Design On Strike.

DESIGN ORIENTATION CAMP
CAMP X
FANTABULOUS.

How can i describe something that cant be expressed in words? (excuse the drama, ever since joining TP i have a tendency to go quite nuts embarrassing myself in the process, but ohwell. )
It was Wonderful, Fantastic, Awesome, Exciting, Astounding, Great, Lovely, Amazing, Suspenseful, Meaningful, Loud, Tiring, Sweet, FUN.


A Picture speaks a thousand words.


i look like a drunk homeless person HAHAHAHAHHAHAAA.









First day is kind of a blur to me, i cant remember much. I was pretty nervous at first, being in a sub-empire not knowing anyone, but i couldnt have asked for better Anglon people really, theyre so great, we all just clicked! Plus our GLs are awesome too. I really dont remember anything besides icebreaking, which really helped with the bonding, but i went home pretty happy.

Second day i came back excited, something i dont feel very much towards stayover camps. We did the TP mass dance again, i really cant get enough of that, its Fantabb!! :D MARY MORE! yes i know its actually Mary Moon, but whatever it sounds like Mary More.(;

It was performance night! we were all like reaaally nervous after seeing the other empires, they had better songs seriously! None of us heard of Get Low and its explicit lyrics, but we worked with it. After getting on stage, everyones nerves seemed to just evaporate. :D We had the best time, performing like that gets you high faster than alcohol, so switch to performing y'all! (;

Turned out, it was Designer's night out! We were going to Sentosa, at like 9 at night. How cool is that. We amused ourselves while waiting for the other empires with Gericho's Zetten snappy strap thing, i shouldve brought mine! Its falling apart though, i need a new one heheheh. We would stare at it, and when it snapped, we'd shout, 'WHOO'! Yes in public with some tourists staring. I think we were a little nuts from exhaustion, but its hilarious how easily amused we all are.:D

We were supposed to do station games, but due to timing problems, we managed to only do one station, it was mostly lots of running, something im quite bad at. but of course, cheering turned moods around once in awhile. The line to bathe was endless, we were exhausted by the time we got to our bunk. It was about 4 am? Ah well thats camp for you i guess.

Now for the highlight, the one event which details i seem to uncannily remember no matter how long i delay this post.
DESIGN SCHOOL'S NIGHT WALK..
Tis not a laughing matter (heheh), I was scared out of my wits, i honestly dont think ive ever been so scared in my life, not even when my lovely siblings shoved a frog in my face. (You three still owe me for this i tell you) To tell the truth, the stories scared me the most, thanks to my very visual images my head likes to create. They gathered us all into the amphitheater, after nicely letting us know its the most haunted place in TP. Majority voted lights switched off, to create ambiance, you people are crazy.(: hahaha anyhoo i ended up sitting at the end, i went to get my phone from HunnyDebs but i think everyone thought i was changing places so they shifted and i had to stay at the side with my left empty. The stories were TERRIBLE. It haunts me even now, i imagine red _________ popping up everywhere. Grrr. Anyway the stories left me extremely terrified and very silent, but i kept telling myself to go through with it, being my only chance to experience this with Anglon, who were all really sweet asking if i was alright, thanks dears, y'all are the best. <3 (:

The designers did a really good job creeping up the school, pasting stuff on the light so they were dim, using cellophane paper to make the lift glow with red. We entered a lecture theatre first, i collected my glowing ring thingy to attach to my shoe, to let the 'ghosts/wandering souls' know if were really scared or have some sort of medical history. Anyhoo the night walk was actually based on a story, which we watched a video on, Mainly about some crazy design students who kill cause theyre kinda addicted to painting with blood. God bless them.

Hahahahahaha. they cut the vid short, giving us the 'mission' to find keys to 'rescue?' these poor souls. And so we left, up the ember lift, nerves coming out. Well mine was anyway. For some reason Gericho, who i was partnering, and I ended up at the back of the whole group, and immediately scenes from horror movies where something pops up/stabs/touches/grabs/scratches/whispers/whatever creepy cliche thing happens from behind. Sooooo, my 'strategy' for avoiding seeing anything i dont wanna see, i let my hair down and tilted my head towards the floor, so my hair kinda acted as a 'curtain' blocking any side views. :D :D Apparently I looked like a possessed ghost due to my hair, and some thought i was one of the wanderers. If i wasnt scared and knowing that, i would probably tried to play wanderer for kicks. Too bad i was, and its mean. :D

I didnt manage to catch anything in the first station, being at the back and all, but i heard that was the worst. Chairs, tables, dustbins were sprawled everywhere, trying to depict a ghost town kinda scene i think? thats inhabited by these tortured souls. Sooo we continued, and ended up somewhere where we had to do this 'task', sit in a marked circle in this empty dim room, with a soul in the middle of it, lying down. So we sat in a circle, joined hands, and chanted this chant written in 'blood' outside. We had to close our eyes while chanting, but i purposely opened mine a few seconds late just in case a face appeared in from of me, (another movie cliche). I was right, but thankfully it didnt happen to me, but i think poor Nisa got it, sorry dear! Love you.(: i opened my eyes when the screaming sounded further away. :D felt someone blowing over my shoulder while we were chanting though, i squeezed Debs's hand rather hard.

Another room was full of mannequins! Complete with detachable body parts all over the room, and TVs showing only fuzziness.
Oh and the souls of course. The main problem was though, it was completely dark, with only a bright white light flashing every 3 seconds, giving the souls plentyy of opportunity to (oh gosh a storm is brewing outside, way to get me freaked again while recapping this tsk) suddenly appear here and there. A hunchback masked soul did its appearing act next to me, and slowly made his/her way in front of me, we darted quickly behind him/her. we were supposed to find a key on a hand, and someone somehow managed to find it in all the confusion due to lack of lighting, and trying our hardest not to step on the soul's fingers. Small accidents did happen though i heard. :D

the next one was rather vague, we took a lift up to the sixth floor, walked through tiny corridors, ended up in a room facing a dark, stereotype long-haired soul (i dont really like the word ghost:D) who was slowly waving at us using only four fingers. There wasnt any Zetten (link :D) to that though, it was i think supposed to just confuse us. Last was through this ramp no one really notices, near the lift lobby. there was this huge picture, but when Christian reached out to grab it, (i think it was him, not really sure) a soul behind it screeched/shrieked and thrust the canvas toward us. I dont think anyone was expecting that, we all got a HUGE shock. 'Musk' was a clue to wear the key was, but honestly i didnt see the link (SHING). So Christian got the key, and starting experimenting saving souls trying to get the right one. We got them all wrong, and they screamed bloody murder. Finally we got it right, and IT WAS ALL OVERRRRR. We survived yay. ;)

Im glad i went through it really, it was good bonding somehow, and really interesting. Thanks to all who helped me get through it! i wouldve died without you guys, Anglon Loveeeee. (:

Everyone fell asleep literally once we got into our sleeping bags, everyone was just drainedddd.

FINAL CLASH.
The word final just makes it so depressing. We had a regatta, the designers did absolutely fantastic, you guys are fantabbbb. while the rest of us just died in the sun. Wanna get a feeling of how hot it was? Well.
THE TRACK MELTED.
yes you read it, MELTED.
It made a sorta hole thingy, and being the mature adults that we are, we started prodding it with our shoe. :D Bits of it stuck to our soles, and there was something addictive about the squishy-pokeyness.
Or maybe we were just a little mad from the heat.

Sweetie Amirah and I volunteered for the mass dance! Well i actually begged Jeanette to switch with me so shed do the spelling bee and I mass dance, so she let me, and WON!! Jeanette your spelling rockkkksssss, i wouldve lost really fast. :D Anyhoo Mirah partnered Christian, and I partnered Jing. Omg Christian's butt-shaking is freaking funnyyy!! Mirah and i were helplessly laughing everytime he shook, it was classic!! He should patent that shake mannn. Mass Dance is just awesome, i cant ever get sick of it. :D

All in all, DOC was amazing, thank you GLs, programmers, Angko, Anglon, everyone , who made DOC the best orientation ever. <3 I already miss you all truckloads, lets all meet for Nasi Padang, Chicken cutlet, and maybe Teh Peng? (;

Oh and our surprise at the end?
GENIUS.
i shant spoil it for future freshies. (;

DESIGN POW-WERRRRRRR. (this was stuck in Linette and I's head during DrawEss today. Not good.)
(:

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