Day 37 - All out for Assignment 3

assignment 3 PowerPoint slides
something similar like donation box
waiting for my order to be delivered.

We stayed in our bunk for, almost, the whole day to devote ourselves to assignment 3. ha ha. Since yesterday was so exciting, my teammates knocked out early without intending to. Luckily, Mr Wong is flexible in the time slots and has an available slot for us on Thursday.

I tend to learn more when I'm working in a team rather than doing things individually. Sometimes my teammates and I would come up with the same idea(s) and we laugh ourselves' silly over little things that happened. I don't think Flexsim is that hard anymore (: Thanks to the Flexsim Test Revisions and also to this team's support and brain-wrecking together. 

Shall tune in early for tomorrow's 9.30a.m. presentation.

On a not-so-bright-note, our toilet bowl is choke =x

Day 36 - One day Adventure "Camp"

Instructor(s)/ Activity Coordinator(s)
On the way to the ECE students' dorm
making a tank wheel

trying out the wheel
making of the wheel

the 'perm' head/ fancy pants is the orange guy. 

ROFL

During games:

the surrendered
the fierce war aha

trust-fall

High elements; 8m off the ground 
to go or not to go
to go.

i told myself i wont be afraid 

but i still held on for dear life. ha ha

while waiting for turns to try the rock-climbing, picnic in the shade with ice cream and potato chips ((:
Sunset and friends (:

ECE WUST area.

with new friends, Ya Lun, Siew Bo, Shao Ming of ECE 
JO1s with three of the LSCT OIP members.

new friends from ECE and LSCT!

Sasi, Satish, Kumar ((;

Scenic spots, said Mr Wong.
We're in the same Afro team.
Because Afro ROCKS!

Rised up early again to go for the one-day leadership/adventure camp. We were only told about it like three or four days before yesterday's 2-day-1-night trip. So I guess it is abit of a last minute plan but it was so much fun!

First off, we were grouped into four. Students from LSCT, ECE and MDE get to mingle about and befriend one another. I am still partially amazed at how well we could get along. 

The activities that we went through were as follow:

1) Interaction between members in the respective groups to come up with a group name/ logo/ cheer/ slogan and flag decoration.

- A really simple activity: It's either my groupmates are very supporting or they are very supporting (heheh) to enable us to bring up a good performance. *thumbs up* (:

2) Wheel of a Tank using newspapers ONLY

- Time management, Coorperation and Teamwork plays a big role here. We came in second! Second means *Two thumbs-up* aha (:

3) Lunch with ECE students as hosts

- They rearranged the table like nobody's business so that we can eat together. Hurhur (; The food there is not bad at all. Too bad didn't have time to try the dumplings. There's four menu for the muslims there but some of the dishes (especially the ones with chicken) are not available.

4) Apartment Visiting

- Their Dorm is shared 8 people in each "apartment" and their beds are like hotel beds and they have two toilet! One is with a proper, seat-toilet bowl, which could not be used often because it chokes up easily (; I prefer our bunk though, its small, and maybe squeezy and have thin mattress but its cozy. (:

(and we can shop easily here. wahhaha)

5) Games

- That is honestly, the first time I carry a guy who is not of any blood relation. Usually people carry me one. haha!

6) Trust-Fall

- You have to fall straight backwards into the arms of your teammates. Pretty scary especially if you find it hard to trust.

7) High-Element Jump

- The jump is scary, too! It's all in the head though.

8) Rock-climbing!

- Manage to get to the top but no photos to prove yet. 

9) Scenic View Photo-Taking

10) Dinner and Assignment 3

Quite a day we had. 

Mixing around with the other students outline some of our differences more clearly, be it in terms of personality, culture and even races but this differences that we encounter should be set aside so that we could achieve better results when facing problem(s). In other words, to be a united team despite our differences just like the 2nd NE Message: We must preserve racial and religious harmony. We value our diversity and are determined to stay a united people. 

Will wake my teammates later to continue on assignment 3.

P.S. Thank you Siew Bo for the photos, as well! (:

Day 34 & 35 - The 2 Day 1 Night stay

Day 34

We had to meet the rest at the main entrance at 7am on that Sunday morning. We reached our destination at about 12pm and I was thinking of food. Ha ha! Lucky me, we had lunch soon after. We also checked into our respective rooms. Supposedly two in a room, since neither one of us wants to be and let the other sleep alone, three of us decided to merge beds and sleep together. (:

during lunch time (:

Oof! Face "kenna" squash. ROFL

happy-'Three'-friends.

Making full use of the time; we had to meet back at the carpark at 2.30pm for the Mei Ren Gu - Beauty Lake visit. (:

Mei Ren Gu - Beauty Lake Visit Photos

Near the entrance are filled with yellow flowers.

Don't think anyone could resist not taking photos with them (:

Entrance

Local Children playing by the banks of the river.

We were going up, up and away to the waterfall areas. (:

Ben fell and was hurt along the way.

The wound looks pretty bad. 

Live singers ~ 

Don't understand what they are singing but they sure have rhythm.

and my favourite part of all, they are wearing those long-ago costumes!

*Excited*

((:

with my classmates.

opposing me is this:

One of the fabulous waterfall.

At the top, right side of this waterfall, there's a maiden beauty sofa and curtains- Sort of those fancy beds that has curtains, but they are made of rocks! It was said that its the place where the Beauty sleeps. There's also a small 'belle lake' (like bath tub) for the Beauty to "bathe" in. 

With Mr Wong and Zee Min.

Trying out Malay Dance Pose.

LOL!

Just opposing us is the Lover's waterfall:

(from Clive's blog) I think all of us are inside.

The beautiful streams were used to wash clothes in the olden days, there's a lone statue of a woman washing her clothes for future generations, like us, to reminisce the past and be aware of how convenient the world that we live in are.

Signboards we noticed:

The rocks are all jutting out in the pathways.

(:
You can't disagree, can you? (:

Before dining at the same place again for dinner, we visited the local- mushroom farm near our resort.

Local- Mushroom Farm Photos:

Mushrooms grow on logs.

This bridge can hold up to 10 people at a time. 

Thrilling walk (:

logs for mushroom to be grown on.
baby~

By the way, there's this yellow notice at the entrance of the door if the family followed the one-child policy rule. Some notice that says Legal Family in Chinese.
Rearing of Chickens.

Chicken shit looks a lot like bird shit.

Ya hor, chickens are bird. -.-

the beautiful sun. I dint know I missed the sun so much till I finally felt its warmth again. 

When you're always there,

You're almost suffocating.

Ever since you're absence,

I basked in your attention

whenever I can.

I could skip a flat pebble till three times maximum after a few tries. Average was 2. Minimum was a "plop". ha ha!

Campfire Local Style:

Presenting the entertainment; This man jumped around on glass! Wow, right?
The same man stepped on hot, sharp knife blades.

Double wow, right?
Mass Cha-cha dance and the standard go-around the fire dance. (:

Karaoke Next. LSCT students went first.

Followed by Clive (:

Masita, Hajar, Hardy, Mengzhen and Fran sang too. Brave of them.

I sat and support only (:

Wrapped it up with everyone on stage singing a "Friend" song in Chinese. I was playing with the bubbles. LOL, can't sing la. =)

Went back to the resort around 8 or 9 plus. Gawk at the TV until Hash found a channel where they are showing english show! It was a shark movie! I think its Jaws. No idea. Haha. Didn't like these kinds of movie before. Hha. I watched it till the end with my half-closed eyes. Next show was a Jackie Chan movie. Felt asleep after about 10 minutes of watching. haha.

Day 35

The Luling Tour is actually on the second day.

Three of us won't late this time (;

Lulin Tour Photos:

Somewhere at the Entrance

Sighs. 

There were quite alot of stairs.

Mr Wong told me not to cheat his feelings.

"I climb, you climb hor. Don't cheat my feelings."

Waa, teacher smart already.

haha

Classmates. (:

a place to see the time in the past

I wonder how you survived out here

No TV, no PSP, no books to read

How fresh the air you breathe

How easy you made it seem.

There are alot of stories that the guide told us along the way. One of them is this tree:

This tree symbolises Eternal love because of the faithful vines (8 kinds of them) who grew old with the tree.. like lovers.

Moon-Lake O_O

With Xinhui and one of the legendary heroes.

Playing the Er-hu. Traditional instrument. Produces sad notes and gloomy atmosphere though.

The above spot where the Er-hu musician and the statue is found was the meeting place of joined alliances, whom are regarded as heroes now. There was a Big Chess near the statue, to symbolise the strategies that were thought of by these heroes.

Other stories includes the robbers' village, an old house(hut), poem on the stone, how the camel-stone is formed and etc.

battle place.

There were loud stereo playing war drums. It seems like real war with the sounds and the big army soldiers. Quite scary.

WG showing off muscles, haha!

surprisingly, it's light.

There was a hut to tryout archery, because of many people and I guess, most of us dallied around too much taking photos, I reached the hut and was greeted by "LUNCH TIME ALREADY! LET'S GO!" *heartbreaks* Sad 'coz I walked up all the way till the hut and was told to retreat back =(

Next stop after having lunch at the same place was the cave:

Kong Shan Dong- Cave Photos:

Entrance

There's a sign saying: Mao Zhe Dong loves the people there in three different languages. None I can read, by the way.

Entrance Cave.

The cave was chilly inside. "Free air-con", said Mr Loh. I guess its true. Quite a unique experience. I saw a Toad and Turtle Lover, a musical instrument made by the rocks, cool signboards reading through its water reflection, a bed for newly weds to share their first night in etc.

The Cave tour lasted about 45 mins to 1 hour. It had to end up with a long, spiral staircase. I'm exhausted by that. 

Flexsim Assignment is still half done. Will try to finish it tomorrow.

P.S. My camera is under repair and "hibernating", sobs, photos are taken using Xinhui's, Hashanah's and Weiguang's camera. Thanks, you all!

P.P.S. Some are grabbed from other MDE bloggers as well.