14th National SPM BK Quiz 2010

First of all, congratulations to those who placed Top 10 in the BK10 written quiz. You all deserve claps, because I have never won one of those awards myself. CLAPs.

I thought it would be good to write an orderly account for you.

National SPM BK Quiz is a yearly event comprising of 500 students from all over Malaysia sitting for the BK10 written quiz or the oral quiz. This year, Sri Sempurna sent out 61 students for the written quiz and 5 pairs for the oral quiz.


Here's a more personal lowdown, in a much compacted, less beefier version.


This year was rather different. The school put a cap on the number of participants for the Oral quiz, because the qualifying round was on the same day as Entrepreneur's day.
I barely made the cut to represent my school.



Being the defending champions of this BK quiz for 3 years, the form 5 pairs had a lot on our backs. There was just so much pressure from everyone, the teachers, the school, the ex-students, the current students and parents.



5 pairs were Roy and Faith, Abel and Chin, Nikole and me.

It has been a heck of a fun time training with you pals. From shouting out verses to acting ridiculous at the canteen. All of us brought our own share of flavor to the table.
I want to thank Roy for organizing all the training sessions and preparing so much for us, Faith for taking that step of faith in sleepover-ing my house, Abel for having that calm-like aura in the midst of all craziness, Chin for letting us make fun of you and your BB faithfulness, Nikole for being you - slow and of course, the best partner I could have in the world =)



Our school did well in the qualifying rounds and the speed round. All 5 teams made it to the semi-finals and that was where our biggest downfall was, context questions and probably the sheer nervousness of not having our partners by our sides to calm us down and to pep talk us.

2 teams from Sri Sempurna qualified to the finals. They are the Roith team and the Chabel team.



We didn't bring the champion's trophy back though.



Sorry.



I could go on and on about how they changed the format or how they did not accumulate our marks from the previous rounds and a million other reasons, but you know, everything happens for a reason and one day, we might just look back at this and say every mushroom cloud has its silver lining.

Thanks to mrs Gong and mr Nigel for training us.

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On a less depressing note: Faith played bowling for the first time in her secondary life, just because the ball was pink.

Credits to Emily/Yen Ni for taking pictures and more importantly, returning my baby safe and sound.