the 96-hours event ended yesterday morning as we all dragged our feets back home. drained, tired, sleepy, but happy.

i wasn't really expecting much from this orientation camp, honestly. but the group of friends i made during this 5 days made the camp a very fun and enjoyable ones. Dian Si Kee (my orientation group) was an active one, but most importantly, everybody were not those kind of pretentious ppl who joined the camp to really hope to get to know ppl to steal lecture notes from.

orientation camps, there are mainly four types. first is the type where the activities can be sucky, the organisers unenthusiastic and the company just sucks. second is the type were the activities sucks, but because the company is great, the whole event becomes meaningful and fun due to the things the group does. even a game of murderer can become extremely fun with great pals. thirdly is the type where the activities are damn entertaining, but the group of ppl u joined are like so passive that you don't feel like taking part in the end. fourth, is the type where both the activities and company of frens are great.

that's what CS FOC is, the fourth type.

it's amazing how different CS FOC is. the committee took a standard template and worked on each aspect of it and made the FOC their very own. the fright nights, the beach games, the blind-folding games, the dirty games. each aspect is wut one would expect, but yet each is so unpredictable that by the second day, i gave up trying to guess what was going to happen and threw myself into the atmosphere of anticipating what is going to happen.

then, there was invented games like human cluedo, where four of the seniors were acting out roles of a love triangle story throughout the first two days, making us freshies believe the story to be real until the second night when the characters start screaming at each other and a body came falling down from the third storey of the cs building. wow~ it was amazing how everything was worked out in such details. seniors were appointed to spread rumours and gossips for the first two days so that we could solve the mystery for the second night. it was the ultimate secret activity la! kudos to the acting team and all the seniors! (anyway, this activity was like telling us how gossipy the whole CS school can be. haha~!)

tried wakeboarding on the second day when all of us went to raffles marina at tuas. wow~ it was damn fun! managed to come out of the water and stand up for a mere second for each try. haha! quite a number of us were tempted to start the hobby of wakeboarding after that. come on man! how many schools have wakeboarding in their orientation?!

my OG group (Dian Si Kee) was great, altho it was pretty tough trying to fit the names to the faces of the gals. the names were all so similar! Shuwan, shujing, sarah, shuiling, xiuyun, etc. notice they all start with 'S'? haha~ the OGLs were fun too, DOng *Daniel Ong* and Zixuan. then there were the many seniors attached, like Daniel (the fake freshie), Medha (President of CI club), Carrie, Weirong, Danny, etc etc. all of them cheerful, funny, hyperactive and great!

the feeling of saying "seeya in school" at the end of the day was pretty surreal actually. perhaps the feeling of school starting hasn't really sink in yet. the whole orientation felt like a great activity that has nothing to do with actual school like (of cos despite the fact that the activities were held in NTU). oh wells, shall just take a step at a time ba.

*so-sleepy*,
Johnzzon