the one where i reiterate my point just to reiterate my point that hall life is really tiring..and painful.

yesterday yin chong came arount to ntu so xw and i brought him around to our halls for a bit.

after that i had to meet the OG people for the night tour thing at 6 but the bloody shuttle bus took sucha long time to come i was late. but that was no matter cos the rest of the world was late as well..

went to imm where some of them went to giant to get their stuff. the rest of us went to rot at the food court.

at 10pm we went to jec to ice-skate. it was pretty cool. they booked the whole place from 10pm to 12.30am so we literally had the whole place to ourselves..i fell so many times there're now huge black bruises on my knees. and my butt felt a little sore the whole night..

after that went to geylang for supper. had the beef hor fun and frog porridge. was really good but after that when they still wanted to eat the dough fritters i was alr full to the brim..

sleeping all the way back to hall..it was alr 3+am when we reached our hall. so tired that right after i had bathed a took a nap before sleeping. meaning i slept for awhile before waking up to brush my teeth and do my daily skincare routine..tiffany was supposed to come borrow the hairdryer but she saw me sleeping so she didnt...which erupted into this big hoo-ha today abt napping before sleeping..

slept at ard 4.30am last nite, woke up at 9.30am for dim sum buffet at excelsior hotel with seniors. ate until i was up to the eyeballs with food again. oh man...sinful..

walked around town for awhile with ying xuan. wanted to get a feel of town after being MIA for so long.. got a hushhush little bag real cheap and some nail color from missha.

collapsed right onto bed the minute i reached home. napped for awhile before waking up to remove my contacts, then sleeping all the way until 8/9-ish..

im so tired.  ¶ 10:11 PM 0 Comments

  the one where i describe my week back at home!! hall living's way cool and so fun but seriously i sleep better at home..haha..

in a way hall living's tiring too..

had such a madcap week!! monday was swamped with freshmen talks and orientations; btw the hss buffet was da bomb!! they even had mussels!!

tuesday was abt the same except worse cos i was trying to register my subjects...still cant get forensic science!! somebody pls drop it!! i rearranged my whole schedule so that i could fit the forensic science lecture into my timetable~ actually i dont really know what happened; just that tuesday was a really busy day and i had to go back to my room to have a lil' nap..oh bought the sociology main text for sem1 before i realised toro has it!! argh~ went to have a look at the pretty tuff women's club thing..it was welcome night at the hall and there were performances and stuff and signing up for ibg, ihg and subcomm positions..after that we were stull feeling restless so we gathered the og and went out to city harvest for supper. pretty long walk..was already half asleep eating supper, not to mention when we were walking back..after that tiffany came over to my room for awhile cos her roomie wasnt back. i think i slept close to 4 that day..

wednesday was flag day!! went out abt 10+ to meet lizhen and her friends...we ended up at lot1 cos there were fewer ntu students already there..collected until ard 5+ then we were really tired..supposed to meet the og after that but disappointingly the og outing had already ended and most of them had gone back home..wanted to go home cos i wasnt going back on fri plus there was the csi season finale on!! supposed to watch at sook's place but she cldnt make it..no prob sook i'd find some excuse to raid ur house some other time!! haha :P

so today is thurs. meeting xw later in sch to get my laptop.decided on the silver fujitsu one, to hell with the screen. prob haf dinner with her thn hop around to her pad or mine to chill for awhile. thn at night we're having a bbq thing at hall 11...

tmr is actually my off day!! yc's coming over to ntu so will have to entertain him for awhile, then maybe might go play badm or something, then at night we're having some night tour thing with the hall.

living in hall is really tiring. and all the while i've typed no vacancy has opened up for my forensic science thing. somebody pls drop..

think im having sore eyes..

oh and yitian's in hall 11 as well!! she's staying in blk 53 and i havent seen her cos she hasnt moved in yet. haha im over the moon!! next time wl has her frds over i know where to go!!  ¶ 11:11 AM 0 Comments

  the one where i talk about my camp hmm..how do i tell thee?? let me count the ways..
Day 1
orientation, stupid games...cant really rmb what happened

Day 2
inter OG games in the field and book of records. basically team-building games. candle fight.

Day 3
speed dating thing in the morning. highlight of the day was the initiation!! and i was wondering how come they didnt wanna give us our camp tees..haha. ok goes like this: at night we were told that we were supposed to go 'gambling' to win $$ which could be translated into points for our group. so we were led to these room where the seniors doubled as the people manning the gambling tables. haha they were all really fierce and everything and it was so noisy and rowdy everywhere cos they wanted to make it as real as possible. but b4 that i knew that something was fishy cos the seniors made it sound very serious when they were briefing us and i was like *raised eyebrows* how serious can that be?! on top of that they had told us to wear our unwanted clothes.

so we were in the 'gambling den' playing with fake money when the 'police' raided the place and asked us to blindfold ourselves. then the initiation began. the 'police' were all very fierce when they shouted and everything but when it came to the girls they were really sweet. they asked us individually v nicely to stand up and led us very gently to our holding area. the first one i went to was the mud crawl where we had crawl in the mud under raffia strings. my shorts were abit loose though then when they kept telling me to keep my butt down i couldnt stand it anymore and i blurted out 'cannot!! pants dropping!!' there was a pregnant pause from the senior. then the question "whose pants? my pants ar?" ?!?!?!?! hahahaha!! keep in mind i was blindfolded!! i couldnt see!! and i was the one crawling through the mud not him!! hahaha!! i dunnoe who was more confused, me or him!! hahaha!!

after that i think it was the toilet thingy. they led u to the toilet and told u to feel something in it. but before that there was alot of waiting time and this guy kept going around asking 'what's ur name?' i got asked like 5 times and the last time the person (i think it was my AGL Soon Guan) finally asked me if i was french. haha!! before that i had heard him asking someone if he was chinese and that the chinese and indians were very close. 0_O it was all very hilarious. and after that right before i was waiting for my turn into the toilet thing my AGL was entertaining us with his crazy indian accent. i was besides myself with laughter, especially when he kept saying that he was working for $5 an hour and that singaporeans had no heart when i told him to go back to india. then he asked me sth about PET and i didnt know what it meant, so he rushed in front of me and said in his original voice "PET is proficiency english test la" and rushed back beside me with his indian accent back on again. haha. after that day he complained that he had lost his voice entertaining us the whole night.

well in the toilet they made u feel in the urinal and taste the liquid that was inside. it was just salt water really. then after that we were brought to the toiletbowl and made to feel 'shit'. it really felt like what shit would feel like but i think it was most prob just banana in water. haha.

then there was one where they rolled u up real tight in cloth and and mattress and rolled u down a slope. haha that was fun!! but abit weird esp when u're blindfolded and cant c a thing..like u're at the brink of ur life..but i must reiterate that it was really safe and all the the seniors really took great care of us and made sure that none of us were hurt.

oh then came the grossest one of all the mudslide. we were made to go down a slide leading right into an shallow lake of muddy water. we were told to hold our breath but we slid down too fast plus the with the blindfolds we couldnt see when we were going to hit the water so we all ended up drinking mud. like im not kidding!! we sputtered with mud coming out of our noses and mouth and when i spat out what i thought was phlgem later that night i realised it was sand. eck. so u can imagine how our throats felt. right after that we were given towels to dry ourselves and hot milo to keep ourselves warm, followed by campbells soup. see i told u the seniors took great care of us..

tug of war with a pillar came after that.

after everything was over we removed our blindfolds and walked through the hall which was lit up with tealights and our ogl presented to us our camp tees and told us 'welcome to hall 11' only after that did we realise that we had just undergone the initiation and were now being officially 'accepted' into the hall.

Day 4
oh this was a tiring day. we had city hunt which is basically like the amazing race which literally brought us all across the island, considering our last stop was parkway parade. and we had to run so much!! we were dripping with sweat and our legs were giving way, but the seniors nary uttered a grunt, and THEY were the ones carring the water tumbler and countless other full water bottles on top of the first aid kit, road maps, and lotsa other things stuffed into bulging bags. we had nothing except our ezlinks. well actually the seniors were dousing us with water the whole 5 days and we even had pei pa gao every morning along with strepsils, thanks to our beloved welfare, weitao. and through the camp their favourite question was 'who's ur favourite senior?' ahhaha.

we ended at east coast to spend the night in the chalets

Day 5
beachgames. cheering competitions. unveiling of secret pals.

dinner at hawaiian grill. thn it was fright night. amazingly our fright nite was at haw par villa. pretty cool eh. all the seniors were dressed up as ghosts and we had this heavyweight senior acting as a beggar. he looked so cute sitting there begging for money we had to laugh. haha. anyway fright nite was more funny than scary even though we screamed at almost every gag they had. haha. it was fun!!

hope i can stay on in hall xi...  ¶ 2:01 AM 0 Comments

  the one where i go MIA... last post for a couple of weeks.. considering im moving into the hostel tonight and orientation's the whole of next week and SCHOOL STARTS RIGHT AFTER THAT WEEKEND!!!

im so not looking forward to it. partly cos im gonna this wonderful holiday; mostly because i didnt get into my desired course. life sucks. seriously this is the only time im so not enthusiastic about going to school. fortunately it'll also be the last..

i hate my life.

and then there's the whole socio thing. i dont know whether to be glad or upset that i finally know someone in socio..*deep sigh*

i've been sighing more these past few weeks than i ever had in the course of 18 years...

i really dont wanna go for tt stupid hall orientation camp...

people dont get my humour. they think im unfriendly..im not. they're dumb.
i feel sick..could be fever..

keep ur fingers crossed for me y'all... :(  ¶ 3:02 PM 0 Comments

  the one where i whine went beaching yesterday with xw and lz!!

the heavens were playing tricks on us..it was drizzling one moment and when we decided to haul our mat in the sun came out again. and u dont know how many times it happened to us..

hopefully we got our tans..

going for the hall orientation camp next wk. argh. hate it. it isnt so much hating the camp than(which i also do) hating the timing. there's hardly any time for rest before the school term starts!! like..2 days?! and i wanna be home for at least a week!! im so not used to missing CSIs..

and then there's the secret partner thing..*shudders* i dont wanna get stuck with...u know the type..

and then there's the sociology course...*deep sigh*

i hate my life. i really do.  ¶ 2:55 PM 0 Comments

  the one where i reveal my hall guess how bad my luck is. i got a hall which is situated far away from my school. how far i hear u ask? well let's see my sch's at the south spine, my hall's at the tip of the north. and i dont mean north spine i mean all the way up north!!!!

i know things cant always go my way but SOMETHING has to at least???!!! *weeps*

well ok at least it's got a lounge with espn n sports channels...but then again there's no euro or world cup this yr...

garh.

tag me~tell me which halls yall got!!  ¶ 1:41 PM 0 Comments

  a little ps.. just adding that's this song's my current vice. bad day by daniel powter. addicted to the music video. sweet. just what i need.  ¶ 1:18 AM 0 Comments

  the one where i air my grouses so now maybe it's time to get to terms with it.

i got the nbs rejection letter.

upsetting news. u cant imagine how horrible i felt when i got the letter. i goddamn wished i hadnt received it at all. well u know the drill. swears and curses in the lift, tears where i thought nobody would notice, a dreadful lethargy and a great deal of silence. silent when talked to, silent when rebuked, silent when the tears started rolling down. i think it's safe to say i lost a great deal of faith and self-belief in that period.

then the days passed. then because things couldnt get any bleaker i finally came to terms with it. with IT being a useless course, with IT being an unknown course, with IT being virtually a job with no good career prospects, with IT being a bloody 4-year course. i mean how much worse can it get. i should already thank my lucky stars, however few there are, that i can get into a university.

that's not to say i dont harbour hopes of a sudden phonecall offering me a place in the school. i can still always dream cant i?  ¶ 11:41 PM 0 Comments