stagnant blog again as usual.oh well, due to the fact that i have been busy with school and everything..i'll try to update if possible(:
basically this post will sum up a lot of the main events that have been happening.so sit tight! we are going on a long journey,dating back to the date of 5 jan!
ORIENTATION 2009: MADAGASCAR, WE LIKE TO MOVE IT!day 1: FIRST OFFICAL DAY OF ORIENTATION..started on 5 jan (duh). this was the very first day that i was going to meet my class that i will be sticking like glue with for the next two years of my life. i got allocated to 0909, and my group for orientation was GLORIA 3!for this year's orientation, each class was allocated 3 OGLS, so my class very fortunately had camy,jessica and ming han as the lovely dream team for ogls! i would describe camy as a sweet-natured girl with an exceptionally cute voice, jessica as the very hyped up and energetic young lady in making, and ming han as the macho guy, with a little tinge of cutness in him. :D bet they'll love me for saying this. ha. joking. so the first day started off with grand entrance,then me getting to know everyone in the class, like what school were you from etc and playing the usual ice breakers of wacko and sorts. then came the dry games which everyone enthusiastically played in. after which, we learned the 31st mass dance and oh my tian, that really got me high! i love 31st mass dance! the disappointing thing was that they did not get to learn 30th mass dance..but it's alright!
day 2: SENTOSA!! ((:today's orientation was mostly held in sentosa. well, we had the learning of the school songs in the morning, as well as a bit of tribal time, before heading to that lovely island! lunch was great because the ogls ordered pizza from canadian pizza, and we played a LOT of ice breaker games and saw through some very interesting forefeits. hee hee. now comes the dreaded part. the first games station was to find stuff in this area where yida was the gm. and guess what. while i was chasing after yida for a pencil, i got pushed, and viola, the next thing i knew was that i fell, got pulled up by ming han (THANKS A LOT! you are so nice), and saw a big bruise about the size of 2 50 cents coins on my right knee cap. bleeding of course. so yida frantically said that i was not okay when i insisted i was and got help from chun leong, who very nicely offered to carry my bag and help me to first aid. there goes my sentosa trip. :( oh well,thanks to angie for helping me to dress my wound. (: so for the next few stations mostly what i could do was to give moral support to my class by cheering super loudly. thank you 0909 for being so concerned with my fall and kept asking me to be careful and everything! went to vivocity to help buy the boxes for the ogls presents.
day 3: CCA BAZAAR!had loads of mass dance in the morning! and we successfully finished learning 31st mass dance as well as majority of trad dance! most importantly, we learned how to dance to hot n cold! heh. afterwhich, we went down to grandstand for telematch, a total repeat of one of the game stations in sentosa. haha. good job to hose exco for their organisation! cca bazaar was after that, and i practically screamed myself hoarse for trying to get people to join film art, even though i will be switching cca soon. i signed up for squash and floorball. thank you daniel (seoh) for making a very nice flower balloon for me! :D
day 4: THE BEST DAY OF ORIENTATION + WE LIKE TO MOVE IT!had tribal time in the morning to prepare for the cheering competition, and my oh my, i simply LOVE gloria's cheers, especially the hakka cheer and the i feel good cheer! after which was mass dance session. instead of alex, i danced with farid this time, God's arrangement apparently. why so? while i was dancing, the ogls were apparently observing me, and i knew it because ming han kept dancing next to me. actually,the ogls were supposed to pick out one couple from each class and go on stage for the dancing king and queen preliminary rounds, and apparently i got picked by camy,jessica and ming han. at first, i was really reluctant when jessica came to me, and eventually gave in to much persuasion from the 3 of them, and also since farid was alright with it. i was dancing with him at the 2nd row of dancers, always getting observed by kuang wen and candihra. haha. i did not expect them to include freestyle, and oh well, practically embarassed myself in front of my friends who some of them were gloria and marty ogls. oh my tian. luckily i did not get picked. heh. after lunch was wet games, and i could not play because of my injury. so sad!! but this year's wet games, i have to admit, was not as good as last year's because most people did not get really wet, whereas last year, we were practically drenched from head to toe. quickly washed up and had dinner-nasi lemak (and so much better than last year's of course) , and tribal time! of course, not forgetting to dance to hot n cold again. (: went back to the hall, and it was RAWR time! congratulations to GLORIA, for having the best RAWR! meaning, we WON CHEERING COMPETITION!!! YAYNESS! tarzan and jane (dancing king and queen) was next, and congrats to mustafa(h) from gloria, apparently asraf and farid's friend was clinching the title of tarzan! i must applaud him for being such a sleek and cool dancer, with good groove and moves. up next was the best time of the day, DISCO TIME! and i did sweat a lot with all the dancing, train-ing and grooving around. mass dance with the whole cohort came after that, and i danced with a random ogl from marty (i don't know his name la). orienation closed after that, and our class went down to the canteen to wait for our ogls for present time! we each gave them a box filled with letters handwriiten by us, asraf and farid gave to the girls, while i gave to ming han, on behalf of the class. then each received a hug from us. (: i bet they were very touched, especially ming han. HAHA. God knows why. then we took lots of photos, and home sweet home.
I AM STILL HAVING POST ORIENATION BLUES. BELIEVE ME FOR THAT.i really felt that this year's orientation was absolutely great, in fact, i enjoyed myself a lot despite being injured. see, that was how good orientation was.
had get ed seminar on friday,nothing much to elaborate, except for the fact that i was very impressed by may wong (from channel news asia). her talk really inspired me to become a tv journalist like her. haha. you'll never know if you see me on the screen of your hd tv one fine day.
on a more solemn note, grandpa passed away on saturday,which happened to be valentine's day. so from sunday to tuesday, we held the wake and funeral. grandpa was cremated in tuesday. i don't want to say much, except to thank all those who have been supporting me and that i am glad that grandpa knows God and is having a good life in heaven now. no more suffering for him.
went for squash trials on wednesday after the ashes and bones collection, and praise God, i successfully got into the team!
can't wait to start squash training tomorrow..