(May 2011 – December 2011)

I’m in the ‘Kemanusiaan’ stream and so my subjects consist of Bahasa Malaysia, Pengajian Am, History (World, Islamic, Malaysian and Asian) and Arts. The lecturers are all supportive and most of them would go through long lengths to help their students and I’m very appreciative of that. The first few months were going great, presentations got into the picture and that helped me raised my confidence of speaking in public. I participated in the Journalism Club which produces the annual Pre-U Magazine called ‘Borneon Wings’. The seniors (B.O.Ds) which ran the club back then were super supportive and easy to talk to, well some of them :p They’ve helped a lot by sharing their experiences of how to survive the next semesters of Pre-U, some of those advices actually worked you know!

I’ve also participated in a few competitions during this semester. I’ve participated in a few drawing contests in school but unfortunately, others have far greater talents and one of them happens to be my good friend, Serene! We’ve also joined a national level drawing competition at Yayasan Sabah but did not manage to obtain a place. However the experience was WELL WORTH IT. Other than that, I’ve went to watched my first mooting competition held by Bond University, Australia where my seniors and a few familiar faces from other schools competed to their heart’s content! They did well and they should because they trained like crazy as of what I heard. 

In July I’ve watched my first MUET Inter-School colloquium competition with a few friends at Yayasan Sabah, the lecturers brought us along to gain knowledge to see how the procedure goes since we’re going to go through the same thing on the next semester and it was there, where I realized that I actually had feelings for someone. Knowing me, that’s rare because truth to be told I had a crush on a guy for 4 years when I was in high school and all of a sudden comes along this dude and totally replaced his spot. We went out for a while and had an on and off sort of thing till the early months of third semester. I've also volunteered performing for the Japanese delegates during their visit to our school with my girlfriends!! We performed a traditonal Kadazan dance, Sumazau. It was my first time performing on stage and I DEFINITELY had the freaking jitters and we had like what, only two days to practice? Gaaah it was NERVE WRECKING!!! But we pulled through with some ehem...minor missteps. Oh well! All's well, ends well! 

I’ve also spent a hell load of time going out with my friends during this period. More than I would like to admit. Felt refreshing to meet new people and I enjoyed the idea of lounging around getting to know them more. Unfortunately, getting to know a person does have its side effects. I found out some true colours but silently forgave that person however the person’s attitude does tend to get to my nerve from time to time but nevertheless, I forgave him. Heh.. What can you do? 

During the semester break in November and December a few group of friends and I worked on the school’s yearbook ‘The Bornean’ which unlike the ‘Borneon Wings’, covers the entire school(Form1-Pre-U2), you know a yearbook. It was a tough job but tougher for the Editor, Frances who’s a dear friend of mine and happens to be my distant niece (we just found out =.=) but with her positive spirit and our combined dedication and hard work, it was done!

I realized that my post is getting longer and for shit I know most of you stopped reading at the second or third paragraph, admit it! XD So I would like to end this post by saying, I underestimated Pre-U and this semester had me gone through a ffing emotional roller coaster! Damn, was I wrong!

 September :

 Sumandaaaks and Jeremy 'Palikat' :p

November :

Working on the Bornean

From far right to left :-

Frances (Editor), me, Steve (Vice Editor) and Abby. 

Person behind the camera is Serene.

The fruit of our labour!

Maktab Sabah's Yearbook 2011 Edition.