Morning:
Since we, Cyan and I are only getting our precious driving licence tomorrow or Wednesday, we have no choice but to use public transport again. Cyan have been doing this for a couple of weeks now, so I'm really lucky and grateful that I have him as my mentor. I know that without him, I wouldn't have survived. So, first, dad drove us to the Serdang KTM (train) station and we were to take a train to Nilai. Now, there are two trains that stop at Nilai. One was the Seremban train, which is a one way train. You get on it, and you'll get down at Nilai. Simple. The other one was heading to Bangi. Now, the Bangi one, in order to go to Nilai, you'll have to stop at Bangi and wait for the Seremban train that I was talking about earlier. Since we were running a little late this morning (hehe, my bad), we missed to earlier train, which is the Seremban train. So, we had to take the Bangi train instead, got down there and got up another train (one which was heading to Seremban) to get to Nilai. At the Nilai KTM station, we were to get on our respective school buses and go to our respective schools, INTI for him and Nilai UC for me.
I arrived at school at 8:50am. The program start at 9am. So, I was pretty much on time. We (the other newbies and I) were taken care of by the students helper who called themselves "counselors". We lined up and were divided into groups for the Campus tour. After the campus tour, we were to go in batches on the Nilai tour where they give you a tour of the small town of Nilai here in Negeri Sembilan. While waiting for the bus to come back, we played a game.
GAME 1
Divided into groups again, we were to sit in a circle. This game is called "Who? What? Huh?". The basic rule of the game is to start with one person saying either "who?", "what?" or "huh" to the person sitting next to him. And that person were to say whichever word it is to the person next to him. If you want to change the word, you are to say the word to the person who passed his word to you in the first place. For instance, person A start with "what?" to person B, so B tell person C who was sitting on his other side "what?" as well. Now, C wants to change the word, he is to say "who?" or "huh?" to B instead of D. And with the change of word, the direction of the game change too. So, with this, B was to say "who?" or "huh?" to A back. Geddit? It can be a bit confusing though. If you said the wrong thing to the wrong person, you're out. Each group was supposed to have 2 winners and fight it out in the final round. In my group, I was the last 3 people but these two guys, went on to say the same thing at the same time and therefore, knocked themselves out, at the same time. Thus, crowning me the ONLY winner. I entered the "final" round with all the other winners from other groups. I lost. HAHA.
During that time, I met this Indian girl from KL who was really nice to me. Her name is Nantini. But of course, being an Indian, her full first name was longer than that. Haha. I know that's a little racist, but it's true, isn't it? Also, during all that, I realised how small my new pair of flats were. We bought it small on purpose because the girl said that the shoes will stretch out as it get older but now it was still new, so, it's pretty much hell for my feet. I had no choice but to endure it for the whole day...
They sort of had to rush game 1 because the bus was here, so in the end, there were a group of winners. We got a tour of Nilai and stopped at Tesco for breakfast. I got to know some of the counselors and most of them are really nice. We got back to campus and was released for lunch. I had lunch alone and I honestly don't mind at all. Most of the time I'm alone or have to be alone, I'm very content. For some reason, I like being alone. You don't have to rake your head to say something and make conversations especially with these bunch of strangers. I'm also the type of the person who have no idea how to start a conversation and make friends (the very idea of me trying to make friends is revolting, like, seriously). Had lunch and this Chinese girl came and sit with me only because her friend decided to skip the next event and now she's alone. We had a bit of a language barrier there because my mandarin sucks and her english sucks. We understood each other, of course but that doesn't make the awkwardness go away, does it? We went to the next event together and even sat together. She found a friend in the lecture hall and it was obvious she only asked me to sit with her to be nice. Again, I don't mind being alone. Screw the "don't be anti-social" thing. Shy doesn't equal to be anti-social. And hey, the Cullens are anti-social too, and they turn out to be awesome and rich and cool people who can love passionately (and immortal, but put that aside, lol).
The next event was in a lecture hall (LH 204) and it was basically just a 2 hours Welcoming speech. I'm fine with that too because then I get to sit down, laugh at lame jokes, yell okay, yes, no at the appropriate times and rest my sore feet. It may be a little boring but it was close to bliss to me.
Next, we were moved to the Multi-Purpose room and played more games. The ice-breaking session. Make some friends session. Get to know each other time. Eurgh. For some reason, I was in the mood to be a good sport today, to my surprise. It's like I have multi-personality today. One was the anti-social personality and the other that is excited to join games. Games, for God's sake. Again, we were divided into groups. I was in group 1.
Game 2
You know that game where you were supposed to pair up and on a piece of paper, fit both of your feet on it and with each round, the paper is folded smaller and smaller until you only have one winning pair left? Well, this was game 2. Only thing is, there were 20+ of us and we were give 2 mahjong papers. All groups used the same strategy, which was to split their group in half and each of the halved groups get one mahjong paper each. It was little awkward because, see, in my group, there were only 3 girls and the other 6 or 7 members were guys. We girls with smaller feet stood in the middle and held on to each other until the boys formed a circle around us, all inside the mahjong paper. Until the other half of our group (our group and their group make one big group, remember? I really hope you're not confused because I'm kind of awful at explaining), who got creative, sat down and just placed all their feet on the paper since the rule of the game was to just place your feet on the paper but it never specify how you do it. So we all followed them and we were the first group to finish. Finish as in, the paper cannot be folded anymore.
Game 3
This next game is one of the most typical ice breaking games ever. You sit in a circle and the first person were to say his name and the next person is to say the first guy's name and his name while the third person is to say the names of the 2 guys before him and then his own name and so on. So, if you are the last person, you'll have to remember everyone's names. The one that we played, we were supposed to say our name but with an adjective that starts with the same alphabet with our name. Like, Joyous Jackelyn. So, I used the first adjective that popped in my head: Crazy and I went with it. Now, I'm "Crazy Cheyenne". Good news is, I got to be first. Bad news is, being first, the counselors want me to scream it out loud. Now, the whole room, thus everyone will know me as "crazy cheyenne". Crazy, anti-social Cheyenne. Hahaha. Now, I sound like a psycho serial killer in the making or something. Ridiculous. This game got a little lame after that. So, they just ended it because there were other games to play.
Game 4
Okay, game no. 4 is fairly simple. They gave us a list of single sentences, describing a person. Our only mission was to write a name for each of the sentences, getting as many names as possible. The rules were:
1. Only one name for each sentence that describes that person.
2. Not allowed to repeat the same name.
Some of the sentences that I remember are "Who wears a Casio watch?", "Who is wearing stripes?", "Who is the cutest girl around?", "Who is the hottest girl around?", "Who wears a Nilai logo?", "Who speaks Thai?", "This Chinese girl can sing Tamil song", "Someone who is single and available", " Senior counselor who is in their final year?", "Someone who is from Johor", etc.
There were 30 sentences, I managed to get half of them filled in the time given (about 15 minutes). Not bad, I guess. Haha.
Game 5
Ah, game 5. This was the "event" that gave me my nickname. Haih. Okay. Each group was asked to send in 2 boys and 2 girls to join this game. But these people volunteered without knowing what they were getting themselves into. There was this guy who was super annoying and attention seeking in my group, so he obviously volunteered, dragging his friend with him (since he crave applause and the spotlight so much) and other two girls was dragged along as well. One of them seemed a little uptight to me, you know the type that can't get her hands dirty. The way this game works is easy, they will give you a biscuit and you were to put it on your forehead and without your hands, move it down to your mouth with your face movements and eat it. The guys finished theirs fairly fast. But the girl, whom I thought looked a little uptight (not that I have anything against her, just an impression, you know?) refused to do it, so one of the counselors, Dinesh started looking for a girl in the crowd to replace her. He started pointing at random girls to get up and play. then he said something that caught my attention. He said "Who go and play, I will give her lollipop". Hahahaha. Of course that caught my attention, I was hungry and was counting down to dinnertime
already. He called the girl sitting next to me and she shook her head, a "no". So, obviously, being the nearest girl from her, he pointed at me and went "you". Like I told you, I was in a good sport to join in some games today and I was hungry and I want the damn lollipop. Haha. So, I asked him "If I play, will I get that lollipop?", everyone laughed and he was like, "yeah". I got up, and played. Seriously, it's tougher than it looks, the biscuits was salty and I got salt in my eye. Ow. But when I got up to play, it was already towards the end of the game, they were running out of biscuits, so the girl counselor told me that I can just go back to my seat. Lucky me. Also unlucky me, because I thought that since I didn't finish the game, I won't get the lollipop. :(
Game 6
The final game for the ice breaking session was super easy as well. We were asked to get back into our groups and stand in a line, following your group. A counselor had to paint all five nails on one hand of the first person in front of the line and that first person were to paint the nails of one hand of the person behind him and the second person do the same to the person behind him and so on until we reach the the last person, the last person will have to run to the front and paint the nails of the counselor. Again, my group finished first.
My nails after being painted. Took this picture with my phone. Don't look too shabby though, eh? (I'm talking about both the quality of the picture and the nails, haha)
After dinner, we all gathered at the hall again, LH204. This time, we were divided into 8 groups and this will be our permanent group for the rest of this orientation week. Each group was pretty huge, about 17 to 21 people per group. Then, we were introduced to yet another game.
Game 7
Are you ready to hear how this game works? It's a little confusing, so brace yourself. Heh. This game is to just make a tower with paper cups and plates. Starting with one cup at the bottom, then a paper plate on top of it. On the paper plate, there should be two cups and then another plate on those two cups and the next level, three cups, then paper plate again and so on. Until you reach the level with five cups, instead of adding plates on top of those, you are supposed to make a tall long tower with just one cups on top of one another on the five cups. Geddit? The trick is, you are only given about 2 minutes, I think, for the first round and one person can only place either one of the cups of the plate and you're not allowed to rearrange the cups or/and plates that your other member had placed. So, everyone have to be precise or your tower will tumble down and you'll have to start over. There are 8 teams. 2 teams are to go up against each other first, and the winners of each round will go to the "semi-finals" and the two winners of the semi-finals will battle it out in the last round. Whoever have the taller and stabler tower by the end of 2 minutes is the winner. For my group, we actually managed to go up to the final round, only to lose in that round. Ah, well, I thought we did a pretty good job though.
Half way through that game, while another two teams were competing, Dinesh walked in and went "who was that girl just now? The lollipop one?", everyone started looking around for me and I had to get up. HAHA. He really did get me a lollipop! How nice was that right? He even "presented" it to me in front of e-ve-ry-body and made the photographer take a picture of him giving it to me (him kneeling, in front of me and my taking it from him). Hilarious.
The lolly (it's apple flavoured)
I met another girl who is in my team, her name is Lynus. She's a Chinese and have really fair skin. She's really nice and we sort of hung around each other so that we are not too alone. And she didn't understand game 7, so I explained it to her. That's how we started talking. Oh, and also, I was separated from Nantini. She was placed in group 3.
After settling down, we were told to choose a group leader and a group name. This Chinese dude volunteered after a long moment of silence and staring at each other, waiting for someone to say something. As for the group name? HAHAHA. well, what do you think? Quite a few of my group members agreed on the name......
LOLLIPOP
Yes, that's right. Now I'm literally the group mascot. Like, seriously, people. it ain't even cute. Now I have a bloody nickname. I'll forever be the creepy crazy anti-social lollipop girl. Haha.
After all that choosing and deciding, we were supposed to tell everyone the name of our group and to introduce our group leader. Since we were group 1, we had to go first. When we screamed out our group name, everyone laughed and stared at me. I could really feel the warmth creeping up my face and turn red. Dinesh declared himself to be our supporter. HAHA. Lucky us...? In the end, the rest of the groups, though I'm not sure if I got the orders of the groups right:
Group 2: All Stars
Group 3: M.I.B (As in, Men In Black)
Group 4: Legacy
Group 5: Beta House (Yes, they got the name from American Pie)
Group 6: Dream
Group 7: The Avengers
Group 8: Xtreme
Just before we start another game, each group was assigned to 2 counselors. Ours was a girl called Eleven (which is, like, one of the coolest names I've ever heard) and she introduced to us another counselor who weren't there in the morning. His name is Jimmy and he had "retired" (graduated) but still came back to help out. Then, i remembered he was one of the guy who assisted me on Saturday during my registration. He was the one who taught me how to read my schedule, told me about how the bus schedule works, etc. And yes, I thought he was really cool and nice, even on Saturday, the very first time I saw him. Before I left on Saturday, he said "see you on Monday", I thought he was just saying that on behalf of the school or something but here he is now. Haha. Oh, okay. game number 8.
Game 8
Game no. 8 is my favourite game today. All you had to do was to "bomb" another group when some other group bomb you. Say we're Lollipop and we will start and we want to bomb Legacy.. We'll have to chant "Lollipop bomb, Lollipop bomb, Lollipop bomb to Legacy bomb", so, now Legacy will have to react and attack another group or back at us, chanting "Legacy bomb, Legacy bomb, Legacy bomb to Xtreme bomb". You have to be synchronise as a group and if you don't react immediately, you're out. So, you have to be together as a group, saying the same thing, at the same time. Now, you must be thinking, that's impossible, how can so many people in one group all decide to bom on the same opponent group? That's where the leaders come in, our strategy was that, we'll just attack one group first, and then move on to another. The leader will tell us which group to attack by writing down the names of all the groups on a piece of paper and point the next group name to "bomb". After a few teams got kicked out, they turned the game up a notch by not allowing us to attack back the team that had attacked us most recently. So, say, A bomb B, B is not allowed to bomb A back immediately. I know this game probably sound a little lame to you now but really, it was amazing. By the end of the game, they changed the rules again, where you have to make actions every time it's your turn to chant. Again, everyone have to be synchronise and your actions have to be different every time. No repetitions of actions. In the end, when there was only my team left (we were seriously on fire for this game), we had to fight the pros; the counselors. We lost because we all had trouble with the actions bit. And the counselors were good. Blargh. But I still consider us the winner among the other students, so, woohoo! :)
Lady luck seem to be on my side today. Nearly all the groups that I was in won something or nearly won something. Haha. Or maybe it's just me...
And that was it! It was one hell of a day and I'm exhausted.
1 day down 4 days to go.
P/S: Sorry, this was supposed to go up on Monday night. But I was so tired and busy throughout the entire week that I can only publish it now. I will publish day 2 soon. Sorry! :)
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