After my Lower Certificate Examination (LCE) results was announced ;nowadays known as PT3 in Malaysia , i was selected to continue my studies at a fully residential school only known as Kolej Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang ( KTDTHB) in Miri. My dad was clearly excited that his son was selected to be one of the few to continue their studies at one of the two premier school in the state.
Not much time was given for me to prepare for the trip , my only recollection of KTDTHB was that from my uncle who was enrolled earlier. He told me off the life he went through as a freshie then, it was enough to get me excited and scared at the same time. i had less than 3 days to get everything in place and had to get all my stuff packed into just one suitcase......hmmmmmm
the plane ride from Kuching to Miri ( will be about one hour 45 minutes trip one way) and that my other uncle will be in Miri to pick me up and sent me to the school, he too genuinely excited about me getting into the school.
It was after 230pm that i finally made it to the school gate and that i had to actually walk from the gate to the boys dormitories. I had to dragged and carry my stuff for at least 1,000 meters to boys dorm.
Cendrawasih was the name of the dorm i am assigned to, was a wooden single storey dorm behind the 'seniors' concrete dorms. It was the start of the work party then , with seniors cleaning up the surroundings plus a few scared looking freshies doing the best that could. Just as i finish unpacking my stuff into our assigned cupboard in a room that will fit 6 people ( only two others have arrived), we were called to help do the cleaning up by the few seniors. I was asked to crawled under the building to collect the rubbish and soiled my new shoes and pants doing it.
After 4pm, work party was over and the seniors came into our room and started to 'interrogate' us freshies one by one...( i was pre warned by my uncle as this was the tradition of orientation for freshies by seniors) My roomies were clearly almost to tears by the activities that follows, we were not only shouted at but was made fun at by the seniors.
I was made to sing , had to crawled under the bed , stayed in the cupboard and tried blowing out a switched on bulb. Pretty much nasty stuff but non physical in nature. It went on till about 530pm where the seniors would go off to prepare for dinner. Only then did we; freshies' get a chance to have some quality time among ourselves.
Dinner was no better but that's another story...........hahahahaha
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