day one was quite blah. the morning was spent listening to talks after talks after talks. followed by a not so nice lunch at the supposedly very good arts canteen. oh but i saw jeanniechiam!! like after two years plusplus of not seeing her. hahah so cool we are in the same school again :D hmm then it was the freshman inauguration ceremony! it was more interesting than i expected. we were right in front haha. anyway, i think that acapella is really cool but i'm not a fan of choirs. and i really really like the robes and hats the professors wore! so cool and regal. oh and i saw sara too. so many 4a1 ppl in nus! yay. after the ceremony, me and shiwen stuffed ourselves at the reception, the food was really quite yummy, only to find out that next up on the program was dinner. -.- so anyway, i had water at the cafe. haha. hm after that was some house bonding i think. dont really remember much other than alot of cheering and some games. up to that point, i still didnt really know my og members' names haha. other than SHIWEN of course! hehe.
after that was FRIGHT NIGHT! oh man, at first i wasnt really scared. i mean how scary can it get right. FAKE ghosts and FAKE ghost stories. but while waiting they played the maid, which isnt scary in itself, but the sound effects were totally freaking me out. then it was finally our turn. we got walked to this secluded LT area. and the guy told us to take the lift up to the 6th floor to get the clue from the altar. i was like there's an altar in the school?!?! so then we got into the lift. and i was totally starting to freak out. haha. when we got to level 6, both of us refused to step out of the lift cos it was like PITCH BLACK outside. so, we actually went back down hahahah. when we got out the ogls were like HUH. haha. we managed to get one of the guys to go up with us, altho he wasnt really much help -.- so anyway, we finally we went into the corridor. and omg it was like being transported right into those korean/jap/asian scary movies. seriously, there was this like red glow and a woman in black sitting down at the end of the corridor and alot of wailing moaning sounds. and we didnt know what to do, so we edged towards her but then she started coming towards us and so we screamed and ran and suddenly there were like these black things chasing us all over. the worst one was the one on the floor that tried grabbing our legs :( it's so STUPID. i dont know why we were so scared because we knew it was fake but we were still freaking out and screaming. so after taking forever to find the clue (which was cleverly hidden in the bowl of oranges!), we ran out screaming. hahaha. it was really bad, but quite exciting after you get out and think about it. hah.
anyway, after that there was alot of sitting around and CHEERING. by the time we got our rooms, it was like almost 2. anyway, it was like one og to one room. and my og had about 15 ppl?! and the room is like smaller than one quarter of an NL in the happy hut. so yes, it was pretty darn cramped. all i wanted to do was sleep. but everyone decided to have supper. so not wanting to be left alone in the room, i zombied down to the cheeseprata place with them. unfortunately, it was SO CROWDED. so we went and bought stuff from 7eleven instead. and i was secretly happy that we would be going back so fast BUT then it started to pour out of the blue. it was a real freak storm. so we were forced to sit down somewhere and hide like refugees. after a long and torturous wet and cold wait, the rain slowed to a drizzle and we ran like mad all the way back. it was FREEZING man.
then me and shiwen went off to eusoff ishak halls to bathe. it was still drizzling and cold and we were walking quite miserably out in the rain. BUT then, this super kind (and apparently quite hot) aussie guy stopped in his cab and gave us a lift down. hahah. so nice. :) showered up and then walked back to our room to find EVERYONE lying horizontal with the lights off. they were scheming and gossiping away though. haha. so when we finally got to sleep, it was like 4am?? and then two hours later we all got rudely woken up and kicked out of the room by the security guard who had to lock up the rooms. ?!?!?! so we trudged down to the forum to sit around for very long before it was more cheering and then collecting tins/shirt for flag day. my group is slack (yay) so we all dispersed to go home first and put down our stuff.
met up again at boonkeng at about 1 to do flag day. omg it was like retribution for all those times i ignored flagday ppl. i got ignored and rejected for like a good hour? i felt so annoying. :( but it's quite fun when ppl donate. you feel happy when coins are plonked in, even if it's only a miserable 10cents. haha. stayed there till about 4plus.
happy steamy after collecting moolah. haha.
then we went to the nearby macs to wait. it was quite fun there cos we played games and had stupid forfeits which i honestly thought were quite funny but probably only because i wasnt the one doing it. hahah. went over to potong pasir to deposit the tins then went down to sakae dining next to PS for dinner. i was so darn tired then. like totally switching off. but the food there is quite yummy! and the ambience is nice too.
went off to newton to meet grace and her friend jeremiah after that. thank goodness he was driving us down to simpang, because for some reason, the east bound train at doubyghaut was INSANELY packed. the train was packed and so was the platform. it was pretty horrifying. =x picked rachel up at tanahmerah then it was off to simpang for PRATA!! yayayay. finally got my cheese and egg prata and milodino :D :D good chatting with the newneighbours too! haha. :) trained back after that and fell asleep on the train. was so darn tired man. but somehow i only managed to sleep for less than 12 disjointed hours last night. where are the days where i could sleep and sleep and sleep! i need my continued sleep man.
anyway, it's national day! decided not to go for the parade tho. because it sounds so tiring. and also cos of the um toilet conditions. hahah. =x ok that's about it for my superlong entry! well done to whoever actually managed to read the whole thing. hahah.