It's a seriously colourful life: awkward turtles

I'm taking a break from doing my annoying load of prefect work. And so, I will tell you about my awesome Saturday....which was two days ago.

I read something somewhere on the internet that said something like, "You have to have bad days in order to appreciate the good days." And that's exactly what I thought to myself on Saturday. It's quite amazing how good that day was. It was just a normal day with friends and it was just......fun. And I was just so very....happy.

So I shall describe my good day and if you're the sorta person who just can't stand other people being so happy, I advise you to maybe go back to your Facebook-ing or maybe turn off the computer or something.

Anyway, my Saturday started off like this:

So we've got Andrew looking outside the window, part of Jasmeet's head, Nishanth's back, Lydia smiling at the back and HOLY SHIT JASMIN. Love the face la. Oh and Nat and Kok Yan are hiding. Boo.

That picture up there is only part of the Editorial Board of my school. These people, including me, were chosen to go for the School Magazine Workshop organized by HELP Uni and we were all pretty excited.

The whole car journey to HELP was just plain noise. My dad, who was driving, was just like -_____-
He was probably thinking, "DAMN KIDS. MY SATURDAY MORNING IS RUINED." But anyway.

Sooo, we reached HELP and realised that we were one of the three schools out of 20+ wearing normal clothes. Everyone else were in their school uniforms or Ed Board t shirts (how intimidating). And there we were, in our t shirts/checkered shirts and jeans with our sling bags standing around, looking quite embarrassed. BUT WHAT THE HECK WE GOT OVER IT COS WE STOOD OUT YEAHHH
We were cool :P

Signed in, got a random piece of paper with a number on it, filled up some forms and proceeded to the theater.

See how everyone's in their school uniform?!

Suckers.

And how we're the odd ones out?!

Cool.

Anyway, once we were all settled in, Mr. Dhanesh, or should I say Uncle Dhanesh (since I've known him since I was a mere toddler) gave a welcome speech

and all went well until we were split into groups according to the numbers that we were given when we signed in.

Let me tell you this, I don't think much bout making new friends. But when faced with a situation where I do have to mingle around and talk to people I don't know, I'd rather not. Okay, to sum it all up: I'm anti-social. I feel awkward around new people and when I actually try to be sociable, they just look at me all weird. Probably cos I make very lame remarks that end with an awkward smile or......you know what, let's carry on.

So we were divided into groups and each group was sent to different lecture halls for an ice-breaking session. I hate those words. Ice-breaking session. The first thing that comes to my mind is me on a frozen lake and someone purposely knocks the icy surface with a hammer and the ice cracks and I'm trying to run away but the crack is catching up with me and it gets bigger and then the ice actually breaks into pieces and I fall into the freezing water.

yea ._.

Luckily in the theater earlier, I somehow made a new friend, a girl from St. Mary's and she got into the same group as me. So we walked together to the lecture hall we were supposed to go to and I didn't feel so awkward.

The ice-breaking activity that all of us had to go through was the famous newspaper dance, but instead we did it on mahjong paper. Oh yea, you're probably thinking, "pffffft, mahjong paper, so easy." HELL NO

We were divided again into groups of five. So is a mahjong paper big enough? Not really.

Yeah, that lil white thing at the bottom of their feet is the mahjong paper after being folded in half bout 4 times.

The joys and wonders of climbing on people just to get to know them.

This all lasted for bout 15 minutes and then we were back in the theater with everyone else.

So the day went on smoothly. Got a lot of info from the talks given, one of them by Mr. Siva, or Uncle Siva (cos he too has known me since I was a mere toddler).