Friday, September 26, 2008

We still rock

Yo Mel, I think we can win the award for the most frequently updated blog! I mean, 8 posts in 2008 alone? Must be a new record.

Anyway, what I really needed to talk about is the Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd., one of the main main main offenders of the China milk scandal drama. I found this statement on their website:

So far, Yili Group owns 200 quality livestock farms with over 2 million of superior-breed cows under its control, which makes further assurance for the supply of high-quality raw milk.

To strictly monitor the production process, Yili took the lead in creating the all-process, all-directional, and all-staff “Three-A ”quality management system. Meanwhile, Yili also took the lead in the production process to use the international advanced technology of UHT and aseptic filling, to ensure the products safe and healthy.
"..products safe and healthy," MY FOOT LA.

The homepage of the website is dedicated not to their products, but to the enormous amount of profit they gained throughout the years.

Yeah that's all. Oh, I failed my maths extension, just thought you'd like to know.

.CARYN

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Think your sister is a pain in the butt??

Meet the Hansel twins, the oldest living co-joined twins in the world! They turn 18 this year!!
They each control one side of their body, but they're able to coordinate so well!!!
Say wow...



From a website:

A set of twins who share the same body have celebrated their 18th birthday in the United States. Abigail and Brittany Hensel from Minnesota are the oldest conjoined twins in the world. The girls, who have two hearts, and two spinal chords, but share the same torso have lived their lives side by side.

The teens who enjoy swimming, playing the piano and recently got their drivers’ licenses said they had no intention of being separated.

The girls have beaten the odds and doctors’ expectations to reach their milestone. It is believed there are only four sets of twins who share the same torso and have survived into adulthood. And they are on track to graduate from university, and hope to have a family of their own one day.

“We want to be mums, but haven’t thought how it would work,” Abigail said. The girls passed their driving exams with two separate licenses and two separate tests. Abigail worked the pedals, and Brittany used the indicators and they both held the steering wheel.

Their parents, nurse Patty, and carpenter Mike 48, decided not to have the twins separated at birth despite the risks. “From the first time we saw them we thought they were beautiful,” she told the Sunday Mirror. -telegraph

Monday, June 9, 2008

GOODBYE CRAZY NAIL!

MUAHAHAHAHAHA!


My toenail's falling off


MdeBCMM

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Holidays? What holidays?

I'm coming to the end of my mid year holidays. Just today and tomorrow left and then its back to school. Although of course, I've not actually stopped going to school -.-


Macam biasalah, ELDS practices for this year's Golden Jubilee were held during the school holidays. We weren't the only ones there; ELDSjr, Malay dancers and the school band came back too to practice. The band have a competition on 11th June. They've been camping in school, in the new (air-conditioned) Art Gallery for the past week. They're really a disciplined lot, much more so than us laid-back ELDSers, walking in anytime between 7 and 11, when everyone's supposed to be in the hall by 8. 

Then there was the Commemorative Book to think about. Third dummy done and STILL there's corrections. Its almost unbelievable, the amount of corrections there still are after we've all checked them over and over again.

On Friday last week (30th June), I went for the MELTA spelling competition. Its a team event thing, the Senior team was made up of TSMA, MYW and I. The Junior team consisted of my sister, VNYL and LS. It was pretty simple, all you gotta do for the first three rounds is spell whatever word they throw at you (First round: Any word. Second and third rounds: Choose either topic, Science or Mathematics). The two teams with the highest marks at the end of the third round go through to the fourth round where you spell a word and then construct a sentence using that word. I cheated a bit there: My word was genre and the first sentence that came to mind was "I tried to explain to my friend was 'genre' meant." They accepted it! But then again, they accepted any sentence, even the ones that didn't make sense. Case in point: Some guy said "I like the silhouette of music." Huh? Anyway, both teams won! Each team took home RM500, making it a grand total of RM1000. Not sure how we're splitting the money with school, hopefully its RM100 for each participant and school gets RM400. I think that's pretty fair.

The thing I like about holidays is that I can devour any amount of books I lay my hands on. I practically bulldoze through books. I read: Stardust, Alex Rider: Snakehead (Got both these books from the Popular Bookfest last Saturday), The Nine Lives of Chloe King, a couple of Agatha Christie classics and some others which made good reading material but don't stick in your head. Light stuff, ya know?

Bookfest was really worth it. After reading the reviews on the net, JY, MH and I weren't really expecting much. But when we went there, WOW! The amount of books they had! And the prices of stationery! Normally, for correction tape refill, I pay about 6.90 for two pieces. There, JY and I split a box of ten refills which cost RM19.90. CHEAP RIGHT?!?! There was a Canon exhibition on at the same time, which Fahrenheit (Initial reaction: Who?) supposedly attended but when we left at 3 pm they still hadn't shown up.

Today's the King's birthday. Read: Public Holiday. Also Click Five at Gentings and Roxy Summer Splash at Sunway. My supposed homework day, but hahahahaha, haven't started on it yet. A lot of people's birthdays now, including: CTMC!!! CTMC woke up on 3rd June 2008 to find that she'd somehow turned 17 overnight. Rafael Nadal celebrated his birthday the same day by thrashing Nicolas Almagro at the French Open.

That's basically it for now. Ta then :D

MdeBCMM

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Exams

Forwarded from a friend :-

It takes 150 trees to produce the amount of paper that we use in one exam.

Join us to save the trees.

"SAY NO TO MID-YEAR EXAMS!"


MdeBCMM

Of birthdays and jogathons

8th May 2008 was my sister's birthday! I didn't buy her anything, rather I made a banner-esque thing that said HAPPY BIRTHDAY and baked cookies which spelled out HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY NAdeBCMM! Her friends sang Happy Birthday to her FIVE times in school, got her cake and all. Then about 10pm on FlyFM there was this shoutout "Assuntarians and Sri Amanians - You rock! Happy birthday NAdeBCMM!". My grandparents came for dinner and brought all kinds of fantastic food with them - birthday mee, roti jala, curry, chocolate cake and fruit salad.

Today, I went for the World Asthma Day jogathon at 7.30am. Mummy registered me a little late so there weren't enough numbers for my brother, CC, her dad and I. Instead, we got numbers that said VIP :D My number was VIP (3). As we were wearing VIP numbers, we couldn't competitively, we were just running for fun. So I jogged the 5 km in my own sweet time, keeping pace with CC. Took 50 minutes to finish it. Big blisters on my big toes :( The winners of the boys' categories were all timing 17:00 minutes ++ while the girls times about 30:00 minutes ++. After the run, the officials gave me two food coupons so I had double the food portions. Then I dropped my running number into the lucky draw box. I made my brother hang around till lucky draw time at the end of the day. And my number was drawn! !!!!! Not often that I win lucky draws. Anyway, I got two free passes to watch Ironman at Gardens at 12.30 today. I didn't particularly want to go so I gave the tickets to my brother, who couldn't find anyone to go with him.

I should be studying, I'm in the middle of mid-year exams. Physics and Chemistry tomorrow! 

Happy Mothers' Day, all!


MdeBCMM

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Of mud, grit and speed

And so, that's it. My final Sports Day. (Just writing that sentence brings tears to my eyes). No more running for Assunta House and screaming my lungs out for the marchers, cheerleaders and runners. No more shouting myself hoarse at runners whom I KNOW can do so much better.  And this is the worst-There may be no more hurdles for me. MSSD, MSSS and Sports Day are over and done with. Didn't make the grade for MSSM, which is at the end of this month. Even if we go for any of the other schools' Sports Days, which they've invited us for, it'll only be for 4x100m. We've been for MSSS relays before, which are nearer the end of the year, but it's still JUST RELAYS. My hurdles, my pet event for the past 7 years, I'll probably never do again. Maybe I'll go for some Opens or something (Truly hope I can), then I'll be reunited with those striped pieces of wood. 

Anyway. Assunta House went to Sports Day today hoping to defeat Francis House, who have long been in the top half of Sports Day. Hermine's been leading almost all the way. We were only 22 points behind Francis, if we did well today, we'd rank second overall. Thus it was in high spirits that our deco team went to work, our marchers marched, our runners flew and our cheerleaders performed. As usual, the day began with Negaraku and prayers, then the marching parade began. As this year's theme was Flora, all the house mascots were dressed as flowers. Assunta's JT from Form 2 was a hibiscus, SO of Hermine was a sunflower, and I couldn't quite catch what Clare's FL and Francis's NY were. The ones holding the "sepanduk" were in traditional garb, mainly cheongsams and sarees. As the procession went round the field, Sports Captain AA had to stop and wait a while as she'd been going too fast so not everyone had started when she reached the end of the field again. Then she started again, not realising Assunta Alumni had yet to start moving. But it went well. 

Then the running events started!! The hurdles were brought out and set up, only six to a lane instead of the normal ten, as many of the hurdles are spoilt from being thrown every-which-way into the store room. We weren't allowed to wear spike shoes for ANY of the events, even individual events like the 100m and 100m hurdles, which don't cross into other people's lanes (I thought this was incredibly stupid, sorry if I'm offending anyone but hello? We run SO MUCH BETTER IN SPIKE SHOES. The reasoning that we might "step on someone" or "borrow spike shoes from school and not wash/return them" just doesn't apply. We've NEVER been allowed to borrow from school for Sports Day anyway. And in the individual events, do you think we'd purposely cross into someone else's lane, disqualifying ourselves in the process, just to step on them? I think not). The start of the lanes was muddy as its been raining really heavily these past few days, so it was pretty slippery. I decided to dig holes in the ground to use as "starting blocks" (which is why my nails are disgusting right now). It helped a little. My event went well, I grabbed the gold. Right after that was the 400m. I thought this would be the event to make or break my chances of being Best Athlete (It was a 3 way race for Best Athlete-IR already had two golds, L had 2 golds and I was trying to get 3 individual golds today) as IR and I were both in this event and both trying to get Best Athlete. I really gave my all in today's 400m. And-GOLD!!!!! I was exhausted, but proud of myself. People kept coming up to me to offer congratulations but I had to keep brushing them off as I couldn't talk properly or anything. I knew I should walk around and try to get my breath back for the next event, but it was SO difficult to even get up. I was alternately sitting and lying down. Band gave a short performance, giving me some time to catch my breath. Then, just as we were about to walk over to the tent to await the start of the 100m, I threw up. I just retched. (Don't read the next few lines if you're squeamish). I'd had marmalade and toast for breakfast, so it was all orange. Could see bits of my toast and marmalade coming out as well. It was mainly liquids, but it felt so good to have it all come out. At that moment in time, I really didn't want to run the 4x100m, I just wanted to go for my 100m, do it to the best of my ability (Yeah, I'm selfish. I still wanted the Best Athlete award but wasn't too fussed about the team event) and be done with it. So, I made my way over to the 100m start, still feeling a bit woozy but much better than before my throw-up. This was another make-or-break event. If L were first, the award was hers. If I got it, then it'd be mine. If either of us got second and someone else (not one of us) was first, then Best Athlete would be between the second-placed girl and IR. Once the P2 had started, we tried out our lanes. I had the same lane as earlier (3rd lane, my favourite. I got this lane for 100m hurdles, 400m and 100m. 5th lane for 4x100m) but I still had to re-dig my "starting blocks". I got off to a poor start. L and ED started really well. They were head to head and it was difficult to tell who had won at the end. I couldn't catch up with them, landing in 3rd place, totally dashing my hopes of being Best Athlete. 

The next event was cheerleading. Juniors went first, followed by the Seniors. I didn't go watch as I was still trying to get over my tiredness. Miss T gave me a whole cupful of salt water to "regain energy". It was so salty!! Tasted like she'd mixed a whole bag of salt in the water. Judging by the cheers of the crowd and what friends said, I thought we'd done pretty well. The final event of the day, the decider of the P1 Best Athlete was the 4x100m. By this time, I'd recovered, so I went ahead with being 4th runner for Assunta. My team consisted of Jay, JY, JL and myself (Yeah, I ran with all the Js). Jay got off to a good start. We were in the outermost lane, so it was difficult to tell if she was actually in the lead or in front because of the curve. JY got the baton, then fell behind to 4th place. JL did an awesome job of getting us back to third, but by then it was too late. I ran against IR, L and T (3 of us school runners) and came in 3rd. Disappointing, but not as disappointing as if this had been the tie-breaker for Best Athlete for myself. Its my own fault for losing the 100m race. 

Then it was prize-giving. For 100m P1, ED got the gold!! And then it was clear who had won Best Athlete, the tie-breaker being 4x100m. Didn't even have to wait for official announcement and I knew. For marching, Clare took home the trophy. Hermine took the trophy for Merentas Desa (I think). Best House Decoration went to Francis. Best Mascot went to Hermine. All my Assunta life I've been under the impression that if you're first for Junior/Senior cheerleading, you can't be first in the other category. So when they announced the Juniors results, JY and I were going "gold gold gold gold". Clare was second and ASSUNTA WAS FIRST!!!! Then we waited impatiently for the Seniors results. Second......CLARE!!! We were going shoot, that means we didn't get it. But then! "Johan Cheerleading Senior tahun 2008 - ASSUNTA!!!" Everyone started cheering like crazy. 'Twas a grand day. Then the best athletes were announced. P3 - Can't remember. Heh. P2 - Thchn from Assunta!!! P1 - IR from Hermine!!! She'd got it based on the results of the 4x100m, in which her team was first. L's team was second.

Then, what we were waiting for - overall results. Clare - fourth. A tense moment as we waited for 3rd placing. We didn't beat Francis :( Francis second, and what was obvious from the start - Hermine first. AA went up to get the trophy and she was so overcome, she started crying. Made ME want to cry. 

All's well that ends well. We finished the day with the singing of the school song. A bit of cleaning up, then snacks in the canteen. 


I can't say that I'm not disappointed in myself. I am - I was aiming for Best Athlete so much. Its my last year and I really wanted to go out with a big bang. But I am proud of myself - for putting the effort in, for getting the gold for hurdles, and especially for beating IR in the 400m. That medal really means a lot now. 


I'll post up photos and videos once I've uploaded them. Tata :D


MdeBCMM

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

AHEM!!

ATTENTION TO WHOEVER WHO IS READING THIS BLOG AND ALSO TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT READING THIS BLOG

TOMORROW IS A VERY IMPORTANT DAY

17 YEARS AGO (WOW.. SEVENTEEN!!) OR WAIT, 17 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS AGO, IN A DARK AND CREEPY PLACE, A ZYGOTE OR HOWEVER YOU SPELL IT WAS CREATED! THIS WAS NO ORDINARY ZYGOTE; IT WAS A CLUSTER OF VERY DANGEROUS CELLS THAT GREW AND FLOURISHED AND SOON BECAME WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS.......

M D B C M M !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

DON'T LEARN BIO???? AIYO.

WHAT I AM ACTUALLY TRYING TO SAY IS ..

ITS MELISSA'S BIRTHDAY TOMORROW!! THE CO-FOUNDER AND CO-WRITER AND HALF THE BRAINS BEHIND THIS BLOG IS CELEBRATING HER 17TH BIRTHDAY.

SO HAVE A BLESSED AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY OK!!

AND I'M YELLING ALL THIS CAUSE I AM QUITE UNABLE TO CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT AT HOW YOU ARE GROWING SO OLD AND ANCIENT WHILE I REMAIN YOUNG AND SWEET AND ADORABLE FOREVER.

CHEERSSS~~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

---CTMC