It’s a Small World After All…

I went to Red 104.9 fm’s radio station studio!(not sure what to call the place) We were actaully there! Yeap gave us a briefing on the Chinese station 988 (which is in the same place) then Red’s Morning Affair show DJ Tim gave us a breifing on the English and Malay section. It was really interesting and he really gave us an insight on how the station really works and how a DJ really works. We toured the place, then we were even allowed to watch a live on air show. But during that time, it was only a Malay Chart show going on and no English show. The DJ on air was called KC (who is said to be in very good contact with the Indonasian music scene and it’s Artists). Then was went on to the Chinese show by DJ Loke (who, believe it or not, is actually from our school!). There are actually a few Chinese DJs there that are from our school! It was really a very informative tour. But in the middle of the briefing, there was a power failure. The people there said that TNB just informed them today that they were going to cut the power for a while. (Why? Of all days!) It was a little hot during the tour, but they did have a generator, so at least we had light and the broadcasting room was on line. The whole thing lasted about 3 hours and at the end, we were all given goodie bags and took a group photo too… It was really a blast! And we gained lots of experience! Pity Kartini wasn’t there though, I really wanted to meet her. But sadly, Tim said that she left the station just 3 weeks ago cuz she’s very busy with other stuff…

Well, since I’m in the Interact Club, I decided to go for this conference. 4 of us from Chan Wa (included President, VP (me) and 2 members) sat our Rotary Club Advisor’s car to the venue. Unfortunately we got there a bit late, so didn’t have lunch. We checked into our rooms, but (being 2 to a room and we were 3 gals) I was alone in 1 room. We were then divided into groups according to colour. I was in the green team. There was a lot of ppl there! We were then lead into lecture theatre 1 (cuz they couldn’t possibly cramp 600 ppl into one theatre, they had number 2). First session was “Interact – an important partner in service” (which was ok), then “Worldwide Fellowship of Interact”. This I was very interested cuz they talked about the Youth Exchange Program”. They also had a special session introducing us to Rotaract (something like in the middle of Interact and Rotary). That session was leaded by Bernard something, and the first thing he asked us to do is to take out our handphones and send “I want…” to his phone… I was like huh??? But damn funny too… At Tea break, I finally had food (a little). Then free time, so went back to my room. There, my new roommate came knocking. Her name was Bee/Stephanie (which ever 1 u wanted to use). Surprisingly, she was in green too! We went down for group discussions, but didn’t do mush ourselves, cuz there were “others” who didn’t seem to notice us and discussed only among themselves. At dinner… Our food was late! *sign* I don’t blame the organizers, but the caterers. Not only did we go to our next session hungry, but late too (cuz we waited for more then an hour for the food). “Ten Highly Effective self-motivation tip” by Dr Sia was quite fun. “LOST? Charting new directions” (about career stuff) by Mr James Yeow, was fun too, cuz we sang song (which were quite funny), plus the speaker was quite cute Only after that did we get to eat (10 pm!!). Stayed up for group discussions on our performance and practise.

Woke up at about 5am, even though our group decided to meet at 4:30 (but we were only required to wake up at 6). As the “others” practised, we just stood around, not knowing what to do. There were so many ppl in each group (about 40-50) and only 1 leader, how on earth is the leader suppose to check up on everyone! Anyway, wasted an hour of sleep time just like that. First session was “No Applogies” by Mr Joshua Liong from Focus on the Family M’sia. This was very good, he even showed us his baby’s photo to motive us. Talked about sex, AIDS, marriage and teens. Next, “WWF M’sia-Conservation Efforts” which I was looking forward to but turned out to be quite boring. After break, we had an Input by the INTI Collage team. They showed us a video, then took us on a tour of the place. Our group was headed by Daniel Lee… something (sound familiar?). Nothing much to see though, but the surroundings were quite nice. After that we had lunch, then free time, which was practise and stuff. We had to get ready, cuz we had the Official Opening of the Conference, which was attended by all the VIPs and the District Governor. So everyone wore their Interact Uniforms, but unfortunely, my school doesn’t have any… Everyone looked so smart in their specially made uniforms (some even had “batik: with interact logo on them), I could only wear the T-shirt they gave us as an alternative. Before our next session, we had a little bit of free time, so lots of ppl were exchanging collar pins/badges/pins/tie pins or actually selling them. I wanted to buy some, but most of them were damn expensive! Ranging from RM 5-7. I decided to do the same, selling my clubs collar pins (2 different years) for 4 and 3.50 . Not expecting much sales, I only took a hand full from my stock, but the response was huge! I hardly even had time to put the money in my pocket. Lots of ppl were crowding around me, I hardly even had space to move… Within 5 minutes, I was sold out. I even got orders so I could get back to them when I had more. Next up was talks by UNICEF about AIDS, which I was looking forward to again, but ended up bored. Looked around and saw many already dozing… Free time we used to rehearse (we managed to borrow the stage, thanks to our Rotaract Billy), was even late for dinner. After one more session (not much), we finally came to the event we’ve all been waiting for…Talent Nite!! All groups were suppose to perform. The Green Monkeys (us) went up 2nd(thank goodness too, cuz by the 4th not many paid anymore attention). Our sketch was about a guy couple coming to M’sia for holiday and they get a culture shock. The girly guy was played by Billy and his partner was Jonathan. We had stuff like rude taxi drivers, pirated CD sellers, durians and prostitutes. We had acting, dancing and singing, and it was damn funny(I was only involved in the singing), what more could you ask for. The other performance weren’t very good (no offence), there were even ppl doing (sort of) the same thing. 2 about the sessions during the conference, and 2 Cinderellas, others include one about our festival and beliefs, singing, and dancing. The event was suppose to be until 11, but it dragged to almost 2am.

Woke up at 6:30 am… First session was discussions among ppl from the same state. We had to discuss about questions that were asked on the 1^st day. Then a talk about “Speaking English” by Dr Lim Ho Peng, which was quite funny. He told us about all the funny stuff (relating to English) that he has encountered. Then he told us this joke: The lecturer asked his female students what they wanted to do with their lives. Their answer was , “Me no worry, me no care; Me go marry a millionaire. When he die, me no cry; Me go find another guy.” Lol! That was so funny when I first heard it… After break was “How to cope with change” by Dr Lee Fah Onn. Damn boring, even I almost fell asleep. The result of the Talent Nite results were: 3rd : Pink, 2nd : Green (Yay!), 1st : Yellow… They also had the M’sian students who went for the Youth Exchange to tell us about their experience. 2^nd last event, was a report by each states’ leader on what we have discussed (the questions). Sarah from Kelantan (I think) gave a very good, forceful and passionate speech. Negeri Sembilan was last, our leader Serena gave the report/speech in a very fake Australia accent plus speaking in that sort of way you only use when you’re entering a pidato competition, (no offence, but…) and everyone was practically laughing at it!! I was like OMG, so malu, trying to hide my face. She was trying too hard and so unnatural! Please lar! If you want to go down, don’t take us down with you. Everytime she sounded a bit funny, everyone was like mimicking her… I felt so pity for her. And her report was quite long too. Really no face ar!! Dr Paul even asked me who was that girl who spoke for NS… *sign* Finally, the closing ceremony. Dr C.S.Paul did such a good job running this event. The bad part of this whole thing was my green group’s leader, I offer to help her get everyone’s names and she goes and loses my notebook. I had all my note from the sessions in there! Not many ppl would bother to take down anything, but those note meant a lot to me. What worst, she doesn’t even apologise to me, she just asks me if I wanted her note as replacement… Argh! Of course I don’t want your empty notebook! She sucked as a leader, she was hardly even leading, merely listening and mostly with her pals from other groups and not ours! Argh! Anyway, I made some friends too and it wasn’t all bad.