Random~

I noticed that there's more and more people reading my archives, ok I got the hint, so here I am! Let me start off with this incident that I encountered when I took a bus to suntec city last monday. The bus reached orchard road and reached a particular stop where a whole bunch of students (almost enough to form a class) from RGS were waiting for the bus. Well, if the class of students get into the bus it's most likely for the bus to be packed. And then some of the girls couldn't get onto the bus. And so they shouted (or screamed, I can't figure it out because their voice are too high-pitch and I think it would sound the same either way) , "Please move to the rear!!!".

I don't know why but I feel this air of arrogance from that sentence. You think everyone know what is rear ah? Move to the back say move to the back la, what rear? I don't know but I've never liked people who does this in the public, it feels like they are commanding the people, and there are some spaces in the middle, maybe they could have moved to those spaces themselves.

Ok enough about that, so next let's talk about "plastic friends". "Plastic" not as in they had plastic surgery, but as in fake. Well, there's a type of people who makes friends with people just because those people benefits them. From some of my personal experiences and some accounts I heard from my relatives, these people do exist and are mostly in our generation. Just because grades and results are becoming more and more important to students in Singapore. Some would make friends with clever people in their class just because they can borrow their notes and photocopy them for their own benefits. And they wouldn't mind spending hours during lectures or lessons sitting beside someone they can find no common topics to talk about.

Shouldn't this be what adults in the working society are doing, not the students! Well, it's sad how education is taking away the innocent minds that Singaporeans used to have.

Well, this might offend some of you, because you might be doing it yourself, but if you are doing it, can I suggest that before you scream vulgarities at the innocent computer and make a promise you're going to kill me the next time you see me, maybe you should first think about what I've typed here.

I don't have the right to say it's wrong for you to want the best for yourself. But are you happy doing this?

Someone's reading my archives! He/she misses me!

I was looking at my tracker just now and I saw people or maybe someone was reading my archives. I don't know why but I'm feeling like I'm letting someone down. I must admit I'm being a lazy asshole for not blogging a lot this year. I can't promise anything but if anyone of you wants me to blog, just read a few of my archives, and when I see it in my tracker I will get the hint.

There's not much gatherings with friends, I didn't meet into funny uncles on the mrt or something, june holidays is nothing but a time for us to study for the upcoming exams when school reopens. Well, I'm doing a bit of homework and exercises everyday(to at least maintain a bit of fitness because there's no soccer training till the end of our exams), at least I feel like I'm doing something with my life.

But something did happen for the whole of last week, I had a camp, it's called the Alpha Bravo Camp (AB Camp) It's a camp for all the Chairmans and cca leaders. It was a tiring but definitely a meaningful camp. It had the style of the NPCC camps that I've had before, and the instructors were shouting "Where's your sense of urgency!?" everywhere and that is exactly what happens all the time during a NPCC camp. And we did push-ups as our punishment, just the good old days in NPCC.

Well, just like any leadership camps we had courses (conflict managing course, emotion managing course, goals setting course) and we had lots of team building games, and we have about 854790 reflection sessions. We also had sandcastle making sessions at east coast park and Service Learning Journey to St.Luke Eldercare center. We also had a 20 km walk from our school to east coast park.

I had some new experiences during the camp, and I decided to give these experiences a rating out of 5 stars.

1. Salty Milo

I don't know, it doesn't taste as bad as some of you might imagine it as, so I guess I'll give it a...

2.5 stars-not shiok not too disgusting

2. Sleep half naked in the night

Apart from the possibility of the guy sleeping beside me being terrorised because he saw my naked body, it's a cooling and good experience, especially when it's so hot in the bunk.

4.5 stars-quite shiok!

3. walk bare-footed on the beach

It's quite fun, because your feets sink in on the softer sand, especially when you mix water with the sand, so you feel like you're stepping some soft things all the time, but it's not so fun when you step on some sticks in the sand...

3.5 stars-ok la not bad lor

4. Bathing in half flooded toilets

Considering I had to finish bathing as fast as possible and my feet are engulf in grey coloured soap water + other people's bathing water + some black unknown particles, and I can still feel soap on my feet when I wear my shoes, it will be...

0.5 stars-a new experience but not shiok at all!

5. Listen to teamates whine about they can't continue on in our 20km walkathon.

No one likes whiney teenagers or kids, especially teenagers who doesn't look cute at all.

1 stars-considering you just have to relax and refrain from throwing your bag at their face, it shall have a higher rating than bathing in half flooded toilets.

6. Playing games/sing songs with elderly

Atmosphere-average

Elderly's interest in the games-low (I understand because I wouldn't want some random teenagers to come play juvenile games with me when I'm old)

Elderly's interest in our singing performance-they were sort of stoning

But on the whole I think we still enjoyed the entire session because the elderly looked satisfied and we felt like we had done something.

4 stars-not too bad

7. Sleeping at the jetty at east coast park + looking at the sunrise

The jetty was windy and it was a very comfortable feeling, and the sunrise was beautiful and it felt good when everyone just kept quiet and watch the sunrise

4.5 stars!

8. Not studying for one whole week

What to say? 5 stars la!

But sometimes it is sad to see that some people don't behave like cca leaders at all. While some care only about the result not the welfare of his/her group. I think the most important thing we should do when we lead people, is that we want the best for our people and we do our best for them, no matter how tired you are, you still have to carry on.