Tuesday, March 11, 2008
couldn't finish blogging yesterday. brain didnt want to function properly. i feel guilty for blogging so half-heartedly..
SATURDAY 8th March 2008
woke up at around 6.55 on my phone so it was probably about 7.01. went to bathe and met rene in the toilet. she was brushing her teeth. went back into the dorm and found amanda awake so i followed her to brush her teeth and then we sat on the floor and talked. the floor was quite comfortable actually.. xD so while everybody was busy waking up we were whispering to each other, making fun of people's sleeping positions...
friday night we received a rations pack to last for saturday. atricia and i went through ours while whispering. the year 1s had nice boxes while the others had theirs in plastic bags. it looked cooler in boxes. much neater and far more appealing but it didnt really matter.. in each pack there were 9 packets of biscuits, 1 ovalteen, 1 bar of chocolate, 2 packets of nescafe, 1 packet of milo mocha, chrysenthemum [sp?] or milk tea, can of baked beans or corn, can of tuna, koka cup noodles and i think thats it.
i think i should name the year 1s before i forget to name them..
Chester
Nicholas
Kevin
Darius
Simon
Vanessa
Tanya
ME
yup. 8 in total.
brought down our rations for breakfast which was at 9, 9.30.. wake up time was 9 so go figure. they had bread and spreads for us though i think technically we were supposed to have our rations. i had a packet of biscuits, a slice of bread with peanut butter, and a cup of nescafe coffee. i think im getting addicteed to it.. i exchanged my tea with cassie for her coffee. she wanted tea.. i dont like tea.
Kenneth had his "default look" in the morning. stoning on the chair ooking at the bread and spreads. i went into the kitchen with rebecca to make coffee. i took a cup and opened my coffee packet/ was about to pour the powder into the cup when kenneth came and used his finger to knock the coffee from the packet into the cup while i was still holding it. strange guy. not enough sleep probably. xD
thats the conclusion cassie becca vy and i have come up with if kenneth does something strange and out of his default phase.
i'm gonna take this oppurtunity right now to say that i think i am 99.999999999999999999etc% sure, almost complete confidence of the fact that dear kenneth gregory chen likes darling rebecca clare chan.
so anyways. had breakfast. then they asked the rest to leave the dining hall while we year 1s sat down together to do our resume. the resume consisted of our strengths, our weaknesses, and what we want to improve on about ourselves. it would of course, obviously include what we had to offer to ihmyc.
they took us 1 by 1 to be interviewed in the conference room after 11. they gave us about 30-40 minutes to write the resume. Simon went first followed by Kevin, Darius, Tanya, Vanessa, Nicholas, Chester and i was last. there was about 20 minutes gap between each of us.
while we were waiting we talked about things they were going to ask us, what we wrote, favourite music and shows. very basic socializing/socialization with people you just met. i think it benefitted me most though. they're the same age and most of them were from the same group of friends or confirmation group. i ate my 2nd packet of crackers while waiting.
when it was only vanessa nicholas and chester left with me they talked about borat. BORAT. mainly it was nicholas who talked about borat. while chester was like "hahaha yah rmb this part? HAHAHAHAHA" learnt that chester was a gamer and that both nicholas and chester like anime. or gundam seed specifically. and they like the song ignited. a bit too much. they also showed a few clips. quite sick some of them.. there was this one about speakers and they used like a bunny and a bear and there was this like soft porn thing going on.. and we talked about the inevitable achmed the dead terrorist and suddenly i remember the one about this guy having subtitles and his complaints. and they had that video on their phone too lol...
so, fastforward to the interview. they asked what i could offer for a) PAS and b) ihmyc. they read my resume. they refers to carol becca jac rene roy justin and terence. justin said thet it was honest. that startled me because while i was writing i just wrote whatever came to mind. i wasnt aiming for my resume to say anything else other than what was plainly stated on the paper. delight and shock i guess.
they also asked if i would use the fact that sars was my cousin to my advantage to be accepted in. i must be really dense because i didnt think they would ask me this. stupid really. my answer was no by the way. they asked why and i more or less said that i wanted to be accepted in by my own merit. a damned ego thing to do but i really do prefer doing things on my own, earning my just dues.
they then asked me to pick 3 things from the floor and make something out of it. i picked some rubber strap and the packet of rubber bands and jac was like "i see u like rubber a lot..." -.- i have no idea what she meant by that but i think rubber is appealing in the fact that its flexible and stretchy. in the end i couldnt think of anything and decided to fling the rubber band as a catapult. on hind-sight i realised i could have taken th string and played the 2 or more people game with about pinching the string and solving it and making a new shape thing. argh dunno how to explain. becca and i played it at the busstop while waiting for the 136 home on monday.
after the interview i went up and they were playing card games. i suggested heart attack because more than 4 people wanted to play so tai ti and bridge was off limits. didnt play though. i dont like reaction games. very slow at reacting. but i guess i should have played seeing that alvin usually was the on that got caught. either because he's slow or he's just being gentlemanly because a lot of girls were playing.
went down to have lunch which was the can of baked beans
i had like 1/3 the can and a packet of crackers and i felt relatively satisfied. and i was planning on finishing it and 2 packets of crackers.
was forcing myself to finish when the year 1s were called up by roy to the prayer hall and they told us we had to create equiptment mainly weapons and lights with the materials given which were icecream sticks chopsticks rubberbands wire light bulbs batteries and masking tapes. they also gave us a tool set with nails.
so we rushed down to finish lunch, with an added cup of coffee, then went to this room at the corner to work. terence justin louis and cassie were so-called watching our movements and what we were doing. chester still had his 20 word limit so he resorted to writing his instructions/thoughts/questions down on a piece of papaer for me to say out loud. like his external voice. later on they gave him random 5 minutes to tak as much as he could. oh and halfway they took nicholas and cut off his tongue [figuratively of course] and we had to answer the question "name 4 tribes in africa" to get his speech back. lol... lucky got 2 RI boys. thats all im gonna say. then they took chester to get something. anyways, mainly we had trouble making the weapon[kevin work] and minor connection problems for our lights[nicholas work]. we also weren't very detailed in writing out our plan for survival. we only had 3 days worth of work. but we said that these were rotational 3 days.
anyways, once we finished we went down for dinner. i had the cup noodles. mine was seafood which miraculously became chicken. so i had that, the coffee, and crackers. cant remember how much by then. was busy thinking of the presentation later. kevin had a seizure. i feel guilty because earlier he said he had a condition and couldnt drink coffee. i saw him dipping his crackers and biscuits into a cup of coffee and i didnt stop him. justin and alvin brought him up to lie down. he sat down during the presentation.
the presentation which was in the conference room went quite well actually. they didnt have questions that were difficult to answer and they mainly read our points with us only elaborating on the key points rather than everything that we had planned. the only part we had problem with was to have our bullet [RI boys called it some other chiem name that started with A. cant remember now though... too late..] puncture 4 pieces of newspaper. it only went through 2 because they layered it and our aiming was too low. but they gave it to us because it hit the white board at the back hard. simon did the shooting and was amazingly accurate for a machine that had very poor balance. there was also another problem which was that we didnt plan on how to get our water properly. the penalty was to have a one minute shower but by the end of the day everyone was too tired and it wasnt implemented.
we then headed back to the dining hall for the talk by fr luke on sin and temptation. his points were really good and the talk had a great impact. details are jotted down in my written journal/campus binder notebook. one funny part that has to be typed down here was that fr luke thought kenneth didnt understand him because kenneth had his usual default face on which makes people feel he doesnt quite understand. alvin explained that it was his default face. also, terence made a rude comment about girls being more emotional than guys which is a lie. and gene came in late saying that he didnt qualify to be a saint when fr just said that our highest potential is to be a saint and it would be sad if we could not reach it.
then we headed back again to the conference room for a talk on demons and witchcraft which was very helpful and freaky and scary. i dont exactly want to access my memory bank for this. but i wasnt as scared as i thought i would be. mainly i think because there were a lot of people surrounding me, my closest friends from church were sitting around me, and some of these things are similar to what i have heard before as ghost stories in sec 3 after confirmation after one movie night in prayer hall A and B.
i had to ask cassie and becca and ivy to come to the toilet with me and talk to me so i wont get scared because it was really late at night. about midnight, abit before, a bit after. cant remember..
throughout everything, kenneth kept trying to sit as near as possible to becca. we call kenneth kyoto by now. because becca wanted a name of a state. like baltimore for tim and melbourne for a certain victor in cj. for the first time i felt nicknames for people were irritating because kenneth was always somewhere near. and we coudnt keep using kyoto or he might start suspecting. so certain sentences which didnt need to be as ambiguous we used kenneth.
ate my can of tuna with 2 packets of crackers which gave me a stomach ache and i had to drag someone to go to the toilet with me again.
then went back to the conference room and joined rebecca cassie ivy and kenneth in talking about people, about skol, about people in skol, about stupid things and also making bad and rude kenneth jokes. throughout the whole day i was going "i know what you're gonna say next". the answer would be "huh?" but he became more and more clever and instead started saying "im not gonna respond to that". alvin and terence also joined us at some point in time. and i used the age old trick on kenneth going "icanmakeyousayhuh" and he said "huh?" and alvin was like "WAHAHA i geddit!!"
at some point in time rebecca and i came up with something that "huh" stands for. as in taking "huh" to be and acronym. so huh stands for hello-uh-hi. which is the essential meaning when someone says huh anyways.
and there were sometimes kenneth would suddenly start talking nonstop accompanied by his wild actions of flinging his arms about, sitting upright, and smiling. at those points in time i would go "kenneth needs to sleep now.." but i think its really great and cool to see kenneth like that. rather than in sec 3 where he was perpetually at default.
at about 3am terence and alvin went up to sleep so cassie ivy becca kenneth and i went out to join the others for cherades. there were 4 categories. film, book, song and play. a lot of it were movies and i was saying imagine if the movie was alvin and the chipmunks. all we had to do was point upstaris and make the sleeping action. so anyways. acting was done rotationally. my first one was a horrible failure and roy had to help me.
about halfway through cassie and ivy had an almost catfight on their sofa so jac and roy split them up. we found it so ironic that kenneth got the movie alvin and the chipmunks. all he did was count the number of words and did the action and rebecca and i could guess it straight away. roy was so tickled.
we got through many cherades and i think somewhere near the end they were talking about the song "you raise me up" and kenneth was like "yah! they played the song for 2 hours in maris la!! dunno how high they want to raise up.." and roy did his chee koh pek chuckle while looking at becca and after a while becca got it an i was like "i dun geddit. is it something sick?" and yes. it is. i'm never looking at that song the same way again..
we went to sleep at about 5 am.
i think i shall continue this when i wake up tomorrow. or later today. its about 12.12am already. cant believe i took almost the whole day to do this post. my brain still isnt functioning..
Posted by Ce at 7:19 pm