Good Debates and Essays.

Yo. Yo, whaddap mah homie?

The ceiling's up. And the time left for the Dublin Essay thingie, also almost up. That's about it.

This time, my lack of updates is not due to malfunctioning modems or utter laziness. It IS however related to the fact that my life right now is at the stage where nothing interesting / OhMyGawd exciting / worth-blogging-about happens.

Take today, for instance.

I went to school, listen to perverts of 5S6 talk porn (again), wondered which schoolmate of mine asked that question regarding Biotechnology, did maths (the only homework I really do), stayed back, listened to a real-life account of a ghost story, watched the debate where Michelle, Warren and Elijah totally crushed their opponents, took the LRT home, napped, and here I am at the computer.

Pretty sad.

Still. I had fun watching the debate. The topic was much more interesting than last week's. Last week, I had to make myself concentrate. This week, I was totally absorbed in it. I guess it's because we were sitting at the front this time, and last week's motion had the word "Education" in it. I dunno, I just blank out when I see 'Education', it just bores me.

The first speaker from the other team did the reply speech, and it was pretty much all over the place. There were very long pauses, staring at notes desperately thinking of something to say, and the notes were scattered everywhere, on every piece of paper.

Reminds me of myself during my first debating experience. Though Michelle kept trying to assure me that she was just as bad in her reply speech during her first debate, I know better. I sucked harder than a vacuum cleaner. Oh let's move on don't wanna remember the awful past it's humiliating I could've done better la la la la la la la la.

Oh yeah. The Dublin Literary Award thing.

Manwir didn't make it compulsory for us to write an essay for it, and since I found out about it pretty late, I told myself not to bother. Then one day, yesterday, I came online, and practically everybody's MSN display name had the phrase "If I could change the world".

You know, I was still pretty blur then, and I thought it was some kind of, I dunno, epidemic or something, where everyone suddenly felt obsessively compelled to give the world a make-over.

Then I finally figured it out. Haha, okay, I had to read Li-Ann's blog to finally understand. Apparently all the other classes were being made to write a "If I could change the world" essay.

Suddenly I also felt like taking part. Like, pretty stupid, right?

But then again, I just want to actually finish an essay a good amount of time before the deadline for once.

I have only submitted two essays before. One for last year's MPH Search for Young Writers, the other, this year's BRATS application. Yeah, only two essays, but both testimonies to how badly of a procrastinator I am.

For MPH. I finally finished my essay at 3.30 p.m on the day of the deadline. That is bad enough. But you see, we had to come up with a title for our essay, and seeing that I don't have much time left, I came up with my title in the car, on the way to One Utama. I still couldn't decide on a proper title and my dad was already backing into this parking lot, so I scribbled the first title that came to mind.

One whole month to TRY and come up with an award winning essay, and I have to finish it while my dad was already parking his car. That's procrastination for you. Naturally, I didn't win. Pretty 'duh'.

Then the stupid BRATS application. I knew about it before the Chinese New Year, but when did I choose to come up with an attractive essay?

The day before the deadline.

And when did I finally sent my email in?

7.00 p.m. in the evening, on the day of the deadline.

Unfortunate to say, I wasn't selected. I wouldn't be surprised if it were already closed by the time my application arrived. Yeah lah, what I wrote was pretty much crap, trying to stuff in fillers just so I could reach the 1000 word mark and have it sent in ASAP. Only I guess it wasn't very 'soon' anyway.

Then there's that stupid NaNoWriMo. I dunno what I was thinking. I should've just given up.

I'm not eyeing the prizes for the Dublin Award much, I just find it a personal achievement if I could finish the thing by Thursday, and email it to them, emailed entries are accepted what.

But knowing me, there's only a 0.01% chance of me finishing it an ENTIRE DAY before the dealine. I'll probably start on Wednesday (yeah, I haven't started yet, sad huh), and send it in only hours before they close the, uhh, what you call it, contest? Acceptance of entries? Bah.

Or probably, I'll just completely forget about it, 'cause I have so much to do, like listening to compilation CDs I've burned.

Oh my, my life is uninteresting.

(Desperate Housewives Season Two will finally be aired today! This is the day my mom, my sister and I have been waiting for. Oh Tuesday nights are going to be so so sweet from now on.)