26th December 2004 : Just Before Worlds…

Before I started with my stories, let’s have a brief idea why we (me, Won, Francis, Hanni & Hanlun) wanted to join this Worlds as committees in the first place. The reason is mainly because we these “katak di bawah tempurung” wished to meet and get to know those debaters from all around the world. It’s absolutely not a common thing to meet such a huge crowd (around 1000 people) in such a short while (9 days)! And, basically we’ve met some foreign “leng zais--handsome”, hehehehee….the further stories will be told in one of my future articles :>

Alright, back to 26th Dec. We (me & Swee won) started our journey towards Grand Seasons Hotel at about 2pm. Our friend, Chuen Cheat fetched us there, as we’ll be having a meeting at 4pm there. But, due to traffic jam and a stopped at Lowyat to buy printer inks, we reached Grand Seasons Hotel at about 5pm, one hour late :p We thought we’re late already, but after that found out that we both are the earliest among LD team(Won, Francis, Hanni, Hanlun, Joanne & me). For your information, LD stands for Longest Debate, an event that was held at 6th & 7th November 2004 for 36 hours non-stop at KL Tower. Oh, the meeting haven’t start actually :D

Once we reached Grand Seasons, we went to the Worlds’ Official Counter and then straight up to a hotel room. We’re not lazy okay…we were assigned to print out the 25 years of Worlds history and also the participants Guidebooks on the previous night, and we’re still working on it today. So, I bet you can guess how much is the total amount to be printed *a lot* So, we continued our tasks in the room, until don’t know what time…then, dinner time \:D/

We (me, Won, Joanne and Francis) actually walked to The Mall, about 1km walk from Grand Seasons :-& and ate there. By the time we walked back to Grand Seasons, the dinner that we’ve just ate were digested already *sigh* At 8pm, the meeting is called. We all gathered in the Operation Room (Ops room in short) and had our first meeting in Grand Seasons.

At midnight, we (me, Joanne, Geno, Dan and Francis) accompanied a group of Bangladeshi debaters for supper at a mamak, which is right behind Grand Seasons Hotel. We introduced Malaysia’s well known “teh ais---a kind of tea" to them, and they liked it.

We: “How was the drink?”
Them: “Excellent!” (hehehe…happy to hear that :p)

There’s a small incident happened in that mamak though. A half naked fierce guy came into the mamak and started to shout and scold people. We all was scared and kept on praying that nothing bad will happen. Fortunately, our prayer works! :)>- After back to the hotel, it’s already 3 something midnight. We’re tired and sleepy, like dead body with panda eyes walking around :p So, it’s bed time :> Got back to our room and saw Won was still printing *poor thing* By the way, did you ever noticed that she didn’t follow us to supper?!

Sleep till the next morning 6 something and crawled up to start our job @_@ Today is 27th December. The Worlds are here man!!