There're a bunch of, uh, new people that I need to introduce you guys to. College years is where one "year" is an equivalent to one semester and one semester is about 3 months and I absolutely despise it because things can change so fast in just a matter of days and things happen so fast. So, there, you should be able to tell that in just a couple of months, A LOT of things had already happened.
You know, I'm officially done with my first semester in college? It zoomed past me, I think I barely had time to blink. Anywhoo, I think I wanna update you guys on what has been going on. And I think the best way to do this is
to go through by events. Yes, events. Way back when, events meant us eating Jac's mum's spaghetti and Judy's mum's mashed potatoes (or is it mashed potato?). But now? Events really mean events.
Okay. Where did we left off? Right, Orientation Night. After that night, I honestly expected things to really slow down. You know, just classes and usual lunch with the same person. But boy, could I be more wrong. Haha. So, we shall then continue from there. :)
Event #1 ADP Welcoming/Independence Day Party
The first event post-orientation night was the ADP (American Degree Program, for those of you who don't remember what that stands for) Welcoming and American Independence Day party. Apparently, ADPO (ADP Organization) throw a welcoming party every semester for the new kids and for this semester, there was only Dilshan and I. Have I told you guys about Dilshan? He was at Orientation Week too and apparently the only foreigner there. He's a Sri Lankan. And he originally enrolled as an Aircraft Maintenance student but then changed his course to ADP instead. Which means, I'm not the only ADP newbie anymore for my sem! We shared 3 classes together (out of the total of 4 subjects each): English Composition, Introduction to Theatre and Acting and American History 1. And since ADP have a pretty huge tie with America (duh), we get to celebrate some of the typical American holidays which coincidentally (I think) happen around the beginning of each semester. There are 3 intakes a year. One in January, one in May and one in September (all 3 semesters only begin at the END of the months). So, for the last semester before mine, which was the January semester, they celebrated Valentine's Day together with the Welcoming party. For the May semester (mine), we celebrated the American Independence Day (the actual day is on July 4) and for next semester, we'll be celebrating....wait for it.... HALLOWEEN!!! Woohoo! But that's for later.
So, yeah, you know things work. :) Anyways, my friend (and Am. History classmate) Daryl made the poster for the party and I think it looked mighty fine.
So, what happened that night was pretty simple. It was an outdoor barbecue (I swear, I will never know how to spell that own all on my own. Blame those people who always spell it as BBQ) party and about 3 lecturers attended. One was Miss Sharifah (Halimah), my English Composition lecturer and Head of ADP, and another Miss Sharifah (Bahyah), the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science (our school that is). Since they share the same name, we all call Halimah "Miss Sharifah" and Bahyah "Miss Sha". So, yeah, to kick things off, it is a tradition that the new kids give the seniors a performance and that was not too long after Orientation Night and when they told me that we have to perform again, I was kindda exhausted, you know? Like, what is it with people in this school and performance? Urgh. But then I just told myself to suck it up and do it anyway. Just to get it over with. Heh.
So, Dilshan and I both have to come up with something, either an individual act or combined act. We decided to just do a little sketch. A parody of how we met. Even though we both attended Orientation Week, we didn't even say a single word to each other then. We officially met at Acting Class. So, yeah, our sketch was about how we met and started having little new-kids rivalry. Haha. It was all so last minute but kindda fun. Our audience seemed to have liked it though because we mentioned them as well. Heh. Because see, by then, I've already met and hung out a little with some of them. Christian, Rey, etc.
I think this is after the show with Dilshan (He swims for his country, thus the arms. Heh)
After that, everyone got to introduce themselves, mainly for the benefit of us two newbies, a speech from Miss Sha, another from ADPO President, Mayura and then DINNER! Just as we were about to be done eating, it started to rain. Like, really heavily. Good thing they've already stopped barbecuing anything and we managed to move everything indoors before anyone got drenched.
After dinner and safe from the rain, we settled down to play charades which was fun. Until we lost. Heh. I guess that's all from that night. :)
Event #2 Nilai Students Excellence Awards
What a turn of event this was. I honestly still have a lot of mixed feelings about what this event had done to me personally. I didn't even want to go in the first place. There were a lot of things that I didn't understand then and I've only realized that much later. But nevertheless, I suppose I'm glad I went because if I didn't go, things wouldn't probably had turned out the way it had now.
Anyway, basically, as the name had suggested, it's like the Oscars, to applaud and appreciate the hard work of the students of Nilai University College. I'm only a first semester student, why the hell would I want to go to this thing? That was my exact thought. Besides the ticket was RM50 each and it's a black tie event, which means, I'll have to get a nice dress, heels, bag, make up, hair and all those girly stuff. I don't know that many people in college and it's just going to be so awkward for me. Argh! I just don't see a reason why I should go. At all. Nada. Nope. Nothing.
So, when the ADP Welcoming party wrapped, Mayura gathered us around and asked who want to go to the Nilai Students Excellence Awards (I shall now refer to it as Nilai SEA) because they need to sell as many tickets as possible. I was trying to look tiny so that no one would ask me but of course they did. I then tried (and failed miserably) to come up with a few excuses, like I might be busy or I have guests over (which was true, by the way, aunt's family came to visit and we were supposed to hang out with them the night of the awards) and even lame excuses like I don't have anything to wear and I have no idea how to put on make up (again, not a lie). Then guilt crept all over me because some of our members and ADPO itself was nominated. But still, I'm not sure if it would even be worth it to be an awkward turtle all night long for. Gah. Then, our dean said that they'll pay for RM10 each of our tickets. That means we only get to pay RM40 each. So, I thought fine, why not just go support and see how they run an event here in college.
The golden ticket :)
I was right. And I knew I would be right. It took me about 3 hours to get ready. 1 whole hour for my hair, nearly an hour in the showers and the rest was make up (thanks to mum, of course). I wore the dress that dad got me during our Chinese New Year shopping trip (didn't get to wear it since we didn't celebrate this year). I honestly just want to be as inconspicuous as I possibly can. I just want to be low profile that night. I made sure that my make up was minimal, hair simple and dress normal. But apparently I was wrong about the dress being simple because it had lace all over and extremely body hugging (and can see all my curves, yes, including the awful tummy curve. GAH. SUCK TUMMY IN ALL NIGH MISSION ACCOMPLISHED HAAHHAHA) . And the awkward part? Oh, yes, very much. One of the most awkward nights of my life. They had a red carpet rolled out too. I forgot to mention! The event was held at the Nilai Springs Golf and Country Club. Supposed to be a grand place but it was kindda disappointing and especially the food: My mum can make spaghetti a million times better than they can.
Red carpet and dressing up, you know, all of that could actually be a blast. If you actually have FRIENDS TO DO THEM WITH. WHICH, YOU KNOW, AT THE TIME, I DIDN'T. GAH. And I was so stupid. It's kind of funny because I only realised this not too long ago (but long after the event). Since the red carpet was at 6:45pm and the actual awards starts at 7:45pm, I arrived there at 6:30. Like, who the hell does that?! I feel so dumb now though. If I actually have friends, then, you know, at least I have a freaking reason to be there early. But no! I don't. I arrived early and was so so so awkward. Gah. Though I did see Michelle when I arrived and she looked smokin'. She wore this red cocktail dress with super cool cutouts on the sides. But aside from looking good, she was also busy, being on the organizing committee and all. So, I couldn't really hang out with her anyway.
So, yeah, Christian came and then I felt more relaxed because hey, there's someone that I know now that I can hang out with. There's nothing much I can say about that night, to be honest, since I didn't know half the people there (yet). When the show and dinner ended, I did stay back for a little while to talk to Jimmy and his friend, who was also already my new friend, Jonathan. Jon, he was the dude who was helping out backstage for Orientation Night, remember? Yeah, well, he kept forgetting my name and those of you who follow me on twitter would most probably have heard of him before. I think it was a few days after Nilai SEA was when Jon and I actually became friends where we actually hung out all afternoon and then evening and had dinner together. He's a fellow Sarawakian and Kolo Mee lover, it's nice to finally get to hang out with someone like that. And we sort of became pretty good friends since then. We're each other's 'candeh buddeh' (Candy Buddy) and we both honestly believe that we could be related to each other somehow. Not because we look alike or anything but because we have pretty much the same interests and opinions on stuff that we barely even have any disagreements. Though, my first semester was also his last semester. That's kind of depressing.
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Jimmy on the left and Jon on the right. I hate it that I have the same poses in both pictures. Eugh. Seriously need to work on that
Yeah, after that I managed to take a few pictures with Michelle though I have no idea where they are now. Haha. I'm still trying to get my hands on them but like I said, I barely know anyone, so, I don't remember which photographer was it who took our pictures. I guess I should ask Michelle herself. Heh.
There, that's events 1 and 2. Stay tuned thought because I'm not done yet. Not even close. :)
But for now. I guess this is it.
Yay. Now, go take a break from reading all this. :D
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