loads to say after this mia period. hopefully i can remember all. and may i warn u guys. it's gonna be a loooooooooong loooooooooooooooooooooooooong entry.
here goes.
12th may sat
Woke up pretty early to cab down to NTU. left home a little later than expected coz i didn't know what to wear. polys could wear what ever we wanted to. but the jcs had to come in uniform. loadsa admin talk and all. then some software program talk whereby sarah promptly fell asleep. and woke up to shawnpaul's question of "sarah(lael), are u sleeping?" and in my closed eyes but ears still alert state, i nodded my head and carried on sleeping.
we then went off into our seminar groups for icebreaker games and all. as usual, names were introduced and game of whacko begins. gimmetemporeadygo was played too. sneha couldn't really get the hang of it coz she was forever being sabotaged by us and has to go hahaX4. double whacko came in too. made fast friends with joanne aka jo from sp. but i couldn't really remember most of the other names. save for our slos natalie and patrick. patrick reminds me of jason. but they don't look the least alike. dismissed at around 12plus1? bussed home with weelic, james and fren.
etcetc.
Fastforward to a week later.
20th may sun
Got home after work and dinner, started on putting my project research into report format. whilst packing for five days. no joke i tell you. but my trusty puma gym bag never fails me. stuffed everything into the puma bag, a shoe bag, a suit cover and a ring folder.
21st may mon
cabbed down to ntu with padma who came with her dad. irritating cab driver didn't know where to go before taking the assignment. i hope her dad wasn't too late for work. oh wells. reached about fifteen mins late. but had to wait for another half hour for our group to arrive. had a sumptuous breakfast in the meantime. met mrs wee who recalled me being in pj but she could not remember what she remembered me for.
met my roomate wyntrice who was waiting outside for me as i was holding on to the key. settled in and unpacked. joanne and sheena next door. then it was grace and eunice. and i have no idea who else. i think it was raja then veronica.
at first i was hoping for a single room so i could a room all for myself. but then roomie wyntrice told me about the ifyoustayinasingleroom youhavetoknockthreetimes andsayyouarestayingforthenextfivedaysbeforeyoucanenter. i was very glad that i got to share a room after all.
met the rest of the group for teambuilding games of spiderweb, blanket thingy and human soccer table. lunch was not bad. had viet pho. visit to the esplanade as part of our learning journey. slept on the way there due to lack of sleep. as i have yet to attend any ticketed performance at the esplanade, the visit into the concert hall was kinda cool. with all that cool acoustic architecture and design stuff. and to quote someone's words "the silence is deafening". truly. reception wasn't too bad too.
had an attackoftheants back at the dorm. no idea what they were attracted to in my general pouch. had an ants killing frenzy before i emptied the pouch and washed it.
storyboarding lecture was well.. alright. didn't sleep coz i made myself stay awake by copying notes which im sure i will never read again in the future.
came back and checked for ants again. coz it seemed each time we're out, the ants come out to play.
internet connectionless so played some music on itunes. went to bed pretty early.
22nd may tue
morning call at about 6 in the morning. full formal attire with disproportionate and ugly tp blazer. opening ceremony was made a tad more interesting with newly added sms-ing of comments and questions component. had tea then went for our 1st parallel presentation at lt19. dear roomie mia-ed to lt20 to watch her school present. and that's where she found her eye candy.
i swear they feed us like we're pigs. with six meals a day. breakfast tea lunch tea dinner supper. it's little wonder everyone kept drifting off to sleep. lunched then a panel discussion back at the audi.
truth or dare was retermed as scandal or scandalous. we're the scandals group i must say. creating scandals out of nothing out of sheer boredom to entertain ourselves.
group discussion for our presentation of
after dinner, we split into two groups and started work on the proj. occupied wyntrice with labelling each card with our group member's names. on our side, yirui did most of the work trying to work out the newsmaker software and figuring out the content of the presentation.
then we all got sianed and started scandalising with the long sour sweet. quite a bit of pics and photos. but definitely not postable. whereas those dealing with stopmotion had people like grace, darren, dominic and andrew and a whole bunch with creative juices flowing.
more music to sleep.
23rd may wed
another early morning for us. woke up and quietly left the room so wyntrice could have a bit more sleep. she didn't need to put on makeup like i did so she could sleep in a lil more. switched on lappy for music on itunes.
parallel presentations with random messages passed on a fullscap paper. haven done that in like ages. like in nanyang days and pioneer days. while some of them started on the 10by10 bingo. started on the postcards. joined in the 10by10 bingo during panel discussion. it sure did help pass time pretty fast. chionged to start the filming our project presentation.
panel was chaired by some guy from newwater pub thingy. so we each received the mascot softoy of pub. tho im not one for softoys much but that blue thing held much meaning for me. it represented times i had with SG6. and so i had to find space in my bag to pack it in.
discovered james' soft spot for soft toys too.
can't say much about the stopmotion side coz i didn't join them. just that they are AWESOME. didn't see the process but could tell that much much hard work and menial origami and positioning and all was done. i heard that andrew had to say OK for about a thousand times throughout the filming. this is one super quiet but intelligent ac guy. i think he thinks alot. the end result was just way cool i tell u.
while on my side, with yirui as the director and producer,
had tonnes of NG. which sadly could not be recorded and save due to the nature of the software or perhaps we didn't know how. else we'd have the best bloopers. THE BEST. coz u see, joanne was suppose to act bimbo-y and pretend to catch sparkles and touch them while i was all serious and delivering my content.
then i saw out of the corner of my eye, matheus and yirui and godnoeswhoelse holding back their laughters. in all sorts of patterns. squinty eyes. shirt pulled up to bite. trembling shoulders. i could not help but bursting into peals of laughter. like literally. tearing and laughing uncontrollably till i turned red in the face. sputtering and all.
rushed against time to catch the sunlight. but we did it in the end. albeit my performance wasn't spectacular. but we manage to produce a contrast between the seriousness and bimboness. not forgetting the stop motion was AWESOME.
while people like nat, grace, veron, andrew and darren rushed to compile, burn and submit, the few of us stayed behind and played stupid games like I NEVER. loadsa stupid things came out. there were people who threw out wierd i nevers. then we turned it into sabo-ing i nevers by naming some i nevers that would make them drink.
james ordered a durian which we didn't use in the end. so after a supposedly emo debrief by nat, and peekture taking, a couple of us feasted on it. found a couple of durian lovers that night. as usual, durian breathe was hard to rid of.
24th may thu
this morning was no different from the others. breakfast. cam whoring. parallel presentation. headed over to lt20 to help powder jaisee and maurice's head. luckily it wasn't johnson and johnson's baby powder. else i might have another bout of nose allergy or something. it was a scented one this time round. headed back to lt19 to catch dunnowhichschool's presentation. i think it was sa.
went back to lt20 with wyntrice in tow as she wanted to watch her eyecandy present. tp's performance was alright. everyone else was full of praises. but perhaps as we've seen it one too many times. nonetherless, shawnpaul, maurice and jaisee performed well i must say. sp had some technical problems. alex then went down to give a hand.
tea. panel discussion. lunch. more bingo. more message. the list of selected groups chosen to showcase their presentations was read. was half wishing that we would get selected in recognition of our group effort and hard work. yet at the same time, me and jo were like.. please no. please no. coz we'd be so embarrased. more for jo i would think. but yea. SG6 was chosen.
everyone was damn high after that. felt that everything we've done paid off. lunch was really well spent. perhaps coz everyone was really estatic about the selection. and partly coz preU sem was drawing to an end and everyone kinda realised that. got into the game of tuuki4ummchichiummchitongkatongka. their version was a mix of two of the similar games learnt during otc and foc.
got changed and bussed to the istana after lunch. stupid games were played again. gimmetempo, haidai, slapping hand. and i can't remember what else. hafirah was soooo cute coz she couldn't get the hang of it and ended up going like fiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-then breaking into peals of laughter along with us. while sneha mastered the game. and watching wyntrice and darren play haidai was the ultimate. so super enthu. so funny and cute la. oh yea thumb game which was like 51015. and the random speed clapping game. then weelic and jac played the slapping game till hands were red and glowing. there was heibaipei too.
then we had mindless games which i forgot how to play but got the hang of it pretty fast coz during sl camp last year, mag, niven and chekmeng initiated. fuzzywuzzy, stringgame, bangbangbangwhodied and whatstherelationship.
waited longer than anything else. totally screwed up operations management. food wasn't too bad. jo managed to find some durian puree with glutinous rice thingy. and boy did we have durian breathe after that. and i ran out of mints. loadsa camera whoring. and then wyntrice went to scandalise with patrick while teaching him alot of "when your girlfriend..."
although photos weren't really allowed but everyone photowhored. even the guards and the photographers themselves. took a couple of jump shots. been really long since i took one. the last i took was at sentosa with terry, polymates.
this looks kinda ominous doesn't it.
post istana was spent bluetoothing in the bus. if we could see the bluetooth rays, i think the whole bus would be glowing blue. then played scandal or scandalous. with patrick and darren being ever so sporting. feedback and evaluation on oms. with full score for our slos. noone could have done it better than them. nat being so motherly and getting us to drink water. and patrick forever so blur. but each of them performed their roles to the best. i swear we have the best people in the group.
went with the presentation group of jo, weelic, nasri, yirui, matheus and sneha for technical dryruns and all. bus uncle drove us a wrongandlong way. and then the pe teachers who were leading the way brought us to walk the wrongandlong way too. don't know what's with these people. and guys were suppose to have a better sense of direction. oh did i mention, mr kwok was there too. as the special programme in-charge cum mc.
played zhongzhimima on the bus. haven't played that since jc also. sneha was the ultimate champion. and it was only her first time playing it. each of us got from 1 to 3 forfeits. but we never did them.
showered and met up with the rest of the group past 11. talk rubbish. emo talk by nat and pat. which was made hilarious by me asking andrew to play some emo songs. but then we became super serious and emo. postcards were passed around. macs came. nat finally managed to borrow a guitar and darren performed the song he wrote for the group. was damn nice and meaningful.
were it not for kelvin ng (ithinkttshisname) we would have played till the break of dawn. split at about three. went back, washed up and started abit on ticketing reservations while wyntrice caught some shut eye. wasn't intending to sleep. but i got sleepy. and ko-ed for about an hour or so.
25th may fri
got changed for the last day of preU. for once we were earlier then the guys. coz usually i'd be the one who made wyntrice late also. but for the last day, we were early for once. everyone looked gloomy and still sleepy-eyed. that was until we got started on the game again. and we were the only group who was so awake that morning. headed over for the exhibition of our projects at exhibition hall. got bored then sat down to camwhore again. played more of the game.
the boys.
the girls.
and all of us.
glen and shawnpaul initiated a poly cheer. took a poly photo. it was nice to see the polys unite. like kinda once in a lifetime. plus we weren't as big a group as the jcs and still could manage fitting into a frame and also complete a simple cheer.
wyntrice finally got her courage and chance to take a photo with her eyecandy.
played the role of a flower vase as the ministers came around to 'view' our projects. couldn't be bothered to speak up nor appear to be intelligent. preU sem ended with quite a bang. ifweholdontogether also made loadsa people cry. was shocked to see weelic's tears. plus wyntrice, jac and nat. last lunch together. eunice spoke up and shared her thoughts. that gurl almost made me cry. darren, wyntrice and joanne spoke up too. i was the last poly link in that group but i didn't share anything. for sarah was afraid sh'd be like wyntrice. speaking and crying at the same time.
yet another round of game after checking out. then eunice's brother came and gave me a lift to the interchange for me to catch my straight bus home.
and so that was the fullstop to preU sem. but definitely not to SG6. this must have been the best camp thing in my whole 21years. if they added the cheering component like what they do in foc to the camp, i swear it'll bring the whole group to another level. but then again, the jc culture is alil different from polys aye. not sure if they do as much cheering as we do in polys now. nonetheless. it was good that we didn't have cheering. else i would have cheered my lungs out for the group. like what i did for fow/c. and end up sounding like a guy after only three days.
ko-ed after a shower and unpacking. like post otc and foc. mass email flooding.
And the mail to SG6.
Hey guys,
