Just had my orientation in Swinburne KCH yesterday & this morning. The orientation overall is ok. Yesterday's orientation was about ice-breaking where you get to make some new friends in your group. My group is Group 2 BTW & there are 10 groups altogether. I made around 3 new friends (where 1 of them is taking the same course as me) & they are friendly. I saw Moses, Samson & Hui Na during the orientation yesterday. I breathed in a sigh of relief after seeing these 3 Lodgians who are with me where at least I'm not the only Lodgian who attend this orientation. There was a break at 10:00 a.m., I didn't drink & eat anything though 'cuz I wasn't thirsty or hungry. The facilitators then showed us the way to our classes, library, bookstore, multipurpose hall, the 3 cafeterias & stuffs. After the orientation, I saw Ambrose, Desmond & Frederick who had just came back from the multipurpose hall. We only greeted each other while waiting for my mum to pick me up. Nothing much happened after that & I went home getting a nap in my cosy bed. So that was the end of Day 1's orientation.
Today's orientation is about signing up for clubs & societies, doing aerobic exercises, playing some games & getting our time tables. I have to admit that the aerobic exercises for today's orientation is awkward where we did the exercises with 1 of the childish songs, which is Doraemon. I'm not being mean or insulting them or anything, it's just that doing exercises with this childish song is just so awkward for me. At 1st, I'd expect the aerobic exercises would be just a simple stretching without any music...but I was wrong. When the Doraemon song was played, my mind was like "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS CRAP SONG PLAYING ON THE STEREO??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WE'RE GONNA DO THESE EXERCISES WITH THIS CHILDISH SONG? YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS ABOUT THAT!!!" I didn't really do much though 'cuz my muscles are tired, so I only did a few parts of the exercises where it doesn't involve the whole body movement. After the aerobic exercises, it was time for the group to gather themselves for the upcoming games. 1 of the games is Blindfold where 3 persons are selected from each group to become a "devil" or a distractor for the other group. The people who are not selected will be given a blindfold to blindfold themselves & they all have put their hands to grab the person's (in front of them) shoulders to form a "human train". BTW, you must not let go of the person's (in front of you) shoulders, or else the people behind you & yourself will be lost. The facilitators from each group & the 3 distractors will then lead their group to some places within Swinburne & they must be back in the multipurpose hall after 15 minutes. I wasn't selected so I was blindfolded during the game. To tell you the truth, the cloth was kinda thin so I still can see through my blindfold since I opened my eyes throughout this game. I know I had cheated in this game, but who cares? After Blindfold, the next & the final game is where you have to think of a way to prevent the egg from breaking when you drop it. We are given a thin colour paper, 8 sheets of blank A4 papers, 5 rubber bands, a set of 10 magic pens, 10 straws & of course, an egg. For my group, we wrapped the egg with around 6 straws & then wrap it up again with all of the 8 A4 blank papers until the egg looks more like a dinosaur egg. The guys then took the whole set of magic pens & built them into a "tent". After the "tent" was done, we put the "dinosaur egg" into the "tent" & eventually wrap it around again with lots of cellotape. 18 minutes has passed, all the groups went out from the multipurpose hall & each group leader were asked to go to the 1st floor of this hall to drop their eggs. After the experiment, we were asked to open everything up to see whether any of the group's egg broke. 2 of the group's egg were broken & luckily enough, my group is not 1 of them so that was a relief. After the game, I went there with Vanessa to Chili Peppers to have our lunch. FYI, Chili Peppers is 1 of Swinburne's cafeteria & it's located somewhere in front of the student's hostel. After lunch, it was time for signing up for clubs & societies. I signed up for Japanese language, dance & drama. The good thing about Swinburne's dance club is that it's mainly focused on teaching hip hop, which I had always wanted to learn so much after I had discovered my interest in doing hip hop dancing during Ashley L's party last year & also after watching SYTYCD (Australia) during my Brisbane trip last month. As I was signing the dance club form, 1 of the questions asked me about the types of dances I'm interested to learn. I wrote "hip hop, ballroom, contemporary & jazz" 'cuz I find these dances interesting. After that, I chatted with Samson for a while when all of a sudden, a tall guy in a black shirt with yellow collar who is one of the person in charge for the drama club registration, appeared right in front of me & Samson, started talking to him. At 1st, my mind was like "Who is this guy anyway all of a sudden appear right in front of us & talking to Samson?". When that guy turned his head to look at me, you'll never guess who he is...he's a Lodgian & my classmate in Forms 4 & 5...& he's JOEL!!! I was like "OMG Joel, is it really you? Is it true that you are 1 of the members of the drama club? I didn't even know that you're studying at Swinburne..." & things like that. We chat for a few minutes & Joel left after that to do his duty at the drama club registration. It was unbelievable to meet my ex-classmate in Swinburne & I just feel so happy about it. FYI, if you sign up for a club in Swinburne, it doesn't mean that you are the member of the club. You need to go for meetings to check when is the perfect time to hold the club that you had just sign up so that it wouldn't clash with yours & the others' time table. You can drop out from the club if it really clashes with your busy schedule. Then at about 3:30 p.m., it was time for all of the new students to go to the auditorium to get our time tables. After getting my time table, I saw Morgan & Joel getting out from the lift & we just greeted each other while waiting for my mum. Then, it was time for me to head home to get some nap in my cosy bed & that was the end of my orientation in Swinburne KCH.
My class starts on this coming Monday & I have no idea how I'm going to start my new life in college since it's my 1st year. I'm feeling nervous & excited at the same time & hopefully my college life will be as good as my high school life or better than that, so fingers crossed.
Only Yasmin (left) & Chang Mien's (right) have their individual pics from the Great Wall photoshoot last year posted up in the Borneo Post since both of them took 12 subjects where they took 1 additional subject of their own & scored straight A1s, whereas the other 16 straight A1s scorers only have their names posted up since they didn't take any additional subject.
SPM results are out on next Thursday. Oh boy, 6 more days left from now. I have no idea how well I'm going to do, so hopefully I can nail it when it's released. 
