My Orientation

*DISCLAIMER : Don't read if you are offended by perverse posts, cheers or thoughts. Consider yourself warned...* Gosh, I'm already in Week 3 and I'm only posting about orientation (Week 1) now. Haha, I don't know if you guys have heard, but the orientation here has a HORRIBLE reputation for ragging that almost rivals orientation in the local public universities. Despite the seniors' reassurances that this time it would be "toned down", I guess most felt trepidation in joining the orientation. Still, all in all, I suppose it was, erm, fun - though there was A LOT of crazy ragging. The orientation here is really kind of sick and disgusting in the sense that the OOs (Orientation Officers ie OGLs) and the other seniors sort of encourage the juniors to be, erm, perverse in many aspects of orientation like group name, group cheer, group flag, so on and so forth. Its best if you have a group name that's euphemistically offensive. Thus, my group was called Shooting Bananas. A few other groups were Anus-thetic (begetters of the Anus cheer below), Clitomania (their flag was a big red circular thing covered in red crepe paper with a linear opening lined with yellow frills in the middle, just take a moment to imagine it in your mind), Virgin Hotline, MTV (Most Tempting Virgins). Clitomania's cheer : I wonder if you know, how to find my cli-i-to, if you've seen it then you mean it, then you really have to go, CLITOMANIA!!! Ngor Zha!!! (those who don't speak/understand Cantonese, ask someone who does what the last two words mean) Anus-thetic's cheer : to the tune of YMCA : Anus! How much can you offer [Young man, there's no need to feel down] For my, ANUS! How 'bout twenty dollars [I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground] I said, ANUS! Please buy it now [I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town] Because I can't go any lower [There's no need to be unhappy] Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Do you want a piece of my A-N-U-S [It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A] Do you want a piece of my A-N-U-S [It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A] And so on and so forth. They actually had lyrics for the song all the way to the end but I've forgotten the rest. Some of the "major" highlights of orientation :- Ice Breakers (Monday) Attire going into event : Clean and new baby blue orientation T-shirt White board shorts Ratty throwaway Adidas shoes Basically telematch style stations where we competed with other groups for plastic bags and water to make water balloons for a final crazy water bomb showdown between the groups. However, some smart ass decided to try and band all the groups to attack the seniors (he succeeded, sigh, mob mentality and all) which resulted in us being, erm, rebuked (to put it lightly) by the seniors especially in the finishing event. So, what was the finishing event? We were made to sit in lines with heads down and hands covering our necks ala prisoners of war while all the senior, erm, "got to know" us using margarine, flour, eggs and some horrifyingly smelly green liquid which they would not divulge the recipe of. Guess who had to clean up the mess in the end? Attire after event : Oily sticky eggy orientation T Oily sticky eggy board shorts (White? why did I wear WHITE!!??) Rattier Adidas shoes The IMCC Haha, this is really funny, in my opinion. It starts with the little hints dropped in some of the speeches of the orientation committee and continues when the groups meet for the first time - the various seniors come into the room and point out to the OOs who they think would be a suitable candidate to become the group's IMCC. Haha, they make it sound so impressive and all. Well, IMCC stands for International Medical Congeniality Contest (I think), but we also use it as a noun to refer to the contestant, and only males can join. IMCC also means I am sissy (get it?) and its a crossdressing competition thing where there's an actual video shoot where they dress in the theme chosen for the batch and act like, erm, women and a solo dance performance on Variety Night (more about that later). Ooooo, but there are pros and cons to becoming IMCC. The pros : an instant inclusion in the list of "high profile" people (you get very popular - quite a number of the people on the orientation committee were ex-IMCCs) and the winning IMCC becomes the president of the orientation committee for the orientation after the next. As for the cons, besides the obvious, the IMCC of a group has to rid his torso, arms and legs of body hair (!!!). But, I think it was a good thing that all the chosen IMCCs were very sporting and, erm, played their parts well. Seriously... Oh, by the way, the theme this year for the IMCC was "Women through the Ages" starting from cave women to Greek women to Victorian women to modern and finally space age. My group's theme was African woman! Also, my goodness, some of them were REALLY pretty *shudders at the thought that I just typed that*. Well, thank goodness I wasn't picked to be IMCC. Treasure Hunt (Wednesday) Attire going into event : Meticulously scrubbed clean baby blue orientation T-shirt Red NJC shorts ( I can't believe I wore them... ) Very ratty throwaway Adidas shoes The treasure's only up for hunting of you complete the entire circuit of 15 stations and guess what awaited us at each of the stations? Raggings galore! We ran round Bukit Jalil going from station to station getting progressively dirtier as the evening turned to night. Hmmm, the most memorable stations? Our first was this station where we had to fish a dead fish (pardon the pun) out of a bucket using our mouths and then duck walk to another bucket where we put the fish down and searched for Mentos buried in a mixture of flour and egg and eat it. There was also this station where the guys (if you get grossed out easily, don't read the following) had to cover their hands with chili sauce and nipple pinch (yes, I typed that correctly) another guy while singing the National Anthem. Oh, yeah this was the day before National Day which is probably the reason for Negaraku. In another station, the guys had to dip their shirts in a bucket which contained, among other things, water coloured yellow with turmeric and chopped up chicken organs (I think). My shirt turned green at that station (yellow + blue = ...). In yet another station, the group leader (me) and the IMCC had to kiss a frog. Well, it didn't turn into a prince(ss). As my group completed the last station, we heard that the treasure had been found (a HUGE raw fish... WTH???) and so we headed back to debrief and take photos. Attire after event: Green orientation T-shirt coated with egg, flour and chinese calligraphy ink. Just imagine the smell. It turned PURPLE whenI soaked it in detergent and YELLOW when it was rinsed in cold water. Disgustingly dirty NJC shorts (still bright red though *shudder*) Horribly ratty Adidas shoes ( I threw them away after the treasure hunt) Body : covered with all the manner of ink, eggs, flour and chilli sauce. Variety Night (Friday) Two sets of performances ran together : the group performances and the IMCC solo performances one after another. The group performances were basically your run of the mill sketches except the winning one where they did a very good Super Mario performance. But the IMCC performances were, oh my goodness, some of them were very very good. Oh, at this point in time, the video on this blog is of my group's IMCC's solo performance. Its scarily good, as opinionated by Elaine. Oh, before I forget, the IMCC performance also includes a hair check for, erm, smoothness. However, the most entertaining thing, in my opinion was the "Rape Squad". In previous orientations, the "Rape Squad" would be on standby for any boringness in the performances or if the IMCC acted TOO sluttishly. A siren would sound and the "Rape Squad", composed of male seniors would rush on to the stage and strip the male performer(s) leading to the situation of the OOs warning the guys to be sure to wear extra underwear. However, this time, they only "raped" the seniors (usually an ex-IMCC) who went to do the hair check. Still, it was super funny (^_^). Oooooo, this time, they also had a the top 3 IMCCs of the orientation 2 batches ago reprise their roles and stage their performances. Their theme was fairy tales! The third place performance, Beauty and the Beast, where the IMCC was of course, Belle, was just a lot of dancing. The winning performance was the Swan Princess (now the Swan Queen) which had (!!!) extremely graceful ballroom dancing in the performance and a dying swan scene ala Swan Lake [Very cool!]. But the most entertaining was the second place performance, Snow White, which, I will never be able to watch again without cringing. To avoid grossing out people who want their Disney experience to remain pure and undefiled, I won't type out details of the performance. Ask me if you really want to know, its really sick but very very funny. Dresscode Check During 4 days of the orientation, we had to dress according to the theme of the day which was quite stressful as we had to source for the costumes. It was quite fun though, we wore the costumes to lectures! The themes were Sugar and Spice (I was a sweet), Knights of the Round Table (I was a castle ghost), Crossdressing day (I was the Tooth Fairy, interesting costumes from my group included Robin Hood, Superman complete with the outer red underwear and a mermaid) and Surprise Day where my group decided to pick a bedroom theme (I walked around in a bathrobe and a pillow). Telematch The "highlight" of the telematch wasn't the match activities but the "human cake". It being the last "dirty" activity of orientation, we were made to lie down under the sun while being slathered with eggs, margarine and flour (notice the pattern here?). A variation of the "recipe" which was "concocted" on some of the others was the "human pizza" where tomato paste was added to the mix. So, yeah, those are the, erm, highlights of Orientation... Funny? Disgusting? You decide. Still, as the seniors said, you'll hate it while you're having orientation but you'll miss it when its over. I certainly do. Kudos to the seniors especially to the committee and the OOs for a ROCKING orientation!