mighty minds; what was and wasn't.

i really dont know how to put this into words. but as my teammates said, tiade rezeki. now lets start from the beginning oke?

at first i could sense that our ending wasnt to be any good. guess why? because i was superbly hyper actively enthusiastically happily annoyingly excited about this whole thing. the last few days i didnt really read about anything, and yesterday i just spent my evening chatting with some friends, downloading songs, ect. so, dalam happy happy pon, aku dapat rase its not going to be good. sebab aku damn so excited takleh cover. kalau mcm mase nak exam, aku terlampau nervous takut nak mati gelabah rase rendah diri tak habes bacela ape la, but the results will turn out to be rather positive. tapi sekarang aku tak cuak langsung, which could be otherwise.

dan aku ni sempat lagi vain depan pintu lift.

bila kitorg dah sampai kat sunway pyramid, nampaklah manusia berduyun-duyun beruniform sekolah samada semua biru, semua hijau, semua putih, semua batik, atau semua kuning tudung putih iaitu uniform mrsm. time tu jugak aku tau yg mereka budak mrsm kuala kubu bharu, satu2nya mrsm kat selangor. tiba2 aku nampak semua org mcm budak2 paling pandai, dan aku rase mcm aku budak paling buduh pulak di situ. begitu merendah diri.

tapi masih vain.

lepas menunggu lebih kurang mcm satu minggu, sehinggakan izzati sanggup bercangkung sambil menghafal science dan aku pon telah penat mengcamwhore, kami pon were now OFFICIALLY THE PARTICIPANTS OF MIGHTY MINDS STATE CHALLENGE IN SELANGOR. ceh tulis besar besar banggala tu. kitorg dpt certificate yang lawa dan berbau tempting mcm buku baru, satu notebook comel yang juga sgt tempting sbb mmg buku baru, dan satu name tag sticker yang akan dipakai di uniform sekolah.

begini.

nampak tak sticker tu kaler merah kat bahagian bawah? that means both teams from smk lembah keramat were in red group, which is the second sixty groups. but because we were just a lil too late to be one of the first 6o groups, so we still ended up belonging to the second sixty, but we were the 3rd and the 4th group in the latter. my team was the 4th group known as smk lembah keramat (b), while fizah's group was called smk lembah keramat (a), the 3rd group.

while waiting for the blue group to start first, aku amek masa untuk mengcamwhorekan diri. mesti teammates aku geleng kepala tengok minah sorg ni. antara semua org kat situ, aku jelah yang perasan2 tangkap gambar sendiri, takpe tak malooo pon.

contoh contoh adelah seperti yg di atas.



menanti ketibaan blue group.



and the mighty minds challenge for selangor state level, began. starting with the blue group.

and i could see some angel light shining upon me, semuanya sebab all the representatives from sekolah sekolah bijak bestari macam mrsm kuala kubu bharu, seri putri, maahad, adni, al amin, sekolah sains hulu selangor, and every other sekolah asrama dan sekolah pandai2 semua masuk blue team. which gave us lembah keramat more advantage to cross to the hands on challenge. sebab konon2 rase semua sekolah hebat dah lepas, nanti yang lawan kitorg pon sekolah harian je. NOT underestimating, but seeing it as something positive, and a good chance for us.

for the blue group, i think they were quite lucky because the questions asked werent so difficult. i was up here, capturing the moments. and all their math calculation i did answer it correctly, without scribbling anything on anything. just some simple and basic stuffs. and the science too, were pretty easy. only i couldnt answer three general knowledge questions.

some of their questions were;

the SI unit ampere is used to measure _______
electric current of course. they questioned about form 1 topic to THEM, huh. not to us.

and

how long doest it take for light to travel from the moon to earth?
haaa this one i got it wrong, betul2 taktau. the answer is surprisingly one second.

and

from which state is malaysia's current minister of education?
which is, i totally dont want to know anything about muhyiddin yasin ngehngehngeh.


then after we ate the pergh sedap gilaaaa macdonald itu, dengan perut yang kenyang dan apple pie yang tak sempat dimakan habes, the red group was called, and that was it.

muka aku yang baek. sebab ustazah aminah yang amek, maka takdelah peluang aku nak tunjuk comel segala. bluwekk. bersama teammates peqah yg terlindung dan aisyah yang tak ske ngn camera.

group fizah, bersama izzati dan budin.

first question; about which one is multicellular cell. aku terus menerus suruh peqah tekan je satu, iaitu hydra, tetapi die ragu ragu pulak. "bukan yeast ke?" die kate. tapi aku pakse tekan jee. last last betul. yeay.

second question; die kuar pilihan jawapan dulu, baru soalan. mase die kuar lima pilihan jawapan tu, aku dah pasti dah solan die nak pasal ape. sebab semua yg kuar tu ialah factor affecting rate of evaporation, kecuali satu ni. jadi kami pon terus tekan jawapan dan aku paksa mereka takyah bace soalan, buang mase je.

third question; this was where i, I screwed up. i got the concept about harry potter and his cousin dudley's weight correctly, i even wrote down the jalan kerja. bangangnya, aku slah bahagi, benda yang paling SENANG. AKU SALAH BAHAGI. i showed it to aisyah and peqah, aisyah yang ketika itu tengah sempat nak buat rumus H=x, D=2x dan berikutnya, so die pon tak pedulikan hasil kire2 aku. aku ckp kat peqah, jawapan die B. die pon kire. then aku kire balik, and aku perasan slah aku. "peqah, kite rase kite salah kire, jawapan betul die ialahh . .", peqah plak menyampuk "kite dah tekan jawapanla!". aku tanyela tadi yg die kire tu ape? die ckp die kire lepas die dah tekan. haa? haiya. noo. my mistake, sorry. tsk tsk.

forth question; sultan sekarang yang pernah jadi ketua hakim, dari negeri manakah? i remembered my mom always babbling about the politic issues occured in perak this year, pertukaran kerajaan blabla, and she always blamed the sultan for coming from perak, yet he didnt do anything blablablah. so i was sure, the answer was perak. and yeay.

fifth question; something everyone was sure of. yeay.

sixth question; something involving CONCEIVING. peqah and aisyah were like, huh? but thanks to my passion of watching the tv series friends back to back twice a week walaupun dah berjuta kali ulang, and just recently read the whole wikipedia about Friends just out of amusement, i know what conceiving means. making baby. and what do they need to conceive? vitamin E. how did i know? because i am always too concerned about being infertile. so i do need a lot of vitamin E. thanks to my ridiculous worries. yeay.

seventh question; something everyone was sure of. yeay.

eight question; something peqah was sure of, but aisyah and i werent, so i didnt remember whether the real answer was peqah's or something else, but for sure we got it wrong. noo. pasal garis latitud antartik ke ape kejadah tah. phewh.

ninth question; about short sightedness. since all my teammates are, so we knew. yeay.

tenth question; something everyone was sure of. yeay.

eleventh; ape tah. tp btol. yeay.

12; ayer's rock tu kat mane. which, neither of us ever heard of. so, no.

13; this one peqah ade masalah nak percaya, but thanks to aisyah and my annoying persistence, kitorg tekan gak jawapan yang betul, pasal growth. yeay.

14; i was counting on aisyah and peqah for this one, thanks to them, we got about monocotyledon right. it was confusing though. yeay.

15; about mane satu simple machine ialah third class lever. time tu gak bibirku meniti baris 'FLE'. ceh geli gila. so, we got it right, ape tah machine tu dah lupe. yeay.

16; die tunjuk gambar duet kertas rm1. belakang gambar agong, apekah gambar tersebut? peqah thought it was klcc twin tower, and i geniusly heard kumpulan belakang bisik bisik "kite, kite!", and i thought the kite was definitely the answer. baek budak2 belakang tu. eheheh. yeay.

17; aku gelabah kite math yang ni, jadi peqah tersayang penyelamat. terer syg nih. die dah dapat, aku suruh die tekan terus, yeay.

18; arghhh. this question was about, what would happen if one's air passage was filled with some lining, something like that lah. and i was so sure it was bronchitis, but peqah's instinct said otherwise. bile dah nak tekan tu, aku cakap terus tekan bronchitis bronchitis i AM sure! pastu peqah ckp "but i have a very strong feeling it is emphysema". so i gave in, maybe i was wrong, and i wouldnt want to be responsible for another mistake. tapi KITE SANGAT RASE BRONCHITIS LA PEQAH! and it turned out to be bronchitis after all, haiya. noo.

19; math, where peqah and i buat separuh jalan tapi dapat the same conclusion. whereas aisyah tak habes habes lagi buat tapi memandangkan mase dah nak time, kitorg maen sukahati je amek jawapan kitorg semata mata sebab satu huruf R tu same kat bawah tp yang laen tak check lagi, and pedulikan aisyah si genius math tu, tapi sebab mase nak time sgt dah ni, kitorg tekan jawapan yang salah, argh. noo.

20th question; blimey, yer talkin bout harry potter!!! but blimey, it was damn too easy! maybe if yer asked somethin more complicated and really into the story, for sure this lil fella whos so crazy about harry potter would get it right and other studious teams who were just into studying wouldnt get it right! so we might have the opportunity to qualify to the next round, and kick their ass off! (tried to sound like hagrid's accent, but cant).

tapi bukan itu yg terjadi. keluarlah list jawapan pilihan. belum keluar lagi soalan, aku dah tau die nak ckp ape. for sure die nak tanye sape bestfriend harry potter!!! sebab semua yg laend alam list tu bukan bestfriend harry potter but ron! cedric si traitor mati sebagai wizard dlm harry potter muncul sebagai vampire poyo dlm twilight, draco malfoy pulak musuh harry yang hensem tapi sebenarnya dipaksa jadi jahat, and yang laen mmg out of question lar. still, it was surprising to know one team got it wrong. dorg saje sje salah ke ape ni? sebab dah tau screwed up jadi marilah playing fool buat buat tak kenal harry potter yang mana ron yang mana.


so, that was it. i was sure there was no way we could be in the hands on challenge. sangat sedih. frust, kecewa, rase mcm nak buat announcement lak sekolah mane yang konon hebat sangat tu siap dpt 20/20, pastu nak siku muka die. mwahahaha. sedih, and SO UNFAIR. certainly not biased, but memang soalan drpd negeri laen agak senang dan solan yang mcm basic gilaaa tak mendalam yang matematik pun tanye 20 bahagi 0.5 berape je, tp kitorg, pelbagai formula pulak masuk. sebelum ni yang aku tgk dlm tv tu hampir semua boleh jawab kecuali general knowledge, tapi yang ni? heeeeeeesh. konon la kami org selangor mcm org bandar, so soalan kena la gepak gempak lagi lagi participants kat selangor ni DUA KALI GANDA drpd tempat laen, takleh lah kasi yang senang senang. its just unfair dude, urban are or rural, not.

takpelah, orang yang dah di defeated mmg macam ni, huaaa. sedehnya. BIG LOSER lah aku ni. eh, aku jelah, teammates yang laen tak tau. naseb baek lah aku tak mcm team fizah tu, amek segala encyclopedia yang ade, bace, hafal dan buat quiz lagi. sia sia. aku adela jugak ngn semangatnya pinjam buku tebal2 sorg2 kat pusat sumber sekolah tercinta, tp aku tak suruh dorg sirius. biar bace mcm bace bedtime story je. kalau rase tak penting, takyah bace.

tapi yang top 30 tu gila pandai. paling sikit he salah pon tiga. if only, IF ONLY kitorg tak salah banyak, kalau tiga je, sure ade peluang. sebab aku sendiri boleh cakap yang hampir semua soalan yang kitorg tau jawapan, kitorg tekan terus. takdelaa nak second cek segala. buat lambat je. kecualilaa yang math tu, but still we were fast man. banyak yang soalan tak habes bace, kitorg dah jawab based on the question kat skrin tuh. kalaula, KALAULA kitorg tak banyak slah, kitorg maybe boleh masuk hands on challenge tersayang sebab we were fast, man.

yang bestnya, mungkin ade peluang muka kitorg masuk tv. dahlaa camera man tuh macam depan depan kitorg je, and ade sekali time tengah cuak gila bincang berbisik bisik, camera man tuh literally datang DEPAN kitorg, focus kat kitorg je. maybe die ingat budak2 nih boleh menang kot, so focuslah kat muke dorg. sorila ye bang, anda salah.

syafiqah tak habes habes kate ade hikmah di sebaliknya. what hikmah man?? ok, adelah some. heh heh heh (gelak gatal lagi bermuslihat). tapi tak berbaloila hikmah sebegitu. kalau nak kalah 3000 ringgit for that kind of hikmah, sangat tak berbaloi. tapi takpelah, at least i had fun at the gerai with an old classmate kamil and a very old schoolmate nadzmi K. best bersembang ngn kawan kawan lama :) but still, tak berbaloi, sorry korg. it could be kalau korg sanggup datang esok dan melepak dgn aku, hah hah hah.

but it was okay though, biaselah pertandingan. no matter how we intended not to be serious and hoping about it, but we will end up taking into account everything that had happened. it was fun to be in mighty minds, it might be the one and only time i will ever be in such competition. the lost will make us feeling like falling, but the truth is we are actually growing.

ceh. orang yang dah kalah macam aku ni memang pandai berkata kata cover perasaan.

*ps; i think the seniors have a fat chance of winning though, tengoklah macamane kegeniusan mereka terserlah :D goodluck akak akak!!! ubah naseb smklk yang asek tak menemui jalan kemenangan dalam hal hal macam nih. haha.