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Saturday, September 02, 2006
The hell week had just ended. Finally.
The last 24 hours have been especially gruelling=( Stayed in sch on Thurs till 9 plus for a meeting, waking up at 6.30am on fri to go to sch even though it was my free day (!) cos I had to man the Yellow Ribbon Project (YRP) Booth at Arts. The YRP forum-cum-concert last night was the finale for the entire project. While I was a tad disappointed with the slightly-more-than-half turnout for the concert, I was quite surprised that NUS students actually took the time to come down for the concert. Applaud. Regardless of whether they were supporting their friends who were organising the event or out of concern for the issues faced by ex-offenders, I appreciated their support. Frankly, if I had not known any friends organising the YRP or any other event for that matter, I would not have taken the time to attend such stuff, especially when it was held till about 9.15pm on a Friday=( I could have done more "constructive" things for myself like getting down to my first readings, having proper meals, etc. But I think it is a worthy cause and I am glad that I had volunteered for it. Had so much fun with the people in NVAC and of course, my writing-cum-DnD kakis - Kok Leong and Angela. We had so much fun last night that we must have made much noise backstage. Haha. But it was cool. Love working with them. Looking forward to my next project with them=)Oh, I have finally met my primary school friend. After chatting for so long online, we finally met up=) Really great to finally match a face to it. Haha. A little weird but kinda cool to see someone after 10 years. She's more havoc than me lor... Purple highlighted hair. Almost couldn't recognise her. Haha. How could I have missed her at the booth yesterday when she's so prominent? Hope her impression of me did not falter after seeing me in such a "lang bei" state of extreme busy-ness.
Back to last night. I went for the NUSPsyche Prep camp for students who are interested in running for the inaugural committee. It ended this morning at 7am. I seriously think I am getting old. Can't really take this kind of 24-hour non-stop work anymore. And I hate to stay overnight when I don't get to wash up=( In all, we played 3 games. The first game involved all of us reading the headlines and fine prints of the newspapers (all sections) to answer 93(!) questions in the middle of the track in SRC. Not so easy though. We could only use the light from our handphones and only 3 phones were allowed. And each half hour or something like that (can't remember cos I was too tired..), they would remove a person from each group, and eventually the finally person remaining had to complete the questions alone. Stupidly, we did not ask if we could shift to somewhere with better light source, like the grandstand, which we did move to eventually. And we all went back to help the last person despite the rules. Team spirit. Can you imagine reading the Straits Times for almost 3 hours and searching for every corner that might provide a clue to the answers? I thought the game was fun. Did you know that Classifieds had fast facts like what kind of food can help prevent memory loss? Or that you can find Dilbert comic strip in Recruit section? Or that SKII can turn an old woman into a young lady, or something to that extent? Haha, all the useless facts. But it was all cool I think.
The second game was much more interesting. We had to form a triangle, 3 squares, and NUSPsyche (in proportion - Caps and small caps) using colour ice-cream sticks. The twist to this game is that each group member was given a rule each, like blue and red sticks cannot be in the same shape or word, all shapes/words have to have at least 3 colours, brown stick has to be above all other colours, certain colour can't be crossed with other colours, etc. You get the idea. We had to communicate to the person forming the shapes/word in any way other than verbally. Here's our final formation
The last game was prisoners' dilemma. Not worth mentioning cos I couldn't figure out the purpose of the game. Let's just say that the game deviated so much from the original that there wasn't any dilemma to begin with.
The 24-hour mad rush ended with a piping hot McDonalds' breakfast at Engine. Finally back home.
I am still unsure if I want to run for a position on the committee. The people who are running are rather fun and I've worked with some of them on a stats project last sem. But it seemed to me that there was something lacking. I did not have much to talk to them about. Primarily because they have already bonded over the last year as well as during the psychology freshmen camp. It felt dominated with more elements of a working relationship than friendship. I can foresee myself working with them on projects but I cannot foresee myself being able to fit into the crowd. Simply put, we are just on different frequencies. This made me realised something about myself - I think the point when people become my friends is when we can crap about anything, and I can open up to you. It takes years for some. A few weeks for others. Actually it depends on my general mood during the friend-making stage. It is very clear when I start to poke fun at you. Haha. When I am being nice and polite, then I'm sorry, you are not my friend yet, and it seems to be hard to cross that hurdle once it has been set up. It is just like a glass screen being place in between us right from the start.Ok, long enough post. I need to get some sleep again. Seems like I will be sleeping the whole day... When can I ever get down to start on my readings??????
