Debate in St.Thomas

Okay, out of the blues again...around 8.25, a bombshell dropped! Just like that, Winnie informs us that Puan Kong wants to take the four of us (Esther, Nisha, Kristen and I) to SMK. St. Thomas to watch the interschool debate so that we could gain experience for next year. We weren't even informed about it the day before or anything. Just like that and we left in Puan Kong's red kelisa to St.Thomas. The Form4s were debating against St.Mary and they cast lot and were the opposition for the stand which was, "Homework is a Burden". So, from 8.30 to 9.50, Esther, Nisha, Kristen and I sat in St. Thomas canteen. Okay, I really admire the school for one thing, cleanliness. No rubbish! No sweet wrappers just like you would find in St. Teresa that we prefects need to pick up early in the morning! Then, we came to a conclusion why St. Thomas was so clean, the canteen dose NOT sell JUNK FOOD! So that means no candy wrappers and etc. Maybe Mr. Su should do that to St. Teresa, healthy eating and cleaner grounds. The canteen looks like a food court, so much different compared to our canteen plus...where can you ever find roti canai stores in school canteens? Strangest school canteen ever. Never seen one quite like that. Puan Kong and Puan Sandy had some food there and Rhema's mother (a Stampin school teacher in charge of her school's debate) was there eating too. Then Puan Kong, Puan Sandy and the rest of us sat by the two stairs that lead up to the English SALC room and whatever other rooms there are. Another conclusion we made was that Thomians were vain, check out how many mirrors they have hanging on random walls. The girls' toilets weren't as clean as St. Teresa's girls' first floor toilets but still quite clean perhaps just old looking that's all and it was way, way behind the science blocks. What a funny place to place a toilet. Then, the debate started between St. Mary and St. Teresa, it was Ann Marie Tan, Sonia Luhong and Jylene Tay for St. Mary against Jervynna Teh, Diyana and Felicity. The first two speakers from St. Mary had pretty weak points...kind of stupid if you ask me. The third speaker was much better than the other two. Well of course...St. Teresa won!!! St. Teresa leads the way!!! Congrates, congrates. So, we Form3s had to leave around 12.30 like that when it ended, Puan Sandy took us back to school. So practically, we didn't study today at all, we hung around in St. Thomas the entire morning. Luckily, the teachers didn't teach much. So then, afternoon from 2pm to 5pm (which, it was suppose to end at 4pm!!!) I had to attend this emcee workshop by Dunstan Chan. Not bad pretty interesting except for the fact that it was one hour longer than it was supposed to be. It was all about planning for St. Teresa's concert night on the 22nd of April and talked about rehearsal, sound checks and dadadadada...Then we had to read passages to show him where our reading skills lie at. Then we got split up into two groups to write the emcee speech for that night and something about a winning team. Kind of forgot bits about it, the next emcee workshop will be on the next Wednesday. Then at 4pm right...I remembered, "oh yeaaah...St. Teresa's debate against Batu Lintang ends now. I wonder what they got???". Then approximately 10-15 minutes later, the debaters came in, crying, they lost...argh! How can! Claudia and Felicity (the two debaters who were in the resource room with us preparing for tomorrow's debate) stopped typing their speeches instantly. Sigh, welcome to the debating world, winners sweepers, losers weepers. When I was back in the English SALC room at St. Thomas I overheard one of the teachers talking about St. Thomas' victory over some school in debating despite not having a stand and how could they win without a stand. Wonder who were the debaters for St. Thomas, I overheard a Form5 student's name while standing near the registration table but no idea who were the rest. Speaking of debates, my debate team still hadn't gotten our topic yet...such short time for preparation! Since it is this coming Wednesday