on my way

22 April 2007

Ella se luce pa que la vea,
Ehya ehya ehya,
Se menea se menea,
Bailando te rodea...

Design orientation camp was a blast man. The first day was really crappy and everyone was cold and dead. Then we came back on the second day and for some reason everyone warmed up a little overnight. And everything kicked off... meet my new friends:

Benn
Looked like a violent ah beng at first, but he's actually pretty meek. And his reactions to some things is really funny. He's a pretty open guy too. He pasted a sticker saying "squeeze this" somewhere on myself, so he must be pretty bold. Probably the closest acquaintance I made during orientation.

Winnie
Is a really small girl with eyes covering half her face. She's awesome because she's actually one year older than me but she looks four years younger. So cuuuuute. And she was an expedition kayaker... which amazes me even more.

Brian
Seems like some emo fellow who doesn't cheer at all. I mean AT ALL. But besides that he's a really nice guy. I appreciate him lending me his Body Shop shower gel which was raspberry flavoured, so I could smell like raspberries after bathing. He looks ang moh too.

Sihui
Looks like your typical average girl-next-door, but she's actually really sophisticated and cool-headed. Before nightwalk we were talking about how fake the GLs' ghost stories were, and I had the feeling she was faking her coolness (she said she was tired). But she really maintained the tiredneedsleep face throughout the whole thing.

Row
Is actually called Rohani or something like that. She's the most homely GL, and she always looks stressed. When I asked her why, she told me she had a lot of projects to do. So nice of her to sacrifice her time for orientation.

Fikry
Is another GL who has the semi-mat look but is a real nice guy. He seems like those innocent person who is bullied easily, but he's friendly. Kind of reminds me of Johnny from the Outsiders.

Lilin
Responded to Benn's "squeeze this" sticker. Go figure.

Alicia
Is the first coursemate I met. She reminds me a lot of Ginny because she has the girl-next-door look. When she smiles she reminds me of myself, eyes disappearing and all. I always see her with the second coursemate I met,

Jaslyn
Looks like a really pleasant person, like the sort who will never get angry. She's also really friendly and remembers my face. Yay!

Nicholas
Is the first male coursemate I met. He's recognisable due to his bleached fringe and big eyes and fair complexion. He is the nice-guy sort, quite unlike...

Ronald Koh
Must be the best sixteen year old b-boy I've ever seen in Singapore. He can do one rotation of a pretty straight 1990, and infinite windmills (a little on the slow side but good form). His toprock is nice too. His popping and robot? First rate. He's a pretty sociable person who gained a bad-boy reputation (sort of) on the first day of orientation. Long story. Which brings me to...

My first public performance! Well, not really performance. More like a cypher. What happened is, to finish off the whole freshmen orientation, TP organised a jam and hop, which is like a club set up in school. However, the Design School had it's own jam and hop too, except with recorded hip hop and reggaeton and R&B and other dance music. So, live amateur rock band or well-produced pre-recorded dance music? If you know me, the answer is obvious.

So I was looking at Ronald strutting his stuff, and I had the urge to get in there too. Design school has like four billion great poppers and probably the most bboys in the entire TP (I think). I found Kevin from Apple there, and I was urging him to follow me into the circle. Yes, you read that right, everyone there formed a circle for the daring ones to show their SOUL. So after asking him repeatedly to support me to no avail, I heard the lyrics above and was inspired to step in. The rest is history. I liked the shoulder freeze and the box split I performed. I had no idea I could do the latter, although my knee is aching again... someone sponsor my kneepads please.

Now Playing: Wisin Y Yandel feat. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Fatman Scoop & Melissa Jimenez - Wanna Ride

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