Today is the 'long-waited' mangrove cleanup....
Woke up damn early in the morning...
Reached school at 6.05am...
SMS my frenz, disturb her from her sleep...V bad hoh...
Waited like hell, they still did not arrive in school by 6.30am
except bryan....
TIC was damn late...haizz....He came at 6.40am...
I told him at 6.15am lehz...always late...
Guess what? We need to reach Kranji MRT station by 7...
Unless we fly there, or else......simply unacheivable...
Luckily my father volunteered to bring us there...
Meixi from NUS called me, she said she will be a bit late...
Coz' she was taking the same bus as us...
She helped us co-ordinate with Hua Qin...
Reach Kranji MRT by 7.15, TIC reached shortly after...
Don't know how he come one, he rejected to ride in my father's car...
3 guys were late...
Contacted Meixi, she said she will be going by herself to Sungei Buloh...
Soon, the bus arrived...Kai Scene called me, said that the bus must leave soon...
Waited for around 15minutes for those 3 freaks to arrive...
But they din...
I stayed behind...contacted Meixi again...
wanted to take cab together with those 3 latecomers...
They arrived at 7.55am...hahaha...5 more minutes and the event will start...
There were five of us now...
Me, Meixi and the 3 latecomers...
How to sit cab?
First taxi arrived shortly, Meixi talked to the driver but he refused to let us in...
Kai Scene SMS me to take bus...but it will be very very late...
Meixi said" If the next cab do not want to bring us all, you all go over first."
Second taxi came, I talked to the taxi driver...
HE ALLOWED! hurray...Squashed into the packed car, and zoomed off to Buloh...
Talked to Meixi in the cab...she is currently studying life-science, 2.5yrs...same as Yueat Tin...
The lecture was half-way through when we entered into the threaterette...
There was not enough sits, therefore i stood up...
(Those standing are those people whom are impt personnels)...
Siva, the organiser, introduced me and those who were standing...
I was surprised lohz...quite nervous too...embarrassed definitely...
I thought 'uh ho...what i need to do'...
If i knew, i would have sat down...
So much about what happened before the cleanup...
The cleanup begins at about 8.40am...
We worked side-by-side to the NUS group...
We were noisy...shouting here and there...
Not co-operating...playing...destroying nature...
Disobeying of the guide's fifth law...
Haizzz...I was utterly embarrassed...Just do my job as a 'mangrove cleaner' and keep quiet...
TIC was quite hmm....how to say....not quite pleased.......
Do things in his unique style...
The site we were given was quite clean...
Therefore we ventured out into other people's territory...
'cok' people trash bags...hahaha....very bad...
Data logging was quite lag too...Sorry Siva for unaccurate readings...hahaha
Found entangled nets, nylon ropes, twine with shear lashing on it...
Saw lots of horseshoe crabs shells....
Was it destroyed? Very strange...perculiar...
We quarreled and fight and play for about 2.5hrs...
Of course we also picked litters...
We filled 5 trash bags...total amounting to 78kg...
Good job guys...quite little though....but at least helped to clean up those marine debris...
Walked back to Sungei Buloh...washed our gloves and shoes...
The worst thing was that i forget to bring my sandals...
Oh my, so forgetful...
Submitted the Data records...
Saw Hua Qin raising up his voice, those NUS people were not 'listening' to him?
I don't know...I was just sitting behind him....observing..hahaha
Very boliao hoh, i know...
horror of horrors, Dennis Leong wrote my name as
Name of coordinator: Cheong Wei Chong....
Kaozzz....Don't even know my name...scared later post onto the internet...
Anyway, my Name is Cheong Wei Siong, in case you don't know...
Had a debrief session....they went home...only Bryan and me stayed for
the so-called "wet ops"...
sat in the workroom, very lame...listening to those 'heads' talking...
Very interesting, they were talking about the SARS virus possibility to be transmitted via lab...
Remembered one asking:" How do you know if the virus is dead?"
Remembered one answering, a girl i believed said" The virus stop multiplying..."
Followed by another rebutt" It might be inactive for a while..."
Very inspiring lohz...
I just sat there and listened through their conversation throughout...
Learned alot of things...lazy to write...
Bryan said" If we hang out with them often, we sure go NUS"...
Lunch arrived at 12 sharp...Its rice with egg, fish, yam paste?, lontong?...
Something like that lah...
Talked to a guy first year in NUS, formerly at TJC...
He was alone at first, some juniors of his from TJC joined him afterwards...
He was quite quiet until i talked to him...
Got to know he is currently studying life-science in NUS, first year...
Asked him whether he knew Yueat Tin or Meixi, he just shook his head...hahaha
After that, he talked to Hua Qin...
'Wet ops' began at 1pm...it was raining...therefore, i brought my windbreaker
siva said that they should be going under water...
I did bring my extra shirt and pant, but forget to bring extra undies...:$
I was like stunned for a moment...
I know i'm damn forgetful...plz don't use that and 'suan ' me...
SMS my so-called 'best frenz'..hahaha...did not reply...too bad...
Ask for advice mah...
First round...Siva, Bryan and me piled up around 25bags of trash bags onto the trolley...
Damn heavy...we pushed like hell...struggled like hell man...very tiring...
On the verge of giving up...
The other group behind us had five people pushing...2 guys and 3 ladies...
they were sort of laughing at us...
After one round, we burned out...so so so tired...
Went back, organised into four teams...
two team from trash point to bridge,
two team from bridge to unloading site...
There are two trolleys, therefore we have two teams...
I belonged to the team to continue from the bridge to the unloading site...
I longed for those reinforcements to arrive from NUS...
The next trip was not that heavy...four people pushed that trolley...
Following trip had less manpower, 3 guys...
But further decrease in amount of 'buffaloes per trolley' will kill us...
Some jokers made 'moo-ing' sounds...
Imagine, there were 20 trash bags per trip...and 1 trash bag weighs about 15 kg...
We were tortured, worst than a buffalo...
Rain stopped very soon when we entered the mangrove...
Wore my windbreaker, did not want to dirty it...
Some of them asked me, 'don't you feel hot?'...
Of course i am, i only does not want to dirty it...
Will kena scolding one lehz...
Reinforcements arrived around 2.15pm...hahahaha...
They helped to pushed the trolleys up those narrow tracks...
Poor thing, they must have suffered...
Ladies will suffer more...
Believed i'm the youngest guy participating in 'wet-ops'...
Am i???
Saw two photographers taking pictures of birds...
They used a telescopic device, with a camera attached onto it...
They need not use their eyes, they had a hand-held mechanism to operate the lens foci...
She let me have a look, two birds standing on a stilt...
That picture was wonderful...hope i could get it...
the bird had a blue belly, red mantel, blah blah blah...
I'm not a expert in birds though i read a few books about bird viewing...
Forgot everything...
Asked her what was that, she said it was an pacific 'dunno-what-bird'...
Forgot liaoz...
Sorry for bad memory, lots of things in my mind...
Went off at four, took a quick shower...cooling and refreshing...
Ate another pack of lunch...cold but it still looks appetising for me...
Too hungry lah, done lots of work...Force multipied by perpendicular distance....
Don't believe ar, go count the distance yourself...
http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/iccs/recces/kranji.html
After that, one guy fetched us out of Neo Tiew road, Sungei Buloh...
He don't know where is Kranji MRT, so he brought us to Yio Chu Kang...
Left me and Bryan at a bus-stop....
Took 163, changed to bus 410 to reach home...
Yawnx....very tired...shack man...
Fell dead immediately after bathing...slept for 20minutes before getting up for dinner...
Had a huge appetite...hahaha...
SMS Meixi, ask her for her views about the cleanup...
she said it was fun...seemed everything to her was fun...heehee
But actually its better than 'not fun'...hahaha...
She also said that TIC shouldn't have shouted at us...
As long as we do our part, its okay...
Slept at 12.30am......yawnx like hell...
ZZZZZzzzzzzz.........