After one week of "quarantine", my Pharm Camp OG decided to meet up on friday. In the late morning, we decided to help out with rag stuff. But honestly, we didn't really help much. We had to cut soft drink cans but there weren't many cans to cut haha.

So by 1pm plus, we set off for lunch at the arts faculty canteen, part of the uni "exploration" process haha. Then we promptly set off to watch ice age 3 at the cathay.


Ice age 3 is seriously the first movie i slept while watching at the cinema! It's very lame and there weren't any significant storyline enough to hold the plot together. Just random lame stuff all over. What a waste of money haha.

Basically, we did things he doesn't get the chance to when he's in Australia (apparently it's very boring he says). And that includes eating Carls' Junior haha.


If you see the picture clearly, my straw is LONGER :)

With Hern, we have this fictitious rivalry going on haha.
Either we compete to see who is more popular or better at a particular skill. a "tradition" since college days. AND I ALWAYS TRY TO WIN (operative word: try)
Lame, i know, but very funny...

We updated each other, then proceeded to provide each other with exciting news about others (read: gossip haha). Let's just say there were things i NEVER knew. haha.


Bowling at Superbowl



After that we proceeded to Superbowl (within Marina Square still) to play bowling against each other. Told you we are RIVALS! haha.

Hern's a Singapore Fan so "played for" SINGAPORE (SIN).
And me?
SWEDEN (SWE)! :)))


SIN versus SWE


LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

Round 1:

SWE WINS!
(SWE 95, SIN 79)

Round 2:

SWE WINS AGAIN!
(SWE: 107, SIN 97)

Haha. Technically I WON already :) haha.
I managed to get like four strikes within the two rounds which was very good considering i always aim to get at least one strike in one entire bowling session. haha.

But i convinced Hern to play another round since he lost terribly hahaha.
(ok not terribly la, the scores were pretty close haha)

Round 3:

SIN WON!
(SWE: 71, SIN 122)

OMG i got thrashed! haha
My worst performance and the worst individual score for that day at 71!
And Hern won by such a huge margin...
Highest individual score for that day too at 122!

I would like to attribute this poor showing (the anomaly's very obvious right??? 95, 107 and 71? ha) to my tired hands which played badminton yesterday with my Pharm Friends but i'm sure Hern won't allow it!

Well it's all fair then. I won 2 out of 3 games and Hern had the best score that day.
FAIR AND SQUARE. haha.


***more photos taken there***


cock-eyed!
(haha i took the photo and it turned out like that. super hilarious)


posing with my CHAMPION ball haha


bowling breasts haha.

Singapore River Cruise



Yes, you didn't read wrong!
Since Shihern hasn't been feeling the Singapore Spirit these few months, we decided to take this river cruise which both of us have not sat on since childhood days :)))
Very tourist-sy right? haha

camwhoring before the ride



having fun with dear merlion


on the boat!

camwhoring on the boat


i look gd :)
(i can imagine Hern saying he's a GREAT photographer)


i look abit weird haha.


a very excited tourist


a tourist with serious mood-swing haha

though we took the 30 mins ride, it feel pretty long! haha.
all the camwhoring made the 13 dollars ride so worth it. haha.


Dinner at Ashtons

After the ride, we settled for dinner at Ashtons, City Hall Br
(a very spontaneous decision too haha).


basically it was more talking


Deserts at Skinny Pizza

As we were heading back, Hern saw this spanish donuts which he was craving for.
so the last stop in that very long day.


the spanish donuts were nice :)
(well baked, choc fondue was just nice - not too sweet i thought)



I was having a bad sore throat by then! :((( haha.
So Hern ate most of it while i slacked and drank LOTSA water.



As you can see it was a very long day. All reserved for me :) haha.
And i'm so glad we did so much and so much interesting stuff rights?
(I'm getting more creative with my outings hor - lol i wish.)

I'm sure Hern enjoyed it as much as i did haha.
So anyway, WELCOME BACK HERN! (for now)

Well, hopefully i can get to see Hern once/twice before he leaves again. haha.
(Heard: mini mini mini class outing planned by yours truly for Hern!)

taken after my Sci-camp (i look tan right??? hahaha)

she'll kill me for these unflattering pics.

my OG Shimazu

the people i spent my mon-wed with

after last week's camp, introduction became EASIER (not easy i stress haha)

plus i realise i kinda know enough people alr before this camp which intimidates me MUCH LESS haha. First there's Maxim which i alr know through army, then his friend, then my AJ friends, then friends of friends and the list goes on. haha.

But most coincidental was that Genehow and ZY who are friends of Meng and Darryl T(from last week's Sci-Camp) respectively both ended up being in the same group as me. haha.

the usual intro and cheers (i look damn enthu!)

shortly after, the first main prog started - AMAZING RACE (again)!

we had to travel to different places doing stupid stuff like:

waving to strangers and getting them to wave back

(this shoots right up my list of most embarrassing moments!)

it was pretty alright for a first day. the group was pretty quiet at first (as usual) but warmed up abit towards the end of the day.

I didnt had the "regret" thought of joining this camp tho.

as i said, there were people i know so it made it less stressful. ha

It was a day full of games AND IT WAS ALOT OF FUN!

Cos our group won quite alot! hahaha... Quite a stark contrast to last week's camp haha.

but the thing was my group was very "nua" generally. but during games, we were like very enthusiastic. which is good. haha.

we are all winners! haha

~~~~ok time for me to show really gross pics of myself. ~~~~

there's this shaving cream game where we have to pass cream from one end to the other using out faces. it goes like this (a pic without me first):

a pretty clean picture.

OMG!

IT LOOKS REALLY PASSIONATE HUH!!!!

(i assure i'm totally straight and we were totally not kissing on the lips!)

still winners

hair full of shampoo after a particular game.

BAD HAIR DAY sia!!! haha

the games were pretty damn fun and winning was a morale booster, especially this sit-on-the-butt captain's ball game where our group TOTALLY OWNED the other group!

OWNAGE IS SWEET :)

the dream team, as they call it

me in action, can u believe it? haha

- not the supposed final day but ended up being FINAL DAY -

(yups, because of H1N1....)

first there was this round of game, which is just a blatant coverup for the seniors to bully the juniors haha.

u see why?

those caught were "thrown into prison" and had disgusting pukey stuff poured on their bodies.

i was caught twice. DAMN!

if not we had to continue to do stupid stuff like:

writing with our butts

(this is a much toned-down pic haha)

in the afternoon, it was war games aka people throwing water bombs at each other for no apparent rhyme or reason. haha.

the earthly team.

well.. that was it before we headed back to our chalet.

after which, we were given the shocking news about H1N1 infection and were sent home shortly.

still these three days were real fun as well. i so miss all the fun!!! haha

in a way, the prospect of school starting (other than the studying part) is pretty exciting.

we'll see how it goes!

P.S: i'm sure i left out a thousand lot of happenings during the camp lol!

My OG Flag

After so long, it was back to orientations like before.

Of course, this Sci-camp kickstarted my university socialisation haha.

While there's alot of pics to show so i shall comment as the pics go

i'm the only one not looking at the camera!

Obviously Day 1 was introductions aplenty, awkward silences and tons of ice-breaking.

and oh yeah, SICK/STUPID GAMES. haha

yes, i was in a stocking! (happy, meng? haha)

honestly speaking after the first day, i kinda regretted joining cause i felt so bored.

there was hardly anyone to talk/gossip with and the games didn't really make the group really excited, much less bonded. but i guess in the end it was pretty fine :)

Day 2 was amazing race around Singapore, where each station was a fave food shop.

nice :) if only we had more time to slack and enjoy the food haha

the end point was a chalet at Changi.

if u think it was rest. NO WAY.
(through out the 4 nights, there were v little time to sleep. tho i slept REALLY well! haha)

Another round of games starting at midnight which lasted (for our grp) all the way til 4plus am.

everyone was tired and yet we still had to keep playing stupid games like

RECTANGLE and MAGNIFY!

will certainly count towards most irritating moment IN MY LIFE! haha.

(only eric would know how irritating it was! haha... he can renact the scenes v well! ha )

Day 3 was back to campus again. this time for WATER GAMES!

it was pretty exciting since we won SLIGHTLY more games.

Eric and i were always complaining about our group's LOSING STREAK. haha.

Back to Sunny Sentosa :)

haha no nipplegate as promised!

as usual, lots of dirty/scandalous games!

(yes, THAT IS MY BUTT)

alot of suntanning (i'm peeling alot on my back!) but also alot of fun.

Guess what happens right after this?

(ok there was SP night first but there's nth i wanna say abt it since there's nth really good i wan to mention abt it, and nth i wan to mention about my Scamp SP haha. =X)

have been dying to go for this little thrill ride for a while and i finally get a chance to get wild

i'm a VERY NICE guy but i still need a night of devillish fun :) haha

(tho it's not really considered really wild. it's just us campers lol)

me in my "clubbing attire" haha

(NICE? haha)

Clubbing as anticipated, was a hell lot of fun. Great high-ish music really just rocked the whole night. Plus i got to gossip abit with Jann haha =X

After clubbing our OG settled for supper before returning.

Mainly phototaking

(though it still drove Eric and me crazy due to the LONG WAIT)

and there you go!

Looking back, it was lotsa fun!

i miss all the fun seriously... haha

But here comes the twist:

Technically camp should end tonight, but there was well, the surprise bomb that someone in the camp was infected with the H1N1 virus. So camp ended abruptly yest night and i'm responsible to quarantine myself from the rest of the world for the next 7 days.

Which totally sucks since:

1) i wanted to go out and enjoy usual life after almost two weeks of camp,

2) my personal laptop has for god-knows-what reason crashed all of a sudden, making me very very paranoid for my tons of swedish songs, and of course about how i'm going to spend the next seven days without any form of entertainment (i snatched my bro's lappy to use, lol)

and

3) i am unable to meet dear friends since i have interesting stories from camp to share haha.

As for Pharm Camp, it was just as fun as my group won much more challenges than in Science Camp =X. A different form of "fun" though - trying not to make comparisons, it's kinda unfair right? haha.

Anyway, i will update about the camps soon. I'm sure i have all the time in the world to do so haha. The only thing stopping me is that i prefer to blog on my own laptop (my bro's lappy suck) which at present, is still "under repair" by my parents' friend. Progress? I have not a single clue.

God pls help!

P.S: I will take extreme care and monitor my own health very closely these 7 days! All the best to me and my laptop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A VERY QUICK UPDATE ABT NTH MUCH.

Hi all, i'm back from my FIRST camp - the Uni Science Camp!

Will do EXTENSIVE BLOGGING about it when i get hold of the photos.
Which will probably happen AFTER my Pharm camp next week (OMG, so tiring!)...

In short, the S-Camp was TIRING but pretty FUN :) haha.

BEFORE & AFTER lol.
(Aquamarine - Aloe Vera Body Lotion - Seriously Sunburnt!!!)


Things i will most prob do over the weekend:

1) Check my Facebook to see if my Campmates post UNGLAM photos of me.
(UNTAG!!! - i'm very protective over my facebook hehe)
2) Catch up on the Scandinavian Music i've lost touch over the past week!
3) PACK for Pharm Camp!
4) R.E.S.T.

Won't be blogging again until the end of Pharm Camp, so enjoy yourself in the meantime :)

************************not forgetting*************************

FRIDAY FAREWELL-CUM-BIRTHDAY OUTING

(this are the photos i have for now, will upload the rest when they send me!)


with mistresses and daughters

we ate again at pizza hut (they have good deals! haha)


as usual, pizza never fails :)


more photos
(w, suz and vi not in photos coz they were on the other side of the table)


they even gave me a present
- thanks!!!-


presented by colleague M


it's a perfume called ROMANCE II (lol)

after the very satisfying pizza, we drove to orchid country club for three rounds of bowling!
i haven been bowling since dunno when so it's great to re-touch this sport, which i do decently well in! haha

first round i was in same team as Ena, Jack and Vi.
The whole time Jack and I were cheering very loudly haha. so enthusiastic! haha
And we won!

second round was with Ena, Jack and Wi
after all the cheering, jack and i were like... TIRED! haha.
but our group still won!
(must be the Colleague M curse for the other group =XXX ha)

third round was INDIVIDUAL round!
And guess what? i won! FIRST PLACE! haha...
i consider myself quite on the lousy end so this was very... comforting haha!
plus i tot it was VERY BEFITTING i got the throne position since i'm the main person that night! haha (i'm ever so narcissistic lol)

In short, bowling was fun and exciting! haha.
Then we proceeded to Jalan Kayu for supper before heading back.

Thank you gals!

IT WAS THE BEST FAREWELL THEY COULD GAVE ME! haha

P.S: i really want to say i will miss work, but i dont! haha =X

MONDAY

with my dear CPF colleagues



we ate at delifrance at taka, everyone ordered the $7.90 set dinner haha.
it was simple, just chatted and crapped about stuff.

when the deserts came, they sang the birthday song for me :) haha
but we decided to sing the song TWO more times for the other two june babies,
Bee and Ms Miao Miao,
as they say, THREE TIMES' A CHARM. haha.
(it was pretty humiliating but quite silly-ishly funny)



they also gave me presents so thank you so much!


TUESDAY

with fio sis


a recent recent photo

god since dunno when, fio and i have not met for a proper proper meetup!

Until Tuesday that is. haha.

We ate at the Manhattan Fish Market at J8, and i ate Alaskan Pollock (dunno what's tt ha)
food was nice, but maybe TOO MUCH for me. haha
(i've been eating v little lately! exercise needs to resume!)

After that we walked around to shop for SPORTY stuff. haha
she needed an outfit for her modelling stint, me for my upcoming camps.

you see, i am VERY IN-THE-MOOD to post old ugly photos of myself (i don't know what's become of me! hahaha), but the tagboard says (fio will) "kill me if (i) dare post up (our) sec school neoprints". haha. So no ugly photos :( haha

In short, WE BOTH LOOK HORRIBLE.
ok, maybe not "HORRIBLE" for me.
(fio will SO KILL ME now!)

nice photos then



another of my birthday meet-up series, and NICE :)


WEDNESDAY

bought new shoes & singlet
(i'm SPENDING SO SO MUCH lately!)


THURSDAY

lunch treat by Sei-ye Des - THANK YOU :)
went for scholarship briefing
bought MENG's present, FINALLY!

&

Dinner Treat by Aunty Nancy :)
(joined by SF and Gracie)

Gracie's mum was very nice to treat me to dinner to celebrate my 21st.
we ate at pretty-atas restaurant, My Humble House / Space at Esplanade.
then deserts at Gluttons' Bay.

seeing the three of them reminds me of Taiwan 08 haha


back in MARCH 2008

THANKS AUNTY NANCY!

AND THE BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT...


"DEAR JOEL,

CONGRATULATIONS!

I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED

FOR THE *** SCHOLARSHIP 2009

TO STUDY PHARMACY
IN SINGAPORE! "


After three years of disbelief in myself
I certainly never expected i am blessed with this!

Thank you the angels above!
Thank you my dear friends/mentors!

Thank you!


P.S: This is such a pleasant surprise for me.
P.S: But i also know the reality of it, i have to find out the details before i REALLY accept it.