noe me, or else...
zenöv of zenövia!
unparallelled
梦ä¸è½
~ åç姿 ~
November 17th morning 1983
ζ Silat Kindergarten ζ Silat PS:1A-2A ζ ZPS:3A-6A ζ
ζ RVHS:1F/2F/3/4I ζ HJC:00S60
ζ BMTC Ninja + Viper ζ Jln BM
ζ Punggol 21 ζ NEL->EWL->96
ζ NUS Engin 2 ζ CSC ζ CSL ζ LB
ζ Ethelonter III ζ sammi
ζ zenov_yzr@yahoo.com
Wat I Did On
Went for SOKA SD Orientation. GC nearly full strength w exception of viv. Did quite a bit of bitching and groping, pinching... shall elaborate more in blog, but it's late at nite now...
Ï 27 Jul 2006 (Thur) Ï
Got so bored staying at home 2 hrs into waking dat I jio-ed cb to Nat'l Lib to immerse ourselves in the bk-ish environment. Slept at there instead. Then went to Sim Lim to look at PDAs.
Ï 25 Jul 2006 (Tue) Ï
Ma'at Sports Day 3. Played squash all the way. Mac dinner. Took up a challenge w cb & km to lose 3 inches off our waist by next wk.
Ï 24 Jul 2006 (Mon) Ï
Ma'at Water Sports Day 2. Late, started walking to JE pool at 1230pm, only to realize it's only open at 1430 on mon. Lazy river, wave, lazy and wave. No slides this time round, cos I'm a bit flu-y. Dinner at kopitiam outside pool w ching & bu, cos ray went home for dinner =(
Ï 20 Jul 2006 (Thur) Ï
Ma'at 满æ. Went to settler's and then to Crystal Jade at Suntec. Pathetic attendance. 满æ = Time to split up.
Ï 18 Jul 2006 (Tue) Ï
Ma'at Sports Day 2
Ï 17 Jul 2006 (Mon) Ï
Movie with GC. Slacked, walked from DG to The Heerens, settled at Starbucks at Crown Prince Hotel, then dinner at Cine's LJS. Walked again to Kino, chit chat standing among the sea of books. Then home... on NEL lah...
Ï 14 Jul 2006 (Fri) Ï
GC Investiture.
Ï 13 Jul 2006 (Thur) Ï
Ma'at Water Sports Day. See blog entry.
Ï 11 Jul 2006 (Tue) Ï
Ma'at Sports Day. See blog entry.
Ï 09 Jul 2006 (Sun) Ï
Dinner with Ma'at after their C.A.N. Split into Pizza Hut and Pastamania.
Ï 08 Jul 2006 (Sat) Ï
Afternoon: LB elderly-turned-volunteers outing to Qian Hu in Tengah, followed by KPO session at Delifrance w some of the surviving volunteers. Made way down to hf's hse to play mahjong w HJC gang, tho they stopped playing to watch WC. boring~ when will these ppl grow up?? so i'm here updating my blog...
Ï 07 Jul 2006 (Fri) Ï
Afternoon: Chalet accts tally with zin & bryan. chit chat & abused zin's laptop while she was away. Evening: 3rd date w someone at harborfront, followed by a long walk w her to home. Then off to bugis to try my luck w bryan & chio bu & watched a super lame show: Recycle together, after shopping through 3 cinemas
Albums & Movies For Sale
DVD movies
Mandarin Albums (China imported)
Resolutions 2006
-+ Play the piano +-
-+ Rollerblading +- learning
-+ Dancing +-
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-+ Complete 1st novel by June & 2nd novel by Dec +-
-+ Find a tuition job +-
-+ Read
-+ Read 2 chinese bks +-
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-+ Join ç»å¯¹ Superstar +-
-+ Do a gd job in csc bizcom and ethelonter III +-
-+
-+ Creative PC-Cam 950 (Blue) +-
-+ 1GB RAM for Lifebook +-
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movie dat rox!
The Matrix Trilogy
Snow Falling On Cedars
Taking Lives, Pearl Harbor
X-men, Monsters' Inc
Dead Poet's Society
Great Expectations
Needing You (å¤ç·å¯¡å¥³)
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books dat mooves
Snow Falling On Cedars
Sing To The Dawn, Enid Blyton
gaming craze
SimCity4, The Age of Empires 2
Neverwinter Nights
Railroad Tycoon II, Tropico,
Enter The Matrix,
Beach Life,Worms Armageddon
Capitalism II, Monopoly Tycoon
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
i'm a scorpio
Ruling Planet: Pluto/ Mars
Element: Water
Cross/Quality: Fixed
Group: Intellectual
House Ruled: Eight
Polarity: Negative
Opposite Sign: Taurus
Favorable Colors: Dark Reds & black
Lucky Gem: Opal
Key Body Part: Reproductive Organs
Period: Oct.23 - Nov.21
Basic Profile:
Passionate, vibrant, magnetic, perceptive, emotional, sensual, alert, willful, determined, resourceful, purposeful, directed, dominant, ambitious, fearless, committed, intense, but can be obsessive, extreme, vengeful, jealous, spiteful, unforgiving, bully, menacing, possessive, arrogant
Famous Scorpions:
Bill Gates, Theodore Roosevelt, Pablo Picasso, Martin Luther, Marie Curie, Prince Charles, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Calista Flockhart, kd lang, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster, Demi Moore
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What kind of love are you?
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You are pure love. Pure and deep. You not only want
to but NEED to find your one true love. You are
not afraid of any challenge for your love, and
it is something to truly treasure.
quote-a-pro
"I've never been so far from my dream than when I was standing right beside it."
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"
"Ten fingers, ten toes, that was all that mattered. They don't say that now."
"Is the only way you can succeed is to see me fail?"
"Maybe it was the love for the planets, maybe it was my growing detest for this one, but for as long as I remember, I have dreamt of going into space
"You try so hard to leave a place and when you do, you find a reason to stay."
"They've got you looking for the flaws that after a while, it's all that you see."
"The wind caught it."
"The only way you can see the inside of a spaceship is when you are cleaning it."
-- Quotes from GATTACA
"Love is like an apple; it has been more than 300 years since an apple dropped and hit someone randomly"
-- zenöv
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
I'm Thinking About My Life & Priorities...
Please don't blame me for this... After talking so much with so many people (I must have talked the last 4 years of my life combined), exchanging views and observing other people, I began to ponder over my own life. After all, it's one of the 2 times of the year (other than NY) that prompts students to make resolutions.
But well, actually, what should I think of? I guess my main aim is to kill (or at least weaken) the lazy bug in me. And then, through more interaction with other people, I can know how to restrict myself appropriately at times, verbally or action wise.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Went for Soka SD Orientation on Fri. The Reason for going was complex, but well, since the reason was for a good purpose, then it should not be that bad. After all, we had good company too.
In our group we had me, zin, LF, Luke, rx, tC and cb (bryan joined us later in the evening). We met at Clementi, where we distributed our identifiers for the day, made faithfully by tC into the night. Then it was off to the central forum where we had ice-breaker games with the other strangers joining the orientation.
SD identifier (front) Plaster wrapped in plastic for long-keeping.
It was standard fare, followed by a sort of internal hunt, though I didn't join in the puzzle solving. ha... I followed wherever the others went. Highlight was Poison River bah. Don't know why. It reminded me of the day when NEL broke down and I had to squeeze with a lot of people in the carriage or the day when 96 was trapped in a jam, with a bus load of people packed to the brim. Breathless, cold-sweating.
Then, we went for the Food Hunt. We started off to Clementi, the 1st station, where some 小插曲 happened. And then on the way, cb and I started the Nipple-Pinching Marathon again. It put all guys into defensive mode, including the OGL, whom barely knew us. He should feel honoured for getting molested ok...
We then took 7 to HV, where we searched for a balloon shop. We had lunch (sort of) at the hawker centre, where I ate orh jian. It was then I started to become a message relayer. Tired on one hand, glad that I was trusted on the other. But well, I can only say I did a good job relaying messages, though whether I helped resolved anything was secondary.
We then took some bus to Cine, where cb and I disturbed tC throughout the bus ride. Who asked him to NOT burst his pimple? Who asked him to have sensitive (physiologically, though for him, it means metaphorically too) ears?
At Cine, we searched for the white apple (ishop) and then had ice kacang to continue the food chain. It was then we turned the Nipple-Pinching Marathon to Caressing Marathon. No pain inflicted, just plain pleasure... hehe...
It was there I realized something too. All along, I thought I had a rather disgusting cackle (can't help it when I lose control), but I found out that rx had an equally (if not surpassing me) disgusting cackle. It happened when he attacked me on the escalator and I was more of in shock than in pain...
Then it was off to Harborfront, where bryan joined us. Had dinner there. ermz... What did we do...? We basically roamed the place before dinner in search of a food item that can help us link up the food chain... cb was happy reveling the fact about his new crush. After dinner, cb and Luke left. It was also where I was approached for info again.
It's really interesting. We touched on the topic of 热脸贴冷屁股. Long long ago, I had the same experience where I expressed friendliness after The Fight. I was met with a cold face. From then on, I gave up all attempts to make peace. Till lately, I realize that he didn't see me outside the bookshop smiling at him. Maybe we shouldn't 委屈 ourselves to 热脸贴冷屁股, but sometimes, it may not be a 冷屁股 we are 贴-ing, so it doesn't hurt to do it a few more times just in case.
After all, there's nothing to lose. That was what I told him.
SD identifier (back) There was an accompanying plaster that we wore for the event.
We proceeded to Pasir Panjang Food Centre for the last item. It was a place I had always wanted to eat at since my RV days (passing by on 176 2 times a day but never had the impulse to drop off and eat there). It's no longer visible from the road since Circle Line construction took place. We had the Chicken Fried Rice over there. Ended the day's work as Relayer, though as mentioned, it wasn't me who resolved everything.
We crossed the road to the SOKA Youth Centre, some place that I have passed by all these years but never give much thought about.
It was already drizzling as we crossed the road. It was the weirdest situation I got myself into in recent times. I want to be a friend, not a wedge, which was how I felt at that point of time. A wedge between 2 people on an apparent cold war was suppressing.
It was SOKA performance and experience sharing there, in the small function room. The ambience was nice, though it was a long time since I sat on the ground for extended period of time. Nothing super impressive nor super depressive.
rx's sharing session made me feel that the Reason for attending was fulfilled. We didn't waste our time going down as a group to accompany tC and it was the 1st time in ages since we actively included rx in GC's crazy antics. A tiring day with 2 fulfilling accomplishments.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Slept late, so I pontang Touch City Walk held in the crazy hour of 7am.
Went to meet up with Ma'ats after their walk for lunch at Funan food court. Lingered around the area before tC, cb and me set off for LB.
LB was rather low-key today, despite being an 'orientation visit' after the City Walk where KCs were supposedly to have helped disseminate this fact. But well...
Visited blind sisters and uncle lee. hmmm... I'm still not up to standard, but my focus is supposed to be on volunteers, yar? The hokkien group had me, wz, cal, cb and weijian from gp2. Uncle lee proclaimed that it was wonderous that kids as young as cb and wj could be studying in uni and all of us laughed. Well, is it a blessing to b with the outlook of a kid or not?
Met up with bryan, LF and Joyce at Lucky Chinatown (they rotted while we went for LB) and had a GS interview for Joyce. She came with a supposedly Grade A gossip in her resume to offer us. The 'interview' went on while we had KTV at a Ten-dollar KTV Lounge (ed joined us) and after that, where we had a short talk at Chinatown Point Mac with km.
What I learned from the interview? Never to relate to the interviewee as to how they fared. When they have an idea of their standing, we'll never be able to keep the ball in our court. Be it they are telling us a Grade A++ news or an out-dated Grade C news, interviewers should keep the reactions to themselves. No use leading them on when the above rule was broken.
This is to safeguard the safety of all our members and the existence of the Club (organization, in a broader term).
Gossiping is, after all, an official underground activity that a lot of victims detest (even though they enjoy in sharing other people's gossips).
Joyce failed her psychometric and integrity test too. Whether she makes it into the List is still open for discussion with other members.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It's a bit tough trying to blog relevant to the title. This segment is, in fact, written 12 hours after the 1st few parts and I've not a single idea how to continue or make an ending.
Been troubled by certain stuff these days, these few weeks. Or do I? Maybe to certain people, I'm still living life nonchalantly as before.
Whiling my time away with people I most enjoy the company.
Be it short term or long term, it has been a long time since I feel so included, so I might as well immerse in it.
Yes, I do need to be wanted and included. I guess that's what most humans desire. There are those who are able to give just as well as they receive (if not more) and some who just receives more than they give. Some, they demand and demand.
Why do people keep demanding stuff they don't make an effort in getting? Why do people choose to live life pessimistically, keeping themselves in the dark fringes of life when they could have done something?
Years ago, watched Andy Lau's movie Li Gu Li Gu Xin Nian Cai. It was a comedy, but there was a good quote:
It doesn't matter whether you have a set of bad tiles; it's how you play the tiles. As long as you do your best, you are playing a good game.
I believe I lead a life of damnity, but I know I shouldn't wallow in self-pity. Cos after all the endless rounds of self-pity, I'm still in as bad a situation I was in. Ok, I once led a life of self-pity, that was how I know it's not constructive. As I've said (a dozen times before), it made me waste 4 years of my life.
But even though I stopped engaging i self-pity, I still wasted a year plus procrastinating and stuff like that.
But I know my next step is: to take a step.
Then the next.
And the next.
So, I must get rid of the lazy bug in me and get going.
I once told a class during an intro: I'm 17 this year and it is unique, cos it's the only 17 I'm gonna lead.
Half of my 22 is gone and it was wasted doing stuff that had no long-term constructive impact on my life. I need to make it a good one before it ends.
From 17, my life while restart again at 22.
Dear friends, please make full use of your 18s, 19s, 20s, and 21s. Cos for what I lost, I hope you guys cherish it.
Live life optimistically and those who do are the ones whom I stick to more, cos I no longer want to be pulled into the abyss of pessimism.
Shall make my half-yearly resolutions soon.
Please don't blame me for this... After talking so much with so many people (I must have talked the last 4 years of my life combined), exchanging views and observing other people, I began to ponder over my own life. After all, it's one of the 2 times of the year (other than NY) that prompts students to make resolutions.
But well, actually, what should I think of? I guess my main aim is to kill (or at least weaken) the lazy bug in me. And then, through more interaction with other people, I can know how to restrict myself appropriately at times, verbally or action wise.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Went for Soka SD Orientation on Fri. The Reason for going was complex, but well, since the reason was for a good purpose, then it should not be that bad. After all, we had good company too.
In our group we had me, zin, LF, Luke, rx, tC and cb (bryan joined us later in the evening). We met at Clementi, where we distributed our identifiers for the day, made faithfully by tC into the night. Then it was off to the central forum where we had ice-breaker games with the other strangers joining the orientation.
SD identifier (front) Plaster wrapped in plastic for long-keeping.
It was standard fare, followed by a sort of internal hunt, though I didn't join in the puzzle solving. ha... I followed wherever the others went. Highlight was Poison River bah. Don't know why. It reminded me of the day when NEL broke down and I had to squeeze with a lot of people in the carriage or the day when 96 was trapped in a jam, with a bus load of people packed to the brim. Breathless, cold-sweating.
Then, we went for the Food Hunt. We started off to Clementi, the 1st station, where some 小插曲 happened. And then on the way, cb and I started the Nipple-Pinching Marathon again. It put all guys into defensive mode, including the OGL, whom barely knew us. He should feel honoured for getting molested ok...
We then took 7 to HV, where we searched for a balloon shop. We had lunch (sort of) at the hawker centre, where I ate orh jian. It was then I started to become a message relayer. Tired on one hand, glad that I was trusted on the other. But well, I can only say I did a good job relaying messages, though whether I helped resolved anything was secondary.
We then took some bus to Cine, where cb and I disturbed tC throughout the bus ride. Who asked him to NOT burst his pimple? Who asked him to have sensitive (physiologically, though for him, it means metaphorically too) ears?
At Cine, we searched for the white apple (ishop) and then had ice kacang to continue the food chain. It was then we turned the Nipple-Pinching Marathon to Caressing Marathon. No pain inflicted, just plain pleasure... hehe...
It was there I realized something too. All along, I thought I had a rather disgusting cackle (can't help it when I lose control), but I found out that rx had an equally (if not surpassing me) disgusting cackle. It happened when he attacked me on the escalator and I was more of in shock than in pain...
Then it was off to Harborfront, where bryan joined us. Had dinner there. ermz... What did we do...? We basically roamed the place before dinner in search of a food item that can help us link up the food chain... cb was happy reveling the fact about his new crush. After dinner, cb and Luke left. It was also where I was approached for info again.
It's really interesting. We touched on the topic of 热脸贴冷屁股. Long long ago, I had the same experience where I expressed friendliness after The Fight. I was met with a cold face. From then on, I gave up all attempts to make peace. Till lately, I realize that he didn't see me outside the bookshop smiling at him. Maybe we shouldn't 委屈 ourselves to 热脸贴冷屁股, but sometimes, it may not be a 冷屁股 we are 贴-ing, so it doesn't hurt to do it a few more times just in case.
After all, there's nothing to lose. That was what I told him.
SD identifier (back) There was an accompanying plaster that we wore for the event.
We proceeded to Pasir Panjang Food Centre for the last item. It was a place I had always wanted to eat at since my RV days (passing by on 176 2 times a day but never had the impulse to drop off and eat there). It's no longer visible from the road since Circle Line construction took place. We had the Chicken Fried Rice over there. Ended the day's work as Relayer, though as mentioned, it wasn't me who resolved everything.
We crossed the road to the SOKA Youth Centre, some place that I have passed by all these years but never give much thought about.
It was already drizzling as we crossed the road. It was the weirdest situation I got myself into in recent times. I want to be a friend, not a wedge, which was how I felt at that point of time. A wedge between 2 people on an apparent cold war was suppressing.
It was SOKA performance and experience sharing there, in the small function room. The ambience was nice, though it was a long time since I sat on the ground for extended period of time. Nothing super impressive nor super depressive.
rx's sharing session made me feel that the Reason for attending was fulfilled. We didn't waste our time going down as a group to accompany tC and it was the 1st time in ages since we actively included rx in GC's crazy antics. A tiring day with 2 fulfilling accomplishments.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Slept late, so I pontang Touch City Walk held in the crazy hour of 7am.
Went to meet up with Ma'ats after their walk for lunch at Funan food court. Lingered around the area before tC, cb and me set off for LB.
LB was rather low-key today, despite being an 'orientation visit' after the City Walk where KCs were supposedly to have helped disseminate this fact. But well...
Visited blind sisters and uncle lee. hmmm... I'm still not up to standard, but my focus is supposed to be on volunteers, yar? The hokkien group had me, wz, cal, cb and weijian from gp2. Uncle lee proclaimed that it was wonderous that kids as young as cb and wj could be studying in uni and all of us laughed. Well, is it a blessing to b with the outlook of a kid or not?
Met up with bryan, LF and Joyce at Lucky Chinatown (they rotted while we went for LB) and had a GS interview for Joyce. She came with a supposedly Grade A gossip in her resume to offer us. The 'interview' went on while we had KTV at a Ten-dollar KTV Lounge (ed joined us) and after that, where we had a short talk at Chinatown Point Mac with km.
What I learned from the interview? Never to relate to the interviewee as to how they fared. When they have an idea of their standing, we'll never be able to keep the ball in our court. Be it they are telling us a Grade A++ news or an out-dated Grade C news, interviewers should keep the reactions to themselves. No use leading them on when the above rule was broken.
This is to safeguard the safety of all our members and the existence of the Club (organization, in a broader term).
Gossiping is, after all, an official underground activity that a lot of victims detest (even though they enjoy in sharing other people's gossips).
Joyce failed her psychometric and integrity test too. Whether she makes it into the List is still open for discussion with other members.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It's a bit tough trying to blog relevant to the title. This segment is, in fact, written 12 hours after the 1st few parts and I've not a single idea how to continue or make an ending.
Been troubled by certain stuff these days, these few weeks. Or do I? Maybe to certain people, I'm still living life nonchalantly as before.
Whiling my time away with people I most enjoy the company.
Be it short term or long term, it has been a long time since I feel so included, so I might as well immerse in it.
Yes, I do need to be wanted and included. I guess that's what most humans desire. There are those who are able to give just as well as they receive (if not more) and some who just receives more than they give. Some, they demand and demand.
Why do people keep demanding stuff they don't make an effort in getting? Why do people choose to live life pessimistically, keeping themselves in the dark fringes of life when they could have done something?
Years ago, watched Andy Lau's movie Li Gu Li Gu Xin Nian Cai. It was a comedy, but there was a good quote:
It doesn't matter whether you have a set of bad tiles; it's how you play the tiles. As long as you do your best, you are playing a good game.
I believe I lead a life of damnity, but I know I shouldn't wallow in self-pity. Cos after all the endless rounds of self-pity, I'm still in as bad a situation I was in. Ok, I once led a life of self-pity, that was how I know it's not constructive. As I've said (a dozen times before), it made me waste 4 years of my life.
But even though I stopped engaging i self-pity, I still wasted a year plus procrastinating and stuff like that.
But I know my next step is: to take a step.
Then the next.
And the next.
So, I must get rid of the lazy bug in me and get going.
I once told a class during an intro: I'm 17 this year and it is unique, cos it's the only 17 I'm gonna lead.
Half of my 22 is gone and it was wasted doing stuff that had no long-term constructive impact on my life. I need to make it a good one before it ends.
From 17, my life while restart again at 22.
Dear friends, please make full use of your 18s, 19s, 20s, and 21s. Cos for what I lost, I hope you guys cherish it.
Live life optimistically and those who do are the ones whom I stick to more, cos I no longer want to be pulled into the abyss of pessimism.
Shall make my half-yearly resolutions soon.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Ma'at's Terrorist Suicide Bomber
I don't know if this was on Youtube already, but since I don't know about its existence, I will create one.
It's last night of E3 and we were having our Talentime session. We were supposed to grab props and dress our representatives up for a 'fashion show'. Unfortunately, we were so slow that we have only the box that contained the props. What to do? So comes Ma'at's Terrorist Suicide Bomber...
I don't know if this was on Youtube already, but since I don't know about its existence, I will create one.
It's last night of E3 and we were having our Talentime session. We were supposed to grab props and dress our representatives up for a 'fashion show'. Unfortunately, we were so slow that we have only the box that contained the props. What to do? So comes Ma'at's Terrorist Suicide Bomber...
Friday, July 28, 2006
Injection of Colour To My Life
It really takes a major event in my life for me to be able to start having the urge to blog again. Just weeks ago, I was at the point where I had nothing much to say, cos my life was getting a bit bland with a constant loop set into my life.
And it seems that interesting stuff likes to come all at once.
But I suppose the impact from E3 was rather great, having met so many interesting characters both in and out of my group. The freshies were great, and I've regained my belief that it's good to health to hang out with younger people, cos they had the ideas, zeal and drive that people like me have gradually lost.
Lameness was one. For almost 2 years, people have met with my lame comments with just a roll of their eyes and making a secret wish that I disappear from the face of the earth. I can't believe I actually met people who specialize in lame jokes in this camp. OMG...
Ma'at's freshies are impossible (it seems weird to call them freshies when I regard them as friends already. Somehow, calling them 'freshies' have a sense of condescendment, but it's an easy way to refer to them). They mass chat from 10pm to 4am, and den from 12pm to 4pm. They have an outing on Tue and Fri, going for PAH this weekend, and a chalet is in the pipeline for 4 days next week.
Goodness... I take 2 months to try to get my old friends to just meet for 2 hours!
Woke up late on Tues, guess I was still trying to recuperate from the lack of sleep last week. There weren't supposed to be anybody in the house, since my sisses and mum goes to work by 10am. But there was my mum, walking out of the bathroom, pointing to me her buah luku on her head, telling me she fell at the bus stop while chasing after the bus.
I was so terrified cos the bump was bleeding and she could actually take it so easy. She told me that the ambulance came but she didn't want to go on it cos it was too expensive. I broke into a string of vulgarities and forced her to see the doc. With her osteo, I didn't want to leave anything to chances.
Yup, jolts of life comes all at once.
So I had to rush my mum to the clinic which was about to close, arrange to meet the buyer of my DVD writer and catch up with the discussion for the Ma'at gathering in the evening. Why must they all come at once and leave my other days so boring and vacant??
Back to the after-thoughts of E3, I conclude that one type of character I don't like will be the Act-Cute types. There were some people in there who were trying so hard to please others by acting cute. And by acting cute, I wasn't refering to Rainie's type of making cute expressions. These people portray themselves as the weak, squealing hamsters to demand the attention and care from their victims.
The key word here is ACT. I can see they are acting cute when their behaviour is inconsistent. One moment they'd be weak, and another moment they'd be ranting about their colourful lifestyle, very atypical of their 'weak' nature.
I admit I do act cute once in a while, but like acting hum-sup, horny etc, it was for the entertaining of people around me. Life needs some kind of laugher medicine at times, so I provided it (though I hope the others see my point).
haiz... as usual, drifting off and realizing that this is another post that has no central theme. Just as well... Ventilation.
It really takes a major event in my life for me to be able to start having the urge to blog again. Just weeks ago, I was at the point where I had nothing much to say, cos my life was getting a bit bland with a constant loop set into my life.
And it seems that interesting stuff likes to come all at once.
But I suppose the impact from E3 was rather great, having met so many interesting characters both in and out of my group. The freshies were great, and I've regained my belief that it's good to health to hang out with younger people, cos they had the ideas, zeal and drive that people like me have gradually lost.
Lameness was one. For almost 2 years, people have met with my lame comments with just a roll of their eyes and making a secret wish that I disappear from the face of the earth. I can't believe I actually met people who specialize in lame jokes in this camp. OMG...
Ma'at's freshies are impossible (it seems weird to call them freshies when I regard them as friends already. Somehow, calling them 'freshies' have a sense of condescendment, but it's an easy way to refer to them). They mass chat from 10pm to 4am, and den from 12pm to 4pm. They have an outing on Tue and Fri, going for PAH this weekend, and a chalet is in the pipeline for 4 days next week.
Goodness... I take 2 months to try to get my old friends to just meet for 2 hours!
Woke up late on Tues, guess I was still trying to recuperate from the lack of sleep last week. There weren't supposed to be anybody in the house, since my sisses and mum goes to work by 10am. But there was my mum, walking out of the bathroom, pointing to me her buah luku on her head, telling me she fell at the bus stop while chasing after the bus.
I was so terrified cos the bump was bleeding and she could actually take it so easy. She told me that the ambulance came but she didn't want to go on it cos it was too expensive. I broke into a string of vulgarities and forced her to see the doc. With her osteo, I didn't want to leave anything to chances.
Yup, jolts of life comes all at once.
So I had to rush my mum to the clinic which was about to close, arrange to meet the buyer of my DVD writer and catch up with the discussion for the Ma'at gathering in the evening. Why must they all come at once and leave my other days so boring and vacant??
Back to the after-thoughts of E3, I conclude that one type of character I don't like will be the Act-Cute types. There were some people in there who were trying so hard to please others by acting cute. And by acting cute, I wasn't refering to Rainie's type of making cute expressions. These people portray themselves as the weak, squealing hamsters to demand the attention and care from their victims.
The key word here is ACT. I can see they are acting cute when their behaviour is inconsistent. One moment they'd be weak, and another moment they'd be ranting about their colourful lifestyle, very atypical of their 'weak' nature.
I admit I do act cute once in a while, but like acting hum-sup, horny etc, it was for the entertaining of people around me. Life needs some kind of laugher medicine at times, so I provided it (though I hope the others see my point).
haiz... as usual, drifting off and realizing that this is another post that has no central theme. Just as well... Ventilation.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
My Virgin Camp Pt II
Day 3 of camp started with Mass Games. 'cos I was too darned tired with only 12 hrs of sleep for the past 3 nights, I threw tantrums and refused to wake up, with the other guys doing all their best to drag me from my table-bed. Gilbert was so darned pissed at my morning sickness that he just ran out of the room. That made me so paiseh that I sped up my prep to go off.
Mass Games sucks. 1st, we were separated from our groups. 2nd, the theme of the item wasn't apparent throughout the game. I mean, you guys wanted this to be a session where the groups earn points to gain immunity from a disease right? Why is it that the actual thing was different from the concept? I don't know. But given that the games were carried out smoothly, every other things are insignificant.
The sun wasn't good too, so I didn't get much tan even though we were out in the stadium. And then, it was the string of 'talks'. DARN! I should have gone to catch 40 winks then. It was hard to sit down there and doze off. I'm not the young kid who could sleep anywhere le.
After that, it was the OC dance practice. cos I wore the HC shorts, I attracted the attention of Sheila and Zihui (my dance partner). 1st time in OC that girls took interest in talking to me, duh! Quite a number of us were from HC, but well, I don't quite like a lot of HC people, much less those who came out in the OC. On the other hand, it was the emergence of the RV gang in my group that was more interesting.
No matter what, I am still fundamentally RV-ian. It transformed and brainwashed me to an irreversible state, so I was able to click better with other RV-ians.
There were 3 other RV-ians in my group, Vivian, the councillor who looked like Apple Hong (hey jan! u've got a competitor) and Tan Ching and Chio Bu (who looked like Chen Jian Bin), the guy freshies. It was so farnie. There were actually 4 RV-ians in a group! yar...
After dinner was SP and I was asked to stand in as an SP again. Considering the hoo-haa I created the 1st time, I was rather skeptical of me standing in. But well, they couldn't find anyone willing to do that. All of them wanted to go kajiao the freshies, duh!
My SP this time had a serious problem of shyness, which was very apparent from the minute she started speaking. All the councillors from her group were like warning me to be gentle with her, as if I would eat her! Instead, I spent quite a lot of time counselling and trying to ease her anxiety for me and the camp as a whole.
It was quite a different experience from the 1st night, where my subjects to talk about was limited cos I couldn't reveal my identity as a councillor. I didn't want to lie, so I could only conceal facts. But this time round, being open about my identity, I was able to talk as much as I wanted, which was useful when talking to someone who had so few words to say.
But I must say because of her, Shiyun and I started to talk. Frankly speaking, my 1st impression of her wasn't good, in fact it was very negative. But I felt it was better to put our differences aside to discuss about the freshie and what knowledge I gained during the SP session so that she could make use of it and help the freshie even more.
Later that night was Fright Night, but due to OC protocol, we were supposed to call it Twilight Hunt to put the freshies off their guards. It worked, except that kids nowadays are getting less intimidated by the ghostly stuff. cos we're group 6, we were the last to start off, so we had plenty of time to spend.
Plaque
I was initially allocated to a group in Batch 2, so I played games with them initially. We got so bored with the 'formatized' games that we began to go freestyle. Alex suggested zero-point, which evolved into stunt-styled jumping over a line that was at eye-level. And then it became limbo rock, where we all agreed Zhenqin was Master of Limbo Rock.
The freshie I replaced soon returned, so I went back to join the Gp5/6 batch. It was a long wait. There was some cork-up and our set-off time was delayed. So much so the guys had time to prep for their talentime dance. duh!
Finally set off, but we were half dead. I went with Ziping and some-other-ppl-i-can't-rem-cos-i-was-too-sleepy. yup, they juz hid behind the counter at the engin co-op which was so stuffy dat I cannot tahan and went to join KM's roaming party.
It was hilarious that we saw freshies machiam like seeing ghosts like dat. We dodged and ran and siam whenever we spotted freshies in the vicinity. Finally, we made it to LT7A where I conked out while waiting for Batch 3 to return..
When they finally did, it was almost 3am and I was so blur le. We walked back to TH through the route parallel to Clementi Rd, 1st time I took that road. haha... but I just told KM to trust me and make the whole gp follow me lol lucky we didn't get lost.
The next day was Sentosa day, waking up to a thunderstorm. We were so worried that it would carry on, but it didn't. Something happened on our way there. 1st, Merv told me that the bus I was in charge of will stop at the alighting bay and the whole gp of us will take the shuttle service. So I asked the bus of Gp5/6 to unload their luggage and all.
Then the bus driver told me that since I was buying the coach permit (which Merv told me to buy), the bus could go in and drop us at wherever we wanted. So we loaded again and off we went to the 'Bus Terminal'.
However, when I reached, I couldn't see Mei Toon's convoy, which left before us. In actual fact. my bus over took hers and she came late. But she told me she reached the bus terminal already (meaning her bus reached), while I thought she meant she and her bus had unloaded. And since I couldn't see her bus of people INSIDE the terminal, I thought I was at the wrong place, while Mei Toon, on the other hand, upon hearing that I didn't see her, thought that SHE went to the wrong place and so asked her bus to turn off.
Finally, after much communications, it turned out I was at the correct place and the remaining 2 buses came to join us.
We quickly unloaded to start our games under a rather cloudy weather. But the sky soon cleared and we were literally grilled under the scorching sun.
That was not the day for Group 6, cos we lost all the games we played. At a point of time, I thought our morale was rather low, until TC came up with a lame cheer and the rest of us got the hang of it to come up with more lame cheers. We took consolation in our lame cheers and decided that our group wasn't enthu about being the noisiest, siao-on winning group. Instead, our contitution was based on the word 懒, reflecting on the type of cheers we came up with that conserved our energy and voice.
In fact, we gave up cheering totally unless requested by station ICs; the councillors just stood around and stared at our freshies playing while our freshies silently played defensive cos it's more energy consuming to take the offensive.
At ine point of time, we came up with the only racist cheer in the camp. Before the camp started, the council was basically debating over the issue of racism within the camp. There was Mei Toon trying to eliminate ALL possible suggestions of racism by being against having any chinese songs at all, while I tried to fend for the chinese-speaking group who were actually discriminated, thus suffering under the false name of fighting racism.
End up we still had elements of racism. I mean, it's a fundamental part of us, yar?
Unfortunately, a lot of CSC people were not enlightened enough to understand the racism part of our cheer. I wonder if it's good or bad for them. hmmmm...
I was burnt to a crisp in Sentosa, and it was painful to wear clothes. arrggghhh!!! We finally left Sentosa to East Coast where we would spend the night there.
It was SP revelation, which was quite boring for most of the councillors cos there were too many councillors and too few freshies to kajiao. So a group of us formed the Singles Club where the lonely councillors and freshies who had their SP revealed the day before come together for a talk-cock session. We started our Brokeback/Brokeleg scandals and such. haha...
And then it was off to talentime. Frankly speaking, it was very boring. To mimic 吴宗宪's variety show meant to have the gift of speech like him. The situation was just like listening to amateurs imitating Mariah Carey. I don't know what made them want to do that (heard there was a lot of behind the scenes stories, but as usual, there were a lot of ppl involved who tried to played it down for whatever noble reason they had. Basically, they just kept it within their own click)
Ironically, it was the session that required least of the ICs' efforts that saved the day. The mass singing was high, I also dunno why. A few guys just act high and the others will follow suit. Herd instinct.
After that, we left, but a group of us stayed to buy some drinks for the group, when it rained. The guys who reached the chalet 1st were kind enough to send JC to send some umbrellas over. Junli and I shared one and we shuffled back to chalet quickly while the rest strolled back. But according to zin, it was cos of the lovey-dovey couple rx and tc who were enjoying their stroll in the rain under their little pink umbrella.
tag for Ma'at councillors
Later that night, we walked to Mac's. It drizzled along the way, but only the lover-dovey couple strolled under their pink umbrella. So funny. It was along the way that tc unleashed his lame power which i supposed he gained during his time in RV. KM was laughing so hard at the lame jokes that I was wondering whether he could survive the walk to Mac's.
We stayed at Mac's for some nuggets, fries and drinks, chilling out on lame jokes when some of us conked out. We walked back only to find the gate locked. So we split, with me and LF staying outside to wait for sunrise while the others find their way back into the chalet to 'go to toilet' which ended up being 'go to sleep'.
The last 2 hrs to sunrise was unbearable, with practically nothing to do. After a light nap, we finally saw the sunrise, which was hidden behind some clouds. Darn! LF and I returned to the chalet where we napped outside cos the floor inside was filled with corpses.
The time finally came for us to leave. We had the standard 'Closing Ceremony' where the unexpected news of Ma'at being the best group was thrown to us. I bet those siao-on groups must be amazed that such a lame and lazy group like us could break traditions and emerge first. And cos of our unique way of winning, we believed that we won't be cursed to be the 1st group to split up.
gift for best gp's 'trophy'
The thing ended with a period of awkwardness when someone suggested that those people from the previous Ethelonter groups gather for cheering. yar, it's high and fun for those involved. But for the other councillors and especially the freshies, it was an awkward half an hour of watching those people acting happy and high. ok, perhaps they ARE high, but we're just like watching a bunch of monkeys thinking they're cool and fun-loving. Trust me, the expressions the freshies were wearing on their faces were speaking of total boredom.
It was a lousy ending to such a well-run camp.
Our group ended with a few silly photo-shots and finally parted.
All in all, I can say the camp was fun and well run, except the fact that councillors colluding in clicks made the whole experience unenjoyable. There were councillors who rarely showed up with the groups, hanging out with their clicks playing bridge and doing stuff that showed their exclusivity. An orientation camp is one that tries to bring in the freshies to our community, not to put them off with those actions of exclusivity.
There were complaints that a lot of OC members wore that I'm-oh-so-important face and I agree totally. I might have committed that act sometimes, but I definitely didn't felt the need to wear a stressed-out expression to impress on people that the others are enjoying due to the stress I take. It puts people off.
I don't know if stuch bad practices were typical in previous camps or they were just appearing this time round, but I definitely hope that it ends here, cos Ethelonter is too good a camp to spoil.
Day 3 of camp started with Mass Games. 'cos I was too darned tired with only 12 hrs of sleep for the past 3 nights, I threw tantrums and refused to wake up, with the other guys doing all their best to drag me from my table-bed. Gilbert was so darned pissed at my morning sickness that he just ran out of the room. That made me so paiseh that I sped up my prep to go off.
Mass Games sucks. 1st, we were separated from our groups. 2nd, the theme of the item wasn't apparent throughout the game. I mean, you guys wanted this to be a session where the groups earn points to gain immunity from a disease right? Why is it that the actual thing was different from the concept? I don't know. But given that the games were carried out smoothly, every other things are insignificant.
The sun wasn't good too, so I didn't get much tan even though we were out in the stadium. And then, it was the string of 'talks'. DARN! I should have gone to catch 40 winks then. It was hard to sit down there and doze off. I'm not the young kid who could sleep anywhere le.
After that, it was the OC dance practice. cos I wore the HC shorts, I attracted the attention of Sheila and Zihui (my dance partner). 1st time in OC that girls took interest in talking to me, duh! Quite a number of us were from HC, but well, I don't quite like a lot of HC people, much less those who came out in the OC. On the other hand, it was the emergence of the RV gang in my group that was more interesting.
No matter what, I am still fundamentally RV-ian. It transformed and brainwashed me to an irreversible state, so I was able to click better with other RV-ians.
There were 3 other RV-ians in my group, Vivian, the councillor who looked like Apple Hong (hey jan! u've got a competitor) and Tan Ching and Chio Bu (who looked like Chen Jian Bin), the guy freshies. It was so farnie. There were actually 4 RV-ians in a group! yar...
After dinner was SP and I was asked to stand in as an SP again. Considering the hoo-haa I created the 1st time, I was rather skeptical of me standing in. But well, they couldn't find anyone willing to do that. All of them wanted to go kajiao the freshies, duh!
My SP this time had a serious problem of shyness, which was very apparent from the minute she started speaking. All the councillors from her group were like warning me to be gentle with her, as if I would eat her! Instead, I spent quite a lot of time counselling and trying to ease her anxiety for me and the camp as a whole.
It was quite a different experience from the 1st night, where my subjects to talk about was limited cos I couldn't reveal my identity as a councillor. I didn't want to lie, so I could only conceal facts. But this time round, being open about my identity, I was able to talk as much as I wanted, which was useful when talking to someone who had so few words to say.
But I must say because of her, Shiyun and I started to talk. Frankly speaking, my 1st impression of her wasn't good, in fact it was very negative. But I felt it was better to put our differences aside to discuss about the freshie and what knowledge I gained during the SP session so that she could make use of it and help the freshie even more.
Later that night was Fright Night, but due to OC protocol, we were supposed to call it Twilight Hunt to put the freshies off their guards. It worked, except that kids nowadays are getting less intimidated by the ghostly stuff. cos we're group 6, we were the last to start off, so we had plenty of time to spend.
Plaque
I was initially allocated to a group in Batch 2, so I played games with them initially. We got so bored with the 'formatized' games that we began to go freestyle. Alex suggested zero-point, which evolved into stunt-styled jumping over a line that was at eye-level. And then it became limbo rock, where we all agreed Zhenqin was Master of Limbo Rock.
The freshie I replaced soon returned, so I went back to join the Gp5/6 batch. It was a long wait. There was some cork-up and our set-off time was delayed. So much so the guys had time to prep for their talentime dance. duh!
Finally set off, but we were half dead. I went with Ziping and some-other-ppl-i-can't-rem-cos-i-was-too-sleepy. yup, they juz hid behind the counter at the engin co-op which was so stuffy dat I cannot tahan and went to join KM's roaming party.
It was hilarious that we saw freshies machiam like seeing ghosts like dat. We dodged and ran and siam whenever we spotted freshies in the vicinity. Finally, we made it to LT7A where I conked out while waiting for Batch 3 to return..
When they finally did, it was almost 3am and I was so blur le. We walked back to TH through the route parallel to Clementi Rd, 1st time I took that road. haha... but I just told KM to trust me and make the whole gp follow me lol lucky we didn't get lost.
The next day was Sentosa day, waking up to a thunderstorm. We were so worried that it would carry on, but it didn't. Something happened on our way there. 1st, Merv told me that the bus I was in charge of will stop at the alighting bay and the whole gp of us will take the shuttle service. So I asked the bus of Gp5/6 to unload their luggage and all.
Then the bus driver told me that since I was buying the coach permit (which Merv told me to buy), the bus could go in and drop us at wherever we wanted. So we loaded again and off we went to the 'Bus Terminal'.
However, when I reached, I couldn't see Mei Toon's convoy, which left before us. In actual fact. my bus over took hers and she came late. But she told me she reached the bus terminal already (meaning her bus reached), while I thought she meant she and her bus had unloaded. And since I couldn't see her bus of people INSIDE the terminal, I thought I was at the wrong place, while Mei Toon, on the other hand, upon hearing that I didn't see her, thought that SHE went to the wrong place and so asked her bus to turn off.
Finally, after much communications, it turned out I was at the correct place and the remaining 2 buses came to join us.
We quickly unloaded to start our games under a rather cloudy weather. But the sky soon cleared and we were literally grilled under the scorching sun.
That was not the day for Group 6, cos we lost all the games we played. At a point of time, I thought our morale was rather low, until TC came up with a lame cheer and the rest of us got the hang of it to come up with more lame cheers. We took consolation in our lame cheers and decided that our group wasn't enthu about being the noisiest, siao-on winning group. Instead, our contitution was based on the word 懒, reflecting on the type of cheers we came up with that conserved our energy and voice.
In fact, we gave up cheering totally unless requested by station ICs; the councillors just stood around and stared at our freshies playing while our freshies silently played defensive cos it's more energy consuming to take the offensive.
At ine point of time, we came up with the only racist cheer in the camp. Before the camp started, the council was basically debating over the issue of racism within the camp. There was Mei Toon trying to eliminate ALL possible suggestions of racism by being against having any chinese songs at all, while I tried to fend for the chinese-speaking group who were actually discriminated, thus suffering under the false name of fighting racism.
End up we still had elements of racism. I mean, it's a fundamental part of us, yar?
Unfortunately, a lot of CSC people were not enlightened enough to understand the racism part of our cheer. I wonder if it's good or bad for them. hmmmm...
I was burnt to a crisp in Sentosa, and it was painful to wear clothes. arrggghhh!!! We finally left Sentosa to East Coast where we would spend the night there.
It was SP revelation, which was quite boring for most of the councillors cos there were too many councillors and too few freshies to kajiao. So a group of us formed the Singles Club where the lonely councillors and freshies who had their SP revealed the day before come together for a talk-cock session. We started our Brokeback/Brokeleg scandals and such. haha...
And then it was off to talentime. Frankly speaking, it was very boring. To mimic 吴宗宪's variety show meant to have the gift of speech like him. The situation was just like listening to amateurs imitating Mariah Carey. I don't know what made them want to do that (heard there was a lot of behind the scenes stories, but as usual, there were a lot of ppl involved who tried to played it down for whatever noble reason they had. Basically, they just kept it within their own click)
Ironically, it was the session that required least of the ICs' efforts that saved the day. The mass singing was high, I also dunno why. A few guys just act high and the others will follow suit. Herd instinct.
After that, we left, but a group of us stayed to buy some drinks for the group, when it rained. The guys who reached the chalet 1st were kind enough to send JC to send some umbrellas over. Junli and I shared one and we shuffled back to chalet quickly while the rest strolled back. But according to zin, it was cos of the lovey-dovey couple rx and tc who were enjoying their stroll in the rain under their little pink umbrella.
tag for Ma'at councillors
Later that night, we walked to Mac's. It drizzled along the way, but only the lover-dovey couple strolled under their pink umbrella. So funny. It was along the way that tc unleashed his lame power which i supposed he gained during his time in RV. KM was laughing so hard at the lame jokes that I was wondering whether he could survive the walk to Mac's.
We stayed at Mac's for some nuggets, fries and drinks, chilling out on lame jokes when some of us conked out. We walked back only to find the gate locked. So we split, with me and LF staying outside to wait for sunrise while the others find their way back into the chalet to 'go to toilet' which ended up being 'go to sleep'.
The last 2 hrs to sunrise was unbearable, with practically nothing to do. After a light nap, we finally saw the sunrise, which was hidden behind some clouds. Darn! LF and I returned to the chalet where we napped outside cos the floor inside was filled with corpses.
The time finally came for us to leave. We had the standard 'Closing Ceremony' where the unexpected news of Ma'at being the best group was thrown to us. I bet those siao-on groups must be amazed that such a lame and lazy group like us could break traditions and emerge first. And cos of our unique way of winning, we believed that we won't be cursed to be the 1st group to split up.
gift for best gp's 'trophy'
The thing ended with a period of awkwardness when someone suggested that those people from the previous Ethelonter groups gather for cheering. yar, it's high and fun for those involved. But for the other councillors and especially the freshies, it was an awkward half an hour of watching those people acting happy and high. ok, perhaps they ARE high, but we're just like watching a bunch of monkeys thinking they're cool and fun-loving. Trust me, the expressions the freshies were wearing on their faces were speaking of total boredom.
It was a lousy ending to such a well-run camp.
Our group ended with a few silly photo-shots and finally parted.
All in all, I can say the camp was fun and well run, except the fact that councillors colluding in clicks made the whole experience unenjoyable. There were councillors who rarely showed up with the groups, hanging out with their clicks playing bridge and doing stuff that showed their exclusivity. An orientation camp is one that tries to bring in the freshies to our community, not to put them off with those actions of exclusivity.
There were complaints that a lot of OC members wore that I'm-oh-so-important face and I agree totally. I might have committed that act sometimes, but I definitely didn't felt the need to wear a stressed-out expression to impress on people that the others are enjoying due to the stress I take. It puts people off.
I don't know if stuch bad practices were typical in previous camps or they were just appearing this time round, but I definitely hope that it ends here, cos Ethelonter is too good a camp to spoil.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
My Virgin Camp Pt I
Just came back from camp yesterday afternoon. And it was a blur after that, 'cos I was too sleepy. Glad to have went for the camp cos it provided an alternative experience from what I have had for the past few years. Well, this is an entry about the exciting things that I went through in the past 6 days, but I shall 1st say something important.
My group, Ma'at (meaning: Justice) was the best group of the camp! It was really so... unexpected, that our group didn't cheer the moment we heard we won. I mean, we have acknowledged the fact that we were the slackest, lamest group ever appeared in orientation camps. Come on! We were so lazy, we had the shortest cheer (Ma'at!) and the softest cheer (excluding the Silent Cheer) just to conserve our energy.
Day 0 was pre-camp. We went back to do last minute prep, tho as an admin guy, I had nothing to do except to help out here and there. The clubroom was full of high people whom I couldn't really connect to. I mean, what's so high about the day?? hmmmm...
I met Mervyn on the way to school and helped him carry a box of mysterious, heavy objects. Then it was the clubroom. Then it was off to Temasek Hall. The group of us who stayed behind to load the log stuff actually missed the TH stop and 将错就错, went to biz canteen to 打包 lunch. Then, we still missed the TH bus stop and had to walk back from Eusoff. darn! I was sweating like dunno wat then.
Hung around and then went to forum co-op with Calvin and Jason to buy stuff. It was the 1st time I ever saw 'Jason' and I found him familiar. Perhaps he was from my army camp bah. And then we went to Clementi cos we couldn't buy what we wanted.
We came back and I went to Cluedo's briefing, which basically didn't involve me, or Lingfong forgot abt me. After which, I went with LF to the SDE workshop to do the identifiers for the group. After which, we had Cluedo Final Act Rehearsal. It was the 1st time we showed to the other councillors and the 1st time I thought I looked like 大长今...
Identifier (front)
1st night was over with me sleeping a little over 5 hours. wanted to go eat supper with my group, but OC activated us for meeting and spoilt the mood. Was black face all the way...
And then, it was the day: the start of the camp itself. The freshies came in by batches, while I was in charge of handling their In-processing, the one collecting the money. The admission process took quite some time to finish that I missed the intro session to our group, but I managed to join the Ice Breaker in the dining hall.
Identifier (back)
I thought I was too anxious, 'cos our group seemed to be too cold. Was so afraid it will continue that way so I was acting On all the while. And then it was Internal Hunt in the afternoon. I was quite depressed over it, cos I was the station IC at the Science canteen, which meant that I couldn't join the group. But just as well, since my stations are mostly in the 1st 2 days, I get to join them throughout the camp after that.
It was rather farnie. Both Crystal and I were too tired that we slept after a popiah, a walk round the Science Co-op and settled down. After 1 hr, I asked Crystal where our task list for the freshies were and we had a shock when she couldn't find it. Turned out she found the papers alright and we welcomed the 1st group, which was MY group. Overall, my group faired the best, though we gave out the same amount of bookmarks, cos either one group was too cold or another had Superstars.
Mysterious Journey was next and I was able to run with them. Started off with starching them, but got too bored with it. I must say my group quite 神, cos we breezed through all the stations, such that we had to sit around or play stupid, extra games with the station ICs.
And at night, we had group outing at Fong Seng. It was fun, 1st time walking through the drain path behind the halls. It was weird eating at such a long table, cos we could only interact with the few people near each other.
The next day was External Hunt and I was supposed to reach LB at 8.30pm as station IC. So I took the liberty of going away early to send breakfast to someone. And I ended up reaching LB late, which made Shuhui, my co-IC all flustered.
After the 1st gp came, sh and I went to update the conact list with Mdm Lau, and found out that yc's uncle was in hospital. So we went to AH to find him. We had to search for a while, cos he was not in the ward we were told he was in and we found him in an ICU-like ward. We were so worried. Frankly speaking, I nearly broke into tears when he finally spoke to us, cos I was so worried initially when he only gestured to us without uttering a word. It turned out that sh and I were talking too softly that he couldn't hear us...
Then we shopped at Ikea for sh to buy her SP present. And then, it was waiting for the remaining 2 groups to come, to Uncle Lee's house and Uncle Yeo's. We went back to school with the last group, group 4.
After dinner, it was SP for the 2nd night. However, 'cos of me being in Cluedo, I can't go and substitute as I did on the 1st night and so they had to find a 2nd sub for the female freshie. It was bad, cos she felt like she was cheated.
Then it was the Cluedo night that made me lose all my image. cos after that, the gal-freshies looked at me with funny expressions. haiz... I was ok with the 1st group, then I heck care. I didn't really follow the script and I went freestyle. Laughed when I wanted to. ha...
Tag for Cluedo
After OC debrief that night, I walked back from AS 7 only to find out that the other guy councillors in my group are still in AS7 prep for talentime. Since I had groin abrasion, I decided against walking back there to get the key and went instead to the guy freshies' meeting in their room. Had a short but enjoyable chat with them. Didn't know they were so close already.
haiz... It's so late and I can't continue anymore. Shall blog about the 1nd half of Ethelonter III some other day...
Just came back from camp yesterday afternoon. And it was a blur after that, 'cos I was too sleepy. Glad to have went for the camp cos it provided an alternative experience from what I have had for the past few years. Well, this is an entry about the exciting things that I went through in the past 6 days, but I shall 1st say something important.
My group, Ma'at (meaning: Justice) was the best group of the camp! It was really so... unexpected, that our group didn't cheer the moment we heard we won. I mean, we have acknowledged the fact that we were the slackest, lamest group ever appeared in orientation camps. Come on! We were so lazy, we had the shortest cheer (Ma'at!) and the softest cheer (excluding the Silent Cheer) just to conserve our energy.
Day 0 was pre-camp. We went back to do last minute prep, tho as an admin guy, I had nothing to do except to help out here and there. The clubroom was full of high people whom I couldn't really connect to. I mean, what's so high about the day?? hmmmm...
I met Mervyn on the way to school and helped him carry a box of mysterious, heavy objects. Then it was the clubroom. Then it was off to Temasek Hall. The group of us who stayed behind to load the log stuff actually missed the TH stop and 将错就错, went to biz canteen to 打包 lunch. Then, we still missed the TH bus stop and had to walk back from Eusoff. darn! I was sweating like dunno wat then.
Hung around and then went to forum co-op with Calvin and Jason to buy stuff. It was the 1st time I ever saw 'Jason' and I found him familiar. Perhaps he was from my army camp bah. And then we went to Clementi cos we couldn't buy what we wanted.
We came back and I went to Cluedo's briefing, which basically didn't involve me, or Lingfong forgot abt me. After which, I went with LF to the SDE workshop to do the identifiers for the group. After which, we had Cluedo Final Act Rehearsal. It was the 1st time we showed to the other councillors and the 1st time I thought I looked like 大长今...
Identifier (front)
1st night was over with me sleeping a little over 5 hours. wanted to go eat supper with my group, but OC activated us for meeting and spoilt the mood. Was black face all the way...
And then, it was the day: the start of the camp itself. The freshies came in by batches, while I was in charge of handling their In-processing, the one collecting the money. The admission process took quite some time to finish that I missed the intro session to our group, but I managed to join the Ice Breaker in the dining hall.
Identifier (back)
I thought I was too anxious, 'cos our group seemed to be too cold. Was so afraid it will continue that way so I was acting On all the while. And then it was Internal Hunt in the afternoon. I was quite depressed over it, cos I was the station IC at the Science canteen, which meant that I couldn't join the group. But just as well, since my stations are mostly in the 1st 2 days, I get to join them throughout the camp after that.
It was rather farnie. Both Crystal and I were too tired that we slept after a popiah, a walk round the Science Co-op and settled down. After 1 hr, I asked Crystal where our task list for the freshies were and we had a shock when she couldn't find it. Turned out she found the papers alright and we welcomed the 1st group, which was MY group. Overall, my group faired the best, though we gave out the same amount of bookmarks, cos either one group was too cold or another had Superstars.
Mysterious Journey was next and I was able to run with them. Started off with starching them, but got too bored with it. I must say my group quite 神, cos we breezed through all the stations, such that we had to sit around or play stupid, extra games with the station ICs.
And at night, we had group outing at Fong Seng. It was fun, 1st time walking through the drain path behind the halls. It was weird eating at such a long table, cos we could only interact with the few people near each other.
The next day was External Hunt and I was supposed to reach LB at 8.30pm as station IC. So I took the liberty of going away early to send breakfast to someone. And I ended up reaching LB late, which made Shuhui, my co-IC all flustered.
After the 1st gp came, sh and I went to update the conact list with Mdm Lau, and found out that yc's uncle was in hospital. So we went to AH to find him. We had to search for a while, cos he was not in the ward we were told he was in and we found him in an ICU-like ward. We were so worried. Frankly speaking, I nearly broke into tears when he finally spoke to us, cos I was so worried initially when he only gestured to us without uttering a word. It turned out that sh and I were talking too softly that he couldn't hear us...
Then we shopped at Ikea for sh to buy her SP present. And then, it was waiting for the remaining 2 groups to come, to Uncle Lee's house and Uncle Yeo's. We went back to school with the last group, group 4.
After dinner, it was SP for the 2nd night. However, 'cos of me being in Cluedo, I can't go and substitute as I did on the 1st night and so they had to find a 2nd sub for the female freshie. It was bad, cos she felt like she was cheated.
Then it was the Cluedo night that made me lose all my image. cos after that, the gal-freshies looked at me with funny expressions. haiz... I was ok with the 1st group, then I heck care. I didn't really follow the script and I went freestyle. Laughed when I wanted to. ha...
Tag for Cluedo
After OC debrief that night, I walked back from AS 7 only to find out that the other guy councillors in my group are still in AS7 prep for talentime. Since I had groin abrasion, I decided against walking back there to get the key and went instead to the guy freshies' meeting in their room. Had a short but enjoyable chat with them. Didn't know they were so close already.
haiz... It's so late and I can't continue anymore. Shall blog about the 1nd half of Ethelonter III some other day...
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Ma'at's Full-Month Pic
Man Yue Zhao
What do we have? A collage since the attendance was not full. Special thanks to LF who did it.
On one hand we have the guys who made it and those who ps us. Don't know how LF enlarged my head, but i sure do look cute, for once. Was in that pose cos we started the Nipple-Twisting Game again, and I was in defensive mode.
Beside me was cb, in his fav singlet-shorts attire (legs so short, we always thought he was wearing pants). Then it was yanrui with her pregnant lady bag. Then it was tC in his oversized OP t-shirt (and nothing else, apparently. was at 1st wondering what 僵尸 clothes he wearing in the pic...).
Below is ermz... shuohan with his peacock style (??) and LF made herself into Trinity (how self-deceiving). Then it was km, cos he made 20 red eggs for us to eat on Full Month. Or rather, he produced the eggs while his aunt visited him. But LF dear, that red thing on km's head means he's a cock (pun intended), how can cock produce eggs? And then it's Joyce, who joined us at the 11th hour at Crystal Jade, Suntec, to share the eggs.
Below were the pang-seh-ers, with their reason for pang seh-ing the Full Month Celebration at Settler's and Crystal Jade.
Derui said he got NDP (but isn't it at night?), zin said her mum was sick (so what's with the stick figures around her?), gilb had bridge training, glenn was at medi-camp (was that a Black Cross on his tent?? aiyoh... dun go to glenn in the future), sin en went shopping with her mum (her mum machiam maid in the pic, and an abused maid -- so skinny...).
Kit said she need to clean up Geog Soc room (what's she doing with the pillow then?) and that her bf was free. So what if her bf was free? Ask him to potong then act as Kit then we consider.
Viv, the Nua Queen, said she wanted to stay at home and think about some stuff (2006 Most Sweat-Inducing Reason Of The Year Award). Bryan was sleeping (knn...), ed was at the esplanade watching performance (not that she was wearing durian bras) and lastly, rx transformed into Cyber-Sadako. No lah... he told cb he was sick, told tC he wanted to send his PC for repair. tsk! tsk! climb out of his computer, no wonder it spoil lah...
The others, well, they MIA so well that they appear invisible in the pic. yar... MIA literally...
Man Yue Zhao
What do we have? A collage since the attendance was not full. Special thanks to LF who did it.
On one hand we have the guys who made it and those who ps us. Don't know how LF enlarged my head, but i sure do look cute, for once. Was in that pose cos we started the Nipple-Twisting Game again, and I was in defensive mode.
Beside me was cb, in his fav singlet-shorts attire (legs so short, we always thought he was wearing pants). Then it was yanrui with her pregnant lady bag. Then it was tC in his oversized OP t-shirt (and nothing else, apparently. was at 1st wondering what 僵尸 clothes he wearing in the pic...).
Below is ermz... shuohan with his peacock style (??) and LF made herself into Trinity (how self-deceiving). Then it was km, cos he made 20 red eggs for us to eat on Full Month. Or rather, he produced the eggs while his aunt visited him. But LF dear, that red thing on km's head means he's a cock (pun intended), how can cock produce eggs? And then it's Joyce, who joined us at the 11th hour at Crystal Jade, Suntec, to share the eggs.
Below were the pang-seh-ers, with their reason for pang seh-ing the Full Month Celebration at Settler's and Crystal Jade.
Derui said he got NDP (but isn't it at night?), zin said her mum was sick (so what's with the stick figures around her?), gilb had bridge training, glenn was at medi-camp (was that a Black Cross on his tent?? aiyoh... dun go to glenn in the future), sin en went shopping with her mum (her mum machiam maid in the pic, and an abused maid -- so skinny...).
Kit said she need to clean up Geog Soc room (what's she doing with the pillow then?) and that her bf was free. So what if her bf was free? Ask him to potong then act as Kit then we consider.
Viv, the Nua Queen, said she wanted to stay at home and think about some stuff (2006 Most Sweat-Inducing Reason Of The Year Award). Bryan was sleeping (knn...), ed was at the esplanade watching performance (not that she was wearing durian bras) and lastly, rx transformed into Cyber-Sadako. No lah... he told cb he was sick, told tC he wanted to send his PC for repair. tsk! tsk! climb out of his computer, no wonder it spoil lah...
The others, well, they MIA so well that they appear invisible in the pic. yar... MIA literally...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
I know I have been spending too much time on GC and related stuff (Ma'at & GC so overlapping). But well, I get the self satisfaction (自 high）from all the little effort I put in to make it more interesting. After all, scandals are running dry... lol
And yar, sorry for stef fans, cos for both of the songs I used, all were converted to parodies. It's just that her songs are more catchy for such purposes... *bleah!*
《八卦部落》
词：冷叶 （翻自：梦不落）
抛开所有禁忌 开启创作引擎
一垒 二垒 下个是你
要追溯半个世纪 所有可能机率
记住 八卦 不是罪行
只要有消息 我们就会关心
如果有眩机 我们一定问到底
人生太迷离 需要认真研习
相对论 阴谋论 要调查
是暧昧 是朋友？
抛开所有禁忌 开启创作引擎
一垒 二垒 下个是你
要追溯半个世纪 所有可能机率
记住 八卦 不是罪行
谁在耍心机 谁又Act Cute 到腻
谁又在街上 被怪伯伯摸屁屁
动用SNG 搜集小道消息
小动作 双关语 要调查
放长线 钓大鱼
所有的话题没有边际 冲刺极限创意
正面 侧面 翻转论理
将绯闻尽情传递 掀起满城风雨
记住 八卦 也有道行
手拿部落杖 才能盘问分享
所有人都怕 八卦的力量
Leave no news behind
Spread all news in kind
Always bear in mind
You’ll be next in line
抛开所有禁忌 开启创作引擎
一垒 二垒 下个是你
要追溯半个世纪 所有可能机率
记住 八卦 不是罪行
所有的话题没有边际 冲刺极限创意
正面 侧面 翻转论理
将绯闻尽情传递 掀起满城风雨
记住 八卦 也有道行
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