April
Fool day is suppose to be a very strategic day for people to play prank
on each others, especially for us teenagers. For four years spent in my
high school, as far as I remember, there was not even a year that I
could escape from being cheated or deceived by my friends even though
those are very stupid pranks. This year, I have a very special
April Fool story to tell. This time, it's a big joke, not just to me,
but to US. Four debaters and our teacher in charge whom all got a shock
of our lifetime. Here's how the big April Fool joke goes.
So,
we got two letters from the PPD about the itinerary of the English
Debate competition day. The first letter stated that the venue was Teluk
Kumbar 2 and we need to arrive there by 8.00am. While the next letter
that arrived much more later than the first stated that we need to go to
Al-Mashoor by 9.00am. I believe that people who have brains would have
followed the instructions in the second letter that we had received
because it is up-to-date. So, we believed in our dear PPD and went to
Al-Mashoor at 8.30am.
When
we reached there, there were no registration counters on the spot where
they would usually put two pieces of table every year. We were so
panicked but decided to stick onto positive thoughts. Maybe we were just
late and we can still participate. Just give up the quarantine period
then we would be able to make it into the preliminary rounds at least.
We went to the staff room of Al-Mashoor and the teachers said that the
English Debate was held at Teluk Kumbar 2, not there and their school's
representatives had already departed to there 1 hour ago which is around
7:30am.
Our
heart were racing erratically and our brains were frizzy. Neither of us
knew what to do and surely we do not know if we were gonna be
disqualified or whuuttt. We rushed back to our school to get the 2nd
letter that PPD sent us and dash to Teluk Kumbar 2 as fast as we could.
It was my first time hearing Teacher Geraldine swear and it was my first
time having a thought that "Hey.. Teacher Geraldine could be a sexy
speed car driver in Fast & Furious!" .__. The road was winding so
bad and the heavy downpour wasn't helping neither. When we reached Teluk
Kumbar 2, we were all very angry with this whole April Fool activity
that they had planned for us. Great. When the teacher asked us what
school are we from, four of us (teacher was parking her car that time)
shouted unbelievably harmonically and at the same time. We were like
"SACRED HEART!" And he was like o_o.. "Wookeyy.. You don't need to be
that loud.."
Thanks
to the God we were finally allowed to participate with only a fifteen
minute quarantine time. And the place for quarantining us was a very
noisy canteen full of students walking here and there distracting us.
Great.. I suppose :/ And what's better? We got the government's side on
the motion "This House Believes that Beauty is more important than the
Brains". I thought that we were going to be doomed for sure. And our
opposition is from Batu Maung high school. We don't even know how good
or how bad they are, so everything's not in our control. If the odds is
in our favour, then I think we can consider super duper lucky. But if
it's not, then it shall be how it should be.
When
we were brought into a classroom after the quarantine time has ended,
we saw our rival for the first time! They looked very smart in their
coats and ties and to be frank I was so neeervousss that I thought I'd
look like a bundle of nerves to everyone. But as it had reached my turn
to speak, I felt.. I don't know how to describe that feeling. Happy? Or
maybe confident? I really don't know but I just feel like "Oh I'm gonna
stab you with my little dagger that you've looked down upon." And I just
did it. The spontaneous rebuttal. First time for my whole life because
it was my first time to be the third speaker. But it felt good doing it
spontaneously rather than just reading out texts.
A funny rebut I made to a P.O.I. :
Third speaker of opposition: A brainy person can contribute to the society while person with beauty can't.
Me: Who says that? Mother Teresa has gained respect by helping the poor and she even won the Noble Prize in 1979!
Third speaker of opposition: A brainy
person is more important to the society than beauty. Beauty can do nothing but
a person with brains can invent new things.
Me: Yes indeed but if their intelligence is
misused, brainy people are also often the ones who committed crimes because
they misuse their brains. Do you see Mother Teresa go around the street killing
people? No! Because she has inner beauty.
And in the end, the motion was accepted. Yatta!
:D But we've still got two topics to prepare on and we are short of time. All
we have is tomorrow to write the scripts and practice it. And Thursday, we're
up in the limelight again.
On this Thursday, I'm gonna make those people
who made our April Fool so wonderful pay! :P
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