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.

Amazing Experiences

Brian Teoh:

You know, there's one thing I don't like, and that's people who don't believe in God at all.

I have this friend who is an atheist, and I asked him what will happen to him when he dies. He said "I'll become fertilizer for trees". (Lame-er*)

So I said, while I'm in heaven, you'll be a tree. Then one day this guy is going to come to you with an axe, cut you down, drag you accross the mud, bring you to a printing factory.


...........and print the Holy Bible on you!

*Lame-er is my brother's speak for someone who's lame. Like the word 'gamer', used to describe someone who plays a game.

The holidays are gone and I haven't done a single thing productive. In fact, I'm trying to delay any productivity by doing this blog post.

My entire holiday can be summed up in a few words in point form:

-Strive to fulfill basic needs (e.g. water, food, oxygen)
-Play piano
-Read
-Sleep (Though this may come under the basic need section)

And honestly, that's pretty much it, excluding Monday and Tuesday where we went to a friend's house to "study first aid". First aid had never been that fun before.









Sport's Day Marcher 2010 (and others)

Looking at this picture, you would most probably see smiling, happy faces (and in the second, everyone with their mouths open)

But after a careful look, you'll notice something extremely disturbing (or at the very least, for me): Jun Ken has the exact look in both pictures. Like, how does he do that?

For the sake of it, the two pictures were taken from Sofea's blog, which were ultimately taken from Facebook. Therefore I clear my mind of any guilt.



Sport's Day was fun. The very fact that we won something made it awesome by itself. Zhan Meng jumping on my back shouting "We Won!!!!!", the billions of hugs and high fives won't be forgotten. Neither will the aching legs, standing there waiting as the other uniformed bodies do their formation, nor the sweat and energy everyone put inside to make it a success.

The MG2IH/ManojGraceTanGraceLingIsaacHormat. Thank goodness they gave it a acronym. 10 years from now, it would be something like:

The MG2IDAQDFJFROFLOLSFH. Then some guy would be like:

"So what does is stand for?"

"I don't know. We lost count years ago."

As you can see, I'm a bit out of line......... Not to mention the rather embarrasing screw up halfway through the formation where I nearly tripped on my shoelaces. I was happily opening up the 'spider' when suddenly, I stepped on my shoelaces, staggered like some drunken guy to the side, then continued. Sir Subra was staring at me, chanelling the:"If only that boy didn't mess up...." look. =/ "Lean" .........

Comsquad. Awesome people.

Aris, Kennedy, Zhan Meng, Heeran and I. Our last task: foot drill.

One heck of an experience.

"Hello, is this Carla?"

Funny.

It's amazing. When you look at something realistically, it becomes a lot easier.

I hate putting titles on a post, it makes it so limited

Well, this will be the first post in a long time. So far, I have tonnes of post of which I'm lazy to complete and post. Oh well.

Highlights :

1) Comsquad

The best experience of last year, no doubt. It was hard at times, but I learnt a lot and met new people.

2) State camp

Torture for the first few days, but it was fun in the end anyway.

And now.....

Sport's Day March Past

Its an interesting experience. Its fun to march in the team, everything is really really sychronized and the formation 'cool' (I have trouble using that word).
The people are nice. Calvin and Isaac are always breaking out into some kind of dance while in baris whenever Grace is busy correcting something. Its hard not to laugh. It can be challenging though, having to memorise all the steps (I keep on mixing up 7 steps with 9 steps). And going to practice while sick is just......sucky. But that's over.

Life is busy, even in the holidays. So many things to do, so little time.

The afternoon session prefect board is awesome. Everyone is like family here, except without the arguing and fights.

St John has become a lot more fun, especially with the form 1's. Some of them really amaze me, and its only the second month. The form 2's are cooperative, regardless of post. Practicing with them during marching meetings is something to look forward to (even if its marching. Tiring, sweaty marching)

And that sums up my life so far this year.

Aaron's vocabulary

Consist primarily of the words:

'Awesome'
'Fun'
'Nice'
'Experience'
'Anyway'
'Well,'

Adam's party was awesome, just saying.