Homecoming Day

And that's the Great name of our stall, taken from the Name of our Co - Form teacher. Except we changed it to a old Ah Mah instead.

Our school Homecoming day ( a fun fair ) was held today. You should have heard about it, because its such a Grand event. Our class sold Doughnuts, Corn, Fishballs and Chicken wings.
It was really fun to mann our own stall, preparing the food, mobile selling and giving out flyers.

We ordered 200 doughnuts ( + 100 Free doughnuts from the Student loungue ), 6 Very Big cans of corn, alot of fishballs ( Too many to count ) and chicken wings ( I also don't know the number ). That's really a lot to sell (especially the doughnuts), but I bet we can do it. Cause We Have to, otherwise we'll spent the rest of our lives eating Doughnuts, and maybe become one.

In the first shift were Andrew, Jie Chou, Wei Shan, Shu Yi, Yi Jie, Perry, Wei Chen, Aaron, Victor, Josiah. Before the crowd came, we started to set up the food stall, posters and the equipment ( all the cables, toaster ovens, and the steamer). After that, we started to prepare the food, by piercing the fishballs into the Satay Sticks, steaming the corn and heating the chicken wings.

Staring the the Mouth - watering doughnuts on the table, I really wanted to eat one Rainbow doughnut. But I must Abstain, cause its Sinful.

Soon after, the crowd started to stream in, along with our Shouting ( LEYLONG ) and publicising. People started to purchase our food, and things were going pretty well. Miss Krishnan even came to help us. But Mrs Chua didn't.

Miss Krishnan seemed happy about our stall, and helped us with the sale too. Andrew was really agitated and nervous, and Wei Shan asked him to relax. We caught teachers and "forced" them to buy our food. Ahaha. Then, Andrew was really agitated and nervous, and Wei Shan asked him to relax. Maybe he was just really enthusiatic about selling the food? Ya, surely.

I also realised that most of the teachers were health conscious, and bought the Corn, instead of the Sinful delights ( the doughnut, the fish balls, and the chicken wings )

By 9.30, the crowded was going at its Fullest, and so, we had to Intensify our Approach. Haha. So we pai4 some "agents" to give out the little flyers, and some to be Mobile stalls. " Don't come back till you've sold everything " Haha, thats what Andrew said. Really threatening lol.

As for me, I stayed at the Headquarters to sell the Doughuts. Me, Andrew, and Wei Shan shouted more, and louder.

( The standard line to attract a customer:

Say "Good Morning Sir/Madam/Ah boy/Ah girl, welcome to " Ah Mah Chua's Delights". Would you like either a Yummy doughnut, a stick of pipping hot fish balls, or a cup of Freshly Steamed corn? We even sell sizzling chicken wings. Everythings one for a dollar, except the wings, which are 2 for $3. So may I take your order?" )

Our efforts paid off and more people came to buy at our stall, and we got really busy. The coupons kept going into the Printing Paper Box used as our Coupon Bank. In addition, many flyers were given out and our Mobile sellers came back with empty baskets but with a handful of coupons clutched in their hands.

The customers kept coming, and we kept selling. The fishballs were the corn we the better sellers. As I was sold the food, I felt really guilty because we were like really evil, selling such unhealthy food to the crowd, making them fat. How bad we are..

And worse, I couldn't resist any longer and I ate 3 doughnuts myself too. ( Well, I'll just take it as Supporting my Class Stall). But I'll get fatter.

Time passes within a blink, literally, and it was already 11.30, time to go for my shift. I felt really reluctant to leave the stall, I wanted to continue selling for the 4 shifts. But I'm a First Aider ( thought I'm not really good), and a First Aider gotta do what a First Aider gotta do. So goodbye " Ah Mah Chua's Delights ", sell more hor.

I had 4 hours of First Aid duty, the First Aid post was in one of the classroom stalls. There were only like 5 First Aiders ( Me, Szeto, Shi Min, Eugene and Desmond ) in the third and fourth Duty Shift ( Including me ). How?

Okay, during the duty I was quite alert at the first 2 hours. But after that, I admit I was really inattentive, and Slack. I didn't watch out for casualties, I expected to look out for me. I thought I would be really conspicious in my uniform, so easy to be spot. I looked more at the food stalls instead. I'm a bad First Aider. Well, I got to Change.

After the Homecoming, Charlton, Nicholas, Wai Yinn, Brian, Jiew Peng ( the Real Joker ) and I had a little meeting discussing on doing something for our Teacher - IC Mr Ling before he leave's our School. I wished he would stay with our school, our Corps. He such a good teacher-IC. We're planning on baking a little cake for him, and maybe even do a Barbeque.

And here are the pictures which I took during the Homecoming Fun Fair.

Our Stall's Menu :

Chicken Wings

Corn

Alot and alot pf fish balls

Donuts

Donuts

And more Donuts

Ok you're drooling now.

More pictures

Passions

For the past two days, we presented our Passion Portfolios during English lesson ( I hadn't presented mine ). I found out things about my classmates which I didn't knew, I didn't know all of them were so talented in their own passions.

Jie qi ( presented first ) the PRO anime artist, Jia Yong the Stamp Collector, Sebastian the Chinese Flutist, Jie Chou the shading Artist too, Wei Chen the 2 Star kayaker, Josiah the Music Listener, Kelvin the PRO drummer/xylophone-er, Shu Yi the Scribbler, and Jeffrey the Soccer - fanatic.

And Bo Xian, Jason, Victor the Guitarists!

Good Luck in your Future endeavors, and do best what you do the Best.

And now I'm influenced about guitar. Maybe its because of the three presentations on electric guitars, the listening to their really Fast strummings. I want to learn how to play the acoustic guitar.

Anyone can teach me? ( I already have a no-brand guitar to play )
I Want to learn how to play it, I want to learn the Acoustic kind.

Cake Car

Okay, you really got to watch this.

The Edible Car


That totally blew me away. Its like a Hansel & Gretel story, only that now it is a car which is built out of cake. Imagine yourself like taking a chunk out of the steering wheel.

Its Our Day

Today's the day, Our Day. So early in the morning, at about 6am, I took a taxi to school. I changd into my uniform. Soon, the rest of the Year 3s came, in their smart uniforms too. I was one of the ones who had the least badges, the others had so many until their left sleeve were like 2 kilograms heavy.

Our squad was like really small, about 20 people ( perhaps the smallest UG ). But it didn't really matter actually. So we stood unmoving in front of the primary school hall stage, as the students started to stroll in when the morning assembly bell rang. Timothy was the PC, great commanding, great job.

The parade was rather short, with the Pledges, a speech by Mr Ling and prayer. The squad was dismissed and assembly carried on as usual as we sat at the side of the hall.

Later part of the day, I didn't know that we had to wear our uniform for the entire day, I thought only til after recess. It was pretty much my mistake as I didn't like get the instructions clear. So during the Afternoon assembly, I was the only one who didn't wear uniform. So I felt rather weird, the only SJ cadet not wearing his uniform.

But anyway, after assembly, all the NCOs gathered, but we couldn't find Wai Yinn and Reginald. We took pictures of us posing with our left arms ( to show off badges ), all saluting Lewis and other funny poses. It's going to be up on our corps blog, and I think it'll be a big Joke to the Juniors lol.

Today I also heard a really really nice, Hawaii-tropicalish song ( being played in the Nature Guide's iMOVIE ). The song is "Hawaiian Roller Coastal Ride" by Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu and the Kamehameha School Children's Chorus ( really long name ). You won't believe this but its one of the sound tracks of the Lilo and Stitch movie. It was rather a coincidence because I watched the movie with my cousin, the day before. No wonder I could recall that song the moment I heard it.

I'm really in love with it. Go listen there.

Everyone's into Gatsby

Okay, everyones seems to be into the Gatsby advertisement. And almost Everyone has the I Can Give You Gatsby song on their phones too.

Today Jie Chou was spamming the song over and over and Over again. And the song is still buzzing in my mind. And even Before the Chinese Oral briefing at the auditorium today, the sounds of that song being played more than 3 at a time were heard.

Anyway, Everyone better Watch Out (including those reading this), because I have Two donation cards with me. And not forgeting the teachers too.

First Day of School Term

Hey, the first day of school term. The same old crisp metal-buttoned uniform, same old bus, the same classroom, same locker, same seat, same classmates, same teachers ( some with changed hair styles, and names Too ), and same morning assembly. Yeah, good old everything. I felt a sense of familiarity, and belonging to my school.

There goes the bell for assembly…

We went through the custom procedures as usual. The National Anthem, the Pledge, and also the School Vision. Today, it was sung louder than usual, well maybe because we were really excited about the start of a new school term, a fresh beginning. During the daily devotions, our principal told us some hilarious news ( about the campus superstar ), and depressing news too.

We headed back to our classrooms then, and the first lesson was Maths. Our timetable had been changed, so all our lessons had been changed completely. But hey, there’s one new Mrs Chua name on the Timetable. New teacher? No, its just that Miss Tan changed her name.

The rest of the day’s lesson were pretty much exciting, 3 periods of Mrs Chua, taking height and weight for PE, doing our English Passion Portfolio ( which is already due ) and an added treat, to the delight of others, a relief teacher came in for Hua2 Wen2 lesson. But maybe it wasn’t that great either, because our oral exams are in like 1 weeks' time.

When I got home, I wanted to cook up a dish ( again ), for my Passion Portfolio. When I reached home, my mum had already finished cooking half of dinner. So I pretty much could only do one dish.

I saw some long beans in the fridge and I decided to do that Sambal Chilli Long Bean thing. ( You should know what dish I’m referring to right? ). So I got prepared all the ingredients, the sambal chilli, the longbeans and stuff.

Then I started to fry, putting in the garlic, veggy and minced pork. Yeah, everything was going well, so far. Maybe it was out of anxiousness, or maybe because this was my first time cooking, I underestimated the flames, and I covered the wok left the food to cook on its own on the big fire.

Within a few seconds, a smell of burnt drifted through the air. Smelling something weird, like some chemical smell. ( I didn’t know burnt food smelt like this? )

( I doesnt look like it but its actually burnt )

So when I lifted of the lid of the wok, the sambal chilli had become all black. Yeah, so this time it was a rather not-so-sucessful dish. But I’m not like sad or anything, cause I can still include this rather amusing “story” into my portfolio. And as they always say, Thou learns from thou mistakes. How true.

( I had to cover my nose when I was washing the burnt wok )

Happy Birthday Mum

Happy Birthday Mummy! Thanks for everything, the love, the care, the concern, the encouragement, the washing, the tutioning, the things you bought for me, the cooking...

There's just too much to list.

Cause your the best Mother in the world. And don't worry about getting older, cause Everyone's a year older too.

Geography Lesson

( Okay, I'm going really green now )

I found this in the newspaper today. I guess you've seen it too, if you've read the newspaper.



Real Scary huh? All its all because of Global warming. Imagine Singapore becoming a swimming pool, Everywhere.




( Thats from todays paper too )


Even Thorthon the Polar bear starting to go anti - Global warming. And worse still, its All Our fault. Yeah, us humans. Us cutting down all the trees, burning all the fossil fuels, so that we can sit in ours room, on the air con, turn on the TV, the comp, and turn up the radio and say "so shuang3".

Now you know that we're really evil.

So we should like really wake up now. And do our own little part to save the Earth from getting a fever. Just by turning off the lights when not in use, using two sides of a paper and don't Afk from the comp for like five hours. Yeah, you get the idea. You may think say that saves very little energy, but if everyone does that, its like times 1 million. Imagine that.

So now you know. So we better kuai4 dian2 fan2 xing3, before its too late.

and maybe that's also the reason why there are so many more mosquitoes..

Mee Kway

I cooked this for lunch today. I'm not sure know how I got it either, I just used yesterday's leftovers and *poof* out came this. I call it the Mee Kway [ Italian Style ].

It tastes rather bland though. I think need to add more salt.







feeling hungry now huh?

I missed the Platoon outing

Hmph yeah, so its true. True that sometimes there are choices you have to make in life, including the tough ones. I'm feeling really sore now, about the Platoon outing that's tomorrow. The one that they've awaiting so eagerly and raring to go. Everybody's going, except me. I chose not to go, and stay home and finish up my pile of homework instead.

I guess they'll be firing arrows at me by now?


This or That?

Friendship or homework,
which one would you choose?
It's really a tough choice,
like choosing which to lose.

Mummy says I shouldn't go,
cause homework matters more.
Say I should spend the day at home,
and finish my work by four.

But my friends say it's okay,
they still have homework too.
After all, its just a few hours,
Your not backing out, are you?

Some say this, some say that.
So what should I do?
Its really a contradiciton,
you think so too?


Woah, I'm starting to sound like some wise old guy or something.

Sinful Delights

Check out the 3kg heavier me, cause since last night till now I've been spamming sinful Choclates, Sugary stuffs and Cake. All the biscuits from the ANCO camp, the chocolate cake and the brownies I found in the fridge and the paos. At this rate, I'm going to get super fatter.

Apple Man

So I was at the ANCO camp. I seemed so long, but yet so fast, four days are over within a blink. We had to do up a lesson + lesson plan for our assessment on foot drill, and amazingly i finished up mine, in the nick of time, literally. We became like little teachers for the MOI.

So for the 5 minutes of lesson time, I taught my lesson quite okay, minus the nervousness and stuff.

I learnt much stuff, some of those which I learnt were the points of the SJ crest (taught by Wei Qiang Sir) , how to move fast to meet the very short timings of our officers, and learning how to Love our uniform, because we had to wear the same one for the four days of the camp, despite it smelling really SOUR of the sweat. Yeah, really sick. Worser stuff are disclosed, cause I don't think you'll take it.

And they called me, the Apple Man, I don't know why. Like I ate alot of apples during the camp..

Eggy butter cake

look at the cake which i made today







ya i know its UGLY but i'm still a chef-in-training after all. Despite its look, only when you sink you teeth in it will you find that it actually taste quite good. Yeah really. It tastes of a blend of scrambled eggs plus vanilla. I added a bit too much egg to it, so the texture is rather eggy and spongy, but it turned out really well in fact, and thats the thing which makes the cake nice. But anyway, its no use explaining to you until you try it.

What's more, its Less - Sugar so you won't have to worry about getting fat (like me). And if you want to try it out, just ask me for the recipe.

And guess where i got the idea for my blog address, yeah, from this cake, this Eggy butter cake.