Busted

Ha. Orientation. MY weakest link. I knew i was going to die. Die of antisociality, die of heatstroke, die. Just die.

Ok. So we were supposed to reach there by 9am. My mama fetched me there(lazy lah) and hell i was pretty apprehensive. Ok. So i figured where to report, and so it turns out that it was on the second or third floor. And there were a LOT of people. Damn. I went to the 'booths' and asked the girl there something(i forgot what). Then she told me ADM was another booth. So i went over to ADM booth, and asked the person there. She said registration had not started yet.

Then one guy with a loudspeaker suddenly yelled,"REGISTRATION blah blah blah" I thought i heard "over" or something. Then everyone suddenly started cheering. Oh. Registration starts now. I got in second as i was at the booth at that time. It's good to be late, isn't it?

After registering(my five bucks gone!) someone led us to the auditorium. There were very few people. Waited like 45 minutes for the whole place to fill up(and i didn't notice when it happened). Before that the emcees were like cheering us on. I just ignored them and kept smsing.

Actually there was a girl two seats away from me. We were both using our handphones, and she was like,"What course are you in?" "ADM" "Oh, me too" Then we went back to our own business. It's so stupid. Long empty silence. Then we were told to move up and we went apart.

Got to move up somemore, and sat next to a guy. YAY i got the aisle seat.

The emcees were like fooling around somemore. The guy next to me was like so H~I~G~H~. Hahahaha. He attended the Freshmen Orientation Camp(FOC). Then one of the emcees said "Turn to your right and shake hands with him or her" Ok. So boviously that guy tried to make friends with me. I had no choice but to just go along, shake a hand. Some kinda course I've never heard before.

Finally finally finally the programme started. There were tons of cheers. It was followed by a short(one minute) talk by the CAMP RADICAL chairman. Some guy named David. Then came the talk given by Moses Wong, the Director of TDS. Very very long talk. One hour perhaps. He's a wacky guy. He talks a lot. Then sometimes he would say "Tell the person beside you that you are a winner", "Tell the person beside you that 'This guy(Moses himself) is okay'." So the guy beside me just sort of mumbled these things, like he wanted to turn over to tell me but daren't cause i looked like i was going to beat him up. Great. Don't disturb me.

By then i've already realised there's no connection in the auditorium after several failed sent messages. Sigh. Miss my darling.

Then after the long talk, we went into our groups. I was in this Vader(T) group. Sat in circles and did the self-intro and played some games. I was going to cry. Of boredom. Of irritation. Of all of them. They needed a group name. Somehow 'Toilet' was suggested...

Then we went out.

Break time! YAY! A momentarily release. I sneaked off to the toilet. Nobody noticed me. Then i sneaked to the second floor of this MENSA canteen to grab a sandwich. Ok, i was originally eating there, but i decided to takeout. No way i'm gonna sit there retardedly. I quickly got my stuff and went for a walk. Chatted on the phone with my darling and strolled around the campus. I think it should be the Triangular Garden.

Suddenly this person called me by my name. Oh. Someone from secondary school. Other than her i don't see other familiar faces. Good.

I hid in some corner and took some photos and drank Milo. The group assembled at 1.45pm, and i sneakily joined them from behind. I purposely don't want to see those people.

They are already in groups, in pairs, with their new-found friends. Good. So you'll leave me alone, won't you?

Looked at *our* neoprints.

They really took 'Toilet'. Oh my god.

Thought i saw a friend when we were sitting down. Must be the sun.

Proceeded to games. One involves guessing idioms. They were competing against another group. The guy has to back-carry the blindfolded girl from the starting point to the ending point, where there's a board. Then the girl will draw out the picture as the guy instructs her to do so. The rest of the group members would try to guess the idiom. There were four 'couples' from each group, and our group won. Yeah, cheer somemore. Aren't they tired of this?

The GL(group leader) then suggested that we should change the group name to 'Twiggy'. The supermodel. Once-upon-a-time. She's like so enthu. Those big actions and stuff. She's got a mohawk head.

Water balloons. They were what i saw in the cardboard box. Dammit. Luckily it doesn't involves getting wet. It's just passing the water balloons from cloth to cloth till the end. Two people will stand facing each other, holding a piece of cloth in between them, to pass the balloon. So we were told to stand in two lines. Everyone got into twos quickly, except me and another guy. So he sort of told me,"Let's go to the back" So i followed him. Then he was told to stay there while i went to the front. I was the person to pass the balloons down. Great. I won't need to cooperate with anyone.

Almost everyone in the group was enthu except for me and that guy. I wasn't particularly involved in their discussions/games/cheers/chats. No way. I can't do this. There're so many bitches in this world and i got to meet them all. Ha. What a joke.

It started to rain, and we were called back to the auditorium. Damn i hated it there. Can't sms.

The seniors started to teach us the TP song, complete with hand signals. I didn't do one bit. I didn't even try. Then they taught us the Chicken Dance. Just when i thought things couldn't get worse. Everyone was doing, i think. Except me. All of us were standing up and i was highly exposed. I was in the middle, and there were empty seats in front of me cause the GLs had gone to the stage. Dammit. How unfortunate could it get.

Everyone was crazy and happy, while i just stood there. And the AV people are damn irritating. They keep shooting different people in the audience and it's right there on the screen!. But the part where they did funny things to the emcees was hilarious. Oh yes. One senior was mentioning the Vader cheer at the water balloon station. It was funny, with reference to the famous Hokkien Star Wars video.

Anyway, they did it a few times, then the emcee said,"I know someone is not doing, I won't sabo, but someone is not doing" How come i had i feeling that that someone was referring to me?" Whatever. You can't do anything to me. Fight lah.

Then Moses came in, and said encouraging words, telling us to relax and do what they tell us to do. Cause it won't be that stupid if four hundred over people are doing. If you don't do it, you will look stupid, cause you're the special one. Yeah right. Very persuasive. So i continued to stand there, hoping that my face won't be pasted on the screen. I was paranoid. I searched ofr myself eveytime the picture changes. Is this their way of fun? Yes?

It's basically lame. The whole affair. I don't know what's the purpose of orientation. It disorientates me.

We were released early, thanks to Moses. Good. Get out of this fucking place which contains all the suckers.

Took 15 to another bus stop where there is bus 27. I got up the 27 and sat beside a girl from my group. No seats what. She was sleeping i guess.

Went to CP. So sad that the smoking poster is gone. Bought stuff again and went for dinner with my brother.


Home had never been so appealing.

Oh yes. I bought The Best Damn Thing. It's so damn PINK! And it's all pop. Yeah, Avril said she enjoyed singing upbeat, fast-tempo songs, but this is too much. And it's NC16! What did she do? It's like no big deal with "fuck", "bitch" or "slut" in her lyrics, but i didn't expect her to use it so much in this album. So there're explicit versions of three songs in this album.

I won't deny that her voice and musical style has changed. Honestly I'm pretty upset about it. It's true on the boards. She's morphing into something she said she hated so much.

Sigh. Have to get up even earlier tomorrow. 8.30am to reach there. I'm gonna be late so that there won't be unneccesary conversations/people.

I won't hope for a better day tomorrow. Cause i know there wont be. And i won't try to make it so. I just have to plough through this.

I'm not pessismistic. Yeah. Maybe. In some areas.

Hope i'll still be alive after these four days.

Starting the countdown again. It makes me happier. So.
Three more days.

Yet to pack my stuff. Off to camp tomorrow. So you won't be seeing me anytime now. Wait for another two to three days.