BRATs Camp (For No Reason) - Part 5 of 5

Here's part of the entire draft I cooked up while blogging up my BRATs experience. The precedent texts are edited and posted in the BRATs series all in the June archive of the blog, with pictures! This one hasn't a thousand words to tell (nor could they be captured with photos) so yeah! It's just bonus stuff anyways, here we go.

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Oh, did I mention the prank calls? Haha. Marcuse and Xing Yi, they tried to prank me and Joash on the first night you know! Joash was fast asleep (he is a REALLY heavy sleeper!) so I cancelled the call on his phone. I got slightly panicked about the phone ringing and possibly waking Joash thing and all. Little I know that was the least of my worries.

Okay so they called me later, with the same number. It kinda gave the game away lah. They claimed I was a witness to some murder... -.- Marcuse the eavesdropper claims the prank call was hilarious on the premise of me responding to all accusations and evidences of murder as "cool". It went something like this:

Xing Yi: Did you know that s Mr. Lim (I'm not sure what random name they used) was murdered?
Abel: Cool.
Xing Yi: And you're apparently a witness to the murder. So you have to fly back to Ipoh by tonight.
Abel: Oh... cool.
and so on.

On the second night of Camp, Xing Yi and Marcus(e) dropped by to "visit" me and Joash. Haha. They wanted to prank some fellow BRATs so they "harvested" numbers from my phone to prank. Next they tried calling up some people but a couple of them were sleeping. They managed to get through to Ee Laine and pranked her with some random crap. (edit: I remember now. It's about spotting her planking and asking her to help spread the art of planking. And stuff like that)

Xing Yi dropped his organisation name as the "Singapore Planking Association" and the rest of us in the room burst out in laughter!!! He claims we broke his cover but yeah. That was the most absurd thing we heard all camp, I'm pretty sure. Worst prank call ever xD

THeir third night prank was the funniest and dumbest, they basically got pranked back as far as I'm concerned. Haha! I have most of it on record, so maybe I'll make a subbed video of it soon... or not so soon!

They were asking for some random name - Larry, and Amy took it up and started acting as "Larry"! (Larry: I'm at the end of the rainbow, and just wanted to tell you that there's no pot of gold here) Haha then there was this Spanish girl, Maria Gonzalez.. (Maria: I think your voice is so sexy Señor),  Awesome stuff. Ben Jie also did some pretty hilarious stuff, his recording's real clear! Probably'll post it first. If I ever post it. Haha.

On the final day.. We had to touch up the assignments we were working on... Watched all of 'em.. and said our goodbyes! With plenty of photos going round.. Well they're all over Facebook somewhere, you can check out my album by clicking right here!

Brats Saga Still Continues (Part 4)

The 2nd assignment on day 3 was to visit a local paddy field. The main significance is only that Kedah is bestowed the title "the rice bowl of Malaysia". It wasn't too bad lah there, One of the family members told a story about this disease, called "Perang" (the colour). It sometimes happens that the young paddy stalks will get infected, they will then turn red. It'll be as good as dead paddy then...

Stolen off Senior Brat  Pau Ling a.k.a. Roxanne Low! Good blog!

The special thing about the 2nd assignment is we were gifted "buah tangan" by the farm owners as they have, as someone described, a mango "orchard" (it's only a couple of trees xD) beside the field. They were quite nice to eat actually! Haha. Firm, not too soft. They gave us plenty! About twenty to thirty mangoes you know. But they weren't ripe so most of us "ta pau"ed the fruits. Haha. Compare to the dodol they bought on Assignments 1 day 2! Freeeeeeee :D :D :D

At night we went to have Laksa Kedah for dinner! Well, I didn't have any cause I'm not a fan of laksa, so I had satay! But everyone had satay-lah so yeah. Haha. Satay was actually very nice. Laksa was plain cus we didn't go to the main one I guess.. The first-choice was sold out and had closed shop!

Joash took this picture! Thanks Joash :)

This the one with Joash in it :)

BRATs Saga Part 3 - W.H.A.T.?

Then after the first day... and night, we were facing assignments straight away. We went to Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad's childhood residence.. and all. :) Took photos - but we were wearing the BRATs t-shirt. No offense, but just that white is plain.. heh. That's why I have 2 orange shirts, man! And a pink shirt that's my absolute fave!! :D

Oh and a random picture! Cause the place was actually still closed when we came. Aren't we the earlybirds!

Spot the poser!

Haha. Moving on to more relevant points.. We were to do a soundslide.. Well let's talk about less technical stuff-lah! Doing assignments was... quite stressful. But it was great to finish them! Team W.H.A.T. the best! Really loved working with all you peeps. Haha. Team X bought back Dodol from their visit to the Dodol making centre or what ever term you use for that place. Haha.

Our... tour guide.

Here's a shoutout to - group leader Tan Ee Laine, video editor pro Yin Li (saved us a lot of progress a couple of times on the video job - priceless mann), guys Samuel Lee & Zhong Min, stand-upper Denielle, and Amanda, Chien Huey, Aisyah,  Samantha, SU Yi, Valerie, Natasha and Raanita. :) best group EVERRRRRR

Note: This is a scheduled release; I'm actually on my way to KL at the time is is posted! Haha

The BRATs Saga Part 2

Okay... First day was.. overwhelming! Thrust straight into the culture of the 'camp! I was quite surprised to see so little guys - at first impression lah. But after a while it was understood.. That guys just weren't interested to sign up for this awesome camp. Haha.

What we do on the first day, a set of briefings and some icebreakers to warm us up. Don't have pictures on this so yeah.

They had a bunch of workshops, only remember Photography by Jason Lioh and Social Media by Niki Cheong because those were the two I'll take heart to for life! Yeah. Got a great roommate - Joash! I sleep at least half an hour later than him - and it makes no difference to him! Yeah. Awesome stuff la. :)

Btw, the photography workshop required us to test our newly-learned knowledge hands-on! The theme was "green" and so yeah.. My entry was this.

Well, it received some commendations.. In part of being the top of the list 'cause of alphabetical order -.- heh. And well this group of BRATs gathered at Alor Setar were complimented for presenting a really consistent set of photos. Because, well.. the previous batches... Uh I shan't say haha! But. We still love ya even though you can't really take pichas alright :) lovelovelove :D

Btw the first morning after that, managed to catch a pretty neat picture of the Alor Setar skyline. Reposting this from twitter..

More to come.. And well I'll end this post on a random quote.

"Reach for the stars. And if you don't grab em, at least you're on top of the world" - Armando Christian Perez (better knows as Pitbull)

BRATs

Hey guys. If you've been a friend on facebook or following me on twitter, you'll definitely know that, I've been at BRATs Camp '11 at Alor Setar, Kedah! And this you probably won't know, that I was at Paradise Sandy Beach Resort (Hotel lah) the day before camp. More like a stopover holiday before heading to Alor Setar. Family went there, then parents dropped me and my sister off to BRATs!

P.S. this post'll be split up into smaller bits, released whenever I want to :D

This was in the... garden? Swimming pool. Absolutely beautiful place!

A random message... Heh.

An angle of the view from our balcony! It faces the beach but the space is huge!

(On a side note, my parents stayed the following night @ Alor Setar - they caught Kungfu Panda 2 without us kids!!! How could theyyyyyyy :O)

Edit: You can check out my sis's blog some time, it already has (Update #2!) the Penang food photos on it! Here's a taster - Penang Chee Cheong Fun - my mum's favourite, and must have, at Gurney Drive!

Penang Chee Cheong Fun! At the famed Gurney Drive.