the jellyfish is back!

Before i started typing out this post, I went to relieve the memories of how I spent 2010 CNY.

The post is on 17th Feb 2010.

http://jumpinjellyfish.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html


Well, the 1st and 2nd days of CNY are sort of swapped compared to last year, except I didn't eat mac, and my father did not buy any durians. =D The movies we watched are not the same, if not the rest is still about the same. Drank chicken soup made by my father on the 2nd day of CNY instead of the eve, which once again is delicious! ^^

Without further ado / delay, the contents of the post.



Contents

1. CNY 3rd day outing
2. Random reflections regarding recruit recollections. (lol 5 R alliteration!)

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1. CNY 3rd day outing


Part 1 - Uncategorised group outing

Unlike the previous few outings which I mention which group of friends did I go out with, today's one is uncategorised.

4 people came to my house today for visiting / slacking / bai nian.

Tean ZY (P1)
War (S16)
WL (S16)
CT (Chess club)

Which is like huh??? Probably the most common link is that War knows everybody in the list. Haha.

1000 - Met up and gathered. War and CT didn't / forgot to bring oranges, so we ended up going to cold storage and bought some. Aw to War. =P

1030 - Reached my house, and after about 5 mins my parents came home from random grocery shopping. My father managed to caught the 'fake' oranges CT and War provided, which was quite funny. ^^ But hey at least there is a thought that counts, but don't try that again. =P

1045 - Played cards which i kept losing. Nothing surprising there. Somehow a lot of ppl kept going against War, especially CT and Tean. Haha. ^^ The time passed really fast, and before we knew it, 1145 hrs came, and sadly we left my house. WL passed me his mandarin orange bag along with the oranges. My father did a quality check to make sure they are not fake. ^^

This concludes the short approx 1h 30mins outing at my house.

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Part 2 - 03 bai nian

Went to RJ and WJ house this year, which somehow is the same as last year. Demas, AH, CS, ZH, WJ, RJ, Keith, Anselm, Vivien, Crystal, SY and me went for this year.

1230: We reached RJ's house.

Ate some finger food at RJ's house which included nuggets, sotong balls and potato wedges. It's not deep fried, so it tasted ok. ^^ Played cards at RJ's house and spent a lot of time on 'circle of death', which is a random game that involved drinking a lot of water and following instructions on a card. Here are some random examples which Demas suggested.

A - choose a drinking partner to drink with you
2 - Drink water for 2 counts
3 - Drink water for 3 counts
4 - Boys drink water / Shouting 1 onwards individually
5 - Girls drink water / Forbidding words
6 - Rhyming words
7 - '7-up'
8 - Category knowledge
9 - Changing an action of players
10 - Big fish, small fish
J - Waterfall (aka water parade)
Q - Banning somebody to answer your question
K - Toilet break (The best card!)

Quite fun, and definitely a training for water parades in future. =P RJ's mother was very kind to provide a lot of water for us. Thank you! ^^

Before leaving for WJ's house, we celebrated RJ's birthday with a cake, birthday song and taking of a few photos. ^^ Left RJ's house after that(sadly), and ZH left for his relatives visit.

1515: Reached WJ's house

WJ's house was seriously popular, considering that WJ's sister, father and himself invited friends over. Nothing much happened at WJ's house as it was a repeat of what we did at RJ's house, except some sang Karaokae...

Once again, we played the 'circle of death', except this time we added some random flavour drinks instead of plain water for the whole game. Somehow everybody liked the '7-up' game, and we played the sub-game after the whole game is finished. We managed to count up to 100 after many attempts! Good job! ^^

It is not easy btw, as it is really confusing since it involves banning of saying 'seven' and numbers that are multiples of 7. So 1 to 100 goes like this.

1 2 3 4 5 6 UP 8 9 10 11 12 13 UP 15 16 UP 18 19 20 UP 22 23 24 25 26 UP UP 29 30 31 32 33 34 UP 36 UP 38 39 40 41 UP 43 44 45 46 UP 48 UP 50 51 52 53 54 55 UP UP 58 59 60 61 62 UP 64 65 66 UP 68 69 UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP 80 81 82 83 UP 85 86 UP 88 89 90 UP 92 93 94 95 96 UP UP 99 100!

30 ups in 100, not bad! Left WJ's house at 1715 hrs, and here ends the 3rd day of CNY!

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2 days ago was RJ's birthday, and today is my mother's birthday. Happy birthday to both people! ^^

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2. Random reflections regarding recruit recollections

8 weeks of PTP has finally passed! ^^ I am guessing the worst part of NS life has been over for me at least, and next week will be the official BRT phase! Here's wishing good luck to the new recruits, wahaha.

Somehow, I felt that maybe after the 13 weeks, I would miss recruit life. Maybe perhaps there is nobody else shouting sian to you when the next period is PT, there is nobody to shout lame jokes or kena teased when we are posted to vocations, and there is no more push-ups as punishments once we are out of recruit life. If i read this after another BRT phase, I shall see whether this is accurate or not, haha. At least many people endured through the PTP phase! Good job! ^^

Delta didn't win champion for the footdrill competition, but rumours were that we won 2nd place out of 4 teams, which sounds quite an achievement. We also won the best PC award, so a large congratulations to Sir Greg! =D Sergeant Mazuk also very good, he should probably be the best PS in Delta already, haha! ^^ Fantastic job to the people who were in the footdrill competition!

Salehin is going off to FFC course already, which means my 'buddy' would be gone from next week onwards. Here's wishing Salehin all the best in the new stage of NS life!

Q: How about his bedsheets, who would pack for him?
A: Very simple, it means I would be doing 2 beds every thursday. O_O

Hope the next 5 weeks would be better! I need to pass 1 out of 2 more exams to graduate from recruit life!

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It is getting late, I should get some rest. Happy CNY to everybody! ^^

10:46 PM