After a full day of not being in a school camp, I'm really starting to miss the school people. :( Its getting really bad cause I'm doing close to nothing at home. What worsens the problem is that my back is acting up again after doing that 8th pull up (thats why one should excercise REGULARLY) and the doctor said that I should lay off gym for about 2 weeks. :( So right now, all I'm doing is gaining weight at home.

AHM and the nike 10k challenge is coming up real soon and I don't know how that is going to work out with me not running for so long. I think the last time I did close to a 15km was about 2 weeks ago. Dammit.

My friend got a call from SMU saying that his laptop is ready for collection so I am very very very eagerly awaiting for that very same call. Hope my lappy comes home soon.

Camps are finally over for me!

Soc science camp was a bit draggy at first for me cause I came pretty late due to my law briefing. Things really perked up on the second and third day though and my group really worked well together and we managed to get 2nd place among all the other teams in the end when we had only managed to get 2nd last on the first day. The highlight of the camp was really the amazing race at Sentosa. That was really fun even though we ended up going back only at about 2am.

The above pic was taken during the celebration dinner on the last day. It was rather fun there with the live acoustic music and people singing along to all the songs.

Law camp was really memorable in more ways than one. It started off with really well for me as there was lots of freebies just upon signing up. There was an SOL( School of Law) mug, windbreaker, notebook and polo shirt. The camp shirt was pretty nice too! The camp was sponsored too (imagine that!) so I knew that we were going to get more than the normal camps.

On the first day itself in the afternoon, we were told that we were going to have a mooting competition in the late evening so we were given this really really big stack of notes to help us prepare our case. That ruffled quite a few feathers cause we were not really expecting to use our brains during the camp. So thoughout the day, we could see people busy highlighting, writing down and practicing their speeches etc. My group was like the only one that couldn't be bothered so we pretty much just set around and had supper at Kopitiam. When the time finally came which was about 2am, we were blindfolded and brought to a room in pairs. When we finally took off the blindfolds, we were in a dark room with hell money on the floor and a coffin on the table. hahaha. We got punked! It was actually fright night and that was the first station! The stations were really good and I screamed quite a bit too. Haha. The best station was the one in the toilet where we had to find a peeler and peel an apple in front of the mirror. Stationed in the toilet was of course these two 'ghosts' who didn't exactly make the job any easier.

The second day was mainly spent playing this murder mystery game and station games. The dodgeball and captain's ball station was really fun. Imagine playing captain's ball with a chicken (the dead, raw one of course!). It was really messy and I had chicken bits all over me but that made it all the more fun. We ended it off with a gala dinner where everyone was supposed to be in formal wear. That was the event that I was looking forward to actually dressing up and looking smart. How wrong I was. I got arrowed to represent the group in this dress up competition and thats was where I lost all semblance of self-respect on the stage. Haha. Amazingly, I won and I'm $40 kino voucher richer. The twist is however that I will have to help organise this year's law tea. While I was a bit apprehensive about that, upon hindsight, I think that its quite a good opportunity for me. Let hope that goes well.

And for the sadist in you people who are reading this. I know you are dying to know how I managed to utterly humiliate myself. So go ahead. Have a good laugh over this :(

Cockburn(THE GROUP) still roxxers tho! :)

I feel so apprehensive about starting my whole onslaught of camps this Monday. Multitude of reasons for it but I am kind of excited about the law camp especially when I saw that the last day requires formal attire. I know it sound stupid but I just bought a new formal outfit from Zara and I think its the perfect opportunity to wear it for the first time! Haha.

I've been hearing alot about the Freshmen Team Building Camp for FTB for short. Basically from what I have gathered, the objective of the camp is not to have fun but rather to get the freshmen to use their brains and practice their teamwork in completing several activities. Its going to be held at OBS and as much as it might seem fun, I was actually pretty happy to leave the outdoor lifestyle back in the army. Sleeping in tents outdoors is not exactly my cup of tea. Yes I know I sound whinny but this is my blog so too bad. :)

I've been working as a toilet reconstruction supervisor everyday since Monday. Ok let me just put a stop to that thought going around in your head. Its MY toilet and I'm just looking after my house while the construction is going on. Its a pretty mindless job cause it requires me to be outside of my room which means I can't sleep. Time is thus spent watching tv, playing on the computer and reading (not so much though of that though). I really feel like a slob. Hope the construction will end by Saturday.

Went for my matriculation session at SMU on Wednesday to finalise the paperwork, edited my orders for the laptop combo and to attend the talks that were held. After adding some events to my schedule, I realised how busy I'm going to be soon. Take for example. 21st to the 23rd is my social science camp and 24th to 26th is my law camp. Meanwhile, I have to attend the law or LLB briefing on the 21st and the library training on the 22nd. And thats not all, 27th will be my only free day cause I have another freshmen team building camp from the 28th to 30th. So in summary, that will be 9 days of camp as well as separate talks in 10 days. And I still have CIP activities to be done before school starts. Well done. Haha.

Overall, I feel that SMU given quite a good vibe with its great facilities and beautiful people. I was rather at ease speaking during the CIP talks despite the seminar hall being packed with people. Hopefully that would augur well for the many seminar-styled lessons that will be held in the future.

Hmm I do need to get new formal clothes from Zara before their sale ends next week but I'm too lazy to move my butt. Haha

I finally ordered my laptop!


I was actually torn between the T5010 (above) and the S6520 but after the sales promoter showed me the multitude of stuff that could be done on a tablet, I was converted. Oh and I also ordered a bay battery as well as...

A new 21" LCD monitor with HDMI features. Damn coolz!

Not everything is shiny and new though. I decided to finally part with my Schneisser(or however you spell it!) after a long and faithful journey with it. So heres abit of a tribute to it.

An Ode To My Earphones

You were one of the things i bought when I decided to start running.
You were there when I started my 4Ks and went with me all the way to the 15ks.
You were there with me when I first started running public running competitions.
You were there to push me on through all those long journeys
You encouraged me through the sweat and the pain
You were there with me even through the rain.
You inspired me to challenge myself even further and for that may you be honoured.

To my dear earphones, I can't keep taping you up anymore so from henceforth, we part on honourable terms.

Ok if that was too emotional for you, guess what I found in JB?

Gigantic German cheese sausage! Yum! Oozing with melted cheese!

Wanted to go to the pool at SMU for a swim today so I made my way there in my flip flops, t-shirt and shorts. There was a conference going on there so I had to make my way through a crowd of people in formal wear (blazers, ties etc.) and their stares at the oddity of the person in their midst. So after an antagonizing walk there, it was really sad to run into a sign stating that the pool was closed for renovations! Forgot all bout it.

Made my way down to Bedok swimming pool instead where I realised that my swimming technique must have been really bad. This realisation came about after I had swam a few laps and went out of the pool to take a sip of water from my bottle. There was this guy who was smiling at me. When I went back in, he approached me and asked if I had just learnt how to swim. I was like 'is my swimming that bad?' Haha. Anway since it is true that I have only just learnt how to swim fairly recently, he gave me some tips on how I could improve. I think thats really great cause at least I know what areas I should improve upon. I'm actually quite surprised that he was brave enough to tell me that cause in the current Singaporean context, I think a comment like that could have sounded provocative. Couple that with the general Singaporean seeming hostility towards strangers, that could have ended quite differently.

On another topic altogether, I to town yesterday to hand in my work timesheet and to browse at Zara. That would have been fine but bad bad Zara was having a sale and there was so many nice stuff on sale! I tried out 2 pairs of pants, a shirt and a polo. Initially, I only took the shirt and the other pair of pants cause I wanted to see how I can match the stuff that I wanted with shirts and pants of other colours. However upon trying them on, I felt that ALL of it looked nice and being unable to pick which one to buy, I ended up buying all of them instead. Yes. Thats about $200 gone(ironically almost equal to the gst credit that I just got on that day itself).