This was an entry I typed yesterday but was unfortunately unable to upload:

Well, well … orientation has ended and quite a lot of stuff has happened over the past few … 2 days.

First things first, HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY AZIZUL KAMAL SHAH! ((: I’m so happy that u made it back!

Alright … orientation went rather ok I guess. At least for storyline. Nothing terrible happened … unless u consider laughing/smiling when u r supposed to look sad as something unforgivable. I think only half of the school population actually bothered turning up for at least 2 or more of the scenes … and only about a quarter actually bothered watching or paying attention to the scenes. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t say that it was a bad experience. On the contrary, it actually was a rather fulfilling one … being able to know many people better, those in the O2 team, those in the cast, and those in the crew etc. And I must admit that I did have fun.

Anyway, it was actually quite sad that no one actually bothered much about orientation 2. People leaving halfway, walking out, being entirely passive … it indeed was a far cry from O1 … where the OGs were practically always together throughout orientation and cheering, actively participating. And though I really wasn’t in the team, I don’t think it is much, or for all the matter, any of their fault. Any activity, big or small, thrives on participation of the target ‘audience’ … and to start of with, the people enter the indoor gym with a prejudice already … how in the blue hell would you expect the 2 days to be even remotely fun? And indeed, looking back, I wasn’t all that saintly too … I wasn’t playing any of the games or around unless it was storyline … here’s the magic of peer pressure …

Just wanted to say that for all the efforts the team had put in, they probably didn’t deserve it.

O well. It is amazing how low the cut-off can be so damn low for the JCs this year … It’s so amazing how ppl with 11 pts or less and so can get posted to JCs like YJC … And it is sad to see so many familiar faces all of a sudden missing. Maybe it is true that nothing in this world should be taken for granted. Maybe we should all stop crying foul with regards to this year’s posting results. It just reflects how stiff competition is for our batch… as the government says. Nonetheless, I think our batch has just shown a few things to and about the government. From the posting, to the internet JAE exercise, to how they would expect family in the whole country to have a credit card or some sort of ability to pay online. Hmmm … sometimes the feedback doesn’t matter much, does it? Of course, so much for their faith in Cambridge when this is the very same place that has pretty wrong ideas about O Level Biology with regards to the eye and the very same place that forces people to spot questions and hence regurgitate answers with the kind of time given to do papers. Yea, so much for a thinking nation. Fwits, really. Some really pointless rants here. Please don’t take offence, if there is any to be taken in the first place.

Went back to RJ to check out classes after going around seeking donations for some organization that I bet ¾ of Singapore wouldn’t even know about. Far cry from the tsunami donation drive that we held. And orchard is such a bad place to ask for donations. How sickening is it to see ppl give you those ugly looks when they refuse to offer you their donations. I shall reserve my other opinions to myself. Back to the class thingy … went to check out the class we were in and since the few of us who were checking decided that we were kind of curious about those who would stay and those new classmates we had, we began to take down the IC numbers of those in 1SO3W. And despite having resigned as paparazzi, together with zwitterion and kerpan, we managed to track down the names of all 27 in our class. And of course, despite having resigned, it hasn’t made me selfish … so for those from 3W actually interested in knowing who’s still in and those new ppl coming in … here’s the list:

16 survivors
Audris, Kenneth, Dennet, Amy, Malisa, Philip, me, Li Heng, Kevin, May Anne, Gwenlyn, Xi Xun, Ying Ting, Donna, Jeff, Kwan Rui

11 newbies
Nadjad, chen wei, toh pei xuan, goh hui min, goh wyn sen, loo jing qin, yang bin, ng jia yuan, Samantha kwah, kang hao, wen hao

If you are expecting me to even know half the newbies, no I don’t. I just know 2,3 ppl from the newbies. Haha. So proud of myself. But so nothing better to do …

Tt’s all.

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Food for thought:
Why is it that the older generation spouts vulgarities and yet they are the very ones that make such a big fuss when the younger generation ‘emulates’ them and do the very same thing that they are doing … as sarala puts it.

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Will put up the pictures of storyline somehow when I get it … hint, hint samjo. Haha.

junyi! posted at 9:46 am.