Can't really tell if i've gone through something life-changing but what i do know is i had a lot a lot of fun during the holidays. Last semester was the last sem for delta year. At first felt like i need some lengthy break. It felt as if my 3 weeks break which was shorten to 1 week won't be enough. Went back to my home sweet home back in Penang for one week. The week ended in a flash and it somehow felt horrible having to return to Cyber so soon.

I had to return to Cyber for the binding camp for the OC (Orientation Committee). I can still remember the time when there's some part of me regretted applying for OC. Without knowing what lies ahead i can just hope for the best. The registration day was on Sunday, after moving in my stuff to hostel on that day, the only agenda we had that nite was more like ice-breaking. We were divided into groups as well. Our X-plosive group consist of Das, Prasanth, Suren, Wei Ni the horoscope master, Komala the superstar, Dina, Cecilia and Imran. Overall, i think our group was OK , though i think we could have bonded better. But the sharing session was bit of an eye opener. Especialy the first sharing session , makes me appreciate my life more cuz i felt that there are people who led a life which is a lot lot tougher than mine.

During the binding camp, we played a lot of games and indirectly during the games it somehows allows u to improve yourself in terms of speaking in a group. I felt that after this camp, i'm a lot more compose when talking in a group, able to pace myself. But of course it takes a bit of initiatives to do this as well. During the binding camp as well they will more a less judge ur participation level and at the end of the camp we will divided into respective bureaus. Generally s if a person is more talkative will get a higher chance to be in the mobile division. THose who talk less or rarely talks , usually ends up in food division which is no doubt the most boring division IMO. I was really keen to be in mobile cuz i did consult some seniors bout it and most people say that mobile divison is the best. I did try to talk bit, just to let them take notice of me. So at times i did give one or two comments. To me it's not important whether the comments was a good or bad 1. It's kinda funny to think of it, there was one time where i comment on the morning exercise that they organize. I was saying that the morning exercise is like bit pointless since we're not doing much so might as well let us rest more and moreover there's already sports in the evening. There were a lot of ppl who thought that i was requesting for something a lot tougher. I think that could have created a negative impression at the same time people will take notice, i guess the main idea was achieved =).

All the modules were quite fun. At first it was bit competetive even among group members cuz everyone was eager to take the lead and impress. It was bit like Apprentice. Everyone have their own ideas. It's quite competetive as everyone who was present is selected from god knows how many students who applied to be an OC. Anyway the modules were more fun than i thought. At first i thought it'll be quite serious kinda thingy but in the end, it was like playing games throughout the binding camp. My favourite was of course Angels and Devils but i felt that the way the play the game is not as fun as the version which i played with the CF group. I was so eager to be the devil and i get to be the devil for once but i only managed to be the final 2 devils bit dissapointed cuz i got voted out just oni by having extra one vote, so unlucky. The game that i was least interested to play is i think Mafia. Just can't stand having to look at people without blinkin the eye though they did change the rule a bit but still i wasn't too interested in playing the game. Booringgg~!

Throughout the 6 days of binding camp it was quite tiring, cuz we oni get to sleep earliest at 1am and having to wake up at 6am and get ready for morning exercise. Nevertheless it was kinda fun. There were also sports , something which i always enjoy. The games played was captain ball, something that i'm quite familiar with, dodge ball and one lame game which the rules itself was confusing. I think i enjoy most is during dodge ball, can't remember how many people i took out of the game and me myself never got hit at all. Man, i was damn good..lolz felt really good. I think i sort of stand out too much for sports and i'm kinda bound to get selected to be in Sports division. During the camp the co-ordinator did spoke to me bout being selected to lead the sports bureau. Well i'm not too keen bout it cuz at that time i still preferred mobile division.

During the last day of binding camp they did announce everyone's status to be in which bureau. Without any surprises i was chosen as Sports leader. I was bit dissapointed at first cause i still wanted to be in mobile. As for registration day i was on duty as hostel runners. Half of the day i was standing at the top floor just pointing to the freshies which wing for their rooms. It was quite boring actually but luckily i've got a partner to chat with.

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I think i dun have enough time or rather i'm lazy to complete my experience in OC. So i guess i'll juz summarize whatever that i felt. I think OC is the best event ever to join in MMU. There's no event that can match OC simply because i think there's a lot of time which can be spent together and bond with new ppl. Reached my objective of joining it just before i grad. The OC experience was like an orientation for myself as well cuz i've neva experience orientation before. Previously i was a late comer during my alpha year. I was like 4 weeks late or sumthing so it's quite an experience.

guess dat'z all from me now

ciaoz

EJ