End of Term! Vacation at last!

At last, one term of school’s done and I now have time to relax. Well, not really since I have to get ready for our upcoming A-Levels Module exams in January one week after school opens… Jeesh, not like I and the other Sixth Formers can really enjoy the vacation, huh? Anyway, I haven’t updated for 2 months or so and there’s just so much to write about… So many things happened this term – Community Service, the Autumn Bash, the Basketball games, the Football competition, the Carol Service, International Day, Loy Kratong, Swimming Gala… The list goes on forever… I must say, this term has been extremely fun, despite the fact that we practically have a test every single week [not as bad as the people who take Psychology though, since they literally have one Psychology test every single week!]. In addition, I really believe what the teachers use to say to us that in order to study A-Levels, you must be committed and hard-working or you’ll go nowhere. Absolutely true! There’s just so much of the workload and the whole pressure about being a role-model to the younger students, which can get annoying some times since if you make a tiny little mistake, you’ll get picked on.

Anyway, it’s been awhile since I wrote and so many things happened that I’m actually forgetting them already! Community Service was a great experience and it was great that we got to go and spend time with the children at the different centers. The Inter-House Basketball was a great competition and I even took part in it! Haha, mainly just because not enough people decided to join so I had to get down and play and I even scored half our team’s point in the first match! That’s right 2 points… [-_-] I think that I saw great spirit in my House this year since during the last match for the KS3 Boys and Girls games, the boys, who were trailing at 0 to 10 were able to flip the game in the last ten minutes and win! They just kept on scoring 2, 2, 2, 2, and then finally, in the last minute or so, one boy, I think it was Kruad, shot randomly in the attempt to score a point and it went straight in. As if that wasn’t shocking enough, it was a three-pointer that he scored! Thus, making us win that particular game! As for the girls, we [Bifern and I] bribed them that we would give them stamps [sort of like credits] if they win this challenge by 10 points or more. Guess what – they did! Maybe it was bribery that made them win, but still, they won!

Moving on – The Autumn Bash…

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Ohm, Ping, and Ta – Part of the Sixth Form Band performing at the Autumn Bash

The day of the Autumn Bash started out with a little Preview of the Byron Charity Day where we had a little “Dunk-the-Teacher” game. All I can say is that we got so much money just from that game! And the teachers were so funny as they waited for the students to dunk them. One particular conversation between Mr. Herbert, who was in the dunking booth then, and Kitti:

Mr. Herbert: Aww, here comes Kitti! He isn’t gonna get me down.
Kitti: Mr. Herbert – This is for giving me a C for my Drama grade! [Throws the ball]
Mr. Herbert: Hahaha… [The ball hits the thing and he falls down. He gets up again and sits.]
Kitti: This is for letting me play a MORON in the Drama Play!
Mr. Herbert: Kitti – you ARE a moron!
[laughter]
Mr. Herbert: I will pay for 50 balls if Kitti gets into this with his uniform on!
[People pressure Kitti to get into the booth in the sake of charity. You can probably guess what happened next!]

After the dunk, we went to the Autumn Bash, which was after school. In my opinion, I think that the Sixth Form Band last year was better since they played many fun songs such as Len Kong Soong by Big Ass, My Immortal by Evanescence, and so many other ones, which were all awesome. Still, this year was pretty good. In addition, it felt weird that Mew’s Band wasn’t there anymore since they used to rock everyone. Anyway, we saw a lot of great talent that night!

Moving on – International Day…

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B6OG Posing on International Day.
Back row: Me, Siki, and Mr. Gray
Middle Row: Yuka, P’Bow, P’Ploy, Julie, and Raghav
Last Row: Aom, Kanae, Ploy, Bifern, and Gaf

All I can say about International Day is that it was quite funny to see all of us in different costumes. The ones that really stood out were probably Topsy in her Minnie Mouse costume, Tab in his “Baang Ra Jaan” clothes, and Jeeb in her Samurai armor.

Moving on – Loy Kratong…

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Posing in front of the Common Room before we run off to class.
Standing: Music, Ohm, Plai, Ping, Charlie, Sky, Bifern, Stacy, Yuka, Donut, Nancy, Julie, Nop, and Chris.
Sitting: Nithi, Me, and Raghav.

Loy Kratong was also fun to see everybody dressed up in a Thai costume. Most of us just wore what we did last year. Fear Factor was pretty funny but it was starting to get boring since the stuff is similar to last year – and there’s no scorpion for them to eat this year! What a pity…

Moving on – ISB MUN…

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Harrow MUN Team of 2005
Back Row: Nadine, Abby, Sparsh, Taha, Chris, Raghav, and Boung
Middle Row: Charlie, Elysia, Kawee, Aesh, Tina, Trin, and Miles
Front Row Standing: Simran, Linn, Hyung Mi, Keiko, Topsy, Jeeb, Dow, Toy, and Nithi.
Front Row Sitting: Mr. Way, Mrs. Stalder, and Me.

This conference was another great conference for me since I got the chance to be the chairman of a committee, which involved ordering people to be quiet and to stop talking… Haha, great experience… Also had to help the other people that just joined MUN for the first time. I was surprised to see that many of them engaged themselves into the debate, e.g. Toy asking some Points of Informations, Charlie discussing a resolution and how to bring it down with another delegate, even Trin making some comments and accidentally saying “Point of Public Privilege” on accident [there’s only “Point of Personal Privilege”]… And in case you were wondering if I went to the IASAS conference this year – No, I didn’t because I had the ROTC [R.D.] exam on that week, so I didn’t want to miss that and risk doing it alone later in December.

Moving on – Swimming Gala…

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Swimming Gala… I missed this event last year since I was in Singapore but all I can say is that it was fun! All the houses were very spirited and went on cheering for their houses. I didn’t swim so I had to be a timer assistant. Now I see why everybody was wearing a hat and put on sunscreen because the sun was really hot! The weather was fine at first but as time went on, it got hotter and hotter. Byron was leading with Churchill at first but as time went by, Keller caught up with their relays and shot to first place, thus kicking Byron down to fifth place. Oh well, at least we’re higher than Sonakul… I must say, I saw some excellent swimmers in our house – Aom, Misato, Adrian, Jessica, Third, and many other people. And great job to Byron for coming in first for the KS4 Kayak Relay and second for the KS3 Kayak Relay! Great teamwork!

Moving on – Football

Byron KS3 Boys Football Team

Natt, Boom, Caleb [I think], Jasper, Kruad [I think], Jayson, and Third.

Byron KS4 Girls Football Team

Standing: P’Bow, Eye, Aim, Poi [I think], and Gab
Sitting: P’ Ploy and Bifern

That’s all the pics that I took – I didn’t have the chance to take pics of the KS3 Girls and KS4 Boys who made it to the finals since they were already on the field by the time I got there… But anyway, I saw a great team effort and team spirit from the players in the football game. What do I mean by that? Well, we had people volunteering [or maybe because of the bribe again, haha] to play the game when we were short of people. Some of the boys were willing to let the girls borrow their socks and shin pads and wait for the game to finish until they get it. One girl, Eye, injured her toe the day before and continued to play the next day just so that Byron could have a chance at winning. I must say, although we came in 5th in the overall total, we did very well in the football challenge and this is a sign that we can improve next year! Highlights of the game are Gunn and Job, who both scored a goal in our individual matches against Nehru and Suriyothai, P’Ploy, who was an excellent goalie, the Siritawat Sisters, who were excellent as defenders and wouldn’t let go of the ball, Ploy, who came to school to play the game even though she had stomach ulcers, Kong, an excellent goalie that made the students team against the teachers, Pim, who shot the ball in at the last two seconds and making Byron go into the penalty shoot out in the finals, Pair, who shot two goals in our match against Suriyothai, and to Wikkee, Natt, and Aom, who were excellent Sport Captains for this competition. [Jeesh, talk about a run-on sentence just now…]

Moving on – End of Term…

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Some of the Sixth Formers after the Carol Service before we leave the school
I’ll just start from the left: P’Ploy, P’Dow, Kevin, Raghav, Me, Gaf, Shigeo, Nun, P’Ohm, Stacy, Nop, Donut, Yuka, Bifern, Charlie, Por, Kitti, Nancy, Siree, Jeeb, Tina, Chris, Music, Trin, Nithi, and Siki.

The end of term one… Probably one of the best days of the year since we were going on vacation. Also a pretty sad day since some of our friends were leaving, too. Still, we all celebrated with them and threw a little party before we headed off to the football finals and then the carol service. Here are some pictures of the day – more in the album!

In our tutor group with Mr. Wise.

During the little party – The leavers: Donut, Nop, Por, and Kevin. [There are three other people (Julie, Plai, and Ploy) but they didn’t come on the last day of school.]

Carol Service – This year’s was so much better than last year. The lighting was really nice, the choir was awesome [the girls were excellent!], and the readers were really good. We weren’t supposed to clap at the end to allow a moment of silence, but right after we sang “Joy to the World”, we all just started clapping since the service this year was really good. In fact, Gaf and I started clapping first and then everbody followed, haha… The applause went on and on for minutes until the choir left and Dr. Hensman had to tell us to be quiet!

Anyway, that’s it for this entry… All I can say is good luck to Por, Kevin, Donut, Nop, Julie, Plai, and Ploy and hope you guys enjoy where you’re going to. Exams are coming up… I have only have four exams this time around [thank God] instead of – what was it – 17 or 19 last year?? Anyway, the problem is that they’re all within days after another… Biol on the 10th of Jan, then Chem on the 11th, then Physics on the 12th… Great… Even worse – because we must take the exam the same time as the UK for Maths, our Maths exam will be at 7:30 PM on the night of the tenth! And we’ll be done around 9 or so… Oh well, I’m gonna have a fun time studying…

Last but not least, wish you all a great vacation and have fun! The weather’s so good now… A total contrast with last week – I guess it’s better late than never, right?

Currently Reading: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Maths Revision Books and all my classnotes.
Currently Listening to: Jesus of Suburbia by Greenday