Midterm (OiC Camps)

Part 1 of the several posts that I'll eventually write. Yeah, I know the events were like, long overdue, but still.

16 days of freedom to do whatever the hell I wanted to do, flew by just like that. Well, not really I guess.

Well, that's pretty much a good thing actually, since most of the times I just rot at home during those boredom-inducing holidays. And I'm proud to say that I've only rotted for a mere 8 days at home. That's decent enough.

Super long post ahead. Be warned.

OiC camp on the first day, which is a Saturday. Pretty intense I guess. Taylor's Lakeside Campus is humungous, totally unlike any other universities I've been to, it even has a freaking mall in it! Seriously, is that mall the reason people spend billions to enter the school? Meh.

Malls aside, the place is beautiful, gorgeous in every aspect. There's three main buildings, one of them which is well, the mall; another two are well, buildings for studying lol. There's a lake in the center (obviously), and I heard that there were actually people who fished there. Omg. Makes me wanna go there to study D:

Amazing Race was shit. No joke. How did they expect to fit in a stupidly high amount of 27 people in one group? And the ice-breaking session? Damn, so fail lah. Our group also fail. The race also kinda failed I guess.

Well, at least they kinda attempted to make the stations "interesting".

I could never have a cheap lunch in Taylor's I guess, the restaurants (yes, restaurants inside a campus), ranging from Italian (!!) to probably the cheapest- Subway, are like so classy. Hell, I'll go broke just by spending a week there -.-

Financial talk was beneficial I think, but was boring to the max. Seriously, at least make it more less like a class and more about doing stuffs other than writing and calculation. Damn.

The camp ain't ending yet, as after a tiring Saturday, I needed to prepare myself for Part II on Monday.

It's held in Taylor's College Subang Jaya, the well, "original branch".

The first thing I noticed is how small the corridors are, and how the whole compound is basically a huge labyrinth, with paths linking to everywhere. And there's no mall D:

The first activity, which was some game with "marshmallow and spaghetti", was actually a pretty decent ice-breaking session. The goal is to make a tower using 20 sticks of spaghetti, "1 yard" of spring and tape which could support one marshmallow, the highest tower wins. And yes, our tower (obviously) was the highest with our hands supporting it. Just by letting go our grips, well, oops.

The jungle talk, or whatever it was, was pretty fun I guess. The games were totally stupid yet incessantly fun. Nothing much to talk about here I guess.

Oh, and they provided an excuse of a "nasi lemak" for lunch, which didn't even taste like one. Well, it's free, so yeah.

Bought Chatime during the 3-hour lunch break. Blegh.

The "Reaching Your Dreams" talk was one of the highlights of the day. I don't know. The host was kinda drunk I think, but he's cool. His voice was loud enough that no microphone was needed. Totally awesome.

And the talk was freaking inspirational. Like, seriously. The dude's awesome. What stuffs about how to date a girl and some other shit. Most brilliant talk I've heard in my life.

The Amazing Race was so much more awesome than the one previously. Although it basically involved all of our hands tied together and running around the compound, finding irrelevant stuffs (such as... a leaf? Some "high quality" toilet paper?), or finding stupid people with stupid names. But I never thought finding a leaf would be so much fun.

Oh, and we begged some guys in the male toilet to get us some toilet paper since we were all tied up and stuffs.

Awesome.