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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

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Friday, July 03, 2009

4:18 PM

I just got back from NUS Arts Camp 2009 on Wednesday night - which was truly mindblowing and such a wonderful experience for me! (: Each of the 5 days that I spent there from Saturday to Wed was super packed with loads of activities that had us dashing across campus and the west of singapore, with sleeping time crammed to about 2-3 hours per night, but it was totally worth everything (: I hope I can regurgitate as much as my simpleton mind can recall, so that this will be a favourite entry of mine.

Day 1
A highly comical start in the morning. Stole a ride from Shan's mom to NUS, where she was positively certain that Eusoff Hall was at Yusof Ishak there, and insisted that we alight there. .__. Shan shan shan. So we walked over to Eusoff Hall, running a little late. I was in OG Reggae! And Ben and Germaine were our OGL and AOGL. Redio redio woo <3 nus =" National">Day 2
We had Photo Hunt in the morning so we were out it the open being a public menace. Haha. Went to west coast plaza, queensway and hollandv for the bulk of the day, before coming back to learn rag dance which was zomg complicatedz I dance like I got two left feet. After which we totally RUSHED through editing our Angels and Demons video ( damn lame, POferati what the beans) in under half an hour. Kudos to Ben who was cursing and swearing the entire time he chionged our cool video! Then we had some house time before we had our first secret pal session haha which was quite erm, funny. Because we were blindfolded and had to strictly refer to each other by our nicknames, and had to do the obstacle course and play musical cardboard in our blind states. Then the House I/Cs were mysteriously "kidnapped" so we had to play more station games to rescue them. My house I/Cs are really funny! (: Non stop entertainment 101. Then our OG had suppersupper time, but I was already queasy from the annoying medication but it was still fun yes yes.

Day 2
Photo hunt around West Coast Plaza, Queensway and Holland V for the bulk of the day! Snapped pretty funny pictures here and there, created a rackus on public transport and lunched at Subway! Then came back to campus to learn Rag dance which was omg complicated haha, especially when you have 2 left feet that is not cool at all. But it was still quite funny. We rushed through the entire Angels and Demons, kudos to our OGL Ben who put his superb video editing skills to use on the Macbook and finished it within half an hour including burning time. WOW. Oh, then we had SP time which was pretty amusing - each couple to be seated with their hands tied and blindfolded, and to talk to each other, referring to each other only by our nicknames. Kinda funny. My "SP" was quite nice la, I think we are very different in nature. Then did some obstacle courses and musical cardboard before we joined our OGs for some station games around campus at night to rescue our "kidnapped" House ICs Ivan and Cass.

Day 3
Food Hunt at Vivo and Beach Day! Spent late morning walking around Vivo buying random food items and our lunch before we headed over to Palawan Beach for our Beach Games heh heh. The weather was really horrid to us, it rained the entire time we were there so sad! ): But nothing could beat the excitment of being in a house where we purposely dunked straight into the water the moment they offfically started, and cheering and wildly splashing each other. The bulk of the games were pretty wild and dirty, ie Couple Pail Game, Rolling on the Sand Game. But yes the inter-house tug of war game was like they said, pretty emotional for us one can taste the tension (ha ha) in the air. Due to the bad weather, our trip to the beach was cut short so we headed back to EH for some OG time instead. OG girls had a ride back from our very nice senior! It was abit sad though that two of my OG mates had to leave for home because of spine problems and contact lenses -meaning I slept alone for one night. The warm shower was truly a godsend after such a freezing day and OG time was funky man! We had secret night activtiesz heh heh slept at 330am by the time we were done.

Day 4
Tuesday was sort of the last day of wet and dirty games so we gave it our all! Sports Games in the day - running around SRC and engaging in friendly matches (one of the Eagle and Chicken matches was so friendly we ended up camwhoring halfway hahaha). The only sad part was my phone which could not be revived after water accidently spilled into the bag so I currently don't have all your numbers people! Must self-intro when you message me k! Yup I really had tons of fun being a Merlion, rolling up slope and dunking my hand into bins of unspeakable content. And War Games! Yes yes highlight, I was intitally very scared when we were about to play because I had intended to just throw water bombs but Irene was like,

"Aiya, girls got no aim one, you hold the board, ask the boys to throw water bombs!"

Bad idea. I was right at the frontline of the strategy games which had ALL GUYS in front haha oh my tian right, I ended up with people aiming for my face instead so I was entirely drenched but HURRAH HURRAH our board was empty and dry (: Then after all the excitement, we cheeredandcheered before dinner and having "personal hygiene time" haha before we went to the club at night. Bus there was super delayed I think we only reached at 10 plus? But it was still a spectacular night I must say. I was too sleepy already by the time we came back, I think someone drank my teh peng for supper ): Because my friend told me to rest but she forgot to wake me up. Tsk.

Day 5
Last day! ): So sad camp came to an end so fast. I was pretty surprised to see Ratna in the morning! She came back with donuts somemore okayy so niceee. I must have slept pretty well the entire night because I didn't realise what time it even was when I got up. Breakfast with Secret Pal! Not so secret anymore huh. Turned out I talked to a different guy on the second night! Because he was a councillor just temporarily replacing. And my SP and I have mutual friends! Singapore is such a small world. He got me a pretty nice notebook because he heard from the other guy I liked to read and write. But so sad for the mystery of the fake SP! ): He seemed pretty nice too! Last day was basically alot of talks and propaganda from the other camps so far Soci seems super cool. But I'd be coming for O week yes yes (: AND GUESS WHAT, REGGAE WON THE BEST VIDEO! So we got iPod shuffles OKAY action number 2 to ben! After all the emotional thank you speeches by the various seniors, we ended at about 4 plus after which Reggae went to Sushi Tei at Vivo for dindin! (:

Pictures on Facebook for the curious minds! I <3 Reggae and R house to bits!

Hopefully I can join them for NDP preview over the weekend but I have plans too! ): My days are starting to get socially packed haha. Yesterday I went for med checkup at UHC after which I showed Kathy around campus. Then it was tuition time before I had a nice friendly chat with my dearest classmates on the phone, I really hope they can make it for O week too! (:

Okay too many exclamation marks, I better be going off for Fuel!
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