Yesterday was my campus May intake orientation and it was also my second time helping out for this event. I was involved in ushering the students and VIPs. Previously, my jobs were to usher the VIPs and providing information if any. This time there is no information counter and if there is, I wish I am not involved. I don’t want to get another whack by the parents because my friend and I were not brief on what information etc. We had to do our own homework last minute. Damn pissed loh that time! Okay, lets not talk about previously, lets talk about THIS TIME!
Yesterday was pretty fun to be honest; maybe I knew the committees and also knew what to do after previous experience. Moreover, this time was at PD block which is bigger and everything happens at the ground floor. I don’t have to climb up and down the stairs until my shoes almost koyak like before, lol! Besides, I don’t feel bored as there were a lot of students. I heard that there were around 800+ foundation and degree students altogether. Most of them were foundation students. The registration starts at 830am. But many freshmen had already started lining up at 730am. I was supposed to lead the degree students into the hall after their registration. However, kawan baik aku woke up late, so the chairman told me to takeover her job as there were not many degree students. The situation started to go chaos by 8am. The sky was very dark and showing signs that it is going to rain. So we had to go for Plan B. During the rehearsal, the chairman briefed us with 3 plans: Plan A is as usual, Plan B is when it is raining and Plan C is when there is no electricity.
Because I was standing at the entrance, so I told the chairman to prepare for Plan B. He looked at the sky and talked through his walkie-talkie to inform the other committees to prepare for Plan B as it is going to rain. One of the girls from the walkie-talkie shouted so loud, “HAR!!” Lol…
At around 810am, we had to let the students into the hall before they get wet outside. When the freshies walked in, they kept looking at the signs we had pasted for Plan A and I am like a tape recorder, “Please have a seat inside first, please have a seat inside first, please have a seat inside first…” There were many parents as well, so we also set up a parents’ area for them to wait for their children as they cannot follow their children into the hall and registration. Because of last minute changes, one female big shot and one lady who is in-charged for Mass Call helped to assist the freshmen as well.
By 930am, most of the freshmen were already inside the hall. We prepared another room as well if the hall is overloaded. After that time, we got to sit down and chit-chat. The campus is kindda hot as the air-con is not cold enough to cool so many people. Therefore, there were many stand fans at the corner.
At 130pm, we had to usher the freshmen to their respective rooms for a briefing from the Head of Departments (HOD). My job was to usher the degree students. When I lead some of them into the room, I peeped inside the room and guess what! I saw my project supervisor! I was like “Oh shyt… Please don’t see me.” Thus, I switched places with my friends. The consequence of not finishing my chapters earlier… hehe ^^.
When everything settled, our next task was at 330pm – Mass Call. From there, we had to usher the degree students into the hall. While waiting, we started to make friends with other helpers and ushers by chit chatting outside the degree HOD briefing room. There were eight of us fooling around outside as we do not want to go inside and listen to the briefing. So I made friends with these two very funny friends, a girl and a boy. They said they were buddies by hitting their own chest. They were always teasing each other in a funny way.
At the beginning, I thought I don’t have to put on my blazer because I am not ushering the VIPs but I did bring along just in case. So when it was about 330pm, the chairman asked the vice in front of me, “Do you still need more VIP ushers? She is very good at it as she experienced before…” (swt -.-lll) The vice then said, “Okay”. I dragged along my friend who ushered the VIPs with me previously and quickly put on our blazers and rushed to the VIP room to check what drink we were going to serve them. However, the two experience ones were given the task to usher the VIPs into the room and not serving them this time. While the two friends inside who were new in it were so nervous like how we felt previously. They were pushing each other to ask the VIPs what they want to drink, lol. Furthermore, I think the committee who was involved in ushering the VIPs did not do a good job. She dare not tell the big shots to wait inside the room and I even heard her talking to herself in mandarin when all the VIPs were standing outside of the room talking, “Aiyo, zhen me ban ar (How ar)? Guan ta men (let them be) lah.” Then she walked away. She also didn’t brief the two friends inside the room on how to serve the VIPs and what to do. Instead, do you know what she said? She said “don’t treat them like handicaps; they will pour the coffee and tea themselves.” In the end, we had to teach our two friends. What a shame, name sake… Vivi, if you are reading this, well, you did a great job by briefing Teng and I, =D.
When the president of UTAR arrived, all of us had to usher the VIPs into the hall. After that, there were some of us went into the VIP room and sip some coffee, tea or yin yong, lol. Our vice then came in and said any three of us had to go inside the hall because there were only two people ushering the VIPs. All of them were looking at the three of us who were wearing blazers and also good friends. However, two of my friends had already poured themselves a cup of coffee and yin yong. Thus, the vice gave them 5 minutes to drink their beverages. The vice was very polite to us, instead, according to my friend, another committee who was in-charged of registration was teasing my two friends for drinking so slow. Hello! You are supposed to go inside; we are only helpers, tak ada pangkat pun, &%#^@$^! Well, I dislike her the first time I see her…
After the big shots had left, we were free again. So we started taking pictures, snap, snap, snap…! =D When we were about to leave, the chairman suddenly stopped us. He needed our help to collect the 800+ forms from the freshmen as most of the helpers had left.
Teng > Yean > I
Many parents were outside of the room waiting for their children. Some parents were so pitiful. They waited at the campus the whole day! My gawdd… They slept at the parents’ area, some made friends with another aunty, some fathers read newspapers etc.
I took the train home after that and when I got inside the car, I quickly took off my heels. When I reached home, I dipped my feet into warm water, syoik betul. After sitting down on the sofa, I don’t feel like moving anymore… I supposed to sleep early that day, before 12am, however, my friend who online around 11pm something and said I ffk him, he felt so disappointed, Hahahahaha… He actually sent me a FB message that morning while waiting for his transit back home that where will he go after that. Unfortunately, I was at the campus the whole day, so I only saw his message at 8pm. Sorry dude… Hahaha.
I enjoyed this orientation very much because I get to meet so many new people and knowing that two buddies! *hit chest*
(BELOW: Adam Lambert, my American Idol =D)
