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Welcome, I finally have a blog.
Will try to post 7 times a week at 8pm. Have fun.
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Ernest Huang M08303
Completed Halo 3 on Legendary,
Completed Gears of War on Insane,
Completed Call of Duty 4,
Kane and Lynch rocks,
Mass Effect should be PG,
portal = cake,
Timeshift sucks,
XBOX 360 to the end.
Wii... Hehe,
Gunz lvl 41,
Accomplished Sprayer,
Not very accomplished K styler.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
3:50 AM
Holy crap on a stick. I haven't been posting for a loooong time.
Sorry but my phone can't connect to the computer right now. So no pictures but i'll try to get them up.
So much has happened and so much is happening right now. It's seriously a really busy time.
I went to the Henry Park Primary School Scouts Sixer Training camp last last week. Its my old primary school so i thought going back there to help would be fun. I went in the capacity of a service scout. So my jobs were basically to guide the pri 6s and be a big brother to them. The camp was held at a really ulu spot in sembawang so at night you could see so many stars.
Oh and being a service scout is the SLACKEST job in the entire world. You get a dorm with beds, while others sleep in tents and you can stay in it playing PSP and DS until your services are needed. Its that simple. So Dominique, Steven and Wei Long from New Town came along, as did Clement and Dinh from NUSHS. Dominique brought a PSP and Wei Long brought his DS, so we played PSP and DS the entire way.
The Henry Park Scouts weren't too bad either. Being primary school kids, they were easy to amuse. And being the only person to bother to amuse them, everyone started sidling up to me. By the bus ride back, everyone knew my name. 2 people even got my phone number, and i have no idea how that happened. Anyway, the highlight activity was the 7km hike. It took 5 bloody hours (Primary school kids). But at the end of the hike, we were at the Sembawang hot springs, which i only knew because of reading Neil Humprey's book. It was just a bunch of old wrinky men and a few taps and a lot of buckets. The spring was about 80 degrees hot and contained sulphur from the earth underground, which smelled like rotten eggs O.O The kids loved it, playing with the extremely hot water, and being in charge of their safety, i got burned quite a few times. In the end the camp was quite fun, ending with a water slide game. And the kids are still calling me...
Oh and I'm now a Team Leader for the upcoming DSA NUS high selection test, in charge of Blue 5. Benard got Blue 6, which was my original group and he doesn't want to switch with me :( Lol. With the HPPS scouts camp a success, i hope the new generation of NUS High will like me. And this time i'm not giving out my phone number...
Friday, June 27, 2008
3:44 AM
Day 3
We landed in Vancouver. After getting over our Jet lag for the time being, we went to explore Vancouver by ourselves. We went to rent 4 bicycles and went to ride in Stanley Park. Its the largest park in Vancouver and has really breathtaking sights. Mistake. The air outside the city, is only survivable by polar bears and the local hobo population. It is so cold, that you get iced water in your backpack. Combine that with riding against the wind, and you have a temperature of about -4 degrees C. By the end of the trip, my hands were frozen on the bike handles.
But even so, we saw great sights along the trip.
And of course, the Maple Tree. Canada's national pride, and Maplestory's mascot.
Later, we went to the aquarium. In Stanley Park. There is actually a huge aquarium in Stanley park. The place is really big, about the size of Singapore Science Center. Its actually a really good place, especially in America, because unlike Singapore, it only get minimum funding from the government. The rest of it comes from donors.
After the aquarium, we headed to town and found that parking cost around 8 dollars for 2 hours O: and also hobos could identify us as tourists, which in any country, is bad. I also discovered a use for chinese, saying things without any one knowing. :D We all had dinner before collasping on the bed at 7pm, cos of jet lag. I woke up at 11.30pm and took this pic
Sunset in vancouver. 11.30pm
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
5:01 AM
Scroll down for the travel log. Its listed under 30th May, can't get it fixed. Hmm.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
5:10 AM
Sorry, but i can't do the whole Alaska Travel-log right now. I'm swamped with last minute tasks from scouts, school and TaeKwon Do at the same time. With school opening in two days, the earliest i can promise is Tuesday. Check back then!
Sorry everyone.
Ernest
Thursday, June 19, 2008
1:16 AM
I'm back from the dead.
For those of you who don't know, i was in Alaska on vacation. I took a 19 day tour of Alaska, Canada, and Seattle. I'll be posting on a day by day basis throughout the next 19 days as a travel log of what i did on the trip. Tell your friends!
Here's a starter:
Jet lagged like crazy now. 15 hours difference XP I'll take a while to recover.
I'm gonna sleep now, even though its like 10 am.
Nitez
Friday, May 30, 2008
9:57 PM
Day 1.
Our flight was from the brand new Terminal 3 of Changi Airport. Its building design was awesome. But it feels more like a mall than really an airport. You see more people with shopping bags than with lugagge.
Our flight was from the brand new Terminal 3 of Changi Airport. Its building design was awesome. But it feels more like a mall than really an airport. You see more people with shopping bags than with lugagge.
Oh and Terminal 3 had the new biometric passport system, which is completely automatic. We were quite impressed when we got through customs in 10 mins, instead of the usual 40 mins. But my mom got stuck in the system cos the machine couldn't read her fingerprints, and had to get manually checked. It turned out that she was pressing too hard on the glass. 
My mom's the one at the desk. Her elbow's is up so high its pressing down like crazy.Airplane ride was uneventful. It was a red eye flight from singapore to seoul Korea. A 6 hour flight to Korea, followed by a 12 hour flight across the Pacific Ocean to Vancouver. The flight was pretty fun. I watched Iron Man 4 times XD and the guy beside me played territory war with me. Cos there was two of us and only 1 armrest :D Everytime he turned the page of his newspaper, i would sneakily slip my arm onto the armrest and he couldn't use it. Then my sis woud do something stupid. Then i would lift my arm and he would quickly put his arm there. Oh and i tried to order a Singapore Sling cocktail on the plane, and the steward was like "Uhh.. Sure" Then my sis HAD to open her mouth and say "But he's only 15!" and the steward said "maybe next time kiddo" GAHH. stupid sister.
Day 2.
We reached Vancouver Canada at 12.22 pm, 29 May. Bearing in mind that we left Singapore at 8am 29 May. We crossed the international date line, meaning we went back 1 day. 22,000 km in 18 hours. Of course, that meant massive jet lag. Which i have. -.o When we got out of the airport, the cold was unbelievable. It doesn't creep upon you like the heat of Singapore, its just wham, like you walked into a solid wall of cold. We specially came at the height of Canada's summer to escape the cold. The heat reached skin boiling temperatures of 9 degrees Celsius in the afternoon.If you're reading this in your air conned room, its 3 times colder here =P Also the air here is super dry. That means your skin cracks, which is really painful. I already have a few cracks in various places. -.^ we went to the hotel and crashed even though it was 3 in the afternoon. Jet Lag.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
3:54 AM
Wow. I've realised i haven't posted in a long time. woah.
I'm now an internationally recognized senior black belt in TaeKwonDo! I took the test on Vesak Day on the 19th of May. It was 7 hours of HELL. The physical exercise got me aching all over. I did, 1000 push ups, 1000 situps, and 30 minutes of continuous skipping. That and 16 more items. But in the end, I got my reward. :D My name on the list of honor and on a black belt.
Before that, we went to a campfire at Singapore Chinese Girls School. As part of a effort to get NUS High's name to be recognized around the island, we were obliged to attend. And we were the only boys in there with SJI and RI. The RI boys were a joke. Running out and embarrassing themselves in front of the guest of honor. Damn, those guys were drunk or something. SCGS pulled of a pretty good campfire. Their theme was... questionable. But the rest was solid, and didn't suffer from any problems. I enjoyed it, save for the very immature remarks from Teck Chye and Dao Han, who both have to really grow up. But the games and everything was so sexist! The girls won all the time -.- even though the boys sometimes were better, the MCs always let the girls win. And when we complained, they asked us to be gentlemanly. Why bother to have a game when you know who the winner is? But I managed to win a game out of 4. It was a water drinking contest :D But other than that, the MCs were girls, the items were performed by girls and the campfire was done by girls. We just had to watch lolz.
Igniting the fire!
All girls o.O Anyway their theme was a Sea kinda theme, so the MCs were in sailor suits.
Today we did costal clean up as part of our CIP programme. More like an excuse to get us out of the school while the SIMC goes on. -.- Dr Hang was on 6.30 chinese news today btw. You won't believe the kind of trash you'll find on the beach. Kallang river was full of strange stuff. We found: A dead sea snake kinda thing, an empty Olay facial whitening cream bottle, 4 condoms and a construction worker's helmet o.O The place smells like rotten eggs doused in sweat socks and set alight.
After that, we all went to a nearby hawker centre to try the chocolate fondue there. Bernard says it gives you wings. I think his fondue got spiked with LSD :D Zi Yang, Winston, Elijah and Bing Jie tagged along for no good reason. But Bernard was right, it was good.
The whole set! The chocolate looks good. :P
Rachel dipping the waffle into chocolate while Bernard is drinking.
Tommorow is the sandcastle building at East Coast Park, so i bet it'll be pretty interesting. Until then, i shall end this post off on a random note.
All hail the mighty SPORK. The very awkward offspring of two very drunk cutlery. Found at Taka.
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