Day 2 of ogl camp. the first thing was a briefing of the external hunt. it seems the tanjong beach stations have been shifted to palawan beach because they realised that it was simply too far to walk to and from (luckily...). afterwards we played the station games for the external hunt. special mention goes to the protect-the-egg game, where guy-girl pairs must transport a small ball from one bucket to another without using their arms. jacob developed a strategy which nobody anticipated, not even the councillors who organised the game: he carried one of the smaller-sized girls and used her as a "tray" to carry the balls across. the look on everyone's faces was priceless. when the games were over, we learned the rest of Shut Up And Drive, which i feel is much more fun than Let's Get Excited, the O1 dance. favourite part is the guys' solo during the bridge :)
and then it was the full-dress walk-in rehearsal, which i feel was the highlight of the day. ignis still didnt have a confirmed dress code, so we were very plainly dressed compared to the other houses. at least we had company in aqua XD personally i think ignis did quite well, but a bit of regret when i screwed up my shoulder freeze (lost balance 4 counts too early, dammit) and i got a little stunned when we jumped and i could feel the platform wobbling and shifting. and we also need to work on the transition between guys' and girls' dances cos most of the time we're just standing around waiting for the other party to finish their dance. maybe this problem will be alleviated somewhat on the actual day with the spotlights.
the other houses were great too. i think everyone did very well for the rehearsal (great job guys!), but personally i have to say that what really made me speechless with awe was the intro for the aerius dance. it starts off with the dancers walking to their positions around the central raised platform while wearing hoodies gangster-style, then guanhao runs up to the platform and summons them to life like a puppeteer. guanhao was nitpicking that some of the movements were off-timing, but i have to say that the concept is solid and definitely has that "wow" factor. for the terra dance, i think hsiangwei really stole the limelight from everyone else. the intro, where he walks onto the platform like a zombie, already impressed me, and his contemporary dance duet with yiying was just crazy. with hard acts like those to follow, i really feel dwarfed in the face of the other houses.
and at the end of the day there was... the orientation goodie bag! because we all became ogls just for the goodie bag, right?
right?
well, i think the goodie bag is great. for just $16, we got 3 t-shirts, a box file, a foolscap pad, a pen/highlighter, a notebook and a friendship band (which i just realised actually glows in the dark *gasp*).
went for dinner at the serene centre macdonald's with bryan, panyu, hongzhi and nigel (once again im the 27 reject who joins the 25 class -.-). they had to clear up a miscommunication with jaron over the phone about whether he will be boarding or not, then we talked cock the rest of the way. met a group of JH4s and councillors there as well. we stayed at the macs for a really long time, from 8.30pm to 10.30pm i think. went home after that.
school's starting again next week. i still havent decided whether or not i should even attempt trying to finish up my homework, knowing full well that it's a lost cause. a part of me is dreading the impending flood of schoolwork and A level preparations, but another part of me wants to meet up again with my friends at school. sometimes i wonder if im too weak-willed because i always end up undecided over everything. i guess i'll just leave everything to the fates and see how they want to weave my destiniy.
