearsals and the Christmas party cuz I’ll come back only on 22nd dec night, when the christams party is on. So I passed my I/C for christams carols to Nicole. Anyways, I need some relaxation too. Dun want too much responsibility.
Then I popped home to put my stuff down and went to Yida’s house to have BBQ. Haiz I feel so old alr. Drama times have changed, I see all the younger ones. I only see some older ones like yili, woon jeck, ernest and me. But nonetheless we had fun even though there was rain. With yida’s whopped idea of taking the security guard’s huge standing umbrella to shelter our stuff. But the guard came and make sure we put it back haiz. Why can’t he just let us use it? I rmb yida once took an ntuc trolley back or smth. Really had fun there. Played abit of cards before I went home. Yida was weird saying tt I was strong but not strong. Ha. Received a nice msg, hoping to get and got. But I wasn’t feeling well again, nausea. When I reached toa payoh interchange, it was raining. no choice, I walked in the rain since I couldn’t run. I was wearing SLIPpers. Got all the water and leaves stuck to me, felt sick, cold and hungry cuz I didn’t eat much at the BBQ. Was busy BBQing. Came back, bathed , drank a cup of milo and slept. But it didn’t go well. Woke up at 3 plus in the middle of the night to vomit. In the end I vomited 4 times until abt 6 plus. So meanwhile, I made myself feel better by using the com to watch shows. Felt better after puking but still not very good. Hopefully I didn’t wake anyone up. Food rejections??
Continued trying to sleeping but not successful. Gave up at 11 plus in the morning. Went online again and typed this. Wait till 2pm then I see doc to see if I kena malaria. Hope I didn’t cuz I doubt I have the time to treat it. I rmb my doc said it would take abt 3 days. We’ll see. I still left 20 mins before 2pm. Meanwhile I caught up with chang yong and Audrey.