My friends and I have taken part in the National day parade last year and we played the roles of skyrunners. In case you do not know what skyrunners are, they are actually a group of people who equip on powerisers. powerisers are a sort of equipment which you attach to your legs. It is pretty much like stilts, just that there are springs which help you to jump. With these powerisers, I can jump to a height of more than 2 metres. This is what a poweriser looks like:

The picture below are what skyrunners look like:


Not many people know about powerisers because it has not really been introduced to Singapore yet. However, some of the East Coast Park's stalls provide poweriser renting services.
Today, after church, a group of us met up and went to East Coast Park to play with our powerisers. We were really excited because this was the first time where we were going in such a big group to skyrun. My friend and I imagined the amounts of questions that will be shot at us because the people will be stunned upon looking at the powerisers. We expected them to ask," What are these called? How do you get them?" and also " isit hard to use it? what do you do on it?"
We boarded a bus and arrived in East Coast Park shortly after. Pulling our heavy powerisers behind us, we dragged it off the bus and into the park. we decided to start off from Bedok camp which was at the far end of East Coast Park. As we wore on out powerisers, many passer-bys stopped to look at us. Some of them even took out their cameras and started shooting pictures of us down. We did not say much but smiled sweetly.
Before long, all of us were ready and up, preparing for a long day ahead. Though some of us had difficulty standing up, we managed to overcome our fear and with courage, stood up on the powerisers. There was this little boy who looked at me , shocked, he asked his father ," Daddy, why are these people so tall."
I could tell that the father didn't really knew how to answer because he just told his son that we were aliens.
As we moved along the road as a group, we attracted many pairs of eyes and lots of "ooos" and "aaas". we also recieved many questions, one of them asked me," Hi, erm may I know what are these"
I replied,"these are powerisers, they were used in NDP last year."
" Is it very hard to use them? what do you do on them?"
" we can jump, run, hop and flip and it is not very hard with practise"
"Okay, thanks."
I did not know why, i felt good when people asked me questions.Haha...
We walked all the way from Bedok camp to Macdonalds. Halfway through, I slipped upon a wrapper and fell flat on the ground. The girls were screaming while the boys wer laughing, I didn't know what to feel, embarassed? I was not really feeling pain because i had Gaurds On. I have a few pictures of me falling down and trying to get up below.




Basically we had lots of fun and we got really tired after that, due to the fact that we have walked over 10 km on powerisers. Though we were walking, It was still very tiring because we are actually using twice the amount of energy used in normal walking. Whenever I have time, I would meet up with some of my friends to skyrun together, it is a really interesting sport and it is best played together with friends and family. It is more of a youth sport and I enjoy it with my friends. We also try out different stunts but most of the time, we fail in doing them, however, we never fail to stop trying.


Through this sport, it has actually taught me to never give up when I am faced with difficulties, just like the first time i tried to stand up, even though i failed, I did not give up but continued to work hard and strive for my goals.
Lesson learned:

It was like any other Saturday, my brother and I would stay up late at night just to play computer games. I was playing my all time favourite game, audition while my brother had his eyes glued to the screens of the game Cabal. We were really engrossed in gaming, our eyes never left the screen, even when we wanted to get a glass of water, we would ask our mum to get it for us while we continue gaming.
It was already late at night, at around 11pm, my parents went to bed. My brother, who was afraid to sleep alone in his own room quickly ran into my parent's room to sleep with them.
This left me all alone in the living room, busy playing my game Audition. I was spamming at the keys, much fascinated by the wonderful and swift dance steps performed by the characters in the game. I switched on the music to a moderate volume and continued with my gaming.
As my character was swifting left and right, performing the wave and many other stunts, i heard the sound of a strong gush of wind. i quickly switched off my music to get a better sense of hearing, I was checking if I was hearing things. Things seemed to quieten down and I was quite convinced that it was just my imagination. just as I was about to return to gaming, I heard the exact same sound, this time, even louder. I sat up, rooted to the spot, the hairs on my skin stood up and fell in as if they were in an army camp. I was really scared and frightened, afraid that I would see something i shouldn't see. I believed in both evil and good spirits.
I could not continue gaming anymore, too scared to even return back to the computer. I quickly rushed to the washroom and brushed my teeth to prepare for bed. Just as I was about to leave the kitchen for my room, I heard the sound of water dripping, i stood rooted to the spot, counting the number of drops i have heard. This time, I was really afraid. I ran to my room and slammed the door. My heart was thumping hard,I could hear it beating, like those a drummer would drum the drum. I calmed myself down, offed the lights and went to bed.

I took out my phone and checked the time: 2.30am. Thinking of how early i had to wake up tomorrow for the chingay rehearsel, i quickly tucked myself in my covers and slowly closed my eyes. I woke up about 15 minutes later, trying hard to get to sleep. I turned to glance at my door. To my horror, I saw a glowing white light coming from the glass of my translucent door. I started imagining things such as aliens and stuff and quickly turned my head away from the door. Just then, I heard some conversation:" RAR!!!!"
"AHHHHHHHH!!!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA"
"RAR!!!"
I was shocked, thinking what on earth was that, I imagined ghosts playing around with a ball and having fun scaring people. I looked at the window, waiting for the head of a ghost to appear at my window. Fortunately, nothing appeared. Soon enough, i dozed off and entered into dream land. I was sleeping sweetly in my dreamland when suddenly, i heard this voice calling my name. It was getting from soft to loud and I was really afraid. I was completely stunned, hearing my name called many times. i tried to pull myself out of bed so that i can end this, however I had much difficulty in pulling my body up. it was like there was a force pushing me flat on the ground I was struggling with something of another world or another force. FInally, I had the willpower to wake up and I was really feeling relieved, I felt beads of sweat on my forehead.I quickly cleaned my sweat and went back to sleep, praying hard that I would not experience anymore of such things. Fortunately, I slept throughout till 11am the next day. As I was going out for lunch, I saw a group of students carrying sleeping bags walk out of the school. This cleared my doubts about the voice I heard yesterday, but the dream, the light and the strange noise is still a mystery...

I have learnt from this that never to sleep late. I think this experience served as a punishment to me. I like to sleep late at night and i think that this warns me never to sleep late at night again.

WELCOME~~~ Today is the 3rd day of the Lunar New Year, we, the boys from victoria school are very lucky as we did not need to attend school due to the good results of the 'O' Level results of the boys of class 2008. Today, there was not much family visiting, which leads to, little red packet gained. Today was more of people coming to visit our house. I love it when people visit my house, their mouths would always be filled with comments such as ," Wow! your house is so big, i seriously love it!" and " wow, i wish this was my house." Upon hearing this i would grin a little on the outside, but on the inside, i am smilling widely, the reason being, be humble...haha! Today, i have decided that i would spend the day learning dance moves and impressing my friends tomorrow. The type of dance i learn is breakdance, Hip Hop, B-Boy, Poppin And Lockin and also Modern Lyrical. I really love dance, currently, i have taken up Hip-Hop classes to improve my Hip Hop skills, I would include a video of me dancing at the end of this slide. Most guys think that dancing is for girls or that only sissy's dance. However, it is not true. Dance is actually a way of expressing yourself, and enjoying the time you spend learning and applying it. My mum and dad have gone out together to the movies and my brother is at school doing some project work, thus, i was left alone at home. I decided to start my time alone with some computer gaming, however, i got bored of it after a while and switched off the computer. I was lazing around the house, sitting on the sofa, watching shows from channel 8, suddenly, this scene where people were dancing appeared on the screen. I quickly stood up and played some music with my phone. i grooved to the music and before long, i found myself on the ground doing the 6-step floorwork and dancing hiphop, I was really enjoying myself because I was actually quite impressed with myself for being able to perform such a wonderful piece. There was still a long time before my parents returned home, i quickly changed into a new set of clothes and imagined that i was on TV, I was the host, the audience and also the performer.I said," Welcome everybody to the breakdancing show, today, we have invited the youngest and most impressive breakdancer one can ever find in this world to our show, lets welcome Ivan Ting." I walked out proudly, imagining that the audience were all looking at me with amazement and admiration, just then, the music started playing and i started spinning around on the floor, doing the baby-freeze, shoulder freeze and many others, I imagined the croud cheering and whistling, calling for more, i really enjoyed myself. You must be thinking, this guy really likes self entertainment. To tell you the truth, i like fame, I like it when I have many fans who come up to me to get my autograph and send me items daily, I find it really cool. I have tried many ways to get famous. I tried going for the auditions for the show," Campus Superstar", however, i got kicked out on the first round, i think i had chosen the wrong song. I finished my "performance" at around 4pm. My parents would only be back at 7pm and they would fetch my brother on the way home. therefore, i still have 3hours of alone time to myself. I quickly ran into my room and fetched out my file,i call it"The File Of Dreams" inside the file contains all my song lyrics and cds, i took it out and started practising some songs which i like. I like to sing and dance because through these, i find that i can not only get famous, i can also get talented and special. In the last 1 hour of my time spent alone, I decided to have another show where i was the host, performer and audience again. this time, i sang and danced and i imagined that there was an autograph session after the show where everyone was rushing to come and get my signature. Through this, i have actually learnt that one shouldn't waste his or her time lazing around, instead one should do something meaningful. If you have dreams to fufil, you have to first work towards your dreams. nothing comes to you free... Freeze: Breakdance: Baby Freeze: A picture of the game I play

Once again, it was the New Year's Eve, the once in a year event where the whole family would gather together to have a reunion dinner. This year, the reunion dinner was held at my house.
The day started out bright and sunny, my mum had woken me up early as we had to attend church. In case you do not know , i am a christian. I have this bad habit, halfway through church, i would doze off and miss out completely on what they were teaching. Today, since it was new year's eve, i decided to keep myself awake throughout church. I had the 'bright' idea of making use of a chewing gum throughout church. indeed, my idea 'worked', i had almost dozed off a few times, however, because of the chewing gum, i bit my tongue and woke up each time i almost dozed off.
anyways, i rushed home right after church to prepare for the reunion dinner at night.
I am a very good boy, helping my parents whenever they need help.
I returned home, played the computer for a while, followed by helping my mother with the preparation of the dishes.
There is another tradition where we have to eat this beehoon in soup dish for lunch during new year's eve, the dish is called "cha-hong". Actually, i am not really sure what does it signify, however, i think i have heard my mother mention before that it signifies longevity and prosperity, because beehoon is long and smooth.The whole family gathered at my house during lunchtime and we slurped up bowls of "cha-hong", sucking up every single strand of beehoon, we loved it so much because it was cooked by my grandmother, the best cook in the family.
After lunch, we played some games like scrabble, monopoly and many others together and really, we had a time of our life, i laughed so hard that tears started streaming down my eyes, haha!
Time flies quickly when you are having fun, before long, it was night and we had our wonderful steamboat reunion dinner. The table was spreaded with dishes, ranging from vegetables to meat, frozen food to seafood...Mmmm, thinking of it makes me drool, it was such a wonderful meal! we shared 2 steamboat pots, my brother and I dropped fish balls and meatballs into the soup and had a competition to see whose fish ball gets cooked first. It is really a childish game, but since it was New Year's Eve, we did not care . We did not spend the whole time eating, if not we will be bored to death. Instead, we took turns to sit around the table to eat. it is not that there is not enough tables and chairs, but that we wanted to eat and have fun. I remember, i played with my baby cousin, chasing him around the house, he is really cute, however he is also really fierce, i remember how he shouted and screamed when his brother left him at a corner... really scary.

My mother had also made some dumplings, they were truly delicious and we really loved them, i have placed a picture of it here



As we were eating, my whole family started laughing, I was stunned, wondering, what were they laughing at. My aunt, who has recovered from her laughter said," I think you are the one who ate the most fish balls and meat balls, we were picturing all the different balls floating in your stomach." After that , she laughed again, this time, I laughed too.
We took about 4 hours to finish our dinner, by the time we finished, it was about 11pm. While the rest of the family was enjoying themselves after the dinner,i, the most helpful and obedient boy helped my mother and grandmother with the cleaning up of the table. Eating was fun, Cleaning up is not, as a matter of fact, it is disgusting!!!
We had a short story telling session after dinner in our study room, my grandmother, uncle and some other of my relatives shared about their past, their personal life experiences and also the lessons they learned. The whole room was filled with "ooos" and "ahhhhs" and we really enjoyed ourselves.
before long, it was 12am already, we bid each other farewell with happy faces, knowing the fact that we were going to meet the next day to eat breakfast together. after they left, my whole family quickly went to bed with smiling faces, looking forward to the next day. In our heart, the next day was a long day and we believe that we are going to enjoy ourselves.

From this, i learnt that family bonding is important, though privacy is also important, however if a family is not bonded for a long time, they will tend to isolate themselves from each other and the word family will never exist. families are important, we must treasure them.

"RING~!RING~!" I awoke with a start, shocked by the sudden ringing of my handphone alarm. It was a saturday morning and I had tuned the alarm to ring at 9am. You must be thinking,"Why don't you sleep later on a saturday morning, you only get to sleep late on weekends." I would really like to sleep late and wake up at like 12pm? However, I am involved in the Chingay Parade 2009, we were supposd to gather at redhill at 1230 for makeup. MAKEUP!!! The sound of it makes me freak out, imagine all those wierd stuff which are going to be applied onto your faces...I am so not used to it...
So as i was saying, I woke up at 9 am, ate a few oreo biscuits for breakfast and then rushed to catch the MRT heading to Boon Lay. The whole journey was about an hour, however, time passed fairly quickly as i was engrossed in reading a book,"griEVE", it is a really nice book and can be borrowed from any national library.
"Next station, Redhill" upon hearing that, i stood up from my seat and headed towards the doors of the train.Fortunately, not much people were getting on and off the train and i alighted with ease. i checked the time on my phone," 1240 ". All i can think of is," OH no, I am late!!" i did not want to hinder the process of the make up just because i was not present and i did what every victorian should do, be responsible for your own actions. I gave the overall a call and informed her that i would be arriving late.
i ran all the way from the station to TCT, Touch Community Theatre, for the make up, we had to queue up for the make up and i remember the process," blusher,white powder,lipstick,blue paint,eyeliner,glitter,marker" these are just some of the items that were used on my face...and the final product is



These are the pictures of my friend and I on the bus with our makeups on, aren't we like prince and princess?
This face would be perfect to scare the wits out of little boys and girls.
After the whole session of makeup, we boarded the bus and headed for the People's Association HeadQuarters for out Chingay Media Preview. Basically, the Media Preview is used for Chingay Commercials and short clips on the website. it is a fulldress rehearsel, complete with all the floats and participants. As our bus drove into the Headquarters, we were welcomed with smiles and laughter and the whole place was bustling with activity, the ambience was wonderful for celebrations as everybody was somehow not themselves, all of them were enjoying themselves, chatting with friends and playing games. My contingent was the Grand Finale, thus we had to wait for about 4 hours before it was our turn to perform, all of us could barely conserve the excitement in us.
Finally!! It was our turn to perform. If you are curious on what we are performing, we are going to be using the powerisers which are equipments which you are to fit your leg in and it has a spring at the base to help you jump high. You can jump to a height of 3metres with this equipment. Lets get back to the scene, oh i stopped at our turn to perform. So, all of us jumped out excitedly, all geared up and ready to perform a good show, we cheered and encouraged each other to attain perfection and that each stroke has to be precise, accurate, sharp and perfect. We reminded each other time and time again that mistakes will not be tolerated.
So, our music plays and we start running and jumping out, the MC of the show shouts and screams in his girly voice and exclaims as he says, " Oh my goodness, isn't it the best you have ever seen?" When we heard that, all of us started to smile as if we had eaten honey of the best quality.
So we rehearsed 2 times and we really put in our best shot and i really feel that we had done really well, all our actions were sharp and united for once .I was really happy that the Media Preview turned out well. The reason being, we had trained close to 3 months now and finally our efforts had bore some fruits. Though at the end of the day, all of us went home with aching legs and sloppy bodies, we all felt that it was satisfying and it was truly an experience we would never forget.

From this Media Preview, i have learnt something, that is, "Whatever you want to achieve, you have to work for it" just like we want to put up a great show for Chingay, we had to train very hard. hardship will definitely bear fruits, the important thing is, do not give up halfway, continue all the way and the results will be delightful...

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