Interact Conference 2008

On the 21 Nov, me, Jo, Jac, Vi Vian and Hastane went to Klang for conference. The conference held at Kompleks Rakan Muda Daerah Klang..We bertolak at 8.00 am...as usual the first thing we do in the bus is starting to take pics...b4 dat i was shocked when i saw Cheng Siew..then i was sure dat Khatini was there too..lolz..around 12 sumthing we ate our lunch at Dunkin Donuts..we arrive at the kompleks around 3 sumthing..we arrived kinda late..The briefing on house rules almost ended when we arrived...later we were in our own group for ice breaking session...I'm in E4 which stands for Echo 4...Hastane, Jac, Jo and Vi Vian in A1, A2, A3, and A4 which stands for Alpha..Altogether got 5 big groups which is Alpha, Bravo, Charlie. Delta and Echo..which is subdivided into 4 smaller group..the ice breaking session was about getting know the members of our own group...my group consists of 22 people...which is Ann, Putra, Lan, Sath, Marcus, Lay, Ravina, Dickson, KY, RD, Fahima, Xing Xing, Shiny, Teng Kuan, Su Hua, Jenny, and Weng..(dis are their short cut name so can easy to rmb). My GDL is Ying Xin. My group leader is Dickson, assistant leader is Lay.

From left Marcus, Mabelyn, My GDL(the black shirt)

A few schools were selected to overnight at Comfort Hotel..Lucky my school was selected..because the dorm were full adi...so we get in the bus again to go to the hotel to check in and get bath for dinner..my roomates were Hastane and Jac..Jo and Vi Vian together...

This is wat happen when we stay together...MESSY

After dinner, there's a Rotary Quiz..the Quiz kinda hard because it is about Rotary history...there's only a winner and the winner get RM 60 cash..guess who is the winner.........a foreigner..he enters the Youth Exchange Programme...he chose long term which is one year staying in Malaysia..Next year Jan he is going back to Australia...his homeland..he is in A3 group..studying in SMJK Chung Hwa, Kota Bahru.....there is also one girl from Taiwan come to Malaysia..she reach Malaysia a few weeks ago...she also chose long term...

Chris and Me

Later, we have stand up comedy by Rtr. Ravinder Singh...he is so extreem funny..u can laugh till non stop..btw he is a lawyer...after the comedy ended, we have supper..after supper we went bac to the hotel...

Feeling weird wearing this shoe with my uniform

ok the 2nd day....early morning we have our breakfast and prepare for the opening ceremony..for the opening ceremony, we have to wear school uniform...i was shocked again when i see certain school uniforms from other schools..their uniforms are like they are going out for dinner...unbelieveable...After the opening ceremony, there's a speech entitled 'Forget No More' by Rtr. Anant Kasibhapla from India....It was a nice speech...Later there is a debate which is about 'Co-Curricular activities are more important than Curricular activities in youth development'...six students were selected to join this debate..one thing dat i can tell you about this debate is AWESOME....never in my life i have seen such awesome debate..enjoy it...at 12.45pm we had lunch...After lunch we changed our clothes to casual clothes...after changing there's a 30 mins on Leadership seminar by SOC Taylor's College School of Communications and then a speech by Rtr. Bernard Hor about 'Empowering Youth In Today's Business'..Let me briefly tell you about this guy..He is the CEO of three companies and he is just a fresh graduan..cool rite??After the speech, there was business challenge activities...this challenge is to enable us to experience how to convince your investors to invest in your business...each big group have to open a big company with four small companies...five people from each big group will present the plannings at the stage to convince the investors which were Rtr Bernard Hor, Rtr Chandrasegaran and a woman(not sure of her name)...by 8.30pm the presentation starts...Alpha's big company name is The Ultimate Lifestyle City(about entertainment) and the CEO of this company is Chris...Bravo's big company name is Bravo Holdings Sdn Bhd...Charlie's big company name is Matrix Coperation...Delta's big company is Delta Food Enterprise..and my group big company name is Echo Coperation...actually the winner of this challenge is kinda obvious..i think you all can guess which group.....................................ALPHA won...!!!after the announcement of the winner, there's a promotion on paintball challenge by a student from Segi College...after all the activities were done, we have the chance to take group photo and chat among everyone b4 the bus arrived and picked certain students up bac to the hotel which includes me...practically i was running from north to south, from east to west to get to know more people...then later my GDL get us together to gossip at the cafeteria...was gossiping half way, all of sudden Kelvin Thum, the president of the Rotary Club Of Penang budge in our group and started to develop a MOO MOO CLUB..to enter dis Moo Moo Club, you need to win the Moo Moo game...half way telling us about the club, Bernard budge in pula..and they started shouting to call more people to come and play..you guess how Bernard invite people to join..he says dat this club, idiots only can enter..furthermore you all are interactors which starts from the letter I which equalvilent to Idiots..i started laughing like mad person when he says dat..eventually more and more people come and see wat is goin on...it started with a story...Kelvin owns a barn with some cows..when at night, the cows sneak out..in the morn some cows came bac, some don't....so in order for Kelvin to check how many cows sneak out, he set up an alarm..the alarm will sound 'thum' whenever a cow went out from the barn...so wen Bernard or Kelvin slam their hands to the chair a few times...they will ask, How many cows have escaped?...eventhough you tell the correct number, you still need to tell the correct reason, Why you chose dat number??..once i get the correct number but i get the wrong reason..sad..who get both correct they will get one free banana and offcially a member of Moo Moo club...

this is Bernard aka president of Moo Moo club is standing on a chair in front of me trying to call people to join the club

From left Kelvin Thum aka founder of Moo Moo club, Chandrasegaran

Around midnite i chao from there...tired of laughing..i started to exchanged phone no. and email add with my new friends until the bus arrived to pick us up bac to hotel...one of the most bad news is their phone no. are all 016....

3rd day is the last day of the conference...after breakfast we had a speech by Rtr Bernard Hor, Chandrasegaran and Rtr James Ong about 'Amazing Opportunities in Rotaract'..as usual they will ask us to tell our probs dat we are facing in our club so that they can help us to solve the probs...practically most of them were complaining about the dorm rather than about interact club...after dat all the rotarians were called in front on the stage to dance..and guess wat song they chose..I Like To Move It from Madagascar movie...then later the rotarians make a train and move around the hall...FUN....some students were looking..some juz don't care and join in the train and enjoy themselves..wah...k after dat Penang bus arrived to pick us home..most of them decided to went bac b4 the closing ceremony..so i have to follow...honestly i don't feel like going bac so fast...but wat can i do??have to follow the majority....ok maybe for all of you who are reading dis..you might feel dis conference are so boring..but for me..i tell from the bottom of my heart ...i was enjoying myself dis three days..eventhough theres so many speech, i enjoy hearing them...eventhough i'm so sleepy especially in the morn..i will never close my ears and eyes..maybe because its my interest in this club dat doesn't make me bored..all i can say is i do not regret goin there...

Signing off with a BIG smile