Today (well, yesterday) was Entre-day, where budding NJC entrepreuneurs got to showcase their business acumen in a day of selling their goods and services. it seems that sometime last week lionel signed me up for it, so i stayed back after school today to set up a stall selling - wait for it - slime. specifically, slime in a barrel. obivously this was lionel's idea -.- well i have to say that the slime is quite cool, but i wasnt sure if JC students would be willing to pay for something like slime, and at a near-100% profit for us at that. in the end our stall was a flop and we had to merge with the 10SH06 stall to survive. finally had a chance to catch up with grace, tingyi, huiying and valerie from Genesis days, and even ahn from that ancient boarding school feedback dinner. and then there was that JH girl from NE club who actually recognised me... now i feel kind of guilty over not being able to remember her name :X well, i guess we're supposed to meet new people from all of our CCAs right?
talking with people from orientation days again suddenly made me recall something from quite a while back, all the way back to those first few weeks after Genesis if im not mistaken. there was an og outing, with myself, lionel, aditi, wuhong, cassandra and josephine sitting in a circle outside plaza sing. i think we were discussing the orientation experience when aditi said that she didnt really miss orientation as much as us OGLs do. back when the comment was first made, i just promptly forgot about it and went on to talking cock again, but now i suddenly started thinking. did i feel the same way after e(NJ)oy? admittedly, my nostalgia period for e(NJ)oy was much shorter than for Genesis. did being an OGL have anything to do with this? going through all the effort of preparing the games and practicing the walk-in, not to mention the daunting task of banding together 20-odd people, most of whom have never even met each other before. i guess in a way it's like how getting close to the councillors changes your view of school-organised events; everything seems more precious once you fathom how much effort has been put in. at the end of the day, it all boils down to that oft-mentioned but nonetheless important virtue of gratefulness.
and i am grateful for having learned that lesson :)
