M2/05 Part 2

So, IMHO, one of the biggest thrills of orientation apart from Treasure Hunt, is the Variety Nite. It's a night where all the junior groups have to put together a sketch and select one guy member to be an IMCC - ie cross dress and perform on stage.
The Orientation Committee decides what sketch and which female celeb to impersonate. So then it's all up to the juniors and their OOs to come up with something creative and, of course, entertaining.

Well, we had to help out Prasad as he very sportingly volunteered to be our IMCC. So we decided to bring in reinforcements seeing as how both Chu-Chu and I can't dance for nuts and Eve claims she can't either. So we brought in Li Shien. She was our OO when we went in (us being Eve and I). And she's a really good dancer. Plus since we decided to go 'clean', we obviously couldn't have him going up and being all slutty.
I'm really glad Li Shien agreed to help. She was really quite enthusiastic (about the dancing part-remember the IMCCs have to perform, usually it's a dance...and usually most of them are really slutty).

While they were busy with the dance, the rest of the group were eagerly putting finishing touches to the play they had come up with. It was to be a parody of LoTR.
Count us biased, but when we saw the final product, it was actually quite good. Unfortunately for some unknown reason, the audience jeered and boo-ed throughout most of the performance. I think it was a blow to most of them, seeing how they put in so much effort into it. The worst part was that most of the humor was in the dialog...and with the crowd making so much noise, it could barely be heard...

But we had really high hopes for Prasad. Li Shien choreographed a really nice dance for him. And we went to rent his outfit for the night (he was to be the Swan Princess).
Now at some point during the dance, Li Shien wanted a guy to act as the prince, and twirl the princess around a couple of times, offer her a rose and who happened to walk in during the practice session but me...
...so I inadvertently became the prince.

We OOs were pretty worried about Prasad's performance, seeing how dismal a response we received for the play earlier. But we needn't have worried at all. It was a smashing success. From the moment he went on stage, right till the end, the crowd cheered almost non-stop! It was fantastic! A lovely dance, done quite well by Prasad and, not suprisingly, the only non-slutty performance of the night!
....I so want to watch the video of it...

And he won the contest! As you can see, we were really happy that night :) The night ended past 1am, pity poor Eve who had to go back to Klang. Fortunately Willy was around, so I did have company that night in Vista.

The next morning itself was the Telematch. I was pretty surprised at the group turnout, as even I was tired out after the previous night...and I'm not the one being oriented. Basically it involves playing some silly games in a muddy field. And ol' Willy here became our waterboy :)
Anyway, they were soo sporting that, according to Eve, we won the Telematch...there were two incidences that I clearly remember :)

1. Involves a 'First-aid Station' cuz one of their SMs couldn't wake up (how sad is that?), so the First-aiders had to take over. Game involved two people carrying a 'victim'. Drop 'victim' at station to dab iodine on 8 parts of 'victim's' body (both big toes n thumbs, knees and elbows). Then carry 'victim' to another station.
   Florence (the girl on the extreme right in the pic) was worried that I couldn't carry her. So I asked her weight (which is politically incorrect to tell...anyway I've forgotten it :P) and told her not to worry....
   When it ended, she told me "It was almost like you're carrrying me all by yourself!"
   I just grinned at her and said "I told you so"
2. Deva insisted that I get all muddy, said that I was a pain to which I replied "What have I ever done to you?". Her reply: Your Existence!...wah lau...how to fight that?
   Anyway I ended up chasing her across half the field....wait...actually it wasn't really chasing. She was running from me and I was jogging slowly >:D

I surely don't regret becoming an OO this time. Juniors were great. And we actually got a present each from them :) Did I mention the Treasure Hunt treasure was a cactus? Yeah, well they got each OO a similar cactus.
I was actually flabbergasted when I received mine..."What am I supposed to do with this?"
To which they grinned and said "Water it"......

....I admit defeat to the 'superiority' of my juniors.....how sad is that? :D

M2/05

After winning Treasure Hunt Orientation M2/05

Last Movie Watched : Silver Hawk - Michell Yeoh, Richie Jen
Now Listening : Eternity - Dreams Come True (Disney's Swan Princess)
Now Playing : Radiata Stories

And so Eve, Chu Kin and I decided to become Orientation Officers. To be sure I actually wanted to meet some juniors and make new friends (and I hope I did achieve at least that), not because Deva kept pestering us to....
(OOs are basically guides to the juniors, as someone put it, we're their surrogate parents for a week. And we usually suffer similar fates as they do during some events :D)

Well, when we met the juniors, it was predictably polite and formal. Of course that would be the case seeing how neither of us know them and vice versa. We told them what orientation would involve - that in almost all the past orientations things have been almost directly obscene and vulgar (for some really weird reason that the seniors enjoy it). Fortunately they agreed to be as 'clean' as possible because that was actually what we, as OOs, were hoping to do, in a (probably vain) attempt to change orientation...

Eve asked them, whether they would rather win the orientation events or have fun. The result = Have fun but must at least get better than 2nd last place (the last part was thanks to Eve). Then it was pretty chaotic deciding what to do, what to wear, who to wear what, what to perform etcetc. We were all really surprised at our group, as the soon enough took charge themselves, referring to us for guidance mostly. Haha, most of the work was done by them (as it should be) but that didn't stop us OOs from feeling a little useless too :)
The usual crappy stuff happened on the 1st few days - dress codes, signature hunts, ice breakers. And I'd like to think that the group really did bond over the few days they were together...and most of the time they seemed to have fun too, and for that I'm really glad, as that is how orientation is supposed to be - FUN.

The fun parts were on the last few days, especially Treasure Hunt. This is the day when the students are allowed to run around Bukit Jalil, heading to a station, doing some silly things the SMs (Station Masters, not the other one) asked and in the end receive a clue to the next station and 1/15th of the treasure map. Of course this is also the day when you would get really dirty and, unfortunately, complaints have been made before...but that's another story.
Chalk it up to a stroke of luck or whatever, but I'm inclined to believe that mostly it was the team's strong spirit and Eve's constant(ly increasing) hyper-ness that kept pushing us on that led us to win the event. Whatever the seniors threw at the group, they took it with great sportingness and were having fun too. And from station to station I hardly heard any complaints or whines about how far it was and having to run etcetc. In fact they just kept running...
...the scary part was Eve. People normally get more tired the further they go. She got more energetic and hyper the further she went...
After all the stations we pieced together the treasure map (thanks to Wei-Yen and gang for extra lighting) and rushed to the spot. We were the 1st there and eagerly pestered the SM for the treasure. He, with some flair, made a horizontal wave with his arm and proclaimed that "The treasure is somewhere in this area!"
Soon enough another group came in hopes of grasping the elusive treasure before we could and hopes (well, mine at least) fell. Fortunately, shortly after their arrival, Chu Kin found the treasure!

...we were told, as we were looking, that the treasure is really obvious (even at night for it was dark then), it's green and organic. So most of us were thinking along the lines of a dead frog or some such. Well, it was nicely wrapped in white cloth so it was obvious. And the 'green and organic' part turned out to be a cactus, which was in the box in the pic above. Hahaha, well we can't really be blamed for thinking that way since from our experience, pasts treasures included lingerie and a bull's heart (which the winning team had to kiss - yeuck).

Btw yes that is a tofu we're holding. It gives us some points at each station we go to...as long as it is intact. And yes, you are perfectly entitled to whatever opinion you're having at this point.

We were absolutely elated. For us OOs, having won the Treasure Hunt is a big thing. Even more so for the group that actually worked for it. We definitely earned some bragging rights :)