Orientation 2008 was a blast (: Last year's theme for us Year 1s were "Where stars are born". This Year, for us Year 2s, it's "Where constellations are forged. Heard that the theme for this year's new students are the Olympics. Woah. We got to know of our Groups we were in.


{ DHS X'plore! }
-consists of racing around the WHOLE of Singapore's checkpoints via pure public transport and guessing using clues provided to guess our next checkpoint. One task for each checkpoint.

Group B1 members: WenNing, Chervelle, Dawn, Crystal, YuWei, RongHui, ZhengNan, ChangWei, ChingYing & Me

Newspaper cutting xD
The race stars. In order to leave the school, the group must cut out both Chinese/English words from newspapers to form the Chinese and English paragraphs we were given. It took so long the SFs decided that completing 80% of the paragraphs were enough.lol.

1st Stop: Chinese Gardens
Clue: An actress with a circle drawn around her

We got to type an sms message without using a dictionary with perfect punctuation and capitalisation within 20 minutes or so. The message was like super long (In terms of an sms):

"In ancient times, 入云塔, originally a simple tower located beside a temple, was used for the keeping of human bones by Buddhists. Later, with improvement in architectural skills, incorporated with the traditional art of building, the pagoda was developed into a structure of striking architectural beauty."

2nd stop: Biopolis
Clue: A teacher saying: "I don't teach physics or chemistry, only biology." And a police car with a whirling siren.

We were given a picture of a close up sculpture outside the Biopolis centre. It turned out to be a giant sculpture of a metal dandelion, which we were to take a picture as a group beside it

3rd Stop: Lau Pa Sah
Clue: A picture of the clock tower beside Lau Pah Sah

This was our favorite checkpoint. We got to take a group picture together with tourists from 2 different countries separately. Coincidentally, a group of tourists crossed the road (my it was a HUGE group) and we asked for the favour. We managed to get both Russian and European tourists take a photo with us. The woman from Europe was particularly enthusiastic about it. In fact, very enthu, I'd say. It was like super cute :P That's what made this checkpoint so fun

4th Stop: Vivo City
Clue: A paper showing 0 <>>1<>>?

We had our lunch there in a fast food restaurant. We were the 11th group to report there (: Not too late. I ordered vanilla smoothie to drink and nothing to eat, so (I) shared French Fries with sauce that tasted like cheese and curry with Crystal. It ended up that everyone became too full to finish their meal so they da bao

5th Stop: 328 Katong Laksa
Clue: A super complex Year 2 problem sum which equals to 328

This was the most frustrating stop. We ended up going to the wrong place, back to Biopolis =.= Going to Biopolis was exhausting because you need to climb up a steep slope which made our already aching legs ache even more. They didn't have Laksa there and we wasted our time going to the stop. But they gave us a chance and asked us to order Laksa from the Biopolis food court. Problem is, there isn't any Laksa. So we ordered Tom Yam soup with noodles, tried shaking the camera so the tom yam appeared milky like Laksa, and ate finish the stuff. It was a little hilarious about what we did to make it appear like Laksa, especially the picture that we took using the shaky-on-intention photo. XD

6th Stop: Suntec City
Clue: A drawing of buildings & a small water fountain inside a greenhouse shaped like a sun with the words "Solar Technology"

We went to the area where they sold the Duck Tours tickets and calculated the price of the number of adults and children of a family at different ages when they buy tickets. Hypothetically, of course. While we were calculating,our SF received an sms to caution us not to run without looking, 'caus one of the groups knocked into an old lady which ended up to a trip to the hospital. Scary eh?

7th Stop: UOB Plaza
Clue: The three words: Understand Our Badge

This was the most funny checkpoint. We were to find the Giant Bird Sculpture by Fernando Botero and do:

1. Squat for 2 minutes with your arms held out like a chicken
2. Do the chicken dance 2 times in front of the sculpture

Ohmygawsh. In FULL VIEW OF THE PUBLIC. We chose 2 over 1, because it was less humiliating. Haha. We did it in like under 1 minute XD It was the task we completed in the shortest time.

8th Stop: Lot 1

Yay I'm so happy it's our last stop I didn't notice what the clue was! lol.

We were to solve Chinese riddles created by the SFs. I think. It was tricky so everyone called/sms their parents, chinese tutors, good china students for help. It did help a lot (:

END OF Amazing Raze.
(with our legs aching like it was suspended from a crane for 2 hours)

{SandCastlebuilding@EastCoast}
-consists of building under sweltering hot sun with sunburns, and pouring rain which showers go on and off, causing us to go in, out, in, out of Shelter. BUT IT'S FUNNN! :D

Started with drawing the sketch of the sandcastle in the hall. Dawn was the supposed designer but got to get the role of the Mayor for the Red Zone. She said being a Mayor isn't that fun at all, stressful. Lin Lao Shi kinda' saboed her. Xinyi couldn't take the role, so she looked at the nearest girl next to her. "Dawn" then immediately turns to the teacher telling her Dawn is the mayor without waiting for an answer. xD

So now I was the one drawing. WenNing and Chervelle were the ones who thought of the creative ideas. Helped a lot. I did the worst drawing of my life. A purple marker drawing of a castle that looked like a simple outline done by a primary school child. lol. No details at all. hey but after all, it's just a sketch, isn't it?

Those professional architects freak me out with their drawings. Serious. I wonder who designed the Esplanade. Or even scarier. Mult-million dollar projects like the upcoming resort. In other words, the huge gambling resort for tourists. Coming in few years time.

We went to East Coast Beach. It kept raining and stopping, so we had to go in out of the shelter. Lunch was fries, burger and apple juice. Couldn't get better than that.

And we built out sandcastles using moulds and stuff. Just take a gigantic mould of sand and pour buckets of water on it to make it solid. Even if there was someone jumping atop it it would not crack or crumble. We managed to build the castle on the inside, with walls with pillars at all four sides. The entrance was a grand one with staircases. Due to lack of space and time, we skipped the garden and fountain we were meant to build at the end of the flight of staircase.

The "agents" trying to "sell off" all the sancastles built in the Red Zone were Alvin, Zhen Wen, and Fraser. Alvin, from our class. The others in 2A. Load of old tosh but at haha who cares XD For fun only. Don't mind. Red zone has like 10 or 11 groups so they made many sandcastles like a resort, casino, chalets, shopping centres...etc. that add to an integrated resort. One group from 2C was paticularly unique with their cute turtle and dollar shaped sand building.

Then ate dinner at food village before going home (:

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