Chalet May 2006
5th May - 7th May
Sentosa Costa Sands
Contact Shurui
Posted by dss4e1 at 4/20/2006 08:45:00 PM
Chalet 2006
Chalet.
Pasir Ris.
30th Dec - 1st Jan.
Those who want to go, contact Shurui via HP.
Posted by dss4e1 at 11/03/2005 01:20:00 PM
Impresario and TalentQuest...
Yes Precioussssss.....
Impresario and TalentQuest, both local competitions. Platforms to showcase your talent, to gauge yourselves... Join join join!!!!!
Impresario:
www.impresario2006.comTalentQuest:
www.tq.com.sgSo far, seems that only Geline, Dan, Marcus, Yu and I are confirmed about joining. All of us joined Impresario. Only.. Haahah... erm I joined both.... Yeah, so my point is, JUST JOIN LAH!!!
And Precioussssss, I'm hoping to meet up with Gladys on Sat for dinner. Feel like eating at Swenson's. I'm not sure if she can make it, but I'll keep you guys informed. So keep next Sat free for now, myyyy Prrreecioussssss~~~~~~
Posted by dss4e1 at 10/14/2005 10:57:00 PM
THrash it out once and for all
THis is more for the girls, though it applies to all 4e1-ers.
If you have anything
against someone, or if you feel
unhappy about what someone has done or said to you,
please go ahead full-steam and thrash it out with the other party. On blog, via hp, face to face... anything. Just don't keep it to yourselves and start to drift apart, ok?
I don't understand why some of us used to be able to thrash things out but now we choose not to, because this makes it hard for us to open up.
If we open up, even if we quarrel, we will at least know what each other is thinking about. If we don't, it will only deepen the misunderstanding. And that doesn't help either party at all.
If you are afraid of quarrels because you think it will cause awkwardness, you are wrong. I had that major fight with Yu Rui and Geline but we are fine now! In fact, now that I know what they were unhappy about I can do something about it.
But if you avoid a confrontation and swallow all your unhappiness, you will only accumulate it.
It won't disappear just because it is out of sight.
Don't be such an ostrich.
Don't just dismiss anything as "others won't understand". If they don't understand, all the more you must say it out loud and make them understand!!! You cannot wait for them to chew on it and think it through, which most probably will not happen because we are all so busy now.
I've said my piece. Now its time for those whom I was referring to to do something fast.
Best of luck, and may we find a way out through this stormy season.
Posted by dss4e1 at 8/07/2005 04:35:00 PM
TR's contribution of photos
Yu's big smile!!!
BBQ!
Bartender
Kids... so engrossed in Arcade games....
Posted by dss4e1 at 7/05/2005 01:19:00 PM
July Chalet 2005 @ Sentosa!!!!! By TR
Place: Costa Sands
Room number: 0203
Size: Minute
Attendance: Makes minute become even more minute.
BBQ pit number: 3
Range: 3D2N
Day One (1/7)
- Everyone went to chalet at different timings, but met up for dinner at Harbourfront Centre.
- Walked back to the Seng Im Food Centre or something to eat.
- Night activity: enjoy the sea breeze at night at Siloso Beach, being the biggest group around and making noise hahaahhahahhah...
- Sleep was scary, for some of us who was "molested" hahaha. Those who know the joke don't say out lah, wait Geline..... OOPS! I disclosed too much.
Day Two (2/7)
- The official birthday of the Meteor [Weeds] Garden!!! Hahahahhahahhahaha shh! Our little secret.
- Had brunch at Delifrance.
- Sara was unwell.
- Beach, sun, sea, sand, tan, frisbee, volleyball, watching couples tie bikinis in water.......
- BBQ!!!
- Strawberries, blue berries, and alcohol.
- Games.
Day Three (3/7)
- Dawn: 2.6km night walk for some of us.
- Dawn: Squeezing into the room and sleeping as best as we could.
- Wake up, wash up, pay up, pack up.
- Brunch at Harbourfront Centre's Yoshinoya.
- Took cabs home.
(TR might take a while to get the photos up, but if they neve show up, don't blame her. She's computer illiterate.)
Posted by dss4e1 at 7/03/2005 07:33:00 PM
The history of strawberries!
*Emay, let's have a competition posting the lamest things about food!*
The History Of Strawberries!!!!
"Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did." (Dr. William Butler, 17th Century English Writer) Dr. Butler is referring to the strawberry. Strawberries are the best of the berries. The delicate heart-shaped berry has always connoted purity, passion and healing. It has been used in stories, literature and paintings through the ages.
In Othello, Shakespeare decorated Desdemonda's handkerchief with symbolic strawberries.
Madame Tallien, a prominent figure at the court of the Emperor Napoleon, was famous for bathing in the juice of fresh strawberries. She used 22 pounds per basin, needless to say, she did not bathe daily.
In parts of Bavaria, country folk still practice the annual rite each spring of tying small baskets of wild strawberries to the horns of their cattle as an offering to elves. They believe that the elves, who are passionately fond of strawberries, will help to produce healthy calves and abundance of milk in return.
The American Indians were already eating strawberries when the Colonists arrived. The crushed berries were mixed with cornmeal and baked into strawberry bread. After trying this bread, Colonists developed their own version of the recipe and Strawberry Shortcake was created.
In Greek and Roman times, the strawberry was a wild plant.
The English "strawberry" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "streoberie" not spelled in the modern fashion until 1538.
The first documented botanical illustration of a strawberry plant appeared as a figure in Herbaries in 1454.
In 1780, the first strawberry hybrid "Hudson" was developed in the United States.
Legend has it that if you break a double strawberry in half and share it with a member of the opposite sex, you will fall in love with each other.
The strawberry was a symbol for Venus, the Goddess of Love, because of its heart shapes and red color.
Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII had a strawberry shaped birthmark on her neck, which some claimed proved she was a witch.
To symbolize perfection and righteousness, medieval stone masons carved strawberry designs on altars and around the tops of pillars in churches and cathedrals.
The wide distribution of wild strawberries is largely from seeds sown by birds. It seems that when birds eat the wild berries the seeds pass through them intact and in reasonably good condition. The germinating seeds respond to light rather than moisture and therefore need no covering of earth to start growing.
Medicinal UsesThe strawberry, a member of the rose family, is unique in that it is the only fruit with seeds on the outside rather than the inside. Many medicinal uses were claimed for the wild strawberry, its leaves and root.
The ancient Romans believed that the berries alleviated symptoms of melancholy, fainting, all inflammations, fevers, throat infections, kidney stones, halitosis, attacks of gout, and diseases of the blood, liver and spleen.
Posted by dss4e1 at 6/24/2005 10:23:00 AM
