Pharmacy Camp: Debrief (Part 1)Day 1: arrived 30mins late. didn't expect the pharm gals to be so early (haha still rem sheares camp). very shocked to see that there was only one guy in my group, other than the OGL Justin, and about 9 gals. ok, so the ratio stands at 2:9, not too bad after all. later in the day, found out that he was another senior (wtf!) so feeling daaam weird having to mix around with a group of Girls!!! shat. later much later, i was to find out that there are only 6 guys (as shown in the camp pic) among about 50 campers! ratio: 12%.
after icebreaker, which was quite useless (can't remember any names of the gals even after playing Whacko! just running about aimlessly) we went on Amazing Race, which is, yes, islandwide. Stops: Jurong East, Tiong Bahru, Esplanade, Bugis, stop at Tampines. At every stop u had to find the station master and do whatever task is on hand. Initally i found it quite fun, but later on around Esplanade-Bugis it was damn shack, all that walking took its toll. When we reached Tampines, it was about 7pm and i was quite worried that i wun't get my medicine on time (feeling damn drowsy at that time). had dinner at tampines.
9 pm when we reached chalet. surprise! they mixed all the groups up and i suddenly had to know another batch of ppl. luckily, there were 4 guys and 8 gals in my chalet, amongst them
Edwin, so it wasn't too bad. Relaxed, bathed, etc for a while and about 11pm or later went back to original OG group and discussed the "skit". Discovered that: a guy amongst 10 extremely loquacious girls bursting of ideas wasn't very good. Because we had to do a skit on some story about some tribe and that there were clues given along the way (all the clues given on day 2 only), the gals made up many many versions of their own stories, many many times sidetracking into their own fantasial versions. Sometimes i want to laugh at them but decided against it... can't contribute much either. Ended at 2am. These gals have stamina.
Day 2: Sentosa. lousy weather marred most of the day, so it was quite sien. Saw the stupid macaw show at sentosa again, reminded of sheares camp. there were so many games, i can't remember what we played. feeling kind of sien the whole day. Just remembered running around the whole island playing games again, taking different buses, going here and there, until i dunno what's going on except to follow the group. up till 4:30pm when we ended at cable car station chewing some banana amongst the fifteen of us in our group. really quite turned off - and possibly tired - by the end of the day.
took bus back to chalet. after dinner, some night games which was supposed to prepare us for the incoming Fright night. quite sien actually, no adrenaline rush by the time they finished at 11 pm. then - went into discuss our skit, again. ok, this time tried to contribute more, couldn't really bear sitting there and doing nothing and watch them yak, someone has to set them in some direction, if not the right direction, somehow.
discussed skit until about 1am. then fright night, i went with some gal called Shulin... which was great since she wasn't scared at all, cos i was abit scared initially. and somehow i needed to "dang zi dan" (block bullets) for her. so we went, they have 4 stations:
first station was some abandoned house, quite creepy cos it was Damn Dark. i resisted the urge to use my handphone light, just relying on the 5cm-long, 0.5 cm lightstick which wasn't much of a help. plunged into the darkness and felt some hand grabbing my left leg, really shocked. That was good, haha tried to act hero by saying some feng liang hua to the guy in the darkness. Haha.
Second station was, there were 2 ladies looking like sadako, and we had to comb the hair of the lady sitting on the floor. her companion gave us the comb, but then she didn't wanted her hair combed, so anyway the comb was with shulin, so she gave 3 combs and then the seated lady turned around and "boo!" then i think shulin laughed or what, the actor also laughed, then it wasn't so bad, haha. wa, she has some guts man.
Third station: we had to collect some powder that was lying along the staircase to Old changi hospital (OCH). the slope on which the staircase was had absolutely no ppl at all, i calculated. no living soul would possibly be able to take it, but by a stroke of luck (i think), changi hospital was occupied by the NTU sports camp or something, there were about 30 actors scaring the hell out of 100 campers, so there were hell lot of screams echoing from OCH, which kinda unnerved us but we got used to it.
Fourth station: we had to get all the stuff we collected and perform a ritual on this doll called Sally who was sitting beside the building wall. can't read the instructions on the wall, can't stand it, pulled out my hp and used its light (quite cheating, haha). finished this very quickly while shulin stood watch. reported back to find out that, what, this was the last station? no fun. Then the ppl there tried to unnerve us by saying "did u see sally walking out? you must shout out loud" then i got shulin and we went back to scream our lungs out, until a senior came to stop it. haha there was no sally at all.
ended day 2 at about 3 am.
