IU Day

Well, I attended Cempaka's IU Day this year. IU Day stands for International Understanding Day. And I don't really have a choice. It was during formal assembly on 1st August, and everyone had to attend it.

It's not that I'm complaining or anything. I get to see the Form 5's dance. It was all kinds of awesome. The other performances were so-so. But I really kesian the Interactors. They didn't earn anything from this year's IU day, well, they didn't earn anything financially la. And there were few schools joining.

AND SMKBBSP JOINED CEMPAKA'S IU DAY!!! Can you even? All kinds of hyped explosions were happening inside me. What chance do you get to have my SMKBBSP peeps over here in Cempaka? Qiang was supposed to come, and so was Alex, but they last minute FFK. Oh well, their loss :) Not bad la. I got to show them around a bit. Now they finally know why I spend so much time in school :)

Here are some photos from the IU day:

Loud Festival 2011

Loud Festival 2011. This was held in Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium. 1 word - AWESOME.

Well the concert started off with a few singers which I don't know, then Soda Green or something :P then a girl, then Cindy something, then Jay Chou.

Although I never heard of most of the songs, I enjoyed myself there. I went with Weng Fai and his sister and her boyfriend. Syok sendiri there :D

The first song of Jay's was Ben Cao Gang Mu, a song which we used during last year's fan dance. We were like "OH MAI GAWD" and danced in our seats :D We so awesome. Took some photos but it looks crappy. Weng Fai's phone took better photos of the concert :P

Here are some :





Was shouting throughout the concert :D too hyped!

Big Splash '11

Yes. The long-awaited event is finally here. BIG SPLASH!!

For those who don't know what Big Splash is, it's kind of a Cempaka Tradition where after they announce the first house cup, the losing house captain will be thrown into the pool by the other 3 house captains. Then after that all graduating seniors will make their final leap into the pool, thus ending the sports house events of the year.

And this year, HARIMAU WON AGAIN!!! 2 consecutive years!! Kinda lucky cause since I got into Cempaka, Harimau won on the 2 years I've been here. Nice.

When then announced the results, some of us form 5 Harimaus were sitting in a circle holding hands and praying :D

Big Splash was epic. I was kena thrown/pushed/tackled into the pool for dunno HOW MANY TIMES! I brought my underwater casing for my camera and so did Farah. Took A LOT of photos and we danced Ultraman :D The swimming coach joined us in the pool. It was really really really really really really fun. We played until break time and went up to shower and continued with the rest of the school day.

Dammit la I love that day. Thanks a lot Farah, Khay Wenn and Lai Kiat for the camera. Thanks a lot Weng Fai for tackling me into the water. Thanks a lot Suwei for asking him to do that. Thanks a lot coach for taking our photos. Thanks a lot Ding and Vincent for hogging the girls' shower. Thanks a lot fellow Harimau members. Thanks a lot fellow SELARIMAU members. I love you guys, to the maximum.

FHC '11

FHC presentation is tomorrow. GAN JEONG des.

FHC stands for First House Cup, by the way. We definitely didn't have this in SMKBBSP. Well, we have, but it's just a crammy old trophy which no one bothers to win it. The only way to win trophy was "do well in Sports Day" whereas in Cempaka, you'll have to conquer Swimming Gala, Games Carnival, Sports Day, Interhouse Dance, Interhouse Debate, Interhouse Quiz and CeMA to get a solid leading spot. So far, Harimaus won in the Interhouse Debate and Sports Day. I'm not sure of our standings now, but I am proud to say I am a Harimau, no matter what is the result.

I regret for not contributing much for Harimau earlier this year, especially in Swimming Gala. I apologize for not helping out at the Harimau Booth or participating in the SFA for swimming gala.

But I hope I did contribute for Sports Day and Games Carnival as well as the SFA Games Carnival. I did my best to help Harimau, although it wasn't much.

Anyways, last week was the SFA Games Carnival. Everyone is required to play 4 sports, Football, Netball, Frisbee and Handball. Football was on Monday 18th July and our first match was against Beruang. Oh Joy. They won us, 1-0. Oh well, we only had four players and we had to play for the whole 15 minutes, plus we've never played football before. 1-0 is still good la. On tuesday we played against Helang and we won 1-0, with Farah kic
king the winning point. BUT THEN, Helang misunderstood and put in 1 less member to the game and demanded a rematch. Yes, we were all pissed at this. What to do? Rematch lo. Next day was Netball, against Beruang for the 1st match. We won them 6-4, and I did 3 of the shots!! Helang and Seladang were on the next day, where we lost to Helang 6-2 and we won Seladang 6-0 I think. Then Frisbee was on the next day. They reduced the time for the game and we only played for the 1st half. We won beruang, 3-0. I forgot our score with Helang but we won Seladang. Handball was on Saturday. We tied with Beruang 0-0 but lost to Helang. We won Seladangs again, with Ana making her winning shot. After that was EPIC. We watched the Selarimau match in Handball and Netball, where Harimau boys won both. Handball was entertaining, but Netball was an absolute Comedy.

There's something about the Harimau boys which makes them so funny. First, Navian did an own goal for Soccer. Then, Weng Fai was jumping with one foot holding the handball for several times then was considered "travelling". AND THEN the NETBALL GAME. Ching Yong was doing Volleyball and slapping the ball twice in a row. I got the video from Farah and I'm gonna watch it whenever I feel emo :D

I love Selarimau. Mostly because Su and Amandy and Yoon is in Seladang. So I enjoyed most of our matches together. It was always a friendly match and we always HUG each other when we finished the game, unlike with SOME houses, where they don't even want a handshake with you. It's called sportsmanship, people. Learn it up, seriously.

Today was the Interhouse Quiz and CeMA. I was involved in the CeMA for the tear jerker. Bryan was my son, Navian was Bryan's classmate and Weng Fai was the "rapist". I was the *wait for it* Mom At Nineteen. The introduction to the movie was....VERY INTERESTING. It'll be on youtube soon, and I'm gonna get it from Jiaying. A million thanks to everyone in the iMovie and Jiaying, our editor and director and cinematographer. I was in the Physical Challenge for the quiz today, along with Farah, Chin Yew, Weng Fai, Ching Yong, Jit Kian, Naqeeb and Amanda. We were required to compose lyrics related to our house with a song from seussical and choreograph a dance for it. It had to be 1 minute long and we were only given 30 minutes to prepare for it. It was fun, a bit fail, but FUN. We got 3/5 for dance and 3/5 for lyrics. Okay la, not bad :)

Here are some of the photos, well, camwhore photos we took during Maths Olympiad, Interhouse Debate, Quiz and SFA.

Selarimau friendship

We went for Seussical this year too. FYI Seussical is this year's Cempaka Box Office Production. I personally think that BatB was better. There were more jokes and dialogues in BatB. Nonetheless, I enjoyed myself there. It felt nice to see the orchestra people again and looking at their fully signed hands made me realize how much I miss BatB. I went for the finale night. They did 2 music videos this year. TWO!! One was Raise Your Glass, which I am damn jealous about, and another was Fireworks. FIREWORKS WAS DAMMMMN AWESOME!!! They did the reverse trick and it was. AMAZING. We had the most fun before the show, when we ran around on the field. It was nice, no one was around and I get to release some stress and shout a bit. Photos are on the way.








Julian will be leaving to UK this september and Emma will be leaving for Perth forever. I will miss you guys A LOT please remember us. I love you 2.

UPDATES

I KNOW.

It's been like a century since I've posted anything up here. Well finally today I feel like writing down EVERYTHING (almost) and so, yeah..

Let's see now, my last post was about Games Carnival. So now I'll talk about INTERHOUSE DANCE :)

INTERHOUSE DANCE '11, 29th April.

They canceled off cheerleading this year and replaced with interhouse dance competition. I was a bit disappointed because I was thinking of trying out cheerleading. Oh well. We trained HARD for this dance. We danced to the song Miss Independant and Dead & Gone. For the video, click here. The practices were the best part of this. Our dancers include :

• Phoebe and Weng Fai
• Farah and Ching Yong
• Syazana and Chin Yew
• Najiha and Bryan
• Me and Navian

Practice is always funny. Ching Yong doing his dead fish. Bryan and Navian doing the Ninja Run. Everyone of us doing the Harimau "Scooby Dooby Doo" move. Saying DES to every sentence. Fooling around trying to figure out the dance steps. And Domino's during 1 of the practice :D Always rushing to book the studio before the other houses do. The most epic practice was when we were stuck in the small practice room in CPAC because the Dance Studio 1 was taken by Seladangs. They were spamming the "ENJOOOOOOOOOOY" in the beginning of the song. And dancing to the song Begging. IT WAS THE BEST! We got 2nd in our category, Seladang 3rd and Beruang 1st. Personally, I think Helang did a VERY VERY GOOD JOB. I loved their dance. I reached school around 6.30? I forgot it was 5.30 or 6.30. I think it's 6.30am. Booked the North Hall for a short practice and went to get ready. It was a good day :) We went up on the stage while the judges were calculating the marks and danced like mad. The pros were doing their popping, locking or breaking or whatever and we were actually just watching as audience. Then we, the Harimau Category 3, decided to go up and own them with our "Scooby Doo" dance. When we got up, about everyone from category 3 Cheras was there, except for Suwei and Amandy cause they were wearing heels. WE DID THE ULTRAMAN DANCE ON STAGE AND WE TOTALLY OWNED IT. Everyone was following our dance. EVERYONE. WE OWN YOU POPPING LOCKING BREAKING. Had my spot put later after the dance competition and Tug of war was on the same day too. We had a Form 5s Tug Of War after everything ended. Science vs Commerce. It was unfair. Commerce was full of big people and Science has more skinny people. And so we beat them by our strategy. When they pull, we let go. When they fall down, we pick up the rope and PULL. Damn we're awesome. More photo sessions after that. I miss that day :(

Oh and lastly, a BIG thanks for Phoebe and Weng Fai for choreographing the awesome dance. And also to NAVIAN, my dance partner :D We rock, partner.

SPORTS DAY '11, 30th April

This year it was held in Bukit Jalil MSN Stadium. I am SO GLAD 'cause it's like 5 minutes from my house. Means I don't have to go to school early like last year to get to the stadium. Last year was in UPM (or UKM, I forgot). This year, well, because of the sports for all, everyone has to go for every field event during sports rehearsal. We get 2 points for every event IF we pass the minimum requirement. I passed everything except for running. I HATE RUNNING!! Okay so this year I'm kinda the co-captain for March Pass. I love my top hat :D Only me and Jiaying wore a top hat. And my wand was golden. A-W-E-S-O-M-E. My cape was black too. We got 3rd for March Pass, WHICH WAS A BIG SURPRISE!!! We made a mess cause of the confetti and I thought we were gonna get penalized till we have negative marks. Harimaus got 1st overall for Sports Day :) Oh and we had a picnic IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRACK before they announced the results. We celebrated by dancing Ultraman Dance in the middle of the field. It was EPIC. After that I had a small BBQ at my house, a kind of house warming? Cause I didn't invite any Cempakans over during the house warming, so I made this BBQ a house warming for them. Amanda didn't come. It was fun. Most of them bathe at my house. It drizzled a bit but then it stopped just in time for photos. Ding and Suwei slept over at my house, and so did Khay Wenn. We chatted till 3am and went up to my room. OH YEAH and Weng Fai brought the Tequila he and Suwei bought when they went Phuket for the diving. Half of the bottle was finished that night. The bottle is still with me, though. We walked to Mamak for breakfast the next day.

FAI'S BIRTHDAY, 13th May.

His birthday is actually 15th of May, but because our VIP, Chan Loch Yeen, was going to China on 14th, we had to make it on a Friday. We went to Mid Valley to celebrate his birthday. Dinner at TGIF. Me, my bro, Qian Er, Fai and Lochy waited for May Shuen but then she was so late, we had to finish everything and just meet her up for the movie. Fai was quite high that day. He was shouting a lot. Finally we have a full family portrait. IN POLAROID. There was another table celebrating a birthday and the TGIF staff were doing their typical birthday thingy. Fai was like "Don't you dare do that to me". But then, after he said that, the TGIF staff took out the birthday cake and he was COMPLETELY STUNNED. The lady was like, Oh then you must be the birthday boy. Fai was forced to shout "HEY EVERYONE, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY" to the whole restaurant and if he failed to do so, he has to stand on the chair throughout the whole celebration. He got all blushed up like a tomato. Damn funny, I tell you. We laughed till our stomachs hurt. Was so full, we had a hard time finishing up the cake. We went for THOR later, and it was a super show. I NEED A HORSE! Fetched Lochy back and on the way back Shuen called and said she needed the ride home, and so my bro U-turned back to fetch her. The guard at Lochy's house was being, I dunno, LC? He was gonna hit the Van driver before us. Made the traffic stuck because of him. Stupid, wasted like 10 minutes waiting for them to settle their problem. By the time we reached home, it was already midnight.

Okay so after that there's nothing much, except for a bit of drama in school. Mid-year was dreadful. It was the first time EVER I studied so hard for an exam. I kinda lost it the night before Bio. Was feeling so stressed and tired, mostly because of the Confined Water Training for diving. I was like studying till late night, WITHOUT nagging from my parents. I don't know what got to me. I was crazy. Oh and 21st May was Suwei's Party :) The first party I went in Cempaka. Her birthday was combined with Suli's birthday and her elder sis's farewell. I wasn't feeling well during the party and was kind of having a hard time. I don't remember much from it.

SUWEI'S BIRTHDAY, 27th May.

Suwei's Birthday :) Last day of Mid-year. I only have Maths paper 1 and they have Accounts that day too. I finished up the video while they were having accounts. Showed it during Lunch in CLASS with the projector. Was a bit of a fail surprise cause she saw it before we showed it. We went to Mid Valley after school, STRAIGHT after school. Went for Yogi Tree, then Bowling, then Sushi Zanmai, then Movie. Watched THOR (again). Suwei had a "cramping sensation". She had leg cramps when we played bowling, and when we walked to the toilet. She just fell on the floor and there we were, massaging her at the toilet entrance. Vincy, Bling, Zhung Faye and Weng Fai came to her rescue later and Weng Fai stretched and massaged her at the FEMALE WASHROOM ENTRANCE. It was weird, no doubt. And every single person that passed by was staring at us with the "what the f***" look. Oh well, at least it's a memorable day for Suwei :) Happy Birthday again, dear :)

28th - 30th May SILVER DIVING EXPEDITION TO PULAU PERHENTIAN.

Suwei and Weng Fai was supposed to join this expedition. But then the both of them couldn't make it, so it was only me and my buddy, Khay Wenn (aka Bling). Xiong went on this trip, too. It was nice. We stayed in Flora Bay Resort. My roommate was Le Faye. Our instructor was Ms Sabriya. For the both nights, Bling and I walked down the beach to get reception and we called our parents and Suwei. We talked on the loudspeaker with Suwei for more than an hour. The stars were amazing. Bling was fiddling with his camera for the whole 2-3 hours on the beach. A fish bit me when I was diving. We saw sharks, stingray, box pufferfish and more. Bling and I took A LOT of photos, to make the both of them jealous. And so we got our license :) "You are now talking to a certified open water diver". The last dive was with Bling, MY BUDDY! Took a lot of pictures and we did the ULTRAMAN DANCE underwater. How cool are we..? Camwhore underwater. How cool are we..? The snorkle test was seriously sickening. I puked, literally. They mixed, what, chocolate milk with veggies and fruits with chilli sauce with pepper with coca-cola and I don't know what else. It was BAD. They poured all over and my hair caught the liquid. Went back and showered IMMEDIATELY. We bought chocolates as souvenirs for our friends back in school.

AND NOW..

On Thursday (2nd June) I got my letter. My AFS letter for the interview. I literally SCREAMED. I thought they weren't gonna entertain my form. It was incomplete and when we took the left out form to the office, I thought they were just gonna put it aside. I was scheduled for 10th of June in SMK (P) Pudu. I cried on the phone when I was talking to Vincy and Amandy. I was laughing, laughing then I cried. FIRST TIME, tears of joy. Weng Fai got his letter the next day, but he was scheduled for Tuesday, in Shah Alam. And then later I got ANOTHER letter saying that I have to go for the interview on Tuesday in Shah Alam, too. Apparently my name was in both namelist but I have to go according to the school address. You couldn't believe how nervous I was with this and stressed, too.

Monday (7th June) We went Shangri-la for the prom thing. But in the morning I went to school to see Pn.Aimi but she wasn't around, so picked up Vincy and went to Pavilion. Ate, walked around and then sat in Snowflakes. Updating each other about things in school and Bling arrived. Went to EAT again, and then just window shopped. We spent quite some time in the DC superheroes shop. After that we walked to Shangri-la and met Ding, Ching Yong and Jit Kian on the way. We reached Shangri-la JUST IN TIME. After discussing, Zi Ling's mom belanja-ed us in the pastry shop in Shangri-la. THANKS AGAIN, AUNTIE!! Went home while discussing the interview thingy with Weng Fai, and I was so tired, I off-ed everything by 9.30pm. Slept around 10.30pm or something.

THE NEXT MORNING.

8th June, 2011. The Day.

Met up with Weng Fai there. The place was Jabatan Pelajaran Selangor or something. We met Sammy, who is also from Cempaka, but in international, there. I met E Hong there too. Apparently he signed up for 8 weeks in Italy. The wait before the interview was FUN. There was no sign of nervousness actually. The AFS volunteers made it so relaxed and fun. We played games and got to know almost everyone there. The epic one was "No water in toilet, grab your toilet tissue first" and we were supposed to tell 1 thing about ourselves for every tissue we took. Then after that was the funky chicken, then we were separated into 5 groups. My group leader was Ismael (aka Izzy). He went to Egypt for the year program 2 years back. He told us everything we kind of need to know if we get selected. He spoke a few arabic sentence to us, too. He's funny, and looks like Kev Jumba. My interview was kind of a disaster, but....AIHHH... It's over already, don't wanna think about it too much..We played the EGG throwing thing like we did back in form 3 after PMR. Wrapped it in balloon and newpapers and masking tape, and threw it. If it didn't break, then we win. But ours broke, unfortunately. Had to do the Mississippi dance in front of everyone. After that was the drawing thing. Then after that was a Q & A session. Weng Fai drove to the mamak after it ended, and my mom joined us there. When we finished eating, we saw the group of AFS Volunteers pulling up. Izzy and Nicholas were asking "Are you 2 siblings?" and we just played along and said yes. HAHA.

Wednesday was my undang test, FAILED IT. 40/50.

Thursday, which is today. Went to Yih Herng's house with Yoon Teen to do the BM thing. His house is HUGE. The BM thing was a bit of a fail. But, okay la, can survive la.

Games Carnival '11

The last week of March till the first week of April. Games Carnival '11.

I signed up for Table Tennis, Softball and Frisbee.

The schedule goes like this:

On Sunday midnight, I got a phone call asking me to go for tennis because there was not enough players, and I have to just show up so we don't have to forfeit the match. And so, I went for tennis on Monday with no experience whatsoever. I've never even touched a tennis racquet before and I'm expected to play. First match was with Seladang and I was in girls doubles with Savira. We lost =P, but overall we won Seladang and had to face Helang in the finals. We kinda forfeited the match to Helang 'cause we had to walkover my match (my partner went home ==), but 2nd place is much much much better than I expected. I thought we would get last.

I didn't play anything on Tuesday, just cheer, and cheer, and cheer, and lepak. Went to the art gallery and got paint on wrist which looked like I just attempted suicide =P managed to fool A LOT of people.

Played table tennis on Wednesday. We won Beruang in the first match and had to face Seladang in finals. I was playing 1st Single and 2nd Double. I played against Moon in the finals and it was an exciting game. She won the deuce on the first game, and I won 11-9 on the second game, and she won the deuce on the third game. We lost in the 2nd Single and 1st Double. Had softball training after school which was quite nice.

Played softball on Thursday. It was fun, but we lost in the first game. We lost to Beruang. We were really disappointed but at least we won Helang for the 3rd place. The winning point was score by Jiha, where she caught the ball and the whole Helang team was out. Navian belanja-ed us drinks after that.

Played frisbee on Friday. Was against Helang in the first game but we lost. We had to face Seladangs for 3rd place and I get to play against Su and Amandy. HAHAH it was the funniest game. Amanda was like "CHENG I BLOCK YOU" and I said "I don't let you block" and ran away. We won them fair and square. It was a nice match and we were hugging after the game. We cheered for Helang in the finals. All three houses supported Helang and not Beruang. After the game, when it's almost 3.30pm, everyone splashed water around and I was splashed by Farah. I was just passing by and she just splashed water on me. Water fight =P got my whole body wet. Hugged a lot of people just to make them wet too =)

When I got home on Friday, I found out that I'm actually playing chess on Saturday. Ish. So, Saturday I had to wear formal attired to go to school and play chess. I got 2 checkmates, once against Helang and Beruang. It was a draw between me and Yannie. Got bronze for the game.

I got super darker this GC. I love it and honestly I became friends with a lot of people =) Sports ftw.

My birthday

1st of March 1994. The day someone awesome was born.

FYI, I'm talking about ME, not Justin Bieber. I found out that I just happen to be born on the same day as Justin Bieber. *shocking*

Anyways.

I won't say this is the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER, although it is, but I feel that it has no point saying this. Every year I quote the same thing. So I'll just say, it is ONE OF THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER.

Seriously.

28th February, I had lunch in KFC with my ex-schoolmates. Ying Fang, Mindy, Yi Pei, Alex, Qiang, Chong Yann, Baby, Hiap Shang, Xiang Hui, Ah Blur, Yuen Sum, Boon, Wen Chung, Wuan Di, Sue Yee, Chee Keen, Yeung Ang came for the lunch/small party. It was funny looking at a bunch of SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD boys playing on the playground. I received a card, with all of 5H's student's signature on it, and I LOVE it. I also received a couple of presents from Mindy and Ying Fang and Yi Pei. The cake was nice too, but I didn't get to eat it. Funny, right? xD We had lunch for FIVE hours, and within the FIVE hours, we were talking about scenarios and incidents that happened since form 1. Oh, I love them so darn much. Thank you guys for everything.

1st March, the Official day. Received a lot of birthday wishes, and few of my friends were repeating and I appreciate it. Went to school early in the morning with the van and Jiaying remembered my birthday! Was really surprised. After that went to class, and I was rushing Chemistry notes. Suddenly the whole class started singing Happy Birthday to me, Wei Kei's idea. I had totally NO IDEA. I was so touched by it. WMD was that day and I saw BOTOX FACE =D Thank you BOTOX FACE XIN LI for the silly bands =D They're gonna be my good luck bans now. Lunch time, something fishy happened. Suwei was suddenly forcing me down to the canteen, saying she was unusually HUNGRY that day. Apparently, they had a surprise for me. There was cake and a present. A WONDERFUL present, I might add. The cake was Tiramisu, which was quite delicious. The present, oh my goodness. Suwei and Amandy had almost everyone I knew in form 5 to write down birthday wishes to me on a piece of small card and stalked my facebook for my photos then printed them out. They put everything in a box and it was a Birthday Memory box. I almost cried. This, was the first time, my birthday was so given attention. I am seriously touched. I didn't read the cards in school cause I WILL cry out. So I read them in the van, where almost everyone is asleep, 'cept for Jiaying. Was reading and reading, suddenly saw an unexpected wish. Oh My God, the troubles Suwei, Amandy and Vincy went through to get THAT wish for me. My love for them is multiplied by 100 now.

Thank you everyone for the wish, thank you SMKBBSP friends for treating me as part of the family although I left, and thank you Suwei and Amandy and Wei Kei for the awesome surprise.

All my love to you =D