Hi guys!
This is my first ever blog. Like, literally the first! So in my first blog I would like to write about my experiences as a freshie/camper in the famous Freshman Orientation Camp (FOC)!
Soooooooo.... let's get going!
First day of FOC
0830 Hours
On the 16th of March, many Ngee Ann Poly freshies march on with their bulging bags, some feeling anxious, others feeling excited. ALL of them wore white. Like it's a whole army of teens with white clothes and big bags walking towards the entrance of NP from the humongous bus stop. As I alight from the bus 154 with my friends Nurin and Bella, we were surprised that many of our fellow campers were sitting on the floor surrounded with GLs (Group Leaders) of 4 different colours but same attire: Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. Tucked in shirt, knee-length socks of their respective colours and a very cool sling bag, they were very enthusiastic and friendly. All of them greeted us with a huge smile and guided us to sit amongst the other campers. It appears that we are waiting for the rest of the campers to register, pay and give their idemnity forms at the Convention Center. We went to CC group by group, and luckily I got there along with my most familiar of friends Nurin and Bella so I wasn't awkward and shy! When we got to the CC, there was a long queue with other strange-looking people in black. They guided us to queue and gave us instructions in which we followed afterwards. We paid the $15 fee, gave the idemnity forms and soon proceeded to the inner part of the CC. That's where I met my group that I'm gonna spend the 4D3N with...0900 Hours
Before I entered the hall of the Convention Center, another person who wore black shirt approached me and wrote - with a marker - "P4" on my right hand. She pointed me to the direction where I was supposed to sit and instructed me to place my bag at the front as well. That's where me, Nurin and Bella was separated. They went to different groups so I had no one familiar around me :( Anyways, I told myself I what's the point of attending this camp without making new friends, right? So, a girl sat beside me a few minutes later and I immediately introduced myself in the most friendliest of way possible! "Hi! I'm Alfian! What's your name?" that was the exact words I said to Jiayi, the first person I made friends with in FOC. She introduced herself and we chatted about what course were we from and which secondary school I graduated, etc. If you readers are curious how my group looked
like when we were awkward and shy and no one spoke to each other when we were sitting at CC, here's the picture:
Look at our faces LEL (I'm fourth from the back)
Anyways, after around 10-15 minutes of waiting, and other campers finally came in and settled down, there was a brief from the Camp Chief: Gabriel and other high ranking people in charge of the camp which I don't bother to remember the names because they all look the same to me LEL. These are the people:
I wonder which poly Year are they O.O
One of the rules they made was quite hilarious to me - "No vulgars in camp." We barely even did our first activity of the camp and I here so many swears EVERYWHERE. But its okay, they probably made that rule just for the sake of it. Soon after I realized the people who wore black were the Crew, the "Backbone" of the camp. They are in charge of basically supporting the Group Leaders and the DHs (Division Heads) to run the camp smoothly and makes sure nothing goes wrong. Anyway, the camp comprises of Aether the God of Light (the Yelow one), Pallas the God of Warcraft (the Red one, which is my group YAY!), Artemis the Goddess of Hunt (the Blue one), Kaerus the God of Luck (the Green one) and also Typhoon the God that represents the Crew (who aren't freshies by the way) all of us form into one called - ARGONAUTS!!
0930 Hours
Moving on, the Camp Chief then requested for the whole Argonauts to play an Icebreaker game to get to know each other a bit better. It's a pretty simple game - a dancing scissors paper stone game which requires the loser to join the winner and form a line. (Basically like the Snakes game.) The last 2 lines that are the longest face each other off. The first person I challenged the scissors paper stone game was Sharmaine, who is my fellow Mass Communication course mate! She won me so I had to join her line behind her psh -_- She was pretty lucky and won like around 8-10 scissors paper stone game and had almost 30+ people behind her until she eventually lost to another guy in which we then had to join their line and we were SO confused because there was so many people around us and we didn't know where the line ended LEL. Eventually, there were 2 remaining LONG lines left in which their leaders and a boy and a girl. The boy won and had to face against the 4 Division Heads of each group! Oh yes, talking about DHs, I forgot their names so please excuse me hehe I only remember Pallas' DH, the cute at the same time fierce Aqmal! Anyways, the Boy won against 2 DH but lost to the 3rd one! Unlucky, mate!
Then, the Camp Chief then decided to change the game to "Tree and Squirrel." The game is hard to explain textually, but I'll try my best so pardon me! At the start of the game everyone choose whether he/she wants to become a Squirrel or a Tree. 2 Trees can hold 1 Squirrel. When the command "Fire" is given, all Trees have to switch partners to another tree and another squirrel. When the command "Hunter" is given, all Squirrels have to change to another 2 Trees. The Squirrels or Trees that doesn't have another 2 partners will be disqualified. When the game started I met quite a few people from various courses in NP. I don't really remember their names but they sure were friendly. I had a good feeling about this camp then :) Throughout the game I wasn't disqualified and eventually after 10-15 mins of playing this game the Camp Chief decided it was enough. A huge participants that were disuqalified were sitting at the corner of the convention center, looking innocent and scared and embarassed to do the forfeit. But theres a catch! It was the participants who wasn't qualified that had to do the forfeit! Everyone reacted funnily! We had to do a chicken dance 5 times. It was pretty fun to be honest! My heart told me - this camp is gonna be fun! <3
(I can't find any pictures of us playing those games >.<)
1000 Hours
Afterwards, we went to split into our individual groups and sit in a circle somewhere in the CC. It was only then when I saw my 3 Group Leaders. They are Ray, Cassandra and Mavis. Alright surely the readers wants to find out what are my first impressions of them? Alright heh, I'll start off with Ray!
To be honest I thought Ray was the kind of typical student in NP that is DAMN popular one (later on you'll know why he's not that kind). Like at that moment I thought, "This one confirm a lot of people EC him" and that the girls in my group was the luckiest bunch amongst all girl freshies in FOC. The way he introduced himself was quite in a friendly manner. He seems confident and sincerely want Pallas 4 to get to know each other more.
Next up, Cassandra! My first impression of her is that she's the Ah Lian type. Sorry Cass if you're reading this HAHAHA! I think that she's extremely friendly too. She likes to grab our attention and want us to talk more instead of only her talking. I find this quite a positive trait in a person, especially a group leader as they need to know how to make people be attentive to them when talking. Also very motherly.
Last (but definitely not least), Mavis! My first impression of her is that I think she's a cat. Yes. A cat. She looks like a human cat with those painted red whiskers. Freaking cute. But I think she's a cat. Legit. I think she's like the quietest of the three. Still friendly though! Also, my eyecandy. Cannot lie the fact that she caught my eye amongst all other female GLs in Pallas. I think she is very friendly too.
Alright moving on to the freshie introduction part! This was one of the most awkward moments in FOC. Everyone was damn shy to introduce themselves and speak out louder because most of them don't know one another. Luckily for me I had Warrick by my side! He's my Mass Communication course mate! Anyways we proceeded to introduced ourselves, get to know what courses are we from and what is our hobby! We played a few games to bond ourselves and get to memorize each other's name through games like MRT (???), Frog game (???) and a lot of other games we play and make ourselves all look like idiots who've just proudly graduated from kindergarten and desperately needs social interaction with the outside world or else we will die a virgin and a loner.
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To be honest I thought Ray was the kind of typical student in NP that is DAMN popular one (later on you'll know why he's not that kind). Like at that moment I thought, "This one confirm a lot of people EC him" and that the girls in my group was the luckiest bunch amongst all girl freshies in FOC. The way he introduced himself was quite in a friendly manner. He seems confident and sincerely want Pallas 4 to get to know each other more.
Next up, Cassandra! My first impression of her is that she's the Ah Lian type. Sorry Cass if you're reading this HAHAHA! I think that she's extremely friendly too. She likes to grab our attention and want us to talk more instead of only her talking. I find this quite a positive trait in a person, especially a group leader as they need to know how to make people be attentive to them when talking. Also very motherly.
Last (but definitely not least), Mavis! My first impression of her is that I think she's a cat. Yes. A cat. She looks like a human cat with those painted red whiskers. Freaking cute. But I think she's a cat. Legit. I think she's like the quietest of the three. Still friendly though! Also, my eyecandy. Cannot lie the fact that she caught my eye amongst all other female GLs in Pallas. I think she is very friendly too.
Alright moving on to the freshie introduction part! This was one of the most awkward moments in FOC. Everyone was damn shy to introduce themselves and speak out louder because most of them don't know one another. Luckily for me I had Warrick by my side! He's my Mass Communication course mate! Anyways we proceeded to introduced ourselves, get to know what courses are we from and what is our hobby! We played a few games to bond ourselves and get to memorize each other's name through games like MRT (???), Frog game (???) and a lot of other games we play and make ourselves all look like idiots who've just proudly graduated from kindergarten and desperately needs social interaction with the outside world or else we will die a virgin and a loner.
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1100 Hours
After an hour or so getting to know each other, we proceeded to put our bags, luggages, whatever we brought to the camp in Indoor Sports Hall - which is also the place we will be sleeping at for the 3 nights!
We then ate Lunch. Tasty? Hmm I'll rate a 6.5/10. B3 ok. Good enough. Chicken and some green stuff I don't eat. We then learned our individual cheers for each group! The first cheer Pallas learned was the Pallas Oi! cheer. It goes like this:
Pallas Oi!
Get out the way! (bitch)
Pallas Oi!
We will spear you down!
Pallas Oi!
Pallas fight! Pallas kill! God of Warcraft need no shield!
Pallas roar! We want war! Stand as one we'll never fall!
Spears up in the sky, everybody step aside!
Pallas, we fierce, we pierce you down! (3x) (from soft to loud)
P A L LAS, CHARGEEEEE!!
So we practiced that shit for 1 and a half hours. Such a feat.
The GLs did some awesome cheers that we'll soon later on in camp. And also their own exclusive cheers.
Now comes one of the best part of the first day! Cinderella
Cinderella is a game where all the freshies are blindfolded with a black trash bag (lol a bit pathetic but I guess if its stupid and it works, it ain't stupid) and then the GLs (who aren't blindfolded) will intentionally make us do stupid stuff like jumping on the spot like a frog and embarassing ourselves in front of other GLs and Crew before letting us meet another freshie of the opposite sex. I met Jane who's a fellow Pallas camp mate from Pallas 2. We talked a lot about ourselves for almost an hour. After that, we realize the person we've talked to for the past hour is our Mass Dance partner! (yay)
We then started learning the Mass Dance moves. A bit hard for a non-dancer like me. The song's catchy though. Like a drum. Work hard, play hard. Bitch.
Anyways the activities we did are building a tower using only newspaper, cardboard, straws and satay sticks, sorting ourselves in descending our ascending order according to how big a picture we get individually (hardest and most nonsensical game IMO), balancing sweets and biscuits on top of a plate which is joint with a lot of other plates, preventing an egg from cracking after dropping it from the second floor by using only balloons, trash bag and newspapers, and also my favorite game - all of us have to hold hands in a manner like we're giving a handshake, and then untangle strategically. I got to hold Mavis' hands HAHAHAHA sorry Mavis I know you're disgusted by this I couldn't help it but write this here :P
Also, the fun part about doing these activities is that we always have to do cheers NO MATTER WHAT. Even if won the game by a mile against our rivals Pallas 3, we still had to do cheers together. Oh, and there's this marble system whereby you have to collect as many marbles as possible to win the Most Marbles award at the end of the camp. (I think theres a bit conspiracy to this system because I think they don't really give the marbles to us OR they only recycle the marbles amongst the Marble collectors because they don't allow us to see them give marbles lol.)
Some of us waited till 0015 hours for our turn. I was chosen for the 3rd batch of groups going for the nightwalk. I was anticipating since 11:30! I was tumultous but also overwrought.
Our first station was the flooding toilet. My group had to create a dress for the you-know-what using only black rubbish bags. We did it outside and then went in the flooding toilet (in which the water levels are up to our ankle.) Inside the toilet there's SO many you-know-whats standing stationary staring at us. We were actually impressed by the props. It looks so genuine. Maybe one of them is real...... [Scary level: A2]
Next up, we headed down a long flight of stairs. Pitch black, only to be lighten up by glow sticks. Green and red ones. We were instructed to follow the green ones. Our next station was a table duly decorated with black, emo-ish props with a skeleton head on the table. A guy dressed like Death told us the skeleton head's name was Tom. It's Tom's birthday on that day. We sang happy birthday for him and made our way to the next station.
[Scary level: take O level results scarier]
We advanced to the next station which is directly ahead of us. We had to crawl through a mass of webs (?) and black cloth hanged between pillars. They were a handful of you-know-whats disturbing us, but literally all of us were not giving a single shit and were complaining about our knees hurting due to sliding through the rough floor.
[Scary level: C6 la just pass]
Next up was the worship station. We went down a long flight of stairs again and faced a tribe of dead warriors (IDEK I made up this shit they look like tribe people) they asked 2 volunteers (rudely) to worship to their God or leader? We did it quickly and get our asses off that place. Their chants are quite scary and the sound effects they do gave me the chills yo!
Scary level: Can receive Oscar]
Last station was the scariest in my opinion. We walked through a row of buildings until we reach the outskirts of the nursing class (???) and we saw a fuming mother who's looking for her baby. The funniest part about this station is that I thought her baby was inside the class, so I asked if I could go in (I know, I'm dumb) when actually her baby is stuck in between the legs of another women (I don't know who). We had to sing a lullaby before we can take the baby, so we sang the rock a bye baby on a tree top song. I have to say, the laughs of the mother when she received her baby was bloodcurdling. I guess I should say it's more of a scream rather than a laugh!
[Scary level: Solid 10/10 (like my EC lel) will win Oscar if re-enacted professionally]
So that's the Nightwalk! After the last station we sat at a waiting area for the other groups. Our GLs from other groups Jack told us lame jokes. The end.
After the rest of the groups came, we trudged to the Indoor Sports Hall. Girls went to the right side, guys went to the left side of the ISH. A barricade (which is actually very penetrable) was placed in the middle to prevent any guys going to the girls side (and vice-versa.)
I had a good sleep. Really good. The reminiscence of the nightwalk or the horrible movie didn't make my sleep uncomfortable. The humidity did. Only for a while, as my fatigue eventually overcomes me to the next day...... (It was 0230 Hours when I fell asleep)
Me and my friends who slept together decided to quickly shower to prevent the "rush hour" in the bathroom. In the end, we still showered together in the same cubicle lel. 5/6 males a cubicle. Absolutely chaotic. So many different sizes. So many different shapes.
Afterwards, we went to change into our disposable clothes which means we are gonna be involved in dirty activities today hehehehe. (evil laugh)
Pallas, do you want Marbles?
Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma marbles. (x3)
1 2 3 GO!
Marbles here, marbles there, marbles marbles everywhere!
We want more, give us all!
So we sing the marble song!
Marbles, marbles EH!
Ma ma ma ma ma ma marbles!
Give us, give us EH!
Ma ma ma ma ma ma marbles!
Pleaseeeeeee (sunflower pose)
Yeah something like that. I don't memorize the lyrics. I cheer damn loudly but mumble sometimes cause I don't really know the lyrics lel. So we got our marbles after we do our marbles cheer. Impressive.
[Dirty Level: Damn dirty cause got durian smell KNN]
Next up we go to this station which I'll use my obscure-ish descriptive skills to describe it, as follows: "the station where you have to look at your thumbs and spin for 10 times, then go under a string in a very weird way, then lay down on a mat and imitate the musking tapes shape and direction, stay there until the Crew members say we "pass" the test."
Such description. I should receive an award for that vivid description of the station name. NAME.
Anyways, my experience at this station was pretty f-ed up. I was the first to go and I barely passed the "spin around looking at your thumb for 10x" part. I was so dizzy after that I walked like Captain Jack Sparrow. The Crew even asked my GLs to ask if I'm okay. I laid on the mat and imitate the musking tapes in what it seems an average-teen-girl-sleeping-position shape. There were paint all over my body. After everyone did the same thing, the Crew demanded the GLs of Pallas 3 and Pavandious (which is the made-up name of Pallas 4) to do an even harder task - for all 3 GLs to fit into the shape at once. Lastly, the Crew wanted us to do a task together to get our marbles and they didn't want us to do cheers, so we had to cram ourselves inside the whole mat. Which was easier than I thought. We got our marbles and we get our asses off that dirty place.
[Dirty Level: 7/10]
Our next station can only be described with one word...... disgusting.
We had to take marbles out of a box. We couldn't see anything inside the box. Obviously they're gonna creep us with some disgusting stuff. And they did. I went and felt what's inside. My hands got this shaky feeling when I touched something like a skin amongst the body of sand and plastic bags (??). After 5 seconds off searching for the marble I couldn't find anything so the Crew members asked me to stand one side. One of my friends, Darren, took out a MEALWORM. A GAHDAMN MEALWORM. And the catch is, you have to eat anything that you take out from the box. And Darren did it. You're a hero mate. If he didn't eat that, someone else had to eat it. A girl from Pallas 3 took out a mealworm too. But she didn't eat it, someone else sacrficed their mouth for the suffering of the poor creature. I pity the mealworms to be honest. The GLs also had to eat the mealworms. One unlucky GL from Pallas 3 had to eat 3. So sad. Everyone stood watching like its Fear Factor. I mean, technically it is, LEL. I watched in fear as my EC ate a disgusting innocent creature. Someone the calibre of her looks should eat the most beautiful flower in the world if you follow the famous phrase "You are what you eat."
[Dirty Level: Dirtier than the average 16 year old's mind]
Anyways we proceeded to walk towards NP's Loft. I didn't know it existed across the highway and requires visitors to cross a bridge from NP to get there. The place looks eerie.
Our first activity there was to "look at your thumb and spin for 10 times (again), duckwalk towards a bucket full of water mixed with chilli and soy sauce and then dip your head/hair into it." pretty gross? More gross than I could ever describe with my language skills. Not only does it feel weird when I dipped my head into the dirty water, it has a pungent smell as well that lasts for a very long time. But since everyone smells that way, I guess no one really smell distinctively different from others.
[Dirty Level: Shrek]
Next up, this dirty activity required some teamwork. Pavandious were instructed to partner up (boy and girl) and we were asked to "put the tennis ball in between a particular body (or face) part (of the boy and the girl) and transport it near the mat (which are full of soy sauce and other stuff we are supposed to put in our mouth instead) and then attempt to throw the tennis ball and score inside the bucket which is around 5 meters away.)" such description should receive the Nobel prize. Of the worst description. Anyways, 90% of us could not score. So as a forfeit we had to lie down over the mat and imitate how Starfishes move. Which made ourselves much more dirtier. Gross. Throughout this activity many Crew members paste diluted butter on our faces and pure paste on our hairs. The latter was a bit cool. I can backcomb my hair very easily. I feel handsome. Oh I feel so handsome.
[Dirty Level: Dirty like the sea water at Sembawang beach]
The next activity was equally as digusting. Plastic plates, a mat. We played Twister. With eggs, butter and flour on the plastic plates. And then I wondered hmmmmm. How much do they spend on these food ingredients? Anyways, we had to take turn 1 by 1 to play the game. For me, I had to place my right palm on the purple plate full of butter and put my right knee on a yellow plate which is damn far from my right palm. I had to stretch over my friends who is below me doing some stupid shit the crew asked them to do. A partial of Pallas 3 and Pavandious combined together to do the Twister game. At a point I had some random person's ass near my face. After that, the GLs had to do some hard position Twister stuff which is a bit hilarious to see. Typicallys, we did the marbles cheer and got our marbles. Yay.
[Dirty Level: 8/10. Disgusting shit. I don't want an ass in front of my face.]
Last game at the Loft was very very fun. It's not digusting to say the least. The objective for the game is similar to the Captain Ball. Just that the ball was substituted for a water balloon with disgusting water inside. But it doesn't really affect everyone. Pallas 3 had to fight against us in a match. There were rules about not throwing above the head but no one really gave a shit. The balls bursted like every 2-3 throws and so its always the same person who suffered the taste of the disgusting liquid inside the balloom. We eventually won but I don't really know what's the score. After that last dirty activity, Pavandious took some pictures together! Here are the pictures!
Our next station we had to go under Block 51 by going down an escalator. In this station we played a "memory game" using poker cards. With the cards faced up all scrambled on the floor, we have to remember the position of the cards and have to choose the same card simultaneously when the cards are faced down. If we make even 1 error, we have to restart ALL OVER again. A bit harsh isn't it? We suffered a lot in this game. But eventually we had a strategy: each person will remember a pair of cards. We then progressed further into the game, but still couldn't complete it due to time not being by our side. We still got our marbles by doing cheers. Next up, our last station!
This station is physically challenging but very interesting. The game is called "human centipede." Sitting down, the person behind you have to put their legs on your lap. You do the same to person in front of you. Girls at the front, GLs in the middle and the guys at the back were we sorted due to sensitivity issues (I guess). The objective of the game is to ensure the first person who for Pavandious, is Tricia, to cross the yellow line located about 15 meters from the starting position in 2 minutes 30 seconds. We completed it in 3 minutes 15 seconds. A bit pathetic. The funny part is we celebrated our unlikely success. We then played this game where the the balloon has to be passed to the last person from the first person while doing a cheer. The last person have to get the balloon at the exact moment the cheer we did end. We did the marbles cheer. And we cheated because some of us held the balloon for longer period because we passed the balloon to fast LEL. After that, we did some other cheers and got marbles. YAY, time to go back to Grandstand!
We had our supper which was the delicious chocolate brownies from thelocalbrandwhichiforgotthename.
I dislike brownies, but the deliciousness was so intense I had to ask for a second serving. We then lepak for a while at the Grandstand talk cock sessions playing Shag Marry Kill. The victims are mostly the GLs and its hilarious all the answers given by my friends. I will not disclose the victims here. FINE I WILL. Basically most of the pretty female GLs from Aether all the way to Kaerus. Like all. Even if we don't know the name we risk ourselves pointing out to the 3 particular GLs and ask "Shag Marry Kill?"
So I slept a good sleep. Sleeping amongst friends always make my sleep good. Not sure if it's because the activities we did are tiring, or its just me....
Zzzzz.....
*SORRY PEOPLE FOR THE LACK OF UPDATES!*
(will now update the rest of the camp very briefly as I have to update on my FBC experience as well! and briefily, I really mean briefly.)
SOOOOOO
we went to the swimming pool area and did some really really really wet activities that drenched our clothes like picking up red bulls with a certain part of our body with our partner, find marbles deep in the pool, and pulling 'kayaking' from one end of the olmypic-sized pool to the other end
afterwards it was about almost 6 so we had our dinner first
dinner was good with fried chicken yummsss
this bathing session was probably the most memorable of all bathe sessions i've ever had. me, daniel, gordon and adrian bathed together in one cubicle. then came in 3 GLs and they gave us golden showers!!!! WTF RIGHT. so to show dominance daniel peed on them back. such a moment in history. the shower was cold and suddenly i felt some hot water at my thighs area. it was pee. lel.
so its around 8 and we had our finale at the CC! the GLs from the 4 tribes did a short act which are very hilarious. legit. their acting is good too. some... not all.....
last but definitely not least we had our HopNite!!! THIS WAS THE MOST FUN PART OF THE CAMP TBH.
we hopped. to some EDMusic. Good EDMs. the DJ is good. Talented. we hopped and hopped and hopped and my legs hurt. but I still hopped. Cos it was fun and everyone was doing it. I saw some of my sec sch friends and we hopped together. We are hopping a good time. Get it.
Sooo then afterwards was time to sleep...... or is it????
Nah bruh. It's OTOT night. We did some deep shit. H2H talks, confessing our ECs and shit like that. Some guys played soccer on my friends stomach using pen markers. I got tied with Ray and Danish with strings. Such fked up night that is. But it was memorable.
We then ate Lunch. Tasty? Hmm I'll rate a 6.5/10. B3 ok. Good enough. Chicken and some green stuff I don't eat. We then learned our individual cheers for each group! The first cheer Pallas learned was the Pallas Oi! cheer. It goes like this:
Pallas Oi!
Get out the way! (bitch)
Pallas Oi!
We will spear you down!
Pallas Oi!
Pallas fight! Pallas kill! God of Warcraft need no shield!
Pallas roar! We want war! Stand as one we'll never fall!
Spears up in the sky, everybody step aside!
Pallas, we fierce, we pierce you down! (3x) (from soft to loud)
P A L LAS, CHARGEEEEE!!
So we practiced that shit for 1 and a half hours. Such a feat.
The GLs did some awesome cheers that we'll soon later on in camp. And also their own exclusive cheers.
1500 Hours
Now comes one of the best part of the first day! Cinderella
Cinderella is a game where all the freshies are blindfolded with a black trash bag (lol a bit pathetic but I guess if its stupid and it works, it ain't stupid) and then the GLs (who aren't blindfolded) will intentionally make us do stupid stuff like jumping on the spot like a frog and embarassing ourselves in front of other GLs and Crew before letting us meet another freshie of the opposite sex. I met Jane who's a fellow Pallas camp mate from Pallas 2. We talked a lot about ourselves for almost an hour. After that, we realize the person we've talked to for the past hour is our Mass Dance partner! (yay)
We then started learning the Mass Dance moves. A bit hard for a non-dancer like me. The song's catchy though. Like a drum. Work hard, play hard. Bitch.
1800 Hours
At around 6+, we went to the Grandstand and have our dinner. Dinner was better in my opinion. The GLs told us to sit in circles and they told us stories about happenings in NP. As the first day was on a Monday, we had to lower down our voices after 8. The cheers we will be doing must be softer. They told us its because last time NP was built on a cemetry, so as a tribute we had to lower our voices after 8 as to respect them.
Cass, Ray and Mavis told us ghost stories which are a bit scary to be honest. All of them happened within NP in places like Block 50, Loft etc.
2000 Hours
At 8++ we went to do our night activites. Oh and I have to tell you readers, when we did these activities, the Crew are ubiquitous. At every angle I turn my head at, I can see people in black shirts with a lanyard around their neck with a tag "Typhoon". I thought for once they won't be staying over for the camp.Anyways the activities we did are building a tower using only newspaper, cardboard, straws and satay sticks, sorting ourselves in descending our ascending order according to how big a picture we get individually (hardest and most nonsensical game IMO), balancing sweets and biscuits on top of a plate which is joint with a lot of other plates, preventing an egg from cracking after dropping it from the second floor by using only balloons, trash bag and newspapers, and also my favorite game - all of us have to hold hands in a manner like we're giving a handshake, and then untangle strategically. I got to hold Mavis' hands HAHAHAHA sorry Mavis I know you're disgusted by this I couldn't help it but write this here :P
Also, the fun part about doing these activities is that we always have to do cheers NO MATTER WHAT. Even if won the game by a mile against our rivals Pallas 3, we still had to do cheers together. Oh, and there's this marble system whereby you have to collect as many marbles as possible to win the Most Marbles award at the end of the camp. (I think theres a bit conspiracy to this system because I think they don't really give the marbles to us OR they only recycle the marbles amongst the Marble collectors because they don't allow us to see them give marbles lol.)
2330 Hours
Now is the best part of the first day. NIGHTWALK!!!
But before that, those son of a bitches had to show the freaking Nightmare on Elm Street movie inside a lecture hall before could go for nightwalks in twelves. Damn chibai. The movie is not that scary, but it gives us this anxiety when we eventually had to go for the nightwalk. While watching the movie, we ate Old Chang Kee curry puffs for supper.
Some of us waited till 0015 hours for our turn. I was chosen for the 3rd batch of groups going for the nightwalk. I was anticipating since 11:30! I was tumultous but also overwrought.
Our first station was the flooding toilet. My group had to create a dress for the you-know-what using only black rubbish bags. We did it outside and then went in the flooding toilet (in which the water levels are up to our ankle.) Inside the toilet there's SO many you-know-whats standing stationary staring at us. We were actually impressed by the props. It looks so genuine. Maybe one of them is real...... [Scary level: A2]
Next up, we headed down a long flight of stairs. Pitch black, only to be lighten up by glow sticks. Green and red ones. We were instructed to follow the green ones. Our next station was a table duly decorated with black, emo-ish props with a skeleton head on the table. A guy dressed like Death told us the skeleton head's name was Tom. It's Tom's birthday on that day. We sang happy birthday for him and made our way to the next station.
[Scary level: take O level results scarier]
We advanced to the next station which is directly ahead of us. We had to crawl through a mass of webs (?) and black cloth hanged between pillars. They were a handful of you-know-whats disturbing us, but literally all of us were not giving a single shit and were complaining about our knees hurting due to sliding through the rough floor.
[Scary level: C6 la just pass]
Next up was the worship station. We went down a long flight of stairs again and faced a tribe of dead warriors (IDEK I made up this shit they look like tribe people) they asked 2 volunteers (rudely) to worship to their God or leader? We did it quickly and get our asses off that place. Their chants are quite scary and the sound effects they do gave me the chills yo!
Scary level: Can receive Oscar]
Last station was the scariest in my opinion. We walked through a row of buildings until we reach the outskirts of the nursing class (???) and we saw a fuming mother who's looking for her baby. The funniest part about this station is that I thought her baby was inside the class, so I asked if I could go in (I know, I'm dumb) when actually her baby is stuck in between the legs of another women (I don't know who). We had to sing a lullaby before we can take the baby, so we sang the rock a bye baby on a tree top song. I have to say, the laughs of the mother when she received her baby was bloodcurdling. I guess I should say it's more of a scream rather than a laugh!
[Scary level: Solid 10/10 (like my EC lel) will win Oscar if re-enacted professionally]
So that's the Nightwalk! After the last station we sat at a waiting area for the other groups. Our GLs from other groups Jack told us lame jokes. The end.
After the rest of the groups came, we trudged to the Indoor Sports Hall. Girls went to the right side, guys went to the left side of the ISH. A barricade (which is actually very penetrable) was placed in the middle to prevent any guys going to the girls side (and vice-versa.)
I had a good sleep. Really good. The reminiscence of the nightwalk or the horrible movie didn't make my sleep uncomfortable. The humidity did. Only for a while, as my fatigue eventually overcomes me to the next day...... (It was 0230 Hours when I fell asleep)
Second Day of FOC
1100 Hours
We woke up to the GLs doing their cheers in the middle of the ISH.Me and my friends who slept together decided to quickly shower to prevent the "rush hour" in the bathroom. In the end, we still showered together in the same cubicle lel. 5/6 males a cubicle. Absolutely chaotic. So many different sizes. So many different shapes.
Afterwards, we went to change into our disposable clothes which means we are gonna be involved in dirty activities today hehehehe. (evil laugh)
1300 Hours
First up the station we went to was the "transfer a cup of water to a bucket by sliding through a chair full of flour and then move in a random animal's manner through a wet mat full of some stuff I don't want to know" I'm sorry for the long game name. I don't know what's the actual name. I went second or third and I transferred 3 cups at a time. We had to use a plate to transfer those cups. Pathetically, the plate is made of paper. You know what happens when a whole damn lot of water gets into paper plates. It crumbles. We then did our marbles cheer which we learnt yesterday which goes like this:Pallas, do you want Marbles?
Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma marbles. (x3)
1 2 3 GO!
Marbles here, marbles there, marbles marbles everywhere!
We want more, give us all!
So we sing the marble song!
Marbles, marbles EH!
Ma ma ma ma ma ma marbles!
Give us, give us EH!
Ma ma ma ma ma ma marbles!
Pleaseeeeeee (sunflower pose)
Yeah something like that. I don't memorize the lyrics. I cheer damn loudly but mumble sometimes cause I don't really know the lyrics lel. So we got our marbles after we do our marbles cheer. Impressive.
[Dirty Level: Damn dirty cause got durian smell KNN]
Next up we go to this station which I'll use my obscure-ish descriptive skills to describe it, as follows: "the station where you have to look at your thumbs and spin for 10 times, then go under a string in a very weird way, then lay down on a mat and imitate the musking tapes shape and direction, stay there until the Crew members say we "pass" the test."
Such description. I should receive an award for that vivid description of the station name. NAME.
Anyways, my experience at this station was pretty f-ed up. I was the first to go and I barely passed the "spin around looking at your thumb for 10x" part. I was so dizzy after that I walked like Captain Jack Sparrow. The Crew even asked my GLs to ask if I'm okay. I laid on the mat and imitate the musking tapes in what it seems an average-teen-girl-sleeping-position shape. There were paint all over my body. After everyone did the same thing, the Crew demanded the GLs of Pallas 3 and Pavandious (which is the made-up name of Pallas 4) to do an even harder task - for all 3 GLs to fit into the shape at once. Lastly, the Crew wanted us to do a task together to get our marbles and they didn't want us to do cheers, so we had to cram ourselves inside the whole mat. Which was easier than I thought. We got our marbles and we get our asses off that dirty place.
[Dirty Level: 7/10]
Our next station can only be described with one word...... disgusting.
We had to take marbles out of a box. We couldn't see anything inside the box. Obviously they're gonna creep us with some disgusting stuff. And they did. I went and felt what's inside. My hands got this shaky feeling when I touched something like a skin amongst the body of sand and plastic bags (??). After 5 seconds off searching for the marble I couldn't find anything so the Crew members asked me to stand one side. One of my friends, Darren, took out a MEALWORM. A GAHDAMN MEALWORM. And the catch is, you have to eat anything that you take out from the box. And Darren did it. You're a hero mate. If he didn't eat that, someone else had to eat it. A girl from Pallas 3 took out a mealworm too. But she didn't eat it, someone else sacrficed their mouth for the suffering of the poor creature. I pity the mealworms to be honest. The GLs also had to eat the mealworms. One unlucky GL from Pallas 3 had to eat 3. So sad. Everyone stood watching like its Fear Factor. I mean, technically it is, LEL. I watched in fear as my EC ate a disgusting innocent creature. Someone the calibre of her looks should eat the most beautiful flower in the world if you follow the famous phrase "You are what you eat."
[Dirty Level: Dirtier than the average 16 year old's mind]
Anyways we proceeded to walk towards NP's Loft. I didn't know it existed across the highway and requires visitors to cross a bridge from NP to get there. The place looks eerie.
Our first activity there was to "look at your thumb and spin for 10 times (again), duckwalk towards a bucket full of water mixed with chilli and soy sauce and then dip your head/hair into it." pretty gross? More gross than I could ever describe with my language skills. Not only does it feel weird when I dipped my head into the dirty water, it has a pungent smell as well that lasts for a very long time. But since everyone smells that way, I guess no one really smell distinctively different from others.
[Dirty Level: Shrek]
Next up, this dirty activity required some teamwork. Pavandious were instructed to partner up (boy and girl) and we were asked to "put the tennis ball in between a particular body (or face) part (of the boy and the girl) and transport it near the mat (which are full of soy sauce and other stuff we are supposed to put in our mouth instead) and then attempt to throw the tennis ball and score inside the bucket which is around 5 meters away.)" such description should receive the Nobel prize. Of the worst description. Anyways, 90% of us could not score. So as a forfeit we had to lie down over the mat and imitate how Starfishes move. Which made ourselves much more dirtier. Gross. Throughout this activity many Crew members paste diluted butter on our faces and pure paste on our hairs. The latter was a bit cool. I can backcomb my hair very easily. I feel handsome. Oh I feel so handsome.
[Dirty Level: Dirty like the sea water at Sembawang beach]
The next activity was equally as digusting. Plastic plates, a mat. We played Twister. With eggs, butter and flour on the plastic plates. And then I wondered hmmmmm. How much do they spend on these food ingredients? Anyways, we had to take turn 1 by 1 to play the game. For me, I had to place my right palm on the purple plate full of butter and put my right knee on a yellow plate which is damn far from my right palm. I had to stretch over my friends who is below me doing some stupid shit the crew asked them to do. A partial of Pallas 3 and Pavandious combined together to do the Twister game. At a point I had some random person's ass near my face. After that, the GLs had to do some hard position Twister stuff which is a bit hilarious to see. Typicallys, we did the marbles cheer and got our marbles. Yay.
[Dirty Level: 8/10. Disgusting shit. I don't want an ass in front of my face.]
Last game at the Loft was very very fun. It's not digusting to say the least. The objective for the game is similar to the Captain Ball. Just that the ball was substituted for a water balloon with disgusting water inside. But it doesn't really affect everyone. Pallas 3 had to fight against us in a match. There were rules about not throwing above the head but no one really gave a shit. The balls bursted like every 2-3 throws and so its always the same person who suffered the taste of the disgusting liquid inside the balloom. We eventually won but I don't really know what's the score. After that last dirty activity, Pavandious took some pictures together! Here are the pictures!
Jaden, boy, looking at Cass eh ;)
1700 Hours
After the mini photo taking of our dirty and smelly selves, we headed back to Ngee Ann's Grandstand to have our dinner. Kaerus and Artemis had their dinner first, while Aether and Pallas went for their shower first. We were the happier half because no one wanted to eat with their dirty bodies and hands.
Showering session was chaotic as usual. Me and my friends Jaden and Kang Seng wanted to rebelliously showered in the showering area which we were banned from going to, but a GL was already blocking the path towards that showering area so we had no choice but to join the full designated shower. Me and Jaden showered at the handicapped toilet together. This was already a fortune because other smaller cubicles had 5-6 people in it. Naked. Me and Jaden took our time until eventually a GL found out there was more space for more people to come. Luckily we have already finished our shower so we get our asses off there.
Dinner was excellent. Fried chicken and rice, if I'm not wrong. We had a little bit more time so we lepak a bit.
Suddenly out of nowhere two mysterious men appeared at the front of the Grandstand and asked us to judge the cheer of a particular men, who appear to be doing the cheer in order to reclaim his other slipper. We kept on saying no because honestly his cheer was really terrible. My 6 year old nephew can do much better than that even with no preparation or lyrics of the cheer HEH. Anyways, I don't know how cause I'm not paying attention, but that guy suddenly asked us to do some weird apeshit stretches that probably originated from Adventure Time or something. We had to face the other side (the direction the 2 mysterious men were facing) and do some weird stretching position. We were blind to what is happening behind us. Out of a sudden we heard shouts for help. We turned around and saw our 4 DHs being kidnapped. It can be clearly seen that it's all staged LEL. (I mean, who kidnaps people using rubbish bags that are translucent?)
1900 Hours
So we were briefed that we have to play games, complete them and collect marbles in order to get our DH back. A bit stupid, the idea of that, but we did it anyways. The first station is "complete the picture." in front of Makan Place at Block 51. With 8 square cards jumbled up with each card numbered 1-8, we have to move around the cards to an ascending order. We have to exploit the empty 9th square to move around the cards. There were 2 pictures to complete. We completed 1 but couldn't make it for the other 1. We got marbles anyways, LEL. But we had to do cheers for it (typical.)Our next station we had to go under Block 51 by going down an escalator. In this station we played a "memory game" using poker cards. With the cards faced up all scrambled on the floor, we have to remember the position of the cards and have to choose the same card simultaneously when the cards are faced down. If we make even 1 error, we have to restart ALL OVER again. A bit harsh isn't it? We suffered a lot in this game. But eventually we had a strategy: each person will remember a pair of cards. We then progressed further into the game, but still couldn't complete it due to time not being by our side. We still got our marbles by doing cheers. Next up, our last station!
This station is physically challenging but very interesting. The game is called "human centipede." Sitting down, the person behind you have to put their legs on your lap. You do the same to person in front of you. Girls at the front, GLs in the middle and the guys at the back were we sorted due to sensitivity issues (I guess). The objective of the game is to ensure the first person who for Pavandious, is Tricia, to cross the yellow line located about 15 meters from the starting position in 2 minutes 30 seconds. We completed it in 3 minutes 15 seconds. A bit pathetic. The funny part is we celebrated our unlikely success. We then played this game where the the balloon has to be passed to the last person from the first person while doing a cheer. The last person have to get the balloon at the exact moment the cheer we did end. We did the marbles cheer. And we cheated because some of us held the balloon for longer period because we passed the balloon to fast LEL. After that, we did some other cheers and got marbles. YAY, time to go back to Grandstand!
2100 Hours
When we reached the Grandstand, we sat at the tracks and we could see our DHs being tied up on top of the Grandstand. The camp chief asked us what would we do to get our DH back. We magnanimously wanted to give ALL our marbles in return for our DHs. But those bastards who kidnapped them thought that marbles have no value (which is true actually lel clever bastards.) So we offered to do our swaggish cheer and if we're good enough, they'd give us back our DH. But they still refuse sadly. So, they dared each sub-groups from the Groups to send a Freshie to find the identities of their DHs in the dark field behind us where we are sitting. After a while all of the groups found their DHs identity and the DHs were freed. Dramatic ending. People cried.We had our supper which was the delicious chocolate brownies from thelocalbrandwhichiforgotthename.
I dislike brownies, but the deliciousness was so intense I had to ask for a second serving. We then lepak for a while at the Grandstand talk cock sessions playing Shag Marry Kill. The victims are mostly the GLs and its hilarious all the answers given by my friends. I will not disclose the victims here. FINE I WILL. Basically most of the pretty female GLs from Aether all the way to Kaerus. Like all. Even if we don't know the name we risk ourselves pointing out to the 3 particular GLs and ask "Shag Marry Kill?"
2230 Hours
Anyways after that was our sleeping time. It was so much earlier compared to the previous day's sleeping time. The GL explained that it was because the 3rd day (and night) is very, very, very long. *hinthint*, I guess.So I slept a good sleep. Sleeping amongst friends always make my sleep good. Not sure if it's because the activities we did are tiring, or its just me....
Zzzzz.....
Third Day of FOC
0830 Hours
We woke up. No cheers from GLs this time. We bathed.
1000 Hours
We prepared for our activities! It's wet day today! This time, instead of always going with Pallas 3, we did the activities and competed with Aether 4!
Our first activity was held at the school field. And let me tell you one thing you can hear from someone who went to Hell - the school field is SCORCHING hot. Our feet are experiencing EXCRUCIATING pain. It's so hot, the heat caught our brains and I can feel it starting to boil. At last we gave up and wore our shoes for the wet activities held at the field. The objective of the game was to lift up a bucket full of water above our heads using anything but your hands, and everyone in Pavandious have to touch the bucket. Easiest option? Using our pinky. We thought it wasn't considered 'hand' so we went with that idea. And the Crew members said its fine, soooo we continues lifting it up til it was above our head. Easy game. We were splashed with a lot of water - ice cold or comfortably warm - all the time while we were lifting the bucket. We did our marbles cheer and got marbles. Typical.
Next up we had to transfer water from a bucket full of water to an empty bucket using any body parts including our clothes. We competed with Aether 4. This is one of the harder games because we really didn't know how to transport those water. Some guy from Aether 4 sacrifice the dryness of his shoes to transport more water at a faster rate using his shoes. Bravo, lad. Meanwhile, Pavandious is struggling to even transport water. We even used our hair. But to no avail. The water dripped onto the grass before it can even reach the bucket. We lost this station by a BIG margin. Like, less than half of what Aether 4 achieved. As forfeit, we had to do a cheer. We did the 'WHO ARE WE' cheer in which I forgot to tell you readers! The cheer goes like this:
Pallas! Who are we?
We, are fierce, fiercer than you all.
We! Are fierce! Fiercer than you all!
WE! ARE FIERCE! FIERCER THAN YOU ALL!
WE! WE! WE! WE! WE! WE! WE! WE!
WHO ARE WE WARRIORS AH!
WHO ARE WE WARRIORS AH!
WHO ARE WE PALLAS AH!
WHO ARE WE PALLAS AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
WARRIORS AH PALLAS AH... (IDK HOW MANY TIMES AH TYPE TIRED SIA)
....PALLAS AH OOM*!
*you know the OOM sound you make when meditating? Yeah just more fiercer like Pallas
*claps*
Afterwards, we walked a long way towards the basketball court to execute our next activity. We formed a circle and have to play a game similar to 'musical chairs', just that we are using water balloons to move it around the circle. We have to sing a song. The song we sang was Blank Space. The Crew will say stop and the person holding the balloon will get thrown with water balloons! The first victim was Darren. Daniel was the person who get to throw the water balloon. HILARIOUSLY, he missed the shot and hit James (or is it Danish? sorry, bad memory) We laughed like pigs. Afterwards, we sang Uptown Funk. The victim was Daniel. Anson threw the balloon and it hit on the back. The sound suggests the hit was very impactful. Probably painful. Lastly, we had to move the balloon around while holding hands. Quite tough, but doable. We sang Titanium. The victim was James and I volunteered to throw the balloon. I immediately regret that decision as I missed the shot terribly. I felt like I'm a monkey caged in the Zoo attempting to do some tricks with my Banna and failed miserable and I could see visitors laughing at me and singing "IF YOU TRY YOUR BEST, BUT YOU DON'T SUCCEED" to me. Embarrassing. We then got sprayed with water all over faces. Typical. We did our cheers and got our marbles. Typical.
Our last activity within the field area was to transport water (again!) from one bucket to a BOTTLE this time. We had to do it with a partner. Using a specific part of the body. My partner was Darren (for this activity not for life) and we had to restart so many times! The rule of the game is to transfer the water by following the guide of the musking tapes. In the middle of the journey to the bottle, there is a volleyball net that we have to go under. Surprisingly tough. Looks easy. But looks can be deceiving. To make it more of a hassle, me and Darren had to use our CHINS to transport the water. BLOODY HELL. How is that possible? We made it actually. After at least 4 tries? Then the douche Crew just HAD to ask us to transport the water from the plastic up using our chins (when the rule doesn't say so). But at least she's nice enough to allow us to use our hands to put the water in the bottle after like 99.87% of the water is already evaporating from the ground. But I kinda like the Crews. The sun is hotter than the average MILF, and to be sprayed with ice cold water has this heavenly feeling in it. We competed with Aether 4 with the cheers. Got our marbles. Get our as of that station. Typical.
*oh yes, my WOODLANDS SEC senior, Kamilah, is one of the fellow Crew members!*
(will now update the rest of the camp very briefly as I have to update on my FBC experience as well! and briefily, I really mean briefly.)
SOOOOOO
we went to the swimming pool area and did some really really really wet activities that drenched our clothes like picking up red bulls with a certain part of our body with our partner, find marbles deep in the pool, and pulling 'kayaking' from one end of the olmypic-sized pool to the other end
afterwards it was about almost 6 so we had our dinner first
dinner was good with fried chicken yummsss
this bathing session was probably the most memorable of all bathe sessions i've ever had. me, daniel, gordon and adrian bathed together in one cubicle. then came in 3 GLs and they gave us golden showers!!!! WTF RIGHT. so to show dominance daniel peed on them back. such a moment in history. the shower was cold and suddenly i felt some hot water at my thighs area. it was pee. lel.
so its around 8 and we had our finale at the CC! the GLs from the 4 tribes did a short act which are very hilarious. legit. their acting is good too. some... not all.....
last but definitely not least we had our HopNite!!! THIS WAS THE MOST FUN PART OF THE CAMP TBH.
we hopped. to some EDMusic. Good EDMs. the DJ is good. Talented. we hopped and hopped and hopped and my legs hurt. but I still hopped. Cos it was fun and everyone was doing it. I saw some of my sec sch friends and we hopped together. We are hopping a good time. Get it.
Sooo then afterwards was time to sleep...... or is it????
Nah bruh. It's OTOT night. We did some deep shit. H2H talks, confessing our ECs and shit like that. Some guys played soccer on my friends stomach using pen markers. I got tied with Ray and Danish with strings. Such fked up night that is. But it was memorable.
DAY 4 FINALLY
ok so i took like 2 weeks to complete a damn blog. my next posts won't be this long. I didn't know how blogging was supposed to be last time when I just started. I'm gonna be more brief and summarize more often. I remember i was very good at summarizing for my english paper. I once got 13/15 before. Shall use that skill in my next few posts more often.
ANYWAYS, day 4 was really plain and simple.
Breakfast. Wait for 2 hours. Take pictures. Go home.
We had McChicken for breakfast.
We played mind games for 2 hours.
And also selfies for another few minutes.
Waited another 2 hours to take pictures as a whole Argonauts, a tribe, and a subtribe.
Here are the pictures:
Pavandious cutiepies
Pavandious fierce af (esp me look at that)
Pallas we fierce
THAT CONCLUDES THE END OF THE BLOG GUYS!!! SORRY FOR MAKING IT SO LONG I WILL DEFINITELY IMPROVIZE (by summarizing more) ON MY NEXT BLOG, WHICH IS ABOUT FBC! see you there and have a good day :)
alfian ridwan
07-04-2015
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