My first post for July!!!! WOOTS!!! Just felt too bored to blog nowadays (weird, since if I'm bored I should blog!)
Well, then, I shall start with the class CIP. Basically, we went to this children's home, which looks like a rich children's home. Plus, it was situated in prime area. Wooo... Ok, so our jobs? Nope, nothing to do with the children (irony right?), instead, we were to WEED their garden. Woah. Sweet. Well, we were split into 2 groups, one in charge of the entrance, the other the vegetable plot. Hehe, me glenn gx lionel jonathan and tian ge were the vege plot ppl. Tiange left us half-way, so we had to make do with 5 ppl. But Tiange left a legacy. More on that later. Suffice to say, digging holes in the soil with spades to remove the weed roots was fun. For 30-45 minutes maybe. After that, it gets repetitive. Dig, Pull, Toss, Rinse and Repeat. There is some weird satisfaction derived when we see the vegetable plot barren. Yes, after removing the weeds, it becomes barren. However, there is also some (understatement) irritation when we realised we could not eliminate ALL the weeds, they were NEVERENDING! Now, back to the legacy Tian Ge left us. It was............ Drum roll....... A hoe. Not mrs hoe or her 2 gymnast sons. But a gardening hoe. So, what's a hoe used for you may ask. Well, its a WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION MWAHAHAHAHA. to weeds that is. Gardening 101, if you get pissed with green stuffs, destroy them by smashing them and tossing the soil and basically rip them to shreds. Now, that is the hoe's job. Private Glenn was charged with carrying the Big Daddy of all spades, the massive what, 5-10 kilos hoe? Well, what happened next was gory. Down went the hoe into the soil. A clean cut. No devastation yet, save for the weeds that happened to be in the way. Like how crocodiles do the death roll, well not rly a roll in this case, more like a drag or pull. Whatever. After getting the hoe into the soil, the next step was to haul it towards yourself, pulling up any weeds and stones and what have you. Then, we bent down and cleared the corpses of the weeds. It was fun doing this, but after awhile, it got boring again. SO, we got abit slacky. We just hoed the ground, flipped the soil, and buried the weeds. Neat. And so our vege plot was WEEDED.
Hehe, now we proceed to the entrance. Here's where the mass destruction begins. We weren't briefed on what to remove, and what not to. Sooooo, we were a couple of greenhorns. That isn't so bad, not until you see one greenhorn, private glenn, with the Weapon of Mass Destruction aka the Hoe. LET ER RIP!!!! well, not exactly, we were pretty docile at first, inspecting the battlefield and what the others had wrought. Our astute analysis was that things were proceeding too slowly. Hence, we got down to work in Operation "Anything that is green is gone". Our first mistake, we destroyed one shrub with flowers. I would have to claim responsibility on that, since I was the one who suggested pulling the whole thing out. But, I didn't see the flowers. The flowers were like what, 2 mm in diameter? Besides, that shrub was bear. The first casualty in the war. soooo, the girls made alot of noise about us pulling out that shrub, so we just stuck to pulling out miserable weeds. And grass. Den, one of them complained that a tree was irritating her because it stuck out like a sore thumb and keeps poking her. I took a look at that tree, and once again, deduced the tree was dead. How I know? THere weren't any leaves and the branch was grey. So, we pulled it out, root and all. We pulled.... and pulled... and pulled.. and pulled... and pulled... AND finally the roots all came out. It was SOOOO LONG!!! And it coiled up like a spring. Once again, the girls made alot of noise and insisted it was living. Amazing. So now we are "traumatised" by our insensitive destruction, so we headed for greener pastures. Time to WRECK HAVOC!! Again, the hoe does its job perfectly, destroying everything there, even a maggot. Not exactly, but glenn nearly cleaved the maggot into 2. He did dent it of course. Which is weird, since the maggot isnt made of metal so how can it get dented? Well, it sure looked dented, its body was like seperated into 2 halves with a depression in the middle, and it looked like it was squirming. Everyone gathered round. GX suggested euthanasia, putting it out of its misery. And so he held the spade above the maggot like the sword of damocles. Due to vehement protests, GX decided to spare the worm. What we did next was utterly stupid. We transported the maggot to another spot under a nice tree. Well, needless to say, the defenceless maggot became bird food. After we joined in the fray, things proceeded much faster :), thanks to mindless hoeing. At 5, everything was finished. We took a step back and admired our job. I can't decide which looks better. Before Hurricane 1SB2 got to it, or after. Before, it was one soothing patch of green. After, it was an accurate representitive of a wasteland, dotted with some shrubs left standing after the Hurricane uprooted anything green and isn't above ankle height. Brown patches of soil stood out. At least they can plant new stuffs now.
After our backbreaking labour, we went to adam road food court or sth like that to eat. There is this famous Nasi Lemak store there that glenn n lionel kept raving about. However, being a food critic, I was skeptical. I ordered what they had and bit into the food that was supposedly so good the Sultan came to eat it. My conclusion is that it was ordinary. Not disgusting or inedible but certainly not fantastic. Definitely not worth my travel time to eat it. On a side note, I preferred the Starfruit juice that I ordered. After having our dinner, we went to island dreaming I think to eat ice cream. Most of my classmates were crazy about the chocolate and were trying to snatch it, I on the other hand found pleasure in the teh tarik flavour haha. I felt it was much more soothing to the tongue and didnt taste as thick. After eating we settled down for a bit of photo taking and some games. Lionel and glenn played DJMax2 while the rest of us played Bluff. I won of course, being a natural conman.
Thus end our class CIP day. Next week we're expected back at the children's home, though I'm unsure what we're going to do. No more weeding I hope, and they probably hope no more weeding too haha.
