Tuesday, 2 August 2011

What Happened Recently

Hey, everybody. It's been awhile since I last posted here. Recently the workload of form 4 has been pushing me to my working limits (which is very little) and the time in which I should be updating my blog was filled with the time in which I am needed to do my work. And I am lazy, so there.

Ok, let's start with what I said last post. You do remember don't you? Yes, you're right! A caterpanzee! A group consisting of Jonathan, Bryan, Khai Xiang and me have rushed and crapped out some weird-ass drawn out worm/snake/dragon/eel thing we decided to call a caterpanzee. We decided it would be sort of an apex predator when teacher said it had to be a person.

By that time we were pretty much screwed.

But we had no choice, we had to present it in front of the whole class how this pack hunter--err, civilized alien--moves, what he eats, his life cycle and such. But I'm going to reduce it back to creature level. That's right, evil me.

Anyways, the caterpanzee grows up to 50 meters 5 meters in length. It is a carnivore herbivore omnivore that feeds on mostly everything. It thrives on the planet Braxis where trees are able to run and escape from predators. However, unlike most herbivores, a caterpanzee maintains a symbiotic and prey-predator relationship with a tree.


A caterpanzee has nimble legs which allows it to climb up trees and scale walls. The sharp end of the claw can also be used to pin down running trees in order to prevent its escape. The caterpanzee also lives up in trees, where its green colored carapace helps it blend in with its surroundings.


Due to its unique diet, the caterpanzee has a set of powerful jaws as well as venomous saliva to help in quickly immobilizing prey. While strong, powerful, agile and quick, the caterpanzee is not without enemies. It has sharp barbs on its back to help protect it against predators, and most carnivores foolish enough to eat this creature will find itself wishing it didn't as the caterpanzee will create a chain reaction within its body to explode and send its spikes flying in all directions, inside the predator's mouth of course.


However, some even larger and more dangerous animals, the brontofrog, the frogasaurus and the frotoadestroyer (Ok, I made the last one up. Just the last one), have special enzymes in their saliva to counteract the chain reaction. Bye bye catrepanzee.

While they are not intelligent, caterpanzees are cunning and sly, often hunting in packs to bring down large prey. They live a short 20 year life and while not very social, they communicate with various growls and hisses. At least they turn into a beautiful butterfly once they die of old age...

Yes, yes random much, but I ran out of writing material.

Next, there was a Leo Installation last Saturday (23/7/2011) which I attended. I was in charge with Food and Beverages (Bryan and me) as well as security (Ian Zhan forced me in), so I had to go early. I helped in things like moving and arranging chair and so on, but I was actually really free.


I stole this actually. What, it's shiny!








Whatchu looking at?



We get to watch the various performances and the new Leos being installed as well as the upcoming B.O.Ds (Board of directors) go on stage. Then it was time to take the food.






The Leos doing their pledge.










Bromance!




One of the Lions that attended the installation.

Being in charge of Food and Beverages means that Bryan and I have to directly oversee the entire operation and make sure the food gets handled properly. Along with the help of several buff and strong Leos, we managed to bring the food to the hall without any incident. We had to arrange the tables for the VIPs (Tell me you know this...) and set up the food placement.

And for hygiene purposes, we couldn't let the Leos take the drinks themselves (It was in a large tub/pail/tall and cylindrical pot/flower vase) so I had to be in charge of serving the drinks. Oh boy. There were at least more than 50 Leos and they come for refills all the time. My hand was aching by the time they were done. I ain't complaining, as I find that the installation was a pretty big success, aside from the point that most of the food that we ordered were wasted.

Me and my good friend Jia En.

I caught a ghost on cam.

Now I await at home, waiting for my doomsday aka the next Leo committee meeting. I wonder what will Puan Chung say after seeing the mountain of leftovers. At least Bryan will die with me.

On a side note, I really miss my friend in Australia, Jarren. I didn't get to talk to him much recently, due to my workload and GAMES! But I do hope he is coping well in Australia and making some new friends.

It was his birthday recently, 29th of July. Although I didn't get to celebrate with him, I saw that he had loads of fun with his family at Australia through Facebook. Ah, what wonders does the internet bring. I hope that we'll always keep in touch.

P.S: My camera isn't the best, so the quality aren't what you'd really find as nice. I hope you don't mind!

YC, signing out.