Thursday, July 17, 2008.

this is inspired by a facebook comment on my email.

So i read that comment, and decided to look through my sent emails. Indeed, i found a change in me as i went along. At the start, I sounded so neutral, but as time progressed, I developed this sarcastic humour in my emails.

For the same event (BBQ) for 2 different years, these are my emails:
Year 2007-

Hi all,

Tomorrow after the LAN session all who are going down to BBQ (by right everyone) will have to follow someone down to East Coast Park. All of you are going to take public transport, so it is advised that you bring along your ez-link card with a decent amount of money for the bus trip.

Here are the steps for going to ECP from Dhoby Ghaut MRT-incase the exco member who is in charge of LAN forgets, or if you are lost:

Step 1) Make your way to the bus-stop near Plaza Singapura, along Orchard Road, just in front of The Atrium @ Orchard (there's a 7-11 near there)

2) Take either: BUS 16 or 36.

3) Alight at the bus-stop OPPOSITE MANDARIN GARDENS-a condo. To aid you, note that the bus-stop before the bus-stop you are supposed to alight is actually the VJC bus-stop. If you still can't get it, here's a picture of the condo:

http://www.chesney.com.sg/scripts.web/upload.img/10000000298/Mandarin_Gardens.jpg

4) Either I or another exco member will be there waiting for you. In the event that no exco member is there, follow my previous set of instructions:

Cross the road such that you are facing Mandarin Gardens. Next, by now you should be facing Mandarin Gardens. Walk on the pavement separating Mandarin Gardens and Neptune Court (the condo on the right of Mandarin Gardens). Walk till you see an underpass, and go under it, when you resurface you should be at

East Coast Road Carpark D3

Now keep on walking till you see carpark D4 (which is at most 200 m from D3 (if you see carpark D2 you are heading in the wrong direction.) and keep on walking until you reach carpark D5. By now you should be seeing resort chalets with white walls. Keep to the pavement right beside the chalet and walk on, and you will enter East Coast Park.

Just straight on you will see some BBQ pits, note the BBQ pit 43 and 44 (in the middle of pit 43 and 44 is a pavilion, so that should be easier to notice). That is your destination.

Hope to see all of you there safe and sound, and have a good time!

PS: We need frisbees, playing cards and soccer balls, so if you have one, bring.

Jian Yang

Year 2008-
Hi all,

Due to the anticipated questions regarding the BBQ site (it IS quite ulu, as far as I see it), I have decided to post a guide on how to get there. For most of you (who are going LANning), this should be of not much of a problem (as 1 ExCo or 2 will certainly guide you), but for the rest, I sincerely advice you to READ THIS (or else you WILL die - and I'll not entertain calls from lost RI students).

Anyway, if you DO have problems (cannot open file, cannot edit file, cannot get your bum out of house cause of increase of size during APCG holiday etc.), do email ME (NOT THE EGROUPS) and I will entertain your query. And anyway, for those of you who encounter the abovementioned problems, i advise you to either - ask me to send the file again, ask me to send the file again, go to some liposuction clinic, respectively.

Lumpy

PS. Pay Weng Hong OR ELSE.
(for obvious reasons i didn't upload the contents of the file - i know someone by the name of ****** *** will attempt to gatecrash it)

Now we see. I grew more sarcastic and developed this dry sense of humour, compared to the old me. Why so? Did i grow overconfident and over-ego? Perhaps. Or is it just that I feel more comfortable sending out this kind of emails now?

We'll see.

Interesting isn't it? Mails can chronicle a person's development quite well eh?

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