i am a Dandelion

Saturday, January 7

I've just skipped this morning's CIP ... bleh !! dun wanna go lor !! wa liao and steamboat is cancelled. suddenly just wake up in the morning and there's no council-- ok I'm in a state of lost la

yup PROJECT X is over. orientation one require moths and moths of planning but it just vanishes in mere 4 days .. when i first stepped as a councillor, O1 seems lik such a un-do-able project. look at us now-- WE HAVE DONE IT, 28TH !!

DAY ONE
wow.. i woke up super early and shared cab with winnie and audrey. i wasn't too sure wat to expect la .. the day start with choy and i cheering "G-R-I-F-F-I-N" , the response was expected la-- no reponse !! aft tat i went 2 set up my games station. frankly i didnt had much confidence in conducting well."PLAYING OCTOPUS ON DAY ONE OF O1" SOUNDS CRAZY ISN'T ?? but teng leong and kin wei was really excellent helpers... high five for the OGL games conductor^5!
however, i have 2 emphasis tat there r OGL who r out 2 make trouble !! they apparently showed defiance and relunctance in co=operating... tat boils mu blood lik hell!!

inside me i sensed this inferiority-- simply because i not equipped with the technique 2 deal with such missdeeds which r coming from my peers. well sweez made a very good point -- dun sound authoratative, deal with the person aft ur game-- dun letr him get away lik tat !! well ms chiew gave us a 65 4 today!!

DAY TWO
well this is a good day .. my games station was GREAT !!! chop slip was sth that i've not done b4 .. i was given councillors 2 help me :P tat really boost my morale and confidence :P they came and they CHEERED AND CHEERED AND CHEERED LIK no body business. tat was really encouraging at least they were enjoying themselves. BUT sth happened-- ogls start chasing my coucillors down the GRANDSTAND !! the simply SA-BOING session is a BIG NO-NO!! come on ur J2S r doin such dangerous things IN FRONT OF THE J1S ??!!! i screamed at the OGL 2 STOP !!

thou i admit its not the best way 2 do it but tats the fastest way 2 stop any mishap from happening !! lesson learned 2day : dun lie the OGL get away lik wat u did ,.. stop him immediately.. talk 2 him in an objective way ok ?

generally 2day ok, i felt satisfied tat i've conducted 10 sessions of briefing in the morning and they enojed my game !! wow-- that's whole lot of satisfaction minus the small mistake !! i slept quite late tat nite preparing for my briefing of beach games 2mr -- confidence lvl: zero!!

DAY THREE
SUPER STRESS !! i really didnt had much confidence in takin charge of the happenings on the beach games!! PLUS i had 2 brief the ogls OF THE BEACH GAMES. if u asked me, my tone of giving instructions and getting a serious msg across is -- authoratative and blunt !! from previous days mistakes i made disturbed me quite a lot . the situation came for me 2 brief -- i just went on and on of all the things tat i prepare 2 say. PHEW !! i managed 2 brief them and i went SUPER ok -no cork up and they co-operated :P well i always had no confidence --- simply because i'm alwasys anticipating mishaps, i'm always assumming tat the OG r out 2 make trouble. lesson learnt: they r der to help u tats wat their job rite ?? ok be more optimistic can ??

we moved on 2 siloso and logostics wise semmed a lot lacking -- i had missing logistics here and there !! johnny wat happened la ??!!
well the games carried on pretty smoothly just a little problem on crowd control and mislead OGs !! OK my stress level was lik super high during lunch time. this was wat happened . a jeering session happened during lunch tim btw MJ and us !! ms chiew suggest 2 me tat i should adress tat issue since they r waiting in the pavillion or the rain 2 stop. simutanoesly, an OGL is calling 4 me 4 1st aid. another asking when 2 start game. and at the same time i was munching my lunch with super dirty hands !!

the rain came pretty abruptly,when the decision makin moment when onto me -- i hesistated, wondering if i should seized all games. lesson learnt: dun panic den u can think properly !!

so i went i was frantically searching 4 a lond hailer 2 address them .. my head was sorting out what 2 say !! then i saw ms chiew standing at the other side of the pavillion observing me !! that time i was super stress !! all i did was asking 4 a cheer and i start my addressing my dispatching !! well some of them cant heard me .. now i knoe how 2 use a loud hailer properly !!
aft tat the games went smoothly, i was doing my KLKK job of walkin here and there!!

logis cleared and we came back!! i was extremely tanned and exhausted by then. of course we had a hilariously time on the bus when a mysterious girl start screaming into our walkie talkie --- its quite scary thou!!! debriefing time, it was a 85 today !!!

wow i really felt the council deserved tat. we had our usual tribal cheer who had a diff significane for me. i looked arund me from johnny to wei fang to cunzheng to sandar to even qiu han. all of them were cheering their haearts out. they have came a long way, this was the 1st time i could fell tat sense of acomplishment.eg. johnny from tat bo-chap johnny in wleco 2 now logis head in O1, he came a long way !!

FINALE DAY
morning was pretty distartrous i woke up lik 5.30 am la !! wa liao my phone no batt and all the morning calls cant come in la !! i ran out of the house and winnie was waiting der already !! luckily we got der timely at six !!

u see my orientation day revolves around games games .. sigh so i went to set up games staion the 1stt few groups were pretty enthu.. their enthu-ness was really sth tat push us on and on and encouraged us 2 be better !! but my tat little confidence was shattered by fafa la !! he came and commented my station was boring !! well i broke down unfortunately. cause my responsiblity as a games conductor was 2 made sure i did my best in it.however i apparently didnt did it well !!

the games com is obviously overloaded. i feel tat shouldnt happened again lla!! O2 com pls adress tat k. well so i requested for help and fortunately huishan ping qi wei jun cam e 2 help .. i was doin KLKK again at the same time doin some soul-searching. aft tat i decided 2 go 4 griffin and peggie dance session :P wow tat was another morale-boaster session!! i danced and danced and danced lik ten songs !! haha tat will make up for the all the dance session i have missed !! faction time i was clearing logis 4 games. cheering competition&dancing king and queenwas fabulous .. i finally able have the chance 2 be wif GRIFFIN !! we cheered and cheered and cheered !! ha ha GRIFFIN OGLS GOOD JOB DONE !! GROFFIN J1S I LOVE U GUYS LA !!

disco nite came as a high point for O1. for me its the 3rd disco note i had, 3 diff disco 3 diff experience. one as a J1 once as a OGL once as a councillor!! towards the end when we did the final NY cheer, i was on stage wif the hall packed wif J1S cheering wif us admist their fatigue and sweat !! thats how far the J1S came .. from day one- no response to 2day's enthu NANYANG CHEER !!

i was dead beat, pure sournes in my feet and fatigue in my head. debrief came it 95 FOR US !!

28th u guys have done it once again. we came a long way from council camp 2 now:P

it was u guys who showed me what was discipline,commitment and attitude !!

i have grown, i am enriched and touched as well !!

finally all thanks 2 those who make O1 A SUCCESS, from J1S TO OGLs to my OGL games conductor to my councillors to ms chiew and council teachers :P

huimin on 5:11 pm