awkwardness

was rummaging (trying to clean) through my drawers one day when i stumbled upon this amazingly hilarious find.

dear readers, i present to you supaporn tiprat, known to her friends and loved ones as pooky.

she was our thai tour guide a couple of years back (before monks and politics became synonymous) and when she gave this name card near the end of the whole thing, i had to take a few deep breaths just to not start giggling. needless to say, we (the kids) took the advantage to shamelessly call her by her unique moniker every chance we got.

it was priceless.

funny what one can dig up from the deepest recesses of one's drawer.

necessary evils

i've decided to join the usp camp held this july. if you know me well enough, you would have realised that joining camps, mingling with people i dont know and doing ridiculous and possible-humiliating things is just really incongruent of me.

i just dont see the point sometimes of doing the stupid things that people do during these camps, and most of the time, the only people i observe that are having fun are the camp leaders themselves.

even though i know perfectly well the (overused and cliched) reasons for having orientation camps, i have always thought the it'd just be plain painful to do.

but then i thought about it long and hard (ah who am i kidding? it was almost fleeting) and realised that maybe i should go into this with a different mindset; be less cynical about it and be more open to the whole thing.

it is true that i may make some friends and relationships like these are useful in the university, especially so in usp, where i may need group buddies (and god knows i dont want to be stuck with the rejects).

so yea, that's why i singed up for the camp. whether it's going to be everything i dread or everything i hope it will be, i just have to wait and see.

but i know this, the moment i start acting like those freaky o.g.l.s that are so uber-excited about every single thing that happens in camps, shoot me.