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9. Chyking Gone Wrong
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2020-08-27 22:39:33*Chyking* is a slang for wooing a lady
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After the weekend, the next thing that came up on Monday was the Orientation, where bunch of people with microphones churn out objectives, acknowledgements, dos and don'ts, blah blah blah. The upshot, it's where Boredom hugs people and signs his sleep signature as an autograph on their faces.
Looking at us from the top of the school's mega auditorium where we all were sitted, we looked like an army of insects marching to conquer a cube of sugar before the owner of the house sweeps it away.
The "good boys and girls" came with pen and jotter to note down things, while some boys were looking for where the pretty girls were sitting.
The whole place was up in a cacophony that I could barely hear my thoughts, a very bad place to
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