astrofest!

yep yep finally blogging after dunno how long. loads of things have been happening so far, like jap club sessions finally can dun care for now, astro stuff over, and bridge comp is over (we got 3rd in consols! that's not bad kkk)

haha yeah blog about astrofest.

hmm it was better than i expected in several ways. for one, it's got a lot more interaction with other groups, and pretty fun. like u don't actually need to know so much about astro stuff to do well! (yes seriously. i guess it's a flaw in the comp as well >.<)

haha our group owned at scrabble, especially with the word jovian. we got a record-breaking 48 points for that! like double letter for two letters, then triple word, so we broke the record! what's more, we wanted to form zeeman with 10 points for the z but didn't have a n ): but we formed aurorae and beehive and a lot of astro words. hee it was pretty much my work but not bad! we got 225 points in the end (:

picture for you - the epic record-breaking win:

Deimos, Beehive, Jovian, Aurorae, Apogee, Polaris and Helix were our words. the rest were the other team's. Astrofest was the given beginning word haha.

i guess i had a knack for identifying words from the letters. oh yes and adrita she had lucky hands! she always took letters which formed nice astro words.

hmm we won 4 games and drew at 2, which = no loss at all! we broke sikai's team's winning streak >.< we won the darts game with a lucky coin! the qns were either true or false, so we flipped the coin 3 times to decide the answer. the coin kept telling us the same answer so we decided to go with it and true enough, the coin was right! that was pretty scary, and it happened twice la haha. sorry sikai and pan xP

pyramid round was noisy. i think they shouldn't let both teams play at once, bcos u can't hear what your team members are telling you and it's too noisy lah. ended up with everyone shouting over the noise T.T they should make the groups do one by one i guess, if that's possible. bleh. but still the pyramid list we looked through in the morning helped! haha

pictionary was really close, i think we drew for that one. (eh pun not intended haha). the other group was hci, they were actually quite good. the words i had to draw were cosmic rays. i drew rays, but i didn't know how to draw cosmic. then engwei totally saved my life! he was like rays? cosmic rays! i was super amazed. dunno how he thought of that. later on, he actually drew a bra and numbers to illustrate penumbra! >.< we were all HUH -blur-. dlu managed to guess it though! hahahaa

pic id was baddd. like we didn't know a lot of the pictures, but we knew the saturn's rings one! but the other group shouted stop a split second b4 us ): in the end we drew even though we could have won haha.

the wheel game was weird with umm. not very good graphics. ya and the needle thingy just kept landing in between two pies. like between bankrupt and 4 points for us! luckily we argued our way out and the student i/c decided to spin again. in the end we won. but seriously, "the world is round"?? poor dlu got it like super fast and he nv realised there was a L, so he went the earth is round! in the end the other group got it right bcos of him. :/

uhhh then there was the fair, which was ok i guess. the first judge was super impatient with our project and simply dismissed whatever we said. like it's not impt ): i don't think she liked our project much, but it's ok haha. the other two judges were ok bah, we just did our best and uh yah. considering that our project was really ill-prepared and not good enough, there isn't much to expect. amyas and cx are pro la, and sikai's group just reused nus-ntu haha. i should have joined his team when he asked me to join >.< then no need do new project and can free-ride all the way XD ! bleh

i feel super sad for amyas and cx, bcos they should have gotten into finals instead of us! we're just there by luck or something (see above. we didn't quite need much astro knowledge to do well?) it really depends on the other team u have in your group, and also your opponent for each game u see! hmmmmm at least we had a positive score xD eh seriously we knew several of the answers and it's always pan who buzzed in a split second b4 us. stupid pan i shall poke him to death next time. -pokess-

oh the worst thing was that very first qn? mcauliffe? i KNEW the answer!!!!!!! like i studied challenger disaster in p6, and i RMBED her, but when u put one whole long string of first names and middle names in front i just didn't recognise it! i should have looked more closely and at the last name. i kept thinking she was some pro astronomer that i wouldn't know at all. >.<

she was that first female teacher to be sent into space but she died in the challenger tragedy in 1986. like all her students were cheering for her and stuff, then they watched the challenger explode. super sad la ): that was actually what i rmbed, and her face. and of course i rmbed mcauliffe but i didn't rmb sharon christa corrigan?

and well yes the whole thing was just bad la. i must really thank engwei and dlu for being nice enough teammates! and the other team from bpteam 2! haha yeah bp! but amazingly they weren't as pro as i thought >.< but yeah they're pretty funny and friendly. they had one member who nv joined astro comps b4, and we had engwei and dlu who didn't join any astro comps b4. amazing we got into finals eh!

thus i conclude from the past 3 terrible finals experiences that i should actually mug for astro comps. and stop thinking that getting into finals is impossible T.T blaws! let's mug hard for nus-ntu k! -ok i shall start mugging when im free. like june hols.-

yep so congrats to sikai and pan! u two really rock! totally deserved that first place ^^ too bad you didn't get the green laser you wanted xD
well done rgs! second is REALLY good! and amyas and cx as well, so sorry you two didn't get into finals >.< but at least you got a merit award. :/ bad substitute but still good nonetheless...

so i feel astrofest is quite interesting, bcos i do know that the ppl put in a lot of effort into it to make it different ^^" and yeah it was really quite different. (like u don't need much astro knowledge to do well?!?) uh yes fine haha and it was fun la, more fun than most other astro comps. so i guess it was a job well done! no matter how bad you may feel about it, it's over and you've done your best k? nothing more you can do about it, so look at the things well done, and not so much at the things badly done yepp.

oh yeah im hosting a jap student this friday to sunday. she studies in singapore at the japanese school wasade shibuya senior high school, and she's been here for 2 years alrd so her english should be quite ok. i have no idea where to bring her around though. ideas anyone? she's called watanabe mio and she plays tennis too! im happy. ^^

and im going for ccal camp, 26th to 29th may, so don't miss me! let's hope it will be fun (:

other upcoming events include: econs makeup today. pw. gp ct. nus-ntu astrochallenge! mugmugmug for CTs!!!!!!!! -chiong ahh!-