EDCO 2013

Good night, everybody. How was your day???
I hope you had a wonderful day like I had today.
Honestly, i can't call it wonderful because in fact not really.

Why??
If you wonder about that, let me tell you my stories today.

Today was my first time to come and became a participant in debate competition.
Can you imagine it? DEBATE!!
i never did it before and i don't know if i want to do it again.
It may be sound simple or usual for you, but for me, following this competition is not something usual.
I don't really like anything that has to do  with debate. It seems a lil' bit scary for me.
First, I don't really like to talk.
I'm not an honest man. I'm not always say what i think straightly. One of my lecture said that it's the habit of Indonesian people. They take everything for granted ant that's why Indonesian people don't get their right. They don't have brave to fight for it. As Indonesian people, for some reasons i have to say that i agree. Well, it happens to me.

Words can hurt. 
That's why I try to use the good words, try to be patient (although i want to scream my dislike sometimes), but yes i don't have enough brave to do that.

Back to debate things,
I was in group with Wuri and Menia.
We did the three debates in pre-eliminary round.
Both of Wuri and Menia did their job very well while i just astonished by the condition of the debate (btw, it was my first debate and i don't exactly know how to do the debate)
We were against the team of IKK, TP 1 and JIAI 1.
To be honest, we thought that our journey would end after the 3rd debate, BUT, surprisingly we become 1 one 8 teams that went through to the quarter  final ( seriously, that time i didn't know what i should feel, happy or sad.)
And when my team competed in the debate against the 1st rank on the list. BLAM!! That was such a dead penalty for me (especially) because i didn't know what my team mate thought.
And as we had been predicted, we lost. We didn't go through to the next round, but we were happy. ( I think i'm the happiest one because i don't want to compete again tomorrow, and my head was filled by the desire to go to IIC). I'[m so sorry guys, i didn't do as good as you both did :(
And I also wanna say my big apology to the boy from JIAI 1, I'm so sorry for what i've done and wherever you are, I hope you can forgive me.

Ok, after doing this debate, i realized that i'm so lack of critical thinking. I couldn't do my job well because i wasn't really well-prepared and then i didn't really think that debate could be so 'hot'. I took many lessons from today and i think i have to fix my lots of mistakes. I need to evaluate myself about that things. I have to realize that I need to grow up, to learn to think critically and generally (means that i have to think about something from many point of views). And thanks a lot to my team mates, my rivals, the adjudicators and my LO that had helped me.

Good luck to all semifinalist that will be competing tomorrow. :D