Taiwan Temple Trip.

Hey all, back to update liao. Sorry for the delays in post. HeHe.=X

Okies... next one. I went to Taiwan on the 29th of November. Flight was in the afternoon at around 1. Thats great cause i don't have to rush to do things. Boarded the flight at aroung 1.10 and Taiwan here i come!!! The duration of the flight was about 4 hours 30 mins. Started playing monopoly deal with my bro. Eventually became bored and went to sleep. Woke up to realize that my dad and bro was watching Ice Age 3 on their phone. Haiz... watch that already. Since i was left out, meaning in my own world. manage to swap seat with my cousin who wanted to watch it too. YES!!! Now i was able to talk to 2 of my other cousins.

Me with one of my cousin=)

Feeling bored so took a photo of the outside=)

We reached Taiwan airport at about 5.30 and then boarded a shuttle bus to the temple patron housing. Got there at about 6.30 and it was very dark. I actually thought it as like 8pm at night already. After we checked in and settled our rooms keys we headed to the nearby famous Beef La Mian restaurant. Yummm Yummm XD, a nice bowl to warm your body. By the way the temperature outside was like 16 degrees. After dinner I went back with my room to unpack and get ready for the next day while my parents went to see what they can get for tmr breakfast. At about 12, everyone was asleep though the youth stayed up a little later=X

Our room!

My room mates and i woke up about 6.30 to get ready to go to the temple. My dad bought breakfast from a stall just beside where we stayed.


At about 8.15, we all gathered outside the temple for a group photo including those that stayed at the hotel. We finish the temple work at about 10am. The adults had other sessions to do till 12 so the youth left first and explored the place. Oh the youth had their own group photo too.

Temple Trip Group Photo=D

Our Clementi Ward youth^^

After lunch at around 2.30, we had a fireside with the Temple President. It was a very spiritual moment for me. Learned a lot from the things he shared with us. At around 4.30 pm, we went back to the Patron housing to change. We were going to Xi Men Ting. Its a night market btw=) There was like so many shops there!!!=) Wanted to buy lots of stuff but sadly did not bring much money. We passed by many clothing shops but ended up eating more than shopping. I saw this really cute banana stuff toy that i wanted to get for my cousin's B'day but not sure why did not purchase it in the end=X sry YY. Here's a few photos of the food and areas there.

My cousin eating the medium tall icecream

My Bro and Dad eating the Large tall ice cream

Say Cheeze=)

Local delights! Fried Rice!!! YumYum=) Their hand motion is super fast. Way Cool!!!

Neal getting ready to fight!!! no lah (joking)=D

A picture of the place=)

Okies... Here's what we ate. Fried Oyster omellete, Yam cake, Some huge Dumpling, Ice cream, Corn Dog and a lot of other stuff!!! Before we left, i Bought donuts with ethan at Mr donut!!!. So NICE!!! miss it lots. The other youth went to get some Jacket from Baleno. In the end we left the place at about 8.30 - 9pm.

We took the MRT back but decided to stop at an earlier stop to walk back to the Patron Housing as we thought it would be a shorter route. Crap!!! we took almost an hour trying to find our way back. We snap some photos on the way back.

3 Storey Mac Donald!!! 1st time i've seen such a thing.

Neal got even so tired that he fell asleep taking a photo=)

When we finally reach the Patron housing, my Dad wanted to go to the supermart to buy a big bottle of juice. So Neal Ethan and I followed and walk for another 15 mins to the super mart. My feet was so soar by then. Bought lots of snacks besides the Juice X)

We finally could return back to our Patron housing. Hahas=) i was all ready to get into bed!!! In the end we played monopoly deal for like an hour to about 12 before we slept=) I so love it here=)

Next day on next post=) ... or not sry about the delay hehex)

BMT excursion trip

My class went with the JC1 cohort to the BMTC (Basic military training center) at Pulau Tekong. i really enjoyed myself with the class there.

We had to take a ferry there. Really dislike the waters especially when the ferry goes up and down.

Waiting for the Ferry=)

At the jetty. (feeling bored with the crazy faces)

Anyways we had a briefing by 1 of the officers who also shared his experience in the army. It was really interesting. we had several different stations to go to and our first was the bunks where the recruits sleep. It looks kinda nice and neat so i don't think i would mind when i enter BMT. next we went to this cool place where we could try the SAR 21. It was awesome and cool! I shot well only after realizing how to properly aim. I think that was the most exciting part of the excursion.

We then headed to the obstacle course where a recruit demonstrated how to complete each obstacle. They then let us try the monkey bar and rope climbing as we call it. (im not sure what the real name of it was) Anyways there was 2 that volunteered and i was chosen. WAH!!! not sure why they chose me. But i was certainly surprised. Anyways i was ask to try the monkey bar. Crap i did it kinda slow, the bar was really slippery. But i'm glad i completed it. =) my class cheered me on too. haha so nice of them.

ok, the next station was not a foreign station to me as i had tried some of the things there. It was the ration food and camouflaging cream station. I did not try the food ration as i tried it before. But i definitely had the camouflaging cream on my face. At first my face was clean without any cream then suddenly Yan Ning wipe some black cream on my face. I realized that all her classmates had some on either try face or arm. Hahas. Gabriel had his face all painted so i decided to have mine too. It was actually not that bad as i expected. Quite cool by the way. Here's a pic.

Thats me with the green face=)

Our last station was the equipment station. Nothing much there just that you get to try on the uniform, feel how heavy or 'light' the bagpack is and how heavy or 'light' the real rifle is.
About 30 mins later, we were back at the jetty to take the ferry back.

On the Bus back!

On the whole i really enjoyed this experience there. Feel kinda lucky to actually see for myself what i would expect when i enter the army. For your info, Pulau Tekong is 1 degree higher that singapore. The Camou cream was not that easy as i thought to remove.

JC1 Camp was fun!

We went to the Jln Bathera campsite for our 3 day 2 night camp. At first i thought that i would not enjoy it that much as our class itself was not very bonded. But later i found out that we were very lucky as our groups were by class but the other campsite was mixed. Imagine our groups were mixed it would have been worst. Anyways, we started of with some ice breaker games called "steady tempo ready go!" it was quite hard to coordinate the words and actions at first but after a while it got quite easy and super fun! Though Lena could not exactly master the game yet. Hehe=X We had our lunch soon after. OH MAN!!! the portion they gave for lunch was like for a mouse. I could almost finish the portion with just 1 mouth. That was how little it was (no wonder the camp was free) Hehe. it was the same for all the meals. I think i got used to the small portion by the end of the camp.

This is where we have our meals =)

We had low level elements next. Our first game was Rebirth which was quite cool! The Objective of the game was to transport 1 person through a tire without touching it. Not even the transporter. Almost everyone had a try at it which includes me. I was the last to be trasnsported which means that the supportes would have been quite tired. But i still trusted them and yes! i am glad that they manage to transport me (the longest person) across. =) our next activity was low wall and high wall. To be honest, it was the first time i have actually tried climbing over such a wall. Being tall, i thought it would be easy as i could run and jump up to get across. However the instructor mention that we could not do that instead we had to support and push each other over the wall. It was definitely a great experience as we completed it way faster than the timing set. ALL THE WAY 0924A!!!

Nothing much after that just dinner and night activity. OH! Night activity was kidnapped. Basically one of our class mate was being kidnapped and we as a class had to go and find the person. There was a search party organise while the rest of the class would solve a puzzle to find out the clue. As the person being kidnapped was locked up, we need to complete different activities to get a chance to guess which number our locked belong to. We were not so lucky as only until the 5th or 6th try did we manage to guess our lock number correctly. Overjoyed, we quickly ran to unlocked the kidnapped person. But because we were too excited we drop the key into the drain. Luckly it had not rain and the drain was dry so we were able to pick the key out from the drain. The night ended with supper and debrief b4 we were allowed to sleep. Oh! BTW i 4 got to bring my sleeping bag so it was seriously cold during the night! Woke up many times cause i was feeling uncomfortable and cold. Did not have a good rest.

Next day was a full of activities or so i thought. We started of with land expedition after breakfast which was again like budget portion. Anyways when we headed off for our land expedition i was the navigator. At first i did not expect our class to complete all the 7 stations. In the end due to time extension WE DID IT and also return back the 1st! Good Job 0924A! It was kinda sad as gabriel left earlier on and did not get to join us. During the land expedition we had to many farms of which one was a frog farm. It was my first time trying FROG Essence. If any of you have tried chicken essence, frog essence taste a little sweeter.

With our previous instructor Hadley =)

We came in first for the land expediton!
thats our instuctor Song Woon at the back next to me =)

Up next was lunch and then sea expedition. Sadly it rained out and we did not get to do the sea expedition. Instead we practiced our dance for our campfire performance. I was really glad that our whole class participated. I could see that our whole class really enjoyed the practice though it was kinda a disaster during the actual performance. But we really enjoyed it. The CAMPFIRE was GREAT! Every group meaning every class performed either a skit or dance or both. It was a great entertainment to watch. At the end of the campfire, they announced that those grps that had not have their sea expedition would be doing it tmr morning just a little shorter. My class screamed with gladness. Almost gone deaf after that. HAHA!!! ^^ we were also given a later sleeping time too which was great as we could interact more with our group mates and also pack our stuff. Really want to thank stephanie for helping out in the choreograhy of the dance and for the rest of the class for actively participating in all the games.

The next morning was a rush. we had to gather at the multi purpose hall with all our things ready. Breakfast was the best as we had fried rice and it was my first time taking a second portion! i was really hungry. We soon headed for the sea expedition. To our surprise we paddle our kayak for less than an hour. But i must be grateful that they actually made this extra time for our sea expedition. We left the camp at about 11 30/12.

I really missed the camp alot!!! especially when our class had finally gotten together for the first time to do activities.

This is kinda late~

Just to keep recordX)
I have been accepted to Singapore Youth Flying Club!!! Went for my first orientation day last Sat. It was cool!!! Met alot of new friendsXD!!! Just so thrilling, Oh i received my SYFC T-shirt too. Haha... makes me look like a Pilot already=X hahas!!! Okies Looking forward to this coming Sat 2nD orientation^^

After that...
I had to rushed down for my church activity which starts at 3. OH NO!!! left the place at 3.15=X Haiz... in the end reach Church at 4.35. Wah!!! thats like 1.5 Hrs late!!! Anyways the activity was kinda fun and i was sooooo happy that most of the Youth turned up. So sry for being late and about the games... But the Food was good right??? haha... Want to thank all those who cooked and brought food down to church. It was really tastyX) Wah!!! Brian, Loved your noodles but MAN! the chilli was a killer~ SUPER SPICY YOU KNOW!!! haha... Wah Sis Jaceline, your mouth made of steel arh??? you scared me when you put the spoon of chilli into your mouth!!! Really Pei Fu Ni^^ haha

Okies THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP^^

Haiz... this week is super STRESSFUL!!!

Just did this XD

60 words

Typing Test

Have not done this for a long time Yes!!! Only 60 but an improvement yea:D my best so far, anyway try it .... i mean those who have not ..... have fun..... Gd luck :) See if you are faster^^