BBQ in N-Park

Previous Wednesday, the 6RD classmates decided to held a BBQ in N-Park, or basically Gary Phuah's house. It starts at 5, but due to tuition, Gahjen and I were late. We reached at 8.15p.m. When we reached, There were no parking slots available! We were not sure we could park inside, so I parked near a car wash... When we walked to the apartment, and called Linges because we weren't sure where to go. Linges and Shyamala called us in from the gate, and Gahjen insulted Shyamala by saying he thought there was a little girl calling us... Linges laughed all his way to the BBQ pit...

When we reached there, we saw fried food laying on the shelter, and the girls were sitting down. The guys, however, were in the BBQ pit. I wondered, what was so excited over there? When I went there, the fire wasn't even lit... They spent hours, from 5 till 8 to light the fire, and those who came early were hungry... damn luckily I was late... I couldn't help with anything with the fire, so I went to feast myself with the fried food and the pasta that were prepared earlier in front of them... MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Well, of course, they took turns to eat and lit the fire. About an hour later, the fire lit! So we started putting on aluminium foils, butter and I, know nothing about BBQ, just help them with the cocktails and sausages...

Finally, fire...

Linges, posing...

After the fire lit, we released a lot of smoke... Mother Nature must be angry at us, so she let the rain came pouring in... So, we were forced to bring everything to Gary's house, on the 31st floor! Me, being the person with 2 umbrellas, gotta escort people with their hands full of equipments and food. Only escorted Gahjen though, the paper, I meant LITERALLY, paper boy... The others just ran in...

At Gary's house, the breeze was damn strong, and cooling! And when I looked back, I didn't realise there were so many people that attended the BBQ! Perhaps its because of the sudden change in environment, from a huge, spacious place to an apartment. Enjoyed the breeze for a while, and went to the kitchen to see what is the fuss all about. Over there, Charlene was deep-frying the chicken, while Geraldine was roasting them in the oven, and Natalie was doing the washing. I got bored doing nothing, so I decided to help. Charlene was fine by herself, Natalie don't want any help, so I just helped Geraldine with the roasting.

I gotta say, Charlene deep-fried 4 boxes of chicken, while I could only roast 1 box of chicken. Then, Erwin went out to help Thina downstairs. It was Erwin's birthday, so Thina and Charlene chipped in to buy Erwin a Tiramisu cake. Its small, but expensive... Could only fit a candle in it. Everything was as planned. Erwin was out, so we quickly prepared the cake. When he entered, we sang the Happy Birthday song. He looked suprised, which was the most precious facial expression towards the whole day...

Erwin and cake, he blew the candle too fast, so this is what I caught...

Afterwards, back to baking the corn. It was more simple, and could fit in more corn, but we forgot to put in butter and salt... Oh well, the heck. After it was done, I gotta take them all out, since Geraldine put like 10 of them, and some were too deep. My finger got contact with the metal stick used to heat the oven, so now there's blister on my finger... The corn was suprisingly sweet, but others dislike it... It was already 11p.m., so we decided to clean up and leave. Some people decided to stay overnight there, but not me...

As I was going home, I found a pendrive which was long lost... I was in my seat ALL ALONG... Dropped Gahjen at his house, and went straight back home... I was still hungry, considering I ate nothing much that time...

Thats all about it, was quite an experience, but not a very good one... and OH!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY~~!!

Signed off,
Teng Aun.

The 18th Time

I should have blogged this earlier like the other posts, but then again, I was lazy...

Last week, Saturday was my 18th birthday. Most people get excited about this, but until now, I still don't see why. The only thing that I actually am happy about is that I am FINALLY considered an adult now. No more 'boohoggies', 'pickaboo' and 'rubbytucky' treatments from other people anymore... But now, if I kill someone, I gotta go to jail for life, instead of a juvenile *sigh*..... Uhhh... don't worry I won't do it though...

My birthdays were boring, as usual. But this year was an experience. I followed Sau Fei, Eu Teong, Kerry, Ann Gie, and Audrey to the SGGS Interaction in, of course, St. George. Again, received a wake up call by Eu Teong as always when there is an outdoor activity with him. Went to pick up Sau Fei and go straight to SGGS. At the reception, I was pretty shocked I'm the only non-interactor among all the other people there... Got my hand drawed with an 'S' shape.

Later, we were seated and to buy some time, the Mistresses of Ceremony came down from the stage to... well... interact. Loads of crap actually, just plain basic questions. "Whats your favourite ice-cream?", "Where are you from?" and worse of all, to some people, "Are you gay?"... Then, we were divided into groups accoring to the shapes of the drawings on our hand. My group consist of a fwe people, ALL WERE YOUNGER THAN ME!!!! I felt like an uncle in that group... The groups representatives have to go up the stage and be informed about the activities we have to perform (YES, PERFORM!). Me, being the oldest, were asked to go up... I wondered why I joined this event... Upstage, we were told to pick a song and DANCE!!! Urgh, my worse nightmare... I don't even wanna tell what out song was, it was pretty shameful... Sau Fei's group had to perform 1st, and they did a good job. Then, Ann Gie and Eu Teong's group gotta perform... They did a good job I must say. After them was my group's turn... But luckily, time is running out, so we escaped *PHEW*! Later, There were performances by Interact Club Members (I THINK) from other schools. St. Xaviers did a pretty darn good job, I must say. I almost feel ashamed when a girl did her shuffling steps, when I can't even shuffle...

Then, lunch time, nothing much to say about it. After lunch, back to performances, by Chung Ling High School. They just sang songs, and the last song they sang was pretty damn good. Then, back to dancing, performance by PENANG FREE SCHOOL! Why did I highlight that... Anyways, they were dancing normally, till they put the wrong song in the backstage... They gotta re-do every step again, poor them... But they did a good job, to my suprise... Afterwards, we gotta get into pairs, tie up a balloon in between the pair's legs, and try to burst other people's balloon... Well, me and Eu Teong lasted long enough, then we decided to just move aside, AND LUCKILY WE DID, cause 10 minutes after it was over, the audience were ambushed with a FLOUR ATTACK!!! I managed to avoid it though... After that, funs over, time to go home.

At night, dinner with my family at Penang Chinese Swimming Club. Boy, its been a long while since I ever been there... It was my godmother's birthday as well, so we celebrate it together. It was a plain, chatty dinner with the family, nothing special happened, except I received a gift of uncle Martin, 2 mugs, 1 with my picture smiling, the other with a picture of me sleeping...

Anyways thats pretty much all that happened that day... The pictures of the installation were god damn blur, so I didnt post it here, and no picture taken during dinner...

Signed off,
Teng Aun.

Exhausting Trip to Penang Hill

I should have blogged about this last week, but I've gotten really lazy about it. The 6RD gang decided to go to Moongate and hike up to No.5 Rest Place (or at least, thats what they told me). So, Having nothing much to do, I decided to follow them since I needed the exercise. We were to meet up at Moongate by 7 A.M. I reached about 10 minutes late, and not 1 person from 6RD has arrived. Its only me, Sau Fei and Eu Teong. Great spirit huh?

After 20 minutes, people started pouring in. Gahjen, Shyamala, Linges, Thina, Hui Yee, Charlene, Randy, and more came. About 10 minutes before 8, we decided to start our journey.

Moongate.

As we hike up, we decided to follow the tough road, the jungle road, instead of the staired road. That's because they wanna catch bugs for their project and they THOUGHT they will catch more insect using the jungle road. Thina, you should eat those words, because hell yeah, you were wrong... Music freak I am, listening to my MP3 while we were hiking. Gotta bite my MP3 because some part were too difficult I need both hands just to balance myself. And yeah, my pocket was already full with my wallet, phone, key, etc. etc. etc.

Once reached No.5 Rest Place, I thought this was the end, we would all hike down back to Moongate. But then, Mr.Thina has to step up and say "No enough insects la, lets go higher la", I was... *okiknowicantattendthemeetingalready*. Hesitating at 1st, I decided to just follow them. It is a group hike anyways, so it should be fun. We hiked and hiked and hiked till we hiked our asses up. On our way were jungles, trees, noises of Hui Yee screaming, trees, trees, tr... have I said trees? Also, there is a mini waterfall on our way, connecting to a small concrete pool (or something). The water is very cooling, and not to mention, CLEAN! Though, we don't dare to drink it since heaven knows what other people did near the main source of the water. Me, being with the early groups that hiked with increased speed, get to enjoy them 1st. Then, we got mesmerized by Erwins ability to squirt water FAR FAR away with both hands. Hui Yee, being the playful one, splashes water at everyone, including me... I enjoy the cool, but not the wetness...

After a few more minutes or struggling, we finally reached No.84 Rest Place. Everyone was drop dead tired, except for a few stamina-charged ones... There were puppies there, and most of us got excited about it. We took a break, had drinks and food, and decided to hike up AGAIN, since no enough bugs were collected.

Rest Place No.84 most of us look dreadfully absorbed...

Thina wants to use the jungle road to hike up, but I think, I THINK, he provoked the monkeys that were on our way. Not only him though, the growned up dog is fighting with the monkey too. So, we decided to use the tar road. BAD IDEA though, the sign reads 30 degrees of slunt, but I think, to me, it was 45 degree... The slope was terrible, I could barely hike more after 100 metre... We had to rest every junction we met, or every place with opportunities to rest. It was TERRIBLE.

Though, I developed a quick way to reach the top, RUNNING. I know it might sound absurd to most of you, but running do help. I get tired more easily but it can easily be rid off with power-rest. I get to chase Sau Fei, who went up superly fast. Though, I could only eat his ashes after catching up with him... Man he can hike... Its as if they put on GameShark and on Infinite Stamina... Anyways Eu Teong and I slowly hike up to Penang Hill, and when we finally saw the fountain, HELL YEAH WE REACHED!!!

Went to the coffee shop to meet up with Sau Fei and Randy, the two fastest hikers in the bunch. Waited for a few more minutes and the rest of the group came pouring in. Relaxed with 100Plus. Before I could pay for the drinks, its finished... Drank a can of 100Plus in about 10 seconds... Imagine the thirst...

Later, we decided to hike down to Botanical Gardens. Charlene and Randy decided to take the train down, so we decided to take a few photos as memories of this trip. Of course, I asked them to use my phone as camera, haha!

Photographer, Sau Fei. Thina:Ready...

Thina: Get set...

Thina: CATCH!

After moments of fun at the peak, we hiked down to Botanical Gardens using the tarred road. This is where the bug catching fiesta happened. A lot of big butterflies roam around over there. Thina, carrying the net, run back and forth to catch'em. Boy, great catcher he was, one swing, BAAM! Butterfly caught... The slopes of the road were devastating, so I had to walk reversely to protect my legs...

As we reached the bottom, HELL YEAH FINALLY! ITS THE GROUND FLOOR BABY! Reached Moongate at 7 A.M. before the hike starts, reached Penang Hill around 12 P.M., and reached the bottom at 2.45P.M. Drove straight home, bathe and went straight to bed...

Well, thats all for the trip. It was a one of a kind experience, and thats to that, I developed fever the next day...

Signed off,
Teng Aun.

My BOSLIB Adventure

My sincere apologies for the inactive blog, been busy with other stuffs in school and out of school (other times? Plain lazy >.<). It seems like I have not mention much about Board Of Student Librarians in this blog, so I will dedicate this post on it (^.^).

It started out during the 1st day of school, the Orientation Day for the lower 6. The teacher advisor of the Board Of Student Librarians, Mr Tan Swee Guan, gave an amazing speech and video slide on the library. Then, the librarians handed out forms to everyone interested in joining. I signed up of course, if not, what the hell am I doing this post for?

Well, a few weeks later, those who signed up were called to an interview, in the library. I was pretty scared, as I don't attend interviews very much. My interviewers were Hundia Yin, Honey Loo and K. Rutheran. Honey and Hundia were okay, very precise, nice and not very much questions, while Rutheran shot me with killer questions. I can't feel my legs during the interview... Worse, I was the very few 1st ones who were called for interview, can't ask those who finished their interviews on how well it went.

Anyways, I was accepted as a probationary librarian, and were to perform duties as a normal librarian AND study the theory and practical stuffs a librarian must know. And to my surprise, there will be an exam on librarian stuffs... The test is divided into 4 parts, theory, book wrapping, shelving and IT(keying in books). We have about 4 weeks to study our theory and practice wrapping/key-ing in/shelving.

After 4 weeks of learning (or not?), the exam was finally here... Chill sweats rolling down my neck... The computer broke down, so IT test could not be carried out, and is replaced with oath taking. We had to memorize the whole oath, yes, the WHOLE oath, about 7 or 8 lines of words. Thankfully, it ain't as difficult as I thought it would be, I only had to burn about 30 minutes of midnight oil.

The week after that, the results were out. I PASSED!!!! Well, everyone did, so nothing much exciting about it anymore... Top scorer = Laura Teh Ee Ling, 2nd = Brian John Dorai and 3rd = Lim Pheng Sheng and Toh Ann Gie. I scored 7th I think, among 30+ who took the exam. Well, I'm pretty satisfied, I guess... These marks don't make any difference, since only 40% of the total marks were needed to pass...

Enough with the test, back to normal duties of a normal librarian. My duty was on Monday, and until now, it is still Monday. Normal routines like maintaining the cleanliness, shelve books, wrapping and keying in books are done that time. Nothing much exciting anymore, after doing it like, 8 times...

2 weeks after that (I think), the Annual General Meeting for the Board Of Student Librarians was held. We have to buy a BOSLIB T-shirt and wear it, to attend the AGM. 1st was the speech by the teacher advisor, long speech, but very meaningful.. Then, it was the speech by the Chairman, or called Head Librarian for BOSLIB. His speech was pretty touching, and he actually cried that time... Then it was the normal routine for every AGM, reports from Secretary and Treasurer. After that, it was the presentation of badges to the librarians, and the post holder. I was elected as IT officer, which I dunno why, since I am almost illiterate in IT... The Deputy Head Librarians are Lingeswarran (expected), and Lim Hui Yee. I would explain every post holder in this post, but I am too lazy... Go check the BOSLIB Notice board in PFS if ya wanna know more...

After taking over, our big project right now is the Annual Dinner for BOSLIB, and this year, it will be extra special, since it is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of "Khutub Khanah Tunku", our Free School Library. It was 1st established in our current band room, and was named Pinhorn Memorial Library, at 1955. 4 years later, it was moved to the 6th form block and on December 1969, it was established near the school hostel. It was originally suppose to be a swimming pool, but they decided to have a library instead.

Well, thats all for now, I gotta get busy and cook up a video for the video presentation during the annual dinner. Then, I gotta hold a photoshoot for the library cards, and then, prepare booklets for the dinner.... AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Going crazy, so much stuff in so little time, 1 month to complete them all...

"On admission to the Office of Student Librarians, I undertake to the best of my abilities and on all occasions conscientiously and actively to honour its ideal, promote its interest and uphold its name, and I further undertake to perform the duties attached to the Office of Student Librarians fairly and earnestly. And in this, I offer my services to the school and hope to earn her approval."

Signed off,
Teng Aun.