Conserve your past; create your future

Since the photos of yesterday's class outing are already up on facebook, i thought i should include a pic of the mysterious, wonderful "hole" i've been talking about the entire time:

First signs of groundwater

Project shifts from "random hole" to foot spa

Us with the final product (all wearing the class tee!)

and one more thing: yicen just told me today that the hole was initially meant to bury me, so for a while i was literally digging my own grave -.-

Went to sentosa again today with a group of the other ogls to familiarise ourselves with the external hunt stations, and i also got to know some of the other ignis ogls. i have to say that monica and the rest of the committee did quite a good job in planning it. the instructions were all very clear and detailed, and some of the checkpoints are really quite obscure and will be difficult to find even for people who go to sentosa all the time. a really big tip for whoever reads this and happens to be taking part in the external hunt next year: they provide free pamphlets with maps at the monorail station; TAKE THEM. they're a real life-saver, though there might be a few stations which aren't marked even on the map... though as expected i wasnt paying much attention admittedly; most of the time i was talking cock (and gossiping about... haha) with lionel, yicen and the 09SH25 people from the terra group.

after it was over, went for lunch at vivo's kopitiam with the ignis ogls and monica, then the bunch of us plus guan hao followed lionel and lucas to look for gifts for the student council present exchange, though we got sidetracked and went to the pet shop first. spent quite a bit of time in there loling about getting chew toys, dog biscuits and leashes for jessica and shira, but in the end they got blow-up baseball bats from daiso. bumped into the terra gang quite a few times on the way too. went home after that.

at night, went to J8 for the lit class dinner. unfortunately, we couldnt get the whole group: only myself, luke, nik, shuyi, yinzheng, yandeng and robyn. talked cock a lot, and robyn was especially crazy. after dinner shuyi and yandeng left, and the rest of us went to the bubble tea shop near J8 to play taiti (ok how the hell do you spell it?), though i had to leave early. dam funny chatting with everyone after a whole year of not seeing each other, hope there will be another gathering with more people.

Sometimes we regret how things turn out and we spend all our time wishing for a time machine to go back, but the sad truth is that that time machine doesn't exist. Regret is an emotion meant for us to learn from past mistakes, and not for us to devote all our time to. Effort spent on something you cannot change is wasted effort, and should be invested in the present and future rather than the past. The one thing that we can do is keep hoping and biding our time until the window of opportunity opens again, and then giving your all to fix things then.

robyn intro-ed me to this ridiculously slapstick and funny song. my favourite was the cellphone part.