Its finally over! Engin Camp '08 had its final closing moments on the night of 19th June 2008, and with that ended the long struggle to maintain afloat of all administrative matters ever since February. I guess things could go on "half-glass empty" if we do a after-camp review, but judging from the response throughout the camp, I'm really glad we managed to pull it off even with all the last minute hiccups along the way. =]
Faithful to the tradition of a day-by-day recount of what happened during the camp, I'll try my best to keep it interesting for the memories to come..
Day 0We arrived early at noon on Sunday to help prepare for the camp itself, but I ended up staring at the laptop, trying to work a nominal roll out. After all, throughout the camp I've always been the contact-person in case of any trouble/saikang/finance. I can't really remember much, but we pretty damned sat in clubroom and settled all the logistics issues and equipment before camp really commenced. Shifted out to LT7a for bedtime after a sneaky shower at RH, shared sleeping bags with KhengSoon. Boring day so far, I guess.
Day 1Might I add: I was horribly and terrigibly sad that I had zero interaction with my adopted OG that day. Was standing at the registration booth and settling/counting money all the way throughout the afternoon, by then the war games had concluded. When night time came and people were settling in for mass-dance, I was down settling Camp T-shirts with Pearl n' Siewmun's help at RH dining hall, as well as churning out an updated freshie and councillor list so as to facilitate collection of camp fees the next day. After that we had the executive meeting about the next day, when I had to wake up at 6am to move out to Sentosa. Had a date with Yusof Ishak in my RH room later on, trying to find out why I always managed to find extra money in my cashbox.
Day 2Sentosa! Early morning 6am I woke up and drove Mingquan's Volvo down to sentosa. Every time I wanted to switch lanes, I ended up pressing the windscreen wiper though, cause his Volvo's an Intercontinental car; the left and right handles were alternate in function. Although I wasn't a game station master again this time round, at the very least I managed to say hi to my OG at the beach that day. After all, its the day when all the Ha-Ha cards were given out for assassination contracts on everyone. I wielded pretty powerful cards this time round, holding a King, a Queen n' a Wild Card of my own face. =P Profoundly enough, some idiot just didn't like me very much, cause I landed up in the sea and was subsequently buried and heavily sand-crafted into beings of immense biological proportions. Worse of all, just after that said attempt on my pride came another similar attack, leaving me pantless and flabbergasted in the sea. Ohwell, I guess I can't complain, I managed to know a few of my OG freshies this way.
Sadly, upon getting wet, I somehow lost most of my Ha-Ha cards to the sea. DAMN!
After beach games I had to wash down and drive back to school to settle even more last minute stuff with KRH, before driving to Sheng Shiong to buy food for my barbecue. All in all, that day was the day when my licence was put into severe usage...my autocar handling skills at the very least.
Day 3I can't really categorize the activity between Day2 or 3, because I spent the latter of the night after BBQ to count my money up to 5am in my room. Luckily I rigged up the ol' laptop to be my jukebox throughout the night, so it wasn't so bad staying up alone in my room amidst all the cash. Anyways, by the time I woke up, I was late for poolgames, and frankly, in neither shape to join in the fun. Too bad...heard from the freshies later on that it was quite spectacular.
Anyways, I headed down to LT3 for sponsorship talks afterwards, and was tasked to be the transport IC for our movie night. It was then when most freshies got to know me, although they knew me as "the crazy bugger driving the van" rather than my name. I swear, its cause of the horrible clutch-gear system of the van that I have to ram the accelerator everytime I move off from the slope with a full-load of freshies in the back.
Still, I accompanied my OG, Oyster, down to the movie location where all the acting happened. Was glad to finally have the opportunity to hang out with my gang of freshies...somehow felt pretty fatherly just looking after their welfare though. Hope this doesn't last, I ain't wana feel fatherly at a tender age of 22!
Concluded our movie night late at 3-4am, and moved our log equipment back to clubroom after that. Felt like I've never slept in ages, managed to concuss after bathing at 5am again.
Day 4Woke up at 10 for a change, but the highlight of the day was the finale! Mingquan did a good job emcee-ing the event, and we had our crazy finale special performance by the band which really brightened up the mood. Mostly it was the camp comm zi-highing, but the entire camp managed to catch the fever, so it was really fun! We even threw Khengsoon all around, even up the stage for a certain performance for a certain girl ;) After the event was a round of photo-whoring which didn't seem to end..and yay, I just went around taking photos with every eyecandy I managed to scout out during my limited time with the councillors and freshies XP
Without running the risk of sounding too humsup, I hereby conclude MOST of the events for Engin Camp 08. There's more photos to be seen from facebook, though I admit, this camp I wasn't very much found in any photo cause I'm stuck in clubroom/my room counting coins/pennies/notes. Ohwell, that's my job anyways >__<
learning through life's potholes
alright, its day0 of engin camp, time to start disappearing off the face of the earth.
i'll see you guys when i get back...engin camp jiayou!
learning through life's potholes
taken from xkcd.com
Hahaa!! its funny how 99% of us guys love a crazy girl. :P
learning through life's potholes
today was fun! =]
went down to pre-camp briefing today, with a seriously deflated morale as the camp currently boasts a horrid gender ratio reflective of our engineering roots. Furthermore, I was rejected my plea to borrow the car for the night, as we had MC gathering at Lionel's house later on. Sigh. Oh well, I ended up late and getting scolded by Pearl again >__<
Settled the administrative issues that forever plagued the committee in and out, and later on went to join the games. THANKFULLY the people there didn't look too sian of the lack of ladies. George made a pretty damned good effort in entertaining/scaring the freshies with his enthusiastic beatings of his neighbours at all the OG games. Yikes.
Anyways, after lunch I retreated down to clubroom to take a snooze...which ended up a nap and slowly morphed into deep sleep. By the time I woke up, the committee had went off to do their filming *which I guess I wasn't in any state to participate in, with bed-hair and all*. Ended up playing Mahjong with Ethan, Ryan, and Nat with minitiles. Hahaa..to date, I can finally, and proudly proclaim that all my wishes and dreams with the MC has been fulfilled, as we have finally played mahjong in our clubroom! Hurrah!~ I can ORD in peace!
Later on, when filming was over, the bunch of us took 2 taxis down to Hougang for our MC Popiah session! Hahaa..its a wonder with Lionel being around, that we have all these wonderful gatherings possible! Everyone sat around the table, had a slice of popiah skin on it, and started their DIY Popiahs...and before long we had people like Siewmun and Yman comparing who made the most professional popiah. I didn't really bother, I just kept on ingesting my garlic-laden blob. It tasted good, so why bother? *I guess I'll make a horrible cook*
Hahaa..after that we settled down for mass games. Ethan introduced us to this really cool Taboo-Charade game that had everyone dying with laughter! Firstly everyone had to write down a noun on 5 separate pieces of paper, and fold it, before keeping it in a container. We split into 2 teams, and had to guess the words on the paper for our team when our teammates were either Taboo-ing or Charade-ing the words out. Frankly, its hilarious when you realize more than one person wrote "Sex" on their 5 pieces of paper. Ethan became the pointing-figure when things like "Lee Kuan Yew", or "Hillary Clinton" got called out, for no reason Junqiang was describing my word *Cock* by saying "Matthew is a...."?
And inside jokes all came in throughout the entire session. We had nouns like "Roti Prata" associated with Sebas, nouns like "Matthew's Girlfriend" popping up even as one of the names. We can safely deduce which bugger wrote those words, but we'll all leave it at that =]
Hahaa, and of course, can't forget how we charaded out "Amy Leo"! She probably would have turned in her grave. =p Oh wells, it really was a good break out with the entire MC from the long hiatus at work..especially with so many projects coming up!
Engin Club, jiayou!!
learning through life's potholes
had a huge lapse this week, been busy day and night :(
right now i'm in the middle of a huge bout of...sianness. i don't know why, but i felt really lethargic in the morning, and had the runs in the afternoon. now i feel bloated and i can't eat dinner. all in all...i feel really sick. :(
apologies to everyone who appeared on the receiving end of my mid-day daoness though, i just fell asleep and never woke up, it seems. anyways, theres pre-camp briefing tmr *PCB for short, i don't know which guy coined that abbreviation.* so I guess its another early awakening even for a weekend.
Frightnight came on last night; drove down to be their main vehicle boy down at Kent Ridge House 1. The entire hill was muddy like mad, by the time I finished my ferrying of equipment and people, my wheels were coated with a thick layer of soil. I guess i better be prepared to do the next carwash :( anyways, mingquan had 4 friends from KR to come visit the house for a run, 2 engin guys whom I remember pretty well, and I think the other 2 girls are from science. looked way too familiar but can't put my thumb on where I've seen them running around. Hahaa, anyways, the girls literally ran around in fright during the run, though half the time its cause their guy partner pangseh-ed them or scared them themselves :P
anyways, the run was freaky, had the creeps down my neck all the while when i was trekking through the house. >__<
learning through life's potholes
while rushing down to GE today for lessons cause of a severe headache upon waking, i was kinda listening to mp3s when suddenly an indian man walked up to me with a megawatt smile on his face.
"you very lucky man!"thinking that it was simply just a mistaken identity or someone who's on crack, i kept on walking, but he stopped me in my tracks when we were within 2m from each other.
"you very lucky man, there's 2 chinese girls who like you this year! you will not earn alot of money, but will be happy man!"goodness, now there's people telling me that my potential's restricted by the look on my face. other than the sublime fact that i had bed hair and a horribly grumpy face to boot, he was predicting my future just by a look at my pyjamas-like business clothes and general outlook. interesting.
"i'm mr. yogi. perhaps we could sit down and i could help tell you your fortune?"
ahh, so there came the catchphrase. i was wondering how much it would cost, but that went on at the back of my head as i was more concerned about being late for my "Dress for Success" workshop. definitely not glam to appear late with messed up clothes for a image workshop! nonetheless, this man managed to perk up a morning i would otherwise spend guzzling coffee...that encounter was entertaining to say the least. :p
=======================================
Anyways, down at the training room, this lady was saying how she could read anybody through a handshake. Of course, with me being the late boy (i slept at 4am!), I was asked to sit right smack in front, and being in front in an image workshop meant there were plenty of opportunities to be the :
a) mannequin
b) test subject
c) negative example
so she came up to me, while I was still drinking the Starbucks Mocha I swiped on my way to work. And we shook hands. Suddenly she spoke up,
"This guy is probably quite shy. Introverted, takes time to open up."
Gawd. If i weren't an introvert, I would have bloody well became one after what she said! But still, I suppose its pretty correct in a few ways, and it was disconcerting to have your fortunes and your inner personalities laid bare twice in a day within an hour. What an interesting day after all, when people tell you what you are.
i wonder who those 2 ladies are, by the way :P
learning through life's potholes
tired :(
been working all the way from morning to night, and the cycle goes on without a chance to rest. once i reach home theres camp stuff to complete, admin to followup on. i'm really really really tired :( but urgh, gotta see this through. eddie eddie eddie...can't let this mess you up since you're the one who asked for it!
engincamp, jiayou!
learning through life's potholes
