RECAP of my 2008

We're just hours away from 2009. Nothing like the fresh air of a brand new year. This year had been a great, impressive year. The life-altering experiences. The little yet sweet moments that we'll always remember. Or just your normal day-to-day minutes of your life. We have experienced it all.

And here's a recap of my year. My 2008 year. Probably one of the best years of my 16 years of life. Here we go!

JANUARY

- Started Form 4 in a wacky class, 4 Angsana

- Played in the Under-18 DJ's netball team at district level. But as usual, we didn't go to the next round. Though we did win a game.

FEBRUARY

- Hmm..I can't remember anything significant in Feb. Probably just busy with school and all those extra-curricular activities. Things were pretty slow back here.

MARCH

- The Wira debate team prepared ourselves for the Datuk Wira debating championships. Just the beginning of a very loooonnggg journey. Won our first 2 rounds against SMK Tropicana and SMKDU.

- March 8: the general election that pretty much changed Malaysia and Malaysians.

- Started my vocal lessons with a UM lecturer as a preparation for my Turkish competition.

APRIL

- Uhh I don't remember doing anything else other than debating in this month. We made it all the way to the state finals. And we lost! Very devastating but life had to go on.

MAY

- I hit 16 on 11th May. Sweet 16! Had a floral theme party with magician and stuff. Very cute!

- Did an interview with the News Straits Times on my involvement in the Turkish competition.

- Departed for Turkey to join the Turkish Language Olympics for 3 weeks.

JUNE

- Represented Malaysia in the singing competition at the Turkish Olympics. I still can't believe I performed an alien, Turkish song in front of 10000 audiences. A life-altering experience, no doubt!

- Went to the final Osmonds concert in Genting. I'm not a fan, excuse me. But my parents are.

JULY

- Things have slowed down a little bit. Except for one thing....Nostalgia magazine! As an editor of the school mag, Puan Joyce was constantly hunting me down for articles, unedited and edited. Not easy!

AUGUST

- Just when I thought my Turkish days were over, they keep running back after me! Haha. Did a 'music video' for a Turkish TV for their Ramadhan programmes. I can have a singing career there even with my sucky voice. =)

- Avril Lavigne was in town! Went to her concert despite earlier objections from my parents and also from the political parties. She's the BEST DAMN THING!

SEPTEMBER

- Nostalgia was finally in prints! After months and months of hardwork from the Ed Board, we finally managed to get it done. It was a lil too thin this year (no money!) but the mag was still cool.

OCTOBER

- Celebrated the Eid Mubarak in Pahang. But this year was a tad special since my mum brought back her foreign students from Bosnia, Central Africa, Kenya and Palestine. A very colourful Raya, indeed.

- A twist of fate. Remember how the Wira debate team lost at the state finals? Well the state champs pulled out of the competition and OUR debate team were back in the game! So we pushed our books away (despite final exams in the following week) and brainstormed for our caselines.

NOVEMBER

- The whole team flew to Kelantan for the nationals. We debated against 4 schools and wa-llah! We won the national championships! A dream came true for all of us.

- No running away from the exams. We had to sit for the final exams. Don't ask us how we managed to study in time for the exams. But we did it.

DECEMBER

- Time flies. It's already the end of the year.

- I tried to do something fruitful during the holidays. Tried picking up Spanish and French. And now I'm already fluent. Fluent at saying 'How are you?' and 'What's your name', that is. Heh.

- Went to Brunei for a short, family retreat. Nice, quiet country.

- Getting ready for the school year...or not yet.

So that was my year.

A greater year next year, perhaps?