[b][Day 2 - Saturday][/b] Woke up pretty early and went to the main toilet to brush my teeth and change and all that blah blah. Had training. Was quite tired. Did javelin. It was quite lousy, because all couldn’t stick into the ground and went flat. Mr Seem was telling us it was because of the wind and because the ground was slightly higher. Then told us we couldn’t aim so high otherwise it will go flat or something like that. Went back for lunch, had self-study. Then for afternoon training (actually I can’t remember which day we had this, so correct me if I’m wrong), we did the staircase thingy. It was tiring, but surprisingly I didn’t feel too tired after that. We had to run up and down the staircase.
We had interaction, but it wasn’t too successful. They tried to teach us some kind of dance, but it didn’t exactly work out. It was messy and everyone was trying to stick together, and mrtay was attempting to pull people to go in between the Thai athletes. Wasn’t a successful attempt. Then there was some game thing where the sec 4s had to go up and play. At first mrtay said sec 2s. But the sec 4s heard wrongly or something, so they stood up. Then he was like ‘oh sec 4s then sec 4s go lor’. Haha then they played this game that looked like London Bridge and then after that was tug-of-war with some kind of stick. After that they played this guitar and sang, and we did Cedar Revolution in return. I bet it sounded weird to them, but they just applauded anyway.
Oh yeah then there were a hell lot of insects there. Mrtay was saying something about how Suphanburi, Chiangmai and Bangkok had the most number of mosquitoes in Thailand, and we happened to be in one of those places. Everybody was smacking insects and killing mosquitoes and just spraying insecticide everywhere. We had to quickly open the door, dash into the room and slam the door behind us to make sure the insects couldn’t get in.
[b][Day 3 – Sunday][/b]
Had training so had to wake up early again. Can’t really remember what we did. But I think we had the volleyball game behind. Haiyun and Seon played volleyball with mrtay, Mr seem, ms leong and Ms Wong against the Thai people. We lost, but it was still fun to watch. They mixed the people around for the third game, and Seon was like so awkward in her team. It cut into some of our self-study time, and actually we were wondering if it would be forgotten altogether. But no such luck. Had to go down and study. La-di-da. Lunch, Siesta, Training, Dinner, Mental Talk and sleep. Mental talk was okay. What happened after was horrible.
There were people who screamed when the plane was taking off, and GSO was not very happy about it. Wanted to find out who did the screaming, and GSO was being damn unreasonable. Made everyone stand, and because nobody would admit, GSO just left us standing. There were people who were vouched for by the teachers, because they were sitting beside them, but the rest with no evidence, had to remain in the meeting room standing. In the end, nobody admitted to doing it, and GSO twisted the words said earlier, to blame us. Because at first GSO asked ‘who screamed?’. Not ‘who do you THINK screamed.’ Since we had no idea, obviously we kept our mouths shut. But GSO just twisted everything around and ended up with saying something about punishing everyone the next day. It spoilt everyone’s mood larh...
[b][Day 4 – Monday][/b] Ar… usual stuff. Had training and threw somemore. The athletes there have very tough training. They wake up even earlier than us and train. After that they have to go to school. And they do a lot of running. Hah they just keep running and running and running without stopping, and no water breaks. The track is so much bigger than the one in our school sia. So tiring.
Then we had interaction again. It was better than the last. We played this game whereby we had to pass this ping-pong ball using a spoon to the next person and so on. Then we sat in a circle, and had to sit like between the Thai counterparts. Met this girl called A (sorry I really don’t know how to spell) who plays volleyball and another girl called err... Jay or something like that. Yarh met some others, but don’t know their names. This interaction was much better than the last. Oh then there was this game which required holding on to some kind of pole and going blindfolded to find some biscuit tin. While we were having supper, some girl went to say goodnight or something like that to Audrey quek. Haha she was damn popular among the guys and girls there.
Oh yeah we went to some kind of buffalo farm and got to sit on this buffalo cart. Was bumpy and stuff. Then went to the shoe factory where we saw how the shoes were made and stuff like that. Was being very lame and making stupid jokes to Yani. There was this particular one about glueing which was damn funny to us, but it is those kind of you-have-to-be-there jokes. We were laughing like crazy the whole way. And Bang was with us (as in the whole group) the whole time. I wonder why he was the only student being sent to show us around. Because he had to show Amelia the way to the provision shop as well. Then she is so crazy over him. It was quite funny, because his sport is shooting, and his name is Bang. Geddit?
[b][Day 5 – Tuesday][/b] Highly anticipated day. We had no training today, and got to wake up later. Packed my stuff in my backpack and changed into casual clothing for the beach. There was a VIP bus hired to bring us there. It was double decker, and the lower deck had 2 tables. It even had a toilet. I sat with Seon at first, and we drove up to some petrol station while I listened to her mp3 player (I can’t live without music). Played with the poker cards and slept and all that. Had slight headache, then we finally reached the petrol station. Me and Seon went down to get batteries, but ended up with some food and all that. We couldn’t seem to find anything around the store, but ended up getting everything we needed. Went back, and found out that we had to wait for another bus because the air-con was not working very well for that bus. I went up, took my stuff, got down and stepped into a small drain. It was damn stupid. I didn’t see that it was not covered, and stepped right into it.
Then squashed with Seon and Haiyun. Reached the place where we had lunch. There were a lot of red ants there and they were huge. Lunch was okay-I like the tom yam soup. But the toilet was horrible. Haha why am I complaining about the toilets lol. Okay went to the beach. Had only a pathetic 2 hours to shop there, when we drove for god knows how many hours. Walked along and went 7-11. Haha there were shops there, and we went to buy some photo-frame thing. Sabrina was going around bargaining. Very funny. We were walking from stall to stall, looking for the same thing. Finally bought what I needed and then we barely had a chance to go to the beach. It was hot and I just took like 2 pictures with Seon. Haha the 2 un-photogenic people. Bought some shirt for my brother and sister. Oh and then they got some blue Hawaiian shirt for Mr Seem. Made him wear it in the bus, and he look so cool in a funny way with his cap on sideways and his sunglasses.
Had a long ride back to Suphanburi. We played Daidee (Big 2). I was so pro. Haha keep winning lol. Then abit tired so slept and then played Zhong Ji Mi Ma (some number game). Jade kena forfeit twice. First had to go up and announce like ‘Hi I’m Jade’ and the second time had to say something like I love you to Mr Seem. Can’t really remember. And Sabrina had to do one forfeit also. Had to tell Mr Seem that he was very shuai. Lol. Reached the school pretty late.
[b][Day 6 – Wednesday][/b] Discus had competition. I had to help measure and stuff like that. Didn’t get to throw a lot. Seon did PB for discus (since it was her first time throwing it) and shotput. Her discus was good. And her shotput is like no need to say. Anyhow whack without technique also can go far.
In the night had some wedding thing in the throwers room. Of Mr Bertie Jellybeans and Ms Timon Bon-bons (Haha I anyhow spell 1). It was damn funny. And well prepared. Shalom made a very good priest. Shiang Nee was chucking pillows from above. They were debating whether or not to allow her in. But she just crashed anyway. They even had Audrey Quek as the objector. She was like ‘I object!!!’. Cracked everyone up. Yani was video-ing the whole thing and a bottle of Pepsi was passed around for everyone to drink.
After that wanted to play games. But there were people who were tired and stuff, so we shifted to the jumpers room. Played concentration, murderer (at which I totally sucked) and some animal game which Shiang Nee taught. I can’t play the winking murderer properly, because everytime I wink, like nobody can see. Then Jade sabo-ed me in the day by making me murderer. I winked at Amelia thrice and she didn’t even see. In the end, when playing with the jumpers, I just surrendered.
Erhmz then GSO was saying that the screaming incident would be forgotten. I think that it’s because nobody admitted, and nothing could be done. It would be better to forget it anyway. I don’t know why it was blown up and such a big deal was made out of it. Of course, knowing GSO, I’m not particularly surprised.
[b][Day 7 – Thursday][/b] Had very short training in the morning. Just jogged and did drills. Had breakfast and went to wear polo tee and track pants. We went to attend their Teacher’s Day celebration which they specially postponed for us. It was like some kind of Buddhism thing, and the teachers were being worshipped and stuff. We had to sing this Thai song and then sat down to listen to speeches. The guys sitting to my left were like so despo or something. Kept asking the girls’ names. And they kept saying ‘I love you’. It’s probably the only thing they know how to say. Oh yeah then Shiang Nee refused to talk lol. After that had some white string tied around my wrist as a form of blessing I suppose. Received it from the teachers and Mr Seem was saying like ‘aiya okay lah you hit your PB’ to me.
Saw this guy called Sebestian/Sebastian who Yani is crazy over. He’s half-Dutch or half-German or something like that. 19 because he failed one year. My first impression was that he walked like some kind of gangster. Haha but he was not larh.
Had javelin competition. My PB is now 19.56m.Actually I thought I did further than that before. But those never measure, so I suppose this is my PB. Quite neutral about it. My arm started to hurt halfway through, and I reduced my 9-step to 7-steps, because my arm couldn’t seem to hold the javelin for that long. It was already trembling and not steady. My javelin just flew out of my hand for second throw because the grip was not firm.
Watched the running events. The Sports School people were good, but I heard a lot of people did PB. Oh there were these quadruplets. They were quite young, but very good. Very cute also. Haha we had photo-taking then left the stadium for the last time.
We had some kind of party at night, and it was fun. A lot of interaction, because we sat between the Thai people. Talked to this girl-Aranya (she plays sepak takraw) and her friends, together with Yani. They wanted us to sing Singapore Town to them, but we were abit paiseh, so just sang one verse after much persuasion. Watched their performance and then we performed Singapore Dance. It was good for an impromptu performance. Sang ‘At the Beginning’, and then it was supposed to be a sad song I think, but it became a happy song. Lol but was fun. Had this Singapore flag thingy which I later gave away to Aranya’s friend. The whole group of them very fun larh. But I didn’t get to take picture. Argh… only took with her. So sad.
Took photos, then I exchanged shirt with her. She changed with me this florescent lime green FBT shirt which was really bright. It was damn nice, and she promised to pass her SSS jersey the next morning in return for nothing. I was like o.O. They are really extremely nice and friendly there. I gave the sock to her too. Yani went to take a pic with Sebastian. It was really fun.
[b][Day 8 – Friday][/b] Aranya came at around 8.10 to pass me her shirt, and I forgot to pass her something. I felt like kicking myself after that, because I was holding it in my hand. I couldn’t find her anymore afterward. Was given some chocolate coin to give to the person standing next to us at the assembly. Okay so we went to the assembly for the second and last time for that trip. Gave my chocolate to some small girl and was looking around desperately for Aranya but couldn’t see her. Damn sad la…
Went back to load our stuff onto the bus. Some guy offered to help me, but I declined and managed to lug it down myself. Took group photo again and had 5 minutes of interaction, before we set off for the airport. Sat with Seon and listened to more music while sleeping. Sebastian, the teacher and a few students followed us to the airport. He was quite nice lah from what I saw and stuff. Took photos.
I was pissed with the GSO because of something. He didn’t believe me, Amanda, baoyue, Ulrica and Caijing. He has like limited brain space or something. Wanted to punish us. I so wanted to scream or shout or something and defy him. We were being accused of something we didn’t do. Hah Baoyue was even more pissed(and that's an understatement) because the GSO picks on her every single time.
Flight was okay. Very windy and shaky. Had some air turbulence along the way, Sat next to Caijing and Amanda again. Caijing was damn funny. Kept doing a lot of funny stuff then me and Amanda were laughing like crazy. They had TVs on the plane, but I slept. Had abit of the airplane food. It wasn’t too bad, but the smell made me nauseous also. Finally landed in Singapore. The landing was quite horrible-very bumpy and everything. Blah… took a lift back from Seon because my parents all overseas. Her parents super nice larh. Reached home and just slept until the next day to make up for all the lost sleep. That was the longest I ever slept okay… Haha I miss Thailand now lol[LINE] [Okay it took me a long time to type all of this, and I hope I haven't missed anything out.]
posted by: sleeper (reply)
post date: 06.30.04 (2:07 am)
Its nice to read. Thanks for sharing and keep on blogging ;)
posted by: jamie (reply)
post date: 06.30.04 (2:45 am)
