less larger than life

03 June 2006

8:26 PM

Pre- University Seminar

School representatives

Let's see. I got back home in the heat of afternoon, with a very bad case of flu and sore throat and cough. I exhausted all of weilip's strepsils and his panadol, and then fell asleep for 14 hours straight, woke up to eat, and went back to sleep for another 5 hour nap.

As of now, that is the most memorable. Falling very sick at pre-u sem of all times. Really, some times I think my body's playing little tricks on me.

But anyway, there were really cool moments in the seminar when I wasn't too sick to enjoy really corny jokes or meet totally cool new friends, or just enjoy the stimulating environment dominated by occasional prejudices that were sometimes a little cold and unwarranted. But hey, we learn that the world ain't fair, and we live by that and around that as much as we can.

In a way I sort of understand the bitterness. It was really apparant when the common thread of discussion was pretty personal, and I guess everyone's entitled to their own personal views, however angry or bitter.

5 things I love about Pre-u seminar:

#5
More good years, staying together or moving ahead?
I guess what made the whole seminar infinitely more enjoyable were the political puns my dear group 13 made during our group discussions and parallel presentations. It seriously brightened the whole political environment; all that contesting seats (in the bus) and having "walkovers" and "more good years". Teddy presented his paradox of the day on day 2 when we couldn't decide whether to eat or have personal time first: should we stay together or move ahead? (:

swapping blazers! (:

tea with minister..
#4
Having 6 meals a day: breakfast, tea, lunch, break, dinner, supper. The food was not bad. It was oily, it was average, but it was a buffet, so that implies choice. And besides, the operator of the canteen was none other than hercules' aunt! How can you not admire the far-reaching connections of our future leader of Singapore? (:

this is hercules goofing about again. He's hercules cos he could break the door handle of his room and then get stuck lol. Priceless.

our guys

the girls!

GROUP13! And we all say... "oh mannn. GG. so coool..."

#3
Holding onto the coolio transponder, made going to my claustrophobic room more exciting. Ok I'm a techno-noob, but still.. And we had single occupancy rooms! How sad was that. I wasn't really used to the whole sleeping alone in a room concept, so I kept my door open most of the time, so anyone walking along mostly gave me weird looks. I guess I'm not used to privacy.

Lucky for denise, who was just next door. I had someone to hang out with who was totally like me, in more ways than one (: I hung out with her at night when we talked and talked and tried to do our script (me). Heard of a little nj scandals haha. ;) It was cool. And for people I could sms through panel discussions (TANNEH hehe) and those who called at night when the room was so silent (wally, darrell).

the hall way.

#2
The games, the bonding, sem group 13
Wow my group was great. We've got such a cool mix of people from everywhere. NY, Nj, Rj, SR, PJ, MI... And somehow everyone just clicked from day 1 at ice breakers. We were discussing hot dudes and chio girls, and all that truth and dare. Our SLOs- Jessica our mother hen and Daniel, provider of famous amos cookies and coffee bean brownies (:

daniel prata stoning (:

an omen! the expiry date from my pandan cake.. On teddy's arm now haha.

#1
The people. Just them. The friends we make that we'll keep in contact with, and that we've treasured for the 5 days. Imagine politics with boring people. (shudder) Then add the lame jokes, the cool attitudes, the open minds, and you get broader horizons. Yeah, definitely more good years ahead..