Day 2 of "Making Friends"

Hullo there, this is your really late update of day 2. I initially wanted to have days 2 and 3 combined in one single post but then I realised how long day 2 was going to be, so I guess I had to scratch that plan out. I hope you





don't mind. (And even if you do, there's nothing you can do about it because, you know, this is my blog and I get to choose how to run it, no? Haha)

Day two started with a greeting that I was already half expecting. The first thing that Lynus, who was sitting with a bunch of other girls, including Nantini, told me was, "You know that they all call you Lollipop Girl now?". Hah! I told her that I know. Pretty obvious though, right? I don't expect anyone to really remember my name on the second day. Heck, I think a lot of them either don't know what my real name is or they do but they have no idea how to pronounce it. I don't blame them, to be honest.. We were all in our sports attire except for some people who have their own reasons for not wearing them and this time, I had more wits to wear mum's rarely worn flats that actually fits me instead of my own small ones. Anyway, we started off with a morning work out and every morning work out have to start with a warm up. The warm up was okay, led by one of the counselors. Then they made us jog (well, they said "run" but to me, the meaning of that word is equivalent to the words "vegetables" or "gym" or "sports" or any of those supposed healthy stuff. Eww. We  ran and I let everyone else catch up with me. Haha.

Done with all that sports stuff, we changed back to a more "smart casual" dress code. We were to be divided following our respective schools (we have School of Hospitality and Tourism, School of Business, etc) and meet one of our lecturers to get a briefing the course. So, we all headed back to the resource centre and lined up in a few lines. One of our counselors, Ana who is tiny and loud and really adorable too, if you ask me (who also received the most attention from the boys) asked those who are taking ADP to step out and group up in another corner. Then, guess what? I was the only one who stepped out. That also means that I'm the only one who is doing this program this semester. Whoa whee, as if I need one more thing to make me stick out of the crowd even more. You know, one of the life advises from my father that I truly value is "Why be the norm when you can be the exception?". I liked being different, to be the one and only but for once, I felt really uncomfortable being the only one. Does this mean I'll have the whole class to just the lecturer and myself? Then I have no choice but to really do everything on my own? And what about friends? I know I said I don't mind being alone but I need friends too, don't I? It really did scared me for a bit there.

So, anyway, I was given a piece of paper for attendance (I think?) and was told to follow Dinesh up to the classroom that was reserved for the ADP students. The classes were locked, so we had to wait outside at the corridors and on the other side of the corridors were the engineering and business students, I think. On my side, there was only......me. As usual, when I'm waiting for something or someone, I don't like to sit still, I started pacing up and down for the sake of having something to do.  Dinesh came over and asked me to join the other people on the other side but I told him that I'm fine where I was and refused to go wait with the rest of the crowd. So, he stayed with me instead.  The dude is super tall and I feel like a freaking dwarf standing next to him. Haha. But then again, he's taller that most people, so I probably look normal to him. After the room assigned for me was unlocked, we went in and sat down and have a chat. T'was nothing much, really. I learnt that he was from Penang and I told him how I think the universe have a problem with my going there (we were supposed to go last year, but the tickets that was booked clashed with my exam and since I was in my SPM year, my parents refused to let me skip part of it and then, in December, we were supposed to attend a wedding there but then it was pushed forward to October but Cyan and I were in Kuching, getting ready for the final exam). He was pretty cool and easy to talk to. :)

After that, I was told to join the students in the School of Business. In the end, I knew who the dean, the lecturers, the advisor of that school was but I had no idea of the ones for ADP. HAHA. I felt a little pathetic though but I'm pretty sure I'll manage figuring those stuff out myself. After lunch, we were sent back to LH204, the lecture hall and sat through 3 speeches. The first was about Time Management. The guy who gave this talk somehow related time managing to his "success in marrying his wife". HAHA. For a minute there, I was like "What the hell, is he serious?!", oh but he was, alright. The other 2 speeches (on presentation skills and study skills, something Miss Loser Margaret, my old school counselor from dumbo-ville could come up with. Yes, I still do not like that woman) were so boring, it had made no impact on me whatsoever. Hah!

About 2 hours past by at snail pace and I secretly pray that the next few hours will not be like this because next on the agenda? TELEMATCH. We all changed back to our sports clothes and were told to line up according to groups again behind the President Hall, next to the, um, dodge ball court, I think? A few games was involved in this one and for some reason, I was pretty sure I won't get so lucky as to win anything today. And I was right, again. Haih. Okay, the games:

Game 1
It's another stack paper cups game, but this time, the catch is, the cups will be stacked and placed in front of the table, in turns, you are to hold on to the cups, and run around it 10 times, then take the cup on top of the stack and place your cup on the table. It was hell. Some people actually got hurt in this because we were so dizzy we could barely stand up right. Since a few people conveniently absent themselves, some group had less people and our group was one of them and the few people on front of the line will have to do it twice so that we will end the game by using all the cups given. Lucky me, I got to do it again and stack the last cup on the bloody table. Gah. it really was awful. We were placed third, so I guess we weren't that bad..

Game 2
Game no. 2 was ridiculous and wrong on so many levels. Haha. A big plastic water bottle that was filled with a little bit of water had a string tied to it. You have to tie that string to your waist, run to a rope that was placed in front, go behind that rope, and using your waist, push that bottle up the rope until the string on the bottle up and around the rope. Again, I really hope you guys get that. It's really hard to explain this game. Heh. It wasn't so bad for the girls because we are more, hmm, say, forgivable? But for the guys, there was more pressure because they had to, uh, move their waists and, uh, it just looked wrong, okay? Haha. Eww. I don't think we placed at all for this one, we were one of the last to finish and want to hear something funny? About 80% of the members in my group were BOYS. HAHAHA. OMG. AND LOGICALLY, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD. HAHAHAHAHA. That didn't even occurred to me until a minute ago! Hahaha.

Game 3
This one is another classic kids party game. I loathe this one too but at least the rules of this one are much much much easier to explain to you guys. In each group, about 10 people will tie balloons to their ankle, the others will either defend these balloon people or attack the balloon people on the opponent's team. Again, there are 8 groups, 2 will go up against each other. Thus, having 4 rounds. Winners of each round will get points on the leader board. Oh and also, you are given a limited space to run around. If any of your members cross that specific line (we were in the dodgeball court, so there were lines on the floor), you're all disqualified and the opposing team will immediately be the winners. This is truly a party game nightmare come true for me, so, I volunteered to be one of the defenders because, see, most groups will definitely send boys as attackers. So, since I'm a girl, I have a huge advantage because boys are not allowed to touch me or I can accuse them of sexually harassing me! Woohoo! Is that genius or what? Haha. The other 2 girls in my group, including Lynus became the people with the balloon along with a few other guys. Together with me, there are 3 defenders and the 2 tall Indian boys (who look very much alike in my eyes) became our attackers and my job was to defend the girls. Predictably, the other group sent boys as attacker and their first target was, obviously our two girls. One of their attacker was that annoying guy who was in my group for the ice breaking session yesterday. He came and attack us girls first. I was too happy shoving him away and every time he tries to come closer, I pushed his chest away. It was a lot of fun watching the frustration on his face because every time he came too close, I screamed "Don't you dare touch me!" or something like that. This is girl power, ya'll. Haha. But then the counselors just had to spoil my fun by disqualifying us because even though our strategy was pretty much flawless to me, some of us stepped past the line. The other team won. URGH.

Game 4
This next one was all about guy power. Tug-of-war. Duh, right? When they told us about this game, in my head, I can already imagine myself just wrapping my fingers around the rope and pretend to pull and look pretty. You know, let the boys do all the work. Heh. Anyway, some of the groups were actually really good and I was honestly scared but I guess that was what made me want to at least help to pull even though I know I won't be of much help. Again, we didn't place. The final round was pretty amazing though. It was the battle between the students and the counselors. We got to choose the best to go up against the counselors (who have done this a few hundred times, by the way and most of them are so strong, they scare me. Haha). We lost, see how good the seniors are? Heh.

So, by the end of the telematch, we placed LAST! See what I mean about losing today? I knew it! Oh well, I honestly didn't mind. So, that was the telematch. Would you believe me if I told you that this is my first ever telematch? No, no, really, I swear. I even asked Cyan the night before what people do during a telematch and what exactly is a telematch. I probably seem like an idiot to you now, but hey, I was never one to join camps and stuff like that. So, how would I know, right? Right? Right. Also, I had a feeling that a lot of people in our group hates us. I mean, for one, while each group had one or two official counselors assigned to guide and lead them, we had three. Two of them, Eleven (I'm always tempted to just write her name as "11" but the full thing looked cooler) and Jimmy were our official mentors. The last one was, of course Dinesh, our no. 1 supporter. If I were in the other groups, I would've thought that the "Lollipops" had a lucky break or something and I would also think that "that damn lollipop girl", who does she think she is? Getting all the extra help over a stupid candy. Or maybe it's just me being paranoid again? Also, some of the guys in my group, yeah, they're not gentleman at all. I swear, all the gentlemen have gone extinct. It's ridiculous. Sometimes, they can be asses to the other groups, booing them, cat calls, all those stuff. I mean, you know, when we're playing games, at least show some respect to the other teams. Like the time when the second game was going on, the group next to us, All-Stars, was the second team to finish and the guys in my group was asked them in very insulting and accusing tones, asking them whether they cheated. The other team was obviously annoyed and denied it. It really made us looked like sore losers, even I got annoyed and went, "guys, stop being a jerk" and surprisingly they listened. Even I who doesn't play sports know the meaning of sportsmanship. I'd bet to the other groups, we're really annoying and obnoxious. And this means that when we lose, it'll be 10 times more humiliating because everyone will be so smug that the group with the most help and support still suck (sounds a little too familiar, hehe, an inside joke).

Anywhooo, enough with the rant. We were released to go for our dinner and shower. Since I don't live on campus and I can't exactly drive home yet, Lynus was sweet enough to offer me to come up to her hostel and shower there but I turned down the offer because being the nice person that I was, I volunteered to help the counselors clean up but by the time I got to them, there was nothing that I can really help with as the work was pretty much done and by that time, Lynus had already gone back to her room. So, in the end, I had no choice but to just change my clothes. Hung around and had dinner and even lost track of time until I realised that if I don't get up, I'd be late for the last activity of the day.

The last thing was, in my opinion, one of the most underrated party games ever: CHARADE!! I was, again, not surprised to see so many people who don't know this game. The one that we played was sort of like a combination of Charade and Chinese Whisper. No worries, for your sake, I will explain how all three games work, just in case you don't know.


Charade 
This game is possibly my favourite party game along with Twister (which I can only play with people who are close with me, if not, it'll just be awkward). Okay, let's get down to business. Charade is a game where you will be given a word and you are supposed to act the word out. The other people will have to guess what the word is. Oh, and you're not allowed to make any noise. Only act. The person who managed to guess it right will be it. Some people put a nice twist to it at their depending on how they like it, of course. I've attended a party where you are supposed to pair up and which pair got to guess it right first win. My parents were dragged to join in on this one. It was hilarious. Their words, if I'm not mistaken was "Lion Dance". Haha.

Chinese Whisper
I learnt this game when I was in Royal Mile (the school I attended in Edinburgh, Scotland). All you have to do is to sit in a circle, and the first person (in our case, it's usually the teacher) will whisper a funny sentence to the person sitting next to him. Then, this person is to pass on what he had heard to the next person. No matter what he had heard, he had to pass it on. So, say, the first person said "I can't live, can't live if living is without you" but the person he was whispering it to heard "Can't live, can't libubi out tooo" (HAHAHA) or something like that, then he'll have to pass that on. So, everyone else in the circle will just have to pass what they've heard on until the last person who will reveal what he had heard. Most of the time, we get so far off the original sentence that it's so funny. Haha.

So the game that we played, was a combination of the two...
We took turn by groups. Stand in a line. First person and the rest of the crowd get to know the word(s) while the rest of us face the other way. The first person is to act the words out to the next person and the next person to the person behind him and make their way down the line until the last person will have to guess what the original word(s) are/is. When it was my group's turn, I was the second last person in the line and stood in between two boys and apparently our word was "child birth", which is really not that hard if you think about it and somehow the two guys next to me saw the first few acts and managed to figure out what the word was and so, they both told me. Haha. I know that's basically cheating but hey, the game was nearly over 2 weeks ago. If any of the counselors read this, there's nothing they can do but try to fix this flaw of their game in the next orientation. Hehe. By the time it was my turn to see the act, the crowd was rowdy. The goofy counselor, Adam (I seriously think he was high or something that night, haha) started singing odd romantic songs. So, obviously I thought that the guy who was supposed to do the act (the guy who stood in front of me in the line) was going to do some kind of obscene act to me but all he did was walked up to me and hugged me. Seriously, how did the act go from child birth to a hug? I think I offended him a little because I moved back a bit and made a repulsed expression on my face. Oops. Then it was my turn to act it out to the last guy (who was one of the tall Indian boys). Gah. I kept chanting "don't hug back, please just stand there like a rock, don't hug back, just stand there" in my head because the crowd was already wild (with Adam, in a way, making things worst for me). And so, with a deep breath, still silently chanting to myself, I walked up to him and hugged him. It was meant to be a quick hug but then he hugged me back. If the crowd was wild before, it was on the edge of insanity now. GAH. I  think I nearly ran back to my seat.

Some of the guys in some of the groups were amazing actors but if I were to cast someone for a role in my non-existence movie, I'd cast Adam. Seriously. The dude was a natural. Haha. There was one group who had the word "prostitute" but one thing about this game was that if the first person can do the act really well, it'll be easier for the other members to pass on because then even if you lose some of the elements that describe the word, at least you'll still have the main elements (Again, I hope that made sense). So, the last person of that group couldn't guess the word at all because the final act was so far from the meaning of the word. Adam acted it out for him and I personally think that this was the best part of orientation. Yet. HAHA. Is it an insult though? I mean, I did call him a natural at acting and then I tell you that he was acting as a prostitute. Does that means he'll make a great prostitute? Heh. Oh, and crushing the hopes of many of the boys, we found out that Adam was going out with Ana. Must be weird for him to have his girl getting so much attention from all these new kids.

That's it for day 2! Will be posting day 3 in a few hours! I'm making full use of my precious weekend. :)

P/S: When I dad picked me up that night, he passed me my P driving licence! Woohoo! But I still had to get use to dad's car and the route to school before I can drive myself. At least I can legally drive now.