Back from O-Week!
An entire week of shack-ness, coupled with the numerous days of bidding! All in all, it would have been much better IF I just had a room in NUS. Oh well. What's done, cannot be undone.
Now, I shall do a one-week summary of what I've done *lol*
Monday:
Joined Engine O-week under Atlantis House in Skadi (yea, the DOTA item called Eye of Skadi...) Not really the first day meeting up with all, since a group of us (Merry, Xiang Yu, Velda, Yi Si, Chin Gene, Minghui) had introduced each other on the previous Friday already. We even skipped the morning Inaugaration Ceremony, because of the fact that we've to meet up at an unearthly and dreaded hour of 7.30am at LT7A before proceeding to the UCC for the Ceremony.
By the time we met at 10am outside LT7A, the Ceremony has yet to finish. So we just sat around and chit-chatted with Jiaming to pass time, whilst waiting for the rest of our group members, as well as Benjamin, our OGL.
We met up with the rest of our OG people, Joyce, Yi Hui, SK and Imran. It was lunch and games after that, where we were brought around Engineering to play games, as well as cheering.
Checking out the product
The TORTURE!
Shaving Pros
Transferring water via t-shirtsNight activities consisted of a Night Walk, in which we're all blindfolded and made to play games which used our other senses. On top of that, starch was aplenty and we were full of it by the end of the games. Not to mention, full of foam and chili on our faces due to our "SK-III" game. Haha.
Washing up followed after the Night Activities, and Imran, Minghui, Yi Si and I proceeded to Eusoff Hall for showering up before going to the nearby Fong Seng for supper. Met up with
Vijay in his hostel room, and it was damn spacious! It's even bigger than the Raffles Hall double bedroom!
The security guard came around whilst I was bathing and the others were packing up, and threatened to get our Matriculation Numbers. We scooted, but luckily with all of us having finished bathing already.
But seriously, I think the security guard was a lil' too fierce and oh well, luckily nothing else happened.
After supper, we were back at ComCentre for sleeping and only Yi Si and I were left awake, together with
Geoffery and another Councillor, to play Big 2. Done throughout the night (actually only an hour plus) without sleeping, and by the time we knew, it was time for the rest to wake up to prepare for Flag Day.
Tuesday:Early morning we were gathered outside LT7A, given our Flag Day T-shirts, waist pouches, tissue paper, tin cans, stickers and moved out of the area into the bus for the trip to our designated collecting point: Novena. Actually, it was supposed to be Far East Square for us initially, but there were some changes which made us go over to Novena with another group. So 2 groups were spread over the same area, and Novena was not really having high-traffic flow in the first place.
After breakfast and meeting up with those who came from home (e.g. Velda, Merry, Chin Gene), we spread out around the area to solicit for donations. I led Yi Si, Minghui, Joyce and Xiang Yu up to Balestier Hill Shopping Centre for donations, and spread ourselves around the area (with our heavy bags) to collect donations. It was quite a lousy planning as we did not have a place to keep our bags aside during the entire donation collection exercise. Oh well.
When the rain threatened to come near prior to lunch, we headed back to Novena Square's Burger King to grab seats ahead of the lunchtime crowd. Met up with Velda and Hong Jun (who were at Revenue House), whilst the rest were over at Little India having their own meals with our OGLs for the day, Steph and Cher How.
Flaggers!
Gone for Lunch, Pls Donate!
YAAAAMMMMM.....CAN!After lunch, we restarted our bid to gain more donations around the area, before proceeding down to Orchard and meeting up with the rest of our OG at Far East Plaza's Burger King (again!). All were visibly tired, since we had little sleep, and it was already more than 6 hours of soliciting for donations!
After BK, we proceeded to Gelare, as it was offering 1/2-priced waffles on Tuesdays. Shared some waffles, and it was also a nice place to take a nap for the tired ones (me included).
Cher How & Steph!
Waffles, anyone?On discussion with the OGLs, we decided to return the cans to the organisers, and call it a day. It was 4pm by then, and all of us were almost screaming to hit the sack. A tired, yet fun-filled day ;)
Wednesday:After around 12 hours of non-stop sleep, I'm totally revitalised...except for my voice that is. A bit on the hoarse/soft side already. Gotta take care of it liao...
Played Amazing Race around the school! Sort of like Telematches, so it was pretty normal actually. Also managed to finish my laptop loan application this day, and got my Tertiary ezLink card. Yea. Finally...
I think I got it...
Fitting the letters into the spaces...
The suay ones who kenna camou cream...
Delicious Food...
At night, went out for lunch with Yi Hui, Yi Si and Merry, but not before we encountered this freakin' long jam at the junction of Bukit Timah Road and Clementi Ave 6. Really bad, and we were stuck in the jam for an hour at least! By the time we reached Sixth Avenue for dinner, it was already past 7pm.
Nonetheless, our appetite did not dilute, and we ordered pineapple rice with dishes to go with. Definitely a great meal! And the time was well-spent chit-chatting. Imran joined us after some time, and after the meal, all of us set for home.
I was the last to leave the area as my bus passed by me while I was on Dunearn Road. Dang. So I had to wait for like 10-15 mins in the end.
Thursday:Met with Anqi, Weili and Jinyao prior to going NUS at Clementi, but not before encountering a 105 with spoilt air-con that refused to travel any further. So I had to take a train instead to reach Clementi (2 stops only!!!)
For ChEss O-week, I met up with Cher How and Silk, who are both in my senior class. Moreover, most of the dudes in my class (around 8) I have known them before and it was really great to be in the same class as all of them. Though our class seemed to be very on, the downside was the apparent lack of ladies attending the entire Orientation. However, it did not seem to affect us guys, since we still managed to hold on and bond together through the Amazing Race around school ;)
This Amazing Race was different in the sense that it revolved around skills which you might require for the entire duration of stay in NUS. And this was what an Orientation Camp should be! We learnt how to photocopy, how to borrow Reference Material, how to use the computers in the ComCentre and how to print from the computer stations.
All in all, it was really useful!Night time was spent doing BBQ, and as more and more people left the BBQ early, our class was one of the last ones remaining in the BBQ area. Playing games (lame ones *lol*) and talking amongst ourselves were the most common items done.
Silk gave me a lift to Woodlands MRT, and I managed to reach home pretty fast too, around 11pm that is.
Friday:Went to YIH in the morning to meet up with Weili, Jinyao and Angela for breakfast (but not before doing last-minute biddings). Anqi joined us shortly, and we went over to LT3, where they
Christina was entertaining us with her range of jokes, prior to the start of the entire games morning of Frisbee or Captain's Ball.
After which, I met up with my Skadi group, who were doing their land games. Finally, I get to meet them again, after a 2 day hiatus. It was great to see them again, probably due to the fact that we're going to go our seperate ways soon after this o-week, which is a lil' sad...
As for my class, we were left with all guys, and we went over to
Ghim Song's and
Jiaxin's room in RH for checking our bids during the close bidding period. After that, we spent some time in the room with
Daryl entertaining us with his array of card tricks. Our class people then went our seperate ways after making a decision not to go for the 'mystery programme' and Dean's talk and buffet.
Cher How and I joined the Skadi group outside Engine Club Room. Was chosen to become a cheerleader, but my voice had somehow gone
kaput by then. Hoarse sounding, I am.
Night activities was the Rag Preview, as well as letting the rest of the Engineering Faculty know the cheers. Moreover, we had Fright Night, and it was really good to play such games. Fright Night was okay for me, but the interesting thing was that it was done on the 1st Day of the 7th month (Hungry Ghost Festival). This added to the atmosphere of the night, but my group was already full of lame and cold jokes already, that it was almost impossible for Cher How to be saying ghost stories to set the mood. Haha. I guessed the late night was making us high.
After 2 stations, we skipped the last one as we had overshot the schedule, and went for our supper @ Fong Seng's, as well as our shower at TH (No more EH!). Saw
Davina on my way outta TH, and it was nice to see her again in NUS.
Back outside LT7A, Imran, Minghui, Yi Si and I entertained ourselves to poker cards and a game of Big2, but eventually succumbed to the nice floor and catch an hour's worth of shut-eye.
Prior to Fright Night
We luuurrvve this baby!
Steph KO'ed
=P
Cool Dudes, Cool Day
Rabbit teeth!
Chicken Wrap! Nice!
Imran!
Things you do @ 5am in the morning
Best pic THIS MONTH!
Stirred-up Dinosaur
Plaster Prata!
U want to EAT? U want to F***?
5am @ Cheese Prata Shop! WooHoo!
Me & Minghui
I should have activated flash. *lol*
Jiaming's cool hairstyle! Stylo!
Saturday:RAG was a fun-filled atmosphere for us, and we the introduction of the various floats and Rag Dances was widely anticipated. We left at around 11am for lunch at HarbourFront Food Court (for the air-con), and dismissed ourselves after that.
SRC is all RAG-dy!
Creating the stack...
Retro-inspired Biz
Naruto-inspired SoCCurrent Mood: 
Exhausted Current Music: Fang Hao Wen - Meng De Pu Shou
Thirsty
Grumpy
Happy
Confused
Achy
Printing Notes...a boring job