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15th to 17th Feb 2007: Photo.Republic IG (RP) Camp for Feburary 2007It has been quite sometime since i last went to camp, and these 3 days i'm going to embark on a camp journey both inside and outside school.
First Day, 15th Feb 2007:
Reached school at about 12 plus in the noon with Wan Ning, then reached the Agora area le we realized that they were still waiting for people.. So lets continue to wait and wait until about 1pm then we kick start off with our activities le..
First is the Ice-Breaking Games, we were supposed to sit in a circle and intro our names around, and after which play a game which we have to say out 3 things anything about ourselves which 2 of them have to be the true one and 1 is the false one.. We were supposed to guess which are the 3 things that the person say is the lie, and so we played around..
After which we bring our bags to W14F and we would attend the Basic Photography Workshop by our school facilator, Justyn Olby. After which we embarked on a journey to Mount Fabar through the school chartered bus for some photo shooting.. After Mount Fabar we walked the road down to HarbourFront when it started raining along the way, and so, we walked together in the rain as a big group.. Haha.. Walked until reached a bus stop along Kg Bahru Rd and we took a break. It's also the time when the rain start to get more heavier.. Then we ate some sandwishes and wait for the rain to become smaller before we continued our journey and we changed our plan to VivoCity instead of HarbourFront. Went there to shoot some photos inside the shopping mall before we WALKED through the basement car park for 1 BIG ROUND to Banquet at Basement 1 for dinner.. And to think that when we took the nearest escalator up to 1st Floor after our dinner, we returned back to the starting point when we stepped to VivoCity.. Yeah.. Congratuations! We have finally managed to walk through 1 big round the basement carpark!! After dinner we went for some night shots outside VivoCity (the view towards Sentosa) before we proceed back to RP (So in the end we never go to St James Power Station due to time constraint and weather which i also don't know where it's and even asked them if we have to go there by SHIP which make them laugh at it..) at about 8pm. We have to reach school early for bathing because RP Sports Complex closes at 10pm everyday and we have to finish our bathing and get out of the sports complex before 10pm. Managed to reach school at about 9pm and we rushed back to W14F to grab our things to put it at the RP Forum area instead (our sleeping area) and we rushed off to the sports complex for bathing. After that we sat down together and talk about various things before we use our laptop for our personal usage and we knocked off to sleep.
Second Day, 16th Feb 2007:
Woke up for breakfast and then we brought our barang barang back to W14F and we were attending the Studio Photography Workshop by Justyn Olby. After attending his workshop then we slacked for a while before going to W14E for Studio Photography practical part. Managed to get some hands-on experiences and after that we went back to W14F to slack and also having lunch with 1 of our Photo.Republic IG Faciliator at W14G before we went back and slack again. So for the rest of the time until 4 plus, we were like slacking with our laptops and for me it will be eat and eat and eat when i have nothing to do. We were also supposed to select at least 5 photos from what we shot the day before and share it to the rest of us.
After which we moved our barang barang back to Forum area and some of us went over to help fill up the water inside a lot of small transparant plastic bags (over 500 bags) for water bomb game later on.. We even went until the extent of taking the bag that they used for umbrellas outside Agora and filled it all up with water.. After which water bomb game started.. Muhaha... We were split into 2 teams and we just throw the bombs around.. Muhahaha!!!
After water bomb games we cleared up the place before we went for bathing at the sports complex and have dinner after that. We also didn't realized that we actually play water bomb game from 6 plus in the evening to 8 plus in the night time. We had MacDonald this time round instead of the rice with egg one i don't know called what arh.. After which we settled down there and Gui Xiang would share with us some of his stories during the times in the old RP Campus at Phoenix Park at Tanglin Rd area, photos included. After which we went back to use our laptops for a while before we went to sleep. For 2 days me and Wan Ning wanted to go to 7-Eleven to buy something to eat but it always hit the time 11pm when they closed store and in the end we onli went there the next day morning (Day 3) for breakfast. Now i think i know why they named it 7-Eleven le.. 7 is the 7am which they open their store and Eleven is the 11pm which they close their store (For those which is NOT 24hrs like RP one). For the rest of the night before i went to sleep, i went to Youtube to search for some scary stuffs to scare myself out.. Hahaha.. And passed the link around but no one wanna watch wahahaha.. I'm crazy and mad le!!! :-p Went to sleep after that which is around 2am.
Third Day, 17th Feb 2007:
Woke up at about 5:30am in the morning, went with some of them to take photo of its sun rise from the top level of RP MSCP (Multi-Story Car Park). In the end, waited since about 6am till about 7:30am we see nothing, and so we have a wasted trip and we went back to the Forum area. At about 8 plus, we see the sun rising from the big pond area and really, the sun is playing tricks on us huh.. lolx.. Some of them just packed and went off while some of us stayed on in school until about 11am because we need to settle some laptop stuffs.. Lolx.. Went home after that by cab with Wan Ning since she stays in my area there also.
Victor Lim