Crazyhamster- A not so typical Student Blog

Flesh Imp 8th anniversary Electric pop!

For those who do not know, flesh imp is a street label in singapore that produces cool t-shirts. They are considered a designer street label la. The thing that I did not know was that they existe for 8 years. Which meant that they started when I was 9 years old!

 I only got to know them recently!

There can only be two situation

1.  They only started to catch up recently

2. I was being a mountain turtle and do not know of the brand.

I choose to think that it is situation 1!

So I went down to zouk. Or rather I tried to find zouk, but in the end I ended up in river valley road (Dont ask me how), and decided to take a taxi. The conversation as below:

Me: Bring me to zouk

Taxi Driver: HUH?

Me: zouk, the night club place

Taxi driver gives a weird look

So after like less than one minute I reached. the fare was $3.00 . Now I know why he gave a weird look.

I was given the photopass, probably one of the few underaged who managed to go into zouk on a normal day

I was the first to reach from noise. And I was able to catch them rehearsing and doing the 30minutes fashion show.

Firstly, there was the mambo boys which I think they were the cutest and funniest to the max.

Then we had the hula hoop girls, I overheard the producer said that they were the aerobic girls

As this is just rehersal, they were not in their fleshimp clothes but I feel that the lightings were nicer..

You can see the hula hoops on the ground!

Then there is the hot duo. THo I have no idea who would wear that fleshImp Shirt. I am not too sure if they really sell it. But I guess this show will hype the crowd up a bit!

I mean.. Come on…

And of course there were professional models (or we thought they looked like professionals to me, tall and everything…)

Ok I am not really showing the real event here because I screwed that up. With limited places to move during the real event, I totally screwed it up. But I will show the ones that are easier to save…

And one of my favourite group.. the HIP HOP group.

I secretly think the long hair dude is cool, especially when he dance!

And I heard that many of them are not professional models but people who were handpicked from some event. Shows fleshimp’s intention to get freshfaces.

And we have the 98.7 DJs!

to be continued.

It is 4.30 am now. This is unbelievable. In the afternoon I was thinking why is is that I never get insomnia. How does it feels like rolling in the bed to and fro and not being able to sleep? Is that even possible?

Me being me had always been the one that can sleep anytime anywhere. Insomnia was never in my dictionary.

Inspired by my high school council teacher: Sleep is never enough.

I dont know how it is possible but it seems that no matter if it is 4pm or 4am, just by closing my eyes for a mere 10 minutes will send me into a deep slumber.

Let us explore the possibilities… (ok I am that BORED).

Maybe it was because I was so emotionally unstable that I cry everynight in my bed till I sleep.

Where got…

Ok I dont really think so….

Judging by the stupid things that I do each day, I dont I am that kind of emotionally unstable. I will probably laugh myself to sleep…

Maybe its because I have long limbs!

Like really long…

(geez I look retarded)

wait… just wait a minute. Why am I blogging at 4.30 am?

I AM HAVING INSOMNIA NOW! HOW!?

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“zzz” *slept*

hmm it seems to rhyme. After approximately 1 month and a half of an un-announced hiatus, I suddenly feel an urge to blog about my life again.

It wasnt that boring and uninteresting that I decided to stop blogging, but it got too interesting and hectic that blogging took a backseat as compared to the things I was doing. Lets sum up a little bit on what I had done.

November came and went just like that. There goes my council timeout period and half the holiday. I havent even finish 1percent of my homework. I ought to start, and I will definitely do so. (hopefully…)

But before our break, the council held an awesome halloween fundraising event.

#1. SCREAM for charity!

Spot me!

It was awesome fun scaring people and taking a break after the tortorous exams. What was really funny was that we found out many seemingly gungho, overbearing, brave people turned out to be scaredy cats when faced with the “supernatural”. Hey wait, we arent even supernaturals, we are just trying to be!

It was a real pity that I could not take pictures when they are scared, but i was acting as a lunatic. And obviously, looking at e make up I was being paired up with one of my best pal, Matthew. Our Station was the last station of MAZE. By the time they reached us, they were mostly breathless and couldnt really shout anymore (except for a few).

#2. Noise Attachment at Shooting Gallery

No pictures here… But I was in Noise- The ApprenticeShip Programme. So i had the chance to work with top-notch photographers who shot lots and lots of advertisements that you see in Singapore. Seen the disgusting smoking advertisement? One of the photographers took it.

Seen the army advertisement around? They finished it before I joined them.

It was kind of a nice exposure to see people shooting commercially.

 #3 Hwa Chong Troop Camp.

Going back to the scouts group after half a year of not going back is indeed weird. The standard that the scouts are giving was disappointing at time. Maybe adding on to the fact that I do not know them well.

But one of the most ridiculous thing that I have heard is one of the scouts did not bring his uniform for a scouts camp. Like hello. its a scouts camp and you didnt bring your uniform?

I must say that I couldnt render much help because I kept oversleeping at home, work and some complications here and there. William and peiyit did a rather nice job though, running the camp while getting blasted by Mr Lee. Its never easy, brother but at least you too represented our batch and I am well damned proud of you too.

William.

The combined Activity was pulled off thanks to the J2’s help. It gave William and Peiyit a breather too! I was here to witness the Gangshow which shows two troop coming together and have fun!

Through this event, it reminded me of our younger days when we were as socially inept and shy towards the opposite sex. But seriously, once you step into JC, you will realise that there is hardly any difference…

It also allowed me to know my juniors better. Though I am not quite certain myself if I am going back to the activities given my hectic council schedule..

Our batch sincerely hopes that the only “legacy” that we can leave behind is the relationship built between SNGG and our Scouts, though we do not have the strength in numbers and we may not produce as many president scouts as other batches, we seriously hope that we can contribute that little bit to our scouts troop.

Aside from the emotional stuff… we noticed something.

Something weird… something that is unexplainable…

Definitions(from the school):

Promos: Promotional Exam that accounts for 60percent of a student grades.

My definition:

Promos: An exam that accounts for 60percent of a student grades and 100percent of a students’ erratic obsession and stressed caused by it.

After one entire month of no updating, I kind of have a feeling that my blog is rotting and I have wasted money on the domain. But oh well, my life did resume a bit after promos. I am not sure if I liked it during the promos period or now. Both are fun and torturous in its own sense.

Before promos, all you have to care is your studies, in a way thats kind of carefree isn’t it? After promos, now u have to care about ur studies AND other stuff… like how ur grades will turn out. Oh wait, that is still studies. Oh OPEN HOUSE 2008 just ook place right after promos. Maybe that is good because it allowed me to forget about how my promos will turn out.

Great great great. How many times did I mention promos already? MAN VICTOR YOU ARE SUCH A NERD!

But well promos….

Ok ok.

Councilors are indeed a bunch of crazy people. Right after promos, we have our first worksession. Yes when everyone is out to play we come back to school for one afternoon to prepare for open house. Its kind of a great feeling actually because it made me forget p.. erm everything else.

So on the eve of OPEN house, we came together yet again to pack and have some last minute preparation. We have to pack around 1500 goody backs for the goody Sec 4 students who can potentially become our juniors next year.

All of us were rather hard at work. We were all prepared to stay in school till 10 because 1500 seems to be such a crazily huge number. We have 50 councilors, and so if all of us are present, each of us have to pack around 30 goody bags. But the problem is that we  do not have full council with us…

So, the committee chairperson and the teacher in charge urge all councilors to take the session seriously and not to play a fool. All these so that we would not waste time and stay past 10 oclock. If we do, it will all be our fault.

Everyone did take the “advice” given rather seriously and remain focused at our own job.

For me, I have to pack Yeos’ H2O into the goody bag. I would say that the job is bad for ur back.

Surprisingly we did not finish at “shi dian”(Ten P.m.), but we finished at “Si dian”(Four P.M.) Thats a bloody 6 hours worth of difference. We did a little VICTORy dance and took a small break.

Drinking our sponsored water. NEwater.

Of course since we finished early, there was time to do a little Quality control so that no one will be sad when they get a goody bag that missed something. Like maybe there is one less glue stick or something.

As some of us get cracking in checking the 1.5k worth of goody bags.

My pride of the day arrived! MOCH!

To those who still do not know, MOCH is a magazine that is published by the council and I designed half of the layout, while the art directors took care of the other half…. And the moch coordinators came out with the content….

We thought it would arrive later in the day but the surprisingly early delivery thrilled many of the councilors… And well, distracted them a bit…

But because we have so much time left, we could do things at our own pace… Checking each goody bag with great care.

And finally finally at 8pm. Together with the blowing balloons comittee, we managed to finish our job nice and sweet.

So we hoped that the 1200-1300 students who came to hwachong enjoyed our event and will join hwachong with their results..

And I am off to do my next council event: SCREAM!!!!!!

when I post very often, and my blog is relatively well known in the blogosphere.

But that was the time, and now, I hardly writes and you KNOW WHY! My day in school ends earliest at 6, I reach home earliest at 7. Latest: 8, reaching home at 9. That leaves me with only Sunday to myself. And I sleep till 12, and study till 10. With promotional exams in less than 30 days now, it is no wonder it is getting a little quiet here at crazyhamster.net.

But all is not lost! I will try to update when I get hold of great photos(ie. when I take some photos that are blog-worthy), and will try to make them into memories that are being kept here for ever and ever.

The main thing that is keeping my backside busy is Council activities. No joke when the seniors says that we are going to busy.

No joke.

While almost all CCA stopped their activities for their students to mug, ours just started full force.

First, it is the event that I am part of the main committee…

That is going to happen really really really soon.

Then there were all the insane worksessions from MAF. Which is Mid autumnfestival. Which is a mega-event that we are organising for a “mega-zillion ” number of alumni.

This is the interesting part. You see councillors every wednesday and sunday, instead of spending time at home studying, being crazy and doing some crazy stuff in school.

There are people who…

people making wishes to a lantern…

Construction workers laughing…

our president sucking… on something.

HEY NO PEE-ING in public!!!!

afraid of the sun. i mean the rain

And suddenly, amongst the 50 youthful individual, there is one that seemed too old for his age.

Not the one at the back. The one infront!

Though he knows that my camera is right infront of him… he continued to pose…

but…

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Failed! TOO BAD!

:P

This had been the sentence that I have heard from many friends and people who read my blog.

The blogging contest is over, and I have well given up in trying to rally votes because I know I would not win. Throughout the month of competition I only posted twice. WHY!

I could have taken the chance and increase my readership tremendously by churning out many interesting articles but I DID NOT. WHY!

So because of my lack of post, my readership went down the drain. Heck even I did not vote for myself for the last 2 weeks! WHY!

My readership.

But there is one thing. I do not regret it.

WHY!???????!!!!!!!

If you have to give up your fame and glory for 82 international friendship and precious memories for your life, would you do it?

 If you gave me a second chance in life, I would still do it.

 The reason why I gave up on OMY’s blog competition is none other than

APYLS 2008

From Day 0 when everyone was still strangers, feeble attempts were made to create new friendship. The air was still a tad bit awkward but nonetheless it was an extraordinary scene to see 82 people of different races trying to reach out to each other. Though we came with different accent in our english, there was at least a language that everyone comprehend.

The icebreaker did help… I guess.

With such huge number, who would have thought that I have managed to know every single one of them and managed to talk to all of them in merely 12 days.

A lot of the time were spent on buses when they are being transported from places to places for talks held by organisations in Singapore.

The “angmohs”, love them lots seriously.

It was not all fun and just a meaningless holiday though.

Dialogues between guest speakers and themselves were carried out in the summit. One really interesting part was everyone was getting used to all kind of accents, and the discussion went smoother than I thought. This is all owed to the enthusiasm displayed by all participants. To speak the truth I am quite touched by the fact that they are willing to share their experiences from their own countries, it indeed opened up the perspective of many participants. Though I did not sit in to all their dialogues, I could sense that it was a fruitful discussion.

Time passed extraordinary fast throughout the summit. just when we were loving our friends more and more it was time for us to go back to our normal life…

It was quite sad to let them go, but as the famous chinese saying always go… “there are no feast in the world that will never end.”

Whether it is with the other 22 facilitators

Or with our president…

With other delegates…

Nothing beats sitting down in the ops room and …

HAHAHAHA! My handsome face!

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Awards’ update: 1st then 3rd in position.

Before you read on, please click on the button and push me back up to the number one spot that I enjoyed for a moment yesterday! Get your friends to vote for me.. pretty please?

We were all really really happy yesterday as nerds. Well supposedly all of us are supposed to dress up as nerds. That was the theme of our outing.

But apparently some of the pubco members arent game enough to dress up as total nerds.

That, or they feel that their normal attire is o-so-nerdy, and they are nerds normally anyway. But I don’t blame them, because its an outing everyone is supposed to have fun. Just that if you dressed up, it will be more fun for everyone!

I spent some time deciding what I am going to wear. Nerds, not so easy for me since I am so cool. When was the last time  you see me having a side parting.

So for the first time in donkey years I combed my hair. GET IT? I COMBED MY HAIR!

I bought big-ass glasses from 77th street to finish the nerd look.

I think I was quite successful in the sense that I saw guodan in the mrt and all of a sudden he gave me a weird look before recognizing that it was me. He exclaimed that I look retarded. I insisted that I looked intellectual. I mean not everyone can read their magazines upside down, only geniuses are capable of the informidable task.

Luckily for me, not all of the pubco people pangseh me. Or else I would really look like a retard.

Zijing with her harry potter glasses

My dearest secretary with her korean look. Wait fransisca, nerd?

Well and there is a waitress amongst us…

It was quite fun overall, I do not know if we still have the time to go for any outing after this, maybe after promos…  Though they were all 2 hours late leaving poor chris and nerdy me to sit at the mrt. What to do when you have a committee full of girls(excluding liu hao)?

Then we went over to Victor’s eatery to have dinner. I am not joking, it is really called Victor’s cafe, its a pity I forgot to take a picture of the wonderful name.

Blur jolene (litterally)

I am quite satisfied with the food they serve because it is really quite nice, or maybe it is because of the company I had on that day. They do have some marketing gimmicks though. To scam innocent young girls like wu mengyu, they have a special offering of the mango pudding. It is called hello kitty mango pudding.

euck. I mean WOW

Look at the silly girl grinning like anything.

But it was just nice looking. According to mengyu, it tastes rather weird… I knew it from the starting, how could a cat’s mango pudding taste normal?!

And of course we did not forget to do a toast for our busy year ahead.

erm. Just exercise a bit of your imagination and imagine that there is indeed stuff in the cups we are toasting. :)

My friend offered me a kind of special sweet that taste like beef. It is supposed to be dried beef…

No matter how I look at it. It does not look very pleasant to place into the mouth.

Heck being the daredevil I am…

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It DOES TASTE LIKE BEEF!

Awards’ Daily update: 3rd in position.

Thanks for those who have voted and are continuing to vote for crazyhamster. I still need lots of votes for this competition because it lasts till the 31st of July. I am in need of more votes and take note that you can vote every single day.
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For the past two days, it was sabbatical for our school. Sabbatical is a time after a major test/exam which students can take to relax and forget all of their studies (right… and tons of homework are due right after…). So we cant complain that school does not give us enough time to rest. Come on 2 out of 365 is more than enough!

So i went for rollerblading, it was a pity that no photos were taken during the course because if I held the camera with me when I am skating, it will be as good as a few pieces of black things mixed with glass.

But after skating for two full day, other than a huge improvement in my skating skills, I brought back some amazing things.

There are bruises all over my legs…

Not that pain la, but still pain.

Guess what it is! (Hint: not the hair)

okok A normal toenail looks like this when seen from the front…

The nail stick to the toe right? If you don’t believe check your own toe la…

After skating for two days..

My toenail kind of floated… Why is this so? I got a blister under my toe. And if that happens I have to bid farewell to my toenail already.

And for the other foot…

Which one is the most distinguish on? haha can you see the 2nd from the right is blacker than the rest? It is not because I painted it this color but that is another sign that there is a blister under the toe. Byebye toenail…

In life, you gain some, you lose some. I gained some bruises on the feet and blisters under the toe but I am going to lose my toe nails soon. Why are the things that I gain and lose both sound negative?

The two days was fun and relaxing, if you do not think about the impending doom.

Plug of the day: Wana do your bit for your community? Wana give some contribution to the youths in singapore?(not those rich people la!) I support the cause that a group of year 3 nanyang girls 2 nanyang girls and 1 hwachong boy are working on. They had been slogging their guts out for this service learning project. Every learning project will benefit their beneficiaries greatly. Furthermore, I can feel the passion that they have and hopefully they are doing this project altruistically. 

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Being the very nice crazyhamster at crazyhamster.net, I shall show you step by step instructions. REMEMBER TO FOLLOW CLOSELY!! VERY CLOSELY.

1. Log on to omy.sg by this URL : http://sgblogawards.omy.sg/vote/?blogCat=youth&blogId=youth01

U will reach this page…

So you scroll down…

And you key in ur details, As you pressed start voting, something magical will happen.

Dont BLINK UR EYES! Keep it big big, even if u have a small eyes like mine, also must keep it big.

Something like that.

U will see this, so fill in ur details. Real details or else if they want to issue airpass to you, they will issue the wrong one how?

U think the guard will let you through?

THen here comes the most most most crucial part of the whole process! Must be very careful here. It determines my ur chances!

Make sure  the name is crazyhamster!

Last and final step is to cross your fingers and wait for a month!

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