INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS OLYMPIAD 2006

alrite. after spending like 4 plus hours bloggin the previous entry yesterdae i finally finished it at 1 plus am this morning. faintx. yes. u didnt read wrongly n it was all becoz of my lousy keyboard which juz refused to cooperate w mi. zhang xin is vry amused by e fact tt i can take so long to blog so she entered an entry on BUS 2 blog n if u r interested. click here

so it's now time to go into IPhO properly...prepare yourself for one of the world's longest blog entry! hahahaz.

even though e real event starts on 8 July 2006 Saturdae. by thursdae nite. we alrdy hav delegates sittin near us at e dinning hall at hall 12. hahaz. i m sorrie but i admit guilty of staring at the delegates frm Slovenia. hahaz. n i muz sae tt e excitement of meeting my own delegates started to build up rite frm tt moment onwards. by fridae morning 7 July 2006. e dinin hall is no longer as empty and quiet w more teams arriving.

went to e medical centre w mabel who kindly agreed to accompany me becoz she has sum time to spare. we took e wrong internal shuttle bus thus ended up back at ntu again. hahaz. it's retarded. even e uncle was quite amused by us. in e end we hav to walk a damn long wae to e medical centre. no wonder i hav seniors who told mi tt studying in ntu will help mi slim down becoz we need to walk so much! i cant wait to see e final product when i graduate. wahahaz.

i met wan ju and one of his delegates. e onli female delegate. anastasia on their wae to her rm which is in my block. was kinda of worried that 2 of his delegates would not turn up becoz apparently their passports expired or so as we were informed e dae b4. but it turned out tt everywan managed to come for IPhO so it was juz a false alarm.

after which i was hanging around the ops room when we were informed that 3 delegates frm the belgium team arrived 4 hours b4 their scheduled flight time and they actuallie managed to make their wae to the IPhO booth themselves. it's quite funnie. our instructions to reach 2 hours b4 our delegates' scheduled time is not tt unreasonable after all. hahahaz. aniwae poor lala hav to turn back on her wae to e airport becoz the delegates r leaving for ntu frm e airport le. hahaz. but i had a great time hanging out with her to welcome the belgium delegates outside the ops rm! n i tagged after them when they go to their rooms n stuff. hahaz. pai sehz lahz. was still waiting for e spanish team to arrive since si mi lu was camping in e airport since dun noe when.

met e kuwait gurlz on my wae back to my room becoz we r staying on e same level. helped belinda explained sum stuff becoz she looked kinda of tired. hahaz. apparently all e SLOs w their teams look rather flustered. but i guess it's normal since we do hav to take care of quite abit of stuff ba.

was in my rm desperately trying to complete e presenz n stuff when i looked out of my room's window n saw si mi lu n li zi leading 5 guys each wearing a spanish colours hat. pulling their luggage on their wae to 16E. i started to run towards 16E via e linkwae next to my room. muz be becoz i hav heard alot abt e spanish pple ba. when i reached there n saw si mi lu standing outside their rooms. looking totally flustered and e guys moving frm their own room to e others' rm non stop w door closing n opening at e same time. it was juz plain hilarious. reallie. it was vry funnie. n when si mi lu spotted mi. she banged on all e 3 doors and asked all of them to come out to meet me n introduced mi to them. they gave mi this "oh!" look then continued their opening n closing doors n shifting of themselves frm one room to e other. it was reallie hilarious. as far as i noe. i haven stopped laughing since i first saw them outside their rooms. e spaniards r reallie funnie n entertaining. e wae they speak to each other in spanish at such a fast speed is reallie "wow!" n e blank look on si mi lu's face is so funnie. hahaz. this combination is reallie cute! a supreme tall SLO with a Supreme Tall delegate of 1.96m (Miguel) n 4 other shorter guys... hahaz.

was hanging out with e spaniards until dinner. after which we went for dinner together and retired to the lounge at 16E with e cypriots n ping guo n kim. it was so fun coz we were playing murderer (e spanish version) and when inigo was desmonstrating how to play n stuff. i was very amused. becoz his actions n e wae he behaved is juz like mr bean! it's so cute! hahaz. hav a vry enjoyable time playing e game even though i was killed in e first round by fran after trying desperatedly to save miguel who juz refused to look at mi (becoz i m e medic). but it was reallie nice n fun hanging out with e cypriots (though they didnt tok much.) and spaniards. but due to e fact tt i haven completed e presenz n air my delegates' rooms n stuff i was abit e panicky liao. when i finally finished everything it was 1 plus am in e morning. n it was onli then did i start to do e welcome board for my delegates. n tt explained why i spelled "repubublic" instead of "republic".

8 July 2006. Saturdae. Day 1

woke up vry early to get e keys for my delegates' room so as to switch on e aircon b4 we leave for e airport. was vry blur n sleepy but thanx goodness e waiting time for 199/179 was short. li zi. chalat. ping guo n mi set off for changi airport n we reached there fairly early. heeheez. managed to grab breakfast at e terminal itself while we waited for our delegates to come. met daniel. SLO of India n Mabel. SLO of the Netherlands. and when we see the indian delegates coming out. e look of joy on daniel's face is vry cute! hahaz. was getting ourselves orientated with e various places in e airport including e money changer etc. b4 ping guo. li zi n i settle down to wait for our delegates to arrive on e same flight frm kuala lumpur. as for chalat. he made his wae to terminal 1 arrival hall to wait for his thai delegates. heez.

was tokin nonsense n chatting w the adults presenz at e airport. n inez came to join us! hahaz. took alot of retarded photos with our boards n stuff while we wait anxiously for our delegates to claim their baggage after their flight has landed. when i saw my delegates. (becoz onli e croatia team has a gurl. heez) i was waving my board wildly. hahaz. like some mad woman. but my croats didnt c mi! boohoohoo! *cry* oh well.

n to tell u e truth. seeing them for e first time face to face...was kinda weird. but at least they met my expectations in e sense tt all of them r tall!!! even marija. sighz. she is 170 cm. n antonio though he is e youngest. he is e tallest. w a height of 1.94 m. hahaz. n he is officially known as my fav giraffe! hahaz. e rest of e guys average with a height of 1.8m. which is like...tall. hahaz.

was abit e frantic when i first met them n stuff. didnt noe wat to sae. didnt noe how to sae. sighz. n becoz they didnt reply my email. i nv tok/converse/communicate with them b4 meeting them at all. it was tt bad. n in my email i sound reallie formal so i was wondering shld i continue to be formal or shld i show them my true self? hahaz. but at least all of us speak english and they are nice to me! wahahaz.

i m sorrie. but i keep on wanting to fill this silence when my delegates n i are together. so was abit e trying to find sumting to tok/crap. but i guess after awhile i understand e meaning of companionable silence. hahaz. n i muz sae tt their leaders r vry vry vry nice to mi. reallie. heez. esp Prof Kzadro. he is juz like a nice teddy bear. though i hope he will not read this. oopz! hahaz. but he is reallie like a fatherly figure towards me and hopefully to e delegates too.

aniwae we went back w 3 of e delegates frm bosnia n hercegovina n of course. their SLO ping guo. hahaz. settle e guys into their rooms first b4 showing marija her room. i m reallie happie when i realised that i hav a female delegate among my croats. hahaz. n i was so happie that after checking e name list during pre camp. i was running ard tellin pple tt i hav a gurl! n some of my fellow SLOs kindly replied by asking "who is e father?" dotz. hahaz. n originally i was having a bit of prob determining which name is their surname which name is their first name. but hahaz. i managed to sort it out in e end...n e following 5 pple r my delegates!

1. Marija
2. Boran
3. Marko
4. Mijo
5. Antonio

on another note. while i was waiting for my delegates in e airport. our dear zhang xin who had to reach e airport at 3.33 am earlier in e morning is with her kazakhstan team. hahaz. tt kinda flight timing is out to kill lahz. seriously. we were joking ard saeing tt she hav e best timing. e ultimate timing. hahaz. becoz by rite. e ops rm is supposed to call u 4 hours b4 e scheduled arrival time. so she will be woken up by a call at 1.33 am. wahahahaz. confirmed she will look like a panda when she go to welcome her delegates. heeheez.

n i forgot to mention this. apparently e first team out of e whole IPhO excluding e singapore team to arrive in the country is the Austria team. seriously. when we start on our precamp. they hav alrdy arrived in singapore to continue their training for e olympiad. n i was like huh? it turned out tt training in singapore is cheaper than back in Austria. so...hmmz. n we thot e United States is e most kiasu wan. hahaz. no lahz. juz joking. since originally they r supposed to be e first team to arrive. heez. but for sum reason. i nv see e Austrian team ard until e 3rd day we went to nite safari. n i was sitting beside simon! yeahz! hahaz.

to be continued.

i believe in miracles becoz i would be much happier if i do @ 2:03 pm