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skin by heroine
modified by qian
Monday, May 30, 2005
crap CCAL camp

Well...as i have guessed it, this CCAL camp is sortta crap. My negative perception b4 the camp is worsened after it, and yeah, that's about how bad it can go.

Seems that you all have been enjoying the electives, at least for the coming to school late part of it. I dont get to enjoy that. Neither do i get to go through a whole new experience like all of you did, such as archery, paintball etc. From what i know in CHS, electives could be extremely fun. More exciting and exhilerating than what you all have brought out to be, but it seems that your descriptions of the activities matches wif my elective expectations. Surpised that you people didnt enjoy paintball though. Well, from what i've rmbred, except for the waiting part the rest of it is quite okay. The pain of being hit by a bullet...well...the last time i went i got a rude shock when i was first struck, but that didnt stop me from enjoying the satisfaction of hitting my opponent. Thought you ppl are kindda immune to pain after the ice-skating outing...but apparantly not.

EEP is supposed to be enriching, not monotonous and dull. Not going through a slacker version of what you have already gone through b4. Camps that involved pitching tents and team building activities, i could say i have enough of it. Well...maybe i could have done better with a more positive attitude, but whenever i think of what you ppl are doing...haiz. Let me describe a few of these more "interesting" things in the camp.

There was this absailing thing, where you are supposed to walk down vertically on a wall from midair, and leap off halfway. It was supposed to be a "high risk activity", and i was made the IC of this event. Nothing fulfilling, except for the fact that i get to go to the top of the tower and watch people fall off one by one, with different sets of emotions, some confident, but most nervous. I learnt that words of encouragement or even a thumb-up could go a long way, forgive me, but sometimes it satisfies me even more to watch people freaked out on midair. Leap of Faith is another high risk event, where you're supposed to climb and leap off from a 9 metre pole to grab a bar dangling in midair. Looks more frightening than it actually is, well, at least for me. Not for my section though, with some hestitating on the pole for a very very long time before mustering enough courage to make the leap. Got sick of waiting after a while. Feeling brave, i challenged my frenz to timing. Almost tripped over the step while climbing, but still completed the event within a minute.

On the first night there was heavy rain and my tent leaked water, became a fish tank overnight. I was too tired then and continued to sleep anyway, but soon found out that it was impossible. So there went my sleep. Perhaps i was better off then yvette, whose tent collapsed in the middle of the night. But at least she got to watch the cup finals, whereas i was deceived by the instructor into thinking there was no cable there. Screw him, that piece of f***ing shit.

Campfire could be wild, unless you're suffering from nausea and headache, like i was at that time. It is stupider for the fact that they didnt even have enough panadols for consumption on the whole island. Didnt they know they should prepare panadols or any sort of medication in advance? So i went through the campfire enduring the agony. Blew my harmonica during our skit, but i knew i sortta lyk screwed up that performance. It was simply the case of not practicing enough and it was a last minute decision. And i suck at harmoc. Damnit. The finale, the wild part, was worse. Perhaps i could join in if i felt better, but i dont, and dancing is not exactly my cup of tea. So too bad.

Anyway, on a positive note, i probably made a few more friends in that camp. .. Perhaps our section could do better with more guys though, not that i have a problem with girls but i m juz too shy to talk to them. Those people whom i knew there are either captains or president of their respective CCAs, or will soon become one. For me, i prefer to think myself as otherwise. The worse thing is that because i was the only person representing harmonica, they assumed that i'll be the future president. I was like ended up thinking along the lines of WHAT, ME? And no matter how i pictured myself i can't imagined that. Never mind, shall see what happens.

Watched qian's concert yesterday with qihan. Wow, that was good. Must say that i was thoroughly impressed by the high standards of Hwa Chong choir. Really brought out the intended atmosphere in most pieces. A notch better than the few other choir ensembles i've heard. Like the high school one in particular. Anyway, harmonica's concert is on 4th June, who is free to attend? We genuinely nid ur support and have even put up a separate three-four item, so do come down. Tickets are priced at $6 on the afternoon and $8 at night.

Ran out of things to write now. So yeahz...tt's it.

posted by pohwei @ 01:01