Nueve FOC 2008!!(Recalled with the best of my memory)
Day 1:
Fighting strength: 22/22
The 21 of us, consisting of 17 freshies and 4 GLs, met up at Jurong point Mac and proceeded to hall 8, where we checked in. We regrouped with Numemon in the hall and that made up our full strength! Once we had settled down, the usual ice-breaker games kicked in and as usual, some of us, including me, had reasonable difficulties in matching names with faces! I was amused by the wide variety of games and riddles that were made conceivable to us, yet annoyed by my inability to solve some of them haha!
I won't go into the core of the games, fearing that the cows would have driven home and the snails would have scaled the tree if I had otherwise.
Next, we shifted our belongings into our allocated double rooms. Things didnt seem right for me with 4 guys having to spread ourselves comfortably on 2 beds! Area cleanliness standard was a C grade! I couldnt bother much with that either since my purpose was just to sleep through the 4 nights!
The boring part came next, with a series of lectures lined up and held in the comfort of a lecture theatre, a perfect and proven bed for rejuvenation. I had it enough of the insurance talks and magazine subscription when I was in army. I would have gladly called up their insurance agent if I need a policy, but not when I had a few already. The last part of the lecture really woke me up into darkness with the focus on the screen. Snippets of the SP night were previewed, very much to our anticipation!
I hope I got my sequence of activities right haha
Then, we had station games that brought us through the whole afternoon! The most memorable part had to be the most tiring one, in which we had to run with a watermelon up the steps of the School Of ADM
That night was a long one, and beautiful as well:) I recalled walking a long distance to some area near the forested area where each of the OG took a group photo. I guessed there was an activity planned for us, but had to be cancelled due to the ongoing drizzling.
Initiaiton night was next and it just marked the beginning of a long night! We were blindfolded in hall 6 and were led to certain places to get real dirty and wet...the most disgusting thing happened in the toilet, where I had to suck up a coin from a pail of milo tucked into the toilet bowl..lol It was really a long night, bushes were tickling me from all corners...milo powders and flour were poured on me randomly. Number of hours blindfolded: 4
KO: around 3am
Day 2:
Fighting Strength: 22/22
Pool games were the highlights of the morning at the Sports and Recreation Centre(SRC). The captain's ball game was interesting though energy-sapping. I didnt get to throw the ball at all! All I did was to push the float with the girl on top while trying to stay afloat! The first sign of tiredness unrolled before me and before I could realise anything, it was time for lunch.
After lunch, I think we continued to play some dry games at the SRC. Since it has already been 2 weeks after the camp, all I could recall was playing captain's ball, chucking dried biscuits and a flour-flavoured mentos into my mouth and also piggybacking a girl while blindfolded!
That night really wore me out to the bones. I got really excited to know who my SP was through our first skin-to-skin interaction. The session lasted rather long and I actually spoke to 3 supposedly freshies, 2 girls and 1 guy. Wth brought me to the guy?? lOL..
Just as I thought the 2nd day would have ended with the "lab safety talk", I was wronged. That's the bridge to our exhilarating Fright Night! Never in my life had I experienced such awesome real-life thrills that could only be seen on horror shows. We went through about 8 stations where we had to gather clues and information to help solve a murder case, or a few of them. Actually, I felt the main objective was not in solving the mystery, but rather concentrated on scaring us! My task was a daunting one, having to protect 2 girls at the same time!!! Overall rating is unparalleled and i felt the programmers put in a great deal of effort in making this fright night a successful one.
KO: around 3am again
Day 3:
Fighting strength: 22/22
Started the day with a long bus journey to Sentosa and the thought of doing some body maintenance was quickly overwhelmed with games and riddles. The sun was bright and the mood was right for a day of beach games, but unfortunately these only lasted until lunch time when it rained. Nevertheless, lots of taupoks and watermelons and throwing raw chickens!
Next, we proceeded to Aloha Changi where the SP night was to be staged. It turned out to be a really lovely dining place under the night sky overseeing the sunset along the coastline. SDU must have been really busy yet thoughtful in planning out these events during this season of matchmaking in FOC camps. Food sucks though haha
The last event of the night ended with ice-skating at Jurong Entertainment Centre. We booked the whole skating ring just for our usage! I shall move on since skating on ice or even ground isn't my forte to begin with.
We rested early for next day's amazing race that we so dearly wanted to win, which we did eventually.
KO: 2am
Day 4:
Fighting strength: 22/22
We started the race with full of confidence and spirits which brought us far-ahead even before the 2nd team to finish the last station at SRC. The running part from SRC to innovation centre and from orchard MRT to Dhoby Ghaut MRT was madness haha..but it was worth the effort anyway. I didnt like the station where we had to search through the maddening crowd Bugis Village for someone whom we didnt even know!
After the race which we completed at around 9pm, we got back to wash up and went for supper at the nearby food centre. 1 x prata+chicken porridge+iced-milo would be good for a night's sleep.
Relevation night came to us as a surprise when the fake freshie was revealed to us!!! Was a girl so we couldn't taupok!
KO: 3am to 4am
Day 5:
Some games and a cheer competition followed by the grand finale, in which rules were no longer regarded when we started dumping water bombs at the opponents.
I had dinner with my OG after the end of FOC...reached home at 1130pm...KOed!
Really enjoyed this camp and the friends made..
Now i will just look forward to my hall FOC!