Cambodia

this is annoying. i cannot type my post while waiting for my photos to upload here. its either typing or uploading? wa damn waste time ttm. shouldnt have changed to the new look :@ how to change back?!?! :(

i promised Jayi i will post about Cambodia. just wait a moment. i say today first. went back to school for extended curriculum! felt very welcomed :):) Ms Tian fainted again during chem lesson :O gave out clique singlets to table8 girls whooo ^^. amaths and geog were horrible.

ohyeah got my results too. i finally got a beautiful A!!!! A2 for Emaths :) sian max my Phy got B4 omg emooo :( Chem i got B4 omg shockedddd. haha! pass Geog WOOHOO i think it's a C5. oh yes it is! yay :D failed Amaths -_- expected. Chinese B4. English should be some B or C? omg i did damn badly for the writings :( Chum i think B also. okay la. at least i see more Bs then Cs. happy happy :)

after school went to JP to buy snacks and bubbletea. and went home. which means i reached home like super early. like at 3pm+? slacked like mad and went to find Yi Rui downstairs haha :) we two walked to Zakiah's house and ask her come down chat. omg best bonding. (Y) then she needed to go home aw. me and Yi Rui went to Daily Scoops and he treated me a cup woo ^^.

Sunday, slept till late and went for the tuition. i was the only student there. nerd ftw (Y). went to Sentosa with Carina Jason Leonard Moses JianHui BinJie CheeWeng afterwards. saw Hannah Lim! :D was great lepaking. didnt join much in the games as i did not feel like tiring myself out especially when i just came back from Cambodia x_x. volleyball was fun :) i still remember i used to hate volleyball a lot haha! now damn fun le yay :) 8pm went to Carls Junior for dinner!

Okay!!! CAMBODIA YO PEOPLE!!!


Day 1.
reached airport on time :) was very touched by the farewell messages i got :) when i got my plane ticket and comparing with others i was like panicking and sian-ing cos everyone's seats were like 24, 25, 26. mine was 15B. until i found out Khairul was 15A and i was like YAY!!!! hahahaha :) boarded Silk Air. it was cool, has been a long time since i last entered a plane. previous time was when i was 4 years old? :O slept and ate.

reached Phnom Penh and travelled around in a coach to sightsee. Cambodia is like, Batam? houses quite broken and poor and got some good buildings here and there. :O had lunch at a halal restaurant called The Mamak's. went to the killing fields and some genocide museum to learn about the pass of Cambodia. apparently a lot of people died there and their graves were exactly at the area where we went omg. there was this stupa which is a building holding all the skulls of the people who died. picture below. and they used to hold children by their legs and flinging them at trees. wtf. :( genocide musuem contain more of the weaponry and tools to torture the people. all their beds and prisons also there. eeek. :(

dinnered. went to Townsview hotel after that and found out my roommate was HuiQi. :) not so bad. at least is someone cheerful and entertaining. at first a bit awkward i guess. after awhile okay le :) camwhore with her every night man~ HAHA! did debriefing and slept early.












Day 2.
woke up to a freezing cold room of 17degrees. (Y) LOL. had awesome breakfast. went to Dumpsite T-house to see da kids. that place is a school in an area that used to be a dumpsite. so all the kids who want education will just go to that school. no age limit. hmm my group started off with hand drawing and self intro. ohya i was in Group4 with Grace, Gladys, Annabelle, NicholasTan, GimBin. then we sang 'head and shoulder knees and toes' and did puzzles and taught some words. not bad the kids were quite interested :D then a boy came in late and i had to entertain him alone first for him to get used to it. and he did! taught him some simple words like aeroplane, boat, shirt, pants. and his name is Yi Sei Comn. something like that. :/ but he was very friendly :) btw. ''Naeak chummo ay?'' means ''What is your name?''. this was damn helpful in my interactions :)

lunch at Mamak's. whitewashing in the afternoon. sweated a lot and trained a lot of arm muscles WHOO~ but it was damn fun. all my shirt and shorts tio a lot of whitewash :D shiok~ and Coach Naz say she proud of us ^^ dinnered bathed and debrief. and we slept early again too :)









Day 3.
was one of the latest to go up for breakfast LOL. went to Dumpsite again! did face masks with the kids and all the kids ended up making more then 1. hahaha cute :) camwhored with their masks! then GimBim passed me this girl called Thidar cos he had to do some media stuff. i taught her some words and her handwriting freaking nice (Y). there was like very minimal difference between mine (kids version) and hers. she like use a lot of effort to write. :) and she's damn pretty too! at the end of the session while they were playing mass games she told me to piggy back her and carry her around. aw :) then she went ahead and pasted the worksheets she had done. damn smart! i miss Thidar :(

lunch. visited slums after that. yes the area was very dirty, smelly, muddy. their house base was made of stones and pebbles. kids walk around barefooted and they go and collect valuable rubbish like plastic to sell and to buy a meal. quite sad. treasure what you have okay!

went back and whitewash again. did almost all the walls and the corners. then had some kids to entertain also. did puzzles with them :) one of them was alone at a corner and i went to him to try make conversation. in the end success sia and ended up playing scissors paper stone (winner hit hand). hahahaha :) but he did not want to join the others to fix the puzzle aw :( found out afterwards that he went back cos of fever. no wonder... then me and GimBin accompanied this 14 year old girl to fix 3 jigsaw puzzles while they had mass games downstairs. she loved them a lot :)

for debrief. had show-and-tell. i showed the piece of paper that Thidar wrote on :). also did a video for the media guys too. at night, chatted with Hui Qi from 11.30 to 1.20am LOL. spam share a lot of stuffs :D so thirsty until i had to drink water :P















Day 4.
last day at Dumpsite. had hygiene day in the morning with the kids. got to wash, dry, comb their hair, wash their hands and cut their nails. washing their hair is damn fun!!!! all the soap~ whoo. looked like they enjoyed also :) got to comb Thidar's hair! and she recognised me yay :) he hair damn long and thick 8D and no lice! hahaha :) pei her wash hands and cut nails also. after that me and Shermel led to teach the children how to brush teeth. damn cool everybody was like doing with us :) gave each of the kids a toothbrush to bring home ^^.

played heart attack with my group at Mamak's :). hmm then afternoon had normal lessons again. gave the kids to do colouring. they seem to enjoy it a lot. afterwards a group of them were amused by the sharpener and kept coming to me with blunt colour pencils to get to turn the sharpener AW. :) then when i pasting up the kid's colourings someone pulled my shirt. guess who? THIDAR! omg i was damn happy then :) she usually dont come for afternoon sessions so i was surprised she was there ^^ and somemore come and recognise me awwww :')

had mass songs afterwards. DAMN HIGH~~~ first they sang songs to us and took turns to come up and solo sing. Thidar solo-ed! aww :) then our turn to sing for them. Father Abraham, Banana Song, and Cheeky Dance. got them to join us too :) Father Abraham was damn crazy! hahahaha! then settled down and had the brushing of teeth session again. same thing~ watched the kids went home and packed up.

did happiness index for the past 3 days during debrief. pangseh-ed Hui Qi while she brushed her teeth and slept without camwhoring x_x haha! too tired :/







Day 5.
whoo packed up and travel to Siem Reap. bus ride was relaxing. talked to Jayi and Miss Chia :D went to pee at an area where it was flooded and we had to cross using some wooden boards. damn cool. and saw many cows and padi fields. flooded padi fields. so i actually concluded that if Cambodia wasnt flooded, more people would have gotten more food. :O

lunch at some restaurant and went to check in at Parklane Hotel. this hotel is owned by a Singaporean :O even provided orange juice and wet towels for us while waiting :O atas siol. got our new room and me and Hui Qi ended up at the ground floor right beside the dining tables LOL. advantage is can wake up late. disadvantage is very hard to sneak to other people's rooms :/

had group presentation. Group 4 did our awesome song. lyrics: (sing in tune with The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars)

Today we feel like doing everything
We just wanna play with the kids
Don't feel like going back to home
So give us the kids and leave us alone
Cos today we feel like doing everything

Gonna teach them new stuff
And paint them a wall
Wash their little hands
And teach them how to brush
Cos nobody can tell them they can't

They'll be our best friends
Just chilling with our buddies
Play some ball games and they can teach us all the values
Cos in Cambodia they're our freaking kids

Oh yes we said it, we said it
We said it cos we can!

[Chorus]

Yes we are gonna comb their hair
Cos we ain't going anywhere
No no no no no no no no no noooo~
We'll just wear our muddy shoes
and go to Dumpsite and say hi!
Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hiiii~

[Chorus]

Everything oh yeah~ woo ooo ooo woo ooo ooo oooooooo~ EVERYTHING OH YEAH~

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yep. good to keep here to refresh my memory next time :) mainly slack with group and Myet's group after that :) went back to our room and we had maggee noodles! then 1.30am me and Hui Qi executed our mission impossible. SUCCESS!!!! :D shhh~~

Day 6.
went to AngKor Tom and AngKor Wat today. mainly sight seeing. were splitted up into 2 groups and all my main friends were all there :O so hang out here and there with some people and Gladys and  Nicholas accompanied me mostly :) talked a lot to Miss Yang and Coach Zuhrah too! was trying to mentor them the perfect way to take photos hahahah they my tu di :P camera died halfway and had to use Jayi's camera to take pics. she's passing me the photos tmr. so i will upload them on fb. i only post those i have here okay :) climbed this damn steep staircase that led to the old Pharoah's palace. freaking steep but fun! (Y) was shocked at myself as i asked the teachers questions. i usually don't care about culture stuff de. cool me. haha!

went to night market after dinner. at first slack buy then panicked and quickly got stuff for people. bargaining makes me feel evil :( they keep saying they got no profit omg. managed to buy quite a lot! kinda satisfied :) then Miss Chia and i got problem. LOL. crap. thanks all who cared. :)

debrief and went to slack with Khairul and Lin Paing with Jayi :) great night chatting. Hui Qi was sleeping and Nicholas was stoning. haha. then Jayi came to my room and sleep with us :D we 2 share same bed :) stayed up late to chiong some letters. :O slept at 2.30am when i couldnt focused x_x lol.

Day 7.
woke up 1 hour earlier (6.30am i think) then Jayi to finish the letters :) had breakfast with her, Khairul LP. omg why must the best things happen on the last day? it was a peaceful and pleasant breakfast :) packed up and went to Silk Farm. i am amused by those stuff there! showed life cycle and ate a silkworm lavae ^^ and saw how they made silk materials. a lot of effort needed :O. Lin Paing accompanied me during the whole expedition. omg thanks :) then went to their shop and spam buy stuffs for mum, sis, YingQi, YueYi. and me and LP bought the same pencil case! ^^. total spent $66USD :O. Jayi treated me to ice cream after that :)

had lunch and travelled to airport. awww so fast. my seat ended up between Khairul and Apurva again even though the others were randomised again :O this time the plane not nice to sleep sia. neck damn pain :( reached SG airport at 10.35pm? had many lovely texts ^^. my mum fetched me too! <3 took group photos and zao~~ :)

yep. that wraps up my Cambodia trip. im sure this will forever be in my memories. first and last overseas school trip with friends and teachers. (Y). thanks all teachers Mr Lew, Miss Chia, Miss Yang and Mr Fazlin and coaches Zuhrah and Naz FOR ALL THE HARD EFFORT OMG :') and thank you God. :)

time check: 1.40am. (Y).