Pessimism.

There is gonna be a solar storm in 2012.

Taken from FOX,

"Impacts would be felt on interdependent infrastructures with, for example, potable water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; immediate or eventual loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, transportation, fuel resupply and so on," the report states.

That sounds bad. Especially at 21 years old, the freaking prime of my life. Imagine coming out of National Service to a world of no technology. ZOMG. Thats like crap after crap. And there is this swine flu discovered in Mexico. Something is wrong with this generation. We're like getting all the shit, first trans-national terrorism, then the tsunami, and its best friend the Earthquake came to join the fun. Now like more crap is just waiting to spoil the lives of yet more people!

Yay. Wonderful-ness.

And our Project Work isn't going too well too. I'm only getting Meeting Expectations for both components, which would only give me a C grade. Far from what I want, I must admit. Hmm, I guess I just need to work more closely with my group and help each other a lot more! :)

Ooh, and SpeakEzy is tmr. "Bigger is better." I hope I won't screw it up. Haha.

"How big is seven inches?"

Anglo-Junior College (proposition) versus Victoria College (opposition).

This house believes that censorship is irrelevant in this age of new media

Since the second speaker of AC, I was convinced that the debate was in AC's bag. The AC team were unbelievably convincing, quick with their wits and strong in their attacks throughout the debate, oh, and humorous too. I was expecting both best speaker and victory to go to AC but I got a shock, I think many others too, got a shock when it was announced that VJ got both best speaker and won the debate.

*Sigh*

Not that VJ was bad, but I felt that AC did a better job in convincing the audience with their speeches, and I only got a clear idea of VJ's entire case at the reply speech, which I must say is very well done (finally). But still, I was very surprised to hear that VJ won and not AC. Still, VJ brought up a fatal example, that of the Danish cartoons, that was released in the "old" media, not the new media and I actually expected them to be penalised rather harshly on that since it shows that they might not know their facts all that well. Still, the VJ 2nd speaker managed to clear up the team's case at the reply speech, which I felt was wonderfully done.


The finals seemed to be like a mini-gathering of secondary school friends, I met KS, Shavinn and Arifa. It was kinda weird to see them in other uniforms, and I kinda missed wearing the CTSS uniform. Still, it was fun seeing them again, pity none of them took part in the MIDCs this year.


After the finals, we went for dinner as usual. Estee wasn't around, so suddenly Nick started to talk. A lot more than usual. I wonder why. And he kept "sharing" his lame jokes. Then we started talking about Nick's "BJ" post, and we found out that there is some weird desert on Pastamania's menu called strawberry pone something. That sounds like strawberry porn. Well, at least Nick did think so. Oh, and I was choosing my dinner, so I asked Nick, referring to the pizza, " how big is 7 inches?"

Big mistake.

He gave me a "wtf" look. Until I told him what I was actually referring to. That was the best laugh of the day.

And finally, I found something from Pastamania that doesn't make me feel sick at the last few bites. Hurray!

And why didn't AC win?! :(

Finally.

I enjoyed debate quite a bit today, without competition stress, its quite a different thing going into the DOS room. It was fun during the intensive training period, but this change is fine by me too. We actually got to interact and really talk instead of going, "how much time left?" and "WHERE IS MY SPIRIT AND DEMAND PLEASE?".

I'm thrilled that DOS has finalised that we would be hosting the AJDI, the AJ version of debating invitationals for the secondary school students. We would be kept rather busy preparing for the whole event, but I'm sure I'll have a lot of fun, and the sense of accomplishment upon the end of the event would be tremendous. I really hope to be in the usher and judging committee, where we would probably get a chance to contact adjudicators and rush the teams to their prep venues for impromptu debates, if any.

I really enjoyed debates today, and for the first time, we left be school before sunset.

And for some weird reason, after the onion ring incident in BurgerKing after the quarters match last Saturday, I keep getting reminded of an onion whenever I see Sneha. o.o

And finally, homework stress is over, and all I have left now is to study for the two timed practices this coming Friday.

History scares the hell out of me now.

Literature - Not my forte.

Quote from Vincent.

Write a critical appreciation of blah blah blah...

I can't bloody appreciate literature texts!
Neither can I compare and contrast poems.

*Sigh*

If only I had more economics homework instead of Literature.
Should have taken Chinese Lit.

Bleah.

Life sucks.

JC life is so stressful. Now I wonder if this is really what I want.

I can feel my mind starting to crumble under tiredness and I feel sick everyday, sick of work, sick of rushing work and sick of being sick.

Random.

I was just browsing through the videos in Youtube and I chanced upon this Mandarin song that I used to like a lot.


Support local singers, yeah!

The other day when I went for this poetry writing workshop, this smart guy linked 3 of our assignment poems into this fantastic line.

I feel the fell of Lit homework emerging from the lighthouse.

Brilliant, I tell ya!

Over.

This house would place quotas on the number of women in the elected office.

*Sigh*

We lost. I lost. It was a problem with the set-up again. It seems that every time we lose, something is wrong with the set-up. And unfortunately, that's my duty as proposition first speaker. Maybe I'm just not picking it up fast enough.

What's done is done, I guess. I sort of expected us to go against a tough school this round though, and true to my expectations, we went against ACS(I). It wasn't a big loss at all I think, and we might have won if we didn't make some of the mistakes we did, if I didn't make some of the mistakes I did.

Things was already going wrong at the start of the day. I was almost late when I had to meet the coach since he was fetching me there, then I realised that I forgot to bring my lucky charm, the Daivd A. autograph. My team mate also forgot her lucky necklace too, lol.

Or if, just if we managed to get opposition, we would've won too.

When I went out to deliver my speech, my shoe almost got tangled with some OHP wires on the first step I took, and I almost fell.

The surprising thing was that a himbotic thought ran through my mind that split second.
"Shit, that must have looked so un-glam."

And later in the match, I knocked over a few bottles when I stood up to give POIs and dropped my bottle cap not long after.

Aiyah. Screwed up la.

Kinda disappointed that its the end of the MIDC journey already. I was starting to really enjoy debate and feel that I could actually be a debater.

Still, I'm glad we made it to Top 8.
Not bad for a first-timer, eh?

We had quite a good time with dinner today, and Swensens ice-cream for dessert. It was good i tell you. Cookie tower or something. Must try. :D

Thanks Edwin, Estee, Nick, Sonam, Amreeth and rest who came to support us today! :D