The two lecture tests of the week are finally over. I know I screwed them. But I know its minor, thats why I am not regretting much. But it just says alot about my attitude towards school. I am not taking it very much seriously. I know.

Life is like this for me now. Everyday, after school, I come home. There is homework to be done but TV comes first, then dinner. After that, I try to do homework for an hour, but I am always pretty tired. Then at about 9, I turn on the computer and stay there till bedtime. Not very much I can accomplish then. Even on the days that I have tests, I only put in an extra half hour? Just browsing through. It doesn work.

I guess I never was a very self motivated learner. I need people to motivate me. In primary school, there was my mother to go through those assessment books with me. Those were days in the torture chamber but I guess it did its job. But I also remembered hiding my gameboy in between my pages of text when I was left on my own. In secondary school, my mother released her grip. I was left to struggle, but I soon found solace in friends. So before the O levels, I was out almost everyday studying with my friends. It wasn very much, but I knew it would be more than what I could do by myself at home.

Now I am in JC. Things are very much the same I guess. I find doing work easy when I am with my friends. At home, I just stone and feel lazy. So thats how life is now. But I guess I still can survive. Dont do work during the weekdays, chiong in the weekends. Its by myself but there is more time. But not all weekends are going to be free. The next two Saturdays to come are already eventful.

So what am I to do now? Studying is a students only responsibility. I understand that and find it very true. But then again, easier said than done. I guess I need to reshuffle my mentality, reset my priorities. It may be too early now, but am I going to wait till its too late?

The A levels. Looming in the distance but its aura already exerts an effect on us students. Minimal now, but I guess its scary when you dont know your work. Will there be enough time to revisit all this in time to come? Better do it now right? Sure. I will try. People around me, ask me to do homework the next time you see me lepaking around.

Two weeks to go. Any friends want to celebrate friendship day with me?

Here goes now

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIANXIN!

Hahas. Its kind of late I know but I just remembered after doing some bloghopping. =X But here you go anyway.

Jianxin is a really knowledgable guy who can really talk about a great range of topics with great insight. Of course, he is the guitarist of the class. And he appears to be more matured too, unlike the bunch of us. =X

So anyway, hope you enjoy your day, which you said you did, so thats great. And yeah, a fruitful 18th year on earth. =) Time to drive and try new stuff. Have a fun year ahead!

It is cold around, but I am feeling the heat. The rat race of life, one day of relaxation can cause you to fall behind, far far behind. It is going to be a tough week ahead indeed.

First up is the first round of lecture tests, Physics, Chemistry and Maths. To be truthful, I dont even really know what days these tests are held on. I havent started studying and will probably only do so the day before the test. Tutorials are becoming more demanding. Teachers are stepping up the pace and checking tutorials. No more pretending among the crowd. Physics, Chemistry and Maths once again.

It is tough being a student. People might think that our only responsibility is to study but so what? It is not easy to study. Teachers are retards. They expect us to do tutorials when we havent even practiced such questions before. What do we need them for then? Their answer to this? Just try. Yeah sure. And kill all the trees in the world. Environmental protection? Thats crap right?

Students should just stay permanently in school. Cause the only way I get my tutorials done is by discussing with my classmates. I know my stuff but nobody knows everything. In fact, I felt that I was on the ball just a few days ago, but now left alone in my home to tackle the unsurmountable pile of homework, I feel totally defeated. I get stuck halfway in almost every tutorial. Perhaps it is due to fatigue that our mind does not process the question properly, or we really do not know the method. We should just go for lessons, stay back and mug, find a corner in school to sleep, and then go for lessons again. The perpetual cycle of education.

Thats not all we have in store. Besides tutorials and tests, we get a extra of assignments and SPAs as well. Okay fairly said, thats all a student has to accomplish, academically. We have to spend time to go for CCAs which on days drag till about 7pm and by the time we are home, all we feel like doing is sleeping. And for that super nice portfolio, some of us are compelled into doing even more. Science programmes, H3s and leadership adds on to the stress. Wonder how they manage.

Life goes on. It is possible to juggle all this, when you are feeling healthy. I got the runny nose again since yesterday. Dehydration and exhaustion. Add this on to the equations of tutorials and assignments. It is difficult to be even awake, not to say doing homework.

Help me through the week.

Today is really chilly. I was practically quivering on the bus. But you know what? I am not going to complain about the weather. It is so pointless. We complain when its cold, we complain when its hot, we complain when its raining, and we complain when its not. Moreover, havent we all been sleeping well recently due to this splendid weather, being woken to wish it didn happen? So yeah. Love and appreciate the weather.

So what am I going to write today? Well, its something that happens to most of us very often. In fact, I just experienced it today. It is really interesting how we feel when we experience it, at different times, different moods. The long bus ride.

The long bus ride when you just listen to the bustle around you make you feel sleepy. And why not? Just sleep then. Not advised for girls though, unless you have friends around and nothing much is happening. But the long bus ride is indeed a good time to catch up with your Zs when you have nothing to do.

The long bus ride with friends you can relate with is very enjoyable. You can talk about practically about anything in the world, which is quite fun, and you know that you are not wasting time. You are just one the way to the next destination. How cool is that?

The long bus ride when you are feeling emotional is very soothing. Tune in to the necessary songs to aid this effect. It really helps one think things through. Just watching the passing scenery will soon make one feel better.

The long bus ride in the night is very attractive. The lights at night, streetlights, shop lights and car lights. Watching them pass by is a pleasure by itself. Same reason why we watch fireworks right? Just that this can come anytime you want it.

The long bus ride when you are with the one you love is sweet I guess. I haven experienced that before but I am sure you will never want to part when you are in the company of that special boy or girl. And with the long bus ride, the way home is extended and you can spend extra time side by side with him or her.

The long bus ride. 45 cents. Thats all you need.

I haven really written anything much these days. I know. Perhaps its the time of the year. Cause my friends haven been writing much too. I want to move on from informing people about my daily movements and theres nothing life sculpting to write on as well. Perhaps my writing juices have been tapped in online forums on IVLE. Sure man, excuses I know.

Oh well, I will try to squeeze out something anyway. I dont want to disappoint my fans you know. =x

One thing I realised, my class seem much bonded now, or at least this bunch of us lah. We used to go about our own activities, revolving in the same area but in totally different directions, divided by cliques and stuff. But this year, cliques seem to have combined more, forming a big clique. Oh wow. And we spend lots more time together. Perhaps its the early days lah, but we hang out lots now. Mugging, talking crap, jalan jalan or pure lepaking, life is more interesting now, though I find that we shouldn be doing this almost everyday. Good and bad yeah? Hahas. Oh well. See how things go.

I happen to chance upon the issue of others before yourself lots nowadays. For example, caring for the welfare of animals instead of boosting your health with their body parts. Stuff like that. How much does this really hold? When is it correct to pursue ones owns needs? I guess firstly, one must be certain that they want what they are trying to get, other than that, do not hurt the others. So if you want to eat chicken, make sure you want to eat it. Dont chop half the neck off then decide that you want fish for dinner.

Random ramblings. Yada yada.

O me gosh! While I was playing Bride in Dream NX4 today..

I know its nothing much but I used to miss like 20 plus and get like dont know how many bads. So I sort of improved by a lot and I am so happy. =) Dont mind me pros. XD

Every year, we get some of these periods. The stretch of time which sees people sneezing, coughing and blowing their noses. Some of them get it early. Some of them catch it from their friends. Some of them get it early and then get it again after some mutation of the structure. But whatever the case, whenever it happens, it is never welcomed. Introducing to you, the flu bug.

Influenza as it is otherwise known, has many forms and mutations. That is the main reason why we can get it so many times in one life, for my case, 18 years mius 5 months and 4 days. And so I have once again chanced upon a new cousin from the flu family, lets call him version 2007.01.18 for courtesy sake.

It is wierd how the flu bug never seems to lose its touch. Let me cite an analogy, if one sits the most thrilling roller coaster ride in a amusement park for too many times, it soons loses its kick and one may not even flinch before the plunge from the peak of those twisted tracks. However, this is not the case with the flu. It comes again and again, and yet, we still feel its full effect time after time.

Everytime it comes, we can never be prepared for its effects. The physical symptoms of running nose, cough, fever and fatigue is just the tip of the iceberg. Whats worse is the irritance we often feel from all this trouble. And of course, the different effects this has on our mental state

For my case, I feel extremely vunerable. With this temporary phase of weakness comes a sense of overdefensiveness. I seriously could have punched anyone who irritated me enough today. It is sad. You cant exactly feel self confident when you feel like shit too. So yeah, you probably spend of the day zombie-ing around. Stoning, stoning and more stoning is what you can do with tissue paper as your best friend. Sigh. The flu.

But well it is good when you are not alone. Terence was kind of sick today too, more sick then me lah. So he koped the whole toilet roll from the chemistry lab and that saved my life for up till gp lesson. And we crazy people still ran around the school during PE. And fortunately we are still alive.

The point of writing so much is to tell people to take care of yourself and not catch this flu, cause its running around these days. Healthy people stay healthy, and my comrades against the flu bug, rest well and win this battle. Hope I will recover like by tomorrow. Hahas.

And yay, the whole family is home again. =)

Okay here goes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNGANG!!

Yeah. Lots of love from the three musketeers and dimsum gang. ^^ Now that you are older than most of us, for these few months at least, try to act your age. =X Yeah, and eighteen is a good age to try lots of stuff too. Keep off smoking but clubbing and M18 movies dont seem so bad, or wait for me. Hahas. Just crapping. Summary, enjoy your eighteen year on earth!

As the week goes along, I just find it harder to get out of bed. Maybe the weather was too shiok this morning. But I am freaking tired lah. Wanted to stone during lectures today but my sense of responsiblity pushed me on to copy the notes, leaving little time to take forty winks. But well Yvonnes sweets helped abit. Especially this super delicious black and white sweet. All of you out there remember to try when she refills alright? Sure can stay awake.

The J1 trials went well. I sort of like the people who came, most of them at least. They are quite spontaeneous and funloving. That is why they came to bowling in the first place right? =X Think things will get more fun once they come in. Yeah.

Dad and Mum and Sis and Dog comes back tomorrow.

It is an interesting day. I guess this is probably one of the days when im truly home alone. My parents and sister are overseas while my brother is at camp. So I am going to be the only person in the house throughout the night. Even the dog when to stay at my mums friends house. But guess when the situation requires it, I am able to do it. I am surviving well. Woohoo. Doing all the chores and stuff. Guess I am not so pampered after all. Independent living. =)

The dilemma I faced during my last bowling training seemed to have been decided. Coach Jack probably decided for me. Actually I had wanted to try the 2 month crash course but since he wasn down yet I continued bowling my current style and then he just began to improve on it. So I guess I am sticking. Problem solved.

The new teacher in charge of bowling Mr Conrad Lee came today. He is not too bad lah, quite friendly. And yeah he brought some of his fellow MJ teachers to bowl along side us. Another guy and Mr Gohel. Lol. Mr Lee and the other guy are straight bowlers but he managed to get a 190+ game. Mr Gohel has the style and the hook and stuff but not so on form today. Hahas. The hidden talent in our school.

I guess I should stop emo-ing in my blog. People actually start to think that I fancy somebody. Well maybe I do, maybe I dont, or perhaps I am just not sure. Hahas. Its for me to know and for you to never find out.

I need to catch up on homework. Mclaurins just kill me.

OG outing today! And in coincidence with Siti's birthday too. So we got her a cake and celebrated it at MacDonalds. The cake damm shoik ah. Some super cheesecake.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SITI!

After that, we tried blading. I kind of improved abit lah. But the weather wasn on our side. Started raining and we spent most of our 2 hours under shelter. Sort of disappointing. Went for pool after that. Was not bad. Had fun today.

Overall, I am glad that my OG is so bonded lah. Didn get much of that feel during my time. Perhaps because I was posted to another class. But I think the feeling is great. Remember Regulus 1 celebrating Jungangs birthday. It made me feel special even though it wasn my day. Appreciate it guys, and hope it will last forever, if not at least till the end of PAE.

I feel better. But still lost.

A meeting at CBC at 3pm. Great I thought, we havent had one in a while. Comment on trainings. Started off perfectly fine. But suddenly, I realised I was at the firing ground and I was the target. Taken aback? Definitely. It was like two simple but effective words being thrown in my face. YOU SUCK. And the worst part about it is, there is nothing much I can really say, cause deep down I know its true, I do suck. It is like the darkness in my heart has been exposed to the whole world. I could only mutter a few incoherent words in my defence.

Captaincy. I guess I was never really made for it. I am not a natural leader. I occasionally will stand up and lead when all is chaotic but long term office posts may just not be my cup of tea. Perhaps having a girls captain doesn really help. I somehow try to make it such that we both have equal status contrary to popular belief that the guy should be on top. However when we are equal, I guess I tend to follow. Especially since Azlyna is the dominant and natural leader. It doesn help matters.

No one really showed me the ropes. I guess thats the way things are. But I guess what happens happens. And I took a real long time. But today served as a wake up call. I guess I know what I have to do now. Initiative yeah?

It hurts though. To come to this state. To be worthless, to be a loser and recognised in front of everyone. Why couldnt it be done discreetly? I felt people feeling sorry for me. It doesn help really, this blow. In addition to all the random emotions I have been experiencing recently. Crying in the rain. Thats what I really am doing now. No one can see the tears. I hide behind a smile. But how long can I hide behind this facade before I finally break down and crumble. Sigh.

Bowling is really eventful today though. That is not the only mind blowing incident that happened. Coach Jack spoke to me today. He presented me with two paths. One, learn the new release for 2 months and see what happens. The advantage is that long-term I will improve, and I guess I do agree. Keeping up with times is important. The disadvantage is that it is really hard for me to have any major changes due to my years of bowling. In other words, my bowling will suck for about that much long. Giving up is never easy, giving up the style that I have now that is far from lousy. In addition to that, I just lost the respect of my peers, will falling scores be the best thing to happen after this? I seriously do not know. The other path is that I will stick with my current style and he will work on that. The pros are obvious, the score stays. The cons, no long-term benefit, and difficult lane conditions could kill me. Its a dilemma. I really want to improve long-term so quite abit of my heart is on the 2 month crash course, but there is really quite a long list of negative effects there. There will be lots of stress from peers and that will be mentally exhausting. Do I really need that in addition to my torrents of schoolwork? I have to come to a decision soon.

I really need support now.

Do I sound like I am going through an emotional roller coaster these days? I hope not. I finally thought it out today. I guess time sorts things right? Yeah. So I decided, this itch that I have, I am not going to scratch it. I will try alternatives instead, hit it, numb it, move it, whatever, however. Its just wrong to scratch it, you not only hurt yourself, but may accidentally cause trauma to others too, ugly scratch marks may scare? Lol.

On another line, the rosy picture I painted about schoolwork yesterday is totally crap I realised. I am cracking under the pressure! Its like super intensive now, with tutorials almost every alternate day. In other words, no more hopes of chionging during the weekend and pray it lasts the whole week. Nope. And the weekends are not that free now too, at least the upcoming one. And seriously, I seem to know nuts about my work. Perhaps when the ones that were taught during the first week and the self study stuff is over, I might catch up? Hope so. But yeah, GP, Chem, Maths and Econs is enough to kill. Thats far lesser than what I had last year. But what the hell, Im suffering more. At least physics is good for now, Mr Gohel is nice to revise Superposition. =)

The monotony of school. I guess its a cause. Perhaps its this perpetual cycle that makes me come up of wierd emotions and thoughts. Somehow, we might just want something different, or it may be this garguntuan amount of time that we have while stoning during lectures that make us come up with funny thoughs. But its nice to have this feelings some times. It makes listening to songs so much more interesting. I just listened to tonnes of Westlife today while stoning at the study bench. I think its one of lifes greatest things, just enjoying music, with the right ambience and mood.

For now, its time to get on with life. Im glad I feel free now. But not free from the clutches of teachers and commitments. I really need help. Someone volunteer to teach me Mclaurins? Is that how it is spelt? And I need more time. I want to use this bloody computer, but I am sacrificing doing my intergration tutorial. Thats how sad life is now. Come on come on. Move on from here now.

Here I am, once again, listening to emotional sappy songs. I guess my one year has passed well, but I find myself back to the vulnerable person I once was. Sure enough, I have gotten accustomed to things around here. I love my class, and I have finally come to terms with this captaincy that I found myself unable to handle when I first stepped up to office, unprepared and unready. Orientation has passed, and I am sharing the good relationship with Calliso 1 I always wanted to maintain with the Regulus 3 of the past year. Life seems almost wonderful now.

School life is rather handleable now. Although I am seriously behind in some topics, but that can be sulvaged in time to come. I am on the ball on most assignments and tutorials, or at least about the same as last year. I guess the laziness is still there, and this perpetual fatigue, but its normal I guess. However, perhaps human beings are never satisfied with what we have. The list of wants never ends. When life is peaceful, we want synergy in our lives and when life is too happening and tiring, we want the period of rest and recuperation. Thats normal I guess.

So is that why I am feeling this void within the corners of me? It is like hunger pangs yet unsatisfied no matter how much fan you jia at the cai fan store. It needs something more, cause this emptiness lies not near the stomach, not in the lungs, not in the brain, but in this all famous heart that throbs with every second of my life. It is familiar, yet still so foreign. I guess I can place a finger on it, but do not know it by name. But then again, is it a cause? Or and effect?

It makes me crazy. Just makes me feel like down and stuff at unpredictable times of the day, the type when you just feel like shedding tears for nothing at all, just to release the steam that is bottled up inside. And I am reminded of this torment everywhere I go. And everytime I am reminded, it just stays long, long enough till the next dose of this drug is injected directly to the vena cava to my heart. Its too much to handle, or is it just because I am running away? Would it be better if I just admitted it and follow the path that my heart has mapped out in my brain? But then again, it is like fighting a battle with only 1 hand. It is quite impossible, and sacrifices have to be made. Like stabbing your comrade in the back just to get to the limited food supply left for the warriors of this lost war.

Time will show the way. I have to rely on the painkillers of friendship and family for now. But I know I will be out of this soon enough, I hope. Put a smile on my face, and be the happy-go-lucky guy I had always been. I should be. I have finally found my place in this school and this circle of life. Why not?

Theres this song that describes what I feel, well sort of. BB Mak, Ghost Of You And Me. Lyrics are on my ETC page, enjoy.

Finally I slept my fill, perhaps too much. Im in the midst of packing the mess in my room, so that I can actually find my stuff, but taking a break since I just ate lunch. Its going well though. Continuing later.

Couldn sleep enough yesterday as I was dragged out of bed early to go around to see houses. Haven done so in ages, but I doubt anything will come out of it. We will see. The houses we went to see were basically already built for convenience. I liked Savannah, located somewhere in Simei. The facilities are really fantastic, coming with even a 2 lane bowling alley. But I dont really like the location. East Meadows was pretty nice too, the inside of the house, but the facilities are not that impressive. Well its about 5 years old. But I love the location, somewhere I am quite familiar with and oh so close to the MRT. If only there was a Savannah in the East Meadows plot. Lol. Went to see a few others too.

Okay, enough of idle chatter. I should start on what I intended to. So now, I am going to blog about the kickstart of my year in Meridian, Orientation 1 2007!

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First day

My first contact with Callisto One. 16 guys and 4 girls. Super inbalanced. Lots of tricky Chinese names. But there were not as quiet as they looked, as soon the outstanding ones took the step forward in leadership, while the rest followed in perfect unison.

My teammates in this battle, Yvonne Low, Siti, Karl and Chula. We were ready.

Things started off slow, with lots of administrative work to be done. Well it had to be done, and some my freshman were finding orientation boring already. But not yet. Orientation had hardly began.

Icebreakers were pretty good. The ice was rather broken, though still a little unresponsive. I had to run super lots in the Cat and Mouse lah. For some reason. Got super tired. But it was okay.

After that was some the learning of college anthem. The singers this year was not so good as last year. =x After which, there was Tokyo Drift mass dance. I was pratically learning along lah. I only knew up to the chorus but now I know more! I can do up to the gun gun part. Lol.

Lunch was next. And finally people questioned my race. Interesting. I thought it wouldn happen anymore. I dont really remember much after but I was doing alot of saikang. Running to find the sheet for the tee shirt sizes. Moving the Orientation packages. I missed out lots. The first part of CSI too. But CSI wasn so bad lah. Though still quite sian. My group was quite enthu surprisingly. They took down like 12 pages of notes regarding the case. And they created a Chinese version of the Move it Callisto cheer too, at the request of Kenneth for councillor points. Okay, I admit I am copying lots from Yvonnes blog Lol.

CALLISTO, YING TA MEN! (Callisto, win them all)
RANG TA MEN QU SAO DI (Make the others sweep the floor)
TOU WANG TIAN SHANG KAN (Heads up in the sky)
WO MEN DE JING SHEN BU HUI SI (Our spirit never dies)
DONG BA, CALLISTO (Move it, Callisto)
DONG BA, CALLISTO (Move it, Callisto)
DONG BA, CALLISTO! (Move it, Callisto)

And Jian Rui created his own Phobos cheer right in front of Phobos captain Nadira!

GIVE ME A P!
GIVE ME A H!
GIVE ME A O!
GIVE ME A B!
GIVE ME A O!
GIVE ME A S!
WHAT DOES IT SPELL?
PHOBOS!

Hahas. How creative.

Oh and they did some ballroom dancing too at the request of Game ICs Fenty and Liwen. Took dam alot of out time lah. Such that our 12 pages of notes didn come to much use as we had no time to fill in the report. AHHH!!

Went to fill water bombs after that. Dam missed out on CSI results and couple dance! In fact, I dont think I really did a full version of couple dance the whole orientation! T.T

There was some break to do OGL debrief then all the OGLs came to join in the water bomb making. Was much faster now. I can go sell chicken rice already, can bao all the chili sauce. After that, some of the Calliso OGLs went for dinner at white sands Mac. And that was the end of day one.

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Second Day..MMM

Jeffery was not coming today. Had some headache of some sort. So team of 19. Gave the freshies the Yupi that we bought for them. Hope they liked it.

The day kicked off with the learning of Lets Get It Started. And hey, it was not bad. Finally a song I knew. I also finally learned the second verse proper, quite easy actually.

The OGL team was down to me, Karl and Chula today as Siti and Yvonne were Game ICs. And yeah problems were bound to happen. The group was pretty dead. No singing and no cheers when walking around. Regulus 3 did sing. Sians.

4 out of 5 stations were rerouted. But we did find them. Leaders did rise. Some led the way. Some read the map. But the games were pretty boring I think. Only the keeping the tissue paper in the air one was quite fun. And I still did not know why the group 1 OGLs did not like it during recee. The kiap the ball and walk one wasn too bad also.

Oh and highlight of the day. They spelt Karls nickname with their butts. Was super funny lah. At first I thought they wanted to spell Cow or something cause it was short. But instead of that, they spelt a super long nick name of his which was created when I wasn around during CSI. Horny Bas****! With a smiley too! Damm funny.

We didn manage to finish the route. We ran all the way to the last station but wasn allowed to play. Cause there was a teacher and councillor there. Zul and Angela were prepared to let us play. And the 30 points we got were not enough to cover the 50 points lost for being late back. And I felt pretty guilty too. One of the girls was nearly knocked down cause we jaywalked, and I led the thing. Luckily all went fine. But I just felt down

Callisto was last at the end of the day. That helped. But I couldn drown myself in depression. Had to hide all the emotions, do the mass dance, talk to the freshman. We were going to make a tee shirt for our group. The discussion took super long, and I just wasn in the mood really, plus added pressure by councillors constantly reminding us to get into the hall for debrief. I was glad when the day was over.

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Third day..WnW and Campfire

I was feeling better thankfully. I guess I forgot about the matter yesterday due to fatigue. Was greeted in the morning by a list of chem homework. Cool.

Today I was the Game IC for WnW so wasn going to be with Callisto One. Had to move lots of water bombs to the stations. Had the big trolley which was quite fun. But moving manually wasn so fun. And had to carry lots of pails of water that day too.

I got wet when the first group came. Adam was there lah. = =" But didn get really wet till the last part. I knew cause my hair was still standing fine till then. Lol. Wetted alot of people too. Fellow OGLs, game ICs, councillors, to just random people I dont even know. Quite fun.

My station was better than the last orientation, was more confident now. And I had Jungang to help me now. Last time I had to solo when my partner was brutally snatched away last minute.

After that, clearing up was super fun too. Jungang, Xiaobao, Iris and me sat on the trolley while Fred and Terence pushed us around with the other logistics. Lol. Was so cool. Then after that we slacked around before going to eat and wash up.

There was height and weight after that. I grew 1cm to 170! Though I was sure I felt a big lump of hair between my head and the ruler. Thats the 1cm lol. But I am dam heavy now. Miss my 55kg days.

Callisto began to prepare for the Campfire performance in the hall. Callisto 1 and 3 were teaming up. There was this freshie from C3 that was a super leader. Like delegate all the work. So we OGLs could take some time off to go west plaza. Went with Siti Terence and Yvonne to get snacks and drinks, spraypaint and hairspray.

Then we proceeded with spraying the shirts. Was quite good the effect. Kudos to the freshies who cut out the template. Although the bird didn look like bird. Haha.

Campfire was quite fun. My hair was blue, but not very nice, just one lump in the center. Callisto performance was quite good. Though I seorang OGL sit infront. I didn even know the rest were nt following. Managed to escape halfway. Lol. Things got high lah. Regulus was the first to do our cheers. Well done Wysen. Hahas. I still love Reggie. There was lots of mass dance too. And as Callisto One is super inbalanced, we did some random stuff during couple dance. Like one circle out of nowhere doing rubbish. Crazy! Took tons of photos! Woooo~

And the best surprise of the night. Callisto was FIRST for campfire! We jumped like from last position to overall second. It was a reason for celebration. It was a great night. And Karl got famous for his nick too LoL. We ended off the night with dinner at Pasir Ris central, with most of Callisto One.

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This Orientation is definitely better than the last one. Although Callisto is not as united as Regulus, we are stronger as can be seen by the results. But results are not everything, fun is, and I had lots of fun this time too.

First batch of freshies are always more enthusiastic I guess. Its their first time after all. And they listen to you as you are like older and more experienced? Haha. It was harder back then.

I got a good team of OGLs as well. Siti Yvonne and Karl just rocked my world. Chula was okay but he could have performed better I guess. But anyway, thanks to all of them for the experience.

This orientation also gave me the chance to talk to old friends. Some I had made during previous orientation but sort of drifted apart due to uncertaintity and lack of confidence. I am definitely more confident this time round, talking to random people I dont even know.

I dont regret joining this orientation. It is a great experience which will be remembered for life. Callisto first batch OGLs. Callisto 1. And everyone else I got acquainted with. I hope I will be more friendly now and stay in touch with you guys.
Though orientation is over, I hope to be as sociable and outgoing as I was then.

And yeah...
CALLISTO ONE ROCKS!!!

Okay, I know this is kind of late but..

Happy 2007!!!

Lol. Okay So I have not been blogging recently. Lets go back 2 days ago then.

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31st December 2006to 1st January 2007

The usual 06S202 bunch were going to celebrate the new year together today. Cool eh? Okay. First, I met up with Terence, Kenneth, Leayee and Jungang at Tampines MRT at 2pm. We were supposed to buy food for the camp at Hongzhis house later. But we walked around first. Kenneth wanted to see shoes. Then Jungang bought a handphone pouch from Popular. Then we went to Yamaha to walk around. Then we decided to go to the supermarket to achieve our primary objective. But guess what? We did not know how much or what to buy, since out of the 5 of us, 3 will be leaving early and coming back and duno what. So we ended up with nothing.

Bored and with 1 hour to go to our meeting time at Tanah Merah MRT, we proceeded to Shutings house to just slack about. She has a new dog! Quite cute lah but aggresive. Keep trying to bite people if they try to carry her. But very cute, the way she likes to sit in peoples lap. =) Played some mahjong. Frederick joined us there and Kenneth went off first for his family gathering. And since most of us were there, we decided not to meet at Tanah Merah anymore. Instead, we trudged to the 201 busstop and took 12 from there direct to Hongzhis house. Huiling hopped on at Tanah Merah MRT. I was right. The bus stopped near Hongzhis house, in fact right outside. And Huiling was fighting with me on where Bedok Court was. =x

His place is quite nice. I never been into Bedok Court before. Actually I walked pass quite a few times, but I just didn know that it was Bedok Court. What should I say, it is very near Temasek. Lol. Okay back to the story. He has a big pool there. And a nice playground where we spent like about half an hour. Deprived childhood lah. Or actually, we were just trying to keep Shutings slippers away from her. Lol. Yvonne Low joined us there. Yvonne Ng couldn come today as she had a family gathering up country Malaysia.

After enough childishness, we proceeded to Hongzhis house. I like the lighting in his house, gives a very warm feel, and it was warm lah. =x Hongzhi was a fantastic host. So firstly, I like to thank him for letting us come his house and being a wonderful host. He claimed to have nothing at his house lah, but actually the food and drinks he provided were great, and so was the entertainment. There was mahjong, PS2, cards and the computer. Played a little bridge first. I was quite off lah. Was like trumping my partner and everything like a total blur block. Couldn tell who my partner was for many rounds.

Okay next was PS2. Was dam fun the wrestling game with Leayee, Bangbang and Hongzhi. Like anyhow wack anyone, even my partners, cause didn know how to control very well. Hongzhi could like win 1v3. Lol. Make me laugh until want to die. Used Booker T in one of the matches and kept doing spinnerooni. Dam funny.

After that, played some other games like winning eleven and stuff. Jungang left for his sec school gathering while Yvonne went home to her estate countdown. Played mahjong after enough PS@. I think we got abit high ah, was playing with Terence, Leayee and Huiling and we were talking alot of rubbish. =x And we were guessing what Fredering and Shuting were doing.

Hmm. Lets see. There was lots of screaming and laughing. There was balls involved and some shooting in the bottom areas as quoted from Frederick. Hmms. Frederick wanted to do tricks too. Guess what they were doing? They were playing FIFA street soccer! So predictable right? XD

We ordered 4 pizzas from Canadian pizza for dinner, which was far too much. We like left one whole pizza untouched. Donate to the Loo foundation. Lol. We continued our games after that. Terence left for his temple gathering. Kenneth came from his family gathering. I went back to PS2, substituting Shuting in her soccer game. Fred was like leading 5-0 or something. And I only realised after a while that had to do lots of tricks. In the end lost 10-4. Eh not bad right, at least I scored, unlike somebody. =x

Ended just in time for the countdown. Some songs from JJ and then the countdown began. Wasn so climax lah. We just countdown to play again. Lol. After a while, we decided to cross over to Yvonnes place to spend the rest of the night. She booked the games room lah. Sounds fun? Jungang and Terence joined us back. The games room comes with lots. Like aircon, a mahjong table and a chess table. Wow. Not even a chair. But it was okay lah. Yvonne brought chairs and games from her home. While the guys played mahjong, played the game of life with the girls and Leayee. We played the game totally wrong lah. Didn collect our payslips. Opened our life cards and took lots of money wrongly. Didn give money when we landed on the occupation spots of people. But guess what? I won. I had like $975k, yeah! And a house with broken windows and doors. I was a doctor earning like a loser. But it was fun. The girls abit kua zhang. Like Yvonne had a baby girl and she won some baby contest and like Huiling goes so cute......abit imaginative. Lols.

Played bridge after that. Was reading the game better now. Although there were still some blur rounds. Realised the power of body language, cause when I guess on that always like zhun. And when Shuting says she knows who her partner is, means she is the partner of the bidder. How else would she know? =x

Played UNO, then blackjack, and then sian le. Didn play mahjong, though some of them switched around. No mood. After a while, some of us when to sit outside to lepak. Huiling seriously needed some hot drink so got to see Yvonnes house. Funny lah her. Dont even know her security system well, wake up the whole kampung. Her house, is not say very big actually. But its stacked lah, and with the rooftop and basement I guess its reasonably big. But her living and dining areas and kitchen is quite small.

After that went to slack at the poolside, watching the day come. Yes we lasted the night. Went for breakfast at Siglap Mac after that. After 1 year, I felt a reminescence of the Temasek life. Lol. Then we broke company.

This new year, although I didn go to some happening countdown, it was rather meaningful, spending quality time with friends. I didn really like crowds anyway. I am thankful for this bunch of friends. And I hope to meet up with old ones soon. Happy new year.

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Today 2nd January

Went to do homework at Terence place today. Ended up just the 2 of us. Wasn very fruitful, but I did stuff. I did like 5 questions of chem you know? Oh wow. Lol. Bluffing myself. I was tired lah. Failed to help him repair his computer, I guess I am not talented in this area. Hahas. His mum was nice, buying chicken rice back and preparing chicky wings.

Met Christopher Raj from primary school on the way home. Hi!!

It doesn feel like school starts tomorrow. Fortunately, there is still orientation first lah. I am so excited about it. Meeting the freshies. Think will be more fun than last years orientation, cause I know more people now. But Callisto doesn feel as tight as Regulus still. But never mind that. Wadi says my finalised group is the one online. Which means I am with Siti, Chula, and yeah, Yvonne Ng and Shuting. Callisto 1 is gonna rock the world.

Cant wait.