Featured on H O O K E D!

Okay this post is kinda late...but i'm glad to announce that our beloved Rovers tees are featured in the NUSSU online magazine, HOOKED! (The article, is here.)

Oh mans...good publicity for our club! A pity the writers got the order of the tees wrong. Hmms. Should do something about that though. But all in all, a good publicity article for us!

On another note...today was the interview for our 27th Rovers Committee. Well, I've made the decision, and sitting if front of your fellow mates and letting them ask you questions, but in a friendly way, sure helps a lot.

A whole lot of work awaits the president and vice-president.

Let's just hope everything falls in place. Ultimately, we've one year to prove ourselves that the next comm is as good (if not better) than the outgoing one.

Managed to talk to some of the nominees today @ YIH whilst waiting for their turn to be interviewed. Pretty nice bunch of people, I must say, and as per Rovers tradition, a lot of Engineers running for committee (What's the link bet Rovers and Engineers?! o_O") But it sure helps. Haha!

Had lunch with the 26th after the interview's all done, and really treasure the little time we've left (officially) with each other...hope we have common lunch breaks! That would be good, so that we can ALL keep in touch!

Time to rest...Had a hectic Thurs and Fri with badminton on both days. Feeling shagged, and the sore throat aint helping. Ugh. (Will touch on those 2 another day...haha)

Trip's coming...whoopie!

And lastly,
CONGRATULATIONS ANQI!
Hey ger....u made me proud! Chairperson of Voices! Yay! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your club's productions? Yups! Jiayou wors! We're here to always support ya!

Current Mood: Sick

Current Music: Hu Yan Bin - Waiting For You

decided.

And yea. I decided already.

Thanks Patrick, Lionel, Chin Khiong for listening to me. Thanks Mummy and Daddy...Thanks Greg and those who supported...At least, I could talk it out. :)

Hope it'll turn out well? Haha...we shall see..

Strong showing today tho. Hmmz...

顺其自然吧...

Current Mood: Pensive

Current Music: Moulin Rouge - Come What May

woke up too early!

Hmm yea. And I woke up too early for school 'cos Mum thought I'm late for wake up time when I was supposed to just wake up at 0730 and leave home by 0845hrs...in the end I woke up at 0630hrs o_O"

Now I'm just thinking of stuff...what to do in this coming year?

Realised that I'm not that prepared for this new semester after all. -sighs- Was it due to the
Committments in O-Week, which meant that you had no time to take a step back and think what you're willing and ready to do? It's not that I'm unwilling to commit, but I'm unsure if I do so, would I be up to it.

Questions run through my head. What should I do now? Choices lie in front of me, just that the paths do not intersect.


Work 'n' Travel? And CK told me, you can still work and travel when you're out in the working life! But I was thinking, is it so? Won't your leave be so precious that you would use it for short getaway trips instead of all on one trip? It's a tough one. Yr2 or Yr4?

SEP?
NOC? Out of the question for me for I'm not entrepreneurship type of person...


IA? Or VIP? I'll have to make a tough decision on each. Irregardless of the outcome, I know yr3's not the year to play in FOCs or gg overseas...sighs


Committees? Rovers? Engin Club? I'd admit that I'm interested in joining the Mountaineering club, but was it because I wanted to try something so similar to Rovers but not Rovers? I'm unsure of myself in this choice. Did talk to some ppl on re-running, but feeling myself jaded. Doing the same things again? Fun, definitely, but
Maybe it's time to move on? Part of me...well...I still wan the best out of Rovers...

This is the toughest decision I've to make thus far.

And yea, 3 CN mods ain't a joke. I believe they're a killer. *lol* 1 lesson into them and I still think they're difficult. Sighs.

Time to work hard? Or play hard?

Current Mood: Pensive

Current Music: F.I.R. - Tian Tian Ye Ye

undecided

yea. still undecide on what to do. sighs.

too many choices?

i'll miss what i'm doing. all choices lay flat in front of me. but their paths do not cross. once you choose a path, it's all the way, or none at all.

should i take the first step?

or should i just back away from all?

decisions, decisions.

-sigh-

NUS Triathlon!

So I woke up early in the morning at 5am, groggy-eyed, in anticipation for the NUS Triathlon which I was about to help out. At this time of the day, there was (as expected) no public transport, so my dad decided to give me a lift to ECP. Which was really a blessing in disguise! Managed to reach there on time!

Met up with Geoks at the carpark E2, but Yings was late. Oh wells...got an event tee for her and we went to the toilets to change up into our working tee.

And when I returned, I was shocked to hear that the water point people had all left already! OMG. So I was left there doing nothing and just awaiting instructions a.k.a. to do saikang when needed.

Yings arrived shortly, and we saw Weiguang too! Chatted briefly before being pulled away for a ride in a car to do saikang which was never present! OMG. But nice car ride. Returned only to zuo bo again. Haiz...it's giving us a headache 'cos 1) we had little sleep and needed rest 2) the MC didn't seem to know wad to do with us.

In the end we got assigned to the food centre 'zebra crossing' to take care of people crossing 'cos the cyclists are coming in at high speeds. And there were so many other non-competitive leisure cyclists! Oh mans. Got shouted at by 1 woman who seemed agitated that the competitive cyclists had shouted at her to get away. Weiguang commented that this is the first time he's been scolded. lol. And there was an accident due to miscommunication, and partially my fault. sigh. The guy just limped to the side, and I really was angry with myself for causing such problems. Was also angry with the leisure cyclists/skaters/runners for not listening to us! Tell them to deviate left dun do so, sighs. Dunno wad they wanna do also...Maybe more has to be done in planning for the cycling route. Keeping to a road race would be much much better! After all, this is EAST COAST PARK on a SUNDAY we're talking about...

Then...the 3 of us drifted back after work, got nothing to do, ate ice-cream (yay! Potong!) and then to the sandcastle exhibit we went! Viewed the nice structure, and Weiguang and I got assigned a 'room' each, and then we took pics! Moved on to the food centre to answer the call from the stomach...and we had...FOOD FEAST! muhahaha!

Sandcastles!


Good Food! WoOhOo~!

After the food fiesta, we intended to meet PG, but decided to detour to the tentages to get a free goodie bag, and then we walked to the bus stop for our ride home...Took 197, then changed bus to 31, and it was quite a speedy journey, though I slept a lot on the bus!

Haha....Rested well the whole day...recharging in process!

Current Mood: Sleepy

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

Finally can blog!

Time for a nice sit down in front of the computer after another 3 days of hectic-ness. At least, there's nice home cooked curry waiting for you once you wake up, the great bed to lie on, and the wonderful air-con to relax your tired body.

First up, will start with Friday. It was definitely a shag day in the morning 'cos I had to (literally) crawl out of the bed at 6.30am to get to sch by 8.30am. And I couldn't! After just 5 hours of sleep, it was simply too taxing for the body (haha) to drag myself out of the nice comfy bed.

So in the end I was late. Well, late as a councillor, but not at the time stipulated as a freshie. And the LT7A was so cold! It was freezing! (Felt like as though they blasted the air-con since yesterday as a reply to the hot weather yesterday!)

So the freshies occupied the super-cold LT, and the rest of the councillors and MC members came in to make up the numbers, but there were barely 100 of us there! It was still super cold, and I couldn't join them 'cos I was busy trying to contact the rest of the OG to come down for the 2nd half of the day.

After that, went back to the LT, and the entire event has not yet started! Supposed to be some boring sponsorship talk, so I drifted off to get some food and then to LT3 to meet up my classmates - Alvin, Daryl, Jialiang, Wee Kwok and Zhansheng - helping out at the Chem Engine O-Day. It was something I wanted to join, to know the freshies, my juniors, but I couldn't due to my committment in O-Week (and yea the ChESS side din say much abt the O-Day till like just a week before so...)

Saw my Fuego OG people - Anqi, Jinyao, Mark, Weili - and some other familiar faces in Chem Engine like Calvin and Jacqueline...thinking that I might have missed out on some bonding with my classmates really is sian for me. I dun like to be a loner, and wish to be with a group of people as much as possible. Born to be a crowd lover? Or maybe just prefer to be hanging around with a couple of other people...

Anyway, went back to the LT and found that it was still as cold as ever. (I can't believe all of them managed to tahan all the way...haha). When I entered, it was a talk given by the EmitAsia guy (selling Time and Fortune magazines) and his "super super super deal" is the sane as the Engine Camp *yawn*. Was wondering how super it can ever go. Haha.

And then, it was briefing for the councillors for the upcoming event - Food Hunt, and the "小天使" role for my group was given to me. Basically, the "小天使" does not do much except help to run the game for the group...in the end it became a bonding session for the OG 'cos we just sat down at a place and had our miniature version of "十字路口" at Bukit Timah Food Centre!

Proceeded down to Plaza Singapura from BTFC, and went to slack in Carrefour. Time sure passes fast. Was surprised it was abt 3.30pm by the time we reached there! So we hurried up and bought our ingredients for the cooking competition later. The freshies decided on their roti prata chicken wrap, plus salad and a desert. Woohoo! But I was still thinking that chocolate banana would taste nice...haha...(cos I wanna eat it)

Had ice-cream at a roadside stall prior to going back NUS. Good food for the hot weather. Treated the freshies to the ice-cream too (and luckily there were only 9 of them eating 'cos I had only 10 dollars. haha) Then we took the long journey back to NUS, and Chun Kiat was telling me about the Engin Club stuff, what they do etc; the freshies zi hai with their own version of "du-bi-du-bi-dup" (a.k.a. the Finger Game); Jinyao and Joyce concussed, tired mentally.

Went back and I took some secret 'weapons' for our cooking competition, and we secretly created our dish...

Chefs at Work!


Doing the styling...and we have...


These!


Blazor Cooking team!

And whilst we waited patiently for our turn to show the 3 'Kings' (Patrick, Ryan, Henry) the food, we played games (again) and listened to non-stop mambo music (yea they need to find some other song other than "Square Room")


Judges trying out our dishes

After the cooking competition, we had a catered buffet dinner, and then it was time for a rag performance (like last year). Scarela was very well represented, with 5 of my freshies as dancers - Ethan, Jason, Lixiang, Matthew and Si Qian. And they were good! Really proud of them and the hard work they put in! (Oh mans I'm sounding like Anqi here o_O") The float was also unveiled to us, and we had cheer practice. Haha. Just need to be louder on the day itself, I guess?

And after that, it was the Finale Night. Pageant for O-Week was chosen, and prizes were given out, like the Best Councillor and Best Freshie. Similar to the Engin Camp, they got the Fujifilm cameras!

As for the major prizes, Best Freshie went to Louis of Helios from my house, Best Councillor went to Aaron of Earth, Best House went to Wind, and Best OG is Blizzard of Water. Even though Blazor did not win, the most important thing is that the freshies had their fun, the councillors had their fun, and everyone is more bonded. However, I strongly felt that my house should have won the Best House award since my groups are all like super zi hai (must be cos of their House IC hahaha).

And before we were out of the LT for the night, the house ICs and councillors tau pok-ed Patrick and Ryan. Even though Patrick was rather big sized, he could not stand the weight of Chin Khiong, and I guess it all showed in his facial expression. Haha.

After that, all of us were already on zi hai mode, and mambo fever's back outside LT7A! Dancing, sabo-ing others and I was being tau pok-ed by the Blazor freshies, and I ensured that their instigator Jinyao was given the same treatment. Haha.

After that, it was left to the groups to zi hai, to go have supper, to play games, to have fun. Oh yea...and we just sat at the foyer outside EA and played games, till we decided it was time to bathe, and went up to lvl 5 after that to play Truth and Truth...

Time for bed, TBC!

Current Music: Wang Xin Ling - Huang Hun Xiao

Sentosa!

O-Week @ Sentosa? Nope! U're not reading wrong!

A fun day with the sun, sand and sea. Lotsa sabo-ing flying around the area, mainly for the much vaunted for "Ha Ha Stones".

Dunking.
Muah Chee.
Pillar.

These are some of the things associated with the fun part! And not to mention that my group had full strenght today! WOW! I'm really impressed with all of them! I lurve u guys & girls! (note: I'm NOT GAY) Thanks for supporting us! 2 more days to go!

Programs were fun, but definitely the side-games are much nicer! Like negotiating for more stones to sabo some other MC member, or to do a multi assualt on a single target. Mans. I've never seen an OG so crazy. Maybe Blizzard's is way over it, but that's another matter.

Sunburnt skin! But it was definitely fun! And I got attacked so many times I kinda forgot who attacked me. Just knew that my own OG attacked me twice, with a waterbombing session and a waterbomb hit squarely on my ribcage?!? I was left clutching the lower portion in agony...damn pain la. But it was okay after some time. And George and Yew Lee's OGs attacked me one after the other...I sorta gave up struggling. lols. For the fun of it ;)


Sunset was wonderful! OMG I've never seen such a nice reddish sun at Sentosa...really glad to see it! And campfire followed which was a rare sight...but indeed they managed to pull it off! Kudos to Patrick and the ppl who made it possible! Haha...wonderful night to remember, wonderful cheering!

Now we need to learn the gang cheer better. HAHA. Then we can use it against our fav enemy...ARTS



Fun under the sun!


Fun in the sand!!


Fun in the sea!!!


Jinyao in his fav pose.


Campfire's Blazing...


We're @ Palawan!

Although O-Week aint supposed to be like a camp, it sure feels like an old-school styled O-Week. Not to mention the multiple stay-ins, the long nights, the packed schedules, the rushing by the GSKs/OGLs to meet deadlines. I'm sure I've more to say after Saturday, but that's for now...Gonna turn in!

O-Week is GOOD!


The BEST

Current Mood: Sleepy

Current Music: Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass

stonified

Just awoke from a long deep slumber from 5.30pm yesterday till 10am today. Feeling lethargic, stonified, sleepy.

Recharged? I hope so. I need to go out and have some fun! Something other than just ra-ra-ing the freshies who feel that O-Week is sian. Something like shopping, having fun at the beach, running, doing stuff that I like.

And I missed the fireworks yesterday night. Again. Sighs...

Guess all of us were too tired to go catch it. Weili and I initially planned to catch it with the rest of the OG (who were at the O-Week! namely, Anqi, Jinyao & Mark!) yesterday, but knowing our 36 hours of non-stop operation, we thought it would be better to get some snooze first before catching the fireworks.

And we were right. KO-ed we did.

Okay...today's...NDP Day? Wow. Woke up feeling like it was a Saturday/Sunday. Haha. Time to switch on the google box (it's been some time) and see what's on.

Current Mood: Bored

Current Music: Cranberries - Zombie