Helmsman Week* Spirit of Enterprise [Part II]

At long last, Helmsman week is over and done with. This is probably the most torturous and monotonous helmsman week I have come across in the history of IP helmsman week. Thursday was a pure waste of time for me. We spent probably a great deal of the day planning this uncanny promotional advertisement for some strange bear ice cream which I am proud to say I played no part in helping with the so-called game that we were to engage ourselves in. People can bitch all they one about it but I seriously don’t give a damn. I was just too bored and uninterested with whatever “fun-filled” games that the trainers had planned for us. I ended up sneaking off from my group with some others and just wiling the day away by stuffing ourselves occasionally with visits to the canteen or bookshop. Otherwise, we would be sitting in on other groups and watching them being oh-so enthusiastic about the stupid game that we were playing. Oh well, at least they were supposedly having fun with what they were doing.

Training ended incredibly late that day and I was there all alone without Darren or Aaron to entertain myself as I watch the rest of the “team” do their thing. Okay, at least I can communicate with most of them better than I could months ago. But still, it would have been better to have someone there that I can talk normally too. Bah. Thursday was a crappy day and with competition coming, trainings would be ending later and later. I guess everything will pay off when we actually win, of course with the mindset of some people or person thinking that they are the ones who did all the striving to win whatever we will hopefully win. I have a feeling that we will win because I think the team this year is exceptionally strong compared to the other JCs that we have played against. Of course, there may be unforeseen circumstances that may arise but let’s just pray that nothing will thwart our way to top four.

The highlight of the week for me was probably the game in which people paired up and one of the partners gets blindfolded for a period of time. I was the one to be blindfolded. It was pleasurable to walk to the canteen and struggle to devour food while blinded. Not a bad bargain if you ask me, getting people who weren’t blindfolded to go around doing stuff for you since you are temporarily handicapped. We went back to the elective hub afterward where we cam whored and I played a guessing game in which I had to guess who was who without looking. Haha, it was easy I suppose. To recognize YY just feel for the socks or the watch. Yvonne is the one with the thin ankles and huge calf muscles. Darren has the dry face skin and skinny wrist. Nicole is the skinny ankles and calf and hairless leg. Audrey is the one who will be clapping when you guess the people correctly. Haha. I’m not sure if I guessed Aaron and Amanda. However, it would be relatively easy. Amanda was wearing the converse shoes so feel for the star and for Aaron, the hair would be a dead giveaway.


The Felons

Actually, Thursday wasn’t all that bad. There was this retarded but enjoyable game in which we wrote things that we liked about ourselves on stickers and went around pasting them on people’s faces after that. Haha, we look spastic to a certain extent, but it is good to let loose once in a while. No point being so serious all the time in my opinion. Haha.




Darren looks so cute!

Friday was a more engaging day because there was this trade road show that we were going to organize that day. My group ended up selling bags because we got the idea from all the bags that were placed haphazardly at the bee hive looking corner of the electives hub. We bought the space next to the bee hive looking corner and spent quite a great deal of time moving all the bags to one side of the room. At the same time, we were looking out for nice bags that we could borrow to publicize our business. There was this mad rush, after the spaces were bought, to move furniture and whatever decorative stuff we had in the classrooms to the electives hub to help spice up our booths. My group than spent the rest of the time creating posters to publicize our products and to help draw attention to our stall. People were constantly making announcements and advertising their products, but we were just colouring and decorating our posters, waiting for the right moment to stick them around the electives hub. When we were nearly done with the posters, I got Leon to go buy some air time and we basically just went around the electives hub shouting bloody murder. Hollering at the top of our lungs to visit our booth, I am quite surprised that I have yet to lose my voice. Someone came up with the slogan, “hifebags, one of these are surely yours”. I thought that was quite smart. The name hifebags was thought of by yours truly. It’s like high five fused together. Haha, our product supposedly comes in a variety of designs and we help pick out bags for everyone of any size. We didn’t win in the end, but our marketing of posters were said to be good.







Oh, I just about forgot, we did this relaxation thing before the tradeshow whereby the instructor shared with us a slightly personal and depressing experience he had. However, the part in which we had to relax was quite futile or useless for me because my legs were numbing up and I couldn’t concentrate on relaxing much less trying to get my blood circulation to regulate properly.

There were still electives despite the fact that we didn’t have normal/formal lessons throughout the entire week. Everyone was pretty much late for the talk about stocks later. The one thing I, in all probability, appreciated about the talk was that the only teacher there was Mr. James Ho so I was amusing myself by doing this word search book that I had brought to school. I don’t see the point of this talks sometimes because I am not even thinking of investing in stocks now and am too un-fascinated to even pay attention.

Left for training after that and basically ended the week going home smelly, tired and sluggish. Yay! There’s extension for Biology assignment! It’s now due on Thursday, the same day as when my elective essay is due. Wonderfu1!

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