Exhausting Day 3

Hey you! Have you read day 2 yet? If not, then read the previous post first! :) Again, I know i promised to publish this post a few hours after the previous one but instead I took more than what can be considered to be a few hours. I feel awful but really, now I had a few more things to do last weekend and a lot of things to do last week that all precious time it flew by in a snap.So, this is

day number 3. :)

Like yesterday, we started with a warm up, only this time, we didn't run (praises to the Lord, amen. Haha). Instead, we were gearing up for the first (of the many) game of the day. The first game was simple enough, in your group, stand in a line, tie your legs together and walk to the finish line (This game is originally played in pairs). Our group was up first and we came up with a strategy where we labelled one side 1 and the other side 2. So, you have to remember which leg is 1 and which is 2 because your 1 is someone else' 2 and your 2 is someone else' 1. Haha. Geddit? So, when the leader call 1, then you move your 1 foot and the same with the 2. We managed to finish it all in about 1 minute 52 seconds and if you ask me, that was a little too slow but the other teams sort of used the same strategy. Then, some the boys in my group started being idiots again with the catcalls and booing , and with the laughing and cheering when the other groups were slower than us. Both Lynus and I got really annoyed this time and called our leader and told him to ask them to stop it. I mean, really, you can see the loathing in the eyes of the other groups who are all just determined to beat us after that. Gah and as expected, boys being boys ignored us. Urgh. Fine then, whatever, suffer the humiliation when we lose! Which we did for this game and I rejoiced! HAH! How you like that now, boys? That group managed to shut you up. Hmpf.

Oohh, okay, getting carried away again. Haha. Um, then, we were to change back into more of a smart casual dress code again. I changed in this girl's (who was friends with Lynus, I don't remember her name but she's really nice) hostel. Her hostel was the older one (Lynus stayed in the one that was recently renovated, thus, is more expensive). The hostel is older but it's still clean. Maybe it's because this is the girls' hostel, not the boys'. I'm not being sexist but c'mon, boys are notoriously known for their.....mess. This next event was just another talk about adjusting to college life. I don't want to be mean (but I'm about to be) but I do not like the school counselor who gave this talk (he is not a student helper who are called counselors, he's really a counselor who...... counsel people?). I think he's trying too hard to be funny. He asks stupid questions but before the person is done answering, he will interject with something that he thinks will make us laugh but the unfortunate thing is, a lot of people did. It's just rude and his "jokes" are always the same. It's just plain irritating, you know? Besides, the things he talked about are the common things like time management (again), boy-girl relationship, college life. Things that we (or at least I) already know. Haih.

The next session was called "Team Building" but it's really nothing like what you would expect at all. We were told for the "Nilai's Got Talent" the next day, we are to perform. Be it singing or dancing or acting. Anything. So, for the team building session, we are to discuss what we're going to do. Majority of us, myself included vetoed out dancing. Haha. So, in the end, we decided to do a drama but then the counselors (Jimmy and Dinesh at this time) told us that for Orientation Night, we'll have to do sort of an act as well. At that time, we had no idea what Orientation Night was, what we're going to do and all. So, we just went "aarrgghh, who cares about that?". Besides, I'd rather act twice than to dance once. I'm no dancer, okay? I just can't dance, that kind of dance. I'd rather do ballroom dancing, which is elegant and classic. Remember how I told you guys in the last post that while waiting to meet our lecturers, I had a chat with Dinesh? I forgot to tell you guys that I also told him I wanted to study films and direct movies. So, then, he went on and tell everyone that that's exactly what I want to be. Haha. Now the pressure is on because everyone expects me to know things and the fact that I started coming up with ideas only make them sort of more dependent on me. Oh, well. I'll take this as a form of training. One of the guys suggests that we do a romance story and then Jimmy went "What? Love story? Make sure it's better than Twilight ah". Being a protective bitch that I was, I went "EXCUSE ME?" (I don't tolerate haters anymore, okay? They suck and I hate them) and gave him that look. Haha. It was just a reflex reaction, so stop with the judging. Don't expect any of you to understand, really but he laughed and was gentleman enough to lay it off after that and for some reason suggests after that that we do our "love story" based on Twilight but I said no because I can't really come up with any ideas for that one and our group only have 3 girls including Lynus and I and I'm pretty sure the other girls will not want to do it and they'll ask me to do it, especially with the director thing. Hmpf.

Our drama was going to be about the different kinds of people in school (idea of yours truly) and we'll start off with a grandfather talking to his soon-to-be-college-student grandson (One of the two Indian boys, Kugen came up with this idea, which was a good one, honestly). There will be a few character, the grandfather, the grandson, a nerd and his equally nerdy girl friend (as in a girl who is a friend), a group of bullies, the alpha of the bullies, a hot guy who is gay, his gay partner, a flirt, a lecturer and a freak. Haha. I got to play the flirt. Haha. Since I usually play the villain or a male character in secondary school, I thought I'd try a more girly role this time with the flirt.

Here's how the drama's going to go:
The grandson comes out and tell the grandfather that he was going off to college soon, and the grandfather will start telling him how, in his time, there were all kinds of people. He'll mention the nerd first and so the nerd will step forward, carrying a pile of books and then trip. His friend will come and help him pick his things up. Then a group of bullies will come and taunt them. Then came the head of the bully gang, which we thought it'd be cool to make the leader a girl. We got Lynus to do it. Haha. After that the nerds were supposed to push past the bullies run off stage and the bullies were to chase them. Then came the next scene. The hot guy will enter and well, look hot and dance a little to the overrated "I'm sexy and I know it" song. Then the flirt will come in and flirt with him, wink, play with her hair, hinting when she'll be free etc but he'll show no interest because he's gay and she has no idea. Then, he spots his gay partner behind her and smile and wave. She, being vain and all, thinks that he's waving at her, then as he walk towards the gay partner, he'll push past her and "kiss" him. On the other hand, when the flirt got pushed to the side by the hot guy, she'll bump into the freak. He'll look at her and checks her out, she'll go "eww!" and run away, disgusted. Then the lecturer will arrive and split the gays up and scolds them. The freak will look confused and then walk away. Haha. The drama will end with the grandson asking the grandfather how he was when he was in college and the grandfather will tell the grandson that it doesn't matter who he was. What really matters is that the grandson remain who he really is than to be stereotyped. This is just the basic outline of the drama. It's a little lame but hey, it's just a quick sketch. Each group only had 5 minutes to perform.

We tried acting it out and at first, it was a disaster. The group leader nearly got into a fight with one of the guy who was a little too playful but we managed to pull them apart before things got worst. T'was kindda scary too. Haha. But then we somehow could pull our acts together with a few rough spots, of course, which we've decided to want to fix it the next day, when we'll come early to school to practice. With that done, it's time for the next activity, which will be the Nilai Race. It's going to be something like Amazing Race, you know, you'll get clues to go from one station to another.

Stop no. 1
Our first stop was supposed to be the scariest stop of the whole race. The person in charge of the station was orientation week advisor, Prabu (and if you get to meet him in  person, you'll probably be intimidated too. He looked and sounds scary. Heh. But he's really a cool guy). It's kind of hard to explain his game. It's sort of like basketball but instead of nets, it's just one of your group members, standing on one chair and your main point is to pass the ball to him. If he catches it, then you score. Since we had so many people in a group, we were to split into two groups and

are to play against the counselors at this station. Again, having the experience that they have, they were clearly much better than we were. After splitting our group in half, my team got to play first and I think it's because I was standing at the area of the field where the seniors' scores their goal, the ball gets passed a lot to me. Haha. And luckily, my eye-hand coordination was in an amazing mood that day. So, I managed to catch the ball and pass it on to the right people each time. :) Naturally, both teams lost to the seniors but ours was close (3-2). Not bad for newbies. Heh. If you don't win or complete any of the stations, you will be punished. For this station, they only told us to run. So, that wasn't so bad. On to the next stop!

Stop no. 2
The next station was Ana's station. Hers was the most....deceptive of all the stations. From your group members, pick out a pair, a boy and a girl. The boy will have to balance an egg in his mouth, not biting or sucking on the egg, just have it in his mouth and have his head face upwards to keep the egg standing. The girl is to direct the boy around a number of chairs and sit on the last one in front. If you win, then you can go get your next clue and leave without having to be punished. I volunteered to be in this one (because I desperately want to exclude myself from the dodgeball station). What Ana didn't tell us was that, her and another counselor (whom I don't remember his name and now I feel bad) will be shouting over the girls' instructions. That was the boy with the egg will have trouble deciding which voice to follow. See why I call this game deceptive? We were also given a certain amount of time and when ours finished, I was really frustrated. Hmpf. We were actually allowed to get another pair of girl and guy to do it again or we can just skip to the punishment. The rest of the team thought that doing it would be a waste of time to try it again with another pair, so we decided to go straight to the punishment, which will be to frog jump for the guys all the way down and up a hill but the girls were allowed to walk or run or jog. It was really up to us and this is one of the moment where I truly, truly, truly appreciate the fact that I'm a girl. Hahaha.

There were 8 stops in total but most of them were relatively uneventful, to be honest. We lost and were punished for most of the stops and we only managed to go to 6 stops. Stop number 5 was dodgeball and lemme tell ya, that thing scares the hell out of me and we had to play against the school team which are currently training for a NATIONAL tournament who are mostly pretty tall and scary looking guys, so, obviously I was first to volunteer to sit out of this one. HAHA. All I wanted throughout the game was to look for a safe rock to hide under and I wasn't even playing. Gah.

After that, we ran out of time and was told to head back to the starting point, behind the President Hall. Some groups was already there and more groups are coming back. We all sat down and watched the counselors adding odd stuff into a red bucket. Cheap Coke, coffee powder, vinegar, vanilla flavouring, kicap, eggs were just some of the normal things they add into the bucket and then the weird things started entering; maggots, worms, crickets, bugs and they were ALL ALIVE, mind you! Then, the most crucial ingredient that explains the whole game entered the disgusting pot of "cauldron" (Well, it does look a little bit like they were making a potion. Heh.), APPLES. So, you all know what game this is, right? The one that normal people like you and I play is just a bowl of water with apples floating on it and you just have to take the apple without using your hands but with your mouth. And in order to show how "harmless" these creepy crawly's were, they got one of the counselors, Aaron to do it first who only ended up eating the whole apple, emphasising on the fact that he's eating the bugs as well. Eugh. Each group are to send one guy and one girl to try out the Nilai Cocktail (that's what they call this game and apparently, it's an orientation tradition that we have to continue).

Since my group only have 3 girls, and obviously with both girls refuse to do it. Who else d'you think took up this challenge? Yours truly. Duh. And so, I did (when I got up, people applauded and when one of the counselors called me Miss ADP, I wanted to cry of happiness because for once, it's not Lollipop. HAHAHA). In the normal version that we play at parties, all you see floating on the surface are apples and the water is, well, clear and transparent. This one, however, the water in black with who knows what else they put in there and floating on the liquid was not only chunks of apples but a few bugs there, some maggots here, cricket all around, coffee powder everywhere. Gah. But to be perfectly honest, when you're up there, getting ready to do your thing, all you can see are the apples and all you had to do was to arrange a targeted apple, and then lean down and bite a part of it, take it out of the bucket and that's it! Also, because I was the second girl to go up and do this and I did it in a matter of seconds, it looked pretty impressive! HAHA. I suppose I was happy that I volunteered to do that. At least now, I can tell people I stuck my head in a bucket full of worms in a Fear Factor style challenge before! I'm not all soft and scared of everything now, am I? Hahaha.

With all that done, we were released to go for our dinner and shower and because I don't live on campus, or anywhere near campus for that matter, Lynus invited me again to shower and change at her dorm. The next event was nothing much, really. I think they thought that we'd all want a break and maybe they want a break as well, they made that night Movie Night. We watched 21 Jump Street. The movie wasn't so good, I think, or maybe it was because I was probably half asleep half way through the thing. Though, Channing Tatum look absolutely delicious there. Heh.