7.1.06
ORIENTATION CAMP '06
was incredible.
What can I say? The campcomm are great people. Only a pity that I was in my depressed, antisocial mood. Even so, unforgettable.
Things I will remember:
Tying waterbombs at 2am in the morning with ngiam, zhizhi, longzhao, nelson, zuoming, , yuheng, going to sleep to see the lightsticks glowing all around, waking up at 6 again to do the same thing. A hundred man-hours of work (2000 waterbombs), all gone in a great 30 mins.
Shedding my mood and going manic-insane, tripping secones at the knees into the mud as they rushed for our bucket, but everyone was laughing anyway.
Drinking kopi with bernard at 9am at macritchie reservoir, silently watching the kayaks go back and forth.
Anwaar's mangled cheers.
have you got the speeeeeeeerit?Ngiam's teaching people about doors
Ngiam dressed as Kong rushing down to rescue a fair maiden
Aaron chee being pumped by paul lim for taking gay pictures, and remaining, bloody unrepentant =D
8 minute speech at cca trail, floundering for the first 4 mins but then something broke within me and I gave my most passionate speech ever.
The sublime moment was at the finale, when we cheered, danced, sang together with the secones, when kingkong revived to dance again. Incredible pride, accomplishment, you name it. Definitely far better than ours, anyway.
So I'm here thinking: the kind of mindless punishment we've grown used to doesn't work. I had one particular guy try to smart-aleck me in the toilet, was ready to throw "NO PUMPING" to the wind and knock him down 80, then I controlled myself and just well... talked to him. Told him how I felt, why he shouldn't have done what he did, and I think he was changed. Somehow I feel he won't forget that anytime soon.
I think a lot of the PSLs (self included) started out wanting to do to them what ours did to us, and along the way that changed into genuinely wanting to teach them.
To the sec ones: 1. see you in band, no i won't be what the band says I'll be 2. keep up whatever you've shown these past three days.
Stone-stupid, incredibly cute, but these are my brothers
To the campcomm: awesome working with such great people, all of you. Hope we stay together, for uh. forever!
ate your heart out at 11:15 PM
