Blue Vortec; New phase of life - CollinNXK: May 2005

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25 May 2005

sch's started

Ok, yesterday was the start of my new sch term at NP. I was quite excited when I could meet my classmates in my 1st class at blk 50. We had EG1, engine maths from 8 to 9 followed by compro, known as computer progrmming from 9 to 11. Then, me, Marcus and Johnson went for lunch at canteen 1. The food there is quite delicious among all the canteens in NP. After lunch, the 3 of us + Eileen and Vanu queued up for our books at the photocopy shop behind the library. The queues there were damn long man! But all of us were still in time for our classes at 12pm. :D The class at 12 was basically a non-examinable module, Engineering as a creative profession. My 1st project here came from there. In that lesson, we were taught skills on presentation, creativity and more importantly, research skills that are very essential to me. From 2 to 3, we had a break again. From 3 to 3.45, we had EG1 lab lesson with lcs again.[originally until 5, but dismissed earlier bcos it's our 1st day and he doesn't want to give us any hw+some of us hadn't installed scientific notebook yet] Then me and Johnson went to the tables beside LT51 for some revion on computer programming. [not easy though, but simple operations can be picked up easily] From 4.45 to 6, I researched on the project and went home sleepy and tired. Today, it rained heavily in the morning and i was abit late though the lecturer-in-place was also late due to the traffic conditions caused by the rain. Since all of us were not ready for his lessons yet, again we were dismissed at about 9 and here I am, at blk 26 now, typing this blog. I still have project discussion and ELTECH tutorial later. byez!

Posted at: 11:40 am

10 May 2005

NP rox!

Ok, I just came back from the FOC camp at Ngee Ann Poly held from 3/5 morning to 6/5 afternoon. That camp was basically held for freshmen who just came in to Ngee Ann where they could meet new friends from different courses.The camp rocks but yet there were certain things I didn't like about the camp. Everyday, everyone in the camp were doing cheers and more cheers. Also, there were 2 disgusting things i had encountered/heard of during the camp. [but the 2nd one is too disgusting to be mentioned lol] All these will be described more in detail below.

1st day- basically introducing ourselves and getting to know more people within my sub-group in the division [spartan] I was assigned to through ice-breaking games. At night, we were watching movies and then going on a night-walk thru NP and then watching the movie Walking Tall after that. But the lunch that I had wasn't fufilling enough, so the 4 people [including me] at my table took an extra packet to share it among the 4 of us. After that, all the meals I had during the camp were fufilling enough for me, though I took an extra packet of food during the last day of camp's breakfast as all of us will not be eating until 3pm, which is the book-out time. But the 1st day was basically waiting and more waiting due the the 600+ people who had signed up for this camp which was unexpected. As a result, all of us only slept at 2.30 am. We basically rushed to bathe during the 1st 2 nights. The time i spent in the shower broke my own record indeed.

2nd day- as usual waking up at 8 am everyday during the camp. Learned alot of new cheers and campfire songs. [The most er-xin cheer was the part of the funky chicken where the geylang chick was mentioned] The afternoon was spent on games[the purpose was to collect clues which will help in planning the play] which were quite fun, especially the water slide. Also, everyone learned the mass dance which was to be done on that night and also the closing part of the camp. Luckily, all of us slept early today. [about 8 hours]

3rd day- very hectic! The morning was spent rehearsing/planning the play + pia zhui, afternoon on pool games. Then the busiest part comes at night. The performance at the cultural theatre, then the campfire [stayed at the field for 1/2 hour] and next, rock and roll! I managed to catch some winks halfway during the dance. I couldn't really sleep in peace for the whole night after I realised group leaders from another division used markers to draw on me[even if you sleep on the running track, they will still show you no mercy] at 3.30 am and they almost took pictures of me, but they didn't take after all. I immediately went to shower to clean off the markings and then take a short nap again but since I feared for my safety, I went down to chat with other group members until 6 am.

Last day- I went on to sleep from 6 am to 8 am, thinking that people would not sabo me during this time. But yet those seniors still drew on my legs and I wiped those markings away with a small towel immediately. ; ( Anyway, there were others who were even more pathetic than me. They got sprayed with Colgate, talculm powder and a few unlucky souls even got chilli sauce and curry sauce on their clothes lol. After my double breakfast, all of us went for photo-taking group by group. Finally, all of us went to the hall to clear up the sleeping area and pack our bags. Then came the ending speech and the mass dance. At the end, there was the prize-giving session and Spartan got 2 prizes for the best performance during the pool game and the best play. When we booked out, there was a de-brief by my group leaders and division head and we also took this chance to eat the snacks that we got as prizes. I went home at 3.30 pm. Despite the shortcomings that I experienced during the camp, I still enjoyed my stay and I loved the bonding part.

Posted at: 4:00 pm