BOSLIB 4th Annual Dinner

Hmmm, finally I decided to blog about this. Should've been blogging about this last week but it seems that my lazy bones took over... Anyways, the Board Of Student Librarians had the 4th annual dinner to celebrate the 40th anniversary on the existence of the Library, or also called Kutub Khanah Tunku. it was held in the school hall of PFS because the budget was kinda tight and not everyone is willing to pay RM55 for a hotel room with sucky food. We decided to do catering and decorate the hall by ourselves.

The stage wordings

Welcome, Shyamala did a really good job...

We also had to rent tables for the guests of course, as there are no tables free of charge or available for us. We added a bowl of mini candles though to make it look decent and maybe, slightly romantic *nonsense*...

The table and seatings...

I went early to help out with anything left undone, but its seems pretty much ok, so I walked around taking pictures.

The prizes for lucky draw...

Princess Toh Ann Gie

Grandpa took photo with grandson...

2 lovely ladies working in the register...

Lucky draw bowl, nice huh...

After that, the dinner begins with the speech by Heal Librarian, Thinagaran. Less than a minute speech, and was continued by the Teacher Advisor, Mr. Tan. Before the dinner begins, we had a little game. Everyone will receive a piece of paper cut from a picture, and they were supposed to find the picture it was cut from. The pictures were pasted on the base of the arch in the hall, and supposingly, there will be 8 people in each group. The 1st group to hand in all 8 pieces arranged properly into a photo to Randy wins.

After that, the dinner begins... *music rolls*

FOOD! The ladies get to take 1st, before us gentlemen...

More food...

During the dinner, the video that Thina helped me make was played. I was very nervous because the video was not that well made because I didn't have Adobe After Effects, nor I know how to use it... It was clearly, noobly made with Windows Movie Maker. Luckily the crowd didn't think so, which relieved me... I was too nervous and was looking for paperbags for my face when the video is played I didn't take any photos...

Then it was the Lucky Draw Part I. Pictures will do the talking.

Agnes won a lucky draw

After that, performances from the duty days, Monday+Wednesday, Tuesday and Thursday. Monday+Wednesday was a complete chaos, since neither days have prepared anything. Tuesday was a drama of an ugly guy, Banana, got rejected by 2 girls, and wishes to change. The fairy later changes him into a pretty girl, and she was caught to be the 99th wife of the king. The prince saves her and somehow, she changed back to an ugly guy. The End... Thursday was a dance, consisting 3 people, song was something Criminal, by Michael Jackson. *I'm not a fan of him*

Afterwards, prize presentation Part II. Pics will do the talking again.

Khang Yang won a lucky draw...

Afterwards, cake cutting ceremony. We bought a cake, written 40th anniversary. The committees of term 2007/2008, 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 get to cut the cake... Poor cake... cut 3 times in front of the whole guest... Again, didn't take any picture because I was up there, and couldn't get a nice angle...

After that, another game. A simple pass-fishball-through-spoons-with-your-mouth game. Whoever gets most fishball to the end wins.

After the game, photoshoot session, whoever wanna take photos, they are free to do so. After that, the dinner ends and the day is ov.... NOT QUITE YET!!! Committees had to stay back and clean the hall... The most tiring session among all sessions throughout the whole day... Went back at 12am and reached home at 1am due to the friggin' flood that causes the traffic to be god damn congested... Thats pretty much all about the dinner...

Signed off,
Teng Aun.

BOSLIB Annual Dinner Preparation

Ah.... The main project of Board Of Student Librarians will be launching its program tomorrow... On the 18th of September 2009, the 4th annual dinner held by BOSLIB to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Kutub Khanah Tunku, will be held in the Sacred Hall of Penang Free School... Many might think this idea is absurd, but it actually cuts a LOT of cost, and it might even be memorable since it IS the library of Penang Free School...

Though, one major problem... The last day of SPM Trials was today. Therefore, we had to clean up the hall, arrange the tables, carry some plants for decoration, sort out the chairs according to the table and stick the wordings on the stage. The job is not only for Thinagaran, of course, it involves all (well, most, since not all turned up) of the committees of BOSLIB. I actually stayed back to finish up the video I'm suppose to present during the dinner, but somehow, I got dragged into this activity... I'm gonna let the pictures do the talking for the cleaning part...

Laura Teh, slave-driver...

Magheswaran, slave-driver wannabe, but failed...

The hall after the desks were all cleared up...

One of the sla... *AHEM* committee cleaning up...

Slackers slacking?

Pretty much cleared up, just need to throw the rubbish...

I have no idea what they were doing...

Poser...

'Taylor Swift', Malaysian-version...

Pro in action...

Sleepy, yet happy for some reason...

Thanks pretty much all of the cleaning part... Went to the library to continue of the video presentation. Took like 1 hour and a half to complete everything... This is the 3rd video I did for ONE OCCASION! The other 2 were kinda rejected... 1st video took Sau Fei like 7 hours to complete, 2nd video took me 6 hours to complete, and 3rd video took a total of 5 hours + to complete, since the photos were actually pre-inserted...

Went back to the hall to show the video, some giggles, and some serious faces, good or bad? I don't know, and seriously, I don't wanna know... Bringing a plastic bag to cover my face when this video is being presented...

I'll post more when the dinner ends, hopefully it would turn out successful and better than what we all had expected. We have achieved the target of total participants, so hopefully things will be in control from now...

Signed off,
Teng Aun.

Nyonya-Style Dinner

I seem to be crapping a lot about nonsense in this blog nowadays... Ah well, these seems to release some stress outta me so why not? 2 days ago, went to Perut Merah, a Bungalow-Style Nyonya-Food Restaurant. In the outside, it looks like an old house that was just given a paint job. Inside, the atmosphere was totally different... Beautifully decorated... But of course, such beautifully decorated places don't serve food priced at RM1~5... and I was right... Simple dishes could actually skyrocket to the top...

This shot is great for "Little Nyonya" DVD cover.. haha!

Brought our own wine, 5 litres. God, there's only 13 people, 5 litre is a little too much... Well anyways, my uncle is vegetarian, so he gotta walk to the opposite side of the road to buy vegetraian sub from SUBWAY. Got bored waiting for food so I took pictures of items close to my seat.

Old time equipments... with a vase of flower.

After that, dinner was served. It was neither suprising, special or good, since most of the dishes are what my mom use to make at home, and mom's cooking are always the best *slurp*! Everybody keep helping themselves with the food before I could even take a picture of the dishes...

Nasi Ulam... and other dishes...

As we all know, the eating process won't take long, probably 20~30 minutes, and all the food was cleared up. Then, its the talking session. That day, every single aunt and uncle from my father's side of the family (practically, my grandma's childen) came. I was the only one from my generation. My sister, cousins and relatives were all absent. So, no conversation for me... They keep talking about finance, political stuffs, Malaysian status, etc. etc. I was listening to my MP3 all along, and my aunt called me anti-social... Sigh, there was nothing much to talk about that time anyways, those weren't exactly my favourite topic...

I thought the talking session would be over soon, but to my deep anger, it lasted 3 LONG HOURS! I've listened to the same song repeating over and over again just to wait for them to finish their conversation. They stayed so long because there were loads of leftover for the wine... I prefer driving to Kuala Lumpur than to sit in this boring occasion... Hopefully I don't get invited to such occasions anymore... Keeping my fingers crossed my parents and any of my uncles/aunts won't see this...

Signed off,
Teng Aun.

I'm going CRRRRAAAAAZZZZZYYYY~~~~!!!!

Life in Form 6 was absolutely pleasant, until bad news started pouring in one by one, tearing all of us apart... Its been only 4 months of Form 6 life and I am about to explode! I'll just talk about my curricular problems before I move into co-curricular ones, which obviously everyone MUST have a problem in...

Lets discuss about the teachers 1st shall we?

Physics- Miss Choong Lai Yong and Pn. Rosmawati. Seriously, why 2 teachers? Don't ask me, I'm having the same confusion... Miss Choong, absolutely excellent, I can say one of the greatest teacher in PFS, walking Physics dictionary, clear explanation, perfect teaching method. On a scale of 1~10, I'd give her 15. Pn Rosmawati... She was my teacher during Form 5, and I wasn't already paying much attention to her, not because I don't want to, but its because I can't possibly do so... Broken English and especially LCD-dependant... Worse comes to worse, she is new to form 6 syllabus... Oh well, I still think she is better then UBO... so 5/10. Credits to her caring attitude on our exams...

Chemistry- Pn. Jumaiyah, a new teacher this year. Suprisingly teaching in Form 6... My form teacher as well... Extremely good-hearted and caring, personality and ability to teach is almost like comparing the two After-Life places, Heaven and Hell... Being very new, not exposed tot he syllabus, reading directly from notes instead of elaborating, are possible all cons of her... However, she is still able to answer our questions though... 6/10.

Math- Mr. Khor Bean Hwa, math genius. Its like a walking calculator... The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, using his own methods to solve problems. Facts wise, very strong. Teaching wise... I never liked one-note speeches... 7/10.

P.A. -Mr. Ooi Eng Lye, superbly fast in Kenegaraan... I always have tension in his class. never know whats gonna happen, very unpredictable. So unpredictable, I couldn't think of a score...

MUET- Mr. Tan Eng Kheng, humourous, and very understanding. Good and experienced. Just didn't really give us enough practice on speaking, mostly on objectives or structured questions... 7/10.

Currently I'm having difficulty with Physics, since I don't have any tuition on that subject. Not only it is hard to find a Form 6 tuition, a good one will be like finding a needle in a haystack. Been to some places and wasted my $ for inexperience teaching and lousy notes... Miss Choong should be able to help me, but not all the time~~~. The rest of the subjects should be fine...

Co-curricular now. I've joined Red Cresent, and became a normal member, which is good. The head of the Form 6 Section is Thina, which is even better. The meetings held are not that much, which is the best. Personally, not much problems yet with Red Cresent, so lets move on to clubs. I've joined Buddhist Students' Society (haihz...), but thankfully I was elected as Student Advisor. Being a Secretary for a year was killing. Combination of Miss Lee and Miss Yeoh, ain't that good! If I were a cat, I would have already used up 8 lives... Being a Student Advisor, practically noting much to do, since its not even in the chart of posts. I don't really care about KK marks right now, since I found out it is practically useless... Next, Pinhorn, lets just skip this, theres nothing much about this. BOSLIB, or Board Of Student Librarians. I've been elected IT Officer, dear god... This is where my fears come from. Its been only a month taking over this job, I gotta make a video presentation for the Annual Dinner, prepare a booklet, held photoshoots (thanks for the help, Thina) and make library cards... I never thought all this will be thrown on me... I don't really mind doing it, but somehow it seems that all I'm worried about right now is about it. The dinner video, the cards, everything. Besides that, There are so many problems that fall upon which really brings me down. The pendrive and photoshoot problem, really freaks me out. I dunno if I could stand on this job any longer, its getting tougher along the way...

Well, with all this problems going around me, the government had to add salt to injury... It is now confirmed that all Form 6 will dismiss at 4pm, from 7.30am, bringing total time in school to 10 hours and 30 minutes... They say, they wanna bring the college style to Form 6, but get a brain will you guys? How is it possible to match them when Form 6 has fixed timetable with every slot filled while college ones are more flexible, with break times in between classes... Besides that, co-curriculur activities will be as normal. The teachers in my school are now going back only at 4pm. They have their own family issues to take care on, caging them in school till 4 is not exactly the best idea. Principals have the authority to go in and out of school anytime, so I do not think it is fair for the teachers... Students as well, aren't getting any of that. Basically, we just stay in school till 4pm, participate in KK activities till 6.30pm approx., go tuition till 10pm, go home, and sleep? What about homework? Or are they trying to tell a message to stop taking tuitions? If so, ARE YOU CONFIDENT IN GIVING US THE BEST EDUCATION? Not only to us Form 6 students, but to other forms too. Seriously, I've had it with the Malaysian education system. So much for Merdeka spirit, spoiled terribly by this news...

Over the time it seems that my blog has been a place for me to release my anger, so please, to all readers, please do not take any offense from my posts... Not in a very good mood nowadays...

Signed off,
Teng Aun.

Sudden Blackout...

It was a normal Chemistry tuition with Mentos Cool Mints and a bottle of bali. The tuition runs for 3 hours and the break is usually around 6.30. Everything was normal, as always, until today, something *unexpected* and ... new happened today. Usually the class has about 3 air conditioners on since its quite a big class...

Around 6.20, near break time, the teacher was teaching normally, till a sudden BLACKOUT happened! Wrong colour for that word, don't you think? But then again, black will make it blend COMPLETELY with the background... There are loads of girls there, so I was expecting screams and shouts since my previous tuitions they did that eventhough it was just a mistake by the teacher for accidentally switching off the lights... Well, no screaming today... It remained silence for about 10 seconds, then screams, *fake* shouts and noise started rising... The noise was loud, but the crowd was suprisingly controlled...

People in front of me during blackout...

The sir has no choice but to call the break early. I couldn't see anything so I just chat with my friends beside me for a while. In less that 5 minutes, the crowd was reduced to this...

3 quarter of them were missing...

Mostly due to the blackout, or its just plain break time, so people started wondering around, I dunno! I got bored so I just took those 2 pictures secretly, and people in front of me were starring at me as if I was crazy, taking dumb pictures of plain black...

Chat with my friends for a little longer, and about 10 minutes later, the electricity was back. The sir explained that in 15 years of teaching in this centre, this is the 3rd time this happened without notice, whereas the whole area was cut on electricity... Usually they will give notice on this and he will personally message the students to shift the class...

Well anyways, since the lights were back on, we settled down and continues studying. Didn't take any picture of the class when the lights were back, people could actually spot me and scan my face so they would remember the moron who take dumb pictures of the class and posts it on his blog or facebook... Well that is pretty much all, my 2nd shortest blog (I THINK), having my intro being the 1st...

Signed off,
Teng Aun.