I'm not done yet!!! Theres a lot to do, and if I had started checking lists, I've probably only completed about 25% this holidays. :(
Anyways, I ''might'' be looking forward to the new semester? I get to meet my friends again after the long break, putting aside the workload of the new semester. As opposed to the last semester, I now have classes on ALL the days, whereas I didnt have any classes on Friday the semester before.
Anyway, I recently participated as a runner for the Yayasan Debate and Public Speaking Competition 2012 which was held at Swinburne's University of Technology just last week. I "volunteered", so I didnt really recieve any pay (well I got free food so I guess its not that bad). My job was easy though. I just need to start a thirty-minute timer right when the motion of the debate is released and lead the corresponding group of debaters to the right room. There, I need to supervise both Government and Opposition benches while they were preparing, and usher them in right as the timer hits thirty. In the debate, I will become the great keeper of time, clapping at the first, sixth, seventh and every subsequent thirty seconds after that for normal speeches and the thirdth, fourth and again every thirty seconds after four for reply speeches. All participants debated very well, and most of them talk better than I myself can. (Well, I am a terrible debater.)
Since I am a runner, I would be in most of the debates acting as a time keeper. I really felt that I have jinxed a particular participating group from Segi College, as I have been timekeeping for them for about four rounds, and for every round that I timekeep for them, they lost points to the opposite benches. (Sorry!) The Segi group was good though, I loved how they argue their points and signal their teammates. The whip speaker would always end her speech with "And we are PROUD to oppose".
There were many interesting motions I wished I could hear the participants debate on, and one of them is about how the house would legalize polygamy. The fourth and final day of the competition was a bit topsy-turvy though, but it was worth the work. If they were another competition like this again, I would even volunteer to be runner again. Absolutely worth the sweat!
