these few days
Saturday, January 5, 2008
"With my brains and your brawn, we'd make an excellent team. Lead the way!" -scientist npc, Half Life 1
I'm not going to pay for the internet bill this month, so the times i log on are going to have to be of importance. like this one. I need to blog about all i have missed the few days.
Going to a school different from Joel makes me feel so cut off. Neither him nor i have the time to sit down and talk to each other about the goings on in our respective school lives. Of course, neither is a sit-down session going to bridge the gap of being in two different places, as neither of us can recite to each other everything that has happened recently. Its so alien and makes me feel left out.
I came back early from orientation yesterday, because i skipped the campfire night, the last event of Orientation 2007, named Azimuth. I don't know what i missed, and originally i was feeling guilty for leaving like that. The campfire would have ended at about 10, and before that, they gave us a 2 hour break for lunch and to bathe, because all of us were wet and dirty from the water games.
Before i could go home, i had to do compulsory choir auditions meant for all boys. by the time i left i had like one hour to go. that was exactly how long it took me to go home, this time i took the 53, 36 route that one of my new friends in Miranda 1 (thats a sub-group of a house, the other groups are Callisto, Phobos, Triton and Atlas. I think they are constellations or stars...) It took me to terminal 3, 1, and 2 of Changi Airport before dropping off outside my house.
The water activities that day were something like this; one game had us doing the usual transport water technique, others involved less water and other stuff like egg yolk (hair gel substitute... on our hair -.-), Tomato Ketchup (obstacle course) and the ubiquitous flour. There was also one game where we had a stipulated time to make a bar of soap as small as possible.
The previous day entailed going places around singapore looking for stations to complete various tasks, with points also awarded to whichever house came back first. as a result, there was a lot of running from my team, most of whom were super enthusiastic. The girls never fail to liven cheers with their shrilly screams. The boys never fail to try and show their pseudo macho behavior.
The good old days in secondary one where i was really quiet and felt everything about orientation was lame, came back again when i told my brother Isaac about the events. He apparently had the same emotions when it still came to JC. The feeling left me because when i talked about orientation to others, many felt that i was too quiet and like one of those super shy people. So i eventually tried to change, and this time around for orientation, i was at least enthusiastic about things. Except Campfire. Heheh i was really pooped and was slightly sunburnt, and had a cold from the water activities. Must be my skinny frame.
But seriously, that all are excuses. I simpl didn't want to return because i felt sian. not bored of the enthu behavior, but bored because the last two days, i commuted home, had dinner, logged on for mere minutes and then prepared for the next day before going to bed. I needed a break. Now anyway, i await the arrival via email for Orientation pictures. I wonder if they will seriously mail it to us, but i await it optimistically nonetheless.
I visited the house this morning, so im going to post some pictures in a subsequent post. Then in the afternoon Joel ditched me for playing tennis- to play the very same sport with some other people. Presumably Cheryl and company. How idiotic. So i did a pet project of sanding down antique chairs that will hopefully eventually pay me 100 bucks-from my dad. If i didn't have to go to JC i would probably do a bit everyday. Hard work, but it absorbs my time usefully. Because just the other day i was complaining about not having enough time to play, when i didn't realize that my parents don't complain at all when they have a much heavier workload. So i ought to shut it.
Lessons begin this monday, and i have no idea what it will be like. it seems like i have a lot of free periods, a period here, two periods there. The timetable will be until the end of the week, but all i await is for the O level results to come out. On and after that day, everything will eventually fall into place. I'll meet up with old friends and see who will be coming along and who won't.
posted by joseph at 4:52 PM