Tuesday, June 19, 2007
haha! seems like i'm hooked on blogging~ 18th june! we had a major stayover again! this time we have lionel, reuben, kenneth, xiao huang, bryant, nicholas, serene, applie and me! we also had zac, pearl, natalie, meizhen, yuen kim, and 2 new freshies yuan ting and yun ling with us, but they did not stay with us for the night~next time muz stay k! (^_^) i was there late, so thanx pearl for the supply of information on what happened b4 i reach~
ok so apparently, i heard nat and lionel had a bet to see who can make the most perfect metal circle with the can strips, and the loser have to smell reuben's armpit! omg...and while they were doing it, nat suddenly said the one who do fastest will smell the armpit, and she proudly held up her finished circle~ blur blur...but lucky she did not have to smell the armpit after all lah~
when i reached, the scandaling began! we started pairing ppl up lah~ well, i dun think i should type the scandals here, so if u wanna know, come down and join us! so we gossiped ard while doing soft tech, and the 'heads' had a soft tech mini meeting at a corner with wenhui, who came a while after~
here i have to apologise again, coz i left sch in the evening, so whoever rmbers what happened, pls post another post to update us k!
anyway, i was back at sch at 1+am and saw bryan and nic hard at work at the hard tech site. and as usual, i scared our dear nic even when i made noise when approaching him to notify him of my existence. back at rag room, we decided to go for supper at our fav hangout fong seng! we first went down to the hard tech site to look for bryan and nic. so while we were waiting for the 2 of them to clear up and join us to go for supper, the usual guys started their daily suaning again lah! topic of the day was height, and our poor serene and applie became the victims of lionel, reuben and kenneth, who raised their hands and started 'dancing' ard them~ michelle joined us for supper too, and she too became a victim after her phone call~
the highlight of the nite was when we finished supper! ok let me tell u all the story~
as we all know, mr nic is always bullied by us coz we know his weakness. so we , as playful as ever, decided to play a trick on him again. after the meal, he went to buy drinks from 7-11 while we went to pay for supper. after paying, we saw that he was not out yet, so we all RAN to the little path leading into eusoff, where we all hid leaning against the wall, waiting for him. so mr lionel was the 1st, he saw nic walking at a very fast speed towards us. when he passed by us, lionel jump out to scare him, and guess what, he threw his plastic bag onto the floor and jumped to the side! we were all so tired from laughing lah! anyway, there was a video, so pls kenneth, upload soon! (^_^)
after that, scaring continued. and horrible me gave serene and applie a scare too when i sneak up from behind them and grabbed their hand when they were walking side by side. and as usual, the guys always manage to scare ppl at the usual hideouts. after we got back, we started telling ghost stories while continuing with the can strips. we slept at abt 5am in the end~
next morning, 19th june. we were all awoken at 9am. so tired lah! being the lazy me, i really juz wanna stay lying down. but lionel they all started the WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP chanting till we buay tahan lah! and i was almost the next jingyi lah! lucky i didn't put myself in the sleeping bag, saving myself from their evil clutches! we later went for breakfast, and in the afternoon everyone left to do their various stuff~ in the afternoon, xinyu's other bro ming lie aka xiao lie joined us in the rag room, kit geok and jackson also came to help out in soft tech while nic and bryan continue with hard tech~
ok lah, think i really cannot rmber what else we did~ anyone who rmber pls pls pls blog it! sorry if i missed out any impt pts, and apologies if i missed out anyone! my memory is really not dat good lah~ yup! so...looking forward to the next post! hopefully by someone else who can do a better job~ sounds very fun rite? come down and join us at AS3/02-13! (^_^)
Love,
Xiao Yan
*raggerfied* (^_^)
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
hey hey hey, i'm here to talk about
karang guni ytd!!! hahaha, i must say that this time all of us had more fun than the last time because a lot more people was able to make it down for the collection!!! what's more about it was that there was a very good mix of ppl who made it! there were
freshies (
bernice & natalie),
rag&flag ocomm members (
kit geok, pearl, xiao yan, serene, kenneth, bryan, applie, jackson, zac & samantha),
mc members (
reuben, jeremy & caleb) &
seniors (
jing yi, wen hui, jianwu, alvin & yuimin)!!! first & foremost, wld lk to say a very big word of thanks to every single person who came down to help out despite all of us having busy and tight schedules!!! ^-^ it was deeply & greatly & very much appreciated!!! (: also, it is very homely to see everyone of us come together to do something together after such a long time, the feeling is nice beyond words can describe. i think only those who came down to help would understand what i mean.
anyway back to the
karang guni, i've to say we started off on a bad note because it rained!!! oh my, and somemore it was not those drizzle type ok, it is quite heavy eh. in e end i push trolley walk in e rain, got myself so drenched that bernice thought i bath before i left school. cui! anyway, due to the rain, people were late as per usual and expected @
10am. me leaving from school with the
rag people (
bryan, xiao yan, serene & my bro xiao huang) was of cos late as we were all caught in e rain. by e time we reached
jurong east mrt station, we met up with
kit geok just nice on e platform. den we saw
mei ling, bernice, zac, applie & reuben waiting for us patiently. and so e whole grp of us met up then most of e ppl went to buy their breakfast 1st while e rest of us waited at one corner of e interchange where some people is playing a family trail game. haha, den e uncle very funny cos he say we shld get tpt so tt we wont b so xiong. end up we were chatting w tt uncle & his wife plus his friend & his wife also. hah, e aunty keep saying students different thinking, can do things differently no prob one, got generation gap blah blah blah. we took bus to the blk of hdb flats where we met up w
wenhui & den started collecting! (:
e collection went on qt well & successful as all of us helped one another out. even though we have to change our central collection points twice;
1st time is cos e flat not central enuff,
2nd time is cos e flat below got malay wedding. hahaha. den we realise e ppl living at
jurong east very bad!!! cos they kop-ed e trolley from
ntuc & giant!!! we found a lot of trolleys underneath those HDB flats, which is good for us in a way too!!! hahaha, cos in e end as we lack trolleys, we temporarily borrowed for a while also. ;) haha, so it's qt funny to see a grp of students transporting
karang guni stuff on trolleys tt ppl use to buy stuff from supermarkets. hahaha :P after a while, a lot of ppl start arriving one after another, especially e lao laos!!! oh man, it is really very heartening when you see snrs coming back (
alvin & jianwu) & then hugging one another (
jing yi & yuimin), getting excited at seeing one another & started catching up with one another after not seeing each other for a long time. no matter how much was e collection for karang guni, i feel that we hav accomplished more great things other than raising money for charity. we have organised an activity to bring people back tgt & to me tt feeling is awesome. therefore everyone should come down for all rag & flag activities!!!
ragging rocks!!! flagging rocks!!! yea yea yea! ^-^after e 1st half of e day, we had lunch tgt under one of e hdb flats with stacks of newspapers as our temporary dining tables. haha, where else can u get to experience such unique meal times other than by joining us? even though it was only chicken rice with mineral water/pokka green tea drink, it was still an enjoyable time eating with one whole big grp of ppl. eating food & chatting happily about special incidents happening during e collection earlier on, it feels just like home surrounded by ppl who cares & matters to you. after one whole day of knocking on doors, repeating our purpose to e citizens there, collecting stuff, tying newspapers, stacking clothes, moving electrical appliances, pushing trolleys & dealing with noisy barking dogs, we decided to stop work at around
6pm when e
karang guni man came and start collecting e stuff frm us. i must say tt i am very happy with e rate given by e karang guni man but seriously disappointed with e rate given by e karang guni man for electrical appliances. there was actually another so-called fake karang guni man who came earlier on to exchange newspapers and buy from us some of the electrical appliances. i really regret at e end of e day at not selling some of e stuff to him earlier on as i felt tt e characer is shady. never mind la, it is over alr, we shall learn a lesson from this
karang guni & make e next & last one e best
karang guni we can ever do!!! (:
at e end,
me, mei ling & my bro went w e lorry to bring all e newspapers to e factory in lorry & we collected over
2 tonnes of newspwpers!!! which is one time more than e last karang guni! kudos to everyone who helped out! we owe e success of our collection to every single one of u, nth can b done if it is only
me & mei ling doing it. all in all, with all the
karang guni (2 of them in total), we hit our targetted amount raised!!! haa, yea yea yea! paiseh if i'm taking tis quote frm
Arts Camp Red House but
Rag is more like a project, more like a family. 54 Days to Rag & Flag Day 2007~!
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It was yet another friday gathering on 15th jun! we have me, hong ting, serene, xinyu, xinyu's brother jun huang aka xiao huang, kenneth and bryan stayed for the night~
i reached at abt 9am in the morning and only saw michelle in the room sleeping~ but she was soon awake and we talked for a while b4 she left~ being left alone, i continued my trimming of cans from wed while watching my fave taiwan variety shows off my laptop when meizhen and yuen kim came! and dat was really when i realise how gullible yuen kim is~ lolz!
anyway, serene, hong ting and kenneth soon arrived, wen hui too! but she and yuen kim left quite early~ and finally we have quite a no. of ppl to start our talking sessions while doing work...so there was the truth or truth session, where we asked quite a no. of jing4 bao4 qns (shh.....secret among us only~), and we had a great time laughing and also sort of get to know each other a bit better through answering the mildly-serious qns! me and hong ting were pretty noisy too with our mini ktv session...with serene as the DJ~ lolz! xinyu and xiao huang joined us in the rag room at ard 4pm if i didn't rmber wrongly~ and ya! juz to mention, the qn abt the pen and the marker was quite diaoz lor~ videos from kenneth hopefully SOON k!
anyway, serene later left to meet her fren for a while, and me, hong ting, xinyu, xiao huang and kenneth went to jurong pt LJS for dinner~ and yes, me and xiao huang played the after-meal-game of 'bursting' the straws~ (i know dat's kinda childish...haha...) after eating, we went back to clementi for a pool session! and we also played daytona~ hong ting was damn pro can! and kenneth even ask her whether she practised everyday~ the daytona session ended with me who ge kiang play daytona intermediate stage...and it was disastrous lah! everyone laughed like mad...coz i was really lousy in dat stage...swear not to play dat stage anymore b4 i learn to drive manual! haha...
anyway, we rushed off after my game to the next bus stop to catch the last bus 96 which leaves clementi interchange at 11:30pm, and we made it! super tiring can~ especially coz I CAN'T RUN! den we had some jokes on the bus which i cannot recall at the moment~ only rmber the bus was filled with our voices and laughters coz we were the only passengers on board~
we returned to rag room and saw serene there~ we continued our chit-chatting when bryan suddenly scared serene from behind the chairs! difficult to explain what happened lah, but it was really funny when serene really jumped and xinyu and kenneth who are supposed to have seen him looked really blur when bryan appeared from his hideout~ according to him, he actually stood there for 15 min and NO ONE realised~
apart from all the fun i've mentioned, i'm proud to say that we have finished making all the small seahorses, trimmed and sorted out all the cans that were cut up previously into their various colours, ways of doing some of the soft tech designs have also been learnt/finalised (e.g. origami) by meizhen, and the artist impression was also completed by our zai artist hong ting! ok back on track, ya as i was saying, we ended the day in laughter too! and it's really no control, coz we managed to keep laughing from 3am-3:30am! thanx to me and xinyu for not being able to control and stop, and also thanx to kenneth who kept imitating ppl's laughter! but i guess the funniest was the part where kenneth took the photo of us and serene lying on the floor~ omg...we were mean~~ haha!!
yup i guess this is abt how much i can recall~ surprised that it's such a long post! coz i'm not a blogger, and my memory isn't dat good...hope i got my flow of events rite! and anyone who can rmber other things juz help to add in k~ looking forward to the next bonding day! and hope the present strength will be stronger~
love,
Xiao Yan
*raggerfied* (^_^)
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Friday, June 8, 2007
Firstly must really apologise for this super duper outdated post, been really busy for the past few days settling a lot of matters so everytime was too shagged at the end of the day to be able to blog about what has been going on at rag recently. But judging from the web counter that we put on the blog recently, it is really heart-warming, especially to me this regular rag blogger, to see that a lot of people have been reading this blog!!! Haha, it definitely serves as a very effective motivation to keep me going at blogging to keep you all readers updated about rag 2007!!! However, those that can log into this blog aka the
rag ocomm members and
fellow rag seniors, please do blog! It is going to be more interesting if people can read more about rag from many other people and many other perspectives/points of view rather than just keep reading what I say. It may get boring after some time! Haha, so all in all, blog for all you want! Strongly encouraged! Don’t be shy~!
Yea man~
Mmm… ok. Enough of my ramblings, let’s move on to talk about rag! What happened for the
past 2 weeks was mainly
Project Moving-to-rag-room-and-site. We started off on
Monday (28/5) morning after most people has arrived. Even though I was still having aches and sores from going HDB flats to give flyers yesterday together with
Mei Ling, Titus, Reuben and Eileen, I was up and going at moving the things out of club room for rag room. We had quite a healthy strength of people who came down to help with the moving, they are
Bernice our dear freshie, Geraldine, Mei Chen, Xiao Yan, Serene, Nicholas, Reuben and Bryan! Haha, something very funny to talk about now before moving on, which is actually like the highlight of the day and that is
Bryan blushed! I was the first one to notice 2 red areas on his face. At first still cannot really believe what I saw but when I look closely again, it’s confirmed!
Bryan blushed!!! Haha, though even up til now I have no idea why. Once I exclaimed about that, the other girls (
Bernice, Geraldine & Mei Chen) immediately looked at his face which made him blush even more! Haha, we just keep making fun of him and his blushed face after that already. It was really fun moving all the things down as we took the long route, talking and joking along the way. Just quite scary when cars and buses zoom past you while you’re trying very hard to maneuver the trolley down the road from central library to AS3 where our
rag room (AS3 02-13) is located at.
WE FINALLY HAVE OUR RAG ROOM! WOOHOOO!!!
As there were just too many things to be moved, there was another day whereby
Lionel came and initiated another wave of movement whereby we cleared all the
soft tech materials from the clubroom to the rag room totally!!! Hahaha, a huge sense of achievement befalls all of us when we see the rag room ready for us to start on continue our Rag journey!!! We even draw up the
calendar of events for us leading all the way til Rag Day!!! Something happen on that day though, to our poor
Mei Ling. She ah, super duper blur, go and hit her big toe on the stairs then bleed a lot. Then some more when she went inside toilet to wash up she was laughing her classic loud
Mei Ling laughter la! :P
Enough about
soft tech, so how about the
hard tech side and our dear rag site (
outside LT11 car park 16)? No hurry, rag site movement which is more exciting coming up! Haha, the movement to rag site is done at the middle of night! Exciting right? Haha, those involved were
me, Mei Ling, Xiao Yan, Bryan, Nicholas & Reuben. There was also
Caleb who lent us his muscles! Yea!!! Another mc member who came down to help,
Chuan Seng does not enjoy the exclusivity already. ;) It was also funny as we were
trying out foot drills while moving stuff, a lot of us missing the days of being in uniform groups aka
me, Mei Ling & Xiao Yan. (
lup.. lup.. lup rite.. ) There was also once when we moved the huge frame down which was the highlight of the night! Haha, I think all of us really on super duper high mode liao lah! Why leh? It is because we move the frame ma chiam like driving lorry like that loh. We move the frame up & down when we walk over a hump a lot, exaggerating the movement so much it looks really stupid. Haha, but we have fun, of course. We also did over steering to the left and to the right, haha, basically just trying out everything that we can think of. I must say it is really very funny. Therefore, when we finally finish moving all the stuff down, all of us
laugh until cui. Next up something very very very hilarious occurred! Haha, our dear
Nicholas who is afraid of being alone in the dark was sitting on the trolley and playing around with it, drifting further and further away from us. Then all of a sudden,
Reuben gestured to us and then all of us started running up the
stairs outside LT11 all the way until we reach
Coffee Club Express!!! All of us except
Bryan! Haha, turn out that he did not have telepathy with us thus only tried to hide behind a pillar which was too small for him. In the end our plan was foiled despite all of us running like mad and using up all the remaining energy we have in us.
Totally cui! But super duper funny! I laugh until mad!!! Hahaha. ;)
The next few days got special incidents which I will touch on. For one, the next day we have new people coming down especially to help us who are
Tyler and Cindy!!! They specially came to school all the way to do Rag ok? So touched!!! Hahaha, really hope that they will drop by more often and more people will do so too!!! Because we really need as much manpower as we can lay our hands on!
Every person matters! Every little help makes a difference! Every time when you help it goes a long way!!! Also, we have our
Rag Ocomm meeting! Haha, whereby seniors like
Lionel, Jasmine and Wen Hui joined us!!! Yea man,
one big Rag family!!! Hahaha, then when we were having meeting halfway right, we heard a loud and long and scary scream!!! At first I thought someone saw something dirty la! But it turned out to be
Jing Yi who cannot help suppress her surprise when she saw
Wen Hui thus let out the scream. Haha, it is always good when people meet up after a long time at Rag! Haha, so come down Rag more often and soon enough you will get to see a lot of people too!!!
Phew, so this is all that has happened. No matter how fun or how much I describe what we do, it is always the best to come down and experience all this for yourself!!! Really really!!!
No matter who you are, be it freshies, fellow Raggers or seniors, all of us are equal & the same before Rag! Come down and be part of us! I’m sure it’ll be an experience you won’t regret undergoing! Just open up your mind & you’ll see how Rag can make a difference to your life. :D
Xin Yu *-*
64 days to Rag & Flag Day 2007~!
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;p 8/6/07 is frame day!!! today, i went to rag room after my work and reached around 4pm. there was
Reuben, Xiaoyan, pearl, yuen kim (who just came back) and also
Bernice, freshie, and also
Natalie, pearl's fren who came to join us for rag! :p kenneth who had diarrhoea earlier in e morning also managed to join for for this funny day!
today is funny day! we had a great laugh as we chat while we were cutting magazine pages n cardboards. we also had a great time getting to know our new frens Natalie. :p we were also suaning each other on all aspects of things, like "potentials" and "seahorses" and "reuben"! haha! one of our theories is that eligibe ppl are all short! no more shuai guys!
next, the submarine frame came! we all came down from rag room to meet
Nicholas and
Samantha and met
Zac and
Bryan at carpark where they were conscientiously doing hard tech! the guys tgt brought down the heavy frame which weigh like 120kg according to Samantha! some of us for the first time also get to be in touch with hard tech which we normally dont see. Natalie who has artistic talent also gave some suggestions for the float! it was all very nice n fun!
after that, it began to drizzle so we went back up to rag room. we continued to do more cutting of cardboard.
natalie had to leave soon and
kenneth, our GENTLEMAN PD sent her all the way lo! he was going to show her where e atm is but in the end he waited with her for cab till dinner time! *woohoo* haha. we even called natalie and ask her abt it. hahaha!
we decided to go clementi after decided gg to fong seng and after decided going to clementi.. erh.. the point is we took really long to decide. when we reached, hong ting joined us for dinner! we had a good dinner! and we talked abt some scandal regarding hong ting too! haha. we were talking abt arts camp when we talked abt night venture and then we started talking abt ghosts n scary stuff n the dark! SOME of us got quite scared and we keep teasing them: like
Nick n
Bernice!
soon we returned home to Rag room! on our way home, reuben kept scaring bernice n nick n in the process, scared me too! in e end, i dont even dare to go toilet can?! but we also keep laughing cos it was all in good spirit. we decided to watch HORROR shows overnight! in the end, those who stayed overnight were : Reuben, Kenneth, Mei chen, Xiaoyan, hong ting, Nick, Yuen kim and me!
1st show we watched was quite scary, its the "Haunted School". then during the break the girls accompanied each other n we all went toilet tgt! Poor nick had no one to accompany him then we kept laughing at him and tell him to join e girls instead. 2nd show we watched is "Haunted House"! it's SUPPOSED to be a horror show but turned out the movie n actor was so funny that it felt like a comedy! all of us began to laugh n laugh esp Nick who became near hysterical! hahaha!
we laughed ourselves crazy when nick laughed at e movie till he cried. i think we were really high. then we did a tickling test and found out that nicholas is scared of tickling. we started chasing him ard n run after him till he hid in the corners. his response was so big its HILARIOUS! especially when xiaoyan n kenneth attacked nicholas. he had the "cockroach" posture and looked as if he's raped. haha. we even recorded a video of it all! :p :p *link up soon from kenneth!
it was a very funny overnight. the laughing was non-stop n at everything. in e end we laughed til we became 6pack. :D i think the rag comm is really close n very friendly n true ppl. thats why we can click with almost every1 n get along so well! no matter whether u r a senior, a fellow arts student, a current ragger, or a new freshie, if u want to join us, dont hesitate anymore.. for friendship is so precious n Can be found here. :) im glad i came today.
Serene
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