Precamp!

Hah, Jocelyn said that she was an unsatisfied fan of ankukueh because I haven't blogged much in the holidays!!! So here's an update of the precamp we had today.

Met up with the group of project leaders and directors of enactus early in the morning at 10am (10am meet at serangoon means must wake up at 7.30 okay sobs)

The new batch of directors are super awesome, they have plans for ntu to have increased awareness of enactus, so they'd be rolling out marketing plans (including people like myself having to 抛头露面 and do pitching in random lectures lol). But still it's for the better good, in the future when I tell people I'm from enactus they won't go "Huh? What?" ten times before I go into a long story on what we do and my team project. :D

On to the games!

The first game was to create the tallest and sturdiest newspaper structure! It was project leader team vs exco team so we were dying to win them LOL. 

At the start our structure seemed to be so weak and swayed with the wind OTL But Jocelyn said that it was a "dancing flower" lol. 

It really did look like one with our base looking like the roots and one flimsy train of newspapers growing upwards lolll. We struggled with the masking tape and newspaper for 20 minutes, weathering the programmers' attacks of wind, water and even whacking our whole structure!!

Eventually the structure grew to be taller than me and looked like a tree! 

Time to claim credit: in the last 10 seconds when our structure was going to bend down, I strategically twisted it the other direction and it became steady!! While the exco team's structure fell like lightning struck their tree! Muahahaha!

Victory shot with exco photobombing us :D

After that we had a few games but u must talk about the tele-match! Got unfortunate story of Jocelyn lol.

In this tele-match we had to complete stations one by one and the fatest team wins. The first station was the worst for me because we had to find polo sweets from a plate of flour and I got so much flour in my mouth!! =.= gagged continuously after that and was miserable.

But Jocelyn was more miserable Hahaha. There was this 10 elephant spins station where we had to make ourselves dizzy before throwing a cup of water into a pail. 

As expected from her always carsick/seasick/dizzy/headache moments, she was so dizzy that she tumbled into a big puddle of water!! Super miserable >< (actually I also had to crawl to the water pouring station after spinning but comparatively not as miserable lol)

And the story doesn't end here, Jocelyn still had a lot of flour in her mouth and she started drinking the dirty water from the pail!!! For a moment I really thought she became bonkers :0

But other than 3 scratches she is ok lol.

Jocelyn ah, next time don't so clumsy hor....

Last station was the water bomb games!! Weijian was "it" and we (all girls) had to protect him from getting wet.

Us and our weapons

Scheming face cause Jocelyn was in the exco team and she was going to help my team and turn the tables hoho.

As expected, my team won!! Unfortunately they told us that we can't make allies in the real game. :/ 

Finally the end of a super eventful and fun day. Tired! 

The day God spoke to me

Recently I was feeling very troubled over choosing my second specialization. The highly-sought-after way, as I've always followed, was to aim high and just choose banking and finance and open my options.

I knew I wouldn't get in since I didn't make the cut of B+ in financial management, but still decided to try... Alas, I got my second choice of biz law. 

Now I was stuck with 3 options, to appeal for baf, to stick with biz law, or to reject my second spec choice and use my AUs for unrestricted electives, well, unrestrictedly haha.

Dad told me to pray and ask for God's direction but I was quite doubtful, I only had 2 days to make a decision, the answer can come so fast meh?

Even after reading up on second specializations and asking some seniors what they thought, I remained indecisive.

Finally, yesterday night before I slept, I prayed for God to reveal to me the path I should take through colours. If he showed me white, I will take biz law, if it was blue or red, I will appeal for baf and if it was green, I would be set "free" from restricting myself from a second spec choice lol. The colours were chosen based on the colour of my files for the subjects lol. I expected God to somehow reveal the answer to me in my dreams or something. 

This morning I woke up and prepared to go to church. I kept trying to recall what dream I had last night. Nothing... I sat on my bed and thought and thought.

Suddenly when I looked out of the window:

Green! Everything is green! I never bothered about looking out of the window but wow, the trees sure were flourishing haha. Was God telling me that I shouldn't do a second spec through this?

But I thought to myself, I can't be so sure about it. Afterall, green is such a common colour.

Then I suddenly had the idea to ask my mother about what colour is used now for the church season. My mum is in charge of the banner ministry in church so she has to put up banners according to the church seasons. Ok I wasn't sure about what colours are included but from crivoice.org:

Haha blue, red, green and white all stood a chance!

Guess what was the colour for today, 22june? Green!!!!!!!

When my mum said it my eyeballs almost dropped out lol. Like "really ah?! You sure anot?! Really Green? Last week white then so fast change already?" My singlish lol.

True enough, green was the answer. Confirm and double confirm. 

Woohoo so now I don't even have to bother trying to appeal. God told me the answer through my circumstance. 

I have the faith that God's chosen path is the best path for me. :)

Ended stint at citi

Woo, in a flash, my 2 weeks at citi have come to an end.

While most people found it a breeze, I was struggling with it because of the pretty new jargon. Hedging and trading, anyone? Haha.

But I really liked my team at citi. We called ourselves team hungry for the ice breaking session on day 1 and we had this cheer:

D: hey guys, what do you feel like eating?

A: nasi Padang!

C: chicken rice!

C: (some Thai food I can't rmb)!

Me: Laksa!

D: but, what are we hungry for?

All: success! Goooooo, team hungry!

Lol... 

We we're sent on amazing race and spent around 8 bucks on transport... But didn't win TT I think the winning group had a driver so transport was great for them. But nevertheless still quite fun.

I realize I don't remember much technical banking knowledge but I can remember all the epic moments in my group. 

Let me just share the most epic moment. We have this guy C in my group who refuses to be a pushover in all circumstances. 

One day when we were trying to cross the zebra crossing together, a taxi driver tried to cut our path and squeeze past us. C totally flared up and and did the most epic thing ever- he put on a haughty look, said "no, girl, no!" in ghetto accent along with left-right head isolations and strutted across the road while the taxi driver looked on in shock!! Don't most people just let the taxi pass in this case!!! Hahahaha..

Lol, I kept doing the "no, girl" thing to him for the rest of the time left there.

Now I have that hungover feeling that I get when something great ends. We weren't the most bonded group but I hate to think that we'll won't get to meet like we did for the past 2 weeks and brainstorm for our project. During the programme I couldn't wait for it to end (fancy waking up at 6.30 everyday? Haha) but now I miss em. How ironic ><

First outing of my holidays

Had a dance session at step studios with jingqi from 1-6pm for only $5! Super worth it. Got to learn styles like street jazz, exo's growl, contemporary, hip hop, hyuna's ice cream and waacking! Needless to say, the studio was filled with many of exo's Xiao Mei Mei fans and so we felt very old..

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Zixin, jingqi and I just burned a hole in our pockets.

We went to goki day Korean BBQ for our gathering and the bill came up to $29.60 per person!!!!! Goodness TT 

Food was quite standard but free drinks only included plain water =.= Ssiggek and 2D1N soju bang at least had flavored drinks. TT

Zixin was trying to convince the woman to give us a discount since we are still students and she said we were "saengsong" which is fish instead of "haksaeng" which is student LOLOL joke of the day.

Group pict!

Abrupt end since I reach my mrt stop already hoho

End of year 1 at ntu!

Hohoho I'm back, back baCK,BACK!!

-crickets chirping-

So overjoyed that exams are over. But as usual, this newfound freedoms is so strange. Like after some TV/YouTube, you mean I don't have to go back to studying? Hohoho. I don't know if I'll ever get used to being on "on-mode" every 3 months and holiday mode for the next 3 months. 

Anyway I keep getting reminded of something my IT groupmates said that's so hilarious!! Long back story coming up!

The last seminar before exams our prof let us try some excel questions that will be tested. (I feel that testing excel on paper is quite weird, like excel is meant for doing on comp where all the formulas are readily available. The computer will correct most of the errors in the formula. But in the exam we have to memorise formulas and remember the number of brackets to put etc... Quite tricky!)

So basically excel is about using formulas to do stuff on the data, like finding average, locating specific data etc.

Anyway, our prof asked us to print our data ourselves and work on developing the formulas as a group.

Somehow, the best person in excel in my group printed 2 slides per page and the rest of us printed 1 slides per page. As usual, we kept asking the pro guy how to do the questions.

After some bugging, he exclaimed, "YOU ALL PRINT SO BIG STILL BLUR THEN I PRINT SO SMALL HOW I KNOW!"

Lollllll!! Funniest thing we ever heard!! 2 slides in a page isn't even that small hahaha. Ok I dunno if I managed to describe it properly but it's really funny hoho. I keep recalling it and laughing to myself.

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Check out the waffle treat I got from dad after exams 

Woohoo holidays I'm all ready for you!

JDC 2014!

JDC was such a blast! Totally blown away.

Hoho selfie first!

Initially I was quite tired-out because of our intense training sessions that left me physically and mentally drained (the feeling of so much undone homework sucks!!)

And repeatedly landing knee-first on the ground that left this huge blue-black ouchhh. -Unglamorous picture- XD

But yesterday was so much fun!! We were told to be really smiley because of our concept "Fun and laughter" but I didn't even have to try. The vibe from fellow lockers was so powerful and the audience was amazing! I was just smiling and screaming and at the top of my lungs without me knowing!

Took so many selfies in the waiting room because we had 5+ hours to spare :O this is not all haha, rest shall be spammed on Facebook :)

Hehe check out the rose Jocelyn and xq gave me. Nice having my best friends and parents watching my first dance performance :)

Funny convo with Jocelyn after performance.

Jocelyn: Your skin looks good!

Angela: Nah, I put 3kg of makeup so that doesn't count.

Jocelyn: you should wear 3kg of makeup to school everyday!

-lol-

And before the performance in the waiting room everyone was getting really bored so the pro dancers started to cypher!! Cypher means everybody stands in a circle and take turns to go in and dance for awhile. I was like "oh man, shall not go out and embarrass myself among the pros." But Timothy pushed me out!!!! Ahhhh!!!!! Noooo!!!!

That was where creative writing phrases I taught my tutee felt quite applicable to me at that moment.

-A tingling sensation ran down my spine, and I was immobilized with terror.

-My heart pounded at an amazing speed.

-Beads of perspiration formed under my forehead and glistened under the fluorescent light.

TT.

Haha you get the idea. But bobian, with Tim's amazing force, I was flung into the center of the circle and was forced to dance a few scoobots and do a few points before retreating. Actually after it ended I was kinda glad I got pushed out! It's so terrifying yet weirdly fun at the same time. Hahahaha! 

And after that Marti came up with the idea of doing scoobots in a "soul train" down the whole aisle! So almost the whole of soul funky lined up and did consecutive scoobots and scooby doos till we were breathless.

Dancers really have really really high energy level! People I meet in business school are so calm and adult-ish but these people here are crazy, in a good way. :)

Immediately after performance we met back at the waiting room and watched our performance that somebody recorded for us. And we cheered on and on for ourselves lol. Everyone was just over the moon!

To conclude I really enjoyed my first performance with JDC locking segment! Felt slightly regretful that I couldn't do the awesome waacking/popping/fusion segments but this experience in locking itself already overflows, really happy!

National cashflow competition

National cashflow competition took place on Saturday and Jocelyn, Jingqi and I signed up as facilitators! Last time I would have hated going out on Saturdays but it feels really good to get together with friends through events :)

Haha posing with the cashflow board set.

I realize everytime I go out with Jocelyn I take more picture of her than myself. More like she Photobombs every picture haha.

Oh wait, what are the mice doing!

We made this lame joke. "You raise me up, so I can stand on your nose~" (to look at cheese =.=)

Facilitating cashflow competition is really mad! The first 3 rounds were still okay because everyone was relatively chill. But I had to explain the instructions slowly to those who were playing for the first few times. Rare sighting of people competing without knowing anything about the game hah. In any case, the introvert in me was getting exhausted hahaha.

But final round was insane!!! I would just wait for my co-facilitator to shout the paychecks I needed to give out and fling the money at the participant 0.0 no choice, by the time I flung the money there would already be 3 more people shouting for paycheck. TT

At last, a guy that was in jingqi's group on facilitator' training day won the first prize! MacBook Air! TT when we saw that we wished that we were the ones competing instead haha. There's always next year!!! MacBook Air be mine!! Haha

Jamming!

Finally I'm done with Accounting and Financial Management mid-terms! Can finally take a small breather from mugging. Even after intense studying I still found the paper quite hard :( 

Jq booked her hall's cultural room to practice on the piano for her recital that would be happening tomorrow. She, as always, was non-surprisingly chill about performing 0.o

After awhile we were joined by Thomas the piano genius who could play songs by ear (!!!). Wow

In the end we jammed and sang all the songs of frozen :) "let the storm rage ONNNNNNNNNNNNN!" Hahaha. 

After that Thomas solo-ed a little and jq and I started to pop along with the beat LOL

And pretended we won a lot of trophies :P

I suddenly remembered how much I used to enjoy jamming with my guitar ensemble friends! Haven't done it since I graduated from GE around 2 years back :( we just needed Jialing the guitar pro to be on the guitar and the rest of us would sing at the top of our lungs. Just like that, hours would fly by without us knowing.

I love it!! It's so therapeutic and stress relieving!

Recently I was asking myself what are things I enjoy in life (that is like 80 percent filled with school work/procrastinating school work), and I didn't know. But now I think I know the answer ^_^

Challenging life

Random blogspirtion (blogging inspiration)- I think uni kids have challenging lives.

I, for one, have something to be stressed about every moment since I entered sem 2 in nbs. Does this only apply to me (since I have high neuroticism)? 

These are what I'm stressed about: presentations (I think I have a presentation almost once a week), piano playing for church, tuition materials for my tutee, my own incomplete work, projects (accompanied by so many project meetings that really take up a lot of time) and spending enough time with my family and friends :(

I haven't even passed zx and bong the beef noodles that I bought for them from Taiwan like 1.5 months ago...

On Friday when my comms presentation ended, I heaved a sigh of relief (and quickly chucked everything I memorized out the window) but then quickly remember that I was playing piano for church on Sunday and was barely ready yet. Felt worried the whole of Saturday through my cousin's beautiful wedding, and couldn't even go for dance event with BFF at night. 

And now since piano has ended, I heave another sigh of relief. Was totally trembling just now! Not sure if it was my nerves or the air con... Luckily I asked my mum and she said the mistake I made wasn't obvious. 明明 when I practiced the piece it was okay. Oh well, shall try and try again! And uncle BH said that I was "steady". Always shocking to hear compliments >< when can I believe in myself?

The relief proved to be temporal because yet again I am reminded that recess week is here and I have a thousand things to catch up on. 

Mid terms haven't started but I'm craving for the holiday already. Haha but for now, imma watch 2 episodes of wgm while eating the Mac breakfast I just bought ^_^

Peter's ultra belated birthday

Since xiuqi wasn't able to come (weekend trip to Bangkok?!) and jingqi brought Thomas, a new group has been formed- Couple and peeps. 

We decided to celebrate Peter's birthday with him even though it was exactly 2 weeks belated... Totally didn't have time to meet and his present was about to sprout mushrooms anytime soon XP 

The meeting time was 7.15 at scape to play kinect but when Jocelyn finished her project discussion at 6.30, she decided to eat pizza cause she was too hungry =.= 

And it turned out that jingqi and Thomas were also at NTU also, which made for a super late gang. Poor Pete reached at 7.30pm, thinking he was the latest. But despite being late we still went to get mini heart-shaped cake and write a birthday card for Peter. Thomas drew a monster cat on the card but I forgot to take a picture... Haha.

We finally reached scape at 8.15 and had pasta mania together. Halfway through the dinner, somehow we were talking about hearts and something ticked in Thomas' head which made him say to Peter "You should read the card". Peter was like "Huh, what card?" 

-Dramatic pause while everyone held their breath-

Jq, Jocelyn and me just stared at him for the longest 3 seconds, waiting for him to save the day, which brought about the weirdest save ever- "I meant your EZ link card."

Lol everyone doubled over laughing.

Immediately Peter caught on and the secret was literally out of the bag- we had to sing birthday song immediately. 

After dinz we went to play the dancing and sports game at playnation. And I subsequently realized that I suck at leg games like soccer but not bad at hand games like boxing and javelin haha. We kept shouting and cheering for each other until voice hoarse =.=

Played until 12.30am and took cab home! I told jq and Jocelyn that we were living on the wild side of life but they thought this was nothing much =.= ok....

Really fun night though! I haven't laughed so much in a while ^_^