I will never forget Platoon 2, bottles down! What doesn't kill you make you stronger, PLATOON 2!
Section 1, What's your strength? 1,2 FULL STRENGTH!
SG Hazwan scratching his balls, saying ," No ah. You all better wake up your ideas." SG Zi Yang asking for girl photo SG Zi Hao swearing, "KNN FU CB! Waste my time only!" and his "MOVE" hand sign SG Alex and his devilish PT punishment of 50 sets of 4 exercises on the basketball court LT Caleb from Eagle Coy and and his loud hailer, "Falcon Company, understand anot?"
Compact check and singing ba ba black sheep during route marches
Zhentao addressing section 1, "Hey guys..."
Thong Chor Ming exclaiming at a naked girl photo in front of a coffee club waitress during out lights out at white sands
Samuel as my basha tent buddy. tear and rebuild don't know how many times.
Eric waking up 30 min before reveille timing
Rani and his encouraging words during shell scrape digging
Bobby with his ninja girl supplying cookies made with TLC.
Gregory and his his "hah, really must do ah" when it's time to clean the bunk.
Halim geezing in his pants and his tortoise face!
Ziwei bickering his "partner" , Hairui.
Hairui and his profound ghost stories
Kannan and his obsession with scrubbing
Bob Wong and his ganhou-ness during route marches
Christopher killed a flying cockroach with a newspaper and Zhentao trying to use FreBreeze as if it can work as Baygone after lights out.
Knocking Zhentao down and doing 28 push-ups with him for his vulgarities in bunk.
Jonathan posted at 12:49 AM
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
I am deeply touched by Juliana Wetmore.
Beneath her face, I could see COURAGE. What did you see?
Jonathan posted at 2:22 PM
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
"For you, a thousand times over"
A statement of brotherhood found in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini has led me to reflect on the strength of friendship. Friends..one shouldn't confuse them with people who have simply crossed path with you in life..like classmates, colleagues, teachers...some of those you call "friends" will pass you by but true friends, i believe and hope, will be people you will call upon even after graduation.
Count yourself blessed if you have met a "Hassan" in your life.
Alert: SPOILER AHEAD :|
"For you, a thousand times over." This is said by Hassan to Amir as Hassan runs his last kite, the prized blue one that would earn Amir his Baba's praises.
However, Hassan got into trouble on his encounter with the villains in the story when he caught the blue kite. Amir only watched in hiding, as his friend...his brother got raped.
Some of us will scorn at Amir's cowardice. Think again. If we were to put ourselves in Amir's shoes, how many of us would actually rush forward to aid our friend and be a brother in times of great adversity?
What would you do for a friend as such? For you, a thousand times over...
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We have a friend whose birth is celebrated in about a week's time. For us he has borne the shame, a thousand times over. If this friend who you barely know appeared right in front of you, would you choose to embrace him with open arms or to choose to shy away in shame?
Jonathan posted at 10:27 PM
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Some say it's pseudo-freedom, unofficial, self-declared....OKAY but A levels is going to be over soon!! This is my 3rd day of the "10-days break" before the very last bio MCQ paper :)
After the and 3rd and 2nd last papers, s31 went on a group date on this joyous occasion, to watch a depressing dystopian movie, 2012. What an irony! Haha. well, some trembled, some shivered and some may have cried. Some of us who tok geog start to rattle off our geog knowledge of magnetic reversal and continental drift in front of our friends who take econs. VY tried to argue for the econs ppl. Well, i did some commonsensical pricing and CBA to try to relate econs to the movie. haha. On Day 1 (or rather NIGHT 1), we had a relaxing time at Timbre. Good music, good food, good beverages and good laughs (we played an hour of "truth only" and I was quite fortunate to get it only once) . I feel thankful for having such nice classmates who can enjoy each others' presence.
I realised that I dun really know how to have fun..like you know.. I am not the kind who feels good playing computer games the entire day. I prefer hanging out with my friends, perhaps playing some sports or chilling out by the beach or some cafe.
After reading Narnia (truly enchanting and touching) and not being able to find any company (feeling slightly perplexed on how some ppl can blatantly ignore smses), i decided to go cycling again! HAH, it's the kinda stuff I do when i feel bored/upset/disappointed/stressed and thank God for the great weather! cycled from my quiet neighbourhood, pass the noisier tampines central and into the serene Pasir Ris Park :)
I won't be able to use words to describe how was it like to be in Pasir Ris Park with such a God-given weather...I really appreciate the sunny weather, given that we are going through a wet season. So i shall let the photo says it all :)
Being able to spend a day in solitude is a blessing in a way. Have a great day!
Jonathan posted at 12:01 AM
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
YEAH prelims is over! wait....prelims over? wow i thought i was still preparing for CT2 after my previous post!
After our last prelim paper, lemuel, simin, jazz, yanzhu and I went to cycle at ECP. HAHA. simin wore lem's extra t-shirt, lem wore my tee which was too small for me, i wore his tee which was too big for hinm ,jazz wore my extra tee which was too large for her! haha. i rode double bike with simin and lemuel. woah so cool. lem and i sped on double bike. SHIOK. we cycled all the way to the mos western end of ECP and took lotsa jump shots there! awesome.
then we went to jetty on the way back. enjoy sea breeze just chillaxing~ took another shot with the sun setting in the background.
We ate dinner at Laguna! :D we ordered quite a spread...the famous satay beehoon, rojak, charsiew noodle, stingray, baby kailan. YEAH MAN!
Thank God for everything, especially the wonderful weather
okay. the end of prelims marks the coming of A levels. I will like to say. GG LIAO. Haha. it means up to GOD's GRACE LIAO. I will try my best and the rest is GG liao :D
Jonathan posted at 12:38 AM
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
This is literally and in entity, the SWEETEST birthday i have ever had. (i still smell of whipped cream even after showering..hmm)
11th June The peeps: Tingkai, YangEn, Eileen, Jasmine Teo, Xiangle, Eric, Peiyun, Jasmine Chua and me :D Mission: To give Tingkai his happiest birthday :)
We went to Vivocity, Marche. Haha. paiseh i was late after rushing out from college, wearing red polo tee tucked in with jeans, look like i just booked out of camp. HAHA. i was holding the conspicuous looking red bag with tingkai's present in it :D
The food was pricey but nothing is worth more than celebrating his birthday in a comfortable setting. We had rostie, fabulous bowls of cream of pumpkin and cream of mushroom and a few roasted kampong chicken. Eric and Jasmine Teo were experts at picking the meat out for everyone! after that, Dr. Tingkai, Dr. Xiangle and I decided to test our surgical skills on these chicken. Ended up with a bloody mess (okay, it's just chili sauce).
Here comes the surprise, Xiang Le, Yang En and I secretly passed the bag to Sarah, a Marche service staff. She was super spontaneous. Soon, Sarah came from tingkai's back and handed him the red gift bag, proclaiming him the lucky 500th customer of the day. WOOO!!!
Haha, Tingkai looked STUNNED.
YEAH, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU TINGKAI! After the dinner was a series of cam-whoring with the Singa lion. At the sky garden, tingkai tried to be "romantic" by putting my present in my bag secretly. Haha, he failed but he nevr fail to surprise me with the pink Nike bottle :D
we checked out the National Geographical Shop on the way out. It's so cool. Jasmine Chua was on her way to pose for a photo with a giganti wooden horse at the shop front when a super tall man (who would look compatible with the gigantic horse model) walked past and Chua decided to give chase for Eileen to snap some shots of her walking behind him.
Tingkai and Eric decided to try the Climate Control Chamber. temperature could plunge to as low as -15 degree Celcius :S
Haha, tingkai was trying to do his "misty breath" and eric was trying to let the heat-sensitive camera capture his hot legs!
What went on at Bedok hawker centre is not worth being mentioned here. I need to do some self-censorship here!
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12th June I went for lunch with Deborah and Joey!
Yeah, the 2 happy pretty God-given girls on 12th June...haha. well, at least that's what they called themselves on the bookmark they gave me. Never mind, you girls didn't break the " thou shalt not lie" commandment :0 Thanks for meeting up so early to get a gift for me. I really love the strap, book and the bookmark (it's cute!!)
Haha i met lisabelle liang working part time at dhoby-xchange lucky dip booth. We gave the Just Acia receipt and i took a lucky dip. I got what i wanted...Mr. Bean voucher :D Lucky birthday boy! Haha. Lisabelle gave me the voucher...and a "complimentary" cake. haha. Thanks Lisabelle for the p.OSH brownie cake. that was indeed a pleasant surprise!
After the lunch, i went to have my prata gang meeting with my prata gang. It's our fist prata meeting with third generation of Prata Gang. This year, we hvae Yang En, Eileen and Terie. Prata Gang has always been for (derserving) tanbo ppl but this year we decided to take in Terie because of her overwhelming enthu factor (for both prata and people).
Jiayun and Fongsun came all the way from their faraway home for the meeting at Simpang Bedok, i am quite touched. Before the meeting, Jiayun was wearing her "Voted #1 Shopping Queen" shirt going from Bedok to Pasir Ris and Tampines shopping with her mummy! haha.
We ordered our mushroom prata, mushroom and cheese prata, prata bombs and banana and chocolate prata. This time round for our drinks, we had teh ping, Milo Godzilla, Black Spider and White Spider! Shiok man! but there's more to come...
First up, a birthday prata. Terie arranged to have a candle on my mushroom prata. :D Then, here comes...
WC Prata= Whipped cream prata!!! the plain prata was SOAKED in whipped cream but trust me, it tasted super sweet and good!
We played Zhong Ji Mi Ma with the remaining pool of whipped cream and some curry. Jiayun luckily got to drink it not twice, but THRICE!
Yang En mixed some curry, whipped cream (again) and ice and tried to coax me into feeling the endothermic (not exothermic, this is special) reaction. With my liuqin Jennifer-ish speed and prata power, i evaded his attacks, not twice but THRICE. Yang En's EPIC FAIL caused him to get his hands dirty with the "reaction mixture". See..I am not called Prata Gang Leader fore nothing okay? try again next year k? :) ZHUAI AH..ZHEN YANG! haha.only liuqin dudes will understand this.
Back at home, my mummy cooked a light (delicious still) dinner, to make space for the CAKE! My daddy bought me a strawberry cake (because i told him not to buy the chocolate cake since there's a brownie from lisabelle) It feels good to listen to my father, mother and sister sing the birthday song for me! :D the sweetest moment of my birthday on 12th June! Haha. i made a wish and blew the candles so hard that the knife dropped from the table!
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13th June Time: 1.30pm-5.30pm Venue: Shodoku, The Heeren Peeps present: Hao Ming, Kuan Git, Yang En, Eileen, Terie, Peiyun, Jasmine Chua, Eric, Xiang Le, Michael, Jessica, Enzon and me
First surprise of the day: I got to wear a Cinderella Happy Birthday balloon around Orchard for the entire day. Okay, I shall not elaborate on how i felt...
The food at Shodoku is awesome! I like the mushroom, the Jap curry rice and the omelette rice specially!
After lunch, don't know why yang en and eric disappear for so long. haha. they came back with a chocolate birthday cake. It looked glamorous with the lighted candles. They added up Kuang Git's, Hao Ming's and my age for the birthday candles. so cool right? haha. after staring at the cake for quite some time, we finally blew the candles. Kuan Git managed to blow them off before we had the chance to. Guan Yue ppl like that mah..haha. During the cake-eating session, Xiang Le became the love guru and tried to encourage git to feed yun (just nice, they only have one plate and a fork!)
Time to give the presents. Yang En mischievously gave Hao Ming and Kuan Git newspapers wrapped in wrapping paper and an Adidas bag respectively! haha. Finally, the real deal. Hao Ming received a box stuffed with lotsa candies. Beneath the candies, there're Garfield and a footprints key chain :D Oh, did i forget to mention that Hao Ming verbally rejected Michael? Aww...
Kuan Git receive a red Adidas jersey. Red FTW!
Finally my turn to receive my gift... . . . Okay, i kinda feel quite bad to have actually told Yang En that i hope someone could give me a watch when the liuqin dudes were talking about birthday wishlist. my gifts cost a lot and yet...how sweet these people are. Especially Yang En, despite having to go for family dinners and CLIC camp, he still went to such length to organise and attend all 3 gatherings--the Vivocity gathering for tingkai, prata meeting (he rushed from NUS ater breaking camp directly to meet us at Bedok) and Shodoku lunch gathering (after VJCO DSA audition). And Eileen, Jasmine Chua and Peiyun who co-organised these gatherings and Terie, Eric, Xiang Le, Michael, Jessica, Enzon...and perhaps some other people who i didn't know were involved.
People often say, "Love is blind" or "Love is irrational". Often quoted in romance drama serials, they are most of the time, referring to BGR kinda love. Over these 3 days, i have experienced how much more irrational friendship can get.I only knew these people this year, for less than half a year and in the name of friendship, these people happily sacrificed their time and money, so that they can make some of their friends happy on their birthday.. I can't help but to feel undeserving of such great acts of love and friendship...
I am really touched by everything you guys have done for me. Thank you! I won't forget.
Being able to spend a day in solitude is a blessing in a way. Have a great day!
