UPDATES ON KAYAKING! :D

I swear i had loads, loads, LOADS of fun during this two-day one-star kayaking course. (:

First day - 12OCT :
Nearly died of heart attack upon realising i forgot to set my alarm the night before when mom woke me up in the morning at 720 and i was supposed to assemble in school at 730. I was like OH, MY, GOD. Thought of skipping sua since the school bus would be leaving in 10mins time. But i knew i couldnt miss this opportunity. So tried to rush anyway, cabbed all the way to Kallang river and wasted 16over bucks. Damn. Oh thanks Ms Koh, Feiting and Jess for helping me out while i was late. Especially Ms Koh who went out to find me when i was lost in the cab (malu--stupid taxi driver) and Feiting who constantly sent reminder msgs to set alarm and wake up in the morning. Haha. Reached there like finally and was put in Group7. Was kinda lonely at the beginning but started to love my group at the end. Hahaha. Can still remember all my 12 group members: Tengteng, Hazirah, Xinying, Jiayan, Teckcheong, Junhao, Yukang, Majidah, Syahirah, Liana, Aishah and lastly ME ME ME! And not to forget our instructor Kianwee. One good thing about not having your own close friends in your group is that you'll tend to mix around with people whom you never thought you would make friends with and there! So many new friends made hehehe. Okay back to the topic, started off with a long introduction and briefing. Was like 'Omg when is this instructor gonna finish his speech i wanna start kayaking like seriously'. Finally we got to the river and as i had expected, we had to do a buoyancy test. -Shit shit shit-. Put on our PFA (Personal Floating Device), held hands, walked step by step into the river, reached a certain depth and were told to let go of our legs and allow ourselves to float on the water surface. O.M.F.G. Was tensed up at the beginning and didnt dare to lift up my feet, holding my feet fixed to the ground. A lot of us reacted the same way as me too, even those who knew how to swim. -.- Funny eh. Eventually the instructor 'pacified' us and assured us that we would float and that was when i plucked up my courage and found it quite fun. :D Next, got our kayaks and paddles and loaded ourselves into the river. Weeeeee! Learnt the capsize drill, a few strokes and rescue drill. Sucked at rafting up. :P Was always one of the first to reach but one of the last to 'park' my kayak with my fellow kayakers. There was once when i took so long to raft up and everyone was looking at me. This was how it happened:
I was struggling to find a way to turn my kayak in the correct position > I gave up and stopped in the middle of nowhere > My teammates decided to stretch out and pull me near them > The instructor asked them not to help me and said i would eventually figure out a way myself > Teckcheong shouted 'AIYO HELP HER LA BUAY TAHAN LEH!' > Everyone laughed and i laughed > The instructor helped me! :D Hehehe. Felt malu but it was really hilarious. xD
The river's full of creatures too. To freak myself and everyone out, i was rafting up the beach when people around me shouted 'LIZARD LIZARD!!' and pointing in my direction. I didnt really react until i turned and saw a HOUSE LIZARD (??!) on my kayak which is a few centimetres away from me and i TOTALLY FREAKED OUT. DAMN! Commotion arose, with people screaming and running away while some tried to help me get that gross creature off my kayak. Tianmu grabbed the lizard and went  to scare his group members. xD Great day ended at 4plus. :)

Second day - 13OCT :
This time woke up at 6, in the end still reached school beyond 730. ._. Reached there and it drizzled. Luckily the rain subsided not long after. Continued with our kayaking and then started on capsize drill. The drill was like erm, scary for me since i cant swim and -cough- i have to overturn and what? But guess what, it was fun! :D Especially during rescue drill. Was grouped with Hazirah and Junhao, two awesome partners. ;D Everyone of us had to take turn to be the either the rescuer, the victim or the supporter. All three roles were fun though tiring. Hehe. I managed to lift up the kayak all by myself without anyone's help after the second round of drill! :D Was so proud of myself hehehe. I must thank Junhao especially for being so much of a help even when he's lighter than me. Hahaha. Lunch time at 12plus, kept eating and eating and finding more food. :P Had one more round of rescue drill before we were taught more kayaking strokes. Jaydraw was difficult, where we had to use the paddle and shift sideway. Instead of moving to the left/right, the kayak kept turning round and round. Was pissed! After continual efforts and attempts, i finally mastered it. Phew. Tough one. Enjoyed the course and am awaiting the two-star course, where Ms Koh's gonna help us arrange. WEEEEEE! :D The only thing that wasn't fun was the experience of having both arms and face burnt to the max. Burnt till you can smell a burning scent evolving from my skin. Pain till a light touch on my skin can make me scream out loud. Imagine that, and dont say you wanna be like me just cause you want my current skin color. :)
After the course:

• Bused to bedok inter to look for sis.
• Bused back to somewhere near school to buy shorts.
• Bused to bedok mrt station.
• Trained to Simei, eastpoint.
• Went photoshop to get my passport photo taken.
• Was really shagged while taking, had a hard time smiling.
• My face was RED.
• Spent time squeaking at the cute lovelie puppies at Pet Safari.
• Went back to photoshop half an hour later to retrieve my photos.
• The edited photo made me look like i put on blusher HAHA.
• Trained and bused back home. :)

14OCT :
Back to school, and i swear if not for IC registration, i wouldnt have gone to school. Every 50 people who knew me and walk past me, 50 would mention how red i was. Some even said they wanted my skin color, WHAT!? Pain leh, you want arh? Other than trying to avoid people wanting kachiao me and touch my skin, i had to recompose myself again and again as we got back one paper after another. Geog sucked, SS was average, Chinese was average, Physics was WOOOO! The one and only paper that i was satisfied about cause i finally broken my own record by attaining a B4. Two more marks to B3. Aint that something to be congratulated since i was always scoring either borderline pass or a straight failure for Physics? OF COURSE IT IS. :D Oh, there was the class spirit award video voting in hall. Was shocked when i found out our class video was nominated; 3E1 was the last class i thought could have a chance of winning. :X Was preparing not to vote for any class when the word '3E1' popped out on the screen in front of my eyes so i quickly took out my phone and prepared to vote 10times. :D But damn, phone hanged after i sent the fifth message cause a new message came in. Dotdotdot! So the next day, results were announced and our class got the 2000bucks. Wasn't really elated, unlike last year when 2e3 won and i was like 'OF COURSE WE DESERVE IT!'. This time, i was thinking why out of so many classes ours was chosen, though i dont think 4E1 should get it either too. No offence but that's just my opinion. Hope our class can be more united as we move on to next year so that people from other classes can see that we kind of deserve the award.
My skin started to worsen near the end of the school day, especially my face, and tears just came out of my eyes. Felt fucking awful and wished i could just go home straight away. Then i remembered i had to go ECP after school with Amalina to have one last check. Couldnt stand my skin so i didnt go. Collected my cookies from the guides and went home. And slept. :)


15OCT (TODAY):
Okay, school was badddddd. Got back most of our results, thats why. First was bio, and i managed to hold back my tears. Didnt show any facial expression though the marks imprinted on the cover page indicated failure. Guess Ms Koh saw me and thought i didnt care about my results. Whatever. I dont like to let people see me break down, neither do i want to. Amaths, chem and emaths were next. It was after Chemistry when i couldnt take it anymore as i thought of my overall. Disappointing. I wasnt crying over spilt milk; i just wanted to let it all out. Felt much better after bottling up my emotions for so many hours. Really wanna thank all those who crowded round my table and tried to cheer me up / make me laugh etc. Efforts appreciated. :)
After school, had lunch with Kaiwen and company since Kaiwen had gastric pain. Felt bad cause she asked me to go down for recess but i.. sigh. Pei-ed her till 3plus and walked her to the foyer with Angelina to wait for her mom to fetch. Her mom offered to fetch us but Angelina wanted to go library so accompanied her. I borrowed a book too! Hehe. First time in my whole secondary life, omg -.- Didnt realise that till the library auntie told me that i dont have any previous record. Took bus45, Weesiang came block517 to find me and apparently he was shocked to see my burning arms and face. Haha. Then saw Weichong behind too. Slacked with them for a while, went home and slept. :)