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!!!