what if...

1)darren fletcher smashed in manu's 1st chance of the game inside 10 mins?
2)darren fletcher was booked and sent off for the numerous crunching tackles?
3)arshavin was deemed to be brought down in the area under fletcher's challenge?
4)foster had kept arshavin's goal out?
5)mikael silvestre had played?
6)foster had nt kept out van persie's 2nd half effort?
7)arshavin had side footed into the top corner after foster flapped at a cross?
8)mike dean had been conned by eboue and sent off evra for a "challenge" on him?
9)rooney's penalty claim was actually waved away?
10)diaby had cleared the danger instead heading in a spectacular own goal?
11)diaby was actually a manu spy?
12)van persie had scored frm a freekick instead of striking the crossbar?
13)berbatov had killed the game instead of showing us why he was on the bench?
14)nani had finished the game off in stoppage time?
15)gallas had not been deemed offside in the buildup to van persie's "goal"?

so many qns. none will ever be answered.

this is why we love this game

ibg started this wk. had my name down for male vball yesterday and was eventually pressured into playing scrabble as well lol. vball was pretty bad initially, lol with loads of unforced errors and rust and spiderwebs to clear away. lost the 1st match in straight sets 21-10 21-12. hahaha. the 2nd match we managed to win as we fielded a better team, and a more teamwork was involved. and i managed to serve better, and return better. =) eventually won 21-10, 21-19 i think, clinching 3rd place.

then it was back to hall for scrabble. played blk 54 1st. play format was 1 singles and 2 doubles with a best of 3 format i think. our singles lost (its amreet your talking abt here...) but we managed to win both our doubles games to move on to the final. =) i played the singles against the scrabble captain. omgomgomg. whilst the others played doubles. obviously i was pwned by her. her behaviour nt friendly one lor... keep telling to play faster and pressuring me... then somemore play so defensive.. but i got very lousy tiles to play with so difficult oso la.. SIANZ =S got thrashed 90+ to 30+. but still ok la 2nd =)

yupz... wk 3 went by in a flash omg.. in between lectures, tutorials and project meetings, i managed to squeeze in a cupnoodle party (LOL), xing n strum auditions, ibg (interblk games if u dunno), going for a lung bursting run, a OG dinner at hall 2canteen, planning for OG bbq next mon and crashing my OG's JCRC candidates' strategy meeting. =)

die liao la... how to study like tt LOL =)

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG auditions is tomorrow and my throat still a bit sore.

DIE LIAO LA. =S

quick summary of wk 2:
1) tutorials begin! adding to the confusion due to lack of revision. MUG MORE!!!
2) welcome wk! ice skating for the 1st time brought abt 10 falls mainly due to overambission & pure "good" luck. cultural night quickly turned into volleyball night and sports open house saw me put my name down for volleyball, rugby (WTF maybe not) and softball. i think i have decent ball sense but probably no batting sense. oh well see how things go.
3) erm thats in a nutshell i guess

targets for coming year in uni:
1) dean's list (LOLOLOL whoops try lah)
2) try to stay in hall for another year, which is achieved by:

(a)Aiming for recommended list
(b)Join sports (would have loved to try out tennis but since dun have... volleyball or softball (NO RUGBY PLS) will do)
(c)Join a subcomm
(d)Join a committee for an adhoc event (FOC, DnD, etc etc)
(e)Try for Xing n Strum (auditions next wk!!! nv tried for such thing b4... and i definitely cant hit the high notes... dunno see how things go =S)

3) Train hard! (IPPT window open liaoz... SIAN) For health, for weight loss, for many other reasons as well =)
4) Thats all i hope. looks quite a list seriously. whether they happen... hope for the best. =)

lectures lectures lectures. slack slack slack. talk cock sing song play mahjong.

ok no mahjong but tts basically wad wk 1 was. go for lecture, go for lunch/dinner with OG/frens, slack in hall, sing song/listen to music in yong quan's room, talk cock anytime, anywhere. oh and some campus exploration as well. i have bought all my sem1 texts liao, costing a grandtotal of $220+ =S thankfully parent sponsored haha.

its great when ur hall og has so many nbs ppl. 1st yr nbs ppl tend to take the same modules so we practically go for lectures as a group. the same cannot be said for tutorials but better than nothing =)

ive done my 1st stats tutorial due on monday. shall proceed to marketing later today. hope its not ownage =)

PS i jus published my post on hall foc today after 7 days lol. extremely long post so read it if ur interested

came back frm hall xi foc 09 yesterday much to my relief seriously. 4 days of almost total mayhem, fun, laughter, hardly any peace and loads of joy. indepth description coming right up.

day1
awol with headache. but judging frm a fren's description, pretty boring. but i think the closeness to my OG suffered more ways than i thought. tts how i felt throughout the rest of the camp =S

day2
11am vivo to meet up with the lorry bringing us latecomers over. met my og at sentosa. was immediately thrown into the fray for a telematch on the sands of palawan beach. stations include chionging into the water so... gone case within 1 hr of joining camp LOL. then plenty of photo formations on the sand and in the water. gone case x 2. lunch then more games. which include sand sculpturing over somebody's body, table frisbee (imagine foosball with a frisbee) and a extremely comical sumo wrestling session. was asked to be the 2nd sumo wrestler (WTH) but quickly bowed out as somebody whacked me frm behind. then it was back to goldkist beach resort for the dinner and SP activities. being new on 2nd day probably meant i was to get a senior in my opinion, which was unveiled to be true the next day. unfortunately i did most of the talking as she kept asking qns abt myself, and being kinda carried away with the amt of info i had to share, didnt really ask her much abt her interests and all =S ah well. then it was back to playing random stuff like traffic light, mafia, "shoot shag or marry" with my OG blah blah blah till 2.30am. tried to draw a portrait of my SP (homework ya noe) till 3am but gave up in the end.

day3
in the morning was beach games with no sand involved actually. stations include captain's ball (with pairs tied up at the ankles and a rugby ball being used instead), bomberman, water bomb games, dog and bone. etc etc. rather relaxed actually. afternoon was the freaking embarassing part. where u have to "win your sp over". they ask you to do all kinds of extremely embarassingly stuff. the girls would be sitting down in 1 pavilion while the seniors will be there to tekan us guys. the only decent thing i could say is tt i had to perform a song, which i chose to be jay chou's 七里香. did a rather crappy rendition of it in my opinion, which was made worse by constant interruptions by the seniors. ahhh well. but the rest of wad i had to do probably shall stay in my brain and narrated only to those tt really wanna noe. after close to 2 hrs of tekan, i finally passed b4 finding out who my sp was. as expected, it was a senior, as there was a lack of girls in the camp. haha well it was a bit of a blessing actually, cos i could fast track most SP games stations with minimum fuss. hahahaha =)

after sp games was time to wash up to get rdy for sp nite. smart casual dress code, gift required. a bus brought us to some pasir ris community centre. apparently they booked the community hall or something for this event lol. budget but decent i guess. the food was nt bad and the ambience still ok. the performances were pretty gd too, the jam band and sing and strum. my sp even asked me to tryout for sing and strum, which is like wthwthwthwthwthwth haha. i find it a bit weird when ppl say my singing is gd, when i personally feel i cmi at high key. at low key still ok la i guess. anyway if they need bass voice maybe i can suffice. haha. =)

day4
the amazing race (officially known as city hunt). packed up everything and assembled in the car park for a simple game to determine the order by which each OG set off. each OG was given 12 balloons to blow up. after which, shaving cream is applied on the balloon for ppl to shave it clean. the team with the most clean balloons wins. haha we tied with zephyr after the whole thing so the OGL had to play "hai-dai" to determine who went 1st. amreet won so we decided to set off 1st. 1st station was at marine parade cc. jus a simple win lose or draw. 2nd station was at parkway parade. supposed to find certain phrases tt are displayed on the shopfronts and take photos of them to complete the task. 3rd station was at the fountain of wealth at suntec. we reached there to find nobody there. LOL. after abt 10-20 mins the programmers appeared. after much deliberation, we were given a free fast forward. which proved instrumental in our win in the end i think. anyway we had to space out around the fountain and a msg will be passed from person to person via actions. after that we went for lunch at suntec.

after lunch we set off for one fullerton. we chionged thru citylink mall, along the way getting a NUM ambassador to pose in his trunks (OMGOMGOMG), to the esplanade, then to one fullerton in scorching heat. there the task was to apply cosmetics to a GL (amreet in this case LOL) and get 30 ppl to sign on a board to say tt they think he's hot. lol wth. got tt over and done with. next stop was the underground empty area between citylink mall and esplanade that modern/brake dancers use for their personal practice. it turned out to be a cheerleading station. the aim was to get everyone rdy into a specific cheerleading pose they want and take a picture. the pose i was given was the easiest (according to experts). supposed to hoist a girl to sitting position on my shoulders. it wasnt too difficult, the bulk of the difficulty was posed to the girl and the person supporting her frm behind. managed it with si en pretty quickly. but the trouble was tt i had to hold it there for quite a long time as my position was the 1st to be established lol. thankfully nt too long. =) oh and im nt suggesting anything with regards to si en's weight =S

next stop was to vivo's nat geo shop. 5 separate ppl had to wear coats and go into a "freezer" which is at -15 degrees centigrade. and the rest of the group was supposed to pose outside and take photos with the "freezing" people lol. pretty simple station. then it was off to macritchie reservoir. took the NEL to serangoon then changed to Circle line to marymount. walked over to macritchie reservoir, took some photos of school going guys with abs (LOL) along the way to macritchie. the station there was pretty straight forward tho difficult to accomplish. lob water bombs into a bucket with 1 guy holding a board to try and hit off target water bombs back into the bucket. in the end, we cheated by catching water bombs with the board and then dropping it into the bucket lol. got past tt station and we were off to yishun town garden. nt b4 meeting zephyr our sister OG at the bus stop. im sorry but we deliberately tried to slow down their pace by doing a sister cheer with them LOL =) =) =P took 852 to yishun town garden, passing within 200m from my hse along the way. we took a fast forward, completed the simple task (do 200 pushups in total for the whole OG, and mimick a gatsby ad) and it was off to bukit panjang LRT. it was a 100 sec race apparently, whereby you're supposed to sit on each other's lap for 10s, move 1 round with 10 ppl, catch 10 tennis balls in a plastic bag, then caterpillar race to the finish. took us 4 tries to get it right, altho the final time seemed to be almost gone. then it was off to boon lay for the penultimate station which turned out to be nothing a time check in. went off to spray our hair pink for a photoshoot (another bonus item) turns out the random spray yielded the best results, altho ivy got polkadots (LOL), leo a lopsided mohawk and some others with hilarious sprays. grabbed a honey milk tea (my usual bubble tea lol) while waiting for dinner (a zinger paid for by the seniors) dinner didnt come in time in the end, so we proceeded to race for the pitstop at 7.20 pm, with the closest competitor khronos only 10 mins behind. near disaster struck when bus 199 left while we were stuck at the traffic light. we decided to take 179 instead 5 mins later which required us to run quite a distance to hall. thankfully khronos were trapped at the traffic light as well so they missed their bus as well lol. reached hall 11 after a brisk jog to the pit stop, we were asked to find a clue to the final gathering pt, which si en managed to find rather quickly. So it was Ares #1!!! =) (=

BUT Day 4 was not over yet! there was still fright nite to come wth. had dinner (the zinger) on the steps leading up to the lee chin tuan LT b4 going into the LT to try and piece together all the clues given for fright nite. amreet convinced us 13% of the score for amazing race was actually how you answered the question with regards to the clues. (which eventually turned out to be bullshit o.O) after that we waited for fright nite to start and for the pairs to be slowly sent on their way to frightdom. and wad better way to wait than to wait a Shrek MARATHON (thats utter crap) it was like shrek 1........ then shrek 2.............. then shrek 3 (OMGOMGOMGOMG) i (and many others) was so totally sian of shrek after that la... but even so it was only abt 1-2am at tt pt in time.. so we went out of the lt to play some extremely lame games la. heart attack, the "bang bang" game, the "chuckey chuckey" game (sounds retarded i noe LOL), etc etc. forfeits include kiss mr tan chee tuan (or sth cant rmb), get "jay chou"'s number, sms "jay chou" etc etc. played until abt 4am b4 being moved to the fright nite start pt. the very very last batch la.... SIANZ. played oh-bei-som & ji-ko-ba (ok crap the names of the games we play are so retarded to write abt) while blindfolded to determine who went with who (3 guys and 1 girl u noe) ended up with jeanette yupz.

fright nite was ok i guess hahaha. nt tt scary but can be a bit jumpy at times haha. could foresee certain events occurring. but sometimes u let ur guard down and they can get you. =) jeanette was quite power la haha everytime open a door or wad was like practising kungfu to whack the 1st person tt tries to scare us lol. but luckily nv do that. or else arh.... LOL =) but arh after the whole thing arh.. it jus seemed a total random thing, doesnt seem like got much link between all the events that happened lol. yupz after that it was back by lorry to hall 11 for the nite (or wads left of it) KO-ed at 6am and woke up at 730am to get rdy for NBS welcome ceremony/day.

day5
took shuttle bus c to nanyang audi for the welcome ceremony. pretty normal ceremony i guess. the only interesting stuff was probably the speech by lee wung yew (national trap shooter, currently innova jc teacher), wearing the gown (minus the mortar board and the "stripes?" jus the blue gown) for the creed/oath or wadeva, and maybe the "light up ceremony" whereby the audi goes dark and row by row torchlights are turned on to turn the place into ndp-ish. buffet lunch it was while meeting up with mong to go over to LKC LT for welcome day.

my tutorial grp i must say is kinda disappointing. for now la. during icebreakers of welcome day i was damn sian diao. all so quiet, unforthcoming and frm varied backgrounds. forgettable welcome day/ceremony in a way but the freebies were awesome. LOL =) so back to hall 11 with OG nbs ppl to rejoin the fun for the final nite. crash course on cheer fight proceedings and cheers b4 moving on to the actual thing. there were 2 parts to the cheer fight, 1 based on loudness and consistency, the 2nd based on creativity primarily, tho loudness and consistency is part of the criteria as well. 3 mins worth of pure shrieking loudness caused my throat to be blown apart, let alone the 2nd part for creativity, whereby i could hardly utter anything beyond deep voiced raspings. oh and we totally screwed up the creativity segment of the cheer fight, the cheerleading stunt didnt come on time, the last desperate attempt to lengthen the cheer flopped miserably, amongst other things. but somehow, we won the cheer fight LOL. maybe we provided much comic relief, and seriously, if you took away all the cockups, our cheer was the most funny and creative. =)

the final segment of the day was war games, or so they said. our seniors passed us detailed plans to win the war games, a complete floor plan of the battle area, a list of "Seniors of Fortune" whereby seniors with special abilities could be bought to gain certain strategic advantages, and a chart with blank spaces for us to appoint our general, and divide up everyone into alpha, bravo & charlie sections. but b4 we could go to war, we had to go to a gambling den to "multiply our money" for use in war. the gambling den was realistic enuf, with all kinds of agressive behaviour from all the tenants, with the loansharks smoking (seriously in a freaking enclosed room, smoking. its a wonder the smoke alarms didnt go off) pretty fun to watch (cos my job was to look out for ppl throwing money around and not betting at all) but everything went wrong with the "police" came to bust the gambling den, forcing us all to squat down and told us to blindfold ourselves. and thus hall initiation started.

hall initiation was in short, dark (due to the blindfold), slow (long wait times) and crappy. they started by sticking masking tape all over us, telling us those are actually buttons which when pressed, supposed to trigger a shout from us, whereby the msg is told to us when the tape is stuck on us. msgs range from comical ("No.... Giap Giap (A senior) is mine...") to obscene ("Giap your L*N la!" (my right shoulder button)) to nonsensical ("Siap Giap Giap" (my left shoulder button)) to plain wacky ("Slap my ass") thankfully i only had 3 buttons, the 2 above and one on my back ("Somebody's gonna hurt REEAAALLL bad") maybe due to be having lost my voice alr even b4 the whole thing started. but i heard some ppl had like 6-10 buttons all over.. pity them sia. after a while of nonsensical shouting, we were slowly led to various stations to complete certain tasks. some memorable ones include leopard crawling thru a sludge of conditioner, sauces and wadeva not, feeling for an object in the toilet bowl and telling them wad it is (a banana of course, NOT SHIT), jumping "4 storeys" to only realise it was actually the height of a staircase step, playing tug of war with the seniors (when it actually was a pillar), falling from 1 storey height into a bed of mattresses, rolling down into nanyang lake (when it was actually jus down a hill) while wrapped in a mattress, and trying to form sentences with our seniors ka-jiaoing us. in between stations, the seniors would talk to us, ka-jiao us, push more buttons, make us do silly things etc etc. all the time under blindfold. a bit sian as the night came closer and closer to day. when we finally were told to take off our blindfold and go down a flt of stairs, to raptuous applause, i knew it was all over. war games was a myth, which ares seniors pushed all the way to the limits of imagination. we were glad too, as it was alr 5am and war games would have taken us to like 9am? lol. so after a brief video screening and awards presentation (ARES BEST OG =) =) =) siyun BEST Female GL =) =) =)) we took our goodie bags and camp tees and went off to well earned rest.

unofficial day 6
woke up at 830 thx to the hall office calling me to come and collect my cardkey which i misplaced the previous day =( avin's mom was around with her fengshui master? to do some ritual. wasnt around to see it as i went to the hall office then. after that it was another short rest b4 waking up to go for lunch with my OG at the hall canteen. the kungpao chicken rice was kinda like salty black sauce chicken rice so... a bit funny la hahaha. =) after which we left for JP for ice cream which turned out to be bubbletea haha. after wandering around for a while, we dispersed for home. took taxi with jerome, amreet and yawen.

having gone for hall foc, it has galvanised me to maybe try to fight for my place in hall 11 next yr. probably will join some hall activities/sports and maybe run for jcrc? lolol. dunno la. current options include cheerleading (LOL?), sing and strum (at my sp's suggestion lol), some sports (tennis maybe?) haha yup. maybe try for NAAT (NBS Assurance & Audit Team, student auditors basically) and see how things go. =)

ARES FOREVER #1