Monday, December 29, 2008
PSL camp was darn good fun. wanna hear my story? it's like doing a reflection :/DAY ONE:
reached school at like 7.20am and saw all the other PSLs in the canteen erm ... mingling? yep. gathered at the parade square according to our class we're taking. oh man it's back to the charity. 2charity'09 some more! wait till they find out i'm taking them again. gahh D: i want fresh faces! i want sec1s! ok anyway, people in the same group were shiqi (the other already-taken-charity person o.o), sherman,chengen, rebecca, benjamin, jiayi and jiayun. at first, the only people i knew were shiqi, chengen and rebecca. but after playing some icebreakers in the hall, i guess everyone started to know each other.
after the icebreakers, we had the rules and expectations thing. wow that was really long, but still really important :D haha. CCI workshop came next. our trainer, ethan, was quite the crapper XD he kept joking with the PC and some others like fucheng and ivan. he split us into 8 groups, then each of his facilitators were assigned to 1 group. then, in our groups, using 30 straws and 4 rubber bands, we had to come up with a thingamajig that can shoot a pingpong ball. our group did... haha :D he also did power-teaching with us. he says it's adopted from the US. quite effective i must say.
lunch was TOTURE. ok it's not the food. the food was awesome :D some fellow from our table kept saying totally random stuff to make us laugh and choke! it was like funny, yet disturbing o.o and someone else is racist ==" anyway, at least we had some "entertainment" :D
we played station games after lunch. they were all the traditional ones that i've been playing since don't know when. HI Ladder was a torture because chengen was SOOOO heavy o.o i almost toppled D: Soapy Maths was darn fun, but also darn tough because most of the guys were on the other team, therefore they won most of the time. then there was jiayi, who was darn afraid of water or something. she was in the same team as me and she was #1. ziying kept calling her number and mine (#2) together so that she would participate. but most of the time, i was the only one wrestling for the soap o.o well i don't blame her or anything. oh and 3 Minutes No NG was quite gross as we had to transfer super salt water from one bottle to another with our mouths. the feeling was like... omgosh.
then we had the yet another classic nightwalk! i paired with jiayi. our first route was down the basement, which is also the freakiest. i shan't say much in case some sec1s, like my sister's classmates who are coming to HI read this post, then i'll spoil the surprise D: just wanna emphasise that jiayi and i fell down the basment steps and landed on our bums.
after nightwalk, we had 45 minutes to do our campfire prep. we were blank at first, but somehow or another, the totally genius ME suddenly thought of something random like powerpuff girls (there was no theme, so we could be as random as we could). the others thought it was a good idea, so we did power PSLs! just in case PPG was copyrighted or something like that. hahhs ;D
a fruitful day indeed ;D
DAY TWO:
woke up BRIGHT and SUPER early at 6.18am! ok it wasn't really bright. assembled at 7.30am for morning PT, which was to learn the mass dance! it's the Mamma Mia song thingy. shouldn't spoil the surprise again D: but the steps are cool! i think the PC mistook "jive" for "drive" though.
then there was the SEL workshop conducted by russell and melvin. some parts were a bit boring, some parts were not. but anyway, we learnt the importance of SEL and how we can apply it while doing PSL duty. the five aspects are social awareness, self awareness, responsible decision making, relationship management and self management. haha :D
lunch was funny (actually i didn't get why my table was laughing at me).
*sherman and chengen randomly mentioning something about vibrators*
sam (out of curiousity): what are vibrators?
*whole table stares at sam, then bursts out in laughter*
*sam gave the weird look*
benjamin/chengen: you mean you don't know?
sam: heard before only.
jiayi: want me to explain?
sam: you have ah?
*whole table laughs even harder and starts choking on rice*
CCI workshop again after the SEL workshop. we did more power-teaching, and we played teambuilding games after lunch! there were 4 in all, and they were all quite tough. the first one was Water Elevator, whereby we had to transport a pail of water from one end of the parade square to another using our legs, and our stomachs had to be facing the sky. and after reaching the end, we had to remove our shoes and socks without putting down the pail. it was like... painful.
the 2nd game was Poison River, whereby we had to cross the parade square while stepping on newspapers. easy? not really because we couldn't communicate and the facilitators had every right to confiscate newspapers that were not occupied. in the end, inglee, huibing and i squeezed on one paper, lydia was stuck between 2 papers and melvin threw his shoes at pearlyn o.o
the 3rd game was Floating Apples, whereby we had to pick 5 apples from a pail of water and finish all 5. it looked damn wrong when you see 2 guys/girls trying to bite the apple from each others' mouths, but who cares? :D the weirdest part was when my lips touched huibing's lips when i was trying to bite the apple from her! the feeling was really... erm... gross :/ i, for one, am not a lesbian. neither is she. stupid gerald kept asking dionne to take pictures of us cuz he thought we looked funny D:
the last game was Fill It Up, whereby we were supposed to fill a bottle containing a pingpong ball, to the brim so that the ball will fall out, using a "Holy (holey) Cup". the holes were like bead sized. the person holding the cup was not allowed to move his/her position. every group manipulated the cup by stuffing socks or anything that can absorb. it was quite irritating as lydia and huibing were trying to use the guys' shirts to wring the water out, but the ball was still in. then, melvin came with water in his mouth, and with one spit, he managed to get it! woohoo~! even though we didn't get 1st place for any of the games, we sure had loads of fun ;D
we played Green Revolution after that. it was like Dawn Of War, except that there were recycling concepts in it. i was in Yellow Union, along with the other charity PSLs, unity PSLs and hope PSLs. being an engineer, it wasn't really easy as most of the soldiers were out in the parade square fighting to the death, therefore there was no one to protect the engineers when they went around securing checkpoints, recycling centres and collecting recyclables. vivienne and i kept asking for soldiers. they followed at first, but they got distracted when another soldier came running by. anyway, war games like that are always fun :D
campfire was after that! haha it was loads of fun! everyone was so high, even the stars were shining brightly. aww... the funniest bit was when we played some fashion show thing, then people were supposed to contribute items to those who were the models. JUST SO HAPPEN i was sitting beside benjamin, while sherman and chengen were in front of us. then the emcees asked for 5 shirts, and all 3 of them took theirs off. i was like o.o jiayi was behind me, and i turned to look at her. she gave me that totally weird face.
jiayi: wei! turn back lah. face the front.
*sam refuses, because...*
sam (whispers in a joking manner): don't want! later i get too excited!
*jiayi, thinking it's real, goes all wide-eyed and starts laughing*
*then ivan, behind jiayi, starts laughing and making fun of sam*
*then ivan tells pearlyn, and everyone around there makes fun of sam*
*sam goes all red and looks at the stars instead*
that was one of the most embarrassing experiences ever!
supper was awesome! we ate macs ;D then shiqi wrapped her burger with tissue, and someone started thinking weirdly and asked what it looked like. i said it was 2 testicles joined together and eveyone laughed again! and all the funny stuff, like have i seen a ___insert choice body part here___ came out again. gahh. it's always me! oh benjamin should stop hitting my sunburned arms D:
another fruitful day :D
DAY THREE:
phew finally the last day of camp! woke up bright, but not early. it was 7am! panicked a little, but i still made it on time :D yay me. had first aid talk done by melvin. everyone kept shooting questions about this and that and blah. haha i guess everyone really wants to take precautions. oh well. did area cleaning while the sec1 PSLs had a briefing. the toilets were quite gross. why do girls' hairs keep dropping! why can't our hair be like the guys? they have it so easy. and nope, i won't shave, if that's what you're thinking ;D we also had to write to our mortals. mine was gabriel. haha. he kept saying "good morning/night/afternoon" to me. wonder if he already knew? hmm.
broke camp in AVA 1, came home, and dozed till 9pm (i bathed before that).
darn the USB.