Celebrate Merdeka!

Rain, rain, rain... rain for the past few days. No rain today. So close, the sign of rain... dark clouds and lightning evident in the sky above. Even a phenomena after rain was evident, not sure why though.... a rainbow in the midst of the dark sky. Merdeka Day celebration at school today. All went well, fine weather. My prediction was correct... i was certain that at least three quarter of the class would come. Turns out that 33 out or 42 came. My prediction was correct. 3 others who were not in school today were still considered present. That means only 6 people ponteng. That's good... right? Oh yeah, the school drama team managed to get 1st placing at the national level drama competition at Labuan. Congrats! Okay, back to Merdeka Day celebration... we had our choir presentation... then received prize! Yay!!! We won the choir competition... not only that we miraculously manage to get 3rd place in class decorations for Merdeka Day... credits to those involved (applaud). Was it the 313 Malaysia flags that decorated our class? So... let's see... RM100 for choir and RM50 for deco, altogether RM150... i thought it should be RM200? Anywayz... ... ... i... trully disagreeee on the results of the marching competition. I really, really feel that 'x'(if you know then you know lah. Can't badmouth other people here... or can i?) shouldn't win. REally, really don't think so. I feel that even Kadet Polis is better than them. At least 'x' did extremely well then i wouldn't object but they performed not well enough... even other uniform groups did better. The only best but not to say superb thing is their formation, creative, that's all. I totally object. Even some 'x' people in my class think so too. Scouts should win. WE SUPPORT SCOUTS!!! If not first at least second or third. Currently i don't even know scouts' standings. But still... geram! Scouts marched brilliantly, well better and good taking in account that we just found out that we can only have 24 people when we got 34 people and we just only changed the formation YESTERDAY and that they were all juniors and that the formation is truly very fitting with the theme of this years Merdeka celebration, Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan. Scouts did the Twin Towers. Let me tell you about what it symbolizes... first there are two towers... it symbolizes the people separated. Then, a leader, the marching commander, will form the bridge, symbolizing that a leader will bridge the people together and then we'll have unity. See, it so fitting with the theme, right? The  there was the cute little singing part and blowing of whistles.  It's not fair... (sigh) but nothin' can be done. The rest of the day was quite boring... not much studying... doing nothing. Only Chemistry was interesting... then about half or more of the class ponteng and went out of school (according to KS) after or during recess... i couldn't believe it. How did they sneak out of school? Hmm.. guess that's it... dunno what went on in the hall. Hmmm... rain? Are you coming today? There's still hope...

Flags of Malaysia all around

It rains again today. You might not notice it but it did rain. Not sure for how long though, started raining at about 12.30a.m. and when i woke up at around 6.00a.m. it was still raining. Was it? The whole early morning? Woke up to the cold of early morning. Chilling... rain makes everything wet, the air, the ground... makes everything cold. Nevertheless there was no rain in the latter part of the day except for a slight drizzle for a short moment in time. So, we won for the class choir singing competition, so, practice and practice for tomorrow... all should go well then. Hmmm... will it rain? The uniform groups will be marching tomorrow. Such a hassel today, just found out that maximum marchers per team is actually 24 and not 33. So happen we got 34 today for practice and it was not until it was quite late that we found out. Had to decide, continue on and risk disqualification or cut down to 24 and have a chance or slight hope of winning. Formation was the problem. Really a problem when there are too many people wanting to take the lead. But in the end, the true leader will show himself and decide for himself. Finally, a formation that can be done, easily and meaningful at least. Almost couldn't make it. Still, we made it. I was one of those people who volunteered out of the marching team. A sacrifice made for the team... or is it? One problem now... i have been marching on wet muddy ground for the past 3 days. Now my shoe is dirty and filthy, stained by mud and grass.  Since i'm no longer marching i don't need to wear my scout uniform, means i've got to wear my school uniform and i am in the class choir. Supposed to have clean shoes... don't want to bring our class image down. No extra pair of white shoes.... what to do? Did all i can to wash dryly... if that was even possible. Hopefully my efforts are fruitful and it's clean enough to be presentable. Oh yeah, i have faith, i believe that our formation is meaningful enough to maybe get a third place, though it's not as complex as the others. Hmmm... rain has been falling from the heavens these past few days. Tomorrow? Maybe...

Hurray for the choir

Ohhh, sooo cold... yeah, the wet and cold together mean catastrophe.  It rained again today, just like it rained dayz ago. It has benn raining these few dayz. Rain, rain, the cold wind, the cold weather, fickle weather, watery field. Choir singing competition today. Sang Sejahtera Malaysia and Tanggal 31. Looks like it was sufficient enough for us to gain victory. 4A sang Tanggal 31 and Negaraku while 4C sang Keranamu Malaysia. Went back to class right after 4C so didn't see 4J perform. No class first two periods... same goes with the next two... and the next two after recess. Right after recess, we finally found out that we actually won the competition. Hmm... though i might say we are not considered to be extremely, superbly, extravagantly, magnificently good but still better than the others. Guess the others made some mistakes here and there. Still they tried their best and had fun. That's a good thing. Brings people together. ... . Feeling tired, the fatigue. Feeling sleepy, muscle aching. Practiced marching after school today.  Frankly speaking, i don't think (...better not speak out loud) can win. Still, we always do our best and have quite a good tine training, practicing. Gotta stay back tomorrow too (sigh). Tired. Walked back home later in the gloomy weather. So fickle the weather, dark clouds in the skies up above. Almost couldn't make it in time home. About 200m more to go and it started drizzling. As i entered my house, it started to get heavier. The rain, so soothing and relaxing. Really, rain plus cold wind is a bad combination. A cold day, a cold experience. Another cold day tomorrow i presume. Will it rain again?

Rainy, rainy dayz

Rain, it has been raining these past few days... rain comes, rain goes. It comes drizzling and heavily. The moist cold atmosphere. The wet field, more like paddy field. Oh, the rain... such rainy dayz. Hmmm... what's there to say? Nothing to say. What's up? Hmmm... merdeka day celebration. Gonna have the choir competition tomorrow... how will it be? Practiced quite a number of times, enough? Who knows... as for me, speaking frankly, we are definitely above average... can't compare us to professional choirs though. Can't compare us to other classes too. It seems, we have competitors... how tough are they? Who will win? Everything will be decided tomorrow. If all goes well, good for everyone... if we win, good for us, if we loose... so what? Life just goes on like a wheel spinnin' and we move forward... the competition is not like the most important thing in life... there will be the ultimate winners and the 'just' winners. RM150 up for grabs though... Hmmm... the rain, so calm and relaxing. Can you hear the sound of the rain drops? Feel the moist and chilling air? So cold... yeah... cold. Especially early in the morning, as the sun rises and dewdrops form. Rain comes, rain goes. Will it rain tomorrow?

Practice, Merdeka Day

Not much to say, really, the holidays are not as interesting as in school. That's why i have not much to say. Okay, today had class choir practice for Merdeka Day at Joseph's place. Came early but Joseph's not in cause he had to wait for someone... and he left 5 of us stranded outside his house.... dunno what else to say. Let's see... who came... me, Khai Sern, Mew Yin, Alan, Ming Long, Wee Han, Ming Soon, Ying Jin, Shu Ning, Sharon, Mei Ling, Shi Min, Su Qi and Jasmine... i think that's all... hopefully i didn't miss anyone. Oh yeah... not forgetting Joseph... of course he must be there, it's his house... Anywayz, practiced until around 11 something and then people start leaving. Some of us had a meal at Joseph's. Later we went out to McD's! Only a few of us... let's see... me, Joseph, Khai Sern, Ming Long, Ying Jin, Mew Yin, Su Qi and Shu Ning. Got the gold medal meal and a free limited edition olympics cup! It's just a cup though. Hmm... i guess that's all that happened today.

-jsooncx signing off-

August holidayz

Well, i have nothing to blog about... maybe some things but i'm just currently too lazy to blog.
Okay, it's the August holidays and it's not over yet. Lots of work to be done. Let me see... so far i've attended the scouts AGM meeting, went to Penang, went out with a bunch of friends, a friend came to my house to hang out, gonna go for some choir practice for merdeka day and got a meeting to attend to at the end of the week. That's about it... i don't think i have anything else 'short' to say... so... that's it for now...

AGM 08/09: complete

All AGM's for 2008/2009 has been completed for what i joined. I am a little too involved in a lot of stuff. So far, scouts, CF, LPT and my class. So far, so good. Let me see... for 07/08 i hold:
Class: Monitor
CF: Assistant secretary
      Assistant recess cell
      Assistant coordinator
Scouts: Assistant secretary
And now... for 08/09:
Class: (it'll depend if the class wants to keep me next year)
CF: Secretary
LPT: Secretary
Scouts: Secretary
So, it'll be a tough year ahead and hopefully i'll get to sail through it smoothly.
-jsooncx signing out-

Minggu Pusat Sumber '08

It's here again!!! It's MPS! Last year they did on Egypt and this year it's on Japan! Come and visit the library if you have time.

Everything was quite last minute but at least everything worked out well. Good job i'd say though i haven't went in browsing around yet. No time. Well my part was the opening ceremony that's all. Made the so called 'peach' that pops open and a message rolls out. BANZAI! At least all worked out well. Phew, heart beating so fast when Pn. Ang was about to pull the string. The moment of truth, so tense, will it work. Yes!!! Of course it worked! Didn't use so much of my time staying back in school making it just to see it fall and fail! Finally, my job is done and now all uncertainties are cleared... it's a success. Gotta check out what's inside the library... maybe tomorrow.
Started practice on the choir for merdeka day celebration. So many stuff needed to be done. Finished combining the songs but still gotta find the chords for all the songs. At least they are all not bad... still there is room for improvement. Just hope that everything goes on well.
Gotta save time by writing shorter blog entries :) I see a very busy future ahead of me...

UNSW English Examination

Stayed back today for the University of New South Wales English Examination. Paid RM20 for it so it better be worth it... of course it's worth it. No doubt... though it is extremely difficult with the Malaysian education to score great or excellent marks for this Australian standard exam. Unless you read lots of books, watch lots of movies, often refer to dictionaries, have super strong foundation in basic English, you'll find this paper very tough. As for me, i don't read lots of books, don't watch lots of movies, maybe refer to dictionaries but rarely, and i don't have a good foundation in the English language. Don't know what are pronouns, adverbs, etc. My English is not up to standard. The passages in the paper were extremely hard to understand, not mentioning the length of the passages and the deepness of the hidden meanings of each passage. We were only given 60 minutes to finish 60 questions. So little time, so many questions, got to read the passages and understand it too! There was like 6 questions on cloze passage and 2 on antonyms!!! ANTONYMS!!! I misread the question and though it was synonyms!!! Well, i don't even know the meaning of the word in one of the questions.... There were passages like science facts and blogs and poems. Not enough time to even finish the paper! Left 5 questions. Should have made a last minute sprint to finish by making wild guesses. But i hesitated when teacher asked us to put down our pencils... Alas, what is done is done, nothing else can be done to change what's done.  Try taking next year's one.

SPM Oral BK Quiz '08

Went for the 12th National SPM Oral Bible Knowledge Quiz at Catholic High yesterday. My friend and i took part in the oral quiz. So, woke up very early in the morning, met at the Taman Bahagia LRT station at 6.15 and left for CHS.
Altogether there was 5 teams representing our school... or was it 9? Actually five teams consist of only Taman SEA students while the other 4 were mix, that means other school people join and represent our school instead... that's what i think. But there are some who join and represent other schools. So, the others not taking the oral quiz took the MCQ paper.
Had to study Luke and Acts. Quite last minute studying. I studied Acts while my partner studied Luke. Knew that it's kind of like impossible to win cause the 3rd and final round are individual rounds. Each one of us got to answer questions from Luke and Acts. The first round was objective questions on Luke and Acts. Since i studied Acts, i was blank at Luke, and my partner, the other way round. 50 questions, it's a team effort, in the end we got a total of 74 points for the first round. The second round we get to discuss on the questions. 20 Q's, 10 on Luke, 10 on Acts, got a total of 11 points for the first 10 and 9 points for the second. So it totaled up to 94 points altogether. Not bad for first try. We are after all only Form 4's. Obviously we didn't make it to the third round but one of our team managed to. But still, unfortunately they missed the finals by only 3 point..... well, they tried their best. At least we won the David Bowler trophy for the central region in Selangor. So, Taman SEA has won it 5 times altogether, 3 times in a row sometime last time and currently 2 times in a row last year and this year.
The overall winner was Sri Sempurna (i think it is spelled like that), followed by Sri Sempurna (i think) and the others i'm not sure. FYI, Taman SEA won before, during my sisters time. After that everybody left and there was only a group of Taman SEA students and CHS students. We then helped the CHS people to keep the chairs and tables. Lots of chairs and tables! In the end we eventually finish clearing everything. One group of us were in A&W already so we met up there. The food there is quite expensive though. I spent RM12.10 on a rootbeer, curly fries and a waffle with extra syrup. Couldn't finish the waffle though, i think it was meant for 2. In the end i gave what's left to my friends. Everything over and i reached home at around 4p.m. Then gotta go for practice. So no sleep in the afternoon. After everything was over i was exhausted and i went to sleep at i dunno what time, about 8.30p.m? That a long sleep. Next day, today, gotta wake up early anyway.

Joke #10

Some joke i made up last year...
A man saw another man wiping his hands on a piece of bread. He asked, 'What are you doing?' The man replied, 'Can't you see? I'm buttering the bread. I have butter fingers...' LoL.

Fast!

Lots of stuff after school today. English test, i don't even know how to do the proverbs! Gotta tembak but all wrong.
When in Rome we do it differently
People who live in glass houses live in fear/ see everything (?)
The apple doesn't always tell
We won't miss the water until we cross it
When err is a human emotion
Well, that's my version of answers. Gotta write at least something. Looks like my proverbs are not that good.
After school went to somebody's house to do some CF stuff! BK quiz '08 is coming! Somehow our school was like in-charge of everything. So i went to help out. Quite last minute. Supposed to go back and eat but then... in the end didn't eat lunch at all! That's a first. Skipping meal. BK is coming! I'm not done studying! So much stuff to prepare! That's all, no time to explain details... well, not to say no time... okay, that's all!