HAPPY BIRTHDAY YIHUI!!!!!!!!!!
Alright! It's our beloved OGL's birthday today and her birthday surprise was by no means easily planned.... It took a lot of mass msn convos, a lot of "OG" lunches and secret meetings for everything to work..... So... thanks to all in our OG who contributed in one way or another... So proud of our OG!
Basically what we did was to get her a cake and a present and surprise her at our lodge on her birthday morning. Sounds simple right? NO.... A lot of work was spent into choosing the cake, getting the cake, collecting the cake, choosing the present, getting the present, collecting the present.... doing the birthday card.etc
So... since some of those who were more... well... inactive in the process of planning Yihui's birthday surprise, here's the list of acknowledgements to all the people who had made her birthday surprise a "success" :D
Acknowledgements:
1. For ordering and collecting and bringing the super-delicious and high-class NYDC cake --> [M. See!)
2. For sourcing out and collecting Yihui's present --> [M. See!)
3. For mass messaging everyone to make sure everyone comes at 6.45am --> [Tan CM!)
4. For buying the materials needed to make the b-day card --> [Chua YH!)
5. For practically ruining the card with a horrentious design --> [S. Ho!)
6. For sticking the words "Happy Birthday Yihui!" on the lodge floor --> [Zhen Y!)
7. For tricking the Birthday Girl by telling her there's an OGL meeting --> [S. Liu!)
8. For coming to surprise the BG --> MT04!!!!!!!
Well... there you have it... the list of acknowledgements for the whole surprise.... Everyone contributed (as can be seen from the b-day card) and I'm sure our OGL feels so loved... Aww....
love you l'ame-bada,
SaMmYbOi
Hey people!
School has been really really really busy and my outside stuff have been really really really busy as well....
There's dance and there's shooting and there's the normal academic workload and there's outside dance and there's work and there's socialising time as well.... I don't seem to have enough hours in a day to do everything I want to do!
Anyway... Speaking of socialising time.... I've been spending so much time with my OG mates that I think I'll even dream about them in my sleep.... I see them at the lodge in the morning, I see them during school hours in the corridors or in the Lecture Theatres, I see them after school for lunch or for dinner, and I see them on the weekends sometimes for OG outings!
But of course there are only a handful of those in the OG who are still really enthu about everything... Though no names shall be mentioned here.....
In particular, I would like to talk about this certain person (let's call him "THO" by request) that has really made me realise that first impressions are not always the lasting impressions.
At first I thought he was really dao and really uber proud because he wouldn't talk to anyone other than his own company and he had this perpetual smug look on his face... Well, as you can see, my first impression of him wasn't... the best...
Anyway as time went by I found that actually he's actually a really nice person... Friendly... Light-hearted... Humble.... not at all how i described him in the above paragraph...
People always say that first impressions make up 70% of how you will think of someone in the future. But I beg to differ. I do not mean to say that THO changed from a proud and arrogant person to a friendly and humble friend. He didn't change at all. He was probably like that right from the start.
What is the truth in first impressions?
Are they as important as we think they are?
What is the difference between appearance (what it seems to be) and reality (what it really is)?
If we cannot judge a person's character by his/her appearance... How?
THO has taught me many things... about first impressions... about standing up for your friends... and mostly, about putting others before oneself.
There are so many in my OG who are like that... so deceiving in appearance and different in nature... No names mentioned, once again...
*At this point i've already digressed too far to come to an appropriate conclusion to my entry.
sAmMyBoI
