I'm back... (i guess)

Ok, so after a long hiatus of 19 days, I'm finally back! Yes, i know, ur all dying to hear from me. alright then, a brief summary of my holidays so far. regarding the week 2-6 june, it was spent mostly (trying) to finish my work (fruitlessly, i might add) and playing xbox (much more fulfilling). then for the week (or so) from 7-11 june, that was my holiday with my family and we went to east malaysia, namely sabah. i love how i can say i've been to borneo now. but anyway. i had loads of fun actually. i mean, i think, on retrospect, that the best day i had there was when we got out in the morning and headed out to mt K. it was a really long drive and we were in a proton wira, so go figure. anyway, once we finally got there, it was another matter of ascending to the tourist centre at 1500m. right. again, i say, in a rented proton wira. it held up well, though, thank goodness. so anyway, after trekking through a few trails, we decided to move on to the Poring Hot Springs, which are geothermal sulphur (sulfur, jeez) springs formed by tectonic activity (i think). had a dip there ( no idea wat that was supposed to do). so after that, we went on this boardwalk in the rainforest. it was SO cool. i mean, it was suspended 438m above ground level, so of course we had to trek all the way up there. once we finally got there, there was the job of actually traversing all 6 boardwalks, which was so like out of some arcane indiana movie. not that the bridge was rotting and broken, i mean it was sturdy and safe, but still. then after that, we went to see the dear rafflesia flower. my dear science contemporaries, nothing to be envious about. it wasn't that huge, u know, not like what was said in my pals are here. and no rotting stench. sad, huh? but anyway. then it started raining, and so it was getting late, and we wanted to get back to the hotel before dark. right. once we start descending that precipitous peak it starts pouring torrentially, the capricious sabah weather being what it is. again i remind you; rented proton wira. yet despite all the trials and tribulations (oh what a cliche) it still held up. so of course once the inclement weather kicked in, all the disparaging rainclouds started forming and as a result, it got really dark. down a mountain, in heavy rain, in darkness, in wira, with your family. right. talk abt family adventure. as if it ended there. once we actually got off the blessed mountain, it was a matter of finding our way back to the city and then our hotel. needless to say, in all that rain and darkness, we took a wrong turning somewhere and screwed everything up. we ended up near the godforsaken industrial area. so finally, we just decided to follow the posters to 1Borneo, which was their latest supermall ( so obviously, lots of hoo-ha, lucky for us), and eventually got there. by then it was a matter of calling our contacts and asking for directions to the hotel. oh btw all this was done on an empty stomach since our last meal was b'fast. no lunch, just packet snacks. so we decided to go to a drive-thru for dinner. of all the blessed things, a mc's drive-thru. all that suffering for mc's. where is the justice? so yeah, thats the highlight of it. then, from 12-14, had my specialist's course. less said the better. no idea how i survived that. but anyway, im happy, i got my 2nd sergeant. so basically, this whole week (16-19) was spent finishing up the remainder of my holiday hw. i still hv some projects left. but i can complete those when i get back to school. oh, its gonna be so busy this term. i'll have as many AP rehearsals as my CCAs (in the plural, take note), i'll be preparing for my common tests. oh come on. so yeah, i think that that just made up for my 19days' hiatus. enjoy wats left of the holidays!