I like my O week OG already... Although it was scary how fast they bonded. :D
Yesterday, they'd only been together for less than an hour, and when we went for lunch, they all just sat down and started talking to each other like they'd all known each other in JC or something! :D
All of us freshie councillors were like, um.. "Whoa." :P
And even today, we had three new freshies, and the whole OG just assimilated them so easily! They were talking and joking around by lunch time, again...
Amazing.
Ah... games IC today... Fear Factor.
Thank god I signed up to be IC for that game; otherwise I'd have to eat the stuff that we had to gross-ify for them to eat. Wouldn't really mind carrying the worms, though; I'm fine with that, but oh, the poor worms...
Some of them did get squished, the poor things; dropped and stepped on, or something of the like.
Oh, and the fashion pageant! Was so proud of ourselves; we made this really cool-looking warrior costume out of all the recycled material and stuff; we stuck it all on Yang Chong (spring onion! hahaha!) and it looked really good on him, man! And we were different from all the other OGs who did all the usual sexual kinda stuff, like transvestite kinda costumes and whatnot.
And good Lord, Gregory was really sluttified. :P Didn't know he had it in him. Freaked me out a little. :P
I'm running back and forth from Rag and O week; damn tiring, but damn, it's so FUN!! :D :D
Saturday, July 31, 2004
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Birthdays!! Oh, I love it when there're plenty of people around; you can't celebrate a birthday without lots of people, hahaha... :D :D :D
And yes, I've been wearing a silly grin on my face for about three quarters of today for obvious reasons. :D Said silly grin is now attempting to worm its way into my typing and blog post. As you can see. :D Not that I really care. :D :D :D I'll grin and smile till I split my face if I like! :D
Birthday wishes, in order: Sylvia messaged me at 11.55 pm last night, haha... 5 minutes early, but hey! It still counts!! :D Debbie's came next, altho hers was one of those forwarded kinda messages when she says that she's really happy that she knows someone like me. :) But I *was* wondering why she was sending me one of those out of the blue. :D
Next: Wan-Tsin, then Pam, with the expected "Happy Birthday and oh you're so old". :D :D :D
O week precamp starts today as well, too, so when I got there, Mary and Denise wished me happy birthday too, and soon my whole house knew, haha... Of course, all the raggers already knew. :)
Debbie came later, after we all had lunch, and she brought cake!
A chocolate one with blueberry filling, I think, and it had cream with chocolate shavings, and she said that it was for Titus House's three July babies, which were myself, Alex, and another guy named Mark. Alex's bday was on the sixth, and Mark's was on the 17th, but mine was the only one which was on that day itself, haha.. So had a big piece of that cake... :D
Oh, and they made Alex kiss Eunice as his so-called bday "present/wish"; I'm not sure if I should envy or pity the poor guy. :P
And then, at the end of the day's activities, Pam and I sat outside the arts club room and we ate the apple pie that she baked for me! It had a "G" in the middle of it! :D
So we lit the candles and I blew them out and everything, and we ate and talked and between the two of us, we ate about half the pie; it was lovely!! As it is with everything that Pam bakes. :P
Then we went down to AS7 where they were having dance practice, and I let Haoran have some; he wanted to eat the whole half that was left after he had one bite! And he wanted to order from Pam, haha... :D
Wan Tsin, Mary and Yuimin all really loved it too; then I brought the rest home; there was still slightly more than a third left. :D
And I had another mango cake when I got home!
Haha!! Three cakes/pies in one day!! :P
Oh, and I have Maksim's CD now, from Pam and Sylvia, and Mary gave me a small notebook that she decorated with sequins in the shape of a "G"; I love stationery. If I had enough money, I'd buy every single pretty/cool-looking notebook that I saw at bookshops. :P
And my sisters gave me this fancy paper clip, and a calligraphic writing of my chinese name; I have no idea who did it, but it looks lovely. :)
Ah, then when I got home, Yingyi messaged me at about 8 to say happy birthday!
Lovely day.... :)
And yes, I've been wearing a silly grin on my face for about three quarters of today for obvious reasons. :D Said silly grin is now attempting to worm its way into my typing and blog post. As you can see. :D Not that I really care. :D :D :D I'll grin and smile till I split my face if I like! :D
Birthday wishes, in order: Sylvia messaged me at 11.55 pm last night, haha... 5 minutes early, but hey! It still counts!! :D Debbie's came next, altho hers was one of those forwarded kinda messages when she says that she's really happy that she knows someone like me. :) But I *was* wondering why she was sending me one of those out of the blue. :D
Next: Wan-Tsin, then Pam, with the expected "Happy Birthday and oh you're so old". :D :D :D
O week precamp starts today as well, too, so when I got there, Mary and Denise wished me happy birthday too, and soon my whole house knew, haha... Of course, all the raggers already knew. :)
Debbie came later, after we all had lunch, and she brought cake!
A chocolate one with blueberry filling, I think, and it had cream with chocolate shavings, and she said that it was for Titus House's three July babies, which were myself, Alex, and another guy named Mark. Alex's bday was on the sixth, and Mark's was on the 17th, but mine was the only one which was on that day itself, haha.. So had a big piece of that cake... :D
Oh, and they made Alex kiss Eunice as his so-called bday "present/wish"; I'm not sure if I should envy or pity the poor guy. :P
And then, at the end of the day's activities, Pam and I sat outside the arts club room and we ate the apple pie that she baked for me! It had a "G" in the middle of it! :D
So we lit the candles and I blew them out and everything, and we ate and talked and between the two of us, we ate about half the pie; it was lovely!! As it is with everything that Pam bakes. :P
Then we went down to AS7 where they were having dance practice, and I let Haoran have some; he wanted to eat the whole half that was left after he had one bite! And he wanted to order from Pam, haha... :D
Wan Tsin, Mary and Yuimin all really loved it too; then I brought the rest home; there was still slightly more than a third left. :D
And I had another mango cake when I got home!
Haha!! Three cakes/pies in one day!! :P
Oh, and I have Maksim's CD now, from Pam and Sylvia, and Mary gave me a small notebook that she decorated with sequins in the shape of a "G"; I love stationery. If I had enough money, I'd buy every single pretty/cool-looking notebook that I saw at bookshops. :P
And my sisters gave me this fancy paper clip, and a calligraphic writing of my chinese name; I have no idea who did it, but it looks lovely. :)
Ah, then when I got home, Yingyi messaged me at about 8 to say happy birthday!
Lovely day.... :)
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Shaun is easily amused.
Jian Wu iseasily scared--shouldn't say that--
Of lizards. Or by lizards. Whichever way you want to put it. :P
Coz we were twiddling around with the fortress part of the structure today when a tiny brown lizard scarpered out from underneath and Shaun was watching it go and he went, "So cute!"
Er, I was a little surprised that he said that (no guy that I've ever known before this would say something like that in a situation like this; they'd probably think it, but maybe not say it), but I agreed, anyway. Because it was cute. :)
Picked it up; not a very wise thing to do, not knowing exactly what the heck it is, but I picked it up anyway; funny thing is that whenever I tried to give it over to either Shaun or Wei Liang, it always jumped right out of their hands. Stayed pretty still in mine though.
And Shaun seemed rather fascinated by the fact that you could see its little lungs drawing breath and everything; it was still a baby, so the skin was rather translucent.
Ah, and I scared Jian Wu by handing it to him. :P
I mean, I closed my fingers over it, and I stretched out my hand to him as he was coming down the stairs, and then he was standing in front of me and asking me, "What?" as he looked down at my hand.
So I opened my hand and the little lizard was sitting in there calmly and Jian Wu jumped back about a foot. :P Heehee.
Saw Wan Tsin and Pam when their SWAPS camp groups came past the place where we were working. They seemed to be having fun.. :)
Chicken wire is evil. Scratches all over the place.
Twine is semi-evil too. Maybe not. My fingers hurt again. Pulling silly twine and whatnot. And now my hands have strange red marks all along the side from pulling the twine.
And I'm actually laughing at myself. Laughing at myself because my stupid hands hurt. What kind of stupid weird little bugger are you, you stupid girl?!
Biggest eejit alive is what I am.
And in other news.. the guys are putting the girls to shame. Song Kwang can bake cookies... I've never known any guys that can bake, so Song Kwang's the first. Good for him, anyway. And now we learn that Shaun can cook lasagna.
*Buries head in sand*
Jian Wu is
Of lizards. Or by lizards. Whichever way you want to put it. :P
Coz we were twiddling around with the fortress part of the structure today when a tiny brown lizard scarpered out from underneath and Shaun was watching it go and he went, "So cute!"
Er, I was a little surprised that he said that (no guy that I've ever known before this would say something like that in a situation like this; they'd probably think it, but maybe not say it), but I agreed, anyway. Because it was cute. :)
Picked it up; not a very wise thing to do, not knowing exactly what the heck it is, but I picked it up anyway; funny thing is that whenever I tried to give it over to either Shaun or Wei Liang, it always jumped right out of their hands. Stayed pretty still in mine though.
And Shaun seemed rather fascinated by the fact that you could see its little lungs drawing breath and everything; it was still a baby, so the skin was rather translucent.
Ah, and I scared Jian Wu by handing it to him. :P
I mean, I closed my fingers over it, and I stretched out my hand to him as he was coming down the stairs, and then he was standing in front of me and asking me, "What?" as he looked down at my hand.
So I opened my hand and the little lizard was sitting in there calmly and Jian Wu jumped back about a foot. :P Heehee.
Saw Wan Tsin and Pam when their SWAPS camp groups came past the place where we were working. They seemed to be having fun.. :)
Chicken wire is evil. Scratches all over the place.
Twine is semi-evil too. Maybe not. My fingers hurt again. Pulling silly twine and whatnot. And now my hands have strange red marks all along the side from pulling the twine.
And I'm actually laughing at myself. Laughing at myself because my stupid hands hurt. What kind of stupid weird little bugger are you, you stupid girl?!
Biggest eejit alive is what I am.
And in other news.. the guys are putting the girls to shame. Song Kwang can bake cookies... I've never known any guys that can bake, so Song Kwang's the first. Good for him, anyway. And now we learn that Shaun can cook lasagna.
*Buries head in sand*
Saturday, July 03, 2004
Synopsis of highlights at Rag "camp" (",)
Day One:
At the Beginning...
Okay, so apparently Titus is the only house that is staying together (to build a part of e structure, that is. One of the towers, to be specific) for Rag; all the other houses have their OGs spread around in different areas of building and stuff.
No Dolus people at camp; only four of us Caedor girls (Mary, Sharon, Yingyi and me) and Alex, and two Gladius guys: Song Kwang and Alvin. And there's this guy from Opto called Jian Wu who seems to like tagging along with us and helping out, so I guess he's sorta an honorary member of the group, haha. :P
Altho Alex only came much later in the day; he was stuck at his camp for half the day waiting to collect his IC. He and Gareth both ORD-ed on the first day of Rag "camp". And when Alex came he brought us almond and cherry nougat from Marks & Spencer!! Yay.... :D :D
Went around NUS collecting materials and stuff-- wood, cardboard, waste paper and newspaper; I think we alarmed our group IC with how enthu we were. Hee. :D Not bad eh, Titus? :D
Group IC's name is Shaun; nice guy, very fatherly person, really, always being concerned with the girls and everything, haha.
Debbie dropped in later in the day! :D Us Caedor girls went out with her and Shaun for dinner; Debbie bought us grapes, then left after dinner coz she wasn't staying over, and then we went to NTUC to buy stuff for breakfast the next day. Oh, and Mary brought durians too! You know, one of those one packet for $2 kinda things outside supermarkets; we managed to pick pretty good ones too, haha. :)
Thing is, in NTUC it was slightly weird, coz Shaun's 1.83m tall and we're all just teeny little 19-year-old girls (he's 24 this year), so I made a remark that it was like he was some dad bringing his four daughters out shopping and it stuck: we called him "Daddy", "pa pa", and "A-pa" for about half the time during the camp!! :P
Y'know what's even funnier, tho? He responded when we called him that; every single time!! Haha.... ah, but he's a nice guy, so he's prob just humouring us or something, haha... :P
Strange thing is, he seems quite amused by it too. :D
Night Activities
Kicked a soccer ball around the "bridge" area near e Arts Club Rm for a while... half an hour or so; I learned that I can actually coordinate my leg and eyes! Well, somehat. :P Was really quite fun, haha.
Bathtime. Went to Eusoff Hall to bathe; Shaun took us there and waited for us. Felt so bad, but uh, he wouldn't be persuaded otherwise, so.. yeah. So nice of him. :)
Should really stop saying "nice" so often. But I have no other word to substitute it with!! Argh. Vocab, wherefore art thou bloody vocab.
I love the Hall's bathrooms, btw. They're lovely. :D Nice and big with shower cubicles that have plenty of space to hang or place your stuff.
And I thought that PGP's bathrooms were pretty good already. :P The Hall's bathrooms are about twice as big as PGP's. And they have heated water. :)
Steven and some other people went off to Clementi to watch soccer at about 3 in the morning, leaving the Arts Club Rm quite empty; speaking of Steven, he's actually really different from during Arts Camp-- turns out he's a really funny guy-- he seemed kinda uptight then! Oh, and I learned how to play mahjong! Hahaha.... :D
And apparently, I had really good luck; according to all the people that were helping me-- Alex and Song Kwang and Jian Wu. I could see that, I think, but I still didn't really understand it, haha. :P
Jasmine kept popping in at times while we were playing; she was worried about Mary and Yingyi who were sleeping outside on the benches, and she kept asking the guys to sleep outside with them to keep them company!
Thus, Jasmine earned the post of "Mummy". :P
So Sharon and I slept on the couches in the room; Jasmine came in later and took an armchair and Shaun followed after a while.
The soccer people came back at about 6 am. Apparently, after the match ended at 4 plus, they went to play soccer till 6 am. Crazy bunch. :P
Day Two:
Woke up at 9 plus, despite the fact that I slept at 4 plus. My body clock is sometimes too finely tuned for my liking. Anyway, woke at around nine and just lay there all snuggly-buggly in my sleeping bag listening to the soccer people come back and talking and whispering as they settled down to find a place to sleep. Quite fun, really. Finally decided to get my lazy arse up and start work at about 9.45.
Yingyi and Mary and the guys were all awake already; sitting around on a bench outside and talking; Song Kwang said that they all slept outside, so they were up at about 7 plus coz by then people were walking past and staring at them, haha.
So, had brekkie and everything, then started tearing up more newspaper and folding magazine pages into some spike-like thing that they want to use for scales or some other sort. Did that all the way till lunchtime.
Meanwhile, Steven entertained us with his semi-wide variety of Bible and racist jokes.
Ah, and after lunch, Gareth dropped in, and he brought those lovely mint chocs; you know, those lovely mint sweets with chocolate centres; I love those. :D And he informed us that apparently, mint lowers a guy's sperm count.
Hm. Shan't comment. :P
Steven's gay "tendencies"
Rather unnerving, really. Big macho guy like Steven talking about how he'd turn gay for only one man in the world... Well, okay, he's not really big, he's more like a little macho guy, haha. Like Wai Lun!! Hahaha!!!! Yes, anyway, he was talking about um.. Tony Leung, I think. About how even though he's 40, he still has a great smile and a lovely face and how when he goes to watch Tony Leung's movies and Tony Leung smiles on the screen he (Steven, that is) just "melts in (his) seat"... O_O
I tell you, all of us in the room were really staring at him by then. It's funny, but kinda unnerving. :P
Oh, and he sings a lot. He walks around singing a lot of chinese and cantonese songs; singing like one would in the shower. :P
The Titus House family...
Yeah, we're starting to develop into a family. Literally. Steven gave us bak kwa sometime in the morning, so we made him our "stepfather" since we already have Shaun for "pa pa"... (lame, aren't we??), and since Debbie's our self-proclaimed "house nanny" as it is, we've officially recognised her as such, haha, coz she came in the afternoon on the second day with slices of watermelon and honeydew... she's always feeding us with fruits. :)
So, at last count, we have a dad, a mum, a nanny, and a stepfather. Although having a stepfather seems wrong since we have a father. Hm. Maybe Steven should be an uncle or something.
More Stuff
Yingyi's mum came through and got her factory workmen to drive over to NUS with a lot of stuff for us; cardboard boxes and newspapers and some wood too.
Then some of the guys came back with about ten bags of aluminium cans that they'd brought back from Senoko. Christ, they stank.
And we had to wash them too. :s
I think there were about 6 guys--um.. Song Kwang, Alvin, Jian Wu, Shaun, Bobby and Haoran-- and Yingyi and I went into the gents with them and we crowded out the whole place, washing 6 bags of cans; it was like an assembly line thing: the guys washed them with soap and passed it down to Yingyi and I and we rinsed them twice with water before sorting them by colour in different bags and everything.
Jian Wu shuffled back and forth changing the water for us and getting basins; Shaun and Bobby straightened and tidied up the bags and eveything once in a while...
Actually, quite fun. :P But very dirty.
Most popular things that we find in those cans: cigarette butts, tissue paper and straws. Not very pleasant. :P
Yingyi and I took slightly longer to bathe that night... :)
Kicked the football around again; Steven and co. left to go watch football again and Shaun and Jasmine and some others went for supper; that left Song Kwang, Yingyi and me to laze around. Alex came back later, so the four of us just sat around outside the room and talked crap. :P
Bedtime: AS7. Okay, Shaun brought us there, and we were all expecting that we'd sleep around on the first floor since apparently people usually sleep there, and there's plenty of space anyway, but he brought us up to the third floor instead, just outside the Chinese Department, and there were armchairs and everything that we moved around and joined together to make makeshift beds. Plus, the aircon control panel was open, so he switched it on and we had air-conditioning the whole night! Even better than the Arts Club Room, coz all they have in there is leftover cool air after the central control turns off all the air-conditioning at about 9.
Well, I did wake up kinda semi-frozen in the morning. But that was coz I was too damn lazy to open up my sleeping bag, haha.
Day Three:
Last day... did more stuff, tearing newspapers, tearing and folding magazine pages, and now, cutting cans.
Not much different from what we've been doing the past two days.
Gareth dropped in again towards the end of the day, as the seniors were setting up the barbecue, and we were sitting around and stoning in the room; he brought his iPod again; he'd used it to "hijack" the radio the day before; so cool!! :D
So while we were all sitting around idling, he decided to tech me how to appreciate techno. Really, the stuff that he said... well, I've kinda observed that about techno, but never really thought about it and stuff. He said lots of stuff like about how techno is usually really long coz it builds up, and they layer one rhythm over another slowly, slowly, one after the another; that sorta thing.
And some kinds are actually listenable; I've heard those before. And he has a lot of songs that I like on his iPod! :D
Barbecue on the roof of Central Library at the end of the day. Quite cool, really. :D
Coz the stairs to the roof are kinda blocked by the debris from the renovation going on, plus it's on the roof; gives it a kinda unauthorised gathering kinda feel. Fun. :)
The view from the roof is also really lovely; sunset is really nice. Jasper says that the view from outside the old Arts clubroom was better; that must've been something.
They lit the area with lightsticks and tealights when it got dark; the tealights were quite nice, but most of the lightsticks that they used were green, so it looked semi-spooky too, haha.
Ah, and there was the kinda lame "initiation" ceremony. :P
See, Steven's explanation was that, at Rag, we build a float, so now, we give you a mini-float". Which was a Coke float, to be exact. So yep, each of us got a Coke float, and a tag that says "Ragger" with a white space below it; I think our names are supposed to go in that space, but I've just hung it up anyway; it looks nice, anyhow. :)
So yeah, went home after that; very fun 3 days, haha. :D
Day One:
At the Beginning...
Okay, so apparently Titus is the only house that is staying together (to build a part of e structure, that is. One of the towers, to be specific) for Rag; all the other houses have their OGs spread around in different areas of building and stuff.
No Dolus people at camp; only four of us Caedor girls (Mary, Sharon, Yingyi and me) and Alex, and two Gladius guys: Song Kwang and Alvin. And there's this guy from Opto called Jian Wu who seems to like tagging along with us and helping out, so I guess he's sorta an honorary member of the group, haha. :P
Altho Alex only came much later in the day; he was stuck at his camp for half the day waiting to collect his IC. He and Gareth both ORD-ed on the first day of Rag "camp". And when Alex came he brought us almond and cherry nougat from Marks & Spencer!! Yay.... :D :D
Went around NUS collecting materials and stuff-- wood, cardboard, waste paper and newspaper; I think we alarmed our group IC with how enthu we were. Hee. :D Not bad eh, Titus? :D
Group IC's name is Shaun; nice guy, very fatherly person, really, always being concerned with the girls and everything, haha.
Debbie dropped in later in the day! :D Us Caedor girls went out with her and Shaun for dinner; Debbie bought us grapes, then left after dinner coz she wasn't staying over, and then we went to NTUC to buy stuff for breakfast the next day. Oh, and Mary brought durians too! You know, one of those one packet for $2 kinda things outside supermarkets; we managed to pick pretty good ones too, haha. :)
Thing is, in NTUC it was slightly weird, coz Shaun's 1.83m tall and we're all just teeny little 19-year-old girls (he's 24 this year), so I made a remark that it was like he was some dad bringing his four daughters out shopping and it stuck: we called him "Daddy", "pa pa", and "A-pa" for about half the time during the camp!! :P
Y'know what's even funnier, tho? He responded when we called him that; every single time!! Haha.... ah, but he's a nice guy, so he's prob just humouring us or something, haha... :P
Strange thing is, he seems quite amused by it too. :D
Night Activities
Kicked a soccer ball around the "bridge" area near e Arts Club Rm for a while... half an hour or so; I learned that I can actually coordinate my leg and eyes! Well, somehat. :P Was really quite fun, haha.
Bathtime. Went to Eusoff Hall to bathe; Shaun took us there and waited for us. Felt so bad, but uh, he wouldn't be persuaded otherwise, so.. yeah. So nice of him. :)
Should really stop saying "nice" so often. But I have no other word to substitute it with!! Argh. Vocab, wherefore art thou bloody vocab.
I love the Hall's bathrooms, btw. They're lovely. :D Nice and big with shower cubicles that have plenty of space to hang or place your stuff.
And I thought that PGP's bathrooms were pretty good already. :P The Hall's bathrooms are about twice as big as PGP's. And they have heated water. :)
Steven and some other people went off to Clementi to watch soccer at about 3 in the morning, leaving the Arts Club Rm quite empty; speaking of Steven, he's actually really different from during Arts Camp-- turns out he's a really funny guy-- he seemed kinda uptight then! Oh, and I learned how to play mahjong! Hahaha.... :D
And apparently, I had really good luck; according to all the people that were helping me-- Alex and Song Kwang and Jian Wu. I could see that, I think, but I still didn't really understand it, haha. :P
Jasmine kept popping in at times while we were playing; she was worried about Mary and Yingyi who were sleeping outside on the benches, and she kept asking the guys to sleep outside with them to keep them company!
Thus, Jasmine earned the post of "Mummy". :P
So Sharon and I slept on the couches in the room; Jasmine came in later and took an armchair and Shaun followed after a while.
The soccer people came back at about 6 am. Apparently, after the match ended at 4 plus, they went to play soccer till 6 am. Crazy bunch. :P
Day Two:
Woke up at 9 plus, despite the fact that I slept at 4 plus. My body clock is sometimes too finely tuned for my liking. Anyway, woke at around nine and just lay there all snuggly-buggly in my sleeping bag listening to the soccer people come back and talking and whispering as they settled down to find a place to sleep. Quite fun, really. Finally decided to get my lazy arse up and start work at about 9.45.
Yingyi and Mary and the guys were all awake already; sitting around on a bench outside and talking; Song Kwang said that they all slept outside, so they were up at about 7 plus coz by then people were walking past and staring at them, haha.
So, had brekkie and everything, then started tearing up more newspaper and folding magazine pages into some spike-like thing that they want to use for scales or some other sort. Did that all the way till lunchtime.
Meanwhile, Steven entertained us with his semi-wide variety of Bible and racist jokes.
Ah, and after lunch, Gareth dropped in, and he brought those lovely mint chocs; you know, those lovely mint sweets with chocolate centres; I love those. :D And he informed us that apparently, mint lowers a guy's sperm count.
Hm. Shan't comment. :P
Steven's gay "tendencies"
Rather unnerving, really. Big macho guy like Steven talking about how he'd turn gay for only one man in the world... Well, okay, he's not really big, he's more like a little macho guy, haha. Like Wai Lun!! Hahaha!!!! Yes, anyway, he was talking about um.. Tony Leung, I think. About how even though he's 40, he still has a great smile and a lovely face and how when he goes to watch Tony Leung's movies and Tony Leung smiles on the screen he (Steven, that is) just "melts in (his) seat"... O_O
I tell you, all of us in the room were really staring at him by then. It's funny, but kinda unnerving. :P
Oh, and he sings a lot. He walks around singing a lot of chinese and cantonese songs; singing like one would in the shower. :P
The Titus House family...
Yeah, we're starting to develop into a family. Literally. Steven gave us bak kwa sometime in the morning, so we made him our "stepfather" since we already have Shaun for "pa pa"... (lame, aren't we??), and since Debbie's our self-proclaimed "house nanny" as it is, we've officially recognised her as such, haha, coz she came in the afternoon on the second day with slices of watermelon and honeydew... she's always feeding us with fruits. :)
So, at last count, we have a dad, a mum, a nanny, and a stepfather. Although having a stepfather seems wrong since we have a father. Hm. Maybe Steven should be an uncle or something.
More Stuff
Yingyi's mum came through and got her factory workmen to drive over to NUS with a lot of stuff for us; cardboard boxes and newspapers and some wood too.
Then some of the guys came back with about ten bags of aluminium cans that they'd brought back from Senoko. Christ, they stank.
And we had to wash them too. :s
I think there were about 6 guys--um.. Song Kwang, Alvin, Jian Wu, Shaun, Bobby and Haoran-- and Yingyi and I went into the gents with them and we crowded out the whole place, washing 6 bags of cans; it was like an assembly line thing: the guys washed them with soap and passed it down to Yingyi and I and we rinsed them twice with water before sorting them by colour in different bags and everything.
Jian Wu shuffled back and forth changing the water for us and getting basins; Shaun and Bobby straightened and tidied up the bags and eveything once in a while...
Actually, quite fun. :P But very dirty.
Most popular things that we find in those cans: cigarette butts, tissue paper and straws. Not very pleasant. :P
Yingyi and I took slightly longer to bathe that night... :)
Kicked the football around again; Steven and co. left to go watch football again and Shaun and Jasmine and some others went for supper; that left Song Kwang, Yingyi and me to laze around. Alex came back later, so the four of us just sat around outside the room and talked crap. :P
Bedtime: AS7. Okay, Shaun brought us there, and we were all expecting that we'd sleep around on the first floor since apparently people usually sleep there, and there's plenty of space anyway, but he brought us up to the third floor instead, just outside the Chinese Department, and there were armchairs and everything that we moved around and joined together to make makeshift beds. Plus, the aircon control panel was open, so he switched it on and we had air-conditioning the whole night! Even better than the Arts Club Room, coz all they have in there is leftover cool air after the central control turns off all the air-conditioning at about 9.
Well, I did wake up kinda semi-frozen in the morning. But that was coz I was too damn lazy to open up my sleeping bag, haha.
Day Three:
Last day... did more stuff, tearing newspapers, tearing and folding magazine pages, and now, cutting cans.
Not much different from what we've been doing the past two days.
Gareth dropped in again towards the end of the day, as the seniors were setting up the barbecue, and we were sitting around and stoning in the room; he brought his iPod again; he'd used it to "hijack" the radio the day before; so cool!! :D
So while we were all sitting around idling, he decided to tech me how to appreciate techno. Really, the stuff that he said... well, I've kinda observed that about techno, but never really thought about it and stuff. He said lots of stuff like about how techno is usually really long coz it builds up, and they layer one rhythm over another slowly, slowly, one after the another; that sorta thing.
And some kinds are actually listenable; I've heard those before. And he has a lot of songs that I like on his iPod! :D
Barbecue on the roof of Central Library at the end of the day. Quite cool, really. :D
Coz the stairs to the roof are kinda blocked by the debris from the renovation going on, plus it's on the roof; gives it a kinda unauthorised gathering kinda feel. Fun. :)
The view from the roof is also really lovely; sunset is really nice. Jasper says that the view from outside the old Arts clubroom was better; that must've been something.
They lit the area with lightsticks and tealights when it got dark; the tealights were quite nice, but most of the lightsticks that they used were green, so it looked semi-spooky too, haha.
Ah, and there was the kinda lame "initiation" ceremony. :P
See, Steven's explanation was that, at Rag, we build a float, so now, we give you a mini-float". Which was a Coke float, to be exact. So yep, each of us got a Coke float, and a tag that says "Ragger" with a white space below it; I think our names are supposed to go in that space, but I've just hung it up anyway; it looks nice, anyhow. :)
So yeah, went home after that; very fun 3 days, haha. :D