Orientation post, for the bored who have nothing else to do but read about my experience at NYP Orientation 2009. I'm blogging (and archiving) for posterity as well, you can say.

FIRST DAY (31ST MARCH)

Woke up at 7 plus with cold sweat (Really. I am not kidding.) and freaking my ass off. Never felt so nervous and shitass scared before, save for the O level results time. I was supposed to be at NYP by 8.30am sharp, so I rushed around the whole house preparing my stuff. Spent about half an hour choosing my clothes because I had no idea what to wear. I am anal about choosing clothes. They must look matchy to me, or I'll retry and retry and retry.

Didn't eat breakfast, DASHED to bustop and wished I could bitchslap the 238 bus driver for jerking so much. Was in a foul mood by the time I reached the interchange, mood got worse as the MRT arrived. I stepped in and began to panic as I reached the destination of doom and hellfire.

Probably looked like a geek as I walked to NYP. Followed this crowd of people to the atrium and nearly had a heart attack because there were people EVERYWHERE. They were all queing up in lines and chatting and laughing with each other. Felt so alone and panicky. Wanted to jump down the building and escape.

Luckily, I saw my saviour standing nearby. It was a older guy wearing this bright orange shirt with the words 'NYP ORIENTATION 2009' on it, and holding up a board with some NYP map on it or something. Rushed to him and asked him and asked where the DMD Aimation people should go. He directed me to a girl who was also a senior in orange. She led me and a few others to the DMD Animation queue. Freshmen had to queue up and confirm their names, IC etc etc before being directed to their Orientation group cum class.

Met my class, and played that crapy game called Whacko. I hate that game. It has no meaning in life, besides torturing the players with nonsense. We had to introduce ourselves before playing, and met our OGLS- Orientation Group Leaders Angie and Addy. They were very friendly and tried to loosen the tension on my class, but we were stonily silent. Realized half my classmates had Chinese names; I was one of the few that had a Christian name. Also realized that I would be arrowed in Whacko because 'Valerie' is like a shit common name. I'm in group 3.

Played Whacko, miraculously didn't get hit. I did chat a little to the girl sitting next to me Hui Mei, who was very friendly. Felt bad because I probably sounded like a gruff freak. After a few more moments of awkwardness and nervous nods and smiles among the group, we went to the auditorium to meet the lecturers and cource coordinators.

Are you bored yet? I'm bored of typing.

Course Coordinator Ms Grace Toh was a no nonsense, firm and respectable lady. Immediately told us that this course, DMD needed passion- lots of it. We needed to have the drive, or splash out in the 1st year. I was worried, because I know that deep inside, I didn't think I have the drive. I'm lazy, and I need to work on it. After dishing out some advice, she left us and us freshmen had a talk by the OGLs and in-charge of the Orientation. Fast forward to lunch.

Lunch was okay, because we had packed lunches in styrofoam boxes and we had to sit with our class. I was still a silent zombie then. Even as we walked to the canteen, I was still silent. Smiled a little, said a few words, but felt completely and utterly nerved out. Nalini, a really nice girl in my class even said to me 'You've been quiet the whole time.' I'M SORRY I'M SORRY.

Sat next to Adrinna, Nalini, Sheryl and Hui Ting. And SUDDENLY SOMETHING CAUGHT MY EYE.

Adrinna had A D.GRAY MAN BLACK ORDER BADGE PINNED ON HER BAG. My eyes zoomed in onto that and I immediately perked up. I asked her 'Do you read D.gray man?' And she said she watched the the anime. HOMG YES. Became more chatty after that and more open. Talked a little to the girls, felt better. Xiao Xiao, a very friendly classmate was kind enough to show me where the toilet was. Man, I'm grateful to her.

We went on a tour of the campus after that, and it was super huge. There were facilities everywhere. LIKE EVERYWHERE. While walking around, I overheard Hui Ting and Adrinna talking about EOY and I freaked out. Couldn't help but blurt out I went to EOY 08 ( It's an annual cosplay event in S'pore.) and it turned out that Hui Ting was an anime fan as well. I saw that she had a Ciel (from Kuroshitsuji) badge on her bag, and got excited again. Nothing cheers me up more than discussing about manga and anime, really. Tour was long, and agonizing. I'm fearful that I'd get lost when school starts. Which I think I will.

And the weather was scorching hot, so I was pooped. Just wanted to sit down in the air conditioned auditorium and sleep. My wish was granted when after the tour, we were sent back to the auditorium to have a few talks. Fell asleep completely in my seat which Nalini and Hui Mei found very amusing.

Felt embarassed that they saw me dozed off. OGLs were very enthusiastic, kept forcing us to cheer and do the BOMB game. Which was lame. They kept shouting 'GROUP 3, CHEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR' And my apathetic group would just stare, shrug and give a half hearted cheer. The bomb game was uh. Just uh. I thought I'd never see another BOMB game after leaving IJ, but I guess it's like a classic orientation thingy.

We were dismissed after a few talks by the OGLS, and told the next day (day 2 was games day) Whoopee-doo, hurray for us. We were warned that we'd get wet, dirty etc etc. Getting dirty is okay, ODAC cured that phobia for me, but playing games scared me. I kept imagining what games we'd play the next day. Walked back to the YCK interchange with Adrinna and Nalini. Since Nalini was headed to Bishan, we sat the MRT together and chatted a little.

Finally THE DAY 1 was freaking over, and I could go home and give Chewie a big hug to feel better. Overall, DAY1 was better than I thought. I hope my class doesn't think I'm a crazy, freaky bitch or something.

2nd day post another time. Sorry for the walls of text! xDD