Monday, August 16, 2004
My First Away Debate Competition
As you guys know, your captain went to her very first away from IMU Debate Competition. And wow! What an eye-opener. We saw pretty cool people, some bitches, some assholic adjudicators... you know...
This happened on Saturday. Many of you may have read about Saturday on Adeline Gong, Yee Pei or Sheena's blogs. So why not I too, bring you a version of the day, my very own version.
I stayed up late that Friday night. The Olympics was supposed to be opened at 1.45am Malaysian time. My sibs and I decided to watch it, so we waited with eager anticipation from 12pm. I settled down with a book to read and at 1.45am, I crept into my sisters' room to wake them up. But they did not budge at all. So i was a little afraid to go downstairs to the dark TV room, so i decided "Screw it, I rather sleep." But I did not sleep and ended up finishing the book at about 2.30am. Was about to start the next book (i finished book1 of a trilogy) when i realised that it was so late and I had debate competition the next day, so rolled into bed.
Woke the next morning at 6.30am. First thought was "Holy shit. I'll never be able to debate!" I took a quick shower to wake myself up and collected a few notes that I tot may help for the debates. Had breakfast and left the house at 7am. Got to school at 7.45am, just in time to pick the rest of the teams up. YeePei, me, Sheena formed the IMU1 group, while the guys, Rahman, Richard, Vasan are IMU2. Our sole adjudicator, Che Chu Kin also came along, entreated (forced and threatened) by Sheena.
Then we were ready to roll. The girls enter my car, the guys in Richard's, and we depart on the perilous journey to UPM Serdang. Why I say perilous... it's because we, the girls, were tailing the guys' car, and any sane females will tell you how bad the sense of direction of the male species is. And in the leading car, we have a whole bunch of guys without any sane female in their midst. But to our mild surprise, we made it to UPM together.
Then, thats when the fun starts. First off all, Sheena directed us to the Pendtadbiran area. But after waiting like dungus in front of an empty hall, she finally realized that she had mistaken Administration for Academic, as the competition is at the Academic Centre, not the Administration Center.
So Sheena called up the person-in-charge who directed us to point A (dark blue spot) and there we waited again like fools before she gave him another call. This time he directed us to somewhere, saying something about bright yellow buildings and large carparks. So we followed his directions. (See pink lines) We travelled on, until we came to the open fields and there was nothing but a small wooden hse in the middle of nowhere, and it doesn't take a genius to know that we were lost. So we U-turned and purposely went against the traffic, trying to find our way again.
At point B (green spot) we were intercepted by this security guard with a huge bike and looking so much like a policemen. He gave us a short scolding, then realizing that we were lost, he agreed to take us to our destination (the circled area). So we followed after him(green line) and made it there at 8.45am.
The map shows our journey. And I forgot to mention, the guys are tailing us this time. I know ppl will start arguing that the girls got the guys lost and all, but let me tell you, the person giving us the directions is a guy, so I stand by my stand that Guys have Bad Sense of Directions.
Total no. of three-point-turns : 5.
And then the motions of the day. [A vs B = Gov vs Opp = Pro vs Con = For vs Against]
Round 1.
IMU1 vs Monash - THBT prostitutes should pay income tax.
UKM3 vs IMU2 - THBT homosexuals cannot be priests.
Outcome & Highlights:
IMU1 won! The adjudicator actually have to go "Pls do not add personal insults."
Sheena (in her speech): On the opposition side, we have 3 rich and pampered boys, who do not understand the psychy of women, thus still having no girlfriends.
3rd speaker from Monash: I do not have a girlfriend, cos I'm married.
All of IMU1: Ouch.
3rd speaker from Monash: I'm not rich and pampered. I'm on scholarship.
All of IMU1: Ouch.
IMU2 lost by a margin of 1 point. So close. Vasan got Best Speaker.
Speaker from UKM3 : Homosexual priests conduct sins. They are sin conductors.
Richard pretend to be a conductor, waving his hands around.
Richard: Empowerment!!! Priests are people who are respected. When homosexuals become priests, other homos in the world will not be stigmatized!
Vasan: What am I going to do today. I'm going to contra and contrast... blah, blah...
Adjudicators: Hmm... that's what we want.
Vasan: (continue to talk and finally did not contra and contrast at all)
That won him the Best Speaker.
Round 2.
(forgot) vs IMU1 - THBT suing university students swapping music files using P2P networking is justified.
IMU2 vs IIU5 - THBT the castration bill is a outrage.
Outcome & Highlights:
IMU1 lost. We have a stupid adjudicator whose phone kept on ringing eventhough we are speaking. We had to keep our own time becos his hp is busy. He did not even to listen to us as we speak. All in all... this debate was a disappointment.
The points of 68 is given to speakers who goes up there, say good evening, smile and say nothing for six minutes, then say thank you. I got 68.
(forgot): We as the gov will propose status quo.
Everyone knows that the gov can't propose status quo.
Idiotic Adjudicator: Yes, gov can propose status quo. And this is a value judgement debate.
What? Everyone knows that during a value judgement debate, you don't propose anything.
IMU2 won! With the maximum margin allowed. Vasan won Best Speaker again.
IMU2: We want to surgically castrate repeated sex offenders, not first timers, as we believed in giving second chances.
IIU5: No, we say no to surgical castration. We want to give chemical castration.
Round3.
UKM3 vs IMU1 - TH would censor SMS messages.
IMU2 vs Putra - THBT employee's electronic communication surveillance is justified.
Outcome & Highlights:
We won!! Looking at the motion itself, which indeed is a stupid motion. Who in the world want to censor SMS messages?!!!
UKM3 1st speaker: We will censor SMS messages that contains sexual images. We intend to censor SMS messages of 7 years old to 18 years old. We intend to do it by using FBI/CIA technology. It is because SMS messages containing sexual contents will lead to sexual crimes.
Hmm... one would wonder... 7 years old sending sexual messages? Who in the world would send sexual messages to a 7 year old. And 7 year olds going out to rape people? Or 7 year olds getting turned on by pixellated pictures of sex scenes?
UKM3 2nd speaker: At the age of 7, hormones start raging.
Me: Hormones start raging at 7? Please do not bluff. On the opposition side of the house, you have a panel of 3 MEDICAL STUDENTS. So please do not bluff.
Me: Fine, censor SMS msges. But no SMS msges, there is still voyeuristic pornography. If don't have pornography, there is still Playboy. If no Playboy, they just rub their own dick!
Me: Where is the privacy? I am 18. My boyfriend is 18 too. So if I send a message "I want to muak muak you tmr..." my msg will be censored!
IMU2 lost with 2 points margin. Vasan did not get Best Speaker this time. Instead...
Adjudicator: You are very rude!
Doesn't that makes the rest of M2/03 rude?
And that's the end of the competition. No finals, no semis, sad. And talking on and on, i haven't touch on Che Chu Kin, our lone adjudicator. This is his 2nd time adjudicating, and he was placed on single panel! Meaning, he alone judge the entire debate. Donno what to say about that.
And finally the rankings. IMU1 got 15th out of 30. IMU2 got 18th out of 30. Which is good, considering that we are amateurs and going against giants. As for speaker rankings out of 90:
Vasan - 27
Richard - 59
Sheena - 60
SANG Yee Pei - 72
Abdul Rahman - 74
Elena How - 80
Sigh...
I think this is enuff for the day kua... will blog again later on Adeline's B'day party. Till then...
Oppressing the people is easy, but ruling them is a different thing.
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