Saturday, 21 June 2014

R-zone Camp: Catching Fire

The holidays are coming to an end soon! What the actual pong :-( 
So how have your holidays been? I've had an extremely tiring yet fulfilling one with 2 camps, a lot of mugging and much shopping. But I'm not doing a whole post about my holidays today, I'm focusing on one camp in particular, my church camp :-)

So basically, my friend (claire) and I volunteered to be helpers for this church camp involving the secondary 1s & 2s :-) 

Day 1:

Today was the first day of camp and the leaders and helpers had to get there by 9am, one hour before the campers to discuss. I had problems waking up (as usual) I slept at 2am the previous night and I woke at 7:30am… I'll let you do the calculations. 


The first of activity of the day was making popsicles and I just went around making sure no one (brandon) injured themselves with the knifes (again) and catching up with many more.


The first day was spent bonding and getting to know my group mates. The only rzoners (campers) I knew in my group were kristen and ashley (cuz same batch) and asher (insta). I had no idea who the rest were besides the 2 leaders Christine and Isaac. 


The first half of the day was spent playing many ice breakers such as wacko so everyone could warm up a bit and lets just say from that, you could clearly see who all the blur ones were :P


Meal time was right after and it  was quite memorable cause of some mischievous campers…



Painting our districts flag afterwards!



After dinner,everyone got ready to set out for East Coast Park for the night games :-)
I was in charge of the drunken sailor station with Bryan and we were right next to the smash the water mellon station tended by Chen Min and Reuben. It was funny to see how each team completed their missions. 

Photo bombing the water mellon stations picture :P




After all the teams finished, the four of us packed up and headed back to the gathering area where everyone was playing Pictionary or something. While waiting for the bus, me and my friends/ campers played charades on Shu Ning's phone. The charades game was established in the previous church camp: HOF camp and I decided to introduce it to even more people so they could join in the fun they were missing out!

Side note: If you download the app, play "act it out" and "hits of today" those are the most enjoyable ones. 


Before we boarded the bus, we took a group photo :-)

Look at all the white eyes… much attractive XD




 The bus journey was spent just singing until I fell asleep. (Thank God the leaders and everyone were too tired to take photos of anyone.) 

We finally got back, bathed at about 12am, 1am+ for the helpers and leaders and went to sleep. But first, let us take an after shower selfi. Oh gosh look how tired I was ><




Day 2:

Day 2 was spent getting ready for the performance/ skit on the last day for HOF. I was in the props team with claire, Mei Lin and other campers. This is me, Claire and Natalie trying to scare the others but failing miserably. 




After props, it was time for KAYAKING! Well, for the campers haha Claire and I did not want to get wet/ a tan line. However, we had a problem, cause the bus uncle left before we could get ready… and we ended up waiting two hours for him… But thankfully the leaders managed to handle everyone by making up last minute games. 
After the bus came back, we set out. We played more charades on the bus and took many selfis with people who fell asleep on the bus. 




While the campers did kayaking, I played monkey with Donovan, Elijah, Bryan and Reuben. I gave up when I became the monkey cause I was too short… #shortpeopleproblems
They played football later and I was apparently the ball magnet cause I kept getting hit :-( Donovan please never play football. Haha kidding. Once the rzoners came back from their kayaking, we distributed more food and took more selfis.




No one took anymore photos on the way back while on the bus cause mostly everyone was sleeping, including me. But I slept curled up incase of anything. (Much paranoid I know)

In the night, there was a night walk in stored but Me and Claire decide to stay back and help Mei Lin to complete more props for the next day. It was sad I couldn't go but oh well! We managed to finish a lot of work! And also bathe before most of them came back :-)

More selfish before everyone left.





Some more selfis in the lift before service.




 Neon Pink buddies :-) 



After the night walk, I could see everyone was already dead to the world but the leaders had something installed for them *que evil laugh* night activities. Basically, they would be woken at 2am to play some games for half an hour. But you see, it's not "fun" when you spent the whole day kayaking, painting and tracking so I was curious to how they would have reacted. I stayed up till 2am watching Dan is not on fire cause I did not want to be waken up from my slumber :P

Everyones faces when we gathered them were priceless. The funniest thing was asher thought it was morning and went to brush his teeth so Nigel had to get him out of the toilet. (many more funny asher moments to come)

After the night games ended, most of the girls in my room couldn't sleep and I was one of them so I spent the next half an hour talking and laughing (not to silently) with claire and kristen.

Day 3: (Last Day)

Please excuse my awkward glasses, they got smacked and broken by Claire accidentally :-( All cause I wanted a hug T^T



The last day was mostly spent getting ready for the performance and finish painting the props. Afterwards, we had a 2hour rest time and thats where shit went down :D Most people went to sleep (brandon) and they woke up with drawings on them ^___^ eh… excuse you not all by me but by most of the "wake" people. *evil laugh*

More selfis were taken too! And that where I got to know more of the campers!

 Sorry Brandon (he slept through all the crap we did to him)



Reuben woke up on the first try so this was the second try.



Yea kristen and I could not hold our laughter...


More of brandon


 The artists after finishing our master piece.


Time for the selfi stick to do its work!




Asher derping ash usual <-- See what I did there :-)



Nigel sleeping… zzz (Koen pissed him off afterwards so he went inside the boys room and continued sleeping)




We had the last dinner together and then packed up to get ready for HOF and the performance!










3 derp Asher moments.













The time finally came for HOF and before the service, we took even more photos haha much skills :-)



Selfi with the amazing actors and actresses.







Well, the camp has ended and I would like to thank Joanne for giving me this opportunity to help out. Haha but I'd like to apologise too cause sometimes I'll forget I'm a helper and go crazy with the rzoners too! But still, I had a great time with all of y'all. 
My district, who was always so funny and making me pumped up although I was so tired, we did not win, but y'all are winners to me ^____^
All the new friends/ juniors/ seniors I met. 
And not to forget the leaders and helpers for making this camp possible! 
Gah this is so cheesy but it was really memorable :-)

So to end this blog post, MORE PHOTOS! With the helpers and leaders and the idiots (new group we made)



All the girls <3


My district! [CHOW TA]


Photo bombing the winning district 


Helpers unite! :-)


Lastly, the idiots ;-)






We didn't realise we were making memories, all we knew were we were having fun.
Thank You guys!




Sunday, 11 May 2014

Nina's adventures: That Little Girl




So, today being sunday, I had to go to church.

After singing worship songs with my friends, we sat down and Pastor Dale started his sharing. Okay I have a confession to make, I use my phone at times during the sharing (please don't kill me) and I guess what I'm about to tell you is the "punishment" from God.

Basically, I was seated down with my jacket on my lap (how SC-girl like right?) with my phone on top of it… and guess what happened. It slid of my jacket and dropped into the row in front of me… *facepalm*




(Btw) in front of the row in front of me, there isn't another row. It's like a walking path. So some derp could just walk across and kick my phone further away while I was already panicking. I could not reach it (damn my short hands…) and my friends leg was too short to reach for it too… I was stuck… Well, my phone was.

Right at that moment my pastor asked the church to stand (we were going to pray) and the two girls about 4 seats from the right noticed my phone on the floor. They looked around and our eyes met. I gave them the "yes it's my phone, yes I know I'm stupid for dropping it" face. Our pastor started praying and we bowed our heads. As he was ending his prayer, this little girl came running up to my phone… 


*KEY DRAMATIC MUSIC*


I was basically like this:


1. She was probably gonna take my phone and run back to her parents. I couldn't possible like grab her during prayer and snatch my phone back…

2. I couldn't storm up to her to and demand her to give it back… in front of like 10929312738 people...

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But guess what this little girl did. She did something that I had not expected at all. She took the phone, looked around and then she looked up at me I stretched out my hand and before I was about to say: Sorry that's mine, she just placed it on my hand and skipped back to her parents.

I didn't know how I felt other than MY PHONE!!!! I GOT IT BACK!!!!!!




Thinking back about it, it kinda made me realise the innocence of a child.
That little girl didn't expect anything in return after picking my phone.
That little girl did not take it away from me.
That little girl did not laugh at me for being careless.
That little girl instead, gave it back to me without any hesitation.

It showed me how we should learn from children sometimes.

People this days are so judgemental and if it was an adult or youth who picked my phone up, they would probably leave having an impression of: "wow this girl is careless" about me or something else, as compared to this little girl...

Hence I'd like to end my blogpost with this poem:

A child's innocence
is because they are fresh and new
A child's innocence 
is because they have not yet seen evil debut

A child's innocence 
is because they are still pure
A child's innocence
is because they have been unchallenged for sure

A child's innocence 
is because their life is so beautiful and clear
A child's innocence
is because they were not yet taught about fear

A child's innocence
is because they have not yet been taught to hate
A child's innocence
is because they are still loved with debate

A child's innocence
is something to that we should cherish
A child's innocence
is somthing that should not perish

A child's innocence
is our last hope
A child's innocence
could teach us to cope






Haha well, this was some what of a deep post! Stay tuned for more blogs and silly incidences with me :3

If you have any requests for posts you want me to do, just ask me on my ask fm: Nina Neo
Hope all of you have a great mothers day and jia yous for Monday tomorrow! 

Thursday, 30 January 2014

CNY at the library

Hey everyone! Happy CNYY! Hope ya'll are having a great one collecting ang paos and eating ^_^






So today, my school was rewarded a full day off when other schools had a half day (haha suckers) <--- (jkjk) Due to our good O level results in 2013 (thank you seniors <3) So what did I do? Well... me and 3 other friends decided to go out to the *drumroll* esplanade library haha yes awfully boring? NO WRONG! :P x___x We had a great time :D


Yea... we spent most of the time derping around hehe...

Okay we planned to meet at the esplanade library to start our revision for our tests and holiday assignments (the perks of being a singaporean student: holidays? NOPE homework, tests revision, assignments, graded projects *sigh*)



Oh well, anyways, we met at the Starbucks at the end of City link (me and mavis) and waited for Nicole to come. Fun fact: I bought a banana instead of a drink... at Starbucks (yes I'm completely normal guys ^^) Mavis got a green tea thingy <--- I'm not a huge Starbucks fan so yea... no hate please. Nic finally came and we called Shana to ask where she was. The conversation went something like this:

Me: "Hey where are you now?"

Shana: "Oh... I'm on the way."

Me: "Eh. Wheres on the way?"

Shana: "At home......"

That moment of silence where i just face palmed so badly.



So 3 of us walked to Marina square to get some Macs. Side story: I got some CNY limited edition kind of burger and nope didn't like it. TOO PEPERY T^T *lunch ruined* thank God for them twister fried <3 Shana finally arrived and we headed to esplanade library.


Side story: I was fooling around as per usual and in the process kind of locked shanas phone. The girl also forgot her PIN to unlock it again so I spent 1/2 in the library, trying to unscrew the mess I just made... In the end, I had to search how to reset her phone and I had to wipe out the data on her phone just to unlock it again... Thankfully, it was only 1 month old and there was nothing much in it. But lesson *never be like nina and try to disable your friends samsung S2 ace phone cuz it isnt like an iPhone*

We spent 2 hrs studying and doing A math (the fun...) and trying to teach nigo and mervis how to solve stuff. Finally, we went to the roof of the esplanade library and spent the rest of our time there. If you wanna take photos, it's kinda a good place to go to ^___^



So we spent the rest of our time taking polaroids and just derping around :P I'll just stop typing now so you can judge our photos ><





The sun was too bright for these 2 polaroids T^T






A wild Mavis and Nicole Fong arranging films :3






My tongue is crazily long D: omg NUUUUUU





Hehe oggay thats all :D just wanted to say, thank guys for the great day hehe thanks for making the start of my CNY! Lets have another study date soon ^^ and loads more photos 

xoxo
nina



Fun end blogpost story:

After the whole thing ended, we took the circle line train back home and btw circle line train pepo, the train had like no air con ): So anyways, I alighted and parted with Nicole at Serangoon to transfer to the purple line. And guess what... yep there was many people, so when the train came, they all rushed aboard and poor me was at the end. By the time i stepped into the train, the doors began to close (oh great) come one man... I was tired and my phone was at 1%, now I had to worry about the doors of the train... I squished myself inside but my shoulder got caught and MY BELOVED BAG TOO D: I have a bruise to prove it. So yay bruised shoulder what else could go wrong? The door decided to be persistent and clam my poor bag :*( I yanked at it but no the door was persistent thankfully some guy near me helped me and my bag was somewhat saved... apart from the small tear :*( And after I got my bag out, the door stayed that way and I think I kinda screwed up the timing and all a bit cuz after 15sec the doors closed and the train started moving. I spent the ride looking down and I hopped of the train at the next station cuz I couldn't stand the embarrassment.

^ Lesson learnt, please beware when boarding trains. I have to suffer CNY with a bruised shoulder now.









Saturday, 23 November 2013

Nina's adventures: Church Camp and Crazy Friends

Hey guys.

Wow... I've been so busy I've like totally neglected blogging haha! 

Oh well, NINA IS BACK. And be prepared cause I'm gonna be blogging about my church camp this week! Yippie! But I'm not going to be talking about everything I did in detail but more about the new crazy idiotic and wonderful people I met <3 

I'm in my room now and it's so cold outside *shivers*
I'm listening to ALL TIME LOW :D







It was like a beach resort <3
Okay so we took a total of abut 3 coaches to Desaru? I'm not sure >< (Please don't kill me) My bus didn't really have much people I knew so I just sat at the back with 3 friends and played my ukulele hehe. (I hope I didn't irritate anyone) :p We reached the hotel and I stayed there before it was so dejavu. OKAY SAD PART. MY ROOM WAS LIKE 3 BLOCKS AWAY FROM EVERYTHING!!!!!!111!!!!!1!!!!!!!11111one one one. So every time we had to go somewhere, we had to like leave 5-10mins earlier *pouts*

TEAM OHANA FTW (Thats my group for the camp hehe we rock ^^)
Photo: TEAM OHANA - FAMILY ! (too bad Jiani couldn't join us for the pic). Help me tag others ya.

The camp was super exhausting cause of the games and all (Tug-of-war almost ripped my hands off) But along the 4 days, I met new people and bonded with my old friends ^^ <-- Hehe old friends see what I did there claire? :3 The water games were the best :) 2nd last team standing not bad not bad :p


One of the most funny things yet disturbing was the monkeys. You see, we were eating at a somewhat open air, sheltered area and a monkey was on the roof opposite our eating area. I got kinda freaked out cause monkeys scare me. It was walking around when another one appeared so instinctively, I was just: OH the mommy is here to take the baby away. But ohhh man I was so wrong... The bigger monkey came over and started humping the smaller one and the whole place just erupted with laughter after a few seconds of silence. I was *poker face* and then when everyone started laughing, I couldn't help but join in. 


To start off, thrashing peoples rooms were the best. Just hanging out in the room eating, talking, playing UNO, watching sharmaine get sort of possessed. It was crazy and thinking back we must have disturbed like countless people, but I guess I can say it was worth it cause we had so much fun ;) We thrashed other rooms too but I won't elaborate on that :p later get into trouble! XP



Well, surprisingly, I got to know more people better over the phone :p I got prank called and the boys were taking turns to talk so I was just : whu- why- whuttt is happening D: and then my saviour Claire would come and scold them. But it was fun ^^ talking and disturbing people at 12-1am :p (HAHA sharmaine and Elijah) *evil laugh* haha next morning I'd get a morning call from Natalie with her shouting: GOOD MORNING. And I'd just be: Urgh... morning *imagine me saying this with a sexy voice like a low one XD*


Finally, the last night.

It

Was

The

Best

Y'all should thank me alright. Imagine if I hadn't downloaded charades D: Yea so I got to know so many crazy peeps better. It's funny... how such a simple game like that can bring so many people together! Acting the weird actions out, char rocking became humping *laughs* and singing out songs disturbing others. I can't stand it it was just so funny :3 

I can't believe that its over too. Like *snap* 4 days passed... But I'm really glad that I got to meet you guys and bond more with my other friends! It's kinda sad we only bonded on the last night too >:-( Haha but better late then never :D So lets do our best to serve and praise god! 


BYE







Monday, 9 September 2013

August Favourites





Hey Guys!

It's september!!!

Okay so this is new, I'll be doing monthly favourites from this month onwards :D EOYs are coming up too so I'll try my best to be updating this blog more regularly!!!


Kays everything aside, lets start!


1. What's the funniest thing that happened to you?

Its probably having the lizard popping out of my pile of books and making my scream and run out of class. I have a blogpost about that below! So, go check it out :)



2. Did you read any books?

Sadly, no! I have not much time during this period! I don't even have time to read my mangas!


3. Which movies did you watch?

Monsters university! I love the show so much! (I watched it on megashare though!) Monster ink has been my childhood movie so when the sequal came out, I was just ASDFGJKL LEMME>< I watched it in the cinema but I loved so much, I decided to watch it again.


4. Something that made you proud of yourself?

I FINALLY WENT TO PAPER MARKET AND GOT MY SCRAPBOOKING MATERIAL! (Okay confession: I have never bought anything in paper market until last friday)
So, I'm really happy my mom brought me there. I got a fresh supply of scrapbooking material and I've been doing more scrapbooking pieces!


5. Which games did you play?

Plants Vs. Zombies II

6. Did you travel anywhere?

Nope! Does the toilet count?


7. Which foods did you try and love?


I tried to eat butter cookies again because I'm not a fan of sweet stuff and whenever I go into the kitchen now, I'll just pop a cookie into my mouth and munch on it while carrying on with my stuff





8. Which songs have you been listening to?

I've been very interested in Indie rock music this few months so go check em out!

Sum 41, Pieces
Capital Cities, Safe and Sound 
Snowmine, let me in

Thats bout all!




9. Favourite products?

My whole scrapbooking haul <3 and the 99 dollar dress which I still have not laid my hands on... :<







10. What did you learn?

Bananas relief depression and that people who listen to more music are more likely to be more depressed. 


Thats all guys! Stay tuned and keep reading! 

CYA!

P.s. Eat more bananas :D












Nina's adventures: ZAD the LIZARD

Hey guys! Back with a short entry of *drum roll* Nina's adventures!!!

Okay so it all started on a very very mundane Monday of a particular week. I was sitting in class as usual, trying to stay awake hehe during a certain class (I shall not mention the class name :P) So we were supposed to be referring to our notes. 

So, without any notes on my table, I reached underneath my desk to take out my whole book pile and began searching for the notes. 

And this is when you need to pay attention, if you want to have a laugh. While I flipped through my books, a tiny lizard head popped out of my book pile. And this is how I reacted.


*clam* hmm what the heck is that black thing

*starting to realise* WTH why is it moving

*PANIC* OMG ITS A FREAKING LIZARD'S HEAD

*PANICE X100000* throws everything onto the floor and runs out of class (I sit right next to the door)

It might not seem scary reading this but trust me, Imagine having a pile of books on your lap and searching through them, when a lizard head pops out! So I came back into class, with of course, everyone staring at me... 

My friend then comes over and picks up the lizard with her BARE hands and drops it about 5cm in front of me
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=_=

Thanks...


So yea I was definitely awaken by that incident by everyone's laughter and possible the worse fright I have ever gotten in class... Now I am super paranoid that there is a lizard infestation under my desk... Oh gosh T^T


Well, that's it for Nina's adventures! Stay tuned for more silly moments!

Friday, 23 August 2013

Nina adventures: Neko Nina

Hey guys! Found out today I have a stomach infection ):

But I'm fine :D Same old Nina.

So yea :P

I'll be trying to blog more. I hope XD With EOY in one months time ): Anyways, I hope everyone is doing good! Have a great weekend!


xoxo, 
Neko Nina (Neko means cat in Japanese hehe I think...?)