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GAN MIAN YANG!

ntu odac FOOT (freshmen overseas orientation trip) 2009 has officially ended as of saturday, and i can assure you that it's hell lot of fun! my sexy voice (which a lot of ppl laughed at it on sunday when i was in hq. weishen later on told me that it's too sexy for him. LOL) can vouch for that.

for starters, it's the longest camp that i've been to (if i had gone for the 7d6n sports club camp that starts today then it's a different story) and i've went for my very first waterfall trek in malaysia. kept slipping cuz the lousy sandals that don't have good grip and liseng (who walks in front of me) hafta keep checking if i'm alright, especially when we are doing river crossing. was kinda disappointed that Aether (my group) and Ceres (sister group) cannot go up the waterfall, but we had fun at the foot of the waterfall, playing I got peace by the river, How many people standing splash splash and many other games!

personally i find the overseas segment is more exciting than the local segment, probably because we spent 3 days 2nights in wilderness without proper toilet facilities and we get to scream our hearts out without worrying that there would be residents complaining about the noise (campfire went on till 12am plus ok!) and i witnessed extravagant field cooking for the first time! it's not just mess tins, it's indian pots, frying pans and gas canisters! we cooked up a storm with shark's fin soup, french toast and lots of maggie mee! the seniors brought gas canisters for the trek to cook cup noodles ok!

anyway, aether rocks, because we are Most Family (all go gan meh meh), because we won cheer fight, because we cooked up a storm for cooking competition even though our icebox is left back in singapore, because while the other freshies were standing we all sat on our field chairs, because we all have a fan to fan ourselves when the weather is hot and because we are GOD-LIKE (aether is the god of light). :D

i got my maiden dunk into the nanyang lake after supper night on 5th day and it's really crazy ok! i can't struggle back when it's 4 big guys grabbing you by the limbs to throw you in the lake. but it's fun. LOL.

SP (Special Pal) night! the theme is white, thus all of us turned up in all sorts of white we can think up of! there's pe teachers (mainly the freshies who wore white tshirt and white fbt), student (lauren and phy), cooks, lab assistants (ie me in the photo above) and construction worker (or like some biomed lab assistant portrayed by chongyew, one of my GLs, above)

seriously, this SP thingy is really a wacky and kooky thing, because the freshies hafta find their SPs (seniors and usually chosen by the GLs) and we go to extra lengths to ensure that seniors would agree! like liseng who did a song (当你孤单你会想起谁) and a dance (NOBODY!), and perrine who popped the question when she was like about to reach the top on the rockclimbing wall. and sometimes we hafta crap up funny stories, and it totally made the GLs seem as though they are matchmakers. that motivated me to be a GL next year! :D


we performed a skit of many commercials and it's damn funny i tell you. sometimes i'm really awed that we aetherians can come up with such solid stuff in such a short span of time. i kept panicking for cooking competition and the skit ok.

thus i was very very very surprised when Iffah announced that i was the Best Freshie for Aether, because there's people more deserving of the award in the group, eg Jacqueline (who left early cuz she's got fever), or Guo Hua who is like the main guy fixing up the skit and cheers for the cheer fight). if wilmond (who like to step on the elmo faces on my slippers, saying that they will make a sound - ie i will make a sound - when he step on it) ain't the fake freshie i would have suggested him too. i'm just the garang and keesiao (they got totally annoyed by my chinese slang while we were crossing the causeway and on the way back to school and commented i need to calm down while we were walking back to our pelepah campsite after the trek) person in the group. but still, i thank the seniors for the recognition. (:

reached home in the wee hours on sunday and i only went to sleep at 3plus after checking my mails. woke up totally late at 8.41am as a result of a faulty alarm and not notifying my parents that i need to wake up. rushed down to hq and i started coughing badly, thus i napped in conference room during the presentation and forum, so as not to spread the germs to the people in the hall and also to catch up my sleep. for the very first time i didn't join the committee for dinner ok! (went home in my dad's car)

otc has finally came to a semi-close and my weekends are freed up again! but there's still the poc to prepare, and preparation for hall life! and there's gonna be an orientation for the nie freshies next week, which clashes with my hall camp! fyi i'll be in HALL 9! lemme know if you're there too!

anyways i fell kinda sick too. on top of my sexy voice there's sore throat and bad cough. in the noon time i coughed so badly that i nearly vomitted. :x but nvm i got the week ahead to nua! :D and also to pack my room which became a warzone after i came home from camp and otc!
8:22 PM

everyone has watched, or going to watch, Harry Potter without me! BOOHOOOOO.

ok jq asked me if i'm free to watch this weekend but it's jam-packed with activities!

tmr i'm going over to ntu to do banner painting for the odac foot, and then over to beach road where my groupmates will be buying stuff in army market and i will go opposite to hq to print notes, and lastly over to amk hub for agi06 comm meet up! then sunday is dedicated to otc. boo. and then for the entire week next week i'll be away in camp until saturday night, and then next day is exam day. talk about an exciting life.

at this rate, the earliest time i can watch harry potter it would be 27july and i bet practically everyone, that includes my younger bro, would have watched already! ): maybe i shld go watch by myself, or ask the otc or the agi06 comm if they want to watch over the weekend. :x
3:12 PM

3:00 PM

i'm going to go for this! totally cool mans. running in the prison! probably running 10km with boss and he said he will wait for me at the finish line. lol. and he is thinking of asking the otc trainees to go and we will sign up together under corporate and our company name is SJAB OTC. wooooo. but i want to be an early bird! cuz can save la. lol.

peixuan is going too, but she wanna just do 5km fun run instead of 10km competitive run. me wanna chiong 10km! so that means from next week onwards i'm gonna run regularly! this is the kind of motivation that i need. (:

ohyes i'm skipping hss (humanities & social science) camp for odac camp! haha. i figured i can know the peeps in sociology when we go for lectures and tutorials together! :D
8:36 PM

i had planned to write this in the later part of the day, but since i'm using the lappie to send out some urgent stuff just now i might as well write it now. got delayed cuz i was playing bejeweled blitz (i'm kinda obsessed with it. i broke my own record earlier on in the afternoon but the network didnt save! sadded).

anyway i met up with some friends/ex-colleagues last night. was chatting about what's happening in each other's lives when we came to the topic that we kinda talked alot about it back when we were working together: the relationship status of one of us (not me). caught up on the stories between her and her bf and i was quite surprised to hear that she is now in some sort of rough patch with him now, cuz back when she haven't got together with him, the impression that i had of the guy was that he is nice and everything.

so while chilling out at starbucks after dinner, i was telling my friend that she should really consider breaking up with her bf because well, if she is having thoughts like we're better off as friends (they were friends since secondary school), they should really switch back to the previous status. then she told me she is used to having a bf around to care for her and for her to care for him. which i can understand for her situation, because she's with her previous bf for like 7 years since secondary school until they broke up last year, and shortly after the breakup she got together with her current bf.

then i realised our difference. if what happened to her bf is applied to my bf i would have broken up with him straightaway and be mad at him for the longest time, yet my friend tolerated with him and her anger dissipated the following day after the discovery of that matter. she said that she would probably feel lonely if she broke up with him, and i can understand, because she's used to that kind of attached life. on the other hand for me, my life is quite packed with stjohn and i'm accustomed to singlehood, thus it is rare for me to feel bored. i mean, i still have games and books to fall back on even if there is no stjohn. not to mention school is starting next month!

what i didn't tell my friend is that she should start having a life without her bf at times, like going for yoga classes or something like that. and that she should not be comparing her bf with our common friend (who was with us last night) who is a superb bf (he bought a present for his gf for his birthday. lol! he said cuz she likes the bag and that the idea came to him last week. his birthday is coming soon), because well, i think guys don't like to be compared.

and after last night, the urge to stay single is stronger, because i do not want to be caught in an emotional turmoil like my friend, on top of other reasons like me having a higher possibility to choose to hang out with friends more than with bf (重友轻色 in other words), me don't want to be tied down and me wanting to roam around freely without having the need to tell anybody. after all, i was urging this same friend to break up with her previous bf along with the perfect bf/ex-colleague of mine last year because the relationship was not healthy and she's not forceful and determined enough to end the relationship. and now i'm doing the same thing, because she's not willing to let go even though she know that things are going wrong. i don't want to be blinded, because that ain't healthy. and i don't want too much complications in my life.

best wishes for my friend.
12:54 AM

yeah i know i'm like almost a week late in writing this, and there's probably a million people who had written a tribute to this King of Pop who had an impact in their lives one way or another.

i do remember Michael Jackson from my childhood, other than the vcds that my dad would play once in a while. i think my dad do have blood on the dance floor vcd. the song that i remembered most vividly is Smooth Criminal, probably because when i was young me and my brothers would play some michael jackson game on Sega and the music that was featured is Smooth Criminal. in fact, the backdrop is the same as the one we see in the video! michael in the game would go up and down the stairs doing some dance moves to whack the baddies and then will go WOOO! as he go down some stairs that will move down as he goes down (as seen in the video)

was watching 完全娱乐 yesterday and it has a mini-MJ special. then i saw some part of the lyrics for Beat It, and i find them meaningful! i mean, michael jackson do write meaningful stuff like We Are The World and Heal The World.

Just beat it, beat it, beat it beat it
Nobody wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right

and then i was listening to another song, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', when i realised he chanted a part mamusaymapusamamapusa repeatedly in that song. gurmit might be surprised to hear that it originated from Michael Jackson instead of Rihanna's Don't Stop the Music. he was saying yeah i know it's from Rihanna cuz the idea came from that song! when i told him that it was from Rihanna. perhaps the songwriter of rihanna's song is a fan of michael jackson and incorporated that part into the song. lol!

it's okay if you don't understand what i'm saying because nobody will. hehe

*edited:

joshua just told me that mamusaymapusamamapusa originated from the song Soul Makossa, and the singer (or the songwriter?) sued michael jackson and rihanna. LOL. blame it on himself that he didn't make it as big as michael or rihanna! :P
10:24 PM

okay i'm abit inspired to write, though the things that have been happening over the past few weeks have been rather mundane.

as usual otc was kinda crazy, especially when i'm operating on my own. but thankfully there's yuanzheng who helped me to staple the notes when i was printing them on saturday. he poor thing la, go down to hq just to open the otc cupboard for me. the funny thing is that instead of buying the paper on saturday and then bring over to hq for me, he bought it on friday and brought it to hq on friday. i was quite surprised when he appeared on saturday empty handed, and after he opened the cupboard he said i perform magic and then the box of paper appeared after he removed the 2 rims of paper that was left over from camp. then on sunday he bought 9 more rims of paper! he super nice ok! this is the kind of logistic officer we should have! wayyy better than the one we had last year. left siying and yongsheng on their own ok. TSKKK.

sunday was like all over the place, because there was the chief comm badge ceremony. met friends like ivan who is irritating as usual and charmaine they all! (: the theory lessons were pretty ok, save for Ultimate Challenge 2. ha. and then there's our standard dinner after the meeting. :D

went through some stuff since monday. i've decided to opt out because it's not suitable for me, but it's persisting to stay around. i can only say they have awesome willpower. i admit it's attractive, but it ain't my cup of tea.

now i can't wait for the orientation camps to come!
7:37 PM