we mean business

OH man, I'm still tired from FOC. 4 days of non-stop work and sai kang. It was extremely exhausting but I can say that I'm very proud of the MC :D We managed to pull it off and gave the freshies an experience they'll (hopefully) never forget! All this despite the odds against us, like lack of experience, a small budget, and a lousy head among other things. Although there were times when many of us felt like giving up, or when disagreements and conflicts arose among the committee members, I'm glad we stuck through everything and worked it all out. Oh well, too lazy to describe everything in detail so here's a summary:

1) I slept a total of 8 hours in the 4 days of camp. The first night was exceptionally bad, cuz we only managed to put in 10 mins of sleep only.

2) We were so tired that on the 2nd day, 10 of us station masters resorted to sleeping on a sheet of canvas on the beach at Sentosa while waiting for the rest of the camp to arrive.

3) I'm sunburnt now. And there're 2 pimples on my nose pfft. And my neck is peeling really bad.

4) Founded the Dimbo club with Terry, Kaiyi, Grace, Xiaoshan and Juli wahhaha! The no looks, no figure, no brains club. Exclusive membership only.

5) Made alot of new friends among the MC and OGLs. Really happy that I got to know many people outside my usual circle of friends :)

6) The freshies were generally ok, but there were some who blatantly refused to follow instructions. And a few with no common sense, like going to Zouk while the program was going on at DXO and refusing to come back. It can get frustrating dealing with these pple. But otherwise, the rest of the freshies were fun and very 'on'.

7) There are alot of pretty girls among the freshies. Too bad we had very few guys. But there was one cute guy, the Kian Seng look-alike hahaha!

8) Camp was very busy. To the extent that I didn't have time to think about anything else. Any spare time we had was spent catching up on sleep.

9) The FOC exco rawks! Kudos to Sherry, Ritchie and Danielle for keeping it together and doing literally everything. You guys deserve the most credit. Programmes Comm also, for planning everything although some things weren't really part of your job scope.

10) I've learnt that a good head is very important. One who has initiative, commitment and responsibility. And of course enough charisma to command respect from his committee and the freshies. We were fortunate that our committee was strong enough to hold the camp together, even without a strong head.

11) I felt proud doing the Bizad cheer fight. Even though most of the freshies probably didn't understand what we were cheering about. And although we ourselves didn't really take it seriously while we were practising, when it came down to doing the real thing, somehow all of us understood the importance of keeping the Bizad tradition and kept our tone solemn and serious. I even felt like going down to slap the freshies who were sniggering at us. Although most of the lyrics sound really ridiculous ("Sing ayam sing") I guess it all boils down to the keeping of a decades-old tradition.

12) Boss really suffered because of the MC immunity thing wahaha. I made the Odin guys sing and dance around her, and Juli made some other og guys gyrate their hips around her hahaha! Oh and we made Crusades throw her in the pool. Rawks la. At least our forfeits were creative, and not the same old dunkings.

13) FOC 2007. 196: We Mean Business

Ooh, on another note, I had my first driving lesson today! Damn fun wahaha! But I still can't brake properly without jerking or stalling the car haha. Hopefully my future lessons will be good :) And my dear brother got into OCS! Very happy for him. Ok, shall go sleep now. I think I need to sleep until Wed to fully recover. Which reminds me, rag starts on next week. Oh man, the start of a month-long papier mache campaign spent in school.

We bring ourselves down
And build ourselves up in disappointment
How fragile we are
So fragile we are, we just don't show it