A few days after the camp, we went to airport to send Sayumi off!
It's rare to have a Facebook status liked by 17 people, haha. Hope to see her again.
Right from the airport, we went to have a post-FOC karaoke. The most crowded karaoke I have attended, not sure how many people in total, lazy to count haha. The machine could have at most 20 songs in queue, and at a point of time onwards, the songs we queued were constantly at 20. So if you want to sing a song, select that song, and wait 2 hours later to sing it LOL.
About 2 weeks after that, I had another karaoke, but mini one, less people, so a lot of more fun. After all these karaokes... there have been a few compulsory karaoke songs that will always appear in any session. Here's one of them, Love in the Ice by Tohoshinki. Love this song, and this live, extremely good:
There has been mass JSS outings these few weeks until last week when school started for NUS students.
Other than the karaoke sessions, I played badminton twice at Siglap CC.
And 3 mahjong sessions. Twice at Yonghui's house, and once at Sandra's house. The latest one in Yonghui's house was the funniest. There was a punishment such that the losers had to feed fruits to the winner LOL.
But it seemed that the punishment was for the winner, because the losers all fed at the same time such that the winner had no time to chew XD
There was a day for bowling, followed by movie marathon of Sorceror's Apprentice and Inception, both were pretty good in my opinion. Weihao had some kind of Cathay discount such that for Inception, each of us only paid $2!
After the movie, we had Rochor beancurd and soya bean. Finally I know what Felicia meant by HTHT (Heart Talk Heart Talk), as introduced by her that night. Or maybe it's just one of many types.
And the latest gathering with JSS friends was the Singapore's National Day last week, steamboat at Felicia's house. And we played the entertaining card game called Bang! Seen some of them play quite a few times, and now it's my turn to play it. Each of us has a different roles, sheriff, or outlaw, or renegate, and the cards have many abilities that you can execute, and similar to the card game Bridge, identity is kept secret from your partner (if any), or enemy. Quite fun.
Other than JSS, also met with other friends. Soonching came to Singapore last weekend, so met with her and other YLs. We went to Natchi's house for a guitar session, playing/singing/listening YUI/SCANDAL/K-ON songs. Her house has about 4 guitars!
Met with Keith and Oswald before Keith was going to Sweden for an exchange. Finally got to try the Marutama Ramen, and it lived up to my expectation, damn good!
Met with Navy and clique for bowling. Had a dinner at Astons which was a really good place to eat, considering the price and quality of food.
And we played the new Bishi Bashi! This version was much better than the previous one because it allows cooperative play! Our performances add up together to see whether we pass the stage. Very fun, though it requires 3 coins per credit >.<
I am going to start work on Tuesday. Actually I was planning to go back to Batam before that, but as my passport is going to expire within 6 months, and I haven't collected my employment pass, to avoid any complication, decided not to go back. But as if to satisfy my Indonesian food craving, Mum was here for the weekend and as a family we went to Tambuah Mas for Indonesian food which was super delicious! Curry, avocado juice, gado gado, rendang, etc, yay!
Exercise for the freshies early in the morning lol. Crawling in sleeping bag, then running while holding ping pong ball using spoon.
Reaching the destination on the 2nd floor, it's the Borrowing Game. Depending on it says on the paper, borrow "someone pretty/handsome in the camp", borrow 2 pillows, etc.
Next was the main event of the day, the Amazing Race! But before that we had 'Qian Bian Wen Da' to decide which group started first. Love some of the lame questions and answers lol. The description on Yonghui's photo album recapped some of those questions: The days were like a football field after the match, but the times were as precious as the colour of the power rangers. In the beginning, we may be like half cooked beefs & quarter cooked beefs, but as time goes by, as long as we have Nitrogen-siasm, we can light the eternal flame of friendship & love. \^^/
Great description, but I shall not explain haha.
The Amazing Race. Going around certain places in Singapore and take a photo.
And must complete some tasks assigned by the station master.
I had a choice between joining Udon for their adventure, or be a station master.
In the end, I joined the Tampines station. The nearest from the chalet and the last station, so pretty much time to slack while waiting for the teams to arrive at Tampines. We got quite many side quests. The first one was to identify the displayed food items of a Japanese restaurant from pictures.
The 2nd one was to sum up the total prices of clothes worn by this mannequin in Uniqlo lol. The troublesome part was that the Conserve shoes were not sold in Uniqlo and they had to walk to another mall where the Conserve shop was at to check out the price haha.
And asked the groups to form the word "JSS"!
And in the last minute, we added 2 more arcade challenges, basketball (play against Jocelyn or me) and the table ice hockey (play against Rindy).
I only played against Udon. Seemed to be the best that I have ever played, went into the fourth round.
Rindy, undefeated against the 3 teams.
Had the $1.50 chicken rice for dinner, then went back to the chalet!
Yonghui and Sayumi!
Slacking. View photos from Kenneth's laptop. Karaoke-ing. Letting the freshies rest a while before the next game.
Next game was the self-created board game. Lol nicely done! Lots of side quests, punishment, and also the infamous survey box. When stepped on the survey box, the team will roll the special dice, but somehow it always end up with "Koi no Hanashi" side lol (love talk) and Felicia always asked her favourite question, "If you could choose someone of the opposite gender from this camp to go out with, who would you choose?!" Haha, but it seemed that nobody really took it seriously, just anyhow answering.
One of the punishment, the wasabi mayonnaise. It seemed that it actually tasted good lol.
One of the side games, lao ying cua xiao ci, eagle catches chicks, haha. Others include the kanji game. And oh, the funniest special quest was to "convince Daniel to dance." XD
The most extreme punishment. Hahah. But it's nothing to these guys cos they were really thick-skinned and seemed to really enjoy it lol.
Time's up. And it's time to rest!
Some of the seniors stayed back, and randomly watching music videos and 3 episodes of comedy animes that I had not watched before, Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu, and Gintama. Oh, I loved that episode of Gintama!! It was about the release day of Bentendo OwEe, a parody of Nintendo Wii LOL. Super funny.
There were still day 3 and day 4 for the camp but I skipped them because I wanted to rest and prepare for the IBM interview. Missed the bento making, barbeque, "light" photographing, and skits!
Last month, 13th of July, it was the JSS Freshmen Orientation Camp 2010. I participated, even though already graduated haha. The camp was titled 'Itadakimasu'; one would think it's very related to food, but not really haha. But still, the Year 1s were divided into 3 groups named after the types of Japanese noodle - Soba, Udon, and Ramen. I joined some of the games as Udon. Some chit chatting within the group, then after some time everyone gathered and did self-introduction. It was going to be the standard introduction, plus 'What do you like about Japanese culture?', but this time Felicia insisted the inclusion of Traffic Light colour, Green, Amber, or Red. It's relationship status, haha. Green means still available, and the rest you can guess. Oh got one more, Purple. Means gay, haha.
After ice-breaking, it's the library tour.
Then it was break time. Snacking time. Definitely a rare occasion to be eating in the library.
One rare Japanese guest to join the camp, Sayumi! She is another Kyudai student from Fukuoka, but when I was in Fukuoka, she was having a student exchange in China, so didn't get to know her back then. She can speak some Chinese! She was in Singapore for holiday, and I was a little surprised that she joined the entire camp as a freshie.
Next, some introduction by JSS sub-clubs. First, the Buyo club, Japanese traditional dance. Teaching the dance steps to the freshies.
Followed by some dance performances.
The Sadou club also introduced the Japanese tea ceremony. Probably my 4th time.
Next, we were back to the Lecture Theatre for Pop Quiz and my favourite Music Station. The Pop Quiz includes Japan-related questions from 5 categories - food, places in Japan, anime, JE boys, and major of JSS members. The Music Station, the song-guessing game, this time had quite a number of songs that I don't know but was still very enjoyable. For seniors, there was a rule that we were not allowed to answer in the first 10 seconds of the song, which was pretty irritating! haha. Our group, Udon, totally rocks in this game haha. Hui Li really knows a lot of Japanese songs, and she was also an expert in 'JE boys' category for the previous game.
We left the school, had dinner at Tampines, then finally headed to the chalet.
Another music-related game, Humming Bird. Must sing the new few lines after the song was stopped. There was a representative from each group acting as the bell to answer. As seen from the picture, Leslie was eager to press himself and answer lol. I only answered one song, which was Ikimonogakari's Nostalgia.
A short walk outside, and some question-answer game for the freshies to get to know each other better concluded the main activities for the day.
Signed the NCS 1-year contract on Tuesday. Looking forward to the job, wonder how it is like exactly. Hopefully no problem with applying my Employment Pass. Felt a bit bad rejecting interviews from Panasonic and CSC after that haha. Didn't wait for IBM also, the HR said can't confirm yet whether I'm accepted or rejected. I hope I made the right choice!
Had a semi-TPJC outing at Mind Cafe weeks ago, including rare guests Yeungfan and Liting, as well as Cai's and Oswald's GFs.
Forgot what's the name of the board game that we played, but it was pretty fun. Guessing words from gestures, drawings, or animating a doll, a good range of variation. The 2nd game that we played was called Jurassic Jumble, a very simple game that tests observation and reaction. Very fun, especially when played with a lot of people. And what made it more interesting was the forfeit that was suggested by Caili, which was really funny. Doing postures accumulatively, ahh hard to describe haha, nvm.
A group photo without Songwei. Talking about him, it was qute amusing when he desribed the food in Australia as very expensive, and he actually signed up for a casino card in order to have a cheap dinner in the casino everyday lol.
Watched Asian WCG Championship with Edi weeks ago. Every year held in Singapore, that's great haha. The players' creativity and teamwork usually promise some exciting matches, and this year was no exception. We only made it for the grand final between Vietnam (Witch Doctor, Juggernaut, Warlock, Slardar, Shadow Priest) and Malaysia (Obsidian Destroyer, Kunkka, Maiden, Visage, Vengeful Spirit). Odd selection, new variation from both teams. Both teams were pretty impressive, and Juggernaut played exceptionally well. This time Vietnam kinda went for mass healing team tactic as 4 out of their 5 heroes have some sort of healing skill, and once again they were crowned the DotA champions for 2nd consecutive year! Poor Malaysia, made it into the grand final 3 times but lost all 3 times haha, though each year they were represented by different team. China surprisingly didn't even go through the group stage this year as they were beaten by Vietnam and Indonesia.
7th July was my commencement day. Officially graduated!! 2nd Class Lower.. not really that great but well.. it can't really change since a long time ago. My first semester was 3.42 (my lowest), and my last semester was 3.64 (my highest, accumulatively), pretty consistent, never move much hahah. Quite many interesting results seen on that day. My course (Computer Engineering) has only 3 First Class Honours! So few haha. And Electronic Commerce, another computing major, actually doesn't have any First Class Honours for this year lol. Other than that, quite surprised to some people who seemed really good, ended up with same class as me or lower, while on the other hand, there are also some people who didn't look that good managed to get Second Upper.
My family~ Too bad Edi wasn't there though. Didn't seem important to him + lazy + I dunno why. Oh well, perhaps should have forced him to go ahah. These kind of pictures with my family are really rare, this commencement and bro's wedding were probably the only events that we took photos haha.
My Computer Engin buddy, Chaiheng. Went though many projects and modules with him during my 3rd and 4th year.
My Computing friends, Kendrew, Soonwen, Qingkai, and Kenneth, who I often hang out with during 1st and 2nd year when our modules were still the same. During the later years, seldom met them anymore as they took different majors, namely Information Systems and Electronic Commerce.
Really appreciate X-Is (Ika and Navy) and JC buddies (Caili and Oswald) for coming down! Thanks~
Went to visit Grace's commencement with Adeline. Oswald wanted to go as well, but in the end somehow never go haha.
Took pictures with some other Computing friends as well, like Kaho, Taskeen, Eugene, and Mingrui. Missed out Computing friends who were there, but didn't see them, like Zhechao, Elvina, Kenneth, Murni, and Yuming. Other Computing friends who have not graduated like Wayne and Cliff, and also friends who took Japanese classes with me, JSS friends, Skating friends, they all made a difference in my NUS life too.
