Transformers - Revenge of the fallen

CANCELED!!!

New record set!

Thank you for making this possible.

Happy studying and,
Get well soon! xD

Puan Wong 回来探望我们 (2-9-2008)!

我深信 5S4 全班同学都还记得谁是 Puan Wong，我们去年的级任老师。我们全班都与她有深厚的师生之情,难得她今天回来探望我们，在 Peter Heng 的带领下，很多人都过度兴奋，到办公室 (staff room) 去迎接她进来我们今年的 5S4。

记得很多人去年都说自己不喜欢被她教，因为她给很多功课。其实，她这样确实是为我们大家的好。不然的话，我们班 Maths. 和 Add. Maths. 成绩也很难与其他班竞争。若往好的方面想，如果 Puan Wong 是那种对我们毫不关心的老师，那她会一直逼我们做功课吗？虽然她给我们很多功课，但是她得改更多呢！

不须问我为什么我明白老师们的感受，因为我也是一位补习老师，教小学生们，包括自己的弟弟，没收补习费，只给自己教书经验。那班小学生比我们班还吵呢，又完全不交功课，有些交白卷呢！就算我使用藤鞭，他们也不当成一回事！改功课是我认为很烦的一种活动，因为来来去去都是打钩 (mark as correct) 、打叉 (mark as wrong) 或放问号。

其实，做老师不是大家所想象的那么简单。我非常看得起 Puan Wong，因为她的原则是“天下没有教不会的学生，只有不会教的老师”，学生不好往往都责备是老师的错。我们今年 Maths 和 Add. Maths. 的成绩也算蛮好的，所以应该感谢 Puan Wong。

我个人认为，其实我们都不会讨厌 Puan Wong，只是嘴硬而已，但也无法避免，因为这都是人的个性(嘴硬)。如果讨厌她的话，我们也不会带她来我们班，更加不会谈得那么兴奋。总而言之，我们应该尊敬老师，因为老师不易当！

Merdeka Celebration

Here are the pictures for the Merdeka Celebration on Monday

We got 3rd Place! Congratulations!

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At the same time...
There was some Quiz going on too.


Not sure what place did they get. Will update later.

Champions nonetheless

We stepped onto the field as the underdogs. We took a count, our statistics were wonderful. zero practices, zero victories, zero field experience together. Yet together, under the blazing sun and the dried up grass beneath our feet, we stood. the whistle blew, and the disc took off to the sky.
On a very short notice, me, jonathan, yin bin, kun heng, kong weng and jun hong finally decided to represent our class in the CHS Olympics frisbee competition. Being the underdogs there, we never though once that we would have a chance of being a gold medalist team, yet, with the spirit of 5S4 burning in the core of our hearts, we took up this challenge to win glory for our class.

I will spare everyone the details of our every encounter. However, to let everyone know this, though we failed to step into the finals, I can sincerely say that we actually have the standards of a finalist. In fact, if it wasn't due to a problem that we all failed to curb in time, we would have been the finalist in this competition. This is all due to the fact that we lack understanding of each other, didn't know each other well, and in the end, fielding the wrong person in the wrong position.

Nonetheless, what's done is done, no point whining about it. But I must say, we all had fun. Together, battling it out on the field, trashing people and furiously fighting back when things were going wrong. This all brought us a step closer to each other. We got to know ourselves and each other better. So what if we lost, so what if we could have won. The main thing is, we went in to have fun, and we DID have fun. Therefore, we are all nothing but champions.

It's been a great pleasure playing the matches with you guys. I'm really proud to be part of the team. I would also like to appologize for not performing to my best and for being a lousy captain. Still, we are a winning team together, and not even the winner of the competition can say anything against it. This is our spirit, this is our glory, this is 5S4.


Min Chern - Did the basic handling
Yin Bin - Managed the midfield
Jonathan - Played defense with finesse and ran up for offense on the que "chocolate"
Kun Heng - Star scorer of the day, wonderful defender too. If only he ran up sooner, lol.
Kong Weng - Very humble midfielder, only revealed his true skills later on and scoring with a
hammer shot too!
Jun Hong - Never once gave up on the midfield and offence.

End of the road

We fought hard, we fought valiantly, unfortunately, a dead end once again we have bumped into. After 2 hard grueling days of slogging it out against the 11 teams brought in from all over Selangor, we finally managed to proceed into the semi-finals. Just when we thought our chances of creating and upset victory and sweeping the title were in reach, the results of the draw came out. We, the underdogs were scheduled to battle it out against the national champions, Damansara Jaya. Winner of the HELP debate, WIRA debate and likely winners of the Taylor's debate, they were ready to wrest this KDU title from us. Frightened we were not, for we waited for this challenge with anticipation.

The moment finally arrived. We stepped into our respective places, wary of the tensed atmosphere surrounding the room. They were the government, we were the opposition, born were we to take up this role. Their first speaker led the debate. With precise and fluent language she brought forth her case stand and arguement into the house. And with this, the battle had begun. Speaker after speaker stood up, accusations and allegations were diplomatically hurled about. Endless wit and sarcasm came from our side towards them as we tried to topple their case stand and arguements. Finally, the last speaker had spoken, silence befell the room as we left the adjudicators to do their final decisions. Each of us left the room, feeling that we could have done better, yet still feeling that we had delivered the coup d eta.

Luck wasn't on our side. The judges announced it was a really tight debate. However, the government's stand stood for the day. It was a 3-2 victory for the DJ team with a margin of less then 3 marks. We had failed to stop the national champions from proceeding by just 3 marks. I'll be honest, I'm really disappointed. It was partially my fault for not having really strengthening a certain key point.

Through all the wallowing and disappointment, there still exists a certain sense of self satisfaction. We took on the national champions head to head and almost emerged victorious. We convinced the judges whom we had earlier set out on convincing, and we displayed a stunning performance before bowing out. All in all, this has been a real eye opening event for us. No longer will we feel intimidated by the big name of DJ in the field of debate. Now we know where our standards are and how we have to further improve ourselves to take on the world of debate.

Varsity and International debates, here we come.






PS : Just for everyone's information in case you are curious.

Peter Heng - Opposition leader. Delivered a cunning and effective parameter by bringing the debate to the USA. Once again displayed his enthusiasm in the debate with his flair and witty POI's (Is the chicken an egg?).

Quah Min Chern - Deputy Opposition leader. Delivered his usual speech without much event. Later delievered the reply speech that won the judges hearts(but still not enough to win the debate). Made the government feel like dumb asses. And delivered the coup d eta.

James Yap - Opposition Whip. Displayed his trademark "I will dismantle, destroy and demolish the arguements and case stand of the government" once again with finesse. Wonderfully rebutted the arguements of the government.

5S4 debaters kick ass

Live from KDU college itself. Here sits me, peter, james and our other debaters and juniors in front of the laptop doing our research. Its been a real nerve wrecking moment, but in the end, we kicked ass in the first round with a total pawnage. Best speaker was from one of our speakers too. Now we prepare for the second wave that will be held tomorrow as our second team is locking head on with the national champs. Things are looking kinda good for our second team says peter as he studies their body languages from outside the window. Hopefully we will get a good draw and continue to pawn ass tomorrow. Gtg now, peter still wanna read more body languages.

Something for you guys to know

Report on what really happened at the HELP debate.

The most informative report by Ian Beh
A lousy report written by me who was not in the right mind
A short comment from Lily

Don't want to read so many words???

Click here for a Picture + Dialogue format of what really happened in the debate!

Blood Donation

Brave and big hearted people of 5S4

Aiyo, Photographer skill not good enough, cut off Kong Weng Face a little bit. xD


Anyway, Happy Birthday Shin Yee!