Sunday, December 28, 2008

the life of a victorian V

As mentioned, the new year meant a new beginning for me with a new set of goals and i recall setting some resolutions. The climax of my holidays coincinded with the start of OGL stuff for me. I really wanted to be an OGL ever since the last orientation and this thus explained the excitement and anticipation for orientation to arrive for me. Spending almost half the holidays in china meant that i was not involved much for banner painting etc. Nevertheless i arrived in time and participated in the trial run of games and it will definitely be the highlight of any OGL training.

I recall angel describing how it was so interesting to call people up and tell them about orientation and how she tried to derive how the people will look like. She made it sound so exciting and interesting. How wrong i was when i got to call them up. I remember the first night i called, only 1 picked up =.= and if i remember correctly it was Rina. I found no pleasure in trying to imagine how they will look like(my og kids)

But anyway, the first day of school will somehow always be so exciting for me. I recall not being able to sleep the night before and thinking so much about the next few days and orientation. Maybe its just the whole idea of school which is the cliche second home that makes people like me so eager to go back to school. Or it could be the lower expenditure when one is in school. For secondary 4, the first day of school was orientation camp and i remembered going to school at a ridiculous time of 645 am. This time it was a less ridiculous time of 7 am but it was still freaking early for me. The theme was VICTORIAN KNIGHTS and thus we decorated the entire school in knightish themed stuff. I remembered doing the weaponry with edmund jiayi and camille. We were happy with what we have done i must add and i sitll have a few shots of us and our 'artwork' on my computer. I arrived in school shattered however to find our hard work in a mess. The wind was stronger than the double sided tape and we needed to re-paste everything again.

Registration soon begun and time flew by so quickly and i finally got to meet up with my OG kids. Perhaps it was the high expectations i had for an OG due to the large success of IRHUMBA as an OG but for me, I initially hoped to see a little bit of life in the OG like how mine was but unfortunately it was not really the case.

To be honest i think i was pretty MIA as an OGL. Because of my other duties like game mastering etc, i sorta neglected my OG. Games are by far the best way to bond people and the fact that i was not that with them for that meant i missed the chance to bond with them. To further compound the problems, i had a pretty quiet OG and a few who made disappearing acts. So yeah the excitement and highness level was so low that the most high people all the time was me and sharon and tina who crashed our OG at times mostly for the outings. The combined dinners of the OG was always domintaed by OGLs rather than OG kids but i know it would be due to parents as i remember for me, i went through the same thing.

To me sea regatta meant no one gets out dry. Same to the other OGLs present.So when the whistle blew for the start of it, splashes could be heard all around. Howver a teacher came scolding us about dunking 2 minutes into sea regatta, and it sort of lost its fun. Of course there were those who didnt care. I for one know because straight after he left, i was dunked by the crashers from my class =.= To make things sadder, i think i had more fun in sea regatta than my OG kids did and that is in theory impossible. I remember half the OG being dry and i really felt like i failed as an OGL beacuse i was not able to transmit the highness i had to them. But i realise people are just different.For IRHUMBA as far as i can remember we ended up dunking each other rather then play what we thought was boring games. While for VAGABOND we prefered to be task oriented and finish the games up quickly.

But thinking back i know it is unfair to compare OGs like this. Being an OGL might not have been the greatest success for me but i know that with the other council stuff we did for O1, i did my part in making sure the freshmen had a wonderful orientation.

ALl in all, the second orientation experience was definitely not one that i was entirely happy with. I had my fun but the inability to make my OG have the same fun will always be nagging at the back of my head as i look at the OG photos we took.

Following O1, I still remember how high the OGLs in the class were with me sh and xh still shouting random cheers as we walk to classes for the next week. I will remember the infamous frame when i was made scapegoat when jermyn shouted explosion during lecture. Because the explosion thing was my idea for the cheer,everyone assumed it was me. It did not help that i was beside jermyn at that time. But those were good times and such moments will definitely be hard to forget.

Twistin' at 9:33 AM