ah yes. brings back loads of wonderful memories. from Oasis(NJRC) to Oasis(FLL) to Ignition (NJRC) and i can't remember our FLL team name. sigh...those were the days.
it's sad how so many things in the competition has changed. the very thing that made NJRC in itself fun and memorable was the whole journal making...and yet...it's all gone. SAD. i sincerely and honestly believe it's because they are afraid of how much further IJ can push in the journal arena. We went from small lttle cupboard like structures to huge life size journals of islands, castle, london phone booth etc. the mad rush to finish the booklets, to get it out of the ever jamming brother printer to the mad binding of the booklets. the lack of sleep, the countless amount of coke we drank, the dust we probaby accumulated in our lungs from staying in the arc room..........arc definitely defined my life in IJ. those were the days....
it's sad how time flies and all of a sudden all the people left in the CCA are strangers. all that you knew are graduating and soon...all that remains is just the teacher :( the arc room isn;t familiar at all. the last time we worked in the arc room was in the old run down campus where mould used to grow on anything it could lay its spores on. the countless cleaning up till we decided to just chuck the whole load of rubbish under a table and use banners as table cloths to cover it all up. hahahaha. yes..yet it seems that all that is left of what we've done are our memories. i went back to ij today only to find out that journals...the very essence of our time in NJRC, the product of our sweat and blood, tears and laughter......to be gone :'(
i guess...they dun even need an archive for it anymore since in the first place....journal award is no longer there. SAD. returning back to IJ to wish the juniors all the best brought back alot of memories and even stirred up this passion in me to want to go back and re-do all we did for NJRC. no doubt those were very tiring, stressful periods....but still...i really treasure them. if it wasn't for ARC, i wouldn't have been able to enter SA, wouldn't get to know my fellow brudders, wouldn;t be able to have so many wonderful memories. the adrenaline rush from working as a team, looking out for judges on booth day, the excitement of the competition....OOOHHHH...oh yea baby yea!!!!!!!!! those were the days.
still....life has to go on....i wish i could be inspiring and spur the juniors on, to teach them and guide them along the NJRC journey so that they could bring back a million memories to keep as they grow old and wrinkly in their wooden rocking chair, to know without a doubt, about the wonders of ARC.
GO ARC!!!!!!!!!!!!
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