law camp day 1

Alright i am damn sorry i am no genius so i could not get the day 1 photos in order. so this is at night, me acting as Timmy! i dont have photos with Susie Pall Mahesh!!!!!!!! Damn!!!!
my 'partner' Bob. the rich businessman who is unsatisfied with his wife.
Lerky and his OG at mindbenders in the afternoon!
PamPam and Sylvia in lorry early in morning en route to School!!!!
Guanzhen, my OGL last year, with a host of this year's councilors. the old has gone, the new has come.
me scaring the cameraman in the lorry, early in the morning!!! see how dark it is!

Sylvia Carol and Ziliang looking happy and EXCITED FOR LAW CAMP 2005!!!!!!

INTRODUCTION AND CHECK IN
The freshmen came earlier then expected. We told them to report at 830, but at 745, there were already a couple of them. Thus some councilors were deployed to take care of them and slowed down our admin process. The aim was to get all councilors checked in before 9 so that thereafter the O TEAM could entertain the freshmen. However, since we could only get the keys at 830 and not 8 as planned, we only managed to check all councilors in by 930 thereabouts. Lesson learnt= don’t underestimate freshmen. They are excited and will come on time. I think I had an impression that they would be late because I myself came about an hour late last year. Haha.

The admin table outside consisted of Jordan, Pam, Melissa, Hanwen, Sylvia, Carol and Jackson. They handled the admin quite well but I still thought it could be done faster. Also, I noted that some OGs had more enthusiastic people or pretty/attractive/outstanding girls than others. I hope this was due to pure chance and not any rigging. Whatever the case, I made a mistake by not verifying the OGs before letting the introduction start proper. In the end, OG 6 had 5 girls and 10 guys whilst OG 5 had about 8 girls and 7 guys. Some other OGs also had more girls than guys. I was not too pleased. But by the time I found out, they were already in their ice-breakers and it was too late to break them. Subsequently, I tried putting any girl who was late into OG 6.

We had my 5.1 speakers to work for the system and the mikes in TH were good. So at 10, we began our intro. There was LAW CLUB, FOCC main committee and finally the LAW CAMP COMM. This was done in 15 mins as compared to last year when every single committee was introduced. It got a bit tedious and complicating for us freshmen. We should stick to a simple intro.

Next, we began a short skit by me, rehearsed just 30 mins ago with zhu. She made me do some stupid stuff. I was rather embarrassed at first but decided to stick to it. It paid off because it was, apparently, either funny/entertaining. I especially liked the part where I shouted ‘SHUDDUP!!!!’. I just love to shout. Then we had the OGLS video and the newscast by Mahesh and Alex.

Ice breakers was held in 4 locations in Temasek Hall. They went well and on time. The ICs had done the recce earlier in the morning and had gone off to prepare the stations during our skit, so all was well on. A problem was the shortage of water bombs for one particular station, wishy washy I think. We needed a few hundred more. Lesson= don’t underestimate the importance of making more water bombs. They always run out faster than you would expect. As a result of the shortage, freshies had to fill water bombs at the end of the game. That should not have happened. By and large the other games went well and were fun enough, as it seemed to me at least. This first activity is crucial for the OGLs to stamp their authority as well as to make their freshies cheer. Start off on a wrong note and you are done for. I spent my time walking around and making sure people were playing by the rules and having fun. For example, I suggested the chicken dance forfeit for the caterpillar chairs station run by Si Cong and Melanie. In the meanwhile, Jackson Sylvia and Carol were busy allocating rooms for the freshies so they could check in at lunch time.

One thing about freshmen room allocation. We should just stick to 2 in a single room and 3 in a double room we save money that way. Besides, many of them would rather have someone to sleep with. I totally understand. I think we wasted about $1500 because of this.

Lunch was good and the TH caterer, Vincent, does a great job. We checked in all the freshies in this hour and b4 lunch even began, we already had our 5.1 and projector shifted to the moot court, ready for Liangwei’s R n F talk. Great job loggies.

RnF, SECRET PAL, MINDBENDERS

Liangwei’s briefing was great. However, it was pushed back to after SP because Liangwei noticed a hitch in the video. Jinhuang, our plant for the day, was very evidently jumping up and down in the RnF video. It’s always good to check your videos and activities b4 your programme begins. It never hurts to be prepared. It always benefits. Also, we had Jugs the genius to help us edit the video so it could be ready to play after SP. Bernia had a short talk too. Watching the video brought back wonderful memories of last year and our stinct at bishan home. It was so care free and fun then. My do a deer dance was shown. The presentation days were a period I will remember forever. New friendships forged, out of which, we have a couple of couples today. Hahahaha. ZERO regrets joining presentation last year. I am glad that I was there.

Secret Pal was a little messy, as expected, but it went well and I think the seniors had more fun than the juniors. We started with a real cheesy but cute skit by Favian and Grace. It was quite funny seeing those 2 act in love. What an odd couple. But it was cute. I actually wanted a longer skit with a little more cheese and romance but we did not have the time to think about it. We spent lotsa time disturbing them and I don’t think many of them actually had proper conversations. One thing we learnt about this batch is that they are significantly guai-er than us and possibly a little more dead. Our batch has many colourful characters. I felt that if all the councilors were more disciplined we could make the waiting time shorter, but oh well, I guess we all had fun tickling and molesting them. Jordan and Pam’s system worked well but I think they should also have included a system on how to deal with stranded freshies or people with no SPs. It’s really a lot more complicating then you would think. Also, its difficult when you have 40 over councilors trying to make fun of 100 blindfolded freshmen. It was chaotic to say the least.

Mindbenders ICs had already prepared their stations during the RnF talk and SP, so it was a smooth transition. WE started off with a skit of Che Guerrera hounding me, the Chief Minister of CAFWAL, for information. I ended off telling they could get information from the ministry of information. This activity was helmed by Adam, Saify, and Pardeep. The 4 stations were well run, but my only grouse is that the classrooms were too small for 2 stations. They were almost 40 people packed into each classroom. This was my fault. I should have forseen that. Anyway Guanzhen was there at mindbenders. Was strange to see him cos 1 year ago he was leading OG8 and now I am in charge of Law Camp. My my my how time does fly.

NIGHT COURT

The freshmen went back for dinner at TH whilst we had our night court dry run settled. It was a bit messy with everyone having their 20 pence worth (damn lawyers) but thankfully manu and Susie managed to tie it all up and we had a few good runs. Technically, the sound, projector and video went well too. Thank God. I went back to bathe and eat and was back, with my garb for the night. Real gay shirt and pants. The judges, Au Da Yu, Sandra Tan, and Kex came at about 7 and we had one last dry run with them. Was good. So in the meantime, the OGLs had already been preparing the freshmen for tonight. I think we scared them a little too much because even when they came in, they were dead silent. They probably thought it was something really serious. Plus the fact that they were well dressed seniors at the back.

So we had our video, our acting and the question asking time which was really stressful for me since I hated acting gay and I don’t think I was really doing a good job. I was more of a sex crazed sissy than anything else. But well, as long as it looked silly and entertaining. Mahesh was really funny because he acted really well as the gardener and we collaborated a couple of times on when he would attack me or Bob(acting as Bob), the wealthy businessman. I was trying my best to stifle my laughter at the times after his ‘attacks’. Once he nearly knocked me off the chair. That was the best. Also, when he shouted at the freshmen to quickly start with the questioning. I really could just burst out laughing.

Then we had the judges come in and the freshmen do their stuff. I think they must have been terribly frustrated. I was last year. Adding to their discomfort was the stuffiness. The management refused to switch on the air con after 9pm and so we had to suffer. There was a little confusion and hiccup regarding the calling of witnesses so we had to waste a good half hour before our plant jinhuang emerged. But that scene was perfect. I think we really scared the balls out of the freshmen. Everyone’s acting was on cue and Barter looked real convincing dragging jin out. All the rehearsals were worth that minute of madness. I even addressed the freshmen after jin was brought out and told them that his was highly inappropriate behaviour. I guess our talking to the judges and their mini lashing of the crowd really worked things out. The freshmen were dead serious. The 2nd plant, our year 3 Albert Loo also did a great job. He seemed nervous and not too confident so his Penal Code 300c did not seem too rehearsed. Fantastic.

I think 1 drawback on our superb acting and creating the somber mood was that the freshmen could not laugh or were unable to see the funny side even when the judges started making them do stupid stuff. I shan’t recount all the funny thing that happened, but of course, we had out Fabio Man of Man from OG8, and we had the bailiff and people shouting good job, well done, in Melayu, Chinese, and Tamil. I will never forget Cheryl, I don’t know which OG she is from. She acted as Bob, and shouted at Fabio, acting as Cuixian/the deceased wife’Susie’ –
‘You! Better give me sex tonight! You better open up your legs or I will pluck out your nanapok!’.

Wah. I laughed till I teared. Even as I am typing this at home, I am grinning. It was so damn funny. In the end, the freshmen realized it was a joke. But Au Da Yu gave them a good debrief and justification for such an event – to prepare them for Judges who are strange and unreasonable. Great.

So we ended day 1, packed up and I had an early night. I think I had the luxury of 6 plus hours of sleep.