A Month... no! A Week of Much Memories!!

Man!! How long has I not gone online!?
This is gonna be one HECK of a LONG blog entry!! Trust me on this one... ONE WEEK of no update!!
but trust me... if you've been following my blogs, you'd want to read it til the end....

Since Sunday kah? No eh... Sunday was a bored day... morning.. no work...
afternoon... I recall I got go out boh.. but what is it that happened ah?? seemed like weeks ago leh!!
Ah yes!! Remember! My brother was working, so he drove to work.. and then that afternoon, Abel messaged me asking me to go out and lunch with him and others...
Got permission from my mother... and so got ready to go out!

Who came to pick me up? Iqbal!! Yes... he's back in Miri now...
Inside his car was Abel & Serena as well... went out to Bintang Plaza (Parkson) and ate at McDonald...
while there, got to meet up with one new student, Richie (spelling?) & also Gretchel & Izzah...
We all just went on and on with our usual sort of conversations while Richie was so silent... haha... understandable lah, he's still new to us...
done with eating... planned to watch Constantine... besides me, Gretch & Izzah, all of us haven't watched the movie...
Richie, Gretchel & Izzah who went to join up with Carl who had gone to dye his hair earlier and left us... not joining for the movie...
The four of us, Abel, Iqbal, Serena & I, bought tickets after that, which was 2.15pm or so, when the movie was supposed to be 3.30pm.... one and a half hours to spend...
We just went around, trying to find something to do...
Contrast to our lively conversation at McDonald's.. we were dead tired and yawning away...
finally decided to go and spend a little at the Desserts spot in front of the Giant supermarket and near the Sugar Bun table area...
just spend our time there... as we sat there and enjoying the ice-cream... Gretchel, Izzah, Richie & Carl got to join us for a little again...
talk and talk and talk a lot (chicken wings?).. before they went off...
after soon enough, time for the movie!
Got a good laugh with the gang.... we all enjoyed the movie...

If I'm not mistaken... after that we gone on home... hmm.... No!! It wasn't!
After that... hmm.. can't remember where we went for dinner... but after that, we headed to Kimmy's hosue at Curtin Village... a new housing area built for Curtin students' accomodation reasons...
There, got to enjoy the company of some of the new students who were living there as well, Brit, Josh, Taufik, Carl, V & some others... and of course, Kimmy, Navodi & Fiona... oh man, my memory is low... darn..
all I can remember was that we had lots of fun there...
How I was able to recall all this was cause I was certained that that night when heading home in Iqbal's car.. I got to talk to him about tomorrow's transporting problem.. as it was also when my brother starts his classes....
I was so hoping that me coming to Curtin would not be effected...
anyway... the next day is the first day for the Foundation O-Week.. can't wait to see what'll happen then...


Monday, February 28, 2005
Sigh... as I feared last night... I can't drive to Curtin on this day... got to ask Iqbal to help, though...
sigh... such a great and reliable guy... I had to do morning call to wake him up... and as he said, he came to pick me up... and then went to pick Azie up...
ok... at Curtin, things gotten a little hectic...
ok... let me begin... there at the Student Services... was SO MANY students.. both current and new...
amongst them, I got to meet some familiar faces... from both new and current...
got to recognised some of my young friends from my high school, SMK Chung Hua Miri, amongst the new students...
instantly got to socialise amongst them... try my best to get to know them and let them get to know me...

Things around the Student Services was hectic and so disorganised... naturally...
there was some of us, Student Ambassadors, to get ready to give some of the new students a campus tour....
I, initially, was helping to watch the door... to try and keep things less crowded inside... and also direct the new students that came out of the Student Service, along with their special O-Kits to the awaiting 'campus tour guides', the Student Ambassadors....
Soon enough I realised that most of them are not there anymore... time for me to get a group around...

Soon enough, I got my group ready and did the tour.... it was fun talking with them, despite them not being as friendly towards me as of yet... but then it was all right....
I can still recall how quite detailed my tour was... experienced from what I did on earlier campus tours... and also how disorganised it was.... it was definitely an informal tour for one... undoubtedly....
Anyway.. after this round of tour, did another group of new students... before I was done which was around noon time...
lunch break, hung around the cafeteria with close friends, weather got gloomy, with rain coming down once a while...
went to the Student Services myself to take care of my registration...
as I did.. then turned out one particular new student came late today... a girl by the name of Iby Moh.. I'll explain further why I got to know this girl better than most of the other new student... (HEY! Don't think wrongly!!)
I got to show her around the campus, followed by her mother who accompanied us...
after that, she then went off with her mother and I just joined some of my friends at cafeteria...

Oh yea, I recall during lunch break I got to talk to Abel.. I was surprised that inside the Foundation O-Week schedule, Abel was supposed to be the person-in-charged of the ice-breaking session the next day...
Abel himself was surprised as he was never informed til then...
he had a quick thought and later told me to call for the other CV members for a meeting that evening...
and that's where I am now in this part of the blog.... we had a meeting at the Council Meeting Room at the Admin. Building...
Less than 20 of the main active CV members were present...
We made discussions on what we were gonna do for tomorrow's session... which was main objective in mind was to place the new students into different groups, which in conjunction, works for the group performances in the coming O-nite...
We were able to decide to use the same gimmick we did for the Math Workshop all so long ago last October... using animals and having the new students to make sounds and act like that corresponding animal.. with different species of animals, the new students would be able to find their own 'species' and form one group!
we had some more other discussions, but this was the main one... other discussions would include the activity plans for the final day of orientation.. 'Miri From Dawn to Dusk' is the title of that whole day...

Anyway... after that, if I'm not mistaken, I got to join some of them to go out and eat for dinner at Al Fresco... can't be sure... should be...
This should've been the time when we got reunited with Jenny....


Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Had Iqbal to pick me and Azie up again...
when at campus, needed to get ready before the ice-breaking session at the Lecture Theatre Foyer...
The turn out of the new students were quite well... as there was quite a large number of them...
We distributed pieces of folded paper with the animal types... and we were able to gather them into groups soon enough... (my group was Wolf... *HOWL!!*)
Speaking of my group... remember that girl from the other day, Iby Moh?
Well, turned out she was amongst my wolves... and with every group meant to pick a leader (and an assistant leader)... she got voted to be one!
After that, every group was to think of a group name and a cheer for the group.... Now with a leader, things went pretty smoothly and more lively amongst my wolves...
anyway.. overall, all of this was achieved in around twenty minutes time... supposedly...
They performed their group cheers to everyone else and with the session over with... they were brought to the next session of the orientation...
MC for this part of the orientation is as last week, Andrew Wong, supposedly the unofficially appointed leader of the Student Ambassador (SA)... by the way he's a Degree student....
this next session is the official welcoming of the new students to the Curtin family...
during this time, Ms Rismaliza, our (inexperienced) Student Affairs Officer informed me to take over for Andrew after this session, cause he'll be having class later.. (Degree students begin their semester during the Foundation O-week)
I agreed to it... amongst SA, the only foundation students are me and Azie... if compared together, I've more experience in this sort of things... and thus, I became the unofficially appointed leader of SA amongst the Foundation....
I took over the rest of the Orientation mainly after that....

That afternoon, before the next session, there was a little promo on the event 'Miri From Dawn To Dusk' that's happening ths Saturday...
before this, CV & SA were finally getting along better as some of the SA members were finally realising things about the Student Services for themselves... they also were interested to get along with the new students... CV went on to stretch a hand to let them help in the orientation...
so, Andrew helped to promote the said event... though with his lack of knowledge on the event, there were some notes to help him through...
anyway, the next session was introduction to the campus rules/policies/etc and all that...
pretty boring.. and at the end of it, I and Kimmy tried to liven things up, but weren't really...
Abel, who happened to be there to check on us, decided to take matters into his capable hands.. and he energized the place...
With time to spare, Abel used it to have the group to discuss on their group performances for this coming O-nite, this Saturday...
but before that, he helped introduce the tutorial timetable to them... and helped to explain how they should read the timetable... with that over with... the groups were formed and both CV & SA members that were there went to help around.. both to explain the timetable to those who missed Abel's lecture or to help them conduct a little of their discussion...
after that, Abel went off and just let us go on with this... soon enough, everyone began to go on home... until there were some of us there... six of us to be exact... I, Iqbal, Azie, & three new students, Janice, Anabel & John(?)... or was it Alwyn? forgotten his name....
These three were of the Elephant group.. and as the days had shown, the Elephant group's cheer wasn't really good... and was proving to be 'hurting' Iqbal's capabilities to conduct a group so far...
there, we got to discuss on their cheer and finally we got to have one better cheer for them now.... better than their last one at least...

That night, at 7pm, there was supposed to be a meeting with Student Council as planned during last week's meeting with them... but it was cancelled and moved to the next day at the same time....
tomorrow's Morning Energizer session had been placed under Izzah's hands... (without her beforehand knowledge, for your information)...
So we of CV had decided for a meeting that night....
so the rest of the day after Orientation was over, was pretty much spent at the cafeteria... bored to death for me... just hung with Iqbal, Kimmy, Jenny, Sara and some more others....
then came the time of the meeting....
We discussed on what we could do for the session... and we made a finally decision to do a game called 'Monkey See, Monkey Do'... I won't elaborate further from there, as this is a CV 'trademark' in a sense...
Then some more discussion were done, involving the Orientation night... but I forgot on what exactly....
Over with the discussions, we had to do some practise for the energizer session.. did the practise for less than an hour and then we were done...


And I definitely must remember this... at the end, somewhere.. my mind actually snapped and I felt that I had experienced a short moment of insanity for a while... truely!
with pressure of work coming on me as of late.. my mind just couldn't stand, I supposed...
I was laughing hysterically at the feeling for a while.. before I finally felt normal again... Iqbal & Jenny, I believe got to notice that....
darn... scary thought....

Anyway.. I think we went out to Lou Bin Tang, somewhere in the Senadin housing neighborhood... if my memory is right...
and oh yeah! Jenny, who had stopped her studying in Curtin, was meant to go back the next day... but with much convincing and Abel's working... she was able to stick around til the last day of Orientation... YAY!!


Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Morning... Energizer session!! gathered the groups together and so we began the session...
Everyone had fun during the 'Monkey See, Monkey Do' part of the session, which was great....
however, the fun had to end and then we moved on to the next session, introduction to the foundation program and the lecturers....
Actually, at first I just stuck around the LT Foyer where the Energizer session was held earlier.. together with the other CV members... but then suddenly I was called to MC the Orientation... immediately I rushed to the Library Reading Room where the next session was being held...
didn't understand what happened to Andrew, or for that matter, the other SA members... but didn't care at the time...
after the lecturers' introductions, then the new students were brought to do their tutorial group registrations back at the LT Foyer...
Which then left only a few back at the library reading room.. namely Me, Abel, Iqbal, Azie & Mdm. Bibi Aminah, the Director of the Pre-University Program...
We got to talk together there... there were some inside matters that's been bothering all of us as of late...
Abel got to know from a very reliable source, a clear reason why Ms. Fidella had not enjoyed the idea of CV's participation in the O-Week...
Quote "I don't wish for CV to have too much of power..."

Oh come on!! Is this about politics? What the!?
I won't say much on this... cause there's no need for that anymore...
but it sure as hell bothered us (and especially Abel) at the time...

Finally, decided to go for lunch.... got to hang around with friends, amongst the new students and also amongst our CV members...
after that.. then back to the Orientation... the next session was introduction to the campus policies and all that...
quite a boring session like some others as well.... thankfully, Abel was there to save the day when he appeared to check how we were doing... he gave an energizing talk with them, before there were all called into groups to discuss on their ...

That evening, we had another meeting, as the next day, for the morning energizer session was also under Abel..
We discussed a little on that, but we were low on new ideas... so we decided to spend half of the one-hour session for the energizer and then the rest a little for the group's own discussion for the performance...
Tomorrow's activities are going to be done nearly the same as last Thursday's... which meant formal attires and stuffs.. with something extra...
tomorrow, at the end of the day, there'll be club registration... which means, it's also time that CV gets new members in... and Abel wanted us to do something special... taking how the CV of Curtin Perth did as an example and aspiration...
We got to decide on selling our CV T-Shirt during the time and also give out personally made bookmarks to the new registered members...
our meeting continued some more on the activities in the evening of this Saturday, before the actual O-nite begins....
we gotten to know the final draft of the schedule during the day itself... and we've been assigned our duties and have gotten to know what we all were supposed to do and need to do... which then ended the meeting...
But then, remember, there was supposed to be a meeting between the Student Council & CV...
mainly for CV to report on their plans for O-nite... and done on 'Miri From Dawn to Dusk'... we got into discussing some complaints on services around campus.... and there was plenty.... won't bother to tlak about them...

Some of us headed on home, but the rest of us had decided to do that personalised bookmark thing that night!
We went out to eat first.. at the coffee shop, Jumbo, situated near Lou Bin Tang... that was when I was able to convince my mother to allow me to stay overnight outside from home for today... within the time of 4 minutes and 33 seconds I can still remember....
had our meals there... it was all right the food.. as we ate, we had many good laughs... you guys should listen to how Gretchel laughs nowadays... it's just gonna leave you laughing as well... hahaha...

after our comfortable meal there, then I got inot Iqbal's car, together with Sara & Jenny... and headed back home... why? to get my formal attire for tomorrow...
Home, got my attire, but was then told to have a shower before we go... as I did, my mother got to talk to Iqbal, Sara & Jenny on what's been going on...
After my shower, we then went off to Kimmy's place where the others were doing the bookmarks...
We quickly got into things and we were all just been imaginative and creative and just went all out with our bookmarks... signing our name at the bottom of the bookmark we'd created...
I only got to make a few, while others got to make a lot more....
We were able to create over 50 bookmarks in a few hours time...
then, we got to spend some more time just having fun... dancing most of the time! haha!
It was great fun... and after 3.30 in the morning, everyone began to go on home to sleep...
I spent my night at Iqbal's place...


Thursday, March 3, 2005
Morning Energizer with Abel & CV!
We enjoyed some more fun of 'Monkey See, Monkey Do'...
and then the groups were allowed a short time to discuss on their group performances....
soon enough, time to get into the Reading Room again for the next session of the orientation....
motivational talks by a few lecturers, Mr. Chan, Ms. Beena & Mr. Foad (yes, my IT teacher from last semester... for those of you who've followed my blog since last year...)
In my opinion, all three of them were good in their presentation *coughlecturecough*... but Ms. Beena just had her presentation *coughlecturecough* way too long that it became too boring...
besides the presentation, I recall very much self-appointing myself to watch the room's temperature... and keeping it so that no one's too cold or too hot in the room.. controlling the air-conditioning...
anyway.. all the presentations over, I, as MC, dismissed the new students off for lunch break....
that afternoon would be the Student Council and clubs presentations...

During lunch break, the tutorial registrations for groups was running... I was able to register for Group A easily without much 'queueing in a long long line' problem... cause.. there was barely anyone there at the counter...
after that, I took my lunch, hung with some friends (new & old) and soon enough, back to the orientation...
this time round, things are a lot cimpler for my work... as I didn't have much to do to introduce the Student Council....
just greet the audience and then pass the mic to Raymond Ting, the Student Council President...
then the whole Student Council was introduced and there goes the presentation... followed by Benet to announce the clubs to present themselves...
Clubs after clubs and in the very end, was as before Curtin Volunteers! presentation...
before, it was the two presidents that did the presentation, Serena & Snow Jae.. this time it was Kimmy cause the two had class...
Kimmy did a good job at it too... and at the end of the presentation, as before, we had the CV Dance group to perform a little dance...
ok.. this was when trouble began for me.. haha....
Somewhere in the 'Janet Jackson' dance sequence, I was meant to do some moves.. I did a front flip.. I landed all right, safely enough, but then I suddenly felt dizzy in the head and could not continue to do anything else and just rushed on off the floor, to my embarassment.. haha!
and then after that, since the presentations are all done and the club registrations are now open outside at the LT Foyer... CV was planning to do some more dancing there.. with more space and more people!
I was too rush over there before the new students with the radio.... and as I did, I came across to rush while balancing on a very narrow brick curb... to my misfortune, I slipped and fell...
thankfully, I was able to keep my step and kept going.... plus the radio was safe and unharmed...
however, I couldn't say the same for my left middle and ring finger... somehow, the two had got between the brick curb and a very hard object and were hurting real bad...
I just kept walking and to my dismay, the pain continued and soon, the two felt numb when I finally got to the foyer, found a plug and set up the radio....
I worked to get rid of the numbness... anyway... that wasn't it...
Now with new students coming to the foyer, the CV members gathered in the middle of the foyer and then danced to the 'Janet Jackson' song again... and again, I did that same front flip somewhere in the dance sequence... my landing was better this time, but guess what?
my right knee had felt some pain after my landing but i continued the dance... but then, suddenly my right knee just came from slight pain to terrible agony...
I could barely continue my dance... but I did nonetheless to my own endurance...
once the dance was over, they continued to dance a few other songs, while I went to the sidelines and tried to lessen the pain at my knee...
it hurt a lot... and as time passed.. I was fearing that it may be serious compared to pass similar pains of the same spot...
I did dance one less lively dance.. namely 'The Jungle Song'... but others, I couldn't participate myself....

anyway... apparently, our dancing was attracting a lot of the students... and in the end, we'd actually attracted all of the new students to our CV! Booth from all the other few club booths that were there!
Guess publicity promotions like our dancing can help a lot eh? Just show that you can have fun and still be good at what you do, then for sure people will be attracted to you...
Oh and yeah.. our 50+ personally-made bookmarks? They were all gone even before the booth was done with the registering of new members...
Sales of the CV T-shirts also went quite well...

With registrations all done.. orientation for Foundation now officially done..
we cleared up the CV! booth and most of us headed on home to rest.... or prepare for this Saturday...
I stayed back... according to Iqbal, they were planning to go to Desserts at about 7.30pm... and I'm joining them...
Iqbal went for class and I just hung around with friends... and as time drew closer to 7.30, ended up only me, Azie & Serena just talking and resting at the cafeteria...
when Iqbal was done with class, we went to his car... had to send Azie back first cause she had band practise and then went to pick up Kimmy who wanted to do some shopping at DPS Supermarket...
after that, she was sent home and then we went around Senadin, picking up friends who wanted to join us for dinner and then Desserts... which were Joanna, VJ, Izzah & Gretchel... (Amazing we were able to fit this many people in the car, eh?)
Got to contact Abel about it and he headed on to Sultana where we'd decided to go for dinner first while we went around to pick up the gang...
We joined Abel quite some time later... had our dinner, enjoyed talking with each other... then Desserts....
wah.. for the first time that a gang, which consisted of some of the loudest people in CV, at our favorite spot Desserts, and we were quiet... main reason was identified as 'too tired'...
I still recall something that Izzah kept repeating.. a feedback from a new friend of ours...
"Didn't we just leave you guys at 3 to 4 this morning and now you guys are still dancing like crazy!!?"
hahaa... fatigue is all in the mind.... have fun and one can do ANYTHING...

Anyway... got home to sleep.. tomorrow, I planned to come to campus early in the day to see if there was any of the Orientation groups practising on campus..
cause I wanted to see any potential.. *ahem* Mr. & Ms. O-Week...
which by the way, the title was changed... due to the circumstances that we of CV did not spend long enough a time with the new students to be able to fairly identify a couple of new students that actually meet with the Mr. & Ms. O-Week criteria... and that new title was still in pending at this time...


Friday, March 4, 2005
Morning, at 9, I had a haircut... and then took a shower and then by 10, I drove my sister's car to Boulevard and went to finally buy that USB/handy/pendrive plus MP3 player... for RM295... quite all right lah...
before that, I met Pn. Mariana, the English teacher who asked me to re-write the SPM english essay I wrote before for her... she told me that she'd received the essay and hadn't gotten around to read it... but she thanked me for it and then gave me RM10!
She said that she would've treated me breakfast but she hadn't the time to do that.. with that, she then went on off already... haha...
wow... Rm10 just for writing a simple essay... cool!

Anyway... back home after buying the pendrive.. I immediately got into the computer to collect some songs and at the same time, familiarise myself with the pendrive's functions... it functions to my liking...
collecting some of the songs, time to go to campus together with my brother, who had something to take care of there...
There on campus... went to have lunch and got to meet some old classmates... namely Listiari, Nadia & Edmund!! Missed the old gang...
After lunch.... I got to meet with some groups and gotten to identify some potential candidates...
and at the same time, got to test out my new pendrive on the field I was hoping to operate it at... it works just fine for me...

time went by and then evening time, meeting amongst CV to finalise everything for the next day...
and we got to discuss some details that had been overlooked in past meetings... but with Benet who joined us later, we were able to cover them..
discussion went on til nightfall... and then we all headed home to rest and prepare for tomorrow.. the big day itself....
but before that, Iqbal had brought me to Parkson.. Initial plan was for him to exchange some Brunei money for Ringgit Malaysia.... and then after that, he treated me for KFC...
did a very quick grocery shopping in Giant Supermarket... we were about to head back, when he got a call from Kimmy... he stayed on the phone for quite a while...
turned out she wanted to order something and we headed for Pizza Hut and made our 'take-away' order...
waiting more than fifteen minutes later, we got our order and we then left... I got home and then Iqbal headed back...
Iqbal's car had been acting up recently and it's getting more difficult to start his car... He was even afraid to stop his car to pump fuel that he had asked me to get ready if worse scenario came...
to be honest, I was hoping for that... then I get to be with him and possibly the others as well.. but nothing seemed to happen, so I went on to sleep...


Saturday, March 5, 2005
Morning, I got to drive to campus on my own...
went around again to observe the different group practising... I was particularly interested with my group, cause I wasn't able to watch them much... and I was actually hoping that Iby Moh would be able to make it into the candidates...
but when I was able to join up my group and watch them practise... I was disappointed to find out that she won't be joining for the O-Nite.... too bad...

anyway... as the sun climbed higher and higher, soon came the time for the O-City Tour... basically a tour for the new students to get to know the city...
I was able to bid 'bye-bye' as the buses went off for the tour... and so I just went to the cafeteria to have a 'very light' lunch... guess who I got to meet? ok... bad choice of question...
It was Johnna, assistant leader of the Penguin group and one of the few potential candidates that we, among the CV members, were particularly interested with...
He and two more of his friends, Khai & Joe planned to go for bowling and had even invited me to join.. oh my gosh! I was so surprised that they're inviting me to join them... however I declined... I wouldn't wanna spend my money.. plus I would have to head to Piasau Boat Club by 2pm to prepare the venue for that night...
If that was surprising enough, I was SHOCKED when it turned out that they'll treat me to play! and Johnna even offered to personally send me to the boat club at 2...
quote "No problem.. It's all right.." those were the words that Johnna kept saying.. haha!
finally I accepted their offer... lucky me!

As we headed to Parkson where the bowling place was, I got to know that Johnna is quite some guy... joined singing, bowling tournaments and had been able to make quite a good performance, though he didn't come out of them with complete victory...
what's more, he's working at the bowling place at Parkson.... and when we were there, we were able to get some free games... wow! We played...
That day, my bowling performance was satisfyingly better than before.... I was even able to connect four spares in a row and even did a double strike... wow... I'm amazed by my performance...
my highest personal best for bowling so far is 137 in one game... recorded at least...
but Johnna made my performance like that of an amateur.... he was connected tens after tens a lot.... his score shot over 200 in each game.... simply amazing...

anyway... after three games, then we were done and Johnna helped to send me to Piasau Boat Club....
had a little trouble finding the place, but after he asked direction help from a patroling officer in the neighborhood, we were able to locate the place...
Now... since we've arrived... time for some work...

The first person I met there was John Mui, one of the Student Council members... then at the restaurant, the Village was setting up the sound system and all that..
soon the others has arrived....
we then went on to prepare for the evening games.. namely, Waterballoon Fight (Kimmy in charge), Volleyball (me) & Tug-of-War (Iqbal)...
Registrations was quite difficult and we had less participation than expected, but we went on with the games....
I'll only talk about my game, the Volleyball.. with much assistance from Sara... was able to get this game running smoothly...
With six teams, loser-knockout style tournament with only ten minutes limit for each match, we were able to get to a winner... the group called Adolescent!! Congrats to them...
And my apologies to one particular team, who lost in a obviously unfair game... thanks to me... very very sorry for the inconvenience... but we were running low time...

Quickly with that over, I headed off to have a quick shower to rid myself of all the sand on me...
luckily I was able to be done just in time to get ready before the specials guests starts arriving.. namely the Acting Dean of Curtin Sarawak Malaysia, Dr. Barbara & YB Lee Kim Shin....
By the way, the two MCs for the night were VJ & Nadia...
the Starlet band was there to perform... yes, Azie's family was there to perform.. but only four of them... including Tania...
After the speeches by Raymond Ting, Dr. Barbara & YB Lee Kim Shin, there was a official opening ceremony, which was when we all got to the front around the three.... with the press reporters taking photos... (And yes, the photo did came out in today's newspaper... I have the proof)
after that, was time for dinner.. Yay! I was able to get my round of meal, with the help of John Mui...
and oh yeah, during dinner, there was a musical performance by the Curtin Music Club Band...

After dinner, it was time for the group performances...
man.. were things beginning to get wild or what.... and guess which team went up first? MINE!! The Wolf group, combined with the Cat group...
after that.. more performances by Starlet... Abel even told me to hand a flower to Azie as she performed... but I told him her hands were tied, so she wouldn't be able to accept the flower anyway...
as Starlet performed, people were at first kinda shy to go to the dance floor and dance... thankfully.. me and a few others were able to get some people to step up and soon, more followed and then there was a large group of people dancing to the music and the Starlets even accepted our request for ONE LAST song....
ok.. with that over, more group performances followed...
one group would include Roger, Adrian Foo, Guan Thai, Tina & another two friends of theirs...
it was a cool dance they did... Para Para Sakura...
anyway... with all the group performances over and done with... we had quite some more fun around...
which included CV dance group, Student Council dancing & even the part where EVERYONE danced to 'The Jungle Song'... it was great fun and we all had a good laugh...

Then came the climax of the night... the candidates for Mr. & Ms. O-Week... which for this semester is called Mr. & Ms. O-Fiesta...
The candidates for Mr. were Richard aka Coconut Man, Jimmy aka Mini-Bal, Eddie & Josh...
The candidates for Ms. were Melania, Elaine, Linda, Sabrina & Janice...
there got interviewed by the two MCs, VJ & Nadia.... and the candidates were even told to perform in front of everybody...
anyway... let's leave that aside for now...
this part was then the prize-giving session for the winners of the games that evening... of the Waterballoon fight, Volleyball match & also the Tug-of-War...
and then, the group with the best performance... in third place, Group 7 & 8 of Degree(Brit, Josh, V & others), in second place was Group Penguin & Monkey of Foundation (Johnna and his group) & finally the winner for Best Group Performance went to the Foundation group, Group Elephant & Bird (Richard aka Coconut Man, Janice, Anabel & the rest of their group)


And finally... we come to know who will be Mr. & Ms. O-Fiesta 2005....
For Ms. O-Fiesta........ MELANIE!!! Congratulations, girl! You definitely deserved it!
For Mr. O-Fiesta........ JIMMY!!! Hahahaa! Congrats, my man!! Your singing was excellent!! You too deserved it!
All the rest of you... Thank you for your participation... We're all winners! With our experiences and our enjoyment! Hope you'll all have a great future!!

Sigh.. now.. with that over... we just enjoy ourselves to some dancing.... haaha!
What an enjoyable night... but to be honest.. it was bittersweet for me...
not that because it is the end of orientation (the funnest part of university life) and that semester will finally begin tomorrow (Monday).... but it's just some of the things that happened that night...
for one, a very dear friend of mine got pissed off by someone (which at the time I didn't know who) and even decided to leave home early for the night....
then there was also Jenny who'll be going back the next morning...
Then one more thing.... I got to talk with Azie... about our relationship... as I suspected, we were just staying at the close friends level... plus with my feelings gone for her... I guess it's only reasonable that we just continue to stay as close friends... 'brother & sister'...

there... now everyone can know.. I've been thinking about talking to Azie about this.. was only able to do so last night...
Honestly, I'd been thinking about this throughout this week and it just kept urging me to talk about it to someone.. but I was patient enough to let Azie be the first one to know about this...
and I'm glad at that at least... and now everyone can know...

Anyway... the O-nite is over.. but Abel, Iqbal, Sara, KC, VJ & some others were going to continue the party at Cheerie Berries after having a meal at Al Fresco...
I initially thought to join... but then decided not too... and headed on home....
for some strange reason.. I constantly felt a strange feeling of depression... I don't know of what though.... might it be the bitterness of this ending?

I don't know the answer to that, honestly... but still it's been a great time...
Lots and lots of great memories.. this week alone... sigh... so great....
To be honest.. I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow... during my first day of the semester...
getting to meet and join up with the old gang... and also the new gang....
and I also wonder.. will those people from Orientation remember me and greet me? with at least a smile...?
we'll see what happens.... can't wait...
Man.. I'm loving my university life!!
OK.. today is Sunday, March 6, 2005... I'll update on today tomorrow...
Good night everybody!!!!!