Hike on 29th June 2007

Right so the day started off ridiculously tiring already. Most of us had 3 to 4 hours of sleep only, and we had to awake at 8am to set off for our hiking trip --> MacRitchie to Bukit Timah, the SUPPOSED Level 3 Trail. Jia zhen and i took the same bus and we happily thought we were going to be early. Guess what? We overshot by erm, 10 plus bus stops? Soo... Here we are somewhere in serangoon instead of Lornie Road, where we were supposed to be...



Yep, she's all ready to celebrate Singapore birthday. She LOVES SINGAPORE after all! haha -grin-



Okay, we're pissed... somewhat. We soon saw the funny side of things. We're happy, optimistic people!

Right so on to the hike itself, somehow, i don't know how, we landed up taking the LEVEL SIX trail, which is the toughest one of all! GAHHH but then again, haha don't look down on us. The after effects were not as bad as the ODAC hike either! Anyway... --> For the photos...



Yep, i climbed up onto a tree stump and stood awkwardly up there...



Sooo, finally we reached the Tree Top Trail... Yeah, it's long, but it's pretty stable! =)



The three girls...



And the lonely guy, who was abandoned by his comrade who flew off without him.



It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a FLYING LIZARD!!!



Yep, this was what Jia Zhen and Jielong were looking at...



Here, There, WHERE???



The view... It looks a little dark, cause it was beginning to drizzle already.



Coming up next... --?



AHHH LONG FLIGHT OF STAIRS!! *pant pant*



Jielong was dying...



While the three girls were as fit as can be!!

Oh oh, there was one funny bit. It started to drizzle then, and there was a little bit of thunder, and of course, clouds were clouding the area. We happened to be singing this song -->

"As we hold on together, i know our dreams will never die, dreams see us through to forever, WHERE CLOUDS ROLL BY, for..."

*ROAR WITH LAUGHTER* At that precise moment, we noticed the clouds literally rolling by!! haha

OH, and i guess at this point of time, Jielong was feeling cranky since he couldn't catch up with the girls (NAH haha he did pretty well. He was Mr. Strong Man since he helped us carry ALL our bags too!), he decided to spite me. I was commenting that bees ZOOM past, and he corrected me harshly, saying "BEES DO NOT ZOOM. CAMERAS ZOOM". -.-" oookay whatever. -.-

Right... so we continued on our walk... -->



Nice manly Jielong offered (okay, so he didn't. We just kinda dumped the stuff on him), to carry our bags for us. ALL our bags. He was the porter for today, for the price of 10 dollars!! (NAH haha, he did it for free)



The ladies and the Porter...



Yeaahhh, our never-ending trail. Sigh...

--> Soo we walked, and walked, and walked... til we came to a clearing. HUH?? "Where to from here??" we asked ourselves. I walked to one end, with pipes and a steep clift hanging drop, and wondered "NO LA, we're not supposed to climb across the pipes, ARE WE??" Jia zhen wandered over to the other end, staring at grass, trying to find a trail of some kind. Finally, blind Jielong became not so blind after all. HE FOUND THE TRAIL!!



That STUPID TINY sign!! How is any human eye supposed to find THAT? So there we are, prepared to fight the misleading sign...



Well we passed by this sign "Stop feeding the monkeys", so we decided to take a picture with it! "Stop feeding us!!" Haha by the way, the stuff we're holding to our mouth are peach gummies... YUM!



There was an army camp nearby, and we made a fool of ourselves by taking numerous pictures of our reflections in the mirror thing... The guards were glancing at us every now and then! Haha

Another "break through" from the jungle. --> We came across some interesting boulders to pose with...



Jielong the Monkey god without powers, Loisa the Wise Sage of Knowledge, Jia Zhen the goddess of Peace...



Shucks, i look like the Fed Ex man delivering some parcel, which Jia zhen refuses to accept. She probably thinks it's a bomb or something...



Okay, i don't know what this is, nor what we're both doing. I'm probably unleashing my fearful powers on the disobedient Jia Zhen.

Oh we then passed by this durian loop thing, where durians were everywhere!! We were just waiting for one to drop on our heads -->



Oh it was at this point of time when i supposedly, as quoted by Jielong, began to "spray insect repellent on Jia zhen like i was spray painting some car". -.- (He's probably just jealous that i didn't offer to spray him.) I think i sprayed too much anyway, cause i began coughing like an idiot, saying my nose was sensitive (which it REALLY is!!), and that Jielong KINDLY shared that "it was because Loisa is a bug, that is why she's repelled". GRUMBLE. Stupid powerless Monkey god knows NOTHING.



AHA we finally arrived at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve!!! 13 KILOMETERS later!! 13 KM from MacRitchie to Bukit Timah!!

*Note: There's a squirrel on the left of the boulder eating nuts! =)

After dinner... KABONK. On the bus...



Tired out!

We've made a vow, to hike/trek/exercise twice every month! We'll see how it turns out! Haha!

Ps. Eileen had a very interesting encounter with monkeys. When we all went to the restrooms, she sat outside with our stuff, and FOOD. The monkeys went up close to her, and tried opening our plastic bags of food. Zzzzz

27th June 2007

Haha okay this is quite sad. The end of the finals, and we go home to catch up on sleep and rest and zzzz... So we go on the net and do these -.-" Haha anyway here's what i did!

Loisa, your Good Heart makes you a real beauty

People consider themselves lucky to call you a friend...or even an acquaintance. Compassionate and caring, you're the first person to step up and help someone in need. You've got a sympathetic ear and are willing to listen to a friend gush about a tough breakup, a horrible workweek, or even just a bad hair day.

But all this kindness doesn't mean you're a pushover. You've got the confidence and charisma to stand up for what you believe in, especially yourself. You want to make a difference in the world, and you're not afraid of doing a little hard work along the way. Now that's what we call heart.

HAHA i'm honoured! Hahahahaha... -grin impishly-

Loisa, in the morning, you're Still Sleepy

Sleepyheads like you are the reason they invented the snooze button. "Another five minutes! Just another five minutes." Okay, maybe one more...But eventually you do get up to face the day and arrive wherever you need to be in somewhat decent shape.

That said, after your initial reluctance to get out from under the covers, we'd guess you're pretty eager to get your day going. And while you probably won't be up with the roosters (or at least volunteer to be), you're able to be surprisingly productive before noon. Sometimes you just may need a little nudge or strong cup of coffee to get going. Then you'll be off and running!

WELL... grumble frumble... hahahahaha but it's true i guess. I just LOVE the SNOOZE button... Sigh...

Loisa, you're an Indulgent Eater

You, more than others, truly gain satisfaction from eating. And because of this, you sometimes have difficulty slowing down or just saying no. You enjoy eating and what's great about that is you understand how to appreciate certain aspects of food that others do not. You see food as more than just a source of nutrition or energy. For you, dining, or just plain eating, can be a really enjoyable experience. On the downside, however, you might sometimes indulge too much in the satisfaction you get from eating.

Okay heh heh... was laughing at this one. HAHA!! Also true i guess... FOOD here i come!!!

Future Research

Today was a day of studying... NOOPE. Today was a day of... laughing, rolling eyes, hunger pangs, and rushing through an assignment.

Riiight. Jia Zhen and i were SUPPOSED to do a write up on the future research that could possibly be done with regard to "content analysis", while Eileen was SUPPOSED to be studying and reading her COM 205 notes... But ah well, er... the PSYCHO guys (although evidently they're becoming notoriously known for being sexually harass-ful gays) were distracting us with their video for a presentation. They just couldn't keep their hands off each other! It was getting HOT IN THERE!! Ps: They were all wearing their business attire!! Aha all looked so cute, little boys who all grew up!

So well, we got stucked with our assignment and Jia zhen typed out --> "In the future..."

And i started typing out the potential future of the psycho sexually harassed guys. It soon became our very own fairytale. Of course, Jia Zhen and Eileen added a few inputs, outputs, throughputs here and there... And the result...

Take a look at the future research of our assignment... -->



(So here's our very own created fairytale, which will never come true sniff sniff)

Oh anyway, we went up to the office during the consultation hours to ask Dr. Barnett for help, and we met Dr. Baban instead. I was so muddled when he asked "Who are you looking for?" that i went..."Baaaa Baaaa BAAAAAA NET!!" -.-"

Soo we went up a second time later and frahhh! Suddenly there were so many lecturers inside office!! The atmosphere was so serious and scary that all three of us kept a terribly straight face. In fact, Jia Zhen was SO straight that she probably gave poor Dr. Barnett a fright. He asked about the wall paper on her face of her laptop, and she gave this incredulous looked, paired with a disgusted tone "THE FRAY!!!", while i muttered in the background "a band". Sheesh! Such a terrifying person this Jia Zhen is.

Oh a side note, guess who i found sleeping in class the other day?



-grin- revenge is sweet.

17th June 2007 (Great Trek of Loisa)

People of Singapore, you now see before you, a transformed Loisa. A beautiful, slim, graceful, glamorous...



(I was yawning and my neighbor snapped a picture of me)

Okay no. But hey, there's a reason for this. I just spent the last one and a half hours exercising. SERIOUS exercising. Non stop exercise.

By the way, i slept at 7am, and woke up at 10am, so I'm already quite dead. But thanks to the exercise, my body is now dead, but my mind fully awake.

Piano lesson ended at 3pm. 3pm i happily walked down 19 stories, stupidly thinking i might as well exercise a bit. I then walked to the bus stop, stupidly stood there for quite some time, and grumbled to myself why the bus was taking so long.

I couldn't take it anymore, and i went to glare at the bus sign. OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS PUFF!!! The bus does not operate on Sundays!!!!! Very good. So i gathered up what loisa strength i had, and started walking, from the furthest end of buona vista, to the furthest end of dover.

About one bus stop away, i saw an old OLD man on a wheelchair, and an old OLD lady walking. They were together, probably man and wife. The lady was walking with a stick, the old man was wheeling himself, and their groceries were on the handles of the wheelchair. They were going in the same direction, so i thought, "ai ya, better walk in front, cause the roads later will be very narrow, kena stucked behind them very jia lact, lose momentum of walking, i will die."

Okay loisa slaps herself now. Cause guess what, the old OLD couple overtook me within 10 minutes. So walk some more, my face was getting redder. It was then where we reached Mount Sinai Rise, which is a LONG STEEP SLOPE. At the top of the hill would be my place.

I stood at the bottom, staring up, thinking how i would like to spend the last few minutes of my life. And to note, the couple were half way up the hill already. So i looked down at my feet, took a deep breath, and marched upwards.

SUDDENLY

"??? How come got rambutan rolling past me. And another, and another.... hmmm..."

THEN

EH SIAM ARH SIAM ARH!!!!

"What the...?"

Loisa looks up.... SSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOTTTTT! Wheel chair rolling backwards!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH oranges, apples, rambutans rolling zig zag towards me.... RUN RUN RUN!!!

So the scenario...

Old lady clippety clack down the hill after her husband, who was rolling straight down towards me, and the oranges, apples and rambutans were already criss crossing each other past me...

SHOOT. Dilemma. Run for my life, or attempt to stop the rolling old man, and get flattened in the process?

Decision. Be the heroine.

*Olympics music comes on*

Loisa knew if she wouldn't be able to stop a wheelchair which was gathering speed, on the slope. So she threw her bag down and ran for the bottom of the slope, to stop the wheelchair there.

SUCCESS! Loisa is alive. But guess what? The grocery bags had split open, thus the rolling fruits. So the old man held the fruits in his hands, while i PUSHED THE WHEELCHAIR UP THE SLOPE.

Yeah *pant pant*

Okay drama over. Reached the lifts of loisa's block.

??? ARGHHH both lifts spoilt!!!! MUST CLIMB UP 21 STORIES!

Fine. so i climbed, and climbed, and climbed.

Reached the 21st level... OMG this is one sickening-biased-against-loisa day!!! The door between the stair case and my level was locked!!!! The security guard forgot to unlock it for us residents!!!!

FINE. I slided down 21 stories to get the guard, and then CRAWLED, yes CRAWLED. LITERALLY. Up the stairs, again 21 stories, after him, and finally...

HOME. Ahhh bliss.

In total, i climbed 19+21+21+21 stories today, walked from end of buona vista to end of dover, walked up a slope, only to run down it, and to go up again...

Yeah. I'm skinny now. Thanks to the Great Trek of Loisa.

Shawn

THANK YOU SHAWN! you made my day!!! i need my cookie haha

Don’t lose your faith
When things like that happens
Stand strong after each coming wave
Don’t be left battered and beaten

Look beyond what you are encountering
And seek for that motivation
I believe what you are going through is vexing
But handle each task with peace and patience

I know you will overcome this
Loisa I know will stay strong
A resolve that won’t be ceased
Just don’t prove me wrong

Loisa has no cookie
But soon will have two
One for not being grumpy
And another one for pulling it through!

When you need helping hand
I’ll be here ready and set
To help you through to the end
Just don’t give up yet!

My first C ever

Okay i'm in a gloomy mood. That must be why i had a really scary bad dream last night. I'm worrying way too much, but i should be worrying!!

I got my first C ever! Cry? Yeah... A C for an assignment i worked so hard for. *mumble* SNIFF.

Right loisa. WORK IT! do NOT cry over spilled milk (but i really feel miserable!!)

Just do well loisa!! =) Right i can do it!

Think research. Feel formal. BE COM 205!!

5th June 2007

A glimpse into the UB life...







Sigh...

God is everything!

In searching for me, i discovered truth
In searching for truth, i discovered love
In searching for love, i discovered God
In searching for God, i found everything!!

Ahhhh smile!

COM 205 Assignment 1

*Whines of the Whines.*

This assignment is way too hard! We currently have a communications module called "Research Methods in Communication". Goodness it REALLY does require A LOT of research.

1: It's so hard to find the articles! Every page you click into requires you to relog into the ub learns website and WHO on earth can ever remember their UB password? No human can do that!! It's way too long and random.

2: Why are the articles so long? It's taking forever to read them... *grumbles* It's two articles too!

3: hah?? After reading, i still don't get it.

4: Ai yooo, where's the "number of times it's cited"?? We have to include that in our report and it sure doesn't state the number of times in the article! *mutters*

5. The exams are coming and i don't even know when. What are we supposed to study again?

6. There isn't enough happy food around.

Anyone who wants to whine with me is welcome to join the club. -grin-

An Only Child

Oh yeah, i just decided to name the advantages and disadvantages of being an only child. All whose first reaction is

"Shoot! Loisa must be spoilt since she's an only child" can go jump into the lake. I REALLY dislike hearing that come out from a person's mouth, especially if it's for the first time that the person has met me.

Advantages

1. Sure, i get my parents attention but eh come on, do you REALLY want your parents' attention ALL THE TIME? That's like eerie, and they're always watching you... *shiver*

2. Your parents will kinda protect you a little more, cause hey, no one wants to lose their only child. I guess i would not exactly be more precious, as every child is precious to their parents, but as i'm the only "KOH" left, i think my parents would "kind of" feel it more if anything happens to me

3. Yeah okay i don't have to fight with siblings or suffer from jealousy or anything, but then again, my survival and independant skills wouldn't be as good right? For example, at the food table, my parents love me so much they leave food for me, even when i'm a slow eater. With siblings, you have to practically FIGHT with CHOPSTICKS to get the stuff you want to eat. BUT, that gives you the fighting spirit, it makes you eat faster, it makes you defend for yourself.

4. Okay i'm not going to hit this option down like i did for the first 3 advantages. This fourth one is the best advantage of all. I get to have a dog. Plain and simple. =) and I'm loving it!!

Disadvantages

1. I'M SO LONELY. I've got no humans to talk to, and none to reply me. I talk to plants, lizards, and a dog, who woofs in reply. That's so not gonna improve my english language. -.-" Lately, my parents have been working lots, so don't give me that attitude and say "oh loisa, but you've got ALL your parents attention." I will like, slap you! Nah, haha, i'm gentle, but i hope you get my point =)

2. Since grown ups are supposedly less prone to mistakes or something like that, the kid is usually the "naughty" one in the house, and that's loisa!

For example: Pipe choked. Loisa must be balding, all her hair must have clogged up the pipe. Loisa's fault.

Computer spoil. Loisa's fault. Isn't she the one who uses it the most?

Windows (in master bedroom mind you) not closed. Must be Loisa's fault.

Telephone out of battery. Loisa's fault.

Parents' work papers lost. HAS to be loisa cause she's so untidy she must have dumped her things everywhere and now the papers are lost. Loisa's fault.

Basically, anything that goes wrong in the house, loisa's fault. Why? Cause she's supposedly home most of the time, there's no one else at home since dad's working and mum would never do anything so wrong; thus, it's loisa!!

*mutter*

I'm not being bitter, but hey yeah, see it from my point of view! No siblings to share the burden, no cousins to cry with or go out with, ahhh BORING. Haha no life. Nah... That's all.

I'm just ranting -.- But i love my family, there ain't no doubt about it. =)

Thank you Lord, for my family.

Year 2007

Year 2007 has been one weird one. I guess it's me growing up and maturing and being a year 2 student or something. -.- You get what i mean, angel =) We both think about it and go nuts over it. It definitely has to do with age i think. Either that or my parents have gone mad, or i've lost all my sane-ness.

My parents have been well, reprimanding me a lot this year, although we do have quite a few good laughs too. Guess what's up with this post? I'm now in a neighbor's place escaping my own home, cause it's too much. I just feel so sad and frustrated, and with my parents around, i always end up crying like mad and not feeling good about anything.

I just came home from tampines (church), and when i got home, i let my dog out cause she was whining and crying for me. I had to pee so i rushed to the loo to well, pee. The next thing i knew, my dad was yelling at me, physically pushing me aside when i tried to give my dog water, and well yeah, you get the point. He was angry with loisa. I just didn't know why. When he returned into his room (the study room which is practically his), i just went to a corner of the house and cried with my dog. I think i was so frustrated. I recently lost my handphone. Just yesterday actually. I lost it after a movie, i guess someone must have stolen it. I'm angry at myself too i guess. Within 5 minutes, it was gone -.- *mutters* KARMA fella! you WAIT! *loisa throws in lizard tails, snakes eyes, and argh tomatoes, then mutters a spell*

Earlier, my dog bit the laptop adapter, and my parents were real mad at me. I don't know, maybe i'm sensitive this year or something, but i cry so much because of my parents. They have this ability to make me cry so easily. It's not their words, it's their actions. Their nonverbal cues (gee, i'm putting my communications studies to good use). =) Not bad.

Yesterday, i was telling my mum i'm sorry for the disappearance of my handphone, and that i didn't mind using her old handphone.

Mum: I don't care, i'm not getting you a new phone. You jolly well use the old phone!!"
Loisa: Okay i don't mind, it's fine with me.
Mum: Don't use those words with me.
Loisa: (???) Sorry mummy, i didn't mean it.

Yeah, that's my life story. I seem to be getting scolded a lot without quite knowing why. I'm not blaming anyone, not my parents, well i guess not myself either. I'm not very sure. I'm confused.

There's the curfew incident too, when i presumed it was okay going home at 11pm since my mum didn't say anything everytime i come home late from dinner after school or after stuff with school mates. One day though, i called home around 8 plus and told the folks that i was taking the 9.45pm shuttle bus from aloha loyang (chalet, a friend's birthday party) and i would reach home at 11pm the latest. WHOA DRAMA! My mum was yelling at me through the phone, saying my dad was extremely angry. I was again "???". Well anyway, that sorted out, my curfew is now 10.30pm. I feel it's miscommunication, cause never before had my mum addressed disapproval at the time i was going home, and my dad certainly never said anything. -.- But of course, it was my fault for coming home and all that yada yada.

I guess what i'm trying to say is, is it wrong to say it really isn't ACTUALLY my fault for all these stuff? I mean, half the time i don't even know what happened when i get reprimanded. Okay yeah, i guess it's my fault sometimes, but i don't really believe it. Okay am i making sense? Right nevermind. Let's just leave it alone.

I was just so sad and tired just now that i cried the hardest ever just now. Everything was building up i think. I love Pebbles =) -smiling a lot now-

BUT THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS YEAR?

The Lord my God.

Cell group has been great! This is the only cell group i've ever felt comfortable in, and the only one i truly feel God's presence. He's there all the time. He never fails to revive me again. This year, i'm gonna love God more and know Him better. Help me do that, all of you out there, fellow sisters and brothers in Christ! =)

Love this song =) When i was so down earlier on, i was just letting the song flow over me, and i felt so good after that. Allow me to share it with you guys!

"Salvation is here"

Cause I know my God saved the day
And I know His word never fails
And I know my God made a way for me
Salvation is here

"God He Reigns"

Holy One
Holy One
Al creation bows to worship
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Glory in the highest

I will sing
I will sing His praises forever

God He reigns
God He reigns
Holy is the Lord of heaven
God He reigns
God He reigns forever more

All I need is You
All I need is You Lord
Is You Lord.

Dear Heavenly Father,
i love You. You reign in my life.

love loisa.