Aduro - A New Beginning
Day 3
Part 2

One of the tasks we had once the freshies arrived was to give them T-shirts while they were having their short r&r around. It seems like Sentosa took up too much time or something, and most of the freshies didn't have time to bathe.

Well, never mind. More time for us then.

The PF cockup: during the preparation time (Part 1) Shannon was packing the t-shirts and asked me whether to give the 3 pseudo-freshies maroon (for seniors) shirts or black (for freshies) shirts.
Thing was, from what she said when she presented to me the numbers for shirts, we seem to have a shortage of seniors' shirts (60, of which ~50 was to be taken up).

Well, that's one question you should never ask me, I don't care who dresses up as what, as long as they dress up.

If we give them maroon shirts, it means we will sound the death-knoll on their freshie status, the whole show is over, and one way to end it will be to have everyone gather before dinner, where they will come out with their nice new maroon shirts when everyone other freshie comes out in their black one.

If we give them black shirts, the PF show can still go on, even until camp breaks. But the 3 PFs will not get their maroon shirts.

Preferably, i would have preferred that they get black shirts. But anyway, the leadership in me didn't work again, and I asked jevin for advice. he said, give them maroon shirts.

ok then. 3 maroon shirts were delivered to them, which caused a huge uproar. haha. it was certainly interesting to see how the 3 PFs bluff their way out of the entire thing. i thought at that stage, the game was over. just tell the freshies.

somehow, by one way or another, the freshies didn't believe that there were PFs!!! OMG! so naive and innocent. muifong was asked: "so, do they give this to those who wanna be ogls?" lol. tiongphew made a huge fuss about receiving the wrong shirt etc. which somehow, the freshies seemed to believe it. bingxun just coolly said that the seniors gave him the wrong shirt and they took his word for it. ha. that guy really has bonded with his team.

Lol. moving over to talentime:

at about 7 pm to 7:30 pm the profs (well actually prof chui and our kind ms tan who arrived at 6:30) arrived. prof chui brought with him 2 uk students on attachment, which junice (as the emcee) often got their names wrong. lol. They mingled with the students. Prof chui and ms tan did a great job by not exposing our PFs, which took their best effort not to mingle with them for fear of being found out.

Talentime was in my opinion: OK. not a success. but passable. mainly we had junice the energizer bunny as a good emcee.

Talentime: 5/10
Song item: 4/10
Skit item: ???
Beauty pageant: 4/10

First item: song

Generally, not very well done, i had expected to showcase the "kbox singing talents" of whoever. most of them didn't require the karaoke versions (or lacking that, the originals) of the music that we had so painstakingly provided for them. The mikes didn't work sometimes, staging their own rebellions here and there. No-one used the guitar that i had brought, too. The sound system wasn't utilised to its full that day.

But generally, they were quite cooperative, belting out their songs as a whole, even placing ridiculous gigs, to the amusement of everyone.

Second item: skit

Hoped this saved the show, cos i was busily taking a break for this one, as no sound system was needed. Only possible glitch were the mikes.

Third item: beauty pageant

by this time, all the people were shack-out, and i think it might be a good idea, not to lump everything in one gala show next time. or give them too many breaks.

generally this one took about 30 minutes, a chop-chop event. it was rushing too quickly, there was no suspense at all. but no choice. it was alrady 10:30 and we planned to finish by 11.

but i think, every camp should still have one. even though, there was no SDU support for it. =(

basically we asked the 10 fellas to go to the back of the chalet ( to mute them), then asked each couple to come out, give a short intro, then junice will ask them why they chose pharmacy, and then do a catwalk. simple.

quite disappointgly, we didn't even make use of the 5 sashes that we had intended for miss personality, hotbod etc. there was simply not enough time, and the judges decided to cut it short.

sadly, the mood, which i had expected the participants to be increasingly high during the camp, did not achieve the high that i had expected. it felt like, it never rose at all.