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Yay. Leaving another entry in my diary so I can fall back on these moments.
Just like capturing images with your camera to preserve the feelings and delight at a point of time :D

But I'm so tired and since even Samantha has gone (and she's probably enjoying herself) to sleep, I'm going to turn in too, for tonight. *Yawn*

Goodnight everybody! :D
Goodnight diary. (<_<.. right)

Hello to all.

My mood has been down; and it has been a really bad day since I've woke up a morning ago.

I woke up afresh and looked forward to the community involvement project : St Gabriel's Foundation (SGF) Collection of Funds 2007. It was the second (or third) flag day gatherings. The day started off with a jump start! As usual, I had got off the night's rest at the wrong timing, and had only a little while for preparations to head to school.

Dressed up, grabbed my book and bottle and headed for the carpark. My dad was waiting for me already as he had been down earlier to rev up the engine so I could get to school on time. Okay so I was on my way to school. Met up with Shawn in hall and then I saw Tinaes, Weisheng and Jason who were eagerly waiting to have their hands on the tin cans and dismissed in cliques towards all parts of Singapore in aid of the needy students of the SGF.

I joined in a group consisting with Gerard, Jon, Nelson, Prasad, Shingyee (sp?) and Tinaes and we left the school grounds. So far, all had been well. Until reaching Plaza Singapura, in the morning. It was so quiet, and you could make out the patterns of tiles that are on the floor.

BAD TIMING. It was a Saturday. Not many people were in the city yet, and it occured to me that we should have went to a residential area, such as Toa Payoh or Boon Keng or Ang Mo Kio.
Later on in the day, I was informed that Ms Thomas, together with Shawn and Jerome, had gone to Boon Keng and ONLY there. That was where they managed to fill the tin cans to the brim and still have the time to enjoy a scrumptious breakfast (or lunch) at Macdonald's. I should have known! :/

So on with the story : Our group split into two portions (of steak slabs, okay not really). Nelson, Shingyee and Tinaes in one segment not to forget, my book (which I would go on to elaborate further on) and bottle held by Tinaes - Gerard, Jon, Prasad and I in the other. And soon, we took separate directions and ended up in two different parts of Singapore. For now, Nelson and minigroup are out of the story and will join us shortly right after these messages.

Sorry guys, I'm so tired I would have to resort to using point-form to explain the day's shit.
And here we go.

1. My group took a train back to City Hall, and on our way we journeyed the Dhoby Ghaut Interchange and stared at the wall while lazing on the travelator. It used to have large coins and a large palm with it's index finger sticking out in poke-motion, but it was now all painted with a glossy white finish and waiting new advertisements to be placed on it.
2. Met Edwin, Nicholas and Weisheng at Dhoby Ghaut, who were on their way to Marina. Lmao. We entered the inner building of Raffles City and scouted around for fastfood restaurants. Oh, this reminds me. We were looking at the shopping catalogues and we spotted "Girl's Shop". I wanted to check it out after breakfast, but soon forgot about this after thinking through the task at hand.
3. Breakfast. Gerard, Prasad and Jon settled at Burger King's for a western breakfast of bacons, ham, scrambled egg and little bits of hash brown. It was expensive for a small meal, prices ranging from $5 to $6 for a mere portion of protein and carbohydrate. And I managed to fit a packet of chilli sause into my tin.
   
4. This was also where we met Mr Nick Chow and Ms Koh Shiling. Actually, Mr Nick Chow approached us while we indulged in the meal. Oh noes! We were caught by teachers slacking off right at the start of the project :O which is a vaary bhad(vah-ray-bah-had) start for us. We then realised the two teachers (easily mistaken to be a loving couple) had two lower secondary students accompanying them which now makes them seem more easily like a married pair.
5. After the meal, we headed out of the restaurant towards a fountain and spent half an hour throwing coins into it, struggling to score the coin directly into the middle of the fountain. It was fun, but we were contradicting ourselves, splurging precious money that can go a long way to help the needy, and so I filled my tin up with about a dollar's worth of coins.
6. We've realised the complete waste of time that we have brought about, and decided to get started. We lost Gerard at what seemed like a long stretch of escalators, but he quickly relocated us and we got out of the building. We didn't know where we wanted to walk to and our sense of directions were crappy, until we spotted a familiar building : Peninsular Plaza! The LAN paradise where the lousy mice and worn out keyboards restricts your life.
7. Me and Jon headed for Funan Mall when Gerard and Prasad broke off and went to enjoy themselves at LAN. Jon and I collected funds for a while before giving into the temptation of the air conditioning in Funan Mall. While entering the mall, KFC came into sight and there came our lunch break. It was 11:00pm then. And also a time where I missed the book that I left with Tinaes.
8. It was here when I decided to give a call to mum and catechist to approve my absence from some church activities later in the afternoon, and this action is one that I have regret making (elaborate further later).
   
9. After the break, Jon and I intended to head to Plaza Singapura and using my professional sense of direction, we were soon walking further from Plaza Singapura, Victoria Concert Hall. My flaw came into consideration when we met a fellow teacher who enlightened us. Now, with the correct direction and gathering of Prasad and Jon after the fun they had, we went all the way back to Dhoby Ghaut.
10. Here, we regrouped. Group now consisted of Gerard, Jon, Prasad, Nelson, Shingyee, Tinaes, Weisheng and I.
11. Nelson, Shingyee and Tinaes felt they deserved a period to rest and have a meal. And so the rest of us headed out of Plaza Singapura to collect more funds. This was the main area where I collected quite a bit of money. Some people mostly Caucasians or other foreigners were very generous with their donations, whereas the Singaporeans themselves were arrogant, unthoughtful and had such a strong proud look on their face when they pretended you weren't there - either that or treated you as beggars and simply walked away. There were also a handful who pretended to take out their wallets and proceeded to walk in the other direction, away from me. Lol.
12. After the joint efforts of Me and Weisheng; Gerard, Prasad and Jon - we met up at the porch and headed back to school to return the tin cans upon receiving news that Shingyee, Nelson and Tinaes had gone back without notifying us earlier.
13. My tin can blah blah.
    
14. We thought we could go to play pool back at Plaza Singapura once we had completed our task blah blah.
15. I'm SO tired. It does not end here, I will continue later today.
    

Yay. Leaving another entry in my diary so I can fall back on these moments.
Just like capturing images with your camera to preserve the feelings and delight at a point of time :D

But I'm so tired and since even Samantha has gone (and she's probably enjoying herself) to sleep, I'm going to turn in too, for tonight. *Yawn*

Goodnight everybody! :D
Goodnight diary. (<_<.. right)

Hello to all.

My mood has been down; and it has been a really bad day since I've woke up a morning ago.

I woke up afresh and looked forward to the community involvement project : St Gabriel's Foundation (SGF) Collection of Funds 2007. It was the second (or third) flag day gatherings. The day started off with a jump start! As usual, I had got off the night's rest at the wrong timing, and had only a little while for preparations to head to school.

Dressed up, grabbed my book and bottle and headed for the carpark. My dad was waiting for me already as he had been down earlier to rev up the engine so I could get to school on time. Okay so I was on my way to school. Met up with Shawn in hall and then I saw Tinaes, Weisheng and Jason who were eagerly waiting to have their hands on the tin cans and dismissed in cliques towards all parts of Singapore in aid of the needy students of the SGF.

I joined in a group consisting with Gerard, Jon, Nelson, Prasad, Shingyee (sp?) and Tinaes and we left the school grounds. So far, all had been well. Until reaching Plaza Singapura, in the morning. It was so quiet, and you could make out the patterns of tiles that are on the floor.

BAD TIMING. It was a Saturday. Not many people were in the city yet, and it occured to me that we should have went to a residential area, such as Toa Payoh or Boon Keng or Ang Mo Kio.
Later on in the day, I was informed that Ms Thomas, together with Shawn and Jerome, had gone to Boon Keng and ONLY there. That was where they managed to fill the tin cans to the brim and still have the time to enjoy a scrumptious breakfast (or lunch) at Macdonald's. I should have known! :/

So on with the story : Our group split into two portions (of steak slabs, okay not really). Nelson, Shingyee and Tinaes in one segment not to forget, my book (which I would go on to elaborate further on) and bottle held by Tinaes - Gerard, Jon, Prasad and I in the other. And soon, we took separate directions and ended up in two different parts of Singapore. For now, Nelson and minigroup are out of the story and will join us shortly right after these messages.

Sorry guys, I'm so tired I would have to resort to using point-form to explain the day's shit.
And here we go.

1. My group took a train back to City Hall, and on our way we journeyed the Dhoby Ghaut Interchange and stared at the wall while lazing on the travelator. It used to have large coins and a large palm with it's index finger sticking out in poke-motion, but it was now all painted with a glossy white finish and waiting new advertisements to be placed on it.
2. Met Edwin, Nicholas and Weisheng at Dhoby Ghaut, who were on their way to Marina. Lmao. We entered the inner building of Raffles City and scouted around for fastfood restaurants. Oh, this reminds me. We were looking at the shopping catalogues and we spotted "Girl's Shop". I wanted to check it out after breakfast, but soon forgot about this after thinking through the task at hand.
3. Breakfast. Gerard, Prasad and Jon settled at Burger King's for a western breakfast of bacons, ham, scrambled egg and little bits of hash brown. It was expensive for a small meal, prices ranging from $5 to $6 for a mere portion of protein and carbohydrate. And I managed to fit a packet of chilli sause into my tin.
   
4. This was also where we met Mr Nick Chow and Ms Koh Shiling. Actually, Mr Nick Chow approached us while we indulged in the meal. Oh noes! We were caught by teachers slacking off right at the start of the project :O which is a vaary bhad(vah-ray-bah-had) start for us. We then realised the two teachers (easily mistaken to be a loving couple) had two lower secondary students accompanying them which now makes them seem more easily like a married pair.
5. After the meal, we headed out of the restaurant towards a fountain and spent half an hour throwing coins into it, struggling to score the coin directly into the middle of the fountain. It was fun, but we were contradicting ourselves, splurging precious money that can go a long way to help the needy, and so I filled my tin up with about a dollar's worth of coins.
6. We've realised the complete waste of time that we have brought about, and decided to get started. We lost Gerard at what seemed like a long stretch of escalators, but he quickly relocated us and we got out of the building. We didn't know where we wanted to walk to and our sense of directions were crappy, until we spotted a familiar building : Peninsular Plaza! The LAN paradise where the lousy mice and worn out keyboards restricts your life.
7. Me and Jon headed for Funan Mall when Gerard and Prasad broke off and went to enjoy themselves at LAN. Jon and I collected funds for a while before giving into the temptation of the air conditioning in Funan Mall. While entering the mall, KFC came into sight and there came our lunch break. It was 11:00pm then. And also a time where I missed the book that I left with Tinaes.
8. It was here when I decided to give a call to mum and catechist to approve my absence from some church activities later in the afternoon, and this action is one that I have regret making (elaborate further later).
   
9. After the break, Jon and I intended to head to Plaza Singapura and using my professional sense of direction, we were soon walking further from Plaza Singapura, Victoria Concert Hall. My flaw came into consideration when we met a fellow teacher who enlightened us. Now, with the correct direction and gathering of Prasad and Jon after the fun they had, we went all the way back to Dhoby Ghaut.
10. Here, we regrouped. Group now consisted of Gerard, Jon, Prasad, Nelson, Shingyee, Tinaes, Weisheng and I.
11. Nelson, Shingyee and Tinaes felt they deserved a period to rest and have a meal. And so the rest of us headed out of Plaza Singapura to collect more funds. This was the main area where I collected quite a bit of money. Some people mostly Caucasians or other foreigners were very generous with their donations, whereas the Singaporeans themselves were arrogant, unthoughtful and had such a strong proud look on their face when they pretended you weren't there - either that or treated you as beggars and simply walked away. There were also a handful who pretended to take out their wallets and proceeded to walk in the other direction, away from me. Lol.
12. After the joint efforts of Me and Weisheng; Gerard, Prasad and Jon - we met up at the porch and headed back to school to return the tin cans upon receiving news that Shingyee, Nelson and Tinaes had gone back without notifying us earlier.
13. My tin can blah blah.
    
14. We thought we could go to play pool back at Plaza Singapura once we had completed our task blah blah.
15. I'm SO tired. It does not end here, I will continue later today.