Day 4
A few of us in Lollipop went to school earlier to rehearse our sketch for Nilai's Got Talent but as expected, some didn't show up, so, we couldn't really practice all that much. Most of us were pretty familiar with our parts by then, of course. Then, we found out that Lynus wasn't coming because she wasn't feeling too good but she did ask me to shower at her dorm again, so that was really nice of her, huh? But now that she's not coming, we'd need someone else to cover her spot and we asked one of the other girl, who is really really quiet to play the alpha bully. The Nilai's Got Talent was only going to be the second event of the day, so we head up to the lecture hall again and sat down for another talk on "Goal Setting". I suppose you can pretty much guess what this was about and the talk was given by a couple of lecturers who teaches English at the college. We were told to get in to our respective groups again and do this goal setting thing as a group and then present it at the end of the session. We were supposed to set a goal for this semester together as a group and this got me really really annoyed. Like, seriously, there are so many people in the group, and do you really think we'd all have the same goal? What if I want to date half the guys in the school by the time this semester ends (which I don't, by the way. I said "WHAT IF") and the rest of the group wants to get at least a C in every subject? AND, think about it, most of the other groups will most definitely come up with more or less the same things as well. Stupid, right? I think I did not like this session the most. Eugh. We were supposed to write the goal down on a piece of manila card, along with the challenges that we might have to face, how are we going to get over these challenges and the period of time we have to get that stupid goal over with. Our group just went with the easiest, getting a GPA score of 3.0 and above or something like that because technically, it wasn't "our group" entirely, it was more like 5 or 6 of us and the rest just sat there but then again, it has always been like this, with me being one of the noisiest ones there. I don't want to rant but if the few of us don't speak up and do something, who will? It's mostly just for group discussions like this. When it comes to playing games, we're a team. Okay, then, whatever. We just started coming up with the most logical things we can think of and I volunteered to go up on stage to present. The other two tall Indian guys (Kugen and Naven) joined me. When it was my turn to talk, I was honestly surprised at how I didn't shake at all and that my voice sounded normal and that I could talk normally. For those of you who have seen me get nervous when it comes to talking to a crowd will be really familiar with these symptoms. HAHA. But this time, I was much much better than usual....until I started talking. I just sped through everything. I think I explained everything in less than 10 breaths and I even found time in, I think the fifth breath to apologise for talking so fast. HAHA. It was hilarious though and since everyone seemed to be sleepy, I think I was forgiven.
During the discussion, one of the lecturers who was making rounds stopped at our group. Now, before I even entrolled, that was when I was still doing research on all the ADP programs that was offered in several Universities, I got to meet Miss Sharifah here at Nilai. She was the lecturer who stopped at our group now and I told her that I was the only ADP student for this intake. We exchanged numbers upon her request and told me not to worry about being the only one because she was pretty sure that there will be a few international students coming in to join me. So, that kind of made me feel better, I suppose.
Fast forwarding to the Nilai's Got Talent, we were moved to a classroom in the Science Block. So, we only had some space in front of the room as the stage because everyone else will be sitting on the floor in lines, according to groups. When it was our turn to perform, we totally forgot to mention the professor who was played by Naven (refer to this post for the storyline) and then from the outside (where the characters enters and exits), he started calling out to the "grandfather" (Kugen) to call him in and I was furious. I told him to shut the F up so that no one will know that we made any mistake. People like that just don't know how to put on a show at all. When you make a mistake, just move on like nothing happened but that professor guy totally ruined the whole thing for us because then, the judges/counselors knew we missed out on something. URGH. How stupid is that, right? I get that you want your turn to shine as well but the show is just more important than you. It's the truth, deal with it. So, one of our judges, Adam asked us to do the part where we missed out, which in the end, it was sort of a buzz killer. God. But anyway, we were ranked as 2nd runner up, so I guess we were okay. Oh, and the timid girl that replaced Lynus as the leader of the bullies? She did a tremendous job too because she's much much smaller than the guys who played the bullies and she looked kindda bad ass. The bullies and the bullied also did an amazing job. The way they interacted with each other on stage was actually pretty good, considering that we had to come up with the whole thing only the day before. Woohoo!
The next interesting event was, of course the highly anticipated "Water Match", where the students get to, quote, "revenge on the counselors" and Ana was, obviously the number 1 target for most of the boys after her frog jump up and down the hill punishment yesterday (which apparently happened to many other groups as well). We played a few games, in the mud, playing with water, tug of war, get showered with buckets of water, get flour thrown on us and there was this game where we were to stand in our own groups, in a line again and each group were given an empty pail. There was a huge basin of water (with who knows what inside, all I know is that it's not shampoo. Mud and dirt probably) in front. Our job was to one by one, run to the basin in front, dip our hair into the water, run back to our own pail and fill the pail with the water that was absorbed in our hair. Some dude came up with a genius plan to collect the water in their mouths as well and add that water into the pail, which was obviously cheating. A couple of guys in our group did that and it was seriously really disgusting. Again, in my group, we have so few girls, with Lynus gone today, we were on a huge disadvantage. Good thing I still have my long hair and I had no choice but to go more times than needed. Hmpf. That, I don't mind. D'you know the part that sucked the most? When we finish the game, the counselor splashed us with the water in our pails that we assiduously collected ourselves. And because I sat in front of the line, I got quite drenched in not just water but also some of the guys' saliva!!! EEEEUUUGGGHHH. GAAAWWWDD. I swear, I was so close to crying my eyes out in disgust. I think I'd rather do the Nilai Cocktail a million times than to have to suffer this at all. URGH. The last game was when we get to throw water balloons at the counselors as "revenge". Haha. It looked really fun but I really pitied the counselors, so, I decided not to throw anything at anyone. See what a nice person I am? HAHAHAHA.
I went back to Lynus' dorm to shower and I think I scrubbed the dirt and saliva off my head and skin until I feel raw. Eugh. Like yesterday, the night event was uneventful. While waiting for everyone to gather, this group of guys who managed to form some kind of a "cool and everyone-wants-to-hang-out-with-except-you" group approached me and their leader (whom I admire his confidence and he sings and/or wants to be a singer, he was pretty open and straight forward about that even though he's taking Culinary Arts, instead of music or something. Culinary Art's his plan B, I suppose) approached me, with his cronies behind him, of course, and went "Hey, I've been meaning to ask you, d'you wanna join our band? We need a girl singer" and I think I spent, like, 5 seconds just gaping at them. Seriously, who or what gave them the idea that I can sing? Then I laughed at them and told them no because I'm definitely not the person they want for their band. Though I had a feeling that they were only looking for "potential popular kids" to be on their band. Not that I'm trying to say that I'm popular or going to be popular. Just that, during the entire Orientation Week, I was always the odd one out and I kept getting these "attention", what's with the lollipop thing, a whole group named after me, a counselor being a bit biased because of the very word "lollipop" and the only ADP student in this intake of nearly 200 students, etc. So, I suppose they'd consider me to be somewhat "popular"...
Oh, and then they laughed at how fast I talked in the morning. Haaha. I was waiting for that...
When everyone gathered, we were given more details on the Orientation Night, which will be held on June 19 and the theme was going to be "Cartoon World". I liked this theme. :) We'll (in our own groups again) have a couple of weeks to get ready our performance and are assigned 2 counselors to help us with it. Our counselors are Eleven and Dinesh (as expected, heh, but Jimmy was assigned to another group :( ) and on the night itself, we are to perform for the whole campus to see. It's, again, another tradition (a sadistic one if you ask me) and we will have lecturers as judges and there will be prizes to be won. Aaaaagghhh. We were sent off early and since I told dad to pick me up at 10 (I wasn't driving yet), together with Eleven and Jimmy, we head off as a group to hang out at the canteen but in the end, it was only part of the group because some of them went off elsewhere. We talked and chit chat though I don't know what time they all stopped because I left already. Aaaaaannnddd, that's it for day 4. Moving on to 5!
Day 5
Friday. Last day of Orientation. Woohoo. It was also Gawai and they don't celebrate it here, therefore no public holiday for us. For some reason, I was really homesick and that really put me in a crappy mood. Since today was the last day, a lot of people thought that it would be a good idea to skip and go back to their hometown or something. Only about half? Or less than half? showed up today.The first thing to do of the day was something called "Creative Imagination". I swear, whoever came up with these names for all these activities is a genius because he/she makes everything sounds so cool and interesting when it's actually just something that can otherwise be boring and dull. Creative Imagination (Am I the only one who will forever hear Spongebob's voice in my head whenever it comes to the word "IMAGINATION"? Haha)
So, anyway, Creative Imagination is just to get one person in your group and make him/her your group mascot. We're supposed to make him a mascot costume and since I was in a crappy mood, I let the boys do all the work but boys being boys, they made him (our mascot will be our group leader) wear a gigantic male anatomy, which was seriously vulgar and awful, considering that, you know, they sort of name the group after the whole lollipop incident (which involves moi) and now that's how they want to represent the group. Kindda embarrassing but then again, I wasn't in the mood to boss them around and do anything, so I just let them. Then, I got to show off to Dinesh (who is a Manchester Utd fan) with the fact that I've been to Old Trafford (the stadium). Hahaha. The look on his face is just hilarious.
The make-your-mascot session took the entire morning and after lunch it's another group project where we have to make our own flag. We went with the obvious and drew a lollipop. By this time, everyone was already lazy and tired to actually work. Since we were only given paint with primary colours; blue, yellow, red and white, I suggested that we mix the colours to get other colours. Like blue and yellow makes green, red and yellow makes orange and red and blue makes purple. The purple turned out really ugly but the green and orange were pretty. We even mixed white and red to make pink. In the end, all the other groups came, spied on us and copied our ideas (losers. Hehe). I wanted to help to paint the flag but our super obnoxious group leader wanted to do it himself and then claim that no one wanted to help when we were all waiting for our turn all along. Urgh. So, most of us got annoyed and left him to do everything. Of course, then, the lovely Eleven came and saw that he was the only one doing it, she sort of took over everything instead. Some of the other guys in the other groups saw that as well but didn't say anything. Again, by then, no one gives a damn about any of that already...
After dinner and a longer break, we all gathered at the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) for the final agenda in the list. We were to explain our flag with full description of what each elements, including the colours meant. Our group flag literally held no metaphorical meanings, so we just randomly, very quickly came up with something. It was ridiculous. Then when it was our turn to present, we sent these two guys to go and when it was time for the crowd and judges to ask questions, someone actually asked if a counselor helped us made the flag. That's when I got defensive. Like, what the hell, dude? Trying to
Okay, then Prabu just sort of talked to us about other stuff. Campus life kind of stuff. I kindda don't remember what he said. Heh. And then he told us, in 5 minutes, shake as many counselors' hands as possible. I managed about 9 (out of how many I don't know, haha). Eleven, Prabu, Jimmy, Adam, Raj and Aaron were the only ones I remember shaking their hands. After that was pretty much PAR-TAY! for us. It was off for the lights, on for the club music. Since I don't dance or like these music, I was one of those awkward people who stood at the side. This, I can totally relate:
Gifs not mine. (Credit)
So, anyway, everyone just sort of crowded to this one side of the room where one of the "cool" guys started shuffling and all and I couldn't exactly see over the crowd, so, had no idea what was going on. Then there's this Chinese guy, Chuan Liang (language barrier too but he speaks okay English though I don't blame him, he went to an independent Chinese school and they only speak Mandarin there) who's been really nice to me but I honestly think that the only reason why he hangs out with me was because he pities me being alone a lot but nether less, he's nice to me and I really appreciate that. He saw me standing there alone again and came up to me, told me to join the party. So, I told him how I can't see what's going on and all and then he just walked away. A few minutes later, he came back and pulled me to the other side of the room where there is a space in the crowd where I can squeeze through. That's really sweet too, huh? Haha. But then I saw they started pulling people from the crowd to enter the dance floor. That was when I fled. Heh.
To wrap it up, we had a group photo taking session though I can't find any on Facebook and most of our group members weren't there anymore. Maybe we'll take a complete one during Orientation Night. :)
This whole week was seriously much much better than expected. Those of you who read my older posts would know how much I dreaded this week but maybe it's because of that that I have a fairly low expectation of it. Frankly speaking, I have no idea how the counselors do this every intake every year. I think they all deserve some kind of a special award for this. This post is titled as "Not Really The End" because, well, we'll still see each other pretty often because we have to rehearse and get ready for Orientation Night, don't we?
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