.p.rae.lu.dium.

god blessed that i can finally come home early today. haven't been taking a good nap since started uni. and indeed life in imu is rather fatiguing with so much orientation activities adding into it. to be honest, i don't really dislike orientation as much as i thought i would be. neither did i really enjoy it. preparations for orientation took away much of my precious resting and getting online time.




what i don't really enjoy is that we had to perform all sorts of peculiar acts and get ourselves humiliated, which is not something i can take. i admit! i am not the sporting type of person who likes to entertain others by sacrificing my own dignity. somehow, i still gave in after rounds and rounds of unceasing persuasions by the 'seniors'. (it's sounded bizzare to note them as seniors since i am elder.. :S). there were 6 days of orientation altogether, whereby all starts from 6 till 10pm. TIRING RITE!! and i still have to travel all the way back to damansara, another 1 hour journey.

from resisting participation, to participating for a day, then two, then three, and finally four days. the 'seniors' are really testing my tolerance loh...! memang 得寸进尺! i'd already agreeed to join in for a few days, and now you are pushing me to the corner some more. grrrrrr!!! anyway, i stayed firm with my decision, four days is the maximum toleration i can give. take it or leave it!



nevertheless, i enjoyed the first day (if not i wouldn't have agree to participate for the rest of the days) though we were spilled with garlic water, flour sprinkled over our heads, faces scribbled using chinese inks, running like mad all over the family park resulting terrible muscle aches. the males in my group are totally entertaining. it was freaking hilarious watching them doing all the 'difficult tasks' like strip and pole dance against a pine tree and things like that. IMU's orientation is truly one of a kind. i don't mind getting dirty, spraining ankles, getting bruises, but asking me to perform like an idiot on stage, NO WAY!

moreover, we had to complete our signature hunt everyday, every lunchtime, as long as there is a free session, we have to go seek for previous batches of students for their valued signatures. that's not all.... for some vexatious people, we had to complete the given tasks before we could get their signatures. not only that their tasks doesn't make sense, sometimes, we had to fork out some money to please them. eg, buy them a meal or a rose for their girlfriend or write them a love letter... -___- damn 无聊 rite!

i paid thousands to gain knowledge here, not to monkey-act ok? really anticipating an end to all these things and am looking forward to lab tomorrow. wakaka!!! i'd always loved lab sessions!!

one thing to compliment is that IMU's facilities are pleasing in a sense that it did successfully provide the students a very conducive environment to study in. you can have freeze-you-to-death multipurpose halls, fully computerised library, whereby borrowing of books were done manually using the scanner and you could print out a receipt notifying that the book has been borrowed and the due date. not forgetting to mention, lessons are 90% computerised too, students get to log into websites to get hold on lecture notes, tutorials, and exchanging opinions (cyber chat lah) in the computer labs. the conventional me find this way of studying a bit tedious, maybe i still don't get the hang of it for i always prefer paper work, not only by visualising the contents through the screen. i need to feel the book, i need to write on papers, not typing on computers, i need to meet and speak to my tutor, not just sending them offline message dearly hoping for an answer to my question. i am orang zaman kuno.

i know i shouldn't rant that much, but please spare me more time to get use to uni life. still a learner, i am....