aww man ms ho just emailed me and told me she wanted to see some of my new pieces of poetry. which spells really deep trouble for me because (okay okay i confess!) i haven't been writing since eons ago! :/ so michelle = dead. rrr fine so i have one piece which makes more or less some sense after some edits and i just rushed out another yesterday, but the one that i just wrote doesn't even sound poetic, grr. so now i have at least 10 ideas i can expand on, but without the ability to write decent poetry. oh i sigh. O:

anyway, PIT camp! :D was a good experience for me, considering that i missed quite a bit of last year's, and hahaha, for once i was part of a team that won something for station games / nooks & crannies! -grins. (: hmm actually i think station games / nooks & crannies were more or less the same as last year's - at least, from what i remember, which is not very reliable 'cos as far as i'm concerned my memory ain't anywhere near reliable - so teehee i sort of had an idea what they were going to do! like for nooks & crannies there was the open the 2 pb room locks kind of thing. xD ahwell but it was very fun all the same. (:

oh but nightwalk was plain, freaky. it doesn't help when someone like me is tasked to play eerie music in an unlit room, because my imagination tends to run awfully wild and i start thinking of random things that totally makes things worse. :/ and rrr, at first i thought the screams were from the scarers! but at least trisha was there so yay thank you very very much trisha for being there and comforting me and helping me scare the people as well! (oh anyway i hope your ankle's alright, or at least better!) (: hahaha oh and some random observations on my part (which are actually irrelevant but oh nevermind):-
#1 'gloomy sunday', by itself, is not exactly very scary (other than the very, well, emotionally-charged vocals), but if you put it together with some sort of creepy halloween soundtrack it doesn't only sound emo, it sounds tortured. (and it doesn't help when you read in the 'about' column that over a hundred people have committed suicide after listening to the song, on top of the really disturbing comments that people leave. :/)
#2 never listen to sibelius' violin concerto (the starting of the 1st movement, at any rate) if you are (i) stuck in a dark room and (ii) equipped with a hyperactive imagination.
#3 mosquito coils scare people the most, nyaknyaknyak! i mean, there were a couple of PITs who weren't afraid of the table-banging, door-slamming, creepy music and all, but they were seriously put off by the smell of the mosquito coil. i don't know whether to be amused or not. Oo
#4 however, it is inadvisable to carry mosquito coil around to achieve the effect as stated in #3, because you end up smelling like mosquito coil/incense for two whole days.
#5 and the best part of that is, even after staying in a room full of burning mosquito coils for three hours, trisha still got a mosquito bite after that. grr ineffective! :/

i think, this is a very hopeless post grawr. but anyway! i'm really glad for PIT camp because i got to get to know everyone a lot better (including our dearest little twos!) and it was really good bonding with batchmates and boardmates and all. (: oh and we learnt how to tie friendship bracelets, but that's beside the point hahaha. :D (yes, friendship bracelets as in the ones that people used to tie during their primary school days. i suggest you do not ask why.) so anyway yay for rgspb08♥ and yay for batchmates as well, fior♥! (:

[oh hmm and we also got our new badges, and we're going to get our new uniforms soon. on the one hand, it's a really exhilarating prospect, but yet on the other, it just feels weird, somehow. like moving around with the little twos, it feels as if you have a greater sense of responsibility and accountability, because you're expected to model the way for them, help them acculturate into the pb family and guide them along the process. and to think that we were the youngest members around just a while ago! hmm and also moving up to upper secondary years, becoming junior seniors and stuff. to a certain extent, it's really exciting, all the new challenges that you have to take on - and hopefully conquer! - but at the same time, there's the humongous leap and transition in commitments, academics and so on that everyone's been talking about, and sometimes you just wonder if you can actually make it through, and rise to the occasion. so it's like, a bit of apprehension? ahwell, we'll see! (: but whatever it is, there's going to be a lot of hard work involved, so mmhm i should start bracing myself for the years ahead, ahaha. xD

hmm technically it also means that we've already spent 2 years in rgs! time flies, doesn't it. :/ maybe in a blink of an eye i'll already be graduating and moving on. Oo i don't really know, but it does strike me sometimes how different my life would have been if i weren't in rgs. but i guess since time is only unidirectional, the most anyone can do is to seize the day, and well, live each day to the utmost. (: at times there's this weird thing in me that doesn't want to move on; i guess it's the fear that time will just fly past and we might miss out on things that we've always wanted to do. but then again, if we never did try, then we'll never do get anything in return, will we. so mmhm, it's true that we'll have to accept death in order to live, because death gives the definition to life. okay now why am i getting so morbid. Oo]

okay i think i ought to get back to poetry if not i'll be severely slaughtered for not putting in effort for mentorship (which is a big no-no considering ms ho's such a brilliant mentor, and it would be quite rubbish-y to forego this opportunity since mentorship wasn't exactly that easy to get in in the first place). alright tata for now. (:

(oh, it's not really worth mentioning, but for the record, i finally opened the lock to pbroom 1! :D after like, uh, 1 entire year in the board. hahaha i win. :D)

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wants the world to be filled with peace, joy and love, and also wants (perhaps a little more selfishly) to be happy, plus lead a life of purpose. that would be more than enough. (:

oh, and she likes embarking on her own 'free hugs!' campaigns after exams and the like; not really sure why. D: (at any rate, you can tell that she's random enough.)

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