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Saturday, July 23, 2005 Had a real tiring but happy day today. Morning and afternoon was spent at C's house making lunch! Pumpkin soup and caesar salad and big big sandwiches. And lots of fun just talking and talking and talking. I learnt a few guitar chords also! Haha that piqued my interest in learning to play the guitar! Evening was spent with the DSTA scholars, real enjoyable barbeque, because all I did was play frisbee and cards and eat and drink, there were enough willing chefs to man the grill. And those chefs were skilled! But going out for the whole day today has a price. Still lots of stuff I must settle by Sunday, before I move into hostel proper and begin another round of orientation programs. Of course, it's a price I'm willing to pay because I really enjoy my friends' company. I just hope I don't burn out even before school opens. Friday, July 22, 2005 Post number 111. I'm impressed by myself for lasting this long. Saw my room today. I'm quite happy with it, actually, it's bigger than I expected. And it's mine, so I like it, haha. Moved some things in today, going back on Saturday with the rest of the stuff, then hall orientation starts Sunday. These 2 days before I move in are packed to exploding, as I try to clear obligations to other people and hopefully to myself as well. And um, apologies to everyone and everything that I've neglected, that will not fit into these 2 days. My annual allowance has arrived!! I was drawing on the dregs of my reserves already, so thank goodness it's finally arrived. Now comes the bigger challenge -- controlling the urge to spend, and spend, and spend! The money's meant to last a year, you know, and it's not a big sum at all when put into context. Wednesday, July 20, 2005 I'm going away. As in, I wouldn't be seen online at all for quite a while. Getting the keys to my hostel room tomorrow. And moving the bulk of my stuff over tomorrow also. Hall orientation starts on Sunday, and everything else pretty much carries on from there -- University orientation, then the start of school. Therefore, since I do not have a laptop yet, I'll have very limited access to the internet. Yah. Wednesday, July 13, 2005 I don't really believe in serendipity or telepathy. But I don't know how else to explain what made me do what I did yesterday. The way everything fell in place was uncanny. Well, not quite everything, there were some things I could have done better, but I'm happy that I didn't travel to Orchard yesterday. Tired, tired, tired. Tired of going out everyday, tired of acting sanguine, tired of juggling everything. Not that I don't enjoy everyone's company, not that I'm being fake, but I really need some time to myself, and I'm not getting it. Well, I'll get this week over with, then maybe take a couple of days off from myself. Hostel application results are out. I'm going to be staying in Sheares Hall! I hope I enjoy it there. Friday, July 08, 2005 Wednesday, July 06, 2005 Gen-Acts camp was really great fun! The group was a fine mix of seniors and juniors, guys and gals, quiet people and enthusiastic people. The events were interesting, wanting to test not just physical prowess, but mental prowess as well. I most remember the Trade Wars on the first night. We were supposed to run around the chalet area trading goods with ports and other ships. Our group made a major gamble, borrowing 20K right at the start to supplement our original 10K and spending it all on Petroleum, whose price we predicted will make a huge jump. But luck conspired to sink us, we hit pirates and lost half our petroleum, then the price of petroleum only rose slightly (it was the price of crude oil, the raw material, which fell). We ended up with 8 points from that activity, while other groups averaged 800. So we were way way behind the rest after that first day. But we were not discouraged, and the talk on the second day was all about 咸鱼翻身. We played our hearts out during the beach games and came in second for that event. Then we came up with an excellent business proposal in 2 hours and came in 3rd for that, raising our overall position to 4th. 咸鱼翻身了!! All the points we earned were used to bid for location and permits for the charity sale this coming Sunday (10th July). My group will be selling candy at Jurong East Central, outside JEC, on that day. Please come and support us! Tuesday, July 05, 2005 "I'd decided that orbiting you was not what I wanted to do. Not when you seem to view us not as a binary system, but instead see me as merely a planet, a moon or worse, a petty comet, getting near you once every hundred thousand years. So I was on my way out, out where the vast galaxy awaits. But time and again I am pulled back into a closing spiral, and I'm confused. Why do you value an asteroid so? I desperately hope it is not your intention to engulf me, to plunge me in the burning inferno of your hell. I live on tenterhooks, attracted by your pull yet held by inertia, by indecision. Please help me decide, tell me where I should go, tell me that I'm not just another pretty comet to add to your collection. Otherwise I'm sure, whatever decision I make will be the wrong one." Please don't go barking up the wrong tree everyone, especially PF. Don't go and cause the wrong people distress, haha. Will blog more after I get some sleep. Gen-Acts Apprentice camp was great fun! Friday, July 01, 2005 I'm back. And I'm tired. And I can't rest because there's 1 mahjong session, 1 reunion, and 1 camp coming right up. The SoC camp was enjoyable. The events were unique and enjoyable, only marred by the stiff participants. The seniors were crazy, wild people, and if not for them the camp would resemble a funeral. My group is made up of wonderful people, though I feel slightly detached from them because of my 1-and-a-half day absence. And I can't help but compare them to the scholars, and finding that I miss the company of the scholars more. That, of course, is most unfair both to them and to myself. It doesn't help that the award ceremony was on Thursday. The finale of the scholars' orientation, right smack in the middle of the camp. Neither YJ, LY or me felt like going back to the camp last night. We really wanted to spend more time with the scholars, seeing how many of them will be leaving in the coming months. The award ceremony went without a hitch. The dance performance was excellent as well, judging from the smiles of the audience. And we were on a high. Then there was the whole chaos of photo-taking, everyone being spontaneously crazy and having loads of fun in the process. Suddenly my mind is overwhelmed by the memories of that day, still fresh in my mind. I almost wanted to say, "I wouldn't mind replaying that day over and over again", but that would only spoil everything, because it will never be as wonderful as the first time, even if everything went exactly the same way. So it was back to the camp, for the finale night, where there was a boring paegeant (unsporting participants), dancing and booze. For the first time, I was so drunk I needed assistance. Um, never drink bourbon, then vodka, then tequilla in one night. But I'm quite a sober drunk, my mental faculties were never blurred. Or so I like to believe, haha. The dancing was fun too, I danced almost non-stop from start to end, only taking a break to drink the vodka. YJ is really good at dancing! She took the centre of the floor quite a few times. So that's a basic run-through of the week. Time is passing so fast right now because everyday's so packed. I hope I get the chance to take a break before school opens. |
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