Today was the first of two days of the ogl camp. the first part was really dumb, just (re)learning the two school songs and a few old and new school cheers. jacob and kaiwei were the smart ones: they arranged to meet up for prata before coming to school at 9am. well, that was the plan anyway. jacob, living up to his reputation of tardiness, was late even for prata, and they ended up coming at 10am, right after cheers and icebreakers and just in time for station games. damn their perfect timing >.>
well, now to compare the 2009 and 2010 station games: the watermelon game remains unchanged (even the venue is the same -.-), which i feel is quite disgusting and a reason to pity the future juniors. the flour-dunking game has been toned down somewhat; instead of sticking your foot in the disgusting brown coffee-water stuff, you stick your head in (more or less) clean water. this time there is only one water game (compared to 3 in 2009 :( water games are the most fun), the invisible maze, which i feel will be quite cool and entertaining to mess with the juniors with :) orbital is still the same, but the name-the-person game has been ramped up to copy-the-pose, and it was damn epic when all the guys in my group did the baby freeze and all that the other side could do was stand and stare. maybe all that walk-in practice is finally paying off :)
after that was learning the mass dance. they finished going through the O1 dance, which i guess is quite ok but am far from memorising, and started going through a bit of the O2 dance, which is Shut Up And Drive by Rihanna. last year's dance was also a Rihanna song, Don't Stop The Music. i always thought the trend with orientation dances is to use recent songs, so i wonder why they have two songs from the same album for two consecutive years.
then it was time for more walk-in practice. a few days ago lionel convinced me to join the O1 walk-in cos ignis/ixion has a grand total of 3 guys for O1 (cue sarcastic "awesome~"), so i thought i should at least do something to make it look less pathetic. little did i expect that it would entail so much extra work. O1 walk-in is next friday, and while the O2 dancers are still in laxing mode, the O1 dancers (which now include me) are chionging to finalise the formations and timings and brushing up on the dances and songs. and it just hit me that i'll probably have to stay back after school a few times on the first week to practice, which is probably gonna affect my studies, which is the main reason why i didnt want to join O1 in the first place *facepalm* oh well, hopefully nothing important happens during the first week.
i am absolutely addicted to this song right now, Flash Of The Blade by Avenged Sevenfold. yes, i know it's a cover of an Iron Maiden song, and i also know i will incur the wrath of many Iron Maiden fans by saying that i prefer the A7X cover, but i just like how the guitar is more distorted in the A7X version and gives the song more of an edge. in any case, here it is:
