Lake Kenyir.... the first foreign place i went without my parents and with my friends. It was not a sch outing, but it's a sch-based trip. We went there our HSC. So.. there're rules and they're not set by us but by the teachers.

Ms Tay, Mr Tan, Mr Lim, Ms Goh. 3E2, 2T1, 3N2 (i think). qi jie, teck teng, kegan, li mian, yonatan, zhiyi, yonglin, leanne, grace, shihui, yining, vin, me. The so many of us (i lazy count) went to Lake Kenyir / Kuantan for this nature trip.

I shall quote vin's speechn as much as possible.. Ahem. "I realised the classes work well together but as individuals and not as a whole. We learnt certain things like yona, rmb not to get ur ass in first in everything you do. And Joel, if u wan to shit, first make sure the toilet bowl can be flushed. The food was good, the waterfalls were fun. But not the toilets, u can't even pee w/o getting insects flying over you." There's more i think.. but i can't rmb it at this time.

1st star: On the way to Lake Kenyir from dunno where via boat. The boat ride was cooling and refreshing. Esp after the night in the coach. The wind slaps as ur face. If Chungchi went, he confirm would be kaobei kaobu-ing about the wind that spoils his hair. Haha!

2nd star: water falls trek. We trekked through 3 or 4 waterfalls i think. Each was a new experience. A pity i din and dun take nature shots. So i dun really have pics of the waterfalls. I rmbed the first waterfall, i was trekking like i'm marching. my thighs went up 90degrees before i stomp down for my nxt step. Why? Cuz i was afraid of leeches. It's pretty stupid i tell u. Haha! So cuz of tt, i din tiok a single leech throughout my Lake Kenyir trip. Siong huh..

3rd star: canoeing competition. We had a competition. In fact 2. 3E2 vs 2T1 & the chapalang competition. We lost the former cuz of yonatan hu tried to get his ass in first. Haha!! Watch the video!! For the latter, vin won the whole race. Followed by Mr Tan. Cuz from the start he and kegan pakat to push Mr Tan's canoe backwards and off course. Den Kegan sacrificed and blocked everyone's way giving vin a headstart. So in the end he won by like 20s or so. And yining was screaming her head off throughout. Watch the video!!

4th star: Night boat ride. We took a night boat ride around Lake Kenyir. I was supposed to be paired with vin. But vin, knowing vin, wanted to pair wif sh. But sh was paired wif ning. So swopped and i paired wif ning for the ride. The ride was a whole new experience. Really! U go on a boat ride at night when u can hardly see around u except for the range of a torch u are carrying, with gd and close friends, keeping silent and hearing nature, with the cool night breeze slapping and u once more. That feeling left a great impact in me. Each time in spore when i feel cool nite breeze, i'l think of the boat ride.............

5th star: The walk through the river upstream. A small group of us walked upstream to some "island". Rather fun. We made " HSCS 3E2'02 was here" on the ground which was full of small stone and sand.

6th star: The food was great! Really tasty. Rather unexpected for a place without any source of treated water and direct electricity, only a generator. The guides were friendly people. I gave a tip of 5 or 10 RM i think..

7th star: Shopping at shoping centre at Kuantan. I spent like 300 sing there. When i came back, i realised i bought lots of stuff whcih are the same price here in singspore. Waste my time only. The only thing which i brought back from the trip which is meaningful are the photos and a rock. I gt the rock from the "island". It's rather big, and the "island" smell is still on it.

1st boo: The toilets, i'm afraid of flying six-legged creatures. So in the toilet at Kenyir, i only peed. I din shit there. For 3 days, 3 nights. I waited for the 4th day when we went to Kuantan hotel den i shit. Ok.. here's the nice part. I shit, the the toilet bowl gt stuck. I flushed a few times but the stuff wouldn't go down. So the bowl was filled to the brim with a mixture of shit and water; shit water. The whole room stank after tt. So we all switched room and ended up 5 person sharing a hotel room. We din report the stuck. So i guess after we checked out the cleaner muz be furious. =D.

That's my first overseas trip for you. I think after tt trip i become more out spoken, more kiap pa to weird strangers cuz of my tone and i'm absorbed some of the msia heritage... I've become a little more slow. =D. Did i say i'm not a racist?

I'm sort of an English idiom and phrase inventor. I invented "a smile of disgust", " signs of security", " wind slapping you". Pretty interesting huh. I came up with those unwillingly and instantaneously.

I can't wait for later. I'm going out wif some friends from 208. Miss them! Din see them for quite some time le.. But nxt yr i'll miss them even more. Cuz they've been promoted. But partings are part and parcel of life and i have to learn to live with it. <-- philosophical huh.. =D.