been a pretty hectic but exciting three days haha. now can finally get some of the slack that i have been craving for haha :D. i need these breaks to keep me going lol.
but anyway, orientation has been really fun. these three days have been jam-packed with things to do, and it felt so long and fulfilling. i felt like i got closer to quite alot of ppl in just these three days. the actors, the ogl's while i was station-mastering, the ppl working on the key, and other ppl we just happen to work with and talk to. and i also changed my views on quite a few ppl that turned out to be nicer than i thought.
for me, it was rather slack, cos i din't really have a proper role decided even then. i just kinda went around and freelanced the jobs, so it was kinda more relaxed for me. it was pretty tough on some of the people, especially adrian and justin, so they really deserve the credit. so debriefing ended off on a pretty high note, except for the cleaning up :P. and we kinda went crazy taking photos haha.
but anyway we all kinda din't mention something during the briefing that deep down we all knew. personally, i was relatively entertained by the performances, especially nobel's save the earth dance haha. but ya, it wasn't what we expected, and frankly, i think a lot of yr 6's were disappointed.
but really, think about it. all this effort we put it won't be wasted de. at least for some people, we did manage to entertain them. and even though most of the people weren't impressed, the team really did put in their best effort, working late till 9:30 on second day for rehearsal, last minute chionging just before the finale itself.
and there was more than just the finale itself. quite a lot of people felt that some of the external activities were really successful, and for me, both days of station-mastering were really fun. yesterday's station was pretty complicated, requiring a broomstick, a cup, a plate and a marshmallow /o\. got a huge backache from picking up the plates and marshmallows that were catapulted on the floor lol. but it was really funny sometimes, and some of the juniors were really damn proooo.
of course there were a few who tried to cheat or to be funny, but otherwise generally the people who played were all pretty nice. mr ho was quite pro. he did 17 in 45s, cos all his hits were so damn consistent that they went to almost the same place each hit. no one could beat mr tan lol, cos that guy seriously too skilled le. 21 in 45s, he was like hitting and catching as fast as i could load the marshmallows and plates haha. i was like in complete awe while he was doing it lol. seriously, what the rui fong :0
today's game was extremely fun too, i really enjoyed just improvising the game on the spot, negotiating with the classes for hints on the station and talking to them in that qian bian manner XD, making them do funny forfeits, and occasionally disturbing them too :P. i really din't think i would be able to do it haha, but i felt that at least some of the juniors were entertained, so it was a really good feeling and satisfying :D.
and we spent all that time filing and painting the key, which in the end, we din't really had to spend so much effort on it. but seriously, i really don't mind haha, cos it was actually pretty fun just working on it with the other people. yong jen really should like frame up that key, cos its actually made up of alot of different parts that can be attached like a puzzle due to all the magnets.
its seriously super cool, but too bad we din't complete it early enough for the amazing race ppl to do the assembling. they would have appreciated it much more if they see how intricate it was. anyway, we really spent alot on effort on that, so it was a pretty good feeling of accomplishment, just not in the way we thought it would be.
it was pretty hard to make it, so i shall describe haha (to make myself feel good :P). on the first day, we got to use the physics lab to cut wooden pieces and plastic acryllic circles, then tried to superglue 2 magnets to each circle. that was really irritating, but at the same time quite epic, cos like every once in a while, someone will be like "oh $%#", cos the magnet would suddenly fly out from its superglued position and get stuck onto another magnet, and we would get hell for trying to seperate them again lolol. but after all that, by the night, we finished all 5 tubes in day one, filled with the stones.
yong jen and a few of us went to make the magnetic sliders, which are seriously darn cool. it required a huge load of time just sitting there and filing, and the sjab ppl were like using some whip sound on his phone lol. then finally we spray painted yesterday all the way till the night while finale was practicing. and finally completed the assembly today morning :D
also made the staff for nobellus with claudia's help :D. mainly some broomstick pole wrapped with crushed newspaper, spray painted, and acryllic painted for a different shade of brown. twirled the leaves around too, so it looked cool heheh. i was so darn proud of it haha, they had to take it from me cos i kept twirling it around and doing random stuff heheh.
lastly, the decorations put on the portal in the center of the hall was kinda on a whim, cos we already had a nice flame and lightning symbol from the spare decorations. it wasn't really a confirmed thing whether it was necessary to make, but after awhile some people just told me heck la if i want make i can go make. was darn rush lol haha, but in the end claudia help me cut, and jiamin was artistically spray-painting it with white and blue lol. actually it was more like anyhow :P. but ya, the crystal was partially his too heheh.
so to complete the remaining, we just took the leaves from the railing twirled in a circle and some paper strips from the waterfall made into a wave, which was abit unfair for fleming :P. so in fact all the symbols were made from spare decorations haha. also decided to take out the key that yong jen and the rest painstakingly made, but we had trouble assembling it without his help, and we were like really fumbling down to the last second. so everything was done just seconds before ppl entered the hall heheh.
it was pretty thrilling. and some of the people were impressed, so i kinda felt proud haha. though jeremy was fumbling with it when he first saw it though, so they went to station bouncers on the decor, which was pretty retarded haha. in the end everything was kinda kicked around, and i know it was kinda a useless decoration, but it was really pretty fun to do it anyway :D
anyway, i know it was pretty tough on some of the people who really slogged all the way till the very end. but really, the teachers were indeed impressed and they acknowledge the effort the whole team put in. like ms chua said, nothing we do will truly go to waste, cos some day we'll look back on this and wonder why we were so crazy to try so hard, but we'll be pretty proud of the effort we put it. so no regrets :). it was a really good experience :D
ok finally finished ranting haha. after ARP report is done, i can go back to my old, relaxed slacking days :D. ok bye~~
hoooooomaigawddd :D
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