another year has ended for the annual OTC.

i was very pissed off the night before poc because there had been several issues which made me so irritated and helpless. i changed 3 statuses on FB in the few hours i was in hq and koocheehoe think that my first status was funny: Chong Wei Ting is stuck in HQ. HOLY COW!

then i went home, chatted with some people and it was after some time when i realised out of the 6 whom i had chatted, 5 is from sj. sj has officially infused into my life. haha.

had to do some stupid origami for the tables and i ended up sleeping at 3plus. woke up at 8plus. siao la.

somehow i still think that it's quite a joke that POC is held at Grand Ballroom. i think it was with cheehoe and some other trainees when i told them the truth behind it. i'm not good at keeping secrets for things which i think is ridiculous. ha.


during rehearsal.


me with responder 5! i have been quite unable to figure out why i liked her so much but eventually i realised that she's quite the ideal model whom i want to become to: sporty, 直话直说, strict/stern at the right time, funny and feminine sometimes. she bought culottes and court shoes just for the night! and she's damn unglam ok. after we teased her of wearing culottes when she first arrived, she started pulling up the hem of the culottes to show the shorts underneath! lol

anyway the rest of the photos are on FB as usual. am waiting for priscilla to send us juliet photos and i realised we didn't take a lot of photos together! (as compared to 06) i think it's because one, stupid kong (chin yang) told me and yongsheng to chiong the remaining 3 staff-in-confidence (we had e rest in noon before the rehearsals) before the night ends (when it was already 9plus!) and two, me and ys are running taking photos. with zone ppl, 06 ppl and alpha! as usual junyang had dao face but there's this photo which is definitely FB thread discussing material! all of us laughed when i showed them the photo when we were at hp's house.


zone3 with full attendance! (zone comm came lateee)


i like this photo alot. not because it was with koocheehoe (who got the Best Trainee award without any surprises and whom i like to call full name in english and chinese. i like to call weichee that way too. ahah) but because my hair looked good!

hweepeng said i should keep my hair long because i looked nice in this photo but i still don't know because i don't look as nice in the other photos! and i never realised koocheehoe was that much taller than me and i was wearing court shoes! dammit. and i didn't take with weichee! wasted. haha.

after that some of us stayed in hq and played/chatted while waiting for hweepeng and zipeng to finish staff-in-confidence with cheehoe (poorthings. it was past 11 already!) then to hweepeng's house we go! (me xuanting qingjun william daniel vincent chia zipeng)


i tell you, if not for mj william and xuanting wouldn't have went. haha. and zipeng slept damn early. and i keep losing until the last few rounds lo. damn sian, especially when qj kept winning. xuanting had some good tiles for some rounds and waiting for the last one when qj won. then there was this time when i threw 一万 and the rest of them all 胡 cuz they were waiting for the same tile. #&@*(# but they let xt win. hah.

stayed up until like 6am plus when the rest except for me and zipeng had left. then we went to sleep again.

it had always been my idea to join otc08 after otc06, though i had questioned myself if i'm suitable for it in 2007 after talking to junyang about it in one random chat we had last year. but i'm glad i had followed my intuition and joined the committee.

even though there were lots of crappy things, like the admin head had disappeared after april and i machiam became the head myself and william hafta do some of the admin things by himself because i'm not supposed to know the results and even if i do, i would probably tell some ppl in the committee, but i had really learned a lot from many ppl. such as:

jiang junyang.
i seldom mention him here because of some issues in the past and i think he still reads my blog (maybe when he's very bored or right now when he's scouring through the trainees and maybe even instructors blogs to see what they have to say. but i think he's too busy now) but i've managed to sort them out.

anyways. right at the beginning i had hoped that he would be my SI because i believe i can learn things from him (and i didn't know how xt's like ma). although he wasn't as strict as he was back in 06 (according to hp)and didn't have much free time as compared to 06, i believed he had put in his whole heart (or at least tried) into this otc even though he had hated it. through the chats we had online (it's hard to talk facetoface. ha) and through the emails (to instructors and trainees), i had gained lots of new perspectives and learned to be more critical and everything.

and seriously, the talk i had with him on the first day of camp was really memorable and impactful. i can never thank him enough for showing that side to me and i realised i didn't thank him properly yesterday. he was in a pretty bad mood last night i think. so here's a big THANKS for all your efforts! you will always be one of the few officers whom i really respect in hq and as a friend. (though i don't really agree with some of your behaviour/attitude outside sj la)

juliet
it's a weird group just like juliet06 with an eclectic mix of people inside. i'm glad that junyang had eventually decided to put weichee into juliet instead of tango, because i learned quite much from him, though he opened up only towards the end of the course days. and there's also huiwen kaixin who were frank and sincere in their contributions and evaluations which really got me reflecting.

it's also with this group where i found shadows of myself and realising how mediocre i was. am going to strive hard! and thanks to yongsheng for being my GI and tolerating with me whenever i cut into his moments of inspiration (when he have something to tell the trainees)

and also other instructors like daniel qing'an william whom i had talks with. especially william since we had to coordinate things together after my admin head is gone. i still remember we talked on the phone at 1am regarding failure reports and me helping him edit things until 3am. and also the other laojiao other than mrlee: koocheehoe. although we started out with just random chats, but eventually we would get to our common topic: sj and i learned more!

i'm quite glad that for my first year in otc comm i'm with lotsa familiar people. it's only xuanting junhao yauleung vincentchia zipeng who are the fresh faces. (who cares about dingjun vincentng mans). i guess ivan's right that joining the comm also kinda depend on who's in the comm.

i also want to thank hweepeng to listen to me gush about my ecs! haha. she's like the one who knew every single one of them. :D

okay a super long entry! shall end off here. (:
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