Get my act together.

I seriously have no idea what to blog about these days. There's just so much happening... but they're to personal to put on a online public blog site. Of course its nothing personally bad, but just stuff I take to heart.

So it just hit me a week ago that I'm Form 5. (Yes it took this long for reality to get into my head)

That thought came when I was walking under the bloody hot sun home after school. I was singing a song, and then suddenly I thought about my homework and then


"HHHHOMMMGGGG SHUCKS I'M A FORM 5 STUDENT THIS IS MY LAST YEAR OF SECONDARY SCHOOL I'M GONNA TAKE SPM IN 8 MONTHS I STILL CAN'T GET MY SHIT TOGETHER FOR MY STUDIES I'M GONNA DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!"

Yeah.

So now I finally got that thought, its time to get myself together and start studying.


*lights out*

It's all thanks to you. :)

This is my 4th year being the English Society president in school. And I must be honest, I didn't do a great job in previous years, even though I've had 3 years of experience, in the same society and the same school. And even though I did so poorly, no trips no speakers just games, my members still voted me as their president.  And since this will be my last year as president, being Form 5, I have decided to really dedicate myself to the society even though I have other clubs to attend to. 

Our first achievement this year was our Valentines Day project. This was the first event the society ha ever held throughout my president years. And now our second and probably will be our biggest achievement was to invite local author Jeremy Chin to come to school to share his experiences on becoming a writer. Jeremy Chin wrote the fiction, FUEL. 

And to summarize the whole thing, it was great. There were more people who showed up than I expected, there were more people who bought his book than I expected, and everyone thought Jeremy's talk was inspiring, and his blog post on "Passion" was reeeeeeaally deep. I don't think any of us can write like that ( yet ;) )

At the end of the programme, Pn. Lee presented Jeremy with a small token of appreciation from the English Society. Ferrero Rocher chocolate and a A4 size bookmark that said "Thank You" on one side 

( drawn by great artist Yasmin Shah :D ) and the other size with all the attendees signatures. 

Why do I call this event the society's biggest achievement? 

It was when Jeremy said "I have never felt so important in my life before". He had a crowd of people follow him all the way to the Bilik Tayangan, the signs and an enthusiastic bunch of secondary school kids as his audience.  

Although Jeremy could have been joking about feeling so important, I took it to heart. I'm so proud of my members. :D

Click here to read Jeremy Chin's recap of his visit to SMKBU.

This post is a shotout to my English Society members.

 I just want to say a great big 

THANK YOU 

to all of you who have believed in me for 4 years, 

who come for meetings every week, 

great people to be with,

who are enthusiastic,

who stay dedicated, 

who are funny, 

caring, 

and so much more.

I couldn't have done anything without you all. 

I love you guys so much its bringing tears to my eyes. 

Seriously. 

I dedicate this post to Pn. Suryani.

So we recently did a rumusan on social media. Pn. Suryani asked who has a blog, and yes I do.
She asked for my blog URL but I didn't give it to her, because there's not much here.
But here you go teacher, to show you why I haven't been blogging.

Now I just gotta wait till she finds this URL. xD



*lights out*

Password advice?

I lost my blogger password!

And it NEVER occured to me that I could easily click the "forgot password" button and resolve everything instead of sitting in front of the computer trying to think of all the passwords I have. Yeesh.


Anyway I'm on holiday in the USA :D


WHICH is the reason I lost my password. Since I use my laptop at home I am automatically logged on to Blogger, and now I'm using a different computer, I have to remember ALL my passwords for whatever website that needs logging on to.

WHICH is not a good thing either. I should remember my passwords, in fact, we should all remember our passwords. Sitting in front of the computer trying to remember passwords is a great waste of time, but thats what the "forgot password" button is for.

Oh and here's something for everyone, change your email password, maybe once in 4 months? A lot of you have been unware of sending all your contacts SPAM.

No one likes spam, I don't. Even the meat spam. :P

Well since I'm holiday that means I'm gonna be uploadin' pictures soon!
Till then :D

*lights out*

Don't judge.

About a month ago I applied for the Youth Leadership Program (YLP), which sends 5 selected students to the States for a month. Fully paid. Now who wouldn't wanna apply? Who wouldn't wanna go? So I sent in my application and hoped for the best. In the end I didn't get in, but then I received a call that I was selected to attend a camp in Cherating. "Not many people get this opportunity to go," said the one who called me.

View from my hotel room. 

I had no idea what the camp was about and how many people were going to be there. I thought that this camp was for like... 50 of the top applicants who didn't make it for the YLP program to get a sort of 2nd chance. But since I had no idea the real purpose of the camp, I got really exited.

When my camp forms came in the mail I was really confused. The agenda didn't look like it was for YLP students. But all the same I wanted to go. The name of the camp was Click! camp.

How we were greeted.

Kendrick also applied for YLP, and he got selected for Click!. For me it was kinda nice knowing that I knew someone who was going, because at the end of the day there was someone I could relate to, and talk about camp, even after camp is over. There were only about 30 of us on the bus, and thats when I found out that there were only 13 YLP students, and the rest on the bus were ELS students in PJ. The rest of the campers would be from Kelantan, Terengganu and some Selangor schools. So there would be about 150 of us.  From that moment, I began having doubts about Click!. Now why on earth would they send 13 YLP students for an English camp?


                                    

The only thing we got done on the first day, our group flag.

To summarize the first day, us YLP's weren't having a great time. In fact, we were annoyed. Most of us were elected as group leaders, and since there were 10 groups, some groups only had one YLPer with 10 others they don't know. My group was named Untitled Mystery. You might think it a funny name, but I thought it was kinda cool. :D I was fortunate to have Kendrick in my group, so things were a little bit easier to handle. First glance at my group and you would think none of them even speak English. None of them were even open to giving suggestions for our cultural performance. It was like they were staring at me, and I was the great big book of answers. On top of that, we had to do the Hokey Pokey. When the facilitator asked "Who has done the Hokey Pokey before?" only what... 20 of us put up our hands out of 150? So at night all YLPs gathered for supper and complained about the day. We decided, that if tomorrow gets worse we would have to tell the facilitator and have something done.

Final result. We got 2nd place for this project.

On the second day things got better. During group activities, my group opened up more to suggestions and we were the fastest group to finish the activity. We got the theme "Patriotism" and we had to go on a scavenger hunt around the hotel. So some from my group went to get balloons, some got leaves, sticks, flowers... anything they thought would be necessary to stick onto a mounting board to create a Jalur Gemilang. One of the guys from my group, Zaim, is really creative. He designed our group flag, and he also did the layout of the Jalur Gemilang in pencil so we could stick things on the board more accurately.

Not the actual performance. This was the preliminary round.

Today we also had a group from Kelantan show up, which meant another 8 members or so for each group. With the help of the Kelantanese and my now loosened-up group, we successfully rehearsed our cultural performance. So what happens is we have 3 guys singing dikir barat, and a group sitting down dancing to the song, and on the other side we have 3 other members who would be singing Tik Tok by Ke$ha. And I must say, we were the best grou.p to perform. And fast forward to the 3rd day, my group and a choral speaking group were selected to perform in front of the US Ambassador for their     Alumni dinner that night.                                                                                  


On the last day, we had to do community service around Pahang. Every group was assigned a different place. There was the single mom centre, pre-schools, tele-centres... and my group got the turtle sanctuary. I will not go to far on the turtles. But I will say that we did a pretty good clean-up job while we were there. :) Some people even cried for our closing ceremony.  And I guess, thats the end of our camp.








So why is the title Don't Judge?
After our first day, the YLP's sat together again for breakfast. One of the head facilitators wasn't happy with our unsociable attitude so he had a talk with us, and we asked what was our purpose here at Click!.

Cultural night. 

So we were here to help the other participants, since us from YLP were more exposed and we spoke better English. If we were elected group leaders, we would have to encourage our members to give more suggestions to our activities and stuff like that. If we weren't elected leaders, still give suggestions and hopefully the other members will see that its alright to give suggestions.

I judged my group to quickly. My group members are really smart people. They even had better ideas than I did. When we ran out of blue stuff to stick to our Jalur Gemilang, the quietest boy in our group, Niral, calmly took tissue paper and coloured it blue with a blue marker, in the midst of the rest of the group panicking.

Beach :D

It was time to lower my ego. Being a group leader doesn't make you the best in your team, it just means your there to guide your group. And in my case, encourage them. After we finished any activity, I would tell my group, "Good job!", and not only did it make the group feel good to know we doing awesome, even if we weren't (but we were awesome anyway :D), it made me feel good too.
The people from Kelantan, Terengganu and the other Selangor schools and I were no different from each other. We listened to the same music, we were all from local secondary schools, and our goals for the end of camp were all the same. To be better leaders, or speak better English. I even learned a few Kelantan phrases from my Kelantanese group members, who are actually really funny people.

So Click! was really a learning experience for me. And surprisingly after many leadership camps that I have attended, Click! taught me the most about being a leader. And if I'm ever a group leader for something else again, or even societies in school, I know I can do better. :D

So, even though I had my doubts about Click! in the beginning, I first wanna thank the facilitators for telling me my purpose in camp, and my group facilitators for keeping an eye on me. If it wasn't for them, I probably would have complained the whole camp and not learn a thing.

So thank you Click!, for teaching me how to be a better leader.

*lights out*

A new start.

Alright!
So I finally decided to start a new blog after so long.
And hopefully I'm more serious about blogging this time ;)