Orientation Day One

Found St. Andrew's JC quite a nice place to be in. =)

Today was orientation day, met danial at potong pasir at 6.30p.m to go to sch together. (WHAT THE HELL) Didn't know the way to school, if not we could have walked there. Reached there at about 6.50 when the reporting time was 7.25! We wasted our time la!

Then when I reached school, I met quite a few of friends whom I've lost contact with. Zhi Yi was surprised to see me, but he said he couldnt recognise me till I told him my name! And I forgot his name too! Lolx..! I and Danial then went to check our groupings, wishing that we'd get into the same group, but we should have known - he was in the arts stream while i was in the science stream. He was in OG07 while I was in OG27.

We had to part ways when we had to report at the Cultural Centre. At first I felt kinda comfortable in being inside the air-conditioned room, till I found out that everyone was kinda.. er.. strangerous, and unwillning to talk. But well, afterall, no one knows each other. But that was what the orientation was for. For us to get to know each other.

The ice-breakers started on a low. Our group leader couldn't get us to get the ball rolling; everyone was too, nervous i should say, to play the games. Even when we were just introducing ourselves, everyone spoke so softly I could hardly rmbr any of my group members' names! But after a series of games, like WHACKO!, the fifty-cent game, the attention game and the back-to-back game, i got to memorise some of their names. We had to, or we had to do some forfeit. And included in one of the forfeits was to run up to a student councillor and shout 'YOU'RE PRETTY!' lolx. not really considered a forfeit but it was damn funny at that point of time. =)

Then the highlight of the ice-breakers came. The 'husband and wife' game. Someone had to go chase another person while he or she finds a partner. Although it didnt help us get to know each other better, at least it helped us to pass the time. =)

Following that, it was a really mundane session of subject-briefing. Kept falling asleep, then Kumar kept waking me up when he noticed that the teacher was looking at me.. Lol. But honestly, I don't recall anything of that worth remembering.

Soon, it was lunch, then i met up with kekang at the canteen.. He was talking to me after we ate, and he kept blabbering to me about all the short and cute girls he saw. 'there he goes again!' =S

After lunch the whole science stream went to play games at the hall. We played husband-and-wife again.. Pretty lame i'd say, but the councillors seemed to enjoyed themselves.. The funny thing came afterwards, when we played this game where we were supposed to follow the instructions given by the councillor to touch the stranded tapes pasted on the floor with whatever part of the body they asked us to and according to the colour of the tape. Those who failed to do so before the councillor caught us will have to do forfeit. Because the tapes were really very limited and few, we tried to be funny and just sat anywhere we liked. The others followed, thinking there really was a tape there. We laughed and laughed, but a lot of people still didn't have a clue as to what happened! The councillors sensed something wrong, so he asked for us to "touch the black tapes with our index finger". A lot of people learned from us, and started to sit on empty places and confused others to think there really was a black tape pasted on the wooden floor. The councillor then announced: 'there isn't any black tape!'

I guess it really was the games that got us starting. Jeff was elected OG rep, and he really tried his best to lead the group. The team was more united, and we cheered louder than ever. (Although sadly, Trazulla still was the worst-performing tribe) =S he was, to a great extent, effective. I got to know Rui Zhen, Yu Chuan, Arrun, and Wan Ting, someone who kat speculates is her pri sch friend.

Anyways, they're a group of really friendly people, and we're even meeting up tmr night to have dinner after the orientation!

Really looking forward to the upcoming days at sajc. hope to know more people. =)