29th December 2004 : First Day in MMU

Finally, we’re heading towards Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya. All the buses were supposed to leave KLI in between 7:30am till 8:15am, as the Round I debate was scheduled to start at 9am. However, there were a bit of delays though, as usual *grin* You get what I mean, don’t you? It’s pretty difficult to get up at this early morning, especially for certain universities students that are used to be sleeping late :p like me :”>

I followed the 3rd bus, with Won and the group of Bangladeshi that I’ve went for supper with. Won and I just kept on talking and laughing in the bus, which helped drove our tiredness and sleepiness away ^_^ We reached campus at about 9:20am, went down at STAD building, then straight away lead the debaters to the debate’s briefing room, MPH. There were runners allocated along the way, between certain distances, wearing organizing committee’s T-shirt. Some of them actually greeted Won and I, as if we’re also debaters :)) But the fact is, we’re the committees without the committee’s T-shirt :p Why? It’s because we haven’t wash the T-shirt that we’ve wore on the previous day, and we’ve only got one T-shirt! *excuses*

I saw Won was talking to Miles, a cute handsome guy from Croatia in between the lecture halls. So, I walked to them and joined their conversation. Miles has very charming smiles *his smiles killed Won >:) muahahaha* He invited us to watch his Round II debate. We watched him and his partner, Mike debated as the opposition party. Mike is another cute, handsome, friendly and a bit naughty guy, from Croatia as well. He likes to smiles and winks at us @-) *oh god, I’m gonna faint :”>* Yes, he killed me! *blush blush*

After debates of Round I & II finished, it’s lunch time. We (Joanne, Won, me, Hanni, Yingxuan & a few campus runners) helped Jay in distributing the foods and waters to the debaters. The foods were ready in plates and once the debater came, we just gave them that plate of food and a bottle of water, so called “the most organized lunch”, quote from Abang :p

Master’s Final was coming! We helped Licky in reminding those finalists and adjudicators to be at MPH in time. We’ve waited for a finalist for about an hour, as he’s still discussing the result for the previous debate that he had adjudicated with the other two adjudicators. Only afterward we found out that he’s actually staying in KLI also, his name is Kevin =) The motion (title) for the Master’s Final sounds like this “Should the hosting of Olympic be given to the developing countries?” It was indeed a very interesting and funny debate. Oh yeah, Caleb is one of the finalist too! An interesting point here, there were seven male finalists, and only ONE female finalist. Why ahh??

Just before the last speaker finished her speech, Joanne and I rushed back to hostel room to grab our bags. We’re running like mad 8-} seems like 100m race, because we had to catch the bus back to hotel. During the way back, I was resting soundly, while Won, Joanne and Francis were chatting excitedly. Then, all of a sudden they just popped up the idea of ordering the Pizza Hut special delivery as our dinner, or should I call supper?? We can actually sing out the phone number: 1300-88-2525, due to the mass publicities through radio stations and TV channels.

We let the participants went down from the bus, and watched them back to the hotel. Yes, watched!! ;)) Then, we boarded the bus again and headed to Grand Seasons Hotel (GSH), as the Pizza Hut delivery only knew their way to GSH. After getting our pizzas, we actually went up the Ops room to grab eight cans of Carlsberg, heheheheh… we only drink once in a blue moon. In fact, it’s easier to fall asleep after having one can of it :D

Finished eating the pizzas but not finishing a can of Carlsberg, we just slept off !