Saturday, June 21, 2008

My faculty camp was dead fun.

I never in any bit regretted attending it.

Well, you know it. Orientation Camp programmes are always filled up with games and excitement, and I must say, the entire team behind the camp did a wonderful job at planning. I can really sense the vast amount of time and effort that had been invested for the 5D4N, and I truly appreciate them all for making this experience memorable.

Looking back, it had been quite a major transition for the apprehensive freshies like us, to turn into friends at the end. Results of games didn't matter, as the most important thing, was to formulate new friendships, and enjoy the camp process and companionship. I'm glad I did.

Our OG's the smallest in the camp. And Anna's the only female. We all kinda broke ice quite quickly through the many ice-breakers and got into game mode in the afternoon. Though Day 1's War Games left a painful burn on my shoulders and were dirty, the session was really fun.

And as the gender ratio was at about 5:1, I wasn't lucky enough to get a freshie SP. But then again, I was lucky to get a female OGL SP, cos even with them added, there wasn't enough girls to go around. So I had been busy insisting she was a councillor while she was busy denying. That's basically what we revolved around in the 3 nights of SP.

Day 2's Sentosa beach games were great fun again. Seriously, I enjoyed every game and every station during the entire camp. The Sentosa round-island games segment was good too. My many work days at Sentosa over the past 6 months DID help me get a better orientation of the island.

BBQ-ing in school was special, but well, we didn't do much actually. The councillors and OGLs were the ones who started fire/cooked food etc. But I liked the idea of bidding for food items. It really gave the bbq session a little twist. And because we didn't eat much then, it became a reason for us to explore FongSeng's supper late at night. The food seemed over-rated, but at least I know where to head to if I ever get to experience hall life.

Day 3's pool games had really quite interesting games. The drag queen segment that followed, was highly entertaining too. That night, the Fright Night at the haunted house near KE7 was well put up. The atmosphere was right and the night air outside was really chilly. But having done many night walks during np before, some hiding places became quite expected. But still, this was one of the best night walks i've done, as it was at a real disused house, and there were tasks to do and things to find inside. Pretty enjoyable experience.

Day 4's City hunt was a little tiring. The organisers did quite a gd job setting tasks though. But the hot weather + the need to walk quite a bit = tiring and sleepy. This was contributed greatly by the average 3 hours of sleep every night.

Finale night of the camp was at the much much nicer KR hall. The KR rockers were wonderful at jacking up the evening's atmosphere and prepared our mood for the mass dance. Personally, I really think the mass dance was very nice. It really got me wanting to learn hiphop. I pretty much enjoyed the learning process during the past few nights, and doing it at the Finale night felt like i've graduated from it. This had really got to be the best mass dance i'd ever done so far. After everything ended, we had another supper session at FongSeng and spent the night at Munchie Monkey.We left nus on friday morning.

I suppose these orientation camps are really the last ones that I would still be "taken care of". You know, the kind of welfare you get will never come again anymore. You have councillors and OGLs ensuring that you ate well, slept well, drank well, put on sunblock etc, and also carried your valuables, bbq-ed for you, answered all your queries etc. That's why I really appreciated them. They've made this camp memorable and successful.

Now with my first friends in nus, we're going to look forward for the upcoming Night Cycling with other camp-mates next week, and the Engine Bash in Aug.

Anna. The camp's pageant queen and the only female in our OG, Obasan.

人生是黑白的.
12:51 AM <3

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We had a Primary School gathering last night! Thanks to JP's initiatives and plannings, 10 of us were able to turn up for dinner at Suntec. It feels so wonderful that we all still keep in contact. I'm sure we still will. Though it is inevitable that there are drifts as time passes, it is warming to know that the friendship built on childish memories still hold.

Japanese classmates at Py. Last(10th) lesson, before I discontinued.

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Oh ya, I remembered the person who was right behind me. Seconds before this shot was taken, we were side by side.

Him to Me: Hey! I've finally completed my first marathon!

Me to Him: Oh! GOOD LUCK!

Me to Him again: Oh! I mean, Congrats!

My mind was already sleeping.