Care Bear Care Bear ooh laa laa~~

And the end of Rag sounded the end of O-week, the start of a new school year/semester.

For me, in a week's time I'm flying off to the Netherlands, where I would probably face the same weather (rain) in a more cold (not to mention, windy) situation.

Funny how the days during O-week just passed me by. Could barely remember the first day of O-Week, when I was late. Or the days of talking cock, playing with freshies...Makes me remember the times during my freshmen year, when we were having fun playing games, with not a concern for the upcoming years ahead.

Gosh...year 3 already...time really flies. What have I done in NUS for the past 2 years? Hmm...Rovers was my main priority, and joining Engineering faculty events was secondary. And through my trips, I got to know a lot of people, though most of them were kinda like hi-bye friends. Committees were much better, in which u got to know people more, through work, through laughter, through *shrugs* arguments. And long-lasting friendships, definitely.

I always held the idea that camps and o-weeks are more to allow people to interact and socialise. To let them get to know new people, have fun, and see how the friendship goes on from there-on.

The most interesting way to transport Mashi-Maro!


And in it goes!


Tasting and smelling the unknown stuff.


A quick picture with the uncle @ Dily's


Mass Game!


Head smasher


Care Bears!


Guess where this is ;)


SP-Nite


Painting in the works!


He's just happy to be bua-ed


The girls having the time of their lives


Kraken @ O-Week!


Blindfold and eat Oreo game


This is one of the many pics we take with freshies who are both blinded. Muhaha. Tells u guys who are the ones playing with u dudes rite??


Spot-on!!!!


Care Bears @ SP-Nite


Kraken Rag


Weihong turning on Amanda (sounds wrong lol)


I pale in comparison to Aprine's kick!


Dinner!


Care Bear mascot


We love our Care Bear!!!


Having fun with our Care Bear


SpongeBob's Patrick - doh?!


Systems...check


Monster house mascots!


Amanda having her make-up put on


Me, Ryan, Huijin


Sara, Aprine and Me. Me attempting to do ballet (FAILED)


Yongkai & Me


Amanda & Ryan

Now...time to sleep. In fact I had typed these before I was carelessly conked up yesterday night. This showed that I indeed had too little rest. Tsk.

Rounded up the day with a visit to Suntec's food court (not impt) and Ben & Jerry's (impt!!)!!! With half of Care Bears there, and the rest being Kraken freshies, it was really a great get-together. A total of 4 Merlionsters were walloped during our stay there, so I bet that B&J must be damn happy for our presence la!

Luckily, had a ride home by Yvonne, so it was faster than I thought.

Heard about the Perseids Meteor Shower tml...dunno whether can see it or not...Hmmz.

School starting soon! Jiayou, all!

Current Mood: Sleepy

Current Music: Wu Yue Tian & Chen Qi Zhen - Si Ben Dao Yue Qiu

What a day!

Ran with the Kraken peeps in the morning at MacRitchie, then had a shower and blazed down to NUS for Candice's Commencement (or convocation), saw Lin Yen in her graduation gown, and Yi-Shyan for the 2nd time in 2days! Then went off with Jorin, Lai Yee and Wanling to Vivocity, while dropping off Kheng Hui there as he had to meet some friends. Fun at Vivo, with nice food at Kim Gary's, then a stroll around the mall (which is full of people on a Sunday, gosh what a difference from a weekday!). Got a wonderful surprise from the 3 gals, and then moved on to Beach Road to gather some tents for Rovers. Then zipped to Bedok, had Siglap bak chor mee, scouted the Geylang network and had you tiao there, then went to Changi Village to see the bak pok (damn chio!!!)

What a day!

And I've gotten a pair of gloves (yay for winter time!!!), a box of wonderful handmade cookies and another box of Primadeli cookies. Gonna sleep...tired...

Thanks for all the time guys! Really really appreciate it. Plus the numerous sms-es which I've received...thanks a bunch! :)

FOC BECKONS!


Nice cookies! Choc chip!

Current Mood: Happy

Current Music: Zhuo Wen Xuan - Liang Shan Bo Yu Zhu Ying Tai

Northern Island Xpedition!

And well, as the term goes, there's only 1 island in which we explore (did we truly do so?) in the north, and even so, it really aint actually the North!!!

Haha, I'm talking about the event organised by the Canoeing Sub-club. The meeting time is at an unearthly time of 7.30am at Pasir Ris Park, which is super early for not just me, but anyone who does not live in the east!!! Sheesh. They could do better with the timings though.

Actually, I din feel like going for the event in the first place after clicking on a link Yi Si sent to me the previous day. Added to the fact that I was tired and required rest, and an early trip back to the East, I was really tired and feeling sad already.

Anyway, I still managed to wake up and met up with Skadians Joyce, Minghui, Xiangyu and Yisi, and saw Zhanwei with his friends at the event. Pasir Ris Interchange was a hive of activity with teenagers and their parents, bags in hand, moving over to a particular spot at the Interchange, and that was due to them having to go over to Tekong. Well, 'tis the time of the year again. Haha...

Saw Siu Hang and he was apparently tricked into joining this expedition by his friend. Haha. But the number of participants seemed quite fine for such an expedition, there were a total of 19 doubles and 7 singles. How I wished that I was on a single canoe for this trip, but after the trip I was silently happy to be in a double with Siu Hang. It was great, cos 2 of us had some experience in canoeing, so it was kinda more fun! The groupings for the canoeing were based on friends basis, so there was no re-pairing of girl-girl doubles or guy-guy doubles. This made things slightly difficult as the slower canoes made the entire formation drag too long and this meant that the fast crafts were really fast, and the slow ones were really slow.

On top of that, I felt that I was fighting the current for some parts of the trip (eg along Ubin), and it was quite bad especially since it takes up energy and is not favourable. Still, we managed to make it to Ubin and shore up for lunch, but not before rain hit and we had to hide for shelter in one of the newly-built huts. And the hut was where our Ohana campfire was held!

After lunch, we canoed over to the nearby Frog Island, but was hit by a passing shower with rain that pricked the skin. Forced to seek shelter between the shore and a big rock due to the waves, it was a momentary 10 minutes of respite. Frog Island is near Chek Jawa, and we managed to move our canoes very inland despite having about less than a fifth of paddle length till the bottom! Took pictures and had a rest there before embarking on the trip home.

The trip home is the worst in my opinion. Although the current was in our favour, and rightfully we should be canoeing with relative ease, the current was quite unpredictable and we had to deal with shifting waves too, which pushed our canoe sideways, and we ended up canoeing in a zig-zag fashion. That was bad and we wasted much energy getting ourselves back on track most of the time!

And that was made worse with the 1km wide crossing which we had to do. Despite being in the clear, the waves and current made me want to give up at times, 'cos it was really too crazy and nutty to be canoeing and constantly being shifted off course. In the end we went left-right-left-right and then before we knew it, we had reached our destination: Pasir Ris Park.

Relief indeed, and a sore back and muscles to account for the entire day's activity. The ending was rather smooth, with a black NIX tee and then off to take pictures and wait for our turn at the nearby public shower.

Most of us were sunburnt, with obvious tans for those with spectacles or caps. Yi Si was pretty much burnt like a red-hot lobster, and Xiangyu was in similar fashion too. Joyce, Minghui and Siu Hang have 2 shades of colours - paler above the nose and rosy cheeks.

Skadi then proceeded over to White Sands and we had our dinner at Cavana (it's Halal!) and then to Swensens' for some Earthquake desert! And poor Minghui encountered an incident and in return, got a free Happy Feet tee, this after he mentioned how he had wanted to watch the movie when he first saw the trailer but never did till now. lol!

Went home with Joyce on the 88 (all the way for me) while the rest took other routes home, and I was so tired that after Joyce alighted I KO-ed all the way till the interchange, and had to take another bus back to my home. Sighs.

Concussed on the bus, but full of energy now! Ophir next!

Us before setting off!


Me and Siu Hang (Hangman!)


Highly flammable CarrotCak


Minghui...unforgettable.


Minghui attempting to chop his ice-cream


Resting on a rock


Here, There, Everywhere!


Our transportation for the day - canoes


Participants of NIX 2006!


Whose hand is whose?


Dun remind Minghui how he got this (limited edition) Happy Feet tee...

Current Mood: Tired

Current Music: Samantha Jade - Step Up

r a g d a y

From the previous post...

So we played T&T till the wee hours of the day, about 5am. Weili & Mark's group was still playing games like Coffee-Tea-Coffee and Action Heart Attack. Wows. My OG was like half-dead, but I felt they were more bonded after the questions I posted to them, like "If there was a sinking ship, who in the OG would you save, and why? Include all those who aren't here too."

Got an hour's nap and was woken up by Chun Kiat, who arrived to wake us all up for the Rag Day. It was around 6.30am then. Got up groggily and washed up, put on the contacts (just 3 hrs rest?) and hyped myself up by doing a "Hands Up" cheer. Haha. I was crazy. Yea mans. But Rag is here! Time to go on "Crazy" mode.

All the Engine OGs gathered at the pavillion and we prepared to move out. Red tees for the councillors leading the cheers, and all of us ready to go to war with our faces painted in different colours (macham like Maoris???)

Fuego @ Rag!


Fire House Councillors!


Our foodie-licious rag float!


A random pic


Our Rag Dancers!


Rag was great! And I saw my Scarela freshies - Ethan, Jason, Lixiang, Matthew and Si Qian getting ready for their rag dance sequence! Really glad they're there! SCARELA ROX! And I personally felt that the dance was nice. haha.

After the Engin rag performance, my OG smokescreened and disappeared to LT7A where they (apparently) played games and zihai, whilst Jinyao and I were still out in the sun. Joyce had also left by then, so the 2 of us joined Anqi's OG, as Weili's OG was also nowhere in sight.

Saw the wonderful KR float, simply amazing! And the dance was great too! I think theirs must be one of the best around. KE7's float about a ship and dinosaur was wonderful! So many moving parts! The Medicine's dance sequence was not bad, and I kinda liked their jap costumes, cool indeed.

Stayed all the way for the prize presentation, which cocked up (as usual?) and I saw Tze Hwee and Ghim Song's ultra black faces. Oh well, even with the most meticulous of planning, things can still go wrong. Just felt that it was not a true testament of the hard work and effort put in by his team for the Rag day due to a total cock-up by someone.

And Engine never managed to win any awards, except for a piece of paper for our effort in the Flag Day, in which we got Silver. Sighs. We need to improve more. Guess we need more dancers? Overall I felt that we deserved at least an award, to reward the hard work put in by them! It was quite a good show put up!

After the entire event, Chin Khiong, Lionel and I were busy zihai-ing with the many cheers we know, and joined our OGs at the LT7A area. Blazor was there playing the "Animal Game" and "Big Fish, Small Fish". Left for lunch at HarbourFront with them, and Jinyao and Chun Kiat also came. Tracy joined us later, at Pastamania, and we all had fun talking and scandalising each other. Haha.

Left the place at around 4.30pm, but didn't feel tired at all! Just dry eyes...took 93 home, and quickly washed up to go out for a Fireworks festival with Jinyao & Weili's Terra. And we met Ryan and his gf! It was so crowded at Marina Square, they just joined us 'cos it was almost impossible to move to Esplanade then. And we sat around talking, chit-chatting, and Ryan was stoned by the Coffee-Tea-Coffee and some other mind-games his gf played on him. Haha!

And the fireworks came, but we were blocked by a structure (looks like a chimney of Marina Square?) and we could not see the low-levelled fireworks. But never mind, the higher level ones more than made up for it! They were really great! Just wished that I had gone closer and in a better position. Wish you were here.

And I went home after that to get some much-needed rest. Getting out of Esplanade was CRAZY. WAY TOO CRAZY! Took a long 2 hours to finally get home! Hmms...and by then, I was so tired, I just concussed, for I had to wake up early tomorrow to help out in the NUS Triathlon at ECP...

Current Mood: Sleepy