Seems like all I can talk about is TP orientation, TP orientation and TP orientation.

I'll do something different today.

TP CCA!

Muahaha.

There's a gazillion CCAs in TP. I can't mention everything here I'll go crazy.

I put my name down for TP Student Union, and the dance ensemble. Both requires auditions (well for TPSU it's interview) so I don't know if I'm really in or what.

Okay that's all I have to say.

Let's talk about feelings.

Feeling. It's a huge word. What is it? Wiktionary.com describes it, while an adjective, as emotionally sensitive.

I am feeling happy. I am feeling sad.

Now why am giving this obviously pointless English lesson, since most people here pass their English and would definitely know how to use this word, not to mention know the meaning?

Because, I have been very emotionally sensitive recently. Due to several factors, life in TP has been transformed to something very exciting, crazy, and...exhilarating.

New friends, new faces, new lifestyle, new people, new classes, even new food, all this creates an environment where our emotions are given free reign to rule over our heads. A place where we use our hearts without hesitation, leading us into the very pitfall called embarrassment.

You say, Min, don't so emo can. Just tell me what happened.

No, nothing happened. I just met this certain someone who can make me wish I...

Check out my first homework - I have to make recommendations of at least 10 dishes that could be offered as part of a buffet on a cruise ship to South Pole, and to give descriptions of the dishes to be offered.

I'M IN HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT! NOT CULINARY AND WHATEVER MANAGEMENT! HOW COME I LEARN ABOUT F & B FUNDAMENTALS? LIKE METHODS OF FOOD PRESERVATION AND COOKING??????

Goodness. I learn about the weirdest things in my course. Quite a different atmosphere, I guess.

Alright! Yosh! Jia you! Gambatteh! You can do it!

Second day of school, and I'm stuffed (not to the brim though, thankfully) with information about macroeconomics and management principles. A decade ago, people my age wouldn't be learning this sort of stuff!

I'm proud to say my class is probably one of the more well-bonded ones in our batch of HTM freshies. We meet for meals and stick together during lectures. haha! Amazing. Everyone's pretty on, so it's really fun!

We even bully Terry and Nicole, our Business Orientation SLs, together. Haha! We must be like the craziest class lah.

I went to Trybe centre today, early in the morning. Had nothing to do, so I drafted my email and planned furthur for CCN day.

I was so silly today lah. I tried to find this stationary schop to buy a highlighter, but I walked one big round and found that it was actually very near the office -_-

Silly thing number 2: I had nothing better to do, so when Ryan was helping to fix the lights at Christina's table I popped over to kay poh and even tagged along when he went to buy fluorescent light tubes. All I did was probably help him walk slower, seeing that I was in heels. haha.

Silly thing number 3: Since I was using the computer so I went online and I added Ryan and we talked online. By the way, we were probably... 10 steps away from each other? (:

Silly thing number 4: I left a chocolate cake in the fridge without thinking and had to eat it later not soft and moist but hard and crumbly. Awws.

Silly thing number 5 and the most silliest billiest one of all: I reached school at 830, stayed on the bus straight to Tampines, by 9 am I was in the Trybe office...ooh did I happen to mention, lecture starts at 4 pm for today?

I have the habit of disappearing without explaining why, I guess. Not good!

First I was at freshman orientation.

Last thursday and friday was Business school orientation!

(And this friday is Hospitality and Tourism Mgmt Orientation...T_T...)

Business orientation. It was good. My healing throat got raw again. I know this is a use of a wrong word, but it's really how my throat feels. Whenever I cheer or scream. Or actually, attempt to.

Well FOC was definitely much more fun. But through this orientation I got to know a lot about my future classmates (not very "future"..just tomorrow they will officially be my classmates!) and about the school education system and I got my matric card and I got to know who is my Care Person and I got my timetable and we had a inter-course competition which HTM won woo hoo and we had an inter school competition in which Business won woo hoo hoo and on friday I went for my third Jam and Hop which was the most fun and tiring session I had, it being with Scythians and I went home really late and the next day had cell group after which I took off to Sentosa, only to be thrown into the sea with my makeup still on.

Okay I don't want to talk about anything to do with orientation already can?

Haha. Yes, the uber-hyper Min is reaching limit. This is so much more challenging then taking sec 2 Montfortian gentlemen out for Island Hunt. Or participating in nearly 10 Trybe camps (it's not so much haha) and several YCDI! runs in between.

Speaking of Trybe, I miss Trybe! I miss YCDI! runs! I miss YLMP camps!

I miss all the Trybe staff! I'd name you all out but if I miss out one it's not fair! So I'll just say I MISS THE TRYBE STAFF!

So sad. I'll miss Scythia too.

KC just told me that EVERY MONDAY IS SCYTHIA DAY...

GOODNESS GARY. I BOW DOWN TO YOU..

response number 2: *thumbs up* you good lor... (don't know if I got it right)

Eye candy, eye candy, eye candy. I hate this. I totally made a fool out of myself. It was what that brought me down then, I'm not letting it surface.

You go, I'm staying wherever I am.

I never knew, under the layers of bubbly fun and excitement, darkness lurks in every corner of that place. It was as if everything just fell apart.

And they went, as deep as they could go.

Never judge a book by it's cover, they say. Never knew how true this could actually be.

RAH!

JY was at the fun FOW, Min was at the even more fun and crazy FOC!!!

Okay lah, the only difference is that I stayed over and he didn't. Okay? And JY, you got the play the last battle or whatever the newspaper-lollipop-and-water-bomb- game. But we didn't. We had better things to do muahahahaha.

Okay. I'll start from Day 1. My post will be longer than JY's post, I promise you that.

DAY ONE
Well. Since I only had to report to school at 12 pm, I had a lot of free time packing. But since I packed the night before, I had a lot of free time online, which I spent on Gunbound!

Well I know that's crazy. But I met this Singaporean, and she was like don't you have school rainbow (my screen name)? I said no, have a camp later though.

Haha. We talked a lot. Because of that, I lost nearly every match.

BUT I still had fun. Anyways, left my house at 10+. I reached bedok at 1120. Can you believe it? haha. Had my lunch, blah blah...

Do you know how embarassing it is to carry a HUGE BRIGHT PINK bag in the MRT? Especially a heavy one! When I went into the train I grabbed a seat so quick everyone stared at me. But no, I grabbed one so that I can put my bag down!

Don't blame me can...

Well. When I was leaving the train at Bedok though, this woman sitting beside the door couldn't take her eyes off me, or my bag. I guess she must be really anti-huge/pink, cos she had really wide eyes.

Taking 69 to TP was another chore. I had to squeeze into a seat with my bag. Not to mention I had NO FRIEND there at all, COS SOMEBODY WENT FOR FOW, so I was feeling really nervous! For once! yi qi!

Blah blah blah...registered...I'm in Scythia.

Oh wait. Let me tell you about the 5 empires, because the other who could do so is lazy to and is waiting for me to kill him now, since I'm not in Ophix and definately not whatever sub-empire he is in.

5 empires : Kaistor, Ophix, Scythia, Zilron, Ayton.

3 sub-empires within each empire. You know what JY got. I got Scylops (but they pronounced it as scallops! geez!).

The competition is held between the 5 empires, and the whole group of us are in the land called Temalia (which is TP lah). We travel around in our sub-empires, except for mealtimes.

There's about 30 people in each sub-empire, and thus 90 each empire. Meaning nearly 450 people were at the camp.

Horrificious. Imagine the logistics. Logistics for camp of 200 already wanna die.

Well anyways. After I registered, a Group Leader (GL) brought me to wherever Scythia/Scylops were sitting. Goodness, was the first thing that I thought. The rest of the GLs were trying to teach everyone cheers, and that includes the other 4 empires.

Well, I saw my previous leader from TP Rawks, Derek! He's my GL, even for Scylops. wooo. But he didn't remember my name. Only remember that it was "something short". rahh.

I sw other TP rawks leaders too! yay. haha. Nelson and Nicholas. Didn't say hi though, they were in Ophix. There was one more I knew in Zilron. I didn't he was there, but he came and said hi! haha.

Well anyway. We all, Scythia, just sat there and cheer and cheer and learn cheer and cheer and cheer and go rah rah and cheer and make friends and cheer and talk to GLs and cheer and cheer and cheer.

All the way until mid afternoon, where we started by splitting into our groups for ice-breakers. Usual games. Friendship dance (didn't do that one though), Blow wind blow, Squirrel game. Blah.

Found lots of HTM people! yay!

Must mention my first two friends! Shamini from Law management and Sabrina from HTM!!!!! Best man. hahaha!

Well. Main point of the first day is that we got to know each other in our sub-empire. There was really a lot of HTM people! We learnt a lot of cheers too. Like, really creative ones, you don't hear them around!

We played station games today too. Due to the rain, the games were held on campus, instead of being held in areas around tampines. Oh wells. Had a lot of fun running about in a group.

Okay I'll stop killing you. next day.

OH WAIT. We all slept in the sports hall. There were dividers, so I guess it was okay. But really dark. And wah lao, want to bathe must queue for like one hour plus! my goodness. Candy went to bang on all the doors! You go girl!

okay day 2 lah!

DAY TWO
I slept at 3 but had to wake at 7. Gosh. Was so tired. I so did not want to wake up!!

Well you know in the camp, for mealtimes, to be first, we had to cheer like crazayy!!! Sadly Scythia always got last or fourth. Once we got first! yay.

Well the main point was we learnt the school song, both of them! One is in sign language and I totally flunked that one. Could do the school song though, cos I heard it during TP rawks.

And of course, we learnt the mass dance! Well since I know liao so help some buddies. And refresh my memory.

Goodness how JY is right. Mass dance can cheng ji. haha. But I no chance leh. Target MIA from dance floor. Sighs.

Goodness it's getting harder to blog, cos I'm starting to forget events!! oh well!

And there was the play! Yes! All empires had to come up with something to perform, and Scythia came up with a play that depicts how Scythia came about. Fully fictious, of course.

At night, we had Jam and Hop! cool! All I did was to dance my ass off! Danced still my legs hurt, arms tired, and waist very suan. Not to mention we were all super drenched! Like, we went to bath together or something!

I remember a club-going friend I have, Tommy, said something about clubs, "You go in nice and dry, and after an hour you come out wet as a chicken (Chinese description, luo tang ji).

So true. And we all did the mass dance and the school song and the hand sign school song and the chicky dance.

Okay you have no idea what I'm saying anyway, it doesn't matter.

This night, I slept even later. I stayed up with my Scythia mates to wait for a Mac order, all the way up to 4 am. I slept at 5, finally. But I was rewarded for sleeping so late. I'm so not going to tell you why. HAHAHA.

DAY THREE
Goodness it's the last day already..today was a tear-filled day.

We had the last game, which we earned a lot of points, called the HUNGRY game. I don't want to go into details, cos I have better things to type about.

After the whole camp, which ended like 9pm, many of us went to the CPF building at tampines mall to have a Mac meal! And here, let me sidetrack slightly..

Do you know mac has this ice cream that has swirly patterns of other flavour on vanilla ice cream?

And that RASPBERRY is fantastic?????

Anyways, I stayed until around 12+, afterwhich Alex, this GL WHOM IS THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW STAYS IN THE WEST TOO (bukit timah) and I decided to leave to beat the midnight charges and leave. Sighs. Leaving early. Sad!

Okay. I have stuff to tell people.

To the GLs, even though not a lot of chance that you guys will read this.
Thank you for encouraging me to stand up during the camp, and giving me the award. It is fully because of you guys that's why I can dare to do such things. Because of the Gls, we freshies had such an amazing time! This is really an unforgettable camp, and I really mean that.

Even though you guys are so tired already, you put in time and effort to bring this camp to us. THANK YOU SO MUCH GLS! WON'T FORGET YOU ALL!

To my dearest freshiemates!
Thank you all for putting up with me! haha. I know sometimes I'm abit loud and can be unbearable! Or sometimes some of you try to tell me something and I can't hear it! I'm so sorry! But you guys are great to work with! We were all so united, Scythia. That's why we managed to get third! Some may say we could have got better, but I think it's amazing already. Especially for the play, we all worked very well, even though we were divided into many teams!

I have so much more to say! But this post is getting a little too long, I still have people to thanks.

Programmers, Subcom, Maincom, the food people, those who have brought this camp to us. Having seen the behind-the-scenes for a camp before, I applaude all those who have cracked their skull, sqeeuzed their brains dry, worked til their eyes popped off. Kudos!

Okay. You've reached the end. Congrats.

Goodness.

School hasn't started, but I'm missing everyone else already.

To all the people I won't be able to meet that often anymore!

Gonna miss you guys like crazy.

Vivien, Adrian, Kelvin, Shaun, Melvin (and they're going army, these two) and THOMAS (haven't seen him in a long time) and Bingrong (T.T!) and all those Trybe people and...and...

And I better complete this piano theory homework of mine..

You know looking through friendster can show you so many things that you've never ever known.

Like how somebody who looks quite decent can actually be such a twit.

Ah, well. Yesterday went to NP with Bingrong to get his laptop done with whatever his school wanted but in the end didn't need to. We saw Adrian too, haha, at the orientation going on. Tchh.

Afterwhich we went to Trybe centre, where we slacked around for abit and helped with the building of two new shelves from Ikea. haha.

Girls can build also, okay. We got hands too. PPPPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTT to you Ryan. Bleah.

You know I just realized I've come to the age where a lot of my guy friends are going into army.

Soon, I'm going to go to the stage where a lot of them come out of army.

Then the University stage.

Then the stage where my mates get married.

OH NO I'M GETTING OLDER...

I woke up yesterday, Sunday, at 4 am, while everyone was still under their comfy covers.

With a raging forehead and a throat that felt like it splintered, too. Also, in the aftermath of a horrid nightmare about vampires.

No kidding! I felt like I was four years old again. Who still has nightmares, tell me? I don't even remember my last one. And one about vampires?

This is all smallville's fault. I tuned in to smallville 5 on channel 5 last saturday, while I was folding the laundry. This episode's about Lana or Lara or whatever the beau of Clark has for a name joined a vampire sonority without knowing it was vampire-filled and thus got turned into one, for awhile. Until Clark and Chloe discovered and he stuck that needle with the "antidote" for vampire-ism into her heart. I don't know what happened after that, cos I tuned off.

But anyway, my nightmare was fully vampire infested. I woke up totally expecting one over my head, or actually, my neck.

Well After I realized everything was a dream and that I was having a fever, I crawled out to get a cold press for a forehead (I think I was also hallucinating along the way to the kitchen!!!) and promptly went back to sleep.

Next morning, (hahaha) my fever was gone, but my mother didn't agree. I was pulled awake, stuffed full of something like bee hoon soup (SHE KNOWS I HATE BEE HOON) and fed fever medicine. Along with the medicine for a clogged-up nose and phlegm-filled throat. Gross.

But I went back to sleep. This time on the sofa. I just didn't have the energy to move at all.

So sad! Cos I know vivien, kelvin, adrian, shaun and melvin (I don't know who else) gathered at Marina Bay to eat at the-place-where-you-have-steamboat-and-I-don't-know-it's-name and also to, uh, celebrate? No, to congratulate?

Well Melvin and Shaun are going into the army in 13 april, and we're just - just saying bye in a nice way.

They should have a word for this.

Well obvious I couldn't make it. I don't think I would have the strength to walk to the MRT station, much less eat steamboat. But I must have missed out a lot of fun. Tears of sadness stream down my face, at this very thought.

HAHAHAHAHA, THIS REMINDS ME OF SOMEONE...

Goodbye, secondary school. Hello, TP, in about 14 days.

Oh, actually, before I started blogging, I was in friendster, and my heart was breaking about something.

But, now, all I wanna do is to laugh, and think.

HOW COULD I, SUCH A BABE, HAVE EVER BEEN WITH HIM????

*crazed evil laughter*

To find out more, just ask me. Personally. I would be pleased to tell you the whole story. muahaha.

mish mash moosh.

Today's a drawl. Crawly drawly. You can see, from my vocabulary, that I'm feeling very lazy already.

Did what I loved most today - read. Borrwed 4 books from the library. Could have gotten 12 if I brought my own card. Ah, well.

For once, I'm online in the afternoon. I already finished 2 books, and I decided to leave some for tomorrow, just in case I got naughty and wanted the computer.

Goodness, I crave for strawberry-flavoured Hello Panda. Childish whims.

I've just finished one pack. The empty container is here, right in front of me.

Now to my second-love, eating.

Let's see what I have in my kitchen.

Biscuits....more biscuits...oooh the custards ones...bread...RAISIN BREAD YUMMM...all sorts of noodles...and canned foods...

Goodness.

Wooooshh!

Yes, Henzy, those 3 pointers are definitely familiar to you, because they're from your service last Sunday.

Yes, I went for FCBC's service last Sunday.

Well. It's perfectly normal. Nearly the same as CHC's services. Some practices are different, but still, not a lot.

So why was I so abnormal (Bingrong can testify for this) when I went to service?

Because I was going to be there with a whole bunch of guys.

Now I didn't mention this in the previous post because it is inappropriate to the theme, but I seriously need to get it off my chest!

Remember the thingie I mentioned about same-gender cell groups in FCBC?

Well since I went with Bingrong (actually Nic drove us there, so to speak but whatever), I'd be sitting with his cell, which would have a lot of guys (luckily I know most of them anyway), which is very weird!

I mean, don't you find it very weird???

I was sticking out like a sore thumb, and graaahh hated that sticking-out-like-a-sore-thumb feeling. It's very hard to explain that feeling. I always got it in school, and I thought I had seen the last of it after leaving school. Yikes.

Well anyway, it wasn't THAT bad.

Aiya, I don't know how to explain lah!

Please read this, whether it is relevant to you or not. Please, W330 people, tell everyone to read this.

You know, sometimes God gives one revelation in the most creative ways.

Why did I join Trybe (Thumbs Up to some)?

Firstly, they came to YISS, back when I was in secondary school, to facilitate us in the You Can Do It(YCDI)! programme.

Which I never did pay attention in anyway. But that's not the point.

I found the trainers especially fun, and the whole programme - the way it's carried out, the games, whatever - very interesting, and different from what I usually get from special programmes held in school.

But it was only last year when I joined trybe, when Henzy brought me down to Kranji Sec School for a YCDI! run somewhere in June, and I've met very fun people, really learnt about DISC, improved lots of skills, the list goes on.

I get to meet new people of different backgrounds, races (not really religion though hahaha), language, characters etc.

And it's a means of getting into the marketplace, seeing that I was school-less for 5 months starting last December and did not hold a job. For long, anyway.

But what really has impacted me, I did not know until today, while I was doing the dishes.

I've met a lot of Faith Community Baptist Church (FCBC) people in my time with Trybe, and made lots of friends there too. The system, for want of a better word, is different there. They have same-gender cell groups. And I've noticed something.

Because of the fact they're mostly of same gender, the members can relate to one another more easily. I'm not saying in CHC we can't, I'm just saying they have an easier time. We face and stand up to the challenges =)

Raaahhhh I'm not saying my dear FCBC people don't face challenges!! But anyway!

They're very united, and communication is so, so strong within them. And because of that, everyone stays strong, both spiritually and mentally, in the CG.

I'm not proud to say this, but it is the fact : W330, we have a serious communication breakdown. Which leads to the whole CG not being united, and which leads to....I don't have to continue this.

We FIRST have to want to communicate, though.

1. We reap what we sow
If we're willing to sow our time for other people, soon people will sow their time for us and spend time together, and we will sow.

2. We reap AFTER we sow
We have to sow first, though. (: simple.

3. We reap MUCH MORE than what we sow.
Think about that. If we're willing to sow into one person, showing how much we care, he/she will see it, and in turn, be willing to open up to us. And when that happens, communication will flow.

Why must the CG be united?

If we are of one vision, meaning, God's vision, we can then play a part in His plan and work as His workers in the ready fields of harvest. We are all part of the same body of Christ, and thus, that proves we need to work together.

I know some of us have been trying to bridge this gap and allow the flow. But if only SOME of us is trying, this won't work. Water can't flow through pipes if there are holes in them. ALL OF US have to try, and sow our time into this CG.

I remembered once Winnie told me a CG was disbanded because there was "no growth". I thought about it, and..

I'm darned freaked out to even think of the CG disbanding, okay! Would you want to be under any other leader then Winnie????? Imagine going to another CG?? THINK about it!

I haven't been a good CGM either. I spend too much of my time with Trybe, I know it. And I know what people say about me too, don't think I don't know. But this is what I've learnt, and now I wanna share it with you too.

Why do I like Trybe so much? Because people are willing to invest their time in me. All those facilitators, they're willing to go out with me and such. And the staff, especially!

I can't describe to you the love and concern I actually feel from the staff. They really do care, deep from their hearts.

And because of what they have sown in me, and belived in me, I wanna impact many other people the same way as they did with me. That's why I go for so many Trybe runs, and camps.

Do you really think I just do it for fun? No. I'm tired from all the camps. I just came back from two.

So why can't I spend my time doing such stuff with the CG?

Cos I wasn't shown that I mattered to people.

Yet, this is also my mistake, that I didn't show that the CG mattered, a lot, to me too. I didn't spend my time with you guys in the first place.

You know how they say take a step towards God, and He'll take a thousand steps towards you? It's the same with people, for we were made in the image of God.

Can we do it, W330? Can we start taking 1 step towards each other?

This is like in MSN. If you don't start a conversation, the person won't talk to you either.

Let's all walk together, with Jesus, with true love, care, and concern.

I'll take a step to you. I'll do my very best.