Very early in the morning, I woke up and got myself prepared and cycled to KHAR. Dr Napisah, three TESLians and I were expecting the university van to ferry us to UiTM Shah Alam campus for a British Parliamentary style debate adjudication workshop. It's organised by the Malaysian Institute for Debate and Public Speaking (MIDP).
As usual, UPSI students are the earliest in any occasions like this. So we went for breakfast and it was on Dr Napisah. Felt touched by her hospitality and commitment for us debaters.
Actually today was really a long day. Little did we expect that we will be tested. Until yesterday, all we thought was that it's nothing more than a workshop, a seminar. The first part was on the general rules on adjudication, BP style. It was objective, but we could write some comments after the answer we chose.
Second part was to hear a full length debate on video and give our oral adjudication one by one. Not as easy as I thought. And I wonder why it took so long. We were supposed to leave at 5.30pm. But the organizers came in to the meeting hall again at almost 5.30pm and announced the next slot. Many participants were unhappy and wanted to leave. It wasn't our fault that the programme started late. It was clearly the organizers fault!
After leaving our emails, which they promised to email us the link to the debate that has to be adjudicated, we left for Tanjung Malim. Thank God that we arrived before dark.
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