NYP: DET: Orientation: Day: 1.

I went to the school. No sweat. I went up, and this OGL asked me which course I was in. So I said DET. He led me to this empty line. Says go down and register with your IC. So I walked down, and I saw the other lines for other courses crammed pack with people.

So I gave my IC to the guy who asked for it (later known as Bobby), and the girl beside him (later known as Li Ting) gave me this magazine, and gave me a sticker on to stick on my shirt. I was in DET0502. So I was told to join the others who had already arrived. And my, oh my, was I surprised to see a girl showing up. I overheard an OGL telling her she was a quarter of all the girls in the course.

As we left for the auditorium another girl showed up. I thought this could get interesting. I went in, and noticed that hey, there was one more girl! And a whole lot of people had arrived already.

As expected (of course) any of them who were talking would be talking about a game. Any game. Games I know of and played like Metal Gear Solid 3 and Counter-Strike (obviously), and games I have heard of but never played like Warcraft 3 (technically I played, but I don't want to admit it), the Dead Or Alive series and Splinter Cell, and of courses games I've never even heard of so I can't exactly name them here.

So then the whole thing started. There were videos, no talks. Everyone pretty much just came up and said, "Watch the video." Then we went out for a little break, made food preferences, payments, shirt sizes and other stuff. Then we went back in for talks, and a performance by some people (the seniors, I presume).

Then we went off for a briefing, getting to know our OGLs (Sandy, if any of your Woodgrovers remember her, is the OGL for 0503. I was fighting the urge to call her "xue jie!" But of course she didn't know me), a campus tour, some ice-breaking games (who the hell acts out "Chronicles of Riddick"? Bobby said it took him an hour, I was wondering if it was long enough) and then lunch. By this time I had familiarised with some guys, and the last girl in the course was in my class.

Now we went to a theatre where we got a briefing on our course, and school facilities and other rules and stuff. And of course the in-house network we should make full use of. After the talks we talked around a bit, had some breaks.

Then we went out for the inter-class matches. Well! I can safely say we are best class yet. Thanks to me, of course. If you're going to start booing me for being such an arrogant ass, I'll tell you why you should not.

The game was called Blind Man's Walk (or something like that). Someone would be standing in front, and the rest of the class standing a distance back. The first two persons of the rows would be blindfolded, and would have to pass a paper ball to the guy in front. Each one worths a point. We played the game once in the simple way, scoring maximum points, tying 0503.

Then the second time it was played, new rules were introduced: 1) People in front cannot move their feet to take paper balls. 2) The people in front can purposely misdirect another team's "blind man" to give himself his paper ball. This means the people in front can score from anybody, even from other teams, as long as it was made legally. 3) OGLs will be out there, making a lot of trouble.

And the strange thing was, even being gamers these people didn't know how to make full use of the rules, especially No. 2. When my own guy goes back I would start to lure other people to me. And without surprise, I lured a few. Now, don't belittle a few. Because every point I score is one less point somebody else scores. So I had the top score, winning the thing.

Oh, yeah.

Then we went home, and everything was routine.

But it's nice. I have Day 2 tomorrow. I heard there's Maths. Ciao!