lyon's: July 2008

Wow I really haven't updated in a long time... it's been a really great July, I mean apart from FOC, there was Kukup, and coming up is another 8 minute film competition which Team WKWHA is joining (maybe with a name change, but I don't know that) I am starting to find memories of these particular happenings a little bit hazy, so I owe it to myself and everyone else to keep an actual update of what had been happening.

FOC!
WKWSCI FOC2008 for me was really great, despite the tired zombie-fiedness at the end of it all, and already at the end of the first day. Fusilli were great, though I kind of regret not being able to talk to certain groups of people on a more personal basis, as Home Center (go figure) and the rest of the admin duties required really kept my hands tied. I'm not an especially extroverted person so I guess part of it was I just didn't know what to talk to the freshies about. Anyway, this is where I go into the day by day narration mode and bore the crap of everyone who actually comes to read this blog.

Day Zero: Sunday 6th July
I set off for NTU in the evening time, and left my stuff in Mel's hall. I really sort of over-packed, and the bag was a killer. Though to be fair I was also carrying all the bandanas (40 bandanas take up a lot of space), medication and random stuff I brought for the OG. Then we went off to Jurong Point where we could hardly see anything because of the crowd of foreign talent who were all doing Sunday shopping at NTUC Fairprice. Grabbed loads of random foodstuff, paid and met up with Sara Jean and Cameron, after which we cabbed to school to be 1 hour late for the start of the official last minute briefing before FOC. In desperation they had to teach everyone the mass dance, and we thought of a couple of musically-inclined cheers. Okay, nothing much else really happened, but day zero and I was already lacking sleep. Not helped by the fact I went jamming on Sunday to a really bad session where I was really shagged out already and the rest weren't helping by being off form as well. Besides the point. Me and Cam camped out at Jeanette's ex-room and all of us almost overslept.

Day One: Mcgirdles, NTU Games, Sentosa

Okay, the very first early bird who arrived was Maryam, which kind of threw us off because it was around 8 am and the freshies weren't expected till 8.30. More because me and Mel were still eating our Mcgirdles breakfast (or however you spell it), and following that we had 30 freshies on Day One which was a real headache cause there were about 5 of us including AGL and OGLs, and half the OG have chinese names (sorry but you know it's hard to remember Chinese names) and the programme was way too packed such that we didn't even get to play a group game like Whacko or what. Taught 3 cheers and had to be diverted to the mass dance session thing, which was pretty interesting. See, I took like 3 hours to learn the first part of the mass dance, but other people seem to only need 20 minutes -.-""

Karyn, Maryam, Jiang Shuang, Marie, Si Min, Florence

Audrey, Melissa (Lin), Vanessa. With me captured in the background.

So after that was lunch where the OGLs had to undertake Hungry Chimpanzee, and the following I am not allowed to disclose, and for that note neither should anyone in CS do so, since it's something we all hold very dear to us only. And after some stoning and camwhoring by the OG on my camera it was NTU games time, and oh well shit this is getting boring, even for me as a writer. Ok the games themselves aren't really important. But basically Fusilli lost almost all of the time, though I really admire the way the guys don't really give a damn about the result of NTU games (neither did I, honestly) and just got about enjoying themselves.

This is the cabbage captain's ball game, which was WAYYY more fun during seniors' camp with like 1/8 of the people on the field and the same amount of cabbage.

Okay well, so there was the telematch thing, which was the same last year except the OGLs didn't get themselves splashed seriously with soapy water (I did that last year) for which I am eternally thankful. I wouldn't have brought enough underwear to camp. Okay, and washup and washup and we found ourselves travelling to Sentosa, and on the way we of course did the customary Hula Cola thing and tried to instill seeds of suspicion and mistrust in our clueless young charges. Which to a degree failed because ALL OF THEM ARE SO NICE THEY DON'T GOSSIP. Which is indeed a great failure because CS is a gossip school whether you like it or not. It's like the culture! Ok. Then went to Sentosa and we made them play that animal game, where we make them each some weird animal and they are supposed to find each other blindfolded. Really, it's WAYYY more fun as a senior, cause you get to mess around freshie's brains and tell them they are Kung Fu Panda, Water Horse, or Earthworm etc (one of each) and then go in and make them chase after you in circles (blindfolded). Okay I'm evil that way. But it was definitely memorable. The night scene was way lame, really. Wheeeere got all stand one side let the freshies watch a staged play one. Okay anyways some of Fusilli's people flew off to make merry at the merlion and came back uber late, which was kind of worrying but I don't remember anything much else.
Day Two: Sentosa, Initiation

I actually am getting sort of lazy to put up pictures so if you really want to see you can troll around on Facebook to find them, don't worry there are probably tons of it. Okay so we were at Sentosa, and in the morning I woke up with a very bad headache and muscle ache (cause I had to give up my sleeping bag to freshies who didn't bring theirs, I happened to only bring shorts and basically I slept on the hard floor and froze to death in the early morning) Trekked to the 7 eleven outlet for some coffee and snack, where some of Fusilli's girls also came to find food (honestly, cup noodles beat bread and jam anyday). Played like ONE round of polar bear before we were called off to play the station games. We didn't really lose much that day, but somehow when calculated we ended up being the worst OG points-wise. Of course, none of us really cared and it really brightened my day (and Mel's, probably) that nobody among the freshies were really THAT competitive to spoil the whole meaning of FOC. Okay, I got dunked, and Mel got dunked, nobody really had the balls to dunk Cameron or Xiaoken or Sara Jean so I had to change underwear, something which I thankfully envisioned, and prepared for. I frankly don't remember much of the games except that Sentosa was really fun and we didn't lose that many to be last placed. Okay, there was wash up, lunch, some deja-vu seeing MTM people doing their (and our pirated version) of the banana cheer and MPok doing theirs too. Err some MSuaers tried to get our version going, but sadly we're so loserish that none of us remembered any significant cheer from last year. So... lunch. Yah, so there was a disgusting err... cross dressing segment in between us trying to sow more discord for the Hungry Cheetah thing, and I remember going EWW when I saw the models go up. But never mind, it was sort of fun watching them go at it. And there was the battlefield thing where water bombs flew everywhere and there was more Hit Card snippets for everyone to gossip about. Okay, then packed up and left for school where we took them to Hall 13, their official residence for FOC in NTU. Which was sort of dumb cause it is all the way on the other end of NTU, but thankfully nobody really complained about the distance (other than the seniors, and partiularly, me.) There was initiation, which was really fun (as a senior) I mean to see freshies being decorated with egg, soap, tomato sauce and whatever they brought ( I really don't know ), drink from a toilet bowl and do all sorts of nonsense on flooded toilets, and be blindfolded all the time, feel like foreign workers sitting on the back of a truck while going to the storm drain, and actually going through like 200 metres of a real, dark storm drain with weird crawling things everywhere and smelt funny. Okay, much tiredness, but OGLs had it worse as we slept only at like 4 am onwards. Those who were major Hot Cakes had it worse at like 5.30 am or later. Yes we had to wake at 8 the next day.
Day Three: Amazing Race! Nothing much amazing happened other than the fact we won only once out of 4 stations we fought with Ravioli. Okay, obviously a 10 minute penalty for losing the first station sort of meant that we will be late for the next one, and so on, and somehow we were so unlucky that we didn't win more stations. But once again, that's not important. Probably the penultimate High Chew moment that day as even I had to be involved in some Handyplast vs Guardian plasters "heated argument" with Jason, which you can find me for more details. I think some Ravioli people hate me/find me damn lame or something, for which I apologise. Okay, and there was like paper mache which failed to scare anyone, and some very interesting skits on display. Okay you can tell I'm like summarizing like mad. I've been typing for half an hour already and I'm only on day three, you see. Okay so the stuff ended and oh by the way at Tanjong Pagar we saw an awesome SHIT truck. Really, it's probably a real business dealing with sewage disposal. By the end of it all, everyone had to make the impossibly long trek towards hall 13 from CS and even then, Fusilli seemed to still have the energy and enthusiasm to actually play cards. When I was really trying desperately to put on a brave and strong and energetic front and join in the card games. But well... Okay I dropped in for a bit.
Day Four: Raffles Marina, Finding Nemo

Okay, day four was very fun for them and very relaxing (relatively) for me. I remember going all the way there and lying on the pier with my feet in the water, which was really sort of nice. Didn't go on the banana boat and kayak since I didn't bring enough underwear to change into (sorry I can't stand saltwater within my ____ ) so well... maybe next year if you guys would still have me. Okay we were like the only OG to have awesome lunch at the staff canteen. Really great Lor Mee there and it was like air-conditioned. Everyone else ate like bread with water. Okay, the bread was pretty nice. But bread. Okay. So everyone really didn't do anything much. Was on the same bus back as Ravioli as Fusilli was finally split to take 3 different buses. Jason and Ness were doing horrible things to male freshies which I filmed down with my n00bish 3 megapixel camera, and honestly, well it was kind of interesting. More icy daggers and stares from some of Ravioli's less friendly friends, but I don't really care. So there. Okay went back to school for more relaxing stuff, and REVEALED our fake freshie! Which was really great fun, the incredulous look on everyone's faces were really awesome. Yiting really pulled it off. Sorry to Jigglypuff though, we really really never thought you'd get so close to her so fast. And credit to Kenneth who knew but didn't say anything, and Hendrick who tried to mess up more minds by telling everyone he is the fake freshie. Ok more lies. We told everyone that we were going to CS for a movie marathon (yeah right) of works by CS graduates (partly true). But oh well, the fright night video, by Chee Harn and company, was sort of awesome. But the sound... well... who ask me to choose to be a sound person. And the fake hair in the toilet cubicle was -_-"""". In any case it was even more relaxing cause while waiting for them to complete the NBS station I just lied down there and sleep (and had a super unglam picture taken). Kenneth was probably the only casualty of any kind throughout FOC so he has my congratulations for that dubious honor =D kidding. Yeah so we went to the CI Club 5th Floor station next, which to me was really an awesome station until they had to send in three people at once, by which it isn't as scary anymore. Oh yes, Audrey and Trixie and Si Min... Haiz....

Okay, for the last one me and Mel were already so stoned we decided to go to the end point and wait instead. Had some pretty nice Boon Lay nasi lemak and Fusilli got to go back and rest. The OGLs had to stay and clean up the mess :( It was really a mess. Please next year don't play with weird things okay... hard to clean. And the OGLs went back as though we were all sleepwalking, saying incoherent things. At one point I was walking with my eyes closed. Miracle we all got there safely.

Day Five: FINALE!

I don't know what Fusilli did on day five precisely. I heard they went to ADM to prepare for their skit. Me and Mel and the other OGLs were camped out at Jason's and Wenxu's rooms busy preparing presents. To Fusilli please note it is VERY VERY difficult to write stuff on a slipper. You can try it. Okay and we rushed out a 5 minute rehearsal of the OGLs' finale skit which was memorable for the wrong reasons.... tsk. I guess that's why there are more girls in CS. Masking tape and leg hair is funny until you are the person suffering from it. Okay, it wasn't that painful :) and more importantly everyone had a good laugh. I thought the skits were really awesome, even ours! Too bad there were other way more raunchy and worthy ones, but I'm still very tickled by Fusilli's performane still. There was a bit of a KNNCCB moment with the main comm right before Finale, as they asked me to come down at a very last minute to set up their sound system for them when I specifically told the comm to bring the backup system just in case because hall 7 is not known for spanking new (or working) equipment. But okay, if you decide not to listen to my advice, the least one can do is set up the sound system like 2 or 3 hours ahead of time which appears to me as a very logical thing to do. And to be honest, though I know the bands who came were nice enough to do so and all, I think they kind of suck. Coming from me, I don't really give a shit what people think of me, but about bands and music standard I know a thing or two. Song choice really tried to put everyone to sleep. Ok Alarice was kind of sexy, all girls with Martin acoustics are sexy mah. See I told you I know a thing or two. Her guitarist was kind of lame but he had a Gibson Hummingbird so I forgive him. Our limited 4 channel sound system too was really lame but that's what happens when you don't listen to the sound man about sound.

Okay, ermm can't really remember much else. There was a lame taxi driver who complained to me Nanyang Drive was hard to find. Yeahh. When it's like the big circle surrounding NTU's schools and all. And got home, concussed, slept the next two days away.

Sorry for the no pictures, I have them, but it really is troublesome sorting them out day by day and posting them in the right places, so maybe next time.

Okay, next, Kukup.

Kukup is a really beautiful and relaxed place, where you can REALLY recharge your batteries, and all you do is eat, sleep, and eat more, then sleep more. In between you can hit mahjong, watch the sunrise/sunset and take really great pictures. BUT I will forever remember this trip as the one were I was really dumb. I brought a DSLR camera without the charger. It's like bring a car without fuel, or a Gibson LP without a decent amp. Ok so I took pictures from Johor all the way to Kukup, and a few at Kukup, and then the camera went flat, the spare battery wasn't charged, and I was stranded with deadweight in my bag. :( Yes laugh all you want.

This is what I missed out on:

and I had to contend with a commercial mini camera:

Oh wells... anyway it was really fun, and we did really stupid stuff. Okay for one in Kukup there is no such thing as a trash bin, everything goes out of the window into the mud. Really takes some time getting used to, but trust me it's sort of therauputic.

Here, I was trying to see if I could trap a fly which would be dumb enough to buzz around our coconuts. Apparently either I'm way too slow or flies fly too fast, I kind of failed.

For that matter, so did Xavier.

<-- the boat trip to the Kelong

<--- at the Kelong. And that is a very icky little thing called a Horseshoe crab which was still alive. Because it looked so much like something from Alien vs Predator I didn't want to be near it, much less take a picture with it. Okay I am loserish that way but. Oh well...

Okay, I've been typing for over an hour, and hence i am going to sleep. Until next time yahhh.

Oh, and anyway my band, Xclef, is having a little performance at this place called the MusicDreamer Cafe 爱琴海, it's a little cafe place in between Marina Square and Millenia Walk on the second floor, next to Kenko reflexology center if you are interested in going. There is a cover charge of $11.90 I think which gets you a free drink or something. Details are always hazy coming from me. Anyway apart from some covers we will also be playing, for the first time, our songs, aka my arrangements, compositions, so on. In any case you get to see me play so if you are curious as to my level of skill you can come and see and then times two that amount to get my real level of skill. Haha. Okay don't stone me. Anyway it will be on the 18th of August at around 7 pm to 10 pm, a sad Monday so let me drive the blues away from you. Come on, you get to hear my compositions! Okay never mind. Tell me if you are interested yahhh.

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Jul 26, 2008

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wohooo, no more werkk! =D

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