One of the Many Malaysian Habits.......

It seems that supermarkets are one of the places to see amusing things.






I know carrots are suppose to be good for the eyes and helps to improve sight, but really. Is it really needed for a family of five to be 10 kilos of it?



That family had about 4 huge full to the brim plastic bags on them, the guy at the counter had to use multiple price stickers to close the bags.


Somehow or the other they had missed out the lovely '3kg per family only' line at the bottom of the price board.




Same thing for the watermelons that the family took.

4 of them. Sign says '3 pieces per family only'.








Someone smart here (most likely everyone) can point out to me that the man (and his family) had some kind of restaurant business that required lots of fruits *cough*fruitjuice*cough*




But seriously.








If you want to plunder a supermarket of its cheap goods, you could be SMARTER at doing it.



I mean, four HUGE sacks of carrots that amount to 10 kg in 1 trolley isn't conspicuous enough?

They can't possibly finish it alone in a week or two.




Unless the people at Carrefour are dumb and blind they would most likely confiscate most of the sacks and 1 watermelon. Wasted effort right there.










If they had wanted to, take multiple trolleys for goodness sakes!



Then, you'd be a true MALAYSIAN :D

people, respect hypermarkets and other shoppers.

dedicated to my fellow debaters for the times we've had

I know John & Abhi will cringe at the singer, but I heard it on the radio and I thought the lyrics meant more.











Just play the darn thing.



Lyrics:
I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,
Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I
Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what?s waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes they knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith baby
It's all about
It's all about
The climb
Keep the faith
Keep your faith

To all you debate people, we climbed :)

We lost, and we won.

KDU has been a great experience.


For starters, it seems I make a not-bad third speaker. Good enough to be shortlisted as the 12 top for the prelim rounds 1-3. The prank the head adjudicator played was damn scary though. (CA: these few names that have been called has been receiving complaints from the judges. We will be shortening your time from 7 minutes to 5..............JUST KIDDING. PRESENTING THE BEST SPEAKERS FROM YESTERDAY'S PRELIM ROUNDS! XD" Me, Soph, El, and the other speakers up there: "O_o WTF?! Belated April Fools is it?')

My team (Me, Elena, Marc, Abhi, and on the last day Daniel) managed to win 3 out of our 4 rounds. We didn't have enough points to break though. So we played audience to Soph, Keefe and Siew as they debated.



It was fun to watch instead of having to worry so much about what to debate on.




In the end, we managed to get to the finals.





Then we lost and got 1st runner up & Soph got best speaker (Congrats, Soph :)









Through thick and thin, I think that it was an experience that I wouldn't have missed out of. I learned many valuable things in debate.






I learned that:
a) John and the senior debaters may not be as law abiding as I thought them to be (nuff said)

b) Soph gets over losses by thinking of hot guys (like the judge in KDU)

c) Siew can be just as blood thirsty as me (N. *^%&%%&^ , BEWARE. WE KNOW WHERE YOU TEACH :P)

d) Marc can actually be taught new things (no offense and just joking, don't hyperventilate)


e) Abhi.......is not as annoying as before. (O_o when did i notice?!)


f) Elena......cracks a lot of buttock jokes (too many I can't list them down. And they say she's a 'high level Christian')







This may all be some funny facts that can get me killed. But seriously. You guys rock. And I'm glad I went through that short period of WIRA and KDU with you guys. Even though Audrey's mom speculates that this year seems somewhat cursed (we lost the title for WIRA, KDU and Choral Speaking so far) I think I still wouldn't have changed it for the world.








Though now, we have to see whether there's space for IIUM. Damn HELP for not accepting another team (glares at organizers).


Let's look forward and hope we can create a debating club. (that has left to be seen, but it is a goal I believe we want to strive towards)

it is the little joys in life that brightens up the day.
I no longer feel that much of an urge to kill anymore :)

Memoirs from the day we were screwed over - 24th March

It had been a day like any other day, maybe just slightly more special (kay, very more special). Quote John: "District finals, people!"

Seriously there had been no indication that we would have lost. Not the atmosphere before, after and during the debate (in my opinion, we rocked). Maybe the day had known of our misfortune and had been weeping for us, but I wouldn't know.



But seriously, Lady Luck screwed us over.





We hadn't seen it coming. They hadn't seen it coming. Shock, no tears. yet.






When we had asked him what the hell we had done wrong, all that came out were half-baked answers. Things he said we hadn't done, yet we had.










In the end, we didn't lose due to being horrible; we lost because of the messy business known as the human mind.






To the Catholic team, I can't fault you. You didn't see this coming as well. Celebrate all you want. Just don't come TAUNTING AND GLOATING, because it doesn't help either of us.






There's no tears coming from me. The other members have shed enough.

This feeling may go away with time, but that still doesn't mean that I'm entirely happy with what happened.




I'm going to miss WIRA, but I'm not going to stop debating. I like it, and I want to continue. The memories I obtained from it were real. The memories mean more than the feeling I have now (just let me wallow for a while). And now that we have the chance, we'll take it.





KDU Debate, here we come.



We recover fast from defeat. That's all.

I know why I like rock more,
It is like a medley of life,
messy, noisy, screaming.
Venting anger and frustration for me.
(I was restricted from posting earlier, so sue me)

Somehow I'm feeling slightly.......blue today.



There are so many things I haven't done yet, and so many things I think I didn't do properly.



There really is no point over worrying, but still it doesn't get rid of the feeling. The restless feeling in your chest. 'S bad.



Debate......District finals. Catholic. Worry 1#.



Library.......MPS..........*fidget**worry**fidget*....... Worry 2#


Writing........ I haven't gotten anywhere -_-|||||| Worry 3#



There are a few other little matters, but still these three are still the largest.


One may say to focus on the bright side, but it doesn't mean the worry fades away.



One also says actions are better than words.



Maybe I'd feel better with more action, but then again.
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Librarian one-day camp was fun (boring lectures on myriad of plants though) and I came home unable to walk the next day but still. I think I owe an apology to Pn. M. There were some things I could have helped better. I wasn't exceptionally alert.
















worry, worry, bubble, double,
flow, and flow, and gurgle, gargle.
over the pot and spill across,
the worry continues to frost.

I have to get into the grooovee.....

Humans are strange.









We make promises to ourselves, yet we don't keep them.













We say we want to do this yet we do that.









We hurt others yet hurt ourselves.








We portray confidence, yet have so much doubt about our own capabilities.







We say there's no hate, yet hate's rampart.




Good intentions turn out to be bad ones.




And in the end, the world goes round and round and round in an endless and confusing cycle.




Aren't we humans just simply contrary?
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i'm not feeling like my usual self, one knows

I AM FREE!

I don't know about all of you that are not in DJ, but.




EXAMS ARE OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





'Nuf said.






My predictions?

Add math - A breeze
Mod Math- Relatively fine
Bio - Yes, no
English - Forgot word count but who cares?
Malay- Hn. Teacher's too strict with marks
Chinese- Cross fingers.
Chem- Botched last question
Physics - Damn the pistol question
Moral -another walk in the park, though whether I walked the right path has yet to be seen
Sejarah- Give and take. No way to predict.




Some people may glare at me for saying all that, but hey, at least you tried your best :)






Exams are over, but debate and librarian and everything else is not.


Camp paperwork is done, but I WANT PIBG FUNDING. NO GIVE LIBRARIAN, NO GIVE PREFECT. FAIR AND SQUARE. prefects that actually see this blog I mean you no harm. yet.


Debating.............. No comment for now.



Sigh.


I'm getting lazy. There's a pile of work I haven't done (Not a mountain thankfully) yet I'm sitting in front of the PC watching Soul Eater and blogging.


Ah well.


One must enjoy life still :)