I’m sure everyone had their fair share of fun at the recent Welfare Services Club Volunteer Orientation Camp and RSPHI (cum COR) Volunteer Orientation Camp (VOC) =)
Even though we only spent about 1-2 days with one another, I feel that we have really learnt more about each other and bonded so much more. Here’s a recap to the activities that transpired over the 2 days in camp. So people who went for the camp, reminisce! And people who missed it, here’s to keep you in the loop.
18th Oct 2010 – Still in NTU
Fresh out of WSC-VOC and dinner, we were all gathered in the HSS building, playing ice breaker games and coming up with sign names for everyone in the committee!!! And now we have a wide array and huge diversity of sign names, even though it’s largely targeted at exposing the ‘unglam’ side of us and exposing the embarrassing things we’ve done. =x.
We have the Animal Farm, right, Alicia, Xizi and Quan Yi? (can still imagine Quan Yi calling Xizi a ‘kangaroo caught in the spot light’ or whatever haha)
We also have the cool cool ones like Kwee Fang, who initially wanted to do the ‘hand twisting’ thing that no one else can do!!! We ended up simplifying her sign name to ‘perform’ with her initials and having the knowledge that Kwee Fang does FIRE-DANCING. WOW!!!
Then and again, we are always comforted and reassured by some of the old sign names. *hint aim dejun hint*
After a brief opening speech, we set off on our bus ride to Aloha Loyang, playing several stupid games on the bus, right Lady Gaga? =p
18th Oct 2010 – At Aloha Loyang Chalet 13
Our first task after we settled into our chalets is to paint our identity flag, which we’re going to carry around everywhere the next day. Eventually, it’s been decided that we should just draw our simple orange ‘COR’ logo. And it really looks kind of amazing, so good job to the people who helped out with the drawing and painting!!!
It’s reaching midnight but the night is still young and we’ve still got our meeting ahead of us!
But before that, we launched a surprise birthday celebration for Mervyn, who looked a bit stunned when we started singing a birthday song for him. Our first birthday celebration within COR’11!!!
Sparing the details of the meeting, we ended off our night with Chief Terp, Wen Jie, leading the seniors to introduce and teach us song signing. We did the song, “Stay The Same” by Joey Mcintyre and while some of us were overwhelmed and having difficulties with the signs, I’m sure all of us enjoyed song signing and Wen Jie assured us there’s more to come. SO look forward to it, everybody!!! =)
19th Oct 2010 – Aloha Loyang Chalet
Time: ~7.45a.m
Objective: To annoy and wake up the COR’11. (haha)
Action: 4 crazy and sleep-deprived CGLs cheering Dynamite cheer in front of the COR bedrooms
Conclusion: Many Grumpy COR folks waking up for 2nd day of VOC!!!
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After breakfast, we gathered to teach COR the cheers that the CGLs came up with and everyone was so hyped up and enthusiastic about it so everyone managed to learn it quickly. And we’re SPECIAL because we’re using cheers that no other groups are using. (even though many people suspected that our cheers are a little too… …aggressive. =p Just bring it…)
We broke off for our individual station games and we played different games like Police, Tiger, Machine Gun where we rocked!!! It was pretty amusing to see everyone huddled around Luthfi, waiting for him to come up with the order of our signs, worshipping him for our success.
And in between Charades and Family Day, the next 2 station games, Eunice and JieXin, being overly obsessed with Youtube’s Annoying Orange series, suggested that our group mimic Annoying Orange and annoy our poor friends from RSPHI Clementi. Even though Clementi probably didn’t understand what the heck was going on and couldn’t be bothered with us, I think we all enjoyed being lame and had a good laugh.
A cloudy day that was threatening to rain loomed over us while we ate sinfully tasty Nasi Lemak back in our chalet. Subsequently, we introduced ourselves to Joey and we played some Concentration games using our sign names while waiting for the next part of camp to start. Quan Yi still looks a bit troubled when he had to explain to Joey how his Mr. Rabbit sign name came about. Haha.
Everyone went crazy at our first Dirty Game, “5 minutes no NG”. Kudos to all of us, who all did the various tasks like pouring water over our backs, rolling on a plastic sheet filled with detergent and water, getting our faces full of flour trying to get some Mentos and so on. But the real fun began when people started splashing water onto everyone and for a while, it seemed like nobody was paying attention to the games! We ended up having to refill the buckets of water that we wasted splashing onto everyone at the end of the game. Haha (Thanks Mang Yew and Quan Yi for carrying the heavy pails of water!!!)
Next, we played our Mass game, where we spread out across the field to collect items we are later going to use to decorate our mascot with and to collect more ammo for our water bombs war game!!! Ming Wei tried to get us to form a defence line to protect our cardboard from being damaged but to be honest, our cardboard became cui in a matter of minutes… -_-
But NEVER MIND. That just means that all of us are allowed to go crazy and run to other groups and throw water bombs at them and some, among ourselves. (Poor De Jun haha).
While clearing up, we saw Aloysius!!! And Jason introduced the man in all the COR promotional videos and the COR freshies made a quick round of introduction of ourselves before we went back for the final segment of the camp.
For the final part, we had to dress up a mascot with the resources we gathered earlier and incorporate COR themes into our design. In the end, our COR mascot has some fancy warrior stuff like a newspaper-made sword, cape etc. Amidst strong competition, like Woodlands Woodpecker (lmao) and Farra-gou, we still managed to land in top 3 and we got a big bag of tidbits, which we shall open up and share on Sunday and that’s the end of VOC camp!!!
Like I said, it’s been a short period of time but we had loads of fun!
Definitely a great way to start off COR’11 =)
“I say COR you say Sat.”
“COR sat. COR sat. COR COR COR sat sat sat!!!!!!!!!!”
-Chief Group Leader(s) (COR'11)
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