SING *I wish you a Merry Christmas, I wish you a Merry Christmas, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year...* CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!

How I spend my xmas? Interesting...

The NIE gang booked a room at Amara Hotel. Jab, PPY, Bee and me spent the fainy afternoon watch DVD... Love Actually and 50 1st Dates, Haha... Ohh not 4getting the facial session... haha... After that, Himbo Marc came to have his SPEEDY manicur, cont'd from SUR cos I only did half of it and he felt asleep. DUHZ! (Shh.. Dun let him know that he missed out the facial session..)

A photo taking session b4 we went to Nick's place:








Abt 10pm+, we went to Nick's place for xmas gathering.. That kool man and his family feed us with so much food and on top of that, they took the trouble to prepare food that cater to the Muslim frens, ppl who dun eat beef, vegetarian.. blah blah blah.. Sweetest thought of them!






Eat already muz help clean up... Our way to say Thank for the invitation!



We had lots of fun esp for our game of Taboo..

The kids enjoyed the most!

We headed back to hotel to watch "50 1st dates" again.. Haha.. cos many of the new-joiners had not watched it b4. And 1 by 1, all KO except for ME! usual lah.. haha..

After checked out, we went for out Xmas Lunch at Thai Express and followed by a talk-crap session at Coffee Bean. The min I reached hm... My turn to KO! haha..

I cant rem the source of the story but it is something like this...

"God had arrange everyone to have a partner but he put them at different places at birth. You need to look for your partner during your life. In the process, you met some "wrong" people and you learn how to love.

But who is the rightful 1? How do you identify the person? The rule is: The female's ring finger (无名指) would be the same size as the male's lil' finger (小指)."

For those who know me, Evelyn is not a person who will believe in such stories. She is the kind of person who will delete a chain email, which tell you that you'll die if you delete it. Then the next day, she will laugh out loud and said "See! I'm still alive." To her, this type of story is meant to cheat naive xiao mei meis de.

One day, He slipped my ring into his last finger and asked me " 好看吗？"

Conclusion: F!

Out of mischief, boredom and bo liao-ness, i started playing a game. At 1st, I was playing it with some1, then after that I tot I played my fellow player out, but the conclusion... I thinking I was just playing with myself.

This stupid game has caused my 2 lil' gal pals to worry for me even though they r troubled by other shit already. So after much thought, maybe it should be ended. The fellow player was of the right mode, timing was right but just that the context was wrong.

I muz say that there are things bout the game which I can't bear to let go. And I muz thank my fellow player for the fun and wonderful gaming process. But I c no ending in the game and I can't afford to lose again. Ppl might said that no1 will be the ultimate winner till the end of the game. But I have a strong feeling that I'm going be the loser. Ppl also said that dun put your investment on the wrong share, if you sense that it is falling, withdraw.

Hence, the conclusion is... My game is prematurely ending. But the difficult part is it cant go THE END instantly.. is a step by step, bit by bit process. I give myself the time till 2007!

Conclusion: It's expirying and the expiry date is 31st Dec 2006.

Went to watch The Holiday with mei mei.. Nice show!

Sorry for my laziness... the details for the movie is at http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/theholiday/site/main.html.

General is a sweet till diabetic love story and I love Jude Law in that show. So sweet and cute... Shall not say too much bout the story line just in case anyone of you want to catch it. 4 popcorns from me!

Project Munitio Part 3

Day 7 (30th Nov 2006)

We had a gallery walk as the closure of the entire camp. Teachers and students made posters and various items to demonstrate what they had learn from the camp. I was amazed by their creativity and spontaneous towards sharing and expressing themselves.

After which, we gave out the certificates of participation and it was time for Good Bye. Even though we only met each other and spent 3days together, I felt the bond and was sad to say good bye. I was somehow “sabo” to give a speech. I totally don’t know what I had said. Till now I can’t recalled at all.. I just remembered that I blabbered a few words then signaled Nicholas to take over. Haha.. But that gave everyone a wrong impression that I was too emotional to continue talking. I can’t remembered who, but some1 came over and put his/her arm over my shoulder. What the… I wasn’t going to cry! I was too shock and dunno what to say and before I made a fool out of myself, I tot it was better off to siam from the mic. Right? A group of ppl that graduated from Assumption English School -_-‘’’

Nevertheless, everyone bided farewell and the team packed our stuff and got ready for to move to the hotel. TMD… The 2hours plus car ride nearly took half of my life… By the time I reached the hotel, I felt that my whole body was falling into parts, like Lego pieces.

Most of us were ecstatic over that hot water and toilet with flush.. Not forgetting the toilet paper. Reesha was "defeated" cos Marc was a step faster to run into all our rooms and flushed the toilet bowls before she could do it. We were all going crazy. Haha… and that night was the 1st time all of us had fast food after so many days. KFC! I bought lots of snacks and gathered everyone to come to my room to R&R cos I wasn’t used of the quietness without everyone else around.

We relaxed and watched Jaws (hotel got HBO Channel… so Kool!) together. Then just when I was happily relaxing and enjoying the aircon, Neh Neh de.. The guys wanted to talk about the plans of going back to SIN. Sianz to the max…

Minus the details, the conclusion was to go home! I wasn’t really into the idea but I followed the decision of the group. That was the worse night I ever had, it was worse than the frogs, cold water and whatever things.

Day 8 (1st Dec 2006)
Supposedly we need to go to the Indonesia schools to conduct some sharing lessons, due to the previous night decision, Shima started calling up the school and telling them that we had sometime urgent and need to return to our country. I felt like shit when the schools don’t blame us for the cancellation, but instead, they kept thanking us, worry about what could have happened that need us to do home, asking if we need help, etc. Piang eh…

On the journey to the airport, not much of words in the car. I was thinking whether this was a good choice and feeling incompetence and some regrets that the trip was not completed. At the airport, we could not get any ticket cos SIN flight had left SUR. Suddenly, Pak Suryo called us! He was shocked that we were leaving as no 1 had informed PW about the whole thing. He wanted us to wait for him at the airport so that he could talk to us.

We waited for quite a while for him to arrive. You see, it was SUR… Distant, traffic jam... Furthermore, the old man was sick for a long period of time, despite his health condition, he was actively involved with env conservation manners for the past 20 years. I was talking to Reesha over the whole issue and whatever had happened over the few days. I made a lil’ decision…

Over the talk with Pak Suryo, misunderstanding was put on the table and as far as I felt, it was resolved. But, Jabb told Pak Suryo that we would take his offer of putting up at his place but we would be leaving on the next day. I could not take it anymore… I finally opened my mouth. Being an outspoken person, I think I had shut my gap long enough! I voiced out that We should not caused further damages to PW. We need to stay to carry out the teacher’s workshop since we had cancelled the indoor classroom sharing lessons. If they do not want to stay, I would stay and I was glad that Reesha supported my decision. She voiced out and backed me up. At this point of time, Pak Suryo weeped. He said he was touched by my decision and kept thanking me. I ended up crying. I don’t know why but there I was crying because of an old man whom I only known him for 6days. Jabb told him that the team needed sometime to discuss this issue cos it was a sudden suggestion brought up by me.

I was targeted for not pre-discuss the suggestion with them but I did not have the chance and time to do so. I was being bombed with lots of comments and blame. Only Reesha stood up for me. Marc made it sounded like it was my fault to cause everyone to stay behind. He even commented me for being emotional in my decision making. By then, I was crying like a stupid fool. I felt so wronged and misunderstood and yet disappointed with them. What with their whatever so-called principle and shit! They did not even spare a thought for the old man and PW. What was the purpose for us to be here in SUR in the 1st place?

Well… no matter what, we would not leave anyone behind. Come as 7, back as 7! So everyone got to stay on because of my golden words! Too bad… I did not feel any sense of victory as the team ended up following my wish. In fact, I felt bad that everyone can’t go back because I knew everyone missed home already. I also felt so touched that they somehow gave in to me just because we are a team! At the same time, I was worried of how am I going to face everyone for the next few days.

I guessed everyone was super tired after the whole Saga! Once we reached Pak Suryo’s place, everyone went to take a nap. I could not settle myself down to sleep or rest. I thought everyone must be cursing me at the moment. Nonetheless, some1 shared some warmth by offering a space in his room... After a short chat, crappy jokes and our fav "scissors, paper, stone" game... ZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

Project Munitio Part 2

Day 4, 5 and 6 (27th, 28th and 29th Nov Dec 2006)The outdoor camp activities had started. There were a total of 100 odds Indonesia teachers and students from 11 different primary schools of Surabaya. I would spare the details of the activities cos it was relative boring for you guys to read about it. The main gist is letting the city kids experience the beauty of nature and learn how to protect it. As for the teachers, we were expected to be sharing the different techniques and teaching methods used in our own context.

Well… Lots of events happened within this 3 days. Ultimately killer to all of us! Firstly, the details of the camp were not convey accurately to us and also the Indonesia teachers. This lead to misunderstanding and miscommunication to both sides. On top of it, the differences in culture and communication barrel had resulted into a tension drawn up between us. Nonetheless, I was glad that as the days went by, things get clearer and the bonding between the teachers, students and us grew tremendously. We were like great friends by the end of the 3rd day.

On the 1st night of the camp, just went we were all exhausted and drained out due to the long day and stress, we need to have our meeting and also prepared for the next day’s activities. We were having our meeting and discussion in the canteen area and there were lots of flies, moths, crickets and whatever insects flying around as there was a heavy downpour. I was terrified by all these flying insects. I do not fancy them at all cos they seem to be flying aimlessly. After that day, I have phobia towards them already! I had never felt so stress before and I can’t go anywhere cos it was raining super heavily. Our bunk is at another building.

Just as the rain stopped and decided to take a shower, to our amazement, the bathroom were ULTIMATELY DIRTY due to the kids and there was no more water! As mention earlier, after certain timing, water cannot be pumped up anymore. Luckily we managed to get our shower at bathroom at PW main building, By the time, all of us gotten our shower, it was closed to 3am.

I had enough for the day and we badly wanted to rest. The girls were shocked to see our beds being occupied by the Indonesia teachers and students. There was only 2 beds and no pillow left for the 4 girls. At this very moment, I really feel like going home! What the hell am I doing in such a place and suffering like that? I also wanted to cry already. The guys offered us to sleep in the male bunk as there were empty beds. But Indonesia has a very conservative culture so we call off the ideas. The guys managed to “steal” 2 pillows for us from their bunk. The 4 girls packed ourselves together as if we were sardines in a can.

I barely slept that night. The next morning, I was totally drained out. It was an accumulative effect of a sleepless night and the “maximum 3 hours of sleep” from the previous nights. I could hardly think straight or work at all. In the end, I got "educated" by Nick. The more he point out my mistakes, the more stressful it gets and… I made more mistakes which lead off to more scolding. AHHH!!! I felt so incompetence!

Just as I tot the day had came to an end… More drama took place… For some unknown reasons, Marc had a super bad mood and it affected everyone. I tried to talk to him and joke to make him feel better but he simply ignored everyone of us, After the night debriefing, the guys dragged him out for some “Guys Talk” and I was glad that he was back to normal after that. Till now… I did not know what had happened that day. It remains as a little secret between the guys…

While the guys were away, PPY went to talk to Reesha over certain issues and it broke into an argument, followed by Reesha moving back to the old bunk. (Side track, due to not enough beds, the whole team shifted to another sleeping place. We ended up in the same room again! YEAH!!!) PPY came complaining to me about the issue but I felt that she was in the wrong. She felt down as I did not side her as we were friends since year 1 and I ended up helping Reesha. Oh well… It did not end up quite bad between us but as for PPY and Reesha, the tension and weirdness remain for the rest of the trip. OMG! I thought that it was only day 5 and so many things had happened. How am I going to continue for the next 10days?

Finally it came to the last day of the camp, it was great fun as each group need to put up some performance and we gotten the chance to experience the traditional Javanese Thanks Giving Ceremony. It was a superb day! However…

Just as I tot that things wasn’t that bad after all… there is a rainbow after every rainfall and whatever blah blah… TMD! We received our billing statement and to the shock of our life… We were over charged and our budget was running out. The group made a decision to move out of PW and checked into a hotel for the next day then return to S’pore on the 1st Dec 06.

Project Munitio Part 1

Day 1 (24th Nov 2006):
When we reached Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, we were exorted 350k Rupiah before able to continue our journey. The feeling was like DUHZ! But I realised the 1st interesting fact about the whole team. All of us have double eye lids. So kool ya? Bo liao? Ya lah.. cos I was super bored while waiting for the whole wayang to take place and pay off the $ b4 we were able to go off.

After a stop over at a shopping mall to buy some stuff and replenish our energy, we continued our ultimate long journey to Trawas. It was a great challenge for a person with motion sickness. Thank god I made it to Trawas and reached Pring Woelong in a piece. Haha... The weather was superb up in Trawas. Cool and refreshing...

After a short rest, the counterparts of Pring Woelong drove us out to have supper. It was really thumb up to their drving skills. The road is in complete darkness and superly uneven... But the guys were really kool with it. (Clap!)

We reached the Warong (street side stalls) and the guys had the famous Mee Bakso (Beef balls noodles) and some satays. I wasn't enjoyig much ah cos the food was not of my liking. I only had a few sticks of satay which tasted weird cos it tasted sweet instead of the familiar taste of the ones in S'pore.

We went back to PW camp site and decided to take a shower before KO in our beds. And... OMG! OMG! The water is ice-cold! And it was from the stream so you will see some sediments at the bottom of the well-like structure in the bathroom. As for the toilets... I nearly fainted! Squatting units without flush and toilet paper... Nonetheless, I quickly took my shower and went back to the bunk to rest.

Our bunk looked like Shao Ling Temple! Haha.. There was this concrete platform and mattress all lined side by side, in a single row. It looked weird but somehow I felt safe cos the whole team will be sleeping together. I never like sleeping alone... So there was a little "YEAH!" feeling in me.

I laid down, trying to feel somfortable but I can't. Marc entertained me with a casual chat b4 he KO. I cont'd to feel insecure and disturb by the sound of nature around me... Crickets, lizards, geckos, bats, some unidentified creatures... Ahh!!! I can't sleep...

Ohh... side track a bit on the satay... I found out that what we ate was actually RABBIT MEAT!!!! Pukez!!!! I felt so sick about it!

Day 2 and 3 (25th and 26th Nov 2006):
These 2 days were full of tracking and site visiting. We need to get familiar with the surroundings and sites before the commencement of the camp activities. We visited the rainforest (Jurang Gemboloh), paddy fields and PW site. We were all mesmerized by the beauty of nature. Wait till I get the pictures from my team mates, then you all can go WAH! together with me.

Side track to some funny notes.. On the second night, there were FROGS in the bathroom. WAH LAO EH! Frogs eh... I was too shock to take my shower. Every1 waited for a single unit which was frog-less at the moment. But the water pressure dropped lower and lower as the night creeped in.. In the end, the water flow was like -_-''' haiz.. It took like forever in order for all of us to get our shower. Shortly after Reesha took her shower and light a stick for a puff... she suddenly hold on to her track pants and screamed "There is a frog inside!" Everyone of us was shocked and the guys kept laughing at the girls when we tried all means to get that frog out of Sha's pants. Haha... What an experience for Reesha and also that poor little frog... Haha...

I'm finally back to my home sweet home after 15days! I really miss everything back here. I had never miss my country and home this much before... I will somehow state some highlights of the trip. As for the photos, still waiting for my team members to wake up from their hibernation... haha...

1st of all, I must thank mummy to approve on my trip so that I was able to gain these wonderful memories and experience. I must thank my team members for the support and encouragement throughout the trip. Thank to the Indonesia counterparts for the guidance and hospitality.

Lastly, thank to a special someone... Thank you for your care and concern. Thank you for your encouragement. Thank you for your support. Thank you for carrying my bags. Thank you for taking care of my wellness and safety. Thank you for putting up with my attitude. Thank you for agreeing and disagreeing with me. Thank you for the joy and laugthers. Thank you for making me cry. Thank you for being around. I dunno know how to express my gratitude to you. So other than thank you, it is still thank you... Thank you Marc!

I would be posting bits and pieces of the trip as days go by. So just hang on...

For the time being... Here is my team mates: