I remember my first day at secondary school. All the form 1 student will go through orientation week. We learned about the school compound, school song, and the school regulation. Not forgetting we make new friends. On the 2nd last day of the orientation week I was been called by one of the English teacher that apparently knew my father. At that time, I was getting ready to go back home. The teacher ask me to come to school in the evening for one audition. I was shocked because I was new at that moment. And of course I don't expect to be called for any thing yet. That evening I went to school as been told. There was so many people in the school hall. The seniors called one by one to go on the stage and express the expression they ask us in one sentence. The audition is to find new layers of artors and actresses for the drama competition. After the audition was done, I was told that I will be one of the drama club. I made friends with all of them and our friendship lasts till now. We had the drama competition among the schools to determine which school will represent the district to the state level competition. Our drama club came out with a script entitled "Jack and the Beanstalk 2". I held the role for Jasmine (the heroin).
The story is sort of the continuation of Jack and the Beanstalk. The difference is Jack and the Beanstalk 2 happens to the son of Jack, Jack Junior (JJ). JJ was not aware of the incident that happened to the father. He too got a can of bean from a friend. He accidently threw the bean outside the window when his mother gave him a fright. [During the competition time, they judges were shocked because the beans accidently thrown near them. hehe] The next day, the beans that were scattered on the ground grew into a big long tree that leads to way up into the sky. JJ was curious with the tree. So he climb up there and met Jasmine. Jasmine and JJ were from two different worlds. Jasmine was afraid of JJ at first because of their different looks. After meeting Jasmine that day and was frighten by Jasmine's father, he planned to make friends with Jasmine. He will climb up to Jasmine's world and play with Jasmine. Not long later, Jasmine told him everything that was happening in her world and came out with a plan to unite JJ's world (human world) and her world (giant world). The conflict arose after the incident JJ's father discovered the Giant's world. They went to meet the elder and the elements of the world; Fire, Water, Soil, Wind. 2 elements hate JJ's world because they said JJ's world had cause the chaos at their place whereas the other two support the giant's world. The elder's role is almost the same a a judge. He will be the one calming the elements there against fighting. JJ and Jasmine will meet the elder every day to discuss about the matter. At last, both world united with the great effort from Jasmine and JJ.
That was the story of the drama we played. To my surprise, we won the drama competition at district level. The state level competition was held at Muar District. We did more props before the State Level Competition. But we didn't win due to other strong competitors from few other districts. We were down. Our teacher told us not to for we had done our best to win this competition after a few years we had lost to one particular school in our district.
I was glad that we had won the drama competition that year because we gained lots more of experience at state level.
While the drama competition was going on, I was ask to join the debate competition. Our school was once represent the district to the state level during my sister's time. After that, our school barely made it to the finals at district level. It was quite frustrating to not be able to compete at state level. I was not expose to this competition. I was kind of blurr about what the competition was all about. Luckily for me I have a year to learn about debate. Since then, I was the 'important' one in the English club.
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When I was in secondary 2, I was someone that most of the teachers would rely on. We did plan to do a study tour to KL. I was the head of the tour. The activities were been planned and arranged by our music teacher. We went to the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra(MPO), visit the HQ of LRT. Our visit to MPO was the best of all. We were told that we was the 1st group from Johor to arrive at MPO. A day before the concert, we went there and was told about the do's and dont's, history of MPO, and the performance that we were going to see the next day. The hall was so huge. There were sits for the VVIP's and so many more. It is like the ones that we will usually see in the TV. The feeling was unspeakable. There's no words can be associated with the feeling that we experience. After the performance, the conductor came to use and chit chatted with us. We even took a picture for our rememberence. In addition, our picture was been publish in a newspaper the following day. It was so remarkable. :D
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The year I'm sitting for my PMR examination was a stressful year. So many things to revise and with the activities I was involved, I felt like the 24-hours wasn't enough for me to use. But thank God, everything went well eventhough we didn't win the debate competition. I was gaining more and more knowledge and experience. It was a not so great year for me though. ^^
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