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Thursday, September 01, 2005

Maxis Cyberlinq

The news would have probably reached your ears (if you're a Malaysian and read the major dailies) that we won the Maxis Cyberlinq competition. A sarawakian school upping all the peninsular experts!! Allow me to indulge in some outburst:

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Well, that felt better. I was still on the fast when Kenny told me to write a report on our win( i'm the team's english guy, and 'negotiater') so when i heard the news i used the clause i had put into my 'agreement' before joining the fast - that emergencies and great moments of importance are excluded from the fast. I was on the laptop very soon after.

Kenny was estatic. My fingers were dancing across the keyboard - who's wouldn't?

Dienasty: So what were the reactions of all the others?

KVYS2000:To my dissapiontment, they all ask one question

Dienasty: What?

KVYS2000: What's the prize?!

Dienasty: lol

But anyway, when school started after that mid-second term holiday, we were in for the surprise of our lives. Pn. Sheila, head of the english department, whom we asked for help to help organise the friendly debate against Kuching High, demanded two things.

  1. Cash. Lots of it. (she did 5%, we did 95%)
  2. Another teacher advisor (dia nak nama)
Of course, Kenny, who's a normally cool guy and can take whatever is coming with stride, swore. That's pretty rare, i tell you. So the very next day we held a council of war with Cikgu Yusof, and discussed how to maintain the project - we won RM3000.

Now we're waiting for the cash to arrive, but its going to be hard if we want to use it to our wishes. I mean, we worked so hard for this (although i actually feel guilty - like i haven't done enough) and this snag with the money has taken away the fighting spirit from the team. Cikgu Yusof is mad, although he hides it, and Kenny said:

"What for we win the finals? If we get RM5000 we get more trouble afterward."

I don't like seeing Kenny like this.

But i'm confident we'll win the rights to the RM3000. We're all strong people.

The end

When i woke up on the last day of the fast: i wondered whether i should go online since i had already completed the day's prayer. There was no school: it was the Merdeka holiday. I turned and stared at the study. My sister was already on MSN, and i knew there were four ports on the ADSl router. I stared at the notebook bag leaning against one of the office chairs.

What the hell (or heaven, for that matter).

Within seconds i was in MSN, downloading Naruto mangas and eating breakfast at the same time. To cover for what this blog missed during the forty day peiod, it looks like i have to do multiple posts. And blog real hard. So i'm going to start.