What I did

Havent been blogging for these few weeks for a very simple reason: Too much stuff to do. Everyday, you seems to need to sleep at midnight or work non-stop from 6am to 6pm to clear the pile of homework.

Achievement in Term 2 Week 3:

Best Speaker for "in the" class debate
3rd for VJC IH Quiz
Passed Projects Prelim (lol though it's not our real topic at that time...but it seems we are doing on Biodiesel after all)
Champion for national Translation competition

For past 2 weeks been training for the competition as mentioned. Lol Yong Jie and I and we were actually quite surprised we got into the final round in the first place, as we did not feel we prepared adequately. I mean during the tea reception between the prelim and final rounds, we were discussing how many qns we got correct. So all of us got little more than 30 (Ying JIe got 39 while Zach, our reserve, got 24). It turned out that once you passed the quiz, as in getting more than 30, you are already one of the top since Ying Jie actually got individual 4th!!!

So for the final round right, HCI screwed up the individual round, sorry lor. Subsequently for the jeopardy (is that what you call that?) also a bit screwed.

Thus we did not really narrow the gap so we were in last place. The scoreboard look like this: HCI 30, RI and Chung Cheng 55 and SJI 75. Somehow SJI got this guy damn meng so he sorta answered all the questions.

Then for buzzer, Ying Jie is practically spamming so we eventually climbed to 2nd. Unfortunately, we answered wrongly for the last qns, and was deducted 2 marks, thus surrendering our runner-up position to RI by 1 mark. (SJI 112 Champ, RI 98pts, HCI 97, Chung Cheng 97)

Just thought that it's quite sway that we only got 3rd since I actually know the answer to some questions and it seems Ying Jie didn't hear me or something. But then Ying Jie is quite zai so don't blame him. Oh yah one RI guy thought they get to answer one buzzer rounds qns when it's supposed to be us, and they just shouted out the answer lol. But then considering that HCI didn't get in (or is it never?) even with a damn good team last year, think we did well lah.

Since this is my 1st competition representing the school, felt quite nervous. So totally stone for 1 Russian leader pic (didnt answer at all) luckily Yong Jie also crapped some qns like saying Tony Blair is Foreign Sectretary (it's Jack Straw), making me more relaxed.

All in all quite tyco, dont really know how we got in. But once we got into the final round, we knew we got a chance to win, though it was not to be.

So 1 more stuff to my portfolio, 8 IH CPs. Sorry Miss Sunita, I missed out on the 2 RMUNC meeting due to VJC. Hmm, luckily they did not assign me to that GA4 again. Otherwise damn sian man.

Blogged abt Translation next time.

I still got RMUNC ppt, HRP (long overdue but becos got competition so no time to do) and....