100th post, and it couldnt come at a better time. no, i havent got internet connection at my house yet, no, i havent gotten a number here in brunei, yet, no...uhhh..i havent gotten a new WHATEVER! yet...

i just got back from PHUKET, THAILAND y'all!!

how i could have been at that beach to take that picture...

i went to Phuket along with my footie frens and coaches to join and compete in this tournament, that happens annually.

the tournament was a 2 day thing, friday and saturday were the games. mind you, it was blistering hot and im glad i didnt get a bad sunburn, but as for my skin i look like roasted chicken.

so basically, we had to meet up at the airport for group check-in at 630, in the freaking morning!! then dragged myself to the waiting lounge and just hang out. then we boarded round 9 ish, forgot the time..
landed in Singapore about an hour and a half later, and went shopping the whole day, bought loads of stuff, will show pics once i upload some other time. then after that we checked in to again board another plane to Phuket.
once in Phuket, there was a time difference of one hour, between Brunei, so let's say if in Thailand it was 930, then in Brunei it was 1030, so it was kinda hard to adjust to at first. The next 2 days were just playing footie and having fun, regardless of the result, u guess should have guessed by now, that the result wasnt good, then again we conceded terrible unlucky goals, and lost most by 1-0. there is always next year!! and football funday next week!
then came sunday, where we did the same thing like thursday, but instead of shopping around the city, we stayed in the airport caused we were just tooooo tired to do anytin.

no worries, once i upload pics, i exaggerate more, as for now, just check back every 5 months and im sure u will get an update!! LOL

kidding, hopefully end of the month i could be bloggin regularly..

XXOO

melissa signed off at 6:28:00 PM


just popped by to say i wont be round my computer to say the least,moved into a new house so, will be without internet for some time...apologies, i got tons to update u guys on, hope to let u guys know sooon as possible...

XOXO!!!

melissa signed off at 9:39:00 PM


SIGHHHHH

it's been sometime huh??

well..quite a fair bit has happened..
let's start from, the weekend...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm







not much happened...





worried continuously, about economics test about: elasticity, demand and supply, monopoly, perfect competition, and PPC.

then, had some football matches to watch, turns out it was pretty late, and Arsenal drew.

Monday, not much happened, studied for econs, until 12...ppffftt.
Today, had a talk about climate change, boring boring boring, nearly fell asleep. then had econs test, kinda challenging, then had football practice, wore my beautiful new shoes, thanks to my lovely daddy!! (hugs+muaxs=love)

it's sooooooooo comfortable!!!!

tomorrow, carry on with my CAS hours, toddler and painting club tmr.

thurs, there is another talk, but since it's only limited to 5 people, i might let others go..owh owh owh, and there is choir as well, not toooo bad for now..

friday is International Day! where i guess it would be packed with lots of activities and such, and everyone has to wear their national costume, so i guess im wearing BAJU KURUNG.

saturday, got SOAS reading which i find fun and helpful, and it's also HALLOWEEN! got a party/hangout at a fren's place, not sure wat to dress up as,
a witch
a child that trick or treats
a footballer..LOL
a delivery person carrying my beloved potato salad??

sigh...not sure yet...but potato salad is one thing im sure to bring.

as for academically, i have an eng hmk due, thurs and im dropping spanish for mandarin, easier i guess, plus it wud be a disgrace to be a chinese and not be able to speak,write and read it fluently.

having a short school break, for 4 days, which isnt much but i'll take it. most of the teachers are goin to KK, for some diving!! and seafood most probably.

and...erm....got another match with JIS week after next, then the following week is PHUKET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to end the post, my dad got my sisters and i, the

NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK
man...it is very indie..very slow and moody, dull, maybe it's cuz Edward is not in the film physically half the time...lol..watevers...cant wait for the movie to be shown here, DECEMBER 3rd.

ciao! nites! xxoo

melissa signed off at 9:36:00 PM


Managed to get english over, done and passed up with. I had no idea wat i was writing though, need to get use to reading poems and analyzing them which is tougher than u think.
I also got spanish, where i had to do a personal profile thing where i talk about myself, my age, bday, stuff like that, how i look and how i am, and also do that for my family and mention my pets. i can say it was much easier than eng, u blive that spanish easier than english?? lol, yea well i at least knew wat i was sayin in spanish, but ended up having tons of grammatical errors, but i guess everyone learns right??
yea, me learning how to not make tons of mistakes again.

still got DT due next week, and i tell u, sometimes i find that getting lost in class has it's pros and cons, the good is that sometimes it nice to have no clue of what the teacher might be saying so he could repeat, but once u get lost the second time, it's more like saying, shit i really am lost, so help me god!
i did get lost the second time, as well as most of everyone, as we had to hand draw our houses and show a shadow diagram...
it's still confusing, as u can probably guess, im having trouble in telling you what im haivng trouble in, get it??

LOL.
anyways, i have a econs test next tues. (monopoly, elasticity, demand and supply, perfcet competition.)
and maths test next thurs. ( logs)
almost coming to the weekend, where i can think of enjoying, as the DT is bugging me. plus i got tons of activities that need to be done in order to fulfill CAS hours.

so let's i really am enthusiastic about it, my week would look like this.

Mon: nothing
Tue: football (Action)
Wed: painting (Creativity), Toddler's Group (Service)
Thurs: nothing after school, choir club (Creativity)
Fri: nothing
Sat: SOAS reading to Year 7s (Service)

on the side of all that, i signed up for BruneiGlobalInternationalConference as a delegate, it's sort of a debate thing, where this year's theme is Children's rights. and i joined Eco-club, Sports Junior Council.

that's a lot of stuff, dont tell me i dont have enough CAS hours. the thing is, IB is great. full-stop. but i think the CAS thing should be of a credit thing, where it is voluntary for the student to take up and if so no limit on hours being done, as it puts pressure on students to take up activities in which they might not have an interest in. 150 hours is a lot of hours, but then again one of the teachers said that a student managed 350 hours, which is great but wat about the other students?? did they get to 350 hours?? not necessarily, why?? lack of interest, enthusiasm, commitment to studies, family commitments...

so saying that CAS is a great way to get involve with other students, yes it is true, but then again, the quota on hours is in my opinion abit daunting and intimidating, to me at least. as i may be bitching and sulking,LOL i jsut sure hope i get through IB with flying colors and be able to make my parents and myself proud.

tmr got some Galilean Night, where im bringin my sisters to my school, where they can do some activities, have fun and mayb get a chance to see the moon and jupiter through telescopes. shud be fun, after a whirlwind week, i tink i deserve some milky way.
other than that, i did watch WHITEOUT as well, damn nice! loved it, even though i was close to peeing in my pants for half of the show. but Kate Beckinsale still has her acting chops. hmmm...wat else has been revolving around me?? oh yea..New Moon Soundtrack came out in the States sometime ago, hope it comes out in KL soon so my daddy can get it.

oh yea and we have a Car Boot Sale, this weekend, gonna help there, but not sure what time to get up, again this is for CAS hours. and erm....got International Day next friday, will let u knw wats happening out and about.



melissa signed off at 5:50:00 PM


do u have tht feeling of knowing that an assignment or homework is due..but u just can get urself to do it just yet....
reasons:
u sort of know how, but is just lazy to get to it
u have no idea how, and have a fear of failure
u don bother too much with it, as it is due but not the next day
u just don give a rat's ass bout it and hope u will learn something from class when teachers go through it.

well...for me it definitely aint the last one, but sometimes it goes from the firsst, then second then third or at times it is just all three...

i manage to get spanish and math and DT out of the way, but eng commentary is still due and with the teacher mentioning that a good commentary is at least 6 pages long, i just find it soooooo daunting and impossible, partly due to myseelf being lazy and not up for it as well as not starting yet..

plus the commentary is tough, my first was only like 1-2 pages long. and it's typed out, in the exam its hand written, can u imagine how much we have to write in 2 hours...gosh!!

plus i got DT tmr, and apparently we were suppose to be working on a shadow diagram on our house, im confused as to whether it is to be done in school already or do we have to download the program and do it at home...the teacher did give us the handout instructions but it wasnt clearly explained, so hopefully i can finish it tmr and not have a very confusing homework due...

other than that for the weekend, it has been pretty restless for me, im just always thinking everytime, at times worrying, not sure about what, life, school, frens, it just goes on and on and on...


melissa signed off at 5:42:00 PM


hectic these few days, other than a disappointing football re-match against JIS, i got tons of hmk yet again, just finished my spanish. still got maths to do and eng to do research on, work work work!!!

as for today,we had a food sale, during lunchtime, which i would like to tell u is one hours worth of lunchtime. we took an hour to selll everything but the foods we sold we more or less sold in about 20 mins-30 mins. food we sold:
curry puffs
cakes
cookies
more cakes and cookies
nasi lemak
coke
sprite
and of course Burgers from me! remember those burgers folks?? i bet u guys cud taste it now right??

yea me too....

overall successful food sale, raised about 450++ dollars, which wud go to the funding for the trip of Phuket, so thanks to anyone who contributed!

as usual on Thursdays we have a 40 min assembly, and by the end of it, there were again many activities yet to come, but im soooooo
EXCITED about one in particular,

CLIMBING MT KINABALU!!!

we got the forms today, but the trip isnt until April of next year, nevertheless it's a first come first serve basis thing, so only limited to 12 spots, hopefully, fingers crossed my dad could get the payment by tmr, which im sure many people wud be gunning to get their payments over and done with. as for the remaining students, they also cna go but they have other good options as well, all in all, going there is to haev fun and
MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
whether it's for yourself or for others.

thts bout it i guess..not much to blog about now, as im still thinking of other things, it's wondering elsewhere nowadays.

but before i go, just 2 more things.
1. cant wait to watch the movie

starring:

KATE BECKINSALE

GABRIEL MACHT

shud be a good escape from life during the weekend.

2.i just wanted say R.I.P

STEPHEN GATELY

watch this video, as well, the song is soooo beautiful, try watching the music video on youtube!

nite-o!!

melissa signed off at 8:59:00 PM


got back from TEMBURONG, one word..SHIT!!

as in man, was it probably the most muscle-aching thing i have ever done, and at first it may seem like gooodddd fun, but after alll that, i come back and muscles ache really bad.

tell u guys what we did....agak-agak

Day 1: when we got there, we took some breakfast i tink, so first we all gathered at the jetty, then took about a 45 min boat ride to another jetty where we got onto a bus and it was probably about 30-40 mins to the OBBD area.
once we got there we got separated into groups of 2, with about 16 students in each group. then we got our group instructor to brief us on some stuff.
then had breakfast, rested for awhile, then had a boring first-aid lesson, it was only at about 3 that the activity began, which wasnt like Permai when we got there we began immendiately. so yea, 3 someting we got suited up for the

this pic is from Temburong but i googled it, so probably someone else..LOL.

this is what it was, but we wore a life jacket as well, as we were going across a river...

this activity is called the FLYING FOX
probably the best activity i did in the trip.
but i had to wait until the second day, as it was pouring rain, now the rain wasnt the problem, cuz the first group manage to finish up theirs, then LIGHTNING came and then we had to stop..
so anyways, we all got dried up for another activity, which was basically sorting out what we were going to bring the next day for our camping/trekking.
it took sooooooo long as we had to bring
food=canned foods, bread instant food,etc
cooking utensils, little stove, containers
fuel, tent equipment, knives,
and a whole shitload of stuff..
that plus ur own luggage, so all in all it was a challenge to begin with... we didnt sleep until about 11-12, as the instructor wanted to teach us how to navigate, cuz he would just be following us, and only correcting us when are wrong.

manage to get about 4-5 hours of sleep, on a table like bed, in a sort of cabin, and when i say cabin, it's more like the beginning stages of the cabin when being built.

Day 2: we got up to a very enthusiastic annoying fire drill, where the instructors were ringing the fire bell and calling out in a monotonous tone ,"fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, etc" as u knw la, we all strolled, took our time to get to the assembly point. once we reached there, the instructor asked us why we were strolling like we were at DUHH MALL! then again his tone wasnt very well rehearsed, but the goal was achieved, which was to wake us up!
we were soooooo up by then, a tad groggy, but we got our stuff packed up and got some breakfast, and finish up the flying fox, and got suited up for some water activity, which was called DIP and FLOAT where we as a group went to the river, and as we held each others life vest by the side strap dip into the collllddd chilling water. but before we dipped in we had to greet out loud, "SELAMAT PAGI, SUNGAI TEMBURONG!!!!!!". then diiiiipppppp, mannnnnn was it the dip of my life, freakking cold.....then after getting wet and dipping about 3 times, the instructor, taught us how to float, if we were to capsize and couldnt swim, the we all tried out floating one by one...which was alright, as the current was calm, and sorta slow.

once we learned that, we got ready for our trekking activity, after some lunch, just to let u knw the food was good, some ants get in the way, but pretty local, the downside was that we were given plates and cups and fork and spoons, so that isnt exactly my forte, as im pretty sensitive to all this theory of having to share stuff and wash it, and at first the stuff we dirty... so it kinda put me off.

so after lunch, we got dressed, and other than the minor adjustments and briefing we were off at about 11.30. in between we took 5 min breaks and a mid-way 30 mins break, the trail wasnt straightforward, and i slipped about a million times, by the time i got there it looked like i had taken a bath in mud, that was how dirty i was and how terrible i was in trekking. when we got to our campsite, which was around 4.30, we still had to setup camp, and cook and stuff, so after trekking for about 5 hours, we tried our bestest to set it up, as rain was set to come in about an hour, my frens and i got ours set up just in time for it to rain, but we still hadnt change and we were smelly and dirty and sweaty and wet!
so some of us decided to get a coooolllld nice dip in the river to at least clean off watever dirt could be washed off. the dip earlier was easy, so this in the pouring rain wasnt any easier...but we manage to get some dip time, and relax for awhile, before i got changed, and my frens got the tent dried up, while that happened i also managed to slip in some tuna snadwich, where we had to open a can of tuna, with a POCKET KNIFE mind you..

the other group arrived as we finished our tent setup, and as for dinner, well let's just say, we were tired to the max, to even consider taking out stuff to cook in. so by 8 most of us were fast asleep. my sleep was pretty good, but had difficulties in sleeping, as i had a pain somewhere didnt knw wat happened to my upper thigh, but it was definitely from all that slipping and sliding from trekking.

DAY 3: someone dcided to be very cheeky and wake us up by mentioning in a MONOTONOUS tone, "wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up,etc" man u just wanted to kill the guy, but it got us up anyway, and it was about 5 i tink, so we had until 6.30 to get out stuff packed and tents away, we managed to get it all done, bring our bags to the river bank and wait for the instructor, who told us to start inflating out own kayak boats, then once that was outta the way we waited for the other group and got our lesson on dangers and paddling and stuf..
the kayakin was damn dangerous and tiring and scary. i at one point was about to quit, cuz it was a nightmare, overalll, really hard, but i did finish, the kayaking wasnt like permai where it was calm seas and a proper boat, and we had all the time in the world stuff... it was the total opposite.

so...basically we trekked for 5 hours, kayaked back 7km and still manage to stay alive...

however once we reached back, we had to wash our equipment and make sure it was all accounted for, which was taking pretty long cuz of the drying of stuff, and people taking turns in bath and the counting of stuff altogther, we finished up by 3 something and at the end of the day we got out phones and wallets and life back and filled out a form, based on our 3 day course and how we rate specific sections on a scale of 1-7, mine were up and down the order...
i cudnt wait to go back home and just see my family, reached the jetty by 5.30 and went straight home!

as for today, everyone had to attend school, as the IB coordinator said, it was necesary and that it u dont , it defeats the purpose of going to a trip like Temburong, but i didnt go anyways, as i had the pain from the camping/trekking activity, and i went to a really good place for therapy to see wat the problem was, turns out i tore some parts of my muscle leg, but it isnt as bad as it seemed, it wud heal in 24 hours provided i can walk slow....

so up until that point, sigh it was a long weekend,




sunburned, until baked crispy insde and out, plus i got some cuts by due to plants, u blive it?? plants?? cuttin me??

man, what a weekend, overall now sitting down reflecting back it was an experience nevertheless, but if had to do it again?? maybe not, unless ive been paid!
before the trip optimistic, after the trip tired,demotivated,aching,all the negative words u a can tink of...

sigh, another day again!!!!!!!!

melissa signed off at 3:38:00 PM


finally, the weekend has come, and early it has arrived.

tomorrow, wake up round 6-30ish then get dressed up for some FUN bonding time with my frens..
im looking forward to it, just that my bag might be...er....shalll i say, abit over the top...and over the top of my head! (wink wink) if u knw wat i mean...nicky, im sure u get it, now i knw how u feel...LOL.

anyways...i'll post pics up when i do get a chance to take pictures...besides, once we get there, i tink our phones and stuff will be kept by the instructors, so in a way, it's roughing it...

besides that, managed to finish abit of spanish, and business is over and done with, i tink it's just TOK, spanish and math i tink. but it's much better than having like tons of hmk and come back having to finish it all in one night or two at most...

as for tonight, i wanted to go and watch a short my play, some of my frens are taking part in, but since i dont knw where it is, and my dad is kinda busy, i dont wanna bother him..
so if my frens do ever read this blog, good luck and sorry if i cudnt make it..

so let's say i went to the play, i wud be there frm 5-6 then go for some dinner, then watch a movie, which i think wud be pretty gud...

who stars:

BRUCE WILLIS

ROSAMUND PIKE

RADHA MITCHELL


watch it! watch it! see how Rosamund Pike is real pretty??

mhmmmm....
alrites, thats it for now...cant wait for tmr, my bag is sigh...LOL..just...sigh...

xxoo

melissa signed off at 4:54:00 PM