of non stop action.
Simply...wow.
I was amazed that I'm still sitting up here having a bowl of cereal, drying my hair and typing this blog entry. Haha.
But I'm desperately short of sleep.
Flag day, to put it simply, sucked. Yea man. I didn't understand the Flag Director's rationale (or was it not explained or put forth to us clearly?) Anyway, it was quite crazy to have the SP Night to end late and the Flag to commence preparations so early! We didn't have any sleep, if there were any in the first place. LOL.
But it was alright I guess. Just that u'll see stoned freshies looking at you, and you try to rack your already-tired-out mind to think of new things to ra-ra them. But you can't. 'Cos you yourself wish to go to sleep too!
Anyway, Flag was okay. Our group managed to conquer the quota of 10 cans quickly by 3 and we were let off from Tanjong Pagar! Woohoo! So I took an hour's bus ride with Joyce back to our area, and we went our seperate ways.
Yesterday was pretty chaotic in the morning, with the councillors being late, the grandstand area being marked out too small for the Houses, and the OG mascots still lying in the Engin Club Room! Geez. Plus the hunting down of money for lunch from freshies, it just made the situation messy. Tsk Tsk. Should've just made it compulsory for all to pay for the lunch and dinners. Haha.
The weather did not bode well for the land games, and rain fell heavily subsequently. With the land games cancelled after just 3 games, we had to entertain the freshies at the MPSH area and then allow them to shower up, have lunch and change into their Freshmen Inaugaration Ceremony (FIC) attire.
And I met Yings and Zhihao at MPSH settling some log saikang for rag! They needed manpower, so supplied them with some to help take the heavy poles over to the end of MPSH to facilitate transportation. ;) Glad to be of help guys! Jiayou!
Moving on to FIC, we went over to the UCC to have a peek at what's hot and what's not there. Apparently our bags could go in safely, regardless how big it was, but not our mascots. Weird. So all our mascots ended up staying outside the UCC taking pictures. Wahahaha. Plus the learning of the gangster cheer by Ryan, Patrick and Henry.
After the freshies had all gone into UCC safely, all the rest of the councillors proceeded to LT7a, where we helped ourselves to leftovers of a buffet, and a briefing for SP Night. Info flew in quickly and I guess most of us understood the ideas. And the singlet for the camp is ORANGE! Woohoo!
Then it was time to get our freshies out from UCC, back to LT7a, change into normal attire, and proceed with our bidding info talk, talk by Engin Club President Chun Kiat (also our OG's MC attached) and the Flag Director's address at LT2.
And Lionel, Chin Khiong and I pulled off the surprise for Patrick by doing his 2 favourite cheers, and having the entire O-Week freshies to wish him "Happy Birthday". Anyway, it was approved by the girlfriend so...whahahaha. It just took a taupok by Kok Choy to finish him off anyway.
SP Night followed and it was fun! From the interaction to the Friendship dance steps to the charades (really interesting idea!) and then the girl-guy 性灵感应 hosted by the PD himself, it just lifted the spirits of the O-Week. The irony was that SP Night was...a night itself only. If only it had been spread over a couple of days or more...
My battery died on me, I couldn't make any calls out, and I was so busy that I could not reply msgs or calls. So paisei. Esp. when calls were done during my briefings or whilst I was hosting the game. -Sighs- (But at least this shows I'm needed...haha. Like getting them directions from one place to another. Am I a walking street directory?)
Jinyao and Joyce went to Fong Seng to get supper for the freshies whilst Chun Kiat was with them at E4 due to the heavy rain. Me? Back at LT7a 'cos a freshie decided not to go over to Fong Seng (due to rain), and stayed over and slept sitting upright next to me (I was teaching her how to bid on CORS???) while I was busy listening to music and MSN-ing. Maybe a blessing in disguise, at least I got some spare time myself and to chit chat. Haha.
And now, I shall go catch some sleep...all of you out there, TAKE CARE!
Current Mood: 
Sleepy
Craving for...
Ice-cream (Venezia! Whee!~)
But...definitely not books ;)
Yay! Had enough rest...I think ;) Woke up stonified and sianization struck. Oh wells. Time to pack the bag. Time to get some lozenges in the throat. Time to ROX O-WEEK!
Current Music: Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come
Day 1...and I'm blogging from EA block, after a nice lil' supper, a quick shower @ Raffles Hall (oops) and getting my laptop in a comfortable position somewhere on the 5th level of EA block. Haha.
Voice slightly gone. Wonder why. Seems like my voice goes off pretty easily after a day of shouting/cheers. -sighs- No more endurance le?
Anyway, should start from Day 0...the day when we councillors all gathered at LT7a and (literally) had the time of our lives. Making identity tags, making mascots, learning the difficult dance moves and laughing at our own mistakes, bangla-ing ourselves in a van to bathe @ SRC, and much more!
Haha...and I was really glad I came. At least I think I did.
Went to school earlier at about 1620hrs to settle some administration issues - print stuff out, print freshie listings, print meal 'order' forms, etc. Then had some good 'ol Mac's ice-cream before continuing the work to be done for the day: Tag Making + Mascot Making.
The tags were more or less done, and all Joyce had to do were to write the names on the tags. We were super proud of our creations! Just that we did not take any pictures...too busy. -sighs-
Afternote: And we forgot to add the smiley faces in all the tags. Darned. Kept forgetting. Think i'll implement the sticker thingy then? Haha.
Jinyao arrived soon, and then we had dinner bought by the other group councillors from MacDonalds' - en masse order! All food in cardboard boxes (is that interesting or what?) So in between eating and slurping coke, we chit-chatted and I met some of my councillors in the house, like Chun Kiat, Yiping, Mark and Zhiyong.
Mass Dance was next, and we got a little high after all the cheers (Patrick's fav cheers). Dance was interesting but learning it was kinda hard...steep learning curve!
After the long mass dance routine, we went to continue doing up the mascots, and our group did a star from cardboard and newspapers (which seemed a lil' unstable and prone to spoilage). It turned out pretty good, but the colour was...bad =( Wished we had more time to do painting, but alas being at 3am in the morning, it hardly helped.
After that was showering time, en masse! Damn fun la! We squeezed into Amanda's van to SRC, though it was a short drive there, it was pretty fun! (I need more of such stuff! I wanna ride in vans and lorries with frens liaos! Reminds me of tt session with LY, HH and SH after Ohana. Haha.)
After bathing, it was time to rest...and the next day we woke up at 7 to get food for the rest of the O-Week councillors + committee personnel. I waited for Amanda to wake up, whilst Lionel spent a wonderful(?) night in the van (with open doors!). Henry joined us and we went in her van to Clementi, where we got roti prata and drinks for those who ordered.
Managed to reach back in time to let the councillors eat, wash up and take charge of the freshies who had begun to gather at the first level.
24 people in an OG is no joke. But the turn-out was probably 19, which dwindled as the day went by, to about 10. But having half to stay-over was not necessarily a bad thing, except when most of them were not absorbing what you had to say about the things to do for the dance item. -sighs-
I guess the day was more or less okay. Fun, in a way. Faculty games were smooth, so was the Night Scavenger Hunt, which I felt should be longer (bring them to the PGP and KR haunted houses yea!).
Guess a thing which pissed me off the day was how freshies from other OGs will persuade their friends not to stay over, and that's whilst I'm talking to them. I was rather disappointed that their OGLs did not manage to convince them otherwise, and it seemed (to me) like a virus spreading. All it takes is one bad egg to spread the "Aiya, no need to stay over la. Stay over also lousy/useless/(pls insert ur own phrase to persuade others not to stay over)."
Debriefing was long, and many of the OGLs were kinda tired. Who wouldn't? lol. But I'm glad we're all together in this. More bonding? Haha...Just need more time to talk to each other la.
Now, to rest tonight for tomorrow's stayover. Haha. I'm not gonna stay over in school tonight la. :)
Current Mood: Sleepy
Current Music: Wu Yue Tian - Xin Zhong Wu Bie Ren
Din feel like sleeping already.
-sigh-
Too stressed? Maybe...
Current Mood:
Stressed
Whee~! Started off with our Blazor tag making with Joyce (Minghui came to help 'cos he thought we're in same house...?)...and this is the (half-finished) product!
Many many more to do! 23 more!
But I think it'll be a fun nite tml! haha!
Current Mood:
BusyCurrent Music: Liu Jia - Ai De Sheng Li
Sometimes, things just do not go your way. You thought that you're being a nice guy by helping others achieve their intended goals, you get others to help you, yet your friends do not understand the restrictions you have.
You're not in power to change anything. Maybe I was, but did I choose that? No...I let it 顺其自然. In the end, you voice out your unhappiness 'cos u felt that I could've intervened and prevented it from happening. And it pissed you off 'cos I said I could'nt do much.
Maybe it was oversight on my part and I'm sorry.
But we've gotta learn to accept it! Meet new people? Learn new things?
I'm never the best person to talk about meeting new people. Oh com'on. I'm still wishing that I had kept my friends together from pri sch to sec sch to JC. But somehow I feel myself drifting...not knowing them.
Uni friends? I dunno but some whom I had viewed as friends became...unfriendly? Or some people do not treat me as much of a friend as others.
To me, I wish my friends were always here. To get someone to know you and talk to. I know I'm more reserved in my inner self and hide my feelings and intentions, but that's because I did not want too many people to know.
Or maybe I'm wishing that someone would view me differently. Accept me for who I am?
I wish I've more time. For friends (no time to meet up?). For family (yea I've neglected them to a very very bad point). For myself (no time to think...-sigh-).
What do I wish to achieve?
Why do I keep doing things which I hope others will appreciate?
Do they even appreciate?
What do I want to do?
Or maybe I'm just looking for a nod of the head, a smile, a sign that what I've done is appreciated.
Ramblings. Indeed. (Now I seldom do that?)
Just wondering why I'm treated differently.
But I need an outlet. And I was looking for it yesterday night. That's why, the question flew. But I wasn't thinking much. Like a shot in the dark.
And the more I think, the more bad I feel about not making all happy. Or can I make everyone around me happy? -sighs- Sometimes won't you get tired of giving others happiness and deep inside you've to sacrifice to do so for them?
Maybe to them they will feel that, "Oh SY has done this for me...wow, that's good! Now I'm having my fun!". But do they ever think of the things one has to do to help them achieve their fun?
So dun say I never tried. I'm trying to resolve the issue. Give you your state of fun|happiness|friendship.
Someone tell me what I'm doing is right/wrong. Someone...
Anyway. Gonna do tag making for O-Week and an Appreciation Dinner for OHANA. A long day...again.
Current Mood: 
Confused
Current Music: Five - Closer To You
T.I.R.E.D.
No other words to describe. But I guess I can't be more tired than some other people who've been under the sun dealing with stubborn gigantic blue-and-white striped stuff ehs?
Rest well...U'd better do so...
Now @ YIH canteen...haha....Hope u'd like e meal ;)
Tired.
And now I'm back at the booths waiting for the first freshies to appear. Well, after one time at the booths u know that the first wave of freshies are usually the "I wanna matriculate and get out of NUS ASAP" type of person.
So I'm waiting for the main group of freshies who will appear, probably at 10 plus? Meanwhile, the Rovers booth is empty 'cos Henghong, Peiyu and Shuang Hui went to get some grub to fill their currently empty stomachs.
And the bus 151 is super slow today. Not to mention that it was stuffy, hot and caught in a traffic jam. And I even heard over the news that bus fares are to increase? Where's the justification when I waited 10 mins for a bus which runs on non-aircon (old) buses?! Geez.
Companies which look at only profits and figures, but not considering the people whom they supposedly serve.
Talking about that, it reminds me of the time when we have 35 cents bus trip tickets (non-aircon) and 45 cents bus trip tickets (aircon). Those were the days when you had to slot in a cutely-designed farecard into the machine, and out comes a small slip of paper which is your trip ticket.
Well those were the days. You can reminisice the past, but you have to move ahead into the future...
Back to yesterday, was having Engin O-Week briefing by Patrick and Ryan. Got to know more about the O-week itself, plus I got to meet up with my fellow OGLs. Being a House IC, I think I need to do more than just bond the House...time to think of a common type of tag? Gee. I'm lousy in designs I must say (Just look at the Okailer tag and someone will just tick me off cos of it -_-")
After that, went over to Holland V's Settlers' Cafe to meet up with the Fuego peeps - Anqi, Jinyao, JJ, Kent, Mark and Weili. Had lotsa fun, despite me being late by an hour. So in between downing a chicken cutlet and fries, I was playing the game "Miners". Super fun! (not to mention I've played before) And Anqi kept being the saboteur, whilst I kept getting the miner card. Sheesh.
After that we went over to Gelare for good waffles (1/2 price Tues!) and had a great chit-chat/talk crap session! Long time never do such stuff le...guess we're all busy during the hols. Plus 5 of us are in O-week! Wow!
Okies. Freshies coming in...time to get back to work.
Boring? Tired? Or simply having fun beo-ing potential committee members?
Well, I guess we're tired from standing around for 6 hours plus, answering the same questions which freshies post to us 'cos our booth is just next to ODAC's, not having a lunch break when it was told to us specifically that it's 1200-1330 hrs, screwed up administration with super long queues, having freshies in the matriculation fair even though it's past the timing specified etc.
It just doesn't seem right that a huge organisation like them could do something so unprofessionally. Geez.
But anyway, I had my 'fun' in telling freshies our experiences, had fun talking to other people, met up with Tze at her PRU booth, met Tong Cai at his Akido booth, and many many more friends!
Then I realised, I forgot some of their names. Sigh.
Is it just me, or my memories really fail when I do not talk to someone often enough? Maybe not, just that the person did not have a lasting impression on me?
After that, went to watch a movie by The Lake House. Haha. The house is super nice (yup Tze, I'd agree with u that it would be really nice to get a house like that by the Lake! But for now pls settle for a Lakeside View Condo or smth? Haha)! As for the storyline, it was more or less predictable ('cos I heard of such a story before, from Anqi's musical production last sem), but too draggy.
As for the ending, well let's just say they decided to make it a happy ending.
If you watched the movie carefully enough, they actually said there was an attic in the Lake House with a sloping roof, but...I dun see anywhere in the Lake House which has room for an attic, moreover Alex had even planted plants above in a glass enclosure. Also, the roof was kinda...flat. lol!
I hope I made a correct decision today.
I really wish all would turn out well.
Time is needed, sacrifices by each other.
Will things be the same again?
Current Music: F.I.R. - Tian Tian Ye Ye