it is amazing really how i failed to blog for one week + but tt's not the point really haha.

it feels so un chinese new yr ... jus like it feels so unchristmassy last yr. haha. maybe cos of all the work tt worries u, it jus makes u unable to sit back and enjoy wat's going on ard u.

i cant really recall wat happened last week ... blame it on my failing memory and me getting old really. but i recalled constant attempts to come home early to clean up my room ... and even then it wasnt very successful. there was i recall dramafeste on tuesday ... which includes auditions again & a meeting with mrs butler and mr booth which made me feel really useless cos of my failure to ask or even negotiate for anything ... undoubtedly reminded and twisted by certain someone. then wed we had debates trg. and thurs ... thurs ... i think i had a meeting. RIGHT. IHC meeting. haha. rather excitingly, i m deciding with ajit wat's at stake for the CHAMPION house =). and friday came and went. pity really i din see the chinese dance which to my knowledge the dancers were practising really hard for haha. tt's cos i was at the calligraphy part cheering my heart out for moortarbet. haha. ok maybe not. it was jus ajit haha. and i was promoting his calligraphy and teaching him how to write =) feel so proud of myself.

subsequently it was a bitchfeste at lt4 where i have never seen hse commers so passionate and sincere over an issue. over the whole merger betw hse comm & council. i have said most of wat i had wanted to say, so i guess i shant repeat it. council wasnt too happy too from wat i gathered. then had lunch with sj, jonk & alan. before i went to get a final pair of jeans with them to complete my cny shopping =)

my room is very clean now =) it is so clean tt any1 hu wants is invited to my house to tour my room. hahahahahahaha. ok ANW. CHINESE NEW YEAR. basically family getting together time and all in all, perhaps nothing out of the ordinary happened this year. and i was as usual putting on my best behaviour being a most gracious host to the guests! =) usual visting. and ate a lot. i think i m getting fat. and watched loads of shows. watched i not stupid too and memoirs of the geisha later. and watched on dvd gangs of new york. haha. the 2 movies tt i had watched? pretty good in my opinion ... tho i not stupid too wasnt as spectacular as i not stupid, as the critics put it alr. qte moving at times and had a lot of lessons behind the laughs and tears. but wat's the pt if no one learns from the lessons? gangs of new york was a visual treat. great movie really, can see y it got itself an academy nomination.

cny was a great break really. wld hv invited frens over really, but there's jus so much more to be done. which includes an econs essay =( and math =( and chem =( and bio =( and gp =( and dramafeste =) (but loads of work) and talenttime! wah.

anw cny signifies a new year (duh tt's wat the ny represent) and i jus hope tt it wld b better than last yr. there r claims tt this yr wld b worse than last for us dragons ... but yet again, last yr wasnt a great yr for me when it claimed it wld b. so there u have it. amidst all these festivities, customs r followed r at most points of time because of one's hopes tt the new yr wld b a good one. and i hope tt a good yr the yr of dog wld b.

happy cny everyone =)

junyi! posted at 11:26 am.

wah. whew. i m so very relieved tt the week has come to an end. and i realised tt when u actually r doing something for others instead of urself, u get so worried and worked up over so many things. this week has been hectic. wat if df, debates, ihc meeting etc. and WORK. thank god it is over but but but but but there is still much to b done =( and yes i hate sch too =( the amt to b done is so disgusting. my 'Extra-Curricular' stuff currently stands at: Chinese new year (spring cleaning so this has to b included), then talent-time, then drama feste, then planning for u14s, college opening exhibition debate, and in the middle many meetings for house, trainings for debates, jgs, trials round two ... wah GGXX. i jus hope everything turns out well.

and o common test as well. and ihc closing and random stuff like that.

rights. so debates came to an end. jus hope tt i did a job satisfactory enough. *crosses fingers here* all the late nights and all and anw moortarbet got 2nd unfortunately, i think i jinxed them =( like i told my juniors today, i have been 2nd all my life, with the only exception in sec4 - maybe i did pray qte hard tt year haha. but yea. overall i hv been 2nd all these years ... so maybe i shld keep away from the rj team. and maybe i shldnt involve myself in too many things. unless of course we were expected to get last, and being 2nd isnt too bad a thing.

wah. i need a break. and i noe it's terrible cos it is only week 3!

o yea. australia vs new zealand today. not too bad a debate. the aussies won and i guess dinner today wasnt too bad, with us interacting wif the juniors. haha. feels like orientation the mood.

another random entry. hai

junyi! posted at 10:17 pm.

wah. ggxx. my schedule is so tight i hardly have time for anything. there's interhse debates this whole week, which frankly isnt too bad by my standards cos i had a different focus when i planned this - more than getting sch interested in debates but finding potential ...

my schedule for this week is horrid. and so is the rest of my month. and hu can forget common tests in term 2 week 1! and i have to do my tutorials noe!

i will talk abt many other things tt happened this week like later into the week or sumthing. 3 things sum up wat i have been doing for the past one week +. Debates. Schoolwork. House.

aiyo. ggxx. i m really so tired.

this is such a skimpy entry. argh. and random. and retarded. and useless.

junyi! posted at 11:16 pm.

it's back to reality.

and today is another clear case of showing wat u think doesnt matter. it is wat the admin thinks that matters.

go to hell.

junyi! posted at 9:00 pm.

and finally orientation has come to an end, of course not counting the follow-up activities tt wld actually exist. the reality is, it's time to move on, life gets back to normal. and with the a levels looming in 10 months? 11 months time? maybe tt wld make my life not so normal again. yet again. this doesnt seem to be going to be as fun as orientation.

so many things happened. so many things i want to say. so many things to reflect about.

But the brief details first. Monday was a holiday, meant to prepare for everything to come - esp for storyline, and i had to fall really sick that i thought i was going to die. had a fever then went up to 39 degrees, and diarrhoea. and i felt really bad cos orientation was like the next day! AND i was panicking too cos there was no way in hell am i going to skip the very first day of orientation! so i was a good boy, stayed at home and rested at the command of the storyline chief and thanks so much for the concerns of the many storyliners then! and with all that + the medicine i was well and ready to function the next day - the very first day of orientation! tho i mus admit certain dizzy spells then. when we were like dancing so much! so yea. tt was a bad holiday, 2nd of january.

and we went on to the first day of orientation, nv woke up so early before! it's like 515 when i woke up ... ok i noe i shldnt b complaining cos ppl wake up at this time daily some times and for this day ppl wake up earlier than i did so nvm. orientation went pretty well the first day. i met my og and they are all so different, so quiet, ... so afraid to sit with a member of an opposite sex! haha. but i suppose it's the usual first day thing. but they were really psyched up for station games so tt's really good! haha. my og noes my blog now so i cannot put up any bad things abt them can i! haha. but anw, i shant go into details for station games cos the pictures i hv already speak a thousand words so i shall see! maybe i wld put the pictures up when i feel like it later! haha. then there was dinner! and zamarathine remains one of the few ogs tt did hv dinner on the 1st day! and of course we all noe dnet cant count. haha.

2nd day then came. AND the morning was boring cos i became station master instead. haha. but then the ogs tt came were nice cos they did a HOT cheer for me! haha. i mean no one ever calls me hot! hahahahaha. ok and then house time too was so cool and happening i m sure everyone enjoyed him/herself. qte proud of the whole thing cos i planned it =) wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. i hope they did like the hearts tt took a day to do! and our cheers remain the coolest! haha. yea. but all in all, it's the first time i did really feel wat moortarbet was abt, and i m really glad tt orientation went like tt. ok wait. reflections later. and our og remains the only og tt din hv dinner on the 2nd day.

3rd day began wif a debrief cos i realised we havent really talked abt the past 2 days and the days jus go by so quickly! and i did so badly want them to have fun for external! so external was cool. and i m sure my og wld rmb dancing on the mrt =) singing i love moortarbet at the esplanade park, playing charades and of course the merlion song and many other things done when i had to leave cos of storyline. and of course, hu cld forget qingyuan's birthday! haha. i cant believe it was so coincidental tt i asked tt qn in front of him! haha. and i had to rush back for storyline so i had to call nav to buy the cake! how brilliant of me haha. and the og had dinner this time, being really smart and making a reservation at pasta.

4th day. and tt's ytd. the last day =( war games began. and they competed as a house this time! and then there was o nite. which honestly speaking, i wasnt very pleased abt with the entire organisation. houses with horrible and downright offensive performances dragged the whole show on. and then they cut off TWO of MY house items. which is being very unfair to them cos this is a competiton we r talking abt here! and then the cancelling of zking & zqueen? and then the cancelling of the batch song? wat's the point of having a batch song if u dont sing it at the FINALE! and postponing so many things is pointless cos the atmosphere no longer exists! but lighting of zkardia was good tho zamarathine unfortunately din manage to see the lighting. nevertheless great job leslie on tt! =) anw, reflections was ok. i did it and i m jus glad tt it was less painful then i thought it wld b. jus hoped they took away something from this whole journey. and m really touched by some of the things they said. and was surprised i was given something. haha. so it marked the end of z'kardia. sort of. and we had to clean up. how anti-climax. haha. but then at debrief, which wasnt really a debrief, we all went crazy and were cheering for ourselves and all! haha. and went cam whoring.

u realised i havent talked abt storyline AT ALL. and tt's simply cos storyline is so magical tt it absolutely cant b mentioned together wif all the games and all! storyline was an absolutely fantastic experience. a 5 hr? 6 hr? showcase of talents from all the storyliners ... it was absolutely amazing. perhaps there were the many times we forgot our lines tt din do ccc justice. and i still feel rather sorry abt tt. but i m glad tt ppl loved storyline this year and i m glad our efforts the past 2 months hv not been wasted. storyline in and of itself took much more work then i thought existed when i signed up for it 2 mths back. costumes, props, memorising of lines. but the company, every single person in storyline has made it such a joy to work i tell u. storyline took me away from my og, took away so much of my holidays. but i m still glad for this. so glad tt it had made my entire orientation experience complete. it isnt jus abt acting so sluttily and bitchily in front of 1300 ppl, or having 250 ppl cheer u on, or making 20 new friends. it is about brightening up orientation for 1300 ppl. i miss storyline. and i will never forget the moments on stage, not cos i m a stage whore, but because i hv never done something so massive before, and also because i hv never ever in my life heard so many ppl cheering as the curtains opened for a new show. thank u so much storyliners for making all these happen. it was amazing while it lasted. our past 2 months had not go to waste. =)

reflecting on, orientation probably destroyed "the last holiday for us to enjoy". and also took away all plans i had in store to actually do revision. but i nv did regret it. it was fun. it was great. and i hv nv been involved in something tt is actually so very very massive before. perhaps i might only ask myself, have i been a good ogl? and tt is perhaps the only qn i cant answer myself. my only hope is tt wtv it is, i hv not let ppl down, and i hv given others a most fantastic orientation.

and i suppose tt tt's all i m going to say, i will keep most thoughts to myself. but still i have to thank dnet & all of zamarathine hu made wat zamarathine is =); STORYLINE! =) for all tt i mentioned in the para dedicated to them; MT OGLs! for so creating a MT identity for us =); o team - basically for making this whole thing jus so magical.

i come out of this making so many new friends, knowing so many more people. whether i come out of this being known as a good ogl, a good senior to those in my og, only others can decide. but wat i hv decided is tt i m jus glad tt i have been part of this wonderful journey at z'kardia, with zamaratine.

this is such a long entry. i m sorry but i jus had to write all these down.

we dreamed a common dream,
a dream of wat raffles cld be ......

and many years from now, do look back and smile.

junyi! posted at 12:36 pm.