Know what..I think i don't really like this blogskin..Gonna go blogskin hunting again later or something.
That aside, I'm back from Insinyur 09.This time round, I was a programmer.=D.
Saturday NE2 was pretty slack.I asked to do something simple because i wasn't up for a long day of standing and ushering.So i really got an easy job with R3.I scanned temperatures, got to sit down, and was in an air-con room all the way.I prefer being out there though.When i got home, i ate, showered and finally started packing my stuff.It was about 3am when i am finally done.
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Day1
We reported for camp on sunday.My dad sent me in my cousin's car to hall 7.From there, i thought i'd be lost looking for the function hall.But good thing it's so prominent that it saved me the trouble of looking for the exact place. Had to choose the identity-a fedora hat,either black or grey. In the end i picked the grey one, despite black being my usual colour.Changed into the camp tee and waited for the whole thing to start.
It was pretty cool i must say, us wearing the fedora hat as an identity.Haha.A $15 identity.Had some introduction and we went off for lunch and to prepare for the first games.Me, kimbee,sean and sze jie were in charge of bomberman.Haha.We were like sticking masking tapes and raffia strings onto the floor.It was only the first day and we were already tired.Chilled for a bit before the groups came over.Riana joined us too.It was pretty fun when it started.Killing the freshies at the corner, not givng them any space to escape.Haha.Better still was when 3 tall guys squeezed into one small box.Wth.They were really clinging onto each other for dear life.Haha.Not that it helped them.It gave us the bombers easier jobs.On step and boomm!Haha.
Then we went over to meet the guys over at the obstacle course.Heard that the freshies had to direct their blindfolded partners through the maze using a mirror.Awesome or what?Haha.I went to the toilet to change.Man.It smelt strongly of pesticide.Gross.Anyway, we were told to go over for dinner in a tutorial room.To my surprise, the seniors were doing a fright night room?Pretty cool.Haha.The people in costumes were pretty scary.The thing is,the ghosts were pretty cute.There's a clown,2 japanese ghosts,1 schoolgirl with pigtail ghost,1 huge cloaked ghost and one ghost with a talisman on the head.Haha.Our room had masked ghosts.
Riana went back to dance and then she joined us.I was wondering why lixing and alex went out for awhile.Suddenly i heard a scream and some laughter from down the corridor.Sounds familiar.Riana?Hahaha.The whole bunch of us in the room were like giggling like mad.In the end, some of us did ushering.No idea what it entailed.I paired up with riana of course.We were put at a corner and was told to usher people down the right way.Well,riana being riana and me being me, we decided to 'bless' the freshies before the night walk.We were the self-proclaimed Guardians of the Nightwalk and we made the freshies to tasks to 'rid themselves of bad luck'.Tasks include holding hands and walk backwards,walking in step with each other,holding the wall saying 'Zoey zoey where are you?',covering eyes and ears and ignoring anyone else,walk without lifting up their legs,giving them cryptic messages,asking for magic key and all.Hahaa.Look.We entertained ourselves as well as zoey and seng who are further down the road too you know.Well, it was all fun before riana left and they sent groups of four down.
After that,i joined the other ushers.Man..They were playing charade and using difficult words.I was impressed on how melvin got to guess 'coal miner'.Seriously.Then after that went upstairs and tried the entire fright night hallway.Pretty freaky i must add.Haha.Got chased by the security guard and went over to canteen b to wait for transportation to bring us to Camp Christine.But that's not before taking group photo!
It was pretty awesome.Dump our stuffs.Get showered using all the cubicles.Chose our beds.Then was told to move to make space for others.Then shift again.I think by then i got tired that i just zzzzz.
Day 2
I woke up early for another shower.Cleaned my stuff a bit and then down for breakfast.heh.Bread and jam or tuna.The usual stuff.Hang around a bit before briefing.Then we set up our games and all.Urgh.I dislike grass.They make my leg itch.And.Those darn ants were constantly biting me.Pain you know.It was pretty hot but with the hat it was pretty alright.Telematch was pretty bleahh if you're not the one playing.I think i pretty much enjoyed watching people do but..the water games look reaaal tempting.
Games ended.Waited summore.Had dinner.Joined angels for a bit of game.Joined the freshies for mass dance.Haha.It was pretty fun.Too bad we didn't learn till the end coz it got pretty warm.So in the end some of us hang out on the 2nd floor right above the dancing gls and disturbed zanyan.Haha.Alex and simon (or was it either of them?) showed us the 2 pairs of twins at camp.We had the vintage point so it's pretty easy to spot them.The song got reallly stuck in my head.
After that..SP NIGHT AND INITIATION!Daxiong came over with like a carton of 100plus and ice.That was really heavenly considering the humidity and the warmness of that evening.More GoG photos and then we went on to say 'hi!' to the freshies.Haha.Started our own sp night.Seniors pretending to be freshies.Talking nonsense.Making groupmates talk to each other.Eavesdropping on conversation.Poking freshies with riana's magic wand.Blessing the freshies with the wand.It was fun chatting with random blindfolded freshies.They had their full names and group on their name tag so they are always surprised as to how we know their name.Haha.Riana wanted to look for someone but we got the wrong person.Ended up with a group of gargoyles. Riana pretended to be a freshie.I was a senior who brought her to them.Haha.Chatted with them a bit.One of the guys surprised me by correctly guessing who i was.He said 'I know you!The programmer for first day bomberman!'.Said that i was touched that he remembered me and then he replied that i shouldn't have said that as it sounded wrong.wth.Haha.Watched and listened to freshies saying and doing things.Other memorable moments include: 1)some guys confronting someone who walked down the corridor without following the markers and switched on the lights 2)looking for people riana blessed with the magic wand 3)watched this dude pretend to know palm reading and then went on to touch the girl's hand and then said that he didn't really know it 4)watched gene(pronounced as chromosome the 'gene' but riana and me read it as 'genie' like the magic one to annoy him) do a bankai to reiterate that he likes anime
Well yeah.Hang out with them for a bit before going up for a shower and sleep.Dang it was warm.Some of them went out for supper/snacks but i just zzzz anyway.
Day 3 Woke up early.Showered too i guess.Packed all the stuff to go over to sentosa.Beach games daaaay.Haha.We boarded the first bus to sentosa to prepare for the games.That was when i realised how close the cda complex is to the cemeteries and how nea the cda complex is to ntu.Hmm.Maybe i can get abg nash to send me?Haha.
Anyway.Had like the bested camp food ever in the history of halal camp food.Mee goreng with egg!Whoots.Anyway.Had breakfast and then a bit of a briefing.Was told to be one of the people in charge of change parade.That means water.Which i wasnt planning to go into as i..can't.In the end i succumbed to the heat and the beautiful cool water and just didnt care and went into the water anyway.It was pretty hard.I just like dipping in the water.I bet we were the only programmers in the water that day.Haha.Then again, everyone else had to be dunked or thrown into the water.It was alright.Calina then told us something pretty shocking.And woah was i impressed with what she did.
Games ended.I think we dried off pretty fast.I got pretty sunburnt.Think there was a bit of a free time.Joined the other GoGs and seniors for a game.And we got mistaken for angels.Haha.Thanks for calling us angels but..we're not freshies.It must be because of the game we were playing.Haha.Then there was the war of the worlds.Pretty interesting but pretty objectiveless.Then.The muah chee.Oh dear.That was painful for both the seniors and the freshies.And this time round, they only rolled over half the number of people at camp.No fair.Hmph.Went to shower.It was pretty flooded.Haha.
Riana and me decided that we can't eat the food that they gave us, so we had a snack over at 7eleven before joining the rest for dinner.Bleah.I just ate the chicken.Then again i didnt have a choice.After that went over to the koufu's side for a programmer's briefing.A pretty long one i must add.The clues for the amazing race were awesome.Like.Really awesome!Haha.Me and riana decided to become attached programmers to werewolves.At least we'll be moving around and not fall asleep.XP.
Went back to campfire.And saw.BOXES OF CANADIAN PIZZA.Omg.Daxiong damn nice ah.The freshies did skits.It was pretty dim so i can't se anything much.Joined the mass dance a bit.Haha.We didn't know what we were doing.Haha.Cheer fight wasn't as fun as last year's.And and and..I SAW A SHOOTING STAR!!I thought i saw it.Until some people around me said that they saw it too!!Haha.COOOOLLL!!It was this bright white light which appeared as fast as it disappeared.Awesome eh.Didn't make a wish but saw some others who did.Haha.
Anyway was told that the APs will be staying over at sentosa for the night.Fine.I thought that we'd be sleeping over under the skies or something.But then we walked over the siloso's side.To the costa sands.They've been talking about huts.I seriously had no idea what they were talking about until i saw the huts.I saw them in jo's pics before.I didn't know what they were talking about when they said to squeeze,until i saw the inside of the hut.There were already 8 people in the hut.I suppose they are sourons as simon(alex's twin as riana would call him) was there.It was pretty strange for me to just leave alex and then to see simon waiting in the room.Haha.
It was already 1am odd when we settled down and decided who to sleep where.Our brains were not really functioning so we just went along with what the others said,but not without feeling bad as one of the girls had to sleep on the floor.I was half-awake when shiquan came over to ask us to help charge the handphones.Since it was pretty warm i was just hugging the blanket on my chest and tried sleeping as straight as possible.
Day 4
Well, i was woken up at around 630am because of the heavy hain pitter patter-ing on the roof and the leaves falling on the roof and the wind howling and all.Dang it was cold.But it felt pretty comfy under the blanket as i shifted underneath it.Then my alarm went telling me that it's time for me to get up and shower.As i sat up, i notice something strange.My bottom half was covered with a jacket while my top half the blanket.Woah.The first thing that came to my mind was 'Who put it on me?' because when i went to sleep the jacket wasn't anywhere near me at all.That was pretty sweet.However it happened.Shivered quite a lot in the shower.Chatted a bit with the poor people who can't sleep curling up on the floor and then went down to meet the rest of the gang.They slept over at the huge pavillion, plenty of space but pretty out in the open.I was surprised that quite a lot of girls were there as well.Wow.Chatted a bit more with justin, the dude who couldn't sleep.Asked him if riana snored and he was all like 'Err..actually i don't want to say it but..you did snore'.Haha.He's marching with the colours party man.I'm soo gonna try to spot him next time.
Anyway had a bit of breakfast while it rained tigers and wolves (bigger versions of cats and dogs..haha).Oh dear.Not a good start is it?Then we met our werewolves and went off with them.It was raining hamsters and gerbils.haha.Good thing i had my umbrella.Thus began my day of walking and watching.Damn slack ah they all.I remembered running like mad people on my amazing race.THis group really did nothing to speed up.Haha.The gls are pretty nice to them.Got into a bit of a problem but since they didnt care i decided not to too.Some bugger got mean and took stuff out from my side pocket after listening to my story.Reina felt bad about us having to tag along and wanted to treat us for something.To save her from a bit of trouble i suggested slurpee which she really did buy for us.Gosh that girl is soo sweet.
Werewolves are a pretty nice bunch to hang out with despite getting distracted easily.We were on the bus to ecp when suddenly i felt the bus bouncing.Really.Bouncing.I turned and saw the bunch of them at the back of the bus dancing.haha.Sleeping beauty riana woke up and was really surprised to see them too.Haha.Let's not talk about how many stops they made along the way to ecp and the number of pictures taken when they know they're that late already.I had fun with their antics.
Then we tried helping with the bike allocation and all.It got pretty boring in the end so i just stood around staring.They were camwhoring.Lixing spoke to us saying that we can go back home and then return the next day for the sp night.That sounded good.Only thing that it was pretty late.No idea what time i'll reach home and all.But in the end i decided to like go back to the chalet and leave in the morning and the meet up again in the afternoon.Had lunch and dinner together.Haha.Younian drove us back to the chalet in eugene's friend's car.Man.Younian drove pretty fiercely.Scary.
Anyway,when we got to the chalet, we realised that noone had the key.Someone else was holding onto the key and we had no way of getting into our room to get our bags and stuff.So we were pretty stuck in another group's room.It was full of sleeping bags and bags.Played uno for a bit before finding a soft spot to sleep on.Were told to go up to sleep but then in less than 15mins, were told to come down as the people who was using the room were all returning.Sigh.Everyone was too tired.Finally,the doors to our room were opened, but,we don't have a card to put into the slot to switch on the electricity.Oh dear me.More waiting.Good thing i told my parents that i'm not going home that night.Else they'd be waiting and waiting.Finally went up to bed.Crashed.
Day 5
Woke up with someone nudging me.Then again, it felt like i've been nudged the whole night.Nudged to move aside.Nudged to sleep straighter.I'm suprised at how quickly i slept again after that.Anyway vivi woke me up coz i asked her to.Then i decided that i wanna hang out a bit more and snoozed a bit more.THen i woke up, washed my face and went home.Man.It was a horrible journey home.My head was aching like mad.My vision was pretty much blurred.I felt like fainting countless of times.Blasted music in my ear to keep myselff awake.Phew.Got home safely.
TOok a nap.At noon i woke up and throw all my dirty clothes into the laundry basket and handwashed some clothes.It felt good to have a good long shower and shampoo after all those stuff.Couldnt eat well because of the headache.Ended up playing with my cousin and watching some dvds with her.Got changed to meet up the rest of them at city hall.
ON the way to city hall, saw some camp people in the cabin as well.Haha.You know the typical camp outfit-waterbottle,shirt,shorts and group flag.Then when i reached the control station, i saw a bunch of people who are really well dressed with their dresses and smart outfits.Fancy dressing up so nicely for camp.haha.We're confirm the envy of others.Yeap like i said, everyone else wore dresses but me.Haha.Will i ever own one?It's SP night for seniors.The seniors were all paired up and had to go for dinner.Pretty surprised that i had an SP.He's pretty nice.We went for dinner with other couples of course.A 45mins dinner.Crazy or what?
Finally we went over to the ntu alumni ballroom.Took shuttle bus from buona vista to the place.It was pretty awesome place.The seniors went out for a talk.My my..It was a pretty scary revelation but oh well.It can't be helped.Just one more night mannn.Went in,drag some chairs over,walked around.Seng gave sharlyn a bouquet and me and riana and everyone around went like 'Woaahh'.Haha.Then after that, my sp came over, handing me a bouquet of flowers.Damn shocked please.Haha.We just had some small talk and then i got a bouquet.That was pretty sweet of him man.Last year i got my first stalk of rose for sp night and this year i got my first bouquet of flower from a nice sp.The guys in our group also chipped in to get all the girls a stalk of pink rose this time round.Sweet right?Haha.Wonder if i'll ever get flowers outside of sp night?Hahaha.Wait long long siaa.
The rest of the night was pretty alright, though it's not exactly my scene.People played games on the stage.Singing competition.Dancing competition.Ohh ohhh.Refreshments was awesome.dx they all took like 2 trays and put them in the corner for us.Hahaa.We took like lots and lots of 'family' pictures.The 3 generations of insinyur camp people.Chaos,Kratos,Gollum and Angels.Ok.Maybe 4.We had our hats on and all that.Programmers pics.All girls pics.All guys pics.It was fun.haha.WOnder if anyone would like to print it and frame it up.After that they opened up the dancefloor and all.Heh.THat's really not my scene.I was like just sitting and watching.And danced a bit for 'Nobody' and the couple dance song.Otherwise, just hang around looking at people.
Then we headed back to the chalets.Went over to the angel's side but most of them were showering.Watched them play Game of Gollum with the freshies.After everyone in the room played it,me and riana left to go back to our side.Pretty much nothing much happening.People lying around and sleeping.I read the newspapers after showering.Then someone bought pratas and fries.Ate a bit.Haha.I was really sure i didn't wanna sleep so i hang around looking at people.Then i got invited to play card games.Haha.Whoots.It was pretty funnn.Then after that,some people wanna sleep so slept they did.Then some people started drawing on people's hands and legs.Haha.Everyone must be reaaally tired to totally ignore it.The best was when su san tried to draw on alex's leg.He kicked a bit and then got motionless.I was giggling outside the room.Then su san tried again and alex sat up so suddenly to scare her.HHahaa.That was a pure win.
Day 6
Anyway it started raining and jasmine and dorance came over in their blue ponchos.Damn cute.I hang out with them for a bit more.Then i realised that everyone else was sleeping inside.Switched off the lights and closed the door for them.Then jasmine and dorance slept too on the table.I got bored sitting there alone so i shut my eyes too.And i guess i fell asleep for awhile coz i didnt realise that vivi left.It was starting to get bright so jasmine and dorance decided to go back to the angel's side.Me?I went in and slept right at the door.I must be really tired coz i think i was hallucinating.I thought sharlyn's bag was mine and used it as a head rest.Hahaa.I think i slept for an hour or so.
Then we had to get up and start packing.I went and washed my face.Sleepy sleepy.Shouldn't have went to sleep.Very hard to wake up le.Sat around waiting.Ordered breakfast.Decided to go for wee wee but there was someone in the toilet so i went over to the common one.Walked in a dazed mode.In front was this dude who i've always seen but never talked to.He realised that i was behind so he stopped and waited for me.So we intro-ed each other after one year.On the way to the toilet.Haha.A new friend found.Then lixing's programmers ordered breakfast.Got chased away from costa sands so we went over to pasiris park nearby.
Everyone had breakfast standing up.Haha.What a sight.Listened to the prize presentation ceremony.Annd guess what?Angels won.Awesome or what?Haha.Yeahhh.Happy happy.Went for lunch with them,but sat with my own people.Haha.Then headed back to yishun with zongtang.
When i reached home, i showered and went to bed from about 4+pm to 9+ am the next day.Awesome or what?Hahaha.
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Looking back at the whole thing, i really enjoyed it.I'm sure that it's so much more fun being a freshie.The usual problem of language barrier is always there, and riana maybe right.But whatever it is, i like camp.I like it so much that i might consider joining next year.I know i know.Fasting month and all that inconvenient.Programmers quite slack.Can get the welfare people to deliver food.Haha.Or maybe i should be in welfare?Then again, i dont think any muslim students will wanna go for camp in the fasting month.I want to be!! I'm nuts.I think initiation night is addictive.
See how? I'm soo in if a senior of mine is in the main comm!We'll all be your arms and legs..like what we did for lixing.Haha.<3
