monkey debate

Lucyriver must say it all started with an orange or a 'kam'.

The symbol of victory.

The kingdom of the flower fruit mountain sends a team of five monkey debaters to the divisional debate among the secondary schools in Betong.

Equipt with a less than a week prepared-notes of debate topics and an orange, we set off to the hosting school in the town of Betong.

Ten schools are competiting this year with one drawing out at the last minute.

The monkey debaters must debate three motions in order to make it into the final, which is of course not in Lucyriver's expectation or hope.

Though prepared, they are still not in the favour of fighting in the battlefield. Surprisingly, sometimes you just need an orange to change the whole thing.

From the preliminary round, they go into the quarter final. From the quarter final into the semi final. Who would imagine that they even make it to the FINAL.

It definitely worth the two days. The monkey debaters know that Lucyriver have no confidence in them. One of them asks Lucyriver, "You were not confident that we would win, weren't you?"

The winning has made them push themselves to the limit. Lucyriver know they want to win the debate.

To the monkey debaters, YOU are the best.

From zero to something, now that’s what Lucyriver call amazing. The sleepless night, the black eyes, the dizzy head, it’s all worthy now with this trophy of first runner-up.
And of course, not forgetting the 'lucky' orange.
Oh, what a luck/lark!!

white cat

sunday afternoon

There must be a moment when you were on a road journey that you looked outside and noticed the stretches of wires from one electricity pole to another. The five familiar horizontal lines, ever had a thought of it?

Lucyriver had. It reminds Lucyriver of the music staff, waiting to be filled with musical notes.

Or when we were still in kindergarten or primary school, teachers would assign us to writing practice in lines.

So, where's the real bird?