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iluvzxinyi: OMG! SO IT REALLLY is you, xinyi! haha, I'll tempt fate and not tag you. MUAHAHAHAH.

fathin: it's ok, fathin! no sweat...you know those moments when you go to brush your teeth and you realize you've done it earlier at seven? this is one of those moments :)



OH Finally.

I'll talk about the psl-sc camp first, and then performing arts camp, because both posts are terribly long.

PSL-SC Camp
was so eventful, and it was a good opportunity to work on our weaknesses and strengths and sort of, rediscover ourselves.

A lot of time was spent in the LT, which was FREEZING, for one. I was kicking myself for not bringing my hoodie along at that time.

We also had an Amazing Race (corny, right, but still).
Well thankfully, we could get along with each other in our group. I'd Wanxin, Xinyi, Fathihah, Valerie ( i keep thinking valerie hermann), a girl who was totally hostile towards Malcolm, who was also in our group, Weiyang and Jia En.


So, great people I guess.

About the Amazing Race,

I don't remember much of it because we had another sort of amazing race later on.
Weiyang was the sort-of leader, i guess. So we got the first clue and he decided that it had to be a car-plate number, so the first place to go to was a carpark.

We found Jerwin and some others. The task was,

there was a square marked around a bucket of water. so we had to lift the bucket using only a rope. we couldn't drag it out, or spill any water.

we obviously managed to do it, weiyang stretched and managed to loop the rope through the handle.

There wasn't much to talk about concerning Amazing Race.

The Fright Night was the piece de resistance, sorry about the poor french.

Well, fright night was practically about spooks and ghosts and fear and stuff.


Oh, and it happened in the nightttttt.


So firstly, we receive clues in the forms of pictures at each station. then we proceed to the next station to do a task and so on.


firstly, we went to the AVA. the theatre lah dey, not the one treating animals.


Haniff, looking very weird in a long, white T-shirt and pants (i think it was his councillor whites) opened the door.

Haniff: Where's the clue?
someone: uh, yeah, here.
Haniff: (after checking the clue) Ok.

Then he shut the door.

freakily, we saw thru the gap in the door, all the lights were being turned off.

After that, we all went inside to watch a short movie, presumably about ghosts and stuff. It was a bit weird, thankfully i didn't scream.


Fast forward,
one of our locations was the landing of the 'hidden' staircase on the left of each level. the lights were turned off inside. everyone was hesitant at first, especially some of them, but weiyang and i convinced them to come in. So Jia En and Weiyang turned on the lights. They were beginning to climb the stairs, i was behind, when suddenly


the lights went off.



whoever who was behind me went screaming insanely, scaring me even more. they practically ran away. i'm laughing about the three of us even now. god, it was a bit difficult calming them down. and anyway, they weren't to be blamed. how would you feel if you turned on the lights and as soon as you're trying to climb up, the lights go off?

I was calming my friends down, when some others noticed there was a weird light coming from the bottom stairwell . We were wondering if it was (a)the lights from the nearby shops/HDB flats (b) buses or whatever (c) or....


and we also saw shadows.

So we decided to link arms, and started walking towards the stairs.

Suddenly, nauar appeared, with a light held near her face, which was half-painted green. A bit morbid, really! She was like,'We all were waiting for you guys to come, you know, you all were screaming like..?!"


Well......
our task was to transport 20 mealworms, YES YOU HEARD RIGHT, 20 mealworms, from the top of the stairs to the bottom, where Jeremiah was waiting with a sort of container to get the mealworms.

I was INSTANTLY REPULSED at the task. i HATE CREEPY CRAWLIES OR ANYTHING THAT WRIGGLES FOR THAT MATTER!


i was quite apprehensive.
Weiyang and valerie were sort of, up for it, and valerie was the first girl to actually touch the mealworms. Then, Wanxin and I made like a sort of agreement to go in pairs and do it. we put our palms alongside. Valerie put one worm at first into my hand, I DON'T KNOW, SHE WAS ALWAYS AIMING FOR MY HAND AHAAHAJAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Wanxin was faster than me, so she was actually pulling me down the stairs, and i was running.
Like Wanxin wrote in her blog, we were sort of 'addicted' to doing it. I was like,' Wanxin, we do it again, k? yeah, just get over it!!"

First: 1 worm
Second: 2 worms
Third: 2 worms
Fourth: 3 worms

i think, roughly, that's the amount of worms we transported.

whenever we even went near the rest, they screamed like hell. and it was even louder cos we were in a pretty small space.


there was this station where we all had to take Taste Tests. Weiyang was super anxious, like, is it edible? is it safe? lol. cldn't blame him though.


So this Taste Test thing happened in some career guidance room. I was a bit gung-ho, so i happened to be at the front. They picked the first four, so i happened to be the fourth, the rest were boys. sigh. pfft.


It felt like we were being in a vacuum room or something! the air smelt strange, and it was quite cold. worse still, we had to cover our eyes throughout everything.


The first thing we tasted was bittergourd.

The moment it was placed on my palm, i knew what it was, no doubt. It was an arc of bittergourd. I knew it from experience, not because I'd eaten it for lunch earlier.

We were told to eat it, duh. Weiyang, obviously really disgusted, said,"Eh, Gowri, I think you ate it for lunch today."

But since the bittergourd didn't taste bitter at all, i was thinking it could be radish instead. Nevertheless, I said bittergourd and it was bleeding correct.

The next thing we tasted was wasabi. Seriously, could anything taste more Japanese?


The third item was lethal, as in REALLY LETHAL.


I bit into it and my whole mouth was on fire. Chilli padi, duh. horrible.


fourth item was supposed to help us recover, instead it made it worse. Lemon juice.


The funny thing was, I didn't cry or shriek or anything, something normal in that situation.
I guess guys kinda toughen you up. Group psychology, i guess.


When you're in a group, and with certain types of people, you get braver, and you're totally ready to do anything. You don't care what anyone thinks, you just do whatever they do? it's something like that.


The rest of them, 5 girls, came in. The previous 4 were allowed to stay inside. I don't want to talk about their reactions to the food.



fast forward,
there was one station that everyone was talking about in particular.
it was at the 1T1 classroom or smth.
and of course, jolene was there........sigh.


and there was this rumour going around that olivia and denise never made it back after that station. Sharvin is really an actor in hiding..but thankfully i didn't go berserk and spread the obviously fake rumour.


then we had a sort of debrief in the LT.
Nazim/Nazeem was talking to us in the LT and said he wanted to pull up some people to talk about the camp. Well, he called me first.


Don't know how this happened, I just sprung up from my seat. Anyhows, I was waiting for a chance to speak, just missed the feeling of being in front of a crowd.


Then Nazim said, "Whoa! She's brave, man! Clap for her!"


Thank you. I mean it.


I went on to talk about what was my favourite part of the camp, and said stupid crap. But anyway, I still got rousing applause and am eating well.



PSL-SC camp was not fun in the sense that we had to brush our teeth and everything and report to the LT by 6.30am.



As usual, Fathin, Aqilah and I slept together, just like Sec 1 orientation camp! I think Aqilah was a bit freaked out by me. Because whenever i slept facing her, she usually covered her face or turned away, or she was fidgeting like mad. Lol, so funny. Aqilah, I'm perfectly straight!! don't get freaked out!



I couldn't sleep thruout. I was just half-sleeping. I've done that once at home. I was lying upside down on my bed, then i saw my mum standing near me. Then I tried to wish her good morning, but i couldn't speak. just kept staring at her. So weird! Felt quite detached from my body. that is a symptom of b------ disorder.



I couldn't remember any time of the night/morning when I was asleep. Sometime around 12am, jolene came in to check ( i could tell it was jolene, because when you see white-yellow-green, who do you think of?)

Then I waved to her, quite lazily. Then she was like,' Sleep gowri. Sleep. Go to sleep, gowri.'


lol.


then there were more people coming in, and there was like a light repeatedly being shone into my face. I was like,'what the! do you want to see my spots more clearly or what?'


my hoodie is a lifesaver :) that is why i look like a refugee all the time i carry it around.


At around 5 am, fathin's phone alarm rang, and what an apt song it was.
Pocketful of Sunshine.

(and it continues from here)


AHAAHAHAHA FAthin you dadadidi. THe volume was so loud dude. Anyhows,
i woke up at 5am. then hibernated. until 5.47am. Then Aqilah, Fathin and I went off to brush our teeth and all. Then I walked around a lot waiting for 6.30am, probably frightening Jerwin and Sharvin in the process.


Before having breakfast, we played Captain's Ball. The facilitators were great. For our match, we were poorly matched up, because the opposing team members were all taller than us :(


PFFFFT.


That was it about PSL-SC Camp.
It was really fun, more fun that you could have ever imagined.


Love you all!