hello world.

i'm back.

after a whole long time of camps.
and more camps.

camp #1:

spotlight for kids.

this was an rp workshop thing. organized for underpriveleged kids under the straits times pocket money fund.

lots of hyper overcharged kids. irritatingly hard to control.. but mostly cute.

camp #2: cca leaders camp.

quite fun. well, more interesting than the rest made it out to be. the instructors were biased towards our group, cause we were extra happy and enthu. haha.

day 1 was pretty much getting used to the new people. in the beginning, it was pretty much like boot camp since we were given like 30 seconds to get from one place to the other.. and if we didn't make it in time, we had to do pushups..

went for vietnamese after that with jerm, claud and crumply at holland v. and collected my prints. 113 photos in all. haha. how fun.

then went to bodyshop after that and claud bought foundation.

next day was stayover. jireh kept telling me these ghost stories to freak me out. hmph. meanie. and then later i got really freaked out. and we had to walk through this dark corridor before lt2.5.. and i had to wait for company before going.

haha. i'm such a scaredycat.

an then we stayed up for most of the night.
lillian tried (rather unsuccessfully) to teach me bridge.
went to bed after realised that we had roughly 1 and a half hours of sleep before sentry duty.

spent sentry duty hanging around with crumply talking about what we can do about ra.
good thing about the camp was that we could address the problems that we have right now and do something about it.

but the best part of the camp was the people that you meet. they're all really nice and down to earth. you'd think that they'd be all elitist and all since they're all the leaders of the ccas of the school.. but they're all really cute and unpretentious.

so after one camp, got thursday off to recuperate, only to spend friday at another camp. so instead of sleeping/exfoliating/studying i went back to crescent to watch the juniors train.

got a little frustrated at them. they're slacking. and totally unprepared. the preliminary competition was on saturday.. and they were still lazing around and not taking things seriously..

at the end got them all to huddle up together, and pretty much told them how i thought they needed to buck up. was talking really quietly, and was staring at the chair. was pretty much telling them how i try to do my bset for them..and how they coul at least help me back by returning the favour. don't know whether they took it seriously.. but i guess most of them know me well enough that when i go really quiet and talk.. and stare them in the eye, it's something urgent and important. and when i stare at some inanimate object, it usually means that i'm disappointed or something.

i give up my only day without camp and back in civilization.. to watch them slack around.

and the most frustrating part is that these kids are so great and have so much talent in them that it's just so irritatingly frustrating so see them let their potential go to waste.

so thursday was spent in crescent.

friday was off at cip camp this time. for intellectually disabled adults.

was quite apprehensive at first.. didn't know how to handle them.. but i guess i pretty much played everything by ear.

and i realised how tiring it was to constantly keep a cheery face, no matter how pissed off you were inside.

but my trainees were nice. i was lucky. they were extremely well behaved too.. something that i was totally not expecting.

and the funniest thing happened when someone asked karl whether he was an id. and she was serious. she really thought that he was an id.

haha.

and karl, ranon, maria and yi teng tried (rather unsuccessfully as well) to teach me daidee.

slept a total of 4 hours in 3 days. most of it was spent snuggled up in between amrita and maria. i guess that's a good thing about being a girl. you get to act all groupy and stick with everyone. same thing for the ccal camp where mel, claud, shamiah, abs, lillian and i all fell asleep on one long mat.

and saturday was for rmun presentations. my nice kids bought me and jo fillet o fishes for breakfast. haha. was happily boasting that my kids were the nicest among all of them.

judged ecosoc 1 with ben. both of us were dead sleepy. and he was happily gawking at the mg girls. haha. and our ushers in our room were really nice. we had to go through a 7 hour long session with no break in between and they knew how we felt, so they ever so nicely kept going to the canteen to buy us lots and lots of coffee.. and letting me drink from their water bottles over and over again.

and when lunch finally came, i wasn't all that hungry anymore.. so just poked around my chicken rice for a bit before dumping it all on ben's plate.

went back to cip camp again. carnival night. damn fun. rohaizad (the id kid i was taking care of) was really nice. he treated me to ice cream and bought me this raver bracelet. haha.

and then there was dance night. haha. was dancing like an idiot.. but i guess nobody cared. haha. well atleast i didn't. one thing that i learnt from the ids was that life is too short to care about what other people thought about you.

i'm going to live like there's no tomorrow.
love like i've never loved.
and dance like no one's watching.

got home on sunday. had monday to recuperate again. haha. gee's back from london. still the favourite.

no one says it better than my 5 year old cousin..

"where's geetha akka? i like her more."

have gotten used to the fact that no matter how hard i try.. she'll always be the prettier one, the smarter one, the one everyone likes more.

and now with her uber cool job where she gets paid to travel from geneva to france to london every week and gets travel allowance and everything.

where they koped her straight after she graduated from lse with her first class.

ah well.

and there was hissoc crisis filming today.
at pine grove.

there's the thing about being the host.. you're liable for everything.

mark's phone got stuck in the pool table. and he got really worried. i got really worried too. but it finally came out. and we apparently we were making so much noise that the secuirty guard had to shut us up twice.

ah well. played pool against kitson and chun long. and won.
haha. 2 guys against one girl.

then tse zan joined the game and nicole and grace joined me. so it was this guys against girls thing. and we won.

until we got trashed.

haha.

and then matt, mark, tse zan and ben offered to teach me how to play pool if i paid for their game. thought that i might as well learn to play pool since i have one hanging around in my home anyway.

i dragged nicole along cause i didn't want all the guys to start laughing at me. and at least i could trust nicole to teach me properly.

but i realised that guys are more patient teachers than girls.

matt was trying to teach me how to create come bridge or something. and how to stand.

haha.

in the end i gave up and just went on poking the ball.

ah well.

party on jiaxi's dad's yatch tomorrow. sailing off the sea to some deserted island.
will leave tomorrow afternoon. sleeping over. back on the day after's night.

just realised how rich my friends are. parties on parents' yatchs. while i have.. the pool table that swallows handphones?