I. LOVE. SCPB. AND. GIB.

Three words to describe GIB: Exhausting. UBER FUN!!

Just came home from GIB yesterday. Made me wake up at 3pm today. I miss GIB! I miss Chortle, I miss the SCPB, I miss MS SU! GIB was honestly, the most tiring and fun thing ever. I have never experienced anything like it. Nothing so intensive and so fun and it really helped me to know the board.

DAY 1
We played for like an hour, then we started the intensive. We got warm fuzzies, learned about alone time, introduced ourselves and the intensive began. We had to learn a lot about initiative that day. Umi fell sick and had to go home. We started having the food cheer. We were split into family groups. In my family group there were 10. The 10 being Mel Luki, Deborah, Denyse, Kristen, Nicole, Bala, Joyslyn, Debbie, Samy and me. Our group name was Chortle! Credits go to Denyse. We gave each other names like, Deborah was Doctor Daddy Deborah, Mel Luki was Meticulous Mummy Melissa, Denyse was Domestic Denyse, Nicole was Clock Chua, Debbie was Scrible Debbie the Scribe, Samy and Joyslyn was Samajoy Spirits(unspook), Bala and Kristen were Gourmets Balakristen and I was waterbasin Wiranda. I didn't speak up much at first but slowly as the days went by, I started to speak up more because I warmed up to the group. A lot. We slept at 1am that day. We learnt how to stand properly and everything. There were a lot of presentations that day. About the qualities of a leader, if I'm not wrong, we had to do the performance to these two songs, one being Georgie Girl and this other weird song about finding a place in time. Deborah was Georgie and we made her tuck in her shirt real bad and tie this little coconut tree on her head. It was really funny but we didn't find the deeper meaning in it. Oh oh! I learnt the SCPB song. We also made a cirlce and sang songs. When Su Ching and Joy and a few other people disappeared for a while, Su went to find them and we were telling jokes... When we came up we had debreif and then went to sleep.

"I was named Clock Chua because my name is Clock." -Nicole

DAY 2
We had morning stretches and had to wake up at like, 6.45 in the morning. I took a really quick shower because the water was freezing. We went down for morning stretches and we danced to some music and played duck duck goose. We then had breakfast and continued with our intensive. We had to dance to this song called I believe which is over in my music box and it was really funny to watch the groups as usual. You seriously have to see the dance moves we came up with. My group really has to thank Debbie for like, thinking of everything from the dance. We had more stuff going on... We had this part where we slept. And then we had to leanr how to walk properly and we sort of made a catwalk and had to show how to walk. Apparently I lean to the left when I walk, but other than that I'm fine. After a long long day, we then had this game organised by Su Ching and Joy and it was called "capture the flag" we had to minutes to make a group banner and then the game is basically about having to capture another group's flag. We played for quite a while... I was a defender, then an attacker who sort of gave up on my job and became a defender again. We managed to get a tiny piece of a groups flag. We then had dinner and then, we found out, that we had to learn this song, in french. So we spent most of the night learning how to sing it properly and not in as Nadia would say, 'bad french'. Finally we had our debrief and then went to sleep at about 2am.

DAY 3
My group had to lead in the morning exercises and I have to admit, it was not as fun as the day before's. We had to do the walk the walk thing and played blow wind blow. We went back to the music room and that day was a lot more serious because we found out we had to make a family group item, come up with a programme, memorise the french song, make the whole dance for the 'I Believe' song, make a speech for a level sharing, get dinner done... Make a mission, make a new prefect board structure... So we had to do a LOT of planning that day. We made a mission! And we made this newspaper article about how we want the 2017 prefect to be... My presentation was horrible because we did it at like, 1am and I had like, a whole cup of coffee to keep me awake. Not only did it do that, it made me hyper. So when I had to say the words 'proscar' award, I started laughing and I couldn't stop so I was laughing my way to the end before Samy took over. We went through the school rules and then after dinner, we were shown this presentation on 5 steps to booking. It was REALLY funny! It was like, Nadia was this really naughty girl and she was being booked for having the wrong colour hair tie, low socks, super short skirt and horrible fringe. She was really really funny and the whole board was laughing away. Later, Deborah, Su Ching and I volunteered for something which we did not know what was going to happen. We were ushered outside and were peering into the room to see what was happening. When we went back in, we were told that there was this function in school and we had to usher "Mrs Tan"(Farisha), "Vivien Balakrishnan"(Carolyn Bala) and "Minister Mentor"(Mariann). They were really funny! My gosh! Caorlyn Bala was this very emo and quiet person, Mariann was this scolding and uppity person and Sha was very questiony. It was ultra funny and I was trying to keep myself from laughing. We didnt' do very well the first time but we did better later. We also sat in this big circle and we were singing all the songs in my music list and some others... When we were singing the french song, I suddenly felt very dizzy and like blacking out... Then Mel Leong and I can't remember who because I was too dizzy signalled me to sit down. And apparently, I was very pale... THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO CARED ABOUT ME! LOVES! That night, or should I say, morning, we slept at 4am!

"Our mission is to inspire passion for excellence in and for SCGS" -SCPB'07

DAY 4
Very, very busy day. We woke up at 8, assembled at 9. We didn't have any morning exercises and we went straight to work. We had some talks first and then we had to think of what committees the 57th SCPB should have and we ended up with like, 6. I started feeling really dizzy again but I didn't rest this time. THANKS TO RUTH WHO WAS REALLY REALLY NICE AND CARING! She really, really, was very nice. She was like, talking to me and trying to cheer me up and everything. I felt much better later and we planned the family group item and everything. We also voted for the exco and then we had to get ready for night time! It was really rushed. We had to change into and iron our uniforms and boleros, decorate the LT, practise all the stuff. In fact, a full rehearsal was never done. Before we knew it the parents trickled in and the thing soon began. It started with the 'I believe' dance which was a bit messy and then there was the level sharing, and then the family group items which we had thought of only that day(we sang the second verse of At the Beginning wrong!! AH!). Then we had the structure of the PB and then the final french song. Apparently Mrs Low cried...

So really soon it was over, and we went back to the music room, had dinner, the food cheer for the lsat time, 3 cheers for everything that had to do with GIB and everything. Then the Sec 1's and 2's had to go put chairs back into the AVA room and clean up the reception. When we went back, we had to wait outside for the Sec 3's to finish their talk so we planned to do something for them. So when we finally got to go back inside, nearly all the sec 3's were crying so we went around hugging them all and then we did our performance. We were singing more than words for like, one verse, and then after that we were like "1 2 3 4! We're all in this together..." That made the Sec 3's laugh! Yay! Then we started this disco sort of thingy, and we did the knee head thingy, and we did the Mr Bean hip thing and everything. Then we sang breaking free. So after that we had have this group thing. We all huddled and then like, the whole Chortle, except for Bala and Kristen, the unemo ones) started crying because the Sec 3's were crying. We were swaying and keeping silent and it was really sad... After a while we sat down and kept more silent. Then the other groups started coming back and the whole PB gathered in the corridor of the music room and we sand "You and Me" by lifehouse. Well, a verse and a chorus and then we had to go in. We stood in the giant circle and had a really short closing speech before we finally all headed home. We gave everybody loads of hugs and everything and it was quite sad... Finally mum came and I went home, crashed out and woke up yesterday and 3pm.


the french song we sang