ALSA UI 2009

Back again...
I just read a crazy touching post in Lisia's page about ALSA, and I'm inspired to write one here. Well, not gonna be exactly like the one Lisia wrote. I'm not in the mood to build such a poetry-kind of writing now.

So here goes, ALSA UI 2009, a supermassive national competition of English held in FHUI. Spelling Bee, Presenting Ideas, News Casting, you name it. Me and my team participated in the Debate competition, of course. It was such big, huge competition. 54 teams of highschool debate and 40-something teams of varsity debate. How many debaters then? Well, count it by yourself. It was a really major thing, so to speak.

Now, how about the result?
Hmm, 2 VPs... means that my team didn't make it through the breaking Octo. Well, well... we're newbie. We didn't expect something so major for such a big competition like ALSA though. 2VPs are quite something for us in the middle of those great debaters. We were there for about a week, and I can say that I.am.officially.sick.of.those.debate.thingie.

Sick here doesn't mean that I hate debate from head to toe. No. Sick here, means that I had enough of debate last week. Imagine, 2 rounds of me, debating and after that we had to watch 2 rounds of the varsity debate. Not to mention, how the hectic atmosphere went on and on in the Debater's Hall.

Conversations were always like this:

"Hey, how was the debate?" or..
"It was a split decision though, 3 to 2" or...
"Unanimous! Cool!" or...
"I had a clear winning, wew!" or...
"Win by 3 margins... It was a split though" or...
"How many VPs so far?"
"Standing! look at the standing!"
"I kinda backstab my 1st speaker on my rebuttal. Ahhh..."

Hahaha, anyhow... I still love those moments!
How we casebuilt still confused of those impromptu motions, how we get things over if we had some drama in the team. How we tried to manage and find a solution for every kind of trouble. how we felt like we want to explode when we couldn't accept the reason why we lost or something like that. How we faced the drama that we even surprised can took place in such competition like ALSA. How we had a crazy night out to let go of everything and woke up the next day with a sore throat. How we had such a huge confident to go to FE from FH without knowing the route of BiKun or the faculties there, so we ended up confused and just let our feet lead the way. Ahhh, I love those moments.
And just like Lisia, I'll do anything to go back.
Hahaha...

Oops, almost forgot...
The Highschool finalists were
SMAN 3 Bandung vs SMAN 8 Yogyakarta
with the motion: TH supports the establishment of ASEAN Parliament
And the ALSA title went to: SMAN 8 Yogyakarta

meanwhile, the varsity finalists were
ATMAJAYA Jakarta vs EDS UI
with the motion: .... lupa
and the ALSA title went to: ATMAJAYA Jakarta

Hahaha, that was ALSA.
Can't wait for the next competition.
And for the non-breaking teams (you know who you are...)
shit happens guys, we just had a bad day!!!
*karaokean lagi yuuu...


Gosh, how I miss those moments...