the longest 5 days

day one, registration day at KMPP, penang matriculation college. registration was from 8smtg till noon. i went at 11. it saved me the trouble of congestion and long queues, and waking up early. got the room key, a bed sheet, and a pillow, along with some other stuff, ran up to C2.3.12, dumped everything in the cupboard, rushed back to sp, watched the district finals.....and our school won. then drove again to kmpp. met my roommates, 2 malay dudes, one from kelantan, one i forgot, and one chinese guy from pahang. i did have some serious trouble sleeping, because of the heat. slept at 3, woke up at 5-6...i was blur, for subuh prayers. the night was so hot, that taking a shower at 5am was not a problem.

we had some programmes throughout the orientation week, none seemed to have a purpose. here's the thing i did everyday there. wake up at 5, shower, prayers, morning exercise, tutorials, prayers, more tutorials, prayers again, exercise a little more, prayers, speeches, prayers, and the whole thing finishes around 11, kacau someone by texting till i feel sleepy, and wake up in the middle of the night because it's so hot, try to go back to sleep and wake up at 5 yet again for another brand new day. i had my meals at random times, whenever im not dead, sleeping or praying. i got into praktikum.......however you spell it, F2P6, meaning i got into physics instead of biology. so i changed into H5P1 on the last day, into biology. there wasnt much fuss about the change of courses in kmpp, but i dont know about other places.

the exercises includes a poco poco dance.........yes, i do feel like killing myself now, the chicken dance, the taichi, and the ayumi dance. while tutorials, conducted by mentors and facilitators have different stuff everyday, like money and time management lesson, all those character building talks and activities. the maghrib prayers were done outdoors, followed by a kuliah, then isyak, then another lecture from some guy i dont care from where talking about stuff i didnt bother listening to, and for all 4 hours, of 5 days, we had to wear the same shirt they gave us on the registration day. that translates to 20 hours of being sweaty and stinky and having breathing difficulties. i havent even add the subuh prayers to that 20 hours yet. and yes, this week alone, i had more prayers than my anual averages.

the tutorials were filled with some talks, games for little children and moments where gnawing off one's leg seemed the only way to remain sane. in fact, i didnt even have this many silly games back in kindergarten. and for some major events, we were required to have a rehearsal the day before. we had to practise clapping!!!! just to kiss someone's bloody ass!!!

theres 5 guys, and 19 girls in my bio praktikum. the guys are really funny though, kinda surprising since it's a bio class. the bio facilitator is one of the happiest and jumpy person i've ever seen. when we were lining up along the road to bid some dude a retirement farewell, we had to wait for the dude for like an hour. the faci was the one that came up with the idea of doing all that ayumi dance in the middle of the road. and for once, the dance didnt feel so stupid after all. being the only praktikum to dance and start initiating mexican wave whenever a car passed by, it was kinda fun. plainly because no one else did it and no one ordered us to. the faci only suggested it. doing something silly when told not to can be entertaining sometimes.

the only thing that kept me alive during the 5 days was my sagem....which has 3 of its button coming off the keypad.




my block.


outdoor prayers on the dataran pelajar


surau


my place


nowhere

and i did wear the baju melayu in the end. but no songkok. and definitely no picture. haha!