Orientation

This week has been one of the most happening weeks so far as everyday i get the chance to be involve in different events that are all linked together for one purpose, the freshman's orientation week program!

From the intense preparation of mass call since last week, till the end of mass call on Monday, to the emceeing on Tuesday, to the booth designing and singing on stage on Wednesday, to the preparing food for all course reps on Thursday, and the photographer job on Friday, and lastly a helper and "official photo person" for the KL tour around KL on Saturday. Well regardless or not it sounds interesting i'll still blog bout it once the photos are ready :)

First up, Mass Call, which is the official event organized by SBS SWC (Student Welfare Committee of School of Business Studies).

The day started at 6 and every helper and committee involved woke up extremely early to gather at college. For a person that finds waking up at 8 for lecture a fascinating thing, this sort of commitment is definitely worth praising XD

During mass call rehearsal :)

All in all, things were exceptionally smooth. Human traffic can be very very scary if it gets out of hand but thankfully, the whole 3 sessions went very well despite a slight delay here and there.

The number of students seen in the photo is like,
1/400 of one session only!

The best part (for me :p ) was that i get to talk to 6000 students out of 3 batch of sessions although its just that couple of minutes. Well those few minutes definitely lay down an extra topic for me to talk about when meeting any freshy. "Um that day did u see me on stage a?" XD

I remember last year's mass call was really giving a hard time to everyone in the hall. The crowd was dead, the emcee's are tired and boring. I was that affected that i actually promised to get better emcee's for the following year's mass call when i was introducing myself during course representative election (which i didn't get elected :p but i got to realise the promise anyway! )


Although Amanda was still the emcee (and i do truly respect her :p), the new guy Ian brought a whole new style and chemistry towards mass call emceeing and i bet all the students were comfortable with his casual and spontaneous flow of speech. Although he crack a few "yellowish" joke which the school official highly dislike, i thought it was just fine, after all most of the audience don't get it XD

Amanda too looked very impressive through out all the 3 sessions working with the crowd yet being very professional :) See how natural the smile she's wearing. haha (just in case you're reading this amanda XD)

The dress code for the day was full formal black so everyone was seriously serious looking. (That make sense doesn't it?) Lucky enough we got a taste of first-hand tux which was freshly bought a few days before mass call. Yeng ler?
A "special guest" arrived for the last 2 sessions which is non-other than TARC's chairperson Dato Seri Ong Ka Ting. Well i guess his presence led to the same impression as he always did. Thank you Dati Seri Ong for the "inspiring, long, encouraging, looonggg" speech :) truly amazing :D


As a conclusion, I really felt glad that SBS is taking Mass Call this year instead of all the beauty and talent competition. And yes if i were to given another chance, i would love to do Mass Call again, a complicated yet simple, significant yet procedural, formal yet exciting event which embarks the beginning of all TAR college freshmen :)
Great appreciation to everyone involved no matter whether you're in this colorful photo or not. Thank you for the patience and commitment, and i'm looking forward to our next get-together-event, whichever it may be :)