Wave Rider: April 2009

Sorry for the late post again......Well,I've kinda problem getting online 'cause there's so much things to do(folio,studies.....).Anyway,do you see the picture up there(the one with the third genius person who looks a little like me),I entered the Kedah Mighty Mind contest organized by The Star 'n RHB bank on the 18th of April,and I tell you how fun it was!In a group of three with my kinda two best friend(Gihon 'n Hong Way),the three geeks who was on the day before working very,very,extra hard on playing the computer :( walked sleepily towards the registration table.And then the tough time began......
During the 1st round,we competed on the first round with 58 teams from schools all over the Northern district.The 1st round consist 20(if I'm not mistaken) question on Science,Math,and General knowledge.They provide you with a sort of remote the allows you to press the buttons for your answer.The 1 science 'n the 2 math genius(juz kiddin,don take it to heart)got through most of the SS and Math question with the word "sub sub suai" until came to the general question part."Which part of these countries is the furthest from the sea?","Hmm,not New Zealand,not China....","Let's try Malaysia then"(pressed A for Malaysia,waited for the answer)...........XXX the answer is China, 'cause China is very big,some part of China is super far from the sea "yeh..." :) Wanna know sometin better?For all the questions we tried to "tiang" on GK,we got it all......WRONG!!!Anyway we still got the 9th place and went in the 2nd round,which only consist 30 team.
Actually,it's a disgrace for me to write about the 2nd round(Dan Ting would know that).Because it is simply based on your creativity,the one 3 of us lack most.During the "hands on "challenge,we were asked to build a rubber band ejector which shoots out 5 paperballs in a load.We were given some stuff like rubberbands, manillas, wires, cotton, glove, scissors and othe stuff.Easily,naturally,and peacefully,the 3 genius burst their brain out of their skull to just come out with someting ........stupid(the best word I can come up with)We were using the principal of Aaron's theory(you know,the one where you take a rubberband between your index finger 'n thumb and pull a "V" shaped paper throuh the rubberband to shoot it,yeah that one)We invented the most sophisticated,crumbling,unfinished "creature".Aargh,we lacked only 2 minutes.The judge made a total confused face when he saw our "thing".Great.Some people commented it looked like a crashed helicopter.Even better.I wish I have the pixs of it.
Anyway,the 3 of us still had a great fun(I mean,at least we thought of sometin).We celebrated our great victory at Kentucky's.We went home much earlier than the results of 1st,2nd and 3rd were announced because,well........you know why.