Orientation 2007 [life as a J1]

YEAH! TGIF, because one, there’s no training today which means I can finally go home early. Secondly, I finally got down to buying my new bag, so much for buying the one from ZINC, i didn’t have to chance to go to ZINC so I ended up buying a bag from Addidas instead. Haha and the best thing is that it's RED! So thats a new pair of RED shoes and a new RED bag. Lastly, I finally get to blog about orientation and maybe other stuff if I have the time.

Orientation seemed like so long ago, even though I know that it was just last week. My classmates spent the morning lazing around in our classroom for the last time. It was quite sad watching our class get inhabited by a new batch of IP students and knowing that we weren’t be able to gather in our class every morning before assembly.


LOVE <3



Initially I was glad that I was in IAGO because most of my class guys were in IAGO. However, I soon realised that my orientation was going to be miserable if I stayed with my OG. There were just people who I knew at once I couldn’t click with, and people who I knew at once I might kill if you leave me in a room with him or her. So I immediately left my group and went to join Rachel’s group after the IP assembly in the afternoon. Surprisingly, I felt guilty for leaving my group so I went back to join them after playing some games with Ayden. BIG mistake on my part, I was soon bored out of my wits and made the decision on the spot to find a new OG the next day.

So for the last three days of orientation, including Sea Regatta, I joined May Yee’s group, ITango, Icarus! Haha, I was lucky enough to have run into her on Thursday morning on the way to assembly.

Orientation was okay I guess. I know that learning mass dance was easy for most of the IP people, haha and we were actually able to enjoy mass dance instead of just standing around looking lost at which way to move. The games were somewhat different from what there was in the past 2 years of orientation, so I’m thankful for the change. I’m also thankful for the lack of the topless wet game that I managed to escape in the past 2 years. I think they should just create more wet games and less station games because it seems that most of the fun comes from the wet games.

I like this year’s skit! Oh and haha, I realise that OGLs do indeed cheer their OGL cheer very often during orientation. I didn’t really thought that it was a lot when it happened last year, maybe when you’re the one cheering it doesn’t seem like its a lot.


Opening OG HEAD catwalk.


Some strange game. Like we were suppose to move up and down with our hands in the air. And I was too lazy to go down so this guy behind me started to PUSH me down! Oo, weirdo.


Haha, Foo!

Sea Regatta is hands down the best day of the orientation. I would have preferred though if people weren’t throwing sand. Water is fine, but sand is a bit dangerous. Someone actually threw sand into my face and it went into both my eyes. Grr, I managed to wash it off with the sea water, but my contacts ended up getting scratched. I got dunked a lot of times and I’m surprised that some people are actually able to keep count of how many times they got dunked. For me, I wasn’t really dunked, because they sort of just pushed me or dragged me into the water. No one was stupid enough to attempt to lift me, haha.

Mass dance at suntec was fun too! Thank god it didn’t rain this year, but I swear, mass dancing can work up a sweat. Haha, and everyone should learn the Chinese version of YO VJC! I went for OG lunch and had class dinner, so technically right now I’m pretty broke.




Mass Dance!


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Don't ask me why, but my hand was just there in the photo.




Me and Foo are like the distractions.


Evil and Pure! Haha, okay who am I kidding.


Haha, ok there was time to kill before it was time for mass dance.


Guess what the ominous white stuff is. No prizes for guessing correctly.

I lost my voice twice over the course of orientation. Once on day 2, and when it recovered over the weekend, I lost it again on Monday. Haha, well it feels better now, so hopefully I will get my voice back soon. I think I’ve almost finished an entire bottle of PI PA GAO.

Lessons have somewhat started. I’m in 07A11! Still getting used to writing 07 instead of 05, sighs, I’d rather be 05! 07 sounds so weird, haha but at least I’m glad that I have a nice senior class. Arts Faculty is really small, there are like enough of us to fill slightly more than half of LT AVA and the rest of the school population are in the Science Faculty. I’ve also switched houses and am now in AQUILA. Planning to run for house comm. again, but I’m not too sure about getting it.

I’ve been attending lectures and have been trying to at least pay attention. Hopefully I can keep this up so that I won’t fail miserably for Mid Years and Promotional Exams. I’ve had enough of R-papers, so I don’t plan to take any next year. My teachers seem quite nice so far, but I don’t really have a good impression of Mr. James Ho and Mr. Josef Tan. They seem really uptight about stuff, like how Mr. Ho was really anal about there being pin drop silence during tutorials and how Mr. Tan was like so inflexible and reluctant to answer Leon’s question during the first lecture because he doesn’t want interaction with us during lectures. Economics is really starting to bore me, and what the seniors said seems true, reading the notes will make up for not going to lectures. Haha, but I doubt I will skip lectures any time soon.

I’m now the only guy from my class taking Geography because the Francis-look-a-like in my class dropped geography to take history instead. And my GP class is like really small, there are six of us in total. I still have my worries for literature, but hopefully I can somewhat cope with it. ><’’ hopefully being the operative word. Bah, I better go enjoy the rest of my day because the weekend will zoom by and soon it will be Monday again.

We'll slap you flat,
like a Gingerbread,
and never let you slap us back.
We'll slap you OOO~
Slap you LAA~
Slap you Slap You
OOO LAA LAA...

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