This Freshmen Orientation sure ain't easy to run. Being a good facilitator (in this case Synergy Leader aka SL) is not as easy as it seems. Totally fits the cliche saying " Sometimes, when you see others do, the task seems simple. Until you start to do it yourself, you realised how difficult it was". Perhaps is the nature of CMM - quiet especially during school events. Apparently, this batch of Freshmen are unusually quiet during the Orientation.

Shall start on my awesome class 1C03. Btw, I met some of my juniors back in Dunman Secondary School. They are: Alexandra, Iris and Titus. Hmm, I've only seen Alexandra before, cause she came for some guitar practices back in Dunman. Meanwhile for Titus and Iris, I have never met them back in school before. Even though the cheering by the class were soft, I am glad that they made an effort to cheer at the very least. Some Freshmen couldn't even be bothered to cheer at all. They are considered the guai guai kinds (hope that they will remain like that as time passes, cause CMM can be pretty havoc at times) and I really appreciate their efforts, friendliness and their respect for me. At the very least, they made an effort to inform me that they need to leave early or couldn't make it. However, 1 thing that I hope that they will pick up along their Poly life is to project their voice. They are so soft-spoken. And they are in CMM, where communications is the main part of what we do and thus we die die must be able to speak up, loud and clear. Please speak up more 03!!

Generally, for day 1, like other previous Business School Orientation, we had talk at TCC, followed by meals and games. We played some ice-breaking games, Battle of the Sexes. In addition, we learnt the TP Mass Dance and the cheerleading dance that was to be performed for this year's Regartta. Not only that, we even went to the Sports Complex to form the number '20' in memorial of TP's 20th anniversary. The freshies get to meet their Care Person too! Guess what, the careperson for my class was Mr Ignatius Teo, is going to take me for my Semester 2.1 module, Basics of Entrepreneurship!

For day 2, freshies get some time to interact with their Care Person, get their timetable, matriculation card and student handbook. After that there was refreshments and briefing by their respective Course Manager. After lunch, it was the start of Inter-School games, which is Olympiad and Regartta. It was really tough for us as SLs. The freshies are totally not hyped up! TOTALLY!! We cheered till our voices went hoarse and they actually had no response! Wth..Luckily, in Olympiad, Business School was leading by a margin of 10 points.

As for the Regartta, oh my. It was freaking, freaking stressful for us, as Leaders. All of us thought that Engineering School was going to be the overall champion for this year. Seriously, all of us. The freshies were simply...I don't know what to say. I got no idea if I should even call them spoilt brats a not. On the other hand, Engine school freshies were so enthusiastic, we can even hear them so clearly on our side and mind you, we were sitting at extreme end with each other. Yet, we can hear them cheer. How loud and how enthu must their freshies and leaders be to have such a volume. No matter how much we tried to get our Freshies to cheer, our efforts were all in vain, less than half were cheering in fact. And, they kept complaining about small things like toads once jumped on a particularly grass patch and stuff. I felt like slapping them on the spot.

Well, we lost our 5 consecutive Championship for Regartta (only this component) cause this time, Engine school have really professional dragonboat-ers. They have both the National and School team to take part! However, we managed to maintain our 6th consecutive championship as the OVERALL SCHOOL CHAMPION. I must say, this championship came really by luck. We were not very active during the Regartta cause the only thing we could see was the dragonboat race and nothing else. We can't even hear what the emcees are talking at our side cause we are at the most extreme side. Boring and tiring. And cause of the location allocated, our morale was even lower. Can you imagine, how 'loudly' the Freshies were cheering when our morale was high? It was even 'louder' at the reservoir. There were barely noise coming from Freshies at my side. Furthermore, this year, Engine school had put in tons of efforts. Really a lot, more than what we imagined. They had loud cheers, professional dragonboat-ers, props to create noise as they cheer etc ( er, their props were mainly those thingy that one blow air into it to make it firm and knock it against each other to create noise. I think it is something that can be found in the goody bag for our National Day Parade yearly) Thus, I would definitely say that our overall championship won was by luck.

Our long cheer...

Business, 2k10, always on the go ar woo!