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Saturday, July 30, 2005

argh..i am angry..the entry i spent an hour on this morning is not posted..did i do sth stupid?!?!

hmmm..the tot of having to retype wat i wrote tis morning is sianz..but i wanna share my fun with u guys..so i guess i have to retype again..bless me..

kz..my Hall Orientation was from 17 to 23 Jul..was kinda uncertain bout going to the camp at 1st..cos din know how it will turn out..somemore it was a 1 week camp..so long! was afraid i wun be able to take it la..

went to hostel on the evening of 17 Jul..hmmm..met up with the seniors and freshies..we played some ice-breaker games..learnt some family cheers..watched video clips made by the OMC and JCRC..learnt some time-passing games from the seniors that night..games that required no playing equipments..after that went out for supper with my roomie and her fren..he drives! cool..slept at 2+ that night..

18 Jul (2nd day)..official start of the orientation camp..in the morn we played games in the form of telematch..was split up from our families to form new grps..the weather was bad..rained the whole morn..spoilt the fun..after lunch we cont with more games..got to see the extent of NTU Hall 1 forfeit for the 1st time..oh my..,the forfeits were rather disgusting..played night game that night too..they story was illogical..but yupz..overall the day was fun..=)

19 Jul (3rd day)..we met up at 7.15am that day..headed down to Sentosa after breakfast..wahaha..the start of a tiring day..played lotsa beach and water games..the most exciting 1 had to be water wrestling..wow! realised that gals in my family are strong..haha..cos we won! its amazing how gals can fight so fiercely..on the shoulders of guys in water somemore..had night walk in Sentosa nature trail that night..hmmm..can't say i was not scared..cos i was grabbing my partner's arm thruout the walk..but wat was more scary was that the walk seems neverending..according to my partner..we walked for half an hour..tink that's long for a night walk..i was lucky..went back in the early bus..got to sleep ard 2+ when the rest slept at ard 4+..

20 Jul (4th day)..we went for this record breaking feat organised by the Joint Hall Orientation Committee..wahaha..it was lame..making us stand in circles under the hot sun..but hehe..not bad wor..my 1st partner was rather shuai..and he is gentlemanly! my partner for the rest of the event was not bad too..another gentleman i guess..helping to gather the stuff needed for the scavenger hunt..and yes..according to the organising com..we broke the record for the greatest number of blind dates to be organised in a time period of 12 hrs..hmmm..whether it will be recognised in the Guiness World Records is another thing la..hehe..went home that day..cos it was my bro's birthday..the rest of the family went for city walk in the city area and SP night..

21 Jul (5th day)..went back to join them in the morn..played some wet/dirty games in the morn..after that it was pool games for the rest of the day..i was stranded la..cos i can't swim!!!so i had a boring day..the night was more fun..we had rehearsals for skit and cheer fight cheer from 1 till 4+ that night..everyone was running high on adrenaline..slept at 5+ and woke up at 7+ the next day..super tired..

22 Jul (6th day)..last day of camp..could feel the sadness and "yi yi bu she" feeling starting to build up..can't believe 1 week is going to be over so soon..it was FIBA (Fight in Built-up Area) in the morn..i missed out on the fun! cos i was supposedly their boss and my job was to hide and not be caught when the rest of the family members were out on the frontline attacking and defending..but i tink it was fun for them..esp those who got to torture the POWs..muahaha..after dat we headed down to Camp Christine for activities for the rest of the day..we played more disgusting games that day..but my family was super on..we did the forfeits and stuff without whines..encountered the most disgusting forfeit that day..sucking up whip cream squeezed onto the guys..super yucks! i hate whip cream!we had campfire that night..our chance to peform our skit..the 1 we practised so hard for..and cheer fight cheer..cheer fight cheer was stressful..tink we all wanted to impress our seniors..but we had a happy ending..Garfios rockS! we won the "best family performance", "best cheer fight cheer" and "best family" awards..even the "best female freshie" was from our family..we only left out the "best male freshie" award..everyone was happy beyond words..really grateful to the help given by the seniors..they made it possible..after that it was back to sch for initiation..

23 Jul (7th day)..haha..acty activities for this day was done in the wee hours..cos we were tekan by seniors from 1+ to 5+ that day..tink everyone was used to being dirty and smelly..and our seniors were kind enough..so yupz..everyone din complain much..juz went thru the initiation process..the hardest part being staying awake..after everything ended..and we were allowed to unblindfold..it was a comical sight..to see how dirty everyone was..but its a great feeling..cos from that moment onwards..we were juniors of Hall 1..no longer freshies! We are officially Oners of NTU..Yeah! =D

hmmm..gotta write faster and more summarised ah..cos its getting late..kkz..starting from 25 Jul..lessons start proper for NTU students..but year 1 had it easier..only lects..no tutorials..so sad..keep losing my way ard the campus..luckily had some seniors to act as "tour guide"..lects were ok so far..the lecturers were audible..no foreigners for lecturers so far..but they were boring..keep wanting to sleep during lects..keep going supper with seniors at night..tink my gate climbing skills gonna improve by de end of 3 years..=p

went clubbing for the 1st time on friday (29 Jul) night with my hall pple..it was supposed to be our Hall Bash cum Paegent Preview for Hall Ball..the venue was Cocco Latte..hmm..the place is small..and super crammed..Poh Suan was so pretty! the rest of the contestants looked good too..drank alcoholic drinks for the 1st time yest..hmmm..played drinking games and shared drinks with my family pple cos we were drinking from the jugs..according to the seniors..the drinks were very diluted..so yupz..i only got high..but not drunk..it was a not bad experience la..can understand y pple go clubbing to destress..found out lotsa secrets from the game..the "Never Ever Game"..quite shocked at the findings..but its fun to knoe that everyone was so honest..=) saw some pple get drunk..its quite humorous..when they start doing funny things..but quite ke lian also la..cos they hav no idea wat they are doing..went supper with them..nice prata..wonder if it was the prata that caused my sore throat today..

kkz..done with my updates for 2 weeks..dunno if it is entertaining..but its a long long entry..and to tink i did it twice! oh my..if u were bored..i'm sorry!

shuqin | 10:47 AM

Thursday, July 28, 2005

hiz pple..i'm in hostel now..using my room mate's laptop..din hav any updates for the past week..as you all know..i was in hall orientation camp..it was fun! shall give you abit of update on it..

hmmm..my orientation theme was "Advampture"..my orientation group name is "Garfios".."Garfios is a combi of the name of Garfield and Odies..yupz..i had very nice seniors during the camp..and we were a very peace-loving bunch of pple..even though we had a very great urge to win..we dun fight with pple..and seniors always encourage us to win by abit only..haha..super funny pple..

aiya..seriously..i'm not in the mood to write a blog entry now..juz heard some sucky news..spoilt my night..i'll cont another time kz..see ya!

shuqin | 12:23 AM

Thursday, July 14, 2005

heyz all..been a very long time since i last wrote an entry in here..the past few entries were either written when i am in office or on sat when i'm slacking at home..but for the past 2 weeks..my house com was down! and i was too busy in office to acty hav spare time to write an entry..hmmm..sounds like they are all excuses..kz..shall not defend myself further..not contributing is not contributing..no excuses will help..

kz..let me write the proper stuff..my main aim of blogging..
i'm officially unemployed too..haha..it's like after so long right..so some may be tinking wat's the big deal..most pple hav already stopped working so long ago..hmmm..it was quite a sad afternoon on my last day..quite sad to leave after staying there for close to 7 months..i've got very nice colleagues there..whom i miss as i stay at home now..but i'm glad that at least i took pictures with them..so i have something as remembrance..=)

very fast wor..another 2 more weeks from now..and it will be a year since xianliang left us..hmm..still tink of him every now and then..and watching the fundraising shows for NKF Cancer Foundation just brought back memories of him..was tinking to myself..wat an "appropriate" time to hold the show..it might not mean anything to others..but i tink those that remember wat happened during this period of time last year might share my tots..

yupz..another 2 weeks..and it will be back to sch for me and yt..that's fast..really fast..sometimes i regret working for so long..it's like i'm left with so little time to myself..to fulfil the things i wanna do..like going to pulau ubin..FOC for halls starts tis sunday for me..and up till now i am still pondering over whether i shd go..i want to go..pple ard me encourage me to go for the camp..i wanna experience wat orientation camp in uni feels like..heard so much about it..seems like so much fun..most pple ard me hav gone for the camps or are going for the camps..was thinking bout this to myself yest..could not get to sleep bcos of this..sounds abit incredible hor..but i always get insomnia when my mind gets too active thinking bout stuff at night..went to bed at 12.30am..but tink i only slept at 1.30am..sigh..den the first thing i tot of when i woke up this morn also bout the camp..sigh..in de end..tink my final answer wud be that i wun be going for the hall camp le..measured the pros and cons..pros..get to hav lotsa fun before sch starts..know your hallmates.knoe your seniors..but the cons is that i could use the extra one week spent in camp on preparing for sch..been comforting myself that it is ok not to go for the orientation camps..cos you will still get to know the pple you wann know in the next 3 years in course..or the next yr in hall..sounds like self-delusion..haz..

we'll see how things go when i go down to NTU to pay my acceptance fees and collect my keys tml..then if i can get most of the things settled by sat..i might be able to go for my orientation camp on sunday..let's just wait and see how things develop ba..

hmmm..kenny is at his med faculty camp now..yt and chaneng orientaton camps start next week..hav fun pple! =)

shuqin | 10:53 AM

Monday, July 04, 2005

heyz! i'm officially unemployed, agn! this time for good. unless tuition is considered employed. but anyway! since the rest of june 24th wasn't updated..shd i have the honour then? :D since i finally have time..

June 24th!
9:20pm, we met at tampines mrt platform. we as in yc, kiu, sq and me! then we took mrt to tanah merah mrt to Cross The Platform And Transfer To Another Train. reached Changi Airport at close to 10pm, a lil later than we thought..cos ce's flight's supposed to reach at 9:50pm!! oh well, none of us have her flight number, just knew it's an SQ flight arriving from Jerusalem..and none of the arrivals we saw was coming from there. never mind, we figured out that she will probably take a transit flight..and went on to find out from the information counter. and voila! we managed to find out the belt number cos we saw SQ69 on the arrivals list!

10+pm, yay..after some waiting..and marveling at the changes in Changi Airport at Belt 38, Chan Eng is out!! anyway, right outside Belt 38 is also the IOC Recep. back to ce. hehe, still as blur as ever! took some time to find us, haha. i guess the feeling of coming out of the glass doors and seeing ppl coming to pick ya up must be great yea? saw her parents too..haha, her mum's damn funny..after 2weeks of not seeing her daughter she greeted her by giving her a smack on the butt. cooool. after some decision making we decided to hitch a ride in her parent's car to 85 market! imagine!! 5 soon-not-to-be teenagers in the backseat! complete with sq sitting on ce, and the rest of us quite comfortably seated too. and our luggage in the boot. not long after we all received an sms from dear timothy telling us not to be late for sentosa the next day. haha, how thoughtful.

11+pm, zoom zoom. and we arrived at 85 market. timmy came to join us yay! poor ken's stuck in tekong..but we missed you! ce had her cheap and beloved bak chor mee, after 2 weeks of insanely-priced food in Israel, and sucky service too. but mindblowing memories and photos though! sq and i went thru her whole cam..looks like she really enjoyed herself! trip of a lifetime mannn. like, how many of us have acty seen or been to a desert sia. the guys had prawn noodle..and it's time to give sq her present! er..and cake. sq receives: Zhang Feng Qi's newest album, Wan Jun Biao Mei, with accompanying poster. and er..disgusting chocolate cheesecake from 7-11. this serves as a warning to all who see this product on display in the future! it is NOT worth burning your stomach with such petfeed-like stuff..just for convenience. here, a serious apology: Sorry Shuqin, to have ended your day on such a bad note. We really regretted it :/ was acty deciding if we shd have bought your cake on 24th or 25th, since we were so sure we'd meet on both days. finally decided on 25th cos ken would have a chance of booking out in time. but who'd have known that things would turn out that way, and we didn't meet for dinner on the 25th. really sorry!

12:15am, we left the hawker centre. ce back home to sleep, and yc, tim and sq took bus. that basically ended the day..

June 25th!
we met at harbourfront mrt! we as in yc, kiu, tim, sq and i (: made our way to the bus interchange where we met yizhen, joel and the rest of the group. after some explanation of rules by timothy the leader we're off to our destination in the cheerful orange bus!

when we arrived timmy continued his briefing abt the game and off we start! our group is well, just the four of us, and Yingli, NUS FASS Social Work Undergrad..cool fac rite. we had quite a hard time deciphering our clues, and what didn't quite help was that it started pouring! and we started getting shelter along with many kinds of tourists at the bus stops..and also in front of this Roti Mama sign, which we jokingly dismissed off as a extension of the Roti family, but little did we know that it's one of our treasure hunt stops! i think Yingli must be cringing so hard inside from trying to tell us how we're always oh-so-unlucky. cos we detoured so many bloody times, going pass our future stops and NOT finding what we're supposed to find..in the end we only completed 3 out of 6 stops, with Yingli and Timothy's help somemore! sigh.

but nvm! it was fun..taking all the free bus rides and beach train! i love the beach train! i love the wind in my face! hehe, also miss the stupid peacock which kept running away once it sees a cam phone. bloody hell. all in all, we were not exactly as enthusiastic as we shd be, i'm sure no one will refute this point..but erm..just credit it to our bad luck that day :/ oh! and i bumped into cockle at the beach! oops, sidetracked.


after meeting the rest of the grp at Subway where they had their lunch we kinda went our separate ways once we reached mainland..yea..and dinner was cancelled cos ken's not able to meet us, yc had to watch initial d, sq had to go home, tim had to go out and kiu and i went to ikea..


hmm, thereafter htg had a gathering on 30th june where they met at town and watched War of the Worlds. so sorry i can't join cos i was having farewell dinner with my colleagues..at Swensen's Tampines..


hokay..till the next outing..miss ya guys! (:


Pebbles | 4:59 PM