26th-28th of June

Arise my blog. And come back from the sleep...
Haha, just a way to say that I'm going to blog today after a long time. Whew, had a long month...

Ok, as the title says, I'll be talking about the 3 days I was in KDU college debating against various schools. So, to start of, I'll first tell you it's a Friday. And today will be my 12th day wearing my school uniform in a row, meaning non-stop. I'll be wearing it again tomorrow for DJ's IU day. See? I love my school so much..... Nevermind.

26th of June, Friday- Sports Day
The day where I'm suppose to have my briefing in KDU college at 1400. Before that, it was Sports Day! The only mistake I did here was that I wore School uniform in the beginning of the day instead of wearing PJ clothes. Had to wake up early, get dressed and be there by 0600..Oh well, I had fun painting the blue house faces for marching though. After all that, I watched the marching and then went to the scout's den to waste time.

Results:-
Overall- Green house 1st, Blue house 2nd, I forgot the 3rd place, sorry.
Marching- Blue house 1st, Green house 2nd, Yellow house 3rd
Decoration- Yellow house 1st, Blue house 2nd, Green house 3rd.
Comments from me: As a blue house member, good work and keep it up. Yeah Blue house!!

It all ended at 1130, but the school said we can only leave at 1230.. or was it 1200. Nevertheless, that didn't matter to me, 'cause I had to stay in school until 1400 anyway. During the wait, I explored a little bit in the school, who would have thought I didn't know about so many locations in the school. I was practically the sole survivor there besides the canteen ladies (rest in peace Old man of the canteen). Hon-Son came at 1330, and the rest came later. For your info, there're 4 people in my team. Kai Leong, Sivesh, Hon-Son and myself. Waited for Pn. Surita to come, then she sent us to our destination. From 1430 to 1800, we were in KDU college. No debates for that day, won't go into detail of what happened. Came back to school, that's it.

27th of June, Saturday- The long day
Arrived school at 0600. The debates starts from now on, there was suppose to be replacement class today for school, so..... hehe. OK, this time Pn. Yee sent us to our destination. These are the results of the debate arranged from the 1st to the 4th. Just a note, it's not a knock out system, the team's with the same amount of wins will challenge each other in the next round, so you should know how it works. There were 2 types of formats we experienced, here are the basic rules, I won't go into details:-

1. Asian Parliamentary Debate.
- 3 speakers on 1 side.
- 7 minutes each speaker.
- Point of information (POI) permitted - Questions or interruptions

2. Ostwald Debate.
- 3 speakers on 1 side.
- 8 minutes each speaker.
- No POI's permitted.

Hon-Son's the 1st speaker, I'm the 2nd speaker, and either Sivesh or Kai Leong is the 3rd. I gave Sivesh the 2nd speaker on the next day for him to try out.

All in all, it was FUN debating, we won 2 matches and lost 2 matches. There was an all girls team we went against, Kai Leong and Sivesh wouldn't stop talking about a 'hot' girl in their team. She speaks in a British accent and also very confidently, but didn't make it to the octo finals. Therefore remember this, do not be scared just because people can speak well, but sometimes no points were found at all, meaning crap. KL got scared by this, but I hope he knows now. Stayed all the way to 1800+, I think.... Maybe it was longer... Oh well, home sweet home.

28th of June, Sunday- The last day
*sigh* Uniform again. This time with a tie. T.T So, we headed straight to KDU college at 0700 this time. I was the first there, so it was still dark. A note to remember, don't go there too early, it's very empty. Anyway, the rest came, the other teams came, the adjudicators came. Our last debate was held, we lost, but we're not sad. Actually, we're probably the most rookie team over there, winning 2 out of 5 preliminary debates wasn't so bad. In addition, the debates we lost were all close debates. Meaning the results were very close. There were the octo finals after that, we didn't watch but we waited instead.

What we did watch were the quarter finals, semi finals and the finals. Wow, they were good, not only confident but to the point as well. There was one sad debate where DJ team 2 vs DJ team 3, and the 1st speakers were siblings- younger bro and older sis. The younger bro won, it was funny. Oh yeah, before I forget, my school only had 1 team. In the end, the finals was not as great as the semi-finals. The champion title goes to erm..... what was the name of the school again.... Oh yeah! It was Bukit Sentosa, 2nd place goes to Catholic High School. Stayed till 0630+, KL's parents sent me home.

And.... That's that. That's basically what happened over the 3 days. It was a fun experience, meeting new people and all. Debating is fun, we all should try.

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Oh man, have to wear school uniform again tomorrow. T_T

P.S. I probably won't be blogging again the next few days or months or years or so. Pictures are with KL and Hon-Son. I didn't bring my camera, so... yeah.