April 10, 2005

i just woke up from my five full hours of undisturbed slumber. the camp was quite a drain on my energy. i enjoyed myself nonetheless(: yes, i intend to be miss-grandmother story of the century, so this is gonna be a long entry.

friday. we had school in the morning. lessons were rather dry, and we met our permanent civics group for the first time. my class has about twenty two people. and yeap, my nasty feeling came true. sarah and i are not in the same class anymore. everyone from o5s215 got split up. it's sad but life must go on yeah. anyhow, i'm truly thankful that i'm not alone in 05s214. =)

during common lunch, a group of us went over to parkview primary school for cip.. we were supposed to help a bunch of p6 kids with their language by playing interactive games and such. i guess the 45-minute long session was fruitful. glad the kids enjoyed themselves and they actually wanted to extend it to three o'clock. haa, cip is good. yu can learn a lot and become a better person(!) cause it requires a great deal of patience to handle that bunch of noisy kids. most of them are very adorable actually.. they couldn't pronounce our names properly. dharma became larma for a while. it was priceless(: i'm looking forward to next friday's cip! anyway, the cip thing ended at about 2.45pm and we were running late for bio lecture. natasha was funny and she referred to ms wang as "the teacher who looks like an ah lian". ms foo was titled "the one who is a bit off".

we went for the last fifteen minutes of bio lecture, and they actually took attendance before releasing us. thank God we went back for lecture and that saved us from getting into trouble. sk and i hurried home and i bathed at full speed before packing my bag for the camp. we managed to get back to school by 4 plus. sarah was actually later than me! had dinner and band practice until ten. lights-out at twelve but we had to make water bombs for the next day. (i've finally learnt how to make a water bomb.)

saturday. our running plan (at 5am) was a complete flop cause all of us couldn't wake up. woke up at six thirty (with a splitting back cause the tables were hardcore HARD) and everyone assembled at 7am for pt. breakfast after that, followed by the wet morning games. i think i'm gonna have arm muscles soon from all that carrying of water bombs. lunch was heavenly as we were all starving. the j2s had band subsequently but the j1s continued with our games. the poison ball game was absolutely fun. we were on a high and started singing and cheering at the top of our voices. guess the atrium floor's rather slippery and many of us slipped while running. righteous sprained his ankle, and some of us ended up with cuts on our knees unknowingly. more wet games after that, and every single person was drenched to the core. (even sarah cause we sabo-ed her.) =]] overall, it was just plain FUN.

the day games ended at 4pm and we had to clean up. got to bathe, and had sectionals. vincent didn't sleep a wink the night before, so his eyes were bloodshot. we ended sectionals with introduction of the new members and the usual mafia game(: weekiat actually thought charity was called compassion. hilarious sia. got to know charity and lisa better during dinner. geri and i were being hyper, gay and refined (refined ladies association).

night games started after mr tan's speech. joel was trying to scare the whole band by telling us a murder took place the night before. sarah and i stupidly bought the story at the beginning cause joel sounded really convincing. they named the game "dial M for murder", and we were supposed to go around the school compound looking for clues of the gruesome murder. apparently, this eccentric russel see-toh guy got killed with both his kidneys taken out. we had to find clues and piece everything together to get a full story. my group consisted of two leaders (weekiat and ming yang), and sarah, righteous and i were all in the same group.

our group was weird cause we read too much into the various clues. =D for example, we took the different formats of the written dates in the journal very seriously when it was totally irrelevant. we found a lipstick in the russel see-toh's bag, and we almost thought he was a transexual for a while. we even took noticed of the brand of the grass clippers (tri-star brand) and the autopsy report serial number. we felt like the dumbest assholes when joel told us the actual story just now. we were reading so much into the small details that we complicated everything. our story was absolutely unrealistic.. but funny(: because of that, we were labelled the "talk-cock-sing-song-we-are-the-best group". by the time our group reached the band room, it was late. spent some time discussing the story and we returned to our bunks at midnight. some of us got together and talked until two plus before retiring to our rooms. geri, teresa, sarah and i continued talking until i dozed off unintentionally. haa i heard i couldn't wake up even when geri shook me rather violently.

sunday. though our group didn't win anything at all, i'm so glad i was in that group. everyone there is so interesting((: we took overall band and section photos. geri, weekiat, sarah and i were shooting our version of the opening ceremony video. went for lunch, and i headed straight for home after that. had the urge to shit so badly that i couldn't walk properly.. =)

the band camp was undoubtedly fun but yu need tons of energy to be able to stay hyper throughout the entire camp. i was dead tired when i got home. i wanna pon school tmr, but i think i shouldn't cause i'm ponning school on wednesday.

to the tkgssb juniors: all the best for your syf comp on wed! (: it's probably your final chance to play praise Jerusalem again so just give it your best shot after practising so hard for months. =] jiayou!

alright, sorry for the long-winded entry.
goodnight.

Thoughts Aloud at 8:53:00 pm