Pandarific!!

I'm finally bac from Orientation camp!! haha well i'll rate this camp as ok ok only la, out of 10, 10 being the best i'll give this a 6. It was in SUFES, so this would be like my third time there already, and uncle Jack remembered my name and WHEN i came to SUFES, amazing whey!

Ok, so day one, we had to pitch up our tents in the rain....yea i just got myself wet, bother. Then we had session one of No Apologies, i don't mind going through it again, it's sorta like refreshing my memory. Then we had our Night walk/jungle walk. Now those people who've been through it before you must be thinking, "ah nothing la, can finish at the most 2 hours" well my friends, this time, we used a different route where the slope down was all mud and no roots, so we practically had to slide down to get to the bottom. To top that off, we finished at 2 a.m (the early/lucky ones like me) and the latest finished at 3.30 a.m. Not Funny being in the dark jungle for almost 5 hours (we started at 11 p.m) My torchlight had to run out of battery, and a few other too. It was a seriously new and different experience, this was way tougher than the first time i did it. This is when you know how much upper body strength you have la (hanging on to tree's + tree roots for your life) yea, i almost fell tumbling down once, good thing two people caught me.

So, had 4 hours of sleep, then session 2 of no apologies. After that we had to get ready for stream trotting, this was fun, we made it to the waterfall and it was really fun!! come on, what's not fun about playing in water? haha. Then we had a short break, and then the orientation party. We started off with night games, where we went to stations, quite nice and simple games la, after that we had our skit thing,lol. Our theme was Hell's Kitchen, location :HOt springs and special characters :iron man and donkey from shreck. We hardly practiced so we just gave it our best shot, haha i tell you tristen was super good and funny, i had to try to stop myself from laughing on stage. After that was tribal court. Now this one wasn't so nice, and it's sad because it totally spoiled the mood of the whole 'orientation party' it's like where you did something wrong and they punish you. If you do this the right way, it'll be funny even for those who gets punished, but sadly it was done the wrong way and everyone was upset with the council. This was because some of the 'crimes' were totally unreasonable and the punishments were dumb and contradicting. Ended off the night with talking about our batch running for precidency for the student council.

Last day, oh did i mention i purposely try to sleep longer even after the whistle is blown? haha yes i did that every morning for this camp. But everyone else in the tent ust wakes up immediately, so i end up being the last to wake up but fastest to finish washing up. We had games....ok after getting just 9 hours of sleep in almost 48 hours, i wasn't so excited.But the teamwork in our team, team ECHO was really amazing la, good group, good group. Our team leader Aaron is funny and he really just encourages everyone to work together, do our best and give the 'Happy meal' smile. He's like super funny lah, but can go a bit verboard sometimes too. Lastly we had like prize giving ceremony! our team got the prize for best teamwork!! see!! yay!!it's nice la to win something ok....So that's all about the camp la. Yes it was Bonding camp if you think about it, and no, it does not sound gay. Pictures in Facebook if you're curious.

AHhhhhhhhhhh i so super tired...why am i still online then? my hair is wet...not good to sleep with wet hair. Just came back from BBQ night in college, so yea, i was sticky and sweaty, VERY bad combo, had to take bath again. So well, this BBQ night thing, i was helping out like since monday because of the deco, so i've been reaching home at 7 for 3 consecutive days, took the train, oh, on monday i had absolutely no clue which train i should use and i didn't know who to walk with to the sentral station, but thank God He provided me 3 friends to walk with me, so Elle showed me the way and all that, she even showed me where to buy a touch and Go card, aww now i have one, i feel so adultish, hahaha, yes i am easily fascinated.

Well the deco turned out to be worth the trouble, it turned out nice, very nice, as for the BBQ night itself, well it was ok okla, though i'm not much into dancing, got pulled into it, managed to escape unscratched, haha.

So it's been one month of college already, wow. time passes so fast, well i have made some new friends and i get to go out in between classes which is really fun (take train, see how fascinated i am in taking the train?)Lecturers give you loads of homework as if we're only taking their class, 31 questions for accounts, no joke.

I finished my CS, but i might do more, just for extra credit.(so american). Oh, orientation camp is next sat, what i called bonding camp. Yea, been there like twice already, so i know what to expect, some were talking about camping as if it was a nazi concentration camp. I tried to tell them that the place is just fine, but oh well.

So that's all i guess. Bye bye

Looking at all these pictures you'll notice a few things:
1. There are no buildings
2. No people
3. It consists of animals and landscapes, basically nature
4. None of it man made
5. There is no way to remake any of it the same way
6. God's handy work

Things made by man are really mechanical, unnatural, narrow minded and temporary, in contrast with the things God makes, he makes things to last for a long time and also to benefit other things, and the best of all, each one is a work of art. Although these creations of His are just fantastic, the most fantastic one of all is You, we humans are made in His image, how much more cooler can it get from that? =)

I just feel like posting these pictures because they're so nice and photographic wise just plain awesome! Oh something random about college, today i was asked to talk about 'light'....joy, guess what i said, "let there be light" and many other things like Thomas Edison, Hong kong, rainbows and random things related to light. Got a 8/8.5 band though! yay!

I'm also having a horrible flu, no it's not H1N1, why? because i got it due to the highly effective chill, no i mean freezing of the collge airconds, and i don't know why the lecturers don't feel it....are they used to it or something? Need to adapt to the environment (coldness of the airconds) of college.

Expect more picture posts in the future, because i got a lot of emails with pretty pictures in them, hint hint if you have emails with pretty pictures (i mean really pretty in the txtbook definition, not any other kind of pretty) send them to me.

Btw, these are National Geographics Best Pictures. All copyrights/credits go to National Geographic.Enlarge Pictures for clear view of details.

Sad to say, i think i'll be too busy to update this blog. Why? because my 7 month holiday ended lor....haha, duh. Well ok updates, orientationw week is finally over, owh orientation is a.k.a ragging week. It's a college tradition lah, new kids get ragged by seniors. Good thing is today i managed to stay quite dry when they spalshed water at us. Jas wasn't so lucky though, her shoes and one side got all wet.Didn't want to attend it seriously, this wetting us thing, but was forced to because they threatened that we won't get the Pre U chop and that might put the scholarship at risk of being lost. Yea, if you were me, that wouldn't sound good or nice, and it also wouldn't be a pleasant feeling, being threatened and all.My defence is, i seriously, truly didn't know about it till today so i didn't plan to stay back.As for the signatures we're supposed to get...ahh get punished lah. haha, funny for me to say that huh?

Classes, well we managed to finish at least chapter one for all the subjects,fast....and i have loads of work, not pilling up, but seriously a lot of reading to do i'm wondering how ppl just find the time to read so much, I need to increase my word per minute count for reading, haha.

Overall i think i'm adapting to college life lah, but i have to admit, MCKL is a bit like a school environment.Must wear jeans or long pants, no slippers, no speghetti straps, etc la. Not that those rules affect me any bit, i'm ok with jeans and t shirt and i think girls wearing micro mini skirts and speghetti's in college is just a bit too much, it just reminds me of school attire rule lah, dats all. And i'm almost done with my 10 hours of community service, fast eh? after just 1 and a half weeks. Yea i'm helping out in Wisma Harapan, where there are mentally disabled kids/teens. But mostly they just give us paperwork to do. The kids aren't that bad lah if you ask me, some can speak good bahasa, and they make pretty baskets to sell.

So, i hope i'll be able to write as often as i can, if not...uh well i'll try to write anyway!

I'm finally in college!! haha well i had a quite fun but extremely tiring day. Tiring because i had ony say 3 hours of sleep and even that was disturbed from time to time, too excited i guess haha. So i arrived at college super early because i follow mdm shereene's daughter, it was good to have someone to follow, at least i wasn't so ulu and lost. And thanks to her, i actualy read the notice board and saw the schedule of the day!
She brought me to the lounge where i read my manga, (yes i'm still an anime fan), waited for Jas to come, oh oh! jas has braces!! it hurts alot for her though, felt bad that she couldn't eat and was so hungry.
We did the usual orientation stuff, speeches, ice breaker (arrange yourself by birthdate) and apparently there was no one who wanted to lead and boss people around. haha, i don't think anyone wanted to be labelled the bossy one on the first day. That character will eventually be revealed. Then we proceeded on to the break where i just chatted around with some people, lots of small talk (gasp, i small talked!. After that, we had the subjects briefing, the law lecturer was simple but firm and scary, eng lit(although she's not teaching our batch) was really excited about the subject and it was overwhelming to hear what we had to do, but exciting too, here's one of the books that sound scary "oxford anthology of poetry" oh yeah, it's just focused on poetry that one. The acc and business studies lecturer decided to go MIA which is kinda sad because i wanted to hear about it.
Before the day ended we had a treasure hunt to get to know the college, well me, jas, and two other formed a team and we decided to go all divide and conquer, it was tiring i tell you, and before that my energy level was already so low. But we managed to finish it (though not able to hand it in by today), but the funny part about it was, ppl were NOT supposed to take certain questions off the board, but ppl did anyway (we did too, but once we realized, we immediately returned it) so in the end, some groups had monopoly over the questions, so i dunno where this came from, but i started to barter for the rest of the questions, since after all i had one, and from there we found out 3 missing questions, the last one was tough. I was the one shouting in the air "will trade question 24 for question 22,23,or 25" yea, embarassing but it worked. Must be thick skin a bit la. haha then i jokingly told people who asked us for the questions "what do you have to offer?" or told them "you want the answers, well it's a business world out there" and they just stared at me, ah well.
And that was my first day of college. I am quite worried that there are only a few people in arts stream (so diff from sri sempurna eh?totally opposite), most of the poeple i made friends with were science people, and i think most of my classes only have a handful of people, so i dunno how it will work out, but i just hope for the best and i'll do my best to have a fun time. And study of course, haha how could anyone forget that? haha.
Came back, totally knocked out.
-pandarific-

This is my first year going for this event,it's your all day art event for KL. And the funny thing, i got to know about it because Bus company (a band) asked it's followers to vote for it so that they might get chosen to perform (sadly they didn't), so that's how i found out about it. I looked around, and tought, "Hey i might as well go, see how the art scene is in Malaysia". So i invited Esther, my art kaki, lol no i don't call her that. She agreed (YAY!)

Before the event i had already checked out the performances i would like to watch, oh yes, just to let you know, by art here i mean art as in not just paintings but in music, acting, film,sculptures, photography and custom made shirts, jewellry,etc. So yes, the term art is very wide. I was actually looking for type tees but they only had singlets so bummer, or the words were in malay (not trying to be racist here, i just like it in english), saw loads of sarcastic button and funny ones too, like "i have my blonde moments" or "i know i'm hot but do you have to keep staring at me?"

There were these sculptures all around too, mostly made out of recycled stuff, yes it is the in thing people, go recycling! Esther and i watched the street performances (or fave) like KL stompers, RPT (rather peculiar theatre), Electric minds project (short plays), and the oral stage where you shout a scene and they have to translate it into a pose. i really liked this one and RPT, there were however vulgar words and poses which kinda degrades it abit (for me). But overall i think they're realy creative and funny.

We didn't hear the bands play though, didn't know any of them, ok so there was pop shovit but we didn't go see them play. We did watch a movie, produced in malaysia of course, it's called Gadoh, first i thought the theme was like Take the lead and all, well it did, the whole guy comes in to teach some delinquent kids theatre to try to change them. But there was another theme to it and it was racism and how it affects all of us, and i was pretty surprised at how outspoken they were on the racism issues, i mean you can literally hear them saying (in the movie) things that you may hear in conversations with friends or family. And there were funny parts too, without the actors having to be overboard silly like i've seen in so many local shows.

I brought a lot of money to be honest....ahhh didn't get to buy esther her present! sorry!! But i did buy gifts for other people, hope they like it.

Overall, i have to say it was a really fun event, wished there were more exhibitions (like photogaphy and paintings), loved the street performances, but they have got to relocate it next year, it's not fair that they have to compete with two bands in terms of sound. And i would recommend people to go for it! oh here's some advice, come early! because when i left, the parking was crowded, there was a jam, it's better to take public service or ask someone to drop/pick you up.

oh...random but....LORELAI AND LUKE ARE TOGETHER!!!YAY!!!!!!!!!!