Today 26th January 2008
Morning:
slept at 12.30pm after coming home from the second night of performance for STORM IN A BOX.
woke up at 4 am and went to my aunt's house for some F5 AddMaths guidance for the upcoming Mathematics Quiz at 8am today, that's four hours from now.
Had roti tisu (an Indian delicacy) for breakfast with my aunt at the nearby coffeeshop at 7.30am
8am Met up with my team mates for the registration for the Maths Quiz. I was the last to arrive, as usual, noticing the fact that I begin to like big entrances......
9am entered the exam hall. didnt expect so many schools and students to come.
9.15am played around with my camera while waiting patiently for the question papers to land in front of me.
9.30am after listening intently to the vice dean of the Mathematics Faculty of USM, the question papers were handed out to us. 1st question till 15th question, I could, at least complete it and obtain the answers but the task of answering the remaining 35 questions were like trying to locate a packet of rojak in the Himalayas...... Insufficient time- played the guessing game..
11.30 left the exam hall together with the other students smiling like a fool who underestimated the toughness of the questions... i wasnt alone!........Had lunch.... Happy USM kept to their promise as stated in the papers - no more styrofoam boxes for rice. replaced by cardboard boxes although they are much expensive but I am still proud of USM for having the iniative to do this. Hopefully, other universities,colleges,schools and even the Malaysian society can adapt to this measure to save the world.
12.30 announcement of results. Told myself: No hope. Made a promise to my teammates: if we were shortlisted into the 5 best school teams, I would place both of my pure feet into a toilet bowl.
12.45: went numb- got shortlisted. scored 1 point out of the 20 questions. Jit Sin, the defending champions succeeded in securing their position by getting 4 or more questions correct.
1.15: Chung Ling Butterworth gets 2nd runner up. So, for 1st runner up, it was only Chung Ling or Convent Green Lane. CL vs CGL...............tense...tense.... if we lost to them, we may be in the 4th placing, that is short of one further step to obtain a hamper and the prize.. if that happens, we would have to "am tehhhh"(hokkien word)
1.16 Chung Ling High School ! overjoyed. oversatisfied. shocked. grateful to Mr Chua and Chiew Kok!!!
INTI RObocon challenge on 19th of January 2008
stayed back everday till 4.30pm to work out our robot. the robot's main task was to follow the track using light sensors and pick up a can and finally complete the track and drop the can into a specified zone.
1pm Arrival.
1.3pm Speech by the HM for INTI
2pm reconstruction of robot on the spot starts
realized that we were misinformed about the rules and regulations- paniced- applied self-improvisedmethods into the robot.
realized the organizers didnt do a good job preparing the track which was all bumpy and dirty drawn tracks. ( affects the sensitivity of robot)
4pm Race
we were forced to hand the robot in b4 we even had the time to do final adjustments and update the final computer program into our friend's brain. TOugh luck!!!
robot failed to function as planned. disastrous....
5pm announcement of results. we lost. but at least 3 out of our 11 teams entered the circle of the final 4 titans...
7pm- dashed to Alpha Utara Art Gallery for the launch of our photo exhibition regarding the last 24 hours of 2007. 8 of my photos were on display(2 on the wall) Hehezzzzzzz.
11pm-went home and fell straight onto my bed.
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