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When someone asks me if I believe in God, I always say I do. I don’t think I am the perfect Hindu 17yearold girl. I don’t know many prayers, I don’t understand many things. But at the end of the day, it’s my faith I hold on to.

I guess there comes a point when we really -get- how important God is in our lives. No matter what tomorrow brings, we can always find peace when God is in your mind and heart.

The world may seem like it’s going to come to an end. Hearts break every day. People starve, suffer and die every hour.The amount of pain and bad in this world has exceeded the kind and happy.

I think it’s time we start loving and praying again.

It was our last Interact General Meeting yesterday
My mom said that we’re going to have so many “LASTS” now. Aiyooo.
In my head I still imagine myself to be a 13 year old girl getting ready to go to school.
But we’re 17.
It’s Form5.
And we’re stepping down.
(Or as I like to call it, getting dethroned)
:(A lot of waterworks.

Now to distract you from me looking like a total swine when I cry,
HERE ARE PICTURES OF RESHMIN CRYING.

It’s OVERRRRRRRRRR.

I’ve tried to write this in many ways, but I don’t know how to show you exactly how amazing In Africa’s Shoes was. Which is why it’s been 5days, and still no blogpost. They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but personally I enjoy doing the speaking for myself. I’ve dreamt about our IU countless of times and I have pictured it so well in my mind. But it was more than I imagined it to be, it was so much more better. Despite the rain, the ups and downs, I loved every bit of it.

I’m just going to talk about this based on the timeline from my camera and Marzuqis. Marzuqi is an amazing photographer and if you ever need someone for an event, CALL HIM. His photos are brilliant la. I’m in love with his pixels! You can see it for yourself.

AND HE IS SO AWESOME, THAT I HAVE 600 PHOTOS TO CHOOSE FROM. I wish I could use it ALL but I’m sure I’ll get banned from every server I use if I do that :/

Anywhos, at the IU we displayed the canvas paintings from our auction (: Everyone was whoa’d at how awesome the paintings were and especially how high the bids went (Rm1000 was the highest)

Our principal told us that we’ve taken International Understanding Days to a whole new level (: Never before has Sister Enda and Sister Letitia together with our principal and vice principal attended an Interact Club event. The fact that they actually attended just made everything more real.

And thennn, our gorgeous gorgeous emcee, Melissa Johnson (: My bff back in primary school and without a doubt, the life of the IU!

It was good at first, singing, speeches and then, my speech. I remembered when I was Form1 or Form2, I went for Atthiya Hamids IU Day. And then after that I went for every Interact IU Day, but Atthiya’s speech was the best. So when I was writing mine, I wanted everyone to feel the way I did when I heard her speech. Maybe I was too fast, but I am very very very pleased with my speech (:

 Again, oh awesome Sheau Woans boyfriend- Marzuqi, what would we do without you?

 And then Tanisha had her step dance performance. This time, with a little twist. They had perfect coordination. And, did I mention that they were BLINDFOLDED? I don’t know how she managed to pull it off, but it was amazing. After the performance, three guests were asked up and they taught them how to do a few steps, even Rotarian Michael (:

 Right after the game, Tanishas did her AWESOMEAWESOME second dance. I LOOOOVED the music she used for this! It had the most amazing African feel to it, she’s brilliant la that girl.

We also had the awesome Assunta Military Band percussionists to perform Hakuna Matata and another random song they felt like doing (: (:

DumDumDiDum.
The Walk of Africa. Our fashion show.

I always loved the concept of a fashion show, but I never liked the fact that it was purely entertainment. So this year rather than just colourful costumes, I made sure to remind people what we were all really here for. So I had 10 models with sandwitch boards with pictures and words. Shiva was in charge of that and Sulu was in charge of the costumes. They both did a wonderful job (:

And then, our thank yous.
To everyone who came that day.
All the guests, you guys were AMAZING. You made the room alive.
I can’t even express how grateful I am that all of you came.

 And THAT my dears,
was the dream I had of an amazing IU,
turned into something more than just real.

I’m finally recovered from all the post-IU (insertunkownfeelinghere). We’re still waiting on for the final accounts, but based on our calculations, we almost hit 30k. Which is wayy BEYOND our expectations! Anyways, before I start blogging about the day itself, I have so many things I need to say and so many people I want to thank.

I remember last year when Wai Nee asked me to write an IU proposal, I had no idea what I wanted my IU to be about. Most people just pick themes without no true passion for that cause. I didn’t want mine to be that way. I remember then, the same night I watched the movie The Constant Gardener. That movie ignited this wildfire inside of me. I just cried and cried and cried throughout the movie. And then while crying, I was using my dinosaur laptop and started typing out my proposal. Initially, it was called “Dying Africa”. Because not only the people in Africa are dying, but also the land itself. Day after day, their culture, their colous just fades away with time. In Malaysia, we emphasize how IMPORTANT it is to retain our true identity. In Africa, no one cares ):

I think it was a known fact from the day I got elected IU Director that I wanted my theme to be about Africa. Everyone thought “Dying Africa” was a tad bit too emo so after getting inspired by Sheau Woans Converse 2009 Calendar, we called it “In Africa’s Shoes”.

And then the work began.
And I’m going to thank each and every one of you who turned my little dream into a ginormous reality.

My mom and dad. (and the rest of the family) I know I haven’t been the best student but this was really important to me and knowing that you guys are proud of me, makes a lot of difference. Thanks for believing in me.

Tsen. I know I have a tendency to not grasp the whole picture and I make a lot of mistakes, but you never gave up on me or on our IU! What we did was AMAZING for a bunch of 17yearolds! Not only will this enhance our college applications but I don’t think we will ever forget June20th2009 for the rest of our lives.

Carrie. You are amazing at whatever you do, and without you we wouldn’t have had such awesome games! You are amazing with your resources and your PROSKILLS are undeniable. Despite the fact THOSE IDIOTS didn’t think you were vice president material, well, you proved them wrong now didn’t you? (:

SheauWoan. Thank you for ALL the permission slips and ALL the proposals and ALL the letters and ALL the invitations. Sorry for all the late reports (btw I just sent it all to you (: ) you’re the most efficient and reliable secretary in the HISTORY of efficient and reliable secretaries!

Victoria. Our NEXT secretary. And one of the two form4s I lalalove with all my heart. The images and programme book was uber professional, thanks to you! You helped us show the world that us Assuntarian Interactors are more than just a bunch of pretty faces in grey uniforms, we means business (;

Nicole. Despite everything, I think you proved yourself to be AMAZING at what you do in Interact and you deserve to be on the board. You helped Carrie, Reshmin and Victoria with their work and I love the fact you got it all done in time.

Reshmin. Worlds best fear factor, HANDS DOWN. None of the boys thought Assuntarians would actually conduct a totally gross fear factor, but HAH we proved THEM wrong now didn’t we? I hope you had fun playing with worms and maggots and dead crickets and dead fish.

LiLing. Worlds best IU tshirt, HANDS DOWN! Everyone wants the best piece from our IU, the shirts. A job well done with the shirts, I am going to save this tshirt for my GRANDCHILDREN. More importantly, for the brilliant ideas and everything you’ve contributed to make this IU a success. Despite all the fighting and the whining on both our parts, without you, none of this would have been possible either.

Shalina. The printers are gone, the DVD player is gone, the pendrives are gone. We can conclude that despite how ANNOYINGLY ANNOYING it was to collect the prizes, we managed to have awesome prizes anyways (: You kept me calm throughout this stressfull period and if not for you I would have lost my mind, probably jumped off a building or done something dramatic (knowing me). But you kept us all strong with your annoyingly HAPPY hellos >.> Ily!

Kee Jun & Yew Wing. What would us damsels ever do without you boys? At every Assunta event, when everyone left, you always made sure to stay back and help out. I don’t think I have ever appreciated your friendship as much as I have this year when I realized that we are so lucky to have boys like you watching our backs all the time (: I love the both of you.

Sandra. Despite the conflict, we appreciate your contribution so much. I hope what happened doesn’t affect our friendship cause I don’t intend to stop being friends with you. Your my SandraYellow and I love your buns! (HAHAHAHAHA; I AM SO FUNNY; DONT DENY IT!)

Vijay. Thank you for the 700 cans of Pepsi. 50 of which were consumed by yours truly If not for you, our guests would have dehydrated and probably died on our field ._. More importantly, thanks for always being there everytime (and I mean EVERYTIME) I was down or stressed or tensed up.

Tanisha. You made the show amazing with your beautiful dances and extraordinary talent! You will make it big in life, and this is what we call and imbas muka (: You’ve performed for IU’s and Installs your whole schoolyear life but this was the highlight of them all because it was the most meaningful and without a doubt, the most beautiful. Thank you.

Sulekha. Oh my angel. I know it was no easy task getting the costumes and the models done. But we beat them all and we made an impact AND carried ourselves gorgeously draped in amazing style. You did a good job and I hope you always continue to be the best you can.

All the Interactors,
well done. (:

Today was the most amazing day in my entire highschool life.

The IU went well. More updates on it once I get sufficient amount of pictures. At first I was majorly stressed out because it was raining in the morning and I didn’t want the rain to affect our carnival.

We were all praying everywhere.
In the field, the gallery, the chapel.
I was in tears, I didn’t want all our hardwork and effort go down the drain.

Sheau Woan sent around a little text “Lets all say a little prayer. Rain rain go away, little Shivani wants to play”

The day started with tears, and sadly, ended with a few too.
Goodnight.

Me: Boys are so stupid

YeeHsiong: We are not stupid. We are, emotionally dumb.

Usually when we have dinners, we go to places that have miserable square/rectangle tables and by the end of the dinner, everyone is at different ends of the table the poor birthday girl/boy has to travel to both sides. So Shalina the genius decided to have a Chinese dinner so we’d have a ROUNNND table! But there were too many of us so they gave us an oval table instead, aiyo same thing la.We ended up going to Reunion in BangsarVillage2 for her dinner. The place is nice, the food is good, but nothing beats South Pac la =p We had our own little enclosed space so it was nice. Anywhos, I like making cards. I think it’s important to make birthdaypeople feel happy with awesome cards. But I’ve made like a million (awesome) paper cards already. So i thought this time I’d do something different. Then Tsen inspired me to make a TOILET SEAT CARD.

After school yesterday I sat down and started decorating the toilet seat (I bought a new one FYI lol) and after twooo long houuuursss…
IT’S AWESOME, I KNOWWW.
She loved it!
Sadly, so did Nick :/

I lalaloved this party la, it was hilarious. EVERYONE of us laughed and laughed and laughed (both the natural AND artificial way!)

Shalinaaa, I hope you had as much fun as I did!
Though I’m pretty sure you did.
Ily (:
xoxo.

Me: You smell likes roses.
Carrie: Are you drunk o.O ?