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Time flies. It seemed like yesterday when I was still J1.... It felt to me then that 2011 is sooooo far away. And now, I'm typing this post on the second last day of 2011. Soon it will be 2012... Then 2013... Time flies scarily fast. And now I shall conclude my 2011 by looking back on the year...

Jan 2011: I remembered not being able to get used to writing 2011 instead of 2010 for the date. That brings me back to working at a bank as a temp bank assistant. Actually just doing za work. But I didn't really score on the social ladder, having to eat lunch alone almost everyday, then exploring the premises. The loner in me strikes again. Unforgettable. And taught me alot. Will always rmb the bus ride to alexandra, and the feeling of going to work so early. Hope I don't get an office job in the future, but it seems rather unrealistic. Haiz.

Also, finally got a guitar and started learning from wenhui. I still can rmb I was very excited when I was going to the shop. Chose the 90 dollar guitar and bought a tuner too. Haha. I was actually looking at a white 85 dollar one, but master say it will get dirty easily. So ok lo. Very excited when I finally carried it home. But very bulky and heavy. Pity the bag doesn't have straps for me to carry on my shoulders. But I'm finally fulfilling my dream of playing a musical instrument. Haha, fnally learning after putting it off since J1 after-prelims. But still feeling bad cos wenhui's teaching me pro bono. Maybe.....

Ok, end of part 1!

Labels: About 2011

There are two things I want to write about in this post. Firstly, from 5 Dec to 10 Dec, Guitar camp!

Initially I was a bit worried.... Nervous.... Since I don't know most from the main ensemble, and the thought of playing in the man ensemble was.... Haha, well, I know I can't reach that standard..... yet. Haha. But it seems that the camp is overall, enjoyable. Camps are meant to bond! And I think the only camp where I don't feel really bonded is.... A camp a few years ago.

Anyway, I'll leave out the nitty gritty details. Some highlights:

1) 1st day (5/12): It started out awkward, for me. Haha, the workshop members were sitting in our own circle while the main ensemble were in theirs. Then admin stuffs, checking into RH (I've been wanting to stay on campus for a long time actually), lunch and ice breakers, then sectionals, dinner and changing strings, and the x'mas party planning. It was my first sectionals with the altos. I think it's horrible haha! For me, cos I just got the score and my sightreading fail and playing fail. And tuning fail. Alto guitars are tuned differently from primes. I felt something was amiss when the notes I played didn't sound like the ones others played. And I couldn't tune my guitar to standard tuning cos it seems very awkward. Haha, and I didn't ask cos it seems very silly! Hahaha, so that was the first day with the wrong tuning. I tried to tune to others' notes. But I could remember the excitement when I first saw I had an alto assigned to me! Haha, no need to borrow other people's guitar already. I love my alto! Haha!

2) 2nd day (6/12): Nose got blocked and body ached from sleeping on the floor. And the room is really dusty and dirty and ants-y and.... Argh, I'll elaborate more later. Sectionals and lunch.... Main ensemble practising for the NUH CIP on Fri so gave us the workshoppers some time to practice. I'm not the only one who's struggling :/ And Dayl left after day 1, so I'm the only workshopper in alto! Goodness! Haha. Main ensemble and night games followed. I really liked the music! Jap songs ftw! Not J-pop though haha. Night games were creative and fun! Haha, the photoframe game, the syllabus game, the pictionary game and the drink game! Gave me diahrrea the next morning >.< But haha! I got to know more people.

3) 3rd day (7/12): The day started with the usual breakfast, sectionals and lunch. Then mini-ensemble for the first time. Goodness. Only gt 3 people from alto 1. Ended up the last song I had to play solo cos our dear SL was playing the cembalo and Yin Yun had to leave for games. Horrible. No sound! Haha. Guess that will spur me towards trying harder to play! Oh my! (Won't forget that experience) Then games dinner and main ensemble. And then Rika and I brought back our guitars to prac. Halfway through, I saw a weird stick insect that runs v fast, looks like centipede. Then a weird bug on the bed beside Rika. Both os us were really scared! Finally mustered up the courage and caught the weird bug. But the weird stick insect on the floor ran away! We didn't dare to sleep in the room/ on the floor and went to Cheers to look for insecticide. But don't have! Almost wanted to go Rika's house (which was near) to sleep. In the end we squeezed on the bed. But eventually I still ended up on the floor haha.

4) 4th day (8/12): The usuals, then amazing race. Quite fun! Vivocity to make pocky stickman, then Holland V to look for eggs and crack 'em. Orchard central to get 10 honks (Honk for X'mas! Why nobody want to honk!), scape to kick slippers (I'm such a bad slipper-kicker, I keep hitting Shruti, sorry!!) and finally to the not-so-secret final station PS (Elizabeth let slip the final location haha). Ate dinner there and bought my baygon to kill the weird insect in the room! Finally can sleep in peace (hopefully).

5) 5th day (9/12): Breakfast, then prepared to go NUH for the CIP performance. Helped to load the equipment since the workshoppers are not performing. Walked under the hot sun from PGP to NUH Tower block! In my oversized black guitar shirt! Haha. Lunch at megabites at NUH and listened to the main ensemble. After that, sectionals, dinner and main ensemble.

6) Last day (10/12): Breakfast sectionals lunch. We had sectionals by ourselves while Shu Hann went over to alto 2. Our dear SL personally coached me and I realised that I made quite a lot of mistakes! Goodness me. But hey! I felt I improved over the few days. Thanks Hejing! Alto 1 is awesome! Main ensemble with Dr. Robert afterwards. Then OTOT, preparing for the X'mas party. We were quite last minute, but hey! Everything went fine! Haha. Went to collect the food at utown koufu. Sooo long. Cut my toe with cardboard lol. We went back with the ayam penyet and everyone was there already! Ate, then section performances. So spicy!!!!! Sorry for no decorations haha. After that was games, guess song title/ artist/ continue the lyrics. Then the find items starting with the letter to spell the word game (that was played during TJ prom last year). And then we had Murderer, which name was changed to Pedobear (lol!) and revelation of Angel and Mortal. My angel was really nice to give me letters everyday. And his handwriting was so nice (nicer than mine) such that I thought my angel was a girl initially. And my mortal! Haha, sorry for not preparing nice paper, and giving the final clue on Fri. Haha, but I think it was sufficient to let him guess it was me. And the party ended with forfeiting the X'mas comm. Lol. What is this. All the comms got forfeit, except the breakfast comm. Lol.

Anw, I couldn't go for LPG. Cos of some relative's wedding dinner. Lol. She's a complete stranger to me although we are relatives. I want to go LPG! Haha, but I don't want to embarrass myself. Maybe I can go for the next next LPG, after I'm better at the guitar. Ok set. Nobody/ Nothing is going to deter/ stop me from going for it. Haha, meanwhile, practise!!!

One thing to admit, I had thoughts of quitting during sectionals, like, I feel I'm going too fast, haven't even master my basics then going so fast already. But everytime the ensemble plays together, the thought will vanish. Anyways, I've decided I'm going to stay in guitar and not gonna be a quitter. Hopefully it will help in my guitar learning and I'm gonna zoom towards my goal!

The End of Guitar camp! Haha, it was quite a fun and fulfilling one. Made quite a lot of friends too ^^

The second thing I want to talk about, 11 Dec 1am to 6am, the stayover!

After guitar camp ended, family came to pick me up. Yay they bought my dou hua!!!! Went home and unloaded things (fat luggage and my alto), then bathed and went out to meet lingxiang, wanjing, weiting and jasme. They came to fetch me cos it was like 1 am already. We went to eat supper at ecp mr teh tarik. Ate tissue prata with chocolate chips (Those colourful chocolate vermicelli on doughnuts) and teh tarik. Quite nice! But quite expensive too for roti prata. After that went to fly kite at marina barrage! Phobia of holding the kite for fear it will fly away!! It was super cold there (but not as cold as the Dance Studio before the X'mas party) Took a lot of photos with the special lights effect. Super cool. Weiting is the artist and helped us draw a lot of nice things. Haha! Then we recorded 2 songs for the "19 and unaccomplished" album. Lol! Eventually we went to eat breakfast at marine parade hawker centre and went home cos we were all tired. Luckily I remembered to bring my house keys.

After that I slept awhile then went out to buy bed. Haha!

What a happening life! Haha. Till the next time then! I shall go and catch up on things while I was away.

Labels: guitar

Finally, a long awaited SSB outing!! It's been so long since I last saw Elva. We met at Punggol MRT to explore the area. As Elva and me didn't eat breakfast (I forgot that Mom had cooked fried rice in the cooker, so I thought there was nothing to eat, except cake; besides, if I ate, I would be late), we decided to take LRT to Punggol Point, or Punggol Plaza (we alighted at the 3rd station, can't remember the name).

I wrote the above paragraph yesterday. Wanted to finish uploading the pictures to facebook then continue updating this blog last night. But who knows, the photos took so long to finish uploading, and I can only upload 5 photos at a time. Ended up sleeping at 5am. But anyway, I'm here to finish this post up, after a whole day of procrastination (haha). *Opens FB album and looks at photos*

We went to Punggol Plaza to eat lunch. There was this set lunch at 日本村, so we went in. And it made us so full, or was it just me? Ate teriyaki chicken (again) and mochi, with fried prawn, sashimi and some kind of seashells (maybe I'll be able to identify them once I take LSM1103 next sem) on a satay stick. The sashimi is so RAW. Haha, I know it's supposed to be like that, but I don't like raw food. Taste like raw jelly (-.-). It costs $10.50 and left me 90 cents in my wallet. Cos I was in a hurry so anyhow grab a 10-dollar note.

After that we went to explore the Punggol area. It was raining! A good thing I was wearing shorts and slippers, and my "raincoat" shirt (not that it made a difference, it looks like a raincoat but doesn't function like one). We relied on Elva's map and walked to some nursery and a sports hub of some sort. It was an on-and-off rain, suddenly it rained heavily; suddenly it gt smaller; suddenly it stops, and the cycle repeats. We saw some Punggol Billard place next to the sports hub and went there. There was a prawning place, the waters looked like Coke. After that we went to the Riverside Promenade, or something like that, to stroll and take pictures. Quite a nice view! Elva took the most pictures, if she had a better camera than her iPhone she would be snapping non-stop. It rained again and we went to a cool-looking toilet to take shelter. It looked like some rock wall.

And then, we crossed a bridge to get to Lorong Halus Wetland. It sounds like a swampy area to me, so I was surprised when I don't see any swamp-like area around. Probably only the "coasts" of the Serangoon river looked like swamps to me. Anyway, it was like another world in Lorong Halus. The sky there was blue with white clouds, in contrast to the dark and gloomy ones that hung over Punggol, that threatened to rain every now and then. We found a nice pavillion with no benches, as if it were built for people to have a picnic. We settled down and brought out the plastic sheet Wei Ke brought along to use as a mat. We ate, chat and took pictures, digital and polaroid. Haha. We were fooled by the polaroid. We thought the cover was a fil and waited for the picture to develop. And I ruined the next by shaking the photo. Sorry :( (There was this lizard/bird that keeps making chirping noises. Rahh!)

After that, we went to walk around the place and saw what were known as "reed beds". There were dogs there! Big ones, little ones, all wild ones. Along the way, there were many ponds with fishes, lily pads and lily flowers. The beauties of nature. (Except that a few fighter planes decide to fly past during our picnic and it was deafening.) The word "leachate" keeps popping up, which makes us wonder what it means. And the reed beds were lined with rocks, with the reeds being planted in an orderly manner. What's with the rocks? We finally got our answers when we were back at the entrance where we started. Lorong Halus used to be a landfill site, where trucks would dump rubbish into big holes dug in the ground and they would be buried and left to degrade (or not). When it rains, the water would pass through the waste buried under the soil and seep into the nearby Serangoon Reservoir, which would pollute the reservoir's water. Thus, there was a need to treat the water, known as leachate, before it enters the reservoirs.


Above: A picture that I took, of one of the exhibition boards, for illustration purposes.

It turns out that the leachate flows beneath the reed beds and the reeds absorb and remove the impurities from the leachate. The ponds we saw were also known as polishing ponds, which contains the treated water (I think).

Disclaimer: The above information is from my understanding from the exhibition boards at Lorong Halus. It may not be entirely correct, I may have intepreted it wrongly. Please don't use it as reference material or anything. Use Google instead.

After we left Lorong Halus, we went to our final destination: Waterway park@ Punggol (or something along that line). We walked towards the Serangoon East Dam, but it was supposedly blocked off and I keep feeling spider webs on me. It looked like the area around were still under construction, so we headed back. Anyway, we might not be allowed entry into the dam :/

After that we strolled along the waterway, in hope of finding an exit. However, there doesn't seem to be one in the vicinity. We ended up walking 3 LRT stations to finally exit near Damai LRT. Good lord, my legs were breaking and I was wearing slippers. The excited Elva stopped to take pictures every now and then. The night was getting dark and it was about 7.30pm going to 8. Along the way, we saw a bridge that looks like a Christmas bridge and a shelter that looks like the shell of a clam. And not to forget the up-and-down road full of humps, that looks like we are on a roller coaster, except that we are walking instead of sitting in a car. I remembered feeling quite lonely and sad at some point of time. It must be scary walking alone at night. Thank goodness I have my two friends with me. There were also bikers and joggers occassionally biking or running past us.

At the exit, we were informed by an informational board that the Waterway was 4.2km long. Good lord, I think we walked that entire distance, if not, close to that, considering we started way before we got to the Waterway (I don't really know where it starts and ends, since there were no signs to say"Start/End of Waterway"). The path along the Waterway continues, but we decided not to go further since it was dark and headed out on the path towards the housing estates, and civilisation (Lorong Halus really felt like we were out of Singapore).

Finally, we concluded this "exploration" trip after walking for an entire day and parted ways; Wei Ke and Elva were going to take bus (lucky them for living so near to Punggol), while I went to take MRT and transfer bus :( Haiz, Punggol is really far for me. And that's the end of this SSB outing, after months of not seeing each other. Haha, I've met Wei Ke in school before, and I think I haven't seen Elva for..... One year?!?! Haha, anyway, photos can be found at:

Labels: SSB

Time flies. It seemed like yesterday when I was still J1.... It felt to me then that 2011 is sooooo far away. And now, I'm typing this post on the second last day of 2011. Soon it will be 2012... Then 2013... Time flies scarily fast. And now I shall conclude my 2011 by looking back on the year...

Jan 2011: I remembered not being able to get used to writing 2011 instead of 2010 for the date. That brings me back to working at a bank as a temp bank assistant. Actually just doing za work. But I didn't really score on the social ladder, having to eat lunch alone almost everyday, then exploring the premises. The loner in me strikes again. Unforgettable. And taught me alot. Will always rmb the bus ride to alexandra, and the feeling of going to work so early. Hope I don't get an office job in the future, but it seems rather unrealistic. Haiz.

Also, finally got a guitar and started learning from wenhui. I still can rmb I was very excited when I was going to the shop. Chose the 90 dollar guitar and bought a tuner too. Haha. I was actually looking at a white 85 dollar one, but master say it will get dirty easily. So ok lo. Very excited when I finally carried it home. But very bulky and heavy. Pity the bag doesn't have straps for me to carry on my shoulders. But I'm finally fulfilling my dream of playing a musical instrument. Haha, fnally learning after putting it off since J1 after-prelims. But still feeling bad cos wenhui's teaching me pro bono. Maybe.....

Ok, end of part 1!

Labels: About 2011

There are two things I want to write about in this post. Firstly, from 5 Dec to 10 Dec, Guitar camp!

Initially I was a bit worried.... Nervous.... Since I don't know most from the main ensemble, and the thought of playing in the man ensemble was.... Haha, well, I know I can't reach that standard..... yet. Haha. But it seems that the camp is overall, enjoyable. Camps are meant to bond! And I think the only camp where I don't feel really bonded is.... A camp a few years ago.

Anyway, I'll leave out the nitty gritty details. Some highlights:

1) 1st day (5/12): It started out awkward, for me. Haha, the workshop members were sitting in our own circle while the main ensemble were in theirs. Then admin stuffs, checking into RH (I've been wanting to stay on campus for a long time actually), lunch and ice breakers, then sectionals, dinner and changing strings, and the x'mas party planning. It was my first sectionals with the altos. I think it's horrible haha! For me, cos I just got the score and my sightreading fail and playing fail. And tuning fail. Alto guitars are tuned differently from primes. I felt something was amiss when the notes I played didn't sound like the ones others played. And I couldn't tune my guitar to standard tuning cos it seems very awkward. Haha, and I didn't ask cos it seems very silly! Hahaha, so that was the first day with the wrong tuning. I tried to tune to others' notes. But I could remember the excitement when I first saw I had an alto assigned to me! Haha, no need to borrow other people's guitar already. I love my alto! Haha!

2) 2nd day (6/12): Nose got blocked and body ached from sleeping on the floor. And the room is really dusty and dirty and ants-y and.... Argh, I'll elaborate more later. Sectionals and lunch.... Main ensemble practising for the NUH CIP on Fri so gave us the workshoppers some time to practice. I'm not the only one who's struggling :/ And Dayl left after day 1, so I'm the only workshopper in alto! Goodness! Haha. Main ensemble and night games followed. I really liked the music! Jap songs ftw! Not J-pop though haha. Night games were creative and fun! Haha, the photoframe game, the syllabus game, the pictionary game and the drink game! Gave me diahrrea the next morning >.< But haha! I got to know more people.

3) 3rd day (7/12): The day started with the usual breakfast, sectionals and lunch. Then mini-ensemble for the first time. Goodness. Only gt 3 people from alto 1. Ended up the last song I had to play solo cos our dear SL was playing the cembalo and Yin Yun had to leave for games. Horrible. No sound! Haha. Guess that will spur me towards trying harder to play! Oh my! (Won't forget that experience) Then games dinner and main ensemble. And then Rika and I brought back our guitars to prac. Halfway through, I saw a weird stick insect that runs v fast, looks like centipede. Then a weird bug on the bed beside Rika. Both os us were really scared! Finally mustered up the courage and caught the weird bug. But the weird stick insect on the floor ran away! We didn't dare to sleep in the room/ on the floor and went to Cheers to look for insecticide. But don't have! Almost wanted to go Rika's house (which was near) to sleep. In the end we squeezed on the bed. But eventually I still ended up on the floor haha.

4) 4th day (8/12): The usuals, then amazing race. Quite fun! Vivocity to make pocky stickman, then Holland V to look for eggs and crack 'em. Orchard central to get 10 honks (Honk for X'mas! Why nobody want to honk!), scape to kick slippers (I'm such a bad slipper-kicker, I keep hitting Shruti, sorry!!) and finally to the not-so-secret final station PS (Elizabeth let slip the final location haha). Ate dinner there and bought my baygon to kill the weird insect in the room! Finally can sleep in peace (hopefully).

5) 5th day (9/12): Breakfast, then prepared to go NUH for the CIP performance. Helped to load the equipment since the workshoppers are not performing. Walked under the hot sun from PGP to NUH Tower block! In my oversized black guitar shirt! Haha. Lunch at megabites at NUH and listened to the main ensemble. After that, sectionals, dinner and main ensemble.

6) Last day (10/12): Breakfast sectionals lunch. We had sectionals by ourselves while Shu Hann went over to alto 2. Our dear SL personally coached me and I realised that I made quite a lot of mistakes! Goodness me. But hey! I felt I improved over the few days. Thanks Hejing! Alto 1 is awesome! Main ensemble with Dr. Robert afterwards. Then OTOT, preparing for the X'mas party. We were quite last minute, but hey! Everything went fine! Haha. Went to collect the food at utown koufu. Sooo long. Cut my toe with cardboard lol. We went back with the ayam penyet and everyone was there already! Ate, then section performances. So spicy!!!!! Sorry for no decorations haha. After that was games, guess song title/ artist/ continue the lyrics. Then the find items starting with the letter to spell the word game (that was played during TJ prom last year). And then we had Murderer, which name was changed to Pedobear (lol!) and revelation of Angel and Mortal. My angel was really nice to give me letters everyday. And his handwriting was so nice (nicer than mine) such that I thought my angel was a girl initially. And my mortal! Haha, sorry for not preparing nice paper, and giving the final clue on Fri. Haha, but I think it was sufficient to let him guess it was me. And the party ended with forfeiting the X'mas comm. Lol. What is this. All the comms got forfeit, except the breakfast comm. Lol.

Anw, I couldn't go for LPG. Cos of some relative's wedding dinner. Lol. She's a complete stranger to me although we are relatives. I want to go LPG! Haha, but I don't want to embarrass myself. Maybe I can go for the next next LPG, after I'm better at the guitar. Ok set. Nobody/ Nothing is going to deter/ stop me from going for it. Haha, meanwhile, practise!!!

One thing to admit, I had thoughts of quitting during sectionals, like, I feel I'm going too fast, haven't even master my basics then going so fast already. But everytime the ensemble plays together, the thought will vanish. Anyways, I've decided I'm going to stay in guitar and not gonna be a quitter. Hopefully it will help in my guitar learning and I'm gonna zoom towards my goal!

The End of Guitar camp! Haha, it was quite a fun and fulfilling one. Made quite a lot of friends too ^^

The second thing I want to talk about, 11 Dec 1am to 6am, the stayover!

After guitar camp ended, family came to pick me up. Yay they bought my dou hua!!!! Went home and unloaded things (fat luggage and my alto), then bathed and went out to meet lingxiang, wanjing, weiting and jasme. They came to fetch me cos it was like 1 am already. We went to eat supper at ecp mr teh tarik. Ate tissue prata with chocolate chips (Those colourful chocolate vermicelli on doughnuts) and teh tarik. Quite nice! But quite expensive too for roti prata. After that went to fly kite at marina barrage! Phobia of holding the kite for fear it will fly away!! It was super cold there (but not as cold as the Dance Studio before the X'mas party) Took a lot of photos with the special lights effect. Super cool. Weiting is the artist and helped us draw a lot of nice things. Haha! Then we recorded 2 songs for the "19 and unaccomplished" album. Lol! Eventually we went to eat breakfast at marine parade hawker centre and went home cos we were all tired. Luckily I remembered to bring my house keys.

After that I slept awhile then went out to buy bed. Haha!

What a happening life! Haha. Till the next time then! I shall go and catch up on things while I was away.

Labels: guitar

Finally, a long awaited SSB outing!! It's been so long since I last saw Elva. We met at Punggol MRT to explore the area. As Elva and me didn't eat breakfast (I forgot that Mom had cooked fried rice in the cooker, so I thought there was nothing to eat, except cake; besides, if I ate, I would be late), we decided to take LRT to Punggol Point, or Punggol Plaza (we alighted at the 3rd station, can't remember the name).

I wrote the above paragraph yesterday. Wanted to finish uploading the pictures to facebook then continue updating this blog last night. But who knows, the photos took so long to finish uploading, and I can only upload 5 photos at a time. Ended up sleeping at 5am. But anyway, I'm here to finish this post up, after a whole day of procrastination (haha). *Opens FB album and looks at photos*

We went to Punggol Plaza to eat lunch. There was this set lunch at 日本村, so we went in. And it made us so full, or was it just me? Ate teriyaki chicken (again) and mochi, with fried prawn, sashimi and some kind of seashells (maybe I'll be able to identify them once I take LSM1103 next sem) on a satay stick. The sashimi is so RAW. Haha, I know it's supposed to be like that, but I don't like raw food. Taste like raw jelly (-.-). It costs $10.50 and left me 90 cents in my wallet. Cos I was in a hurry so anyhow grab a 10-dollar note.

After that we went to explore the Punggol area. It was raining! A good thing I was wearing shorts and slippers, and my "raincoat" shirt (not that it made a difference, it looks like a raincoat but doesn't function like one). We relied on Elva's map and walked to some nursery and a sports hub of some sort. It was an on-and-off rain, suddenly it rained heavily; suddenly it gt smaller; suddenly it stops, and the cycle repeats. We saw some Punggol Billard place next to the sports hub and went there. There was a prawning place, the waters looked like Coke. After that we went to the Riverside Promenade, or something like that, to stroll and take pictures. Quite a nice view! Elva took the most pictures, if she had a better camera than her iPhone she would be snapping non-stop. It rained again and we went to a cool-looking toilet to take shelter. It looked like some rock wall.

And then, we crossed a bridge to get to Lorong Halus Wetland. It sounds like a swampy area to me, so I was surprised when I don't see any swamp-like area around. Probably only the "coasts" of the Serangoon river looked like swamps to me. Anyway, it was like another world in Lorong Halus. The sky there was blue with white clouds, in contrast to the dark and gloomy ones that hung over Punggol, that threatened to rain every now and then. We found a nice pavillion with no benches, as if it were built for people to have a picnic. We settled down and brought out the plastic sheet Wei Ke brought along to use as a mat. We ate, chat and took pictures, digital and polaroid. Haha. We were fooled by the polaroid. We thought the cover was a fil and waited for the picture to develop. And I ruined the next by shaking the photo. Sorry :( (There was this lizard/bird that keeps making chirping noises. Rahh!)

After that, we went to walk around the place and saw what were known as "reed beds". There were dogs there! Big ones, little ones, all wild ones. Along the way, there were many ponds with fishes, lily pads and lily flowers. The beauties of nature. (Except that a few fighter planes decide to fly past during our picnic and it was deafening.) The word "leachate" keeps popping up, which makes us wonder what it means. And the reed beds were lined with rocks, with the reeds being planted in an orderly manner. What's with the rocks? We finally got our answers when we were back at the entrance where we started. Lorong Halus used to be a landfill site, where trucks would dump rubbish into big holes dug in the ground and they would be buried and left to degrade (or not). When it rains, the water would pass through the waste buried under the soil and seep into the nearby Serangoon Reservoir, which would pollute the reservoir's water. Thus, there was a need to treat the water, known as leachate, before it enters the reservoirs.


Above: A picture that I took, of one of the exhibition boards, for illustration purposes.

It turns out that the leachate flows beneath the reed beds and the reeds absorb and remove the impurities from the leachate. The ponds we saw were also known as polishing ponds, which contains the treated water (I think).

Disclaimer: The above information is from my understanding from the exhibition boards at Lorong Halus. It may not be entirely correct, I may have intepreted it wrongly. Please don't use it as reference material or anything. Use Google instead.

After we left Lorong Halus, we went to our final destination: Waterway park@ Punggol (or something along that line). We walked towards the Serangoon East Dam, but it was supposedly blocked off and I keep feeling spider webs on me. It looked like the area around were still under construction, so we headed back. Anyway, we might not be allowed entry into the dam :/

After that we strolled along the waterway, in hope of finding an exit. However, there doesn't seem to be one in the vicinity. We ended up walking 3 LRT stations to finally exit near Damai LRT. Good lord, my legs were breaking and I was wearing slippers. The excited Elva stopped to take pictures every now and then. The night was getting dark and it was about 7.30pm going to 8. Along the way, we saw a bridge that looks like a Christmas bridge and a shelter that looks like the shell of a clam. And not to forget the up-and-down road full of humps, that looks like we are on a roller coaster, except that we are walking instead of sitting in a car. I remembered feeling quite lonely and sad at some point of time. It must be scary walking alone at night. Thank goodness I have my two friends with me. There were also bikers and joggers occassionally biking or running past us.

At the exit, we were informed by an informational board that the Waterway was 4.2km long. Good lord, I think we walked that entire distance, if not, close to that, considering we started way before we got to the Waterway (I don't really know where it starts and ends, since there were no signs to say"Start/End of Waterway"). The path along the Waterway continues, but we decided not to go further since it was dark and headed out on the path towards the housing estates, and civilisation (Lorong Halus really felt like we were out of Singapore).

Finally, we concluded this "exploration" trip after walking for an entire day and parted ways; Wei Ke and Elva were going to take bus (lucky them for living so near to Punggol), while I went to take MRT and transfer bus :( Haiz, Punggol is really far for me. And that's the end of this SSB outing, after months of not seeing each other. Haha, I've met Wei Ke in school before, and I think I haven't seen Elva for..... One year?!?! Haha, anyway, photos can be found at:

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Hey! I'm 19 this year and currently in an important stage of my life. After thinking I decided to start this blog, to record down the ongoings of this stage in my life. For memory purpose, haha, when I'm old I'll be looking back at the posts here and laugh at how childish/ cry at how foolish I was. Yea, that's life.
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Why, good grades at exams of course!
Play in an orchestra <:D
Work in Cadbury! Haha!
Snow chocolates!!!
A more realistic one, to be able to keep in touch with all my friends.
And also, get better with the guitar ♥



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I started blogging on 28/11/11, 12 midnight. I blog because I want to record this stage in life, and share my life with whoever's interested (aka you who is reading this now ;D).
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Jul 2012
15: An engagement*
16: A case competition
20: Photocopy day
23: Decorating for MF
24 - 27: Matric Fair 2012*

Aug 2012

* Look forward to updates!



Aug 2011
09: NDP 2011
11: Start of school (A new chapter!)

Oct 2011
09: Guitarras Expresivas

Nov 2011
19 - 28: Sem 1 Finals
30: SSB Outing to Punggol #

Dec 2011
02: NDP11 YPC BBQ
05 - 10: Guitar camp #
11: 19 and unaccomplished night outing #
20: Release of Sem 1 Results

Jan 2012
04: Guitar chalet
05: Ikea trip
06: YPC lunch
07: Guitar prac
09: Start of school Sem 2
14: LPG2012 (Which I can't go)
23 - 24: CNY

Mar 2012
11: NAF12: Asian Waves #
13: Guitar Recording
24: Guitar AGM and Annual Dinner
28: Hall Application Results

Apr 2012
02: LSM1104 CA2
21 - 27: Sem 2 Finals

May 2012
07: Orientation meeting, going to see music school
08: Arts Leaders Retreat #
20: First violin lesson!! #
26: Sungha Jung and Preston Reed's concert #
28: Release of Sem 2 Results #

Jun 2012
12: Practising cowbell
21: Do matric fair publicity at partner's house
23: Start of sectionals #
24: Elva's birthday lunch #
30: Sectionals #

Jul 2012
02 - 03: LS Prep Camp #
10: Prac for cp #
12 - 14: LS Camp #

# Blog updated