I bought a book here in Switzerland recently. The Hunger Games.

Well honestly, I wanted to watch the movie. I wanted to watch because of Josh Hutcherson. He's the kid from Little Manhattan. He's the elder brother in Zathura. He's the short little brother in RV. He's the 13 year old kid who lost his father in Journey to the Center of the Earth. He's the best friend anyone could have in Bridge to Terrabithia.

Yes. That's him.

But when I started reading the book, I couldn't stop. I read finish the whole book in just 1 night. No skipping pages, no reading between the lines. I read the whole story, from start to end.

I forgot how much fun it was to read a book till on Saturday, the day I bought the book. I read, and read, and projected the movie in my head. I could feel the fear, the sorrow of the main character, Katniss, when her sister was chosen to be tribute for the Hunger Games, and her bravery, for volunteering and taking her sister's place. The suffering she had to go through, the cuts and bruises, dehydration and all during the Games.

And I start to think. What happens if there really is a Hunger Games, and I was chosen.

I couldn't be as brave as Katniss. I couldn't hunt like she can. I don't have the strength, physically and mentally like her. I couldn't even stand to see my own bruises, let alone helping Peeta to stitch up his severe cut on his thigh. I wasn't as smart as her, and as tough as her in surviving.

But, she's inspired me.

No matter how hard life gets, you still have to try your best to survive. Plan A doesn't work, go for Plan B. If you're not dead, there's a reason why. And you have to fight, fight till the end, and you will know the reason. Sometimes in life, there will be nobody there to help you, but that doesn't mean the end. You are the only person who can help yourself.

I admire Katniss' strong determination and her love and caring for her people, sister and Rue. She tried to win the games, not for herself, but for them both. Winning so she could go back and give her district a better life. Winning so Rue could be avenged. Her intelligence has also saved her and Peeta's life. She tried to suicide, together with Peeta, because in the last minute they announced that there can only be 1 winner, instead of 2 winners from the same district, which was a rule they made halfway through the game. But in her mind, she knew. She knew the Capitol would not have allowed them to die, cause there MUST be 1 winner. So before they both swallowed the poison berry, the Gamemaker announced them both winners.

Peeta, on the other hand, oh my god. I couldn't describe him. I want a Peeta for myself. Just like I want a Jesse de Silva. Ugh these books are creating dream guys for me.

House keeping!!

I haven't been updating much ><

So many things have happened since I last updated on Bronze Expedition.

I'm really tired now, but this is my latest update.

A new blog for my experiences in Switz.

Here you go. Click ME.

Brushing up on..

Okay it's been a month since my last update in this blog. Was busy with SPM trials and all. Can you imagine, for 4 continuous weeks, about 3 papers a day, with only around 1 and a half hour of rest altogether in 1 day? It was exhausting. Cempaka Cheras had to take the JPS paper right after the Cempaka Trials whereas the D'sara students only had to take the Cempaka trials.

So yeah, here goes. The first week of Cempaka trials, I skipped Physics cause I had FOOD POISONING :) And I passed my driving's test. I can drive now, btw :) Friday was Malaysia Day. I went to Mid Valley to study with Nick and Jian Yong. Nice to see them after so long. I went for movies later on. City on Fire. The show was okay, but it didn't show the real history. Oh well..

The 2nd week, we took our exams in the exam hall. All 4 classes combined and it was better than sitting in the classroom. I could feel the "teamwork". The last day of Cempaka trials, Suwei and I went to Ding's house and went to Wong Kok later to celebrate his belated birthday. And we watched Abduction. Suwei found out that I got my license that day.

The epic story about my driving license. It was quite fail, too. I told everyone that my license got revoked because I paid rasuah for the test. The JPPJ people raided my driving school the day I took my driving test and caught me. In the end they didn't allow me to take the driving test and revoked my L license. I told this to almost everyone and was planning to surprise them when I drive to school one day and park next to their car. But then, Amanda was the first to know about it, then Weng Fai, which I told him in Mid Valley, then Ding, through skype, then Suwei. Suwei was looking really tired that day and she said she was exhausted to drive. So I offered to drive her car and she was giving me the "are you okay?" look. She "attempted" to comfort me by saying "I let you drive around Ding's house area" and I just told her I got my license already and have been driving to school for the past few days. Oh well, surprise ruined. At Wong Kok, Ka Ho found out also. Surprise seriously ruined.

The next day was Kaleidoscope. I was too lazy to go and stayed home to rot. Monday was the school trip to Hulu Langat for the Fakir Miskin project. It was my first day to drive to school alone. The trip was practically van rides around a few houses, passing them the donated goods, and leave for the next house. In my van, there's Suwei, Yoon Teen, Zi Ling, Wei Kei, Ca Mun, Moon, Joan, Pei Yi, Weng Fai, Chin Yew and Ka Ho. Farah was sitting in front. After the trip we went to Connaught's McD for lunch. Headed back to school after that and went for assembly.

The next day was the first day of JPS paper. Tiring. So our last paper was on 6th Oct, Thursday. On this day, was my mom's birthday, and I drove to Mid Valley myself to get her a present. I couldn't find anything and just settled with a card. Then when I got home, I saw an envelope waiting for me. It was a reply from the AFS program. I got shortlisted to Switzerland for the Year Program. Un-Be-Lieve-A-Ble. The next day, I didn't go to school. I went to Dr. Teh's for the Health Certificate for the application form, then went to school to pass the academic form to Mr Kam to fill in for me. After that I fetched Ding and Bling and went back to my house to meet up with Suwei and went to Jaya One to fetch Tzu Ping. Then we went to 1 Utama. Watched the 3 Musketeers, and had Chilli's and Tutti Fruitti. Finally saw Tzu Ping's house, which was *speechless*. Had a 2 hour traffic jam back to Ding's house and managed to reached his house by 8.30pm, and I drove back to my house in Suwei's car. I like her car, like a LOT. Dropped Bling off at the LRT station.

Saturday was nothing for me. I finished the whole season 1 of HIMYM. Then Weng Fai came over and we had a late lunch then revised on a little bit of Add Maths. When it comes to embarrassing you in front of your friends, my mom is the best. Sunday was nothing for me either. Someone did piss me off with his rude attitude, though. There's something called "Asking" instead of "Ordering". Who am I to you now? Your worker? You don't even pay me. So start talking to me with a little respect, as a FRIEND. Watched Johnny English with my parents later in Mid Valley and bumped into Joey during dinner at Pasta Zanmai.

Bronzeh 2011

Well I just noticed. I didn't post anything about Bronze Expedition '11.

I don't remember much from it already. I regret not writing it earlier. OH WELL, better late than never. So here goes...

Bronze this year was on the 8th to 9th of April. Last year it was at Gunung Berembun, Cameron Highlands. This year we went to Gombak. Last year D'sara cempakans kinda dominated the whole Bronze, but this year, THIS YEAR, Cheras FORM FIVE cempakans dominated the whole bronze *insert evil smirk*


So yeah, I didn't get to experience the bus ride from school that day. Wei Kei, Suwei and I went for the MSSKL Basketball Competition, along with Chee Cheng, Nichola, Dianna and Celine. Only Suwei, Wei Kei, Celine and I went for Bronze. We won the match that day, so it kinda boosted our energy level on the way there. And when we reached, we were like divas. Everyone had to walk down the road because the bus couldn't go through the narrow road, BUT we were on a van, so they stopped us right in front of the camp. When we reached there, they already had the tents set up and they were going through the first briefing.

While we were in Kuen Cheng, we got to know that me, Suwei and Wei Kei were on the same group along with Ding and Weng Fai. It was a total relief they didn't separate us. Amanda joined us in the group after that because of some reason, and supposingly TIAM JUN was going to join our group. Thank goodness En.Ku said no exchange in groups, but with Amanda as the exceptional case :)

So, we named our group Team Sakai. It was Amanda's idea. Our group members are:

Ding (Captain)
Weng Fai (Captain)
Wei Kei (Co-Captain)
Suwei
Amanda
Imran
Qqayum
Rizal
and 2 form 1 girls which I've forgotten their names. SORRY!

And...Mr.Vikki as our team teacher :)


Explanation :

Weng Fai was supposed to be the captain for our team, but then after that he kinda stepped down and Ding took over.

Qqayum and Rizal are the form 1 boys. They are not the form 5 Qqayum and Rizal. The form 5 Rizal was at another group and Qqayum didn't join Bronze.

The 2 form 1 girls. They didn't talk much.


Okay.

So we started off with designing our team flags and coming up with a war cry. Our flag was just the word SAKAI and a logo thingy. Our logo was a spear and a shield used by the real Sakai. Our war cry was epicly awesome. Here it goes.

Weng Fai/Ding : SAKAI!!!!
All : WE FIGHT!!!!
Weng Fai/Ding : SAKAI!!!!!
All : WE WIN!!!!!
Weng Fai/Ding : WE SHOUT.......?!?
All : SAKAI!!!!
Girls : OooEeeOooEeeOooEee!!!
Boys : *some fail stomping clapping thing*
All : OMPH!!!!

Yeah. I can kinda say that we have the most awesome war cry.
Then after that it was team building games. It was the curtain call thingy. I don't know what is the real name of the game, but they used something to act as a curtain, when the curtain comes down, you have to shout out the name of the person behind the curtain. Then after that it was the Goreng Pisang game. It was like "Goreng pisang, goreng pisang, goreng pisang sekarang....Pisang apa, pisang apa, pisang apa sekarang?" and then you have to continue with "Pisang xxxx......" so and so forth. On our team we had Jiha, Ana and Tengku helping while on the rival team they had Pn Nor, En Hilmi helping them. BUT we won them, FAIR AND SQUARE. Then we had this Bombay Bomb game. HAHA It was nice. All the teams have to think up of a country's name, then like send bombs by saying "Bombay bomb, Bombay bomb, Bombay bomb to XXX bomb." then the team whose country was mention has to repeat and bomb to another country. After that we went into the river, and the fun part begins..

We all sat with our own team, and then had to make the alphabets they say within 3o seconds. The water was cold and the current was strong. Plus, the rocks were slippery. But it was fun, and we did complete them all I think. After that we just played in the river and wait for the Group A people to return.

We didn't have the chance to play War Game. Last year it was syrup bomb. It was sticky and disgusting, but fun. We were way behind schedule this year. After dinner and shower, I was really really pooped. But then there's still this night orientation and we had to wait for few hours till our turn. After that, 2am Night trekking. Was damn tired and damn dark and damn scary. Luckily Wei Kei and Ding and Imran was with me. Had to cross rivers and made our pants wet.

We reached the end of the trail by 3.30am like that. The end of the trail was the side of the highway to Genting. Lame, I know. Was about 4am when we reached our tents. Without further disruptions, we went to bed.

Woke up around 7am and had to get ready to go for the waterfall absailing and survivor cooking. Our survivor cooking was FAIL. The only edible food that we made, was eaten by all of us. Our fire couldn't start, Qqayum stepped on the egg, sand keeps going into the flour. So yeah, we kinda gave up on survivor cooking. Waterfall absailing was nice, but I slipped and bang onto the cliff and had a bad bruise on my left shin. The scar is still there till now. Heh. Had some conflicts with the teachers because they wanted to cancel the activity but then almost half of the people hadn't got the chance to go for it. We complained and asked for a refund and kinda made the teachers go mad. Well, everyone of us hate that one particular teacher.

Bronze ended badly because we were all seperated when we went home. Plus that particular teacher made things worse. But nevertheless, Team Sakai is the best.


Oh and for the video of everything in bronze, click here. :) Credits to Jiaying and enjoy the video, please :)

Group photo of the form 5's of Group B.
And if you look closely, I'm wearing different slippers :D

After the "Water War"

Team Sakai with Ca Mun, Ting Yao and Chin Yew.

So, this is the highway. And Sakai's attempt to hitch-hike.

This photo looks amazing because someone was cropped out of the picture.
And again, credits to Jiaying.

IU Day

Well, I attended Cempaka's IU Day this year. IU Day stands for International Understanding Day. And I don't really have a choice. It was during formal assembly on 1st August, and everyone had to attend it.

It's not that I'm complaining or anything. I get to see the Form 5's dance. It was all kinds of awesome. The other performances were so-so. But I really kesian the Interactors. They didn't earn anything from this year's IU day, well, they didn't earn anything financially la. And there were few schools joining.

AND SMKBBSP JOINED CEMPAKA'S IU DAY!!! Can you even? All kinds of hyped explosions were happening inside me. What chance do you get to have my SMKBBSP peeps over here in Cempaka? Qiang was supposed to come, and so was Alex, but they last minute FFK. Oh well, their loss :) Not bad la. I got to show them around a bit. Now they finally know why I spend so much time in school :)

Here are some photos from the IU day:

Loud Festival 2011

Loud Festival 2011. This was held in Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium. 1 word - AWESOME.

Well the concert started off with a few singers which I don't know, then Soda Green or something :P then a girl, then Cindy something, then Jay Chou.

Although I never heard of most of the songs, I enjoyed myself there. I went with Weng Fai and his sister and her boyfriend. Syok sendiri there :D

The first song of Jay's was Ben Cao Gang Mu, a song which we used during last year's fan dance. We were like "OH MAI GAWD" and danced in our seats :D We so awesome. Took some photos but it looks crappy. Weng Fai's phone took better photos of the concert :P

Here are some :





Was shouting throughout the concert :D too hyped!

Big Splash '11

Yes. The long-awaited event is finally here. BIG SPLASH!!

For those who don't know what Big Splash is, it's kind of a Cempaka Tradition where after they announce the first house cup, the losing house captain will be thrown into the pool by the other 3 house captains. Then after that all graduating seniors will make their final leap into the pool, thus ending the sports house events of the year.

And this year, HARIMAU WON AGAIN!!! 2 consecutive years!! Kinda lucky cause since I got into Cempaka, Harimau won on the 2 years I've been here. Nice.

When then announced the results, some of us form 5 Harimaus were sitting in a circle holding hands and praying :D

Big Splash was epic. I was kena thrown/pushed/tackled into the pool for dunno HOW MANY TIMES! I brought my underwater casing for my camera and so did Farah. Took A LOT of photos and we danced Ultraman :D The swimming coach joined us in the pool. It was really really really really really really fun. We played until break time and went up to shower and continued with the rest of the school day.

Dammit la I love that day. Thanks a lot Farah, Khay Wenn and Lai Kiat for the camera. Thanks a lot Weng Fai for tackling me into the water. Thanks a lot Suwei for asking him to do that. Thanks a lot coach for taking our photos. Thanks a lot Ding and Vincent for hogging the girls' shower. Thanks a lot fellow Harimau members. Thanks a lot fellow SELARIMAU members. I love you guys, to the maximum.