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Friday 29 June 2007

; 01:03

sighh. crazy day in school today!

got up at 6 and followed dad to fetch my bro to school.experienced first hand morning traffic jams, which i have not had for a long time. also saw the bright and gay school. haha. anw, after that dad dropped me in school at 715 to do gym training with softball team. quite a pity that i still can't do weights on my injured-very-soon-to-be-recovered left hand. but my hand will probably be well by next training. yay. today was quite wasted cuz i only managed to do weights for about 45 minutes before i needed to go off for prefects' training workshop.

prefects' training (at least for the part where i was there) was meaningful i would say. the quality of discussions was good with us managing to redifine terms, what we are meant to be, etc. guess welfare department has to change its perception soon! andandand. the discussion had it's fair share of laughs too.

yan sheng: if RI were to have a pot luck for all students, everybody would lose their pots!

i think that statement is rather true? haha. although it was only mentioned out of fun. and we played strange games too. like passing a tennis ball through 7 people in 2 seconds! sounds impossible? had to leave this training at 1130 to proceed to "Drama of History" rehearsals and props making.

as usual, rehearsals were delayed. people came real late and all that sort of stuff. so we lost alot of time in the end. had a good time, settling acting, props, movement, people, everything. today was sorta busy due to the sheer amounts of things we had to complete. acting was better from our actors as compared to the last time we met. but, still hope it'll go better tomorrow.

most people left at 5pm. a handful of us stayed back to rush props in time for full-dress rehearsal tomorrow. ended up doing stuff and painting like crazy until about 8pm when we left school in the end. still, not everything was done. and in the midst of it all, people did some reallyreallyreally crazy things. whew! it worked! left for dinner at junction8 at 8 and we spent close to 20 mins walking around aimlessly wondering what to eat. in the end, we sat down at KFC to have a long and random discussion over our meal. reached home close to 10 after that.

i've been trying to do my book report for the past some time. making a little headway although i have lots more to go. sighh. i think i better go sleep soon cuz my tomorrow will follow the same schedule as today and i'm presently super tired XD

bye.

Thursday 28 June 2007

; 00:08

the pressure is really mounting.

this 5 day weekend is going to kill me totally. although there is no school tomorrow and on friday, and another holiday on monday, there is still so much stuff to be done. like really alot of stuff. i wanna take a break. really. and relax. hope that can be done on youth day after the drama thingy. hmm. holiday tmr and friday is gone.

Thurs and Fri:
800-1130: Prefect's Training
1130-200: Leave training early. Rush props and stuff for Drama of History.
200-500: Drama of History Rehearsal
500-Night:Continue props for production. Work Late.

That's all in a day's work. But i do hope it all pays off. Next friday is the Drama of History Auditions. The main thing where the pressure mounts. All the best people! Let's work hard.

Wednesday 27 June 2007

; 00:20

tonight is such a contrast to last night. last night was stormy and rainy, tonight is calm and still. seems to suit emotion alot. the major incident and all. i won't harp too much about it.

well, school has been going on as usual i guess. the people, work, teachers, atmosphere. everything seems to be going the way it normally will be. good or otherwise. work is piling up now. it's starting already and i isn't good. especially because of my holiday hangover. in the homework sense. sighh. i feel irresponsible. probably the first time i didn't finish homework. this much. please give me the strength to finish all of these.

anw, today was the drama of history rehearsal. i keep saying history of drama... haha. i'm quite worried about lighting, sound and stage presence. they all aren't there enough. some can't be helped. jon's directing and doing a good job. i'm trying to do all i can to help make the production a better one. i hope i am (: rehearsals on thursday and friday too. together with prefect's training! then gotta go to perform in the national museum next monday 12-1250 to have a full run-thru. think the atmosphere in the museum would be scary for some. actors, please keep your cool. i think mostly, it's been fine. i have a resolution NOT to touch my work next monday. for me, it was meant to be a rest and relax day. that's why i was so reluctant to commit to the history thingy in the first place. sighh. so i shall make most of the time after rehearsals to enjoy myself. i have to, before i collaspe of stress. lol. don' worry, i doubt that will every happen.

just had a talk with dingjie, who told me facs possibly have an outing on monday. dingjie suggested we go out on monday too. jerman wants. now, gotta call/sms/msn/email ecne people. and ask for opinion. have some pretty interesting ideas. oh, and if rachel knew what ding is up to, she would kill him. i promise. ding, i can't help you! :p

sighh. i'm tired. but before i go, let me leave you with a wonderful quote i got from school today:

Mr. N_ (My P_ysics Teacher): "... you will be able to kill two stones with one bird!" [pauses]

P.S I don't want to get into trouble hence the blanks. and. i really pity the bird. this sorta sounds like what rachel might do to some poor bird. haha. jk :p

bye.

Tuesday 26 June 2007

; 00:46

heyy.

it's raining super heavy at my house. all the rain is coming in! and i just posted on 13slc forums again. hurray! the ecne section is not dead thanks to me, ding and rachel (:

Monday 25 June 2007

; 23:18

so many things have happened. in school especially.

i've been thinking about the incident. the two incidents actually. really thinking. i guess the uncertainty of it all is just so scary. and to actually see something like this brings about so many questions. my perspectives of life have changed. the fraility of it all and things like that. sighh. no speculations.

anyhows, we gotta carry on. school was long today. the first day being its usual draggy self. thank goodness i'm not dead cuz of my homework. yet. came home and slept till 7pm just now. sighh, i'm just so lethargic. and now i'm in the midst of doing work. the work which should have been cleared so much earlier? hmm.

and congrats to Marcus who has made it through to the next round of Campus Superstar! (:

; 00:10

I don't feel right today. neither does my heart.

i realised that i have been either emo or high on this blog of late. maybe it's not such a good thing. oh wells. school is starting tomorrow. yes, that's the reality. and it's going to be reverting back to the three routines again. routine 1: come back, eat, nap, do work, sleep. or routine 2: come back, sleep, eat, do work, sleep. or routine 3: come back, eat, do work sleep. not much difference after all. last term i have been sleeping in the afternoons and evenings more than ever. maybe it's because of me sleeping later and later every night. i don't want my energy to be sucked out of me this term again, i still want my rest, time to do other things. well, how much rest i get ultimately depends on how well the school works out its homework giving procedures. sighh.

i'm gearing up for a trying week ahead and i'll be really busy. really. and then this term everything hits at the same time. i must really learn how to manage my time even better now. well, at least there's staff training and youth day holiday ( Who wants to go out next monday after youth day? ) prefect's training probably gonna take up staff training but i guess its better than normal school and homework. and the stress it brings. and im determined to actually enjoy youth day and not use it as a homework day. enjoy!

i'm setting myself high standards for the coming term. in term of being a prefect and a the work which i'm involved in. i've really got to think about how i'm going to gear myself for the coming term.

good luck for the coming term everyone. to rafflesians, to B.R.E.A.D and others from RevivalGeneration, and of course to 13slc [ecne] !! take care (:

eek! its 7 hours to the first morning assembly of term 3. this means 5 plus hours to sleep only! bye for now (:

Sunday 24 June 2007

; 01:43

i better hurry up on the blogazettes. or my team members might kill me. i must say that 'Lee' is one thought-provoking story.

oh yea. and just now was super strange. i set my windows media player settings to shuffle music. and when music played, it kept playing the two songs from the 13slc finale. so i've been listening to them countless times tonight. strange but nice (:

i just turned to look at the clock. the time now is 145 on a sunday morning. i'm staying up late again. this is the last time in 10 weeks i'm gonna wake up tomorrow and still know its a holiday. when i wake up after sleep tomorrow night, it's already gonna be the first day of term 3. why must the term start so fast? the holidays this time seemed really short. no time for homework. but good thing i can say this holiday is meaningful. with 13slc and all the wonderful people i met, softball SRC where matches were good experience and other small things. still, school is starting wayy too soon. i'm still not in the right frame of mind to start school yet. sighh.

i've got many things to say to people now. i do. hmm.

Saturday 23 June 2007

; 02:59

I'm feeling strange now. it's 3 in the morning and i'm up late again. i'm in a strange mood and i really can't pin-point one particular reason. it's just a cluster of things all hitting me at the same moment. it's quite scary, if i think about. feelings can be a queer thing.

yesterday was another tiring day. had a rather long meeting in the morning discussing about RIPB's vision and where we are heading towards. what we have done and its impression. things like that. i've come to the conclusion that being a prefect isn't easy. well, it was never meant to be easy in the first place right? but well, i just gotta press on. it's for the school anyway.

in the afternoon, i slept for super long again. what was meant to be like a half and hour nap turned into a two plus hour sleep. there goes my homework time. i'm super far behind with homework now. there is probably no way i'm finishing all the work before term starts. i know it may seem a litle irresponsibly on my part, but there is simply too much work. too much. it's killing me. it's killing my peers. i'm drained. well, at least i managed to finish maths today. but i haven't touched my chinese book report and i gotta hurry up for the blogazettes!

i think i've overworked my mind during this holidays. i've been thinking about so many things every night now. from, school and work, to people and the relationships i hold, to life in general, things like that. feel like i need to make decisions. i'm confused. sigh. i'm thinking of two people and one idea now.

finally, i wanna go to japan! i really really want!

Friday 22 June 2007

; 01:08

i'm tired. physically, mentally, everything. but still i have my visions and goals in mind. gotta get going in the coming term (:

went out with shoujian and shanzhi today. met at thomson plaza then took a long bus ride to queensway to do some stuff. many things discussed on the bus. nothing to be said here. yay. at queensway, managed to pick up tennis balls, overgrip and basketball for the kemama shop! guess kieran would have to get the tennis racket. then we spotted this nice FBT jersey which i want for class jersey! its so much better than the adidas or nike ones there (: haha. finished up our trip and wanted to go the anchorpoint to study and do maths. but it was under renovation! ahh! so we wandered to ikea for a while before deciding to go to shoujian's house. i learnt a secret about shoujian's house today but if i tell, he will kill me. so my lips are sealed. we died on the maths sums. i so need to revise before i continue failing. my grades have never never been this bad before. what's happenning to me? anyway, left before dinner and reached home at 8. tiring day.

things on my mind now but i got to be in school tomorrow at 9am so i got to sleep now. i'll post another day i guess. byes (:

Wednesday 20 June 2007

; 02:26

it's been raining over here at my place for a while. suddenly started. it's close to 230 now and i should be sleeping. i feel so melacholic. really. i just can't help but think over so many things. tonight, it is especially 13slc. i must admit it, I'm getting the post slc blues all over again.

It is strange cuz i wasn't involved in any way other than being a participant. but somehow, i'm just attached to the place, the convention, the people and ecne. i'm having that feeling that 13slc could just go on and on. reality check.

sometimes, feelings can be a strange and queer thing.

Tuesday 19 June 2007

; 23:02

my goodness, the last few days of my holiday has been filled with work, work and more work. have been sleeping at 2 plus every night only to wake up at 11 the next morning. woke up at 11 today and yesterday already. seriously, the Raffles Programme needs some adjusting. i'm too overloaded with homework, just like most peers, which results in too little time to do anything else. thank goodness, i had 13slc this holidays. if not, i don't think i could have taken it.

everything's been pretty much normal over the weekend. only that i started thinking again on saturday night over the issue again. sorry guys for my emo-ness. but i predict this week, i'm going to be kind of sian. there's so much to do and so little time. literally. I really wish i had more time for real holidays. and with RIPB taking up the two staff training days, i'm really going to flip soon. i don't have enough time. eek!

Friday 15 June 2007

; 22:39

sigh. i haven't posted for the whole week. so many, yet so little things have happened this week, making it so strange and unpredictable. the week has seemed long, unlike SLC week or the week after. i wonder why. maybe it's because the holidays are coming to an end. everything seems to pick up. all things just feel so rushed. as of now, i have 9 days more of holiday. 9 more days to squeeze in immense homework, finish up so much stuff and hopefully to rest and relax too. isn't that what the holidays are for in the first place? hmm.

turns out the wrist injury i picked up during the last match of SRC last sunday hurt me so much more than i thought it would. on sunday night, i totally couldn't do anything with it. same on monday in softball camp where i couldn't even tie my shoelaces properly. sigh. why do all these strange injuries keep occurring on me? i can't do alot of things now. i hope my wrist recovers soon. i am already out of training for super long. besides this, there is nothing much to post on the first half of the week. other that it past super slowly of course. real slow. but, thanks for the concern people (:

i had "the leadership challenge" yesterday and today. compapred to 13slc, it was nothing. but i wasn't having too high hopes of it after just going through the best convention in my life! but i have to say that TLC actually taught me valuable lessons. as in compared to so many other workshops, this one was wayy more useful. it really got me thinking as to what my vision would be for next year, what role i would like to play in RIPB, how i can contribute, etc. and although the sessions were long at times, they weren't dry. i would so i quite enjoyed TLC, not in the same way as SLC, but i did enjoy it. thanks ms chang (: thanks fellow TLC members (: and lotsa thanks to those three who helped me do the peer evaluation, even though it was inconvienent (: [ i rmb the photoshop!]

went back home after TLC yesterday and then rushed down to city hall for LG dinner. ended up reaching there super early and so i took a nice walk around raffles city. then i stoned at the mrt station for 15 mins before i met gavin. LG dinner was nice. but sad. sad. sad. hmm. after that, we went to national library where we played some game. some noisy game! all i want to say here is, THANKS ALETHEIA (: really. it means alot. alot.

and that's all for the week.

now ...

im still thinking so much now about so many things. im trying to free my mind. but the reality is that there are so many things. 13slc still rings so loud in my mind. i can't seem to forget it cuz it was really such a great time. oh ecne.

and seeing that so many people are going overseas now, i just feel like going overseas too. going to the places i always thought were nice. rome and vatican city. paris. argentina. australia. oh mann.

with that, i sign off.

Monday 11 June 2007

; 00:10

i'll be at camp for three days. so no updates until i return. bye.

Saturday 9 June 2007

; 23:17

honestly, there are so many emotions running through my head now i don't even know how to express it in words. my mind is really in a whirl and it feels like i have so little breathing space. even over the past 24 hours, so many things have happened. i have considered, weighed, reasoned with myself over so many different issues. sigh. i kept having so many things to say to so many people but when i choose not to say them, it is just bottled up inside once more. please. please. don't know if i can withstand another setback.

on another totally different note, we lost both SRC matches today. well, we made silly plays and stuff again. but i don't have the mood nor the time to harp about it.all that i can say is that we must improve tmr against Marist and CV.

i'm in so many minds now. don't even know which is the right one. i'm thinking of so many things, a few people and a end result. in the end, i can't even comprehend.

Friday 8 June 2007

; 21:46

ouch!

my arm hurts now. all because a i positioned myself wrongly and the runner ran into me. sighh. so many things have happened today, not in terms of physical activities but rather mental content. i know i may sound strange but its true. got to wake up late today and left for SRC at padang at 1245. when i boarded the train at Bishan, there was this middle-aged who was standing at the door. as in almost right in front. and when everyone was trying to get on the relatively crowded train, she refused to move. there were acres of space behind her, but still ... that spoke volumes of her, as well as the attitude of Singaporeans. well, i reached padang at around 130 and did the usual warm-ups. first match was at 300. and sadly to say it once again, i have lost respect for yet another figure in my school's softball picture. maybe the methods were wrong. i don't really know. anyway, two matches later and after a lot of lag time, i was in my dad's car on the way home. i passed by SMU! oh man, the 13slc memories just came flowing back. it literally seemed like just yesterday when we were together in orchard as ECNE. then again, it seems like we have been apart for so long. sigh. i reached home and my tv just spoilt. i have totally no idea what happened cuz there is sound but no picture. anw, there's so much to blog about today. i'll do the two matches and our ecne outing. if i have time, i'll start on sort testimonials of ecne pple (: yay!

SRC Match 1 (vs Pei Cai): I played right-field. personally, i think i did okay in terms of fielding. but nothing much better. maybe i can't really judge cuz so few hits came toward me. but as a team, we really made too many mistakes in fielding. from dumb overthrows to fielding errors, etc. we had better start working harder! on my personal batting side, i did horible. i got one at-bat and i didn't even get on base. sigh. as a team, we did rather badly too. honestly. maybe it was nerves or something. but we did badly. we lost. can't remember the score. but we gotta improve tomorrow. during this game, two people who i am meant to respect said two different things which made me think alot. i mean alot. i just find it hard to respect things being put in that manner, especially when they are so elitist and vulgar comments. i thought alot today.

SRC Match 2 (vs Temasek): I was placed at second base! At first, i kept thinking through the plays cuz the last time i played at second was long time ago in one match. on my fielding side, i think i was abit lost but managed to do okay for most of the plays. the only thing was during the second or third inning, i was covering first base and this runner was running from first to second. me, not being very aware, ran straight into him. or rather he ran straight into me. either way, my arm hurt after that. good thing nobody was seriously hurt. really. overall, fielding for this game was quite tight, amidst the ocassional slip-ups. on my batting side, i managed one run. only. sigh. i got safe on bunt during my first at-bat. then popped my second one so so high. disappointing. we won. 9-2 i think. but still, we better improve again. tomorow's matches against ACS an MSS will prove another challenge.

Ecne Outing: i had hoped more people would be able to make it. but still, it was rather fun in the end. met nick, rachel and natalie at dhoby ghaut (that's how you spell it nick) at 1230 to go for lunch first. nat got lost in the mrt station. she found us, finally. thankfully. but we saw super alot of RGS girls in the mrt station in such a short amount of time. scary. didn't know where to eat lunch. but when we walked by some video shop, rachel got so attracted by this ultraman video! nat commented that it was strange cuz me and nick just walked by it. okayy. we decided to eat at the food court where nick took his picture of four packets of tissue "sitting" at a table. that's for STOMP remember! had a nice discussion over lunch about how we didn't know each other (especially nat) well enough and stuff like that. haha, think that was a good time cuz we haven't really talked like that with natalie even during SLC (: oh, and nick doesn't read. sorry, that was just random. continued our discussion until we reached the cinema booking machine thingy. we were trying to persuade natalie to skip her maths tution and stay on with us to watch potc3. in vain. we counldn't convince her. lol.

natalie left and we were left with no idea how many tickets to buy cuz adeline didn't confirm if she would be joining us in time for the movie. so we abandoned the booth and went to walk around plaza. nick bought this mp3 holder strap thing which soon was to become his new "girlfriend". i pity jerman. nick also broke the high-score record for guitar hero II at Best. after more walking around, we went back up to the booths. by this time, adeline still had not replied so we decided to just buy three tickets first. ahh! but the seats were one row from the screen! ahh! we decided to rush to the cathay for the 240 show.

we rushed, or maybe not really, to Cathay. along the way, we were talking about this issue about the sun and its effects on our skin. haha. yes, yes, miss dermatologist :P haha. oh, and along the way, nick mentioned this "thing" about this security guard and his actions. i don't wanna mention it here but yes, it was strange. strange. for lack of a better word. hmm. in the cinema area, we kept seeing these "surf up" boards with all those funny shaped and looking penguins on them. rachel kept comparing some penguin to "a certain someone*. won't want to mention any names to prevent anyone from getting into any sort of trouble! but it was quite funny to see. adeline couldn't make it in time so there were only me, rachel and nick. not really what i expected but well... anw, thanks for the nachos nick (: haha, the movie was quite good although i didn't understand the "happy" ending. until rachel sent me the link ltr that is. i'm so happy for orlando bloom and keira knightly! lol.

but when the movie was over and we were meant to meet up with dingjie and adeline. adeline was stuck in some traffic jam and ding was deciding against "flirting" with some rgs and nanyangs girls. haha. we walked back to plaza. without much sun this time. and nick played guitar hero II again, breaking his previous high score. then, he had to go so we walked him to the bus stop. and so there were two of us left. quite pathetic for an outing meant for a group of 10 honestly. haha. didn't know where to go so went to times to wait for ding while rachel went to find her photoshop magazine and something to read. when ding was about to arrive, me and rachel had this funny convo trying to argue who saw ding first. then when ding finally arrived, he was wearing this bright orange top. rachel commented that he blended in very well with the times sign. it was true, he did blend in quite well. haha.

coincidentally enough, as we were going to the basement to decide what to eat while waiting for adeline, i saw waiyin and gloria! so qiao! they were watching some movie which i forgot. had dinner while waiting for adeline and when she finally came, i had to rush back home already! so the four of us go home. ding, rachel and adeline all took the same train while i took the other one. i felt lonely but ding wouldn't want to take the same train as me. in the end, i missed 2 trains cuz the were too crowded! ahh! and i got suaned! sighh. so thats about it for our mini-outing! but my handphone bill is gonna be high cuz rachel kept telling me to call ding, adeline and natalie everytime i took out my phone! haha. but the day was fun (: fun (: fun (:

i think i won't post anything else tonight cuz i feel like sleeping now. sighh. check back another day!

Wednesday 6 June 2007

; 21:18

oh man. today was super tiring! played a match with the 'C' div which we won 12-6. but we made so many careless mistakes. argh. can't do the same things during SRC this weekend anymore. sighh. im also sorry to say this, but today, i lost respect for certain figures in our school's softball picture. i hoped it didn't need to turn out this way. but, i can't help myself. sighh. ever since SLC ended, i've been feeling abit hollow inside. especially yesterday and today. anyway, updates for day 4 of SLC!

day 4: i came super early and found jerome with his spiderman thingy. it looked half complete. i really didn't know what to do so i sorta sat and walked around for a while before nick came, followed by rachel, then adeline. the irony is that ding was meant to be there the earliest of us all! guess someone's waking up devices failed sometime. lol. so it was just the four of us who were stuck trying to learn the consortium item dance. it failed. instead, we found this super cool long trail of ants which went on for almost half the walkway. cool. lol. felt bored so we went up to the auditorium when it finally opened. the whole group came in one by one. then there was ding. who did not arrive on time. so unlike him right? haha, he rushed!

then there was the closing ceremony. which i was quite surprised i stayed awake through. each and every one of the consortium directors made a speech thingy. and then the results were announced. we didn't win. actually, i had sort of expected it. but ding was sad. it really showed. sad through all the presentations and then it was lunch. super super early lunch. i think on a normal holiday day, i might just have woken up at that time and taken breakfast! and for some strange reason, there was this thing about fish during lunch. i think ecne went crazy! haha. firstly, nick fed fish and chicken to the fish in the "pond"! so evil. and to think that the fish in the pond all rushed for the fish meat! then ding and rachel came up with the idea of making this fish waterfall like thingy and make the fish fall from the higher point of the "pond" to the lower point. and lastly, rachel suggested that Hwa Chong start a fishing CCA in the koi pond. haha. see, we all went crazy over fish! after lunch, we had the rehearsals for the consortium item. we kept sticking together and spent most of the time playing games which jerman taught us... lol. but it was so fun. nick kept getting confused over the hand game. in the end, after the rehearsal time, we were not prepared! oh wells.

the finale was super high! ahh! at first we were all dead, then it started to get so high and during every performance, all of us would just stand up and sway and jump and stuff. haha. then came our consortium's performance. it was ... err ... incomplete to say the very least. i really didn't know what i was doing! it was a messy crazy fun well, mess. but the ding, nick and random hero fighting scene was funny. lol. the concert finale over ran time. by alot. i was getting tired towards the end. sighh. we went back to the classroom to do reflections and each of us got some lightbulb thingy and this black SLC water bottle! it was super cool. ecne, remember that we are ALL gonna use it! (: after abit of going crazy with photos and cheers, it was over. the feeling took a while to sink in for me, but as i walked with ecne out of HCI, i realised that it was over. i realised that this experience may come only next year again. or maybe never again in my entire life. sighh. i really didn't want it to end so soon. ecne, i so love you all. but for the final time in my life, i was in HCI with ecne, as part of ecne and a participant of 13slc. but the ecne spirit will live on right people? yay! i really hope we can be a real close bunch (:

we went to KAP for dinner. talked for a long long time until 945 when we finally left. i was feeling emo again. sighh. the bus ride took 1 hour 45 mins plus waiting time. got back at 11. 13slc was over. it was. and i was just glad to be part of it (:

please continue reading because im going to be posting my reflections and personal testimonials of all you ecne people soon! rock on!

Tuesday 5 June 2007

; 22:13

wow. i just realised that this blog only had 4 posts. pretty pathatic... sigh. anyway, i finally went out to a proper shopping center for the first time this holidays! haha. and, i managed to finally buy a pair of jeans (: time for our daily dose of 13slc again!

day 3: euphoria was the key word for the morning of day 3. a word which nick spelt on day 1. haha, nevermind. our AP got chosen as the consortium AP! wow, i was really happy, yet surprised. i thought we might get penalized for the late submission. but anyway, i was really happy because all our hard work paid off (: ECNE! spent most of the morning trying to defend our AP from the attacks of thoth, odin, athena and minerva. this although we were meant to work together to make a better AP. guess we took too much pride in our own work :P haha. we had to present every section of our AP before any group got to comment and halfway through, SC *hinted* that ding shld stop speaking! now everyone "hated" him... as time went on, ecne formed an "alliance" with athena, a mutual understanding with minerva, a status quo with Odin and a irritation towards tho_h. (i learnt that complete names cannot be used in case of any *circumstances*) longgg discussion, but mostly was quite smooth. then. i got stressed during the "newspaper column" solution. rachel was presenting and she directed three consequetive question to me! the first two were okay but i had totally no answer in my head for the third one. so each time i stood up, my mind was literally racing to get an answer. sighh. thankfully, i composed some sort of answer. what an experience. i can't imagine standing up and then saying "i don't know". in the end, nick passed this note to me saying "you really can think on your feet". not sure if i want to try this type of "stunt" again though. anw, no offence to rachel whom i know will be reading this (: haha. and the rest of the meeting went on smoothly, except for the cold war. on paper and between seats. literally.

we had main committee meeting next. i was hungry. beacuse we had run out of food! we were the first consortium to present anyway. ding was nervous. it showed because he couldn't finish the presentation. but good job anyway ding (: in the course of two presentations, ding asked 10 questions. 10! must have been a record. and it was super funny to see the look on the chairman's face when rachel raised the team card and then when we were called, ding went up to ask the questions! after three presentations, we were out of the drama place where the thing was held. hd a debrief and then meeting for consortium item. eventually, jem, me and rachel left because our "parents were waiting". well, i didn't specify where they were waiting. and on day 3, i didn't take the bus the wrong direction!! so that was basically it (:

day 4 coming soon ...

Monday 4 June 2007

; 22:17

haha. i back from a entire day in school! wow. today sure was tiring... had training in the morning followed by gym session and then meeting in the afternoon. and we ended up playing carrom after that. but anw, heres all that happened during day 2 and day vesak of SLC (:

day 2: the second day was much more serious than the first. no more crazy youth at orchard. no more stupidity of water bombs. and no more long distance walking. haha. anw, ecne is part of the development of leadership and social skills consortium so we got this problem to think about and a whole action paper to write! the previous night, i was murdering all my tiny brain cells trying to digest all the info. day 2 was really a discussion day! think we started out too quiet cuz the discussion was super slow at first. really. ding was the leader and rachel was the secretary. everything was just so dead at first, think cuz the atmosphere was still a little uncomfortable. haha, thank God we had food! from nat, jerm and nick. and the food energised some people. for a while at least. then we had to break for lunch. nat's file fell into the pond. or pool? or stream? ahh whatever. poor nat. oh, and it was fun jumping over the water thingys too (:

after lunch we really rushed the proposal! ding kept talking. i kept saying "ahh! no time". rachel kept reminding us of the number of minutes left. jerman kept stoning. and we all kept rushing! in the end. we didn't finish but look on the bright side. we didn't run into much technical problems like the other groups. although the computer almost hanged on us! in the end, i felt quite miserable over our half-done AP. obviously all the other groups' APs were all almost complete... but the presentation was good (: and we pulled it off. although many pple must have hated ding for the many questions he posed!

i leanrt lots through day 2 also (: i was proven soo wrong. honestly, i had abit of doubt of 10 people from different schools and knowing each other for one day could pull off an AP like what was expected. the task seemed just so massive and i just thought we would just try our best. it turns out we gel so fast ecne! wow. and day 2 was just the start of this "journey"! we rockk ecne (:

day vesak: the whole group was meant to meet online to do the AP cuz it was hardly finished. i woke up at 7 plus and found nickee online for a while soon after. then nickee went offline. at 8 plus, ding had connection problems so i was left online alone wondering where all the others were. then at arnd 10, rachel came online. yay! finally another ecne-ian online. then followed by ding and nickee so that made the four of us! so started work and work and work. spent the next 7 hrs plus on the AP and was super tired! nickee had to go out and klara came online to help halfway also. had to go out at 5, and by that time we thought everything was pretty much okay. so i went out assuming that the pretty long AP was on the right track and in order. then the problems came. first got a call from ding to say that the files weren't complete! had to panic and ask my parents to send it over for me cuz nobody was at home beside ding. really good thing rachel came back at 7 to help ding with the AP. if not im quite sure we would have been like half an hour late... then came the message from rachel at 8 plus that we were behind time. i quite panicked. but, what matters is in the end, we all pulled through. we finished the whole paper (: and we were proud of it! and so that was pretty much for the day. a day of mad rushing and panicking... haha. nah, it was still crazily fun!

more posts on day 3 and 4 tmr. oh, and news just came in that Marcus Lee made it to the next round of Campus Superstar (: go marcus! RI supports you (:

Sunday 3 June 2007

; 21:55

13 SLC just was so awesome! i really can't imagine an SLC like that, so different from what i expected. wow. ECNE, you guys and gals so rockkk (: rachel, dingjie, nick, nickee, jerman, jem, adeline, jenny and klara. you pple are the best! natalie too! thanks for being such a great great facilitator (: im just so sad it's over, it was THAT good. oh Ecne, we will all keep in touch always. we MUST! there is just too much to say about SLC, so i shall blog on each convention day seperately.

Day 1: wow. i must say that when i first arrived, i had so much apprehension. it was really so uncertain that i stuck wif all the other RI guys until we went to the audi. even after the whole grp arrived and there was this briefing thingy, i was only at the most talking minimally. ice breakers with natalie, our facilitator, did help loosen things up abit. yay for ice breakers. although we were targeting nat for most of the time (: then we had this mass orchard orientation which i think really pulled the whole group together. Ecne, we did some really crazy things like make a super lot of noise in the arts museum, cheer at the top of our voice at somerset MRT, act crazy and point at so many cars along orchard road like the audi and the jaguar and not to mention running through fort canning tunnel! haha, hope we don't appear in STOMP as some mad people... *students disrupt traffic along orchard road* lol. i've really learnt so much through the orchard orientation. saw through the styles of some people too. oh and it would be cool if we had the chance to climb down the fort canning tunnel hill :P in the end, we were 6th place i think, which wasn't that bad!

back to HCI and we had this mass water bomb fight in the field. all 450 of us !! sadly, there were only 2 water points so we were super short of water... and the most stupid thing happened to me. i was holding this bomb ready to fire when this superr small HCI guy ran to me and squashed it! i got wet -.- note to self: be more alert next time. i also realised that our consortium was far too huge during the fight. don't ask me why. but it proved so later in the convention! oh, and i learnt that nick, jerman and rachel were abit crazy: standing in the heavy rain while shelter was three steps away :P jk! haha. day one was so nice. Ecne was so nice :) all the individuals were also so nice :)

day two coming soon...