i'm back from ELECTS' CAMP 2005! :D i survived. woohoo! gosh i'm so bummed. i'm like really tired but i just can't sleep. although i alr slept just now. ANYWAY i really wanna blog about it even if it's gonna be really long because it's been a great experience. okay OMG let me sound wise for once on my blog. during this camp the elects pushed themselves to the MAX. we did things we never knew we could do & it's a big achievement!

even though we were tired, dirty and sleep-deprived, we walked away not only with muscle aches (eyebags too!) but also with new lessons learnt, more experience, special friendships, and wonderful memories enough to last us a lifetime (:

look, i've matured a little :D HOHO. i shall go into the details of the camp activities:

day one
i was in the group called ALIENS! (: omg my groupmates are absolutely the best. the ultimate. and our seniors too! we fell in around 5. okay not around 5, punctuality man! we fell in at 5pm! of course there were the late people. but we were punished for that. it went like this: 10 push ups times the amount of minutes the last person took to arrive. so we accumalated over the whole camp around 400. but so far i counted we did about 200 push ups and 150 sit ups (including PT). yes, OUCH. ummm on first day we had a disability game at night. where they blindfolded some, muted some, crippled some. it was great cos when i was blind i just GRABBED on so tight to dot and i fully trusted her and she's so nice (:

the part that they put us in the house pub room and told us the freaky stuff was well, freaky!

day two
this was the most gruelling. we fell in at 6 a.m. to do physical training. pumping, sit ups, running, various abdominal exercises. then there were station games. though our group ended up losing quite alot (it's okay it's alright!) we had tonnes of fun. especially the stretching standing broad jump game thingy. hoho. and the hydration game. how retarded could we get! suihang said i cut my nails twice a day! wth. and who uses GUCCI deodorent (spelling)?

of course the HIKE this was the most OMGODISH thing ever! 40 km if i'm not wrong. from school we walked, by foot, walked, like actually WALKED to KAP! we had to walk past 1st ave, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and don't know what else to the big M! and we got scolded there ): how totally embarrassing. had to do rowcall and stuff in PUBLIC. after that we were allowed to take a bus to bukit batok nature park. but after that it was walking all the way. walked to bukit timah nature reserve. then walked to macritchie. -FAINTS. my legs are aching like ALOT, like ALOT, like ALOT!

but you know, most of us were struggling. and i must applaud tran who was injured & kept going. especially when she had to piggyback dot! and chitra who was sick, but she kept pushing as well. and melvin & chii ye who took turn carrying my sexy girly bag (cos most of the food was in my bag since it was totally huge). at the later part of the hike, we were holding on to each other, really pushing each other along. and i can't believe we did it! (:

along the way suihang called me hui jia ALOT of times and made me feel very inferior cos he kept speaking chinese (though he looks like he can't) :P and apparantly he is sui hunk. even though i whined quite alot at the beginning, and got all bratty and bratty, the aliens put up with me, so Thank You to my group, and the seniors who kept encouraging us from behind. we worked our way up from dead last to 5th place. but that isn't the point! the point is we completed the hike with spirit!

after that we went back to school to do our own cooking. we cooked instant mee over like, makeshift stoves & stuff. and they were edible. HURRAY. though we spilled alot. jo lynn finally came back from her sound of music. haha. and she was super enthu about helping out and opening the cans. she was opening the tuna, mixing the mushrooms and curry. lol! and poor tran was really ill. ): it was pretty unhygenic that everyone was sharing here and there. but nvm, alien's dna! :P sui hang was so silly lah, he took alot alot alot of toilet paper from the toilet to clean up such that he looked like he was carrying a pom pom :/ so i called him a white house cheerleader. and chitra was a great cook!

day three
which kinda felt like day two. cos we slept at 12.30 a.m. but woke up at about 3 a.m. played this really meaningful game. we were all blindfolded and we were led to different parts of the college. we were not allowed to talk or remove the blindfolds (DUH) but we had to somehow figure out where we were (by means of touching the ground, walls, guessing which part of the school we were put) and find other elects and hold their hands. we communicated by writing on each others palms. i had alot of difficulty with that! OOPS my bad :P

our aim was to get to the parade square and somehow all the elects were to get into one line, and do a row call from 1 to 72! and we tried SO MANY TIMES. trust me, this game was a test of mental strength. we were all frustrated and suffering from fatigue. the row call was unsuccessful many many times. and we could not link up properly. and finally, finally we did it. OMG when i heard the number 72 , when WE heard it we all cheered and cheered and screamed and OMG it felt good (: and i was rowcall number 38! whee! haha.

and kenny told us to stand proudly in front of the school crest and sing both school songs. and many of the girls were crying (me included) cos we were just so proud and happy. and what really touched me was that the seniors did three cheers for 38s! they didn't call us elects they called us 38s (: i don't knw, just felt nice

breakfast party after that was great. we pooled all our food together and had a buffet thing. all those chocolate chip cookies, chips and stuff tasted GREAT (: and junkiat was like: how's your forehead? and i was all: huh? then i recalled that in the morning while i was blind, i totally crashed into some wall. and it didn't hurt . haha. omg how embarrassing. the seniors all around were probably sniggering and stuff.

we had an ideas generation activity. russell acts fast, thinks fast man! :D and jo lynn did a great job to promote our failing product. heh. then the exco fully introduced the structure of the student council. i don't think i'll go for exco, but i wanna be house coordinator. i'm sure! :D haha. after listening to all the committees talking, i was waiting and waiting for a post i was confident of taking and one thati would be able to do my best in, and when i heard the role of the house coordinator there was a DING! in my head. (: i wanna be the link between the house heads and the house. and to write the house cheers. and WOOO go lignum!

the last challenge was a pure test of endurance, and teamwork. i don't know how to explain it. but mainly the whole council formed a ring by lying on each other but our legs were propped up. it's hard to picture. but it was damn straining on the legs. the first round i was unprepared so i was like tearing at the end cos of the pain. we had to hold for 2-3 minutes. but second round i was crying cos the tears just came. i swear i felt no pain then, but i just was crying cos i was glad the 72 (two absentees) of us were actually holding on! and plus i like the feeling of tears against my face :P

we had a major reflection session. then we got our council tshirts. it's nice! then our alien seniors gave us trophies. OMG i am so damn pleased. (: it's so precious. i'm gonna keep it forever and ever and ever

well that's the end of one of my biggest adventures in my life. cos i've never gone for any kinda physical camp like this. no OBS or stuff cos i am SO not the hardy kind. i get scared of mud, insects and germs. haha. despite all the aching knees from pumping, improper baths, and suffering from lack of cellphone usage, the camp was well worth it. it's the beginning the term of the 38th student council of NJC soon, and i absolutely beleive we will do a wonderful job. (: andre left a brilliant message. which i can't remember properly cos his english is too saht but he said smth like: we shold not walk in the shadows of the thirty sevens, but we should reflect them and shine. smth like that (:

good job thirty sevens! & thirty eights , all the way!

i'm foolish with my hands held high
10:36 p.m.
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