In between start and end

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POST WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN ON OCTOBER 2014. THOUGH I KNOW IT'S SUPER DUPER EXTREMELY LATE, BUT SINCE I ALREADY TYPED IT AND ALL MIGHT AS WELL PUBLISH IT ANYWAY. 

Last week was another busy week in my list. Softball MSSD.
This is the post where I babble about this year experience of my softball MSSD. Just so you know, it was the most fun MSSD out of all the 4 years I've been in the softball team. THIS YEAR IS NO DOUBT THE BEST!

Let's start from the top. First day. 1st April.
The tournament was held in SMK Bandar Utama with 8 schools for girls Under 18. Just before the day of our game, 2 people from our softball gang got chicken pox. Such a great timing. They are Aisyah Zull and our 'beloved' coach... meh.
And once we're at the school, I saw this girl from Taman Petaling (TP) whom I've been seeing since during perbahasan, pidato AND NOW... for softball too. Though she didn't play for her school because she was just one of the scorers but omg takde orang lain ke?
Getting to the game part. Our first game was against Damansara Damai 1 (DD1). We lost the game by 8-5 (I think). Hmm yeah we lost our FIRST game... sadly.

Second day.
We were warming up as usual throwing the ball at each other. But this time I tried throwing the ball straight from home to second base (if you don't play softball, imagine it as the distance between one end of the diamond to the opposite end of the diamond). The ball was meant to be thrown to Suraya but things got ugly. The flyball hit directly on her face specifically her nose and it bled. The blood was pouring like waterfall and of course everyone got panic. She was rushed to nearest hospital which wasn't so near. And we were informed that her nose fractured. IF YOU'RE READING THIS SURAYA I AM SO SORRY GET WELL SOON. I STILL DO FEEL BAD FOR MY FAST FLYING BALL.
We still continue our second game against TP despite the incident. We heard damn lot of people saying TP are good and stuff but once it's our turn against them... BAAAM we won 13-6. Hahah not so good huh? Then we're up against Seksyen 4 (S4). The guys wasn't that good. We know because we saw they play before. So of course we expected the girls to be about the same.
So yeaaah we were right and obvs we won. It turns out they lost all 3 of their games including with us. Wow. Sounds like us during our first year lol.

Third day. Big day.
We were qualified for the semi-final since we won two-third of the games. There are 2 groups in my district so my school is group A.The semi-final goes like this:
Johan A - Naib Johan B
Johan B - Naib Johan A
So now my school is the runner-up for group A. We're up against Tropicana who is the winner from group B. Believe me, before the game we were scared as hell. It was the first game of the day and Tropicana went for finals last year. I can hear my heartbeat race even before I let my foot inside the school.
Anyway, we got batting first. We successfully got 5 points in the first inning. And after that, fielding. Unexpectedly, we got all 3 outs BEFORE Tropicana could get any points. We were so happy at that point because we actually have a chance in getting to final. We got more points and when it's our turn fielding again we were surprisingly good because we 'killed' 3 of them unbelievably fast. BOOYEAH WE WON AND WE'RE GOING FOR FINAL OMFG!!
Guess what? We're up agains DD1 again. Urgh. And before the game I heard that the boys from DD1 is the winner for boys Under 18. Woah. Butterflies are back.
The thing is... I knew that the final is gonna be the same day BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT'S GONNA BE 30 MINS RIGHT AFTER OUR GAME. I was damn exhausted and I could tell Shaza is too. My t-shirt literally soaked with sweat, not kidding. I went to the toilet after the semi-final and when I got back we're starting the next game. I just felt like fainting right then and there. Also for final the game was extended to 1 hour and 20 minutes which they added 20 minutes extra. Can you hear me crying?!?

We got through the finals but we lost. At least we got 2nd place. And also another team member got injured during our final game because someone pushed Andria while running and she tore her ligament on her foot that was previously injured. So many people got battlescars heh.
The last time Sri Aman got into final was when I was form 1 which was 3 years ago so this is an achievement to be proud of ok. All in all things was fine despite fractured nose, tearing of ligament and the chicken pox.

Plus, we got A LOT of praises for our jersey this year. Thanks to Suraya for the beautiful piece!

FALCONS KAKAAAH!!

It's missing the 1 in 1-4-3 oops

Xx,
Melynn.

If the poster doesn't ring the bell yet, then let me just tell you. Well, by now I bet most of the teenagers already heard of this movie called DIVERGENT.

Just so you know, I've been playing truant. Nah jokess but lately I HAVE not been entering class. The reason is because surprisingly I am getting more occupied with co-curriculum activities or in other words I AM BEING TOO ACTIVE. /sweat

Firstly, I had missed 1 week of class a week before exam because I had Malay debate competition. Well, the competition didn't take up all 5 days but the practice definitely had. Then, I'm also representing my school in the Malay public speaking competition (as told in my previous entry) which happen to be during the exam week. After that, the week right after my exam I have KOMSAS drama inter-class competition (it's basically Malay literature). My class did "Tiang Cengal Dinding Sayung" from the form 5 KOMSAS book and since we haven't started practicing we were struggling preparing all the props, memorizing our lines and change certain scenes.

The day before the competition, we literally JUST done editing our whole script. It was totally last minute for some of us to memorize our parts. But we had to because our play happen to be 50 minutes when it was only supposed to be less than 30 minutes. Surprisingly, my part didn't change so that's a relieve.

Getting to the part of the competition where my class is performing (we performed last btw), our play started well (though it was quite boring) UNTIL some of us got confuse and messed up some scenes. Not to mention, the end bell was rang 10 minutes before we could actually end the play. Some of us were having trouble with the exchange of head mics. URGH IT WAS CHAOTIC BACKSTAGE. We got down the stage feeling pretty upset because honestly speaking, we didn't perform our best. But that was put aside, when my class was announced the 3rd place. I was just like "WHAT THE HELL?!?". Personally, it felt like pidato all over again. We didn't expect to get anything because we were so bad but we glad we won though it's probably by luck.

Hye darls!
Okay maybe not. Anyway, last post was basically what happened 2 weeks ago that I forgot to post last week. Sorry but I'm currently dealing with my short-term memory problem here. Moving on, last week was another hectic week though it was less hectic.

From Monday to Wednesday, I was basically staying back to practice my pidato (aka Malay public speaking) with my amazing history teacher, Ms. Nadia to help me with my script for Part 1 of the competition. Yes you heard me right... there is more than one part . Haih. The first part is pidato teks which means you can talk based on whatever topic you choose and the script that you prepared for. The other part is pidato spontan, where they'll tell you to choose one envelope on the day of competition. Inside the envelope there's the title of your pidato and you are given 1 minute to prepare yourself without any help (including pen, paper or anyone... literally). Then another 3 minutes to talk.

My competition was on Thursday (13th March) and was held at SMK Bandar Utama Damansara 3. I left school at around 7.30am with Ms. Zatia. It was just the two of us. I am the ONLY one who went for the competition representing my school.
Can you feel the pressure I'm getting?? /blur

Once we arrived at the school and after my teacher park her car, I turn to look at my teacher and to no surprise I saw my brother in the next car. Yes, my brother also happen to represent his school for the competition. Yay to competition among siblings! After we got out of the car, we firstly have to register ourselves. And turns out, my brother got turn number 10 while I got number 9. Yeah coincidence much. Since our numbers are next to each other, we are ask to sit side by side. It's like we are meant to see each other even outside of the house. But I'm not gonna complain because my brother kinda help me be more confident to have someone I'm actually familiar with.

Then it begins. The first part, I did well I guess despite the fact I was talking too fast at first and kinda forgot everything once I'm half way through. But the second part, was an embarrassment to me. I got the title "Permainan Tradisional Wajar Dipelihara" which means traditional games are worth being preserved or something like that so during the 1 minute given I was too busy thinking for 2 points of what I wanted to talk about, I wasn't thinking of how I'm gonna start my speech. So my starting was full of crap. I was literally translating everything from English to Malay then my tongue decided to get tied... so all in all to me it sounded really horrible.

Just so you know, in the Petaling Utama district there's 22 participants so being a single-digit participant I got bored pretty quickly especially after the second part. The competition was held in the school's library. Heh you can probably tell what I did while waiting, yes, reading. Basically flipping through some of the books closest to my seat. Luckily there's something I could do or else I would probably fell asleep while waiting. Then before I know it, it was time for the prize giving.

"Tempat ketiga jatuh kepada... Nuramelynn Izzaty binti Hisham dari SMK(P) Sri Aman" /shock
What the hell?! Is that for real? Never did I thought I - who literally talked crap - could win anything. Especially getting third place out ouf 22 other participants in the district. Anyway I got a certificate and a cheap trophy.

Well hello.
Long time no update meh sorry for that.

What happened last 2 weeks was basically... debate. HAHAHAHAHA yes that's right. But it wasn't in English though so 'perbahasan' is the  right word for it. Knowing me, I can talk. Obviously... but also knowing me, I can rarely understand what I said sooo that's the unbelievable part since I'm in the school team. /sweat

Now let me share with you how last 2 weeks had been for me.
Firstly, I skipped class for 4 days in a row. 2 days for practice and another 2 days for the perbahasan competition. YES HOORAYY FOR SKIPPING CLASS /wahaha
UNTIL IT WAS TIME TO FACE REALITY. HOMEWORK.
PILES AND PILES OF HOMEWORK /no

The competition was held in SMK Sultan Abdul Samad. Our first match was against SMK Taman Sea and it was unexpectedly easy since they weren't prepared at all. And the next day we had to face SMK Taman Petaling. 2 days before we compete with Taman Sea we only prepare ourselves with the first topic and later after we won we only had ONE DAY to get ready for the other topic the next day. For this, I would like to thank Google+ Hangout for being friendly and useful during our discussion that night. But unfortunately Taman Petaling won the match even though I was told by the judges that we lost by close margin so that kinda pissed me off. They also get to compete with the winner from the other zone - which I was told that it was SMK Damansara Jaya - after they won against SMK Assunta. Which I personally think they just won by luck because Assunta didn't even try to defend their statements and it was such an easy topic. Urghh this piss me off so much because we could've been 1000 times better than them but sadly what's past is past. Hopefully next year we could go even further than this insyaAllah.

After a weekday packed with debate stuff, last Saturday was spent with another annual school event - road run. Successfully I died with flying colours and managed to earn a medal for getting top 25 for P1 (also known as the class for form 4 and 5).



I got no. 24 yeaaah not that great... but AT LEAST I managed to earn something. /nobigdeal

It doesn't just stop there... because the week after that, another event happened. Malay. Public. Speaking. I shall continue to talk about it in the next post.

Xx,
Melynn.

HAPPY 2014 PEEPS!!! Hope it's not too late though.
Also kudos to those who sings to the title of this entry!


Well, we're already coming to the end of the second week of January and that means it has also been 2 weeks since my form 4 life started... and as expected, homework are definitely piling up, the co-curriculum activities are starting to make me busy and school in general is just getting interesting day by day. Especially when I am now in the upper secondary and beginning to learn new subjects.

From being in 3 Cengal, I am now in 4 Science Cengal. I hate the name of this class though. Anyway, I chose to be in the Science stream which means I'm learning add Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Physics along with the other 5 main subjects. I also voluntarily take an extra subject which I am not very good at... accounts. Heh die lorh /blur

Good news is I'm in the same class with Ka Mun again. Woop woop. It's the least thing that could happen to me after being thrown into a class without any of mah besties.

Last week was the Annual Grand Meeting (aka AGM) and surprisingly I managed to get posts for two out of three of my clubs and society. I am now the official vice president of the softball club and the secretary for YE club (Young Entrepreneur) so yayyy to more responsibilities!! /sweat

And in case any Sri Amanian read my blog (which I highly doubt there would be any), I would like to promote something. On the 16th of January which is this Thursday, the softball club of SMK(P) Sri Aman is glad to announce that there will be a tryout to join our softball school team. Everyone is welcome even though our priority goes to the club members but anyway IF YOU'RE INTERESTED JUST SHOW YOUR FACE AND YOU MIGHT JOIN US IN THE SCHOOL TEAM!  

Credits goes to the artistic Ilham!

Other than that, my life is boring. This is just an update. My apology if your time is wasted but that's not my problem so /wahaha

Xx,
Melynn.