Wah haha! I'm finally back everyone! Phew these past 6 days have really been busy. Oh well enough of the introductions, lets get on to what happened!

On Monday, Creative meeting was at 7.00am. On the same day, there was a Farewell meeting at 11.00am to brief us about the rehearsal which we were having on the same day. And the banner painting was a huge success! Oh well we faced some difficulty in opening this can of red paint that was put in the storage for a really long time, but other than that things went quite smoothly. Even the pink colour which we mixed using the red paint plus white paint looked really nice on the banner. And we managed to finish the whole banner within one day! And one different thing we did today was to have a mass Macdonald session while we were having meeting haha. Everyone was just so busy with lots of stuff.

As for our rehearsal, it was quite standard for us to follow the protocol of the day, and we each clarified some problems which we spotted as well as work on our "segments" and their procedures. And this time round, I didnt go out to have dinner with the councillors cause I had to go home early to pack up and prepare my stuff for council retreat which was on the next day. On the same night, I wanted to discuss with the other guys what stuff we needed to bring for council retreat, and waited since 10.00pm for anyone of them to come online. In the end they only came online at around near 12.00+ am, and by then I had already packed most of my bag and felt damn sleepy.

On Tuesday morning, our initial Aesthetico meeting was cancelled, but we had an Aesthetico lunch instead scheduled at 12.00pm at White Sands. It was quite a rainy morning, so quite a few people came late, and in the end our Aesthetico was Macdonalds again haha. Man, we eat Macdonalds like almost everyday... For me, I met up with Vanessa first and we took bus 81 at Serangoon MRT interchange all the way to White Sands. And then we first met Wei Jun there. The 3 of us then went to meet up with the Farewell Ad Hoc people which were already at the 2nd floor of the Macs there. At Macs, we had our lunch and waited for everyone to reach White Sands. The whole group of us hanged around White Sands until around 3.00+pm before everyone had gathered already, and the bus came and fetched us directly to the Aloha Loyang entrance.

There, we met the rest of the people there who had gone earlier to do stocktaking and stuff. We stayed at Bungalow 12 "Laughing Thrush". After spending time exploring the facilities in the bungalow, the few of us guys went into hyper mode and setted up the PS2 which Jinfa brought in a instant haha. But before any of us could proceed with our games and stuff, the teachers mentioned that we should select and organise the rooms which we were about to sleep in. After setting up our sleeping quarters, everyone started playing games like cards, mahjong and PS2 haha. Hey man, what else do you usually play at a chalet? Haha. After a while of games, we then had a session of "Reflections" with our respective committee teachers. Well, I believe it was really enlightening for all of us. For my committee, even though our head Candice was absent, she had written quite a detailed note for all of us, and Wei Jun read it out during the meeting. It was really interesting that it really felt that she was there with us at the meeting haha. And after the meeting we called her to send our last regards before she went to Australia for holiday. :) We missed you Candice!

After our reflections, everyone went back to games and stuff, the chalet is meant for us to relax after all. Eventually, dinner came, and it was a mixture of catering as well as bbq food. So everyone stopped their games and went to prepare and have dinner. The first casualty of the day was Choy, cause he burnt his fingers when the fire got too big when he was preparing the bbq. The rest of us all felt bad that he had gotten injured and so went to help out with the bbq in shifts. One group would do the bbq, and the other would eat first, then each group would switch roles later. Well, it was quite a fun dinner, despite our large intake of carbon in some of the foods haha.

Eventually in the evening, the councillors teachers had another activity for us. Each of us had to stand in a row outside the bungalow and then everyone would then become blindfolded. We were then lead to a different location where we had to do another 2nd activity. Our second activity was that while everyone was blindfolded, we had to pick up strings from 3 hula hoops which were on the floor, and then form an equilateral triangle. It was a quite interesting activity, and we learnt a lot of useful lessons such as how communication is important, and at times when people notice the blindspots of others, they should be more willing to express their views.

After that, each committee had to play the "Helium hoop" game, and again this game emphasised on how teamwork is important, as well as how at times, we should not blame others cause situations can occur whereby everyone can be responsible for what happened.

After our night activities, everyone went back to the chalet to carry on with our games. Some of the councillors went to learn roller blading, and it turned out to be quite a fun activity. Some of us also just went to take a walk around the chalet area and to the beach nearby just to discuss about anything. And some of us had stayed up till 3.30am just to watch soccer haha. As for me, I slept right after the match started cause I couldnt take it anymore haha. Well, some of the guys just decided to sleep in the living room cause we felt our rooms didnt have enough place for everyone to sleep in anyways.

Come the following Wednesday morning, after waking up and washing up, the first thing I did was to play X-Men Legends 2: Rise of the Apocalypse on the PS2 haha. It was quite interesting cause everyone in the living room was watching, and its quite fun when its 2 players haha. Spending time playing the game with your friends watching just seems so different from playing the game alone haha. After reaching around 10.00+ am, we had another council activity, which was to go to the beach and build sandcastles! Haha it may seem very childish at first, but wait till you see our pictures. This was an opportunity for us to spend quality time with each other, as well as to distress. Our task was to build a sandcastle anyway as we like, and after it was complete we had to give a brief introduction on what we had built. So check out the pictures at the end of my post! Haha.

After our sandcastle building session, the remaining time was left free for us to go outside to eat, or to stay in the chalet. And so, quite a few of us decided to go out to Tampines to have lunch as well as buy our Harry Potter movie tickets for the evening. After our lunch, the whole gang went to play pool, and we had quite a lot of fun. And we also realised how pro Jonathan's pool skills were haha. The guys were all thrashed until not a single one of us was left. After the pool session, we all went back to the chalet to meet up with the others who were going to go watch the movie togther with us. We then left from the chalet back to Tampines to watch our Harry Potter movie. It was good on the overall, but some scenes seemed quite weird to me. And supposedly some scenes were quite boring cause some of us were all falling asleep halfway through haha. After our movie, we met up with the remaining "K Box" group of councillors who were waiting for us to finish, and we all went back to the chalet together for a well earned rest. The weird thing was that I had difficulty sleeping in the guys room cause it was really really cold, and I couldnt stand it and ended up sleeping in the living room by myself haha. I only managed to sleep at 5.00am, after many rounds of sleeping and awaking cause of the cold.

On Thursday morning, I was woken up at 7.20am cause I had locked the sliding doors of the living room, and the others needed to enter in order to prepare breakfast haha. Anyways, most of us had our breakfast quickly and then left the chalet at around 8.00am. I reached home at around 9.30am, then had to wash and change up before going back to school again by 11.00am for Creative meeting. The few of us wore our new council shrit which was BRIGHT neon green haha. Everyone is gonna see it at Farewell. For lunch, we had nasi lemak. For the rest of the day, we went through the full dress rehearsals for the whole event, and at the end of the day had a lot of clarifications with what procedures went wrong with our rehearsal. Well, we have more rehearsals this coming week on Monday and Tuesday. Farewell is on Wednesday by the way haha. For dinner, the few of us went to the S11 at J8 and I realised that our shirts could be seen from a mile away haha. Its that outstanding. :P

On Friday, Creative committee had another meeting at 8.30am, and the council had to move chairs to the hall for Farewell at 11.00am and start our dance session at 1.30pm to learn our new 28th dance. For me, I had planned to go running in the morning with a few other councillors, but it was raining in the morning, and most of them had woken up late. So in the end me and Jeannette who had met earlier at around 7.00am+ had no choice but to go to the Council Room first and slack. Well, I taught Jeannette how to play "Big Two", and now we have an extra player at council haha. At 8.30am, I went to the SL to have my creative meeting, and it lasted until the afternoon when everyone had to go and carry chairs for logistics. And breakfast was Macs yet again. The moving of the chairs took quite a while, and so we went for lunch at the hawker centre opposite Zhong Hua Sec at 1.00am. Our dance session only started at around 2.30pm. The dance session was quite successful, cause most of us managed to learn the complete dance already haha. We were so enthusiastic that we also danced some of the other previous dances we knew after learning finish our new dance. Dancing was a really great exercise haha. I want to dance the 28th dance again! Haha. For dinner, we all went to Toa Payoh, and some of us visited Choy's brother's home haha. We all went home quite early this night at around 8.30pm+ haha.

Today, me, Cun Zheng, Wei Jun and Jinfa went to Jurong East at 10.00am cause some of us needed to visit Creative to fix our Zen Micros. Our trip there was quite fruitful, cause Wei Jun and I both manged to get our Zen Micros replaced with new ones haha. After visiting Creative, the 4 of us went to Orchard and on the way we met up with Swee Wei and Junyi. At Orchard road MRT, we met Liyana and Bee Fong there. And later on, Vanessa and Jonathan came to join us too. :) Today, Jinfa had some incident with missing his handphone haha. But luckily, he managed to get it back, so dont worry everyone. Well, today we went shopping at quite a lot of places at Orchard road. For example Wisma Atria, Takashimaya, Far East Plaza, Cineleisure etc. Well we did quite a lot of walking today, and it was a fun outing. My legs are dead tired now haha. And we bought something interesting that we can put in our Council Room to help people dis-stress haha. Check it out on Monday everyone!