1) Decision to play drums
I was actually on the visuals team for my church's worship team, and I was doing visuals during worship practice one day when the rest were having a discussion about the lack of new drummers in the worship team. Having seen me bang around on the drums before (for fun), they asked me to show them what I could do.
Snowballed to...
I am now regularly playing drums for my church's worship team. I can't say my skill level has improved much over the years because I don't play regularly enough neither have I had any form of proper coaching so. Still pretty cool considering how I had never imagined myself playing drums before that fateful worship practice.
2) Decision to go for Psych Camp 2010
If you knew me before I went into uni, you would know that I am totally not the rah rah type. I'm chillax and self-conscious, and not the go-for-camp-and-lead-cheer type. Thus I never had the intention to go for any orientation camp when I was entering NUS in 2010.
However, for some tiny reason that I don't even remember, I ended up signing up for Psychology Camp last minute (like literally the week before the camp, and probably got accepted because they have almost no guys)
Snowballed to...
Apart from the great seniors who I got along with well and still kept in contact with, I met the love of my life, szehong, in the camp. It wasn't like we saw each other and Cupid shot us both too - that happened later on, and is another story for another time.
3) Decision to go for Arts Orientation Camp 2010
I remember who contributed to this decision - bestie was asking me if I wanted to go O week, and I thought oh well why not.
Snowballed to...
Two years later, I have been a counsellor at 2 Arts Camps and made many many new friends whom I would not have known otherwise. Got to know Nella + Wilbur who I took many modules with and hang out with occasionally. Awesome sauce.
4) Decision which almost cost me $2000
This was related to my brief involvement in the world of MLM. The tiny decision I made was to follow my friends to their office just to 'check things out' since I was pretty free.
It snowballed to...
If I had not gone along with them, I would never have committed and got myself into all that mess. I would never have put in $2000 of my money and gone through all that headache after that. If I had just decided to go meet bestie again after the meeting with my friends, I would never have had this life lesson.
I chronicled my experience here: Part 1 and Part 2.
5) Decision to go for Union Camp 2012
I didn't even think about going for Union Camp up until after Arts Camp 2012. I learnt that one of my freshies from Arts Camp was going for Union Camp and somehow at that point of time I thought it would be a good idea to go for another camp, I decided to sign up last minute for Union Camp
It snowballed to...
A great few days of meeting yawen, bao, lixia, luomin, and one of the most honest HTHTs I've ever had(which included an ego boost :p). Still keep in contact with those girls and glad to be part of their circle of friends.
6) Decision to go for New England Games
I was in the US, and my friend Vince asked me if I wanted to go for this Singapore gathering thing on the day we were supposed to live for New York. I didn't even want to go until the last minute when I had no other plans to leave earlier for NY, and decided to go for it.
It snowballed to...
I finally met the Singaporeans in Boston, after being there for 2 months and not even knowing them. Got to know Aldea, who pulled me into the freshie clique by asking me along with them multiple times, including a trip to NY for the entire Thanksgiving. Also got to know the other Year2s who are an AWESOME bunch of people and had multiple fun outings and dinners and even my first halloween party.
7) Decision to go for pingpong
I wanted to join some CCA while in the US, and having heard of the tabletennis club I decided to go for that.
It snowballed to...
Turns out that my roommate played pingpong too and he came along, and played many close games against him. Also met Peter at pingpong, who turns out to be probably the most awesomest person I met in the US.
That's him there on the right. He surprised me with Cheesecake Factory on my birthday when I barely knew him (like met him maybe 3-4 times during pingpong and talked then? bumped into him several times? ) What human being is so kindhearted and sweet one!!??! omg hope for humanity.
Through him, got to know many other people too, including melody (the girl next to him) who is just really fun and nice and she loves the Singaporean accent for some reason.
Hung out with Peter a lot, such as dinnering, gymming, playing cards. Damn I'll miss him. I don't care how gay this sounds.
8) Decision to watch Survivor
When I was in Sec 1 or 2, I began to watch this show called Survivor, and also texted my church friend Christabel about it and discussed it frequently.
It snowballed to...
10 years of awesome friendship later, Christabel is my bestie and it's funny how our friendship started off through discussing shows and although we don't discuss shows anymore (I blame her, she's not the TV buff she was before), we're still close as peas in a pod.
And of course, multiple seasons of a great TV franchise :p
9) Decision to trade a red paperclip
One fine day in 2005, I decided to trade a red paperclip I had for a fish-shaped pen.
It snowballed to...
Over 10 trades and a year later, I am now a proud owner of a 2-storey farmhouse.
Ok fine this didn't happen to me, but it did happen to Kyle Macdonald.
