~The Road Less Taken~

Thursday, July 10, 2008

wow the last few days have been really really fast-paced, so here's a brief recap:

wednesday: it started off slowly enough (and as usual i got picked on by caipok for sleeping in class), but soon things got really intense.

wednesday afternoon was re (which we are practically dead for) but being able to interact with mr law and the rest of the people under him made up for it. then came SWIM FINALS (WHICH I WAS UNABLE TO GO FOR THANKS TO MY 2NA MEETING *silently curses himself for taking up so many things that they had to clash on the one day where raffles made history*) where we, it's fair to say, OWNED.

and our dearest swim capt and teacher-in-charge kristian and mr azmy got featured! not to mention the imba rainer who got 2 days' worth of pictures and headlines.

whee so that was the highlight of the day/week/month/year (trumping our double tennis gold and the spirited rugby 'b' div finals) in terms of rafflesian sporting achievements.

but of course life goes on. nowhere is this more true than ri. on the same day where the swimmers were rejoicing (and perhaps even throwing people into the pool!) we had the superbig ss documentary.

and so after my 2na meeting at bendemeer road (which i rushed down for) i went straight back to school to finish that up.

until 10.30pm.

but hey i'm not complaining.

if you were a secondary 4 ri student last night chances were you stayed up to finish up the documentary.

the common joke was that just about everybody would be staying up to chiong it.

which resulted in...

today: dead people walking all around the place.

quite possibly the stoniest day in any sec 4 class' history.

but of course having chionged in school the day before, i was a little bit more alert (compared to the poor souls who had to stay up all night literally to finish it).

ok the day started as mufti day. thanks to my conservative/lack of fashion sense i didn't raise too many eyebrows. a lack of it would have, but i think i did enough to avert becoming a walking disaster (and getting imprisoned by the fashion police).

i then strangely enough volunteered to become ticketing manager for hullett df. more on that later.

then came chinese, where caipok conveniently thought i was sleeping when all i was doing was staring at my table (rather stupidly, as if i was the one who had been deprived of sleep), and picked on me again. oh well so much for "pin3 de2 gao1 shang3".

so it's no surprise that everybody has something against the veggie for one reason or another (and no, nic, i'm not referring to you).

on to happier things though - the rest of the day passed without much fanfare, until after school.

ticketing managers' meeting came first, with us needing to emboss, cut and number 840 tickets (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and sell them during week 5 (after apcg, but i shall use apcg to sell some if possible! =D). it's tough work, but hey, i seem to like it that way.

after a mad session of embossing and cutting (where i realised i cannot use a cutter), it was then time to move on to the highlight of the day -

apcg packing.

yes you heard me right.

so the situation was this:

we had to complete:
162 nametags (not as easy as you think. psl first day comm can vouch.)
about 400 bags with at least 10 items each

but it was fun, in a way. it's really something i quite like, this hands-on work.

so i guess saikang is my thing.

coincidentally the 5 who stayed the longest were all uniformed groups people. sort of hints at something eh?

it reminded me too of the day before the first day of orientation camp.

where all the sec 1s (and most of the psls) had gone back for a break before the camp, a few dedicated souls (about 15 of us?) stayed back to pack the 630 bags for orientation.

not an easy job, but it was made enjoyable with the people around.

we were literally laughing at every other sentence for minutes on end.

great stuff. i'd love to relive it.

and even though we stayed until 10+ (and i hadn't even packed my bags for the next day) it was really rewarding. things like that make you feel proud and lucky to have such great friends.

but anyway back to today. it was 3.30, we were supposed to be done by 4.30. so it's a no-brainer, what happened next.

i eventually reached home at 7.45pm. and that was after taking a taxi and shaving almost 45 minutes off my journey.

but the 4 hours which we were there was really great.

and it has all the hallmarks of the sec 1 orientation.

atmosphere was friendly but work-oriented. like on 1 january, i had the sense something great and incredible would emerge.

hopefully it's going to be the same again for apcg!

ahaha finally a happy post. =)

I stopped to rest at 11:20 PM

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...