August 7th, Saturday
I woke up sleepily, nearly wanted to put my head on my soft warm pillow back. Despite of the grogginess, (last night, my mind was already in the labyrinth of my thick heavy textbooks) just below my eyes were dark shadows that bulged from my skin. One glance at the mirror, I winced by my awful appearance. Well, with a cooling, refreshing bath and a puff of my strawberry scent powder on my cheeks, I bet the shadows will disappear in no time!
I brought along a few textbooks, pencil box and a bottle of water, stuffed them hastily inside my bag and immediately ate breakfast. The breakfast menu for today was tuna sandwich with a cup of milo. I gotta tell ya, it really made my stomach sang as it already done filling in. I set off early at 7 o'clock and with a peck on each of my parents cheek, I stepped onto the pavement and closed the car door, facing my beloved high school, SMK USJ 23. Well, soon, I guess I have to leave this place. I need a brighter future than just staying in this school. But still, it held lots of my sweet and sour memories that still whirling in my mind.
I met my friends and we set off to Summit where the quiz held at around 8:15. When I faced the high looming building, swarmed by smart-looking kids around my age, my heart sank and my forehead immediately broke into sweat. Nausea crept in and I began to share my fear to my friends. They're helpfully coaxed me and reminded me to just have fun. That brought my heart positioned in the right place but the nausea was still creeping in, refused to retreat. I took a deep breath, eyes focused, mind's whirling, heart beating, lungs breathing and walked hesitantly towards the mouth of the hotel with shaking legs. It's like as if I'm going to be swallowed by the scary looking building (in my eyes opinion due to the fact I'm nearly hyperventilated) but I have to remind myself a triple of times that Summit is still my favorite mall, which provided my favorite restaurant, Subway. That cheered me up a bit but I'm not entirely sure.
As we're done registering ourselves at the counter, I realized the Organizers provided breakfast for us- McDonald McMuffin burger and another bottle of water. Despite of my full stomach, I shoved the food inside my bag and saved it for the future later.
Okay, the quiz preparation was like this: Azieyati, Amirul and I were in the same team whereas Liyana, Arisha and Razlin were in the other. We're together were among the Blue Team and the Red Team needs to compete first. So, Azieyati and I have lots of time together digging in textbooks and reference books while the Red Team competed. We peeked in some of the questions and some of them were complicated and some of them were easy. Nausea crept in-again.
After a few hours, the Red Team finished and it's the Blue Team's turn to face the unexpected questions. Well, let me summarize the story. I'm tired on typing more. Both my team lose. Well, we expected the blow already for there were many questions that we didn't learn yet. I remembered my team hentam-ed everytime when we faced complicated questions.
The questions that I enjoyed the most were these: How many J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series get to film in public? Of course only 6! What should the swan do to take off from gliding on the lake? Run on the water and push itself off the lake! Some teams answered "simply flap its wings" but actually, it's not correct. Mr. Bookworm wants to buy a book. Which website should he surf to buy the book he needs? www.amazon.com lah! I went to that website EVERYTIME! -laughs- Seriously, we had a great deal of fun there but it's a shame really not to grasp our victory. Some of the questions were answered correctly, thanks to our brilliant Azieyati but some also put our mind to thinking very hard.
Azieyati advised me to attend the quiz next year and we'll try to win this time. I accepted the advice without further hesitation. I hated when I didn't get what I've always wanted and sometimes I can become quite aggressive just to grasp my goal. With my ownership on being one of the Tauruses, me and my team will try our best for next year. Well, I guess that's all of our 'quiz' experience. We'll just try to persuade our teachers to attend the quiz again. We will brush the dust off from our school's name soon. But for now, toodles!!
