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| Friday, June 27, 2008

Yo peeps, I'm finally back from my 5 Days Arts Camp!

I daresay that this is one of the best camps that I have ever attended. The fun is not the only factor that makes it so cool. Now I kinda regret that I hesitated to sign up for this camp last year as a freshie because I can be almost 100% certain that the friends I would have made would have shared a much closer bond than those I have made during the O Week. Though my O Week friends are also great, I cannot help imagine this possibility :/

Anyhow this time round, I went to the Arts Camp as a councilor, as a 'senior helper' in layman terms. I was really really really in serious dilemma before the camp whether I should go for this camp because they only informed me on Thursday MIDNIGHT that I have a place in this camp because I was in the waiting list all along. ZT should know most of my frustrations because when I was at work I kept calling her and bugged her about it xD In the end she encouraged me to go, plus I also gathered many other opinions from other friends and they also encouraged me to go (even my boss was willing to give me a last-minute one week leave and encourage me to go too!) so I decided to give it a try. I'm not a camp type of person, you see. But I have decided to put an end to self pity of having a small social circle and went ahead to expand it myself.

I was quite skeptical about the outcome of this camp as I was initially being placed into this Orientation Group (OG) which consisted of everyone... I know nothing of. Plus some of them I don't really have very good impressions of them already in the first place. I felt really darn odd during Sunday night when we are supposed to camp over in school so that it's easier for us to welcome the freshies early monday morning. LUCKILY, I don't know whether it's fated or not, this girl from the OG I really wanted to go to (because I know some of the people there at least) wants a switch with me. So I happily accepted the switch and I REALLY FELT SO MUCH BETTER OKAY.

I can like go on blogging about when happened every day in the camp, but that would be too long-winded. The games are pretty much like those really traditional camp games you will find in university camps (meaning most of them are pretty... match-making in nature, like a guy supposed to carry a girl up with their mouths biting a biscuit and running to another end of the race... >.>; luckily I wasn't supposed to play. The joy of being a senior. lolololol). In this camp I got closer to 3 girl seniors and made new friends! I got closer to 2 of the same year girls, and of course my whole OG freshies. Though I know very well as school starts the freshies will eventually segregate and hang out on their own as seniors being seniors, we don't have much chances taking common modules, it really is comforting to feel that you KNOW MORE PEOPLE and you have more familiar faces to smile at while walking along the corridors :) UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN CAMPS ARE VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!! They will really make a difference in your university life.

Actually I still find it weird that this camp's over. It almost really flew by, except during Day One when things are really slow and that was the only time I really felt like I regret my decision to go to camp and not sticking to my work xD Time really flew by after the boring Day One and in Arts Camp being in a crazy faculty, the guys are like damn shameless, maybe it's only my OG but they WALK AROUND THE HOSTEL ROOMS HALF NAKED with only their boxers and damn proud of themselves. Really cannot stand them! If they weren't funny and not my juniors, I would have slapped them in the face xDDD

Earlier this morning while I was still in the camp, I only slept at 7am because no one wants to sleep knowing it's the last night we will be spending together. Slept till around 9am and miraculously, I'm still pretty much awake to blog about this camp right now! Though I think I would most likely concuss later once I lie on my bed (I haven't tried yet). Anyway my eyes are still swollen from all the crying earlier in the early afternoon. This is the first time I cried in the finale of a camp! They are damn shit people la. Purposely make those emotional videos and stuff and those seniors will make those more emo speeches and they will cry because it was really very very tiring in this camp (everyday we have less than 3 hours of sleep. It's really damn shag for us) but it's so comforting to see that 5 days ago, we are all still strangers and there we were, cheering each other on, reluctant to leave, damn high on spirits and suddenly, it feels that we are all surrounded by best of friends. Yeah I blame my freshies for making me cry! I managed to hold back my tears all the way till they insisted on me making a 'speech', not only me but all the seniors. That's when I really realised that that was the last time we will be sitting in a circle, talking nonsense and playing mini games to pass time.

Anyway, I can feel myself swaying already. I think it's a sign I need sleep finally! Hahha. I still need to wake up damn early tomorrow to go to my grandma house. I'm still thinking whether I should go to Orientation Week, but most probably not because it's normally more boring. After the weekends, it's back to work and the office for me, which I'm pretty eager to. Not because I'm a workaholic (I'M NEVER ONE) but although I had a lot of fun to finally doing something non-routinal in months, I'm glad to get my life back to order as well. I'm still a home-type person hahaha. I like things the way they are, the way I'm comfortable with. Occasional interruptions are okay but I hate them too frequently. Because of this camp my internal biological clock is interrupted like crazy, I had never slept earlier than 3am for the whole week hahah!

Well anyway, I just realised that I'm really not a clubbing type of person. I don't get why people like to club, the loud music though catchy and stuff, I find them irritating and deafening most of the time :/ and I don't find it fascinating to squeeze with so many people on the dance floor and getting yourself suffocated and sweaty And I don't find the clubbing games that exciting either. Hah. The only thing I like about our clubbing night (thursday night) was the drinks. I like Baileys with milk! LOL. I'm not an alcoholic, I just like to drink occasionally. I hate beer though. Maybe I dislike clubbing because I realised I can't shake for nuts. I would rather just sit around and chill :P

Okay, today rounds up one of the most exciting and interesting chapter of my life this year, and my eyes are still feeling really swollen and dry from just now. *feels damn emo* XD Really man, it's good to expose yourself to camps once in a while. I'm really glad I made the decision to go for it rather than just staying in the office typing and working on the same stuffs everyday. I realised that our undergraduate days are really limited, whilst I can enjoy university, I should. I can work for the rest of my life after I graduate! But being an undergraduate is once in a lifetime :D

Wow, this is one of the longest post I have posted in my entire blogging history! LOL.

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