Wednesday, January 10, 2007
must drop by to see tkm today. otherwise i'll be branded a usless bum if not by him, then by myself!watched the debate programme on channel 5 last night. well just a teeny bit. i didn't think the debate went too well. the motion was something like looks triumph over effort the proposition came from loyang decondary. the opposition was from RI. all in all, i felt they were not really debating. it was more like a sad slugfest with each one of them completely missing each other. Iimean I really did enjoy the SIA JC debates when they were still telecast on television.
the first speaker from the proposition sounded a little contrived. she was over-enunciating every single word which made her sound as if the proposition had very little points to cover and were dragging for time. this was made worse when the first speaker from the opposition, an RI boy who is kind fo like me, able to speak when prepared but start forming very grammatically questionable sentences when in the spotight, started his bout of interuptions. he spoke with a monotonic matter-of-fact voice, that when juxtaposed with the girl, almost seemed to run at the speed of light, and efficiently took his opponent apart. for me, i lost interest right after the first round and didn't bother to even watch the remainder of the competition. i left the television on though and from another room across the hallway, i could hear that the tensions rose as the second and third speakers took positions. interestingly enough, everyone seems to just be debating about beckham. the proposition claimed and reiterated possibly 20 times (i kid you not) that the extra cash in beckham's wallet as compared to the wallet of someone of the same calibre as him was due simply to his pretty boy good looks (AND they then went on to say that this means that looks triumph over effort). i never saw the link and got increasingly irritated when they mentioned it again and again. i mean if one wants to compare the effects of looks and hard work, one needs to start with a base: 2 people of similar standings, on who does nothing more but has good looks, and the other without that aesthetic gift but who works at bettering the situation. so in the beckham case, who are they comparing him with? who in the soccer industry work hard at getting endorsements? i mean you can't just say that beckham earns more than his contempories and thus the motion must stand. it's like saying, fish swim and so birds fly. anyway it was sad the opposition didn't pounce on this like a tiger on an injured prey. the RI didn't seem to realise that when you're being buzzed out, the best thing he should do is to wrap up, rather than go ahead and introduce a new point. it kind of made me feel like he just wanted to state that as a fact and hope that the judges would buy it. haha. i didn't stay on to watch so i cannot comment about the rest, but i heard the results were quite close. haha.
anyway. i should take a shower an head on to school soon. haha. debates. i miss debates during GP in RJ. dun you too herk? haha.
{8:19 AM}
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I watched bits and pieces of the debate. Was rubbish by both teams. Didn't catch the announcement of results, but was told that RI lost by about 4-6 points.
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