MMU Orientation

Finally I'm home! I was totally exhausted these few days. All of my body parts sore!! Well let me put my awesome experience into words.

#Day 1
I went to MMU for registration with my mum early in the morning. I was so nervous about it. It's normal to feel like that right? I feel insecure and uncertain about everything. I'm blur and not sure what to do. When my mum had to leave I was really sad, sitting there, without knowing anyone. So when I was alone, I was thinking: I have to make some friends here. So I talked to the girl beside me. Later in that day we were separated into groups. I was in group 10. Our OC played games with us so that we can know each other more. We had to remember all of the group members names. It all went well. I met a friend from overseas, named Toini. It was great talking to someone whose had completely different culture with us. Then I met another girl, Fyone, who's also in FOE. I was so relieved! Finally met a girl from FOE! She had the same feeling as well, haha. We stick together throughout the orientation.

Our nightmare started at night. Our roll call was 7.45pm. The DM said we have to be in front of the grand hall at 7.40pm. Unfortunately, we reached there around 7.47pm. The walking distance from hostel to the hall was 10 minutes. When we almost reached there, we saw one DM standing there, he was shouting, " Run! Faster! RUN!!!" We ran as fast as we can. When we reached there, he took all of our IDs. O.O Freak all of us out. We only got back our ID the next day.

At night during group activity, we have to vote for four leaders in our group, to make sure all of our group members will be punctual. I'm lucky to be the non-muslim girl leader. Proud to say, group 10 never late again in the following four days.


#Day 2
The hostel was so hot, I couldn't sleep the first night. There was a lot of briefings that day, so I started to struggle to keep myself awake. I bet all of the freshies felt the same as well. We were forced to memorize the campus song lyric, when we just heard it once. Every morning, girls and boys will gather in front of their respective hostel and start singing. If the DM is not satisfied, we will not get our breakfast. The dress code was so strict. Collar T and formal pants in these five days! That afternoon after lunch, not all of us reached the hall in time. So we were punished. Guys will be doing pumping, while girls half stand. We were punished almost everyday x.x They even made us stood under the sun at the time of 1pm! That day we were asked to gather according to our faculty. We were having a competency test. Mini heart attack, haha. The moment I saw the questions, ADD MATHS! I didn't do any add maths for 6 months! Luckily just ten questions.

At night, our OC told us, we will have to perform on the cultural night, which was on Wednesday. It was a sketch, our appointed villain was Cruella Devil, our theme song was Barbie Girl from Aqua. Weird right? We were supposed to link these two together.


#Day 3
Barely sleep at night. Woke up at 4.30am to take my bath. Almost the same routine as before. Got punished again. We had our sport activities that evening. Finally no more semi-formal attire! We jogged from the hall to the field group by group. Unfortunately, I was not able to join their games. That night we finally got a chance to discuss about our sketch. And we had to perform in the next day. Our leader was so amazing. He had everything planned, the plot, character and everything. So what we need to do is prepare the props and who to act. Fyone and I volunteered to be Cinderella and Rapunzel. We can't always get another chance like this isn't? Besides, I wanted to do something for my group as well.


#Day 4
Today we had our faculty briefing and subject registration. Luckily I'm in the same class as Fyone. Evening, we were dismissed so that we can prepare for the cultural night. We were rushing because we didn't have any rehearsal yet. Our props were undone. I borrowed a baju kurung from Aisyah, one of our group member. They said I'll be Malaysia version of Rapunzel, haha!

However, unfortunately our sketch did not go well. But we enjoyed ourselves :) That was the night the DM revealed their true colour! Actually they were incredibly kind and friendly, they just acted out so that we will be discipline. We enjoyed the sketch from the OC. It was amazing!

I walked to mamak near the campus with bunch of friends at 1am after the cultural night ended. It was unforgettable. We went back to hostel at 3am. The next day we were no longer needed to wake up early for the roll call. We will be needed to be in front the hall at 8am.


#Day 5
The last day of orientation. Our DM were smiling! Haha, none of us seen that before. They even joked with us. We had rehearsal for the closing ceremony. We were all exhausted that time. Fyone said I was swinging when we were standing singing the campus song. I was so tired, my legs don't even feel like mine. At 2pm sharp, we had teleconference with Malacca MMU. Haha, both campuses were competing. We shouted so loud when we did our freshies cheer!

At evening, we had sharing session. The hall was so beautiful! Our OC even gave us one final big surprise when the orientation were officially ended. Lot of people cried that day. I was touched as well. We hugged each other. The feeling was funny, it felt like it was ending. But we were actually just started our journey in MMU. I checked out my hostel by 8pm and went home.


It was an unforgettable experience. I never dance or shout like crazy in public before. It feel NICE! Like I don't have to be what people thought I should be. I enjoyed myself there.


It was really worth it :)