teamboat was founded in 2002. the exact date is not known, but the formation of teamboat took place during a warmup
session before rugby training began. it all began when roland played a game of random team on battle.net
before training. relating the experience of the game to daniel, roland talked about him having a
horrible partner who referred to the unit "steam tanks" as "steamboats". daniel then had a brainwave, and
the two of them decided to create accounts called teamboat1 and teamboat2: the name thought up due to daniel's fascination with food and warcraft.
guanghao joined shortly after the formation of teamboat, due to the need for intelligence to balance out the
gluttony in daniel and good looks in roland. together, the trio have accomplished feats such as making
seoul garden move out of j8. armed with their passion for food and good recommendations from guanghao,
teamboat strives to test (and at the same time, destroy) all buffets in singapore.
currently, the strength of teamboat stands at 3: daniel, guanghao and roland. there is, at the
moment, only 1 associate member: clement.
layout and coding done somewhat by roland
best viewed in 1024x768
even though i use 1280x1024 =p
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
cip!
cip was fun. cept for 3 assholes who made the whole day bad. now i know why rj has the bloody reputation of churning out elitists, and why most people wanna bash rj.
ok so basically. it was the wargame, where people stuck tags in their pants and the opposition tried to pull them out. what THEY did was not to pull the tags out, but THEY pulled collars/shirts to impede their opposition, before pulling the tags out. okay i understand the drive to win, but why resort to cheating? furthermore, THEY barged through people in order to get into the zone to steal the ball. wow you're 4 years older and you can barge through sec 2s, congrats to you, assholes.
next, it was the waterbomb game. the group that i was in charge of did not provocate THEM. we played by the book, not stepping into the restricted zone and stuff. what did THEY do? they threw waterbombs at our group members. not that it was wrong, but when our group members retaliated, what did THEY do? "fuck off". wait lemme get this straight, weren't we the ones that were supposed to, erm, lead any of these would-be misguided children out of paikia-ism/gangs/drugs by setting a good example?
so with these two incidents, the students in my group naturally got a bad impression of rjc, which we tried very hard to change but to no avail. looking back on their really hurt faces, i seriously feel very guilty. so now that i've seen the ugly side of rafflesians, i have to say that the preconceived notions of rafflesians can actually be quite right sometimes.
so what was the whole point of the cip? for THEIR points, of course. i doubt THEY were there really for helping the society and all that blah. unlike some of the people there who were genuinely there to help out and have fun together with the kids. now i know why the pearls system was abolished, and i really believe that it's the right decision. forced cip is no cip at all as it does not mutually benefit both parties.
ok i've rambled on for quite awhile.
anyway, onto the good points. swiss cottage people are not as different as i thought they'd be. for me, i never really experienced a huge culture shock or anything. and they can be really quite nice at times. you can see that they're really enthusiastic about all these stuffs, which leads me to wonder whether us rafflesians are really, as people say, mechanical. like you never see that level of gungho-ness in us. it's just. work work. i dunno i get different feels from the different cultures. it was also quite clearly evident from pre-u-sem. sighsigh.
but i guess rj has its gd points also. for example, there's this environment of excellence that (is currently failing, but will start soon to) pushes me on to compete for the best. i guess you can't have the best of both worlds.
okay so after re-reading all my incoherent paragraphs, i'm just gonna wrap up. basically, i think cip is really good. it just brings me joy to see their laughter, and how much they enjoy the games that we organised for them. and that i believe, is the true spirit of cip.
