Hola!
Before I begin, fun fact, exactly 3 years ago on the same date (9th Apr), I accompanied Syuh to audition for Bahas just to escape from CCA.
I had no interest whatsoever, partly because my formal Malay was pretty rusty after months of not using it properly.
Excuses eh, but true sia hahahah embarassing.
Since Syuh was one of the last few to audition, the teacher saw me and told me to "just audition for fun" and I of course just did it.
According to my FB memories, the cikgu gave me a word- Kuasa, and I had to debate about it.
Gave up trying to recall my vocabulary and I requested to speak in English...
Speaking in English to represent a Malay debate team, I somehow got in.
Hahaha, funny how fate works!
So, Bahas 4PM 2016 peringkat sekolah menengah (you have no idea how many times I repeated this line today) is officially over!
First of all, relieved, estatic but sad of course!
Always bittersweet to end a bahas season, especially since I am more involved this time round and that one of the pembahas is actually someone I know hahahaha.
Ultimately, I thank god for a team of committee that covers up each other's weaknesses and taps on another's strengths, simply to reach for a common goal and in the name of friendship!
Can't thank the team enough for making each session an enjoyable and dare I say- a pretty smooth sailing one.
Alhamdulillah!
Deyi emerged as champion with a margin of about 2.
And so Anglo chinese won 2nd place!
Ambas están bien!
I'm gonna miss disturbing the debators before, during and after each matches hahaha.
Who ask them to be so disturbable!
The great Boby won overall best speaker, which is calculated by the cumulation of individual marks throughout the whole series.
And Tatyana can say she won best speaker for all the 4 stages; preliminaries, quarters, semis AND finals.
Pretty hardcore if you ask me!
As for today, i'm extra impressed with both the teams' second speakers; Ain (Deyi) and Rishi (ACS).
They really upped their games and performed well!
Maisarah and Petrick's chillness gave the competition a good balance of fiesty, relaxed and sarcastic debators.
Personally- oh ya did I mention I emceed for the first time?
Hahaha I did!
Thankfully kak falah assigned Tamlikhaa the pengerusi to assist me towards the ending!
Honestly impressed with his abilities, such a natural hahaha.
I still remember the day I was sitting in the 4PM meeting room keying in the contestant names, trying to comprehend how long their names could get hahaha.
Meetings after meetings ensued, including preparation for the launching of akademi bahas, and especially, the preliminaries which was held 2 days in a row.
During the launch I got to see my own vision come true, of course with the help of everyone else.
Taklimat and bengkel bahas afterwards saw me getting to meet and interact with the mostly-to-be debators for the first time!
Some of them were so candid, and some were pretty shy and nervous, and I vividly remember Rishi mentioning that it was his first time debating in Malay.
After that tiring day, we went back to 4PM for an ice cream party- the start of our almost-weekly routine.
So while the teams worked hard preparing their points, we were busy doing plannings and preparing logistics.
To say thank you is the least I can do to show my appreciation.
To the ultimate backbones, staff 4PM Zara, Wani, Shamini.
Chaqif, Iffah, Aisyah.
Orang2 kuat Akademi bahas especially Pengerusis; Ustaz Azri and Atiqah, and also Kak falah.
To my favourite teammates I was forced to work with, Shabana Hamimah Syuhadah Asyraf, and rakan seperjuangan Iman & Shaf.
Volunteers who willingly came down to help out, yall are one of us ok, you're always welcome!
Now, time to work on the tertiary series!
Best of luck to all teams competing, see you at perkampungan in sha allah!
And I regret wearing the new boots I bought.
Aish the kind of pain that wont go away in 1 or 2 days.
I'm hoping for the best.
After bahas went straight to Punggol for Mak yah's birthday!
Fed with great food as usual hahahah.
Was so tired but 10 min power napped and then I felt all better.
Left a little after 9pm to go to Ehub and meet the rest for bowling.
Forced yana who just got home from NPCC to join us (she initially didnt want to because tired + didnt know I was coming muehehe)
Even though we were super high on bahas I still won the game lah hahahahaha.
Don't really like the bowling alley there mehh.
Oh oh after that while waiting for the adults to finish their games STYLO had our own debate session HAHAHA.
Me, Yana and Shasha as pencadang and Ika, Wana and Natasha as penyanggah with the mauduk "Pemerintah Singapura memanjakan rakyatnya"
And so ensued a mixed languaged, made up facted, continuous-celahans debate session.
Literally they were pretty good despite the loserness!
Post bahas syndrome affects even the audience eh hahaha nonsense.
Reached home a lil after 2am and finally got to rest after the fully social, tiring but extremely fun day.
Adeu ^^
ps mal foto pero es todo lo que tengo por ahora.
