Got back from SEAMC yesterday. Haha, my buddy team was so dysfunctional. We all couldn't wait to stop the Maths Trail and go shopping. Took hardly any pics this time, my brain was performing too many functions at once to even try and take loads of pictures. My brain was performing so many functions, on Friday I actually forgot to eat, drink, pee, ANYTHING ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL. It was horrific. I thought I had gastric. People who know how much I eat will realise how monumental it is that I could ever, possibly forget to eat!
Wednesday:Duh, the flight was delayed. For like an hour. So I went for dinner with my family and missed out on crucial bonding time with my team.
Lenard was generally jumping around to go see the fish in the departure hall, and me and Syaz were hyperventilating from chronic lack of internet access. So the moment we got in, Syaz and I hand over $3 for the internet cafe and say Goodbye to everyone online.
There were some funny dudes sitting next to us. One of them had a pretty cool 'fro. And the other was weird. LOL. Then they left, but they were on our flight too! The flight was shit. The chair was uncomfortable, couldn't get any sleep whatsoever.
And the in-flight magazine had this weird Bonia watch advert, they were wrapped around an eggplant, whoever the marketers for Bonia are, YOU GUYS RULE.
But the little girl sitting in front of Chung, Syaz and I was ADORABLE. She is my idol.
So we arrived in KL at like one in the morning. The hotel was all too familiar (MYMUN, oh dear.) So I whipped out my jungle survival kit: my iPod. And I slept. :D
Thursday:Woke up. (Duh) I'd already discussed with Syaz that I would have to wake up like half an hour before her, because I take ages to shower. :) So blah-di-blah. We had breakfast, and started the journey to KLCC. It was far too much hassle. And the KL trains are FREA
KY. They smell funny and the waiting chairs are steel bars. The train also stops randomly, but thanks God it did. We passed some funky graffiti on the way there, and some people were painting over it, so I thought I'd better document the experience (of seeing credible street artwork) before it disappeared forever.
Again, blah-di-blah-blah. The aquarium was alright. I made friends with the turtles. They surfaced to say Hi to me. I KNOW IT. :D
& I really do want some kind of big cat as a pet. Tiger, leopard, lion. PLEASE. Then we went to KLCC to do a bit of shopping, Topshop was very disappointing. Starbucks was great. & Blagh.
Shopping in MidValley MegaMall was way better. Syaaaazz *wiggles eyebrows*.
You are a shopping legend. In the evening, we played all these random games to get to know each other better. I suppose the getting-in-line-in-age-order-without-speaking sort of worked. And so did the throwing-coins-at-walls. But the buddy teaming was a disaster. I actually missed my coin-throwing peeps.
Friday:The first day of real competition. Eep. The bus ride was super long. me and Syaz tried to take a picture of the Puchong sign. To no success. Alice Smith School. ASS. Which is why they made it KLASS. Super tacky. Yet polite. We all slept on the bus. At the school, we were waiting in the canteen for quite a while, so we started playing cards. We were the only school doing so, the others were all doing MATHS. It was kind of embarassing, then I remembered that we were the NORMAL ones. So I felt loads better, but still extremely stupid. The night before, these kids who looked way to young to be overseas on their own came up to me and said: "How fast can you do a Rubix cube?" and started solving theirs. My pride wouldn't let me tell them that I'd never done one myself, EVER. There were people who could do it in under 5 minutes. One girl could do it in 20 seconds! I was in WAY over my head. There were kids who looked like they enjoyed calculus. The carousel stuff was ok, quite boring generally. The Dragon round was interesting. What us JIS-ians call Sprint maths. I was the runner, I felt I should leave the maths to the experts: Lenard & Syaz, while I tried to do something productive. ie: Running. We passed so many, the dude at the front actually laughed at me. I almost crashed into other runners a couple of times. I looked like such a retard. After, we had a break with freaky sandwhiches. Oh God, my first embarassing moment of SEAMC. I went to get a drink from those water dispenser thingos, and I pulled the tab down too far, and it got stuck. So naturally, the water comes gushing out and my shoes get drenched. Andrew (HK guy) was laughing like crazy. It was so HELLISH. In the afternoon we had the Maths Trail. That we were far too lazy to even bother to attempt! Eventually, my buddy team merged with about 8 other teams, and we slowly began to split up. This girl from Bangkok and I kind of wandered around for about an hour before we found this other random group we walked around with for a bit longer. Then she found her friends from her school, and I hung out with them for a while. I was so untalkative, I was such an outcast, an outsider, a loner. Then we all met up with the other 200 or so kids in front of fcuk. I found Lenard and Chung first. Then some guy came up and was like "Yo! Borneo guy! Are you Borneo guy too? And you're Borneo girl?" All the way, hun. So he was Hong Kong guy! Then we found Syaz, MC and Kejia and we left that accursed Mall. Outside, we took pictures with Hong Kong Guy, who was actually called Kevin, and met HK Guy's friends.
Then Syaz & I went back to the hotel and shopped some more.
Saturday:Okay, I'm kinda bored of relating my experiences at SEAMC, but I've GOT TO. So I'm gonna skip the Maths parts. In the middle of the team round, I actually had to leave the hall to go to the bathroom, I ran all the way to the UNISEX bathroom. And then I ran all the way back. Syaz, Lenard and I had a nervous breakdown in the middle of the round, we started laughing hysterically at one of the questions. People on other tables and the teachers stared. It was this really ridiculous question. Something about the average age of a class with a teacher who was 42. Our answer? There are 42 boys, 42 girls, the teacher, and they are all 42 years old. Why this cracked us up. But it did. Severely. I also fell down a flight of stairs in GIS. And broke a nail, which I wasn't too worried about until I realised the pain. The presentations by the speakers was strange. I don't really want to relive it. All that "It's Parabola!" crap and the lady's strange card tricks.
The bowling sucked, me and Syaz didn't even start, we just bought chips and watched the others. We left early and went shopping. (What else!?) Found an awesome CD shop and bought my Paolo Nutini Festival Edition. :D Gala dinner was strange too. The speakers were back. And we got there kidna late, so we sat on a table with random people. The guy sitting next to Syaz was teaching his friends how to solve a Rubix cube through the whole dinner. The winners were announced, it didn't include us, surprisingly. HAHAHAHAH. We went to get most of our friend's emails etc and went to go check out the trophy. LOL. We really just spent that night in Chung& Lenard and HK peoples rooms. The HK people were: Kevin, Barton, Justin and Andrew.
Omg, they are spazzier than Joan. It's horrific. We were all actually standing in front of an open, full lift, in pajamas, when someone said "Isn't she the slutty one?" Ohmalord, we ran like hell. They were all glaring at us. :S We exchanged random and strange storied about our school, and described all the weird and wonderful people in JIS. :D Generally an interesting evening, and morning. SEAMC tradition: night of the gala dinner, stay up till morning, messing up someone elses room.
Sunday:Last minute shopping really. Bought, 4 CD's? CD's are insanely cheap in Malaysia so I bought loads. Then we headed home! But, and I swear, I saw this guy at the airport, who looked exactly like JOSH HARTNETT. It was kinda creepy.
And that was basically it! I had run out of money by the end of the trip. :D The whole time we were there, me and Syaz had been trying to get a shot of the sign that said "PUCHONG". AND WE DID! ON THE LAST DAY. It was a team effort. :D
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Got back from SEAMC yesterday. Haha, my buddy team was so dysfunctional. We all couldn't wait to stop the Maths Trail and go shopping. Took hardly any pics this time, my brain was performing too many functions at once to even try and take loads of pictures. My brain was performing so many functions, on Friday I actually forgot to eat, drink, pee, ANYTHING ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL. It was horrific. I thought I had gastric. People who know how much I eat will realise how monumental it is that I could ever, possibly forget to eat!
So we arrived in KL at like one in the morning. The hotel was all too familiar (MYMUN, oh dear.) So I whipped out my jungle survival kit: my iPod. And I slept. :D
KY. They smell funny and the waiting chairs are steel bars. The train also stops randomly, but thanks God it did. We passed some funky graffiti on the way there, and some people were painting over it, so I thought I'd better document the experience (of seeing credible street artwork) before it disappeared forever.
Again, blah-di-blah-blah. The aquarium was alright. I made friends with the turtles. They surfaced to say Hi to me. I KNOW IT. :D
& I really do want some kind of big cat as a pet. Tiger, leopard, lion. PLEASE. Then we went to KLCC to do a bit of shopping, Topshop was very disappointing. Starbucks was great. & Blagh. 
Shopping in MidValley MegaMall was way better. Syaaaazz *wiggles eyebrows*.
Friday:
The bowling sucked, me and Syaz didn't even start, we just bought chips and watched the others. We left early and went shopping. (What else!?) Found an awesome CD shop and bought my Paolo Nutini Festival Edition. :D Gala dinner was strange too. The speakers were back. And we got there kidna late, so we sat on a table with random people. The guy sitting next to Syaz was teaching his friends how to solve a Rubix cube through the whole dinner. The winners were announced, it didn't include us, surprisingly. HAHAHAHAH. We went to get most of our friend's emails etc and went to go check out the trophy. LOL. We really just spent that night in Chung& Lenard and HK peoples rooms. The HK people were: Kevin, Barton, Justin and Andrew.
Omg, they are spazzier than Joan. It's horrific. We were all actually standing in front of an open, full lift, in pajamas, when someone said "Isn't she the slutty one?" Ohmalord, we ran like hell. They were all glaring at us. :S We exchanged random and strange storied about our school, and described all the weird and wonderful people in JIS. :D Generally an interesting evening, and morning. SEAMC tradition: night of the gala dinner, stay up till morning, messing up someone elses room.
