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Sunday, August 24, 2014

2-4 August 2014 CSI

2 August 2014 CSI Day 1
It was really a packed and rush day and I woke up early in the morning to have utown breakfast . Following which I rushed to LT27, and had a ridiculous flag talk which didn't benefit me . After that , we took a coach to UCC to have our FIC , and I left early and didn't benefit from it at all .

I walked to tembusu to hand in my check in form and rushed to my apartment and changed. I joined the rest of the OG at utown and had amazing race . I left when we finished the station at business.

I joined the USP people at FIC AGAIN , hoping to get a free shirt and I didn't get it . But I had a good buffet , and rushed back to camp and they were doing nothing at LT34. We practically wasted 2 hours there having dinner . Following which we had night walk which was ridiculous because our walking time was so much longer than the time we spent at the stations .

We had a quick shower and played cards , charades and had HTHT . We ordered McDonald . I slept at about 3am.

3 August 2014 CSI Day 2
I woke up at about 730, went to have breakfast followed by a lab and library tour. They were mostly educational . Following which we went for an activity called food hunt . Our firstly stop was harbourfront followed by holland village and Alexander and ikea .

When we were back , we played wet games followed by war games where we formed an alliance with everyone expect Conan and Sherlock . We had dinner followed by don't forget the lyrics . I quickly had my shower and took a rest .

4 August 2014 CSI Day 3
I actually fell asleep very early . We woke up and had breakfast and headed to the LT for a game briefing , where we had to drop an egg and cushion it with straws so that it won't break . Our balloon busted so we had to do it without the balloon and failed terribly because the eggs were half boiled . Following which we had plot revelation which was kind of ridiculous because we thought we had a great story to say but it was very wrong . We dropped from the second place to the last . However , we won the most enthusiastic OG award , which got us quite a bit of snacks .

After we broke camp , we headed to justacia to have lunch and played ROCK till we departed .

# posted by Everard | 9:19 PM Digimon Tamer

29 July - 1 August 2014 USP O'Week

29 July 2014 Day 1
Thinking that I arrived very early , I was shocked to find out many of the people have already reached there. We had a quick icebreaker games to introduce the new guys . Following which , we had a series of talks regarding curriculum and stuff .

Station games was next and we sorta only won 1 game I believe . The killer was the mass games which required us to play scissors paper stone in which shien and I lost EVERY single round . We somehow got ourselves to second place though . That was kinda it for the day

30 July 2014 Day 2
We spent the whole morning listening to talks , visiting booths and buying several USP shirts . Following which we split to our own major and had a faculty tour with our peer mentors .

We learnt moves of mass dance taught by guofeng and Bianca . It's actually ballroom dance , and I'm really Glad to have Gladys as my partner hahah !

Night games was next and I got Anne as my partner for night walk . We didn't really understand how things worked and easily lost 1 life . So we had to avoid flash light of the ghosts , in the end Anne and I just leopard crawled around , which we learnt from shilun and Gladys . But in the end we took too long and they cut us off by killing us .

31 July 2014 Day 3
I skipped the morning section of the camp to go to my CSI camp briefing and icebreaker games . I missed the talk , which was sort of a blessing because I wasn't really interested anyway . After that we continued learning dance moves .

We set off for amazing race which was around the whole of Nus . Even though we ran like crazy , we couldn't reach the last station . Concurrently there was a stock market going on and Ritchie won us lots of money from it . We somehow didn't win because azarya(red) cheated ... But it's alright .

We headed to west coast park to have a picnic with food prepared by the seniors . Phillina Gladys Esther Imran Jingyi and I played some guessing game and later set up some Kong Ming lanterns. We then headed back to rest.

1 August 29 day 4

The last day of camp was reserved for flag. We went to Ren Ci to do some community work and played games with the sick. When we were back, I left to send my appeal for my Chemistry Lab slot, and I missed the ballroom dance practice, leaving Gladys alone(Sorry :( ). Next was just Origami making and we went up to wash up and get ready for end of camp debrief and dinner. Dinner was a 3 course meal, simple but delicious. We then had a ~10 minutes ballroom dance session and it soon turned into a club. We went up to the lounge to carry on the chatter and games before we closed the night 

2 August 2014 day 5 unofficial 
We basically had Wah chee for breakfast and left for home.

# posted by Everard | 9:18 PM Digimon Tamer

24-27 July 2014 My HK Trip

24 July 2014 Thursday
Daddy fetched me to buy char kway teow and to the airport . I checked in and chilled for a while and board the plane TZ220 . The seat wasn't that comfortable but I still slept for the whole 4 hours of the flight . There was an instance though where my left eye's skull area hurt really bad to the point I was tearing profusely. I left the arrival hall and waited for Lijing to pick me up .

So we went to her apartment and had a really good sleep , like for 2.5 hours . Following which we headed out to have breakfast (at about 12) at a noodle stall nearby and we bought some bread for later .

We took the rail to Ocean Park and walked around the area , sightseeing first. Following which we rode something called 'Flash' , which was something like a Viking ship but instead turns 360 degrees. Following which , we went to the 'South Pole' to see some penguins . The room was awfully cold ! We then had another roller coaster ride followed by a ride called 'Whirly Bird' where it's just a spinning ride for sightseeing . We walked all the way downhill for a ride called 'Space Wheel' which was merely nausea inducing . It basically has you spinning until you feel nauseous . We worked our way to another roller coaster ride called the dragon , following which we rode the Viking ship . By then it was really crowded and we felt like shit already so we headed back , bashing through the thick crowds and arriving back at the bus stop .

We took the same old bus back , 629 , followed by the train . It took about 90 minutes for us to search for dinner until we decided to just takeaway from a random street stall . The food around is so overpriced or it just looks unappealing . The sweet and sour pork I bought was really atrocious ! I had just a bit of it and Lijing fried me an egg and that lasted me for the night . I kind of just showered and fell asleep .

25 July 2014 Friday
Lijing's alarm rang a million times and I was just still lying on the bed resting . We set off at about 11+ and had breakfast at a random restaurant which sucked (again) and we realized that we forgot to send the laundry , and so we had to head back and do it .

We took a train followed by a bus to the start of our hiking trail . We took a steep climb on a road to about 300m high on the hill , followed by a 150m up the track . The scenery was just amazing ! However , very quickly we had several mosquito bites ! We hiked past several hills and took several photographs . The scariest event happened at the last hill , where we walked past the monkey territory . There were like at least a good 15 of them , and one was growling at me with a menacing stare , advancing slowly towards me . I acted harmless and walked past them . Very soon we reached the end of the trail and took a bus back to Jordan .

Dinner was really sumptuous , we had Australia Dairies . We ordered a set meal consisting of bacon spaghetti , omelette and ham and tea . Following which we went back to the same noodle stall and had noodles . I ordered a pork ball noodles which was really dull looking but tasted fantastic ! (Even though I was feeling really full !)

We headed back to the apartment and chilled for the night

26 July 2014 Saturday
I went to the toilet and came back realizing I can't sleep because there was a bright light shining ! And before I knew it , it was dawn . As usual , her alarm rang a million times , and I just headed to wash up . We packed our bags and left the apartment , rushing to the train station where we met some of her friends .

We reached the ferry terminal and had to wait for about an hour because the meeting time was more than an hour before the ferry leaving time !

After a long wait , we got on the ferry . The ferry was 1 hour long and upon reaching , we took a coach to our hotel . For lunch , we took a cab to a Portuguese restaurant by the coast .

We then headed back to take a rest at the hotel . After a while , Lijing and I went to the pool to have a look around . Very quickly we headed to our meeting point . To our dismay , everyone was late by at least half an hour and we took a long time to find the restaurant . We had buffet for dinner and I was very very full !

After the buffet , we headed to a pub called sky 21 . We had a little drink and headed back at about 1 .

I bade farewell to Lijing at 2.25am when my coach arrived . The coach actually had wifi on it !! The ride was a short one and I quickly board the 3pm ferry and had a nice nap on it . I was queuing for the taxi where I was very fortunate to have a family of 3 also going to the airport just behind me . The total fare was about $300 and I paid $100 for it .

I kind of rushed to check in and had a quick breakfast at McDonald's and headed on to the plane where I slept for a good 3 hours .

# posted by Everard | 9:13 PM Digimon Tamer

Friday, July 11, 2014

Saturday 5 July 2014

Saturday 5 July 2014 - USP Camp Day 4

-Breakfast
I don't remember having any breakfast but some bread. We headed to the same hall and they showed us some advertisements and videos, including registration for night cycling. I was the first to actually sign up.

-The only activity of the day.
We were to paste a drawing block on our backs while others write things for us. It was really very troublesome and we went around trying to write stuff on people's back. Halfway through, we went to take a group photo and we came back to continue writing on the drawing block. Following which, we sat in a circle to talk about our thoughts regarding this camp.

-Lunch
We went for lunch at the UTown canteen and I'm relieved to see that the food were affordable and palatable. We had a quick celebration for Raphael's birthday and headed home.

# posted by Everard | 8:22 PM Digimon Tamer

Friday 4 July 2014

Friday 4 July 2014 - USP Camp Day 3

-Packing up & Amazing Race
We had McDonald's for breakfast thanks to mama Bianca and the rest of the OGLs. We cleared up the bungalow and left via coach, which was SO LATE. We started 50 minutes later than the first 3 teams at Tanah Merah. Very quickly we did most of the tasks whenever and wherever we could . Our first stop was the Merlion at Raffles Place. We were given a set of photographs and were to figure where they were taken. It was a simple yet relatively time consuming game. The second game was at esplanade where we had to write alphabets on our feet and attempt to spell the given words.

On our way to the second stop, we met up with a group of kindergarten kids with some teachers. We definitely had loads of fun singing and playing around with them. We headed to harbourfront where we did 3 stations. Our first stop was charades and we had to act our words for the others to guess. The worlds were weird names and it was quite difficult to guess. At the second station, we had to guess some random facts, which we used google to find out answers to. At the third station, we had to do some stupid japanese dance, which was REALLY HILARIOUS, and rather tricky. We did our mass dance to some random strangers around, and all of that was lots of fun. We had our lunch (bread prepared earlier) on the way and this was when Chongwe got lost and we had to wait for him.

We headed to Botanical gardens and saw a team in one of the stations. Even though they finished when we were there, we headed to another station to deny them of the slot. In this station, we had to play a series of minigames until the last one was to blow a balloon until it bursts. Shien was trying so hard until the time ticked to ZERO , the balloon exploded and that was like an epic HEART-STOPPING moment in my life. We headed to the next station where we simply had to run to a location, look at a lego structure, come back and attempt to build the structure. It seems easy but is actually not that quite easy. We took quite a while to complete it and rushed to UTown.

Because there was a delay in the bus ride to Tanah Merah, we could skip one station and so we did merely 1 station at UTown. That station required us to spell words with our body, and the words were all very difficult to spell. The forfeit for not being able to spell was to do crunches , and we ended up doing crunches for almost all the words !

-Washing up and Night Activities
We ended the race 4th by timing before readjustments, and went up to a suite to wash up. Albert Gladys and I watched some dancing videos to pass time until it was dinner, where we took a bus to Clementi mall to have Fish&Co. That was actually my first time eating at that restaurant. We headed back to UTown and waited a long time outside the hall. There were several performances and one that I really want to touch on is Debra's. Her singing and guitar playing were really awesome, but too bad the sound system sucked terribly. In addition , the other houses were making a huge nuisance at the back and lots of unwanted noise was generated. I really found it a pity we couldn't properly enjoy her performance and I got the whole OG to encourage her as I could feel that she was feeling rather low already thanks to the bad audience. Following that was a rock performance to simulate a club but it really didn't feel like it. Slowly, people started leaving and I left as one of the last. We washed up and headed to 7-Eleven where I bought instant noodles.

-HTHT2
Dan, Rochelle, Shien, Gladys and I went to a room and we had a heartwarming HTHT session. Although I fell asleep several times, I still TRIED my best to be engaged in the session. We ended up talking till quite late, was it 4am ? When Weixuan came in, we started talking lying down and lights off. I didn't realise that I fell asleep again and when I woke up, I was like,: "Gladys? You awake?" HAHAha shit that was hilarious. I actually slept for 1.5 hours already and I didn't realise. That shows how tired I was.

# posted by Everard | 8:15 PM Digimon Tamer

Thursday 3 July 2014

Thursday 3 July 2014 - USP Camp Day 2

-Breakfast
It was just bread, nothing much to talk about.

-Beach Battle
We headed to the beach and our first game was dodgeball , with a twist. There'll be a chosen acrobat in the middle and the opponent would have to pair up, one blind-folded and the other not, and they will lead the blind-folded to the water bomb and attempt to direct him to throw it at the acrobat. So Shilun and Christine basically won us the game.

Our second game was really stupid. We're supposed to use different parts of our body to carry a sponge to the sea and back and fill a bottle with the water soaked inside. Our opponent simply let their people go into the water, go back to the bottle, strip their top and squeeze all the water inside. That was not sporty at all. Obviously, we lost this game.

Our third game was supposed to be Water Captain's Ball, but 30 seconds after we got into the water, it rained so we headed back. Along the way, we were told to carry on the game, but on the beach now. It wasn't as easy as it seems because the beach isnt flat, it's rather sloped downward. But still , it was a very enjoyable experience.

We skipped our fourth game as we lacked time, and we merely headed to the war games. We had to join teams with 2 other OGs and build sandcastle while the opponent would throw water bombs and attempt to reveal a bamboo stick covered inside. I played the role of a carriage and kept on resupplying my team with water bombs. There was utter chaos and we won eventually, by a large margin. Following which, we went to the public shower and had a quick washup followed by lunch.

-War Games 2
There's 3 parts to this war game. Harvesting, Building and Raiding.
Harvesting - This part is really hilarious because our whole OG just dived into the ring (it looks somewhat like hunger games) and snatched majority of the materials and just ran back. After a while we were just trying to disturb Zyanya.

Building - We were supposed to build a structure to withstand water bombs and at the same time protect a t-shirt from getting wet. We build a structure and decorated it like the animal in our flag , so it resembles our flag.

Raiding - Somehow, everyone just came throwing water bombs at our OG , every though Azarya's flag was completely dry. Poor Gladys though , kept getting thrown at . It seems like people were throwing the bombs at her face instead of the structure.

-Picnic
So we had a little snack after the tough fight. We ended up playing connect AGAIN . We were all covered in saltwater and went for Mass Dance 2. I don't know does it affect it but I felt REALLY very humid and sweaty all over. So sorry Phillina you had to dance with someone so dirty ! During this lesson we completed the whole dance and even though 30% of the dance I'm wondering what should i do , I still enjoyed it thoroughly.

-Night
That night, we prepared ourselves for the amazing race. We assigned roles and solved clues and planned the route. It was a long night but we did well.

# posted by Everard | 7:52 PM Digimon Tamer

Wednesday 2 July 2014

Wednesday 2 July 2014 - USP Camp Day 1

-Heading towards NSRCC
So basically we were to meet at Tanah Merah MRT and when I reached (and I was early) most of the people were already there and there's only 1 OGL which is Pauline there.We lingered there for a while until the security chased us away which was when we merely took the escalator down and waited there. Bianca led us the wrong way and we ended up walking on both sides of the road and finally hopped on to the bus to NSRCC.

-Waiting a million years for lunch
From the time we reached the location, we were basically walking around wasting time and doing miscellaneous things. We however had a little icebreaker games and came up with a very very simple cheer. So then we had lunch and it was Lee Wee Nasi Lemak , and it tasted awesome. There's like a few presentations and time really flew.

-Station games
We played 6 station games, and because they happened a week ago, I can't recall them in order.
1) If I'm not wrong, this game is called broken television. We were to form one line and the GMs will tell the first person a movie title and we're supposed to act it out and pass on the message.
2) Ninja Warrior , but instead , we use our hands to hit .
3) Some guessing game where we write down a person's name and the opponent would have to guess by asking yes/no questions.
4) Dog and dirt. We had to run to a bucket with some white substance and find some animal figurine. I was overzealous and slide 2 times and got really many scratches on my legs.
5) Dodgeball survivor. Basically throw balls are the people in the center while the rest of the team answer questions for timing freeze.
6) They say its a game like in running man. So 5 people have to drink a cup of water, and the opponent has to guess which one was vinegar. Same thing for Orea/Wasabi and Chair/Cone

-Mass Dance
I thought it was gonna be another boring lesson like during SCAMP , but somehow I got paired with Phillina who was relatively good at it , and the dance steps were easy to remember and feels really good. I totally had LOTS of fun during Mass Dance. The 3 songs we danced to were Timber, Crazykidz and Let There Be Love. For this first lesson we did the first two songs first.

-Dinner
So we had dinner together and had some chitchat and played a little bit of bonding games. I swear these times are the best.

-CSI
I bet this is the most thrilling and intellectual real life game I have ever played. We basically have to go to a bungalow which is a mock-up idea of kairos's house and find clues to discover who is the killer. We had to search for clues like pieces of torn papers and figure out what they mean. There were many riddles and some locks which we had to figure out the pass code. The whole idea of this game is so brilliantly thought out I was more amazed than thrilled by it.

-Wrapping up
So after the final game, we went back and a few of us had HTHT until late night. Not sure if I remember correctly, but they were , Shien, Ritchie, Anne, 'Rochelle' Chongwe, Phillina, Gladys and I. Good Night

# posted by Everard | 7:31 PM Digimon Tamer

Monday, July 07, 2014

20 June 2014 Friday

20 June 2014 - Day 5 of SCAMP'14

-Prize presentation

There's really nothing much on the last day . We merely had prize presentation plus we wrote a message to everyone on a piece of paper which was passed around . We took many photos walked around and chit chat

-Late lunch

We went to a restaurant in utown and had our lunch . We played some games like first impression , and talked and took photos .

-Heading home

After a long time together , we headed home . I went home with Xiaowen , ChengBoon , ChunSiang and Mong .

It was a really enjoyable 5 day camp experience . I hope the friends made will last .

# posted by Everard | 5:04 PM Digimon Tamer

19 June 2014 Thursday

19 June 2014 - Day 4 of SCAMP'14

-Beach Day

The grand finale of scamp is finally here . After a million years worth of briefing , we head off to sentosa Palawan beach via coach . We basically had several games .

The first one we had to carry a person from the sea to the beach to grab clothing to decorate a minion .

The second game was basically captains ball in the sea . But each player consist of a person to move a float , and another to play the ball .

The third game was a mix of several different steps where we pair up to do a series of actions and finally attempt to throw a slipper into a target

The fourth game was sandcastle building/destroying . We had to build a sandcastle and both teams were to then attack each other's sandcastle .

The fifth game was dodgeball plus soccer . Where they call up a single number and the two will attempt to score a their manmade goal post

The last game was silly . We had to put a stocking on our head and attempt to hit and enemy with it .

Each house then attempted to bomb other houses in a game of battleship .

Following which we had war games where we had to try and steal a piece of cloth from enemy in order to capture them . The ultimate goal is to throw water bomb at the enemy team's bucket . Slaydon and Cyfer teamed up again Ilaxus in this game . I was actually at a point in time pinned by an Ilaxus guy while another tried to steal my cloth . But after struggling for a minute or so , the comm member came to stop them . I had a bad abrasion on my right foot as a result of that guy stepping and scrubbing sand on it . The best thing was , they actually didn't manage to steal my cloth .

-Clubbing night

We then washed up and head to Phuture . It was a really long wait until we actually got into the club . We started off munching on some food and chit chatting for a bit . For the first two hours in the club , there was an mc playing some really lame games . We were all so really damn bored of it . Finally when the DJ rolled out , the energy level started rising . We danced till about 12am and headed back to Nus .

-supper

We ordered as an OG McDonald's . The delivery man actually drove his car to deliver our orders . We had our supper followed by doing the photo montage and everyone went to bed ..

# posted by Everard | 5:03 PM Digimon Tamer

18 June 2014 Wednesday

18 June 2014 - Day 3 of SCAMP'14

-Amazing Race

The most exciting part of the camp should be amazing race already . We headed out to harbourfront sky garden and played a game where we had to pick a random price and take photos of items which cost adds up to the given price . We finished stage one and came up again for stage two and lost because apparently the other team already took photos of the pictures required .

We stopped for lunch afterward . I thought everyone would be very enthusiastic and just have a quick lunch and move on , so I went to takeaway some rice and finished it hastily . To my disappointment , everyone took their time and we were even almost late . But to be honest , it's alright because I didn't take anything too seriously .

We headed towards our next station which was at botanical gardens . We played a riddle game where we get a riddle and have to do a specific action while moving towards the other end for the answer . We won the timing for the station , but didnt win the other teams .

We rushed to jurong east , Jem for the next station . We played a game that is like charade , but we have to let a public guess the title of a song . We basically let a group of smokers guess majority of the songs . It was REALLY a very fun game . I swear hahaha . Especially the interaction with the public . You'll never experience it elsewhere .

We then headed to Marsiling to have a game of paintball . This was the first time I'm playing paintball , and as much of a good shooter I am with the SAR21 , the paintball rifle is so much different because the projectile speed is a whole lot slower than of a real rifle . There was about 20 pellets inside and I spammed all 20 and didn't manage to hit anyone . I then waited for everyone to expend their rounds and I rushed to the flag and capture it .

On our way to the next stop , we were told that our time is up and we were to head back to school . We went to the ntuc at kent ridge mrt and bought some snacks , while some of the guys bought gifts for their sp .

-Back to school

We headed back to lt27 and the girls and guys split and we played SSM . It took quite a while for the other teams to get back . So ...

-SP revelation

The girls and guys were split again and we went to the same lt , same seat . So I met yong guang , jia chin and Edmund . Soon later , we were brought to S16 to meet our sp for the first time . We had several couple games and I definitely had much fun that night .

# posted by Everard | 5:02 PM Digimon Tamer

17 June 2014 Tuesday

17 June 2014 - Day 2 of SCAMP'14

-More Games

We were assembled at the lt and were split to each location respectively to play different games . We were teamed with solaris . We played Pacman in the lt . Basically we were required to run around with another person behind to secure a ball and reach the stage without getting caught . We lost horribly at that game

After which, Yunjing allowed us to play a minigame where we were required to know a few facts about our partners from Solaris . My team just designated a few points for everyone to memorize .

Our next game was sort of like a dancing game where we had to follow the screen and dance to the beat .. We had much success but ended up getting a draw ..

The last game basically required us to fill up the seats of the lt exactly as the screen shows . It might look damn easy but it was so difficult . At the end of the game Andrew showed us photo taken during the game . This was where Jiahui got called 校花 because she was making a flower face .

-Sending of Tribute

After lunch , each OG was to send 2 people as tribute to get the witch's bad breath . Jiahui and Thomas got volunteered and both 'died' . The rest of us went to slay the dragon at the lt , which was actually Heidi . We had to throw balls at the cups downstairs which represent the dragon's hp . Skreamer managed to kill the dragon and we went back to the lt .

-Revelation of Fake Freshmen

It was then revealed that Thomas was actually a fake freshman . His real name is Mong and he's the FOP vice-director .

-Clash of Clans

We played a war game where everyone had a balloon tied onto their arms and the objective is to pop the enemy's balloons to find a scroll inside which might contain points . Mine got popped by Qirong illegally when he cornered me at the railing and was asked to stop by the referees and he just continued going on . I just instantly got real bored of the games because people don't follow rules . I then spent almost 2 hours searching for ice cream sticks and only found one . Poor Gareth had the same fate as me where he got chased by a barbaric girl who continued her ravage upon him , breaking the rules . He was so upset about it . When the game was over , most of the guys got scratches on their arms from the girls . This game would have been more enjoyable if people followed the rules ..

# posted by Everard | 5:01 PM Digimon Tamer

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