Friday, March 7, 2008, 11:25 PM
end of O2
It's the last day of all the fun... how sad T-T. As the saying goes "All good things comes to an end." I guess I'll just have to kiss O2 goodbye~ and prepare for the worst...The first activity today was the continuation of what we did not manage to complete the day before - standing on a table and shouting out your goal and why it's so important to you and stuff. Luckily I've already done this yesterday.. those who haven't got the chance to do it yesterday had to face a bigger group as the whole ct combined to listen to our classmates. I won't dwell to much on this activity as it wasn't one of my favorite activity.
The second activity was "Trustfall". Basically you have to stand on top of a couple of chairs stacked together and fall backwards, while your classmates will form the cradle with their hands to catch you. Each Olympian is given 3 choices - 1. Choose to go w/o blindfold ; 2. Choose to go w/ blindfold ; 3. Choose not to go. This was my favorite activity for the day. As I had made a risk to volunteer to go first in the second activity, I participated in this activity first. Well I was quite excited being the first one going up, but the choice to fall with or without blindfold troubled me quite a bit. If I fell with blindfold maybe I wouldn't be that scared of the height while standing on the chair. In the end I went up without blindfolds as I wanted to take a step forward to conquer my fear of heights. Surprisingly, when I was up on top of the stack of chairs, the feeling wasn't all too bad. Even my facilitator commented that I was surprisingly calm. My hands was cuffed to prevent them from opening up during the fall which could cause some injuries to the catchers.
"Cradle ready?" I asked as instructed by the instructor.
"Ready!" I heard my ct shout.
"I, Nicholas Yeo am ready to fall!" I shouted.
"Fall!!!" came the reply.
My facilitator let go of her hands supporting my shoulders. I took a deep breath in and took one final look of the view in front of me. I closed my eyes and fell back, expecting the worst possible impact that I would experience. It was over in an instant. No pain was experienced. I gradually opened my eyes, and the first thing I saw was my whole ct using whatever energy they can muster to support my 5x kg of weight. There was a tat of awkwardness yet also heartwarming.
"Jiayou!" I whispered while lying in the cradle, only to be shushed by my facilitator.
I closed my eyes for another 30s or so till the instructor gave the instruction to open my eyes. I was slowly lowered to the ground foot first. I managed my footing while one of my friends helped take of the cuffs from my hands. That was it my "trustfall" was successfully completed. A round of applause from all around the hall for all the Olympians who had took part first in the activity was heard. I couldn't manage a smile, exhaustion from anticipation was overwhelming me yet a sense of achievement was felt. From my facilitator's feedback, my fall was considered a "nice fall" as I fell without falling butt first.
She explained that the way a person falls would somewhat imply the amount of trust you have of those going to catch you. I guess I trusted that my ct quite a lot, or probably it would be how my body would react in a real life situation. I guess I can rule out the latter as I probably would not fall like a log in real life situation. One by one my ct did the activity. Most chose to fall with blindfold. Matthew was the last one to fall. Gosh his weight was insane. There was instances that I almost wanted to let go of him but my inner self told me not to give up. I'm really proud of all my classmates. We did not even have one person who fell through the cradle. My buddy was fantastic too. She fell pretty nicely with blindfolds on. Sadly she left for her secondary school after the activity was over as she was required to be there for some preparation for a school activity which would be held tomorrow.
After this activity, we were given a 2 hour break as the hall was to be used for the A Level Results release. During the 2 hour break, Matthew, Zhi Peng, Andy, SJJ, Tricia, Marjorie, Aaron, CK and I went to drum first to chill out. Before leaving the hall, each of us had to set a specific "risk" that we are to accomplish in the 2 hours span. My "risk" was to call a friend (lawls~) And so Aaron volunteered to choose a person from my contact list for me to call. So he scrolls down the list of contacts and comes across a name which he finds weird- Dolly. So he shows me the phone and told me, "Call this person."
I was controlling myself from bursting into a fit of laughter. He actually manage to choose a kin of mine.. and I doubt that he will ever find out that the person who he chose was to be of such close relationship to me.
"You sure you want me to call this person?" I asked with a smirk.
He nodded lazily. I managed a nervous face as I pressed the call button.
"Hi!"
'Hey how come you're calling me now?' came the reply.
"Oh well I'm actually calling you as I have to complete my "risk" that I had set myself."
'Huh? what risk? You mean you're calling me when you're not suppose to?'
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"Just play along ok?" I whispered.
"Hey are you going for the P6 reunion on monday? Oh okay. See you then! Bye~" I finished my conversation, while the other person on the phone was left wondering what I was talking about for the past few seconds.
"Too easy!" I thought. So the rest of my ct was like pinning on the fact that the call wasn't exciting enough for them. All went well until I showed Matthew some pictures that I took in the afternoon (holes in the sky and stuff) and so Andy got interested and got possession of my phone and scrolled through the contents of my phone.
"He's just browsing to my camera pics.. no worries" I thought.
All of the sudden... "Walao!~ Dolly's not your friend lor! She's your sister lar!!" Andy announced. I stomached my laughter even more when he said that. The few of them then decided that I was to call someone else, and I obliged. Thus Aaron got himself busy once again, stopping at 3 of my contacts which I named Fatty and stopped to ask how I differentiated from the 3 names, after which he got back to work. He finally scrolled to a name of his satisfaction and showed me. -Julia was the name he chose. Dam! Could this be anymore a coincidence? Not wanting the second caller to be another kin of mine, I told him to choose another name, thus letting him conclude that Julia was one of my two sisters~ so we'll just go with that.. lawls!
Not wanting to choose someone I'm too close to, Aaron decided to consult Matthew, who was in the same class as me in Sec3 and Sec4 before choosing the person. Matthew scrolled down the list and stopped at Kai Jun.
"Call this guy. This guy's an ass. Sure give nick hell lots of trouble; lol!" Matthew said with an evil laugh to conclude his imperial verdict of doom.
Kai Jun... Hey I don't mind calling him. His a good classmate of mine back in Sec4. I pressed the call button and the loudspeaker button subsequently as strongly requested by the "audience".
"Yo KJ! Long time no see. Where were you posted to?"
'Har? NP Business *** ( Friends Privacy thus will not disclose further). Whatssup?'
After this the "audience" decide to spice up the conversation a pinch with a kidnapped scenario, me being the hostage. Poor KJ was left asking whats going on, before the call was abruptly ended by Andy(if I'm not wrong). To clear things up I messaged him quickly to explain the situation, to settle any misunderstanding that may have occurred. My risk was over and Matthew wanted to get his done as well. He wanted to finish one round around the school track, thus Zhi Peng and I decided to support him as he ran the round. The whole bunch of us left for the track. Matthew was splendid. Although it was clear that he was reaching his limit nearing the end of the 1 round, he did not slow down his pace. Sjj was at the finish line waiting for the 3 of us. We did a short cheer for Matthew, before catching up with the rest who had proceeded to the basketball court (bball court) while the 3 of us was running.
Andy had already borrowed a ball from one of his friends who was at the court. His friend wanted a break thus our class had possession of half of the bball court and the bball. I have not played bball for a seriously long time. The last time and only time I had touched a bball was during pe in Sec3 when my class was to learn some basic bball throws. Bottom line- I was a totally newbie to the game. The 6 boys present decided to play a match. Andy, Zhi Peng & CK VS Wai hern, Aaron & I while Matthew(too tired after the run), Tricia and Marjorie took a seat at the side of the court to witness the match. Andy was probably the best player throughout the match, scoring point after point effortlessly. Aaron according to Zhi Peng was holding back his talent in bball. Oh well Matthew and Sjj joined in a bit later in the game, and well my team just couldn't score (probably cause I can't shoot well and don't know the rules well enough yet). We ended the game when someone else wanted to use the court, got ourselves some refreshment and then proceeded to get what we needed for the next activity- Mission Impossible.
Mission Impossible: There are four sets stacked chairs, placed at four corners to form a rectangle, with a square tunnel hanging in the middle of the rectangle. The objective of the game is to get as many people across the tunnel as possible without touching the structure or moving the structure. If any of the two mentioned is committed, the whole ct must go out of the hall with whatever equipment that they have brought in, and then start all over again. If successful person sent across the tunnel will earn the respective houses points. Here's a fast sketch of what MI looks like:
I know its a bit ugly but bear with it people. This activity was uber fun. We borrowed a couple of chairs from our designated storage rooms and two canteen benches and also the gardener's hose. At first it was hard to get people across the tunnel with our first plan. We touched the structure time and time again, ran in and out the hall constantly and had a couple of different strategies. It took a while to finally decide that the first plan was the best plan, and while we got used to the first plan, sending people through the tunnel became quite a swift and easy task. I don't want to elaborate further... if you want more detail just msn me.. lol
After MI, the mass dance music was played. All of the students got into position and started dancing the practiced dance moves. Sadly I couldn't find a partner in time thus I solo~ed the whole 3 songs.. which doesn't matter too much. After that was dinner. We had catered food from four seasons and packet drinks which can hardly be found in any grocery stalls. The catered food consisted of fried rice, fish, veg & some king of fish cake. Overall it was quite a satisfying dinner.
After the quick dinner, we headed back to the hall for mass dance. Darn I didn't have a partner again.. Zhi Peng kindly offered Matthew to be my partner when the part where the waltz was going to be performed.. how kind of him yea? After the few minutes of total gayness, the lights when off and the disco ball got the disco fever throughout the hall.
Rules of Disco Night:
-No Breakdance
-No trains
-blah blah blah ...etc
Darn no train huh? Andy and Aaron decided to come up with something similar to the train and our class started crashing into other ct groups. I got lost from the pack halfway =.=" Hell it was sure a hard time locating the pack again. Overall I didn't manage to get into disco mood.. sad eh? Ah I missed out the prize presentation which was b4 the mass dance... ah heck who cares yea??
Supper was suppose to be at chom chom over at Serangoon Gardens. However the location was scrapped and new get-aways were suggested. (e.g: East Coast Park). In the end we didn't have supper as everyone was tired and didn't want to travel to far away from home. Too bad we didn't book a chalet! Arh well.. there's many other chances...
Looking forward to the LH chalet which is supposedly to be held in june.. gosh its been a long day... and a long entry.. Thats all folks!