Friday, October 31, 2008

10 THINGS I’LL NEVER MISS

Family reunions
My best friend’s birthday
Cartoons (of all kinds)
Anything related to Harry Potter
Conan
Duc Tuan’s show
Book sale-offs
IDECAF’s plays
Chinese classes
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If you were in my shoes, what would you fill in the last line?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

NO PAIN, STILL GAINS

Some of you may wonder where I can stand on this odd stuff as this title clashes with the original “ No pain, no gain ”. Of course, I have my own reasons to state it firmly in good faith

If you still doubt it, just take a look back at the first meeting of English Club

Like you, freshmen, we’re also fresh blood hopefully to bring in winds of positive changes in EC

We all pulled our weight and went to any great lengths to provide any participants in the meeting the opportunity to speak up

After all intensive preparations, we uneasily waited for the so-called kick-off. We once feared the worst : if everything went haywire

if not any of you bothered to show up

… 1, 2, then 3, 4, 5 … of you appeared

The turnout wasn’t as expected but to us, that was more than incentive

Warm-up questions didn’t go off well ( though I was impressed by some brilliant answers from you ) but later on, you seemed to catch the mood and everything went smoothly according to plan

Two MCs accidentally on purpose talked at the very least and I deemed all of you won a chance to express yourself ( not to say, competed for the micro ^^ )

After all, we still had mistakes, some silly ones that some of you didn’t hesitate to point out, and frankly, that was highly appreciated. We drew something from our errors and surely, you did, too

Above all, I bet you did benefit in one way or another then your time didn’t go down the drain ( hence you lost nothing ^^ ). If you say you gained nothing, for God’s sake, though I know that’s not the right thing to say, we’re devastated