Marching at Bintulu

WE started off from Kuching, 7.30am, boarding a bus to Bintulu and reached there after a 12 hours ride, 7.30pm. We stayed at the asrama SMK Teknik Bintulu, hoping that we can stay in better place... At the first thought that schools in Bintulu are better than here. But~we are dissapointed. 30+ students, including teachers are ''forced'' to sleep in a room, neither too big or too small. The siling are dirty, got holes; the floor is full of dirt, rubbish, and DUST; the bed? we had to share among the students except our two fellow teachers; pillow? yeah, we had to share too, and again, except the teachers, but the pillows weren't very clean....

First thing that came up to my mind--sleep outside!! My friends were having the same thought... But the teachers asked us to clean up the room as were going to stay for a few days more. WHAT?!.... After a whole night working and cleaning, all of us feeling tired, exhausted....and finally, the 1st day came to the end, every1 of us found a place and slept, sweet and sounddd.....

Next morning, we got up early in the morning, much much earlier than i wake up everyday. >.< face="arial">Hahaha!





Okay, now we go to the main topic. Without wasting any more precious time that left only a FEW days before the competition, we started our training. Well, it's kind of not as i expected......

Before this, we were trained, under a female teacher. This time, the real trainer came back from his kursus. And he took over everything. 1st, he asked us to change our uniform from the new to the old ones. Everything became messy, some of us didn't get uniform, b cos the old ones are not enough; then, he not allowed the Form 6 students to go with us, as they will be having their ujian MUET. In fact, some of them were willing to 'sacrifice' their MUET, juz to help us to perform better for this competition. Unfortunately, the teacher was very strict! NO!!! That's what he said, and we let the reserves to replace them. Well, the 'simpanan'....haiz, they really seldom joined us in any training before, so they had to start all over again. Of course, this took time, and as the result, T.T..............................

Post to the camera~yeah!

We started our training. These are some of the scenes. It was in the morning time, the sun rised up very early in the morning, and everybody were training very hard & serious under the sun...nobody felt like playing and joking, unlike last time at Matang Jaya. Maybe we felt the tension of the coming competition and we knew that this time it was more important for us, the teachers and our school becuse if we won, we'll be representing our state to compete in Terengganu. Everybody worked hard, but it was still doesn't enough. We were still making lot, lots and lotss of mistakes, and the teacher got his headache when the SAME person did the SAME mistakes over and over again!! haiz...............




Don't be suprise,yeah! this is our handsome comander- Hafiz! And... what are they doing? Haha. This is part of our 'formsi 1', its the part where we were divided into three groups: all of us will shouted the slogan 2gether. The slogan is , ''ILMU! IMAN! AMAL!'' & we added some simple actions so that it would not be that boring~ This photo looks funny, isn't it?




Hehehehe.... That's Calvin la.... Why did he smile like that??
It's the competition. We were excited, nervous and doing the last checking. Um... Everything's here, let's go!

SNEAKING~~~~

Here's our boss, (i don't actually know him very well, hehe). Everybody called him Tuan,(Sir)? But y? Juz look at his face. So cOOl...... If you think that he was watching the other kontijen marching, maybe he was watching girls at the other side! HAHAHA! Joking la!!

K la. I only knew that he was the the 'head' of our kontijen(s) from Kuching. He took care of our food and drinks, and he was a nice man. We met him 1st at the camp(at the lapangan terbang where we marched), he was waiting for us, maybe to see his 'anak buah'. At 1st we didn't dare to talk to him, or even look at him bcos he luks more alike a discipline teacher in our school that always scolded students. BUT, ''don't judge a book by its cover'', that's what we were suprised of--he was friendly, funny and likes to joke. There's juz something weird about him--he doesn't smile.





Here we go again. It was last checking of uniform, waiting uneasily, ''pemeriksaan uniform'' by the sir(s) and mdm , marched into the gelanggang,etc....... there were some differences of the gelanggang there and the gelanggang at SMK Matang Jaya... When checking the uniforms, this time we were more comfortable compared to last time, b cos there's a camp that was prepared for us(the secondary school's kontijen did not have it, very kesian la~), but it was hotter too, compared to last time! Every1 especially me, sweating for the whole journey of that marching!!!




Our camera man(actually is one of our teacher wif his high quality camera, haha), doing his job seriously, taking photos of our marching under the big and hot sun. We did it very seriously but of course, mistakes occured.

Formasi 1.....

Our marching ended, finally. Everybody, including the teachers and the BOSS were very happy and glad. We sang and danced the song that we learnt from the teacher during the training(sound like lu-lulalu-lulalulalulalei-lulalu-lalulalulalulalei-lu-lulalu-lulalulalulalei-lulalulalulalei....i don't know the song name, hehe) straight after finished marching, at the back of the camp. It was joyful and fulled of hapiness, and it managed to throw some of our unsatisfied feelings about our performances, at least for temporarily. Ever1 was starring at us, so EMBARASSED!!!!!!

~HAFIZ~
It's him again.

It was the evening, where we were ready , back to asrama. And it felt like our journey was almost finished... When we reached here at first, we wanted to go back as soon as possible; but now, I felt like staying here for a week more...T.T
We had been eating nasi bungkus for the whole week(only 5 days but felt like a week), lunch and dinner, and the breakfast we ate was not enough for me!

Actually the teachers planned to 'move out' from the asrama and stayed at inn for 1 night, after the closing ceremony. Of course, it's not free. So the teachers collected RM5 each, including themselves for renting a few rooms in City Inn. Some of the students refused to move there because their money almost finished but, who cared? Ever1 couldn't stand living in that asrama anymore, even the teachers wanted to get out of that place as soon as possible. So, the teachers booked a few rooms, we stayed for another night there and immediately moved out on the next morning. Huh!





It was the closing ceremony. Every kontijen from different daerah, according to their categories were queuing up in their own position which were following yesteday's raptai. The closing ceremony was quite different from the other ceremonies i've gone to, bcos we need to be in standing position along the time the ceremony was still going on. It's not that comfortable tOO...as we had to follow the comand which stated that we couldn't move our body or walked somehow but, we did it. HAHA. Next to us was the female-St.John Ambulance kontijen from SMK Stampin. Wow~they were the most disciplined students i've ever seen!! They juz stood there doing nothing, and when their reserves wanted to give them drinks, they refused it; they didn't relax themselves, unlike every1 else there walked around, moved their bodies; they didn't even talked to each other all the time. Their comander, a girl who was(is) really very strict and the most disciplined 1, she had influenced the others, i thought.
When it's the time for the prizes, HAHA, something EMBARASSING about us happened, and i'm not going to talk about it! Not a piece! Then, the girls got the 1st, and they could go to Terengganu soon but we didn't..T.T. Their comander went to the stage to receive the medals, and here's when the funny things happened. Once she left the girls and go to the stage, all the girls relax themselves and talked to each other! Every1 of them showed their hapiness, smilling, laughing and some even cried! Omg. They were so not like who they are before.... And those moment ended when they saw their comander walking back, towards them... Everything was back to normal..............

It's it. Photo of our kontijen. Actually some were missing, but nvrmind, juz take it as all of us were in the photo. Hey! The BOSS took photo with us lei! Emm..but still with his cool face.....

Alright, that's all for my 'report'. We didn't go back after the closing ceremony, instead of shopping at the town for the rest of the time. But the 'camera man' ended his job here, so no more stories i can tell with the photos. Hope u'll enjoy it!^^