Orientation at Swinburne KCH

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.

SPM 2008 results

The time has come & SPM 2008 results has been released today. I'm happy to say that it's a big improvement for Lodge. With a total of 35 straight As scorers, 18 of them scored straight A1s & the other 17 scored straight As (meaning they have A1s & A2s), whereas compared to SPM 2007 with only a total of 21 straight As scorers where 5 of them scored straight A1s & the other 16 scored straight As. So far, the best SPM results in Lodge's history is SPM 2005 with a total of 47 straight As scorers where 21 of them scored straight A1s & the other 26 scored straight As.

My results so far is ok with 4A1s [Maths, English (both 1119 level & O-Level) & EST], 2B3s (Add. Maths & Moral), 2B4s (BM & Chem), 1C5 (Bio), 1C6 (Physics) & 1D7 (History). I was disappointed with my History at 1st, but after that I just accept it.

Finally, I'd like to congratulate the all the 35 straight As scorers & the rest of the 5th former Lodgians of 2008 for all of our success in becoming 1 of the best SPM results in Lodge's history. For those who didn't scored straight A1s or straight As (like me =.="), don't be too upset about it. Just accept whatever results you had & don't give up in your future.

School sports day results 2009

Here are the results from the sports day this year...

1. Red house
2. Purple house
3. Blue house
4. Yellow house

I'd like to congratulate the red housers for being the winner of this year's school sports, you red housers have won 4 times in a row since 2005 (except for 2006 due to the Wizrard Of Oz musical drama). For those who didn't win, don't be too upset about it. As long as you had tried your best & have fun, that's good enough for yourselves.

The blackout

Last night, there's a stupid blackout in the whole of S'wak. According to The Borneo Post today, Kuching was at struck 1st at 6 smth & the only places that were not affected by the blackout were the Kuching International Airport & the Sarawak General Hospital as they had their emergency supply. It all happened right after Ashley Ho & I had just finished doing the notes for the Moral presentation for this coming Wednesday in my house at around 6:20p.m. After she went home, the electicity hadn't resumed so my dad decided to bring my family to go out for dinner. At 1st, I thought the blackout only occur in my housing area until I was shocked to see that the whole city was in darkness except for Ting Pek King's house, which has generators to generate electricity. Since the restaurants were dark, my dad drove us for fun to see houses around us for about an hour. After an hour of sitting in my dad's car, we happened to pass by the housing area that has electricity (don't know the name for that road, which is a shortcut to that area that can go to the BDC Everrise), so we all quickly went to Hainan Street Chicken Rice to have our dinner. After ordering our food, the lights went off again & we ended up eating our dinner in darkness but with the help of the candles to light the whole restaurant. We went home after dinner & the electricity still hadn't resumed. My cousins later came to my house to have a lil' chit chat & whereas for me, I talked to Ashley Ho, Shi Yin & Danielle Zoe on my phone. Few minutes passed & finally the electricity was back. I was relieved so I went back to do my homework & watch the Olympics on TV. After an hour, my house was in darkness again & I started sweating my butt off. It was so freaking hot & I felt lyk dying in the desert. AARRGGHH!! I really HATE BLACKOUTS where I can't charge my handphone since it almost ran out of batteries. >.<><"

The funniest day in school

Yesterday, I was slightly late for Maths class after lunch when the bell rang for the 2nd time. Thank goodness that I arrived there on time where my classmates had just lined up & entered the classroom while Mr. Linus was waiting for all of us to get in there. After that, the lesson began as usual. As I was sitting in my place, I was wondering why did Ashley Ho & Shi Yin taking such a long time to enter the classroom. Around 10 to 15 minutes had passed & I saw them, who had just arrived at the doorstep & started chatting, not entering into the classroom. At 1st I thought that they should just immediately going into the class after knowing that they were late, but they just standing out there chatting & gossiping as if they're the "early birds" of the class. At this time, I tapped onto the window to call them but they didn't respond. I tried not to tap too loud on the window though or it'll be very disturbing to others. At this moment, the whole class started to burst into laughter as Ashley Ho & Shi Yin didn't know that the lesson had already started. I was laughing my head off in the class until Jordan had just entered the classroom. The others told Jordan not to enter 'cuz they didn't want these 2 girls to know that all of us were already in class. After few minutes had passed, Ashley Ho & Shi Yin entered the classroom while some of us were still laughing like crazy. It was embarrassing to them but hilarious to me & the others. After that, lessons were back to normal & we were all just doing our own homework. Then, Shi Yin told me that at 1st she thought that they were "early" for the class & lined up waiting for Mr. Linus to come until Ms. Siaw passed by & asked them why they were still lining up. She told her that Mr. Linus had not arrived in class so they just stood there waiting for him to come. She also told me that the 5C students were laughing so they just ignored them, but felt weird at the same time as Mr Linus had never came this late before. When looking at the time, they finally entered the class while the others & I were laughing. This time, they realized that the 5C students were laughing at them for lining up there like a fool. Thank goodness that I didn't follow them or I'll end up having that embarassing moment in my life. This was the funniest day ever happened to my class & I'll shall keep it as part of my memories. =P

Education talk (2008)

Today, we the students of Forms 4 & 5 were having free time in school as we were having a talk on Studying In The USA in the morning. What I mean by free is that we don't have much lessons today in school 'cuz we spent the whole day in school listening to all those talks & having educational fair on studying all sorts of courses in different colleges & universities. The talks & the fair are quite beneficial to me as I'm planning to go studying overseas to study Linguistic & maybe Arts & Design or Dentistry after taking my A-Level course. I'm planning to study French, Italian, Spanish, German & Portugese as I have a strong interest to become a translator in the future, but the only problem is that I can only lyk choose 1 of the languages I've mentioned above 'cuz I'm afraid that I might be very busy doing all sorts of research when going to uni & ended up not having enough time to study so many subjects on time. If only I have enough time to study all the languages I love, then it'll be good 'cuz it'll be easier for me to understand what the people in foreign countries above are talking about when doing business & stuffs. Whereas the talks in the afternoon is called the Lodge Alumni where the ex-Lodgians came to give a talk about their life experiences in colleges & universities. The unexpected comes where it turned out to be 1 of the ex-Lodgians is Phoebe's sis! It was kinda interesting listening to them talking about the courses they take & the courses available in their colleges & universities though, but kinda boring after going back to class as I have nth to do in class besides reading my fave story book during BM class at the last 2 period 'cuz Mr. Willie wasn't teaching at that time. I do have Add Maths homework & thank goodness it wasn't that much, so that I can do research on my English oral & studying for Bio paper 3. FYI, the Bio paper 3 has been postponed to Monday due to the talks above I had this morning. I was relieved 'cuz I'll be having more time to study for my Bio paper 3 on this coming Monday.

That's all I can talk about today. Gotta continue with my research on my English oral topic for this coming Monday & my Add Maths homework, toodles.