last days.

hi everyone! it's been almost 3 weeks! we are more "dead-ed" than our jnr class! haha, but even then, it's also cos of our hectic schedule and heavy workloads... as a sidenote, good luck to everyone for blocks! take it as some sort of stepping stone towards the ultimate goal in nov? hmmm...

time flies so fast. it's already a term, and we have seen so many events unfolding - orientation, jts, cny, j1 lecture tests (don't they love the bio ones? >.<), jae... and there's probably more to come.

for me, i think this must be one of the more meaningful march holidays i have ever had. although it's usually just 9 days (inclusive of the weekend before the actual holiday week), most of us probably play it away or catch up on sleep. for me, i had a good time participating in interact camp and ibo training :P

interact camp was a very short event - 2 days with no staying over. most of the stuff we did were games, games and more games. and the people? kids, kids and more kids. at first, i thought i was pretty old, cos i was only one of a handful of j2 non-exco members helping in the camp. while most of the j2s were involved in food and games, i was helping with the kids and interacting (alot) with my group's j1 juniors.

it was a very humbling experience. you had to learn to "summon" your parenting instincts and be a 1. friend, 2. mentor and 3. parent to the kids and j1s, which was quite a mean feat in my opinion. and talking about being a surrogate parent, it was quite funny when this little boy wanted to sit on my lap during one of the games. cos he's so small and frail-looking, i didn't dare to chase him away and there he was, inflicting trauma on poor me... while the j1s looked on! grrh. so interact is not just mindless cip, it's also about having to adapt and adopt...erm...different personae?!

the 2 days passed by in a wink. then came the olympiad training. i guess most, if not all, of you know that 3 out of 5 people in the ibo team are from hc. the other 2 are from rj and ac. it's so weird, i seem to have less to talk to mr wee and mr tan. in fact, i spend my time talking to the rj and ac people and sit with them during lectures.

when people say, "familiarity breeds comfort", is that really true? i can't find anything to say to the other hc guys other than ssef/srp/bio o/basically anything related to science... being familiar hasn't really meant that i have gotten to know them better. is it a gep/s7d thing to keep to themselves? at least the ac and rj people talk about stuff like life, music, movies and philosophy (though neither takes ki)! in fact, we were talking about things like metaphors (my is topic), ethics and social testing... perhaps it's a lot more exciting to share opinions with people you don't have daily exposure to? are hc people prone to closing up on themselves? hmm...

stj still slated for 26th march? please please please get it confirmed soon...