i wonder where they are.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I should really stop quoting random lines out of random songs and putting them as titles. And I should stop using weird-coloured fonts everywhere. It's probably one of the reasons why Wesley thinks blogger sucks compared to wordpress "Blogger is like one big graffiti board", says Wesley. Haha. Anyway, if you're the type of person that gets really bored when reading stuff that's all the same colour then, TOO BAD! Wahahaha. :D
[random interjection]
RED and YELLOW and PINK and GREEN!
PURPLE and ORANGE and BLUE!
I can sing rainbow!
Sing a rainbow!
Sing a rainbow too![end of random interjection]
ANYWAY. Due to popular demand, I shall randomly blog about Wuhan! According to Lincoln, "it's really fun when you get down to it". (Oo how's that for incorporating a quote in a coherent sentence :D I'm so going to top the class for lit again next year!! *smiles to self*). Haha. So anyway, I shall ramble on about one of the activities I'm probably not going to forget, so let's go! :)
get ready for a "long, drab essay"!!This is no longer my blog.
This is.
Wuhan.:)
(ack the suspense is killing you. don't deny it. :D)
Here's a pic
shamelessly taken from
Gabriel's blog. Um, if you're wondering why I couldn't use one of my own pictures, it's probably cos I was taking part in the debate? :) Haha. I was kind of sabo-ed into it, but who cares. I unleashed all sorts of cheem language that was floating around in my sea of vocabulary. Haha. Ooh and you can see me next to Zijie writing my killer question that Kenneth couldn't answer :P Anyway. The motion for the debate was (inserts string of chinese characters which mysteriously metamorphosize into strange squiggles after a few days). Translated into english, it's basically cooperation v. competition, which one induces more progress. Simple enough? Not really.
Haha. To be honest, I wasn't really confident at first. I didn't prepare AT ALL cos I was feeling sick the previous night and went to sleep at 530pm. Yeah, there's no typo error. My host's dad was pretty amused, but I didn't really care. In a land where the sun sets at 4.30 and screws your body clock up, there's only one way to unwind the contorted springs and that's to
sleep. So basically, I didn't prepare anything, and my opponents, Kenneth, Wee Ping, Lincoln and 2 other English Club members from Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong, were like.. exuding airs of extreme confidence, which, to be honest, was quite intimidating. When Lincoln came up to me during lunch and declared "THIS DEBATE IS A WAR AND WHEN YOU LOSE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOLD YOUR HEADS UP HIGH IN HUA SHI YI FU ZHONG AFTER YOU
LOSE", I guess that competitive flare in my got ignited.
Basically the format of the debate required me, the 4th opp speaker (supporting competition) to answer and then ask the a question from/to the 4th prop speaker, which happened to be Kenneth, who happened to know nothing about Marxist-Leninist Societies which we were forced to study during SS, and it's totally ironic that the only time I apply such totally obsolete knowledge is in a debate. -.=. Ok, so Kenneth's question (he confessed that actually Wee Ping thought of it), was to ask for my opinion on the fact that "competitive societies will fail due to individuals with personal agendas".
Ok, so as a lit student, the thing that I do best is coming up with crap that sounds convincing, but has some logic behind it, right? So anyway, I rambled on and on, with my typical "lit-essay" vocab about how "it was extremely unfair and ludicrous to claim that individuals with personal agendas exist only in competitive societies- in fact, there exist such individuals in co-operative societies, such as Marxist-Leninst ones- and it has occured before- implosions of such societies due to individuals with their own personal agendas attempting to break free of the rigidly cooperative social stratification blah blah blah blah." I went on for 1 and a half minutes without stopping :D :D :D I guess that sounded convincing enough cos the whole audience clapped like.. really loud for me, which was slightly touching, and massively confidence-boosting. :)
For my question, I decided to attack one of the China-student's points- she said "competitive societies means that everyone is a cold-blooded killer". Yes, that's a totally ridiculous point that wouldn't have stood anyway, but anyway I decided to counter that example with an extremist one of my own- the only difference was that mine was REAL, and hers was hypothetical. Haha. So anyway, I asked for Kenneth's opinion on
Jonestown which is a co-operative society led by the insanely stupid Jim Jones, and anyway, their utopia ultimately ended with the mass suicide of almost all of the residents.
Ok I'll admit. I thought of that point while Zijie was speaking. Haha. I was initially going to ask for their opinion on a 100% FAKE "AC Nielsen survey" complete with fake quote from "Bill Gates" :D :D :D :D :D, but then I was randomly thought up Jonestown- I watched the documentary about it on Discovery about a week before leaving for Wuhan and realised that was example to raise, so I did. Kenneth couldn't answer. He stood there stumped until his time ran out. The audience clapped like crazy. I felt really bad for Kenneth but I couldn't help laughing with Zijie :P since the whole situation was like.. really amusing. Haha.
The free debate was madness, and I stood up a few times and came up with more cheem words to use on the spot. Our closing speaker was quite rubbishy- his points were totally NOT what we said- clear evidence of a pre-prepared speech xD, but Wee Ping (the other Lit-taker) couldn't come up with enough to come close to saving his team from impending doom. Wahahaha. And Suzie (the blue jacket girl) totally ruined his speech cos she used his quote, so when he came up to say it as a clincher, it was just some crap. Repitition doesn't go well with any judge. Needless to say, we won. :)
I got special mention from Mr Justin Yap! Yay!
Um. I didn't mean to write a novel. Haha. But Lincoln, you're right- it IS fun :D
A surge of randomness at 9:28 PM, Singapore time.
i wonder where they are.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I should really stop quoting random lines out of random songs and putting them as titles. And I should stop using weird-coloured fonts everywhere. It's probably one of the reasons why Wesley thinks blogger sucks compared to wordpress "Blogger is like one big graffiti board", says Wesley. Haha. Anyway, if you're the type of person that gets really bored when reading stuff that's all the same colour then, TOO BAD! Wahahaha. :D
[random interjection]
RED and YELLOW and PINK and GREEN!
PURPLE and ORANGE and BLUE!
I can sing rainbow!
Sing a rainbow!
Sing a rainbow too![end of random interjection]
ANYWAY. Due to popular demand, I shall randomly blog about Wuhan! According to Lincoln, "it's really fun when you get down to it". (Oo how's that for incorporating a quote in a coherent sentence :D I'm so going to top the class for lit again next year!! *smiles to self*). Haha. So anyway, I shall ramble on about one of the activities I'm probably not going to forget, so let's go! :)
get ready for a "long, drab essay"!!This is no longer my blog.
This is.
Wuhan.:)
(ack the suspense is killing you. don't deny it. :D)
Here's a pic
shamelessly taken from
Gabriel's blog. Um, if you're wondering why I couldn't use one of my own pictures, it's probably cos I was taking part in the debate? :) Haha. I was kind of sabo-ed into it, but who cares. I unleashed all sorts of cheem language that was floating around in my sea of vocabulary. Haha. Ooh and you can see me next to Zijie writing my killer question that Kenneth couldn't answer :P Anyway. The motion for the debate was (inserts string of chinese characters which mysteriously metamorphosize into strange squiggles after a few days). Translated into english, it's basically cooperation v. competition, which one induces more progress. Simple enough? Not really.
Haha. To be honest, I wasn't really confident at first. I didn't prepare AT ALL cos I was feeling sick the previous night and went to sleep at 530pm. Yeah, there's no typo error. My host's dad was pretty amused, but I didn't really care. In a land where the sun sets at 4.30 and screws your body clock up, there's only one way to unwind the contorted springs and that's to
sleep. So basically, I didn't prepare anything, and my opponents, Kenneth, Wee Ping, Lincoln and 2 other English Club members from Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong, were like.. exuding airs of extreme confidence, which, to be honest, was quite intimidating. When Lincoln came up to me during lunch and declared "THIS DEBATE IS A WAR AND WHEN YOU LOSE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOLD YOUR HEADS UP HIGH IN HUA SHI YI FU ZHONG AFTER YOU
LOSE", I guess that competitive flare in my got ignited.
Basically the format of the debate required me, the 4th opp speaker (supporting competition) to answer and then ask the a question from/to the 4th prop speaker, which happened to be Kenneth, who happened to know nothing about Marxist-Leninist Societies which we were forced to study during SS, and it's totally ironic that the only time I apply such totally obsolete knowledge is in a debate. -.=. Ok, so Kenneth's question (he confessed that actually Wee Ping thought of it), was to ask for my opinion on the fact that "competitive societies will fail due to individuals with personal agendas".
Ok, so as a lit student, the thing that I do best is coming up with crap that sounds convincing, but has some logic behind it, right? So anyway, I rambled on and on, with my typical "lit-essay" vocab about how "it was extremely unfair and ludicrous to claim that individuals with personal agendas exist only in competitive societies- in fact, there exist such individuals in co-operative societies, such as Marxist-Leninst ones- and it has occured before- implosions of such societies due to individuals with their own personal agendas attempting to break free of the rigidly cooperative social stratification blah blah blah blah." I went on for 1 and a half minutes without stopping :D :D :D I guess that sounded convincing enough cos the whole audience clapped like.. really loud for me, which was slightly touching, and massively confidence-boosting. :)
For my question, I decided to attack one of the China-student's points- she said "competitive societies means that everyone is a cold-blooded killer". Yes, that's a totally ridiculous point that wouldn't have stood anyway, but anyway I decided to counter that example with an extremist one of my own- the only difference was that mine was REAL, and hers was hypothetical. Haha. So anyway, I asked for Kenneth's opinion on
Jonestown which is a co-operative society led by the insanely stupid Jim Jones, and anyway, their utopia ultimately ended with the mass suicide of almost all of the residents.
Ok I'll admit. I thought of that point while Zijie was speaking. Haha. I was initially going to ask for their opinion on a 100% FAKE "AC Nielsen survey" complete with fake quote from "Bill Gates" :D :D :D :D :D, but then I was randomly thought up Jonestown- I watched the documentary about it on Discovery about a week before leaving for Wuhan and realised that was example to raise, so I did. Kenneth couldn't answer. He stood there stumped until his time ran out. The audience clapped like crazy. I felt really bad for Kenneth but I couldn't help laughing with Zijie :P since the whole situation was like.. really amusing. Haha.
The free debate was madness, and I stood up a few times and came up with more cheem words to use on the spot. Our closing speaker was quite rubbishy- his points were totally NOT what we said- clear evidence of a pre-prepared speech xD, but Wee Ping (the other Lit-taker) couldn't come up with enough to come close to saving his team from impending doom. Wahahaha. And Suzie (the blue jacket girl) totally ruined his speech cos she used his quote, so when he came up to say it as a clincher, it was just some crap. Repitition doesn't go well with any judge. Needless to say, we won. :)
I got special mention from Mr Justin Yap! Yay!
Um. I didn't mean to write a novel. Haha. But Lincoln, you're right- it IS fun :D
A surge of randomness at 9:28 PM, Singapore time.
