An ESSET to remember

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It has already been... well.. approximately been around 20 hours since i got back from IPBA yesterday and yeah, i am already feeling the boredom. Of course, i can choose to call someone and end up lepaking with them but i just dont feel like it. Yesterday's emo parting session with Grace was a lil too tiring for me to have another one this soon. So, yep, here i am; writing up another blogpost. There is a whole lot of catching up to do and i have to at least do a lil writing to stop my English from being rusty. Thus, here i go with another update.

Let's start things off with a recap of the predeparture meeting back in ESSET, Kajang. As mentioned in my omnibus post, we figured that its gonna be a gruesome three days stay in some training institute, similar to our previous one week of BTN. Trust me, crappy accomodation, boring activities and a hell lot of listening is enough to bring your mood down for a whole week in Kem Bumi Jati last time. Regardless, the predeparture meeting in ESSET turned out to be quite nice. To start things up, ESSET itself is a nice place. The place is situated in somewhat a secluded area, overlooking a palm estate, a golf course, wide tropic forest and a KTM track. Then again, the reason for such positioning of the facility serves its very own purpose; to seclude the trainees away from hustle and bustle of the city, chill back and relax throughout the seminar. Yep, the facility had an actual lobby that looks welcoming upon our arrival (unlike the time in Bumi Jati camp where we had to wait for nearly 30 minutes under the sun at the assembly area). The registeration process was done in a cinch and none of the staffs on the job actually acted all pissed or anything regardless the fact that it does take some increment of blood pressure to actually herd out COhort 5 students at times. As a matter of fact, they acted pretty proffesional regardless of how kiddy we acted throughout the camp (well, not that kiddy but.. well.. you know).

And here's another highlight regarding ESSET itself; the accomodation. One word, ladies and gentlemen; it's awesome! I have no picture to appear as visual evidence here but i would say the room for two was actually nicer than the budget two-person room in First World Hotel. Its spacious, air-conditioned, equipped with a TV set (like, seriously, a TV set??) and a nice shower with a nice heater. And to describe the physical aspect of the place itself, well, let's just say you googled up some pictures of a hotel room and normally there's the image of comfy two single beds and a lot of dim yellow zen-ish lights around the room (in which when you actually arrive at the hotel room, almost all of those in the pic was a lie) ; let's put it in a way that the rooms in ESSET looks exactly as that image- no trickery, no lies; exactly as a hotel room promo picture.

In anycase, lets stop gawking at the awesomeness of the place now shall we? How bout the activity? Well, sad to say that the line-up of activities are mostly non-interactive talks about how to behave upon our arrival in our respective overseas universities. The speakers are actually quite good in delivering their speeches, only the prob was that all the 8 speakers seem to be saying the same thing over and over. And its all common sense stuff; dont get pregnant, focus on your studies, dont taint the image of Malaysia etc. etc. So yep, everytime i stepped into the (awesome-looking) seminar hall, i just wished i got the worst fever ever so someone can send me back to my room where i can snuggle up underneath the warm comforter... sigh... Ahem.. Aside to those speeches, there are some group activities and due to how boring the speeches are, i tend to look forward to the group activities as well. There isnt much excitement in the activities though. We did some physical game on the first evening (which was the most entertaining than the rest), some group presentation later, and finally, some stupid chicken dance group performance which isnt just appeal extremely meaningless, it also force us to act like douches on stage. It was just one of those moment where you go on a stage, hoping that no one notices you and if there's actually someone who notices you, let it be an assassin with a sniper with a mission to put you out of your misery... with you being the assassin's employer.. Well, you get my point.

Overall, we wished the activity wasnt all cramped up together so that there'll be more time for us to be sleeping in our rooms. I dont mind staying at the place for a week if they will let us have personal time to be spent in the rooms. Sigh... i miss those comforters and the nice shower.... sniff...