Chinese Culture Competition
Posted in: UncategorizedYay! Finally the Chinese Culture Competition is over, and I end up as 14th, out of 20 finalists. Not bad for me, as the efforts I invested in it is merely enough to compete with the rest, hehe. =)
It was fun, and I was very nervous before it starts, but the competition was hell lot easier than I thought it is. The questions are easy, but for us CHMS finalists, luck wasn’t there. All three of us, except KangNi, survived the first round, but was eliminated in the second round. Why? Because the questions were all about geography(of China), which is our weakest section, gah!~
ChiHo and YuanXi should be able to make it to the top 3, gah, too bad. However, ChiHo was so lucky(or not?) to get 10th, which is the last one to be able to get the B$50 cash prize. He promised to treat me my lunch tomorrow, wahahaha. =) Congrats yeah?
I had a lot of unexpected fun yesterday, haha. I thought it would be a boring, quiet and serious competition, but it wasn’t! It was quite noisy(with all the CHMS folks around, haha), and there’s a lot of laughter and interaction in between the host and audiences.
They prepared a lot of prizes for the audiences, and they asked questions. Almost all the prizes(some 30+ of them?) were won by CHMS people, which shows how active CHMS people are, haha. YuanXi’s family is crazy! He and the two little brothers of him grabbed around 10 prizes in total, holy shit! Haha.
They were running, laughing and rumbling for the microphone and prizes! Haha, it was funny.
However, when Pehin Lau(Hua Ho’s owner) was invited to award the prizes to the winners(of the questions open to audiences), he scolded them! Haha. He said that they shouldn’t be running like that, as if they don’t have manners and etc. Gosh, I can’t stop laughing! Haha. It’s pretty lame, lame reason to be scolded, LoL! =p
And the Pehin Lau then started to give his ultra long speech. Man, he’s really not an ordinary old man! Haha. His speech was great, but no one(no students) understand him! He started with typical china style chinese, then hokkien, then Malay! He practically mixed all the languages together and switch in between them fluently! Haha.
He kept talking, talking and talking! Everyone is laughing(because he’s like talking to himself? And keep talking in Bahasa Brunei?), and even when the MC said thank you and asks him to step down, he still continue! Then everyone clapped hands for like two minutes, but yet he continued to talk, as if he heard nothing about the clappings!
He’s an interesting old man I suppose? And from what he said, I can see that it’s about some conspiracy and political issues in my school. He’s somewhat scolding our board of directors, saying that they don’t respect our teachers and principal. It’s an interesting one tho. Hmmm…
P.S : Solely personal opinion!
And then after his speech(not only once! He keep interupting the closing ceremony by suddenly went up the stage and talk! No one really dare to stop him, as he’s the pehin and datuk, haha), prize giving for finalists and qualifiers were held. I represented CHMS to receive 27 certificates(for qualifying the exam) from HaoHan’s dad. And later we all went up to get our trophies, yay! The trophy looks good, but weird tho, ah well, unique! Haha.
And then eat! Haha.
Oh yea, I was ‘boo’-ed this morning, when I went up the stage to receive my trophy, duh. And guess who did that? JingYi and Jeffrey they all, haha, who else will? -.-” I heard JingYI(I think? Special laughter I must say, hehe) LOL(laugh out loud!)!! Sigh, was hurt, LoL, kidding. =)
Oh yea people, I love this newly discovered website called Kevin Sites(In The Hot Zone), by Yahoo!. It’s a website maintained by a strong team in Yahoo!, which I think they’re currently at Lebanon(or Israel? Anyway, that’s the reason for them to call themselves “In the hot zone”, I think?), and is practically the most updated and focused website on the current issue - Israel and Lebanon Conflinct in Middle East. =) Stay tune people!
Oh yea, “WE WANT PEACE!”, haha. =)
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yuanxi? my cuz? his dad ‘forced’ them to learn avthin chinese (those philosophy, history, even war tactic, quote by old ppl, etc etc) since young n to memorize them avday -.-” when i go their hse i tot im in ching, han, tang or ming dynasty xD
i don really quite like chinese culture though - superstitious, rumourous (”the chinese rumour” is a common phrase around the world to explain the danger of word deviation), racist (ever heard them calling “japanese dog”, “western ghost”, “pig descendent”, etc? plus the common assumption black ppl r primitive n low?) i still prefer to adopt european culture (european, not american); well-educated, high-morality, etc - simply tour france, switzerland, austria, denmark, etc n u’ll know y it lives up to its standard ;)
Haha, I still love chinese culture, despite all those you stated. =) I think his dad didn’t force him to? He seems to love them. @_@ And his brothers too.
try going to his house and be with his WHOLE family! his first younger brother will ALWAYS be the one who starts the conversation by saying sth about Kong Zi or ‘The Affairs of the Three Kingdoms’ , even when we r having our lunch!!! His sister was my classmate and we r still good friends.
erm…. ya! kong zi, romance of 3 kingdoms, cau cau, sun zhi bin fa, etc… his dad requires them to learn n memorize all, even the favourite ps games oso abt that -.-”
i have a big problem with confucianism, whether be it in field of family, social n etc. it may work or maybe not for some. such “culture” is strictly practised by my grandma, it destroyed the family n burned her sons & daughters future till today. the ideas of family n relatives living together, respect / submission to elderly, filiality, etc is far outdated; with tat we see overdependency.
maybe try a bit victorian culture? :P
haha, sounds like they can amke good friends with me eh? I am also a three kingdom freak! =)
I applied confucioanism in my life. Although it’s outdated, and kind of impossible to maintain in today’s society, but i think it tells us what’s the meaning of life, and why we live. =)
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