Orientation

(OMG, I wanna kill my comp. I typed for an hour + and everything deleted itself. Now I've got to re-type my entry.)

My first blog and my first ever entry. Never ever thought I'd get one... Why did I get this then? That's my OG's fault.

Heh. On to my long entry about the past week.

After a month of working during the holidays, getting poorer and richer, I get ONE day of rest and school starts. Needless to say, I left the house on the 3rd wishing that school hadn't started so soon. Fortunately, the day didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would -- excluding the stupid talks we had to sit through where we ended up with nothing less than a sore butt. The icebreakers were okay... but the ice wasn't really breaking yet. It didn't until a few days later.

One of my OGLs called me the day before, and it was quite funny. I didn't know how to get to school, and he told me quite a lot of ways on how to get there, which left me more confused then I had been before. I had no idea why, but on the phone I thought he sounded like a nerd (no offense Jeff!), but I was proved wrong when we interacted with our OGLs on the first day.

The first 2 friends I made were the ones that sat next to me in the hall for the first time. The one on my left was Imelda -- though I didn't see her after the 3rd day, and the one on my right -- Rachel, who is rather 'dao' when you first see her, fun and nice on a normal day, and rather crazy when you see her unwind (which our OG found out during disco night). And she sleeps easily during lectures, as do all of us.

I felt that the games were fun too, and the cheering involved as well. I think the SC's hard work paid off, at least in my opinion. I enjoyed myself in all the games. I thought that it would have been a horrifying experience where they make you dunk your face in flour and fish for something, or something like my friend's orientation, where they had to pass an orange with their mouth. Eewww... Can you imagine biting something everyone else had bitten and passing it on? I hope they didn't re-use the orange.

On the last day of orientation I got myself a pretty large blue-black on my left knee after falling on it 3 times during the game where we had to run and take the opponent's balls from their territory and run back to put it in our own territory. Sounds simple enough? Not when you have to squat almost immediately when the defender taps you on the shoulder and you're running at top speed. Not to mention how easy it is to bang into someone or trip over others. The girls' side was okay though.I heard that the guys were pretty violent and someone slammed into the window pane or something. Ouch.

Then there was 'The quest'. That was fun. We cheated a little, and our whole OG entered the cathedral to look for answers when only 3 people were allowed to. By accident of course. Our OGLs were really great then too. They helped us to look for answers and let us eat macs for lunch (since we were late anyway) before returning to school.

Talking about my OGLs, we gave them nicknames! ^^ Sam's our Ah pa, Jeff's our Ah gong and WX's our Ah ma. Rachel thinks that Sam looks like a hamster, and I think he looks like a really cute beaver (like those you see in cartoons). Not that he doesn't look like a hamster. ^^;; No offense Sam!! I'd take that as a compliment. It just means that you look cute. ;)

Then there were the dancing sessions. My dance partner was the 'Uncle' in the OG - Chuanchen. We were both just as blur in the beginning, and when we learned the trad dance, I always ended up in the guy's place and he in the girl's place after the waltz. Which was funny. And somehow or another I ended up kicking Kevin (who was in front of me) like 3 times on one of the days while I was dancing. Sorry Kevin!!

All in all, the dances were great fun and I enjoyed myself a lot. The bad thing about it was that after the first day we started learning the dances, the songs got stuck in my head (and they still are).

I went home searching for the song "Summer Sunshine" and after a few hours of searching, gave up because all the sites I went to either no longer had the song, had the short (6sec) midi version of it, or expected me to pay for downloading the song. Thankfully, I found that 2 people in my OG had the song, so I bugged them to send it to me.

On the fourth day, our OG went out for dinner at macs (again) where we ate and talked a lot of crap. Chuanchen, Bei Jia, Meng Yeow, Sam and Shu Xian (was it?) told lots of lame jokes and made us all laugh. Jeff's side of the table seemed to lag. They took quite some time to get the joke, and more than once the joke was lost. But that in itself was fun. ^^;; Maybe they need to get themselves broadband or something, then they wouldn't lag so much. ... Okay, sorry. Lame. The only bad thing about the dinner was that after a few hours, I think I had no blood circulation or something and my asthma acted up, and I had to puff halfway through. Bummer. I couldn't absorb quite a few jokes after that.

After dinner and crapping, 9 of us squeezed into a neoprint machine and took neoprints. As a result, Chuanchen and Kevin's faces were cut off in most, if not all, the pictures.

On Saturday, we had another OG outing. Kevin was the first to arrive, followed by me, and then Chun Boon (if I'm not wrong), who disappeared off to the toilet soon after arriving, and led Li Min, Kevin and I to believe that he got stuck in the toilet bowl when he didn't return after 10 mins. Then we sat at macs (again) to wait for the latecomers, and I swear if I see another macs I'll go nuts. Thank goodness we didn't eat there for lunch. We ate at the food court instead.

After lunch, we went to play pool. I was playing it for the first time and I thought it was really fun. My first game was played with Jeff and Dean, and Dean kept hitting the ball with his stick while he was aiming. Jeff and I allowed him to try again, but Shu Xian and Camille didn't let him off that easily when he played with them later.

After playing pool I had to leave, sadly, because I had jap class. I wanted to join them after class but my mum said that I had to collect my specs that night. Wouldn't have been able to join them anyway. By the time my class ended, they were eating dinner and preparing to go home. Gah.

Normal lectures are going to start tomorrow, and I couldn't understand the timetable yesterday. I had to bug Jeff online last night, and WX this morning on how to read it. In fact, I think I still don't get certain portions of it. Argh. Hopefully I can find someone to explain it to me tomorrow morning.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I LOVE OG 26!!! And the OGLs too!!! ^^ I'm going to miss everyone when lectures start... Hopefully we can go out again for bowling or something. ^^

Signing off..........