Monday, April 21, 2008

First Day Orientation at Singapore Polythenic

Yesterday,it was my first day orientation at Singapore Polythenic..I have to report 9am at the school of business foyer and i was meeting Pei Xian at the dover mrt control station at 8.30am as we do not know where is the School of Business building located...I leave home around 7.40am as i had to walk to the bus stop before my house nearest bus stop as only there then there will be a direct bus to Dover MRT Station...I board bus 105 and there was a short traffic jam at Clementi...When i was going to reach Dover mrt station,Pei Xian called me and told me that the mrt broke down at Choa Chu Kang and she could not meet me at 8.30am as she had to wait for her daddy to fetch her to go to Singapore Polythenic...I wait for her at the mrt station for a while and i msg Wei Ya to see whether i can meet her at the control station and she told me wat Pei Xian told me...Unfortunately,I called Pei Xian and told her i would like to check where is the location of the School of Business...I went to ask the security guard and ask for direction,once i know the location,i called Pei Xian again and told her that i know where is the location...She asked me to go first as she will be late and i went to the School of Business...When i reached there,there was quite a lot of students sitting down on the benches to wait for their friends while some are waiting for instructions to be given...At around 9.15am,the faciliators which was our seniors asked us to procced to the foyer to gather and search for our couse cum class...My class was DTRM 06!!!Awesome!And DTRM stands for Diploma in Tourism and Resort Management and o6 stands for my class number...For my course,there are only 7 classes and i am in the last 2 classes...sob sob...Pei Xian was in class o2 think should be better than me...And in this course there are more girls than boys...GIRLS ROCKS!!!My class there are 19 people including me,12 gals and 7 guys...Once it was time we went to MLT9(Lecture Room 9) for some introduction...We settled down and we asked for each other names and try to remember it since we are going to be classmates for the next three years...After which,the head of my course briefly introduce himself and welcome us to this course and told us that the intake for this year is higher which is around 140 students...Luckily,they increased the intake if not i will not be in this course since my aggreate score is 10 afer deductiong the 2 bonus point from CCA and this year the course cut off point is 11...After which,one of the lecturer who will be teaching us in year 2 or 3 told us about some of the rules such as 1 min late consider ABSENT and no slippers allowed in school if not there will be a fine of $50 etc...For my course,EVERY THURSDAY is FORMAL DAY where by we have to wear white long collared sleeved with black skirt or pants,wear court shoes,light make up such as light lipstick...After which,the EXCITING NEWS is we get to go to cruise and the cruise name is SUPER STAR AQUARIUS...We will be on the cruise for 5 days 4 nights and depart on the 8 june and arrive at Singapore on 12 june...We will be going to Penang,Phuket and Klang but of course there are some project to do...The actual cost for 1 person is ard $750+ but the school will be subsidising half of the cost and we pay around $370+...It is a COMPULSARY event...Shiok!Shiok!After all these things,we went to our class but unfortunately,our class is occupied by some classes anyway my class is T22433..Our faciliators,Joanna and Agnes,went to search for places for us to play ice breaker games and we settle down at the outside of the School of Business Ofice..We sit in a circle and the facilitators want us to introduce ourselves and at the same time we have to say out the names of our classmates before as from the start..Everybody was sighing as we are quite poor remembering names...I got all the 16 names correctly as 1 was the 17th...So proud of me...muhahaha....The other ice breaker game is wacko whereby one person will stay inside the circle and he/she was supposed to wack that person when one of us shout the other name of our classmate and so on...As there was not enough time to play other ice breakers game,we proceed for our lunch at Koufu,the only food court that has air conditioned..We followed the facilitators and there were large crowd as it was lunch time...The girls sit 1 table and the guys sit on 1 table and then proceed to buy our lunch.I had nasi lemak but the rice was sold out so auntie give me noodles and i choose my own liao(read in chinese)...I shared the noodles since my friend had no noodles as it was sold out too and she do not wish to wait for the rice to cook since we had limited time... After lunch,we went to MLT 11 as we are playing the games called "murderer and the suspect" wherby we had to go to the 6 stations to play games to get the clues to guess which is the suspect..Our 1st station,it involved two classes...we had to stand on the benches and the game masters asked us to stand according to our shorts length without stepping down on the floor...we had 2 rounds,one is the height and the other will be the shorts length...both class draw...2nd station is the passing of pumps using hands...It involved 2 classes,one of our classmate will sit next to the pail between the 3 pumps and 4 pumps while the rest of us stand one row and hold hands together and the game master will pass the pumps and we are supposed to pass around,when pass to the first person,the first person has to tell the game master in the fastest time,if correct the other group de 1st person will splash water to the other group 1st person..my class lose..3rd station,we went to the street soccer field,we will be playing the 'box game' where it involved both classes too...we had to guess which box to step if not the game master will use toy guns to splash us...mine class was the 1st to reached the other end..DTRM O6 Awesome!!!4th station,we had to tie our leg together to the next person beside you and our hands hold each other shoulders...we had to walk together and walk to the huula hoop without stepping outside the huula hoop...we coordinate and went through it...5th station,our class spiltted in 3 groups of 5 and 1 group of 4...my group first had to memorise the words that the game master give then turn 5 rounds then crawl under the table,one of us throw the water bag to the 2nd group and the 2nd group had to catch it using the garbage bag after which one person from the group had to catch the water bag using hands and then the 3rd group,one will throw the 5 ping pong balls at a time and one will catch it with pails with water inside and then the 4th group have to walk using hands..Last station,we make a circle and our mouth put 1 toothpick in the mouth and we are supposed to pass the rubber band to one another using the toothpick...After that,we proceed back to MLT 9 to gather together before leaving...After being dismissed,our class gather outside to dicuss who will be the class rep,assistant class rep,treasurer and how to dress up the pagents for tomorrow pagent contest.The theme was Mr and Miss Undercovers...We decided to dress them up as kampong girl and boy but the boy will do hip hop dance...After which,i went home as it was so tired after all the games i had played...That's all for todae,shall blog tomorrow about todae events...Good Night!!!DTRM O6!!!Awesome!!!

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