Sunday, April 13, 2008

meh.

the only reason, i think, i'm updating is because REBECCA CLAIRE CHAN says so. im being forced. how mean right? tsktsk... must be learn from SOMEONE. tch.

so. 10 days since ive updated. a lot of things have happened. both good an bad. shall start with bad since my "introduction" is already so magnificent.

hmm... so. throughout the week i've been going to SP for orientation. i must say, even on sunday i was more interested in having my pei tan zhou, popiah, cheese sausage, creamy fresh mushroom soup, lime juice and oreo cheesecake from the bakers' story than being exceited about meeting my new class and spending most hours in my day in this new strange idiotic place also known as SP. uncle roy was busy teaching me "how to pon lectures in poly 101" and yiyi eileen was busy narrowing her eyes at him.

so. monday. it was ok i guess. thought my class would be quite nice and fun. realised later on that it wouldnt be the case. but more of that later.

this is the first time EVER ive gone for an orientation program/camp where station games were played before the ice breakers. felt strange. but throughout the activities we got to talk to each other so it was ok. people in my class then...

SHERMAN [chairperson]
SARAH [vice-chairperson]
STANLEY [treasurer]
ANDREA
DEBBIE
JASMINE
SUE ANN
GRACE
MICHELLE [sec5 from IJTP]
WOON SHAN
DANI
CHERYL [was in Lynda's class in SR]
EK JUN
JUN XIAN
ELROY
PREET [ravpreet actually]
LIYANA
RAUNAQ [or ronald]
CJ [chee... something. jun probably]
YONG LIN


... and me of course. though for the moment i refuse to be known as part of this class. cheryl and dani are the exception. so far.

tuesday we were in the SPCC or Singapore Polytechnic Convention Centre. had performances and speeches. but the main event was the "Mr and Ms Undercover Identity 2008" where a guy and a girl from each class in the School of Business [or SB] goes on stage and for the elimination round they catwalk. 3 rounds of semi finals and then the final round.

1st round of semi finals the contestants had to inflate a balloon using the body part appointed. knees, cheeks, hips, shoulders. 2nd round they had to answer questions about their partners. girls infront guys behind. guys write their answers, girls interviewed on the answers. 3rd round was like an obstacles course. they had to eat a rockmelon slice together, share a bottle of water, no pouring in, and a pocky stick. together of course.

sherman and sarah didnt get through the 1st semi finals. alvin and his partner didnt get through the 3rd round.

oh yes. during the catwalk some guy unzipped his fly and showed everyone in the audience his red briefs. i am glad i dont know him.

finals were terrifying for the judges. they had to run from the stage to the judges, shake their hand [both of them] and then answer the question. well anyways tourism won. they chionged everything. very assertive people. while the pair from accountancy were like practically non-existent.

wednesday met marcus at mcs. walked from a coffee shop across the road. mom sent me there because she had some conference at this anglican church there with some of the newly baptised from IHM and their sponsors. was going to buy food when got the call that he was already there. so we met at mcs then walked to foodcourt 3 to have the soursop mixed fruit juice. had soursop with lime the day before. really good. the chicken cutlet rice there is good too. had it with rendang sauce the day before. monday ate western at foodcourt 6. not bad. quite filling. had the chicken chop. it was 2.80. and yes. i realise im having a lot of chicken chopped differently. whatever.

we were meant to have SPICE training today. ther even got us to bring our laptops. but we didnt even use our laptops for the training. we just sat down and listened. sure it made the session end earlier but now looking back on it it was more like a waste of time because i cant remember much of what the guy said.

oh yes. jerome didnt meet marcus and i because he stays like so far away and was lazy to get up early. yes.

went foodcourt 3 again to have lunch with dani and cheryl after meeting our PTN which is about essentially the same thing as a CT and an FM. damn these idiotic terms. hello? standardization????

earlier had soursop and mango while with marcus and lunch had soursop with orange and my chicken cutlet rice with BBQ sauce. the soursop with orange is the best because its not too sour [like the lime] and not too sweet [like the mango].

was about to follow them to sign up for extra language courses [mine jap, dani and cheryl french] when jerome called to ask if i wanted to meet them at foodcourt 4 which is koufu. of course i didnt know where but thank God theyre smart enough to put up maps around the school. and i shall continue to say the government therefore isnt smart enough because they only have maps at mrt stations. the maps barely cover a 500m radius. i think.

so met marcus and jerome at koufu [again i thank the Lord for maps and my good sense of direction]. got to know some of their classmates. theyre quite nice. i mean, they like even made space for me and like they didnt give me a 1m radius. not gonna say which people give me the 1m radius. and there they complained about the 1 1/2 girls in their class [one is a bung] while jerome antisocialises playing his gears of war.

oh yes. i think tuesday i made the mistake of telling marcus about what jerome's sister said. he wouldnt stop teasing me about it. even his classmates know about it. wth can.. well, as long as the rest of SRJC 1S01 1st intake doesnt know then im ok.

marcus was nice enough to accompany me too sportslink at amk. extremely disappointing. no umbro jacket. all nike here and there and everywhere. we even tried world of sports at amk hub. damn small la. look like shop of sports. or cubicle rather.

then went to J8 with him. he was going to bishan library to wait for his RJC girlfriend and i finally got the chance to get this husky with the wonderful sky blue and at the same time elctrifying eyes. 16.90. at amk hub it was 19.90.

thursday had flag day. urgh. hate flag day. collected only 17 plus bucks. but i think its quite good for my 2nd flag day ever. and also my un-enthu-ness about flag day. found out also that the class kinda... well... i guess the word would be ostracises us [meaning woon shan, dani, cheryl and i]. but thats a bit too harsh of a word.. ive decided to give it some time. maybe they need to warm up to us first. or get out of their stupid "popularity" mindset. i mean, come on. the people who are so called "leading the pack" are TWO YEARS older. my gosh.

received lecture notes for Statistics for Business and Fundamentals of Marketing. lol. almost peng san when i saw the formulas for stats. supposed to get the POW textbook but didnt have enough moolah. tomorrow need to get 2 textbooks then. the POA one and the other that costs 18. POA is 20.50. and its like damn thin can. [no saying cannot]

friday didnt have skol... practically slacked at home.

saturday had frisbee with YC. roy, gene, chen, justin, nick, rene, carol, simon and michael were there. and of course me. found out i have no aptitude for frisbee. lol... not that i posessed any idea that i did have the aptitude.

we went maplewood park to play. went with chen. he obviously didnt trust me or my sense of direction or my memory. well i wasnt very confident of my memory also but whatever right? i mean, i got us there. though he insisted on saying that we were late because we got lost eventhough it was some IMH patients fault for waking up SO VERY EARLY. of course later i learnt why he doesnt trust people with directions because another SOMEONE told him that 156 went to toa payoh.

sat in roy's van for the first time. didnt sit at the back though. carol nick simon and chen were also in the van. chen and i got off at church to bathe first while the rest went to get asprin and lunch. gene sent rene and justin home to bathe.

we opened up the 2nd and 3rd floors and put our stuff in prayer hall A and B. then went down to get a drink. some weird lady came up to me while i was at the vending machine to ask me to buy a drink for her. damn i didnt even know her. and i know we should practise charity and in no way did she look incapable of earning her own cash or having money in her CPF. can you picture it? a GROWN almost middle aged woman approaching an ADOLESCENT teenager to ask for a drink profitting off the teenagers parents hard earned cash. anyways i told her i didnt have spare change.

marianne came soon. said she had come from serangoon stadium. just finished her 2.4. and she saw fr luke running in the morning. she was wearing this really nice, striking but not extremely luminous nor jarring orange dri-fit shirt. really nice.

and the strange woman approached again asking for paper and some woman whom ive never heard of. all the while chen was just stoning. marianne being herself and her total kind and giving nature gave the woman paper and lent her a pen. anyways, the woman seemed happy enough so she walked off.

we talked for a while, chen finally talking after finishing his seasons ice lemon tea. i had finished my kickapoo long ago and had just finished crushing it. so nice. he gave me his can to crush. YEAH \/. crush the can crushing cans...

justin came after and not too long after that they came back with lunch which was chicken rice. the one behind heartland mall that give tomatoes. good as always. hot chilli as always. when i finished i kinda did my normal rolling up of the brown paper with the plastic spoon inside and used the rubberband to secure it tight. the rubber band turned pink lol. was surprised and cheap thrilled. i mean, usually it remains red. anyways when i finished carol accused me of ocd because it turned out quite neat...

went up to the prayer hall. everyone got their clothes to bathe while marianne and i tossed the frisbee about with chen who soon left to get becca from the ah seah busstop cuz it was raining. he came back to bathe after. marianne and i abused his frisbee. or baby if youd rather. poor baby... i didnt bathe cuz it kinda didnt occur to me because i only agreed to go last minute because i kinda forgot before that. so i forgot to bring toiletries and towel so i just changed.

marianne becca chen and i were also wrapping xaviers present. 17 things for his 17th birthday. lol cool. they put the things in a newbalance box and i had fun ocding with the masking tape while wrapping it.

YC session started at 2 with dr steven giving his talk on the malaysian catechism textbook that we're now using. then sister gave her talk. in between we had a break and we kinda had a conference in the corridor about poly.. the poly people having conference i meant. finally got to talk to alvin properly. both of us in SPSB like might as well not know each other. dont even see him lor. lol...

supposed to play badminton with family in the hall but decided to go home with becca and chen. becca would be going to her grandmas house so she would be getting off in amk. good lol. chen talk to her. chen and i on the bus also might as well not know each other lol. played at the busstop a bit because we missed the bus. took our time counting the number of steps to walk to the busstop. i got 360 becca 321 chen 293. lol. short legs....

becca got off at our usual stop but realised late on the bus that she should have gotten off a stop earlier to take 262. so chen and i walked her to her busstop. well, supposed to be me but he doesnt trust me remember? great way to treat your ex-groupmate man.. so sent her there and walked to the busstop on that side of the road around the bend to take 851, 852 or 74 home. missed the 74. took 851. could have walked but was hungry and wanted to get home faster. to my steak~~~ xD

today celebrated jacs and xaviers birthday after class. attended mass with francis and sars and mom joined us. someone served mass. jasper cant believe its been 2 years. neither can i.

feel guilty because xavier cut himself while sawing open the box with a pair of scissors. i think i wrapped some part a bit too much...

a lot of things happened but im too tired and hungry to add it in now. and i realise ive been trying to get this post done for i think more than 2 hours. ah wells...

makan time....

almost 2 whole years...

a bit too long right?

damn.

Posted by Ce at 4:53 pm