Saturday, 13 September 2008

Saw MediaCorp filming some actor at the Community Centre on friday. Got a mini crowd, hmm. Not that I paid him much attention, I walked and watched them, then ran off at lightspeed to chase 246.

Today's IT Quiz thing, nice experience! I guess I'm the only one who kept wearing earphones, in and up on the stage. Ack, sorry, bad behaviour. Xinyu was the main man tackling most of the IT questions, while I managed to get a few correct myself too. There's this other guy Jeremy, who went for this thing before, and became sorta our secretary, circling answers, pressing bells, the works. Heh, least he's a good kid.
Didn't expect us to get past the qualifying rounds, haha! Within 20 mins, try to answer up to 180 questions. Lol, Xinyu was reading to doing them out loud. I only chipped in on bits that I know. Least I contributed.
So at finals, it became another case of "neighbourhood school with bunch of elite school" case. Fighting with ACS, RGS, HCL, blah blah... As top 6, we go up stage to solve questions. Didn't take off earphones. So 5 segments, and 5 different ways of doing the questions.Things like answering 10 questions in 90s, fastest finger answer, Linking correct question to correct answer,the works. Guess I was still relaxed on the stage. Must be the MP3 and my high. Was joking with teammates on stages, ah.Two cockups happened that reduced our chances of winning. One, me and my doggedness to go with my answer instead of Xinyu, and him for deciding upon the wrong answer. Aww, sian.Got 5thin the end.Heh, least we got something. Didn't expect to get a trophy and a Ipod shuffle from SP! They give 4th-6th places shuffles, 7-9th thumbdrives I think, and 1-3rd sth else. Though it's only 1gb. Not enough space lah!

Mum wanted to use the 360 as encouragement prize for exams. While I liked her efforts, I don't think offering that is good. I rather a free one drop from the sky. Not because I wish for cheap gains, but I know roughly our financial status. Even the first xbox was won. So, I don't think I'll want that for encouragement prize, be it exams or the O levels.