A [Really Late] Quick Update on Term 2

This is months overdue, haha. Harrow’s term 3 is about to end in a month and I’m still talking about term 2. Anyway, this is just a short update on each of the events that happened during my second term at Harrow. Here’s just some links to the recently added albums in the Yahoo Photo Album.

Twelfth Night Production
Did the Twelfth Night play back in January and had a blast doing so. We did three plays in all and the second one was the best since it was in front of the whole secondary school and the audience was really into it. The first round was mainly Year 6 and 7s so they didn’t really get it and the third round was mainly adults… So maybe they didn’t find the jokes that funny… Anyway, Prang was an excellent Olivia, Kate did an awesome job playing a man and a woman, Chris was really great [especially in the fighting scene], and the Olivia Household [Trin, Jeeb, Kitti, and Raghav] were freaking funny! I wouldn’t mind doing the play ten more times! Anyway, g’luck doing Romeo and Juliet next year [especially Prang and Kitti who were casted as Juliet's parents]. Click the pic below to go to the Twelfth Night album.

Byron House Camp 2006
Had to arrange the different teams with Bifern before we went to camp. After school, we took a two hour bus ride to Pathum Thani, the camp site, and it looked completely different from last year. Much nicer. Strange though that during the night, all the girls got bit by the mosquitoes while the guys barely got bitten! Anyway, my team [Green Team. Consisted of Winner, Natalee, Third, Adrian, Poy, Jam, Aim, Aom, and I.] lost the tug-of-war [but were able to eliminate Bifern's team, haha!] but was one of the highest teams to score during the obstacle course rounds [thanks to Natalee and Jam who had great balancing skills and scored so many points for us]. So we tied with Bifern’s team [Orange] and so the team leader of each team, in this case, Bifern and I had to do paper-rock-scissor and I don’t know if it was a miracle but I beated her! Haha, odd since I always lose. So we were one of the highests. The next day we had the build-a-raft game and race and my team and Bifern’s team made it to the finals and will compete with another two teams from the other group in the afternoon. Later on we had the mountain bike ride and Aom did an excellent job leading the way while I looked after our teammates at the back. Then during the final raft race, we won! Haha, teamwork, eh? Pretty cool – Bifern was fuming by the way [:P]. Then when the final results came out… I guess it was intended… There was a tie. Between who? BIFERN AND ME AGAIN. [Mr. Wise let out a laugh at this point, haha] So we had to do another round of tug-of-war for the tie-breaker. Because we had one less person that Bifern’s team, we got to choose one person from other teams. So we chose Kong, whose team won the tug-of-war. Thank God for him, we beated the Orange team and the Green team became the winning team! Think the top four results was 4th – Kong’s White team, 3rd – Raghav’s Blue team, 2nd – Bifern’s Orange team [originally pink but they had no pink bandanas], and 1st – Aom and my GREEN TEAM! Haha, a good sign for Byron, eh? I think this House Camp was much better than last year’s. We also did some prank calls to Nun and Bifern that night since they didn’t have Gaf’s number. Haha, it was freaking funny. Weren’t able to fall asleep until 2 or 3 AM though because it was freaking hot. And we had to wake up at 6:30 in the morning! Anyway, click on the pic below to go to the House Camp album.

Sports Day 2006
This year’s Sports Day was sorta more entertaining than last year’s since Jeeb, Topsy, and the rest of the Suriyothai House managed the music list and turned on really fun songs to run to. Had a great [but tiring] day. The day before, Aom, Bifern, Raghav, Gaf, and I worked on the Byron sign [as seen below] and worked on the drinks and snacks list for our house. The next day, we had to carry the ice, drinks, and snacks all the way from the Dining Hall to the Sports Hall – not a short distance, you know. Anyway, Mr. Wise sprained his ankle the day before so Bifern and I had to work on getting all the kids to their track and field events. Not an easy thing to do since the kids were all over the field and we didn’t even know some of their names [yes, I know, really bad since you're the house captain and should know their names]. Also did the 1500 m run since they weren’t able to send the list at the last minute, so yeah… I’m proud to say that I was third… to last that is, haha. Had to do the 200 m as well. Don’t ask about that. Anyway, all of the Byron students did an excellent job and really made an effort this year. Despite all the running around and shouting for the students to get to their events, I have to say that it was fun and better than just sitting around doing nothing like last year. Maybe I’ll go and help next year . Oh, and the final results…

6th Place: Suriyothai [Pretty odd since they have really good athletes]
5th Place: Sonakul [At least they didn't beat Byron like last year]
4th Place: Churchill [Haha, Nithi was really frustrated!]
3rd Place: Byron [MUCH better than last year's 5th. We were just 7 points behind Nehru!]
2nd Place: Nehru [I was sorta cheering for Nehru to beat Keller since Byron didn't have a chance. But to find out that we were only 7 points behind Nehru... That's just really sad...]
1st Place: Keller [Again... Starting to get sick of them getting first place at all the sporting events. Can somebody just BEAT them for once??]

So this year’s was much better and we totally improved… Wonder how next year’s will be… Click on the pic below to go to the Sports Day 2006 album.

Inter-House Volleyball Competition
Well, we entered the volleyball competition with a lot of hope and determination. The guys didn’t really do that well but the girls were pretty good. The Younger Boys did ok but ended at 5th place. Kruad did an excellent job in the last game where he served 10-15 times in a row and scored em all. I remember Bifern and I were practically yelling at them to hurry up and serve since we didn’t have much time. The Younger Girls did pretty good since they made it to the semi-finals and landed with 3rd place. Wikkee did a great job organizing the team as well. I also remember that Bifern had to run back to the Boarding House to get some shirts for some of the girls who forgot to bring theirs. Pretty funny. The Older Guys were supposed to do well but I have no idea why, we ended up 5th! Everybody said it was the score writer, who didn’t know how the different points were scored, but we had no proof. Dang it. During the first game, the ball came flying at Siki, who didn’t know how to play until that day, and he knocked it with his head like the way you do in soccer and guess what? We scored! Haha, it was hilarious. Lastly, the Older Girls did an excellent job since practically the whole team was composed of members from the BISAC team. We made it to the finals but sadly lost to Keller in a really close match. So we ended up at 2nd. Pretty fun competition though. Churchill was going crazy since they had the Younger Boys, Younger Girls, and Older Guys in the finals! Here are the final results combined…

6th – Nehru [Big surprise since they were expected to win]
5th – Sonakul [People didn't expect much from them though, sorry Chris!]
4th – Byron [We did our best...]
3rd – Suriyothai [A big surprise since they won last year]
2nd – Keller [Everybody was happy they didn't win, haha]
1st – Churchill [Big surprise since nobody saw them coming]

4th place… Better than 5th and we weren’t beaten by Sonakul! Haha… Click on the pic below to go to the Volleyball Competition album.

BPS MUN & Paragon
Chaired the Environment committee with Catherine from NIST. One of the odd things was that we only had two resolutions to debate so we had tons of time left. So we had delegates doing Right-To-Statements about their country and had some interesting speeches, e.g. trash cans, hotline number, and why the Chairs should be overthrown. I think that this is the best Bangkok MUN Conference that I’ve attended since it was fun and not boring like some of the previous ones. Still can’t beat the IASAS MUN in Singapore in 2005 though. Anyway, after MUN, Raghav, George [this guy from BPS who shared a cab with us], and I got a cab and went to On Nut BTS station. The driver got confused at one point, but yeah… George got off at the Phrompong station and Raghav and I got off at the Siam one to go and meet some Harrovians for dinner and bowling. When we finally found each other, all of us [Pat, Kitti, Joe, Ta, Nun, Bifern, Por, Donut, Yuka, Blue, Tan, Raghav, Nui, and I] had dinner and went bowling. Had a great time that day and one of my best days out! We better meet up again some time while most of us are still here in Bangkok. [No pics from this day because my mom had the camera and none of us brought the camera.]

Last Week of School
Not only was it my last week at Harrow, it was also the last week of term 2, Science Week, and CIS visiting week. Had to prepare for the Science week debate where Jeeb and I have to argue that mobile phones are beneficial while Tina and Karam say that they are harmful. The debate went well and in the end, Mrs. Beresford, the judge, said that she judged on matter and manners. Well, we got the matter bit while Tina’s team got the manners bit. But in the end, we won. That makes Tina and I equal since she beated me for our Biology Cloning debate. During that week, we also did some heart dissection for Mr. Beer’s class. Oh, and we also had the inter-house tug-of-war and Byron got third. First was Suriyothai and second was last year’s champ, Churchill. Anyway, got nearly everyone to sign my friendship book [some who hogged it for a long time, right Siree & Kitti?? Haha, j/k] and some to sign my shirt on the last day. Thanks to Raghav for organizing the surprise party for Yuka and I and to Bifern for getting members of Byron House to sign the House shirt for me! I’ll make sure to visit you guys some time. Here are some of the pics of the last week and of my classes. Sorry if some of the pics are grainy, blurry, or strangely angular. It’s because I resized them on blogger while I was posting them, so they end up looking weird. For better quality, click on the pic below to go to the Last Week of School album.

“Our Humps” forever! Haha…
Standing: Nun, Bifern, Kitti, Me, and Joe.
Crouching: Raghav.
Too bad Ta was absent and we weren’t able to find Topsy.
[Sorry if it's a bit grainy here.]

Chemistry with Mr. Grey.

Biology with Mr. Waterman. Missing Ta and Shintaro.

Physics with Mr. Funnel.

Our mini-group in our tutor group.
Crouching: Raghav and Bifern.
Standing: Me, Gaf, and Aom.
The five of us got really close this year. Gonna miss you guys!

The five of us again… This was actually during a fire alarm practice. Pretty funny that we were taking pictures when we were supposed to be “still and silent”, as one teacher said. Apparently Bifern and Aom were trying to do the “The Dog” look. What do you think?

Critical Thinking with Mr. Parker.

Physics with Mr. Temple. Missing Karam.
This was on No-Uniform Day or Mufti Day. I still don’t get why No-Uniform days are called “Mufti Day”…

Chemistry with Mrs. Eades.
I recommend that you look at the real size pic at the album since it’s much clearer.

Maths with Mr. Batty. Missing Nett.
I totally forgot to take a pic of Mrs. Grimshaw’s class since I thought I would have class with her on Friday but we ended up having assembly. So, no pics of Mrs. Grimshaw’s class, which was a pity.

In Bio class.
Front: Tina and Siree.
Back: Shintaro, Raghav, Me, and Simran.

Biology with Mr. Beer, who is the funniest and best Biology teacher ever. Missing Ta nad Tori.

Kitti and I during the party we had.

Me and Bifern with the shirt she got some of the House members to sign. Thanks again, Biff!

Just some studio pics that I took with Kitti, Ta, Donut, Nun, and Yuka… Click the pic below to go to the USmile album…

Oh, and we got our AS exam [which we did in January] results around the middle of March. The results? 3 out of 4 were pretty good while the last one was just bad.

Biology – A [Was the highest in my class! Pretty surprised.]
Maths – A [91% Pretty good. Thought I would do better though.]
Chemistry – B [Made really stupid and careless mistakes that would've pulled me up to an A if I read the questions carefully.]
Physics – D [Haha, horrible, I know. But I seriously didn't understand the theory bit on forces and motion, momentum and intertia, and all the Newton crap. Give me any calculation related question and I'll be able to do it, but not the theory part because I practically died doing that. Well, guess this shows that you should spend the hours before your exam studying... not playing puzzle fighter! Hey, that was during the time that I was addicted to it .]

Anyway, that’s all the updates I have. Even though I already left Harrow, I am still House proud [GO BYRON!]. Haha, just hope that Byron wins the House Cup at least once and somebody please stop Keller from winning it every year! Anyway, going to be starting at Rangsit University in just a few days. And it will probably be a looooonnnnnnggggggg time till my next update.

Currently Listening to: Every Word I Say by Hanson.
Recently Watched: The Da Vinci Code [with Tent & Pim. So funny since at the part where Silas runs out and grabs Langdon, Pim let out a scream in the theatre. Haha, it was pretty fun. Pretty good but I thought that Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou didn't get to have much characterization, probably because Dan Brown didn't focus on the character bit. I thought Paul Bettany and Ian McKellen acted really well though!].