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Francis
14
Victorian
VSPB
ARROW sCOUT
Aut. Viam. Inveniam. Aut. Faciam
"Either I shall find a way, or I shall make one" - Hannibal
For Grading:Class outing
Just earlier on today at 2, about three quarters of the class went for bowling for our class outing at Orchid Bowl, E!hub.
Before delving into any details, let me introduce to you the saga that preceeded bowling. It was as if everyone didn't want a class outing, and after we introduced to them our plan for a treasure hunt at East Coast Park, everyone vehemently disagreed. Eventually, our plans fizzled away one by one, either due to the dissidents in the class or a parent concerned with child safety, as in the case of swimming. Finally, we decided to go bowling as a last minute thing agreed upon just before the Chinese New Year concert. Whew :D
So yeah, now that you know the story of the class outing, let's move on. I was at Daniel Lock's house doing projects before the class outing, so I went for the class outing with Cheng Yu, who was in my group. We all eventually conglomerated at Pasir Ris MRT, which was actually quite cool. Me and Cheng Yu met up with Zhi hao and Ze xuan, then inexplicably Matthew and Dev popped out of nowhere. So we decided to go together.
Ze xuan the macho leader :D
Now actually getting to Orchid Bowl was a challenge in itself. E! hub at Downtown east was seriously huge, and well there were a lot of changes since I had actually gone there in the past 2 or 3 years.Also, the area shown below didn't even have a covered walkway yet. The one that really takes the cake is that E!hub didn't even exist when I last went to Downtown east for heaven's sake. -.-"
So when we finally got there, everyone else was already there with their bowling shoes on and almost starting their game already. We quickly rushed to change our shoes at the counter, which was also a little weird because they only wanted one of our shoes. Imagine walking back to your seat to change shoes with only one side of your original footwear.
So after a while the game started. Of course, did I mention that I don't bowl often? I mean, I actually got extremely low scores like 30 and 20 before in a single game due to the fact that I didn't really know how to even hold the ball, much less be able to get spares or strikes. Of course, in every cloud there is a silver lining. Guess who was my silver lining? JOEJYN!
Okay, Joejyn was almost professional and all, with his glove in hand looking ready to rumble. Basically he taught me a little bit and soon I was getting at least a little better, with my score for half a game higher than my total score previously! Joejyn was of course heading the leader board with a score of 67. He's seriously good at this, with this score of his ultimately being higher than my score for the entire game!
So here's a picture of the scoreboard, with Joejyn leading the pack, followed by me, Zhi hao, Daniel Kong, Xun yi and finally Bok woon.
Of course, did I mention I didn't eat lunch yet? I ate like $4 worth of Tom yam noodles in a cup. The service at the "bistro" was quite good, which I witnessed for myself when I told the person manning the counter that I urgently needed to go because it was my turn, and he put the noodles in a bowl and watched over it until I got back.
Of course, in every class there are people who don't possess much originality, and quite a number of people started copying me and buying their own cup noodles. See, I'm a trendsetter! (Just joking)
So yeah, I mean, it's just bowling, not much to blog about, and waiting for your turn when you have 5 people in your lane(or even 7 like mine did) can get slightly tedious. So some people were left jaded, and a good number of them decided to utilize their time fully and study...a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
Let's get back to bowling and observe a master at work. Look at Bok Woon and his amazing method of bowling! First, he takes a ball which is obviously too heavy for him with a size of 14, and then he kneels, and pushes the ball with all his might. Seriously, he improved by loads, with him missing pins completely before! The video below has Daniel Kong demonstrating it though.
Now you may be wondering, why did Daniel miss almost completely? The secret lies in the ball. He was using a 7 when people much shorter than him were using 9s. So now you know. The heavier the ball, the better!(Don't go around following my crazy advice and dislocating your arms :D)
So now you know how to bowl properly :D
I also did something fairly freaky. I threw the ball and somehow a pin got stuck UPRIGHT in the gutter and so the machine couldn't clear it. So the screen displayed an error message:
Of course, it was a simple matter of throwing the ball into the gutter and watching it roll to the pin. In the end the mechanic didn't even bother when he saw that we had settled it for ourselves. Whew.
A delicious Ice-cream Sunday from MacDonalds. Of course, you must be wondering how we managed to bring it in given that the rules state that no outside food and drinks are allowed? Simple. It involves a teacher, some plain plastic bags and of course wit :) Let's just leave it at that.
In the end, Joejyn was the highest scorer with a combined score of over 200 for two games. He was duly rewarded with a whole tube of potato chips. As members of his group, we got some rewards as well, chiefly in the form of delicious chocolate bars called "Tolberone". :)
All in all, the class outing was a pretty fulfilling one, where you see the whole class doing something they collectively enjoy, unlike what the atmosphere would have been had we gone on with the treasure hunt idea. On hindsight, we wanted to make them run from Lagoon(the food court) all the way to Macdonalds, which is quite far from end to end. No wonder the class wasn't very enthusiastic.
Something to learn today: "In order to think BIG. You have to think SMALL". How lamentable, however, that the class seldom organises these outings. With everyone collectively cheering on each other, laughing at each other's antics and basically having a ball of a good time, it just can't get better than this.
Just earlier on today at 2, about three quarters of the class went for bowling for our class outing at Orchid Bowl, E!hub.
Before delving into any details, let me introduce to you the saga that preceeded bowling. It was as if everyone didn't want a class outing, and after we introduced to them our plan for a treasure hunt at East Coast Park, everyone vehemently disagreed. Eventually, our plans fizzled away one by one, either due to the dissidents in the class or a parent concerned with child safety, as in the case of swimming. Finally, we decided to go bowling as a last minute thing agreed upon just before the Chinese New Year concert. Whew :D
So yeah, now that you know the story of the class outing, let's move on. I was at Daniel Lock's house doing projects before the class outing, so I went for the class outing with Cheng Yu, who was in my group. We all eventually conglomerated at Pasir Ris MRT, which was actually quite cool. Me and Cheng Yu met up with Zhi hao and Ze xuan, then inexplicably Matthew and Dev popped out of nowhere. So we decided to go together.
Ze xuan the macho leader :D
Now actually getting to Orchid Bowl was a challenge in itself. E! hub at Downtown east was seriously huge, and well there were a lot of changes since I had actually gone there in the past 2 or 3 years.Also, the area shown below didn't even have a covered walkway yet. The one that really takes the cake is that E!hub didn't even exist when I last went to Downtown east for heaven's sake. -.-"
So when we finally got there, everyone else was already there with their bowling shoes on and almost starting their game already. We quickly rushed to change our shoes at the counter, which was also a little weird because they only wanted one of our shoes. Imagine walking back to your seat to change shoes with only one side of your original footwear.
So after a while the game started. Of course, did I mention that I don't bowl often? I mean, I actually got extremely low scores like 30 and 20 before in a single game due to the fact that I didn't really know how to even hold the ball, much less be able to get spares or strikes. Of course, in every cloud there is a silver lining. Guess who was my silver lining? JOEJYN!
Okay, Joejyn was almost professional and all, with his glove in hand looking ready to rumble. Basically he taught me a little bit and soon I was getting at least a little better, with my score for half a game higher than my total score previously! Joejyn was of course heading the leader board with a score of 67. He's seriously good at this, with this score of his ultimately being higher than my score for the entire game!
So here's a picture of the scoreboard, with Joejyn leading the pack, followed by me, Zhi hao, Daniel Kong, Xun yi and finally Bok woon.
Of course, did I mention I didn't eat lunch yet? I ate like $4 worth of Tom yam noodles in a cup. The service at the "bistro" was quite good, which I witnessed for myself when I told the person manning the counter that I urgently needed to go because it was my turn, and he put the noodles in a bowl and watched over it until I got back.
Of course, in every class there are people who don't possess much originality, and quite a number of people started copying me and buying their own cup noodles. See, I'm a trendsetter! (Just joking)
So yeah, I mean, it's just bowling, not much to blog about, and waiting for your turn when you have 5 people in your lane(or even 7 like mine did) can get slightly tedious. So some people were left jaded, and a good number of them decided to utilize their time fully and study...a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.
Let's get back to bowling and observe a master at work. Look at Bok Woon and his amazing method of bowling! First, he takes a ball which is obviously too heavy for him with a size of 14, and then he kneels, and pushes the ball with all his might. Seriously, he improved by loads, with him missing pins completely before! The video below has Daniel Kong demonstrating it though.
Now you may be wondering, why did Daniel miss almost completely? The secret lies in the ball. He was using a 7 when people much shorter than him were using 9s. So now you know. The heavier the ball, the better!(Don't go around following my crazy advice and dislocating your arms :D)
So now you know how to bowl properly :D
I also did something fairly freaky. I threw the ball and somehow a pin got stuck UPRIGHT in the gutter and so the machine couldn't clear it. So the screen displayed an error message:
Of course, it was a simple matter of throwing the ball into the gutter and watching it roll to the pin. In the end the mechanic didn't even bother when he saw that we had settled it for ourselves. Whew.
A delicious Ice-cream Sunday from MacDonalds. Of course, you must be wondering how we managed to bring it in given that the rules state that no outside food and drinks are allowed? Simple. It involves a teacher, some plain plastic bags and of course wit :) Let's just leave it at that.
In the end, Joejyn was the highest scorer with a combined score of over 200 for two games. He was duly rewarded with a whole tube of potato chips. As members of his group, we got some rewards as well, chiefly in the form of delicious chocolate bars called "Tolberone". :)
All in all, the class outing was a pretty fulfilling one, where you see the whole class doing something they collectively enjoy, unlike what the atmosphere would have been had we gone on with the treasure hunt idea. On hindsight, we wanted to make them run from Lagoon(the food court) all the way to Macdonalds, which is quite far from end to end. No wonder the class wasn't very enthusiastic.
Something to learn today: "In order to think BIG. You have to think SMALL". How lamentable, however, that the class seldom organises these outings. With everyone collectively cheering on each other, laughing at each other's antics and basically having a ball of a good time, it just can't get better than this.
Francis
14
Victorian :D
Arrow Scout :)
VSPB
TGS-ian Xp
Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam - Hannibal.
WISHES
Improve chinese. [ ]
Lose the fats. [ ]
Maintain level position. [ ]
Maintain a good study-life balance.[ ]
Be less vulgar.(How did I become vulgar in the first place) [ ]
2.4km <14 [X]
