The BIG night and then some!!

The night came and it was great... lots of fun despite lots of bumps...

Morning, came to school early with my brother...
went to the computer lab and updated my blog...
then went to cafeteria and set up the CV booth.. and then just stayed there til afternoon...
doing homeworks... while just taking care of the booth...
not many joined me there... but eventually as time went on, more came and joined me... and soon it was time for my one hour class... Chemistry...

One hour later, came out and joined the booth again...
cleared it up... and soon I changed my clothing to formal wear for tonight's event... the CV Welcoming Gathering...
By 5pm, headed to the Lecture Theater and started decorating the hall... we only had one hour as 6pm there will be another class happening there...
blew lots of balloons... tested the projector and equipments... hung the CV banner... and then some...
we did a simple decoration of the place but it still looked all right...
then students for the next class were beginning to come in... so we had to go then...
we went to have a little dinner before the event... and soon, 6.30pm, we all went to gather at the LT Foyer.. trying to get people to gather too..

Initially we had quite little people there... and as time proceeded, more and more were beginning to join us...
At the foyer, we played three games... first of all... was 'Where the wing blows'...
and then we play 'Bomb'.... and finally we played the 'Telephone game'...
everyone enjoyed themselves there.. hahah!
after that, we then went inside the Lecture Theater... We started things off by distributing the members into alphabet groups...
and then, we started the event off with a cool CV! Intro Flash, made by Krishna... and then followed by a couple of speeches from the President of the Student Council of 2004, Raymond Ting and then CV! Former President, Debbie...
And then a welcoming speech from our CV! advisor, Abel..
In between his speech, he'd welcomed the two CV! Presidents, Snow Jae & Serena to present to everyone about CV! and its vision, missions and goals...
And in conclusion to his speech, he showed the CV! Past Activities Slideshow, titled 'Turning Back the Hands of Time', made by me...
After that, it was the introductions of the four different divisions...
MCs for the night included the four of the main six EXCO members, Bay, Nadia, Navodi & Kimmy...

First, Administrations & Publicity (AP), by me, Iqbal, Lis & Krishna...
Our presentation was a simple introduction to the division's Executive Committee (EXCO) members and a very short description of our division's functions and works...
but we concluded our presentation with a very cool AP flash, created by Krishna as well...

Second, Professional Advancement (PA), by Daryll, KC & Sara (Fiona was not able to be present for the gathering last night)..
After introducing their division EXCO members, Daryll proceeded with talking about his division's work...
The presentation also included a humorous flash movie titled 'Bored Corp' and also a short video which included golf...
In his presentation, Daryll even asked some of the audience how professional is CV! so far in their eyes... so far, all three responses were positive!

Third, Social & Community Services (SCS), by Izzah, Amos, Nicholas & Giegel...
They started off their presentation with a sketch about two complete extremes and one perfect balance... Izzah as a narrator, Amos as a studious extreme, Nicholas as a complete opposite of that (heavy alcoholic was the choice) & Giegel as the perfect balance...
Their sketch, though simple, had a good level of comedy and was able to entertain everyone, including the EXCO members....
From the sketch, they emphasized that CV! welcomes people of all walks of life as the three different characters, in the end, revealed that they had one thing in common.. they were all CV! members...
After that, they went on to talk about their own division and its works...

Here, there was a little break... Suddenly the PA divison, Daryll, KC & Sara went to the front...
They introduced everyone to a game 'Shake your butt'...
'Side, side side, side, front, back, side, front, side, back, side front, back..' that was all the commands of the game...
It was entertaining for everyone as the audience had fun performing the commands.. shaking their butts to the sides, front and also back!

OK.. after that, we got to the last division's presentation... Campus Life & Public Relations (CLPR).. by Vijay, Gretchel, Joanna & Azie...
the presentation started off with a simple slideshow about the division.... and then, two songs performed by Azie alone with her keyboard... 'My Immortal' & 'I Will Survive'..
And then, came in the CV! Dance Group... who danced to 'Hey Mama' by Black Eyed Peas...
And then followed immediately was the CV! Cheerleading Team, cheering to the 'Conga Song'...
After that, re-introduction of the division EXCO members.. and then it was over...

Next up, the launching of the CV! Buddy Program... done by VJ & KC...
Remember us distributing everyone into different groups according to the alphabets?
well, we had actually distributed everyone into 22 different groups... and each group was to be taken care of by every 22 EXCO members.... these groups would be our Buddy group...
As a Buddy, we were to check on our buddies on their life in Curtin and try to help them in any way possible (not including financially, though, all right? We ourselves face that problem...)
not only that, we, EXCO members, were to inform our buddies of any CV! activities and then train them for certain activities, such as campus tour...

I got two buddies now... Chin Siaw Peng & Eddie Sue....
Hope to get to know them better throughout their lives and my own in Curtin...

After knowing, our buddies, we then went for a break... lgith refreshments had been prepared at the cafeteria...
as we ate and drank, we were supposed to get to know our buddies during this time... as later, when we go back inside, one person from each group will be questioned to see if they do know their buddy...
There were those who was able to answer the question correctly... (one in particular was a pure guess.. Ming Siang... Bay's zodiac sign...)
but there were MORE of those who didn't and couldn't.... and they were given a penalty...
it was an easy punishment.. they were asked to dance in front of everyone to 'Yeah' by Usher...

after that... everyone was led back to their seats and then there was another performance by Azie.. along with Nichalos, playing the guitar & Jimmy as the male vocalist...
Together, Azie & Jimmy sang 'Broken' (originally sang by Seether & Amy Lee of Evanescense)
After that, we concluded the night with some more dances, one in particular, our favorite... the Jungle Song...

And during this time I had to go.... I was following Roger & Gia Rong and they had to go at the time...
I was able to get permission to go from Abel and so I went off...
Why I was following Roger? simple... tomorrow morning, Lish will be at the Miri Airport.. to fly off to Kuala Lumpur to further her studies...
And he invited me to join him.. but it'll be difficult for him to pick me up tomorrow morning, so decided that I stay overnight at his house...
I was able to convince my mother to let me to, that evening... and so, there I go...
I was sad to leave the guys so early... but after a while of thinking, I convinced myself that this time, I wont' be selfish and do this for Roger... honestly.. he needed me to join him tomorrow morning...
Arrived back home to get some clothes and then headed to Roger's house..
there, got to shower... man... was so hungry... but had nothing to eat... sheesh...
anyway... slept in Roger's room for what... four hours or so? or less even??
had to wake up at 5am cause Lish would be at the airport by latest 5.30am...
We slept some time after midnight.. but even as we were trying to sleep, we were talking there.. about a lot of things....

Anyway.... I'll just go to when we woke up...
I changed my clothings and then waited for Roger to get ready...
some time later, we then headed off to the airport... and got to meet with Lish... plus some other friends of theirs...
Lish and some of her friends went off after 6am... about 6.30 maybe...
after that, Roger & I headed back to his place.... there, rested til 7.. before we headed to 2020 for breakfast...
there, we talked quite some more... hahha... simple yet memorable moments...
after that, he sent me back home...

I had a meeting with some of the other members of CUSP (Curtin United Students' Party)... if you recall, last week I had a meeting with this group... and as a reminder, this group is one of the parties running for Student Council this year...
the other party confirmed was CSU, with Jasmair as the president.. haha!
no further information about them from me...

Anyway.... got home... had to wait for my brother to ask him if he was going to use the car today... cause I was planning to drive to campus...
He woke up by 9.30am.. and I got to drive for today.. so nearly immediately went off.... meeting was at 10... and as you should know.. it's nearly a half-an-hour trip from my place to Curtin...
but to be precise.. the meeting was not on campus.... so the trip was shorter than supposed to be...
Present for the meeting were Benet (Of course), Kimmy, Yap, Snow Jae, Pier, Serena, Bay (late though..), Voon Yiew Ting, Dian & Ling....
Benet told us of the election schedule and we all discussed about our campaigning plans...
after all of that, we then went off for lunch.... at Lou Bin Tang...

after lunch there, we all headed on home...
haha.. darn it man, as I was driving, I was CONSTANTLY forcing myself to stay alert.... so hard to concentrate on the road with such sleepy eyes... man.. scary experience! just couldn't think how glad I would be to reach home finally!
which I did, safely too....
home.... I slept... I slept for hours... in fact.. I slept for the rest of the afternoon.. hahah!
I slept from like... after 1pm.. all the way until nearly 6pm...
had my dinner.... showered... and then came online....

sigh... it's been another memorable week and more....
so glad to have such a life.....

~ Work + Stress + Determination = Rewarding results....
(from my experience within the last week and more alone)