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Good job guys!
(bonian. zi en. rashvin. claire. huiling)

THE HWA CHONG INVITATIONALS SUCKED. D:
and gloria didnt like it one bit.

firstly, i was supposed to fetch joey there, but when i smsed her on friday night, it was 1 am plus, so i was freakin blur. So when i smsed her 7 40, i accidentally pressed 6 40 and didnt notice. AND POOR POOR JOEY didnt confirm with me! (meaning that she didnt : okay okay see you tmr at ____)

so ended up she reached queenstown at 6 40! thank god i was awake when she smsed me! URGH. i feel so lousy about it.

so we ate and went through our notes.

secondly, when we went there, zi en and rashvin had already gone in, so we tried to follow the arrows that pointed us to hwa chong invitationals, but they ended up leading us to a dead end.

called zi en and she told us to go to 4th floor, so we went up this stairs that was infront of us, walked back in the direction we came from, and this usher person asked us whether we wanted to register. of course, zi en just had to call me at that time, and to my utter embarrassment (and joey's amusement) i shouted sorry over to the guy (he was on first floor, and i was on the 2nd)

looked up and saw zi en smiling at me.

thirdly, upon releasing the first pairings and motions, we ended up against cat high (the gay school) and had a motion called - THW make developed nations accept more refugees. with us being opposition.

and to gloria's utter amusement. marcus declared that he didnt like cat high because they were cocky and haughty and utterly fags

gloria would like to mention that if you would like to be cocky, you'd better have the size to justify it.

and according to what marcus nicknamed them (1st wimp, 2nd fag, 3rd prick)
the first has a S, the second NONE AT ALL, and the 3rd must have a XXXXXXL.

well actually, the 2nd speaker is really niang. i even remember his name, but i wont tell you all, to help save his pride. he even crosses his legs as he speaks! (and he looks like he wants to pee.)
and did i mention he SOUNDS LIKE A GIRL, he sounds like he has an un-broken voice, :D and when i close my eyes, i can ENVISION a girl speaking, but when i open them.. ._."

and HE TALKS debates FASTER THAN ME


their 3rd speaker (XXXXXXL) is really really cocky. >.<" he had that super smug look, and according to rashvin / joey / zi en, he reminds them of AP in the debate camp, hence we nick named him AP, and everytime he walked by, we would whisper "AP AP AP!!!" haha. and when marcus was debriefing us, he said quite loudly some not so nice stuff about cat high, and they were behind us. then when we "SHHHHED" he just said, "HOW OLD ARE THEY? even their coach is younger than me okay, why should i be scared?" or something along those lines! GLORIA IS HAPPY! marcus said something nice about her ystd! he said "gloria can debate better than that fag" HAHA! :D FINALLY! (but anyways, they won D:) fourthly, after that we were against nanyang and had a motion - THW make regional organisations take the lead in disaster relief.

(according to marcus, though nanyang has like 3 trainings a week and we only have 1 or 2, we are better than them, its just that they sound chimer and have better structure / language, ++ our case was better)

BUT!
they interpreted the motion wrongly!

the keywords of the motion are: Regional Organisations, Take the Lead, Disaster Relief.
and its actually very good for prop if you define it properly.
BUT BUT BUT

they defined the first and third one correctly, but defined take the lead as who got there faster, so basically it sucked la. i mean, its better if you define it as who leads / commands the people! CUZ ITS TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. URGHH.

and like nanyang kept harping on and on about how red cross / other NGOs are better than the regional organisations cuz they were faster in the sichuan disaster relief, and we just rebutted really badly. and i felt so bad cuz my dad kept harping on and on about it ages ago (like how much red cross donated and stuff) and all the facts were in my head.

AND THE WORST THING WAS THAT, i was supposed to research on humanitarian aid but i didnt put sichuan down cuz i thought they wouldnt mention it!
and all the rebuttals were forming in my head (eg. speed vs effectiveness - where no matter how fast are you, if you provide LITTLE aid in fast time, it's just a waste of resources. and how hong kong managed to provide 300 million or something in the amount of time it took red cross to OPEN ITS DONATION BOOTHS) SEE HOW SUCKY IT WAS????

so after the debate i felt very bad that we lost, and i started crying (AGAIN)
and everyone just made it worse by saying it wasnt my fault. IT CLEARLY WAS! I SHOULD HAVE TYPED OUT THE BOUQUETS AND STUFF.

and it made gloria very pissed AND sad.

haha. then suddenly, she spotted.. the PRAYING MANTIS! (private db8 joke)
omg. and she felt so happy!!!! :D (and joey kept teasing her, and zi en nearly told marcus about it)

fifthly, after that we ended up with st nicks (who also had 0 wins) and HAHAHAHA the other 0 win team WAS AGAINST HWA CHONG [cuz hwa chong wasnt breaking into the semis cuz they were the sponsers, so they just put hwa chong against the lousy team. HAHAHA IT WAS SO WEIRD!]

and the motion was - THW temporarily suspend the sovereignity of a nation in order to address humanitarian concerns.

supposedly it was easy, but URGHHH. we didnt rebutt properly, and our policy was too vague. so we lost again.

sixthly, during the one hour prepping before the 2nd debate, we learnt ALOT about marcus O.O
like he was in ACS (I) - gloria didnt know.
and that he used to be in track and rugby. and alot of other stuff. then we started talking about other schools and everything. and it was so fun. finally. haha. to see that marcus is still human under that evil sacarstic outer of him.

p.s. he didnt like one of the judges that judged us cuz he said that the judge was being mean by saying the number of points between us and the other team. cuz its rather mean to say that points cuz its too.. POINTED. he said that if you say like it was a clear win, its still okay. but the judge was very obvious about the fact that the other team won and stuff.

so during lunch when that judge happened to sit at the table behind marcus, i saw him smirking at us (marcus didnt cuz his back was facing them) and when i told the team, marcus was so weird! he said :

some people are born with a natural deformity, and it just looks like they are smirking. (at this point, blur blur joey thought he was being real, so she agreed) and you know, we as the bigger and more generous people, we must forgive them for being disformed.and just ignore them (JOEY YOU ARE SO BLUR! MARCUS WAS BEING SACARSTIC!

haha. we were all laughing and cheering. SOMEMORE HOR, the judge is like biased la! HE KNEW THE OPPOSITION (meaning that he was friendly with the other team's coach) urgh.

so.. marcus "complained" to the teacher incharge, saying that he should raise standards of judging and stuff and that if they want to inspire the debaters to stay in debate, they shouldnt mention the points and discourage them, etc. haha!

I LEARNT THAT:

WE SHOULD NEVER CROSS MARCUS. HAHA




i supposed now you think that rgdebate sucks, but hey! we learnt alot, plus someone said that the sec2s are very promising! :D

but sadly, now marcus is having his last session ( i think) with us tomorrow, and we are changing coach to jennifer.

supposedly he said that jennifer is willing to put in alot of time into raising our standards cuz she is taking this as a job and not as a favour to david (as marcus did) so yeah. JIA YOU RGDB8!

but i think we will all miss marcus' sacarsm and evil eye, its good at making us do stuff. haha. and jennifer is so gentle and nice compared to him! D:

once again:

♥ RGDEBATE

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