Ooi: Yes! Evidently! I only broke one cup. And then the second cup broke because I was a little careless lah. So one day we woke up and the whiteboard had dropped and hit a teacup down. Originally, was positioned under the whiteboard, that was like solid lah. This is where history has just been altered by his biased perspective. I brought it back and I shared it with all my good friends, and then this guy (points at Peter) broke two cups. Goh: The story actually goes back to Jonas and his monastery days.ĭo: I went to a monastery for the summer, last year. Ooi: It’s the universe telling us something lah. Goh: Every one semester, one person leaves, one cup breaks. (Goh laughs, remains silent) Ah, still say I boring.
Ooi: They were listening quite nicely what. I didn’t know what to do with them, so I put them up.
So I was a bit pek-chek lah, then after that Tim was going to print something downstairs, so he asked, “Eh, you need me to print anything or not? Then I was like, “Yeah, I want socks.” Then he was like, “Okay.” Then he printed these out. Ooi: No lah, because last semester I kept losing my socks in the washer. Ooi: (looks at Jonas’s no-show socks) Because Jonas is allergic to socks. And then, ta-dah! Now the tree reflects most of the people on our floor and some others besides. Slowly, as more and more time went by, more and more people got absorbed into the family tree, like me and Tee Zhuo, Alex Pont and Tamara. Initially most of the people on this floor were from the same DF group.
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In their time together, the men have accumulated tasteful nude sketches, eclectic movie posters and the assorted paraphernalia-a family tree, a pair of socks and a Chinese tea set-that make their suite home. They all get along and also speak fondly of the two suite residents currently away from Yale-NUS College whom they still consider part of their suite: Liam Holmes, who is currently taking a gap year, and Tee Zhuo ’18, who is spending his semester at Yale University. The five men currently living there are Do, Goh, Ooi, Dominic Choa ’18 and Jules Douwes, who is on exchange from University College Utrecht. Starting with this week, and for the next couple of weeks, The Octant will take a deeper look at suite life across campus. But we all know suite life here (for better or for worse) often falls short of that ideal. Residential life, the core of the liberal arts model, has its roots in monastic communities aiming to live in harmony. Suites are a fact of life at Yale-NUS College-the one thing in common we all have. The coaster lands next to me and I bend over to read it: “Peace Loving but Combat Ready”.
A coaster flies across the room at Do, who flings it back at Ooi. The back-and-forth has an edge, but everyone is laughing. Ooi counters with the anecdote of how Do borrowed his shoes, and used them as “emotional blackmail”. The banter between the two escalates when Do complains about Ooi’s refusal to go clubbing with him. Timothy Goh ’18 throws me a half-smile-he later tells me this is standard suite dynamics. Mid-interview, Jonas Do ’18 and Peter Ooi ’18 start squabbling. Story by Nicholas Lua, Features Editor | Photo credit to Eun Jung Min
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