All these days...

I begin writing my monthly blog for July five minutes before August. The Hall FOC people are still screaming and cheering around.

Continuing from last post, I didn't go to work at mum's kindergarten during my time at home. Instead, I was given the task of tutoring my brother who will be sitting for SPM at the end of the year.

I came back in Singapore on 6 July to prepare for the MSA Freshman Orientation Camp. As I joined welfare for the camp, there was actually not much preparation needed. All we needed to do is to attend meetings after meetings... until the weekends before the senior camp and the actual camp, when we bought supplies.

As welfare, I didn't get to join the fun most of the time. Most of the time, welfare have a job to do: preparing and distributing food and drinks, and cleaning up. But some of the time, it was of choice: while we were supposed to join our assigned OGs after getting our work done, most of us preferred to sit aside and watch people having fun. Even first aiders, who were expected to stick to their assigned OGs all the time, prepared food together with us (non-first aiders) and sat with us after the job's done. Even when we were joining OGs, we were also doing our job — as water carriers, although most of the time they didn't need the water.

Consequently, not many of us get to know the freshmen and get closer to them. Actually, this is one of my objectives of joining the camp. In my case, due to my Campus Crusade involvement, I couldn't join the the camp for the first day and half of the second day. I went to join the FOC almost immediately when I came back to NTU from Changi. I introduced myself to the GL, AGLs and the free SAs of my attached OG, Ryshin, but it was until the fourth day when I was formally introduced to the freshies. Basically, you can go to Tammy's blog about the FOC and read the 4th paragraph.

On the last day of FOC, after the welfare sharing session, I found out Ryshin was still having their sharing session. Despite being advised against doing so, I joined them in their super long sharing session, because I knew that that might be the last chance to join the group. Although my eyes were shutting during the super long session, I managed to wait for the chance to share something with the group. I don't know whether they will remember me (so far haven't received a word from them since that day), but I'll just wait and see.

Last but not least,

WELFARE ROCKS!!!
RYSHIN ROCKS!!!
FOC ROCKS!!!

p/s: still clueless about the FOC OGs' names... they seems to make no sense: Ryshin, Xomura, Zommari, Qeisharo and some other Japanese-sounding names...