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
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