New Driver In The House!

We have a new driver in the house!

Congratulations are in order for Miss Ang Xin Yi Kelly for passing her driving test!! Yay! After all the hardships and struggles, you are now finally able to pilot a Class 3A automobile without an instructor breathing down your neck!

We went to have Pastamania at HabourFront for dinner to celebrate. She bought me dinner. Two of us. Simple meal. Just the way I like it. I couldn't really talk during dinner cause my voice is out cold due to all the shouting for 'O' Week on Monday. But I enjoyed the company all the same. Felt good to just have dinner with you.

Congratulations again darling! =)

FOC Photos!

Waayyy overdue post here. Was a little busy in the run-up to BKK so didn't have the time to update. But no sweat! Here it is finally... The pictures from FOC 2008!!

The last 2 pictures are like the only ones the main com took together. Think we were too busy running all over the place to take pictures during the camp! And what better way to bring back memories of the camp than to screen a video of it! Thanks to the DE Club Publicity Cell for doing up the video in such a short time!

And last but definately not least, the entire FOC committee had an appreciation dinner last Tuesday to thank everyone for all their hard work and just to unwind.

It was my first time eating at Tao's and I thought the food was pretty good. The service there's excellent and I would definately recommend anyone to got there for a good meal.

Well that pretty much wraps up SDE FOC 2008! It has been a blast!!

FOC 2008!!

IT's FINALLY OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After nearly a whole year of planning, SDE FOC 2008 was a blast!! Of course, incidents cannot be prevented and we experienced a pretty serious incident during the camp but luckily with the hardwork of the entire committee and OGLs, we managed to pull through and end the camp on a super high note! SDE FOC 2008 was spread out over 4 days (5 for MC and OGLs) and we stayed at Eusoff Hall during this period. Here's the action!

Day 0 (Sunday 29/06/2008):
OGLs were supposed to report at 3pm but many turned up only during the evening. Day 0 was basically for everyone to prep-up for the camp. OGLs came up with all the group identities, cheers, games, etc. While the MC was busy prep-ing up for the games, getting logistics done, ensuring all last-min checks and preparations were complete.

Day 1 (Monday 30/06/2008):
The freshies were supposed to report at 8.30am. I thought that timing was pretty early and we expected them to be late. But they started streaming in at 8.15am! Can you believe it!?!? Registration took us all the way to 10am. Tony and myself wanted to do a combined camp opening speech but we realised that our timings just wouldn't allow that so BRE went on with our own programs first. We put our bags at LR426 and continued playing games and bonding sessions till lunch, when the AKID side joined us. After lunch, BRE went on the Amazing Race, which was basically asking the freshies to run all over the school to play various games. This was to let them know the school better. After dinner, we went on for Fate Night. During Fate Night. something happened in the AKID camp and Caderam, Ernest and myself had to go for an emergency meeting. I can't elaborate on what happened because the case is still on-going. Suffice to say, the incident cause us to work all the way till 5am in the morning.

Day 2 (Tuesday 01/07/2008):
I had to brief the OGLs on what happened the night before but I couldn't let them know the details because things were still pending. I reckon the OGLs already knew what happened though. Word must have spread around pretty fast. I had calls and SMS-es from my seniors asking if everything is okay and letting me know that they would take leave from their internship to come down if the need arises. From the bottom of my heart, I thank the seniors who showed me the support I needed. Thanks goes out to Ernest and Ryan who was there helping us the entire night. And not forgetting the MC and OGLs, who had to work through all the uncertainty. Thanks so much for everyone's support! Day 2 started out with a talk by Emit-Asia and then a mass dance session followed by lunch. After lunch, we played Funival (like a pun on carnival). Funival was a real surprise in that it got the freshies super super high. I couldn't believe the number of cheers and bombings between OGs. It was great! After that, we had another mass dance session, followed by dinner. Then the OGs went to do up their banners. Day 2 ended pretty early for the OGs but late for the MC cause we had to plan and plan and plan again...

Day 3 (Wednesday 02/07/2008):
Field Games day! Again, we had a mass dance session in the morning to teach everyone the AKID mass dance (BRE had their own mass dance), which was the combined camp's mass dance. After lunch, we proceeded to the field to do out Field Games. The weather looked like it wasn't going to hold out, but luckily it did. We had to deal with lighting warnings, campus security, etc. It's a real headache to conduct anything on the field when we can't spray water, use a canvas, use food items, etc. There's like so many freakin rules to follow. Ah well, guess I'm still in Singapore, that's why. We had to try and 'siam' campus security and hope that they don't do spot checks while we were conducting the games. Thank the Heavens that everything went smoothly. No rain, no campus security. After dinner, we had the AKID OGs join the BRE OGs for the start of the combined camp activities. The combined OGs were supposed to plan for the MTV presentation the next day.

Day 4 (Thursday 03/07/2008):
Day 4 is a freakin long day. We started pushing people out to Sentosa at 8am in the morning! At Sentosa, we carried on with our Beach Games. As usual, I had to deal with Beach Patrol walking all over the place and asking me the same questions over and over again. But it's okay cause we had adequate safety measures in check. We had marked out the evacuation point, water point and first aid points during our recce. Beach Games went smoothly and took us all the way to lunch. Because of time constraints, we decided to let the OGs have lunch and then wash up after that to prep for going back. It took them around 2+ hours to do that so luckily we had planned for the buffer times. We reached school at around 5 plus and got on with the MTV presentation. After that, we did a combined mass dance, combined prize presentation before Tony and myself closed the combined portion of the camp. BRE side carried on with our Fate dinner. We had a video presentation of the camp (thanks to the DE Club Publicity Cell for all your efforts!), a BRE mass dance and finally the BRE prize presentation. After that, I closed the camp officially with another speech (3rd one that day!). Many freshies stayed back to mingle around after that. We even had one OG go to Fong Seng for supper! The camp was a success!! I'm glad we managed to pull through the crisis and end on a super high note!

Special thanks goes out to the Main Committee: Caderam, Kailin, Weiting, Henry, Ben, Christina and Kelly. Not forgetting the fantastic Programs Committee: Zijian, Stephanie, Jasmine, Ezann, Kok Liang and Eugene Ang. All the OGLs who volunteered their time and efforts to help out with the camp. Izzac, Collen and Kelly for coming up with the BRE mass dance on such short notice. Ernest and Ryan who came down and stayed with us throughout the entire camp. And also, all our seniors who came down and showed their support. Head's up to Tony, Zi Tong, Zi Xu, Owen and the entire AKID MC, it was great working together with you guys! Without everyone's help, the camp wouldn't have lasted past the first day, much less be such a great success! Thanks to each and every single one of you!

I'll post up the pictures of the camp in the next post. This post is already too long. Well up next: RAG!!! Albert and Mervin, jiayou! We sure win again this year!