Wednesday, March 24, 2010
today i went to SP (for the first time as a student! :D) for the CLS camp briefing. smsed jianming on the way, and sorta decided to meet him to go in, but then he said they gathered them at the mrt station, so he was going in already. so, yeah. anyway i was confident of finding the briefing place myself (: i did something quite embarrassing on the way to school though.1) at outram park station, the green line part. the train came and as usual, i was about to go in. and you know, usually they have maintenance or whatever for green line trains, and they'll announce "your attention please, the train at platform A terminates it's service at outram park interchange" or whatever station. thanks to my ear piece stuffed in my ears, i couldn't hear the announcement and boarded the train -.- there was this lady in front of me who was about to board but suddenly stopped. so i just thought she wasn't sure of what train she was supposed to take. when i went in, i was like "wow, this train's pretty empty (:" then those staff in red came chasing people out of it. thank God they were there, otherwise i would have just sat down like some idiot. and THANK GOD I WASN'T THE ONLY PERSON WHO MADE SUCH A MISTAKE :D
2) when i reached dover (finally!), i didn't expect the train door to open the opposite side compared to the previous stations. so i walked to the normal side that i saw open for the previous stations, and was wondering why the door didn't open. then i saw that the tracks were below the door, and i was like "wait, this is wrong." just then the other side doors opened. felt extremely ps about it! felt like burying my head in the ground like ostriches. so many people saw me, and there was an aura of confidence surrounding me. i wonder how i managed to keep such a straight face during that moment.
yeah, well, jianming said that there were people there to "fetch" them to the briefing area. i did see people, but they didn't stop me or whatever, so i walked straight in... and got lost -.- SP is humongous. too enormous for a small fry like me. LOL. i sorta walked to T11A, then i called jianming to ask where he was. he said something about umbrellas an walking down this step thing. in the end i just met him at the convention centre area. and you know what? THE AREA WE WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET AT WAS SOMEWHAT JUST BELOW MY FEET WHEN I WAS NEAR T11A. gosh, i walked one big round. anyway it was a good workout :D
did self-intro and played icebreakers with the other CLS campers. it felt pretty awkward at first, but i guess we all warmed up to each other. haha. saw aloysius and vanessa too. today was more like a camp preview rather than a briefing. the briefing was really short, maybe like 10 minutes? the camp chief looks just like an older version of david. i was so amused when i saw him. HAHA :D we also got to know our group and GLs. my group is cool. YAY. thank God all of us in the group managed to click with each other easily (: and yes! i made an OFFICIAL new friend today! not those where you just know their name and what they look like, but a real one! her name is phyllis, and she's in optometry. no one expected me to make any friends on briefing day, but i guess my friendly self has done it again! :D woohoo!
looking forward to camp next week! they told us to bring clothes that we CAN bear to throw away, so i expect it to be pretty hiong. haha. that makes me even more excited :D and it's overnight! like, wow.
p.s. i sorta got a tan line where my pants were cos i was sitting in the sun while we were doing icebreakers. kewl. only saw it when i was showering, and i totally O: to myself. heehee :D