So, yup, Josiah's birthday
Monday, April 21, 2008
so ,
yup, Josiah's birthday.
reached there late because of enrolment service. (GoGo Sergeant Mark!)
roughly around 8.30? but way ahead of schedule.
so stayed there for a while, and ate some food
then Josiah started opening his presents,
made some funny comments,
made us laugh
then in the end,
he told us
that there was a reason for the party to be held at the multi-purpose hall
he would also explain to us why there was no birthday cake.
he said:
"Some of you might notice, that everytime the birthday boy cuts the cake, it doesn't always neccessarily ends up in the mouth?"then he proceeded to explain why it was held at the second floor of the multi-purpose hall.
"You see that swimming pool out there? (Points out the balcony) Sometimes, due to unseen reasons, the birthday boys ends up inside too."(all ends up in laughter)spent some time there
then went looking for Ivan and his guitar
found him and Mavis rehearsing for the next day's praise and worship.
so yup, joined them for a while.
dunno why
stay until very late,
have to rush to get home before 11pm (curfew)
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And now i'll elaborate on that nightmare i had
think of the setting as the early morning, before the sun rose,
and that it was soemwhere out in a ruined city, very little buildings,
lots of fortresses.
something like out of lord of the rings.
it was very bizzare, very real.
I knew that it could not be true yet, i found myself walking down the stone steps.
People walked passed me, all in a daze
preparing themselves for the battle ahead (don't ask me how i knew that there was going to be a battle soon, its just a dream.)
Someone jogged up to me and shouted," sir! we have equipt our men with all the weapons that we own. There is nothing else left, the remaining people without weapons will have to fight using whatever they have."
I nodded and continued my walk.
then someone from the sentry post screamed
"the vampires are coming! they're here!!!"
I had this feeling that i knew why they were here, but somehow i could not recall why.
Someone yelled, "Get to your battlestations!!! String up your bows and arrows!"
I saw people rushing out to the firing slits on the "castle's" roof.
I joined the crowd and watched as the cloud of vampires come closer and closer
I saw myself raising an MA5B assault rifle.
Looking out into the horizon, I screamed the order to fire
Arrows and gunfire erupted from both towers and the platform in between.
gunfire poured from my rifle.
(everything fades away,a new scene appears)
I am sitting on one of the staircases of the castle, doing something with my guitar.
I stand up and let the guitar rest against the wall.
I walked towards the platform.
There is this girl watching me, stringing up her bow at the same time
"you're Erika right?" I felt myself talking to her
she nodded and smiled
"You're very good at far range. When they return, i want you to shoot the flying ones down first."
I remembered she said something but I can't remember what.
Somehow, i feel that she is important... in? I don't know....Just a feeling.
Somewhere, the alarm is sounded (a horn blowing)
everyone is rushing, blocking up the doors and windows, creating barricades.
I started firing, So did Erika.
i don't see the rest now, only me and her shooting the vampires.
Someone screams," they've breached the west gate!!!"
I hear lots of screams, told Erika to stay put and dashed off to help.
What i saw froze me.
The vampires were killing as efficiently, better than they should be.
I raised my rifle and started picking them off the stairs.
Some fell, most of them giving up their lives just centimetres away from my blood-sodden boots.
More allies joined me in forcing them back.
My rifle clacked, out of ammo.
I slammed the catch, watched the spent clip fall and slapped in a reload.
Continued firing.
Until i heard Erika scream
I had no idea how i managed to run so fast up, how i managed to get there in a few seconds.
my rifle had run out of ammo by then so i took out a pistol instead, i had a long-knife in the other hand
she was still there, where i had left her, but this time, there were a legion of Vampires behind her. One of them was holding her in a stranglehold, the other one was staring at me.
I remembered that we talked for a while,
i can't remember what, but i think that the eastern gate was breached too, that was how the vampires managed to get her.
(At this point, i'm watching this like a movie)
Vampires surrounded my back and some grabbed me.
She called out my name, i shuddered.
I remembered that females had to have certain requirements before being turned into vampires.
So i asked her,"Are you a virgin?"
She stared at me with big eyes.
She took a lifetime to answer, as if she was ashamed.
I cocked my pistol
She shook her head
"I'm gonna kill her, then you,"the vampire holding her said.
"Not...Yet" I whispered.
I started to slash and cut,
broke free of my restraints.
from my angle
i saw the vampire getting ready to claw her up,
I raised my pistol, loaded and fired.
Headshot.
He fell, she ran towards me.
I grabbed her hand,
we both ran, down the stairs, both of us
Vampires tried to stop us
I remembered that we were being overwhelmed
(fade-out)
I think i dream more but i couldn't remember the rest as it was talking, with Erika and the Vampires, but we were all sitting down peacefully at the stairways and chatting like old friends.
Then my mother woke me up.
I had another nightmare today. I think i have enough time to write about it.
Something set in my old school's parade square
me and my squad were dressed like we were marines from StarCraft.
I still remembered i was issued a C17 Gauss rifle
we were deployed there to plant a bomb.
then HQ would strategically detonate bombs placed islandwide to wipe out the zerg infestation.
I was inside the classroom.
We were resting
WE sent the second squad and the sergeant to go check on the canteen.
based on what we heard, they were in trouble.
minutes, or was it hours later,
we decided to help them,
then we heard a rumble.
we all ran out to the parade square.
Motion sensors indicated that something large was coming our direction.
since we couldn't see it,
we assumed in was underground
and it was fast
which meant one thing:
Zerg
They were here, they were going to sabotage our bomb,
we started to jog back
Don't know why, but the distance from the parade square to the building suddenly seemed like kilometres.
we saw firing inside
HQ was screaming inside our helmets, detonate!!!
WE did
the bomb exploded.
The island-wide map still showed the Zergs still alive
Millions of squads had given their lives to plant the bomb and...
they were all dead.
the zergs had merely sacrificed a thousand out of their billions to self-destruct each bomb.
I remember HQ calling us to fall back to their position when Mum woke me up
I remember this dream having a few versions (the one above was the one that i had after these versions):
one was that i remain in the classroom, with the bomb, and the zerg would try to bring it down, and i would die firing and fighting.
the second one was that i would run to the canteen and try to help out the second squad.
the above "long story version" would be the third one.
Before mum woke me up.
enough of nightmares
so yup,
i managed to drift my AE86.
and i can play With Me by sum 41 on guitar!!! (but its not very good)
Adios
-CPL Jackie
Sorry!
Friday, April 18, 2008
i'm so sorry,
i've not been blogging in a long time
haven't got much time where i get to sit in front of the computer and start typing like this
So,where to begin?
yes, yes, the guitar lessons are coming around fine, so are the drifting lessons.
I'll start with the secondary 3 camp.
well...
It ROCKED!!!I won't elaborate much, but i'll go through the camp in as much detail as i can.
Since i'm sick, typing this stuff out of the computer right now, and trying to learn a new song at the same time.
so... right,
We started the camp, in our groups
i was in cypress group 3
so yup
our instructor was Mei Zhu, (if i'm not wrong, the St Johns would know who she is)
on the way there to Jalan Bahtera (home Sweet Home!)
we introduced ourselves on the way.
but it was mostly Mei Zhu who did the talking,
we asked her lots of questions.
we got to the campsite
ahhh, blisss, EMBRACING NATURE!
so, we reached Jalan Bahtera (AGAIN, remember the church camp?)
we got to our bunks
argued over our sleeping spots.
and changed into our shorts/ bermudas.
if i'm not wrong...(lemme try to recall)
We started off with Kayaking...
wait, no
i remember that campfire preparation was before kayaking
so what was before that...?
I think it was, lunch?
Perhaps, but for now, we'll stick with lunch.
So after lunch, it would be campfire preparation
dunno, why but its me who ends up leading the campfire preparation
though it didn't go too well.
There was this Girl called Jamie, very enthusiatic and kept cheering me (c'mon Jackie!)
then we all went kayaking (at this time throughout, from the campfire preparation, we were with gorup 4)
So fun, but 1 1/2 hours passed by so quickly
was extra hyper after the kayak, the water woke us all up (i think?)
we were allowed to do something that BB has never allowed us to do in kayaking before!
they let us stand on our kayaks, hold hands, and sing songs!!!
So campfire perparation,
was very nervous,
then i learnt that i could actulay bring a guitar to this camp
i mean,
THAT THEY ACTUALLY ALLOWED US TO BRING?
"provided that you can carry it, of course" said the instructor
NOOO!!!
changed out of our wet clothes
and then yup, prepared ourselves?
sorry, i'm not thinking clearly
then dinner, and the night game? followed by supper and wash up
The next day,
We did high elements (but i didn't, haha)
then rock climbing
then lunch
then it was more campfire preperation,
this time the group was a little more co-operative. managed to get something out of them
and settled at a skit.
then we did flying fox,
faiz was very funny here,
he was trying to high-5 us as he came down.
More campfire preparation,
then dinner.
(Note)
Now that i'm typing all this out
i notice that the camp is mostly campfire preparation
After dinner
THE CAMPFIRE!!!
we saw many other groups doing the skit
ours, i think it was the funniest.
we did a talent show,
i was the host
this was what happened
i was to introduce the judges and the contestants
Judges:
Ms Yes (Farah)
Mrs CJ7 (Annabelle, apologies, i don't know how to spell her name)
Mr Gatsby (Wei Kang)
And the contestants were made up of groups.
They were:
1. Twinkle Twinkle Big Big Star (Ken, Yun Ting, Abigail, and one more guy whose name i can't seem to remember)
2. Alvin and The Cheapskates (Alvin, Jamie, Sharon, Jeanine, remember got more people but can't remember)
3. The SexyBacks (Faiz, LTY, Sem, 1 more person who i can't seem to remember)
It starts of with the TTBBS, which did pretty well, but got yelled off stage by the judges
Then LTY and douglas did the Mocca Ad ("Hi i'm selling my house!")
(here i made a mistake, i said Alvin and the Chipmunks instead of Alvin and the Cheapskates)
Then Alvin and friends came out, sang a duet with Jamie (At The Beginning)
Followed by SexyBacks (Much applause)
Lots of Adult content for the SexyBacks, so won't exactly elaborate. (i'll think about putting more in the future)
We would let the audience choose who would be the winners by cheering
and the results would be announced after the commercial break
WE did the FedEx ad,
"MR zhang, delivery for you!"
and from behind the audience came out the entire group, chasing poor douglas!
back to the show*
SexyBacks won of course
and the audiences wanted an Encore
i couldn't give them one, because of time constraint.
and chief Eunice(camp IC) whispered to us
"If you want to do an Encore, do it without the
underpants"
(whoops, so you can probably guess what happened)
last day of camp,
spent the day packing up and clearing
our instructor told us some jokes while waiting for the cleaning equipment
then we went cleaning the toilets and singing our group cheer
for some unknown reasons,
at the end of the clearup session
the entire group was soaking wet
(guess what happened)
we sprayed a little water for fun to the girl's side,
And they "DECLARED WAR!"so yup
ENd of School camp
then reached back school, said tearful bye byes, and
proceeded to fall in for CCA!I'll elaborate more on Josaih's birthday and an amazingly vivid nightmare i had next time(next post)
Bye!
-Cpl Jackie
