Hiyo wazzap!

This post is just a reflection and some stuff I observed during the October intake camp.

Orientation Leaders.

As a OL, our job is to facilitate them to understand the school better and also get a taste of TP culture. I feel that as a OL, we need to have a lot of qualities. As a OL, you must never mix personal feelings inside. I believe that we should always have a level of professionalism when going about doing our work. Participants may be uninterested, but we must never show attitude. Yes we can give them prep talks and stuff but we must do it with tact. Showing a long face would make matters a lot more worst. Imagine when we ourselves were in year 1, I believe most of us are also the same...uninterested...bochap..fucked up. If our OL show face, what will we do? What I would do is probably fuck the OL upside down la. So yea. Tact.

As OLs, our job is also to bond the group together. What we can do is actually to mix around with them, talk cock with them instead of just huddling together talking about inside jokes. Day 1 of the orientation I think we are fully aware that we always do that. Day 2 is better, however we are still doing that. This should not be the way. We must always remember that we are OLs, not some cha pa lang gina.

We are only OLs, we are not the programmers or commandants, our job is to follow the instructions given. Queries can be asked in a polite manner but we should never ever impose ourselves on them just because we think we have the experience. Always remember that in camps there will always be this level of heirachy. Commandants should be treated like one. Yes, we can always give opinions and constructive suggestions but we must never take it upon ourselves to force something on them. Commandants are the ones planning the program flow and stuff, we should listen.

As OLs, we have this very important role of being the 'pillar' of the group. If we are tired, bored, pissed, we must never show it in front of them. Imagine if the freshmen see their OLs dozing off or looking bored, they will also become bored and stuff. So yea, always bear this in mind also.

As OLs, we have to remember that one of the purpose of orientation is to provide fun for the freshmen. Freshmen always comes first. Whenever OLs are invited to play a game or what, we are only helpers, the main thing is that they have fun. We can have loads of complains and stuff but no matter what, we have to listen to the marshalls. Remember ar, don't inject personal frustrations. It will only make matters worst.

Errr...still got somemore but brain dead. Oh yea..the above stuff I said is NOT DIRECTED to anyone but rather FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

So next up is some personal opinions and observations.

I think I did a fucked job for this camp. Sometimes I sit in one corner with my other OLs and talk cock. Better time could be spent mixing around with my group, perhaps then no one will leave. I feel that this camp is under IMI SIG, so I shouldn't be comparing IITSC to IMI SIG, but I sort of promoted IITSC to them, so that's my bad. As OLs we should always follow instructions but I fail to do so on some occasions, for example during the final royal rumble, we should always stop what we are doing when we hear the whistle but we OLs still continue to play among ourselves.

Some of us been through quite a lot of camps. We should know what is the right thing to say at the right time but somehow that is not the case. When instructions are given by the marshalls we fail to comply with them sometimes. We don't have a sense of urgency. We group together and talk cock.

What does all these show?

Are we really as zai as we think we are?

Again, all these are just food for thought.