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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

So far I've had three days or so of orientation, mostly in the residential college and a little bit of stuff in the main campus, and it's really tiring. I feek like I'm living each day very slowly, maybe because there's so many things to do.

I've made many new friends, especially those who are in my rooming group 2AB. Everyone at the college gets nicknames (don't know WHY) based on info about themselves or their names or could be totally random, so mine is Panda (please don't laugh), and my friends include Bones, Stanley (a girl), Elvis, Rashman, Spoon, Rocky, Shamwow, Gilly, Bora, Sahara, Tingle, Pixie, Squishie, Chansey, Brumby, Ben (a girl), Taxi, Keg etc.

Other names include F'Taang, Swede (he's not a swede though), Fluff, Brick etc. No one can pronounce my name except the China people, the Singaporeans and the Malaysians. I love Chinese people!

I've just done my 100 check point to confirm my identity with the medical building, and am sitting in a campus food court using the free wireless because I can't stand having to pay for the internet usage by the kilobyte in my room in the college.

Okay, I'm too lazy to post anymore.

Edit: okay, I have free time and shall post a bit more about tonight's shenanigans.

They had this compulsory formal dinner which I wanted to skip but couldn't. So we had to sit at pre-assigned places, thank goodness I had one of the other Singaporeans with me. The food was pretty good!

And then we found out we'd been pranked for what must be the umpteenth time already. The seniors had said they'd wash our fresher t-shirts for us, but what they did was to hang them all in funny places in the courtyard on level 1, like hung really high, or in the soil, or on benches or whatnot.

It was terribly noisy and all, but I did manage to direct a few people to their shirts, though not finding mine. So I gave up in the end and went up the usual way to my group's common room. I thought I'd walked to the wrong one again, but it turned out they'd swapped the decorations for each common room to confuse people.

It was really thorough, including the number plates and bathroom toiletries. At this point I concluded that the seniors had got to be the most kongxian and boliao people ever.

Apparently they managed to trick people into thinking that they'd swapped all the stuff in their rooms and switched the locks or something. I swear if they'd really done that it would be theft. And plus some people locked their rooms anyway.

A special shoutout here goes to Fluff. He came into 'my group's' common room (which was probably actually his common room) to take a golf club from behind the door, claiming he was trying to get a fresher shirt down.

Then later as people were going out to do the mass dance, he returned with a shirt and the golf club, and asked if anyone was missing a shirt, which of course I was! So I asked for the label, and found that it was indeed mine! He said he'd gotten it off a tree. A TREE.

I'd helped him earlier in the courtyard to identify Sahara's shirt to give it to her, so I guess he'd just gone around helping people get their shirts. Many thanks to Fluff the whipcracker!

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xuan blogged at 1:26 PM

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