The Plot Finally Thickens

Form 3 has gotten slightly more interesting, though its still insanely boring.

I've been questioning the reasons for my boredom lately. I think I have come to a conclusion. Of course though, I'm not going to bother writing it down.

Last thursday was fun. I'm not sure why, but it was a ridiculuously long day. Let's see what I wrote down:

-waking up at 4 in the morning

-Public Speaking right after assembly

-The nightmare I had during Geo class (This may imply that I was sleeping, but I wasn't. It was simply a bad experience during Geo)

-The farewell party for Hasif, running around, getting pizza, hiding pizza, paying pizza man. And getting soaked in coke.

-Wet socks

-Keeping a promise to a person I barely knew, no matter how much I didn't want to.

-Figuring out Emily's puzzle with Shas.

-Talking to a good friend after a long time.

Here are some pictures to make the blog less wordy:

I miss:

Jin

Claire

Charlene


ALim

My dignity (But I do believe that was gone by the first picture)

Life Thus Far

Form 3 is terribly boring and routine.

After going through the stressful tedious (but somewhat enjoyable) hell I call Form 2, Form 3 is pretty dull and mundane. The teacher's are nice, some of the subjects are somewhat interesting and the people are ok, but its just...... too boring.

There's nothing much looking forward to. Maybe it just the fact that I'm growing older, and things I usually found to be fun and challenging have become routine and dull. It is a lot easier to survive in Form 3 though. I find that I have more time to do other stuff, and school itself isn't very stressful.

I guess I should reflect on 2010 now.

Form 2 was awesome. It was tough and stressful, but worth every single moment.
Here's a list of all the memorable moments from the top of my head:

The first day of school
Interviewing the new probates, then having to pick each one of them after lengthy discussion with my board.
Marching for Sport's Day (and getting fourth)
Running for Sport's Day (and getting third)

Having trainings with the SL's and ASL's every friday.

Praying in front of the entire afternoon session under command of Pn. Chia, on the same day we did a sketch with our classmates for the afternoon session.

Division Camp (this one needs sub-categories)-
Getting totally screwed before a few days before camp
Having people sing Happy Birthday to me 4 times throughout the 3 days (it gets really annoying after a while)

And the best- going for 2 shifts of night duty on the second night, having my partner Kar Keong fall asleep during duty, and being the only one besides Grace Lim (who was working on a slideshow) to be awake. Scaring away a mean black cat who tried to tear up a trash bag filled of god-knows-what. And better yet- surviving the rest of the day without collapsing of exhaustion.

Having to collect tonnes and tonnes of payments (uniform payments, button payments etc.), having sl's pass me hundreds of dollars with torn pieces of paper and scribbles of detail on them. Having to double-check and organise everything over and over and over again. Having to walk to Manoj's house and count all the money. Kar Keong handing me his money in a torn sheet of test paper. And doing all that during exams, while all my friends were busy studying.

The Broga Hill hike, then coming back and finding out we have to get our Comsquad team ready.
The first aid exam, going to Alim's house to 'study first aid', going to Sue Hwa's house to 'study first aid' and after the first aid crash course.
Having crash courses for the recruits, and having to organise those crash course with our fellow form 2's, coming in for 3 days straight in the morning to teach them.

Teacher's day, learning to play the guitar in a day. (for Use Somebody by Paramore)
Installation, staying over at my aunty's house and practicing on Chip's guitar for our prefect board's performance (We performed Time of Your Life by Greenday). Not to mention the last minute switches when we found out the form 3's were performing the same song as us (Waka Waka), and trying to do a last minute switch to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance (which was hilarious). Practicing the guitar with Elson and Xi at the staircases past 2 Anggerik. Having Emily do a speech just before our performance which no one expected. Missing half of our classes that day while we waited for the caterer to come and take away the tables the prefect board ordered.
Seeing the form 1's in their new uni.

Integration Camp, sleeping in a tent with Woon Seng, Emir, Adam, Elson and Heeran. Woon Seng talking a lot of crap.

Going for dozens of duties.

-Futsal duty for 7 hours with ALim, KK, Shawn and Tuan Manimaran (and getting to post the notice on the board, having my form 2 peers stalk me while waiting for the notice to be up)

-Going for the LKSA duty by myself, having both my mum and Manoj text me at the same time to ask if I'm ok. Having to spend 10 1/2 hours with 2 cadets from Kepong and Sir Subra, and pretty much being all by myself. Drinking tonnes of water, and being burned to death by the sun on the highway.

- National Prayer day from 6 till 11 at night. Going in a transport with totally random St John adult members. Some guy with bad english talking to me throughout the duty, and the really loud booming music playing throughout.

- Raising funds for the state with Elson and Sue from 6 till 11 (again). Meeting this really nice state officer who still recognized me at the KSTU Charity Dinner (hey, its you! From the fundraising event)

-The blood drive duties, our Division blood drive and the DU/Seaport blood drive.

-The Kiwanis duty (11-4) with KK and Elson. Guava girl, and KK's sick quotes:
*You just missed the chance to see 2 hot chicks!
* I'm getting horny lately
* She's got a healthy shape
* I'm only interested in her physically
* And my favourite-
"Kar Keong this is your time to shine!"
"Shine my @$$"

-The Bu4 cantin duty with KK, Justyn and Sue.

St John enrollment and step-up step-down ceremony. I miss the B.O.D of 09/10...

The IT Presentations I had to do- The powerpoint prestentation about Google and my website presentation, also about Google.

The classroom debates we had, 2 BM debates and 2 English debates.

Getting introduced to the debate club.

Having to do a speech in front of the school together with Emily and Luqman (and only remembering that I had to do it on the day itself, and this being one day before the July exams)

Realizing that I lost any faith in religion.

Going around DU and TTDI with the f4's passing out flyers everywhere for our division's blood drive, going with Guo on the first day and Justyn on the second. Being dead tired.

Going for Amanda Irdina's birthday party.

Then going for our division's blood drive the next day.

Discussing with my prefect board who to pick for the prefect board next year, going through all the voting processes and debating who's better, and Cik Ahni overhearing and commenting how 'matured' we are.

The tonnes and tonnes of spot-checks we had to do, getting called out of class mid-exam to do a spot-check during our finals.

Stepping down.

The UiTM IV debate with David, and nearly breaking.

Meeting up with Jin And Claire at 1U.

State camp!

Dedicating hours to comsquad, putting our sweat, blood and tears into training, most of the time by ourselves.

Winning comsquad.

And lastly, Orientation day.

That's basically a summary of 2010 for me. I doubt any of you will be able to understand everything I wrote. For me, its just a way of keeping track of all the things I've done and experienced last year. It's amazing to see how the year went by just like that.....

Good times

The 'trusty sidekicks' The only decent pic I have with them.

All the others have Xi Shern in it. That boy ahhh......

Disclaimer: Most of the pictures here are taken from Facebook, from Aziza and Vidhyah's albums mainly. Taken without permission of course, but really, who reads my blog?

Step-down ceremony was exhausting. But before we go there, a bit of background might help.

I foolishly began the week thinking that everything would be easy-going. In a sense, it was the last week of school and there wasn't much left to do. From what we knew, the ceremony would be next week and we had pretty much had everything planned.

Then we went to school on Monday and teacher told us to do it this week Friday.

Well, no problems. We had it all covered. But then....

Come Tuesday, teacher decided to bring it forward to Thursday. Oh well.

Monday was hectic. If I remember correctly, we had to help out Grace with the state camp stuff, giving/collecting forms. It was tiring and tedious. Thank goodness for Chip and Elson, who helped out a lot. By Wednesday, we had finished preparing for our ceremony, more or less.

Thursday was the best. And the most tiring too.

I woke up in the morning and scribbled a few words on paper for my 'speech'. Probably a smart move, everything was in point form. Went to school as usual, stressed unnecesarily over the ceremony and lugged around an annoying file.

Pictured: Annoying file

Well, the actual file was a ring file with the guide to being the 'best KP ever' written for Joy. The one above is the thick annoying St. John file which was stuffed with camp registration forms, knowledge of the order papers and other St John-like stuff.

I digress. Anyway, it so happens that our ceremony was one the same day that En. Sivam decided to have the multimedia presentation. I was talking to my prefects and organizing for the ceremony during assembly, outside the hall, when....

Me: *Lecture blah blah blah Lecture* Don't do stupid things blah blah go up stage like this blah blah blah.....

Voice in Background: Sekarang, dipersilakan saudara Aaron Luke untuk memberi persembahannya.

Which caught me off guard. I didn't even bother to prepare for any multimedia presentations. And I didn't even remember what I was supposed to talk about till I walked upstage and caught a glimpse of the project I did a few months back, which was about Google. And that was the most impromptu speech/presentation the entire year.

After finishing, Adris and Syahana kept on pestering me over and over again, the form 4 prefects paid us a visit and I worked on squeezing a few more words out of the point-form speech I had written.

At the end of the day, it went quite smoothly. The speech was survivable. After speeches, Pn. Chia gave the prefects their certificates. The fun began when she began hugging everyone.

I think Xi Shern's enjoying it .

The picture is like this, I'm too lazy to fix it. Just bend your neck sideways.

Then the new board was revealed, we lazed around in the hall till 3.oo p.m. plus while Pn. Chia talked to us. Then we had our prefect mini-party where basically, we ate. In the end, there was quite a lot of food left, even with the teachers coming to eat too, so we ended up inviting all the students we could find to come help finish.

Hang in there

A pretty decent day.

I would rate this year a good year. We had a decent bunch of prefects, we didn't fight, and we survived.

All in all, I'm proud of my prefect board.

I think I named this picture when saving it: the heads + crazy man.

Or maybe it was in Malay.

Like, 'pokok besar tambah orang gila'.

The hols again

So true, even if its slightly more poetic than my liking.

From part 1 to part 2 in 2 years or so, part 2 for reasons 3, 4 and 5, then part 3 where I annoyed all my peers, then part 4 which is now.

Thank god that's over.

The hols are far more hectic than I could have imagined. The worst part though, is that the hecticness is all clumped together. State camp is coming up next week, something to look forward to. The week after that will be the Annual First Aid and Foot Drill Competition. Then there are debates to worry about this Saturday....

A few things I hopefully plan to blog over the holidays (think of it as a record of the things I've done this year)

-The camps, Division camp '10 and Integration camp.

-The prefect side: Step-up step-down ceremony, and not to forget teacher's day and Installation, where we totally messed up our performances and started improvising like mad.

- The debate side, the UiTM IV Tournament David and I went for a few weeks back.

- The St. John side, state camp, Com Squad, and maybe some interesting duties.

Nah, I'm just kidding. Even if I had the time, I wouldn't bring myself to blog that much. Well, I do have the time. I'd just rather spend it on other things. Which is why I can't bring myself to blog that much.

Well, I have the rest of the night to blog, so I might as well finish up some posts......

The hols

Holidays are boring. So boring in fact, that there's nothing particularly interesting to blog about.

I wrote that last year. This year is a lot different. My entire holidays have been packed with tonnes of things to do (though at times when there's nothing to do, it does get boring). Hmm, let me recap my holidays so far:

The first few days were nothing spectacular. Lazed around the house, read up a few interesting articles on Wikipedia, experimented with a few programs in the computer (ever wondered how they get the chipmunk version of a song?) and basically passed the time.

By Wednesday it got interesting. Our Division had a blood drive last Sunday, but before that we had to go around spreading the message. And the best way to do that is to stuff flyers in people's mailboxes. Around 9 in the morning, we gathered to go out and spread the flyers. Guo Shun and I were the only form 2's there, sadly. The rest were the form 4's.

Around 11 we embarked on our gruelling journey, stuffing flyers in mailboxes. Sophie and Siew Hui had to leave, so that left, if I'm correct: the two pitiful form 2 representatives, Grace and Grace, Isaac, Xue Er, Huey Ni and Daniel. I'll skip the details, it was a tedious job putting those flimsy, easy-to-bend (and get wet) flyers in people's mailboxes. Some people have weird mailboxes. We covered the DK area and part of DU.

The next day was the pretty much the same. We came earlier than before and a few people from yesterday couldn't make it, one of them being Guo Shun (dang). This time Justyn came to help out.

It was way more tedious than the day before. We covered the rest of the DU area and went over to TTDI, stopping by a petrol station on the way, where we ate our breakfast 'like homeless people' at the back of the store. I bought Oreo's! And chewing gum, which proved to be very useful when you're half dead from your lack of sleep.

It was long trip, with a lot experiences and things to say.
- Justyn owes me 10 bucks
- When you're dead tired, you act stupid. This applied to everyone in our group
- The dogs in TTDI are bigger than the ones in DU and DK. I wonder why.
- If you want to avoid unwanted flyers from innocent young people who are out spreading a noble message, get a big dog and short gate. Possible, hang the mailbox on the gate. If the spaces in the gates are especially large, consider that a bonus.

-When doing a tedious task, you may forget that you've been chewing the same piece of gum for 2 hours straight.
- Don't say the above message to people while chewing gum. It makes you look very disgusting.
- Nobody opens their mailboxes.

We ended the entire trip at a petrol station in TTDI, half dead and our legs aching. It was a painful journey, but worth it.

Oh well, I'm too lazy to continue. I'll continue later.

Happy Malaysia Day.

Procrastination in Action

"The Hobbits of Aluray will try to counsel you, tell you to shut up and sing 'Work It Out' while dancing and blocking the way when you feel like beating your ex-best friend up."

I find that hilariously random.

I found this one while looking at the Wikipedia page for SMKDJ a while back. (I think I was procrastinating my Sejarah Project) I saw it at the principals section and thought it was too good to just leave it there just like that. So I saved it on Microsoft Word.

(01/01/2007 to present)
Datin Proton Wira Hjh Norizan Bt Kancil.

No contributions as of yet (besides training the students stamina and endurance by lengthening the assembly time)

I have no idea who on earth is their current principal, but I find that description of her somewhat funny. Speaking of DJ, I remember En. Azwie gave us an essay to do, something about complaining to the school 's principal about the terrible conditions of the school canteen. Guess which school I chose to write to?

A random fact, I divide my Microsoft Documents into 6 categories:

Essays
Stories (Most Treasured)
School Work (Least Favourite Category)
Prefect Stuff
St. John Stuff
Other Random Stuff (Favourite Category)

Of the 6, Random stuff is my favourite, yet it only contains 3 documents.
-A document containing that description of the DJ principal I just spoke about.
-A list of things I've done.
-A list of people I knew/know.

Pretty fun huh? Too bad, you'll never see the contents of the 2 and 3 documents. Though, both are pretty much useless. Except the third one. Maybe. My mother always said to have a list of people you know, because one day when you're old, and you're trying to remember certain people, it can get really frustrating. If you're reading this mum, Advice Taken (for once).


I Think I Won't Sleep Today.

Anyway, as you can see, I'm updating my blog. The list of links at the side (Titled Leave!) has been shortened. Since the only reason I actually have those links are to read the contents of that blog...... having tonnes of dead links pretty much makes it tedious.

I've put a music playlist back on the blog, but since I find it annoying whenever I go to someone's blog and there's music blaring in the background, ruining the other songs I'm currently listening to, I've decided to take off the autoplay on it. (As much as I would like to ruin other people listening to their own music). Therefore, you shall have to play it on your own free will. Consider it an update of the current music I'm listening too.

I've been going through my old unpublished posts. My favourite is the one talking about DU Divison Camp 2009. Best part, I titled it '3 funnest days of my life'. Best-est part, I still agree.

For some reason, I tend to talk about my daily life a lot on this blog. I was kind of hoping some mind-blowing realization would occur as I typed those words, therefore lengthening this post, but nothing happened. Oh well.

That's pretty much it.
Till next time, (i.e 2 months from now)
-I

Again?

Funny. I realized every time around May 14th, I'm sick. And manage to hurt myself somehow. The joy.

First-Aid Duties can be boring, but at least you meet new people.

First-Aid Duties where there aren't any causalties are insanely boring.

First-Aid Duties where there aren't any casualties, no friends are insanely boring with extra emphasis on the words insanely and boring.

First-Aid Duties where you walk around under the blazing sun are torturous.

.......but at least you get to meet new people.