Pre-Orientation Camp
So...I was at pre-orientation camp for Orientation '08, on the 20 and 21 November 2007. My committee is the Unity and Bonding Activity. A.k.a, Unity!
20 November
Went to school at about 9am to gather and have some briefing. Then, we went to put our stuff down in our sleeping quarters. For the girls, we sleep in the history and geography classrooms. And guys were 1 level up. But lol, dude, the 1st level has guys toilets, and the 2nd level has girls toilets! So...to save us the trouble, we just used the toilets that were on our level la. Like...piang eh, must climb stairs just to use toilet meh!?
Then, after settling down and all that, we went to the hall to play a game called psychologist. It was damn funny. Hahas. And the next game was guys vs girls. They will throw a basketball, and the point is to like, throw the ball around or something, and after two minutes, the team holding onto the ball wins. And lol, these kind of game...It's obvious which side will win rite... Yea, so at first, girls got the ball, then it was snatched away. Then, the guys went to build a human shield around the guy with the ball....And we were like, cheh... But NO~ the ball came flying out again!!! We gals went to catch it and did the same thing the guys did, and so, we won! But we didn't win anything, really. Turns out Eugene was the one who kope the ball and threw it to the girls~ And the guys were like jokingly pissed with him.
And after that game was done, we all learnt the mass dance. Here's a hint, it's cooler than last year's! I think, you guys will enjoy the dance~ Serious kay... We all learnt it fast and did it well. And rmb, i told you Eugene sabo-ed the guys? Yea, they chose him to go up to lead the mass dance to 'punish' him. Lolzzzz....
After that, we had lunch, which was basically basic. Rice, veggies, fish. No drink, no fruit. But it was enjoyable coz we ate as a group and we were reaaaaally hungry. We then prepared to go for dragin boating! Ying Zhen said we were supposed to just take a rinse at the facilities there, but we brought along our soaps as well. Had a bad time before that though. Did cry at lunch but was looking down so i hope nobody sees it.
We then took a bus to Kallang Water Sports center, on a super empty bus. We thought we were like supposed to take the other bus, so we went up and it turned out they squeezed the other people in the other 2 buses. And we, got the whole bus to ourselves! Plus YingZhen, EeLeng, and Ms Koh... Someone hung up on me on the phone, so was quite moody throughout the journey...But i hid it quite well, i guess. Switched my phone off to prevent further distractions...This camp is serious business you know, not a place or time for me to emo!
On the journey, Stanley shouted out loud, "BABE!" And he was referring to me. He has been calling me that since Sem 2 and it is so damn irritating! And he refuses to stop. Dang, the whole bus heard it and i was like *hides!* And the whole freaking bus laughed! T-T Bully meeeeee! Oh, and then, LuXin started calling me that! Argh! And he came over, sat beside me (while i was hiding my face). So i turned, and i saw this scary guy beside me, and i screamed for a second, and he said, "Hi babe!" And i went "Noooooooooo!!!!!" Too late, the whole bus started cheering, and Ee Leng came over with her camera to try to take picture of us. OBVIOUSLY, I was hiding my face.
Arrived! And we had a short briefing again, on draogn boating. And OBVIOUSLY, Unity had the most unity and we organized ourselves quick and precise(according to weight. Stanley paired with Mitchell). We got onto out boat first! Yay! We had 2 instructors, Poh Chun(PC) and Jeremy (both guys.), and our boat was cool! At first, the boat tilted to one side...Know why? Yep. STANLEY! Hahas, and throughout the first part of boating, we all shouted "Wooooooooi, Stanlehhhhh!" Coz he made the boat unbalanced. And PC eventually knew his name.
Rowed out into the middle and had yet another recap of briefing. Also, standardised rowing pattern, counting, and replies. When PC says hello, we reply "Helllllooooohh~", and when he says "Paddles up!" we reply "Shut up!" Hahas, that really attracted alot alot of attention. After basic rowing, we then had some fun, and PC picked up the container, filled it with salty kallang water, and drenched us all...Dear me...Mean PC! And the real fun begins...
PC told us to put our feet into the water, like dangle our feet out of the boat...and our feet in the water. Then, we ROCK! No no no...as in, rock the boat...like side to side? Get it...? Yea...(Oh, we rock, we know!) It was freakin' scary, coz water gets into the boat and when it rocks, the water come up till our knees and it's tilting badly. And after round 1, there was round 2, where we aren't supposed to hold onto anything! Dude, no joke kay... That was damn scary.
Next up, higher difficulty! We had to put our butts on the 'rail' of the boat(where we hung our legs)....and...ROCK! This is scarier...Wahhh... But of coz, our feet are in the boat this time. It felt like we were gonna fall over, and similarly, hand cannot hold onto anything. Stanley fell into the river!!! Lol~ We all had a gooood laugh! If you think that was funny, check this out! LUXIN FELL IN TWICE!!!!!!!!!! We had more laughs.
And after that was done, we had a dragod boat race! Yayness~ We were united! And we were chanting PC! PC! (to keep time and pace) while we synchro and rowed to the end. Although we had relatively little manpower, we got 2nd! Yay~ Cheers for Unity~! Cheers for PC! Cheers for Jeremy!
But that was the end of our activities...Aww...We rafted together, all the boats clustered together, and took many photos. The direction changers at the back of the boat had to rotate and rotate to get different angles on the camera, funny! And the phototaking crew yelled "Instructors catwalk!" but all of them were like "dun want la...dun want...". And PC was super enthu, he pulled out his singlet strap from under his safety vest and screamed, "Dun want la~~~" LOL!!! And then, back to shore, shower, and went back to sch. Solitary journey.
We rested in our sleeping quarters, and i took out my notebook, penning down my thoughts...Seriously emo that time, had to relieve a little... Felt alot better after that, though there was still that heavy aching feeling in my heart. Went for dinner soon, and it was just basic. Kenneth (Sylar) arrived! Yay! My goood fwen! He had to call his mum in malaysia for verbal permission to stayover and get food. He eventually got permission. After dinner was committee project presentation. Boring, but still listened anyway, while doodling in my notebook and doing origami... My notebook was a perfect square. Sylar folded elephant, Lux folded airplane, and me a rose. Loved the elephant. Encouraged Sylar to write a last letter meanwhile.
Presentations done, was time for night game. It's called the war game and it's played at the main block of the sch, the concourse area up, classroom blocks. We were split into 4 groups in total, pairing up with another committee. We got the 5th floor. Bascially, we're given a flag, and we're supposed to protect it, and also we need to find other people's flag and take it. Gain point for gaining flag, lose point for losing yours. So when other level ppl get into ur territory, we tag them and they become prisoners. And you can only save prisoners by having their own team member touch them. But it was pretty difficult with so many ppl guarding. I was smart, i went to lie down on the flag. Hehe~
In the end, we started trading flags when the scoring was changed, 10 points to flag gain, -1 for flag loss. We each got 9 points, supposedly, but at the last minute, some ppl from lvl 3 went to kope lvl 2's flag. But it was a happy game. We were all hungry for supper after that, and we had a whole bag of small cakes and biscuits. ^-^ We were a happy bunch of people.
And that's it for the day, busy, huh? I'll type Today's activity tomorrow. As is, activities of 21 November, I'll type it tomorrow. See ya~ stay tuned!
20 November
Went to school at about 9am to gather and have some briefing. Then, we went to put our stuff down in our sleeping quarters. For the girls, we sleep in the history and geography classrooms. And guys were 1 level up. But lol, dude, the 1st level has guys toilets, and the 2nd level has girls toilets! So...to save us the trouble, we just used the toilets that were on our level la. Like...piang eh, must climb stairs just to use toilet meh!?
Then, after settling down and all that, we went to the hall to play a game called psychologist. It was damn funny. Hahas. And the next game was guys vs girls. They will throw a basketball, and the point is to like, throw the ball around or something, and after two minutes, the team holding onto the ball wins. And lol, these kind of game...It's obvious which side will win rite... Yea, so at first, girls got the ball, then it was snatched away. Then, the guys went to build a human shield around the guy with the ball....And we were like, cheh... But NO~ the ball came flying out again!!! We gals went to catch it and did the same thing the guys did, and so, we won! But we didn't win anything, really. Turns out Eugene was the one who kope the ball and threw it to the girls~ And the guys were like jokingly pissed with him.
And after that game was done, we all learnt the mass dance. Here's a hint, it's cooler than last year's! I think, you guys will enjoy the dance~ Serious kay... We all learnt it fast and did it well. And rmb, i told you Eugene sabo-ed the guys? Yea, they chose him to go up to lead the mass dance to 'punish' him. Lolzzzz....
After that, we had lunch, which was basically basic. Rice, veggies, fish. No drink, no fruit. But it was enjoyable coz we ate as a group and we were reaaaaally hungry. We then prepared to go for dragin boating! Ying Zhen said we were supposed to just take a rinse at the facilities there, but we brought along our soaps as well. Had a bad time before that though. Did cry at lunch but was looking down so i hope nobody sees it.
We then took a bus to Kallang Water Sports center, on a super empty bus. We thought we were like supposed to take the other bus, so we went up and it turned out they squeezed the other people in the other 2 buses. And we, got the whole bus to ourselves! Plus YingZhen, EeLeng, and Ms Koh... Someone hung up on me on the phone, so was quite moody throughout the journey...But i hid it quite well, i guess. Switched my phone off to prevent further distractions...This camp is serious business you know, not a place or time for me to emo!
On the journey, Stanley shouted out loud, "BABE!" And he was referring to me. He has been calling me that since Sem 2 and it is so damn irritating! And he refuses to stop. Dang, the whole bus heard it and i was like *hides!* And the whole freaking bus laughed! T-T Bully meeeeee! Oh, and then, LuXin started calling me that! Argh! And he came over, sat beside me (while i was hiding my face). So i turned, and i saw this scary guy beside me, and i screamed for a second, and he said, "Hi babe!" And i went "Noooooooooo!!!!!" Too late, the whole bus started cheering, and Ee Leng came over with her camera to try to take picture of us. OBVIOUSLY, I was hiding my face.
Arrived! And we had a short briefing again, on draogn boating. And OBVIOUSLY, Unity had the most unity and we organized ourselves quick and precise(according to weight. Stanley paired with Mitchell). We got onto out boat first! Yay! We had 2 instructors, Poh Chun(PC) and Jeremy (both guys.), and our boat was cool! At first, the boat tilted to one side...Know why? Yep. STANLEY! Hahas, and throughout the first part of boating, we all shouted "Wooooooooi, Stanlehhhhh!" Coz he made the boat unbalanced. And PC eventually knew his name.
Rowed out into the middle and had yet another recap of briefing. Also, standardised rowing pattern, counting, and replies. When PC says hello, we reply "Helllllooooohh~", and when he says "Paddles up!" we reply "Shut up!" Hahas, that really attracted alot alot of attention. After basic rowing, we then had some fun, and PC picked up the container, filled it with salty kallang water, and drenched us all...Dear me...Mean PC! And the real fun begins...
PC told us to put our feet into the water, like dangle our feet out of the boat...and our feet in the water. Then, we ROCK! No no no...as in, rock the boat...like side to side? Get it...? Yea...(Oh, we rock, we know!) It was freakin' scary, coz water gets into the boat and when it rocks, the water come up till our knees and it's tilting badly. And after round 1, there was round 2, where we aren't supposed to hold onto anything! Dude, no joke kay... That was damn scary.
Next up, higher difficulty! We had to put our butts on the 'rail' of the boat(where we hung our legs)....and...ROCK! This is scarier...Wahhh... But of coz, our feet are in the boat this time. It felt like we were gonna fall over, and similarly, hand cannot hold onto anything. Stanley fell into the river!!! Lol~ We all had a gooood laugh! If you think that was funny, check this out! LUXIN FELL IN TWICE!!!!!!!!!! We had more laughs.
And after that was done, we had a dragod boat race! Yayness~ We were united! And we were chanting PC! PC! (to keep time and pace) while we synchro and rowed to the end. Although we had relatively little manpower, we got 2nd! Yay~ Cheers for Unity~! Cheers for PC! Cheers for Jeremy!
But that was the end of our activities...Aww...We rafted together, all the boats clustered together, and took many photos. The direction changers at the back of the boat had to rotate and rotate to get different angles on the camera, funny! And the phototaking crew yelled "Instructors catwalk!" but all of them were like "dun want la...dun want...". And PC was super enthu, he pulled out his singlet strap from under his safety vest and screamed, "Dun want la~~~" LOL!!! And then, back to shore, shower, and went back to sch. Solitary journey.
We rested in our sleeping quarters, and i took out my notebook, penning down my thoughts...Seriously emo that time, had to relieve a little... Felt alot better after that, though there was still that heavy aching feeling in my heart. Went for dinner soon, and it was just basic. Kenneth (Sylar) arrived! Yay! My goood fwen! He had to call his mum in malaysia for verbal permission to stayover and get food. He eventually got permission. After dinner was committee project presentation. Boring, but still listened anyway, while doodling in my notebook and doing origami... My notebook was a perfect square. Sylar folded elephant, Lux folded airplane, and me a rose. Loved the elephant. Encouraged Sylar to write a last letter meanwhile.
Presentations done, was time for night game. It's called the war game and it's played at the main block of the sch, the concourse area up, classroom blocks. We were split into 4 groups in total, pairing up with another committee. We got the 5th floor. Bascially, we're given a flag, and we're supposed to protect it, and also we need to find other people's flag and take it. Gain point for gaining flag, lose point for losing yours. So when other level ppl get into ur territory, we tag them and they become prisoners. And you can only save prisoners by having their own team member touch them. But it was pretty difficult with so many ppl guarding. I was smart, i went to lie down on the flag. Hehe~
In the end, we started trading flags when the scoring was changed, 10 points to flag gain, -1 for flag loss. We each got 9 points, supposedly, but at the last minute, some ppl from lvl 3 went to kope lvl 2's flag. But it was a happy game. We were all hungry for supper after that, and we had a whole bag of small cakes and biscuits. ^-^ We were a happy bunch of people.
And that's it for the day, busy, huh? I'll type Today's activity tomorrow. As is, activities of 21 November, I'll type it tomorrow. See ya~ stay tuned!
