this week has gotta be the most tiring week i ever had in my life!! it's so super duper mentally and physically draining!!

had to attend 2 consecutive camps, student mentorship programme camp and student leaders camp, that were both 3D2N and held back-to-back to each other, starting on sunday and ending on thursday. my gosh, that wasn't too hard, except that i really nearly died on monday and tuesday because i went back to school for a total of 8 lectures & 1 practical, surviving only on only a total of 5 hrs for these 2 days... man, those coffee caffeine boosters did help to tide things over... i wanna complain!! y medicine got no holidays one?!?!?! like that how to study well?!?!?!

the smp camp was held at sembawang camp. yes, the campsite when i had my 1st medicamp. man, it brought back some memories on fright night and war games and the 'oh-my-god' gay skits on campfire night. this time, the setting was a bit different because i did not attend the camp as a camper, but more as a facilitator to the sec 1 kids, or mentees, and to help them enjoy the camp more, since most of them dun have this overnight camp opportunities. i felt we did lots of cool stuff, like cooking dinner with mess tins, night walk with mentee under the starry night, thrustfalls n putting up kiddy skits for campfire. man, i relinquish the role as a mentor guide to the kids for the camp, just that i bloody hell have to wake up n leave for sch by 6.15am n miss the entire morn and aft's activities!! crapz...

next was my 1st ever students leaders camp for NUS students' union committee members. cool, it was at ecp costa sands chalet and luckily, i din have sch for these 2 days so that i can enjoy the camp more thoroughly. to start things off, i was put into a group of pple whom were very cute and spontaneous, and that made my life so much terribly easier. we told each other so many hours of lame jokes that no other jokes can seem to penetrate and tickle the funny bone anymore. activities were fun, like speed-dating, which i've never done before, beach challenge n nokia phone challenge. oh, and not to forget the super late nights for supper at ecp lagoon food centre and midnight karaoke at marine parade kbox (service at that place sux totally!!!) i made new friends from other faculties at the end of day and i'm glad i did cos they gave me diff perspective of things.

sch on fri was a chore becoz the day was simply too long. but thanks wong yi, char and qiumei for making my day with your xmas cards. love it! and qiumei, your present was great, though a little small...haha!

that same night, i attended a NUS management dinner. apparently, someone must have known that NUS pple are gluttons and called for buffet style food instead in HOLIDAY INN PARK HOTEL!! kaoz, that burst my 8-course dinner dream! *poof* evidence to the above statement was clearly seen next when everyone in front of me in the Q snapped up the smoked salmon and baked ham, leaving none for me n my plate... well done NUS staff!! and i gotta say NUS staff are pretty much dead n boring with no slightest inkling for arts... so dead they are! there was this black singer who sang nice retro songs and tried to get the pple to sing or just clap along with him. but the NUS staff refused and he had such a hard time even entertaining himself! even i, who swayed and clapped along with the music, felt weird doing the swaying n clapping alone...!

sigh, finally, the holidays have started, but this just feel so different. maybe it's the CAs on the opening day of sem 2... or maybe it's just me. i quote my friend who gave me some food for thought during the camp. it goes 'life is just like a u-turn. 1st, u may b ahead of the pack, but with 1 wrong move, u fall behind everyone else'...