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Jocelyn A. Monique

is currently an undergraduate student, and coping with her ~~overwhelming~~ commitments. I like long walks in solitude, cosy chats, usually sleep like a log, and beg your patience in tolerating my versatile humour

Saturday, January 12, 2008

11:18 AM

It's over.

And my emotions are conflicted over it.
2 months of planning, which included coming back to school twice a week, and going online every night to check the updates, not to mention working through Christmas and New Year's Eve PLUS church retreat, council retreat, Anita's wedding AND working part-time.

WOW. How in the world did I ever manage. Haha.

Fervour really did end off with a climatic bang, on Wednesday. I joined my beloved 1T27(: at Kallang for dragon-boating (which unfortunately, was only an hour instead of the allocated 2 horus cos we arrived late) and Games at Kallang Park. On foresight, it would have been more memorable to have joined them dragon-boating but bcos I wanted to be contactable, I sacrificed it. Some MAJOR change in the schedule but failure to inform the commitee equated to some screw-ups and a period of what-the-heaven-is-gg-on, but it worked itself out. CHINESE FOOD LOOKED SO MUCH BETTER THAN HALAL LA. I feel so cheated. Lol. By the time we arrived back in school, it was just nice to shower and prepare for Finale Night. Did I mention that I'm in the lamest funniest hardy-har-har-est house ever. SHIOK! Oh yeah, something really hilarious happened during wash up time. We were using the PAC toilets and then it started raining as in HEAVY DOWNPOUR kind of rain and there was like no sheltered way back to the school, so we had to wait for the rain to subside. Eventually, we just wrapped the towels on our heads that would have nuns turning over in their graves and RAN all the way. And of course, Wei Qi decided to pluck some flowers for the Shiok girls to put in their hair, since it was a nice pink. Only to find out it was frangipani. Haha. While we were running back, we saw carceng and toon come out from the mens'. With umbrellas. We felt so stupid la ohmygosh.

And so we were trying to rarr-rarr the Shoik-ers for Finale Night at the canteen extension, which involved red and black face paint, drumming upside down red pails with empty bottles and screaming ourselves hoarse.

Finale Night! Best night ever-est!(: I totally loved Shiok's intro, with the hilariously Singaporean PCK music playing in the background and us coming in with our aprons and holding red plates ala Chinese wedding dinner waiter/waitresses and doing our dance routine. SHIOK WON BEST CHEERS!(:(:(: DUH! We have the coolest funniest cheers, like the Cheese Prata and the Bring Shioksky Back.

Needless to say, Finale Night did not end on time (according to schedule, we were supposed to be done by 8 but we ended at 9plus anw) after which it was full swing major clean up time. Then Mr Tan did his debrief and practically shoo-ed us out of the SCC even though it was pretty obvious that everyone was making plans for supper at Prata Cafe.

The only sad part that disoriented me was losing my handphone during House Meeting. I still don't get why anyone would want to take it, since it's not exactly a new model. And most of my contacts are stored in my phone instead of my SIM card. I can be so freaking careless. And losing it at this time is really inconvenient cos of the major events coming up. Uncannily enough, our GP lecture mentioned that Man was being overly-reliant on technology to the point that he was being controlled by it. And it just made me wonder how is it that I can be left feeling so down like as though a part of me was stripped away with the absence of a metal lump in my pocket. Quite scary, the way we (or rather, I) am so dependent on my phone.

Depressing feelings aside, going back to school (for lessons) was a jolt back to reality for me. Firstly everyone seems FULLTIMEMUGGER mood and it's starting to pressurise me. Lol. I mean, for someone who is used to a hullaballoo-ous class with distractions aplenty, seeing everyone doing maths(ZOMGWTH) during recess break can be pretty disorienting. And our lessons are so....quiet. It's scary. I need to get started on work asap, so I can catch up. A LEVELS LOOMING AHEAD.

Oh yes, list of acknowledgements to all those who made Fervour possible

Orientation Comittee! (Without whom, I would have just shrivelled up and decomposed. HEH)
OIC
Logistics-Rina Marie Guin Matt Toon Carmen
My beloved SAIKANG warriors who were on standby 24/7, esp during PA(:
Events-Andrew Liselle Andre Wei Wen Neri
Games- Cherie Arthur Wei Qi Shan Salameh Nadine
FSV
Dance-shake tambourine!
our wonderful j3 seniors(:
Mr Tan Sn and Jn
Last but not least, the very fantastic FACILS! It takes people to plan an event, but it takes a SPECIAL bunch of ppl to put plans into action and this is where you guys showed your dedication and commitent, as evident by the long hours we stayed in school (incurring the guard's irritation and bribing him with want want crackers)

Of course, not forgetting my pillars of support in council, whom I could always depend on esp during the very very trying time in Dec, when everything seemed to be falling apart. I don't have to mention names here, cos you know who you are. Thanks a million(:

Being involved in 01 has taught me alot of things, mainly my impressions of people. Though CA is technically a part of the 33rd, it's only school projects like this that bring me out of my fishbowl and work with ppl from the different wings and the other facils as well. And I'm glad to say, most of impresions of people have changed for the better after seeing their working styles. It's really refreshing. To quote Clare, there isn't really much of a barrier now among the wings and that I find AWESOME.

Looking forward to 2008. I will not let my lost phone get to me. Haii.

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