Today was replacement for public holiday so Cherie, Evelyn, Yi Shin, Wei Na, Angelica, Darren, Khang Siang, Jeremy  and I went to Kallang Leisure Park to ice skate! We met at round 10.30am at Tampines interchange but I met them at Bedok MRT instead as the train would pass by Bedok on the way to Kallang. I missed the train that they were in so I took MRT to Kallang myself.  Reached there with them waiting for me and because of my late arrival, they missed bus11. AH! Sorry guys. Waited for so long before another 11 came. And at around 12pm we were in the ice skating rink! YEAH! We were there for two hours and had super duper lots of FUNN! I skated with everyone and I tried to push Khang Siang down put failed D: he's too stable. But Jeremy was much better to push, I pushed and he FELL! Yesss. Suceeded. I skated with Yi Shin who skates so fasssttt. She is always skating in front of me. Evelyn, Cherie and Angelica was okay. And Wei Na was learning. For a beginner not bad, she fell 8 times only, better than Hua Yeow who fell 16 times the other time he went? So funny. After skating, went to eat KFC which I spilled my popcorn chicken, waste my money ): sigghhhh. But luckily left a few which filled my tummy up, YEAH! Then went to play Daytona and I played the basketball game, it was so fun but we could not break the record): After a while more, we went home. I went to play basketball with TingYing, Ellery and some other school people at 840 and went home at 6pm! It was super tiring ):

Fear is everyone's friend, coming and going as time passes. Sometimes, they are overcame, but sometimes they are just left there. Until the next time they are faced with the fear again, they panic. Well, let me ask you, whats the point? Isn't it better if you overcome your own fears before you are faced with it again? Like me, I have fear of heights and when we were faced with high elements training during out Adventure Training Camp (ATC), I was super scared as I was not really prepared to climb to such a great height but in the end I still conquered my fear of it! YEAH! Secondly, I have stage fright, especially commanding in front of a crowd. This morning I was super scared, its my first time commanding and I was scared something would go wrong and thankfully nothing of that sort happened. PHEW. I should overcome this fear real soon man so I can put the fear behind and move on! Moreover, these chances are hard to come by, so I must really treasure them! HAHAS.


Here are some inspirational quotes to overcom fear:

Hellooo. Today I am going to talk about the 15hour study rule! Yes study rule.
YEAH the study rule is here. I study at least two hours a day e it science, math or history. I think its awesome. You study for yourself and not others right? YESS.

And you have to be honest in this schedule! NO CHEATING :D In my opinion, I think that having a schedule keeps you more organised and let you know what you are doing. The day is also planned out nicely so you would not have to worry about not completing certain task and not knowing what to do next.  Well, I think if we get the whole thing worked out, it would be better and you would not be panic about having to managing your time on that day itself. And if you follow strictly according to your time table, I think you would be the one who is benefitting at the end of the day!

We are born to love LEARNING. And also, no one is born stupid so well, if we work hard, we will achieve our goals one day :D

How I miss youth day, its like we are YOUTHS now, no more children's day. BLEH ): This is sad. Anyway I had math extra lesson for tuition and after that I cabbed all the way to east coast to meet my friends! :D WOOH. Of course someone sponsored the cab fare. It was $7 plus I think. When I reached there, they were bowling in marine bowl! BOWLING BALLSS. It was fun though I did not strike. I scored a total of 60 plus points which was not bad.



OOPS. Its blurred. But anyway, here's the score board. My score cannot be seem aww man ): Never mind.

After maybe one or two hours of bowling we went to the BEACH! :D And we played like little kids! We played catching first then after that captains ball, our team lost ): But its okay, its the fun that I had which matters! And there, I saw rainbow! YEAH, I LOVE RAINBOWS.



THERE the magnificant rainbow. Its not very vivid but still can see a little bit of the seven colours.

After playing, we went to parkway parade to eat dinner! I ate fried rice and had to gobble it up as my friend and I need to rush home. Cabbed back to my friend's house downstairs and I walked to the 69 bus stop where I took my bus home! :D Reached home at around 9pm.


This was during bowling (:



CAPTAINS BALL!

Does this look familiar to you? I bet it is, its the subway logo! You must think that I am random again, talking about subway all of a sudden. But I so love subway, especially the subway cookies! DOUBLE CHOCOLATE IS THE BEST! YUMMY. Anyway last wednesday when my council mates and I stayed back to do some things for the upcoming Welcome Cum Appreciation Party. We had to design some things. After side by side programme, Si Min and I went down to the canteen to help with the designing. While Evelyn and Joey went to the library to discuss about the math trail. The worst thing was I did not eat lunch that day ): Gosh, I was super hungry and my stomach was growling. And I thought of Gerald, Nicholas and the others who went to subway to eat and so I asked them to help me packet some back to school. They reached school at around five plus with the meal! WOOTS! Its like so filling, I was super hungry so I ate it super FAST, faster than my usual speed! [: And the snapple was niceee. The fact that was written at the back of the bottle cap was cool as well. It was something about strawberries. Then there was the lays potato chips! YEAH, love them. The whole meal was super filling! :D Want to thank Nic, Gerald and Julian for paying for me ;D ahas. Thanks a million!

The sec1 council induction camp was just over and IT WAS SUPER FUN! :D We, the sec2 councillors were faciliatotors and we came back for our holidays to do some tying of loose ends before the camp started. We started planning during our own sec2 council camp and then came back for about three times to plan and try some of the games. The meetings turned out well and then it was SEC 1 COUNCIL CAMP! (: The theme of the camp was octupus, objective being one efficient council and the main point of this camp was to allow the sec1s to bond together and not only mix round with their own comfort zone. Well, I must say the camp turned out rather successful as the main point of bonding the sec1s were achieved! YEAPYY! During the first day, after the registration, it was the sec1s workshop help by the high achievers coaches who are mainly coach Ernest and coach Jian Fen! They are nice and cool people man. During their three hour of worskshops, the sec2s were occupied with CAPTAINS BALL! I so love playing captains ball with the councillors. It was like so happy and my team won! But who cares, winning does not matter to me, what matters to me is that we had FUN and that we bonded! Yes, one of the purpose of playing captains ball was to help us spend our time away but another more important purpose is bonding! Since there are so many new sec2 councillors, we have to know each other better and this was the right time to bond. Through the captains ball or rather the whole camp, I made a lot of new friends and also, got to know each other better. After lunch, it was the sec1s another three hour workshop again, but this time the ex-co members had meeting and the rest of the sec2s watched the videos "Facing the Giants". According to some of them, the movie was nice and touching but I did not get to watch it due to ex-co meeting ): Well, anyway after their workshop, it was station GAMES! We asked them for opinions for the games after they finished playing and some wanted more games! PHEW, lucky they did not think it was boring. We could judge from this station games that the sec1s councillors are really trying hard to bond. When any of their team members failed to do something, they would cheer them on and made sure that they would not give up. From here, team spirit was shown. After which was I think err, dinner? After dinner was the part that  I was looking forward to. Guess what it was ? NIGHT WALK! :D There were altogether about six stations in night walk. Mine was the ONE TWO THREE COMPUTERS, which is the computer lab three, together with EVELYN AND NIC WONG! :D They are fun people man. Nic was super funny he wanted to grab people's legs to scare them and he was like leaning against the wall, trying to scare the sec1s but too bad MISSION FAILED D: Imran was the station beside us and he was so FUNNY! He can be a comedian next time, he kept coming once in a while to entertain us, so nice of him man. And here are pictures of night walk!


MY STATION PEOPLEE!



SEE, its FULL MOON!!

So here's briefly what we did during night walk. After night walk was wash up and sleep! YES, sleep! But we had a bit of breifing before we slept. I had patrolling duty at night but I woke up late, clumsy me D: But I still woke up and was one hour LATE! AHH! After the patrolling, I tossed and turned and slept and woke up every one hour. So, I could not really sleep and the second day I was super tired. No energy to do anything but captains ball was the exceptional. Since we had another three hours of free time because of the sec1s final workshop, we played our last captains ball game together ): I enjoyed it! Finally after their workshop was over, we went for area cleaning and had a short award presentation before we break camp. Camp was fun and I learnt a lot of new things such as project management and everything. Thanks High Achievers, especially Coach Ernest, Coach Danielle and Coach Jian Fen and also sec1s and 2s councillors and lastly, Mr Kwok and Mr Tay for guiding us!

Storybook title: Ever After

Storyline:
Molly, Vicky and Grace are best friends in school but Vicky is jealous of the newcomer Grace, who had just joined them not long ago. Grace also talks to Molly's ex-fling Jason a lot, making people think that there is something going on between the two of them. Molly's mother cannot understand her and whats more disappointing is that her father is not good at pivotal moments. And her prince purple flower, which is a flower in her room, has also deserted her. Prince purple flower represented Jason last time, but now it was nobody, nobody knew about prince purple flower. Molly also kept a diary writing about her problems and secrets, including prince purple flower. But one day when Vicky went to Molly's house, she read the dairy without Molly noticing it and she found out that Molly actually stole candies together with Grace and of course about prince purple flower. And later when Vicky blurted about her knowing that Molly stole, Molly suspected that Grace told Vicky about it. But when Vicky continued about prince purple flower, she knew that Vicky had read her diary. She scolded and shouted at Vicky and her diary was being tore up by  Vicky. Both of them cried and Molly was so angry that she chased Vicky out, telling Vicky that she will never forgive her. Their friendship was just broken by this incident. Had only Vicky not invade Molly's privacy, none of this will happen.

Reflections:
I feel that Vicky is in the wrong to even read Molly's diary without permission. I mean best friends trust each other, but Vicky broke this trust between them. Sadly their friendship was broken in this manner. If only Vicky was not that nosey parker, nothing of these sort will happen. So this shows that good friends should always trust each other and not let something which you have done spoil your friendships.

Could cardio tests have prevented unexpected deaths?

Young men going to perform national service (NS) should be comprehensively screened for heart conditions, said Dr Leslie Lam, a cardiologist in private practice.

This can perhaps prevent sudden cardiac death, added the heart specialist.

Dr Lam is one of several heart specialists who are asking for all pre-enlistees to undergo treadmill tests and echocardiograms.

The call comes in the wake of the deaths of two young servicemen during training.

The treadmill test may be able to help doctors find out how well the heart handels physical stress while an echocardiogram uses an ultrasound to provide information about the structure and function of the heart.

These two tests can detect abnormalities that might put the men at risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), an abrupt loss of heart function. These men may or may not have been diagnosed with heart disease.

Though this condition occurs more often in older men because of clogging of the arteries, there are many complications that can arise in younger men too.

However, the cost of these tests are quite high. Dr Lam told The Straits Times that he believed it might cost about $3 million to screen 10,000 recruits.

"But, it would be money well spent as it prevents men in their prime from dying suddenly," he added.

Not all heart experts agree with him though.

Dr Lim Chin Hock, another cardiologist in private practice, said to The Straits Times: "Even if we did all the tests for every recruit, it does not mean we will be able to avert all sudden cardiac deaths."

For a healthy individual with no family history of heart disease, the chances of collapsing from SCD are small - estimated as one in 1,000.

Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean told Parliament that in the preceding nine years, 19 Singapore Armed Forces personnel had died of sudden heart attacks - including five who collapsed during training.

REFLECTIONS:
I agree that they have to do their checkups thoroughly so that they can be prevented from going for vigorous exercises which might cause sudden deaths. However, they must also produce a medical record saying that they are unwell or else everyone would try to use the excuse of having heart problems to skip vigorouos trainings. Well, they must also keep fit at all times so that their bodies would be prepared for vigorous activities. And they must be aware of their own bodies, if they are feeling unwell, they should not carry on with their trainings. In addition, the commanders should pay more attention to those who have a family background of heart problems. But, judging at the cost, I do not think that it is affordable for all families. So, from here, we can say that this medical check up stuff has its pros and cons.

How do you pronounce ikea? Is it pronounce as i-kea or ikea? For me, I pronounce it as ikea, but for some, they pronounce as i-kea? So, which is which? Never mind about that. Personally, I like the hotdog bread in ikea! Its the most delicious hotdog bread that I have ever tasted. The sauce can be chosen and this ranges from tomato to chilli to mustard! In addition, the drinks are self serviced too! If you buy a drink and a hotdog, it would only cost $1.70, which is quite affordable and  judging that we can choose our choice of drinks, the deal would be super good (: I would always think that the furnitures in Ikea are cool as they are arranged in such a way that its like the real bedrooms or living rooms in our house. Its creative the way they decorate the whole place. They sell loads and loads of furnitures that you can find almost everything there! And to tell the truth, most of the furnitures in my room are brought from ikea! On Tuesday, a few councillors and I went to ikea to get some things for the upcoming sec1 council camp. Ikea was so big that we took about half an hour to find the things that we wanted. At last we found it at the ground level, but while walking to pay our items at the counter we saw this product called THROW FELICIA! D: Why is there my name?! HAHS. Here's a picture of it.

I did not really see what the product was and my friends were like taking picture of it. Wow, my name! I was kind of puzzled, does my name mean anything? Why did they put it up as a product name? But its okay, anyway its not only referring to me. There are lots of Felicias in the world! Okay, i shall end here, BYEEE! :D

Title of the book: Leaning on each other

Storyline:
The author and her friend, Katie, were watching television at her house, and soon, the telephone rang, the author sprung for it. It turned out to be a call saying that the author's father has heart problems and was hospitalised. She was scared and sad at the same time and did what most of us would do, confiding in her friend, Katie. Katie also consoled her and let the author lean on her when she cried.

Reflections:
Good friends should often console one another and also, being the one that each parties trust, we must try our best to learn how to console our friends and help them in times of need. That to me, makes a good friend, whom you can trust and turn to when you are down. Friends. Why do we have friends? Why do human need friends? Yes, making friends are essential in our lifes, they prevent you from turning lonely and friends brighten up your lifes! However, choose your friends wisely so that you would not mix with bad company. And even though if you come across any bad companies, try to tell them whats right and wrong and who knows; they might change! Thats what friends are for, to change and to lead you to the correct path. So, treasure your friends and love them as God teaches us to love your enemies as you love your friends. (: