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outreach&campprep
Sunday, May 31, 2009 8:44 PM
fourth post (:
but my blog isn't 4 days old, it's 5!
cos I skipped ytd's post.
ah well shall post abt ytd in this post too :D


yesterday was a saturday!
had outreach to brownies and cub scouts, which meant waking up at 6am on a saturday D:
wore full guides u and took my dad's car to school.


met my outreach patrol p11, consisted mostly of guides from p7.
had 4 cub scouts: matthew musa ray rui en & 3 brownies: jaina alysha putri!
they were quite sian at first cos we had a sian self intro without any icebreaker games.
first station was open house booth at zhengxinyuan, introduced the brownies to the various activities and camps we had as guides. they were -cough- quite interested.

had a mini version of yelixingjun, without the peibeis and mu and shouting and first aid casualties (duh). bet if we did we'd frighten them off or make them cry or something like that o.o
3rd station was mini-OJ, played gladiator and (saggy) electric fence! challenged michelle to gladiator but she claimed she was "too demure" -.-
actually wanted to do archery but the stations switched last minute D:
there seems to be a lot of last minute things suddenly.

some other patrol (i think xintian's) practicing their archery D:

had a pop-the-other-patrol's-balloons game with p12 (nicholette and bryan's patrol). held my balloon and walked around tiptoeing feeling tall for once :D until a dhs scout came along and tried to pop my orange balloon -.-

p12 won in the end, cos they were smart enough to come up with a strategy o.o grabbed all the balloons and zham-ed them under the teacher's table, even setting up a defense formation against p11 o.o

played blow wind blow twice, once after crossing the electric fence as a patrol and once combined with p10 (michelle and shulin's patrol) after the balloon game. kept kena sabo-ed by michelle -.-

had sing-along session in the auditorium with air con :D primary school students went back to the middle section and i sat with michelle at the right side :D sing-along session included a see-who-can-sing-the-loudest competition, with mich and nic taking part :D :D :D

took a video of them singing 3 little ducks HAHA.

[sorry, michelle didn't allow me to post it here anymore]

if you'd seen it before I took it off (on June 1, 11.20pm) you would have heard the both of them screaming their lungs out :D they have prominent voices HAH.

fed the hungry primary school students lunch after that, and had BBQ! shared a squishy pit with xintian's patrol ): most of us didn't get to eat fully cooked sausages.

tried to advertise dhs girl guides to the brownies, by telling them to join dhs girl guides only and only our school's! then putri and alysha pointed out that they were malay and dhs is a chinese school ._. jaina's half chinese half french too. wonder why they don't just invite some chinese brownies o.o

so I attempted to speak some malay and french to them. and failed terribly -.-

also tried to entertain them by chatting to them, found out that one of them doesn't like chocolate o.o and that all 3 brownies have handphone! they're what, 9 and 10 years old?! I only got mine after PSLE ._.

probably something to do with a generation gap and higher tech.
hmm.
anyway. brought p11 around the school after lunch for a tour, most interesting.

aren't you just so interested to know that the HOD staffrooms were "previously a staffroom for 60 over staff in Dunman High. Now it has been converted to a fully air conditioned HOD staffroom that holds less than 20 teachers. As there are no lockers located outside the staffrooms, a room at level 3 will be a place to let students submit their assignments"?

ended up impromptu-ing the whole school tour cos the script provided proved to be really interesting. anyway still successfully bored out the primary school students who weren't really that interested in learning about the staffrooms, zhengxinyuan and music atrium, which is actually just a few rooms, a large round patch of carpet grass, and a huge two storey room with air-con. how interesting can it be ._.

something which reminded me of something else happened around zhengxinyuan, thanks to michelle -.- shall not elaborate cos it's not of utmost importance to do so. hmm.

headed back to the audi for phototaking and prize giving, p11 won 4th place!! p12 won 1st with nicholette as (the main) PL :D surprised haha. got chocolates as prizes, but couldn't eat them due to allergies ._.

the primary school students went back in buses and then we had to clear up after them D:
chai-ed picked litter changed out of guides u wandered around canteen stoned at tuan bu talked crap took some pics :D

tammy and junyi together again :D
they were bamboo dance partners LOL.


tammy and junyi (again) posing hahaha.
they look like the logo of the brand Kappa haha.
tammy can be the guy in the pic :D

went to eat jie4 dinner with some 41st batch people at kfc, then finally got a chance to go hospital and see my mum cos I didn't stink like on friday.
saw her with tubes and IV drips sticking into her and a bag draining her of waste blood and lying there on the hospital bed unable to eat or do anything much.
felt like fainting just seeing the tubes coming out of her.

went back home at 11+ and fell asleep promptly on the sofa.
woke up at 1.35am to bathe, heard a wing-buzzing sound that made me think of mega cockroaches flying around with long feelers. didn't actually see one but was super scared anyway.

sometimes, it's those things you can't and don't see yet you're scared of the most.

okay shall start with today.
bet you're bored with this post alr so shall keep it short.
anyway it's a boring day to begin with ):

went to wang's house at 10.30am for STC prep, ended up talking about PLTC half of the time o.o
slacked and slacked till after lunch time when we realised some proposals were due at 5pm ._.
ended up chionging to kovan's NTUC (really hard to find somehow, even though I've been there a hundred times) at 4.20pm to check out the prices for some foods.

rmb running all the way to NTUC like some mad auntie crazy over grocery shopping. like got some mega discount sale at NTUC, LOL. anyway not that I would go even if there was ._.

managed to find most of the prices, sent an sms to weimin and nic who typed out and sent the food proposal in time (phew). food proposal menu mainly done by me HAHA. cos of my wondrous allergies wow (: gave some fancy names to the food LOL. almost tried to sound exotic by giving our soup a french name HAHA. converted a simple "sliced carrot soup" to a long and quite chim sounding "soupe tranches de carotte" or something. then suddenly got inspired and so chose another more normal sounding name (phew, if not we'd have to go with the unpronouncable french phrase) haha.

chionged the rest of the proposals and wenxin's scanner spoiled or smth ._. luckily managed to scan in the proposals in time, by 6.59pm :D (deadline 7.00pm)

oh and, our patrol name is now SheBangs :D
not Big Bee.
SheBangs, not TheyBang. not HeBangs either, cos this time STC is solely all guides :D
and it turns out the yr2s and 1s have STC too.
also on the same day.

okay shall end my super long post here.
and go and sleep (:
been depriving myself of sleep recently!
sleeping late and waking early even though it's the june hols D:
have to go see allergy doc tmr morning. then go back to school to pack for STC. screw SMP ._.

our STC patrol happens to have 3 people in SMP ._.
nicholette, tammy and me.
good luck?

xoxo, crystabelle
the THIRD post!
Friday, May 29, 2009 8:51 PM
Ah.
It's my third post!
not bad, seeing that I can't commit to things.
but today's post is gonna be shorter than usual cos I'm quite quite busy right now D:
have to juggle between smp pics, memorising outreach proposal, finalising timing for Skills Training Camp (STC) meetings, and packing guides u.

just what I need, the perfect start to june holidays.
Ah well.
Ever since you step into secondary school life everything becomes crazy -.-
especially during holidays.

-teachers cheng ji with the june "holidays" to flood us with homework thinking we have a lot of free time.
-idmi deadline is last week of june.
-next section of eportfolio is due after june, I think.
-smp research paper (those lengthy 6 page kind), poster and presentation due after june.


and stc is on fourth june.

the month of june is such a fabulous month ._.
sometimes just feel like cloning myself 10 times and going 11 different places -.-
1 for each academic subject homework (total 7),
1 for guides,
1 for eportfolio,
1 for idmi,
1 for smp.

but then again, if such a technology exists, people would just cheng ji further and we'll get 10x10 more work than now.
so scrap that idea.

hurray, life rocks -.-

okay.
shall stop feeling irritated and post about today :)
had smp today, originally wanted to join back class but other group members didn't so ended up touching up on logbook. went to canteen for recess at 10.15 and went to bookshop to buy logbook and shun bian buy dividers for chem file :O

haha, interesting experience at the bookshop!
chingyee and I were searching for a logbook, but we couldn't find one.
so we walked out.
then halfway when we were walking to the canteen stalls,
I REALISED I WAS HOLDING ON TO A PACKET OF DIVIDERS.
which I blur-ly forgot to pay for!
so i chionged back to the bookshop to pay o.o
the bookshop aunty was quite impressed, LOL.
commended me for being honest hahaha.
then she asked for my name and class LOL.
was reluctant to give it, in the end chingyee went ahead and wrote my name on the piece of paper she was offering to us :O
maybe she'll tell mrs tan and I'll get a green dot HAHAHA.

joined back class at 12.45, got back report book and did spring cleaning.
unexpected GPA o.o
rhythmic too, lol.
it's the same for sec1 AND sec 2 CA1.
freaky trend, haha.
shan't post the exact value here, but if you really wanna know try smsing me :D

went for guides after spring cleaning, did outreach prep.
year 5s told us our STC groupings today :O
I'm in P3 together with Tammy Jiamin Wenxin Weimin Ronghui Nicholette!
in the neutral patrol again.

P2 is damn imba, omg. P1's gonna be a replica of P3 Big Tree in PLTC, 3-man show -.-
jiayou.

STC this year only involves the year 3s :O
got a feeling it's gonna be a kind of follow up for PLTC.
even got kyeb (know yourself even better), wow o.o
at least this time it's a solo gender camp :D

got to know our outreach patrol groupings too.
I'm PL for P11 with some yr4 scout called terence.
I think tmr is gonna be kinda screwed D:
about 10 brownies/cub scouts following us.
used to be a brownie but believe me, brownies are totally different from guides with the exception of the Promise and the uniform o.o
bet they won't understand the guides language, with words like "chou" and "hiong" and "baisheng" and "mu" and "OJ"
and I forgot how to play whacko.
(jiayou, me)


went back in my dad's car, wanted to go visit my mum at hospital after her operation but he said I was too stinky and would probably just introduce more bacteria into the hospital ._.

somehow I couldn't smell myself but then maybe that's cos I'm used to it now, haha.
I can't smell other guides too. maybe guides of the same (unsmellable) smell flock together :D

my dad said sometimes after camps I smell even worse than his army times ._.

think I'm losing my sense of smell, in addition to my sense of sanity.
If I even had one in the first place :D

ate dinner in the car, hospital food bought from the hospital by my sis D:
no smell.
just ate it and then went home.

had a mass convo with some of STC P3 members :D
I WANT TO NAME P3 BIG BEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL.
IT'S A SYMBOLIC NAME.
AND IT RHYMES!!!!!!
it sounds like P3 Big Tree but nvm, Big Bee is totally different from Big Tree :D

shall type out a slice of our convo (me, nic, jiamin)

-LETS NAME IT BIG BEE
-HAHAHAHHA
-P3 BIG BEE
-LOL
-IT RHYMES
-OH GOD NO PLEASE NO
-LOL
-HAHAHAHHAHA
-DO NOT INSULT US.
-not bad
...
-big bee is nice

HAH. nic supports the name too!!!
hopefully we can name our patrol BIG BEE. lol so original rofl :D

okay apparently this post is not as short as I intended it to be.
guess I blabbered off too much.
too excited about some stuff :D
time to stop blabbering then!


xoxo, crystabelle <3
second post!
Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:21 PM
wheeeeeeee~

today is a happy day :D
went to school today in 158, bus plate SBS 1910T (:
(yes I've gotten so bored on the bus trips that I take notice of the bus plates)
it's the same bus I took yesterday to school and back home, haha.
trip wasn't that jerky like yesterday when I was taking it home, yay.
yesterday's bus trip was not-so-nice ._.
bus kept stopping suddenly and making people (like me) go flying.
had the urge to write a tousu gonghan to sbs, LOL.
no lah, just kidding.
not so free to do that ._. only boliao ppl go fuss around this sort of minor thing haha.

I SNEEZED SIX TIMES ON THE BUS!!
LOL.
I'm falling sick, gah ):
down with sore throat and phlegm and sneezing thing = down with flu (probably not H1N1)
it's too bad the get-flu-and-skip-school-for-a-week thing isn't permitted anymore D:

okay I think i just contradicted my previous "fuss around this sort of minor thing" statement ._.
eh no lor actually sneezing is a big issue :D
seeing that now the whole H1N1 thing is quite big in singapore now o.o
oh and, my allergy doctor said sneezing can be an allergic reaction. LOL.

Singapore's got her first case of H1N1 o.o
Deja vu, lol.
was just msning abt H1N1 with other guides in a mass convo (<3)
It's just like that time when tammy and I were walking together, then I suddenly went BOM-BOM-CHA BOM-BOM-BOM-BOM-CHA cos I was reminded of bamboo dance. THEN THE VERY NEXT DAY XINTIAN ANNOUNCED THAT WE HAD TO PERFORM BAMBOO DANCE AGAIN AT OHANA. LOL.
maybe I'm a jinx hoho ;)
love our bamboo dance pics :D
shall post one here!


bamboo dance is so memorable, lol :D
who knows, since I posted about it today maybe we're gonna end up performing for outreach. LOL. -touch wood-
shall also post some pics I took on tuesday :D

cherisse and I at backstore!


tammy and cherisse.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO YOU, LOL.
DOESN'T IT LOOK LIKE AN ADVERTISEMENT?
one that you'll expect the background speaker to end off the ad buy saying "Buy ONE green tea, get TWO guides free! 3 for the price of 1! GET YOUR GREEN TEA TODAY!"
LOL. HAHAHAHA.
too bad i'm allergic to tea D:


tammy and cherisse (again) at the backstore area acting gay :D
gay is another word for happy!
HAHA.
backstore area so memorable.

lol, when you see the mu behind, what comes to your mind? bet you won't realise that the nicely stacked mu meant minutes of hard work for guides.
you see all the mu all so tidy right?
quite sure is guides shift all the mu until so nicely stacked.
better appreciate the neatness while it's still there :D

okay. back to blabbing ;D
had smp today, yay did finish all our practical experiments!
that means the usual routine of sterilisation-preparing agar-micropipetting-diluting-spreading-paperdiscing-incubating is probably over!
yay. doesn't smp sound interesting.
hmm.

hopefully can join back 3G tmr and go back to lessons :D
lagging like crazy behind everyone else cos of missed lessons during SMP week.
gotta feeling that if I don't get my chinese paper back tmr I'll probably never get it back, so must try to persuade other group members to declare tmr a non-SMP day :D

had bp test and LA essay test today.
surprisingly okay for both, thought I would flunk both initially O:
even had extra time for LA test, got so bored that I ended up counting my words, LOL.
LA teacher was walking around my area then he suddenly gave a loud SIGH and said to the whole class: "You don't have to worry about how much you write, it's about the content...(blahblah)" LOL. ignored him and continued counting anyway, I wrote 422 words (only) :D

went back home with xintian weixin sally!
we were one of the earliest to arrive at the bus stop outside school but we didn't manage to squeeze on the 1st 158 that came, cos all the others squished past us and chionged in first ._.
nvm, we're gracious people :D

took the 2nd bus that came 15min later.
BUS PLATE SBS 1910T AGAIN!!
haha.
hen you yuan fen right!

reached home ate dinner printed out chem rubrics gave out free bio content page to some 3G people. went to see doc for flu D:

and no, I wasn't prescribed Tamiflu :D
Tamiflu's supposedly the cure for H1N1.
It sounds like Tammy invented it and named it after her, LOL.

okay, enough of crapping/blabbing/posting.
back to the mundane life of filing.
D:
shall try not to get addicted to blogging, though it seems near impossible now D:
blogging shall be my new OBSESSION ;D
(michelle/yiting/cherisse don't get too excited when you see this word)

xoxo, crystabelle :D

A BLOG IS BORN :D
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:01 PM
YAY!
I HAVE A BLOG NOW.
loads of thanks to xintian who helped me with the chimology html part :D

My first post :D
haha kept wanting to start a blog these few months to rant but now that I've gotten one I've forgotten what i wanted to rant about o.o


shall start with my blog name (:
trypanophobic-no-more.
partly inspired from xintian, yay :D
trypanophobia is "the extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles", according to wiki. which simply means scared of sharp, pokey things that make people go OWW ):


BUT!
(as you can see from my blog name)
im not trypanophobic anymore!!
hah. used to be so scared of injections. once even ran around the clinic trying to escape the doctor's needle -.-
now i'm not though :D
was cured by needles.
it's somehow like those people you read in the news or smth who have phobia of spiders and who gradually stop fearing them after coming in contact (slowly) with spiders. like firstly seeing photos, then looking at the real thing, then touching the spiders.

just that I wasn't so lucky to have so much time to get over my phobia, my cure happened after 3 and a half memorable hours.
(yay, this is the part where i get to start freaking y'all out)
3 and a half hours of allergy test!
which involved 104 injections and counting.
freaky? :D :D :D

i love freaking people out HAHA.
sorry to the people who've heard this story before, i just like retelling it over and over again.
so here goes:

once upon a time, there was a girl.
she was living happily and eating happily, until all of a sudden her left ear became partially deaf!
so she consulted her mum who deduced it was (hereditary) food allergy, then consulted the same doctor her mum went to.
her doctor advised her for a RAST test, which is a skin-pricking test involving intradermal injections of many many types of food, where then the nurse will measure the swellings and swellings bigger than the norm are counted as allergies.
so she went for it, picking out 62 types of food to be tested.
yay, she aced her test and got 42/62 -.-
they pricked her 62 times then retested the 42 positive allergies again to find the average or smth.
OW. that means she got a total of 62 + 42 = 104 injections D:
poor thing? )))):
somemore to cure the allergies (there's a cure) she has to inject herself daily now. some immunotherapy thingo where she will gradually build up immunity against these allergies, blahblah.

obviously you can guess who's the girl, if you can't by now you can officially claim yourself a noob :D
anyway. it's me, for those who can't guess properly.
I got poked 104 times. beat my record :D
so now I'm not scared of injections anymore (I think).
shall further freak you out, by listing my 42 allergies:




cow's milk, corn, malt, soy, baker's yeast, garlic, pepper, vanilla, sugarcane, rice, MSG, cabbage, coconut, ginger, onion, tomato, lettuce, cauliflower, stringbean, mushroom, pumpkin, celery, cai xin, mung bean (beansprout), barley, tea, cod, anchovy, shrimp, honeydew melon, date, watermelons, sesame, oyster, chilli, curry, cinnamon, peppermint, clove, peanut, brewer's yeast, chocolate

(20 foods) I'm not allergic to:
wheat, egg, carrot, potato, spinach, cucumber, green pea, pak choy, chicken, pork, beef, duck, salmon, sardine, scallop, banana, grape, papaya, honey

the ones in red are my biggest allergies D:
supposed to avoid them for at least one year.
malt's level 5, means its my biggest allergy that I have o.o
(i was eating lots of ovalteenies that week, hence my partial deafness)
the ones not in red are allergies, but less severe than the ones in red.
wanted to be strict with myself, but that means depriving myself of all the nice foods D:
like,
since I'm allergic to tomato but not to wheat,
if I'm strict with myself that means I'm only allowed to eat the spaghetti alone but not the tomato sauce -.-
and if I were to be strict to myself,
that would mean I would have to cut myself off from sugar.
cos sugar mainly comes from sugarcane, and I'm allergic to sugarcane -.-
bet if they tested salt on me I would be positive to it too -.-

but obviously I'm not that self-disciplined :D
so that means I'll still continue eating the not-so-severe allergy foods. and rice, cos it's nearly impossible not to eat rice -.-
stopped having rice for dinner but switched to potato, lol.
but I'll miss the school yongtaufoo stall's lor mee D:
have to totally cut off lor mee and spicy food now, cos of the soy sauce/chilli D:
can't eat chocolate too.
doesn't that make you go OMG! ):

almost gave in to temptation today, but in the end I managed to resist the tiny 1cm^3 of chocolate cake that Sookwei kindly waved in front of me -.-
chocolate cake to celebrate 3G's january-june babies (:
sponsored by mrs tan, as celebrations before our class CIP (which I didn't go)
it's gigantic, rectangle, brown and 100% CHOCOLATE.


nvm, bee hoon's the best (:
ate bee hoon, donated my slice of chocolate cake to somebody :D
dedicated a song to guides for 50 cents but never heard it play ._.
haha, nvm. $$ goes to needy mah.

did SMP SMP and more SMP while majority of the class went for CIP at marina barrage D:
realised I lost my BBYD play booklet!
tried hunting around in the life science lab but to no avail.
!!$#%^ tmr's LA essay test, and I don't have my BBYD play.
GG!


luckily michelle came along and saved me by offering to lend me hers :D
yay I love P2! <3

xoxo, crystabelle <3


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