Sunday, November 9, 2008

After Exams and Kuching Trip!

Hey PPL!

First of all I am sooooo sorry for not updating for sooo long since after the exams all i did was play games! XD Anyway, tomorrow's the last day of school...yeah, some ppl are happy, some are sad. I guess I'm in between. Anyway I got 7th position in class! How cool is that!?

Anyway I'm guessing all of you know abt the Kuching trip right?? It was a blast! It was seriosuly awesome. I think I'm gonna miss it-that is, miss living with people around my age and going around to malls and other places everyday. Overall I think it was quite fun~O and I'm gonna poast pictures to make you people jealous, so yeah. XD Be jealous~ Lol just jk. I'll explain the trip as you look at the pictures!

Day 1

Ok so like we started out real early in the morning. We lined up in the school hall and then Mr Wong gave a talk? Right..Ok then we went on the bus and off to Sibu! Woohoo~ -_-''

On the way, we have a lot of stops at rest centres-mostly in the middle of nowhere. It's surprising how people can live there. XD jk. Anyway I think this was at the Batu Niah stop? I THINK. And they had like a mini zoo in there. Omg didn't expect that and they had it near the toilet. Yeah so this is one the pictures I took it looks like a weird turtle.......(Well duh it's a turtle Xin Zhe)

This is me. -_-" O....k so like on the first day we had to like wear the school T-shirt 'cause we're visiting SMK Sacred Heart in Sibu when we get there. On my left is a white snake and around it is serious cash. They've got like, all types of money in there. I think it's suppose to bring you good luck?


After like, I don't know how long but I know it was realy really long, we got to SMK Sacred Heart Sibu. The school's freaking huge man. And the best part was they welcomed us like VIPs there! Seriously, all the prefects were lined up at the gate and clapping as we entered. And then the Vice principal I think ushered us in. Yeah and then we went to the cafeteria (above) to have our meal. The guy on the left is the vice principal. Lol he looks way serious.XD

You see the prefects??? Very serious looking right?? It's like they're trained for the job, as in like they were paid for it. It was kinda ok. Apart from the fact that they brought us to their freezing conferece room (They have THREE comference rooms) and did a slide show about everything in their school. Like, zzzzzzzzz..... XD the prefects did the talking though. Omg it's like being in a police station or the military! Did you know unauthorised cars in the school grounds get chained up?! That's like so mean. But cool. :D And the prefects have a lot more jobs than the prefects in St. Columba. Too many to name, in fact. LOL you know the funny part?? they kept having technical problems in between and they had to like, do stuff to their computers to fix it!! They must've been freakin embarrassed cuz their school has all the BEST things. Seriously, I saw that they had Antivirus 2009??? Helloooo is it even 2009 yet?? XD

At the end of their long presentation, Mr Yuan went to give the vice principal a plaque thing to remember St. Columba's visit.

Day 2


This was on the bus and taken from my seat (duh). Well I think the Form 3's were practicing how to sing a song? It's for the first barbeue night performance at the Inti college we're staying at in Kuching.


Very cool rite??? XD i took it in the bus~~
After a very very long time we reached the place called Inti college. Why on earth it's called Inti college I do not know. But what I do know is that it looks pretty on the outside. Yea so like when we got there a guy spoke to us about stuff blbalblalba....

Then, the facilitators for the college, who I think take care of visitors and play games with them, brought us to a room to play these really fun games! I seriously liked the spreading the message game thing. It's like you have to perfomr an action, adn then perfomr it to the next person in line without speaking and then the last person guesses what the action is. Mine was too easy la...it was obviously CPR. Lol, unlike the woman in labour and the toilet cleaner XD Well this part you see here is the group cheer and motto thing.
So is this. Lol Leonard's team did a meowing cat call~


The Form 3 girls doing a sizzling hip hop dance. Omg I didn't even knwo they could groove like that! Like serious pros man, no joke. In the pic you see Carolyn doing a splitz. Spankin'!

Day 3

Kampung Budaya Kuching. We went there in the morning~


This is me on a bamboo bridge. You know what? I like this picture! Makes me look.....yeah you know anything good XD

A real skull?


I Carolyn has such amazing photography skills. XD Lol i thought I was the one who took the pic XD
I don't know what it's used for but I think it's used to make tofu? Yeah and it was in the Chinese farmhouse~ While there we just walked around the place to different types of houses that belonged to different ethnic groups. Was quite fun~ Yea but most Bumiputera houses are like the same and there were tons of them~
In the Malay house playing congkak

Do I look small compared to the stilt house??

Sword making. The guy was there but didn't show us how to make a sword though.

Rat skins, snake skins. What'd they do to the body?
Mr Yuan and Ms Huang Mei Yew who led the trip~ The other Malay teacher (I think) wasn't there....
The dances.

The funky guy dancing. He was seriously funny man! I mean, there was this one time when he was trying to shoot a balloon using his blowpipe, then he turned around and pulled his skirt-like undergarments thing :S sry dunno what it's called, as if people were actually looking beneath it. Gross much?


Helena, Form 3, having her hand cut off by the funky dude. Haiya it's not real lah. And some of the girls were like "No! No!" -_-"" Yeah really sweat~

At the end of their show, they invited random people from teh audience to dance! And most of them were us! Phew I didn't dance though, hehe. Btw, you see those shirts we're wearing? That's our T-shirt for this trip. It says on the back of it "The Journey of Knowledge" -_-" I mean, I could go on a "Journey of Knowledge" by reading a book lah~~ Lol, just kidding. I like the design too, looks really modern and stuff. AND the important thing is that it was designed by no other than the rising art celebrity, and my classmate Ngu Shien Howe! Woohoo *round of applause* XD

Lol, some of the 4e2 people also danced on stage! Above you will see pro dancer Zheng Lin, and groovy Leonard and funky Shaw Chung....what's he looking at? XD

After Kampung Budaya, we went to the RTM station! It's huge! Omg and it was like a seriously cool experience man! Omg you should've been there! We went on air LIVE! Yeah and I mean LIVE. L-I-V-E. Well, some of us that is. The local DJ chose three people to interview on air, all Form 3s, by which one was Carolyn. It was cool man! Some people were taking out their cellphones or MP3s and listening to them at the same time as the broadcast. Lol it's like listening to a radio AND watching TV, and everything's live! And whoa the DJs do it so professionally, it's like everything is sorted out! Above you see some of the students crowded insisde the broadcast room, which is soundproof and insulated. Btw the radio channel is Red FM. English one. Lol did any of you hear our broadcast?

This is Mr Yuan looking really happy to be interviewed. He went in alone though.

Some of the Form 3 students who went on the trip.
After that, we went to the Muzium Islam, which had like, Islamic stuff I guess? Like historical artifacts and so on. yeah we jsut stopped by randomly 'cause it was close. After taht, we went to the India Street. Lol, yep that Chinese sign above says "Ya Da Jie" which I think means India street. And I was thinking why the heck is it called India street??? I mean, msot of the shops there are Chinese la! Lol, maybe the Indian shops vanished?


Kuching Riverfront. This was taken from inside a boat.


After going on the boat ride, we all gathered and we were off to enjoy oursleves at the mall. And malls were like everywhere at that part of teh city. Above are the Form 3 people I was with, Carolyn and if I'm not mistaken, Daryl and Hafreez. Thanks again for hanging out with me! XD

Day 4
In the morning we went to a shophouse area to eat. On Day 4 we were going to visit a fish farm, Swinburne University and then go to a mall called "The Spring" I bet you're sooooo jealous now. XD
Carolyn and Helena. Lol, the waitress kept bringing the wrong drink!

The fishies at the fish farm. It's kinda like, super small. We had to like walk for 4 minutes under the sun before we got to the farm. It's just...two rooms only I guess. And the fish weren't that much too, but it was cool.
This is soo perverted man, that guy was trying to show us the gender of the fish and then touching their parts with their fingers! They even showed us fish sperm! The guy squeezed the fish's part and out came the sperm. Ew. Ok so...why did they show us the sperm again??? Lol, one Form 4 girl even touched it! (I don't think she knew what it was) Bleuk!

The fish container. Don't fall in guys.
After that, we went to Swinburne university! Lol I was feeling reallly sleepy at that time. I mean, I was half-asleep when the lady was giving a talk about the school. And heck it's freakin' huge there!
The super-huge library.

After that, we went to The Spring. Lol at first when they were saying we were going to the sprng, i thought it was as in "Hot Springs" Yeah that was weird. Above is me and my former private tuition teacher in front of The Big Apple Donuts. The teachers met up with their friends! There was the former St Co teacher Ms. Sim Chen Chen, then Mr Wong Kung Kui and some other guy, and then my teacher above.
The Spring has like, lots of food outlets and electronics stores. they also have an MPH there. I ate at the Secret Recipe there and had Spaghetti. They have like, more cakes than the Secret recipe in Miri!

The various flavours of the donuts. When can they have it in Miri??
After that , we went back to INTI college to prepare for our returning journey tomorrow.
Day 5
We woke up real early in the morning for our journey back to Miri. We reached Miri at like about 10.30 pm, omg. The journey was freakin' long and we had some stops on the way at rest stations. It was a heck of a trip because our bus sucks. You know what? On the way, the air cond BROKE and we had to ride in the bus looking like fish at the fish market. I was like steaming and red and sweaty all over! Can you imagine riding in a bus with no air cond and little ventilation?? AND it was like around 4 or 5 that time and it was HOT. The guys on the other bus had air cond while we were stuck here in our sauna bus. I mean, they have LOTSof problems, the freaking CD player has problems, the lights have problems, so we have to like, look in the dark for our bags when we were getting off the bus. -_-"
Anyway, when we were nearing St. Co, everyone cheered and our trip to Kuching finally had come to an end. Lol, we were like homecoming heroes. There were people waiting for us at the gate, and even the principal was there. XD When i got home, I bathed, went on the internet and then slept. Whew it was tiring~ But Fun~
Overall this trip was really cool and fun and enjoyable~ Hope there could be mroe trips like this in the future and I could take my friends with me when I go. XD And to the people who didn't go- don't be too sad. And jealous. There's always a next time right? (I think XD)
Hope you enjoyed my post!!! Give me loads of comments everyone! And tell your friends too!
Cya!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hai,Tsin Tze,the trip,fantastic!u really enjoyed it,from the cheerful u in the foto it showed.What interest me the most is the "stone blender".that is very rare oledi nowadys as it was replaced by electric blender.I did try that blender whilst small;mind you,very heavy .the wood that u held will st slip away,very dangerous to the standbys.the cultural village ..i have not been there,i hope one day i will show my camera there too,to snap fotos.keep it up!u do a great job in updating ur blog!