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Chung Ling Handball Game

My name was actually on the list of the handball team of my class but seriously, I got no idea about the rule, the game and anything about it. During PE lesson, it’s either basketball or soccer for me but no handball. They put my name for fun and so because of my name was on the list, I went to check out the handball competition that is organized by the school cooperative last weekend.

My friend yet my teacher, told me that that day will rain by reading the atmospheric pressure on his Tissot Touch watch the day before, but then it’s a clear sunny day. The pressure thingy was wrong though.

(Ming Tian and Chien Chern)

There’s 7 or 8 in a team, where each has to pay RM4 for the competition. It’s more likely a money making business for the club than encouraging sports among school student, yet there’s cash prize for the champion. =) Unfortunately, the team I was in doesn’t get the champion, instead it’s the 2nd team in my class win. I did a wrong investment and lost RM4.

There’s a ball flew onto “what we call that place? the roof?” and a spidey boy was so brave to climb up there, take the ball and jump back down. Try this at your own risk, you will break your bones if you don’t have the skill to do spidey tricks.

I kinda scared when sitting on the ground near the goal post because at anytime, the ball might flew to me and I will not be aware of that, not myself that get the pain but the camera. Luckily, there’s no such accident happened.

(Arron)

Well, the highlight of the day was just playing ball. Sorry for I am not into handball or other games, it’s just not my type, maybe badminton interest me. =)

This is not the ball for playing handball. It’s actually a TV remote that my football fanatic friend bought in the UK. It looks quite cool, but I wouldn’t want a remote to roll around my living room, but football fan will sure like it.

Do you handball?

Penang Citi Stock Challenge at USM

Well, I had been gone away from school for 2 days to the Universiti Sains Malaysia for attending some sort of workshop and little competiton and it’s the Citi Stock Challenge. 9 students from the Young Enterprise club and I’m part of the 9 went there.

So what is this Citi Stock Challenge is about engaging students into the market trade world, how it works, how to invest, knowledge on stocks and market, etc etc. Basically, it teaches you how to be a broker and eventually run a brokerage firm.

It’s better than going to school as the whole event started at 8.30am which means that I can wake up a bit later than the normal school days. There’s about 20+ schools’ students taking part in this workshop, not everyone get to come, it’s only the chosen one. Hohoho.

The first day was kinda bored, it’s all about listening on the talks, how it works, what is it about, how to run a brokerage firm, it’s like a whole day long lesson in the lecture hall in the university. I know nothing about stocks at first and that’s why I paid my concentration most of the time.

The interesting time comes the next day where the stock market game starts. It’s a non-uniform day where we don’t need to wear our own school uniform instead we actually need to make our own costume or a theme wear or so-called our own brokerage firm uniform.

I am not a girl, I don’t have that kind of mind to think about fancy dresses and so we opt for professionalism look, black polo tee and jeans. =D My friend, Tee Jin and Bernard didn’t have black pole tee and I have to borrow mine to them.

Before the virtual stock market start, we arrived early at the scene to set up our little office that made up of 3 desk. Table cloth, pen holders and stationery were brought. I got no idea how to decorate our office, it’s very simple, neat and tidy with a few oranges on the desk as our company was the Orange Brokerage Firm.

The startup money for our investment business was $1000, in the middle of the games, bonus money were given too for having their own business card, name tags, decorations, costume and blablablabla. We were just hanging a pair of oranges around the neck and we also get the bonus money for costuem. Great right?

There’s several round where we can buy the stocks, each round we were given a set of newspaper articles to read about how’s the market is doing and stuff like that, we will then decide which and what to buy. It’s 3 in a team, or a “firm”, though it’s like we a few teams have already talk and discuss about which and what to buy so all our stocks were like actually almost the same.

We thought that it will have like 8 rounds as the screen showed we got 8 AP headlines of different timeline, though we only 4 rounds. Things got messier as rounds goes on, we got more cash, more stock, more records and paperworks to do and this is where multitasking mind comes in. We buy almost every stocks, didn’t figure about it for long and just buy, buy, buy. Luckily, this buying craziness made us $7540 from the startup money $1000. The most earning team got 8k, and we were the 2nd in the boys team.

When the winner were announced, it says “it’s a team, with colour and it’s a fruit”, I was like OMG, it’s us, it’s us, the Orange Brokerage Firm. Yes it is and at first I thought we wouldn’t make it to the stage because there’s A team that had higher amount of earning than us, but overall we were 2nd for that in the boys group. Who cares which place I get, as long as I get onto the stage, I am already happy about it.

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Ming Tian was playing with the loudspeaker

It’s Ming Tian aka Tomorrow Tian again, the funny guy in class and again joking or not, he is looking for girlfriend and this time shouting out loud with the loudspeaker while we were doing the Moral voluntary work. He say the girl’s criteria must be a rich girl, else she must be tall. LOL

Kerja Amal or Voluntary Work in School

Only in Form 4 and 5, I had to do various community service or voluntary work or so call the kerja amal in Malay language. This is to complete the Moral Ed project which is part of scores in the Moral paper in SPM. The first one I did was cleaning at teacher’s house and now is cleaning in some part of my school compound.

However, all of these were fakes and we didn’t really commit into the work, it’s just an still act for taking photos which is need in the folio.

It’s always the last minute work that we did. Tomorrow is the deadline for the 2nd community service report and we took our photos 2 days ago, went to the photo shop to print out the photos today and we’ll gonna write up or simply copy the report tomorrow in school. It’s our way of doing work, you can’t blame us, because many of them are like this too, with only a little of exception. You will see everyone busy doing the Moral folio tomorrow early in the morning. =)

Wednesday, after having my lunch in the canteen, I and a few friends, Tee Jin, Jing Min, Zez and Ming Tian went to the back of the school where is the store room or whatsoever it is called for the uniformed unit because Zez told me that they got broom and stuff for cleaning the compound there.

It turns out like we were playing with the KRS’ (School Teenager’s Cadet) loudspeaker instead of “doing” our work. Nevertheless, we’ll still going to use the above photos for the folio as Ming Tian (the person with the loudspeaker on the 2nd photo) said that this is where teamwork shows from a leader giving orders. LOL.

(Jing Min with the knife)

It’s just us playing with all the tools. We helped nothing there actually. We were actually in rush because we had tuition later then, so it took us for like 20 minutes for the kerja amal photo shooting.

(Ming Tian imagining himself as a rock star.)

This is what we call the real still picture as we were really still that time, not doing work, just for photo taking.

I just love kerja amal! Hahaha.

Life Suckers and Anti-Luv of 4SA5

It’s what we call part of the gang in my class, the Life Suckers. It’s started by the Arron who always says “life sucks”, and sooner, more and more classmate started to complain about life sucks and so the life suckers team or gang is formed. Yes, I am part of the team, but I haven’t find any reason why life sucks, though I’ll just life sucks with them for fun, it’s quite fun. Haha.

We got a hand sign for life sucks, where you fold up your last finger and your middle finger. From right, Arron is the creator of Life Sucks, Liang Sun and Cheong are part of the team too

Besides Life Sucks, we got another culture in class and that is Anti-Luv (Anti-Love) which is created by Brendan, one of my monitor. Well, this is about people who doesn’t want to engage in puppy love, or whatsoever love relationship thingy at the moment. Yo! I am part of the gang again, and yes I Anti-Luv too!

I still think that study, play and enjoy is the best at this moment as high school is ending in 1 year time and I should fully utilize my teen life to the max and not wasting on whatsoever love. Just let it be naturally at the moment, if got then great, if none, I won’t even bother to find one, yet.

There’s a sign too, where you fold up the last 2 fingers and it’s Anti-Luv.

So when Life Sucks plus Anti-Luv, it will be come a key and lock symbol with the 2 hand signs. Lame right, but it’s 4SA5, it’s Form 4 and it’s the way of life.

My class is likely to be divided in 2 groups, one is more to anti-social, keep on studying group, another group is the talk a lot, sing a lot, shout a lot, scream a lot, life suckers and anti-luv peoples. Imagine there’s left and right in the class, the whole right side of the back of the class are on the “another group“.

He is Fei Zhai Meng (fat boy Meng in Cantonese, even though he is not fat), or I just called him Bo Mo Beng (hairless Beng in Hokkien) because he just got his hair cut short recently. Cute guy, funny guy, a typical siao kia (siao kia is what we call funny person in Hokkien).

Zheng Feng is a joker in class. He sings well and a lot in the class. Good in sports, football, handball, basketball, etc etc.

This is Liang Sun who is now craving to go to MIT in the next two years and he is working on additional maths all the time on the back of his piano notes.

Ozio Enterprise Weekly Meeting

It’s a typical Friday afternoon and I stayed back for the weekly meeting that my little company had. It’s not a big company, it’s a small young enterprising company set up by my school which is part of the YE (Young Entrepreneur project), we called it the Ozio Enterprise.

We makes product, handmade, market it and sell it. That’s what we do. I am the finance director of the company so what I do is just managing the company account and giving out salary. So don’t play with me or you got no pay for this month. Just kidding.

In the coming month, July, we will be setting up a booth at the YE sales fair in Queensbay Mall, so feel free to come down and take a look, buy our low price quality handmade product and support Nick Chan. Haha.

Lip Wei, the Quality Control Manager sleeping during the meeting. So cut salary? Hahaha. Seriously, meeting is not always fun because it’s always talking about the same thing, product idea, how is this how is that, report on this please, report on that please. Boring!

Go off-topic a little bit, this is the Operation Director on the Quality Control Manager bike after the meeting. =D Damn cool can the bike, but cannot speed one.

I can have my motorbike license already this year but mom just don’t allow me to take the license nor ride a bike. Personally, I also don’t really like riding a bike, I prefer enclosed vehicle, cause Malaysia is so hot.

Chung Ling’s Largest Male Toilet

I was staying up late in school last Wednesday and I found nothing to do while waiting for the time to pass by. I brought my camera to school on that day so I just went walking around and the nearest place I was being at was the Male Toilet.

To be specific, it’s the largest male toilet in my school with fans but no AC. It would be cool to have AC in the toilet or maybe a little bit of music? Haha.

It had undergoes renovation many many months ago, and of course it looks better now.

Though, you still can find some interesting artworks here. Some are on the walls, but only a few are artistic and the rest is just graffiti/vandalizing, instead of beautifying.

=)

Don’t know when, they installed a CCTV in front of the toilet, so don’t ever try to play play at the toilet, though from what I know, this kind of CCTV is not a good one, the good one is like a round one with a lot of LED surrounding the lens which allow it to see at night. My school has a few of these.

Absent from school recently

It has been a long time since I log in to my school portal. It’s a place for us to check our school result or so called the virtual report card. I knew I have been doing not-so-good in the last exam, but I still want to know how is it going on. Unfortunately, the result is still not up yet, guess I’ll have to back to manual and that is “wait teacher hand out the exam paper”.

Something caught my eyes when logging in. The portal loads kind of slow and I believe no school mates or teacher will send me message via this thingy. Many people in school are still not computer literate. It’s a good move for the school to go cyber. What that is, is the Alerts session that saying I had been absent from school recently. Is it a warning or just a notice?

Hahaha, luckily the list is short. It’s not what I’ve been expected because I know how many days I have skipped school. Fooyoh, don’t think that I am a bad boy, if I am not in school, I’ll be just at home not and playing truant to other places. I’ll be skipping school for 2 days soon in the coming month as I’ll be going to Bangkok again. Here I come the Sawadee-kap land!