Met up with my SMUX freshies last Friday after Vivace for this internal event of ours titled "Sleaze and Feast" held at Geylang. As the name imply, eating at this food paradise was an important component for this important event.
Our first stop: Tim Sum at Lorong 17
The Tim Sum was just an appetizer and the first stop of our food hunting. Our next stop was the frog leg porridge.
Next up was at You Tiao Dou Jiang stall at lor 27A. This was where we ate to our heart's content with dou jiang, you tiao, meesua.
It was around midnight but the night is still young. It was time for desert and we had durians, tonnes of them. After the first round of durians we were still not contended and we went to
another stall selling cheap and good durians for a second round.
This event is not called Sleaze and Feast for no reason and even though it's past midnight, the event didn't end here. We proceeded on to the Sleaze component which was a walk around the darker areas of Geylang with MC and JJ as our guide (not too sure why did they know so much about the place)
Very glad to have this group of freshies who were willing to enjoy life even after school starts and happy to see they are still so united after the camp. Looking forward to the next event with them which will be night bike.
So many stuff to blog about but so little time. Surprisingly, this is only week one of school as a year 2 and I'm so busy, even when I am having a three day week. Not that I'm mugging, but somehow time just passes without me noticing. For now, just a short recap of my school life in this post.
My week started on Tuesday afternoon with my Management of People at Work class. Not a proper lesson as the prof introduced about herself, the syllabus and she gave us some time for interaction between the class. Not exactly my favourite type of prof as she seems rather closed-minded regarding the type of project and even the presentation style. Now it seems like I'm being closed minded about her but my gut feeling seldom fails me, but oh well, I'll try to accept her and see how after tml's lesson.
Two lessons on Wednesday starting with Intelligent Organisation in the morning. Did not know a single person in the class and I guess I'm the only year 2 in the cls with the rest all year 3 and year 4. As the title suggest, I suppose you need a high level of intelligence to understand the class and I'm not there yet. Was contemplating about dropping the course after the class and my mind was made up when I took out the worksheet the prof distributed and read the lecture outline. It's just not the course for me.
Had Management Science in the afternoon by a boring prof. So boring that Lewis dropped the course and left the class halfway through. I decided to stay on though since I thought it's just a mugging subject and with the textbook and some hard work it should be fine. And my group should be doing well with LiangJun in my group.
Another two lessons on Thursday, starting with Management Accounting in the morning by a Korean prof. He's the best prof I'm having for the semester so far, being very funny and easy to understand.
My week ended with a Finance class which I'm quite serious about as that's going to be my major. Therefore I kept my laptop and went to class with hardcopy notes so I can pay full attention. Even as the prof was completely monotonous, the subject itself could keep my interest and had a good share of class participation with my background in finance and the rest of the class was simply not interested in the lesson.
After dropping the Intelligent Organisation, I bidded for the Probability Theory class which will start tml morning. Do not think there will be any people I know in the half filled class but at least I know the assignment can be done as I manage to finish last week's assignment without attending the lecture. Just concerned that the exams fall on the same day as MA. Got to decide again after tml's lecture ba, after all I'm quite active in the BOSS bidding system.
Went for SMUX camp last week as a facilitator and that's probably one of the last freshman camp that I will be going in my entire lifetime. It was a completely different experience compared to sports camp, not only in terms of the events, but also in terms of the type of freshies in my group.
Day one
On the first day was skating and games at WCP. It was my very first time skating and initially had problem even standing up but got used to it rather fast and found it rather similar to ice skating which I had tried twice before. At the end of hour plus session of skating, I was comfortable to skate around the park, just that I still could not brake. Fortunately while I was going down slope, Cynthia happened to pass by and save me from crashing onto the tree.
Had other games like tug-of-war and laser tag (my first time trying) and it was during the time in between when we play games and bonded well as a group. For dinner we had outdoor cooking, which the guys in the group were rather sick of it after having enough of it during NS. But for a white horse like me who did not go out field and rarely eat instant noodles, it was quite an experience.
Even after the sun set, the night is still young and we went for ice-skating and I believe not many people had the experience of ice skating from 11pm to 1plus am. My third time ice-skating so more or less I got the basics right but ice-skating during the camp was totally different compared to during the normal days. That's when you form super long trains and make each other falls. Thanks to Yingbin who was ever so 'helpful' to accelerate the trains, my group and I fell quite a number of times.
Day Two
After a sleepless night at Changi due to the fact that I was a lightsleeper and the planes there were extremely noisy, we headed down to Mount Faber SAFRA for diving. Steph's group got extra slots so I decided to crash their group and try diving, another first for me. Wore the diving apparels and went a couple of rounds in the pool. Looks cool but I did not really enjoy it as the breathing wasn't that smooth and I am more of a land creature.
Biking at the Tampines Trail and PCN in the afternoon despite light showers while we were cycling at the Tampines Trail. But we wasn't that lucky as the showers turned into a thunderstorm while we were on the way to Changi, so no choice but to take shelter at a bus stop before the trip was called off. So no more chicken cutlet noodles from Changi V but my freshies were self-entertaining as they sang and played games at the bus stop for a couple of hours.
Performance night back in school and I was proud that Mr and Mrs Smux of the camp came from my group. After the performance night we had our mini drinking session in the room despite SMUX camp declared a non-alcohol camp. Just drinking for fun as we had mild drinks like Malibu and Bailey's and somehow Weixin got a little thirsty and began to rob drinks as we prevented her from drinking too much.
Day Three
Last day of camp and had a little amazing race and according to the scenario, one of the facilitators was kidnapped so I was left alone to lead the group. Seems like the group wasn't too eager to save Weixin as we strolled to the station and I allowed them to feast in KFC in the midst of the race instead of rushing to complete the race. Therefore it was no surprise that we manage to finish the race last without completing all the stations.
The last activity of the day was a trek from McRitchie to Bukit Timah. The group was playing and singing English songs which were totally alien to me. The camp then ended after the prize presentation and I went off with a few of them to Island Creamy for ice cream and a heart to heart talk.
Aftermath
I will say that Weixin and I had the easiest of job as facilitators there was nothing that we needed to do to lift the morale of the group as they were extremely hyper and provocative. Meet up with them once for dinner and tentatively will be meeting them next Friday for another outing. Hopefully we can stay in contact for a long time after the camp.
My new Pro Accent finally had its first piece of action the previous Saturday after much delay due to camps and the tiller problem. But good stuffs are always worth the wait and it gotten much attention due from my teammates due to its light weight. After all, it was the only W&W bow in the team that broke the Nexus dominance and even Buffy is considering getting the bow instead of the Nexus. Not too sure if Mr Wee actually notice the bow or what was his reaction as my bow was the only bow not carried by him and if he knew that it was bought from his rival guess I'll be on his banlist, but so far so good. I think upgrading archery products is another form of addiction as Maurice, Auggy and many others just bought new upgrades over the past weekend and I'm very very tempted to get the Shibuya sight which cost around $300 I think since the normal sight can't fit onto my new bow. However, due to budget constraint, most probably I'll just get the cheap Cartel sight. How I wish I can strike toto this Friday so that I can upgrade everything at one go.
Another happy event that happened during the last weekend was my IPPT. Chose to have it at SAFRA as I thought I had no chance to pass it but miracles do occur as I actually passed it, in particular my standing broad jump, though not in the most orthodox manner. It was recorded as 222cm and I think I did reach that distance but did not manage to stay at that distance and took a few steps backwards. Another white horse privilege :). The only station I was disappointed with was the sit up station which I failed to get the full 5 points. Oh well, at least I passed. Though a standard considered low by many, I was satisfied with my results. After all, it's only the 2nd time I actually passed my IPPT. I had the motivation to keep myself fit after attending the IPPT as I see how chui the other servicemen were. Appearance-wise they look that they have not been in the sun for a long long time and the new balance shoes were the only running shoes they had. Fitness-wise I fear for the defence of Singapore as the first station wiped out one third of the participants and this is the first time I see people fell off the treadmill.
Today, I finally managed to watch Dark Knight with the archery peeps. So what if 99.9% of the people had already watched it, watching it late is still better than never watching it. It is truly deserving of all the good reviews by the media and all my friends who have watched it. Since most of the people have watched it already, nothing else need to be said.
