They made it through the finals in the intervarsity tournament in UK and one of them is nominated as one of the top 10 speakers and even better they beat some outstanding teams from Cambridge and Hull. Way to go, gais!
As a matter of fact, I saw some familiar faces in those pictures as some of them are friends of friends of mine. Which then I saw this one pretty girl, her name is Ameera Natasha. I remembered how we were competing each other in the IIU's interschool debate back when we were in our Form 3 and she was from that Sekolah Seri Puteri. We were both the third speakers and the motion was "This house believes that video games should be banned". My school team won the round. (not to mention we were fortunate enough that we had gone through the related articles before the motion was announced, because trust me, they were good enough to win, too).
My teammates were Amier Idris and Wan Noruddin. They both are really good debaters and cool friends I could say. Kinda miss them though. And as the sub teammate, we have Ili Hanisah. I miss you too, Ili. Yknow how the say "the sky isn't always blue". It bummed me out when the three of them were transferring to new schools in Form 4. I wish I could turn back time when I was a Former 4 and accepted that offer to that SBP science shool, Samura. Or maybe could just turn back time to Former 1 and accepted that MRSM Muadzam Shah's offer. I was so dumb back then. I was having so much fun being the big fish in the small pond instead of migrating to a bigger pond with a greater future. Gah.
I love that feeling when I was a Former 3. We could skip classes for training whenever we have an upcoming tournament. Whenever he wants, our coach, Sir Zain would walk into our class, talked to our teacher and asked for our dismissal and we all four prefects would walk through the corridor and made our way to the library for a debate discussion and all those other students would look us through their classes' windows. What a superior feeling, vain gila. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
So years rolled on, in 2009 after the 3 of them transferred out, I kept on accepting new teammates. When I was in Form 4, I had a new coach, Madam Shikeen, a new teacher transferred from Convent Kajang and a new team consists of 2 seniors and 1 junior, but then in the subsequent year the 2 seniors graduated and the junior transferred. So yada yada once again, I'm adapting to new teammates. (what a buzzkill I know). And in that 2010 year around I had 3 juniors as my new teammates as Madam Shikeen wanted it that way. We didn't sign up for the IIU's interschool tournament but went there as the spectators as we were a bit late in registering so we were unlisted.
But still, we participated in other school tournaments and won the championship but up until the state level only. The highlighted part is the part where we won the debate championship in the Amal Islami tournament (it's a tournament for all Islamic schools) and it was a 3-years-in-a-row defending championship and the best thing is, I was in all three championship.
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To reminisce how in Form 1, back then in SMK Seksyen 10 Kota Damansara, I was a hingusan-small-in-size-but-high-in-spirit freshman entered a poetry competition and won the first prize which then I was chosen to represent the school beating up all my seniors. And long story short, I was entitled as the champion in the region level which then qualified me to represent my Petaling Jaya region in the state level. I was the one who created the poem and also the one who recited the poem on stage together with my two friends, Dzul and Isyraf as the casts playing with the props behind. But it was one hell of experience though we lost due to our very bad props comparing to other schools' but still we had so much fun. And recently, I found the Facebook profiles of theirs. Gotta say they really outgrew me as they turned out to be very tall and handsome hahaha.
I love the way I would eagerly wanna go back home right after those tournaments because I wanna show my parents what I did bring back for them. The proud faces of theirs are one of things that I look up the most lifelong. And am totally gonna show those trophies and certificates to my future children too, someday.
I sometimes say to myself "if and only if I did transfer to one of those schools, I might have been at a higher place then I currently am, I might have been studying in an abroad university by now" but then, reality shakes me off. Such thoughts are absolute craps. Clock will never turn anti-clockwise. Things happened for reasons. God has better plans. And life..... it goes on. I can never change the past but all that I know of now, is that I can always curb my future the way I want to, Allahwills.
The End Has No End #nowplaying