Cyberia Camp

Well, it started with ed Ad asking me if i'm going to Siberia. 

The first day, i went to school on 151 and saw 2 other ppl with big bags like me. I went a bit early to go down to pgp to return    his matric card. I came back and registered and checked into an old double room in raffles hall and waited for my roommate to arrive. There weren't much ice-breakers and we went down for the first course on photoshop. After lunch and another session of photoshop, we went for an Amazing race. I'm still waiting for pics from the rest, since i didn't bring my camera around for the first day :( Another game that was supposed to be after dinner was cancelled too, cos the amazing race ended too late, i think. The games were really fun. And what made them fun was my group. Small yet, very bonded and coordinated, for a group of ppl who just met. Another interesting thing was the points system. It was measured in kilobytes. And points were represented by circuit components like resistors, capacitors, transistors and IC chips. It was just funny to see them all being pushed into a styrofoam board. It doesn't conduct electricity! They should have given us components to make an amplifier circuit and decide the number of points from the gain that we can achive or sth.

 I wanted to go running on the first night, but didn't bring my running shoes. so, too bad.

2nd day. had bee hoon and milo for breakfast. The 2nd day was fully on softwares. We learnt flash ( with actionscript squeezed into the last 10 mins) and flex. Flex is a cool adobe software for making web applications. I would say it's a marriage of Flash and Dreamweaver. We had BBQ at evening. It all ended so fast! It's good that my group decided to go down to fong seng for supper. I guess the addition of the fong seng component which involved walking about 2km by foot, in addition to the main dining experience added a great deal to the group bonding, although only 5 ppl were involved in them. After coming back, a few of us watched a chinese movie, beaststalker, i think.

3rd day. Woke up quite late. The past 2 nights were cold.  brought a sleeping bag to use as a blanket! lucky i had a jacket. even with that, i was frozen the first night. I slept with the fan on. and my roommate didn't turn off the fan when he came in later. 2nd night, we decided to keep it at the lowest speed. it was a lot better, still with my jacket.

The competition went well. I thought i could have done a better job, but after seeing the top 2 entries, i felt lucky to have gotten the 3rd prize. Even if i've worked on it before, i don't think i could have done a better job. And also, thanks to for doing up the poster part!! and helping me hand up the work! :D And also, thanks to for helping me out with the animation!! haha, I could have used u better if i had done a better planning. Also, i wasn't really in the photoshop frame of mind that day. I kept thinking that it is hard for me to express stuff in a single picture, compared to how much i can say using some movements. So, i try to put in a lot of stuff into the flash animation. That's why u'll see a lot of things happening at the same time.

Alrights, the last day was also the day whereby i was more aware of how ppl around me were acting and i was actively thinking about it. And let me tell you this. I got to notice a whole range of weird behaviours that tell a lot about ppl, that i normally wouldn't have observed or understood. haha, time for me to read up on sociology. 

We broke camp at about 3 plus. I came back and applied for PAssion card and tried to get a windsurfing slot on fri, 19th. but no vacancy. Guess i'll have to try for next week then.