Pesta BB 2010

Woohoo!!! Just came back from Pesta BB 2010!!! IT ROCKS!!!! It's an "once-in-two-years" carnival. The date is 11th-15th June 2010. The venue is at St. Xaviers' Institution, and our dorms are located at CLS, Hutchings and St. Xaviers'. The camp is an international camp and there are 1,700 participants.

On the first day, nothing much happened. There's the registration, the briefing etc. And later that afternoon there's the national drill competition. Despite the rain, our company, 8th Penang, got 1st place! At the evening, there is a grand opening ceremony with the "Guards of Honor" and band march. Later that night there is the band competition. Its really nice and amazing. 1st Johor Bahru got 1st place.

On the second day, there is the singing and dancing competition. The venue is at Dewan Sri Pinang. In the singing competition, we got 3rd place for singing "Trading My Sorrows". The dance team from our company got 6th place.

On the third day, we first have a service at Dewan Sri Pinang led by City Harvest Church Kuala Lumpur. The service is really amazing, I've learned a lot there. we had a treasure hunt around Georgetown, a fun fair and another talents' night called "B Idol". I entered but sadly I didn't get any prizes. I sang my own little version of "Amazing Grace".

On the fourth day, we went for tours around Penang. There are 6 regions to choose from. I chose the Balik Pulau region 'cos I seldom go there. First, we went for some sight-seeing on the hills. Later, we went to a farm to have durian and to look at animals. We saw snakes, turkeys, duck, rabbits and many many more... Then we went to the river near the farm. After that we went for lunch and then we went back to our respective dorms. That night, we had our closing ceremony. I'm the bassist for the first item, that is playing a song called "Highland Cathedral". There are bagpipes, percussion kits, keyboards, an electric guitar and a bass. The whole band is formed from a number of companies. Me (bassist), the lead bagpiper(Wei Jian), the drummer (Kai Sheng), the keyboardists(Boon Kai, Daniel) and the guitarist(Sir) represented 8th Penang Company. There are other companies like 1st Sibu and a few more.

On the fifth day is the day of departure. We bid our friends farewell and went home in happiness and also in sadness 'cos we will have to wait another two years for another Pesta BB and we will definitely miss our friends.