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| Sunday, October 15, 2006 |
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Haven't had been abe to get on to blog in the past few days, and i know this is 3 days late, but ill yell anyway: EOY EXAMS ARE FINALLY OVER!! And to celebrate, our class held a class outing on Friday, one day after our last paper on Thursday. In the afternoon, 22/26 of the whole class (Ben, Lam, Tiansheng and Qi En didn't come) went to Fuji Ice Palace for ice skating. Its my second time there (view my previous post on my first visit), but for most of the class, it was a first. So for the first hour, most people were still learrning to balance/walk on the ice along the walls, whereas those who could skate were whizzing past them. I suppose its quite degrading, in a sense, for them. xD Anyway, after a lot of peserverance, most of them could skate keep their balance off the wall by the time we left. However, a small group of them left halfway for the arcade, whereas the ones we expected to leave halfway, like Zhaoxing and Ning Yu, amazingly stayed behind, and they also managed to do it. Gogo Zhaoxing!! Which just shows the importance of perseverance. of cos, there are exceptions like Yu Xuan, who still ended up falling 10+ times...=P And JJ still owned us all, learning how to do stunts like spinning round and round on the ice, which (unsurprisingly) none of us could do. Although i (and a few others like bing and xjk) did manage to do a simple spin. And we still ownt people like SHAUN. There were also 2 birthday dedications during our 4 hours at the ice skating rink, during which they blared the cliched Happy Birthday song and blew faux snow all over the place. Oh, and there was a lot of screaming, even from strangers and clueless 2N ppl. All that even though it was Friday the 13th. The last time i went, there were no such celebrations. This just proves either of two things: 1) People are not scared of Friday the 13th. So what if your birthday falls on an inauspicious date? It doesn't cause you to be cursed or become a werewolf or anything. And it definitely doesn't stop you from celebrating. So, you superstitious people who fear the 13th (the scientific term is trikaidecaphobia - it has a nice ring and rhythm to it too), there's no reason to be scared. Boo. 2) People born on the 13th prefer to celebrate their birthday in an ice skating rink. Don't ask me why, though. After that, we went to buy stuff at Giant hypermart at IMM, for the BBQ later. We spent almost $140, which isn't really a lot, considering it was for 20+ people (that works out to be slightly more than $5 per person) and we took $100 from our class fund. Who says teens nowadays can't buy their own food? However, we bought a little too much food but too little drinks. For all future BBQ organisers: each person will glug down at least 1 litre of drinks, especially if there are activities like soccer or swimming. So to be on the safe side, buy one bottle for every person present. It may seem like alot, but it also runs out very fast. We all had a great time that day. But yet, its kinda sad that it might be our last large-scale class outing, if we aren't able to secure a chalet during the holidays and will be split up into different classes next year. And the bittersweet end of the school year will soon draw round. |
'Twas teh winnar at 3:40 pm.
