No pain, no gain... Hey, some things are worth it. We hope.
Alrighty, hi people. I'm really sorry about the terrible Cambodia post, but I was really feeling awful and didn't feel like staying too long...
But now I'm feeling better!!! And I shall tell you AAAAAALLLLLLLL about my devious little adventures in my uni freshmen camp.
Not that you really want to know. But this is my blog. And if you come here, either you're someone trying to figure out what I've been doing lately, in which case I shall reveal that to you with glee; or you came to be disturbed, in which case I shall do my duty with glee.
For starters, before the freshmen camp, there was orientation dinner, where I immediately found myself two victims and--- unwittingly-- found my match in one of them. I'll explain later. And you've guessed it: they were two guys.
Before I continue, maybe I should explain that there are five sections in the camp, and each section in split into six groups. I was in the Greeks section, group Aristotle.
Yeah, yeah... stop choking.
Anyways, on the first morning, after we all met up at the school campus, my group had this 'get m&ms for information' thingy, following which we played catch the tail with the other groups, only instead of grabbing hankies we were upsurping members of the other team. Our head... power lah... we actually managed to completely engulf one other group into our long line. I've never seen that happen before. That group had about 4 people left in their line, so our head quietly went up, and starting from the tail, tapped each one and waved them to the back of our line noiselessly, until the other team's head was left wondering what happened. He became our brand new tail.
After we got to camp, I realised yet again how assumptions can be dangerous. I had assumed the guys and the girls were going to be bunked separately. Nope. One big happy family, people. Because of the lack of space, my match and I were making jokes about sleeping together, which in fact we almost ended up doing (if you're thinking dirty, get it out of your head. Now.), if not for the fact that some people were forced to sleep below the blocks, in the open.
We went on to lose the witch doctor's challenge, consisting of a trick game by the facilitators, a toe tower competition, a three-way tug of war, and a wash-the-ball-out-of-the-barrel-drilled-with-holes thingy, where I sincerely applaud the boys for showing great valour.
Oh, I drew our flag, but our flag got lost in the wind. It just vapourised.
Next up was kayaking, and the first time I got flipped in my kayak due to a task we had to do. Fun though. We had to do this jump-frog thingy on kayaks (the game, not the physical one, even though it was pretty physical in this case... am I confusing you?), where I got really stressed because I was the only one looking out for the waves. I never heard the end of it.
Later that night we were transported to Changi area for a 'night walk' ie haunted house routine.
On the bus, my match offered to sit with me, and who would give up an offer from a bait? But here's where I lost my battle, thanks to a new poem I was working on. I actually got cornered into asking my other teammate to switch seats again (this was denied me). I CAN'T BELIEVE I LOST!!!! But the battles continue...
Wah lau, I never realised haunted bungalows could be SO FUNNY. In one of the segments, only the girls were permitted to go into the bungalow marked "Despaired Ho sewives" (the 'u' dropped off) to collect four corks from four different bowls. This had to be done in pairs, but we girls eventually congregated anyway. There was this room where a pirate was resting and a guy in tshirt and jeans popped out off the closet, and the pirate demanded answers to three of his questions per pair before he'd say, 'You may pass'. Very stupid 3 questions, each and everytime. Case in point: What is your name? What is your purpose? What is your favourite colour? (there was this one: what is square root of 81 times 2?)
When the pair of girls in front of my pair were in the room, I decided to be me and asked the pirate, "Why does your soul rest here?"
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yes."
"A long time ago, I murdered my wives. Their spirits roam in this place."
"(point to guy in jeans behind the pirate) Does one of them look like that?"
"Does SHE look like a 'SHE'????? (laughter from all the girls) ... Trust me to have better taste than that."
After my 3 questions (I originally lied about my name, but the girls' sniggers gave me away), my partner and I went in and passed the guy in jeans, who was sitting on a chair and mumbling very unwillingly, 'Do I look like a 'she'?', to which I could only reply, 'Sorry~~'
But I also had to drink a mouthful of everybody's saliva. Urgh.
I didn't get any sleep that night. The bunk was really crowded and uncomfortable.
Next day, I was most impressed with my group. We completed most of the land tasks without much trouble, including the famous Giant's Finger (the one where you have to lift the tire out of the pole, only this time our pole was bent; we could not touch the pole nor could we talk during the task. we were very efficient here for some reason).
Later I got picked out to go do the campfire skit for the section... It went through a lot of changes, but eventually we got it done. I was the host of the Immortal Idol, which we performed later that night and won top honours for. Credits given to the poor guy who kena molested by me for the skit. HON-HON!!!
We originally had some people who composed the section cheer, but everyone complained about it, so some of us were asked to come up with something better. I wrote it, submitted, and in so doing saboed myself into leading the cheer later on that night. At least it was better than the original.
Held a group discussion on which 'spells' to buy with our accumalated points for the final challenge. The fastfoward drained our points out a lot.
This night I chose to move below the bunks with my sleeping bag. I slept SOOOOOOOOO much more soundly. Had another 'flirting' round with my match about sleeping together, but eventually I was sleeping with my head near his foot. Three of us in a line.
Final day consisted of Final challenge. Long story short, funfunfunfunfun, done, and the Greeks won!!! I think the fact that all six waves of the section repeatedly won the first challenge helped greatly.
Meeting my group again for dinner tomorrow!! The battle continues...
By the way, my poor match got kena two accidents from me... poor guy.... I'm sorry!!!
My hips are still bruised from the first challenge... argh.
But now I'm feeling better!!! And I shall tell you AAAAAALLLLLLLL about my devious little adventures in my uni freshmen camp.
Not that you really want to know. But this is my blog. And if you come here, either you're someone trying to figure out what I've been doing lately, in which case I shall reveal that to you with glee; or you came to be disturbed, in which case I shall do my duty with glee.
For starters, before the freshmen camp, there was orientation dinner, where I immediately found myself two victims and--- unwittingly-- found my match in one of them. I'll explain later. And you've guessed it: they were two guys.
Before I continue, maybe I should explain that there are five sections in the camp, and each section in split into six groups. I was in the Greeks section, group Aristotle.
Yeah, yeah... stop choking.
Anyways, on the first morning, after we all met up at the school campus, my group had this 'get m&ms for information' thingy, following which we played catch the tail with the other groups, only instead of grabbing hankies we were upsurping members of the other team. Our head... power lah... we actually managed to completely engulf one other group into our long line. I've never seen that happen before. That group had about 4 people left in their line, so our head quietly went up, and starting from the tail, tapped each one and waved them to the back of our line noiselessly, until the other team's head was left wondering what happened. He became our brand new tail.
After we got to camp, I realised yet again how assumptions can be dangerous. I had assumed the guys and the girls were going to be bunked separately. Nope. One big happy family, people. Because of the lack of space, my match and I were making jokes about sleeping together, which in fact we almost ended up doing (if you're thinking dirty, get it out of your head. Now.), if not for the fact that some people were forced to sleep below the blocks, in the open.
We went on to lose the witch doctor's challenge, consisting of a trick game by the facilitators, a toe tower competition, a three-way tug of war, and a wash-the-ball-out-of-the-barrel-drilled-with-holes thingy, where I sincerely applaud the boys for showing great valour.
Oh, I drew our flag, but our flag got lost in the wind. It just vapourised.
Next up was kayaking, and the first time I got flipped in my kayak due to a task we had to do. Fun though. We had to do this jump-frog thingy on kayaks (the game, not the physical one, even though it was pretty physical in this case... am I confusing you?), where I got really stressed because I was the only one looking out for the waves. I never heard the end of it.
Later that night we were transported to Changi area for a 'night walk' ie haunted house routine.
On the bus, my match offered to sit with me, and who would give up an offer from a bait? But here's where I lost my battle, thanks to a new poem I was working on. I actually got cornered into asking my other teammate to switch seats again (this was denied me). I CAN'T BELIEVE I LOST!!!! But the battles continue...
Wah lau, I never realised haunted bungalows could be SO FUNNY. In one of the segments, only the girls were permitted to go into the bungalow marked "Despaired Ho sewives" (the 'u' dropped off) to collect four corks from four different bowls. This had to be done in pairs, but we girls eventually congregated anyway. There was this room where a pirate was resting and a guy in tshirt and jeans popped out off the closet, and the pirate demanded answers to three of his questions per pair before he'd say, 'You may pass'. Very stupid 3 questions, each and everytime. Case in point: What is your name? What is your purpose? What is your favourite colour? (there was this one: what is square root of 81 times 2?)
When the pair of girls in front of my pair were in the room, I decided to be me and asked the pirate, "Why does your soul rest here?"
"Do you really want to know?"
"Yes."
"A long time ago, I murdered my wives. Their spirits roam in this place."
"(point to guy in jeans behind the pirate) Does one of them look like that?"
"Does SHE look like a 'SHE'????? (laughter from all the girls) ... Trust me to have better taste than that."
After my 3 questions (I originally lied about my name, but the girls' sniggers gave me away), my partner and I went in and passed the guy in jeans, who was sitting on a chair and mumbling very unwillingly, 'Do I look like a 'she'?', to which I could only reply, 'Sorry~~'
But I also had to drink a mouthful of everybody's saliva. Urgh.
I didn't get any sleep that night. The bunk was really crowded and uncomfortable.
Next day, I was most impressed with my group. We completed most of the land tasks without much trouble, including the famous Giant's Finger (the one where you have to lift the tire out of the pole, only this time our pole was bent; we could not touch the pole nor could we talk during the task. we were very efficient here for some reason).
Later I got picked out to go do the campfire skit for the section... It went through a lot of changes, but eventually we got it done. I was the host of the Immortal Idol, which we performed later that night and won top honours for. Credits given to the poor guy who kena molested by me for the skit. HON-HON!!!
We originally had some people who composed the section cheer, but everyone complained about it, so some of us were asked to come up with something better. I wrote it, submitted, and in so doing saboed myself into leading the cheer later on that night. At least it was better than the original.
Held a group discussion on which 'spells' to buy with our accumalated points for the final challenge. The fastfoward drained our points out a lot.
This night I chose to move below the bunks with my sleeping bag. I slept SOOOOOOOOO much more soundly. Had another 'flirting' round with my match about sleeping together, but eventually I was sleeping with my head near his foot. Three of us in a line.
Final day consisted of Final challenge. Long story short, funfunfunfunfun, done, and the Greeks won!!! I think the fact that all six waves of the section repeatedly won the first challenge helped greatly.
Meeting my group again for dinner tomorrow!! The battle continues...
By the way, my poor match got kena two accidents from me... poor guy.... I'm sorry!!!
My hips are still bruised from the first challenge... argh.
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