So, i've been having this super long holiday of 6 months or so and i haven't been doing much really. i haven't finished my book yet which is really taking a long time and i don't make any effort to attend classes of any sort to widen my knowledge. so what do i do? i surf the internet, log on to facebook, watching car reviews on youtube, watching hilarious comedy shows and sleep. nothing interes
ting really. then one day, on facebook, a friend of mine posted an ad about volunteering(or helping) for an event at UiTM. without any future plans ahead i raised my hand and took the offer, well not literally raising my hand but you get the point. i read and read the details and i figured out the event was called WSC which was an acronym for World Scholars Cup. Woohoo!!
an international event i thought, this is gonna be interesting an exciting. later, emails arrived on the virtual doorstep of my account noting me that i am registered as volunteer(or whatever they called us) and i am to go to a briefing at the beloved faculty of education UiTM.
so there was i at fac of edu, already cleared my bowels, probably most of it, waiting for the briefing. then we went in the hall for the briefing. i cant really recall specific details of the briefing but it think it was about
the tasks and jobs we were to do. and the most surprising fact is that we were to be ready for the event by tomorrow which was Wednesday and i thought we were only needed on friday, sat and sun. shock and awe circulating through the room like waves on a mad dark stormy night(haha..takdelah). so me is expected to be ready tomorrow? okay, if that's what is needed. so i went back home and packed my things and
went back to shah alam the next day. and another surprise i forgot to mention is that we got a girls residential college!!kolej mawar!!!! so this is gonna be an experience. so i checked in with my friends and we grouped up so we could have same rooms and alhamdulillah i got a room with one of my friends and the other two was together too. the rooms at mawar was nice, i like it, its private and comfy but the toilets are outside, so are the showers but who am i to complain. its good enough they gave us a place to stay alhamdulillah.
so on the wednesday there was this briefing and i got to know i'm on duty that night, i was to greet contestants from dubai. and i forgot to mention, the day before i got to know that i was the liaison officer for a school from australia and its called Shenton College. though college for me means people my age but its not the fact for this college, its a junior team consisting of 1 boy and i dont remember how many girls and the chaperon is Chloe Britton(a nice lady who is calm and friendly). okay, so that night me and the people involved waited for the people from dubai and we were with the guys who were handling a thailand team. so we wait
ed and waited for the team. then the guys or might i say girls handling the thailand team asked for a guy to escort the guys from thailand because they were all girls. so i went to help the thailand team. thailand arrived before dubai and i went ahead showing these foreigners where their rooms were. lalalalalala. praises to Allah everything went well. but there was this one kid, i think from thailand, while i showed him his room he showed me a cockroach. and i was like "dude!!aku pun tak berani ngn lipas ko nak aku buat apa?!!" but none of that came out. i killed the creature and swept it out of that kids room. haha. then i went down and dealt with the dubai guys which was smooth alhamdulillah. fuh, i think me and my roomate, hakim(who was on duty with me), went back to our rooms late.
so on thursday, teams come
and is greeted. i cant really recall what i did on thursday..hmmmmmmm..but one thing i forgot to mention. on wednesday we were arranging seats for classes that would be holding debates and then there was a cameraman from tv3. and i got in.woooo.booo.whatever. haha. so jump to friday. on friday there was this event called Scholars Scavenge and it was to be held at tasik shah alam. teams get tasks to do and such. there were people in charge of this event and hakim and i were not the people. we had nothing to do really. it was like our off day. but we heard there was these places to be holding debates that has been arranged back to their original state, maybe there were still classes, so we head on to menara to help sort it back to debate mode.
saturday!!debate day. since i am new to debate i am interested. i got a room to handle for the day and alhamdulillah it
went well but it was tiring and sleepy hearing why great cities should have great leaders and such. but it got me thinking. these little children can speak well even though they are still young. i think even i cant speak out as good as them. so debate ends. then there is this ball at night. i don't really know what happened because i was outside. then i was on duty for buses. i had to handle the bus from uitm to concorde hotel. then the real wsc begins, the world stage of characters, there were people shouting, chaperon taking things into their own hands maybe it was due to transportation mishaps. there was a person who said this was the worst event ever, unorganized event, waste of time. then we get to see the people up close and how they are. hmmm..it all comes with organizing something big i guess.
sunday came and mostly it was in a hall with prize giving, eating, performance, eating, debate, eating. lots of eating i
stress on that. then there was mini-chaos again with transportation but i think everything would be fine if people were patient. my team from Shenton did not really contact me and i only saw Chloe a few times and i got to know they are going to klia 5.30 monday morning. i did not mingle with them much and i hope they had fun. so WSC was pretty much over that sunday.
MONDAY, last day!!so in the morning people went to wrap things up here and there but i woke up late and had breakfast
and there was like no more work to do. hah. so we went for a briefing or post-mortem or whatever with lecturers and other people who had duties for WSC. comments were aired and suggestions was said. motivational words were heard and money was handed out. wooo. alhamdulillah. we got 100 ringgit but the experience was priceless. so that wraps up WSC, it was fun!meeting seniors and hanging out with them was fun!mingling with foreigners was fun!(some wore short skirts, dugaan bagi imannn..)eating was fun!
so that is it..thanks fer reading..or skimming or scanning..or whatever
sorry no pictures..i haven't equipped my self with the know how yet..
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