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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

♥ 11:12 PM

As promised dudes, the summary of the science trail.Read on...
0640, handphone rang to wake me up.however, knowing myself, i placed another alarm at 0650 (so that i dun oversleep) anyways, i went to wash up (brush teeth,shower etc.)..At 0730, i told my mum i am leaving for the science trail already. As i reached the bus stop at 0733 and will not have enough time to take bus, i ran to West mall MRT station. (how i regretted this later) i reached the MRT station at 0739, boarded the second train ( first one was full) at 0742,and made it in time for the science trail.
Leon and Jonathan were already waiting at the control station in jurong east where ms chua had instructed us to meet. However, Johnathan, (yes 2 "jon a-than..different spelling though) was not yet there and it was already 8AM.In a hurry,Ms chua led the way to the science centre without him. Upon calling his house,Johnathan's brother told her that Johnathan had already left house at 0700 and had made his own way there (wtf..should have informed us..instead of making us wait..bloody shit..anyways..continue) We gathered and then did the registration checking.After which, at 0900,we recieved challenge packs and T-shirts (yellow coloured 'SYSF" 2006 shirt ),briefing,and GO!
Our first stop was the science centre's Discovery zone, where we had to build a bridge out of drinking straws and masking tape only.And we were dumb enugh to find a support when we could actually just, take the 15 straws,bundle them together and stuck them to the stool provided as support (and we stupidly went to make a support =.=) wasted alot of time there,1hr.. there was also some extra stop-overs and mystery checkpoints. 1 of which needed the periodic table (thats why i asked =.=) lols...nobody replied GAH! sadly ms chua didnt memorize the periodic table =P..so we had to figure it out...Leon called up his frends and got answers,and unscrammbled the clue,leading us to "Yio Chu Kang".where we did tasks and earned points. On our way to YCK, we stopped at Bukit Gombak, one of the 5 stop-overs throughout the race. We were supposed to do an experiment to find out which of the 3 cups, contained NEWater, (awh,freaking hard? no..nbot with the help of electroysis) haha..which breaks down water into hydrogen and oxygen, the other 2 cups turned yellow, containing idodine phospide(if i remember clearly). Then we went to YCK
At YCK, we just got our periodic table marked,and we have extra 60 points! woot! then we moved to Newton,where we had a challenge..let me ask u now..give me 2 laws of Newton. 1) Force = Mass X acceleration 2) Every action causes an reaction in a opposite way. we were supposed to make a milk carton spin by putting water and using Newton's law to explain why the milk carton spun (of course,with Chemist Esther Chua, =P easy..)..den we went to Chinatown,where we did a SIMPLE experiment,finding out the DENSITY of an eraser,weighing 8.7G. DENSITY = Mass over Volume..less then 5 mins we're done. Filling the measuring cylinder to 30CM3 of water, and then looking at the amount of water rise in the cylinder when the eraser was placed in it, we got the volume.So,mass,8.7G divided by the volume, we got the answer! simple..next..outram park
At outram, we switched to EW line to get to Tannah Merah (sumwhere near singapore expo). There was a shuttle bus service but we were running out of time,and the next bus comes 2 hours later,and therefore we cannot waste the time,so we WALKED there.TIRING WALK..HALFWAY THROUGH, IT FREAKING RAIN!! WTH!! but luckily didnt last long.we did the activity there, a worksheet,and we were supposed to find a "limited edition NEWater bottle". there was about..50 Blue bottles, and 2 orange 1..which do u think is the limited edition 1 eh? WTF! it was the freaking blue 1..just becos its printed "singapore clean and green plan 2012" =.=!! then we proceeeded back the long journey back to Tannah Merah.We then proceeded to Eunos, which took 2 mins to complete the task, taking 4 fliter papers, putting a dot in the centre of each paper, and find out which 2 matches. freaking simple.NEXT!
Orchard. we alighted and took bus 106 to bontanic gardens, where we struggled badly, and failed the checkpoint there with 40/120 points..we were already so tired,and they told us to WALK around the WHOLE bontanic garden to find some freaking plants name. One question didnt require walking around.:"What is the tree found on our $5 note?" answer: Tembutsu. wtf..fucking name..we took a cab back to the science centre,where we ended our trip =)..had our lunch at macdonals, at 4.30 PM..and had refreshments provided at 5PM...the food was nice, but prize presentation was nicer. Although teams who participated got a Certificate of Participation, there was consolation,first,second and third prize. however, we only got the COP..winner was victoria school..2nd is Xinmin Sec..3rd is Yishun sec..NUS high school of maths and science got SHIT..and VJC (YES VICTORIA JUNIOUR COLLEAGE) got shit too =P..Victoria school won bcos they had car =(,which is SOO much more convient..anyways,we had fun though..(goodness me..type so much) Now i blogged =) dun wanna tell u night time events =P
ENOUGH FOR TODAY! CYA TMR!

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