The pursuit of dreams: May 2009

It was such a hectic day today.. I had the International Understanding day(IU day) for Interact Club members today at Chung Ling. Every year, there's a theme to follow. Last year, it was Europe, the countries. And this year, it is Japan. People might just think of Japan as just a country that creates technological stuff for our own convenience, but it's also a country rich in culture and tradition (although I didn't learn much there, other than origami). Each school had to do a presentation on a culture in Japan, the fashion, traditional games and other things..

Penang Free School had to do a presentation and sketch on the cultures of Japan: the sculptures, the martial arts and calligraphy. Four of us from PFS had to do a sketch on the weapons from Japan, I was doing nunchakus with another guy while another two people were using bokans(wooden katanas). It was fun but painful in the beginning. We only met once on Thursday to plan and practice our act. On Friday, we didn't do anything because we were too lazy.

Just now, I went there at 8.45am to get my attendance for the IU day and the coloured bracelet.. I took the pink one(the only one from my school that did). After the Opening ceremony, they asked us to go into each of our groups according to the colour of our bracelets, there were pink, blue, red and yellow. I was the only one from PFS that took pink and was lonely at first until i met Naddy there, she didn't see me at first so I had to go say HI! to her. She was the only one from SGGS that took pink too. I guess we have the same fate.Haihh..

For the first game, we had to play Bingo but with a slight twist. Instead of numbers, we had to get signatures or names of people with specific characteristics they made up and we can't sign the boxes ourselves. the characteristics are like: guy with pink socks, someone with size 8 shoes, someone with red shoes, girl without socks, girl with I-phone, girl without anklet, tallest girl in the hall, someone who can play drums, someone who can play the guitar, someone who can say "I love you" in Japanese, girl with silver watch, girl with ponytail, girl with braces, guy with necklace, guy who's 180cm tall, girl with make-up, guy with white belt, guy with birthday in March and some other 7 things that I can't possibly remember right now. All we had to get was one line filled with signatures and I was only getting these random signatures here and there, In the end I finally finished up one line and almost a few others, i also had to sign a few other papers because I had size 8 shoes.

The following game was rock, paper, scissors with sushi. 2 people come out, best 2-out-of-3, the winner chooses a sushi for the loser to eat (some of them hav a lot of wasabi and most of them don't), so it was fun watching people crying in disgust towards the dreadful wasabi but there were some lucky people too.

After that, we had the origami lesson. While the other people were busy getting themselves confused, the performers of PFS went out of the hall to practice for a while because our performance was after the origami thing. The time finally came for our performance, we got up on stage and the spotlights focussed on us. It's not fair that there was no music for our performance, the other performances did, why can't ours?:( It's so saddening.. anywho, it started with the bokan and ended up with me throwing my nunchaku away, kicking a guy and catching a bokan thrown in the air to finish off with a stab in his chest..

When it was time for the prize giving ceremony, PFS won best performance thanks to our weapons. After that, there was another performance from Chung Ling with this guy singing so terrible like he had a woodchipper stuffed down his throat that Naddy had to cover her ears and i just put on my headphones and listened away to better sounding songs. Finally lunch was served, I was so hungry that I rushed to wherever they were serving just to find out that it wasn't halal..T_T. . Me, Naddy and her senior had to starve because we couldn't eat anything from there other than drinking the water they gave. naddy went back at 1 because her mom called her, lucky for her. But I had to wait until 1.30 to go back homw and stuff down 1 nasi lemak, 2 roti canai, 1 mango pudding, 1 strawberry yoghurt and 3-4 glasses of water..

It was such a hectic day until I topped it off with playing football with my brother until we got too tired, that I ate some more. .

Screechings and other random things until next time..

Signing out..

p.s.
for references and a story from another persons point of view on this particular IU day, go here..
http://datesmates.blogspot.com/2009/05/international-understanding-day.html

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