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It’s been one month I never go back to ipoh, kinda miss home
so I decided to go back after the irritating hematology exam. At the same time,
I received Jeng Yi’s message, telling me that our juniors managed to enter
final of debate competition. Hooray…
that’s great! Our school has not been entering debate final since 3 years ago,
besides we lost at that very day, to the same school some more… Hey juniors, it’s
time to grab back the champion title for the school!

The final was held in Sunday morning, so I had to purposely
wake up early to give my moral support to them. However, I got the chance to
meet all my good, old friends (that’s the only good thing). Then I talked to
the juniors, gave them my best wishes. But I wasn’t that close with them
because I had ‘abandoned’ the debate team since 2 years ago. Hey guys, I am
very sorry…I have my own reasons. Anyway, one of them was sobbing because he
felt very stress and nervous, the rest looked emotionless. This reminded me 3
years ago when I was in their position. Palpitation was the only thing I could
remember at that moment. But it was full of fun, me and my friends always like
to talk all the memories that we had in debate. The most important thing is, we
never cry and laugh all the way even when it was very stressful.

Then the competition started. The opponent had very good
preparation, the speech was fantastic and their debaters had good public
speaking skill. However, our juniors were very awesome as well, they rebutted
without mercy. Jeng Yi sat next to me, told me how hard for them to prepare
this competition. Actually they have
been changing the whole strategy over and over throughout the week, my friend
even consulted our super seniors in Singapore because the topic was too hard.
At last, their final strategy was so superb that I knew they are going to win
in the middle of competition. So I spent most of the time chatting with Jeng
Yi. The reason I think the juniors are going to win because their rebuttal
skills are so good, until the opponents don’t dare to answer all the questions
directly. Before the result was out, I left that place and assured my friends that
they would be the champion.

Mana tau.. after a few hours later, Wei Li called me and
said our junior had lost. I thought he was kidding because it was so obvious
that the opponents were very weak, even my brother who was from the opponents’
school feels embarrassed after watching the competition with me. Wei Li said it was because of some bastard
judges’ opinion. Then Jeng Yi messaged me later, told me that for the first
time, he cried for debate. I know he has been putting a lot of effort in
training up all these juniors, this means so much to him, but in the end, they
lost because of some judges’ unwise opinion. From what I heard, that particular
judge said the opponent had more reasonable points, even though they cannot
rebut as good as our juniors. Can you
imagine a debate team, which hold their points firmly and rebut continuously
and successfully, lost in the end, how could it possible? I don’t understand…. If
debate were all about voicing up points without defend it, then might as well
convert debate competition to public speaking competition.

To all my beloved juniors and friends, who involved in this
competition, you all are INCREDIBLE! In debate, the journey is more important
than the destination. Peace!