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# The Debating Saturday
Saturday
Saturday holds the top spot for best day of the week. Weekends are just so amazing. Yups. And this was going to be a busy one. Day started off earlier than a Saturday should, but oh well, tuition calls. So its off to Toa (dunno why I always spell it as Tao) Payoh for tuition. And for the first time, it was chem. Tuition. Ms Liew, are you proud of me? Haha (=
Well, since the day started earlier than it should have, I lagged behind and left the house late. And 196 decided to be as punctual as always and left the bus stop the moment I arrived. Sigh… I’m already late… Then I decide to try the MeiYian-forbid-bus-31 route. But as I was about to cross the road, 31 drove past… Sigh… again. But the great thing is, the next 31 came in like less than 10 minutes? So I was off in no time at the speed of a Bugatti Veyron (without fuel) and reached Tao.. darn.. Toa Payoh at 10.10am. Good thing Vincent decided that this Saturday was going to be a late one so like tutor like tu-tee? We were both late.
Topic was chem. energetics. Simple? Enthalpy change, you know, the atomization and millions of other definitions in the topic. But I realized I forgot to turn to PAGE 2 of the assessment objectives. Hiding behind page 1 was… Page 2… duh… but, there it was, staring and laughing at me in the face. The big G. Entropy. Gibbs free energy. The only Gibbs I know is the one JL, Dom and me enjoy splattering all over UT2004 Zoom InstaGib Gael Arena with no crosshair. Yup. Enter the dreaded Gibbs Free Energy thingy. I struggle to keep myself calm and not look like an idiot. The moment the 120 minutes were up, I ran to Winnie, ok, sms-ed her immediately, for help.
Best part, Winnie switched options. Now, I’m dead. But then, somehow from the ashes (of Winnie’s A level chem. memory) she recalls a bit more about what disorder really means and explained it quite well. Although there was beautiful noise blasting in the background. Sorry for the shoutings ya XiuYu and Winnie.
Yup. End of tuition signaled the time for lunch. Which I had in Bedok and walked to church. Church was the harbinger of great things to come. A YM debate. The topic? This House Believes that there is value in pursuing BGR in this season. Dunno what BGR is, then you shouldn’t, period. And I get to be with the wonderful Proposition. Yup, team P consisted of Dawn, Nanthaniel, Clara and Ben. And after our fruitful discussion on Friday, we were on our way to “perfecting” the scripts. Enter, Coach Annabelle. Without her, we would have got the notion wrong. Haha, big boo boo. Oh well, we were ready by 4.30 (or so the advisers claimed) and tried to calm down.
Headed into the holding area and tried to calm everyone down. Searched for last second Bible verses and had last minute prayer, then Annabelle and I tried to sneak out from the second flo0r. Which was locked. Haha. Called the office and got ourselves out of trouble and back into Hall 3B. Guest judge for today was Margaret from PCK. Cool eh? She’s a very articulate judge! Of course she wasn’t in character.
Debate proceeded rather interestingly with team P and team O starting to get personal with phrases like “my boyfriend” or “premarital sex is ok if…” Annabelle and I needed a place to hide as examples and arguments seem to come out of nowhere. Coaches go into hiding. In the open round, the floor floors team P, I tried to rescue them but alas, in the end, team O won. But it was a valiant effort and Nanthaniel won best speaker. Hilarious.
Then it was a happy time when Annabelle and I went to get some reward for our team at SPC. Got them cookies and drinks. Yay. Bought Tiger biscuits with MY’s recommendation. Then it was that time of the week again… YA Service!!! *cues the band* yeahyeah yeah!!
Yup. Today it was Gabriel as the worship leader and an almost full band. Yup. Awesome time. Then it got even better with Pastor Mark’s sharing on FAITH. Yup, really really good message. Quite extraordinary to think of who you would picture yourself as as a man of faith. And verse of the day, “without faith, it is impossible to please God.” It was like, so true, yet sad, cuz most of the time, I pray not really having the faith it would be possible. Overall, it was a good service, rather emotional ending, but emotional in a good and challenging way.
Realised that XiuYu has the same notebook as me. Except she has VJCSB on the cover. ShuJing had a cute coffee pillow. Winnie has great memory in chem. MY starting work soon. All the guys were at army. But all in all, yet another awesome YA Service. And best thing, Ps Mark will be back next week with part 2 of Faith!! Yeah!! Late night, came home, slept. After chatting and surfing blogs.Labels: debate, faith, PCK, Ps Mark, thermochem
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