Prepare for landing... On the Bums...

There he was at East Coast Park, embarrassed by the likes of roller blades, blading with his fellow V5 revolutionaries. Mr Genki wanted to wipe off those evil grin on the freshies faces as they thought he was going to fall flat on blades.

Surprisingly, Mr Genki's balance on the blades were not too bad. Even though it had been long since he bladed (I don't remember balancing so well back then.. Ha).


Steady... Steady......


There, balanced...


Trouble!


And there they have it... On the Bums... And the freshies went "HAHAHA... Finally!". Evil...

And the pics are a misrepresentation of the actual number of people we had. Four of us were blading while four others were on foot. No one was willing to help me with my haversack. How compassionate. And blading is quite demanding, judging from the way we perspired. Which is why Mr Genki haversack's straps got wet eventually. zZz

Here's more pics. Special thanks to Jaren for providing them!


While Mr Genki was on his way...


Fantastic Four!

We then met Geraldine at City Hall for dinner. Mr Genki recommended Sakae buffet at Funan. Upon hearing the word "buffet", we all headed to Funan without second thoughts. Most of us had ambivalent feelings about our hunger. At first we mentioned that we're not that hungry but after a while, everyone suddenly became hungry at a snap of the fingers. Wonders of Japanese cuisine. zZz...

Buffet at Sakae cost $15.90++ for youth and senior citizen and $18.90++ for adults. Six of us went in and 5 fall under the former category while Mr Genki falls under the latter. Good Grief, one good year older makes a whole lot of difference. Sigh... The title "Mr" does make this body feels much older...


As we toasted with our final handroll...

V5! Sup sup Oooeeeii!

Transformers... They're Alive!

It's like a living childhood fantasy! Mr Genki is so glad that he's still in time to catch this movie in theatre, together with good old Wei Jie and Zhi Xian.


Robots in disguise

Mr Genki is quite sure technosexual is going to turn "technophobic" after catching this show. Cubes are going to be their worst nightmare. Non-biological Extraterrestial so powerful even the most advanced military weapons could not match them. Super effects and a must catch in theatres.

Nothing much in storyline to blog about... That idea of a living childhood fantasy is simply too awesome!

5k vs V5. I prefer the latter...

830am in the morning and Mum was all out to drag me away from the comforts Mr Genki's bed. Mr Genki knows the reason for such a disturbing act. But all was justified by the fact that he had to get the tuition fee loan settled by today. No more procastination.

Dragging himself up, Mr Genki took a quick wash-up and snappy breakfast. All set to head for OCBC bank (I really hate that place). He knew that this every step in this trip is going to be heavy. He knows that because his decision today is to pay off the $5k loan in order to acquire a new loan. He knows exactly that this is so dumb and illogical. He has got no choice.

He was delusioned. Smiling and greeting customers are just basic courtesy and part of the bank officers etiqutte. But Mr Genki can go to the extent of thinking that they're smiling because he is there to pay off his debt! How deranged!

It had been settled, albeit reluntantly.

Fortunately, my V5ers never fail to light up my day. 23 strong turned up for the $2 dirt cheap Harry Potter movie outing today. Though there was a last minute change in venue, but we shouldn't be complaining too much if we're paying like only 2 bucks.

It was free seating in the theatre. V5ers believe in strength through unity, unity through faith. In order to uphold unity, we waited for everyone to arrive so that we would enter the theatre together. The results are calamitous. Since we waited for everyone to arrive, we were thrown into the front 2 rows as the others had taken the good seats. Thanks to the virtue of the fact that it's free seating... ZzzZz... BUT! I'm so proud to say that we're united! That sacrifice is worth it.

Then was dinner at the Manhattan Fish Market. Had a Giant Platter. Loads of Seafood. Too bad didn't snap a picture of that. We thought Ben & Jerry's are irresistable. So we took a short walk to the Cathay. However, when Mr Genki got a 3-scooper for the group, only Yeow An seemed to be interested in the treat. Strange...

This blog shall deviate from it's usual Picture Deficiency Syndrome for once. Special thanks to Hui Xia for providing the pics!

At Manhattan Fish Market...


With Shaun


Part of V5!

At Ben & Jerry's...


With Bobo


With Hui Xia


Even smaller part of V5. ZZz


And the finale.

V5! Oeeeeeiiiiii...

Battered and Heartbroken

It has been a huge struggle for me to let go of everything that I had gain so far. Stepping into unfamiliar grounds and start all over again will never be easy.

What's worse is that I'm going to be financially troubled, and in a sort of unjustified manner. We all know that the purpose of taking up a tuition fee loan is because we do not have the money to pay off these outrageous and overrated Tuition Fee in University (Notice the choice of O words). So in my course of transferring schs, our dear OCBC Bank had informed me that I will have to pay off the outstanding amount that I had loaned for my studies in the current institution before I can proceed on to apply for a new loan in my new course of study. What Crap! Why do I loan money from you? That's because I'm short of it. And now you're telling me to pay it off before you're loaning me more? LOGICAL? Thanks to rigid policies and so much for following the law!

And the lecturers that has been with us? Had they been that world class to have justified that exorbitant paycheck? Leave that to you to decide...

I must say, I'm paying alot of money to be doing so much administration work all by myself. It's really good training through huge adversity. While things seem that it couldn't get any worse......

It got emotionally worse for me. Riding through this turbulent time got me really battered. Which explains that I've lost quite some will in doing anything. I've got no heart in doing things no more...

I've tried to communicate my mental fatigue to my dearest parents. And I know they've been supportive, but not in a right way. I even go to the extent of telling my mum that I had the intention of suspending university for 1 year. But what came in returned were heartbreaking words, in lieu of serious concerns. Mum thought the suspension is for a course to play and play and play. Am I really that much of a spoilt brat to you mum?

As much as I want, I've tried my best to be a good child. I have taken up 3 tuition assignments so that I wouldn't take money from Dad no more. And I could even contribute a little to the household. I know I do play hard, but I worked hard too! So what makes you think that I've never worked? It has been a long while since I'm so hurt...

V Vill Vin Vhe Valk... V5!

By popular demand, Mr Genki shall dedicate this particular entry to my dearest revolutionary V5.

For my freshies who have been so coercively conscientious in reading this blog, I'm going to give you a bit more privilege in knowing more about the camp. They are unwritten in your program booklet!

Day -1: OGLs and councillors back in school on a Sunday. All because we wanted to finalise our plans for scaring the sh*t out of you freshies. Took us a couple of hours to complete this. And as soon as we're done, we knew we were hungry for dinner. But we didn't know that heaven would be so cruel to us to bequeath us with heavy rain. Well, life sucks but fortunately for us Shaun and Bo had their vehicles with them that night. Though we got a bit wet, it could have been worse for us. Freshies, we did this for you!

Day 0: If you have been baffled by the numbering of the days, day -1 means two days before you reported for camp and day 0 would mean "please count yourself". Yes, we were preparing the goodie bags and then fright night. What more can I say about preparation. It's a chore. But it's for you freshies!

Day 1: Here we go! Freshmen with excessively huge bags. Where else can they go besides Kent Ridge Hall for Union Camp 07? Do What I do! "Hands Up! Palms Together! Heeey Heey SaaBuuEeeh!". Cheers and Ice-breakers game were everywhere to get freshmen into the mood for the camp. Too bad Mr Genki had to leave for a while for a medical check up. And by the time Mr Genki was back, it was all skits. But fortunately I didn't miss the SP blind dates. It's so fun going around disturbing couples who were blindfolded.

Day 2: Pool Games. 8am in the morning and Mr Genki looked out of the window and he could not find the Sun. Together, V5 took the shuttle service to the pool without finding the Sun. As the OGL of revoluntionary V5, Mr Genki realised the need for allies in order to survive the ordeal in War Games. So together, V5, Titans, Pirates and Rocky joined hands and cheered to show our prowess in numbers! Strength through Unity and Unity through Faith! Played a whole load of games and then at night... The highlight of the camp. It was a night of artificial supernaturals...

Day 3: Beach Games and Sentosa, here we come! But wait. Something was missing. It was the Sun again. But fortunately it was just a little more cloudy and it didn't rain. As usual played a whole load of games, and Mr Genki was sand buried. He was so irritated as he was lying down and couldn't see what embarrassment was done to his lean body. And more so he couldn't breathe properly for goodness sake. Worse still he was told not to breathe so hard so that his boobs won't crack! God help me, my freshies thought that embarrassing me is more important than my well-being! Anyway had alot of fun embarrassing myself and then played loads of games again. Mr Genki couldn't believe that he wasn't dunked into the sea at all, even though he hinted how dry he was to the freshies the whole day. Geraldine caught my hint albeit very late. She threw water bombs at Mr Genki after he washed up! Thanks! Got back to KR and then had a Casino Rueda mass dance. Definitely not my cup of tea when it comes to dancing.

Day 4: Prepare for WAR! As we march to the hot gates at the SRC. Had alot of fun getting wet and dirty. It was so fortunate or unfortunate in its own ways that dirty sandwich was our last station before the lunch break. Since we had excess face paint to play with, we displayed the more artistic side of ourselves by throwing and rubbing it around each others faces and bodies. Calamity! Results were abstract human artworks walking around. And Mr Genki apparently became Mr Pikachu as he was painted yellow... Thanks to Geraldine again... Well, I should say though it was a colourful day for us and we all had fun! Double O at night. Alcohol was all Mr Genki remembered. Drank some house pours, B52 shooters and a flaming lambourgini (which I bought one for our dear birthday girl Hui Xia). Mr Genki was so appalled by the service in double O. They can't light 2 flaming lambourginis together and so we ended up drinking alone even though we drank together. What Crap! And Hui Xia was so funny with her immense affection for pillars after finishing the lambourgini. Haha.

Day 5: Last Day. Heard from Best OG Spartans OGL that V5 was 3rd. Not bad, but Mr Genki does not know how true is that. Mr Genki had his fair share of personal glory as he was awarded the joint best OGL of the camp together with his good friend Norman. V5, I couldn't have done it without you! Thank You all! I love V5!

Quoting from Norman, "Union Camp begins just after the moment it ended". All the joy, excitement, fun and exasperation. They were just sudden surges of emotion during the camps and no longer matter no more. What matter now is the companionships, the camaraderie, the friendships, the bonds that we had fostered during the camp that we will carry through our tertiary life, i.e the true Union Camp.

When World No.1 Meets No. 2...

Drama at the Wimbledon Men's Single 2007 Final. For the very first time, playing tennis seemed like a sine curve to me. Except that we might be experiencing resonance this time. Advantages kept swinging to both sides at equal intervals, with the level of excitement building up in an exponential fashion.

7-6, 4-6, 7-6, 2-6, 6-2. It was World No. 1 Roger Federer who got the better of Rafael Nadal in the end and claimed his fifth consecutive Wimbledon Grandslam Championship Trophy.

This is the first time that Mr Genki sticked his butt to the chair and watched a whole tennis cup tie. It was so special. Federer who is as calm as the ocean, usually expressionless, seemed to have taken a class on theatrical skills. It's as though a tsunami, first time ever that Mr Genki seen Federer's emotion getting the better of him. Those arguements with the Umpire, screams of winners and the tears of joy at his championship. His strokes were not as firm. They were not results of theatrical skills, but real. It really meant alot to him.

Nadal, on the other hand, had sent a firm warning to Federer that he'll be able to match Federer, even on the lawn. Nadal played well. In fact so well that Mr Genki thought Federer was going to fall. Thankfully, Mr Genki was mistaken.

What is interesting was that Federer managed 24 aces but had only broken 2 serves from Nadal. On the contrary, Nadal only managed 1 ace but broken 3 serves from Federer. Good grief! 24 aces is just good enough to win a set!

It is that cool and calm in Federer that made him such a charmer (Though it seemed to diminish a little this time). Lady Luck smiled upon him too.

Federer Prevails!

Update

By popular demand for a popular persona, Mr Genki shall give you an update.

There has been nothing much exciting this week, except for being busy. Mr Genki is enslaved by the union. 4 days and counting to the Union Camp, and as expected, we're tying up all the loose ends. Unlike BizAd FOC, there's alot of preparation work committed for Union Camp. BizAd FOC had been fun. So Union Camp, it better be fun......

In an attempt to make my tagboard look active, there have been lots of exchanges between Genki and Cher in the tagboard lately. High level of activity I would say, but too few number of parties. Mr Genki thanks his very good friend, Cheryl, for her effort in keeping up with him by reading every word in this blog conscientiously. What about other friends? If you have been reading this, tag! Don't make me feel like I've no friends alright? =)

Shirlene was telling me on msn yesterday how much this blog had entertained her. This made Mr Genki felt great as he thought that being funny will be the best compliment that anyone could have given to his blog. He'll try to think of more dramatic crap so as to add to your reading pleasures. And to Shirlene, please tag!

Somehow Mr Genki thinks that he has this condition, i.e. the Picture Deficiency Syndrome. More words than pictures. Which seemed very unwise in a sense that putting a picture adds 1000 to the word count while Mr Genki doubts that finishing the rest of this entry can account for even half of that 1000 words.

Maybe Mr Genki needs a better camera (Hint!). Till then, brighter and clearer thousands of words will be available.

Mr Genki just finished another dramatic email that was composed for his union camp freshies. Shall show you guys one of those emails when I'm slightly more free. Arghh, my hands are so full, but I'm still typing with my keyboard...... zZzzZz

Sunday Blues

Mr Genki had been driving for the past four days. Much excitement that he would expect since he seldom gets the chance to drive. And in Mr Genki's favour to drive for this particular week is at the expense of his brother-in-law being quarantined at home due to chicken pox. Bro, get well soon!

For the first few days, there wasn't too much of a problem on the road. Except Mr Genki had to travel along PIE then BKE during PEAK HOURS. The traffic condition then was appalling. Long queue at the Clementi Ave 6 entrance towards PIE(Changi) gave Mr Genki a huge clue of the calamity awaiting for him ahead.

I have to accentuate that I was then driving alone with my yellow base, orange triangle plate. And it's the first time I'm dealing with such a heavy traffic. 4-wheeled vehicles have got no choice but to be discipline in keeping on their lanes. What I loath most are the riders. Being small means agile, they never fail to attempt to cut through every single gap they see. And they really appear from nowhere, which is why drivers should check blind spots before changing lanes or making a turn. Since I was at a crawling speed due to traffic conditions, I was able to witness how these buggers show their immense affection for gaps. Sheesh, it was so stress.

Since I was such a greenhorn in driving, I tried my best to observe the art of defensive driving rigorously. Hence, even in heavy traffic condition, I made it safely to my destinations.

This part of the post accounts of my Sunday blues. Had a tuition class at Bukit Panjang and drove there. Again, made it safely there. However, complications arosed, ensued, but were somehow overcome for the return trip. Mr Genki was involved in his first case of traffic accident.

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I was travelling along Bukit Batok Rd (if I had not mistaken) at the speed limit of 70km/h and suddenly......

AMBER LIGHT. So I hit the brakes hard to get my vehicle to stop b4 the stop line, which I did. A vehicle behind reacted just a little late. But the driver, knowing that it was safe to do so, swerve his vehicle to the lane left to mine and hitting the brakes at the same time, had his front right of the vehicle knocked into the rear left of mine. The left of my rear bumper suffered significant scratches while his front right was seriously dented.

Thankfully, he's one driver who's responsible enough to stop by somewhere safe and talk things over nicely. I really appreciate that apologetic attitude and the kindness for not eating up a greenhorn like me. I was so lost. I could do nothing but to call my Dad for advice on dealing with the situation.

It could have been worse for me if the driver decided to run like the devil itself and itelf is upon him. Melancholy for Mr Genki. And tomorrow I shall meet him again at the workshop.