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At Graz
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At Graz as well
At Southern DOwn
Group C/FHAHAHA.. It's since a long time I last wrote my blog. guess it's time to update if not Yen Tink will keep annoying me :P
Had my first SAT today and as expected, I didnt' manage to finish my essay and couldn't answer some Math Ques ( I'm pretty sure i have tons of careless mistakes) . Also, as usual,I stared blank on the reading sections and tried my best to eliminate incorrect choices..Sigh..I'll just treat today test as a tryout and do better next time! Besides that, end of term exam starts during the week after and I still haven't started revising French,music, econ and English.. I wonder how i'm going to survive from this exam.
Okey, as Yen Tink requested, here's a recap of what I've done last 2 months.
During Project Week, I went to Austria with the Tour Choir and we performed in few places. We first arrived at Graz, the second biggest city in Austria, and we had our first concert in a church. As we had limited money, we requested the locals to be our host family and mine was very hospitable and genial. I had my own room (finally!), private bathroom and of course good food! After 2 days in Graz, we went to Vienna, the capital of Austria, by train and stayed with host families too. My host family in Vienna was an ex-student from Adriatic College and she just graduated from university as a doctor. As young newly-wed , she and her husband didn't have much time to entertain us and to show us around because they were busily engaged with work. The most exciting event in Vienna, I think, was our performance in United Nations Headquarters in Vienna. However, not many people watched our performance because there was a group of people demonstrating at the same time and I finally got to see with my own eyes how the armed forces cease the demonstration. After Vienna, we went to Salzburg (Mozart’s hometown) and Innsbruck. The quality of our performance declined from the beginning of the trip until the end because of the exhausting journey. We had to travel around the cities on public transport as we didn't have a private coach to fetch us around. Yet I got to experience the local life better when I travel on public transport and the trip was a great fun! The Austrian National Committee helped us a lot in arranging accommodation, transportation, venue for our concert, promotion and media coverage etc and in return, we helped them to raise fund for scholarships.
After the project week, I was quickly involved in the musical and everything was such chaotic and disorganized that I nearly wanted to give up. People involved in the musical were not committed and it's so hard to get them to be professional. But Miracle happened in the end! On the last few days till the actual show, all the performers started to be nervous and they finally put in all their effort and guess what, everything went on very well on the night! To my surprise, Many ppl ( mostly girls ahem) like me singing and over a night, i sort of became a celebrity in my college haha..
There was a music festival 'Sound Bite' in my college in the following week and I went to almost all of the workshops like song writing and hip-hop. The Arts Centre invited many prominent artists, performers, directors etc to held seminars and workshops for the public and students..For example, Danny Hockhe, the founder of the Hip-Hop Theatre in New York came here and gave a hip-hop workshop and performed.. To my surprise, his Hip-Hop is not those I always see on TV..instead, he talked about Hip-hop as a culture and i now really know more about Hip-Hop.. In one of the song writing workshops, attendees were divided into 3 groups to write a song on a piece of lyrics given by a Sweden band who were here for the festival. Later in the night, one of the band members approached my friend and me and she asked for the chords. They added that they would give credit to us if they will record the song in their album...haha..it's so nice cause i haven't composed song for a very long time..always stuck during while trying to compose a song..
The final event in the following week was the International Show. International Show is held annually and it’s organized by Save the Children organization in my college and it's opened for the public. We put together all the performances from all the national groups in my college and it was extremely exhausting and challenging to get the students to organize, rehearse and polish their performances. On the final day, the actual show went on smoothly and I think we managed to raise approximately £1000 for Save the Children. Besides that, members of AC Save The Children had the opportunity to attend the National Assembly in Cardiff and we met the high officials of UK Save The Children. According to them, we are the best branch during year 2006 and 2007 as we managed to raise a huge sum of money for Save The Children and to instill the awareness of child poverty in the local community.
As for my service, I had my Pool Lifeguard Exam at the beginning of the term and Beach Lifeguard Exam last week. Proudly to say, I am a qualified Pool Lifeguard! Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to swim under 7.30 minutes for 400 meters (I did 8.42 mins) in the Beach Lifeguard Exam and I am qualified as a Life Saver instead. Besides the time swim, we had a theory test and sea water rescue at Barry Island for the Beach Lifeguard Exam. Although the weather is becoming warmer, the water still remains cold and I couldn’t help but to shiver every time I’m in the water.
Well these are the big events that I was involved in in the last 2 months.. And nOW, i have to make reservation for Malaysian Hall, change my SAT test centre to London, book a flight ticket to Canada.. guess i confirm that i'm going back to M'sia on 10th of June cause i will meet my parents in Canada after my SAT II exam on 2nd of June.. ( sigh.. the price is that i have to stay alone in London for 8 days before my SAT II exams arh..SIenz arh..) ..and now i'm still hesitating if I should go to Syndey to visit Steven.. haha..as usual, i always have trouble while making decisions.. do you have any remedy for me? or at least tell me what i should do? lolz
Oh btw, guys please register for FACEbook. it's just like another friendster BUt i personally prefer facebook because it's more versatile and more convenient..trust me ! hehe log in to
www.facebook.com and sign up now!
Had my first SAT today and as expected, I didnt' manage to finish my essay and couldn't answer some Math Ques ( I'm pretty sure i have tons of careless mistakes) . Also, as usual,I stared blank on the reading sections and tried my best to eliminate incorrect choices..Sigh..I'll just treat today test as a tryout and do better next time! Besides that, end of term exam starts during the week after and I still haven't started revising French,music, econ and English.. I wonder how i'm going to survive from this exam.
Okey, as Yen Tink requested, here's a recap of what I've done last 2 months.
During Project Week, I went to Austria with the Tour Choir and we performed in few places. We first arrived at Graz, the second biggest city in Austria, and we had our first concert in a church. As we had limited money, we requested the locals to be our host family and mine was very hospitable and genial. I had my own room (finally!), private bathroom and of course good food! After 2 days in Graz, we went to Vienna, the capital of Austria, by train and stayed with host families too. My host family in Vienna was an ex-student from Adriatic College and she just graduated from university as a doctor. As young newly-wed , she and her husband didn't have much time to entertain us and to show us around because they were busily engaged with work. The most exciting event in Vienna, I think, was our performance in United Nations Headquarters in Vienna. However, not many people watched our performance because there was a group of people demonstrating at the same time and I finally got to see with my own eyes how the armed forces cease the demonstration. After Vienna, we went to Salzburg (Mozart’s hometown) and Innsbruck. The quality of our performance declined from the beginning of the trip until the end because of the exhausting journey. We had to travel around the cities on public transport as we didn't have a private coach to fetch us around. Yet I got to experience the local life better when I travel on public transport and the trip was a great fun! The Austrian National Committee helped us a lot in arranging accommodation, transportation, venue for our concert, promotion and media coverage etc and in return, we helped them to raise fund for scholarships.
After the project week, I was quickly involved in the musical and everything was such chaotic and disorganized that I nearly wanted to give up. People involved in the musical were not committed and it's so hard to get them to be professional. But Miracle happened in the end! On the last few days till the actual show, all the performers started to be nervous and they finally put in all their effort and guess what, everything went on very well on the night! To my surprise, Many ppl ( mostly girls ahem) like me singing and over a night, i sort of became a celebrity in my college haha..
There was a music festival 'Sound Bite' in my college in the following week and I went to almost all of the workshops like song writing and hip-hop. The Arts Centre invited many prominent artists, performers, directors etc to held seminars and workshops for the public and students..For example, Danny Hockhe, the founder of the Hip-Hop Theatre in New York came here and gave a hip-hop workshop and performed.. To my surprise, his Hip-Hop is not those I always see on TV..instead, he talked about Hip-hop as a culture and i now really know more about Hip-Hop.. In one of the song writing workshops, attendees were divided into 3 groups to write a song on a piece of lyrics given by a Sweden band who were here for the festival. Later in the night, one of the band members approached my friend and me and she asked for the chords. They added that they would give credit to us if they will record the song in their album...haha..it's so nice cause i haven't composed song for a very long time..always stuck during while trying to compose a song..
The final event in the following week was the International Show. International Show is held annually and it’s organized by Save the Children organization in my college and it's opened for the public. We put together all the performances from all the national groups in my college and it was extremely exhausting and challenging to get the students to organize, rehearse and polish their performances. On the final day, the actual show went on smoothly and I think we managed to raise approximately £1000 for Save the Children. Besides that, members of AC Save The Children had the opportunity to attend the National Assembly in Cardiff and we met the high officials of UK Save The Children. According to them, we are the best branch during year 2006 and 2007 as we managed to raise a huge sum of money for Save The Children and to instill the awareness of child poverty in the local community.
As for my service, I had my Pool Lifeguard Exam at the beginning of the term and Beach Lifeguard Exam last week. Proudly to say, I am a qualified Pool Lifeguard! Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to swim under 7.30 minutes for 400 meters (I did 8.42 mins) in the Beach Lifeguard Exam and I am qualified as a Life Saver instead. Besides the time swim, we had a theory test and sea water rescue at Barry Island for the Beach Lifeguard Exam. Although the weather is becoming warmer, the water still remains cold and I couldn’t help but to shiver every time I’m in the water.
Well these are the big events that I was involved in in the last 2 months.. And nOW, i have to make reservation for Malaysian Hall, change my SAT test centre to London, book a flight ticket to Canada.. guess i confirm that i'm going back to M'sia on 10th of June cause i will meet my parents in Canada after my SAT II exam on 2nd of June.. ( sigh.. the price is that i have to stay alone in London for 8 days before my SAT II exams arh..SIenz arh..) ..and now i'm still hesitating if I should go to Syndey to visit Steven.. haha..as usual, i always have trouble while making decisions.. do you have any remedy for me? or at least tell me what i should do? lolz
Oh btw, guys please register for FACEbook. it's just like another friendster BUt i personally prefer facebook because it's more versatile and more convenient..trust me ! hehe log in to
www.facebook.com and sign up now!
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