And I didn't even managed/bother to blog until the first week of school is ending.
Well the main things so far is just that Arts O Week had been awesome, and school, had been school.
Alright, not so much, but it's just lectures and more lectures so far.
Shall now try to recall whatever has happened for O Week in an attempt to record every little thing down here.
So on the very first day for O Week, Dad fetched Terry and me to Kent Ridge Terminal, the meeting point told to us.
Somewhat surprisingly, we were the first to reach hahah.
Then we were led to AS 1 for registration and got separated from there on to our OGs.
Met my OGLs for the first time and just had random chats and chill until more people started coming in.
Played some games, learnt some cheers, before we were brought to LT 11 for sort of a welcome and introduction session to O Week.
After which was lunch break then started station games, I think?
So station games all the way till evening, dinner, then blah blah blah and it was time for CSI Night.
Basically fright night made to fit the theme of "Conspirartsy" of Arts O Week.
Well other than not being scary at all, pretty much nothing.
Walked kinda far just to get to the starting point, then into AS 4, up to the top floor where we were fed chicken liver or something like that, had to dig for a key in a pile of disgusting juices and stuff which were told to us as organs of a corpse, and which the key I never did found, down again and to decode some words behind a toy baby which we didn't succeed in doing before the dead mum climbed down the stairs for the baby.
Then finally the last station with the fortune teller in which we talked for quite a while before this person come up from behind to scare us, probably the only moment which gave us a little shock.
I was the first pair, with Xueting, so we came back like way early and just chill around and started playing games when more people were back.
Finally got to retrieve our bags and go to our sleeping area, shower and stuff.
Waited for supper, talked for quite a while too, before we finally get to sleep at 4plus.
Was a really long day but more or less an enjoyable one I guess.
Second day was pretty much station games too, wet and dirty games to be more specific.
Then again, we didn't get really wet or dirty, didn't go to the mega water slide station as well so I guess we were lucky.
Expected worse so it turned out still alright.
Was too slow 'cause I was more focused on the module bidding and ended up walking alone to TH to shower sigh.
And my slippers had to break halfway leaving me walking barefooted to TH alone to shower.
Somehow I brought twine and Swiss Army Knife with me, which came along handy when I used them to fix my slippers hahahah. Still feeling quite proud of myself for fixing my slippers and keeping everything under control at that time.
Alright so it's dinner after that and then RAG performance.
Did a lot of waiting in between here and there, played some games as usual.
Got to sleep earlier since it's beach day the following day.
So it's beach day and it's only the third day of O Week but it felt like forever already.
Woke up early morning and went to Sentosa with OG then got settled down there.
Waited quite a while for the other houses and we finally got started off for the games!
Well don't know what went wrong but no matter how hard we tried, we just seem to lose at every game.
Still, thanks to my 汉堡王 cheer we were collecting power-ups like nobody's business.
And no, don't ask about 汉堡王, seriously I don't really know why Chan Yu chose me to lead the cheer but I guess I turned out to be pretty good at it.
Sometimes there are things that I know I can do, but just needed the extra push and a little bit of motivation.
Chan Yu was really a good OGL but I guess I'll leave it for later.
So moving on, we finally completed all the stations and had some time to chill for a while.
After that was inter-house games followed by tug-of-war.
And even though we cheered like mad and supported our house out loud, we still didn't manage to win in any of the three categories for tug-of-war.
So we went back to Vivo after that and had dinner in OG level and more interaction time between ourselves to get to know each other better.
Went back to school at 9plus? Washed up, then chatted a bit, etc etc, had supper before going to sleep.
Ohya had briefing for Artsventure Race which is on the next day too.
Had some time together with the section we were going to go with, which consist of people from all four houses.
Thought that my section was just pretty normal until the funny China guy came along, then everything changed...
Woke up super early to gather at the Canopy for pre-brief for Adventure Race.
No one was there except for our OG!
And people only started coming in later and it was later later later before OComm started asking us to line up in our sections.
So we formed up and our section, Section 8, happened to sit damn near the stage.
After the brief, they held a quiz to determine the first set of sections to set off.
And thanks to our advantageous location, we managed to submit our answers the fastest and were able to set off in the earliest group.
Okay so we all agreed to be chill and relax and basically just lepak throughout the day, and so our Adventure Race begins...
It began with a freakin' long bus ride to St Pat, and when we finally alighted, two or three other sections were together with us as well, with I think one or two much much ahead of us.
First station was climbing the stairs.
So obviously we climbed up then took lift down since we just wanted to chill.
Then we had to complete the fitness corner's facilities and we were set to move.
Crossed the overhead bridge to ECP and it was a station of luck.
Had to draw the cards and if we weren't able to draw the one which allow us to move on, we had to do some sort of forfeit.
Spent quite some time before we got to move on.
And so continued our relaxing day.
And similar to our OG, we didn't really chiong, win, or did very well for the stations or stuff, but managed to gain power-ups, in this case, time deductions, through our cheer.
But then again, we cheered at such a low level of volume that I don't even understand why did the OCommers still gave us time deduction.
It was still pretty fun though, and was a really good day spent with some good people.
Even though we only met for a day I guess we did well enough together as a section, and as a result, gotten Second for Adventure Race and won ourselves Gavio portable chargers! :D
Just exactly what I needed!
The results weren't announced until the finale though, but all the while we were just hoping and sort of expecting ourselves to be top 3 with all the time deductions we gotten, especially from the PD Nick as well as Daryl.
Got back to school, then washed up and got changed to smart casual for clubbing night.
Had a lot of waiting to do as well, after dinner, before we were finally transported to Zouk.
First time clubbing, but not exactly clubbing as well since it was a controlled environment and we had little drinking since S House was aiming to be the first to get back so as to get as much rest as possible.
So the next few hours were just spent in getting 自high and at 2.45am, all of us withdrew quickly and waited for the bus to come.
By 3plus we were back in school, washing up and preparing to sleep.
I went for supper with Amirul and Zai and by the time we got back at 4plus, almost everyone was sound asleep and I went to sleep too after a while.
We had until 10am so it was a really really good night sleep, if not for the rain in the early morning which woke me up badly since I was sleeping very near to the outside.
Slowly shifted in bit by bit as I was trying to get back to sleep as well.
Finally woke up at 10, washed up and got ready to move off.
More station games and this time we finally went on a roll as we won three in a row before losing the final one.
Almost spoiled the first game though since it was pretty flawed and I wanted to win, well, we enjoyed, had fun, and still win nonetheless so I guess there was no problem there.
Just felt a little guilty to the OCommer hahah.
After all the games was the final war game, water balloon war.
So the House ICs were standing on top of the table with the target, and we were all supposed to protect the target while at the same time attack other houses.
Well, our house fell pretty quickly since we were in a really good position to win the Best House and everyone turned their aim at us the moment the game began.
Soon the other two houses fell as well and the game ended.
The OCommer then announced the finale and how the quote of the O Week, "The enemy is within", actually meant when they summoned all the OGLs and councillors to join them as they held up a target three times as big as the ones the House ICs held.
Of course they still fell pretty quickly with all the freshies attacking them at the same time.
So we had fun and we then moved on to wash up in preparation for Social Night.
Social Night was held at Kent Ridge Guild House which was a really atas place and consisted of three portions, buffet dinner, chill-out, and games. Or something like that.
So we proceeded on to some sort of bar there and had Don't Forget The Lyrics, most people were really just chilling and doing nothing much though, and really really looking forward to the dinner instead.
Then after that, we moved on to this room in which there were many many rows of four chairs placed facing each other.
So the three girls sat in a group while me and Siva sat in another.
The event person came to switch us over before the start though, to ensure that every group of four chairs consisted of two guys and two girls.
So this is actually some sort of speed dating thingy which we spend 10minutes getting to know everyone in the group before one or some of the people are selected to move on to the next group.
Did it for a few times before we finally get to move on to the highlight, buffet dinner!
And after hearing from our friends on how good the dinner is, and how long we starved, we were really really looking forward to it.
And indeed it was very good, so it was just eating and chilling before we started roaming around awaiting the announcement to head back.
Headed back soon after, washed up, talked for a while before going to sleep and preparing for Flag Day the next day.
It all seemed so long but it all seemed so fast too, and O Week have sort of ended, only with Flag and Rag Day remaining.
So we were just so lucky to be flagging in the East, and in Tampines somemore, sigh really so tempted to just come home but didn't.
Flagged for half a day before heading back at 2plus and had dinner soon after reaching.
Then it was finally the finale for O Week, but we had quite a few talks before that.
So all the prizes were announced and stuff, and our OG won the Best OG!
Really didn't expect that we can do it on the first day, but I guess throughout the camp we really bonded and tried hard enough and did whatever we could.
Sadly, we didn't manage to win the Best House..
After that, we had some House time followed by OG time at the Canopy.
Wrote messages for each other on a piece of paper and it carried on till 1plus 2am.
Attempted to order supper through usual shop but failed, and McDonald's doesn't deliver to us either.
Ended up had to trouble our OGLs to travel out to buy prata for us while we walked to UTown to shower and to sleep.
Showered and chill a bit at Aaron's room with the guys, while the girls went to shower at a higher level with Josephine, the seniors all went Stephen Riady to shower if I'm not wrong and after quite some time and a little bit of miscommunication, all of us met back at Stephen Riady Centre and prepared to sleep/eat supper.
Supper arrived just in time and most of us ate a bit I believe, before some of us went to sleep quickly after and the rest of us continued to stay up to chat and stuff.
Managed to stay awake chatting until around almost 8 before sleeping for about an hour then waking up again.
Went to the Rag area to watch the performance before some of us broke off to chill at Tembusu's lounge since the weather was hot and we couldn't really see shit.
As for me, I went around and had a mini 2SIR gathering since Steven, Jun Cen and Jia Wei came to visit, along with a few others who're in NUS as well.
Also met CK and Gordon as I continued to roam around a bit.
It was finally Arts Rag's turn and we cheered for what I believe will be the last time in a long time to come, before we got to disperse and went back to get our stuff.
Now that is a really troubling moment for me as I had to think of the way home sigh.
And somehow no one stays in the East so it was me alone.
Hung around long enough until most people left and the remaining few wanted to get lunch so I joined them, since by the time I get home it will probably be dinner time and I will be starving if I don't eat then.
Went for Hwang's and then finally got to Kent Ridge Terminal to take my Bus 10 home.
A super duper long bus ride, just good for me to sleep throughout before finally reaching Tampines Interchange and taking 28 home.
Reached home finally at 6plus and there concludes my wonderful Arts O Week experience.
I believe that even after such a long lengthy post, it wasn't enough to summarize or express how awesome it was, not just because I finally get to go to a camp as a participant again instead of conducting one, but also because of how great it was conducted and how good our OGLs were.
Okay actually I'm quite tired and gotta wake up tomorrow for driving then to buy laptop then back to school for finally checking in to CAPT then to aikido welcome tea so it's gonna be a pretty long day ahead and maybe I should sleep soon.
My body clock seemed to be adjusting back to normal ever since O Week ended and that's probably a good thing. (:
Not sure how it will go when I finally move in though... with most of my lessons only starting at 12pm.
Anyways, school is good so far.
Went for five lectures and one junior seminar so far and didn't really learn anything.
Dropped my MA1100 too to take Social Work instead, where I can receive help and resources from friends.
Got allocated GEM1910 Pursuit of Happiness for my junior seminar in UTown and I'll say I gotta have to work a lot harder from now on if I don't want to fail it sigh.
And I don't even know anyone from CAPT since I missed the orientation and fledgling week this week zzz life's gotta be so sad and lonely when I move in next week.
Ohh and I realized I didn't blog about it, but, I received the email from CAPT stating that I'm accepted on the night before O Week and got offered the room on UHMS yesterday so yeah I'm finally checking in tomorrow and moving in this weekend. (:
Things do work out eventually!
Just gotta hold firm to that belief while trying my best all the time and things will be fine and life will be good~
Alright whatever it is, shall go and sleep now.
Somehow I feel freakin' disorganized and that's making me not feel like doing anything zzzZ.
Gotta get myself more organized and to do that, I need some time alone.
Guess tomorrow night will be good to list down every single thing I have to do and to find some new methods to keep myself organized.
And also, to get to know about my new laptop better. (:
Byeall.
