Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Camp is over and I look back at it with strangely mixed feelings. I'm glad to have been there, to have experienced and learnt the many things I did and to have survived. Yet somewhere another little voice questions if all that we went through for camp was justified.
I've read Aileen and Vic's blog and it must be said that neither were fully happy before, or during, the camp. Perhaps, as Aileen said, all of us were too busy to pay enough attention to one another to notice. Vic was sad because she said she felt left out of the non-games programmes, partly because they were run by the couply people. And yes, it is true, we did run into a bad habit of throwing Vic the random little things to do, like scoring and wet weather. And Dominic, Jae, and I are also guilty of keeping much of the haunted house and clues stuff to ourselves, mainly because we wanted to keep it under wraps to prevent info from spreading to the freshies. That was totally a mistake and we apologize.
I'm sorry too for whatever stress we put Aileen and Sze Han through. It is true that we weren't always the most sympathetic of people, even though I think most of us did try to make it easier for Aileen. But as for the fights and the quarrels about programme matters and etc etc. Well.
I believe we wanted to do this as friends, and I hoped that working on camp together would bring us closer and all that...basically, all I hoped for was for the bunch of us to have fun together. In a sense, yes, we have had fun running around, going for endless coffee meetings at Pacific and cheonging last minute matters in our new home named ChatterCube and argueing about the best way to tortue the innocent and happy freshies and so many other things that I will one day look back on and smile. But to quote Sze Han, friends are the hardest people to work with. And I don't want any work-related camp screwups to ruin the friendships we have. I, as always and its becoming a cliche, wanted everything to be nice and happy. And I'm sorry for all the times that this
didn't happen. I don't know how to express it, but I really am.
I feel like I'm giving so little back in exchange for all of what you guys have one and all you guys have gone through (refer to Vic's blog and Aileen's blog and previous post).
I wish I could turn back time and make everything have gone better.
Still, camp seems to have been well received, and so thank yourselves guys. credit goes out to you and none of in could have happened without you.
YOU includes the FOP people, Fumin, Jit Soon, Eemin, as well as certain members of the 5th MC who lent their unfailing support and help in times of dire need, people like Edwin and WenQi and KENT whom we love.
In fact kent probably deserve a seperate thank you for mysteriously appearing at the last second and helping us with the food stuff, the rahrah-ing and organizing, for distracting the freshies away from our messiness and fooling them into thinking that the time-filler cheers were actually
planned and for not complaining when I crashed his room.
YOU also includes Joyce for her last minute and invaluable help with clues, haunted house, the ball-ball, the make-up, for staying up late with all of us and for helping us fill in as a last minute OGL cum stationmaster and for in general being a very nice person.
And how can I forget the (george) Lucas (ho) for his brilliant video which I foresee will go down in NUS history as the greatest FOC video ever made
YOU also includes Brandon and Jae for the destressing smokes, the pink elephants for being themselves and the half a prawn for being the occasional half a prawn, my WONDERFUL OG NINJA for having such a fantastic attitude as well as Jon Kwok, Vivien, Yiling, Gay Yong and especially JinRui for pulling the OG together and for not forgetting me despite my sporadic appearances. I feel loved ;) thank you for including me in the group even though I was hardly with you all.
YOU must ALSO include PRof Teo for being such a giggly good sport and chuckling all the way through the inaugaral Haunted House tour.
I was quite happy at the camp, actually. Makes me feel doubly bad for those who weren't.
But I digress.
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