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methrowrock) wrote2008-04-16 10:38 pm
methrowrock) wrote2008-04-16 10:38 pm
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Hello hello, I am back. It has been ages since my last post. Since that day, I have been walking around carefully, taking great pains not to wobble or shake my head too much. I have a weird way of thinking that should I move too vigorously, the memories, the days, the experiences would somehow fall out through a crack and be swallowed into the depths of the forgotten. And there's no way I am going let the past three weeks slip into anonymity so easily. It was definitely one of the best periods in my entire life.
The only thing I remember about campaigning week 2 was Speech Day, the 2nd of April. It was a horrible, nerve-wrecking and nail-biting experience. It was a terrible feeling to sit there in the corner, with your group mates, and sense the time ticking by as your turn approached. Walking around frenetically, feverishly trying to cram the speech into your short-circuited memory, brain working overtime thinking of appropriate actions that hopefully don't look stupid, attempting imbue the right tone and inflection to sound convincing and sincere. That wasn't the worst part though. The worst came after all that frenzied preparation- walking out onto the stage of the hall, taking one of the 10 seats, and looking down a whole swathe of 200 plus stony faces in stone grey uniforms. Not a very uplifting sight, I must say. Then, imagine repeating the whole procedure, this time in the LT, where it is doubly worse because you'd be looking out to rows upon rows of more stony faces looking down at you. I was hella nervous but I tried keeping the feelings under control. The keyword: tried but that failed and it showed horrendously. At least, the second speech was better so that's not too bad. Hot Seat went alright as well. Wei Wen and Zachary were lenient on us because we were the first group, I guess. Still, it was kind of embarrassing jumping off the platform out of nowhere to do SC cheer. Thank goodness for Huishan's power lungs! Hahaha. I can't recall anything else about Speech Day really, except that I'm glad it's over and done with and left far far behind in the past. Lesson learnt: CHILL & BE WELL-PREPARED!!!! And not be scared of the people in front of me, even though some of them have super dao faces, and even though I wish to be swallowed up by a hole in the ground and just stay there forever and forever after saying stupid or them having no reactions to a funny line and even though, most of them look positively unfriendly and cynical and sceptical and intelligent and totally whatthehellisshetalkingabout and can you tell I am rambling? It has been too long since I last did that. For the past 3 weeks, it has been focus on this!, focus on that!, focusonKONO,KORE,ANO! that I had forgotten how good it feels to zoom out and let the camera pan up for that shot in the sky. :)
Yup, all I can remember about last week is soccer. It seems that my brain likes to clump a few things under the same heading. Anyway here goes: Last Tuesday was declared a half-holiday! Stingy, miserly school administration but really, it's generous enough, thank you. I am just being ungrateful, not ying shui si yuan-ing and I'm currently in a mood to spazz and type and freewheel and go WHOOOOOO!! in the middle of sentences that probably have 20 grammatical errors in them! Anyway anyway, so we soccer girls went out for lunch at Plaza Singapuraaaaa, oh Singapuraaaa, sunny island~~ ahem. What can I say, I love soccer girls! They are tons of fun, packed with whallops of wackiness and dollops of dottiness. Laughed, laughed and luaghed in Pizza Hut, about precisly what, I cannot remember. Something about Shiyun being slow to realise things, Tiffany tripping over a chair, Yi Tong and her auntieness, Emily Selamat Kastari and I-don't-know, I just like hanging out with them. :) Shopped around for team stuff before heading back to school for field training. Whoooo, field! I like field, can you tell? :D We got drenched but we didn't care. It was kicksaway! and I can read lightning by its ultrasound supersonic wavelengths, which is a cheeem term, yuh. Then hovering near the ground to avoid being the highest point and everyone dropping down simultaenously upon seeing lightning hahaha. Gym gym gym, how I love thee too. I hope these days would last...
The next day, Wednesday, was Shu Ming's farewell. But before that, we received the results of Council Elections. S11 didn't own and I felt really sad during the day because how much fun can council be without Melinda, Dilys, Qiao Wei, Grace and Yu Hui? :(((( They, on the other hand, looked so happy to escape. It was certainly a long and draining process. Hais. Anyway, back to soccer: whee plaza singapure once again, this time at Swensens. FUUUUUNNN. :) Emily's dramatic expressions, Si Hui's adorable laughter, Yi Tong Tong Tong Qiang! and the Truth & Truth game, ie. "who do you think is the hottest soccer guy", "who is your longest crush" squeal and giggles but we are not bimbos or hiao people really. It is just one. :/ We sprung a surprise JTS and it ended on a very high note in the toilet with Si Hui and her "can you pass me toilet paper please?" conversation HAHAHAHA. Nutjobss, all of them heheh. The car ride home was fun as well. It was a nice, relaxing wind-up after the gusts-of-excitement day. :)
Now that is the main point of this entry. Elects Camp was, well, an eye-opening experience. I went in there not knowing what to expect and well, I would never have known that it would be like that. It would be unfair to say that it sucked or that it was torturous. I found it loads and loads of fun on the whole and I learnt many many things. It is unforgettable, memorable, onceinalifetime perhaps.
To keep you in further suspense, let's rewind to one day before the camp. Which reminds me, I love Be Kind Rewind. It was a brilliantly imaginative show and there were many humourous elements to it. I like laughing. :) And I liked the main message of the movie as well- the joys of film-making, the bitteness of slogging it out to catch that shot, that creation and the subsequent sweetness when you see someone smile in appreciation. It may too gooey for others but well, I liked the ending as well. It made me feel like one of the people in the movie, and that's what the show was trying to bring across I guess: that films bring people together, unite them with one common experience, evoke that certain particular feeling, forging bonds between the audience and hopefully, spur them, elevate them to a higher realm of purpose, something meaningful, purposeful. That's why I like films. It's hard to grasp at it but if you understand me, congratulation, for only a select (or unlucky) few can. Or it may be that I am incoherent. Yet again. Baaaaah, anyway, back to last Thursday.
Thursday was the day when the elects got high waiting outside the GO for the tailor. Heheh. That's pretty much it but gaaaah, it was so funny. Everyone was cheering, screaming, shouting, playing childish childhood games, exclaiming, and generally, being very very loud. Hahaha vampire vampire vampire check! vampire HAAAAH HAAAH! hahahhaa and chop chilli chop chilli chop chop chop and tuki tuki. Everyone was so high, they flew into the sky heh. That was when I felt, if I'm with these people, maybe it won't be so bad after all. Sure, it wouldn't be the same without Melinda and co, but hey, it won't be too bad a difference. Heheh. TROMBONES! :D
Okay, I will save the Elects Camp to post next time. It is time to start on PI and Bio revision!!! Terraaaa.
The only thing I remember about campaigning week 2 was Speech Day, the 2nd of April. It was a horrible, nerve-wrecking and nail-biting experience. It was a terrible feeling to sit there in the corner, with your group mates, and sense the time ticking by as your turn approached. Walking around frenetically, feverishly trying to cram the speech into your short-circuited memory, brain working overtime thinking of appropriate actions that hopefully don't look stupid, attempting imbue the right tone and inflection to sound convincing and sincere. That wasn't the worst part though. The worst came after all that frenzied preparation- walking out onto the stage of the hall, taking one of the 10 seats, and looking down a whole swathe of 200 plus stony faces in stone grey uniforms. Not a very uplifting sight, I must say. Then, imagine repeating the whole procedure, this time in the LT, where it is doubly worse because you'd be looking out to rows upon rows of more stony faces looking down at you. I was hella nervous but I tried keeping the feelings under control. The keyword: tried but that failed and it showed horrendously. At least, the second speech was better so that's not too bad. Hot Seat went alright as well. Wei Wen and Zachary were lenient on us because we were the first group, I guess. Still, it was kind of embarrassing jumping off the platform out of nowhere to do SC cheer. Thank goodness for Huishan's power lungs! Hahaha. I can't recall anything else about Speech Day really, except that I'm glad it's over and done with and left far far behind in the past. Lesson learnt: CHILL & BE WELL-PREPARED!!!! And not be scared of the people in front of me, even though some of them have super dao faces, and even though I wish to be swallowed up by a hole in the ground and just stay there forever and forever after saying stupid or them having no reactions to a funny line and even though, most of them look positively unfriendly and cynical and sceptical and intelligent and totally whatthehellisshetalkingabout and can you tell I am rambling? It has been too long since I last did that. For the past 3 weeks, it has been focus on this!, focus on that!, focusonKONO,KORE,ANO! that I had forgotten how good it feels to zoom out and let the camera pan up for that shot in the sky. :)
Yup, all I can remember about last week is soccer. It seems that my brain likes to clump a few things under the same heading. Anyway here goes: Last Tuesday was declared a half-holiday! Stingy, miserly school administration but really, it's generous enough, thank you. I am just being ungrateful, not ying shui si yuan-ing and I'm currently in a mood to spazz and type and freewheel and go WHOOOOOO!! in the middle of sentences that probably have 20 grammatical errors in them! Anyway anyway, so we soccer girls went out for lunch at Plaza Singapuraaaaa, oh Singapuraaaa, sunny island~~ ahem. What can I say, I love soccer girls! They are tons of fun, packed with whallops of wackiness and dollops of dottiness. Laughed, laughed and luaghed in Pizza Hut, about precisly what, I cannot remember. Something about Shiyun being slow to realise things, Tiffany tripping over a chair, Yi Tong and her auntieness, Emily Selamat Kastari and I-don't-know, I just like hanging out with them. :) Shopped around for team stuff before heading back to school for field training. Whoooo, field! I like field, can you tell? :D We got drenched but we didn't care. It was kicksaway! and I can read lightning by its ultrasound supersonic wavelengths, which is a cheeem term, yuh. Then hovering near the ground to avoid being the highest point and everyone dropping down simultaenously upon seeing lightning hahaha. Gym gym gym, how I love thee too. I hope these days would last...
The next day, Wednesday, was Shu Ming's farewell. But before that, we received the results of Council Elections. S11 didn't own and I felt really sad during the day because how much fun can council be without Melinda, Dilys, Qiao Wei, Grace and Yu Hui? :(((( They, on the other hand, looked so happy to escape. It was certainly a long and draining process. Hais. Anyway, back to soccer: whee plaza singapure once again, this time at Swensens. FUUUUUNNN. :) Emily's dramatic expressions, Si Hui's adorable laughter, Yi Tong Tong Tong Qiang! and the Truth & Truth game, ie. "who do you think is the hottest soccer guy", "who is your longest crush" squeal and giggles but we are not bimbos or hiao people really. It is just one. :/ We sprung a surprise JTS and it ended on a very high note in the toilet with Si Hui and her "can you pass me toilet paper please?" conversation HAHAHAHA. Nutjobss, all of them heheh. The car ride home was fun as well. It was a nice, relaxing wind-up after the gusts-of-excitement day. :)
Now that is the main point of this entry. Elects Camp was, well, an eye-opening experience. I went in there not knowing what to expect and well, I would never have known that it would be like that. It would be unfair to say that it sucked or that it was torturous. I found it loads and loads of fun on the whole and I learnt many many things. It is unforgettable, memorable, onceinalifetime perhaps.
To keep you in further suspense, let's rewind to one day before the camp. Which reminds me, I love Be Kind Rewind. It was a brilliantly imaginative show and there were many humourous elements to it. I like laughing. :) And I liked the main message of the movie as well- the joys of film-making, the bitteness of slogging it out to catch that shot, that creation and the subsequent sweetness when you see someone smile in appreciation. It may too gooey for others but well, I liked the ending as well. It made me feel like one of the people in the movie, and that's what the show was trying to bring across I guess: that films bring people together, unite them with one common experience, evoke that certain particular feeling, forging bonds between the audience and hopefully, spur them, elevate them to a higher realm of purpose, something meaningful, purposeful. That's why I like films. It's hard to grasp at it but if you understand me, congratulation, for only a select (or unlucky) few can. Or it may be that I am incoherent. Yet again. Baaaaah, anyway, back to last Thursday.
Thursday was the day when the elects got high waiting outside the GO for the tailor. Heheh. That's pretty much it but gaaaah, it was so funny. Everyone was cheering, screaming, shouting, playing childish childhood games, exclaiming, and generally, being very very loud. Hahaha vampire vampire vampire check! vampire HAAAAH HAAAH! hahahhaa and chop chilli chop chilli chop chop chop and tuki tuki. Everyone was so high, they flew into the sky heh. That was when I felt, if I'm with these people, maybe it won't be so bad after all. Sure, it wouldn't be the same without Melinda and co, but hey, it won't be too bad a difference. Heheh. TROMBONES! :D
Okay, I will save the Elects Camp to post next time. It is time to start on PI and Bio revision!!! Terraaaa.