NUS Flag Day

Still feeling a bit tired from yesterday... Yup, i was flagging yesterday... Got a msg from amelia on monday at 8pm telling me that i had to go for the flag day and report at 4am the next day or else i might get expelled!! haha... what a shock! So went to hall and collected the 3rd last tin!!! should have been a bit later.. haha... spent my first night in hall... i need another fan and a pail... it's can get warm because the fan keeps on rotating... but i was only sleeping... heh... so went to sleep at 12 and woke up at 4am to screaming seniors getting everyone to wake up... amelia knocked on my door... what a sight at 4am in the morning.... hehe... so feeling very lonely and all, got ready and was in the dining hall at 0430... fortunately i found my neighbour, vincent and we sat together... and then met bao lai(from whiskey bmt coy) so the three of us (3 is a prime number) decided on our gameplan for the whole day... haha... Left hall at 0500 and reached CCK around 6... asking for donations at 6 in the morning isn't a good idea... people were mostly rushing off to work and of course the first thing in the morning that you would LOVE to see would be sickening flag day people...

sneaked off with vincent for breakfast but unfortunately was discovered by our gung-ho team leader sean who is quite a nice person anyway... haha... so much for slacking.... at around 7ish people from other halls (Sheares) and camps (engin) came and took over our place! bloody bastards... so with a quarter of the donations coming in, sean decided to redeploy the 2 of us... haha... he told us to go to this market... but sadly we got lost on the way... so while taking a short rest at the bus stop, vincent and i saw this sign which indicated another shopping centre was NEARBY! we walked there and fortunately it wasn't discovered by anyone yet... wonder why?? haha... so spent about 3 hours there trying to collect donations... and it turned out quite ok... went back to lot 1 since no one was at the shopping centre anymore and stood around hoping that someone would put shiny metallic discs into my tin... we noticed that the people who were more likely to donate were the malay people :) and small children... i got a lot of small kids donating to me... another fun thing that we observed were the many things people do to not donate. Ok maybe you know already but yesterday was the first time i was doing flag day (considering i always get my CIP hours from scouts)... there's the handphone method, the disease method and the invisible man method... haha

i'm sure everyone knows the handphone method... just as you approach the person, whip out your phone to check for mysterious messages or missed calls... maybe it's just that you like to lock and unlock your keypad... or that you would like to show off your phone to me... which i think mine still looks better... haha

the disease method... pretend to sneeze and reach into your pocket for a tissue when i approach you... or walk really fast away from me like i have leprosy... vincent and i had some fun harassing people who tried that... we just continued following them for like 20 metres... that got some stares though... haha...

and of course, how can you donate if you can't see me right? i mean that floating tin can must be dangerous or something... but you just wonder what the hell is keeping it in mid air and how it automatically moves in front of you... the wonders of technology...

ahaha.... we're all guilty of these... but it was fun doing flag day yesterday... not the actual collecting money bits, but making friends with vincent and bao lai... and getting to know some people whom vincent and i refer to as "that china guy", "that china girl", "those 2 malaysian guys" and sean... i think some of you know how terrible i am at names... i can't believe it myself.. i can recognise your face but just can't remember your name... maybe it's not worth remembering in the first place... you maggot... haha

hopefully i'm doing enough modules this sem... along with the preallocated 15MC's from engin, i bidded for another thing which i can't remember... but the ain factors why i chose that module-which-i-can't-remember was the exam date and that it starts at 12pm... haha... and the last day of exams would be on my birthday!!! yay! not too bad lah.. considering i couldn't do anything about it.

i wish i could tell you what really happened yesterday but too many people read this... doesn't it get frustrating sometimes when you want to tell something to someone but you don't have anyone or you're afraid of what people might think of you once you tell them about it... it's not necessarily a bad thing... that's why people smile and lie... haha...

and i feel like just pointing out the obvious sometimes... how the fuck can you not know what i'm trying to do? (this is the part where i stop talking because too many people read this) arrgh!!! it's really frustrating... i want to say something, tell someone everything but i can't... i should get a diary... or maybe another board where i can rant everything... *turns into the hulk* it's clobbering time... ooops :)