"... And i hereby stand to reaffirm today's motion that giving is better than receiving... DOUBLE EXCLAMATION MARK, NO STRINGS ATTACHED!! THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH...!!" truly well said i must say... wondering what in the name of *insert proper name* am i talking about...? that, my dear readers, is the ending line of the debate finals i watched today in school which was presented by the third speaker of the governing team... debate again i hear you say...? yup... this mock debate was in conjunction with the English Language Week... as this is a mock debate, i repeat, MOCK debate, some of the real debating rules are omitted... and yes, i was part of it... i didn't want to join the debate actually... but since my MUET teacher who is one of the teachers in charge HAND PICKED me and 2 of my friends to join, what can i say...? as it was a mock debate, some of the titles are hilarious.. my motion was 'Cows are better than goats'... "huh...?" was my first reaction... i kept telling myself, "how the hell are we supposed to debate on COWS AND GOATS...??!!" turns out, it's POSSIBLE... *gasp* i did some research online, and i found a lot of facts about cows and goats... oh yea... i forgot to mention, my team is the opposition... meaning we support the goats... *dodging weird looks* research show that goats are very useful... i won't go into the details... my team's initial opponent was actually a upper 6 team from the biology stream... but at the last minute, they pulled out because the lower forms wanted to join... well... all i can say is, "NOOBS~~!"
so my team's new opponent is a group consisting of 2 form 3 students and a form 4 student... to those of you laughing at the fact that my team which consists of 3 form 6 speakers facing 3 lower form speakers and how easy my team would crush them, you are very, VERY WRONG... my opponents were good... and then, the debate started... me being the second speaker means rebutting the governing team's first speaker point and presenting 2 other points to reaffirm my team's case... having absolutely no experience in debating, i was shaking during my presentation... well, to cut short, my team LOST... why...? the invigilator said that both the governing and opposing teams have their strengths and weaknesses but they are vastly different... as it was a mock debate, spontaneity was one of the factors that was considered in the evaluation... so my team lost based on that point... but knowing roughly how a real debate goes, spontaneity was not considered by my team... simply because we must state our source of information in a debate... not having told that in a mock debate that stating the source of information was NOT required, my team screwed up... but all in all, we did pretty good considering that we did not have any debating experience... my team actually didn't want to win anyway because next week is the monthly test... so we need time to study and not do debate research...
today i watched the debate semi-finals and finals... the semis was FANTASTIC... simply because both the teams consisted of school debaters... the governing team had 2 school team debaters while the opposition consisted of 1 school team debater and 1 ex-school team debater (she represented her school in debating before... yes, she's a form 6 student...)... the motion was tomato is a vegetable... *gasp!!* why i was wowed by the debate... watching the debaters pitting words as their best weapon, loads of insults, condemning and 'bombing' was used... the rebuts were killers... the insults were downright degrading... the use of words made me listen more attentively... for once in my life, i see people going public with insults and it's damn right legal..!! O.O to those interested to know what the insults were, you can P.M me PERSONALLY... i'm not revealing anything here... moving on to the finals... wasn't as exciting as the semis, but quite good i must say... the motion was 'Giving is better than receiving'... again, the skill of using words was put to use... i will not elaborate further as i see no point to do so... feeling a lil' suspense is it...? =) having said all that, i am now feeling very, very much intrigued and wanting to go for more debates; whether as a spectator or a debater... it is exciting, adrenaline-pumping and downright fun...! doing research may be a bit wee too stressing and crappy, but the end result is damn right worth every ounce of effort put in... having said that, i'm have already requested to have more in-class debates and my MUET teacher agreed... hehe... let the fun begin...!
-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-ah yes... i wanted to blog about this but i kinda forgot... so here it is... on the 1st of april a.k.a international i-prank-you-with-harmless-pranks-and-get-away-with-it day (i made that up... hehe...) a.k.a april fool's day, i set a personal record for pranking the most people in a single prank... =) quite an achievement i must say... i never before thought i will be able to do so but... i stand corrected... okay... here is how it goes... as some of you might know, i hold a very *insert proper word here* post in the prefectorial board... so, when i woke up, got myself prepared and was on the way to school, i noticed it was raining (durh... who can be blind to rain...?)... feeling very, extremely happy that there will be no morning assembly, my happiness was cut short when i reached school because it stopped raining...!! *ah... wtf...!!* so i went to see teacher to confirm whether morning assembly will still be carried out or not... thankfully, she said no... as i took the microphone and headed to the assembly point where all the prefects have their prefects morning assembly, i thought of the pranking plan... i was asked whether will there be assembly for the students before i went to see the teacher... so i told them there will be assembly... just as the prefect in charge made the announcement, i heard "ah... what...?", "no...~", and many faces frowning... i smiled to myself as this prank already is working... just as the prefects were about to be adjourned, i said, "wait... before you guys go... there will be NO assembly... april fools...!! compliments from the assembly department... hahaha...!!"
then came the responses, "what...?!!", "yang hong...!!", "what the..." i could see the relieve and slight what-the-hell-he-pranked-us signs on their faces... the best response was from my friend... she is very adorable... i heard from her that she was practically SINGING on the way to school so that if would continue to rain...!! *laughs and falls of chair* her response was like the loudest among all the prefects i was told... hahaha... oh well... this could well be my last major prank... till then... have a nice day... =)
