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Thursday, July 30, 2009

~ 3:31 PM ~

Have been back from NBS FOC a few days now. It was really an experience because there were many things that i did for the first time in my life. That includes rolling in a barrel, getting into sex like positions on the grass and even clubbing. It was gross and disguisting, and we couldn't imagine how we would go about doing it, but we still did. It was so bad i felt like going home on the first day. But thank god, it could only get better.

There are lots of pictures on facebook, but i figured ten years down the road i probably wouldn't remember most of the things that happened at NBS FOC because nobody tags the pictures that they look unglam in and in the most awkward positions. So i would gladly substitute a thousand words for posting one picture here. Who knows these could just be speech material?

I've never been so dirty in my life (that's probably what all freshie would say) because field games was utterly gross. Lycan came to our first station and the girls had looks of anguish on their faces because they had to enter this ugly looking barrel that contains pieces of grass, mud, eggshells and whatnot. The guys enjoyed themselves kicking the barrel around, despite having their legs tied together, while the girls silently prayed for the shortest agony. We learnt that it was just the cleanest station so far, so the rest i need not elaborate. We rolled in grass hugging each other, buried our face in flour looking for gummy bears, slide through soap, soy sauce, egg yolks, and had lots of junk stuck in our hair. We couldn't wait to bathe, but it was just the start of the day.

We hung around, hosed ourselves clean and went for dinner in soaked up clothes. Had small OG games, laughed at people who did forfeit and sat around hoping to bathe soon. But NO. Itwas FAR from that. We had more station games around NTU after dinner, and late at night we went for a trail in the underground sewage. I think it was known as the NTU drain. We climbed into the manholes that were covered by grills. Only 2 candles lit up the place, governed by the front and the back of the pack. It was pitch dark, and the guys were really protective, at least desmond (who was in front of me) was. Really grateful for that, and we all concluded that the guys were pretty gentlemanly. Haha. We came to a high wall and the guys had to hoist the girls up. So naturally Zhihao being the tallest became our stepping stone. The seniors were evil, randomly pouring down water trying to extinguish our flame, but thankfully we all emerged safely.

We went back to NTU really hoping to bathe soon because it was way past 3am (which we heard would be bathing time). But not yet, we sat around somemore, some dozing off, some playing zi ji bie ren, and others HTHT-ing. The seniors refused to let anyone fall asleep, so they would cheer into their faces if they closed their eyes. We were at this station game and there was time to spare, so the programmers made the GLs entertain us. So our chief group leader was told to mingle with the dustbin. Mingling means to cheer with the dustbin in layman. So she did it, she went to the dustbin, shouted into it, and before we could expect, the other group leaders dumped her into the bin head first. It was crazy, at least we din't expect them to be that insane.

We heard the highlight of the night was yet to come, and all the seniors have returned just for this special highlight. Yet in my opinion, it was the most embarrassing night on earth. I must have repeated this story at least a million times because i can't help complaining, so if you've heard this before, skip the whole paragraph. Alright so this is the nanyang lake story.

The guys and girls were separated.. then the girls were blindfolded.. They told us they were going to slide us into a lake. And that's the nanyang lake. The nanyang lake was known to be haunted or something. And so, i had to shout a guy's name from our og so he can save me, and once i hit waters i was supposed to tred water (like really hard), and they made it seem really realistic, offering life jackets to non swimmers (but in the end everyone took life jackets since they felt really insecure.) So they told us to shout the name loud and clear, or else nobody would save us if they couldn't hear. It seemed like such a long time before someone came to take me away from the group. This grand senior was so evil she brought me to stand beside a tree, then another grand senior came and asked me if i stood there for long, so he brought me to sit down by the road. The wind was so strong, we all froze under the dark sky. Amazingly we could hear waves, which made the lake so realistic. (Or maybe i was hallucinating) The grand senior, jonathan the heineken guy, sat and talked to me for a while, then he left me with a IQ question and never came back. With a 3 litre and 5 litre bottle how do you get 4 litres? I found the answer, and was waiting for him to verify it, but he never returned. I fell asleep in the cold and was finally brought away to the slide. I waited for such a long time, then i realised i was the last to slide down into the lake. So... since i was the last.. the ogl said: "You must shout the name plus JIAYOU!" (because the guys are all damn shagged after saving so many girls so the JIAYOU was supposed to be a morale booster.) So i slide down.. and i din't shout the JIAYOU because i thought it was stupid, but i shouted the name twice. (Just in case. haha) When i hit waters, water was only 5cm deep (STUPID $%^*&*()#$%^&*(()) and i was stupidly trying to find water to tred. Then this guy told me to remove my blindfold, and goodness me all the OG guys were staring at me at the bottom. And because i was the last one, i was lost when i reach the bottom. The OGLs were like "ok everyone thats the end climb up the hill now lets go~" Nobody told me what to do, so i was like what on earth? The water was gross. Soap and muddy water, it goes into the nostrils and the feeling is definately not fun.

It was near daybreak when it ended, so in our wet clothes we were on the bus ride to Sentosa. We bathed in the dark (toilet lights weren't on at 6am) and when we all finished bathing, the toilet lights suddenly came on. (you could imagine our frustrations.) There wasn't time to sleep, because before i had time to close my eyes it was time for breakfast.

The 2nd day was station games at Sentosa, sand, water, beach games. There was this really gross station that we had to form a sandwich by passing ingredients down the line using body parts. So we had tomatos, cucumbers, bread, lettuce, mayonaisse, mustard passed down the line using our cheek, forehead, mouth, knee, elbow whatever. And because we were the slower team to complete, our poor CGL was put to the forfeit of biting from the sandwich. OMG. It's the worst forfeit ever. I swear some of the ingredients fell onto the sand. Lycan was good at the other games, we won the best costume performance, our superhero was Superwhore and i fell asleep standing up while the rest were discussing. Ops. hahaha. Ultimate.

After which, we checked into our chalets, hung around a bit, and then at night we were told to grab our blindfolds again and head out. They love to make us blindfolded for god knows what reason. So they took us on a bus ride and we were blindfolded on the bus. At our destination we got off, stoned around a bit more, zhihao was leading in zi ji bie ren (it's amazing how we play that game in all conditions) and before i knew it, we were at the entrance of old changi hospital. Two girls and one guy to a group. So i was with jessica and weihao ( i think). The guys were supposed to protect the girls apparently, but jessica and i were more like protecting each other. lol.

Fright night was pretty interesting. It was scary initially, we went from room to room performing tasks to get our clues. The first room we came to, i was made to enter this unlit toilet. The ghost told me to sit on the covered toilet bowl, then she came to me with her "baby" and told me to carry it. She made me sing a lullaby and i felt really stupid. The first song that came to my mind was "rock a bye baby" so i sang.... "Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock....." Then, when i came to the 3rd verse i forgot the lyrics, so i asked the ghost "err.. what's the next line?" And you could imagine how she stared at me. So i hum a stupid tune, she got angry and slammed the toilet door. It was pitch dark for one second then she opened it again and told me to get out. -_-''

Then there was this other room that we came to, i was told to sit on a chair. The were 3 ghost in the room, one lying on the floor with a knife in his chest, one standing with a skipping rope around his neck and another female ghost (lyn!) sitting on a chair opposite me. Jessica was told to remove the skipping rope from the ghost neck and i had to look for a teddy bear. I thought the skipping rope guy would have it, so i searched around him. Then i saw a barbie doll, so i asked him, "is this the teddy bear?" and he said "yesssssss....." So i took the barbie doll and gave it to the female ghost and she shouted "I SAAID A TEDDY BEAR!!!!" -_-'' stupid guy lie to me. So i went to search for it where the ghost lay on the floor. Then i saw the teddy bear. I reached for it, and he jumped at me. (ok kind of expected.) Then when everything was done, the female ghost shouted for us to get lost. And the skipping rope guy slid on the floor and grabbed my leg. EVIL. I would have stepped on his hand if not for the OGLs telling us to be nice to our programmers when we were outside.

There was this station where the guy was told to stand outside the room and face the wall, while the girls entered the room and had to enter two seperate tomb like features and search for the clue. They were really evil, because they covered the tomb with the cloth once you entered, the caustrophobic people would have died inside. In the tomb that i entered, there were incense paper strewned all over, and a fake skeleton at the other corner of the tomb. Seconds later they dropped in a light stick and told us to search for the clue. Apparently there wasn't any clue inside, because they shouted "CLUE FOUND" after a while. Both tombs dint have any clue.

I remembered telling weihao how lucky he was to have me and jessica as his group mates, because we were both so brave. Other girls would have freaked out and cried like mad. (which other OGs had.) Our OG had very brave girls (that was feedback from the ghosts) After fright night we returned back to chalet feeling very shagged. But we had to rehearsal for performance night the next day. Kudos to the skit committee for all the efforts, because we went to sleep and they were still rehearsing.

The next day we had pool games, seemed really fun but some of the girls had to sit out. There was courage jump which was jumping into the pool at diving lengths. Like those diving boards that sycronised jumpers in olympics would do. And i really wanted to try because it was like once in a lifetime experience. Zhiqiang was really scared, he stood up there for at least 10 mins and we cheered for him till we got tired haha. But he finally jumped and i felt really touched because i could imagine his anguish.

At night was performance night, the performances were all really awesome. And considering the limited time we had to practise and get organised, it was awesome work. But of cos we still believe lycan's performance was the best.

After which was SP interaction. So we were all blindfolded again. We got separated from our OGs and then i was sitting at one spot by myself. I could hear Mega talking to her SP. Hahaa. Then later this OGL came over and talked to me, asking me what was i thinking. So i said "Nothing much." But believe me it was far from nothing. I was trying to think of what to say later, then she told me my SP was coming and whether i was excited. so i said "Okay lah." And the next moment i could hear murmurings and my SP was brought here by another OGL. So we were supposed to talk and get to know each other, but we were more like entertaining the OGLs and there were lots of paparazzi around and we could feel flashlights everywhere as the OGLs made us get into weird positions. The funny part was that we were supposed to lie about our identity (means we cannot reveal our names or OG) so we were blatantly lying. (like i told him to make up his name and he made up a stupid name like TOM) And i thought such names appeared only in story books. So i introduced myself as coming from RJC despite wearing a vjc pe shirt. Because he said he was from nyp so i suaned him saying that i was smarter and whether he felt inferior. Then later an OGL came and spoilt my lie, saying "Oh so you're from VJ right?" But that's fine, since we were already blatantly lying. Then we played the traffic light game, he said he was evergreen, so i decided to say i was evergreen, and then his OGL made us do the V BOmb cheer modifying it such that it went

v....................... bomb.
v ah (x 3) bomb
bomb ah (x3) v
v ah bomb.
bomb ah v
we are we are we are .... evergreen!

Ok it was retarded, but we were both sporting enough to do it and we kept hearing people sniggering at us when we talked. Later shi yuan brought me back to the OG and he thought we talked like long lost old friends with great chemistry. Anyway it was in the name of fun.

We went back to chalet, totally losing track of time already. Had debriefing on the performance night and seniors and freshies exchanged our love for one another. Time passed really quickly and the next morning we woke up and were given a good make up during breakfast. We were all so tired, even the OGLs woke up late. Hahaha. So we rushed around, put on make up and went on for our food trail. We played the taiwan variety show 十字路口 and we went all over bugis with clues of our next station. In our hedious make up and big group that we travelled around in, we definately attracted alot of attention, not to mention making alot of noise. And for god knows what reason, weihao was made to do a forfeit. He had to go into Cheers and say to the cashier "Can i have some CHINGCHANGGONGGANG." It was hilarious and we left Cheers shouting "SMU gather!!" though the seniors were obviously wearing shirts that spelled NTU. We went around stations doing stunts and getting rewards of good food like the famous wanton mee, herbal soup, duck rice, desserts, indian rojak and many more.

After which we checked into another chalet in pasir ris, washed up and got dressed for SP night. It was a really weird idea. The girls were in the chalet rooms and the guys were waiting outside the door. The feeling was really weird, like the grooms coming to get the brides before a wedding. Then when we were all ready, the girls sat in the living room and the guys came in in threes, slowly being takan-ed before picking the girl up. The guys were to bring the girls on a date, pay for everything, and take taxi (not bus or walk). Poor things. haha. So my SP brought me to this very ulu place called sunset grill near seletar airport. We took a cab there, and actually came to a dead end. -_-'' It's that ulu. So we had the taxi uncle wait for us about an hour while we had our meal because no taxi driver would know how to access that place. The guys were attentive and nice, probably afraid we girls would complain and ruin their reputation! hahhaa. Afterwards we headed for butter factory and there i had my first clubbing experience. It was ok... my OG was really enthusiastic so we just got pulled onto the dance floor, drank abit and before we knew it, it was time to leave. We went back to chalet and was dying to sleep. But because it was the last night together, the seniors din't want us to sleep. We sat around and HTHT, playing the handphone game (which i thought was ultra stupid, plus my phone was dying so i just leeched on others. haha.), then i finally gave up and went to sleep.

The last day was more station games and we had this checkers mat where we played snake and ladder with the other OGs and compete to get to square 100 while completing the station games. Then we got the bad news of having to break camp early due to virus spreading around camp. Lots of people have gotten the fever and were sent home already, and there were h1n1 suspects. It was sad, but lycan sat around and HTHT some more till evening and finally broke camp.

Uni life is hitting in, and there's alot of getting used to.

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Hi everyone. I should say you must be scrutinizing every part of my blog to be reading this arent you? Well, if you're that bored or interested in me, this is me you're looking at. Just a typical mundane human being living in this distorted world filled with what we call friends and foes. It's just me to get all maudlin and touchy about friendships and covalent bonds that i painstakingly built, and it's most dreading to realise what you call friends are actually fair-weathered ones and ditch you for others. You know.. that sort of ambivalent feelings which arises with such friendships. From young, my pedagogues have complained of me being temperamental and from there i have learnt and seen the world beyond me, where there happened to be people fairing far worst than i do. I realised in this period of isolation that life turns out to be happier for everyone if people knew how to be sate with life. It's just in the genes that human beings have to take things for granted and learn to appreciate things only when they have lost it. Sad isn't it?. I admit possessing that characteristic, which led me to losing what i should have treasured most, with great regrets. Now, like Krishna, we are inclined to seeking comfort from things that we are familiar with, unaccustomed to changes. It may not appear to be me on the outside, braving the winds of the outside world, strong and unbeatable. Like the saying goes, never judge the book by its cover, and i believe in that, in the way i credit people. We all treasure private space don't we?.. It's just human nature. And of course it most dreading to feel deserted by your friends isn't it.. ? To feel cheated and betrayed.. Well, live a sate life readers!

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