i know this is seriously late, but still, i have to write about it.

The PSL-Student Councillor Induction Camp 2009 was on the 6th and 7th of nov, last fri and saturday. boy, it was one of the best camps ever. id say it ties for first place, along with this year's march Stadium camp.

I was part of the planning committee, and my group was led by Valerie and Hannan, whom i must admit, are wonderful, absolutely lovely people, with not a bad bone in their bodies. more on that later.

we didnt have a lot of time to plan, say 3 weeks. but that sufficed, cos our group had a lot of efficient and most importantly, RESOURCEFUL people who stepped up to the plate to get everything done quickly. i did my part by noting everything down..and printing out the picture clues and whatnot, and Fright Night OH FRIGHT NIGHT

yeah, so naufal, shazni and I were in charge of icebreakers. it was a fiasco, nearly, cos we were playing Superstar, and suddenly the game started even without us knowing, or the superstars revealed themselves too quickly. or the wrong superstars were running around. that kind of thing. it was a bit weird, but still somehow all the other members of the committee stepped in and salvaged the situation (thanks guys!)

oh well. after that, the poor sec1s (and a few sec2s) had to sit in the lecture theatre and listen to this guy give a REALLY INSPIRING TALK (can you smell the sarcasm here) about leadership. i seriously pitied them. i mean, we were in the same situation just a year ago, so i felt their pain. and besides, it was the same vendor! touche, i tell you.

meanwhile, group A was setting up the amazing race..which turned out to be quite fun. well, i was with jia hern and amanda, manning the 3d spiderweb. well, we just wound about practically 3m worth of clothesline around the four poles outside the front gate of the ISH to make a really warped spiderweb, through which the team members have to crawl through to get to the other side.

and something to do with a walkie talkie and Basyar looking down from the top floor of the ISH happened, but am not gonna talk about that :P

but it was really fun..and we got the teams to sing songs as forfeits...oh gosh it was really funny!

but the songs got a bit predictable, darn.

anyways,

glen and I were running from the dance studio and downstairs just to look for the key. and then i got a moment to myself in the dance studio..well of course i was dancing, what else..anyone who hasn't had the studio to themselves should pray hard they really get a chance..it's a very liberating experience. you'll surely meditate in less than 5 mins in the studio.

anyway, we spent our time in the dance studio ripping apart plastic bags to paste on the mirrors, cos we wanted to create a kind of church-ey atmosphere in the dance studio. i remember when hannan, valerie, glen and I went, more like burst into the DS, hannan and i immediately starting acting like retards, jumping around the DS acting like monkeys and finally falling on the floor. talk about freeing your mind...

THEN, we changed into dark-coloured clothes, and i brought out my eyeliner. i mean, the three of us (glen, jia hern and I) planned to do a sort of ghost-storytelling thing. then it evolved (thanks to me) to some i-can-see-things mystic woman kind of one-woman show. god, i had fun. but it involved a lto of technicalities. i know you guys are probably sick of me mentioning this, but im a loyal advocate of giving credit where it's deserved. the station wouldn't have been half as scary without glen's wily tricks with the chairs, straws and wooden boards, and jia hern's great timing (slamming of cupboards). seriously, even i was shocked. both at the sudden noise, and at the precise (or was it accidental) timing.

so,

back to the eyeliner

i knew exactly what i wanted to do, once i wielded that black wand. so off i went, painting friezes and designs along my right eyebrow, down along my right cheek and below my chin, and below my eyelids, to make it look as if i was crying blood. CHECK OUT THE PIX ON FACEBOOK. I looked terrible, and "disgusting", as one of my beloved friends said, but HONEY, THAT WAS THE EXACT REACTION I WANTED!

and natthawut, thank you so much, seriously. you rock. and i mean it.

basically, what i did was, just lay down some ground rules before i began, which meant i was speaking as GOWRI, not as unnamed-mystic-woman. and then i began to tell utterly lameass stories..i mean, they weren't exactly meant to scare people, they were only meant to SHOCK. GET IT? just shock them, and make them FEEL UNEASY. that's all there was to it.

as such, i was in the middle of telling a tale about a pregnant teenager who hung herself from a hook in her bedroom ceiling in her paya lebar home, and i was coming to the part that there was black blood dripping from the hook, and then i started having convulsions and i fell on the floor screaming like a banshee.

note: in a few cases, i practically fell on the team members, themselves.

so yeah, i did the aforementioned to the last group which came in, and they weren't expecting it, cos they were laughing at me. and when i did fall on them, they ran out of the DS screaming. i'm not exaggerating at all.

as soon as the last team had passed thru our station, we set to cleaning up the DS, which was a really arduous task. what with all the crushed up paper, and tables and whatnot.

anyway, when glen, jia hern and I went into the LT, where everyone was gathered. when we went in
everyone started cheering for us, and flashing their torchlights all over the walls...it was crazy...

anyway,

we camp organisers pretty much had the freedom to sleep anywhere, and stay up as late as we wanted. valerie, hannan, randy, isaac, mandy, khaeruddin, isabelle, farid, weiyang, kie yan and myself (sorry if i left your name out) were in the canteen..then at around 11/12-ish, we changed and practically slacked around the canteen..farid, weiyang and ad-wine went to teh parade square to see stars, i remember...then at around 2/3-ish, valerie,hannan, randy, isabelle and I were talking and laughing our lungs out about stuff....i still remember all our lameass jokes about ris low, randy!! and i laughed so hard at some points that i twisted my belly button! wth! and hannnan was biting his sleeping bag to keep from laughing... I miss all of them badly..all the good times are flashing through my brain..well you know what i mean, right?

well, i slept at 4.20am, and woke up at 5.50am. we started off the day with a game of captain's ball, which was really fun. during one of the games, i happened to be the one catching the ball, and i made a huge mistake, i let out a really loud shout/grunt. a cross between a shout and grunt. it totally shocked me, considering how loud it was. haha..people were laughing i think...but i do that all the time during badminton as well..

*if there's anyone who thinks i'm a two-bit drama queen, think again. that type of shouting came naturally. take your opinions somewhere else, really.

then naufal took over the commentary for the next games ("Chao Yong, Chao Yong!") and we all had a whale of a time, laughing like hell. hurt my stomach again.

during area cleaning,

isabelle and I had to go and look for mops and everything, cos there weren't any in the toilets..how lovely. but our team members were being great sports..although they were quite playful...

after that, we had a group photo taking session..check the pix if you haven't..(my gosh, that is slow)...then i stopped over @ mac with val, isaac, randy and benjamin and a few others for a drink..

seriously,

the whole camp was a success, due to all of our attitudes, i feel. despite not having a lot of time to plan the camp. miss my group members.

till now, i'm still replaying the events of those two days...i made new friends, and learnt a lot of things. well, things as in, the intrapersonal sense and interpersonal sense...

love,