Monday, May 21, 2007
I finally manage to overcome my inertia for blogging after e previous incident where whatever I’ve been blogging about for the
past few hours are gone just because I pressed on the wrong button before I copy and paste it on
Microsoft yet again! I shall learn my lesson from now on and blog 1st in
MWord before transferring everything into
blogger.com for publish. Why do I take so long to blog and also for what reason it took me so long to start writing about the
expedition leh? It is because there’re just so many things to talk about and to be put down on words so that those who can’t make it down with us can still know what went on and be part of this journey still without feeling left out. This is something that I feel strongly about therefore I’m still blogging here no matter whatever that has happened earlier on.
The
expedition started when those who can make it down for it have reached
clubroom. Upon reaching, all of us were being allocated to our respective groups/teams which we’ll follow through and be with throughout the whole expedition. There were all in all
3 different groups. The
1st group (team A) is led by
Jack together with
Zac, Nicholas & Bryan whose objective is to go around in e lorry to collect sponsored goods & buy logistical materials for rag. The
2nd group (team 2A) & 3rd group (team 2B) led by
Jackson together with
me, Xiao Yan plus Michelle &
Mei Ling together with
Kenneth, Reuben plus Mei Chen respectively; whose objective is to go around in
Jack’s van w
Aaron as driver to collect
raw & recycled materials FOC. Must thank
Aaron for taking time off his wedding preparations to help be our driver for the day and also sacrificing his sleeping time to wake up early & collect e lorry!!! Must also thank
Jack for lending us his van if not we won’t have enough transport vehicles to complete whatever plans we have in mind! Anyway, after being allocated into e diff groups,
Kenneth started briefing us about what we will be doing for e
whole day, e programmes for the day which is fully packed to e brim I must say~! Lo and behold, not soon after, we set off for our
1st rag 2007 expedition!!! Wooohooo~
Team A went off with their lorry to go do their own stuff whereas
Team 2A and 2B squeezed ourselves into the van and set off on our own mini expedition. Haha, to have memories of this wonderful activity, we started taking pictures of one another at the moment when we board on the van loh! Hahaha, even though e back of e van a bit de stuffy but we enjoyed ourselves along e way with our little chit-chats & jokes. At
Clementi,
Team 2B alighted whereas
Team 2A where I belong to proceeded to
Commonwealth for our collection. The people from the other teams update what you all did ok? I only know what my team did mah, so I can only blog about what we do loh, e rest depends on u all liao. And so we went to
Commonwealth which is an old neighbourhood, the flats and surrounding so different from the ones I’ve been used to in
Clementi, Yishun and a lot of other places. Maybe because it is quite old, therefore the whole area seems quite far off from the bustling city life we’re used to everyday. We hit on the shophouses as soon as we bid sayonara to
Aaron and I must say we were very lucky as we got a lot of
cardboards and egg trays just after
2-3 blocks of shophouses! Haha, there was even once when
Michelle went to a shop to ask for egg trays as we peeked in and saw from their back door tons of them! When she came back out, we almost couldn’t see her as she was practically blocked off by the whole stack of egg trays she carried out. Can you just imagine? Too bad at the moment I forgot to take picture! Wasted sia. When our trolley was full, it was near lunchtime already so we decided to take our lunch at a coffeeshop located amongst old HDB flats, while waiting for
Aaron to drive the van to us then we can unload and
Charlie Mike (continue mission :P) I think
Jackson is the most happy of the
4 of us to be eating there as there is a female helper whom he finds her very cute. Haha, then it so happens that the
other 3 of us ordered from the stall that the girl helps out in, so she came to our table
3 times in total.
Jackson must be in heaven. ;) after our meal, we chatted a while about
drama serials which almost bore
Jackson to death (got dai4 gou1) before
Aaron arrived.
And so, after uploading the treasures that we found,
Xiao Yan went in the van back to school with
Aaron to help him unload whereas the
remaining 3 of us went around scouting for recycled materials again. Not soon after, the sky started turning very dark thus we made a move to
Jackson’s place where
me and Michelle got a pleasant surprise! Haha, it was because we got a lot of useful stuff from
Jackson’s house! All thanks to
Jackson’s mum, quoting from
Michelle,
“we can just build a rag float in Jackson’s house loh” I don’t know how true is it because I was waiting below the HDB flat looking after the stuff we collected while
Jackson and Michelle went upstairs to take all the things. While I was waiting, it started
raining cats & dogs! So even after they finished bringing all the stuff down, we were stuck at the HDB area there for
2 whole hours before we moved everything up to the van again to go back to school. It was really sianz when we waited for the rain to stop. Haha, so sianz that
Jackson & Michelle started examining letter boxes. :P
After coming back to school, we continue on the second part of
material collection mission. This time round, there were lesser people as some have to leave, have other things on etc. we even have a change of driver to
Paul! Haha, he finally managed to join us after completing his preparations for
FASS Day. Thanks lots
Paul~! This time round we went to
Holland Village to scout for materials, with
Jackson giving directions for the way whereas the rest of us (
me, Xiao Yan, Michelle, Kenneth & Reuben) entertained ourselves. The things found at
Holland Village wasn’t a lot but it was enough thus we moved on to
Ikea to look at stuff and materials and enquire about cardboard too. The journey on the van to
Ikea that evening is one that I will not forget in the near future lah! Goodness gracious, all of us sitting at the back was laughing so hard at mostly
Reuben’s jokes that our stomach hurt. Especially when he tried to imitate the
different nationalities way of speech, made
me and Xiao Yan laugh so hard that our bladder cannot tahan and we have to chiong to the toilet when we alighted from the van at
Ikea.
Paul and Jackson were in the front seat so they couldn’t really catch what we laughing about and keep saying we must be mad already. Hahaha. Anyway at
Ikea, for the
1st time I knew that there is a section that sells slightly defect goods at cheaper prices. There was this rocking chair that
Jackson really likes and selling only at
$25. He had wanted to buy it back but he didn’t, then in the end when we reached the cashier area we saw it being purchased by someone else already. Fast right? There was also this rocking sofa at the section which all of us upon experimenting on it loves it, especially
Xiao Yan who said
it will be great to sit cross-legged on it and mug for examinations or just read a novel. You feel like you’re on clouds just sitting on it loh, so shiok! After which, we proceeded to
Alexandra Food Centre to have our dinner as some of us got budget constraints thus giving the famous
Ikea meatballs a miss! Before I forgot,
Jackson and Paul were wearing couple shirts and they even
held hands when crossing the traffic light!!! Eeeeek!!! Hahaha, all just for the fun of it, no serious business. :P
I must say that day was not really a day for
Michelle because she keeps having some sort of accidents here and there.
1st it was a trip on the stairs in
Ikea, then it was a fall on stairs again on our way to
AFC. The
2nd one was worse as she cut her toe and her flip-flop cui! So we started
operation save-michelle’s-flip flop. As
Reuben has had prior personal experience in dealing with it, we followed his instructions and went shopping in a stationary shop to buy small pins to repair the slippers. Then we went on to have our
sumptuous dinner at
AFC where there is
a lot of good food!
Reuben was kind enough to
treat everyone of us a cup of sugarcane drink oh!!! Thanks
Reuben~! On the way back, the laughing and jokes continue as per usual. Our poor stomach, haha. Upon reaching back school we started unloading stuff and packing up our fruits of labor for the day, there were so many of them! So exciting!!! Then we started
can-washing!!! As for the can-washing this time round, it was much cleaner and nicer smelling as compared to the previous one I did last year. Throughout the whole thing, there was one episode that made all of us laughed like mad but it was at e expense of
Nicholas. As
Nicholas is very scared of the dark, when he went into one of the cubicles to relieve himself,
all of us switched off the lights and left the toilet as quiet as possible. Even though a lot of us were having difficulty controlling our laughter, we managed to evacuate the place still. Then when
Nicholas is done, he practically
chiong-ed out of the toilet at neck-breaking speed la! At
1st most of us thought that he ran out to chase us but it turned out that he was so scared thus he ran out of the toilet. Oh man, the rest of us laughed until really really really cannot make it!!!
After the cans, there were still some time so we were wondering if we should rest or Charlie Mike. There were reasons for both actions but after
diplomatic voting, the
majority wanted to go Charlie Mike to collect more materials so they went. I didn’t tag along so one of you who went
please update us! It sounded happening from the way I heard them describe after they came back late night. Then all of us went over to
Eusoff Hall to bath after which those tired konk-ed off which includes
me, Zac & Mei Chen and the rest either played mahjong (
Kenneth, Jackson, Xiao Yan & Jack) or watched from the side (
Bryan) or did own stuff (
Nicholas). We all agree during the
AAR that such an expedition should be done more than once so there will definitely be a second time as it is
really fun, exciting, happening, interesting and highly beneficial to bonding within the raggers! So for those who feel really gian after reading this super duper long blog entry, look out for the next one and make sure you join us ok? This is because only you stand to lose out when you don’t join us~! ;)
Rag Really Rocks~ 79 days to Rag & Flag Day 2007~!
` lets be raggerfied
